fuzzylizard

Hey, you could try something really radical and install windows on your laptop. :P what about Gentoo?

Ever notice that the people who always start these threads are the people who need to show off the most. Nice desktop dude, I would post mine, but there is no way I can measure up to that, so what's the point.

Cool, actually when I wrote the above I was thinking of Patience and not Pysol. My bad

Personally, I hate the PySol version of Freecell. I much prefer the actual FreeCell version - the one that used to ship with Mandrake. It was faster to play and kept statistics on how well you played. The Pysol version does not do this. So, anyone know where to get the real version of Freecell?

You definitely do not need the corporate server in order to run a web server. My guess is that all the corporate server will give you is an older kernel, multiprocessor support, and support for memory greater then a gig. For what you want, the everyday vanilla flavoured version of Mandrake, or any other linux distro, will do fine. And probably be easier to install the servers as well. Any questions on setting everything up just shout.

I have not used the nvidia drivers for a while now, but I do remember that they are kernel specific. Therefore, in order to get them to work with a new kernel you are going to have to recompile the drivers, or rebuild the rpm's. Look for some posts on how to do this. There have got to be a ton of them on this board.

As far as I remember, Linuxconf was removed due to all the other tools available for configuring mandrake linux like the Mandrake Control Centre. However, if you still wish to use it, it can be installed. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that mandrake advises that this is an either or situation though; you should either use linuxconf or use MCC, but not both. However, I am less than certain on either point.

Very cool. Is an md5 file going to be uploaded as well for checking the downloads? Also, what is the fastest, safest way to do a download like this?

JDS is the Java Desktop System. It is the new desktop/window manager that Sun Microsystems is developing. (And it has almost nothing to do with java) Novell is a Unix company that recently bought out both Ximian and Suse. Ximian is a the main company that develops the Gnome desktop. They are also responsible for Evolution and several other applications. Suse is a German(?) linux distribution. Java Desktop System Ximian Suse Novell

Thanks for the link ramfree, it looks really interesting. I am also going to read up on rsync as well. The only problem with it that I am not sure if it can handle is the fact that I do not have a single directory that can be used as the reference directory. Changes can be made to either directory -- i.e. files added/deleted/and or changed -- and I am not sure if rsync can handle that.

I am trying to find an easy backup solution for my little home network. I have two computers that I use all the time -- 1 Mandrake Linux and 1 Windows 2000. I have samba shares on both computers. What I am looking for is a way to sync the samba shares on both machines so that I can use the two directories as a kinda of mirrored backup. Each directory is about 40 gigs in size so I don't want to have to be doing this manualy all the time. I know rsync is capable of doing this kind of thing, but I thought it was more of a download tool. Is it able to handle syncing directories across a network? I am wanting to use Linux for all the syncing syncing/backup duties, so whatever I use must be able to check both the local and the networked directories, see which files have changed and which have been added and upload/download only the required files. Any suggestions? How do other people handle backing up their computers?

Thanks for the link. Another question, that might be answered by reading the tutorials, but I have always been too impatient for that: Are there any really good GUI's for cvs or is it a command line only program?

I am starting a new programming project that I want to be able to work on across multiple computers. Therefore, I need someway of syncing files across those different computers. I figured the best way of doing this would be through CVS. Problem is, I know almost nothing about CVS. So... Does anyone know of any good noobie friendly tutorials on CVS? Also, is CVS the best out there? Here is what I am looking for: Ability to use it across windows and linux computers Graphical user interface (preferable) easy to setup and administer Able to access avross a network Must be compatible with Eclipse and other CVS capable IDE's I am basically looking for a simple place where I can put all my files and then check out/in them as I need them. Thanks.

I have no idea how you are supposed to install a non mandrake kde. If this is what you wish to accomplish, I would start a new thread that is just about that issue. Whenever trying to get an answer to a problem by posting in a forum, always use one thread per problem. Otherwise, if you post multiple problems in a single thread, one or more problems will get missed. There are people here with experience in installing kde, but they may not look at this thread.

You are not the only one with this problem. If you do a search you will find several other posts all about this particular problem. My advice, ignore the problem. I have the same thing with my sources and it has not stopped me from installing or updating software. It is annoying, but not really important it would seem.

The easiest solution is to change your email from pop3 to imap. This would allow you to use any computer anywhere in the world to access your email. I am not sure of any other solutions to this problem though apart from setting up an imap server on your linux box and maybe using fetchmail to get the email off the pop3 account and place it into the imap account. However, it seems like a rather extreme solution to such a simple problem.

You need to go and look in the Mandrake Linux Hardware Database. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 Just find your motherboard and see if it is supported.

Cool, glad to hear it worked for you.

No sure how to place it into a script, but renaming the files is simple $ mv photo\ 001.jpg photo001.jpg The trick is that you need to escape the space. You do this by placing a backslash '\' before the space.

If you do a search on the forum, you will find a much longer thread on this exact problem. According to that thread, the problem actually lies with LILO and not with your mandrake linux installation. Based on that, I would suggest reinstalling and using Grub as your bootloader instead of lilo. You may need to do an expert install to get this option. If I can find the thread, I will post a link here.

The general rule when dealing with Big O notation is to drop the constant before the variable as the difference it makes is negligible. Therefore, it is just O(n) Not too bad for an algorithm. As for whether that is correct or not, from the looks of it yes. The two loops are independent of one another, therefore, they do not really have any affect on one another. So yeah, you have O(2n) which is then simplified down to just O(n). If the two loops where nested then you would have O(n^2) - O n-squared.

I don't know of any particular title. The one that I have is called Absolute C++ by Savitch, It is a good overview of the language with sections on most of the popular topics -- inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, etc. Beginners Guide to C++ from Wrox Press is probably another excellent book. I have not read it, but I have several other wrox books and they have been excellent. I have also heard nothing but good things regarding various wrox books so they are usually a safe bet. Anyway, hope that helps.

two excellent ide's that I would recommend are either Anjuta or KDevelop. Anjuta is an excellent general C/C++ ide that is made for gnome. KDevelop is another one that is made specifically for kde and qt. The advantage to KDevelop is that it is on the Mandrake cd's. As for tutorials, I would actually recommend getting a book on the subject. Also, how much do you know about Object-Oriented programming?

If one does not have a dvd burner, is there anyway of creating/extracting cd ISOs from the dvd version? I am thinking of downloading the iso's available from suprnova.org, but the dvd versions are the ones getting the most action. However, I do not have a dvd burner. Anyone know what you get when you download the dvd version?

What happens when you run K3B? I seem to remember that it has a utility to -- K3B Setup -- that checks to see what hardware is present and may setup any missing hardware for you. I could be wrong though.