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First things first, you need to decide whether you are going to go with 802.11b or 802.11g. If you are not sure of what the letters mean, do a google search and you should find several links that explain the difference. All the links below are for 802.11b. Okay, that helps. Here is what I recommend. You can either ditch your currect adsl router and buy a wireless one or you can purchase an straigt access point. The biggest difference between the two is that the Access Point will integrate into your currect network and get an IP address from your currect router. Whereas the wireless router will replace you existing router. Here are some links for what I am talking about: Linksys WAP11 Access Point - This is a wireless 802.11b Access Point, no router, no firewall capabilites. It simply plugs into an existing network and allows wireless clients to access your current network. Linksys Wireless Broadband Router - This will replace your current router and provide both wired and wireless network access. This may be the simplest solution for you, although the Access Point is not that hard to configure either. This takes care of creating the wireless network. Now you need to connect a client to the network. Since you are trying to connect a desktop computer, you have two choices here: you can either go with a wireless PCI card, or you can get a USB bridge device. Here is what I am talking about. Wireless PCI Adapter Instant Wireless USB Network Adapter I have heard some really good things about the USB network adapter. (Do a search on the forums here for wireless hardware to get an idea for what works and what doesn't) I am not really sure what you mean by technical specs, but hopefully the links above will answer any questions that you have.

How is your current network setup right now? Do you have a dhcp server, firewall, router, hub/switch, etc? What OSes are on your network currently and what kind of computer are you trying to connect wirelessly? Here is a quick run down of what you may need: Wireless network card - either pcmcia or pci (depending on whether the computer is a notebook or a desktop) Access Point - here you have the option of using an access point with a builtin router or not. (It all depends on what other hardware you have on your existing network) Linksys is a good company to look at.

Interesting question. There was a post on Newsforge about this and the received about a thousand or more responses to it. Here is my list though: Emacs - all round text editor Apache - best web server on the planet MySQL - Since I have not used PostgreSQL I am going to have to nominate this K3B Frozen Bubble GAIM XMMS urpmi - I have not tried apt-get, but so far this is the best package installation program out there Anjuta - Excellent C/C++ ide Here is a small list of my top cross-platform programs (not necessarily created for LInux, but they run on Linux) Really cool thing about all the programs listed below is that there are free versions that can be downloaded. Netbeans - java ide jEdit - excellent all round text editor that can compete with emacs for functionality Aqua Data Studio - excellent program for interacting with databases Posiedon for UML - UML design program Zend Studio - php ide DBDesigner4 - graphical design program for creating mysql databases Maya - world's best 3d animation character creation program Softimage XSI - probably the best all round 3d animation program Houdini - best 3d animation and affects program on the planet

From what I understand, iptables is what a firewall like Shorewall will use to enforce all its rules. There are two main methods of creating a firewall on LInux -- ipchains and iptables. IPChains was used with the 2.2.x kernel and has now been replaced with iptables. Any program that creates a firewall will, therefore, use one of those two technologies. All the firewall programs really do is make the creation of iptables rules easier. They can be quite cryptic and difficult to correctly setup. As for why iptables is labeled as stopped, I can not say as I don't run a firewall on my linux box. Hope that helps a bit though.

right click on the menu and select 'Menu Editor'. This will allow you to change anything you wish.

From everything that I have read, the only tool that will safely and reliably resize ntfs partitions is partition magic. However, it is far from open source or free. It is reliable and non-destructive though. The next best tool that I have heard about is the one bundled with Mandrake. Your choice.

They don't have the cpanel, but they have everything else: ftp, smtp php cgi using perl and python coldfusion mx asp linux mysql very low price - $7.00/month or $9.00/month http://f2o.org

Cool, didn't realize that it had been released. Thanks.

Hmm, strange. It is there for me as well. Mandrake 9.2 with KDE 3.1.3 -- standard install

You could give Main Actor a try. They did have a Linux beta out that you could install. Seems to be a fairly good product. I have it installed, but have not really played with it.

I have been using Thunderbird (email client) for about the last 4 months and really like it. However, recently whenever I try to close the program it crashes on me and I have to go into the command line to kill it. Anyone else experiencing this problem? Any ideas on what is going on? Specs: Mandrake 9.2 Mozilla 1.5 Thunderbird 0.3

Did a really quick search for prelink on the forum and found 4 posts, yours and three others. Here is the link for the search. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?act...ighlite=prelink

In a word, No. You have two choices, either use lilo to dual boot between XP and Linux or use the NT loader to load XP and a boot floppy to load Linux. There is no way to arbitrarily use lilo. If you want to remove lilo then follow these easy steps: 1. Create a boot floppy first. Make sure you test it to ensure that it can load Linux. (hopefully your computer still has a floppy drive) 2. Issue the following command as root: # lilo -u This should remove lilo and reinstate the NT boot loader 3. Use the boot floppy whenever you want to boot into Linux. However, keep in mind that it will probably take about 4 times as long to boot up.

If you want to do this is a script, you are probably going to have to come up with one that inspects each file in a directory, checks for a proceeding dot, assigns the name of the file to a variable and then strips the proceeding dot out of the name and uses the value of the variable in the move command. I am not sure if shell script can do this, but something like perl, python or ruby could do it with ease.

Assuming that Knoppix and PCLinusOS are able to mount and read/write to a USB key, with a combination of the two, you should be able to do that now. Although having everything available on a single USB key drive would be a lot more convienent. I don't think it will put hard drive makers out of business though as the USB keys have a rewrite limit to them. They are great for read, but somewhat limited for write. Someone has got to try to do this, a full distro plus /home on a USB key drive. That would be very cool. It could revolutionize the way that we view and use computers.

If you go into configure desktop, one of the tabs has the option for showing the run option in the menu. If you do a search of the forums, you will find a thread that contains the exact directions for reinstating the run option.

By The Way, it is 100 Mbps - Megabits per second, not MB - MegaBytes per second. I have a 100Mbps network setup with a switch -- so it is very fast -- and it can still take 20 minutes to transfer several gigs between computers. When you say your network is slow, exactly what do you mean? I don't know if this is even possible. A much easier approach would be to go and buy a 100Base-T hub instead of trying to create this bizarre network. First, make sure that the two computers are connected using a cross-over cable instead of a normal straight cable. Otherwise whatever you do will end in failure. Personally, I would go with one or the other network option instead of trying to use both. Either connect the two computers together and use one computer to share the internet to the other, or buy a faster hub/router and use that to share the internet. For testing purposes though, setup one network and then setup the other network. You already have the internet sharing network setup, so disconnect that network and setup the second network and get the two computers talking to one another. Then connect both networks and see what happens.

They are core dump files. You usually get these whenever a program crashes due to a segmentation fault. Although there are other reasons for them. You should be able to open them up with any text editor, however, the information inside the files probably won't mean much to you. Generally you just delete them. Check the permissions on the files cause you may need to delete them as root. A quick way to delete all the files is by issueing the following command # rm -rf core.*

As far as I know, the only thing that makes a file hidden in Linux is a decimal point in front of the name, i.e. .kde would make the kde directory hidden. The way to see all hidden files is by simply using the: $ ls -a command. This will show all files that are in a directory. To unhide a file, simply remove the period at the start of the name. I have not heard of any other way of hidding files in linux, but I may be wrong about that.

If you are running Samba and have properly setup a share then your main machine (#1) should be able to access the FAT32 partition. There are a few things you are going to have to do though: 1. Make sure the FAT32 partition is properly mounted under linux 2. make sure that any users that you want to access the share have been entered as both linux and samba users. (Yes, you will need to do this twice) 3. make sure that you have properly setup the share in Samba 4. Make sure that you have encrypted passwords set to yes in the samba config file. Once the above has been done, you should be able to access the share (fat32 partition). The easiest way to do all this is to use SWAT. Anymore questions, just ask.

Um, last time I checked, DNS stood for Domain Name Server and handled the translation of Domain Name to IP addresses. Therefore, it will never be able to do what you need it to do. You need to either manually, statically assign an IP address to your computer or set up DHCP. DHCP is used to assign IP addresses to computers on a network.

If you get anything to run on the 486, let us know what you are running and how you did it. I am very skeptical that you will get anything to run with a gui on that machine.

I don't have an answer for you, but if you do a search through the archives for The List from evolt.org you may find some useful information or links. I know this topic has come up on the List several different times. http://lists.evolt.org/ The archive search box is about 2/3 of the way down the page.

As root type # lilo -u and say good-bye to lilo. This will not only remove lilo, but it will also reinstall the XP boot loader. I have done this several times and it has worked everytime.

You are going to have to install the QT libraries. Once again # urpmi QT-1.30 And the next piece in the puzzle should be installed. Suggestion, if you can find an rpm package of whatever you are trying to install, it would be a lot easier. Basically what you are missing are all the development packages. When you installed Mandrake you did not select development and a few other options that install programming type stuff onto your computer. So, now when you try and compile something, you are having to install all the devel packages. HINT: whatever the error is when trying to configure software, it usually means that a package of some sort is missing. Just take the name of the package that the error occured on and try to install it using urpmi.