inflexion

ill leave mine for now i think lol i dont have all the 15Gb of music on my hard disc like some so i dont fancy re-ripping about 20 CDs if it goes pair shaped

well sod your ego :D i didnt think to uninstall at first but was quickly sorted once i did it. suppose it serves me right for trying to install from source ;) oh and totally no offence taken

Linux in all forms is and has vastly imporved and will continue to do so, like its been said IBM and Novell are now pushing linux harder than ever. The main "problem" is the normal household desktop user as there is often some manual configuration to do which puts people off. I think that another problem is the fact that most disrtos come with everything like OO which is strange in a way as you expect to have to install it after coming from M$ world.

installed the 10rpms after i uninstalled the 10.1 rpms this is like having a winblows moment :P uninstall then install lol

Thanks mate, ive just found out about the exporting now and that was going to be my next post :P gonna uninstall the 10.1 rpm then install the 10 as it says it conflicts

bvc got it :) i did that with gaim just put a shortvut in the autostart folder and it works like a charm

Thanks :) been looking at a linksys one which is also the cheapest so i think i might invest in one of those ta

great now my urpmi is broken :( i thought the urpmi on here was workin, serves me right for using german servers :P ill change them and try again unless someone knows different?

not used FC3 but tbh there is still little difference in it IMO im also supprised that Ubuntu came that low down aswell, given the amount of support and users it has already. Oh btw the next issue aint that hot unless you want to do networking ;)

I already have gaim installed using urmpi but want the new version so that i can use file transferes. So i did urpmi.update gaim and it gave the following message [root@localhost matt]# urpmi.update gaim trying to select nonexistent medium "gaim" the entry to update is missing (one of jpackage, plf, contrib, main) right so i though no worries do it the hard way :P got the source tarball from the site as there isnt a 10.1 rpm put it in my home space then went down the normal route but on the ./configure it said that GLib 2.0 is required so i got GLib from here and followed the instructions that it gives. ./configure make make install then passed ldconfig like it says (btw i installled it in my /home/matt space) then tried again to make the config file and it still wont work i then tried the 10.0 rpms and they all gave me a conflict message with the 10.1 install

nothin new that, just a normal day with windows. Is that a preview of longhorn btw :P

thanks :) ive read the reviews on the ebuyer site and saw the adsltech forums for the F/W update if you need it. Any ideas about the wireless access point though? will anyold one do, got a nice Linksys PCMICA card for the laptop so go for another linksys job??

right swapping my modem all the time is getting too much now. this is the Router that im looking at. This will work i know, normal cat5 cable to two machines upstairs thats the winblows machines sorted :) now this is the tricky part, can i add a wireless node to this with out one of the machines been on all the time? Ill worry about getting it physically connected and secure in MDK after i know its possible :P

you looked here?, it does cover the silver modem so it might help you along the way

glad to see that you finally made it made :D happy linuxing ;)

it might be a stab in the dark here but if your 100% sure your username ans password is right recheck your VCI/VPI they might not be correct?

just try a reboot, it happens sometimes with mine. even unplugging and replugging the modem will work:)

nope its all working fine, no need to initialise it everytime

yea 60 had 10.1 MDK 61 has FD3 which im yet to install and play with as my test machine has win2k on it for uni programs :(

aru no mate its fine ive rebooted a couple of times and its all working fine :D i guess that . /etc/profile.d/alias.sh solved the problem??

thanks seams to be working, ill see if i reboot changes that :P

sorry i missed your point, im using kde on RL5 not tried text mode and there is no .alias file in my home directory and ive got this in the alias.sh file right at the start, if this is what you mean? [[ -f ~/.alias ]] && [[ -z $LOAD_SYSTEM_ALIASES ]] && return 0 [[ -n $IGNORE_SYSTEM_ALIASES ]] && return 0 [ -e /etc/sysconfig/system ] && . /etc/sysconfig/system if [ -f ~/.dir_colors ]; then eval `dircolors --sh ~/.dir_colors` else eval `dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS` fi

# Linux-Mandrake configuration: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> # # Common Aliases for a system. # # The Semantic is : # If exist a ~/.alias and the user hasn't specified a # LOAD_SYSTEM_ALIAS variables then don't do any system aliases # If there is no ~/.alias but the user has specified a # IGNORE_SYSTEM_ALIASES then don't do any system aliases. [[ -f ~/.alias ]] && [[ -z $LOAD_SYSTEM_ALIASES ]] && return 0 [[ -n $IGNORE_SYSTEM_ALIASES ]] && return 0 [ -e /etc/sysconfig/system ] && . /etc/sysconfig/system if [ -f ~/.dir_colors ]; then eval `dircolors --sh ~/.dir_colors` else eval `dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS` fi # default ls options LS_OPTIONS="-F" # this should be removed once the bug with ls and multibytes locales is fixed [ -r /etc/profile.d/lang.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh case "$LC_ALL$LC_CTYPE" in ja*|ko*|zh*) LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --show-control-chars" ;; *) if [ "`locale charmap`" = "UTF-8" ]; then LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --show-control-chars" fi ;; esac # emacs doesn't support color if [ $TERM != "emacs" ];then LS_OPTIONS="$LS_OPTIONS --color=auto" fi alias ls="ls $LS_OPTIONS" alias d="ls" alias l="ls" # classical listing. alias ll="ls -l" # List detailled. alias la='ls -a' # List all. alias lsd="ls -d */" # List only the directory. alias cd..="cd .." alias s="cd .." alias p="cd -" alias md="mkdir" alias rd="rmdir" alias cp="cp -i" alias mv="mv -i" alias rm="rm -i" alias firefox="/usr/share/firefox/firefox/firefox" # Make a filter for less if [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh ];then export LESSOPEN="|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s" fi if [ -n "$CLASS" -a "$CLASS" = "beginner" ];then # Size of a directory (by default Human Readable). alias du='du -h' # Size of a disk (by default Human Readable). # and don't probe supermount alias df='df -h -x supermount' fi that is my alias.sh and this is my user.sh alias firefox="/usr/share/firefox/firefox/firefox" alias targz="tar -xzvf" alias tarbz="tar -xjvf" alias matt="cd /mnt/win_d/Documents\ and\ Settings/Matt/" just noticed that ive duplicated the firefox entry is that the reason?

read the FAQ about this and in MDK10.1 /etc/profile.d/alias.sh exists so i though ok su then add my own but that didnt work :( so i made a user.sh in profile.d and only the firefox alias works??? Any ideas cause im really stuck, read about putting them in the .bash_profile will that work

yea i did try that but since i put Gaim in the Kde Autostart folder its been fine?!