Michel

The "gnome system tools" are so designed that they work on all the distro's they haven an abstraction that let's them have plugin for each distro ... so that could help you ...

seems a nice tool. I'll maybe have a look at it after my finals are done.

I created some small css-site. if you want you can have a look ..if it can help you ... The pictures aren't well-placed in konqueror, but they are fine in mozilla and explorer. I filed a bug about this on the konqueror bug-list, I hope it was a bug :). This was my first site which uses a lot of css, so I still have to learn quite some about it. Sometimes it's just easier to use tables ... but I suppose it's more dynamical without tables .. not sure though. The borders of the boxes are visible ..when you make the page small enough, you'll see, because the site had to be internet-explorer-compatible and internet explorer didn't support the css-stuff to make the borders dissappear well I think (I made the border invisible, but in internet explorer the border got width 0, ... this didn't happen in mozilla and I think also not in konqueror.. not sure though.) I know the resizing isn't completely right, that's maybe something for the next site I make or so. Only 2 pages are available, but you can have a look maybe ... http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/~michel/marianne/ http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/~michel/marianne/mo-trap.html

I also setted it up some time ago ... The docs on the mysql-site contain a lot of usefull stuff. If you really want to do it the graphical way ..there are quite some graphical interfaces to databases. You have ofcourse the one provided by mysql themselves, but there are others too. I haven't used any of them yet ... since it's always good to be able to do it using the commandline and you'll have all the possible options normally, while a graphical client maybe doesn't supprot all the options. I know gnome has one .. just check gnomefiles.org and kde has some too I suppose kde-apps.org You could ofcourse check also the one provided by mysql themselves. These 2/3 places will help you on your way for graphical clients ... You also have google :), sourceforge, ...

I have a speedtouch usb-modem (the greenish one) and Mandrake community and 9.2 also I believe configured it compeletey automatically for me. It even gave me a list of possible providers, so I didn't even have to type in my dns-settings ... The only thing you have to do (except filling in the other settings) is go to the alcatel site and download the modemdriver. If you want I can give it to you and place it in "/usr/share/speedtouch". It works for me anyway. The only problem from time to time I have is that when it ca't get connected at bootup an try to do a reconnection, it doesn't work .. but that has something to do with the configure-scripts, because I could do it before (but that was when I installed it manually myself I believe). I removed the latest update for the modem(for support for the silver speedtouch) because it brole support for my greenish modem, but don't know for mandrake 10 official. Anyway everything went automatically for me .... I suppose when I have the possibility, I'll chose an ethernet-modem next time... it seems they are better supported and also better I suppose, sinc eit doesn't use usb (shared usb-system)... almthough I have no complaints for this modem under linux ..except the reconnection ... but that is a configure-thing I think (like mentionned ...)

velocity is another gnome-filemanager. I haven't used it yet and their website seems to be taken away, but the project is still active I read and I hope they can get their site back (their site on sourceforge was given to another project).

There are kazaa-clients (fasttrack is the name of the network) for linux ... more than one even. You have Apollon (multi-network-client: openxxx, gnutella, fastttrack(kazaa), ... ?: I'm using apollon myself and it works for fasttrack-network ... kmldonkey (much more networks than apollon I believe) I don't know any clients in gtk ... (natively for gnome), but if anyone knows some, I would liek to know them also ... :).

You can play so what every format using xine (that is the audio-engine that totem uses..anyway you use it.. I use it too). You can download the realplayer codecs from mplayerhq: http://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and you cans pecify in the xine-options (hope totem has that graphically) where the realplayer libs are. You can install the linux-natives ones. Maybe there is an rpm for this. I suppose so in plf or so. The win32-libraries you see, can also be installed using rpm and plf. It will allow you to play windows media player 9-files. All other codecs are linux-native I think and can be installed using rpm. I make my own rpm's for xine, but I suppose they are available. The followed the eufa-link and it seems it is smil. Smil is an xml-language for multimedia-content. Real-player has the most edvanced support for this. However, the helix-player has a standalone plugin for smil for mozilla .. also usable for konqueror I think. Mozilla doesnt have smil-native support, although that would great. Internet explorer has some I think, but nto so much. It isn't widely used yet on the net, but I suppose it will. With the helix-plugin, you will be able to see the direct link I think: http://www.uefa.com/Video/smil/index.smil It can be that mozilla has some smil-support when you get teh svg-version, not sure though. hopes this helps some I've sent a mail saying the site doesn't show up well in firefox, konqueror, ... :). Maybe it doesn't help, but they can't say noone ever complained about it :).

Anyone knew this thing existed ? :). It seems great: http://www.ossim.net/home.php

I also have an hp-printer and I have quite some options. I haven't compared with windows .. where I mostly just printed normally. I even have an option for printing colro in draft .. yeah :).. I'm just exploring this stuff. I suppose you can set defaults, but you can also configure this when you print something. kprinter has these options, ... I suppose gnome, ... too. I really doubt if windows has more options. I think I have a lot more options with kprinter ... see if I can get some screenshots. This is not all functionality, but quite some (it's in Dutch): (not: man, it's easy to take screenshots and post them on a server. I just made the screenshots with the keyboard-shortcut, then I paste them in konqueror(I use fish(ssh) to connect to the server using konqueror and just paste and it's put on the server as png. no program needed realy ease :-).) Hope you get it working.

You can do the cellspacing, .. also in css. If it's important the hover-stuff only works for divs in IE. I think anyway. I had some problems with the hoverstuf in IE. But maybe it isn't important for your site ...

I have never had to do it myself, but here is what I know: dd copies bits and so I believe, so yes it will copy everything I suppose. this can also maybe help, but it isn't teh same as dd (dd is really lowlevel): http://www.partimage.org/ However, there are utilities under linux for recovering the partition table There was a newer onbe I think, but here is one I found (but seems old ..): http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ parted can also help with some mroe effort I think: http://www.partimage.org/ (see documentation) http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/...ono/parted.html -> rescue hopes it helps some

I haven't programmed in python yet ..but I want to learn. I have pogrammed in java and C++ though. You have more lover-level access to files it seems (likes bits, ... liek menionned). You could create an object record however and make a constructor (thing that initialises an object) that reads data from a file from example. You could then build an object "Recordsfile" or so that let's you handle a file that contains records using a defined interface. You could make a base class Record and define the structure of teh record in other classes that use Record as baseclass for example . So you could maybe use different recordstypes for a same Recordsfile-object, but use the same base-methods/functions to access all type of records as far as that is possible... I suppose this could be done .. haven't tried it myself I think though. I hope I'm not confusing you ... You can make you entire classes (class=object) in UML first and specify the dependencies, variables, ... in/of it and then let the baseic code be autogenerated from the UML. The real implementation of the functions has to be still done by hand. UML can be handy (to my opinion) to see what kind of problems you can encounter building you code, design your classes better..withou messing with real code and having a good overview of your classes. It can be a step in designing your program...

I posted this for someone else too on this forum(if you search on bakery ...) ..could this help? I just found this app which may help you, although I don't know if it will work for a bakery, but certainly worth looking at to my opinion: http://www.sql-ledger.org/ features (short): * Accounts Receivable * Accounts Payable * General Ledger * Inventory Control * Billing / Invoicing * Purchase / Sales Orders * Customizable Taxes * Multi-user * Multi-company * Audit Control * Foreign Currency * Internationalization * Access Control * SQL server backend * Customizable Templates * Customers * Vendors * Assemblies (BOM, kits) * Chart of Accounts * Customizable Reports * Financial Statements * Administration Module * Backup to file/email * Application Interface * Use on Handheld

For those who didn't find it on gnomefiles.org :)..maybe this is interesting for you ... and maybe it's used by other projects too, but this is the first I encounter ... http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=194 homepage: http://k3d.sourceforge.net/new/ The renderman-backend I think: http://aqsis.sourceforge.net/index.php don't know if you need something else ... doesn't seem so, but can be maybe. For those with really high-end machines and don't use the graphic card really, can maybe render their desktop using this :).

something liek zeroinstall. In Roxdesktop this approeach is build-in I believe... maybe you knew this .. instead http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ZeroInstall maybe "checkinstall" can help you out too.

You may also be interested in this 3d moddeling program . I've read that some people find it easier to create models with this and load them then into blender ... http://www.wings3d.com/ I hope you get urpmi setup, after that, you should have a lot of software available :). good luck and welcome. I just saw that it is not available in rpm-format. It is an sh-file like the nvidia ... to unpack it: tar -xvzf <file> or maybe gzip -d <file> depending on the compression used (think the second). Or maybe you use a graphical unzipper ..also possible ofcourse :). to run the installer (I think..): sh <file.sh> Maybe we should put this one on our todo-list for rpm-packages ...

I haven't used kdevelop for some time, but normally you just create a new project and start programming. The automake, ... files are generated automatically by kdevelop normally ... Here's a how-to with some screenshots, that maybe helps you ... http://docs.kde.org/en/3.2/kdevelop/kde_app_devel/ other tutorials if interested ...: http://kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3..../tutorials.html Hope you get it to work .... else ..could you write down the error(s) here ?

Heya, I created a "gpg"-key for myself and put it on a floppy. It works great, but I'm now trying to use it with thunderbitd, with is giving me problems.... Signign works fine, but it's the checking of signed messages that is not really working. I first mounted the floppy read-only, but when thunderbird wants to check againsta certificate, it wants to write the certificates to a temporary file (the with-colons-option of gpg) .. so I had to disable the read-only stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok...that didn't help much ... I had to make all the files on it writeable, because it wants to write to the trustdb.gpg-file afterwards ... (I'm using a fat-floppy if I should be able to mount it on another non-linux-system. ). Now it seems it can't create cross-device links or so ....(the link -command is used I think). Can anyone help me with this?? Thanks.

can be interesting: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ for 802.11g cards based on prism chipset: http://prism54.org/ the cards they support: http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php Maybe these can help you, but it would be better if you would now teh cipset teh card is based on I THINK. I've looked arounf some and it seems ..; it uses the following chipset ...: Card: Motorola WPCI810G b/g PCI Card Chipset: Broadcom BCM 4306/2050 seems they supprot linux ... don't know how far the support goes, but maybe it's indeed in the kernel already? http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddr...p?cookiecheck=1

Put the commands in a file and put at the top of the file #!<path to your favorite shell> so for example #!/bin/bash Make the file executable and call it like an executable file .... The commands will be executed by the the command-interpreter (I believe) (here a shell) you specified. I think this is all. I'm not a big expert in this, so others could add some stuff :).

I think python is getting more and more important.

I was looking around for making XUL-apps use QT/kde-stuff instead of gtk ..seems kaxul is nice for this...anyway, I bounced on this site: http://xul.sourceforge.net/ It seems (I think!!! So have a look yourself first) you can use XUL for building swing, gtk-apps(not really new ...), build gdesklets with it, make java webstart-applications with it, awt-apps, gnustep-ui's, swt-apps, ... I'm not really sure about it, but it looks like this and maybe someone finds it interesting ...

Since it is XUL ... you can use it remotley or not (I thought so). It is quite cool. I found it on a XUL-mailinglist. You can also display XUL-apps outside the mozilla-browser .... I think you cahn find all the games also on the mozdev.org-site. http://robin.sourceforge.net/

You will still get the firefox, mozilla, ... -print-dialog first ... I tested this in firefox and it works. 1. Open the print-dialog: click on the print-icon or on File->Print... 2. Click in the dialog on "Properties" 3. Change the print-command to "lpr-kprinter --stdin" 4. Click in the Properties-dialog on "OK" 5. Close the Print-dialog 6. Type in the addressbar (the place where the urls are showed: this is the place with texts like http://www.google.com , ....) "about:config" and press enter 7. A page with a lot of options for firefox/mozilla, .... appears. At the top of the page there is a text-field with to the left of it "Filter". Type in that text-field "print.show_print_progress". Now, only the option "print.show_print_progress" should be visible and not the others any more. if the value in the Value-column is "true", then you're done, else go furtther with the next step. 8. Double click on the option "print.show_print_progress". A dialog appears. Change "false" to "true" and press on "OK". Done Try to print a page and see if it works ... the original print-command is: lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}