Michel

This is a binary only library (hopefully iy isn't infected with some virus!! :)). Really cool... stereascopiv view for any game that uses opengl.... link: http://futurelab.aec.at/vrizer/ The explnation: VRizers aim is to utilize conventional OpenGL games or OpenGL software for virtual reality or virtual environment setups. This is done in Linux, by creating a library that, when preloaded, intercepts the proper OpenGL/SDL calls to create 2 stereoscopic views out of 1 single frame stream. So the original software (the game) is not altered in any way. VRizer now works best for UT2003, but a few other games were tested succesfully (with some features/options missing): FooBillard, TuxRacer, Scorched3D, Neverball, Armagetron, Trackballs. However, you need different scaling settings in the configuration file for each of these games. e.g.: * foobillard: scale = 1.0 * neverball: scale = about 10 * scorched3d: scale = 1.0 * TuxRacer: scale = about 10 (background pixmap not correctly displayed) ...test it out for yourself. Although VRizer is developed with active stereo Virtual Reality setups in mind (like the CAVE), it can be used without the need of any special hardware. There is the possibility to use red-green glasses on one screen, so you can enjoy the benefits of Stereoscopic 3D graphics on your home-PC.

I reinstalled windows xp on a dual-boot-setup of a friend(xp and linux). I tscrewed up the bootloader good. Nothing would even start any more. Could only boot from cd and floppy. I didn't get a chance to repair it (I tried it, but I first had to look up some info sinc ethis was teh first tilme I encountered this prolem ...heart about it ?? But they took it out of my hands ...), although fixmbr didn't seem to work ..mayeb I did domething wrong ... But my next step was trying fixmbr, fixboot again and then using maybe freedos of win 98-boot disk if you hav it and do fdisk /mbr (or something) or format /mbr. They took it to someone else .. (shop or man), but it seems he just said they needed a new harddrive. I know the harddrive was still intact ...but the mbr was screwed up and I can't believe you can't restore your mbr or clean everything of the harddisk and reinstall everything again. Reinstalling lilo wouldn't work. Personal: I really wanted to try to repair it...since the man had the pc for a week and was away to an other country during a period of that week, I certainly wanted to try it ..., but ok ...they have a new harddrive now. I would appreciate it if anyone could write a good how-to an how installing windows after linux will screw your up your mbr ...really low-level if possible and how to repair it (most important). I think this is an important issue ...

Nice to ehar about this. I want to try it out myself, but I'll need to have ome time and search how to set it up.

Heya, if your using kde ... you can do it for example also with k3b. It's a little bit hidden, but it has very nice options for ripping. You can select a lot of codecs ..(you may have to install soem stuff maybe)... I can select mp3 ...(with lame), ogg, flac, wav, ...( a lot of codes .... sox gives ait a lot of extra stuff I think). When you put in a cd. Double click on the cdrom-drive in k3b. It wil try to trtrieve he info from the cd. There is a also an option for cddb-lookup. You can then select the tracks to rip. Above the tracks there are some icons in a row. One of them (think the most right one) is for ripping. When you click on it, you het some options...codec ..generate m3u-playlist, ...level for paranoia-cd-reader, ..where to put the files, ...how to name them, based on cd-info, ..mayeb some other stuff. I used it for encoding to flac .... may you change your mind :). I added the follwoing settingf or the flac-encoder: q7...you have different compression possibilities q8 is the highest. Standard is q5, but q6 is much better compression than q5 I think. It takes some time to encode to flac .... Arson is another possibility, but I haven't tried it yet.

I hope this can help someone maybe. I was lookign how to hide a user in mandrake's login manager. I couldn't find a graphical way, so I started looking for their config-file. The login-manager's config-files are in /usr/share/config/kdm It seems that the file with the settings is kdmrc. Everything is documented in the file. I hope changes will happen when I get teh login manager next time. Mayeb you have to run a command afterwards, but if so..I'll write this also here. You can do several things: do you want to allow only local logins?, which users you don't want to show?, do you would likeno password for some users?, do you want to show users with a uid below xxx?, allow root to login?, who may shutdown the computer? (I thought there was also a setting for this in /usr/share/msec/level.x : not sure though ), ...

looks ok or what do you want exactly? Is this spelling corect (sorry :))?: proffesionals Be sure to put quotes (") around attribuet-names: class=row -> class="row" is one case some problems the html validator gives: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/services/validator...jsp&ss=#line-36 Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. * Line 1, column 1: ^ Error: Missing DOCTYPE declaration at start of document (explanation...) * Line 11, column 97: ... "/images/proconstruct.gif" width="200" height="59"><br> ^ Error: required attribute "ALT" not specified * Line 36, column 22: <p><form name="performSearch" method="post" action="/performSe ... ^ Error: there is no attribute "NAME" * Line 87, column 5: <head> ^ Error: document type does not allow element "HEAD" here Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional. If you use CSS in your document, you should also check it for validity using the W3C CSS Validation Service. Source Listing Below is the source input I used for this validation: 0: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> 1: 2: <html> 3: <head> 4: <title>Welcome to the Construction Portal</title> 5: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/construction.css"> 6: </head> 7: 8: 9: 10: <body> 11: <div id="leftcontent" align="center" ><img src="/images/proconstruct.gif" width="200" height="59"><br> 12: <br> 13: <div id="menu"><a href="/index.jsp">Home</a> | <a href="/register.jsp">Register</a> | <a href="/admin/administer.jsp">Administration</a> 14: </div> 15: </div> 16: <div id="footer"><br></div> 17: 18: <div id="portal"> 19: 20: The Construction Portal is a directory of proffesionals who work within the 21: construction industry. Anyone can search the directory for companies by their name, 22: region or field of expertise. 23: 24: <p>We are currently offering six months free registration, <b>without any obligation to 25: sign up after that time.</b> 26: 27: If you are interested in taking advantage of this offer, please feel free to 28: <a href="/register.jsp">register</a> 29: 30: 31: 32: 33: 34: <p> 35: <!-- <div class="form" >--> 36: <p><form name="performSearch" method="post" action="/performSearch.do;jsessionid=DF92CFD160DA6D1AB0DC38FC198D5F3D"> 37: 38: 39: Please perform a search based on some or all of the following: <br> 40: <b>All search fields are optional - use at least one, or up to three criteria</b><br> 41: <p> 42: <div class=row> 43: <span class=label>Company Name: </span> 44: <span class=formw><input type="text" name="company" value=""></span> 45: </div> 46: 47: <div class=row> 48: <span class=label>Business Type: </span> 49: <span class=formw> 50: <select name="type"><option value="Please Select...">Please Select...</option> 51: <option value="Architect">Architect</option> 52: <option value="Building Contractor">Building Contractor</option> 53: <option value="Buildings Surveyor">Buildings Surveyor</option> 54: <option value="Quantity Surveyor">Quantity Surveyor</option> 55: <option value="Valuation Surveyor">Valuation Surveyor</option> 56: <option value="Structural Engineer">Structural Engineer</option> 57: <option value="Civil Engineer">Civil Engineer</option> 58: <option value="Acoustic Consultant">Acoustic Consultant</option> 59: <option value="Building Services Consultant">Building Services Consultant</option> 60: <option value="Planning Supervisor">Planning Supervisor</option></select> 61: </span> 62: </div> 63: 64: <div class=row> 65: <span class=label>Region: </span> 66: <span class=formw> 67: <select name="region"><option value="Please Select...">Please Select...</option> 68: <option value="South East">South East</option> 69: <option value="South West">South West</option> 70: <option value="Midlands East">Midlands East</option> 71: <option value="Midlands West">Midlands West</option> 72: <option value="North East">North East</option> 73: <option value="North West">North West</option> 74: <option value="West Scotland">West Scotland</option> 75: <option value="East Scotland">East Scotland</option> 76: <option value="North Wales">North Wales</option> 77: <option value="South Wales">South Wales</option> 78: <option value="Nationwide">Nationwide</option></select> 79: </span> 80: </div> 81: <div class=row> 82: <span class=formw><input type="submit" value="search"></span> 83: </div> 84: </form> 85: 86: </div> 87: <head> 88: <title>Welcome to the Construction Portal</title> 89: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/construction.css"> 90: </head> 91: 92: 93: 94: 95: 96: <div id="copyright" align="center" >© Red Fruit IT Limited</div> 97: 98: 99: </body> 100: </html> You shoudl describe it as html 4.0.1 transitional, maybe that helps for the name-attribute. I have use dteh attribute too and I believed it was marked valid for me. It's mayeb because of the prvious errors. Here was my doctype ofr 4.0.1 transitional: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Note(personal stuff): When I made my page in css. I had to inverse problem :). I checked it using mozilla (and konqueror), but when I sometimes checked in IE, I saw it wasn't correct. Sometimes it where syntacatical errors, else stuff that IE didn't support .

Heya, I noticed that when I check if libsafe is enabled on my computer, I ntoiced the value class=beginner. What does this mean and what happens when I change this to another value. If anyobe wants to know how to enable libsafe manually (maybe there is a graphical way?), I'll write it down. I think I have enabled it. I should check it to be sure. Anyway I can tell you where the config file is. Hehe, in this time I maybe have could written it down already :).

It seems that heatsinks are excellent coolers... I haven't used them yet..maybe some of you have? I was researching them a little bit. Maybe they' re pricy? Since they have no moving parts, they are quiet ... I have a NEC 1300A. They can write and read quite some things. CD-I's are even listed. They cost around 100 euro (here in Belgium in anyway). The 2500 is now out. But that was mentionned since someone has it it seems.

quanta+ is a webdesign-ide for kde. I've used it for a html-css projetc of mine and it was quite nice, although the menu is confusing//too crowded. It has also php-support, but I am nto sure if it is good. Don't know if it is reallyd ecent support for php (I remember something about it being not well, but can be wrong. was also a time ago). For mozilla, .. there is a plugin for previewing php-pages: http://mozphp.mozdev.org/ (projetc homepage): http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPHP/ Hopes this helps some. I don't know of any other specific webdesign ide's for kde I like the integration with the desktop. It uses kwallet for storing passwords if you like and I discovered you can drag the project-name to ark (zipper) andit lists al files of your project then in the zip-app (you caould also zip the directory I suppose : lol). Yeah, normal stuff maybe, but handy.

this is a codec for mpc for linux it seems. ( http://lists.xmms.org/pipermail/xmms-devel...ary/002691.html ) it contains a plugin for xmms and beep media player too. Maybe xine and/or mplayer support it too, but not sure.

It seems it is a video format? You could try image magick or check it yourself t be sure ... Maybe there are better solutions, don't know ... http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html homepage: http://www.imagemagick.org/ Try to install using the mandrake installer or see if there isn't a mandrake package for this program, else : download: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/download.html : choose linux rpm and you can install it by typing on the commandline: rpm -ivh <path to rpm-file

Mayeb you didn't know, but you have acrobat reader for linux. If you want the link, I'll look it up for you, but I had it.

mandrake msec runs every x time and according to your security levels and the according permissions of the files, checks them and if needed change thems. This is mayeb troubling you? You can have custom security levels. To run msec with securitylevel x type on teh commandline: msec x (x is the number of the secuirty level or your own number I suppose). (1 is low, 2 .., 3 is normal, 4..., 5 is paranoid :D:d:d. the config-files for these are in /usr/share/msec level.1 cvontains the configuration-options for level1. perm.1 contains the files and their according owner/group/permissions settings of level 1 .... the perm stuff is what you maybe be looking for. You can change this also all graphically in the mandrake control central under security. Hopes this helps. Michel

you could scan for known ... rootkits. http://www.rootkit.nl/ This could a start. Mandrake shoudl make tripwires and allt his seciurity stuff default. It would make life easier I think . Hopes this helps.

Like said. People can just rip out your harddrive and connect it to another computer and read your drive. This can only be prevented using encryption. I've setted up an encrypted partition using mandrake partitioner during install (I suppose this is also available in the control center using the partitioner). I don't know if it can be done when teh partition has already been used. Anyway. I've investigated this also a bit. Although I am not sure, I can give you some hints. *For mail,file, ..encryption there are front-ends for kde and gnome and maybe also others. This is for the file-by-file, ... encryption. You have these front-ends (kgpg, seahorse, ...), but there is also cryptonit. Don't ask me what it doesn precisely, but it seems it can do more than just file-per-file stuff ..this is for kde it seems. Dor gpg-fornt-ends you can have a look here maybe: http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software.../frontends.html *You don't have to use encryption on a whole partition, you can also specify it per-folder/file(automatically) using tcfs. I DIDN4T USE THIS MYSELF. IT JUST SEEMS INTERESTING. Their FAQ: It also seems that it isn't maintained anymore, but not sure. http://www.tcfs.it/docs/tcfslinux-faq.3.html#Q3.9 some info on it: To make TCFS usable by end-users, we provide a standard key management system called BKSM. The BKSM does not need the user to remember any password other than her login password. BKSM stores the TCFS encryption key in a key database encrypted using the login password of the user. Utility tcfsadduser creates an empty entry in the key database for the user while tcfsgenkey generates an encryption key, encrypts it using the login password of the user as a key, and adds it to the key database. Utility tcfsputkey asks for the user's login password, retrieves the user encryption key from the key database, decrypts it and passes it to the TCFS client by performing the ad-hoc ioctl on the mount points of all the mounted TCFS filesystems. Similarly, tcfsrmkey performs a remove ioctl on the mount points of all the mounted TCFS filesystems. *this one seems to be up-date: http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/ *You can HIDE content in images, but here in music if you want. It seems to work well, but I know that people are searching for methids to find this hidden content. Don't know if they succeeded yet. http://stego-lame.sourceforge.net/. *syou maybe know this tuff, but store your personal key on a removable media liek an usb-stick or floppy or whatever you have, so you can set it to read-only physically (hardware). *This is a good howto (think it wasn't mlentionned yet): http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/En...on-HOWTO-4.html *this seems nice too. Really from the bottom up it seems: http://www.sdc.org/~leila/usb-dongle/README Hopes this helps some.

I don't know how they hacked it, but if it are certain scripts or so that got "bad" input, he maybe could have a look here if the site is using apache ..... http://www.modsecurity.org/ as far as I can tell it protects against the "bad" input. Ofcourse you have to say what is allowed and what not. It would be better if the system itself was secure and I hope they'll get it fixed ....., but maybe this can help also.

I think I found what explorer doesn't support. The css-tag > that I'm using. It's for descending in the tree, so I don't have to mention class=xxx the whole time. Maybe there is another way (better?) to accomplish this and so that explorer still does it. I don't like all those class-tags :).

same as in 5.5 I suppose. Thanks. The horror.

ooh :) the site isn't finished yet ... :D

Ok, the webpage shows like I want in mozilla and konqueror. I can't try it out it explorer 6.0 yet ..so if someone would want to check it. Thanks. A girl-friend of mine will check it, but if someone should know the answer quite easily here and want to tell it ..feel free ... :) In explorer 5.5 the normal pages seem to render quite fine, except for the boxed arounf the links and the distance between them. Maybe because I use the box-model for the lin ks here. But in explorer 5.5 the intro-page just look ugly. ...the png's aren't transparent, which I hope they are in 6.0. But the pictures aren't resized. If someone can tell me why it doesn't resize the pictures or what 5.5 doesn't support what I'm using..thanks ..but that is if you just know it instantly ofcourse. The pictures are quite heavy ..It are just black-transparent-pictures(on the opening page). Maybe gif (can gifs be transparent?) will reduce it more...? Does maybe someone knows how to determine if explorer is accessing the page and then choosing a different page? Mayeb also the version if 6.0 renders is ok. http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/~michel/ Thanks.

I solved it already.

Heya, I'm trying to make a webpage and position things with css, but I have some problems. I'll give a link to the code beneath. My beiggest problem is that I can't get the body-tag to correspond to the screen-wdth and height. I'm using the position=fixed for it and then use for elements position:relative, but it doesn't seem to work The relatiove stuff seems t work, but the style-body-tag won't work. My page looks already different in mozilla, konqueror and internet explorer. So, if someone could get me going I would appreciate it. What I'm trying to do, is that the pictures are in the middle-part of the screen, beneath each other, but I have put them in another <div> so that they would maintain their own scale and so that I could center them inside the div...that way they ....would be centered and maintain their height-width-ratio. But they just take the widt of the div ..which isn't what I want ..maybe because of the relative? And beneath the pictures, on the bottom of the page, there is some centered text. Here is the link: http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/~michel/Marianne.html Thanks for the help, Michel

Heya, I just configured alsa to use dmix which went quite easily, but I have problems haveing arts also use alsa so that evrything uses alsa and I have mixed sound in all applications. If someone could help me with arts, esd(might work not checked decently yet) and I didn't check oss yet, but I suppose I have to use aoss for that. I have followed the dmix-documentation page on the alsa-site also the arts,esd-part... If someone knows how to do this and wants to write this down...tx Michel

This should be under software IU think. Could a mod move this post to a more apporpriate subforum? sorry.

I'm going to translate some words ...so hopefully you know which words I mean: In the topmenu, you should have a dropdown-menu which is called "Preferences or somethings similar: it's the second to the left of Help. In the dropdown-menu you should see 3 lines with "profile" in them. these are used for setting your default page. Go to the site you want as you startup/default page. Then Click on the line with ' save profile "webbrowsing"'. Click then on save. If you don't have the above line. Choose "managing profiles (or something)". Choose webbrowsing and press save. That should be it as far as I know.