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Thanks, it turnd out that links was intalled on my system, I've given it a try... I was familiar with lynx, but sure links is a lot more usable. Problems so far: * I have a website for students that requires login authrization. When I am clicking on the link, it does not ask for login name/password. Instead, I get "401 Authorization required". Login to mandrakeusers.org works just fine though. * Mouse support seems to be limited. I couldn't highlight text on a page and then paste it in another application. That's gonna be a problem... * Is it possible to setup links to open a home page on start up? I could do links www.yadayadayada.com, though. Not a big deal...

Hey, guys, what's links? Does it handle java/javascript/cookies etc? I'd love to replace my conventional browsers with something lightweight and fast...

Do you use a proxy server? Realplayer as any other client downloads files, so...

Check /usr/bin/ and /usr/local/bin. Look for a link to /usr/local/netscape/netscape, delete it as well. Also, check if you have /usr/local/lib/netscape/. On my system, there is some stuff in there... You can capture location of non-rpm application related files by inspecting the output of #make install while you're installing software. Say, you can probably try to install netscape over the exisitng version, this time redirecting the output to a file.

James, try http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au They are sometimes a bit slow with posting latest updates, but in general, it's a great resourse.

How does SOT handle .xls files which include VB macros? Yeh, I know, SO and OOo suppose to handle macros just fine, but in fact I never had luck with macros.

You should ask yourself, who's your audience. If it's one or two "yahoos" who use msoffice and they must be able to edit the document, go for OO.o. If you work on a book or a journal/conference paper, the publisher may not appreciate your creativity when it comes to formatting. LaTeX performs formatting according to publishing standards. Take hyphens, for example. MSWord and the likes are just hopeless... Someone mentioned truetype fonts for LaTeX, that's just another example. Why would you want to use them, publishing standard is usually Type1. I happen to see conference papers prepared using truetype fonts, they look very odd and unprofessional...

Thanks everybody who responded. SoulSe, which model was that Dell? How long does the battery last? If I am not mistaken, according to a report that I red a while ago (before Intel released centrino), Dell's batteries were rating pretty poorly compared to some others. Indeed, my daughter's Inspiron P4 2GHz, gets very hot. Fans kick in quite often. Compared to my P2 Gateway 5150 that gets barely warm and can run up to 4hrs, a huge difference...

Weel, it's not entirely about not paying MS tax... I've been through that exercise when I was buying my desktop, doesn't work in Australia. The law requires that every computers is sold with an OS, and you can guess which OS is that... I just can't spend much time on tweaking... BTW, LiquidZoo, I red your notes, about Inspiron and look forward to reading your FAQ. Actually, I got Inspiron 8200 for my daughter a couple of months ago, quite a nice computer, but a bit heavy to carry around... Nevertheless, if she decides to switch to linux, I know where to look for good notes... Thanks for putting that stuff together.

has just written a reply, but the browser got stuck, not sure if the post got through... Anyway, I've checked the Intel OS compatibility chart, http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/os.htm An interesting thing is that linux is supported in pentium M processor and 855 chipset, but they stop short when it comes to supporting the wireless LAN mini-PCI adapter. A naive question, apart from the wireless, what else does centrino include? I would go without wireless, don't care much about it. It's the size/weight and battery life that amke centrino attractive. And of course, when you buy a notebook, the wireless hardware is already there, you've got to pay for it and pay for a PC card on top... Hmmm, it sounds very familiar....

I red somewhere that a while ago Dell was shipping laptops with Linux preinstalled (at least in the US). They have abolished Linux support a few years ago. Does any other manufacturer ship linux laptops, or does any manufacturer at least claim that their hardware should work with linux? I am after a lightweight notebook with a decent battery life, preferably Centrino from Dell/IBM/Compaq-HP (the university wouldn't like to buy from other companies). I've checked out some linux on laptop websites and am getting an impression that Linux does not keep up with hardware manufacturers. By the time that somebody reports on a successful install, laptop manufacturers seem to change the hardware. I am lost with wireless for example. It seems that there are several standards around, which of them is/will be supported in Linux? What is the current status of winmodem support? Some people say don't go near them, other get them work. Does it all apply to onboard network chips? It's hard to make a right choice, when it is so confusing... I have enjoyed linux for the last 4 years and wouldn't like to eXPerience anything else... Any good advice/suggestion? Cheers.

Thanks, I got and installed libpng.so.2, but that was only success... I've tried kshowmail-2.2.3 beta rpm from the CD again. It showed clock and was trying hard to login to the server, but that was it until I killed it. Also, I have compiled kshowmail-2.2.3.tar.gz from the source again. Still nothing, except for the popup message "Cannot login to <server name>".I ran it from the terminal, this line might help to shed the light: KShowMailApp::slotUIDLsResult: KIO::error Also, while running ./configure, I got this warning autoconf 2.50 is currently not supported at admin/conf.change.pl line 94, <> line 793.

I did... As I wrote in the first post, kshowmail-2.0-0.i386.rpm from sourceforge seems to be packaged for SuSe and doesn't install on my MDK8.2 system because rpm cannot find libpng.so.2. libpng.so.2 for MDK8.2 is available to club members only. I got sources from sourceforge as well, compiled them and still have the same problem, kshowmail cannot login to the server...

Forgot to mention, I need an rpm for MDK8.2 (KDE2.2.2)... Thanks

Someone on this forum suggested kshowmail for email previewing. I intalled a beta rpm from MDK 8.2 powerpack CDs, but for some reason, it does not poll my POP3 account. I also tried to compile the source for KDE2.2.2, does not work either (I had some developer packages missing, installed them, but not sure whether I used a correct version...). I am certain, this is not a problem on the mailserver. I compiled kshowmail from the source on another box for KDE1.1, it works perfectly with my POP3 account... Ok then, I downloaded another KDE2.2 rpm from sourceforge, tried to install it, but ran into a dependency problem: the RPM is packaged for SUSE and requires libpng.so.2; MDK 8.2 uses libpng.so.3. Did anybody have similar experience? Where can I find *working* kshowmail rpm? MDK offers libpng.so.2 to club members only, I can't get it from them (Hello there in Mandrake, I bought for my Powerpack less than a year ago, BTW...)

Do you connect to the web through proxy servers? Check if you have correct proxy settings in mozilla and konqueror.

Check permissions and also check user IDs on two computers. I don't know how MDK control centre handles this stuff, but I remember having to synchronise my user ID on both computers in order to be able to work with files mounted to /mnt/shares-from-other-computer.

Yes, the "service provider" for your router is the Linux box. Therefore, the Linux box must accept connections of one kind or another. Eg, you have to run a DHCP server that supports DynamicIP, or PPPoE server or something like that... In the case of static IP, your Linux box probably has to run a Samba server to accept connections from the LAN. Say, if you were connecting a Windows PC directly to the Linux box, you would run Samba for that, right? Once you set up Samba server on 192.168.1.1, static IP 192.168.1.2 on the router will likely do the job. Try 192.168.1.0 or 192.168.1.254 as a gateway address, I don't remember which one is right.

That's already been done: gd@localhost gd]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search localdomain AEI nameserver 206.123.6.10 nameserver 206.123.6.11 # ppp temp entry nameserver 206.123.6.11 # ppp temp entry nameserver 206.123.6.10 # ppp temp entry You may want to try to add these lines to /etc/resolv.conf on the clients...

For private subnets and static IP addresses, you don't have to run a dns server, 'cause names can be resolved using hosts file. I don't have dns server running. As long as static IP addresses are listed in /etc/hosts and /etc/lmhosts (for samba), everything works fine. I think that its a routing or NAT problem 'cause things go wrong after ISP assigns different IPs. Once you've been assigned a different IP, you must change the default gateway as well.

Can't see anything wrong with those files. To me, a weird thing is that your LAN breaks when ISP assigns a different IP to the server... When that happens next time, check outputs of ifconfig and route on both the server and clients for default gateway.

Sorry, I forgot your first question. Check your default gateway. If it's eth0, then browsers will send packets to eth0 while you want them to send packets to ppp0. Post here outpus of ifconfig route -n Both commands must be run as root. Run them before you dial in, and after you've successfully connected.

How do you want to connect your lan? That for example could be ISP <-> modem <-> ppp0 Linux eth0 <-> WAN router LAN ports <-> other PCs. In this case, your linux box must act as a router performing network address translation (IP masquerading).The best place to start is the IP Masquerade HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Your router can probably do NAT as well. If so, you may need to have two private networks. Say, if your Linux box eth0 has 192.168.100.1, then the router's WAN should be 192.168.100.2. The router will translate this IP to 4 other computers that are connected to the LAN ports and have IP addresses 192.168.0.*

What is in your /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts? Does your ISP dynamically assign nameserver IPs? Make sure that the nameservers are consistent with IPs in your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts.

ranger: In my smb.conf, I have these lines [global] interfaces = 192.168.161.1/255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 name resolve order = lmhosts bcast wins dns proxy = No wins support = Yes remote announce = 192.168.161.255/WORKGROUP 192.168.0.255/WORKGROUP I don't know anything about WINS, swat set yes for me, so I accepted it. I undertand, names are resolved using lmhosts file in my case. Anyway, do you suggest that in interfaces, I can replace 192.168.0.2 with name.domain? What about remote announce? Also, is WINS server a part of samba? I'll check output of the nmblookup as soon as I connect the laptop to LAN at home...