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Vdubjunkie

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  1. I guess this is why the directory didn't even exist on my machines.
  2. Well, anybody else got any ideas? Also, does anybody else actually run xMule behind a firewall and get it to work? I keep getting LOWID, and apparently that is a violation of ed2k protocol. I can't get on any servers for more than a couple hours anymore.
  3. In answer to your question, I have heard explicitly that the ALSA is of much higher quality than the OSS.
  4. When I hooked up my camera I just did a "tail -n50 /var/log/syslog" as root and it told me explicity that it found it "mass storage" and all, and that it was /dev/sda1. I then "mkdir /mnt/camera" and "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera" and pulled the files. Couldn't have been easier. I would read the end of your syslog directly after hooking up the camera and doing anything you need to do to the camera to get it ready to "be connected" to the computer.
  5. Let me just say that unless you are extremely overboard in your home network, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY in a home network will get ANY use out of the additional bandwidth of gigabit. Save the money. Your hdd's even when striped will not use that bandwidth.
  6. That upload speed is good in my mind. I have blazing download on coax, but upload is capped at 32k. Also, in the area I checked satellite for a family member who doesn't have REAL dsl the conditions are much worse. It is equivalent of $100 p/m the first entire year.. or you can pay that entire difference up front, and pay what it will cost after the first year per month of a minimal $50. That is outrageous, but when it is your only real high speed option...
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    What hardware?

    Two other things to consider are that a lot of the mobo + cpu combos nearly give you the cpu free and are often really decent equipment. The other thing is that if you are going to spend more than you thought on something, make it the tower. It is the single most overlooked under considered important component that people don't put enought money into. I've read many an article about how people had heating, etc. problems only to see them all vanish after moving to a quality case. Plus, the psu is important too, and a good case will come with a good psu usually. As far as compatibility goes, anymore it seems like the list of components that don't work is a much smaller list all the time. Most stuff does work. I was amazed when I plugged in my brand new (using new memory card architecture) Fuji Finepix camera and linux just loaded it up and waited for me to use it. NICE!!
  8. I would also give serious consideration to the psu.
  9. Closest thing I'm personally aware of is WindowMaker. It is quite nice. You'd never have to use the menu it comes with and you could give it a gray background for fast vnc connections. The bottom dockap in the upper right hand corner is a terminal, and you can just pull that up and call your progz from it. That is what I do for my server. In fact it's menu got messed up somehow but I don't much care... :lol:
  10. You might try these guys http://www.xs4all.nl/~sietse/fd4l/ or possibly even these guys... http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/
  11. These guys are probably right about crossover. I use WINE and the conclusion I have come to is that if the program is at all complicated it is likely to fail. Typically I might use something like the following though: $ wine ~/c/Program\ Files/QuickSFV/QuickSFV.EXE & This runs the QuickSFV.EXE file using WINE and disconnects the application from the terminal. Of course, the important information about the process will still show in the terminal. Leave off the & if you want to do some basic debugging. For example, when I tried to get a program to work in WINE I figured out which dll's were missing and copied them over as necessary.
  12. This may not help solve your problem, but achieve a better understanding overall perhaps. Files such as dsp and hda are not actually files as we think of them. They are dynamically created when the system boots and runs it's check for "new hardware." Actually /dev/dsp is a symlink to /dev/sound/dsp or whatever and if you do a ls -l /dev/sound/dsp (or whatever your /dev/dsp links to) you will see by the first character that this is not just a file. I don't even know what "c" stands for actually, but...
  13. Alright, I hate to follow up on my own reply, but I need to correct a mistake I made in my last posting... I said Pan was to Agent what Gimp is to Photoshop.. From what I'm told Gimp doesn't quite offer what Photoshop does.. Pan is completely superior to Agent. :deal: Here is a true story of open source software beating out commercially sponsored software. Man I love Linux more and more every day.
  14. Sorry, nothing quite so simple as that. I run all static IPs, and that part was good. It really just looks like the program doesn't use the port I give it, whether that be it's default or one I choose. My friend experiences the same thing. Oh well. Maybe I'll look at overnet. Thanks.
  15. Funny thing.. I didn't hear back, didn't hear back, got impatient.. did a bit more intense internet searching.. Guess what I came up with? Yeah, pan!! Thanks guys. This is to Agent as Gimp is to PS. :woops:
  16. I haven't used Opera in linux at all yet, but I have used Mozilla in both doze and nix quite a bit. One thing I notice about Mozilla in doze is if you open some tabs, minimize the window and come back a while later it takes quite a while to redraw the screen. Like, you pull it up, and 30 seconds later you actually see the page again. In doze I actually opted for IE over Opera, and honestly right now I forget exactly why. At first it was the sheer fact that I knew all shortcuts in IE and not Opera, but I believe I overcame that, but just didn't like the feel of Opera as much. Ok, maybe that didn't help much, but I've been pretty happy with mozilla for the most part.
  17. Hello all, In a former life I used Agent. I even tried to get WINE to work it, which sort of worked at first... Anyway, newsgroups for me are a source of huge files, not news, so I need to find a good newsgroup client with yENC compatability if anybody out there knows what is good.
  18. I use it most of the time. Sometimes I switch to KDE. It is actually quite stable with a much smaller footprint. If you look at posts with "show off your desktop" you'll notice it quite a bit. It is especially good for boxes without power to spare.
  19. MottS, Thanks, unfortunately that is the part I already knew. I've even tried other ports, and nothing works. Since I was able to access other programs across those ports, I thought perhaps the program wasn't utilizing the specified ports correctly.
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    xMule woes

    Hello all, Is anybody out there running xMule? Only 3 show up when I look at statistics, so I may be out of luck, but I've pretty well got this thing working except for the LOWID deal. My configuration is as follows: internet -> physical router -> pc(s) On the router I can forward ports either TCP/UDP or both, and this has always worked in the past. I started wondering if maybe my ISP was going gastapo and locking a bunch of ports. So, I decided to port scan (naturally from a remote location) to see if the ports were open or not. I even went to the extent of using port 5904 which I verified did forward properly, and used it for xMule. I was still refused connection from my port scanner. What I was wondering here is if anybody else has managed to overcome the LOWID issue with xMule and if so how. Or, anybody get it with something else like aMule? Unless there is a way to use a port without it showing up with a port scanner I think my test definitively tells me that xMule is simply not using the port I tell it to use. help!!
  21. Thanks guys. Unfortunately the link only provided me with all the chmod info I already know and use regularly. I'll keep looking around to find something that explains that first of 4 number strings when doing a "number" chmod. :P
  22. Hello all, I have seen many times people explaining chmod using letters such as u+x or something of that nature, and since numbers just make sense to me rather than learning more obscure letters and what they pertain to, I opted for numbers. However, when having to do a chmod u+s on my /usr/bin/smbmnt file to "install" it "suid root" I wondered what if any equivalent in numbers there would be. If there isn't I guess I may have to learn the letters. Man that will piss me off
  23. did you get this one to go? Your "connection refused" message I have personally seen.. uh recently. In my case it was "prelude" causing the problem. I had decided to install it and see how good it was and hadn't yet config'd it. However, it was in the startup routine, so... If all else fails, do a "ps auxw" and check out all the stuff running. Take all your apps to nothing first to lighten the list and go through all of them figuring out what they are with "man" or a google search or whatever. Kill anything you don't need. Make sure to restart smbd and nmbd after each thing you kill to retest. In my case nmbd wouldn't even stay running, so I didn't NEED to kill it, but you get the idea.
  24. how did you uninstall? How was it installed? Source or rpms? If it was rpm and you urpme or rpm -e the mozilla installation, the only other thing I am aware of holding values is .mozilla in ~. However, if it was source, files could be in several places. You may not have got them all. I was unable to find your last post to see what the error(s) was/were, but hopefully this is helpful. Also, if you did install source, and you still have the directory where the files were expanded, you could go back and see if you have the option for "make --uninstall" or something similar.
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