naraku9333

what driver does it use?

I was playing with it the past two days its alittle prettier, and has a few new applets; but it won't play nice with my user accounts (root works perfect). For now i'm re-installing 2.12.3, I'll wait untill it reaches the main portage tree to try it again (I did see a thread on the gentoo forum where a user was running it with no major problems).

I can't really see using VLC for a webcam. Streaming a security cam is one thing but I have the cam for video messaging and to a lesser extent conferencing, both of which qnext does. My only complaint so far is that it takes forever to start, particularly the first time.

I ran across Qnext the other day and was wondering what everyone else thinks of it. It is an IM / personal P2P client allowing the easy sharring of files. What interests me the most is the ability to recieve and broadcast webcam streams (IMO greatly needed for linux until gaim has it working). It is still in beta and is alittle buggy (I have only been playing with it for two days) and is slow to load but I do find it interesting. There are Windows, Linux and Mac clients available.

People going around randomly sticking others with AIDS needles used to happen quite often (at least once every couple of months) in the city (NY) around the early nineties. I haven't heard of it happing in awhile though (I'm fairly sure it's a first degree murder charge if caught). PS. It's never to early to start being paranoid.

I am also trying to do this for school (one class uses an activeX mathXL plugin, and another requires IE for submitting assighnments). Unfortunately the closest I've gotten to a working IE was installing it through Crossover Office. If you have access to a windows system you can try pulling the missing components from it (I doubt this would work but may be worth a try).

Thanks guys.

This semmester I am taking an assembly language class (introductory level) and I will not be able to buy my text book for about a week so I am looking for online reading material to get a bit of a jump start. All I have found so far is many refferences to books on the topic and some apparently old sites (dealt with 16 bit ASM only). Also, I believe the instructor is going to be using Microsoft Macro Assembler in class; will I have any pitfalls using NASM or YASM at home or would I just be better off using MASM?

In addition to turning off un-needed services as Shane suggested you can increase boot speed by re-compiling your kernel supporting only hardware you have. It could take a good deal of experimentation to get all the correct modules but IMO is worth it.

I kave a Netgear wg111t usb adapter that I believe has the same chip. I am using Ndiswrapper 1.4 with these inf's root@ubuntu:/home/naraku # ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: athfmwdl driver present netwg11t driver present, hardware present I dont know if they will work for your card but it is worth a try, they deffinately work for my adapter. You will need to load the athfmwdl.inf first. You can get the inf's from Netgear.com

Bearskin, you can use any distro on the hardware you have. It is the desktop environment that will cause a significant slowdown of the system. I have an old laptop (circa '98) that is running Ubuntu well with 192MB (it's max) and ran abit slow with 128. Give an Ubuntu install a try if it runs to slow for your taste you should be able to install a lighter DE like xfce4 or fluxbox which will run much better.

Can you post your xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) and xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf).

IIRC the file you will need to edit is /etc/networking/interfaces, there you set gatway netmask essid network key etc...

You can use parted or qtparted to do it, you may be able to use it on a mounted partition but I am not sure. It might be easier to boot a knoppix disk to do it (qtparted). After you install windows you will have to install grub into the mbr of master drive. You should be able to make a fat32 partition with mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hdaXIf your bios lets you boot of any drive you wish you can set it to IDE0/master to install xp then to IDE0/slave and edit grub.conf/menu.lst and point it to the windows partiton root noverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1

Have you tried changing the line to rootnoverify (hd0,0)?

I love portage more than any other package management system hands down. If there's no ebuild for an app I want I'll use a tarball or convert an rpm into a tarball. I would say the only PM system to avoid would be the one's that aren't compatible with the distro you are using (you wouldn't use a deb file on a Fedora system). In my opinion the best use of a PM system isn't the ease of installing apps, but the ability to keep track of installed apps and their versions. Dealing with dependencies is a big advantage to them as well. I also highly agree with iccaros that knowing how to deal with t

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You seem pretty concerned about security, so yeah get the firewall.

I don't know about spoofing, but DNS servers can, and have been hacked (there's nothing you can do about it, so dont stress it). Keep a secure linux system and the server will be about as secure as it's going to be. Yes, use a router with NAT functions at the very least and I would also use iptables (software firewall far superior to any on windows(IMO)). Read all the documentation you can find, this page has some info that may be helpfull.

As long as the IPUpdate does what it is supposed to do you shouldn't have a problem with name resolution. DynDNS has nothing to do with securing your server, keep apps up-to-date and use a real firewall.

I believe booting a windows cd and running fixboot in repair console should fix that. It seems that it is common when cloning a windows drive to corrupt ntldr or ntdetect.

VMware has released vmware-player as a free download for windows and linux(tar or rpm). Unlike VMware-Workstation and server vmware-player can not create virtual machines, but can run any created with workstation and server. They also have an Ubuntu-5.10 VM available for download. This makes it incredibly simple for anyone wanting to try linux (or any other x86 OS for that matter) a try without the ordeal of repartitioning and re-installing. vmware-player download pre-built VM's download P.S. VMware Player also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats

doesn't dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 just zero out the mbr?

Thanks everybody, it's very much appreciated.

Start booting normaly but at grub screen type e, add single to kernel parameter, press enter and then b to boot into single usrer mode (logs in as root with no password). You can then do passwd root to change it (I don't belive you will be asked for current password, but am not certain). If that doesn;t work you will need to edit /etc/shadow.