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Warcraft fans and C&C gamers would enjoy this - the GPL RTS game Glest version 2.0 has been released recently. And now you have a Loki installer for the Linux version to test it out: Loki installer for the Linux version of Glest 2.0: http://www.glest.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=1204 More screenshots and information can be found here: http://www.glest.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=586 http://www.glest.org/en/index.html PS: Btw, the game has won the "PlayStation ArtFutura Video Game Design Award" granted by SONY in Spain: http://www.glest.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=429

Just found this in Wikipedia and search on Google: there is a new Firefox extension called ODFReader: http://www.alcoholicsunanimous.com/odfreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...firefox&id=1888 The extension is still very early in development and needs more effort to further its progress. It will go a long way to help the spread of ODF if everybody can read it without downloading the 70-100MB+ OpenOffice.org main program (at least on Windows or Mac), when a 20-200kb+ Firefox extension can do the job.

Also check out this entry at OpenOffice.org Wiki http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Firefox_ODFReader_extension

WINE 0.9 beta should fully support Diable2 by now: http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?versionId=49

Another new extension, FasterFox, will achieve a similar purpose for speeding up your Firefox browsing experience: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ It's been quite handy and actually became a Top download in https://addons.mozilla.org/ as of late.

This isn't a new topic. Already there are many guides out there for creating Bootable KNOPPIX on USB Flash card or memory stick. Here, I am looking for a different but also important problem: getting DOS (Dr. DOS / OpenDOS / FreeDOS, etc.) to boot on USB Flash memory. This will be useful for flashing motherboard BIOS (or display card BIOS). Also many recent notebook models just don't bundle floppy drive anymore; Nor do I have any reason for owning floppy disks if I can have DOS bootable on USB memory card, and flash BIOS with it. Here are the guides for creating bootable DOS on USB memory stick or Flash card. 1. Bootable USB Keys (solution for Linux and Windows) http://www.marlow.dk/usbkeys 2. Bootable USB memory stick (solution for Windows) http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeshaw/archive/2004/07/23/192423.aspx

The link for the HP USB disk tool is updated again: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/21284.html

An updated version of HP USB disk storage tool is released: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/22342.html (updated version)

The second link is now dead. Link Update here: 2. Bootable USB memory stick (solution for Windows) -> HP USB disk storage tool http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1676&page=2 http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html (direct download) Note: Search "HP USB DOS" on Google and you should be able to locate the HP USB disk storage tool within the first few results.

Note: This How-To is separated into several posts for clarity and easier reading. Upgrading to Mandrake Linux 10, I have found that the UI (User interface) font of gtk1.x look rather ugly. Upon searching the web and a little experimenting by myself, I have discovered the trick to modify the UI font for gtk1 and gtk2 applications as well: Here are my suggestions, as performed under Mandrake 10: 1) Install Microsoft web font thru corefonts package (Optional): http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Mandrake Source RPM build: http://ben.reser.org/corefonts/ Cabextract 1.0 http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php 2) You have to know what locale environment you are in: To find out, in terminal you can enter: $ locale In English Unicode environment, it is likely en_US.UTF-8, or in my case en_HK.UTF-8 (English for Hong Kong). 3) The trick to look up the UI font setting is in the directory /etc/gtk and /etc/gtk-2.0, for gtk1 and gtk2 applications respectively: 3.1) For gtk1 application Eg: Mozilla X11, XMMS, Gimp-1.2.x Now, the locale environment information you have found in step 2 became useful: For example, if your locale is zh_TW.big5 (Taiwan Chinese, Big5 Encoding), then you should look up the file /etc/gtk/gtkrc.zh_TW.big5 In the directory /etc/gtk There's no such file as gtkrc.en_US.utf-8, so I would guess this means the locale setting will fall back to gtkrc.utf-8, and it does! Examining /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 under Mandrake 10 shows this: Quote: style "gtk-default" { fontset = "-*-Nimbus Sans L-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-r-*-iso10646-1,*" } class "GtkWidget" style "gtk-default" The string -*-Nimbus Sans L-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1 is the old style for X11 server to display font information, before XFT/fontconfig was born last year. Whereas ,\ is the separator for adding another font. Hence, if you want to use another UI font in gtk1 apps, you have to look up the name of that font in the old X11 style, which is recorded in the font metafile such as fonts.alias, fonts.dir or fonts.scale. They should be placed in the same directory where the fonts reside, inside the following path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf For example, if I want to use Microsoft Arial font as the UI font for gtk1 apps, with the corefont package (see step 1) installed in this path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttcorefonts/ Then I can look up the old style X11 font information from: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttcorefonts/fonts.dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttcorefonts/fonts.scale Upon examining the file fonts.dir, I have located the font information for Microsoft Arial in X11 style as: Quote: arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-dosencoding-cp850 . . . Where -is10646-1 and -dosencoding-cp850 are encoding schemes, the font name is basically the same. Hence the font name for Microsoft Arial (with Unicode encoding) in old X11 style is as this: -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 Hence you can modify the file /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 by adding this font name, followed by the separator ,\ Quote: style "gtk-default" { fontset = "-monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1,\ -*-Nimbus Sans L-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-r-*-iso10646-1,*" } class "GtkWidget" style "gtk-default" Save the file. Finished! Now launch a gtk1 application in en_US.UTF-8 locale and your UI font will look great again.

Bump.

You can compile ALSA from source: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaBuild2.6

Upgrade to ALSA 1.0.6a and use the alsa module 'snd-emu10k1x' to modprobe the soundcard, see if there's any response: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread28166-1.html http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1x

Serial ATA (SATA) Linux status report September 30, 2004 http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html Update: Status of NCQ in linux? http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3359 [Edited by zero0w on 2004-10-01 13:58:05]

No problem, don't mention it. Can't believe DOS developers are still around. 8)

According to the Creative Open source page: http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html Driver support on both 1. Dell model of SB Live! (snd-emu10k1x) 2. SB Audigy LS (snd-audigyls) is coming with ALSA 1.0.6. You can try the experimental ALSA 1.0.6rc1 now available at the ALSA official page: http://www.alsa-project.org/ Notice each of them has its own module name. Do not use 'snd-emu10k1' module with these soundcard models.

Update: ALSA 1.0.6 is finally released, available at the ALSA official page: http://www.alsa-project.org/

See if this discussion can help you: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=131949

I can confirm the issue is mostly about SATA. I am using the same motherboard but with IDE harddrive. And it has been working rock solid for 5 months in Mandrake 9.2/10.

Many users may find that Flash animation in GTK-2.x+ build of Mozilla / Firefox to be very slow, here is what you can do to work around it: 1. Speeding up Flash animation for GTK-2.x+ build (and 2.x+ build only) of Mozilla or Firefox: -> From Mozilla bug #219625 Just export this environment before starting Mozilla / Firefox: [font:arial]export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[/font] You can add this line to the execute script such as "firefox.sh", so it will be exported by default. 2. BTW, a new Linux Flash plugin update is released, 6.0 r81: # LinuxFlash: flash-plugin-6.0.81 Update # Macromedia Linux FlashPlayer download Flash plugin 6.0r81 no longer depends on the old (gcc 2.96) version of libstdc++. 3. Also, it looks like FlashPlayer 7 for Linux Beta is coming: http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/004504.cfm Note: This is re-posted from PCLinuxOnline.

RPM version: http://macromedia.mplug.org/

Ok, so much time is wasted on changing UI font for gtk1 apps, now we are moving to gtk2 apps for good. Example: Gimp 2.0, XSane, Azureus GTK-2+ client, and many more Since GTK-2.x+ applications has switched to Fontconfig and Pango in processing font encoding and locale information, we no longer need to look up the old style X11 font name string, which probably caused brain damage to a lot of people trying to figure it out in the old days. Changing UI font for GTK-2.x+ application is very easy, just create or modify this file in the home directory of your user account: $ vi ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Then add this line: Quote: gtk-font-name="Sans 12" where Sans is the name of the font you want to use, 12 is the font size For example, I have chosen Luxi Sans as my UI font for GTK2+XFT Firefox: Quote: gtk-font-name="LuxiSans 12" Notice the space is omitted between "Luxi Sans", sometimes it is the case, sometimes it is not. Try to experiment and find out. Ok, I think there's enough for now, any questions?

If you are still with me, here is more detail on UI font modification in gtk1 apps: 3.2) UI font setting in gtk1 apps - ignoring locale But wait, you don't want to bother about your locale environment, just keep all the gtk1 apps look right no matter what locale (language, encoding) setting I am using! Sure, you can do this, just make this as a per-user account setting by: $ cp /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 ~/.gtkrc Or you can choose to copy another file in /etc/gtk/ if you knew about your locale environment (such as gtkrc.zh_TW.utf8 which corresponds to the locale zh_TW.utf-8.) Then modify the file ~/.gtkrc will achieve the same result. Pay attention to the encoding scheme -iso10646-1, which is for Unicode (utf-8). However, if you really don't want to bother, you can just put -*-* in place of -iso10461-1, which means use whatever encoding is available from that font. However, you may see square box or garbage in the UI if you use a wrong encoding; or the font does not contain glyphs/characters required in that language. Of course you can set ~/.gtkrc to use several fonts in a particular locale language. As an example, in a Traditional Chinese environment, you can use Microsoft Arial for English letters and numbers, and then Taipei_Ming for Traditional Chinese, by using the separator ,\ to add more font as you wish. 3.3) Using Adobe Helvetica 12pt If you don't have or don't want to use Microsoft font, then the Adobe bitmap font Helvetica 12pt (bitmap font has fixed size) is also a good replacement. On Mandrake 10, information on Helvetica 12pt can be retrieved from this file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir Quote: helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 Hence the old style X11 font name string for Helvetica 12pt is: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 Or simplify it as -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (which ignores encoding and all other information, only the font size -12- matters here) Hence you can modify the file ~/.gtkrc as: Quote: style "gtk-default" { fontset = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\ -*-Nimbus Sans L-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,\ -*-r-*-iso10646-1,*" } class "GtkWidget" style "gtk-default" Finish! [Edited by zero0w on 2004-06-08 13:03:20]

Folks, FlashPlayer for Linux 7.0 r25 is released today! -> Macromedia Flash Player Download Center Linux With the new version of Flash plugin, this trick is NO longer required. Enjoy. PS: To install Flash plugin for multiple browsers, you can simply do by creating symlinks at the {browser path}/plugins directory, for example, here's how I installed FlashPlayer 7 for Linux on Mozilla-1.6 and Firefox: 1. Extract the file install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz 2. Create a directory, and copy the plugin files into it: Let's do it as root so we can allow system-wide access of the plugin: $ su # mkdir /usr/local/flash-plugin # cp libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt /usr/local/flash-plugin 3. Enable the plugin for the browsers you desire: # cd {path of browser}/plugins # rm libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt (Enter this only if there's any prior version existed) # ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so # ln -s /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt Finished!

Looks like it is coming to Linux later: http://www.linuxartist.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=276