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Quote: Free Linux CD! Knoppix 3.4 http://www.loadux.com/freeservers.html worldwide shipping also free! If I do it, how can I let them know? (I didn't see anything on the site...) 8) Oops! never mind! I finally figured it out! (Duh...) ;(

Quote: are there any good web authoring tools under linux? cause the only thing ive found is screem.. and its not really that good, i was hoping something thats more towards the quality of dreamweaver or frontpage... (oh yeh.. ello dan, longtime no see ) Here are a few: amaya bluefish coffee cup dozer homepage builder hotmetal pro Some of them are Linux only, and some have Windows versions. There are lots more, I just can't think of them right away... 8)

Quote: heres my first pictures of linux under mandrake 9.2 (KDE desktop) www.geocities.com/thordude88/desktopkde.jpg and shortly after i took this pic www.geocities.com/thordude88/snapshot2.png Sorry, no page available... 8)

Quote: I'm still learning on Debian. The problem is that I have only so much time . Sooner or later I'll probably get to Gentoo, maybe even Fedora... But, for now, I have my plate full with Debian. :x Me, too! 8)

Quote: Yes, they were burnt as ISO's. Sorry, I am completely computer illiterate when it comes to technical things. How do I check my bios to see if the cd is set to boot? Am I too stupid for Linux? lol thanks. By the way, hang out here for a while, and you will become technically litterate, believe me! And you are not stupid, after all, you are trying Linux, are you not? That sounds pretty smart to me. 8)

I just noticed that I somehow posted the same article twice. Is there some way to delete an extra message than just deleting the contents, which I just did? (I hate making mistakes like that, almost as much as I hate seeing that I misspelled a word!)

Quote: Yes, they were burnt as ISO's. Sorry, I am completely computer illiterate when it comes to technical things. How do I check my bios to see if the cd is set to boot? Am I too stupid for Linux? lol thanks. When your machine boots up, the first screen you see will have a line, usually at the bottom that says something like: "press del to enter setup" (the del may be replaced by f1, f2, or whatever. Press the key indicated, and then find in the bios program where the boot sequence is. The location will vary from bios to bios, so I can't help you find it. Another poster describes it well enogh that you can recognise it. I hope this helps. 8)

In another thread, I asked about Linux applications that did stuff that I now do on Windoze. I got a lot of great stuff, and there are three of them that may work, assuming I can get them installed in my Knoppix/Debian. Two of them are close to image cataloggers - the descriptions are sort of lacking in detail, so I can't be sure that either of them will do what I need. One, called Kimdaba, is a KDE prog, and a Debian package is available for both KDE 3.1 and 3.2. I have KDE 3.1.x, so I downloaded the 3.1 version. It said that there were some dependency problems, and since I had recently done a dist-upgrade, I thought that the other might work, and it gave the same errors. Is there some way using apt-get or something else that will search for and find and install the needed libs and such? Here is the errors I got. (This is the errors from the second install, which is why it says it is attempting to replace Kimdaba. I looked at my menus as soon as I saw it was a KDE app, and I did not see it there, so at least part of it was installed when I tried it the first time.) Code: Preparing to replace kimdaba 1.1-0.woody.ach.1 (using .../kimdaba_1.1-1.ach_i386.deb) ...Unpacking replacement kimdaba ...dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kimdaba: kimdaba depends on kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.1.95); however: Version of kdelibs4 on system is 4:3.1.4-3. kimdaba depends on libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.2.3); however: Version of libqt3c102-mt on system is 3:3.2.1-6. kimdaba depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1); however: Version of zlib1g on system is 1:1.1.4-16.dpkg: error processing kimdaba (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfiguredErrors were encountered while processing: kimdaba How can I straighten all this out and get the thing to work? Can I do some kind of upgrade to get the useable libs and such? I would like to upgrade to SID and KDE 3.2, but the last time I upgraded to SID, I got a bunch of ISDN junk installed that slowed down my bootup a lot, and KDE install just didn't work for some reason, I can't remember at this time. Once I get this one installed and working, I will come back and hopefully some of you guys can help me figure out how to do my first 'compile install'. I really appreciate all your help! 8)

Jimf43, thanks for your replies. I checked out that link, but none of the programs listed interest me at the present time. There is at least one of the prgrams I am trying to install that I will have to compile/install, so I will be boning up on that over the next couple weeks, at least. As for Mepis, I was considering it, but at the moment, I am out of blank CDs other than CDRWs, so I couldn't do it, and it will be a few weeks before my finances allow more 700 mb standard CDs. (I need a new CD burner, 'cause I have nearly fifty 700mb CDRWs that my machine won't recognise.) I tried to update kdelibs4, one of the dependancy probs I had, but it generated more than half a dozen new ones, so I will have to do some real thinking in the next few days. Google here I come!

Until recently, there were three programs that I absolutely had to have in Windoze: 1. A paint prgram like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop 2. An image catalogger like Thumbs Plus and 3. A virtual drive encryption program like Scramdisk or E4M. Until recently, The Gimp was just one function shy of doing everything I need, that is a means of adjusting the gamma in an image. I recently found it (very well hidden), so once I find it again, I can get by with The Gimp! Now I'm down to two. Compupic is the only image catalogger I have found that does most of what I want, but it will not allow me to make the thumbnails large enough for me to see properly. I need one that will allow that, plus a couple of other minor things, but I desperately need larger thumbnails! I have yet to even find a minor form of the encryption program. Is there anyone out there that has any ideas? (I have googled 'til my eyes crossed!) If I can get these two programs, I can say goodbye to M$ for good. (Pun intended.) 8)

Quote: I use gqview for photo viewing. Yeah, I can use nearly any one of the dozens of viewers available, but keeping up with the images and seeing which one I want to look at next is not that easy. Thanks for the thought! 8)

Quote: Quote: How about a usb key device... We've got USB devices working on three machines and they work great. Just click an icon to tell it what to do, and you're done in one second! I just wish there was a way to get a Ext3 or RieserFS file system on them instead of fat32. We use them to backup data on a daily basis, then run kompare to see if the original file and the one on the stick is the same size. Beats the shit out of taking 45 minutes backing up to floppies, which may or may not take the info you put on them. Thanks, Dapper, see my reply to Jimf43, to see why I can't do the usb key thing. (I would have used my compactflash reader long ago, otherwise.)

Quote: Quote: I use it when I have to bring something home from work to work on over the weekend, to protect the data from prying eyes... 8) How about a usb key device. I don't have a use for it, but, I notice that Mepis and som other distros have a passworded program to limit access to those. You can cary a lot of files on a 128MB key. $35 for 88+ floppys isn't a bad deal... Also, since you carry this thing in your pocket, the physical security is pretty good...' Unless' people at your workplace have a habit of placing 'their' hands in 'your' pocket ;( I'll check on what the app is that's being used for key security & transfer. Try: PAM and pam_usb module http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ Yeah, Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but 30 cents for a cdrw is a bit cheaper, and my IT dept. has prevented usb from working on our machines, so I'm kind of stuck in that regard... (Besides, I wind up with a free cdrw disk every couple weeks... ;( 8) Quote: You're farther ahead than I am . And, how do you adjust the gama in gimp? I still don't prefer it over PSP. They keep having rumors of Linux Adobe Photoshop, but I'm not eager to pay $300-$600 for that . Oh, and I don't know about you, but, I consider wine to be the worst form of kludge... If I'm going over to Linux then I want it to 'be Linux'! as for gamma in the Gimp, I found it, then lost it! I know its there somewhere (now were did I put that...) As for Wine, I have yet to find but one program (I can't for the life of me remember which) that has worked in Wine! I've downloaded the free version of Winex from Transgaming, but I will most likely us it for Doom, if either of the programs mandapaca told me about work. I'm in Win98 right now, but I'm headed for Debian in just a moment. as soon as I get there, I will start poking the Gimp and see if he will reveal his secrets one more time, and tell you all about it... 8) EDIT Hmmm... I may have been using the version og the Gimp for Windows when I saw the caption that said "Gamma", but I did find (with the help of google) the place to adjust it.( I found it here: https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2002-May/004576.html ). If you right click on an image and choose "Image-Colors-Levels" in the dialog that pops up there will be a group of three boxes with values in them that can be increased or decreased. The one in the center is the gamma adjustment, even though it is not labelled any more than the other two. Really, I need to email the Gimp Project and see if that can be changed! Perhaps there is a newer version of the Gimp that has it labelled? ;(

Quote: 1. A paint prgram like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop ok, I understand. Although I thought the Wine team was either working on this or even worked? 2. An image catalogger like Thumbs Plus Did you try fotoon? (http://fotoon.sourceforge.net/). The application is still very young, but quite nice to use. Else you have kimdaba too... although I prefer fotoon and 3. A virtual drive encryption program like Scramdisk or E4M. man, you never use google (www.google.com)? Apart from the usual linux Crypto API, I found this: http://www.jetico.com/linux/bcrypt-help/c_bas03.htm For the crypto api.... http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO-4.html I have tried two versions (5 and 7) of JASC Paint Shop Pro in Wine, neither of them work. I have also tried registered Thumbs Plus 4 and shareware Thumbs Plus 6 in Wine, no luck. I downloaded both fotoon and Kimdaba, but simply based upon the screenshots and the fact that Kimdaba has binaries for Debian available, I will most likely use it if it allows large enough thumbnails. The screenshots and descriptions for fotoon look and sound more like an album/share program than a catalogger. I organise my images in my own set of directories, and finding them depends upon knowing the categories rather than individual 'tagged' files. I will try it, assuming I can actually install it. (I'm not very good at compiling source code at the moment, although that may change after I work on bestcrypt. See below.) The bestcrypt program is exactly what I was looking for, and because despite months of google searching, I have not found anything that comes close (I read the HOWTO file often enough that I have had it bookmarked for several weeks), but this is perfect. As poor as I am at compiling things under Linux, I am willing to spend the next couple of months, if necessary, learning how to do it. Thanks! I will start out with Kimdaba, since I downloaded the .deb file, so it should be the easiest to install, then I will try to compile/install bestcrypt. 8) EDIT I just tried Kimdaba, and both .deb packages had dependancy errors: Code: Preparing to replace kimdaba 1.1-0.woody.ach.1 (using .../kimdaba_1.1-1.ach_i386.deb) ...Unpacking replacement kimdaba ...dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kimdaba: kimdaba depends on kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.1.95); however: Version of kdelibs4 on system is 4:3.1.4-3. kimdaba depends on libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.2.3); however: Version of libqt3c102-mt on system is 3:3.2.1-6. kimdaba depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1); however: Version of zlib1g on system is 1:1.1.4-16.dpkg: error processing kimdaba (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfiguredErrors were encountered while processing: kimdaba I haven't done anything but a dist-upgrade, so I may have to do something else to get the libs that are not the correct versions. More later... 8)

Quote: all right let me ask something while were at this i have one drive of my 111gb hard driver partitioned as NTFS: 60GB Linux:50 GB Linuxswap 1GB so i install xp first then mepis i wont be able to boot xp again or do i need to get a special boot program like i have something called boot ing not i havent done this but this is what im planning to do..... Microsoft products are not very good at detecting and/or acessing other operating systems, nor other file systems. If you install Linux first, then XP will not know that it is there. It can boot several other Microsoft OS versions, but it is not very well aware of Linux, Unix, etc. Linux, on the other hand is very good at detecting other operating systems, and can boot to them with relative ease. If you install XP first, then Linux can and will add the bootloader to the MBR, and detect and configure for XP. The only problem it will have is the NTFS file system, which it can read from, but not write to. If you need to share data between Windows and Linux, then I would create a partition with a fat32 filesystem, which both XP and Linux can read and write to. 8)

Quote: If a Linux equivalent is not available, you may have luck running those programs under Winex3 or Crossover wine. Here's a free older version of Winex3 to try out... http://www003.portalis.it/115/winexx.html I've wanted to try out Winex, and I certainly appreciate the link. I have tried Thumbs Plus with Wine, and it does not work. (Nor does Paint Shop Pro.) Pehaps one or the other or both will work with Winex... I'm pretty sure that Scramdisk won't run under it though, because of what scramdisk does. (It creates an encrypted file, and then 'mounts' it as a virtual disk, which Windows sees as as if it were a hardware disk.) I use it when I have to bring something home from work to work on over the weekend, to protect the data from prying eyes... 8) Thanks!

Quote: Hi, I am a complete begginer to Linux. I decided to try it at home. The configurations of my computer before installation was: A 40gig drive partitioned into 2 drives, C(WinME) and D where D has WinXP I installed Linux(Lycoris Desktop/LX) on the C drive. I copied the boot.ini file from the C drive to the D drive (was that required?) After installing I could no longer get into boot up into WinXP (drive D), although it was changed to drive C after installing Linux (as displayed by Fdisk). The windows installation appeared on the Linux bootup menu, but when I selected it, nothing happened... What went wrong? Thanks Your best bet is to clear both OSs and reinstall XP on the first (C: ) partition of the drive, then install Linux on the second (D: ) partition of the drive. This should straighten things out. As long as XP believes that it is the main OS, or that it is shared with another M$ OS, it should work fine. Linux likes to have other OSs already installed, so it should work OK, too. The only problem that I can see is if XP made a mess of things... 8)

Quote: tryed comes up with something to the effect of non exsistent command i tried GUI Xstart Startx start kde i know some of these arent codes but i was just trying them at random It sounds like X Windows is not installed, but keep in mind that Linux is case sensitive, and that means that "Startx" is not the same" as "startx". If you haven't tried with all lowercase letters, then try it and post the results. If you have, to no effect, post that, too. 8)

Quote: the whole gui i know kde and the other forms but on my laptop which is older it boots straight to a text based hase may just be me Try typing "startx" (without the quotes) and post any results you get. 8)

Quote: xp has a firewall odd it doesnt protect my pc at all The XP firewall only prevents you from seeing what it sends to Microsquat. :x

Quote: totally lost on debian but i think i understand on the cd thanks Sorry, what part are you lost on? ;(

Quote: so does that mean i have to get a kde file to go along with it or something. and ark came out to be 710 mb a bit big for a cd what do i do No, whichever you method you use to install Debian, most of the GUI and display manager software is/or can be installed immediately. The easiest and most stable Debian install is through the internet, and you can choose which packages to install at the time you install. Take care to watch closely when you click on things during the install. If the 710 mb is the size of the .iso file, then it will be fine for the CD. The .iso file is an image of the final CD, and may be larger than the CDs nominal size. (At one time, my CD burning software told me that the "size on disc" was 734 megabytes. Just be sure to burn 'as an image' or burn 'from an image' however your software calls it. 8)

Do you want to get a fairly decent visual idea of what causes problems in OSs? Try the following: Get yourself a piece of printer paper. At the bottom, draw a box and label it 'CPU'. At the top, draw another box, and label it 'User'. In between, add rectangles representing the programs that are in the OS - for Linux, add first 'Kernel' and then 'Shell' and if you use a 'desktop environment' add the 'display manager' and finally the 'GUI'. Above this woud be the 'user programs'(except for the 'command line' programs, which simply leave out the 'GUI' and 'display manager' communicating with the 'Kernel' only through the 'Shell'. Originally Windows would have looked pretty much the same, but since Win95 was introduced, M$ no longer has a sequence as such. 95 was about as close to this as Windoze has ever been. For 98, you would have to take parts of the GUI and attach them directly to the 'Kernel' along with at least one of the 'user programs' (the web browser'). As Windows 'progressed' more and more stuff has been 'integrated', making the result more and more like a maze. Other OSs are similar to the Linux diagram, or more like the Windows diagram. The Linux style is more stable because each level communicates only with the level above or below. The M$ style is not, because each level communicates with the ones above and below, but also with some above the next one up and perhaps the ones below the one immediately below. Except perhaps in XP, there are two 'shells' operatiing at the same time, one called "Windows Explorer" the other called "Internet Explorer". (98 and ME) In XP, and possibly 2000, 'Internet Explorer' became the primary shell and 'Windows Explorer' became mostly a 'user program'. I could be off on some of this, but one thing is certain, M$ has created, mostly purposely a "rat's nest" of code, that it is doubtful that anyone even in M$ can fully understand. The point is, the further you get from the CPU, the more chances that something will screw up. The more complex the stages between you and the CPU, the more chances something will screw up! 8)

I'm not much of a gamer. My favorite is a DOS based game called "Snipes" which is older than Windows 1.0, I think! I kind of like Doom and Quake, but they were way, way too expensive! (Example: The first time I decided to go out and buy Doom after playing the shareware demo, it cost $70. I had just bought Windows 98 for $90. A game that would last for maybe two months for almost as much as an OS that could last for several years? No way! I waited about five months and bought Doom for $10 on a clearance sale.) The only times I have heard of Transgaming is in occasional posts on one of the boards I read and post to. I have many other things that I use computers for, and the only interest I have had in Wine or Winex has been as a possible way to run some of the programs that have not yet been ported to Linux or have no decent replacements for them. At present, there are only three such programs that I still cannot find, and they are necessary for me. None of them work with Wine, unfortunately, so Win98 is still on my box, and I don't intend to buy Winex. Wine is installed and functional on my Debian, but all I've done with it is try various M$ programs... ;(

I have the forums bookmarked and rarely go to the 'home' page, so I haven't noticed the news part. I am a lot more interested in what you people have to say than a bunch of 'news releases'! I usually find out the news about the distros I like in the forums as soon, if not sooner, in here than I can on the distros' sites themselves... 8)