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I've just started school in a polytechnic and the school has this "e-learning" web portal which is pretty important cos all lecture notes and email is posted to this site. However, this site is IE-only and I'm not GNU/Linux so obtaining IE is impossible. I've emailed the web admin and he replied saying that he would only make the site Firefox compatible when "Firefox becomes more popular". And installing IE using WINE doesn't work for me. Anyone got any suggestions?

That's what I thought too. But its no surprise. The IT "professionals" in my country suck big time. They're all pretty much incompetent. I tried using the wine-tools to install but it didnt work. Got some error msgs. I tried using Konquerer and spoofed IE 6 on Win XP. The web site worked slightly better but it still doesn't work well. I wish I could apply more pressure but I have to be careful. I stay in Singapore which is really not like America. Apply too much pressure and I could land in the deep end of the pool. In any case, I'm gonna go through the lecturers and see what happens. I don't like the idea of me getting IE and using it cos its just avoiding the problem, not solving it.

Yay. The day is near.

I see. Thanks for the advice. Btw, when's the final release date for FC4? Really looking forward to it.

But it requires payment and I went to check the ndiswrapper site and it states that the Wireless-G USB adapter and PCI card works with ndiswrapper.

I think Ubuntu has one of the best hardware recognition capabilities among all the distros now.

Did you type "wine" into the terminal first straight after installing?

If anyone can help PLEASE HELP! I'm in an exact situation. Using FC3 and stuck with a Wireless-G USB adapter. Still researching into how to get it up.

How did you install the game? Did you use the loki installer?

All partitions will become fragmented after a certain period of usage. Windows ones much faster. I have never heard of anyone who has had to defrag his/her GNU/Linux partitions.

What exactly did ur bro do? I had some problems with Win XP crashing at the install as well. I solved it by booting up uisng Win 2K and deleting all the partitions on my HDD. After that, Win XP booted up fine.

Which of your hardware has compatibility problems? The mobo and processor should be fine.

From NewsForge: QUOTE Defragmenting a disk Microsoft filesystems, such as the File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem and the New Technology File System (NTFS), suffer greatly from disk fragmentation -- the tendency of files to be broken up into many noncontiguous segments. Disk fragmentation degrades performance because the OS may need to move the disk head more frequently and over greater distances to read a fragmented file than to read a nonfragmented file. Fortunately, Linux's native filesystems are all far more resistant to fragmentation than are Windows filesystems. Therefore, most Linux users don't bother defragmenting their disks. In fact, defragmentation tools for Linux are hard to come by. One that does exist is called defrag, but this package doesn't ship with most distributions. Because it is an older tool, it won't work with most modern ext2fs partitions, much less any of the journaling filesystems. If you think your system may be suffering from fragmentation problems, you can at least discover how fragmented your ext2 or ext3 filesystems are by performing an fsck on them. You may need to force a check by using the -f parameter. This action will produce, among other things, a report on the fragmentation on the disk: /dev/hda5: 45/8032 files (2.2% non-contiguous), 4170/32098 blocks This report indicates that 2.2 percent of the files are noncontiguous (that is, fragmented). Such a small amount of fragmentation isn't a problem. Unfortunately, the fsck tools for other journaling filesystems don't return this information, so you have no indicator of fragmentation on these filesystems. If you truly believe that fragmentation has become a problem, you may be able to improve matters by backing up the partition, creating a fresh filesystem, and then restoring the files. This procedure is likely to take far longer than the time saved in disk accesses over the next several months or years, though, so I only recommend doing it if you want to change filesystem types or have some other reason (such as replacing a hard disk) to engage in this activity. As a general rule, fragmentation becomes a problem only if your disk is almost full. On a nearly full disk, Linux may have trouble locating a large enough block of free space to fit a file without fragmenting it. If you almost fill a disk and then delete files, the remaining files may or may not be fragmented, depending on which ones you deleted. For this reason, keeping your partitions from filling up is best. As a general rule, anything less than 80 to 90 percent full is fine from a fragmentation perspective. Since Linux treats everything like a file, the fragmentation that does take place is within that file, not all over the hard drive.

I intend to get a TV tuner card with recording capability since my VCR spoilt last week and a DVD recorder is beyond my budget. But I have no experience at all in this area. I was planning to get the LEADTEK TV2000XP since its cheap and pretty full-featured but have no idea if its compatible with GNU/Linux. Can anyone help me out here?

I'm currently quite interested in this Dell notebook for my school use but I'm not sure whether the hardware is compatible with GNU/Linux. The config is: Intel Pentium M 715 1.5 Ghz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 400 Mhz FSB Intel PRO?Wireless 2200 Network Connection 802.11b/g 15.4" Ultrasharp Wide Screen XGA TFT Display 512 MB DDR-2 SDRAM 60 GB HDD 24x CD burner/DVD Combo drive 64MB DDR ATI Mobility Radeon X300 I've heard that thereisnt any driver support for mobility radeons on GNU/Linux. Is it true? Pls help.

Wow. That's new. My Nvidia card doesnt have hardware acc with the default drivers.

Nice!!

Hmm. I thought the default video drivers doesnt have hardware acceleration?

Problem with the PSU? Did you check the logs?

Is the ATI Radeon X300 compatible with the ATI GNU/Linux driver?

Apparently only Hp all-in-one printers work decently with GNU/Linux. Too bad, I was hoping to get a Canon.

Which OS are you using? I've ever got this problem with Win XP.

Wanted to get more but the site crashed.

I've successfully tried it out. Extremely laggy, but it works. Got shots here.

Wow! That's something new. I'm trying it out now but apparently the desktop wont start. Either that or its really very very laggy.