Vermyn

You don't need drivers for the hard drive. You need drivers for the SATA controller on your motherboard or for your SATA add-on card. What motherboard do you have? What kernel are you trying to use? Chances are, using RH 9.0, the kernel isn't going to have drivers for your SATA controller... IIRC, that came out before SATA.

How did World of Warcraft not make this poll? Insane.

Honestly, if you're having popups while playing CS, I think it's too late. You're already infected with spyware if that's the case. Installing Google Toolbar or whatnot... you're already beyond that. I think you're at the stage where you need to look into some antispyware programs and start cleaning.

Are you sure about that Dan? Hotmail cut off POP3/IMAP access with Outlook Express unless you buy Hotmail premium...

Anyone using a relatively new Konqueror? Going to the xmlhelp page on this site or NT Compatible and it brings Konqueror to its knees... slows down to a crawl and almost never loads the page completely. The xmlhelp page is the one that lists the XML news feeds...

There is malware out there for linux, but not in the way you think of malware for Windows. It's very hard to pick up a virus from an email in Linux because regular users do not have admin privileges to the machine. Without the root password, malware can do little to take over the machine. Spyware is not considered a threat in Linux right now - at least, not to me. I'm sure that as Linux gains more attention we will find people finding ways to exploit flaws if they exist, but as Linux is set up in the way I described earlier, it's practically impossible for a web browser to install a root-level process and take over the machine. All in all, the structure of Linux makes it more secure than Windows. As for apps, your company's users probably only use a few of them anyway and anything else should be disallowed. I'm sure your company has a policy about installing unauthorized software...? If not, that's one of the things you, as a net admin, need to bring up.

I love ClamAV. I use it for virus scanning all emails that come in through my mail system - also effective as an Exchange gateway.

I have a Gentoo server running 2.6.8 on reiserfs 3.6 and have had no issues with it...

The PDC20276 works fine for me in Windows and other Linux distros. That CONFIG_PDC20XXX_FORCE value in the 2.6 kernel has to be set to overcome the BIOS bug. Since it's not set, the PDC20276 won't work in the MEPIS version of the 2.6.7 kernel. Unfortunately, due to an apt-get dependency problem in 2004.1, I cannot recompile the kernel either, so I cannot use MEPIS until that simple value gets set correctly.

Originally posted by jimf43: Quote: Specificly what 'bugs'? Have you mentioned this on the mepis.org forum? As a matter of fact, yes I did post about it - almost 6 days ago: http://www.mepis.org/node/view/3423

Gentoo is an awesome distro and well worth the effort to set up, but that's the problem - it requires effort. Lots and lots and lots of effort. Portage is a fantastic system for installing software, but it compiles *everything* from source. This will not solve the problems you stated. I highly recommend you seek out some sort of Debian distro. MEPIS is an awesome pick, even though 2004.1 has a little bug or two in the kernel (which happens to prevent me from using it at the moment), but it is an excellent system. Any Debian distro will treat you right with apt-get. Apt-get will solve most of your packaging nightmares.

Are you sure you compiled in the necessary filesystem needed to read your root partition? i.e. if it's ext3, did you compile in ext3? I toasted a Gentoo box once by setting reiserfs as a module instead of compiling it in - and the root partition was reiserfs... it croaked with the exact same error.

Not Doom3 related, but I bought a Canon Elura 65 in preparation for my son's birth...

I'm assuming you guys tried compatibility modes?

When it's that bad, I'd like to introduce you to a piece of software that will work 100%: format Usage: format c: Works every time. After you use this wonderful utility and reinstall Windows (if you want to torture yourself like that), check out http://blogs.red-abstract.com/vermyndax/articles/147.aspx - this page contains a little software I wrote called "ProxyHelper." .NET runtimes are required... use this to create a scheduled task that will auto-download a blacklist of bad adware sites and install it as a HOSTS file so they can't go there.