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been a damn long time...how's everyone doing? Hallo Philipp, good to see the site made it this far man

It took me a while to figure it out (yea yea, start flaming!), but the best MSN Messenger client for Linux is GAIM Just load the right plugin, called "libmsn.so", then go to "accounts", set up the screenname as loginname, click "mail notification" and "autologin" and you're set to go! Make sure u select Mozilla as default browser, otherwise u won't be able to go straight to your Inbox at login....at least, for me, Konqueror it didn't like the URL. Mail notification works properly (i.e u get a pop-up with new mail!) as well. Excellent

Hi people, long time no posts, but I'm back I'm looking for someone who recorded the NBA Allstar game 2003, and digitalised it somehow (VCD/SVCD/Divx). My VCR needed an extra Scart which i realised too late, and all the shops were closed... Thanks and i would really appreciate it

Hi Star, good to be back...

Quote from Transgaming: "In addition to features provided by WineX 2.2, TransGamers using it or any previous version of WineX should how be able to play Valve Software's popular Half-Life and CounterStrike games on-line. Previously, anti-cheat software would reject users running with WineX." YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.....(*thump* - falls under the desk).

I just want to know which one comes on top, in terms of font support, mouse wheel support, correct display of webpages, ease of installation of Flash/Shockwave/Java, etc.... I personally didn't like Mozilla, after I installed Java, the text in Javascript menus was more than unreadable, crappy size and quality. LOL did anyone get IE 6 to work on Linux?

I forgot to say that it ran from the existing installation on the Windows partition

@clutch: u don't have to have Debian in order to use apt-get I will post the link later on...

People, don't forget the power of apt-get and/or Synaptic. Install these and software installations will be a breeze afterwards. It cannot get easier than: "apt-get install ogle ogle-gui" U even get icons for it in the programs/multimedia folder...

Yes, try and get WineX from CVS and it will run. I tried SOF2 on my old Mandrake 8.2, and it worked fine.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q328874

Cannot enable it, hence my DVD playback is choppy (audio/video stalls every 2-3 sec). When i run "hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd" as root, I get: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted Running RH8 with default kernel...DVD drive supports native UDMA2, it reports it in the POST screen. Any ideas?

Thanks got it

CS works good with Linux, and now you can finally join Internet games without being kicked because of VAC. You need WineX however, and you can get it for free from the CVS tree...check www.transgaming.com for details. The gameplay is ok, sound is also fine, gamma can be set to a higher value too , but you might find it a bit laggy for some reason. I don't know if it's because of the servers I play on, you can still try it.

Could be a bad ISO, did you check the MD5 sums before you burned them? If you are overclocking, maybe your RAM timings (or PCI timings)are too tight it can happen that you get read errors from IDE devices.

http://www.linuxgames.com/news/index.php3/5922

DOH !

Yea true, i forgt to recommend the native Linux clients...got carried away thinking about the whole Counterstrike stuff. Is it true that the PC-CD boxed version of UT2003 includes a Linux client?

Quote: (yes, all three of us), is there a way that we can have new posts show up on both of them without having one forum affect the other? If I go to LinuxComp, then come here, all my posts show up as having been seen even if there were new ones that I haven't looked at yet. Thanks. Lol, i guess i'm the 3rd

Hi Celsius, yes Counterstrike works on Linux, using WineX. I tried it myself, so im sure about that, however you will NOT be able to play online (Internet) games, because Valve's anticheat does not work properly yet on Linux...therefore you will be thrown out of the game, and possibly banned as a cheater Valve and Transgaming, Inc. are working on a solution that will most likely be implemented in future WineX releases. Other games that work (with WineX), tested by me, are: Soldier of Fortune 2 Quake 3 RTCW The trick is to either run the game executable from a Windows partition (game already installed in Windows), or run the setup.exe from the game CD and install it on the virtual Windows drive that WineX creates.

Your first mistake was to buy 7.2 when 8.1 is now out...as a rule of thumb, newer releases have more hardware support and integrate a lot of new apps out of the box, whereas with an older version you would have to dig for RPMs or Tarballs...not to mention the experiences with "make" and such...

Well, this is going to be an on-going post First of all, I'm posting from Windows now, which should give you the tone for this post I cannot seem to get the NICs to work in MD9.0, it drives me nuts, i KNOW it's ETH0 i need to use for my PPpoE connection....somehow it doesnt work...i will try the Linux NOAPIC option next, maybe i have luck. RedHat 8 on the other hand is beautiful, and it's DEFINATELY heading in the right way. I got AA and TT Fonts in Mozilla, Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, etc, etc...looks awesome. Hardware is recognized ok, which brings me to another point in Mandrake which drives me nuts. The Geforce 4 is NOT recognised?????? I use XFree 4.2.1 and it keeps defaulting to the Geforce (xfvid) or something, driver. I cannot run 24/32bit color, i am stuck with 16bit... So far MANDRAKE SUCKS.........REDHAT is very, VERY promising. Brb --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: Man this is getting annoying...i keep thinking that the 9.0 distro CAN do better than what i see, only because i dished out 55EUR to buy the DVD edition a month ago...still waiting for it actually, but after today, not as eager. I installed the Nvidia drivers from Tarballs, that went OK. The NOAPIC option is not in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Somehow my NICs work now, dunno what i did, as i rebooted 10 times with and w/o NOAPIC and still didn't work. Now it does all of a sudden. The overall Mandrake looks are somehow not as polished as RedHat's, and I still haven't got the AA fonts to work in Mozilla and such. It just looks weird...it feels weird too, because you would normally think that 9.0 should be better and improve in a lot of areas compared to 8.2, but i just can't see it yet.

Haven't tried yet...i spent some time into getting the overall looks to a good standard (fonts, AA, TTF, icons, etc...). Will try it later. Mozilla with XFT support looks just fantastic !

LOL man, nevermind...i must have been tripping...it's there.../sbin/init

Ok, it's almost 10PM here and i spent the whole day with the 2 distros. Some might say it's not enough, but it's darn enough for me to say that RedHat 8.0 is the better of the two, because: - Very nice and polished installation, you cannot go wrong with anything. - Hardware detection is very good, USB acts NORMAL (hello Mandrake, are you listening?). - Default fonts are amazingly rendered, I just LOVE the extra options you have to adjust the smoothness, etc... - After you log on you cannot really tell if you're using Gnome or KDE, and personally I don't really care, because it looks just...GOOD ! - Networking or xDSL setup is a breeze, very nice laid out Of course there are minus points, like mp3 support out of the box but that can be solved. One thing also missing is XINE or OGLE or anything that plays DVDs or Mpeg4. Something funny happened, kinda sad actually I cannot find the "init" command !! I wanted to install the NVidia tarballs after going into runlevel 3, but i gave up. Can any1 help me on that? I think that RedHat CAN and HAS the knowhow and resources to put a KILLER distro together, but it doesn't want to do it yet...sound stupid, eh? Just think about it, it all boils down to economics and marketing Oh, one more thing: NO ONE DOES GNOME AS GOOD AS REDHAT ! Mandrake & co. should learn from it or leave it...