Reidyn

You won't be able to just "rpm -e ymessenger". The package name includes the "-1.0.4-1", so try "rpm -e ymessenger-1.0.4-1".

The safest way to do this is to tunnel through SSH. I do wish that I had time to detail the instructions for setting up an SSH tunnel for VNC, but there are a number of websites that will tell you how to do this. The key is knowing that ports 5900-5909 correspond to VNC session numbers 0 through 9. If you want to use session 1, you will need port 5901. In this case, just set up a tunnel on the client machine for port 5901, and then in VNC, connect to localhost:1 (or 127.0.0.1:1) and you should be all set. If you're not familiar with SSH tunneling, you should read up on how it works. You're basically making the client machine think that the services that are available at the other end (through the SSH) are actually on the local machine. Those requests are forwarded by SSH to whichever machine on the other end you want them to be forwarded to. All of this is fully encrypted via whichever encryption you're using in SSH (AES is excellent), and while you'll take somewhat of a performance hit through an encrypted connection, it is far safer than having this kind of traffic passing unencrypted over the internet. Good luck!

Get the XFT build of Mozilla. Search around on mozilla.org and/or mozillazine.org for a link to it.

Jimmijo, THAT'S the way to yank out the old moldy memories in a painful sort of way!! But if you really want agony, forget about the onboard sound and video... that's too much luxury in one machine. Maybe we would prefer an old 128k Trident ISA video card that you could never find stable drivers for, and any POS sound card from the now-defunct Reveal or any of the other crappy redistributors of the early 90s that had crummy SB emulation.

Regarding the indexing service, I agree. This has been a problem for me as well, easily corrected by disabling it.

I just used the iTouch utility to reconfigure the web browser button so that it runs the Mozilla.exe executable from the Program Files folder. It was pretty easy to change. I'm not at home, so I can't get detailed instructions on how to do that. At least now you have an idea of how to do it. Use the iTouch help if you need information about how to remap the buttons. You should also be able to find the command line arguments for making Mozilla open a specific web page so that you can map the other buttons to specific web pages. This was rather easy to do as well.

Backup your OE store folder by hand. To find out where it is, use the menu option "Tools / Options", then go to the "Maintenance" tab, and click "Store Folder...", then note the path that is shown. Just copy the entire folder to a safe place either through Windows Explorer or whatever backup program you are using. To restore it after an OS reinstallation, run OE once. Follow the same procedures above to identify the location of the new store folder. Exit OE. Using Windows Explorer, delete the contents of the newly created store folder. Either manually copy the contents of your backed up store folder to the new folder, or restore to that location using your backup utility. Run OE again, and you should find your messages intact. If you want to also back up your address book, you'll have to use "Find Files" on your start menu and look for "*.wab". You'll likely have one that is the actual file, and one that is a backup (it has a "~" in the name). You'll only need the original. Copy it to a safe place. When you've reinstalled the OS and run OE for the first time, search for "*.wab". Replace that one with your backed up copy, and rename the backed up copy to be exactly the same as the one that you are replacing.

That happened to me for one entire day. It worked fine the next day. Most likely it is the other end, not yours. Try again later.

Quote: Question 1: I never hibernate my computer, can i somehow deactive the 400mb hibefil.sys? If you aren't intentionally putting your computer into hibernation mode, then you don't need the hibefil.sys. Go into the control panel "Power Options" applet, select the "Hibernation" tab, and deselect the "Enable hibernation" checkbox. The file should disappear either right away or after the next reboot. If it doesn't, you should be able to safely delete it after disabling the option.

The protocol is important. IF you are running an IPX game, there are issues with IPX gaming in environments that have both XP/2000 machines and ME/98. This happened when we were playing Red Alert 2 using IPX. I'm not at home, so I'm going on memory of what options are on the screens. On the 2000/XP machines, the network configuration had more than one device showing up, even though we only had one NIC and one IPX configuration in the OS. The game had defaulted to the first. Changing both 2000/XP machines to the second device allowed the game to work. The 98/ME machines only had one device appearing in the list. I have no idea what causes the "phantom" device.

I can't speak regarding the other products, but Morpheus 1.3 and earlier do not work. Update your copy to 1.3.3, which was the latest last time I checked. This version works fine.

Quote: Remember that you cannot buy an upgrade from Win2kPro to WinXPHome. So unless you're buying the full edition (which would be much more expensive) you're going to have to go with WinXPPro. That is, unless he also owns a copy of 98 or ME that he might have been using before upgrading to 2000. The only limitation will be that he can't "upgrade" install the XP Home over 2000 Pro and will have to reformat the hard drive first and then provide the 98 or ME disk at the appropriate point in the installation to prove that he owns it. Quote: Noticing the A0 price difference between XP Pro & XP Home just makes me wonder how crippled is XP Home? It's a personal judgement call as to whether there is sufficient extra benefit in XP over 2000. To me, it is because of the added game compatibility and the fusion technology (i.e., no more DLL hell!!!!). We also have multiple users of the same computer in the house, and XP has simplified the login somewhat and added a "Switch User" feature so that someone else can log in without disturbing whatever I happen to have left running. Remote assistance is valuable to me, and I've insisted that all of the physically distant family members whose computers I sometimes support switch to XP so that when they have problems I can get in and deal with it. Funny thing is, I believe that a lot of the problems will go away simply from having switched from a 98 installation to an NT kernel. Next issue... Home vs. Pro... Again, a judgement call. The single most serious difference is the ability to log into an NT/2000 domain server with the Pro edition. At home, few of us do that. Then there is the encrypting features in NTFS that are only in Pro, which most of us don't need. The remote desktop is cool, but not often needed at home. Finally, there are a few tools that aren't in Home that are in Pro -- including the "Backup" utility. That was the only missing piece that I would have actually NEEDED to back my critical stuff up to my server, so I'm out looking for a workable freeware backup tool. I don't know whether I've missed any other major differences. Some will *NEED* the Professional edition even at home, and most of us will NOT. Take this for what value you can get out of it and do what will work best for you. Save the $$ if you can. I did.

Follow-up: Since this has been confirmed to be a game bug rather than an XP compatibility issue, this message is no longer relevant to this section. However, in case anyone was following this, I'll bring closure to the issue. 1) I exported two registry branches in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software section -- one for stormfront, and one for SSI 2) Moved the game and registry exports from the notebook computer to the desktop machine that had all of its free space on D: 3) Changed the registry key (stormfront piece) for "path" to reflect my actual D: path and the CD path to E: 4) Imported registry bits, and ran the poolii.exe ... in business. There are likely other work-arounds, but this was what worked for me.

Thanks for the information... This is the first fatal bug that I've ever encountered in the actual INSTALLTION routine for a game... I wonder how they'll be patching that, since the game hasn't actually installed yet. Guess I'll wait and see. Maybe I can move the registry and other bits from the notebook to the XP machine and change the path references in the process.

I haven't had any luck getting this to install on Windows XP Pro, RC-2. Regardless of options, it says "Not enough disk space". I have two ideas: 1) It doesn't like something about XP's file system, and will need a work-around or a patch. 2) It has a bug in the installation that isn't allowing it to install to the user-selected path. Why I believe #2 might be the problem: 1) My XP machine has two partitions, a very small OS partition (drive C) with only about 500MB free, and a HUGE data partition (drive D) with about 25GB free. That second partition is the desired target. 2) When I couldn't get it to work, I went to the Windows 2000 machine, which only has one partition and has about 6GB free. 3) On that Windows 2000 machine, I changed the default path from "C:\Program Files\SSI\Pool of Radiance\" to "C:\Program Files\Pool of Radiance\" ... It *STILL* installed to the default path, totally ignoring my choice. So if it ignores the user-selected path and goes with the default all the time, then could it also be doing the same on my XP machine and trying to go to C: where I don't have enough space? I could test this by using Partition Magic to move another GB or so to C: and see what happens. Either way, it sucks that I can't get it to install to my XP machine to the drive that I want. I'll look forward to suggestions from anyone else who has purchased this game and has an idea of what is up with my situation. THANKS!!!!!