Say you bought a song from iTunes. As you know, songs from there are all protected such that you cannot copy them and play them on another computer (not even Linux). Considering that you PAID for the rights to use this file, do you feel that you should be allowed to use your file in any way you please (minus redistributing the file), even if you do break the DRM and violate the DMCA?

 

I think I should be allowed to break DRM because it is also a method of lock-in, and being taught the open-source philosophy and how everyone is free to choose what they want, I believe that it's time we start fighting for our rights.

He's a quick tip to force a process to always keep respawning. Basically if the process dies, another will start in its place.

 

Save this as, respawn.sh:

i came across this link which is very expanatory with screenshots and all

 

[/url][url=http://www.fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index....ide:_RealPlayer]http://www.fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index....ide:_RealPlayer

Here is a step-by-step with screen shots to change the default OS in your bootloader using Mandriva.

 

For example, if you are dual-booting Windows and Mandriva and you didn't select one of the OS's to boot, the bootloader will load the default after a few seconds.

 

Please see this PDF (made in OpenOffice beta):

[/url][url=http://www.geocities.com/kingttx/Linux/BootLoaderDefault.pdf]http://www.geocities.com/kingttx/Linux/BootLoaderDefault.pdf

 

Tom

During the fall I'm going to write a series of articles detailing on how you can succcessfully install / dual boot Debian GNU Linux 3.1 Sarge, and Windows XP Professional on a Centrino laptop. Stay tuned for more...

 

Table of Contents:

 

I. Prerequisites

A. Hardware Requirements

B. Software Requirements

C. Time Required

 

II. Installation of Windows XP Professional

 

III. Post-Install Configuration of Windows XP Professional

 

IV. Installation of Debian Sarge

 

V. Post-Install Configuration of Debian Sarge

 

VI. Final Thoughts

 

VII. Appendix

I have a SuSe9.2 and I wanted to try out wine.

 

got both the rpm and the src/tar and installed it (as root)

 

everything went ok

 

afterwards I decided to take a look in the config file and, surprise! there's no config file in the /root/.wine/ ... THe folder itself exists but no config. I checked the manual and followed the advice there and copied the config from the source package.

 

I tried wine on some older games for start - RedAlert(1) and TotalAnnihilation. It works, to some extent, fine, especially RA.

 

now I wanted to install some software with wine. THe installer starts ok but then sais I don't have the correc version of windows - it sais I have win95 and I need at least 2k or XP.

 

fine. i opend the config file and modified from 'win95' to 'win2k', saved and.... nothing.. the wine is still in 'win95' 'mode'...

 

i used the provided conifg tool - the one with a gui - selected 'windows 2000' in the drop down box, applied the changes and... nothing...

 

I tried, for example PaintShopPro 8 which a I saw on the winehq apps db that both insalls and runs (with bugs, though) but I get the same error 'incorrect OS. you need at least win2k/winxp'....

 

Funny thing is that the wine gui setup tool remembers the settings (actually saves data somewhere) but NOT in the /root/.wine/config

 

In fac I discovered that wine won't use the /root/.wine/config file!

 

I deleted the install, tried againg both with rmp's and compile from src but it goes the same way.

 

I tried looking for (any) files that contain exact expressions (variable names) from the provided config file but there are none.

 

Any ideeas about this.

 

10x

I would like to run a Ubuntu server (in server mode; which doesn't have an X display) and access it via VNC. when I try to start the vnc server it complains about X not being there. Is there a way to run ubuntu (on a single board computer) without X and access it via vnc??

hi mates

 

i am currently running a winxp suse 9.3 dual boot. my hd is partitioned this way:

 

winxp: 8.4 gb ntfs (disc c: in windows)

swap: 512 mb

linux ext2 (suse): 6.2 gb

and a fat32 partition (d: in windows)

 

what i want to do now is reinstall windows xp in c: and then install fedora core 4 in the linux ext2 partition as dual boot.

do u think its easy to be done with the current partition scheme?

will i be able to dual boot?

 

also i have two xtra hds (now ntfs but soon fat32) on which i want to read and write data through linux. will i have any trouble doing that or will the fc4 install do it for me?

 

id like to state that i m gonna use fedora mostly for multimedia ( video & mp3) & internet ( irc, museek & firefox).

To some, I am a noob. To others, I am an expert. it doesn't really matter what you call me, but I'm now almost two years into using Linux as a desktop/laptop operating system.

 

I'm now a freshman at a college, an aspiring EE major. Linux has managed to be the OS I use everyday (unless there's a dire reason I need to go into Windows). It's a great OS, and I think that everybody should at least touch it one time.

Hello Everyone,

I am Noob No. 1051.

I have been trying to use Linux distributions for a year now. Right now I have FC4 on an 845-based system.

Am still not very thorough with things because of the lack of time. I intend to get better and stop relying on Windows anymore.. muahahahahhahaha!

I have signed in to a few user groups but do not see too much activity and lower productivity. This site seems to be more interesting and hope to gain a few friends and also help a lot more with what I learn.

 

Here is to us Noobs! *cheers* :)

 

 

~A