Fairies

 

A married couple in their early 60s were out celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table and said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being faithful to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish."

 

"Ooh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband" said the wife. The fairy moved her magic stick and - abracadabra! - two tickets for the new QM2 luxury liner appeared in her hands.

 

Now it was the husbands turn. He thought for a moment and said: "Well this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this only occurs once in a lifetime, so, I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me". The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.. So the fairy made a circle with her magic stick and abracadabra! - the husband became 92 years old.

 

The moral of this story..... Men might be ungrateful idiots.... But fairies are......female.

I recently installed Fedora Core 3 to expierment with it. Unfortunately I am unable to get sound.

 

Kernel - 2.6.11-1.14_FC3

SoundCard - Sound Blaster Audigy

 

 

It detected the soundcard without a problem but when tyring to use xmms to get sound nothing happens. I went into the control center i tried hitting the test sound but nothing happened.

 

Screenshot of my info center displaying the sound information:

[/url]http://www.bright.net/~jlm612/infcent.png

 

Screenshot of my xmms configuration:

[url=http://www.bright.net/~jlm612/xmms.png]http://www.bright.net/~jlm612/xmms.png

 

Creative's website doesn't list a driver for my Audigy card but I figured a fairly popular card such as the audigy would work in Linux. I also tried using my onboard sound (nForce2 chipset) but that also failed to play back anything so I removed the configuration. Any help is much appreciated!

 

EDIT-- Also note that I did do the *fix* to get mp3's to play properly in xmms.

What's the best way to disable terminal and modem logins in an emergency panic situation?

 

I know you can set the file /etc/securetty to contain only the local console device, or just comment the rest of the contents, but what are the other options?

HOWTO - Azureus BitTorrent Client on Fedora Core 3

by MECHTN

April 14th, 2005

 

First you will need to download the two latest versions of Java and Azureus.

 

At the time of this HOWTO I found links to both downloads from the following link.

[/url]http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

 

To go directly to the Java download use this link.

http://jdl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9987

(Latest version at time of HOWTO - jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586)

 

To go directly to the Azureus download use this link.

[url=http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/azureus...ar.bz2?download]http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/azureus...ar.bz2?download

(Latest Azureus version at time of HOWTO - Azureus_2.2.0.3_linux.GTK)

 

Once you have both downloaded

 

- Go to a terminal and Type: su

- Enter your root password.

- Copy the file to the directory in which you want to install. Type: cp jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin /usr/local

- Change to the directory in which you want to install. Type: cd /usr/local

- Give the file execute permissions Type: chmod a+x jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin

- Start the installation process. Type: ./jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin

- Enter yes to proceed with the installation after reading license agreement.

- The installation file creates jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.rpm file in the current directory.

- Type: rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.rpm

- The Java installation is now complete.

- Change to the directory in which you saved the Azureus download

- bunzip2 Azureus_2.2.0.2_linux.GTK.tar.bz2

- tar xvf Azureus_2.2.0.2_linux.GTK.tar

- mv azureus ~/

- The Azureus installation is now complete. The start Azureus just run ./azureus from the ~/azureus directory.

 

I wrote this HOWTO as I was installing Azureus tonight. I hope that it is not too confusing.

 

Thanks,

MECHTN

So currently I'm really fed up with all this linux thing, every time I try a distro... it's either this problem or my bad luck...

Presently I'm with Fedora Core 3 and Mr X doesn't want serve his humble master and I even tried to play hide and seek with his xorgconfig, as people told me to do, although resistance was futile.

If someone wants to help a lonely human, please do so.

Thanks! :)

This will go over howto setup bind in a chroot enviroment. Newer versions of the bind rpm provide a bind-chroot rpm that sets some of it up for you. So I'm assuming you can install that. So here are the bind rpms I have installed on my system

 

Hey, I'm on a mandrake 9.2 distro at the moment and I wanted to download and install GIMP as a linux alternative to Photoshop. I downloaded the tar.gz and I haven't a clue which commands to use in the Konsole or otherwise. Also I downloaded firefox, and it works from its shortcut but there is no icon in the 'start button menu' thingy. Maybe I installed it wrong or something, any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

PS how do I instert pictures properly into OpenOffice Writer? I tried doing the insert -> picure and it gives me a lot of pages (like 2000 or something) with a bunch of garble on half of each page?

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is linux ready for the desktop yet for business and home use ?

 

personally i believe it 'nearly' is, there are just some things that need to be ironed out in order to make it professional enough to go mainstream

 

my gripes are

 

* power management (still sux more or less, think hibernation/standby)

* hardware support (raid SATA where are the drivers ?)

* peripherals support (webcams/scanners etc)

 

apart from that i love to use linux daily, and would love to see more of it in business,

 

please note: i am talking about normal users in business and not WEB SERVERS etc,

 

what about you ?

 

cheers

 

anyweb

Hi,

I recently edited the xorg.conf file so I could use the extra buttons on my mouse, but now when I try to boot up Mandrake, it says "No Screens Found" and it says something about finding /var/X11/xorg.conf or something similar to that. Is there any way to get it back to normal?

 

Thanks