Hey all,

 

I am now finally in Germany :)just waiting to pick up my keys for my accommodation, I start work on the 3rd so I am

not sure if the company has blocked the linux-noob.com website but we will see ;)

If you were a noob at stuff like this (hint: not as professional as you guys and not only into car games etc) then which console would you chose and why?

 

I am very aware about the statistics and what's more popular, but it would be nice with some opinions/insight on other models.

Hey peepz

I have an old celeron 433 with a Geforce 2 32 mb videocard with tv-out.

I was wondering, since the regioncode didn't have to be changed..can I make that stuff a dvd-player?

I mean one I can connect to a tv set.

 

it would be nice.

 

put a NIC in it for internet video and such.

A region free dvd player for watching all-region dvd's.

 

Would kaffeine run on redhat 7 on a cellie 433.

it only has 64mb ram

 

 

I have a barebone PSU so I can fit it in a small (custom build) case , which is cool.

I have two HDDs. Funnily enough, when my Windows mess up I lose all my data at which point I hate windows. So what I did was, I have a spare 60GB HDD which I install XP on and another 200GB HDD for all my files.

 

For my Linux installiation, I partition my 60GB drive in 40GB (XP) and 20GB (Linux). Whilst using Ubuntu, it has a shortcut to my other HDD on the desktop, or I can access it via folders /media/hdb1. When I removed Ubuntu (because I found it a little annoying installing things), I put SUSE on. After my successful SUSE installation; on the desktop my other HDD does not show, I went to the system programs bit and found a partitioner; at which I saw the 200GB drive was not mounted. So, I mounted it at /media/hdb1, I tried to access it but it wont let me due to permission problems......how do I fix this?

 

I can access it via the terminal whilst logged in as root or su but I don't want to go via the terminal all the time just to play a piece of music or two.

Fristly, as a easy way out first. Is there a built-in .avi player in any linux distro? (preferably a easy/beginner distro)

 

I have tried a few distro and this does not seem to be defaulted. So, are they are .avi players that you recommend; hopefully one that is easy to install. I seem to have trouble installing.

 

With SUSE, no idea how to use RPMs. With Ubuntu; I paste in things and it does not seem to work and constantly get errors! So maybe as another question, which one is "good" for installing, so there is not much hassle.

i just bought a used computer from a large company that removed windows and installed linux mint bea?!!! i am unable to get past the login screen says on botom of screen user/desktop or something and will i be able to install world of warcraft and play it on this linux machine thankl you everyone for your help i look forward to using something other than friggin windows. feel free to email me directly at wtfnate@gmail.com

 

 

thanku everyone

the irony of the news topic and the advertisement underneath !

 

Microsoft Kills Its 'Get the Facts' Anti-Linux Site

 

Quote:It was a long time in coming, but Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness. On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the 'Get the Facts' site, replacing it with a new Windows Server 'Compare' site. "The goal of the site is to offer more in-depth information and customer-to-customer opinions about many of the issues IT administrators face," a company spokeswoman said. "It turns out people wanted 3rd party validation in addition to people's experiences making OS purchasing decisions so in addition to customer case studies, research reports that compare platforms the site will also offer guidance around best practices, web casts, etc."

Hey everyone I'm a noob ;)

Hey I need help, how do I view the size of my hard drive, and how do I see how much space is left on it? I am run Fedora 7 is it even Possible?

I've just installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my desk computer (P4P800 Motherboard). No problem for that.

But in order to get internet, I have to install the 3C2000 driver (3com ethernet controller integrated in the motherboard).

So I tried with the "linux driver" avaible on the motherboard installation CD, and I followed the instruction.

By typing the command "make load" as indicated, I got pages of errors, only that, and I think t's because my installation folder is called "linux-headers-2.6.20-15" and not linux or linux 2.4 as indicated in the readme file.

I thought that the driver I'm tying to install is to old for my OS, so I checked on 3com website if there is a newer version of the 3c2000 driver for linux.

There was one, it's a tar file, that I unpacked. It contained 3 files: install.sh, readme, sk98lin.4 and another compressed folder sk98lin.tar.bz2.

The readme file tells that I have in a first time to type ./install.sh, in order to launch the installing bash.

But then :

vincent@vincent-desktop:~/DriverInstall$ .install.sh

./install.sh: 68: Syntax error: "(" unexpected.

 

Could someone please help me??? I don't know what else to do.

 

PS : I'm new in here, I present my self, I'm Vincent alias mollux67, I'm french student, so please excuse me, but correct me, if I make errors by writing english.

the article is here > [/url][url=http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/21/a...-policy-module/]http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/21/a...-policy-module/

 

cheers

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