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I'll try to answer your questions quickly :- 1) I've looked at Nvidias website and found Linux drivers but I don't know which ones to get, they only have up to Mandrake 9.0 drivers there and they have for 32-bit and AMD 64-bit, Now I have a 64-bit CPU but the ver. of Mandrake I have is only 32-bit a...

I'm so sorry for your loss. My Mom also had a great loss yesterday - My Step Father passed away after some years of health problems. I'm off to the UK tommorrow to visit my Mom to help her through her difficult time. I find it hard to understand these things, there's not much you can say about them ...

What do I love about Linux ?

90% of us are always newbies ! - the other 9% lie and the last 1% are buddies with Linus Torvalds.

Did you come right with your X windows (GUI) and Mandrake ? It can be a REAL bear to get it working when it won't, but 9 times out of 10, it's a simple thing - problem is, it can take you 4 hours to find out what that thing is ! Doing a re-install with Linux, while it should be a last resort, is oft...

I think your doing it the right way.
When you login, always login as your username and when you need to configure something, go into su mode.
So long as you don't login as root from boot or do basic tasks that don't need root access, you'll be fine.

Here's an excellent resource to learn some basic and more advanced Linux stuff :-

http://www.linux.org/lessons/index.html

I love it as a server platform - I host all my clients on Linux and find it so easy to use compared with what microsoft have to offer. On the desktop, hmm, it's good for surfing, movies, music etc. I've been following the goings on at www.osnews.com with people indicating whether Linux is ready for ...

hehe :) I know why, but a bigger story like this demands more of a headline of course. I mean, if the release date of HL2 is announced, it's pretty pointless having it in the big thread, but for all the little stuff, it's a darn good idea. This Second article from HardOCP is what a lot of people hav...

Yes, a day after this post.

And pretty much been lost there too.

Simmy, this was the first post on the subject.

... cover price ...

The movie is an award winning 3D animated movie called Blue.

The issue is leaning toward 3D with plenty of apps and info, which is why I got it.

Paged through it in the CNA in Hyde Park today. I'd bought the UK June edition some weeks back and was pleasantly suprised at the new ratio ! It looks like a 50/50 level is being reached content wise - I hadn't purchased the UK version for a long time up until this point. Still, there's a lot of con...

http://www.netlimiter.com/index.php

Nuff Sed ...

leigh - I'm with you except for one thing, sport. I'm a useless sporty type person, so that hobby for me would be replaced by drinking/eating/cooking :) But music - yeah ! I've got music cooking in my bones - it's just a natural gift that I'm really too lazy to persue fully, but I've been in a band ...

Get your wallets ready folks ! :- http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0 The Official DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide : id Software and HardOCP team up to bring you a real-world DOOM 3 hardware guide that will help you understand and maximize your DOOM 3 gaming experience. This one deserved it's own ...

Firefox ! - what else ? I mean, that latest windows version is 4.7meg in size, which is tiny. You can also get very cool extensions for it and it's under constant development. I got one of the t-shirts from there store - very cool - got the black mozilla one with the star + lizard ! (damn geek that ...

How on earth did you get that time jee ? - you must've cheated !

I get October 2041, not bad, considering I'm already 36 - that gives me another 37 years ! - not even half way through !

I'll never buy a creative product again after this :- http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1529222&tid=204&tid=155 Creative Pressures id Software With Patents Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 28, @12:06PM from the patent-this dept. Cryect writes "Earlier today it was a...

your not alone - it's done that on some of my PC's too - in fact, there's a lot of linux stuff that won't boot on my main windows PC. No idea why - just doesn't.

To use GeexBox, you need to know a bit about your 'puters BIOS first. You have to set it to boot from your CDROM. It's easy enough to do. When your PC boots, just look at the screen that tells you how to get into BIOS - it's either F2 or DEL Then just look thru there to get your PC to boot from your...

Linux handles CD's in a different way to Windows - what is probably happening is a "mount" problem. In Linux, the terminal way of reading the contents of a CD after insertion is :- mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom That mounts a device called cdrom into the directory /mnt/cdrom - you can mount i...

Here's some more hot talent for Jee !



There's some hunks in there aint there ?

Where'd you park the truck, frik ?




, that's nasty nasty nasty !

You tell um squirrel boy !

EDIT: Double post - something going wierd with the forum - get some odd debug mode dialogue box ...

Doom3 PC Gamer scans - I'm just the messenger, so if there's a problem posting this link, edit it out :-

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/%7Eblur/for ... eadid=2919

BTW, spoiler alert and large file warning !