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I don't need that, I already had it running here on Linux using PearPC But it's quite slow, unfortunately. I saw this earlier today on Slashdot and if it's true, then it will be great. They say their emulator runs at about 80% of your PC's speed. Let's see about the price tag By the way, didn't you find it funny that their server was running on ASP.NET pages but after being slashdotted (the effect of being featured on Slashdot, meaning the site will get large thousands of hits per hour), their site went down for some time and then came back up using PHP?

Thomas, I only used Dada mail once for a couple of hours, to try it out but if I recall correctly, you have to change the language inside the PERL files and yes, it's quite some work

Well, I don't know that well how Firefox works on Windows but I'd say that's the plugin finder (or whatever it's called) telling you there is a plugin available (quicktime) that will allow you to listen to that MP3 in Firefox. Apart from that, one thing is the file-type->program association you do in Windows; another thing is the file-type->plugin you do in Firefox. They're completely separate things (or at least they should be). So when Firefox sees a file-type it still doesn't know what to do with, it asks you if you want to download a plugin to be able to view it. That's all I can make of it. I never experienced something like you're describing. Then again, I don't use my browser to view any other file types except HTML, possibly with some Java Applet of Flash movie in it. A browser was made to browse the web. A PDF reader was made to read PDFs. An MP3 player was made to listen to MP3. I don't mix them all under the same roof

You're hitting the nail right on the head, Thomas. Associating file types and programs is not hard, because if you don't know what a certain file type is, then you probably don't need it. If you know what that file type is, chances are that you already use those files with some other program (or at least know which program you should use) and then you can tell your browser "from now on, always open this type of files using that program". Just because Windows is configured to open certain file types with certain programs, that doesn't mean your browser should do that too, because the stuff you have in your computer is supposed to be safe (you should know what you let in into your computer), while the stuff you download from the internet may not be safe. That's why the browser should ask the user what to do, instead of being pre-configured with default actions. I wouldn't like my browser to open .doc files for me when I clicked them on a web page because I could get infected by a Macro virus. I also wouldn't want my browser to run an executable file for me just because I clicked it's link on a web site.

Well, when I tried Yoper (i686 optimized and uses pre-linking), I noticed a considerable difference to my FC2 install - and Yoper was running on VMWare

No problem If you do find optimized packages and try them, let us know what you think about it

I don't agree with that, Thomas. "normal" users need to be educated. They don't need to become power users but they do need to know, for example, that they should not trust their browser to just open files from the internet without them knowing what the files are. The fact that software makes life easier and easier everyday for "normal" users resuted in every type of user having to cope with slow networks due to massive computer virus outbreaks and other similarly unpleasent things. People need to know what they are doing with a computer. They don't need to be the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or John Carmack but they do need to have some basic knowledge. As for the rest, what software exactly do you need to set up both in Firefox and in the software itself?

Thomas, that's Acrobat's fault, not Firefox's. Do you need to set any "Display movie in browser" option for Quicktime or Flash? Besides, that "let me install everything and run everything for you, so you'll think I'm being friendly" thing IE likes to do is precisely one of the many things that makes it so insecure

Oh, ok, now it makes sense Thanks, Bruce

Sorry I missed your post before, mr_lucas. I should let you know that officially, tech staff does not offer assistance in installing third party scripts. But changing file permissions is, as you have probably seen by now, not hard and is supported by most FTP clients - I don't recomment you use cPanel's file manager for that, it's buggy, or at least used to be. If you need anything else, just ask

LOL @ myself Sorry about the confusion, Rob. I definitely need to sleep more I did find it odd of you to be asking that, since you're no stranger to the *nix world but after a sleepless night finishing a project for the networking class on college, I just wrote my answer and didn't look back Well, if there's an i686 version of FreeBSD available, you should install it. Assuming, of course, you have a computer more recent than a Pentium II. Basically i386, i686, athlon, etc, mean that those packages were compiled with all the optimizations for that type of processor. The result: a faster system

Welcome to the family, Ginja_Ninja (humm... "Ginja"... are you Portuguese?) Well, both forum versions available on cPanel are outdated (unfortunately TCH has no control over this, as this software is updated when cPanel is), so I'd say your best option is to download one from the official site and install it yourself. And since Invision Power Board is no longer free, you'd have to go with phpBB (or something else, if you feel comfortable with it). Even if you decide to go with the cPanel installer, I'd recommend you install phpBB, because it's still free (and it will always be) and if someday you decide to upgrade it to the latest version, it's much easier than upgrading from an old Invision Power Board instalation.

I don't remember noticing that on Mike's post the first time, but no, I don't think it has to be a GIF file either. I have used JPGs and PNGs and both worked just fine.

Rob, each Linux distro has it's good and bad things. I am used to Red Hat / Fedora Core. It's a Linux system and it's Free (meaning I can change it around as I like) but it also has a lot of tools that makes life easier for you when you don't want to spend time looking for configuration files and how to change them and stuf flike that. I love the apt-get system they ported from Debian. Too bad that some repositories have conflicting packages between them. You can easily mess up your system if you install the wrong packages... for instance, for some reason, after I did an upgrade a few days ago, all the CD/DVD burning programs I have stopped working. I can run the program but it tells me there's no recording device available. Go figure... That's one of the reasons I'd like to try Debian. They also use APT (they're the ones who created it), have a HUGE software repository and I know their distro is very very stable. Should you have used something else? I don't know. If you feel comfortable with FreeBSD, I guess you're OK. I always like to try different things before settling on one but then again, I know I could live with many of the linux distros out there but I just need to see the others, see the eyecandy, the little tools that make life easier, see which distros have the most up to date software... In the end, I guess it's a matter of deciding if you want to stay with something that simply works for you or if you want to spend the time looking for something else that will also work but will do so more gracefully, with more eyecandy, more bells and whistles... PS - You don't need to lose the partitions, you can use non-destructive partitioning software, like qtparted or gparted (both based on libparted), which, like Partition Magic, for instance, let you resize any partition you want.

I do compile my own kernels but I wish they'd compile the other packages for other architectures. It's a real pain to do it by hand, after having the whole system installed - I know, I tried it with Fedora... Well, I did download the ISO image and I did try to install it on my laptop but unfortunately, the darn thing didn't want to boot, after that It installed everything just fine (the base system, from the netinstall CD) and it starts booting up normally but when it comes to some USB stuff detection, it just crashes Actually, it crashes with just about everything I tried: Yoper, Mandrake Move, Debian and Slax. I also tried Fedora Core 2 but seems my instalation DVD is ready to be dumped in the garbage, so it didn't manage to finish the instalation. I'm re-downloading the ISO images for the CDs and I'll give it another go tomorrow. As for the partitioning, I meant in the installer. After using it, I don't think it's non-destructive. I was going to give it a try but then I though better and divided the HDD in two with Partition Magic, before using the installer partition manager to divide the new partition. You know, just to be safe Well, guess I'll have to wait a little longer to try Debian Seems I can't install it on my new laptop and I don't have enough disk space on my desktop for a new partition. Which reminds me that I need to make a backup of everything important I have in it and format the whole thing. The Windows install is completely messed up (hey, it's normal, after all, it's more than 6 months old ) and I managed to mess Fedora a little bit, by mixing RPM packages from different repositories - now I don't know which packages I should keep, which should I upgrade, which are just taking up space... :\ Well, back to trying to get Linux (any distro) on my laptop...

Thomas, go to mozillazine.org and search the forums to see if it's a known problem. If you can't find anything, post a new message about it.

I did use XFCE4 too Actually, that's the one I used for some time as my main desktop environment. I mentioned XFCE3 but I wasn't clear about what I wanted to say. I meant that I know XFCE since version 3 but I have used version 4 much more than version 3. It has indeed come a very long way from version 3! Anyway, you've convinced me to try Debian I'm heading to the downloads page right now but I'm not sure if I'm seing this right... I know Debian is famous, among other things, for the enormous amount of packages it has available but come on... 14 ISO CD images to download?!?!?!? Raul presses the back button in his browser and looks for the Net Install link... OK, now that's better, a 107 MB ISO CD Image for the Net installer Got it from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-test...386-netinst.iso Argh! i386! When will distro makers start compiling stuff for athlon, or at least i686?!? By the way, does Debian use any kind of "trick" to make it go faster? Like pre-linking or some other stuff? I've seen that they don't do the best they could do (compiling for a more recent platform instead of i386) but perhaps they have some other tricks up their sleeve... And how about security? One of the nice things about fedora is that they compile their stuff with memory overflow protection, or something like that... does Debian use something like that? Well, guess I'll go back to sleep, now. The download will be finished in about 30 minutes but it will wait for me here. I'll give it a try on my brand new Acer 4001 WLMi laptop By the way, does sarge have non-destructive partitioning tools, like fips (old), qparted, gparted or some other? Thanks again

Humm... I had seen your post before but it seems I forgot to answer it, somehow. Sorry... But I'm glad you got it working

I have tried XFCE4 some time ago (when it was still just XFCE, not version 4 ) and I also like it very much. In fact, I have used it for some time. But there was something that made me go back to Gnome. Can't remember what it was, though... :\ As for the repositories, well, if they have fairly recent packages there, I think I might give Debian another chance... Could you enlighten me about a few more Debian related questions, please? Because of all the burocracy, as you said, Debian's releases take really long before they get... well, released What will I miss if I use Woody instead of Sarge? How can I get Sarge (supposing it's available for testing, which is more than likely to be )? Do you know if Sarge is stable enough for a regular computer and everyday use? Thanks

Champagnemojo, I must admit that I've been feeling curious about Debian, lately. But one thing that has always bothered me is the lack of up-to-date software. I know there's the unstable repository but do you have Gnome 2.8 there, for instance? Also, why do they call it "unstable", "testing", and "stable"? Well, the stable one is obvious, I guess but why "unstable"? From what I understand, the software in the unstable repository is not unstable (as in "crashing your computer"), it simply hasn't been tested long enough to be considered stable by Debian's standards, right? I mean, mostly everybody else considers it stable but the Debian guys want to be extra sure about it and so they keep it in testing phase for more time. Is this correct or is there another reason?

Well, champagne, to be totally honest, I have no idea, since I have only used Debian quite a few years ago and back then I knew nearly nothing about Linux (which makes me think that being able to get it installed was quite an achievement for me, at the time :lol ), so I really don't know if/why Ubuntu is better. I don't think you should judge it by the screenshots, though. From what I've read, Ubuntu's main advantage is that it's more clean and simple (for instance, less files in /etc and some other stuff... don't ask, I don't remember ). Here's a few links worth reading: http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4125 http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407

I never saw this before, either. I do know that when upgrading from 0.8 to 0.9 you should uninstall 0.8 first and then install 0.9, so if that's your case, you know what could be wrong.

I wish!

divya, take a look at the upcoming phpBB 2.2.

No, I'm talking about a DVD recorder but for the computer. My eyes are getting tired, I skipped the VCR part, sorry guys