All I can say to you good people. Be very careful when you buy flash drives...

Anyhow, the 64mb has been work perfectly so what's ma problem. think i'm okay with it.

Actually, maybe I'm a novice though, I prefer using the Linux Red Hat to any other operating system.

Hey Guys,

Do we need to create another Linix thread instead of adding to this one? Especially so, since folks are going to be using the unix accounts offered by sbucareer. I would think so.

What do you guys thinks?

Furthermore, how can i log into my account from my kubuntu install?

Thanks!

anton, if you have another unix flavor i.e kubuntu, you don't need the remote unix box.  If you were wondering of taking the advantage of free hosting then you'd download [url=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html]putty[/url] from and scroll down to putty-0.58.tar.gz.  Unpack and install it, in your kubuntu and run it to remote access my Unix server.  The host name is yexon.co.uk.  If I have created you with an account, you will need it to login. 

Also, you will need some sort of ftp program i.e. [url]http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP/ to login[/url].  Your username and passwd for ftp is the same for remote login.

If you want me to host your own domain name let me know so I can transfer your domain records to my DNS server.  Note, it takes about 72hrs to propagate.

Does your fedora look like these? This is my recent Fedora core 4 desktop. I'm using Qt curce style, dekorator,linspire-clear theme, vista icon, and a xmms skin i ported from winamp site. i love theming my desktop. i'm working on a customized desktop for most of my linux installation.

If u dont know sh*t about computers i advice u to stay away from linux - it will make you tear your hair out.

Most ppl i have met always look for a little blue "e" to access web pages, a start menu, "My computer", and solitaire. on any computer. And when they dont find it, hell breaks loose. Besides, i have not had really fun experience with running linux on anything less than a 256MB 1.0 GHz P3/P4 (which most ppl DONT have, anyway).

But i'm so hookd i sometimes type "clear", "tracert", "ifconfig eth0" and "su" in a windows command prompt.

Thx sbu.

As for me I like linux but love working with Windows. The simplicity and availability of learning materials makes windows my choice. I have installed and configure Redhat Linux before, infact I am still using squid ( proxy server) to connect my LAN to the internet but the problem is the non availabilty of someone to run to when there is a problem. I think people with very good knowledge of linux are very few and some of them tends to hide this knowledge from we starters. May be over protecting their jobs or what. For the past 12months I have not being able to enable my linux squid server to allow viewing of web cam on my LAN after many researchs and trying to get someone to assist. So how do I now appreciated linux with my problem not solve over this long period of time.

@onanugaola:

onanugaola:

As for me I like linux but love working with Windows. The simplicity and availability of learning materials makes windows my choice

I agree with you, big time.

onanugaola:

I have installed and configure Redhat Linux before, infact I am still using squid ( proxy server) to connect my LAN to the internet but the problem is the non availabilty of someone to run to when there is a problem.

Heh heh. u ever tried the forums for the distro u are using? they may be a big help.

onanugaola:

I think people with very good knowledge of linux are very few

Do you mean in Nigeria? I am one of them

onanugaola:

and some of them tends to hide this knowledge from we starters. May be over protecting their jobs or what.

Ah. maybe. but I beleive in "you got it 4 free, you got to give it away for free" I didnt pay a dime for all i know on linux now, and i wont hide my knowledge from anybody. Speaking 4 myself, sha.

onanugaola:

For the past 12months I have not being able to enable my linux squid server to allow viewing of web cam on my LAN after many researchs and trying to get someone to assist.

Squid is a proxy server. to my knowledge webcams have problems with proxy servers. You shd try an alternate arrangemment for the LAN. I may have a few suggestions.

onanugaola:

So how do I now appreciated linux with my problem not solve over this long period of time.

Linux aint that bad. seeing as u are using it for a server, u can get the most and the best out of RH9! Help is not so faraway, you know.

@Gridlock

Can be my linux tutorial teacher for free.
I am ready and will to learn.

Gridlock:

If u don't know sh*t about computers i advice u to stay away from linux - it will make you tear your hair out.

Most people i have met always look for a little blue "e" to access web pages, a start menu, "My computer", and solitaire. on any computer. And when they don't find it, hell breaks loose. Besides, i have not had really fun experience with running linux on anything less than a 256MB 1.0 GHz P3/P4 (which most people DONT have, anyway).

But i'm so hookd i sometimes type "clear", "tracert", "ifconfig eth0" and "su" in a windows command prompt.

Am sure you will agre with me that one of the best points of Linux is that it flies on old computers on which windows would groan. I have run Mepis, Suse, Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu,Kubuntu etc on various hardware ranging from a 233 MHZ Dell Cp. I am currently running Mepis/Suse/(K)ubuntu on a 366 MHZ IBM thinkpad and it just flies.

Try running Win 98 on any of this hardware not to talk of win XP. Having said that, I just got an Imac a couple of weeks back and boy oh boy is the Mac OS to die for. A lot of the stuff in Gnome are actually copied from there. It is just sublime.

By the way Seun could you enable .tiff in the attachment list? I would like to post my Mac's desktop but seems I can only save it in .tiff which nairaland does not accept.

@ Niggy are using the preview of Opera 9? It has an inbuilt Bittorrent client. Open source is so great, I use the same software on my Mac and on my linux laptop. Wonderful. Openoffice works wonderfully on Mac OS X but you will need to install X11 b4 you can run it.

Talking about installing and removing programs, Linux has to go the way of Mac. So easy. Windows will never get to this level. Its all about making life easier for the user.

In mac you just drag the programs icon to a folder and to delete it, drag the icon to the trashcan as easy as that.

onanugaola:

@Gridlock

Can be my linux tutorial teacher for free.
I am ready and will to learn.

If you really wanna learn it, get SimplyMepis or Ubuntu. I would recommend those to any newbie. Simplymepis comes as a Live CD so it will not install on your PC and you will still be able to see wassup with Linux.

Visit www.distrowatch.com for news about anything linux.

jogego:


By the way Seun could you enable .tiff in the attachment list? I would like to post my Mac's desktop but seems I can only save it in .tiff which nairaland does not accept.

Save your .tiff and use an online converter.

@jogego

Where can I get the material u mentioned --SimplyMepis or Ubuntu, for the linux trainning.

Can I get them at Ikeja computer Village.

@Gridlock

Have you ever hear of SimplyMepis or Ubuntu. @jogego says is very good for linux newbie.
How can I lay my hand on one.

Most importantly how can we meet in Ibadan, Iam also Ibadan based.
Address or GSM Number will do.

Thanks

I havent used either of them before, but i have knoppix. Got it the hard way (2 days and 2 nights of downloading over the in-slow-net connection @ home). But i could burn a copy 4 u on CD The PMs on this site dont work holla @ me via my yahoo messenger [check ma profile].

I'm around guys!When i started this thread what i discussed mostly was distros and server configuration. i know i left some topics uncompleted:pardon me. But i did like to progress to desktop appreciation for the sake of newbie. Here i ll list lots of windows alternative programs and discuss how to use them. I'm an Engineering student so the engineers will enjoy this better.
To start with i use KDE desktop-my recent desktop theming is shown earlier. I love KDE. That aside, bt not forgetting that some packages works fine and better on KDE than GNOME(don't like it). Don't mind my sentiment. Further more, many of the packages are source code, so dear newbie, get ready to upgrade your gcc compiler, compile codes and solve dependencies issues. Don't worry, i'm make the dependencies 'wahala' easy.
Be rite back.

Firstly, let me start with the multimedia playback.hmm , okay audio
i use amarok and xmms. why? They look real and have good font ends. only that?
Of course not!
I ve a gstreamer-mp3 pluggin installed on my amarok and it can now play mp3. Bt wma, hell no for now.That's where my xmms comes in. my xmms has a wma pluggin and i can play wma. The major difference between xmms and amarok is that, amarok has a library manager, bt xmms doesn't.
Got to answer this phone call. brb.

Niggy wassup? Been a while. DO u ever use wireless networking?Need to sort something out on my laptop. Holla at me on yahoo messenger man.

Gridlock:

I havent used either of them before, but i have knoppix. Got it the hard way (2 days and 2 nights of downloading over the in-slow-net connection @ home). But i could burn a copy for you on CD The PMs on this site don't work holla @ me via my yahoo messenger [check ma profile].

Oh, just to make you green with envy, I can download a full 700MB .iso file in less than an hour on my 2MB broadband connection. I try out so much distros that way. Last weekend ,I went thru Ubuntu Dapper drake, Mepis 3.4.3, PC linux OS, Kanotix 2005-04 to name but a few. Now if only postage was not so terrible to Naija, I woulda burnt whatever you want and popped it into the post for you.

Anyhow, let me know what you want, I might see someone coming over to Naija and give the person the Cds

This is my screenshot with amarok running

I made too great discovery on linux desktop theming i wish to share;
firstly, i downloaded the source package for the crystal (0.99) dekorator theme and compiled it. wow! i was tripped. It 's the best theme i've ever used. try it out. i ll paste my screen shot tomorrow.
Again, to windows love, you can enjoy your favorite windows fonts on linux, by importing them to linux. How? it's easy. Go to your KDE control panel, system adminsration, font intaller. Then specify the directory of the windows fonts. the linux font installer automatically import your windows fonts into linux and make them usable on the fly! I ve mstruefont, georgia fonts imported to my fedora this way.
L8a guys!

i love fedora

Hey niggy, your desktop looks fly. That's Gnome right? Tried e17 yet?

@thekrafter, no i'm a kde person. i don't like gnome. Amarok works better with kde than gnome.
I have my desktop enhanced by compiling crystal dekorator, here is the screenshot. note the transparent border of the windows.

Niggy:

I made too great discovery on linux desktop theming i wish to share;
firstly, i downloaded the source package for the crystal (0.99) dekorator theme and compiled it. wow! i was tripped. It 's the best theme i've ever used. try it out. i ll paste my screen shot tomorrow.
Again, to windows love, you can enjoy your favorite windows fonts on linux, by importing them to linux. How? it's easy. Go to your KDE control panel, system adminsration, font intaller. Then specify the directory of the windows fonts. the linux font installer automatically import your windows fonts into linux and make them usable on the fly! I ve mstruefont, georgia fonts imported to my fedora this way.
L8a boys!

i love fedora

hey niggy, mind posting the website fot the crystlal theme, i would love to give it a try. In case there is anybody trying to get sound working on a thinkpad 600e, I will post a step by step how to shortly. In 3 little steps, you will have sound working on your thinkpad 600e.

www.kde-look.org download dekorator 0.9.9 and crystal dekorator theme.

niggy do you have the actual web addresses . my search on kde-look didnt turn up anything

THe thinkpad 600e has a history of not reporting the proper sound card to the Linux kernel. As such, it is always a very big headache getting sound to work with the Cirrus logic soundcard which comes with this laptop. I have tried Mepis, Kanotix, Suse, Ubuntu,Knoppix and various other distros on it and the result is always the same. No sound.

I just reinstalled Ubuntu Dapper drake flight 5 on it and the steps below are how I got the sound working.

Step 1 is to add the modules reported to the blacklist so that it will not be loaded when the system starts up. To do this, add the modules

snd-cs46xx
cs46xx

to the file /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Open this file by running a terminal and typing "sudo gedit /etc/hotplug/blacklist"

Step 2 is to add some lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. Open a terminal and type "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base".
once the file is open, add the following lines to the bottom.Make sure it is saved just as the lines are below.

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

options snd cards_limit=1

Step 3, open the /etc/modules file and add the line

snd-cs4236

Close all the text files and reboot your system. Sound should work now.


As a follow up, it seems if I do not pass "acpi=off pnpbios=off" to the kernel when starting, my wireless card does not work. In some cases, this also affects the sound. If after the steps above sound does not work, ou might try passing this command to the kernel when booting. If sound works, you need to make this change to the /boot/grub/menu.lst