maddog

I do agree that as soon as more people begin to use linux, more security holes will be found and more viruses will be written for linux. As boristsr said, you can't install or run anything that requires admin priveleges unless you are root, which most people don't (and shouldn't). In XP, you can't get anything done unless you have admin priveleges, which is why XP can be easily compromised. I don't know much about Vista but I have heard that you will be prompted several times before anything can be run as admin. How much more secure will this make Vista; will it be on the same level as linux as far as preventing malware from owning your machine?

You might try a program called AutoPatcher. www.autopatcher.com It is an alternative to Windows Update that is compatible with XP SP2. I haven't played around with it too much so I'm not sure you can run it entirely from the command line. Hope this this helps.

I am currently looking at two different monitors from Dell right now: E207WFP 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/con...&oc=e207wfp and 2007WFP Wide-Screen Black Flat Panel Monitor, LCD w/ Ultrasharp http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/con...&oc=2007FPW The only real difference between the two is that one has Ultrasharp and the other doesn't. I need to know if it is worth spending $110 extra for the monitor with Ultrasharp. I will primarily be using it as a monitor for my gaming machine.

I use kopete in linux and trillian in windows just because they both work well and I can't afford to use up more memory than I need to. 256 MB is not enough. ;)

Does anyone anyone know some good live distros? I need to go to my friend's house whose computer won't boot. I was going to run off a live cd, mount the partition, and put the files on a USB drive. Is knoppix the way to go, or is there a better distro for this sort of use?

If linux ever got a gaming framework, like directx or something similiar, do you think that it would start taking more of the market? The fact that you wouldn't need antivirus/antispyware is a big selling point, but do think that people would make the switch?

I think that linux has come a long way in the past few years. Installing SUSE on my machine a little over six months ago was much easier thatn I expected and I had very few compatibility problems switching over. i think that in ten years linux might start to take a noticeable, but small, percent of the market.

I have heard a lot recently about Microsoft releasing DirectX 10 and seen several pics of it, but I was wondering. Many people say that it will revolutionize PC gaming I didn't know if this was true. So I'm asking anyone that knows anything about PC gaming: will directx 10 revolutionize PC gaming and is vista worth getting just for directx 10?

In order for you to be able to boot off of the external drive, you must make sure that your motherboard supports booting from a USB/Firewire device. In addition you must make sure that the external device is loaded before the internal disk by the motherboard, otherwise, Windows will boot anyway.

Which distro and sound card are you using? Also, google this error if you haven't done so already.

thanks. Everything is working.

I was just wondering if anyone had any really good firefox extensions that theey use. I have several but I am looking to get more functionality out of firefox.

Does anyone know of anything similiar to camtasia that runs on linux? I did a little bit of searching but I was unable to find anything.

if the admin never changed the defaults on the router, or you reset it, you should be able to find the router's default username/password on this site. http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html

sorry. I should have been more descriptive before. when use the "env" command, it returns this for $PATH: PATH=/home/mhowell/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin I need it to include the directory "/opt/kde3/share/apps" and used the method in my first post to try to add this directory to $PATH. I am sorry that I am bad at explaining things. Thanks

I have tried many methods of changing the "$PATH" environment variable in OpenSuSE 10.1 but to no avail. The variable changes until I close the terminal but then goes back to the default. I tried: maddog@64:~>PATH=$PATH:/bin maddog@64:~>export PATH but when I close the terminal, it gets rid of ths change. Any help is greatly appreciated.