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I don't have any problems with the Arch package manager sometimes if you search for a package it can take 15 seconds or so to find everything, but theres no wait to install something it starts downloading immediately.

I used to use gentoo but i switched to Arch, Its not complicated at all, its very simple, much more so than gentoo. the configuration files and scripts in /etc are very simple and put together well. After using this I havent tried any other distros.

the hotfixes show up in ad/remove programs, try that.

use a dos boot floppy with NTFS-4-DOS or a bartpe cd.

I like the idea of us all working on a project together. The only language that i completely know is C. ive never been into making GUIs so it serves me well, i like getting into the nitty gritty low level stuff. If we're going to work on a project im in but i think it would be hard to get organized.

thats what tightvnc does when you connect to yourself on windows youre not supposed to, connect from somewhere else.

in the Device section the line reading Driver "vesa" should be Driver "fglrx"

no, if you have another partition mounted at /DATA or /home or whatever you can format the root partition without losing the data on the other partition.

If you are still learning c++ i wouldnt use visual C++ because it has code completion, which sounds good but then you wont have the parameters of functions and fields in structures memorized because you dont need to.

i made two simple little programs to allow you to login to your machine with an encrypted X session. this is how it works: normally because of the way the XDMCP protocol works you cant tunnel the session through ssh this is because when you login to a remote X session your X server sends a UDP query packet to the X display manager on the remote machine and it sends some shit back to authenticate and stuff and after all that the X display manager on the remote machine connects by TCP to the addresss that sent the UDP query packet(you) to start the remote X session, you can see the problem with tunneling that as you cant make the X display manager connect to a tunnel on 127.0.0.1, thats why i had to make this program, a remote X session is just way much better than any VNC. so what i had to do was trick the XDM into thinking that the query was coming from the same machine so that it connects to a tunnel on 127.0.0.1 set up to forward the traffic to our machine. so what i did was have two programs one on our computer and the other on the remote XDM computer so when you want to connect to a remote session you do X :1 -query 127.0.0.1, this sends the UDP query packet to my program running on the local computer to my program running on the remote computer and then it forwards it from there to the XDM on that machine so the XDM thinks it came from the same machine, so the XDM sends the response packet right back to 127.0.0.1, and after all that UDP crap the XDM connects to our already set up ssh tunnel and badabing badaboom we got ourselves a encrypted X session. (mind my drunkenness" heres the basic stpes to take to get the encrypted session: 1. run "xcrpyt X.X.X.X as root where X.X.X.X is the ip of the remote machine(root because it needs to listen on port 177) 2. log onto the remote machine with ssh. 3. start xcryptd on the remote machine (root not needed) 4. set up a ssh tunnel forwarding traffic from 127.0.0.1:6001 to yourip:6001 like so "ssh -L 6001:yourip:6001 yourusername@yourip"(from the remote machine in the ssh session) 5. on your machine run "X :1 -query 127.0.0.1" yea its a little more than just connecting and tpying your password but its encrypted and thats all that freakin matters. source for the programs: http://www.freewebs.com/jakhole/xcrypt.tar.bz2

of course its a joke thats not real

uhh is this gonna say guest too? yea me^... my dirty

the ultimate boot cd does have full ntfs capabilities. this one http://www.ubcd4win.com/

you could do it from a windows live cd like the ultimate boot cd or bart pe or you could try running regedit.exe in wine on linux, i cant remember if regedit allows you to choose the .reg file to open though.

yea permenant magnets would be easy but i dont know about the cost

that sounds like a cool idea but you would have to have so many screws, air would be way way easyer

Any linux distro will allow you to the same things as long as you have the right program. you can play wow with cedega but youre supposed to pay for that there is a cvs version of cedega that is free or you could try just plain wine. if youve never installed linux before or have any experience then you might want to have someone do it for you. you might be able to go with something like ubuntu, ive never used it but its supposed to be easy to install and install new programs.

$260,000 for a remote control gun turret seems a little high, but then again the army pays too much for everything mostly because they have the money. if I had the equipment I bet I could make one of them for a few thousand. I thought of this when I was in the army, i was a M1 tank driver. I though it would be a lot safer for the loader to have a remote control gun than standing outside the hatch with the machine gun exposing himself. Maybe the army is getting smarter.

not a chance, guass rifles are weak, especially the kids ones with permenent magnets. electromagnetic ones need a huge amount of power with complex electronics for timing and many stages to build up a good amount of velocity. railguns are a lot more powerful but also need a huge amount of power.

use a regular propane torch with the tip on it and all, the venturi in it mixes the exact right amount of air with the propane for the best combustion. i made a small bore one out of an empty coleman propane tank as the combustion chamber(danger will robinson danger) and welded some pipe and a sparkplug to it it fires AA batteries nicely :)

how do you know thats the only problem with the motherboard? if you see a blown capacitor its likley that something else is fried that you just can't see. what do you mean by the other one is about to blow?

They got "LinModem" drivers that work with a lot of WinModems, check google.

how are you trying to connect?, did you do something like: iwconfig wlan0 essid your_session_id iwconfig wlan0 mode managed iwconfig wlan0 key restricted your_key_in_hex dhcpcd wlan0 ?

how is that a hassle at all? If anything is a hassle it would be to buy antoher computer just to run another operating system and use some crazy switch, go with grub it works fine.

try gentoo i havent had any problems with it at all.