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I expected you to already have installed the Wine environtment, learned how to use it, and tried to install the Diablo 2 for Windows in the Wine environment. OK, let's start my tutorial. Unfortunately I don't have currently any Linux system available for crashing, next availability for my tests is end of May, so I simply tell you what I should do if I had the opportunity to test it. First of all you download wine from here : https://www.winehq.org/ when you installed it, you open a Linux command-line box, and you type "wine". In the box appearing, you click "configure wine", there are several modes, the most dangerous one is the one I would choose : using your existing windows install, mounted as a Linux filesystem. Then you configure it, choose the look-and-feel (of course I would choosle the Win98 look). And then you install your application. Have a look at the list of tested software here : https://appdb.winehq.org/ You will see that Counter-strike is there, as well as Half-life 2, command and conquier, and a lot of other ones. So, probably Diablo 2 should work, if not have a look at the way the other games have been installed, and/or ask questions at the wine forum. Or even better, on the Xisto forum. Hope this helped. Yordan

We are also here for learning how to write down correct English Sentences (at least some of us). So, please, write down full words : write down "thank you very much" instead of writing down "ty".Regards Yordan

Nice job, thanks. Do not forget, next time, to mention your sources. Your text is coming from http://www.vbtutor.net/lesson2.html And also do not forget to put between quotes the text written by somebody else. It is not forbidden here to display somebody else's texte, you simply have to put it between quotes. If you forget the quotes, it's not honest, it's stealing somebody's intellectual property, and it's against our forum rules. I insterted the quotes for you today. Do not forget to put the quotes next time. Regards Yordan

Thanks, abdo. Very interesting topic. Do not forget to mention your sources. Some of us are not familiar with doom9, so you should mention that your topic comes from : http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91894 You are welcome commenting and copying informations coming from elsewhere, Internet is the world of free knowledge for everyone. Simply, do not forget to put between quotes the texts coming from somewhere else, and to mention where it comes from. For instance, say the following : As Yordan proudly mentionned several times in this forum, Today I inserted the quotes for you, next time do not forget to do it by yourself.Else, the admins here will think that you are trying to cheat with the forum credits system, and this makes them mad.

I'm also pretty convinced that a firewall cannot prevent the system32 folder from disappearing.I think that this folder disappeared because it has been removed by a human clickin the "delete" button, or by a disk failure. This leads me to another important topic. As soon as you wil have finished re-installing your father's PC, when everything will be working correctly, you should do a full system backup, the best way is performing a ghost image on your USB disk, further you will put this backup on a DVD in order to be able to do a fast restore in case of new crash.

For Windows, I use the firewall delivered with the McAfee 2007 security suite. And I am satisfied with it.Unfortunately, it's not free.

I use bsplayer. I love it's two-adio-track facilities and the flexibility for subtitles.

Have a look at the niru post, it's here : http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?showtopimp;hl=templates Generally, before posting on a general subject like this one, you should first have a look at the Xisto searchbox, for instance have a look here : http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?act=Searte=%2Btemplates

If you want to show/share your own website, post a topic here : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/20-forum/ This subforum is specially devoted to this subject :

No new yet : did you try diablo2 on Linux through wine ?

Hi, titoo. Please have a more careful look at our forum rules. One of these rule is usually named politeness, or scientifical honesty, or intellectual property respect. Please feel free repeating what somebody else said. But each sentence you did not write by yourself, you should mention the person who really said it, and put it between qutoes. For instance, when repeating what I just said, you should write don the following way. As Yordan said, For instance, your post is very interesting, I am glad to be informed about that. But you should have mentionned that it is coming from the site https://www.progress.com/datadirect-connectors# Today I inserted the quotes for you in your post. Next time please use the "quote" button in order to insert the quotes by yourself. Else we could imagine that you are trying to cheat with our credit system, and this makes the admin's around here very angry. Regards Yordan

I moved your topic here, where is most likely it's place.Now, my advices : First I would not recommend Symantec antivirus, you should better choose Mc Afee.Secondly, I would not eliminate tape backups, keep tham as long as you can, because a set of tapes can be put in a safe place, in another town, in case of general catastrophy (if your dash falls and water fills your machine room for instance, insurance will pay for buying new hardware and your data will come back from the tapes, just think if several tapes are cheaper than several USB removable disks.Third. The Cisco firewall is a great solution. Consider buying the one allowing you creating vpn's : only some remore users will be allowed, proving that they have the correct site name, site password, user name and user password. The vpn site will transmit the user's Ethernet adapter Mac address, so you can also ask the firewall to allow anly these persons which computers are known (for instance these people come to your office with these data on their USB flashdisk, even easier if their computer is a laptop).Fourth. Please be more specific about the NAS. Did you already buy the device ? How much money do you have ? If you could by a real professional NAS device, namely a NetApp filer, you would have a very fast and very secured system, more sophisticated and efficient than the mirrored/interleaving things you were talking about.Fifth : Linked printers/photocopiers, why not if you already have them. I suggest, as soon as each printer becomes too old and has to be replaced, replace it with a network printer, this avoid depending from an operating system.If you have more questions, please tell us.RegardsYordan--------------P.S. Just some comments about NAS or SAN things.Now the profession NAS and SAN boxes are smart enough, they take care of the disk management, in case of one disk failure, the system continues working, a hot-spare disk replace the faulty disk until you remove it and replace it for a new one. Even the high level disk cabinet automatically send a phone-call to the manufacturer's service center who sends a guy to your office, in order to insert the automatically ordered and shipped brand new disk.Mirrored Disks are fast, but the cost is that it doubles the needed space : two physical disks for one disk available space.Raid5 is the most common SAN and NAS professional way of storing the data : one extra disk in the group stores the rotating pariti, in this case the security costs one disk (20% of the total space in a 5-disks raid group, 10% or the total disk space in a 10-disk raid group). A raid5 group is able to survive to the death of one disk. A separated disk in the disk cabinet is configured as hot-spare, it's role is replacing any faulty disk until repair. Raid6 groups can survive to the death of two disks, in this case the security costs two disks in each disk group.

OK, now I see, thanks a lot Tavox.

Nice site, you are right, thanks for the info.One thing I feel missing : I see no tool for adding text to my photo, maybe it will come later. I want to put a signature or a comment on each picture, too bad not to be able to do it online.

Not sure you need a really new computer with a new OS created from nothing.The standard PowerPC systems already have standard parallel ports on standard PCI slots. And the high-range PowerPC's have several hundreds of PCI slots (if you really need so many of them). And these machines run standard Unix operating system, so nothing new to start from scratch.Now you only need to know what you really want to do, and how to do it using standard Unix programming, C-programming if you want fast response times.You know, creating new machines is a lot of costly effort, if you can do your thing with standard machines, even expensive ones it's more reasonable.And what I love with PowerPC is that you use the same processor and the same operating systems from the small pizza-box on your deks, until the huge machine with 64 cpu's on the same motherboard and several Gig's main memory. So, you can start small for testing, knowing that scaling to the final size is only a matter of having money enough for buying standard devices. So you know where you come from, you easily do prototyping, and you know where you are going at which cost.

Brutally speaking, Wine is a windows emulator for Linux.So, like in the old good times when some games could play on really IBM-compatible PC's and crashed on partily IBM-compatible PC's, now some Windows environments work correctly with wine, and some not.Exactly as when some people drink wine, some of them can walk and the other ones fall down.So, it's simply a funny game, you install wine and you install your software (Crosoft word reader for instance) and look which ones work correctly and which ones don't.--------------P.S. Total respect to all Ubuntu and Wine lovers, please feel free to explain the thing with more gentle words.

Nothing to do, we did it for you ! As soon as you will have your Xisto account, go to your control pannel, click fantastico, there is the pre-built shopping car software. If you want to what is looks like, you can go to the producer's website : http://www.agoracart.com/ Regards Yordan

No problem, I accept this post here.However, on the topic subject, I would like to understand something. Do you mean that you could send mails without this kind of contact form, and having your mail being received correctly ?

OK, we need some more info.Please give us some info about the other computer. is it another ubuntu box, or a Linux one ?And where is the other box ? In your home, or somewhere in the Internet ?And what do yo mean when you say "to log on", is it having a unix command line prompt on a Linux box, or sharing files with a windows box ? We can help you with each of these cases, but the answer is very different from case to case, that's why we need full info about the boxes and info concerning what you want to do.Regards Yordan

OK, that's why I told you to start with Mandriva. With Mandriva you click in the something.rpm file. With Ubuntu, you have to know the minimum noob's command line programs.something.tar.gz is a the gzip-compressed version of the tar-compressed set of files. I know, it could seem stupid to compress a compressed file, but in the Crosoft Windows world I also have seen people sending a rar file containing a zip file containing a text file. Now, let's go with a mini tutorial. step zero : you open a Linux command line box. Usually it's an icon with a box named "shell" or "console". Inside the box, you type "whoami" (without the quotes) in order to verify that you really opened a command line window, "whoami" should answer with your Linux user name. step one : go to the directory where your something.tar.gz file is, and type "gunzip something.tar.gz" # (still without the quotes, replacing "something" with your real file name. Then, type "ls -l", you should see that the previously compressed something.tar.gz became now "something.tar" without the .gz Now a general Unix commands explanation : the .gz extension means "compressed with gzip", the command for compressing toto.doc is "gzip toto.doc", which moves the large file toto.doc to a smaller file named toto.doc.gz You uncompress a compressed file by typing "gunzip toto.doc.gz", which brings back the "toto.doc file. step three : now you have your something.tar file, you have to uncompress again to have the files inside the tarfile. To do that, type "tar xvf something.tar" You will see the names of all the extracted files. Be careful, usually there are trees of files, for instance something/doc, something/doc/readme.txt, something/install step four: most of the work is done. All the necessary files are in. In the list you have seen appearing, there is usually a file named "readme" or "readme.txt" or "readme.first" or "install.txt" Depending from where you downloadied the thing, the further steps are simple or not, also depending from the guy who made the package. When I make a package, my readme.txt says that you simply have to type install/install.sh Some other people think that this is too simple, so for these packages you have to do something like cd install make clean make make install And sometimes you even have to have the gcc compiler already installed before doing all these things. OK, now at least you know how to unpack the something.tar.gz file. Please keep us informed with the rest of the story. Regards Yordan

Supposedly long-lasting memory. However, the human brain is cheating : he is constantly replacing lost connexions by new ones, refreshing the data in the old ones. And that is what the huge computing centers are actually doing too, replacing the faulti hard drives and copying the data from disks to tapes and from tapes to CD-roms, in order to constantly sustain a set of valid data despite the fact that each device has a limited timelife.Moreover, a rich computing center has potentially unlimited number of hard drives available, whereas the human brain has a limitited number of neuronal devices, each of them having to stop working as long as the human being becomes older, so progressiveley a lot of data become unreachable.

Don't worry : it worked, I'm happy.By the way, firefox works fine on linux. and there are a lot of msn clients. gaim is probably the most famous. and have a look arount your ubunto distro, there could be one instant messenger already embedded amongst the internet tools.

Right. Exactly. That's exactly what I recommend. I don't know if my explanations were clear or if you are particularly clever, but, yes, that's exactly what you have to do. I definitively say Mandriva 2008.0 or 2007.1For a beginner, it's fully straightforward. You boot on the install CD, you accept each default value (language = english, use graphic mode, auto-detect of graphics, auto-detect of network, use DHCP etc...) and it will auto-mount each of your Windows partitions, and you will see which is writable or not. Of course, if you browse the other posts around here, you will see that ridig Linux people hate Mandriva because it's too easy for use, you learn nothing. My opinion is that, as a first contact, you should start with a very easy thing like Mandriva. After one ear playing with it, switch to RedHat, which is slightly more complicated. And, at the very end, go to Ubuntu, which needs more experience but at this moment you will be a geek with command lines and with downloading drivers. Hope this helped. Yordan

Wow ! A lot of questions all a the same time. Sorry that you had so many troubles at the same time.1) Don't worry about the topic's place in the forum. First we will solve your problem, then we will see if it's a "tools" topic or a "system" topic.2) Concerning the "FAT32" thing, it's not very important. First create a "small" FAT32 partition for "natural" communication with Linux, then install Linux so that it uses only 10 giga for "/" filesystem and 2 giga for swap, leaving the rest of the disk unpartitionned, and look how your Linux behaves. My Linux is Mandrake, it has no problem neither with FAT32 nor with NTFS, so I do what I want. But some Linux distros can read NTFS and read/write FAT32.So, after installing Linux, look how it behaves with your NTFS. If it cannot write on NTFS, you boot on Windows and you create NTFS partitions for things you will read and not write on Linux.3) Your FAT32 can be the size you want, I just wanted a "small" one for testing purposes, when you see exactly what you want you will create exactly the sizes you need.4) The swap partition is part of Linux or Unix way of working. If what you are doing needs more memory than the physical memory your computer has, Linux puts parts of the memory on disk, so your swap disk space behaves as an extension of your physical memory. Of course, you see disk performances instead of memory throuhput, so the result of a swapping system is a slow system.Hope this helped.Yordan

It's almost OK. But you should not create the 10GB for linux right now with Windows, you have to delete it with Windows, and let it not-partitionned, and ask the Linux install to create 8 GB for Linux "/" filesystem and 2 GB for Linux swap.