yordan

Nope ! that's false.I create all my backups in 700 Megs splitted files, so that they fit on a CD. PowerQuest Drive images does it, and I did with with Norton Ghost too. It's hidden somewhere, probably in some "advanced mode" submenus, but it's in the software. It creates a single backup in several files, for people having only a CD Burner. Which is logic : each backup must be made two ways, on two different media. So, if you loose your second hard drive, you still have a CD backup. More over, this CD backup must NOT be in your office, just in case of major catastrophy. Ask your best friend for storing your system backups second chance CD's.

So, if it's the time for forking a process, it's normal that a full multi-task system like Linux does the job faster than Windows, which is not really multi-task nor multi-thread.Nevertheless, I would say that the real time is the time seen from the user part : time for starting the main process, malloc the needed memory, loading initial data and giving first user prompt. So, real time for loading a program and giving a result (echo "hello world" or calculating the 50th decimal value of pi for instance) would be the real way of testing several Operating systems. The old way of calculating the number of Mips or MegaFlops for each hardware for each OS was a good approach some years ago.

Last time I did, booting on floppy and loading the image from disk, it took me about five minutes (remaining time 5 minutes, then 4 minutes, then reboot). So, neglectible time compared to two hours.And I do this frequently (about once a week) because of system crashes due to spywares, unwanted anstalls and other unwanted things.

I just made a lot of mail advertising "please visit my site", and all the answers were "your forum does not work". I know it's only fry hosting supported by forum, but IMHO it also provides a bad image of the paid hosting.

You're welcome. Like sometimes in real life, simply asking the question allowed you to get the problem solved, with help of a lucky strike. Let's be happy and celebrate this with you.

I'm not familiar wih Suse. With Mandrake, at installation time, you choose what kind of install you wish. I usually install "server" environment because it has a lot of usuful things. But there is also an option "workstation only". I'm pretty sure Suze has the same thing, have a careful look during install, and simply install client things. Remember that you will probably need minimum telecoms (at least telnet an samba I guess, and I would also add NFS).RegardsYordan

By the way, I'm also surprised to see MS publishing this kind of results. I would expect this info to be "strictly for internal use" in the "for future improvement" department.

Too late, pat23 just bought his new drive.By the way, I had exactly the same problem last year, my DVD device stopped reading DVD's, I bought a new one and everything works fine now. The only real answer would have been to put the faulty drive in another computer : if a drive works bad on two comuputes, it's probably due to a drive failure. And if a new drive works in pat23's computer, this means the Windows OS was not faulty.

freescriptz link seems not to work today.

Don't you think it's "linux in ascii terminal mode" and not "x-windows or KDE Linux"? Pure Linux should be compared to old ms-dos mode, and maybe ms-dos would win...

PowerQuest Drive Images works fine too. You do a copy somewhere on a hard disk or on a DVD-ROM. Then, in case of system crash you install back your system from this backup. usually it lasts five to ten minutes.Of course, you should backup a correctly working system...RegardsYordan

So, I will continue sticking on RHEL3 and on Mandrake.

(gosh, now we have the quote/quote encapsulating automatically performed! How nice ! My question is : was this worth it ? Are your very performing at CS now ? Same level as your classfriends ?

I would really like to have 1 gig memory. I have 256 Megs, and I am continuously swapping. Unfortunately I cannot open the box of my PC yet, else no hardware guarantee any more. So I will wait a little bit.

I also have problems with my databases. I read the quoted mail (I received it) but this mails says "please wait a little bit", the mail does not say that some of the things will be repaired and the other ones not.So, I am as Ruben, I simply would like to know how to repair the things.

I would also like to make a suggestion.Write down a generic page, saying something like "I am currintly working hard, this page will be soon available", and put it on any new menu item you are creating. this is more friendly than all the "page not found" errors I received on most of your menu items.

Did you solve your problem, abhiram ?

Sorry, Mandriva, you'r right.

Maybe we should open a new post on that subject : why do you like Linux ?Personnally, I am conviced that a lot of professional people need a multi-task, multi-user system, for instance for database usage.Unix is a real multi-task, multi-user operating system. Linux a free version of Linux, so it's comfortable to use it home. And if you like it home, you will want to implement it at your office.

seems that tikemedia forgot how to come back to his post, and is unable to read our replies!

Really nice ! I never heard that way of naming GWBASIC. Of course, I played with Q-basic and GW-basic as ersatz for fortan (cause at those time fortran was hardly available for personal computers).By the way, did you know about Lisp ? This school of artificial intelligence, where the main program was able of upgrading itself.

I think I won ! I wrote my first program 30 years ago. The language was named ALGOL, like ALGOrythmic Langague, was mainly a university language for learning purposes. Then, I worked in a Physics Research Lab, and we wrote essentially Fortran programs. Do some of you remember Fortran ? And I still work with fortran when correcting some of my customer's programs...RegardsYordan

I suppose that your new computer has an Ethernet connector ? and that your old computer has an Ethernet adapter too ? Then, you simply need an Ethernet cross cable, give a fixed IP Ethernet address to each box, and create a shared folder on the old computer, and use the mouse on the new computer, mount the shared folder and copy all the files from the shared folder to the new computer hard disk.No dismounting, only a one-meter cable available in most supermarkets ! If you need more help for configuring this Ethernet cable and fixed IP things, tell it here, and we will help you more. Regards Yordan

I would say that this means that mysql has not been correctly installed.I suggest uninstall it properly, and then re-install it again. Regards Yordan

Nope, it's part of your router settings. You have to ask your router to map a given service, on the router fixed address, to be seen as a service on your computer. So, it's an advanced setting on your router, not on your computer.By the way, you also have to know the fixed address of your router, this is the address you have to give people which want to connect. Regards Yordan