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I cannot agree at all with XFCE being ugly. It is just a matter of customization. Blackbox isn't the way to go if you want to look fancy. LXDE is better in the lightweight category. As for me, I use KDE. IMO KDE offers more flexibility by letting you customize your system further than GNOME. I also find Qt to be a lot more comfortable than GTK+. Though we'll see when GNOMEv3 steps in.

Just a little correction - using WPA is more secure. WEP is really just a protocol declaring open security holes.As for the specific version, WPA2 AES offers the best wireless security all around.

Don't ask Ukraine about internet censorship. Luckily enough, we have no idea about what it is. I'm fine with that.

Please put more detail into the explanation of what you need. Don't look like a noob.As far as I can understand, you want to have a keylogger that logs actions to some remote database?Also, 'this is for vnc'? Huh.

Ahoy there.

Nuh. If only buying it was the real solution. The thing is, tough times at the moment - I don't have any money at all. The motherboard is a specialized, server one, not desktop so that's why there isn't too much talk about it. I've though found a way to make a riser the DIY way, but it needs 2 PCI-E desoldered slots (the motherboard-side one and the graphics card side one) which I don't have. I figure out, I should really spend that time I could've spend finding the needed parts and soldering on some work to get money and finally buy a normal graphics card. Thanks for your input, anyway. I presume this is resolved.

Try to boot from some LiveCD and check your computer's hard drive from here.If that does not suit you, well, re-install.I see no other way to solve it there.[propaganda]Or install Linux! [/propaganda]

I can clearly see it now.Either the OP fixed it or you really was still sleeping.

You just made me wanting to live in Belgium. :PFor us, mobile internet is very expensive and slow. However I use a tricky method - via MidpSSH I connect to my shellbox and then surf the web via a text-mode browser. That takes very little bandwidth, so I'm pretty satisfied.

As far as I know, power is provided via a few first lanes. Feel free to correct me if I am not right.I know about the warranty, but the warranty ended like 3 years ago. Though I still don't want to intentionally damage my board. Thanks for the input.

I am particularly interested if anyone here uses Ruby for game programming, and if you do I'd very much like to know what's the framework/library you prefer. :PI tend to stick to just Ruby/SDL, but that is pretty lowlevel and I'm looking forward to learning new technologies.

Well, Google tries to be an all-around monopolist and I generally don't like such companies. I don't mind Google itself though. I'd be happy to have an Android phone but I don't have the money.I also value Google for their strive to support Open Source. Look - the Google servers are running Linux, Android is built around the Linux kernel itself and they also keep the Google Projects directory - a useful place to show off your work.

Yes we do watch over you. Beware.

I believe he did and thay just keep coming from different IPs.

I enjoy Final Cut Express.

Yeah, the soundtrack is great.The Fall part almost made me cry.

Well, it really is! I used both of them back in the day, liked Mandrake more as well. RedHat is a bad choice for desktop systems overall.

Lol. Actually there's some sort of a tree structure in the distro timeline - Knoppix and Ubuntu use Debian as a base, and now there are plenty of distros who use either Debian, Knoppix, Ubuntu or even their derivatives as a base.

No doubt. :PJust by the way, World of Goo is a great shareware game with a native Linux version. Well worth the money.

Don't.Don't think all the games are free - they are not. Don't think Linux only has something so easy like Minesweeper, Tetris and Solitaire. As the article is pretty outdated, it's still something to see. Useless. Linux users != software pirates. Nothing holds a company to release the equally-same shareware product natively on Linux. The example I commonly demonstrate is UT2004 and it's linux port. It did not become less shareware or more free. It didn't summon clones. People paid for it.Porting a game to Linux does not make you magically lose a half of your revenue! I won't even mention Linux distros for booting on game consoles, which have not only the support of the console's native game format, but offer much greater possibilities. I am not trying to sound harsh, I just cannot stand when people don't want to learn something new at the sake of following the same old steretypes.

Well, you're not always right. In some cases, the terminal can be your only savior, as it allows you to access a broader range of features not always available via the GUI. CLI apps are also usually faster, as they don't need to support the user interface and as a result use less resources. You sound like you dislike the idea of using the computer via the command-line only, of course you are right. But who uses the shell exclusively now?By calling myself a terminal man, I didn't mean that the only purpose of my computer is to run the text-mode shell! I, for one, use KDE4 as my desktop environment. Servers are a different thing - they don't need a GUI. If a system administrator is geeky enough to figure how to setup a working server using CLI, it's great. It's actually a normal and common thing. Once the server is working normally, you won't ever by any chance need a GUI. Unless you mean Windows servers, which I fully detest. + if you want to install the webserver remotely, you can just start sshd and install it via some other computer you feel more comfortable at. Well, not yet, but I'm on the way. Currently I don't have much time to maintain my own distro. But if that counts, I'm using my Gentoo Linux with a manually-compiled kernel. That is how Linux Mint started, for example. At first was based on Ubuntu, now I believe it uses Debian as a base. So, the repositories are completely compatible and stuff. That is a common reason for avoiding Linux. The 'everything is free' sentence is wrong though. There is shareware under Linux, take for example a port of Unreal Tournament 2004 to Linux. It's still shareware, but it runs natively with no problems.The availability of such serious applications on Linux is more a matter of the developer not wishing to do any extra porting. Most of those apps are proprietary, by the way, which is the main cause of absence of any ports. You want Photoshop on Linux? Give us the sources! A native version will be available in a short span. Visual Studio is an especially bad example as it is a product of Microsoft, do you expect them to ever support their closest rivals? Linux does not kill business. It just makes the developers show their laziness/unwilingness/hostility. It's not like the Linux community denies the fact of using shareware apps, take for example the numerous online petitions to show the developers their product is actually greatly awaited and anticipated in a native Linux variant. You want the money? We pay the money. Now give us a native product so the money could be well-deserved! P.S.: And don't ever tell me of the complexity of Linux, I'm 13 years old.

- MacBook G3- iMac G4Yup, only that. :PAlso Hackintosh installed on a PC though.

Stereotype.On-topic: my favourite Linux-native games are: Tremulous UQM and Unreal Tournament 2004 (they actually ported it to Linux). I'm not much of a gaming man, so only such short a list.

You can also make a cool disk sander/grinder from a hard drive if you wish. It's relatively simple, you just need to supply +12V and +5V to the drive on the leftmost and the rightmost pins of the motor. If anyone cares, I found an instructable of someone doing that.

I'm a terminal man as well and using Linux for six years now.By the way, I recall someone telling me a nice thought about that - "In the beginning of his Linux way, the Linux newbie wonders why there are so many distros. At the end of his Linux way, the Linux expert creates his own distro."I've just translated it, am not sure I did that without mistakes so correct me if any.