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Thanks Inspiron and i expect many others to sign there and post here their thoughts on the issue.(also spread the request where you consider worth it)

Whether you're a Linux fan or just interested in open-source software and free OSes that can spare you lots of money than helt Linux get better and sign this petition ; it asks just for an e-mail adress and a name. There are already 23,249 signatures so let's put together some pressure on ATI to release better linux drivers so that , beoming better and more widely used, the game manufacturers and others will reconsider and write games and applications for linux as well. The adress goes like this: http://www.petitiononline.com/

I've took a quick look at that file but it's for vmware workstation which i don't have as the player is free to use and doesn't get me spending money. Actually this could be another marketing trap to cause users buy the workstation product.

hello, recently i started trying various linuxes on my winXP machine and one annoying thing is that WMplayer in full-screen mode doesn't allow full screen as it is on my 17" monitor but just as about 15" and there's even a wmvare bar on top which i can't get rid of even in full screen and it doesn't allow full taskbar in gnome environments. Do you lnow any way of making real fullscreen ?10x

Thanks for the info, quite interesting indeed:) . It's just a litle bit inapropriate for changing parts or taking your HDD to go somwhere elst with it or stuff. But as i said before, it's good to know that it is possible at least for the sake of questions like "did u know that...?".

Thanks for the tweak XP tip but about add/remove programs haha you never read the whole thread -you should next time otherwise i'll be tempted to believe you posted just for the credits;)- i did much more than that, i did almost any possible tweak i've found on internet and those suggested above in the posts and worked in registry and system services and so on. But the frst tip is interesting as long as it is freeware couse i don't wanna spend more money on my windows. It anyway sucks pretty much:)Cheers!

Seemed very interested to me though it implies some extreme hacking and i couldn't wonder of how will the components be cleaned when changing oil and how often should the oil be changed and if it can be cleaned when deciding for selling a piece and upgrade. Anyway it is an interesting solution avoiding 3 or 4 energy consuming fans. Some shyntetic oil should be found anyway couse vegetable oil gets altered especially when heated... cheers!

Tom's hardware has presented along time crazy yet proven ways of getting things done involing the computers. After beating the 5 GHz Processor speed cooled with liquid nitrogen now they did it again. The news is 2 days old and i guess that still count as news as i didn't find any story about it on the forum. A high-end computer is what everyone wants but as computers get more and more advanced as performance, the only annoying problem remains the noise of many and increasing number of fans inside and vibrations. So the team at Tom's hardware managed to get a perfectly silence high-performance pc without fans that works great and enough cool not to be in trouble. Read more at http://www.tomshardware.com/articles/ Cheers!

Don't be afraid of not being able to share files created with Open Office with your friends or coleagues because OO can save in M$'s formats and thus there is compatibility.Also OO has joined some open standard for documents which is said to be better and smaller than word's documents but Microsoft will not get involved with this comunity as they try to keep monopoly. So go confident, no problem of compatibility.

I guess he wanted a word processor not msoffice by all means but he didn't hear of any other. Anyway just a guess. My optinion and advice vould be like this. If you want to run a business and speed is a critical issue go with Microsoft's Office as it has built in integration with microsoft's operating sistem and so it's very fast. Open Office can do about everything and costs nothing but loads slower than MS Word. If you just want to write ocasionaly and not some hundred pages documents another solution would be Abiword, very well ranked open source app. This is a link that compares Open Office Word, Abiword and Koffice (linux versions) but you should find out features comparisons that apply of course under windows and compatibility with MS Word as well. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ also look at this PCWorld article called 'A Month Without Microsoft Office ': http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ And, finally read some opinions here: http://arstechnica.com/civis/ Cheers!

to me Opera's interface is the best out there, very easy to handle and very friendly, everything is where you suppose it to be, i have Opera, Firefox and IE and excepting IE both O and F are very good. But firefox gives me some strange feeling when using it, i can't accustomed to it's interface hence it has better/faster engine as i've noticed and handles pages a bit better than Opera. Another thing i've read and don't know if it is still valid is yhat Opera doesn't support well certain features like dynamic pages -don't really know what that is reffering to and really don't care coz i like Opera very much. Another thing Firefox has is its extensions-very very good thing. I probably should get accustomed to firefox but not yet...Ah, and in terms of web design i like best Opera as it renders my fages exactly as i want them to look, Firefox has strange fonts and ways to work with css...anyway this could be my fault as i'm not that good at web design yet

Hello, for about three-four monts i've played at linux learning what it is and trying to get myself used to the terms anc concepts, i've even installed once PCLinuxOS on my hdd but back then i didn't have internet connection and as i knew almost everything relates to internet in linux world i gave it up until i got a 'kernel panic' error. And that was just a test cause i wanted some debian on my computer. For many weeks i was settled with ubuntu then when kubuntu came up iwanted it and now i've decided to give kanotix a try. About two days ago i deepened in vmware virtualization because i wantwd to get myself first accomodated with linux and able to do things in windows and today i have a running kanotix under windows but i don't have access to internet.Every single live cd i tried turned to have this problem: mepis,ubuntu and pclinuxos.I have internet at home only for a month and i'm not even very familiarized with terms like gateway or proxi and i'd like to learn how to configure my network connection. Can anybody help me with this?What adresses should i know about my connection(i only know IP adress)and where should i learn them from?A step by step info would be MUCH appreciated.Thank you.

VMware player reads vmware's vmdk, virtual PC's vmk and Symantec LiveState Recovery Files' sv2i . No other virtualizer will run .iso images as i know because the virual machine needs some more info that is provided in the VM player's case by an .vmx text file and a .vmdk file wich emulates a virual partition and so on.First you have to generate this virtual partition with qemu (a free one)which can generate vdmk files and then you edit the .vmx file very easily and eventually point to a HDD .iso image instead of the cd-rom.It is very simple thou but while trying the same procedure at work i encountered a problem: the vmplayer won't recognize my live-cd linux (there is one cd-rom and a cd-writer here).I tried many hacks but wasn't successful.The virtual machine is booting but not finding a cd-rom it tries to search on the network an operating system which of course isn't there.So it fails loading any os.But i'll make some more experimenting at home later today and try even to install kubuntu on my virtual drive under VMplayer.

i've managed to run damn small linux under vmware player following the minitutorial at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and just one small modification i did: everywhere it writes windowsXPPro or so place whatever you want i put 'dsl' without quotes and where it writes guestOS i wrote first dsl but it gave me an error like 'dsl not supported' and i replaced that with otherlinux (which value i've found on the same page under comments) and it booted and entered dsl very fast. I could post a picture but i don't know how. It only seems that mouse's moving not too good which gets me wondering wahat is the speed loss. Anyway i'll come with news.Now i'm goin to sleep. Good Night!

Sorry to hear that. I'm also a Linux baby trying to learn but you need patience and a little determination, didn't you have patience learning windows?Of course you had no other choice but you were forced someway to have patience and learn it step by step. Linux too requires some patience, of course now you're free to choose and yes it's a little more difficult but as back then you were a windows newbie now you are pretty familiarized with computers and the learning should be easier.As about those images on freezoo only one-that i've tested for fun:ReactOS- worked for me, the others have some image types not supported by vmware player or at least i don't know how to make them work. They are made for qemu but that should work fine for vmware too.Can anybody give here a help?

just download the free VMware player on windows and then download from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ one pre-build linux distribution VMware image file as a torrent and run it from windows.You'll get details from internet just google it. You'll have a functional Linux inside your Windows and about the performance loss i've read about minimal if non-existent because VMware does not emulate system calls on the host PC but tries to use directly the CPU as if you would run Linux (or another one).

I'm sure you know of this as it was released on dec 12 as far as i can remmember.It's an application that is able to run VMware images so that if you've got such an image you can run Linux inside Windows and vice-versa and i guess other oses too as well as any application image(if provided). So if you are a Windows user and want to try some Linux distribution from within your Operating System then this is a free cost solution, just download the player and the distribution iso's VMware image and load it into the player. Of course this works with livecds/dvds otherwise you'll have to install it to a virtual partition to get it run - more complicated for a "just wanna see" guy. But there's a solution for you too: there is a website that holds many pre-installed linux(and co) distributions where u can download a torrent file and run it directly from your HDD- much faster than from a liveCD. The link to this page is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ; For Linux users this is also nice to load Windows or other OS from their distro if they want and i've read that it runs faster than the reverse case. Of course that for other linux distros one could use XEN but it doesn't support Windows due to licenses. Cheers, realThor.

Yes i know many of those and i did some more but it is so time consuming i would just want to hack windows with nlite than after install run a script that does all those Registry configuration and writes access rules and so on.It took me some hours to tweak such keys and services and i would still like to reinstall windows but if there's no such app then it'll better stay the way it is.

yesterday night when i was doing research on the subject it seems to me that i've found some info telling that one of them hit the margin of a crater and broke down but i'm not sure where i've read that.It would be sad to be true...after such a good news to follow such a brutal ending

Can you point me some info or some tips on getting a windowsXP instalation as slim as possible?[without the maaaaany services you'll never run and apps you don't need and so on- perhaps there's a automated tool to squeeze a windows installed or not].10x, thor

ok,now just discovered anoter article on CNN, this one is frightening guys!!!!! There's a flaw in MS windows,all versions, that can get every single computer infected by viruses and get abused by hackers ant stuff just !!! viewing images not only those downloaded but even those in web sites! Everyone having an internet connection can get infected and has no solution to this problem but getting images in browser disabled. Here's the news: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

really sad if even Mike Reavey, operations manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center, call it "a very serious issue". read on here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10651414/

while everybody here on forum and everywhere else on the internet tries to make money by <- snipped -> or completing surveys there are some brilliant minds that make everyone else envious and wondering how such thing can blink in one man's mind. This guy had the idea to make a web page and sell pixels on his site at 1 dollar each. Perhaps the idea was so original that many others visited the site causing lots of clicks which turned than in advertiser's growing interest and finally in making money...lots of money,nearly 1,000,000 in 4 months(if i recall right). Give this article a shot, you can get inspired http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10643007/ Notice from mayank: This topic has been discussed already over here. That means you failed to search before making the post. This has resulted in the warning because you are old enough to understand some of the basic rules of the forum.Topic closed. If anyone wants to make a comment please follow the link given in this notice. }

Great story on the extended work of the two twin rovers surfacing on Mars, sending precious data to Earth. They've been predicted with a three months life and they are still surviving the ferocious climate out there.Each one has travelled over 3 miles and sent over 50,000 photos to scientists at Nasa. Read the story here if interested: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10681474/

Nothing?So there isn't any way of trying to get this work on a linux box?I mean wine's creators can't be asked to integrate it among those supported apps?Dooes any of you know anything of that?