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Its a nice extension and I use it since the first release of ff 1.5. I like it allot specialy because you can set multiple accounts and check them in a flash and clicking on the gmail icon of the acount opens the gmail page in new tab which is really great

To the topic starter:note: mac is not an OS its a computer-system if you refur to the OS on a mac than you could be meanig osx (tiger, panter etc)

Mhhh lot of bible talk over here but the issue is does homosexuality is wrong or right?In my opinion homesexuality cant be wrong nor right because it has to do with feelings and how can feelings be wrong? How can love be wrong? How can it be wrong to care about another person? male or female?Oke to be honoust I dont like to see 2 guys kiss it give me the shivers but thats because I cant imagion falling inlove with a guy since I like girls to much, but evenso its not upto me to judge there feelings nor is it yours.The ones refuring to the bible who says it is wrong keep in mind that the bible is written by humans and evenso if they say it is the word of god so be it but if you think the bible is the word of god then you dont believe in god but in that case you believe in the bible (which is a book and not a god).Believers always say that god creates men and loves all people so that means god also created homosexials.. So how can homosexuality be bad when god creates all?

Do you want to render your 3d projects on this pc? If so it would be an good idea to get enough ram that is fast to 512mb will do but wont be workable when making big projects 1024 or 2048mb @ 400/533Mhz will be an better choise.For processor and pentium4 3Ghz or Amd 64 3200 will do fine I would recommend the amd since these are better to tune for higer clockspeed.Well the harddisk, You say yourself you never filled an disk over 25GB so you could do 2x80GB in raid with cache of 8mb a disk.You also will need an motherboard and videocard?Don't take AGP anymore but make sure the motherboard has a pci-e 16x slot for graphic-cards pci-e is cheaper and better as agp when it comes to speed and performance (sometimes even a factor 3). An Nvidia 6600GT is a perfect card for gaming.Hope this is helpfull

Trillian is a program that you can use to login multiple chat-servers like msn-messenger, irc, yahoo and so on. msn-messenger is a pure chat-client which only can connect to the msn-server and is able to use all functions provided on it.I like gaim allot which has (allmost) the same possibilities as trilian only it's opensource but the fact that you can have it all in one program is perfect

RPM stands for Redhat Package Management and is a package you can find on rpm based distro's like Redhat, fedora, suse and Mandriva. DSL is a debian based distro for asfar I know and can work with rpm (with the help of alien) but it's recommended to use debian-based software which you can install with apt-get. Try for instance: "apt-get install alien" as root and then read in the manpage how to convert .rpm to .apt with "man alien" or look it up with google. Cant help you with that since I never used it but I been told alien is a piece of software that can be used for converting rpm-apt.

I have a few gmial accounts and it's good but not good enough. It's cool you have 2GB of space and can send big mails with atachments, The option to set stars and filters is also a cool feature but the lack of an option to make new maps for your mail is something I really mis sometimes. But overall it's oke

A thin g yo could try to see if it's the drive/voltage itself is to get your self an live cd version of a peace of software that runs directly @ boot from the cd or dvd player. For instance a linux \-live cd from ubunto or your windows cd and work abit with it. If the drive locks again you will be sure it has nothing to do with the software. A few possebilities are that your voltage is to low (look in your bios for that) in that case you could try to get a new power supplier, but it also could be a problem in the ide cable you have, these can be replaced for just a few bucks. But if its olmost a brand new computer I would return it to the shop, since this cant happen

ndiswrapper is software that you can use to make the windows drivers of a (in this case) wirelesscard work in side linux which is sometimes easier as compiling and searching for a driver that works in linux but... considering the fact you are new to linux I would say ndiswrapper could be a bit hard for you to setup so better use an easier alternative like 'driverloader' which you can find on http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ it does the same as ndiswrapper but is much easier to install. How to install it is told on there website in a step-to-step howto ( http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/install.php ) just make sure to use method-C in your case. You can download the drivers for your card from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php I hope this will point you in the right direction but remember linux is easier then you think but you need to read allot since its totaly difrent from what you are used to (windows I guess)

If I am correct this usb-wife adapter should work with the rt2500 drivers. The only problem is that these are not supported in the kernel that comes with SuSe 9.1 since you need atleast 2.6.15. But you can also download the drivers and compile them yourself against your kernel version. Another option is to use ndiswrapper in combination with the .ini file on the windows-driver-cdrom info about howto do so can be found here for the rt2500 drivers and here for ndiswrapper. Good luck

Welcome to Xisto Question what are you talking about? what is a Ro server and what does it do? btw. System specs should go inside quote tags like so

Thats why this is part1 I knew there would come tips and so for improvement when part2 is done I maybe can ask a mod to merge it with this one, but on the otherhand it also can be a total new topic. The problem with a howto about installing stuff in linux is because there are various ways to do that. For example if I recall correctly you use gentoo? So installing stuff on your distro is most of the time just 'emerge package' in a terminal some times with a prefix (in gentoo thats done with) 'USE="arguments" emerge package' but on apt-based distro's and rpm based ones it work totaly diferent. Trust me I really intent to write such a howto but first I need to figure out how to do that logical and in a way its understandeble for all readers. .tar and .sh files are installed the same way on most distro's but like I told in the TS its recommended to use the package manager of your distro instead. But stay tunned another howto with that info is on its way, I just aint sure when its done

Well thx gladly done and I hope others will find this info helpfull to

Linux on your desktop?! What kind of hardware do i need to run Linux? Linux will basically run on almost all hardware you can think of. from a usb-memorystick up to a big mainframe. For modern distro's a PentiumIII/Celeron or Athlon computer with 128mb ram (256mb recommended) are good enough to use. I thought Linux was free but there also packages for sale? Thats correct you can get Linux for free from the internet but there is also a option to buy it at a store. When you buy (for instance) suse linux at a store you will be provided with a handbook and support from suse itself. When you get it for free on the internet you will need to use irc-channels, the site from your distro, google or irc to get your info. Some sites (like https://www.osdisc.com/ ) also give you the option to buy linux for a small price so you don't have to download it (note the distro's bought from osdisk.com don't come with a handbook) Where can i download linux? A good place to start your search is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ which has links to almost all distro's out there and also give some info about them. You could also go directly to the website of the distro of your choice. Can i install linux and windows on the same computer? Sure you can that's no problem at all You can use a partition program like Partition Magic to make some room on your harddisk (if you partition your harddisk don't forget to defragment it first). I recommend at least 5GB of space to use for your linux installation specially when you want to use a graphical interface. Most of the time when installing linux you will have the option to let the installer use the free space on your harddisk pick this option and the free space you created will be used for linux. During the installation you can also setup a boot loader (most modern distro's do the setup automatically) just make sure all other OS-es are recognized. After the installation you can use the boot loader grub (or lilo) to choose between linux or windows. Whats the bootloader? A bootloader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system. On linux there are two main bootloaders namely Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ and LiLo (the Linux boot Loader). http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ For info about howto setup grub or lilo I point you to the websites given since its allot of work to write a complete howto on that to. But perhaps in a later stadium I will do that to What linux program do i use for *this* windows program? for most windows programs there is a good alternative on linux I will hand you a few options here: (W= Windows L=Linux) W: Winamp -> L: Xmms, Amarok W: ICQ -> L: Licq, Gaim, Kopete W: MSN -> L: Kopete, Gaim, Amsn W: IE -> L: Opera. Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror W: Photoshop -> L: Gimp W: Office -> L: OpenOffice, Koffice W: outlook -> L: Evolution, Kmial, Thunderbird W: Mediaplayer/dvd-player -> L: Mplayer, Xine, Totem-movieplayer etc Can I access my windows partitions in Linux? Yes you can without any problems, but you will need to mount them to be viewable and writable to you. But first some small (but important) information about partitions. In linux you can view which partitions are available to you by typing 'cat /proc/partitions' into a terminal (in windows known as command prompt/dos box). This will provide you with info about the partitions that are on your harddisk(s). When given that command on my box for instance I get the following output: pbrugge@mybox:~$ cat /proc/partitionsmajor minor #blocks name 3 0 20010312 hda 3 1 12058168 hda1 3 2 1 hda2 3 5 7952080 hda5 3 64 58633344 hdb 3 65 10241406 hdb1 3 66 20482875 hdb2 3 67 498015 hdb3 3 68 1 hdb4 3 69 17679501 hdb5 3 70 9727326 hdb6 hda is the first IDE-channels harddisk (master), hdb is the second harddisk (slave). Hdc is the first on the second IDE-channel etc.. As you can see in my output there are numbers behind it (hda1) this are the partitions on the harddisk. A drive can have up to 4 primary partitions (hdx1-4) and unlimited logical ones which go on a extended partition (hdx5 hdx?) So hda1 means the first primary partition on the first IDE disk. Note: A extended partition acts the same as a primary partition so setting up a extended partition means you loose one primary. Note2: Logical partitions always start @ hdx5 and up Oke back to mounting now in linux a partition gets mounted in a directory so before mounting a disk make sure you have setup a mount point where it can be mounted. Most common is to set a mount point in the '/mnt' directory. make sure its easy to remember. For instance for your windows 'c' partition you could set: '/mnt/c' this is done as root in a terminal with the command 'mkdir /mnt/c' most pre-build kernels have support for almost all common file types. which are: - ext2/ext3/reiserfs/xfs for linux - vfat en ntfs for windows - iso9660 for cdrom These are important to mount a partition in linux. to mount a ntfs partition that is on your C in windows the command to give is 'mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/c'. Another way to mount a drive is by use of the file '/etc/fstab' you still need to make mount points but if you set the mount options in the '/etc/fstab' file you can mount a drive whit the much shorter command 'mount /mnt/c'. An example of the '/etc/fstab' file # /etc/fstab: static file system information.## <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2/dev/hdb3 none swap sw 0 0/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs rw,user,noauto umask=0000 0 0 the last line is the line we where talking about before so i will keep using it as reverence point for this section. i will explain what it all means here: '/dev/hda1' is the partition we would like to mount on the mount point' /mnt/c' since it is a ntfs partition we need to set the ' type' to ' ntfs' we want 'read-write' access and the possibility for all users 'user'+' umask=0000' The noauto option means it wont be auto mounted at boot so you need to give the mount command to mount it. If you like to auto mount the partition during the boot just set 'auto' instead of 'noauto'. Installing software. Depending on what type of distro you are using there are a few options to install software on it. But notice that linux is not windows so .exe will not work on it. Linux works a little different. Most linux distro's use a package manager to install or remove software. The best known are RPM and DPKG. Rpm or .rpm is the Redhat Package Manager and comes with Fedora, Redhat, Mandriva and Suse for instance. Dpkg or .deb is the package manager for debian based distro's like ubuntu, debian and xandros. There are also .tar files on the internet sometimes they are special pkgtool which is a installer tool on Slackware but most of the time they are just a kind of zip file with the source of the program. Its recommended to use the package installer coming with your distro to install software since that way the decencies of a package get installed to and its easier to remove a package after installation. .deb files almost always use Apt as there package installer. i guess most debian/ubuntu users will know the command 'apt-get install package name' or when downloaded a .deb package from the net 'dpkg -i package.deb' .rpm is a little different there are more package installers for that like Yast (suse), Yum, red Carpet, urmpi etc. it dependence on your distro what installer you will have. Just read the info on the site of the distro you choose for info about it. Oke and how about installing software from source with a tar file? Well like I told before it is better to use the package manager but if you really want to install from source the best way to do it is make a directory in your root called 'opt' the reason for this is that you can remove the software when needed without problems. After making that directory you untar (unpack) the source file (see 'man tar' for info) and instead of the default ./configure command you set a prefix to the opt directory which means the complete command will look like this: './configure prefix=/opt/nameoffile' After that a 'make' and 'make install' will do the rest. Can i run windows programs in linux? That question is a little hard to answer since its yes and no. You can't run windows programs directly in linux since linux does not support .exe files but there are some ways to make programs that have been written for windows work in linux. First there is the free Wine a program that is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API that can use windows dll's to run programs. There are lots of programs that will work with it on linux but not all and some are hard to configure. But the site has good documentation and links to help sites to make your program work. Even allot of windows games can work with Wine. take a look at the site for more info about Wine. Then there is VMware (payed) a program that emulates a complete system in your OS on which you can install a complete windows environment but to do so you need to install the complete OS in Vmware which takes lots of room and since it emulates a complete computer it uses lots of resources (running 2 systems @ ones) and is not really fast. But on the other site most windows only programs will run without any problems. Also win4lin is a payed program which is faster as Vmware but also needs a copy of Windows to run. Other players on the market (both payed) are: Cedega and Cross over Office both inspired by Wine but with some improvements and non-free libraries. And how about games? There are windows games that have a native installer for linux for example Doom 1-3, Unreal tournament and lots of other shooters also the game Never Winter Night runs smooth. But if a game has no native installer than you can try to make it run with Cedega or Wine. there are also pure linux games that can be lots of fun take a look at The linux gametome and see for yourself what fun and good games there are for free How about the Gui? In Linux you can pick lots of different window managers and desktop environments for your desktop some look and feel like windows others are completely different in both look and feel. But because of the freedom you have you can make your system look the way you want. Two well known desktop environments are gnome and kde but there you can also use window-managers like icewm, fluxbox, afterstep and lots of others. Just pick the one you like and start playing with it I use Gnome myself: Oke nice info but why don't you tell me howto install linux?? That's because every distro has a different installation process and its almost impossible to write them all down. Just follow the guidelines on the site of the distro of your choice. But trust me installing Linux is easier than most people think. Goodluck and have fun Pbrugge

And again oke a quote from myself from. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/31362-best-operating-system-os/ These toopics are so lame and only good for a flamware nothing else

Its been a long time since I really used the internet to find info for linux, specialy basic stuff what starters need but first of all the website of the linux version of your choice is/should be a good source for info. Take a look @ http://www.debian.org/ or https://www.gentoo.org/ and you will see that there are lots of guides to help you with the installation when you face a instalation problem thats a god source to look first. Also a nice place to look is http://forums.justlinux.com/forum.php and http://www.tuxfiles.org/ If you have irc irc.freenode.net is a good source for help and info to. but overall first look on the website of your distro, most people easely forget that thats also an info source.. Note. Mandrake is nowday Mandriva and for what I have seen the documentation on its site is oke and easy to understand.. The only thing is that it s a rpm based system and personaly those are not my favorit. But since allot of people like rpm based systems I guess there must be something good about it I use debian-sid btw

Let me guess WindowsXP is not installed on the C-drive?

Oke first of all i am a Linux user for almost 6 years now and as you can read in my reply a fewpost back i don't think its the best OS (doh for me it feels better as windows) . I am not a pro but I know the system good enough to say that some partsof what you say about linux is bull. There are viruses written for linux it also has itsvirusscanners. Also linux systems get hacked since hackers don't look at the system they only want to now if they can get in. (mind Hackers not Crackers/Scriptkiddies), thats also why there are allot of ways to set a firewall in linux. taken from grisoft aka AVG. When I started with linux making my soundcard to work was like a little hell on earth but linux came a long way and nowdays its harder to find something that isnot supported in a way by linux. Oke for some things you still need to lookk for drivers on the internet but this isgeting better by the day. if you have a modern system I doubt that there would be allot that doesn't work right away. Imo linux is easier to use as windows, but when you used windows all your live its hard to make the step to think in a diferent way. The learn-curve in linux is a bit higher but when you tasted it and realy tried it most people (I say most not all) agree that linux is easier as they thougt. All it takes is letting go the windows way of thinking. And support on *nix is bad?? Where have you been m8? Take a look on the irc channels of irc.freenode.net and see that there is lots of help. Even the dumbest questions will get a answer. Also the site of the distro you took has a forum to ask questions most of the time. If you bought linux in a store (Suse for instance) you are mostly entiteld to get support from the Suse team. I had to reinstall my system a few days back because my harddisk died and I Installed both linux (debian) and WindowsXP guess which one was up and running with all drivers, software and updates the fastest?? Yes debian regardless the fact i needed to find a driver for my webcam. and you know why? The basic system of Windows was done really fast but then i needed to install my virusscanner and firewall. After that and a reboot (why does windows always have to reboot after installing a system-tool??) I was told by a balloon that I needed to update my virusscanner and firewall because they where to old.. Oke so I did. Only a few seconds later a new baloon telling me that there were updates availeble for windows and if i would like to install them.. Oke I want to have my system up to date so I did. After the intstallation of the update windowstold me it had to reboot again But oke thats windows. Finaly I thought now I have my system and I can work on it.. Wrong.. There was no office software installed yet and since I need excel for my school I needed to install officeXp. So I did an guess??? Yup again windows wanted me to reboot I also needed to install Nero to burn backups and again after te installation I wasask to reboot my system but oke in your opinion thats easier as answer a few questions when you install linux and pick the 'desktop' option when provided to have a full working system with office-software and a burner and more?? (you can also pick packages by hand if you want to reduce system space)??? Linux never did force me to reboot the complete system even not when i installed a new kernel...

the 360 is released allready but the ps3 still has to come so its not easy (better to say impossible) which one is best. I think the PS3 is gona be awsome but I only can know for sure when its released and tested for reall

Its a boy!!!!

I am working on a linuxinfo and howto topic but I would care for some feedback about the info i give. Is it enough or do i need to work it out more?? Not this is just a passage not the whole thing. ****************************************************************************** Linux on your desktop?! What kind of hardware do i need to run Linux? Linux will basically run on almost all hardware you can think of. from a usb-memorystick up to a big mainframe. For modern distro's a PentiumIII/Celeron or Athlon computer with 128mb ram (256mb recommended) are good enough to use. I thought Linux was free but there also packages for sale? Thats correct you can get Linux for free from the internet but there is also a option to buy it at a store. When you buy (for instance) suse linux at a store you will be provided with a handbook and support from suse itself. When you get it for free on the internet you will need to use irc-channels, the site from your distro, google or irc to get your info. Some sites (like https://www.osdisc.com/ ) also give you the option to buy linux for a small price so you don't have to download it (note the distro's bought from osdisk.com don't come with a handbook) Where can i download linux? A good place to start your search is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ which has links to almost all distro's out there and also give some info about them. You could also go directly to the website of the distro of your choice. Can i install linux and windows on the same computer? Sure you can that's no problem at all You can use a partition program like Partition Magic to make some room on your harddisk (if you partition your harddisk don't forget to defragment it first). I recommend at least 5GB of space to use for your linux installation specially when you want to use a graphical interface. Most of the time when installing linux you will have the option to let the installer use the free space on your harddisk pick this option and the free space you created will be used for linux. During the installation you can also setup a boot loader (most modern distro's do the setup automatically) just make sure all other OS-es are recognized. After the installation you can use the boot loader grub (or lilo) to choose between linux or windows. Whats the bootloader? A bootloader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system. On linux there are two main bootloaders namely Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ and LiLo (the Linux boot Loader). http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ For info about howto setup grub or lilo I point you to the websites given since its allot of work to write a complete howto on that to. But perhaps in a later stadium I will do that to What linux program do i use for *this* windows program? for most windows programs there is a good alternative on linux I will hand you a few options here: (W= Windows L=Linux) W: Winamp -> L: Xmms, Amarok W: ICQ -> L: Licq, Gaim, Kopete W: MSN -> L: Kopete, Gaim, Amsn W: IE -> L: Opera. Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror W: Photoshop -> L: Gimp W: Office -> L: OpenOffice, Koffice W: outlook -> L: Evolution, Kmial, Thunderbird W: Mediaplayer/dvd-player -> L: Mplayer, Xine, Totem-movieplayer etc Can I access my windows partitions in Linux? Yes you can without any problems, but you will need to mount them to be viewable and writable to you. But first some small (but important) information about partitions. In linux you can view which partitions are available to you by typing 'cat /proc/partitions' into a terminal (in windows known as command prompt/dos box). This will provide you with info about the partitions that are on your harddisk(s). When given that command on my box for instance I get the following output: pbrugge@mybox:~$ cat /proc/partitionsmajor minor #blocks name 3 0 20010312 hda 3 1 12058168 hda1 3 2 1 hda2 3 5 7952080 hda5 3 64 58633344 hdb 3 65 10241406 hdb1 3 66 20482875 hdb2 3 67 498015 hdb3 3 68 1 hdb4 3 69 17679501 hdb5 3 70 9727326 hdb6hda is the first IDE-channels harddisk (master), hdb is the second harddisk (slave). Hdc is the first on the second IDE-channel etc.. As you can see in my output there are numbers behind it (hda1) this are the partitions on the harddisk. A drive can have up to 4 primary partitions (hdx1-4) and unlimited logical ones which go on a extended partition (hdx5 – hdx?) So hda1 means the first primary partition on the first IDE disk. Note: A extended partition acts the same as a primary partition so setting up a extended partition means you loose one primary. Note2: Logical partitions always start @ hdx5 and up Oke back to mounting now in linux a partition gets mounted in a directory so before mounting a disk make sure you have setup a mount point where it can be mounted. Most common is to set a mount point in the '/mnt' directory. make sure its easy to remember. For instance for your windows 'c' partition you could set: '/mnt/c' this is done as root in a terminal with the command 'mkdir /mnt/c' most pre-build kernels have support for almost all common file types. which are: - ext2/ext3/reiserfs/xfs for linux - vfat en ntfs for windows - iso9660 for cdrom These are important to mount a partition in linux. to mount a ntfs partition that is on your C in windows the command to give is 'mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/c'. where 'ro' stands for 'read only' if you want to give read write access you should set ' -o rw' instead. Another way to mount a drive is by use of the file '/etc/fstab' you still need to make mount points but if you set the mount options in the '/etc/fstab' file you can mount a drive whit the much shorter command 'mount /mnt/c'. An example of the '/etc/fstab' file # /etc/fstab: static file system information.## <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2/dev/hdb3 none swap sw 0 0/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/hda1 /media/c ntfs rw,user,noauto umask=0000 0 0 the last line is the line we where talking about before so i will keep using it as reverence point for this section. i will explain what it all means here: '/dev/hda1' is the partition we would like to mount on the mount point' /mnt/c' since it is a ntfs partition we need to set the ' type' to ' ntfs' we want 'read-write' access and the possibility for all users 'user'+' umask=0000' The noauto option means it wont be auto mounted at boot so you need to give the mount command to mount it. If you like to auto mount the partition during the boot just set 'auto' instead of 'noauto'. Installing software. Depending on what type of distro you are using there are a few options to install software on it. But notice that linux is not windows so .exe will not work on it. Linux works a little different. Most linux distro's use a package manager to install or remove software. The best known are RPM and DPKG. Rpm or .rpm is the Redhat Package Manager and commes with Fedora, Redhat, Mandriva and Suse for instance. Dpkg or .deb is the package manager for debian based distro's like ubuntu, debian and xandros. There are also .tar files on the internet sometimes they are special pkgtool which is a installer tool on Slackware but most of the time they are just a kind of zipfiles with the program. xxxxx—rest folows-----xxxxx

If you dont knowwhat a computer is you wont mis it thatsa fact but hell I knowwhat a computer is and i can't think of a day without any computers at all. It will be a total choas in the world when all omputers shutdown for even a single day.naah I dont even want to think about it... next please

Normaly you can switch with "alt+Fx" try "alt+F2"for instance Note Fx = F1 - F6 Most Linux versions have the gui on alt+F7 or alt+F8

Not completely true you can get Cedega from the CVS tree but you will mis some nice options you have in the payed version and there is chance that it will frees since CVS is dev-state. Alltrough it is a nice option to see if cedega fits your needs

Mhh there are a few options why this happens the first is that you dont have the proper rights this is easy to pass by.Login as root in your home directory from a CLI and issuechown -R youruser:youruser .ICEauthorityYou could also try putting "rm ~/.ICEauthority ~/.Xauthority" into a terminal (CLI) so ICEauthority has to be setup again for your user.It also can be that kdelibs have some prolems so try to reinstall those. It could also be that your missing iceauth which normaly installes with X you could try to reinstall X.Since I dont know if your distro is apt, rpm, ebuild based or that you have to compile the packages from source I cant hand you the commands for that.