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FreeBasic [ http://www.freebasic.net ] is a good free general purpose Basic language, having syntax compatibility with MS QuickBASIC/QBASIC. If you need to run legacy Visual Basic (upto version 6) Code, you should try Gambas [ http://gambas.sourceforge.net ] Iit is available in binary formats for m...

The silliest things keep comming back. All this Linux vs Vista vs OS X posts are really getting quite old now. I think its about time to face it. People want to do their work, and nothing more. And if there is some eyecandy with it, thats even better. To sum things up here are the w3c statistics:- h...

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It appears that you have not configured this system's networking details.
To resolve this, you need to

1. Login as root
2. Run netconfig
3. Provide networking details
4. Restart networking using /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

I hope this will resolve your issue
Take care

AA! Two years back I started porting Urdu to KDE. I translated many menu entries, messages, and other strings. Wrote a web based urdu keyboard that works only in Firefox (I didn't tried it on others). Wrote the Urdu keyboard defination for X.org. (available at www.pakistanopensource.org/projects) I ...

There are points to that. As of its current status, mono is not ready for running any production quality .NET application. It is still far from being complete .NET 1.1 compliant, .NET 2.0 is an even more longer way. Problems I have faced with Mono are that most of the .NET applications that are curr...

soni wrote:You've to download it and execute it to get the infection.

Same was the case for Windows, one will never know what it is attached to.

Think about the possibilites.

QT is a C++ toolkit that is used exclusively by KDE as the base toolkit. It is available under dual license. 1. Free/GPL for opensouced GPL project. 2. Professional and Enterprise licenses for non opensouce applications. QT is free if your application is an opensource GPL project. If you wish to dev...

It is somewhat true, but you milage may vary. To be exact, normally PCI modems are SoftModems (a modem that requires software to do the processing). Sometime, not too long ago, this was a really big issue due to manufacturer's inability to provide drivers for these modems. Nowadays some manufacturer...

Reiserfs is a wrong choice.
Its good for multiple smaller files but, it had stability issues.
Last time I used reiserfs, it crashed and cost me everything on that partition.

If its MS Outlook, then the answer is GNOME Evolution (previously Xemian Evolution).
Evolution was once called "Outlook Killer!"
Evolution is part of GNOME desktop http://www.gnome.org/start/stable/

If you need a mail client, then thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Instead of directly jumping to compiling things, first try searching the forums for help. My recommendation is that you should not go with the recompile thing. Instead, all you need is a package called libdvdcss . This package is needed by both xine and mplayer to be able to play dvds. Try searching...

imran_vu wrote:y just limited to linux, y not for windows too. give ur comments.

A windows native port of KDE has been in development for quite some time, and will be reaching production state soon.

For more information:
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

What is your progress?
Which packages have u built upto now?

zeshanzia wrote: On shutdown it says "acpi_power_off_called" and then stucks

edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst

on the line that says
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6. add acpi=force

and then restart the system

Dear Rafat Ali, There are two types of US Robotics 56k External Modem 1. US Robotics 56K External Serial Modem 2. US Robotics 56K External USB Modem Only US Robotics 56K External Serial Modem, works in linux. The USB modem does not have a driver for Linux. So, if you have the option of returning it,...