[luau] News - Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux

This writer's last sentence says it well. "No wonder Gates has more money than God. ®" (Note: Bill Gates sold over 3 million shares of Microsoft at $50 during the last few days.) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html The African nation of Namibia is large in area and small in popula

[luau] Red Hat and Taiwan Controversy

This article is about Red Hat's very bad choice in choosing to exclude the Taiwan flag from Red Hat 8.0 in order to appease the Chinese government. http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/10/31/taiwan_flag/index.html Flag of inconvenience Fearing the Taiwanese flag would irk China, Red Hat yanked

[luau] Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks v1.0.5

http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks This is a reminder about my Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks page. This version talks about system updating with up2date and apt-get, MP3 XMMS plugin, Macromedia Flash 6.0 plugin, Adobe Acrobat 5.0.6 plugin, ALSA sound, DMA, nForce and nVidia ca

[luau] Japan KDE Users' Group

http://www.kde.gr.jp/index.php3

[luau] Warren's walkthrough of MonMotha's firewall script

I've followed Warren's walkthrough of MonMotha's firewall script found at . I installed the script on a computer running redhat 7.3. The only change I made was that I used 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.0.1 for the firewall LAN gateway ad

[luau] X causes 'black screen of death'

Sorry, forgot to change the subject on the last one.. Hi All, When I boot my new install of Woody, I can see boot messages until it loads gdm, then the screen goes black. At this point I can't press the Numlock key to get the light to go on/off. I can't change terminals either (Alt+Ctrl+F2), Al

Re: [luau] Ruling Expected on Friday

Hi All, When I boot my new install of Woody, I can see boot messages until it loads gdm, then the screen goes black. At this point I can't press the Numlock key to get the light to go on/off. I can't change terminals either (Alt+Ctrl+F2), Alt+F4, etc. The only way I can get to a login prompt