This is mainly for future reference, since it seems to be working for you. For an issue like yours, there are 3 general possibilities for the...
You can use the vesa driver as long as you want, of course! :) However, you won't have any hardware acceleration of any kind until you have proper...
In most systems, runlevel 1 is too low-level to do what you need to do. In deb-like systems, you can do it from runlevel one. However, you...
Don't be scared, it's not that difficult. Killall KDM stops the KDE display Manager, dropping you out of the X server (aka out of the graphical...
If they are DOS games, you'd be much better off using DOSbox rather than adding an obsolete operating system to your lineup. If they're not DOS...
I don't like the idea of running pre-compiled NVidia drivers on *nix, since whether or not it works is pretty fragile and depends on many factors....
Yes, and yes. :) Eliminating an arbitrary write operation speeds up your read performance noticeably, and in turn will give you a write boost as...
When you do a forward DNS lookup, it's your system asking something like the following, "I want www.google.com" and the DNS server replying...
JFS is a solid and well-supported filesystem. You shouldn't have any problems with it. I only recommend that if you want to use a non-ext...
On my box, I get the page exactly like you see it in Windows, on the condition that I'm blocking their flash/javascript with noscript. When I...
I don't know, but it was enough to inspire me to move to Iceweasel.
64mb will be fine, as long as you don't try and run the kitchen sink. :) A light Window manager like WindowMaker or Fluxbox would be wonderfully...
I tried making some designs that would look good on darker backgrounds, but they call looked really poor in reality. It seems our logo just...
Basically, you just need a wireless router to centralize your Internet connection, then the appropriate network adapters in each PC you want to...
What is the environment you're working with, your budget, and what do you intend to accomplish when all is said and done?
Yeah, CentOS 5 is great. I'm running it on the newest incarnation of my home webserver (albiet without any GUI whatsoever), and it's pretty nice...
No, ports makes GNU tools a snap in FreeBSD. :) Looking back, it does look like I was referring to BSD, but I was really talking about the BSD...
Not really, since the GNU tools are pretty portable. To me, it's primarily that there's no easy way to manage and maintain any tools which aren't...
I often make pasta salad, which is quick, easy and very cheap. The most simple form is basically just pasta noodles of your choice, cooked &...
It's funny to me, since "Pentium" is a play on the i586 architecture of the original namesake. Pent = 5. Now we're using the i786 and i886...
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