Hey all,
Am new to the list and relatively new to Linux in general, though have been using it as my primary OS for quite sometime now and luv it :) I'm using Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and my research interest is in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) - a subset of AI. I have my open source project called Mother (http://mother.sourceforge.net)
Have a few queries and would really appreciate if I could get some help on them :
a) Over a period of time have been trying to follow the Wine project and it's progress. I'm quite impressed by it. Recently I've been trying to install Office 97 on it using wine-20021125 and the installation fails after it searches for installed components. Any ideas on how to get it goin?....and I use OpenOffice and just wanna see if I can get this going to guage the progress of Wine (basically trying to see how long it'd be before I can run my VB based inventory software at work which is currently under development under Linux....then I can run Linux at work :) ). The Wine newsgroup doesn't seem to respond to this, however there are ppl who say Office 97 is running for them....if anyone here knows how then i'd appreciate.
b) I have a Realtek 8139 based NIC and it runs great. I'm using the BSES Powersurfer Broadband service. I get speeds similar to those I get under Windows and was wondering if there's tweaking I can do that'd help improve that. My network interface comes up during bootup as set in half-duplex mode....is that due to the card? or due to the network?? basically can I set this to full duplex? or is there any other way to significantly improve speeds.
c) The Konqueror file browser upon trying to unzip a .tar.gz file seems to do it very very slowly, for huge files, when compared to the tar utility. Is that a bug or is there something i should do to set it right?
d) Anyone here knows of any project (or app) that aims to bring Voice Chatting abilities to MSN clones under Linux.
I know the aboves quite a long list of questions.....thanks a lot in advance for all the help.
Bye for now
Jeetu wrote:
c) The Konqueror file browser upon trying to unzip a .tar.gz file seems to do it very very slowly, for huge files, when compared to the tar utility. Is that a bug or is there something i should do to set it right?
If you feel that you have found a bug in your version of Konqueror, then you should consider filing a bug report. However, before you file one, please query the bugs that have already been reported. Also check the Changelogs to see if the bug u are talking about has been rectified in a later release. More on that at http://bugs.kde.org/
d) Anyone here knows of any project (or app) that aims to bring Voice Chatting abilities to MSN clones under Linux.
AFAIK, only Gnomemeeting has voice chatting capacities. Its not compatible with the MSN voice chat protocol, but it might work with Microsoft Netmeeting after some tweaking. Infact, IIRC, someone on this list is working on a software which does exactly that.
HTH,
Jeetu writes:
Am new to the list and relatively new to Linux in general.
Welcome aboard!!
b) I have a Realtek 8139 based NIC and it runs great. My network interface comes up during bootup as set in half-duplex mode....is that due to the card? or due to the network?? basically can I set this to full duplex? or is there any other way to significantly improve speeds.
if u have a dual boot system (with Windows) then you can use the rset8139 utilty which is available on the driver floppy of RTL8139
OR
try using the ethtool command login as superuser and use the -s option to set the speed and other parameters such as half/full duplex. Ethtool comes by default with RH systems. I am not so sure about Debian though. Anyways you can always download and compile the source and install the binaries.
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