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Give Ruby on Rails a try if you want to do web dev. I just started learning it, so I can't really judge it, but everything certainly makes sense!

You mention that your BIOS is set to PnP. It probably is unrelatedto your problems, but I remember that linux prefers that it is not set. It is a misleading setting only really useful for windows...

What does top say? Which proces is on top? Is the cpu using all its cycles on user ( % us) or system (% sy) cycles?

Than I have to dissappoint you. I don't know nothing about rpm, and the behaviour you describe is not possible. APT will mark packages as broken, when they are broken, You can use "hold" in aptitude...

man dpkg
dpkg -i --force-all mplayer.deb

Using a Marillat repository is a better idea.

To answer some of the questions here:

X.org

The X strike force will skip the present legacy X.org which is monolithic (One Big Lump of Software, to be build in one go) to a new X.org that is...

You might have better luck with the OSS modules. first uninstall any of the alsa packages and then try to modprobe the three different OPL3 modules in /lib/modules/2.6.8(version and...

In Debian Sarge this is a breeze. Let me demonstrate:



paul@cybine:~/Downloads$ export LC_ALL=C
paul@cybine:~/Downloads$ apt-cache search XML::libXSLT
libxml-filter-xslt-perl - Perl module...

No IA64 = Itanium. You need the AMD64 port. It's unofficial but that's based on politics rather than technical achievement. It's hosted on:

http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/

you should...

If you stick to one of the mainstream distros,
Debian, Red Hat (or free rebuilds like CentOS / White Box linux), Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware, it doesn't really matter which you choose. They all have...

I stand corrected. ...

Maybe it is a problem with the permissions on your home/ludwig directory. chmod 766 /home/ludwig will make it rwxrw-rw- thus accessible for others. You could do this...

My guess this line is your problem:
workgroup = linux

Both the Windows machine and the linux machine need to be in the same workgroup to find each other. The default in XP seems to be:
...

That net-install CD for sarge is for testing purposes only. Debian Sarge will have a totally new install system when it is released (probably in December or begin 2004). So my advice is: Get an...

No keyboard at all? Is it some special keyboard? USB? I guess discover has loaded the wrong modules. You need to remove it. To do this you need to chroot into the root device of your debian...

You probably don't have gdm installed. You are either running kdm or xdm. xdm is really ugly. I have never used kdm. apt-get install gdm to fix this ;)

That's not funny. Possible solutions to restore your keybo

Try <alt>+<F1> to switch to a console. If it works then the settings in XF86Config-4 are wrong and there isn't a problem with the...

X

Before dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 do a apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid. If you have supported hardware the mouse, monitor and videocard will be autodetected and some questions...

did you apt-get update ??

I was quite amused to see al this confusion about the word "unstable" on the apt source line of the woody-CD. somewhere on the incomprehensible web that is www.debian.org there is a note stating that...