Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

list of distros and packages here: http://linux-sound.org/distro.html
* AGNULA a GNU/Linux audio and multimedia distribution
* APODIO is an "...audio computer on a live CD bootable distribution"
* AudioSlack audio packages for Slackware users, from Luke Yelavich, inspired by PlanetCCRMA
* Demudi the Debian Multimedia Distribution (merged with AGNULA)
* Dynebolic a GNU/Linux distribution "... shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and teachers"
* LAW is the Linux Audio Workstation distro from Jacob Robbins
* Linux Music Apps CD a great collection from John Littler
* Low-latency RPMs packages from Udo Jocher that include a 2.4.18 kernel patched for low-latency and preemptive operation
* Medialinux at OSL a Knoppix-based Linux distribution focused on multimedia
* Planet CCRMA At Home RPM packages of the Linux sound and music software used at CCRMA, thanks to Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
* Thac's RPMs For Mandrake includes a large collection of Linux music and sound packages
* Turn-Key Linux Audio a new Linux audio distro from Kevin Ernste at the Eastman Computer Music Center

but none of the ones i had a look at had freej.

(i've been reading the dynebolic pages and other people do have samba working, albeit in older versions. maybe they just forgot a couple of files. should be easy enough to copy them over from somewhere else (famous last words...). try 'locate smbfs' see if that can find it.)

I tried d/ling the Google toolbar for the new version of FF (0.9) for XP, and there were some reported issues re: getting the damn thing to work - you had to close your browser after d/ling, then deactivate the extension, close AGAIN, activate it, close AGAIN, and then it would be available the next time you opened FF.

Stupid me, I inadvertently downloaded the Google toolbar extension in such a way that I ended up with TWO instances of it in my List Of Extensions, and when I shut down the browser & restarted, a little dialog box called INSTALLING DOWNLOADED EXTENSION (or something like that) popped up. And now I can't get Firefox to open! I click on the wee li'l icon, & that stupid little box shows up, and I can't do dick.

I tried uninstalling / reinstalling - no go. I can reinstall 0.8 just fine, but when I reinstally 0.9, I get the same booshit. I imagine I have to seek out whatever the hell's in my profile directory referring to the Google toolbar. I checked out where the extensions are located in the Mozilla directory, but the files / directories are named something like {9dka-doiw822-adakjj}. Help?

ALSO: where the hell can I snag a copy of Doom II? My sis wants me to burn a copy for my nephew's 6th birthday.

Dynebolic also comes with LinNeighbourhood a Linux app with a GUI like Network Neighbourhood I can see the Windows PC in there but not any of the shares.

"The Samba filesharing daemon is running on your dyne:bolic: everything contained in the /home/shared directory is accessible (read and write) as a shared folder on the network you are connected, without any password protection - the share is called 'dyne:bolic casbah'."

/etc/samba is viewable here:
http://cvs.dyne.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/initrd_tree/etc/samba/

/etc/samba/smb.conf has the share as 'public'

/etc/samba/smbusers:
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest

I'm a total linux newb.

This is sooooo frustrating

and there's always ftp 8)

home network doesn't have dhcp server running so i had to give dynebolic box a static ip and after that the shares just appeared in the linneighbourhood box and everything was fine. (open an xterm and 'ping {ipaddress}' to see if it can see the windows box. 'ifconfig' should also give you info about eth0)

work network picked up ip address straight off but i had trouble seeing the shares. i set the proper workgroup in linneighbourhood preferences menu and rescanned and that found the shares, no problem. i may have needed to 'browse as user' though, i can't remember. later attempts to connect to other shares failed, i don't know why. i'll reboot and try again after lunch.

But they don't seem to sell them anymore! This is surely ridiculous? Some resellers (like Jigsaw) still seem to be, but they cost more than the Extreme ones. Is this because they've been discontinued? Why on earth would Apple do that?

Yes it is but for an eMac you'd need a usb one

I ordered my Airport card from Jigsaw24 today. They still had some.

hmmm these look good.... maybe I'll get two

Bytecc ME-320F
Speeze Cooler 3.5" USB 2.0 / IEEE1394 External Drive Enclosure, Model "FI320"