I have started a new post in this section titled " Choosing the right Distro" , you can read that for more info. I'll keep updating it.

I'll keep adding more posts to this tutorial. Keep checking this thread for more articles.

Choosing the right Distro – Part I

Users trying to migrate from Windows to Linux have to make the most important and difficult decision “ Choosing the Right Distro (short for distribution) “. It...

Are you sure that vista doesn't give you an option? Because I had a laptop which came with vista preinstalled. So to install Linux, I had to first partition my hard disk into 2 partitions ( 1 for...

Always when you try to dual-boot and in your case boot 3 Operating Systems, make sure you install Linux at the end.

Because when you install windows after installing linux, windows overwrites the...

yes, all other things except for some display would be just fine. I'm guessing if you disable compiz fusion and other display effects it should be fine.

And mandriva is supposed to be really good...

Ok it works, however there is one problem that I noticed...in the HDA Intel ( Alsa Mixer ) GUI way the mic1, capture1, capture 2 other recording input are always disabled automatically.

I enable...

ok that's wierd.....cause I remember when I ordered a 9.04 ubuntu cd I was asked to create an account in launchpad and only using that account I could order the cds.

And also I got the 32-bit...

Okay here are my configurations

Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Sound Out: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Ringing: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)

At this point the video works perfectly, I tried making a...

Intel Drivers are OpenSource which means they fully support Linux. Recently they made a lot of changes like literally rewriting the Intel Drivers for better performance, and unfortunately it had...

When you order the CD's from shipit.ubuntu.com you get to choose whether you want the 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu installation cd. They also provide you options between desktop Edition and Server...

Hi,

I have searched a lot in google about proper video and audio chat in linux. Skype is available for linux, but for some reason when I installed it in ubuntu 8.10, the audio was very low. I...

Definitely Ubuntu, I think Ubuntu is more practical where everything is installed automatically at install. And being based on Debian it has an excellent packaging system and millions of packages...

Obviously you are dual booting windows and linux, so you have fedora and windows installed in two partitions of your hard disk. You can easily access the windows drive from fedora by mounting it.
...

Ubuntu is currently the best linux distribution after Mandriva and OpenSuse. It is suited for users new to linux, and are thinking of migrating from windows to linux.

Ubuntu releases a new version...

Hi,

You can visit this link https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ where you can order LiveCds of Ubuntu Server or Desktop Editions and they will mail it to you for FREE!!!!

You may have to create an...

I havent heard of Turbo Explorer. Is it good? I mean can we use the graphics functions in it?

I am sorry as I by mistake posted the same thing twice!

When you use BGI functions like setcolor(), circle(), line(); under borland C++ Win API it does not accept.

I have tried it many times.
The error message is as follows
BGI not supported under...

The Fork Command has been extensively discussed before in this forum, Please search for that post.

The ofstream class is used to open a file. While opening a file we generally provide only the name of the file, so the program searches for that name in the same folder.

You can also provide the...

Yeah I agree with vijayan. File pointers like seekg(),tellg() work correctly only with Binary Files where the read() and write() functions are used.

I can help you. I have been using Turbo C++ and Borland C++ for the past 2 years.

However please note that you cannot use Turbo C++ to output any sort of graphics as BGI graphics is not supported...

but the thing is it edits reads only strings... I want to read a value which has binary values.... How do I do that?

I got the following source from the internet... but I don't know how to manipulate it for my convience


#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main () {

HKEY hKey; // Declare a...

I want to create a C++ Program to edit the Windows Registry. For example to change the home page of internet explorer. But I don't know how to read or edit the help.

I am doing this program just...

thanks for the help..

got it... Windows XP

But is it possible to run a C++ program in the background????

I want it to be a DOS based program. I have borland C++ the windows based.

I am making this program which checks if your floppy drive is ready or not. And so it has to check for say 20 seconds. And for this I want the program to run in the background. How do I do this?

I...

U could choose whatever you want

Maybe you could do a game or any database program.
For example a airway reservation program

Can anyone give me the syntax, please?
Thanx in advance

wow, there's so much I have to learn in C++!

I think it is better you do this


struct getname
{
char name[25];
};

int main()
{

The code you wrote just opens the file if it is available but does not create a new one.

Use this to create a new text file

#include<iostream.h>
#include<fstream.h>

int main()
{
...

INT 16,1 - Get Keyboard Status
INT 16,2 - Read Keyboard Flags

Could you give me the syntax to use them? Is it something like this

int16(2,&in,&out);
I don't know much about assembly language.

INT 5 - Print Screen
Does this do something like screen capture?
Because since my program is DOS based program none of the screen capture programs seem to work. And I need to show screen shots of...

I went to a site where it mentioned a similar code.


#include<iostream.h>
#include<graphics.h>
union REGS in,out;

void mousecall()
{
in.x.ax = 1;