Posts by sillyboy

graphical mode?

are you installing server editions of the distribution? because most sever editions aren't going to ship with a desktop manager.

this article is just stupid.

have you tried other programs?

my guess would be you are hitting a limit, it may be software or hardware. obviously if it is a limit in your hardware (memory), there is not much you can do, unless you can get it onto another computer.

so what crash applies if you are willing to move to a different distro. if you want to stick to your distro, you should look into finding out the actual device, not the laptop model.

generally there isn't going to be a batch download for a model with linux, instead it will install whatever it can find at install time. after that you will need to look yourself. so find out the devices, and search on the openSUSE forums.

if you have no audio at all, software is not going to solve the problem. the usual suspects are drivers and the system configuration (e.g. master volume is 0).

Ok, but which connection is the Internet connected to?

It should be a virtual box option, you should be able to select network devices for the guest.

how does your host computer connect to the internet? ethernet or wireless?

what i assume is that it uses wireless, and if so you need to make sure the guest machine has access to the wireless card.

is java installed?

java <class>

it shouldn't matter what environment you use, Java doesn't change all that much.

ok, but did you delete the partition, create the partition, format, and install? Or did you just install into the partition (which should still do a format, but it may have done something wrong).

I suggest you try re-installing with a totally clean slate.

what steps did you take to install it?

my guess would be something from a previous install is lingering? (i.e. did you format the partition?, etc...)

do firefox and opera in windows work?

I've used pidgin in the past, and it works fine for me. The MSN option is correct when using a live account (e.g. hotmail, msn). If you are sure you credentials are correct, it may be a networking issue (e.g. ports).

not really, you just need a "server" edition of a OS. BUT you still need computers for each user, unless they are sitting in front of the same computer.

using only a monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

what are these devices going to be connected to?

virtualisation allows you to have multiple "virtual" operating systems on the single physical computer.

yep, i'd say the code snippets would be the place to put them. It's probably a good idea to give some a good description too. If you are feeling particularly motivated you could make it into a tutorial. I see the Java Tutorial section is currently empty.

why why why?

this thread's last post was in March 07'

eth0 won't be your wireless interface, but the ethernet interface.

if that is the only interface you are getting, you need to install your dirver and that is different depending on what you device is.

it looks like it is complaining because the getSource is getting a javax.swing.JMenuItem, yet you are trying to use it as a JButton instead.

um.... why?

don't do the homework of others.