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i tried a mac os lookalike thing for windows. Bloody annoying it was as well

I used a gtk theme i think and something called mac4lin it works well enough although it's not perfect.

Well I'me setting upmy second laptop of the week, for a friend - getting Zonealarm, AVG, Flash...putting custom icons on her desktop...clearing off all the silly stuff that came with it.

She thinks it's awfully clever of me.

And the 'buntu's working fine. I'm impressed!


One wee thing...I can't get gtk-gnutella to connect. I think it thinks it's behind a firewall. Any ideas?

I got my XP partition running without antivirus lol

"Why does gtk-gnutella claim it's firewalled when it's not?

gtk-gnutella needs to receive an incoming connection to determine if you can be reached from the outside. Until then, it's assumed that there's a firewall which blocks the configured listening TCP port. If you want to speed up the detection, use a web browser, telnet or similar and connect to the listening port from the outside. If the connection is refused or dropped, then you are very probably really unreachable due to a firewall which blocks the port, a misconfigured NAT or similar. You might want to try a different listening TCP port because some ISPs block the default Gnutella port (6346). See also, "Do I need to forward a port on my firewall?". "

http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/en/?page=faq#general0

That last bit suggests you check your router settings, and set up port forwarding as needed.

Okayyyy...so how do I 'connect to the listening port from the outside'?

I'm afraid Linux still isn't *quite* documented for the general population. Some of us still need 'Open this and click on that'.

btw...Dual booting...My XP partition is on its own, separate HDD. Since I've installed Ubuntu on the other one, XP no longer boots up smoothly: it has to go through the whole disk checking routine.

Any ideas?

Kick it

delete the disk checker thing from in linux>(probably not my best suggestion) But that's how I got rid a media player

Hmmm...I guess I could live without a working XP.

something up with it then Ed - I've run dual (and triple) boots from seperate disks and from the same disk all in various configurations and the most I've had XP do that is once, following the initial install.

Have you swapped the disk order or anything like that?

>>..so how do I 'connect to the listening port from the outside'?<<

Requires another computer on a local network to ping it.

To do a quick check of your ports, try 'shields up', at grc.com -- https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 or canyouseeme -- www.canyouseeme.org

If you are behind a router, the guntella port is probably closed by default.
If so, you'll likely need to do port forwarding. How you access the router to do so depends on the router.
Many isps also block port 6346, so you probably need to specify a different one in gnutella's setup.

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For the dual-boot thing, more information is needed

Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Ed, you may find this site useful for information on port forwarding -- http://portforward.com/


and, I just installed gtk-gnutella, version 96.6

In order for it to work correctly, I set the port in gtk-gnutella's preferences to 43285 You can choose that or some other non-standard port.

Then I set port forwarding in my router to the same 'range' 43285 - 43285, for both TCP and UDP, to the IP address assigned by the router for that computer.

When I relaunched gtk-gnutella, it was all good

I shall try that, whrn I get some fiddling time (busybusybusy!) - and I'll also post my grub stuff.

You know...thinking about the setup stuff...Ubunto scores OK compared to Windows. Sure, I had to know to install the non-free formats - but then I didn't have to install anti-virus or firewall etc. And ecerything else is sooooo much simpler...like I scored a movie (and I'm pretty impressed with the bittorrent client!) and I wanted to encde it to DVD. Simple! Fire up Synaptic, install tovid.

Yes - me like.

I installed Mint 7 KDE edition today. Used my memory stick to do it as mI've run out of cds/dvds. So now my computer it quad booting. XP, mint 7(gnome and kde) and tinycorelinux. A 10mb distro that runs completley in RAM

sweet man!!

The only problem now is the boot order and i'm feeling to lazy to sort it out

"I installed Mint 7 KDE edition today. Used my memory stick to do it as mI've run out of cds/dvds. So now my computer it quad booting. XP, mint 7(gnome and kde) and tinycorelinux. A 10mb distro that runs completley in RAM"

I can see I am going to be redundant soon, that's an impressive display of fluent geekese!

I only found out about tuiny core linux from the tux radar podcast which are hilarious.

And I don't think you'd ever be redundant. Who'd help me to build my computer and answer my inane questions?

And I've run out of socks as well so hopefully if your sock/cd theory is right I shall expect some more cds soon