If so then maybe you should downgrade to v9. I run an older G4 Powerbook and was running into this issue until a friend of mine emailed me a few files to downgrade my flash player to v9. Now my browser runs much nicer.

Here are the files:
Flash Player Uninstaller OSX

Flash Player v9 Files OSX

Run the uninstaller, then copy the two files in the flashplayer9r159 disk image to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/

That’s all. I hope this helps!

1) Download X-Lite
After some trial and error using different pieces of VOIP software I ended up deciding on X-lite as my program of choice.
X-Lite is stable, free, and available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. So I would highly recommend it. But there are other software choices available, but I won’t list them here.

2) Choose a VOIP provider like voipcheap.com
I don’t have a whole lot of nice things to say about voipcheap other than they offer inexpensive VOIP service with free incoming calls. Also their international call rates are the cheapest I have seen. One thing to note is to make sure when you go to their website to sign up click on the MAC & LINUX USERS CLICK HERE link so that you aren’t forced to download their crappy VOIP software. The way voipcheap works is you Pay 10 Euros and you have a maximum of 300 free outgoing minutes during any given 7 day period for 3 months. Voipcheap calls this “Free Days” and the free outgoing only applies to some countries like the U.S. Please look over their calling rates for “Free Days” if you want to call somewhere other than the US. Once your 3 months of “FREE DAYS” is up then you are charged .01 Euro a minute to call to the U.S. But….you get free incoming calls, which brings us to the next part.

3) Sign up with IPKall for a FREE Incoming voip phone number (Washington State)
This is an awesome service, and the only one that is free as far as I know. The only drawback is that you can lose your number if you don’t receive an incoming phone call for 30 days. IPKall get’s a small amount of money for every phone call to an IPKall number, which is why they can offer this service for free. As of writing this IPKall offers free phone numbers in the following area codes: 253, 206, 360, and 425. It takes about 7 days to receive your phone number.

4) Sign up with Voxalot for FREE voicemail
Not much to say here, except Voxalot is a great free service.

All of this is kind of a pain in the butt to set up at first, and can be confusing for new VOIP users. I hope this helps some people make the transition from land line telephone to VOIP Telephony.

First let me reiterate my hardware:
Compaq Deskpro
PII 400mhz 196MB Ram 10GB Hard Drive
Linksys NC100 Network Adapter
Unknown CDRW

First off I had to create a swap partition since I did not have the required 256MB of RAM. I did this by booting up in Knoppix and creating a swap partition roughly double the amount of ram I had: 196MB X 2 = ~400MB of Swap partition.
After this I had a warning message of this nature
“Error occurred while creating the catalog.
cd://?devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd
Unknown error: unable to copy media directory
to /var/tmp/TmpDir.j4jPSa/MEDIA”
There are four reasons that I have found to cause this message:
1.) The media or the original .iso download is corrupted. Check the .iso with MD5SUM (do a search).
2.) The IDE driver in SUSE doesn’t like your ide controller. Try booting with the insmod=ide-generic boot option.
3.) The DVD was burned at too high of a speed. Try 4x or slower
4.) The drive is incompatible with the DVD media. Try a firmware update or a new drive. I knew my disc was not corrupted since this is my second system to install Suse on so I tried using the generic IDE driver with the boot option insmod=ide-generic to no avail. I then tried a different cd drive and had to end up using the boot option anyway. After beginning the install I then used This Custom Server Setup for OpenSuse 10.2, since my goal is a server for at home. I am looking forward to some extra hardware from my friend Dan who has a bunch of parts for this obsolete machine. I would like to install another hard disk, and a PIII as well as some more ram. I’m not sure how Suse will handle me installing newer hardware. I hope I don’t have to do another install. I guess we will find out. Cheers

To start off you’ll want to make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your box which can be found here, I installed the JRE version. You may have to compile java and put it’s location in your environment path variable. This may be located in your .{csh,bash,…}rc file depending on which shell you’ll be running azureus under.
Next you’ll need to download the Java version of Azureus which can be found at SourceForge’s Azureus – Bittorrent Client. You’ll want to pick the appropriate file which will probably be Azureus_x.x.x.x_linux.tar.bz2 which you’ll have to untar using the “tar -jxvf filename’ command.
Next you’ll need to grab 2 more files, placing them in the root azureus directory, to get the client to run without an XWindows session (from the command line). The most current of the two files, log4j.jar and commons-cli.jar, can be located here.

Next you’ll want to run azureus to make sure everythings working fine. You’ll do this by using the “java -jar {directory location}/Azureus2.jar—ui=console” command. Or just “java -jar Azureus2.jar—ui=console” if your in the azureus directory. I edited my .alias file to alias the name azcon to start it up.

Now you have the ability to run azureus from the command line. Now all you need to do is have a means of remotely accessing Azureus. I recommend running a SSH server on the computer you’ll want to have Azureus running on.

Once you’ve remotely connected to the box you can start up azureus with the command:

java -jar Azureus2.jar—ui=console

useful commands for Azureus console:

add /path/to/file.torrent —for adding torrent files

show torrents —shows the status for all torrents being handled by azureus

remove (# of torrent)—removes a torrent, requires looking at show torrents to find number

If you want to run the job and sign out you’ll want to run azureus as a screen job. This can be done with the command:

screen java -jar Azureus2.jar—ui=console

Screen may need some tweaking to get it to work and there have been a few known issues with java and screen. You may want to start up the console session before trying to remote login so you won’t need to use screen.

Adding torrents can be tricky. I’d suggest using WinSCP or SCP if your on a linux machine to copy your torrent files to your computer remotely. Or just run an FTP server on your remote machine.

And there you have it. You’ll now be able to remotely login on your box from where ever you’re at and feel proud knowing that if you wanted to you could manage torrents for Azureus remotely.

For lots of Linux users the kernel is a dark and mysterious thing that should be worshipped as a god, lest it become angry and smite you. So when I was forced recently to recompile my kernel in an attempt to gain ACPI functionality on my new laptop, I was prepared to endure ritual and torment to appease the kernel god for a successful compile. Miraculously, after my fourth day of Googling in preparation for building my kernel, I stumbled across a wholly wonderful post on how to recompile the 2.6 kernel without the need for a blood sacrifice.

I have to tip my hat to the author as this is one of the easiest to read articles on how to compile a kernel ever brought my way by the wide and wonderful internet. After following the instructions, I made short work of my valiant task and was running my custom-compiled kernel in no time. One thing I must note however, is after building the kernel modules I simply needed to do a make install before the kernel would boot properly. I haven’t yet investigated whether this is a step exclusive to Mandriva 2006, or simply an oversight. If anyone out there would like to share their experience with this matter, please add a comment below.

WinXP Registry Backup
WinXP Registry Edits

I got my first desktop computer as a graduation present from my parents. I got it around my birthday (April) my senior year of highschool (2000). It was a used computer which my parents purchased from “Millions Used Computers” in Southbend. It wasn’t until later that I learned that the guy that owns Millions (Tyrone Miller), is over priced and rips people off. Anyway my first PC was a Compaq Presario 4550. It housed a AMD K6 was a 233 mhz, 48 mb RAM, and a 4 GB hard drive. About the only thing it could do was play music and get on the internet. What more could any teen ager want from a machine? I did try to put a cd burner in it but that did not work out. I think the machine crashed everytime I tried to burn a CD or it would do a buffer under run. I joined the military right after highschool and when I got back from my military school I tried to upgrade my computer and learned that it was not upgradeable. I kept the machine until finally it took a crap (I think the power supply took a shit), and then built my own machine, which was really fun! My boss at work, Ron Deal, helped me set it up. But anyway that was about my first computer. What was your first computer??