[gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics

[Timothy A. Holmes]

Good Morning All:

I have several little projects that I would like to sweep up as we
approach the holidays, and would like some input from the community.

1. On my laptop, I keep the nics off by default, and start them as I
need them.  The wired nic is started by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, and
the wireless uses wifi-radar.  Both have to be called from a root term.
While this is effective, its not necessarially efficient, or
particularlly good looking when im working with (non linux) people
around (I'm the director of our IT department, and perception that I
have it together is important -- even if its not all together true :)
).  I use fluxbox on my laptop, which runs extremely well, and I also
use the adesklets modubar.  I am wondering if there is a command that
could put into my gentoo menu, or my modubar that would allow me to run
either of those programs, (one entry for each) without having to either
start a root term, or sudo (which does not work for wifi-radar).  I have
tried a sudo command for a switch on the modubar and it seemed to fight
back, but its possible that I didn't get it set up right. Any
suggestions or pointers would be very helpful.


2. I am looking for recommendations on a multi network chat client.  I
have been using gaim for quite some time, however, there are some
problems in the latest version, and it does not seem that they will be
resolved for quite some time.  I have looked at kopete, but its irc
support is very lacking, especially compared to kvirc which I love.  I
am interested in hearing what other options might be out there.

I think that's all for now (im sure I'll think of more as time
progresses)

Have a great day

TIM

Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher / Science
Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...


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