Tips and Tricks

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1. I can't find xyz.so or what package is abc.so in?

   By iphitus, July 21, 2003
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   • bvc
   • July 21, 2003

2. Connecting a Firewire Digital Camcorder

   By davecs, July 27, 2003
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   • DaveQB
   • January 12, 2005

3. Living on the bleeding edge (Live-Howto)

   By aru, August 18, 2003
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   • Guest
   • February 27, 2005

4. Tip for kernel compiling (performance results)

   By DOlson, August 22, 2003
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   • DOlson
   • August 22, 2003

5. Starting, restarting, stopping service

   By Guest BooYah, August 26, 2003
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   • Gowator
   • August 26, 2003

6. Add colors to directories, files, etc in the bash console.

   By mandrakewilson, September 15, 2003
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   • mandrakewilson
   • September 15, 2003

7. Setting time from the command line

   By liquidzoo, November 17, 2003
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   • Qchem
   • November 18, 2003

8. How do I run 2 KDEs?

   By kde-head, February 3, 2004
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   • cardassianscot
   • February 4, 2004

9. Intel HAM modem and Mandrake 9.2

   By Salamandra, March 4, 2004
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   • Salamandra
   • March 4, 2004

10. Usefull hints for X, linux, filesystems, etc..

    By qeldroma, March 16, 2004
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    • qeldroma
    • March 24, 2004

11. Using USB keys/thumbdrives/pen drives

    By arthur, March 22, 2004
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    • Guest
    • January 3, 2005

12. Nvidia-Iron-Fist Gong Fu Class 1 (v.0.9)

    By SoulSe, April 7, 2004
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    • SoulSe
    • April 8, 2004

13. What 's eating my disk space?

    By Guest anon, March 30, 2004
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    • Glitz
    • March 31, 2004

14. KDE servicemenus - Run as root/Mount iso image

    By chris:b, May 24, 2004
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    • liquidzoo
    • May 25, 2004

15. How-To: Modifying UI font of gtk1 and gtk2 apps

    By zero0w, June 8, 2004
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    • zero0w
    • June 8, 2004

16. splitting up files

    By illogic-al, June 10, 2004
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    • illogic-al
    • June 11, 2004

17. Bash Commands

    By liquidzoo, July 28, 2004
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    • aru
    • October 26, 2004

18. Apache Virtual Hosts

    By fissy, August 1, 2004
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    • SwiftDeath
    • August 2, 2004

19. Printing with Canon BJC-4310SP

    By Guest Dirge, August 4, 2004
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    • spinynorman
    • August 5, 2004

20. bootsplash kernel patch

    By Leo, September 21, 2004
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    • iphitus
    • September 21, 2004

21. Pinned Topics

    By Gowator, October 6, 2004
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    • fissy
    • December 21, 2004

22. Trouble opening Firefox from links in Thunderbird?

    By cage47, November 4, 2004
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    • cage47
    • December 9, 2004

23. If Mandriva detects your hardware but doesn't work

    By Guest peristalsis, May 9, 2005
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    • tyme
    • May 11, 2005

24. My seti signature

    By Steve Scrimpshire, February 11, 2005
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    • Steve Scrimpshire
    • March 18, 2005

25. Printing to an Epson CX4600 with Samba

    By nchancock, February 12, 2005
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    • nchancock
    • February 12, 2005

26. Wireless from a noob

    By Guest Mugendai, April 22, 2005
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    • Qchem
    • April 22, 2005

27. Auto update

    By devries, July 26, 2005
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    • ianw1974
    • October 6, 2006

28. MySQL + OpenOffice.org 2 beta on Mandriva le2005

    By devries, August 13, 2005
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    • devries
    • August 19, 2005

29. Loading SoundFont at boot

    By tubasoldier, November 17, 2005
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    • Lexicon
    • July 2, 2006

30. Lotus Notes 6.5.3 on Mandrake/Mandriva

    By ianw1974, December 1, 2005
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    • ianw1974
    • August 18, 2006

31. software:

    By reconfigured, July 11, 2006
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    • aioshin
    • July 12, 2006

32. ALSA

    By Lexicon, August 8, 2006
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    • Lexicon
    • November 8, 2008

33. Using linux for ntfs data recovery

    By Ixthusdan, August 23, 2006
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    • scoonma
    • August 24, 2006

34. Changing Default Sound Card

    By Guest 8086, September 10, 2006
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    • kurt_ram
    • October 15, 2007

35. Changing a Hard Drive

    By Ixthusdan, November 23, 2007
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    • Ixthusdan
    • November 23, 2007

36. Cedega Full screen with Beryl

    By aerogate, June 22, 2007
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    • aerogate
    • June 22, 2007

37. Make the Mandriva update app start updating later

    By dexter11, February 3, 2008
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    • ianw1974
    • February 13, 2008

38. Using external USB disks and Linux partitions

    By ianw1974, August 25, 2008
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    • ianw1974
    • August 25, 2008

39. conky on Eeepc / Mandriva 2009

    By sjaglin, November 11, 2008
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    • mindwave
    • February 19, 2009

40. ITV Player (UK only)

    By mittfh, April 2, 2009
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    • tux99
    • April 2, 2009

41. Hugin won't call enblend

    By neddie, June 5, 2009
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    • neddie
    • June 5, 2009

42. Dynamic Desktop Entries

    By DOlson, October 6, 2002
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    • Guest
    • October 9, 2002

43. Konqueror+Flash trouble in 9.0?

    By Guest bradenm, October 9, 2002
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    • qeldroma
    • October 11, 2002

44. Zooming in the screen (the X way)

    By MoonChild, October 15, 2002
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    • qeldroma
    • October 23, 2002

45. Nautilus & GNOME 2.0: How to change wallpaper on the fly

    By Guest lcj, October 23, 2002
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    • Falcdragon
    • October 24, 2002

46. HowTo get dynamic IP from an remote administrated machine

    By qeldroma, October 23, 2002
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    • qeldroma
    • October 28, 2002

47. Removing the top bar in Gnome 2.0

    By pmpatrick, December 23, 2002
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    • Guest
    • January 3, 2003

48. Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL setup

    By Steve Scrimpshire, January 3, 2003
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    • onurb
    • January 3, 2003

49. Strange Gimp 1.2 problem and my even stranger solution...

    By Steve Scrimpshire, January 11, 2003
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    • Steve Scrimpshire
    • January 12, 2003

50. Promote Linux in Windoze

    By Guest anon, January 12, 2003
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    • ramfree17
    • January 13, 2003