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Ian, it might be worth trying one of the Live CD's, I know that it's a pain in the backside, but worth a try.

I disagree with you there Dyslexic, Marketing is about knowing what the market wants (strategic marketing) and then delivering the product to the market (operational marketing), the latter involves selling, distribution, and advertising.

Given all this it's not surprising that their share price has fallen by ~90% in one year (no stock splits to consider here), and are seeking finance from VCF's at the same time as reporting yet another operating loss. The latter brings a whole new level of scepticism when you look at the idea that the venture capital money was to invest in new strategies, more likely it was to alleviate the pressure on what I imagine was a worsening liquidity problem. It gives me no surprise that the financial information on Mandriva's "investor" area is so limited, it is more than likely hiding issues with working capital management that would put off potential investors. The Mandriva management seriously need to remove their heads from their backsides and learn to do business rather than play shop like a bunch of four year-old's, there's only so much debt you can manage before the bubble bursts!

I would air on the side of caution and stick to the DDR2 - 533.

Sweet, will check that one out later ;)

I don't believe that the desklets are part of AVN, AVN is just the bar, or at least it was when I last used it. An alternative to AVN is Kiba-dock which is worth a look ;)

It's kinda embarasing when you are shaming the wrong person/organisation though :unsure:

note: In the context of originality and innovation.

The original article never indicated the involvement of an agent, it indicated that it was the Nigerian government that made the decision, Sorry, but if you are going to criticise, do it properly, yet again FB has demonstrated poor business skills!

Every criticism you made is either a matter of your personal choice or unjustified, I do not see how that translates to common opinion. If it were common opinion were that round edges were "generally terrible" then why are there so many, and that some are popular? You criticise the button placement, saying that it is inconsistent, inconsistent with what? Other themes? What was wrong with innovation and orgininality (although not necessarily pure in this case)? You remark that the appearance was unbalanced, sorry but by virtue of the fact that there is one button on one side, and three on the other, it is natural for metacity themes to be unbalanced! It might not be the best theme in the world, but it doesn't merit it being described with one derogatory word. JMHO

iphitus, I am sorry that the general concensus does not meet your approval :P

Yeah, my bad I copied it straight from my webmail.

There's been no announcement on the mailing list yet, but the homepage for Fedora states in so much that Fedora 8 is now available, and provides links to torrents & mirrors Edit, it's official now, I just received the announcement: EDIT fixed broken links, my bad

You oughta remove the part of that script "Security features" as it refers to SELinux (this part doesn't actually pick a variable up, it just echo's some text.) P.s. Fedora 8 is out today, might be worth a try ;)

Source distro's are soooooo overated :P BTW are you running hardened-gentoo?

And IIRC the desklet is called FTB, you can get it here if your distro doesn't package it (this is the only place I could find the source for this desklet).

You don't need reload to grub like you do with lilo, your grub entries should mirror that in the menu.lst file without doing anything else.

Have a look here mate

My shiny new Fedora 8 install (well almost, technically it's "still rawhide") Love the new slideshow background, sadly you can't appreciate that from one screenshot :P Oh and yes, I have changed the habit of a lifetime and finally installed the 64-bit version,

Ian, it looks to me that the O/P seen the page you link and that was what he was rantng about (well at least they both bear the nvidia quadro logo). I think the point is that the corporate server is poorly marketed on Mandriva's site, that page is very basic and in no way inticing, a total contrast to say the product page for the powerpack. I don't see one selling point on that page, just a list of specs, which are meaningless on their own. The O/P is right, there is no way that any potential customer would be interested in the product after looking at that lack-lustre attempt to sell it to them, there's nothing there to compell anyone to be interested.

I agree 100% with what SoulSe said above.

There doesn't need to be bribery involved here. There is a strong argument (as much as I hate to say it) for the Nigerians to adopt Windows, is the fact that the majority of the westernised world "depends" on Windows and compatible software, Microsoft will have driven that message to the Nigerians, that will have some part to play in the U-turn. It's a dire situation to which progress is being made, but not of benefit to Mandriva in this situation.

I agree with you, Adam has made a difference, but it's nothing compared to, say for example, the Ubuntu marketing machine, far from it.

I was thinking the same, but couldn't think of a constructive way to say it (work tired me out ;))

I have managed to vote twice on that poll from the same IP, says a lot about the credibility of that poll, and a fact that Lenovo will be well aware of. In all honesty I believe that the end result will come down to "which community/organisation" will work best with Lenovo. I can not see this being Mandriva given the ineptitude of their management with regard to communication and financial management. (who moved this before I managed to finish my reply, grrrr).