Reiver_Fluffi

I have the same scanner, I have never got it working with any flavour of Linux.

I believe mapi is the OP's nick, do you understand now? :D

I think you are right there, I thought that mapi was meant to be an adjective of some sort.

Talking about his motivations with you is pointless

Am I to assume that by dismissing the discussion as "pointless" now, you have nothing to counter that arguement? :huh:

Or are you mapi Reiver?

Please translate the above word into English please. :unsure:

Common sense could be a reason for the opposite (not making your own repo).

What is the underlying rationale of this common sense?

Common sense could work in both ways, common sense could tell you that by joining an existing repo you could reach a larger audience quicker and easier but at a cost to individual reputation. Whereas on the flipside, common sense could also tell you that you could maintain independence, work harder and longer to obtain individual reputation and prestige.

But I was asking about his motivation.

Autonomy and Pride can be motivators. By maintaining his independence he has full control to do what he wants, when he wants. He doesn't need to adhere to anyone elses agenda but his own. These values are known to motivate individuals, in fact they fit in with Maslow's "Self Esteem" need on his hierarchy of needs.

Why don't you team up with one of the existing sites or directly Mandriva? What made you make your own repo?

Autonomy and pride could be two reasons.

Since when has been "having the Latest and Greatest" been my concern ???.

Okay, maybe concern was the wrong choice of word. However you did cite the eventual arrival of 2008.1 as a reason not to use the 2008 powerpack DVD.

Quite frankly, if you have a fully working Mandriva Free then installing the PowerPack is a sheer waste of time. All the more so since 2008.1 is due out in a month or so.

The PowerPack is simply 2008 Free with non-free extras that can be obtained from Mandriva mirrors anyway.

John, while having the latest and greatest may be a concern for you, it is not necessarily a concern for others. I believe that for the O/P the desire to get the Lin DVD and Cedega packages is their priority, not (generally speaking) feature updates for core packages. IIRC you shouldn't be able to obtain LinDVD and Cedega through non-free.

if you don't mind browsing MUCH slower and using double the RAM you normally do using Opera... :P

I'm pretty sure this is a non-issue to most, unlike compatibilty with Flash and Java :P

Yup, it will be the right thing, which will probably annoy those that paid full price ;)

Yes John, there is a linux client, but what concerns me is that the O/P mentions a crack.

Nothing exciting here, sorry.

i think the only difference is one includes a discription and the the other doesn't.

AFAIK this is correct.

Similarly if you are setting up repo's using the wizard in MCC it should ask you which version of hdlist you want to use for the repo's, re-iterating the same arguement as above.

alright i downloaded postal 2 off minonova. and now i have put the new crack in the system folder,

I smell pirated software, feel free to correct me if I am wrong! :unsure:

isn't ubuntu supposed to have a bootloader and bootscreen while it loads?

Normally Ubuntu uses Grub with a bootscreen, what are the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf?

Sorry, I have no clue about keyloggers and have never even heard of PHALF (or even PHLAK). Arctic's advice to try a more beginner-friendly live CD first is good though.

I received the exactly the same message.

Why bother download the ISO, you already have mini installed, just install the packages you need, IIRC they are gnome-desktop and kde-desktop (or something similar).

Is it February already, what happened to January? :unsure:

IIRC the profile picture that GDM uses is a hidden file called .face in your home directory, just find a picture, try copying it to the top level of the users home directory and renaming it .face

I'd imagine that any headphones using a standard jack should work with any linux distro, the bottleneck will be the sound card, not the headphones. Expect answers based on individual taste and opinion, not compatibility as it is a non-issue.

Ian, shouldn't HAL be picking up the drive. Similarly isn't Mandriva using the new libata, which means that all drives use the naming convention /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc irrespective of whether they are SATA/SCSI/ATAPI.

For example, this is how my drives appear on my Fedora install:

IDE 0-M 80G Maxtor HDD: /dev/sda

IDE 0-S 80G Maxtor HDD: /dev/sdb

S-ATA0 120G Maxtor HDD: /dev/sdc

IDE 1-M Sony NEC CD Writer: /dev/sr0

IDE 1-S Asus DVD Writer: /dev/sr1

Since SuSE GMBH was acquired by Novell.

So it was by default than, suppose that answers my question.

Mandriva, the leading European editor of Linux distributions

Since when? :unsure:

According to this guy the BBC are effectively offering Microsoft illegal state aid: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/th...bc_iplayer_pac/

This FAQ is for ubuntu, does that matter?

No, only the first part is for ubuntu under the heading "Installation instructions for Ubuntu users (Edgy Eft/Feisty Fawn/Gutsy Gibbon)", the rest of it is generic.

Nope, it doesnt seem to be there.

Ix is correct, somebody in their infinite wisdom at Mandriva changed the directory from /usr/local/share/screenlets (that's what is in the upstream makefile) to /usr/share/screenlets. Not very smart IMHO as anyone looking at the authors documentation will be looking at the wrong place, and it's not as if it desperately needed to be moved.

Anyway, if you don't see /usr/share/screenlets then you will need to install screenlets-0.0.10-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm (if you are using i586, screenlets-0.0.10-1mdv2008.0.x86_6.rpm4 for 64-bit) via urpmi. As for the screenlets directory in /home, you will need to create that yourself, should you require it.

I thought so... Bye bye Linux for OLPC.

Microsoft: first the OS, then offerings for education (how kind of them) centered on MS applications, then kids used to MS environment, then future adult MS users...

 

Yves.

Yup, educate them to use Microsoft software and the ignorance that dominates the western world hits the developing nations.