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Ditto on what Glitz said. Degaussing is magnetic and only involves the monitor(shadow mask portion). When you start a monitor, it normally degausses before it starts. Sometimes you can unplug it and wait a bit and then reconnect it and get rid of minor problems. Those kind of symptoms are in the realm of what happens if you disturb the magnetic field around a monitor or tv by having powerful speakers beside it or some other strong magnetic field. If you don't have any magnetic fields disturbing things, then I'd suspect the monitor might have a problem. Can you switch monitors temporarily to check it?

If you run KDE you can also see it from K--Configuration--KDE---Information---Storage Devices and you get a nice little graphical display. I think Gnome has a similar program, but I don't use it so not real sure what it is called.

Nice to get that input. I didn't want to get deluged with ads! I get enough from a couple yahoo groups I joined. :)

Cooler yet! But looks like you have to subscribe to the ads to get POP3 free and it doesn't look like it includes SMTP either! Otherwise, the yahoo premium service allows pop and smtp usage without ads. http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/pop-02.html From reading some of the bug reports on YahooPops! site, looks interesting too! :roll: Guess I'll just set Kalarm to remind me to check in now and then.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/ If you are like me, you hate to check that webmail account and if you put it off too long it is cancelled for lack of use. Interesting piece of software.... anyone tried it yet?

Is anyone using internet phone with Mdk 9.1? (like Net2phone and dialpad) Any experience with: http://www.linuxjack.com/ Good? Bad? How's Gnomemeeting working for you Michel?

Another thing I learned from this site is to use checkinstall which makes a rpm file out of the source code so it is easier to uninstall if you want to do so later. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ht=checkinstall is a good link on this. To install the checkinstall program, you need two rpm's: checkinstall and libcheckinstall which are readily available online via urpmi. Here's another link with info on checkinstall: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ht=checkinstall

I am a heavy user of a program called Biblioscape www.biblioscape.com for online research. It does bibliographic formatting, surfs and saves websites and has its own word processor. I also have some theological libraries and software that won't run outside of windoze. I am working with OOo bibliographic dev team to help work out bibliographic interface for OOoWriter, but we are a long way off and stretched for resources. The day is coming though... and I find I often try to paste using my mouse wheel or type c:windows>ls when I am in Windoze! :wink:

Not at all an expert on ssh as I rarely use it, but Mandrakesecure has a nice piece that I think will help answer your question: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php

Hope one does pop up as I have similar need. I use Kryloff Subject Search Spider 3.0 in Windoze and have not found a good Linux replacement. It searches about 40 search engines and then gives me a rating of relativity to my query. It finds lots and lots of things that Good ole Google misses! 8) Bad thing about conflux is it was beta version in Sept 2000 and no updates since! Probably dependencies would be a nightmare, so I don't plan to even try it.

Chris z, I still think it relates to internet traffic problems. Techs were probably too busy putting out virus and trojan fires. Happened on a mac server too... no virus problems but one infected user dumped 40,000 emails on our server in two hours! So it took time to delete the junk. I got all the latest by ftp but had to look around a bit to do it as secsup.org was still not updated. The www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php site shows the status of the listed mirrors as to when they were last updated. The lastest updates were 21 Aug and at least 75% of the sites were not updated over the weekend. So they would not have all the files yet.

I run Firebird .6 (not .61) and the 1.4.1_02 j2re file works. I put symlink from /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my ~/Firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins directory. HTH in your case too!

Updating from a cd is fine. You could do the kernel separately following these instructions: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php Normally, rpmdrake/mandrake update won't install a kernel by itself, but will give you the option to install kernel source and kernel doc for a new kernel. It is fine to do that but just as easy to do the urpmi route per instructions on the above url. Note that you have to specifically enter the complete rpm name/number of the kernel and not just the name of the package. A good online tutorial for using a cd update source is found at: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jwrobinson/docs...owto/index.html Specifically check out part 3 on urpmi.addmedia and I think you'll see what your friend needs to do. edit: p.s. Make sure the newer kernel on the CD is NOT the kernel 2.4.21.0.24mdk-1-1.mdk.i586.rpm kernel as it had a security bug. If it is .18mdk or .25mdk you'll be fine.

I do run KDE, but it has been pretty stable for me and none of the symptoms you describe have happened. PTL! :) From a look at my logs, a check of harddrives took place and then it didn't sense the /dev/sda since the removable drive was not plugged in. Then msec or something took the liberty to change /etc/fstab since it determined it was a bad entry. At least that is the way the log and dmesg appear. Strange....

:roll: Is Mandrake setup to make auto changes of configuration files like /etc/fstab ? Yesterday, I rearranged desktop icons, including the clunky CD and HD(removable USB drive) icons. I only changed positions to organize the desktop a bit. I also plugged in and used my USB card reader but I never use the desktop icons to mount/umount as I prefer doing that from command line or Konqueror. Left my computer on last nite as I was downloading Texstar and PLF files to burn an update cd for Dragonmage. When I looked at the computer this am, the drive icons were all gone from the desktop, and the /etc/fstab file no longer had an entry for my USB removable drive! The file was changed at 0430 local time. No huge deal, and it is an easy fix, but how in the world did that happen:?: Kind of worries me that a file like this can be changed so easily without any human input. :?:

Chris z, I was able to ftp to a couple sites and download the files. I do that to share the updates with others that only have dialups. Periodically I make an update CD for them. 12 hrs ago the main security site (secsup.org) was still not updated to the latest files. It was only good thru 19 Aug so was missing two patches. Some of the sites were in process of being updated so they were not available. You can find some of the security patches via various mirrors on the list below. You can look at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php to see available mirrors and status. If you are a Mdk Clubber, they have a couple sites setup for users with password, etc. This link shows the status and latest updates. Some of them are still not updated and current. Pick one that has finished the updates if you can. HTH! :wink:

The whole internet is sluggish due to all the extra traffic created by the worms and trojans this week. That will make doing updates a lot more difficult. Try to avoid peak use hours and pick mirrors that are in time zones where they are not being heavily used. It might help a bit. Those are tricks you learn when you live in Asia and deal with slow connections 24x7. :roll: Nice places to check for internet traffic reports: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm http://www.internethealthreport.com/ http://isc.incidents.org/

I had a problem at first too... cannot remember all I did, but I copied the following files to my ~/MozillaFirebird/plugins directory: flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so libjavaplugin_oji.so libnullplugin.so Assume you read: http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html#2.1 You have to remember to close Firebird when you copy the files. This gives me good flash and java results. I can see the first page, but not getting both screens to work on the Macromedia test site. Only the flash works for me. It was MAJOR slow probably due to internet traffic so took a long time to load... 3 min or so! (edit) DUH: just remembered this... from http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/phoenixlin.html so that is why Shockwave won't work... but flash does work fine. Go to www.homestarrunner.com to test your flash too. Watch the intro and check out Strongbad emails for a good test run and a laugh.

I am interested in that too... I ran VPN under windows but didn't have time or energy to get it going on Linux and the sys admin didn't offer any help or support. It was very pushbutton with proprietary software. Recently quit using VPN and went with SSH / SSL approach rather than fighting the battle. I wanted to get as far away from the IIS server mode as I could. From what I have read, it is doable, but I couldn't find anyone more knowledgeable to help me get going either. I didn't have time to learn Linux let alone all the vpn protocols. :( Seems there are not too many on this list that are security-minded in that respect. (email/personal files/etc.) Too bad! I'll be watching with great interest as there are a couple Linux migration projects coming up that I'd love to get a VPN setup as a model of how to do it. A late thought: Do the MNF docs offer any help? Will you run MNF and contact it via your Windoze laptop? Is that the setup you want? :)

No. USB storage devices are formatted as VFAT and that is fine. Linux can read it. here's relevant part of my etc/fstab for USB storage device: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 All I did was plug my card reader in with a card installed, start the computer and it automagically detected it and put an icon on my desktop and edited the etc/fstab for me. But they don't all happen that way. Ixthusdan is right, you need to make a mount point for it. A quick GOOGLE and I found this: http://ldots.org/prodrive/ http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.filereade...logs/DTS0001472 second link is dse's driver files! Try the instructions on these sites and see if it works for you...

A common problem with RAM is different metals in the card and the socket connections. (i.e. one is gold plated, the other is steel only) Some problems of corrosion can be caused by dissimilar metals like this, and may require cleaning every 12 months or so depending on humidity and ambient temps. You may not see much sign of corrosion without a very close examination, but it is enough to disrupt the signal and cause problems. The pencil eraser cleaning idea is good, just don't leave the eraser dust on the connector when you plug it back in! :)

Ditto: I have an old Compaq Presario laptop with AMD K6-2 333 and 192MB RAM and it is slower than my newer Athlon XP desktop but still very useable even with default mdk KDE desktop under Mandrake 9.1. My second desktop is a PIII/266 w/ 192 MB RAM and it is fine for non-game things. It only has 4MB video RAM so it suffers from a bottleneck there, but for surfing the net, email and office things it is acceptable for normal use. I run an Asus 3800 video card on my main desktop (Athlon 1600XP) which is a Riva TNT2 32MB and it is very fine for my normal use too. I say go for it! :)

Google is my friend: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...G=Google+Search http://www.cexx.org/gator.htm If you search google.com with Trickler as keyword you'll find more. If I understand your post this is happening on your MS Windoze system and not under Mdk right?

Yes, I am a member! Not sure you get much for it, but I wanted to help back in Dec when they were really hurting. :)

Thanks aRTee! I was hoping to hear from you and aru on this! You gave me some good ideas that I can check out. I figured out klipper a bit, and actually from konsole xclipboard can save in multiple buffers but it still takes some time to do it. What is odd, is that sometimes I can copy more than others. I just experimented with various methods and sometimes it just worked perfectly and copied everything in one batch. Other times, it only copies part of what I have selected. That means I always have to check it and then locate the point where it stopped copying. (sometimes right in the middle of a word!) So I am thinking maybe the buffer is full and if I clear it before a major copy session, it might help. Still scratching my head a bit on this one.