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Ian 9+ (great wallpaper image), tyme 9+ (nice touch with the cheat sheets), michaelc 5 (I didn't care for the green theme).

Another difference is that updates is now under main - media/main/updates Contrib doesn't have a corresponding media/contrib/updates so I don't know if that means that all updates will be in media/main/updates from now on or whether contrib will have a separate updates directory in the future. I haven't had any problems with urpmi, as long as I used the release subdirectory as Ian described above (i.e., media/main/release, media/contrib/release). I've used urpmi for several in-place upgrades from 2006 to 2007 official as well as updates once 2007 official was installed.

Here's a new rather nice review of Mandriva One 2007, including screenshots of the install and configure process. http://lunapark6.com/?p=2264

Yes. See this for some info on the Mandriva diskdrake tool that can resize existing partitions: http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux.../diskdrake.html You can actually do this during installation. Choose the Custom Partitioning option when you get to the hard disk partitioning part of the install. As willie advised, be sure to defrag your ntfs partition first, and back it up. I've actually resized an ntfs partition using diskdrake. Just shrink it and use that new unpartitioned space for your the new partitions you'll need for your linux file systems. The fact that you would be doing this on your extra drive, not the Windows system drive, would make it a little safer for you. Would eliminate most of the risk of screwing up your existing Windows system partition. Yes and Yes. Just select both during the software selection part of the install. See this: http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux...sePackages.html At the login prompt, there will be a window manager selection menu in the lower left corner of the screen where you can switch between KDE and GNOME (or other window managers you may install such as IceWM, XFCE, etc).

Yes. That's what I used. After I installed the 2007 RC2 sunna version from CD, I updated it with the official repository that I got from easy-urpmi.

Krusader is in the official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/release/ directory Bluefish is in official/2007.0/i586/media/main/release Don't know about quanta.

Do you have unpartitioned space available on your hard drive? If not, there are two easy ways to get yourself familiar with Mandriva without having to install a new hard drive or re-size or delete a partition. You said you were new to Linux, so you might want to try this first to get a feel for Linux first. 1. Download the LiveCD, which you can run by booting from the CD without having to install to your hard drive. If you decide to install to hard disk later, you can do so from the Live CD. 2. Are you familiar with virtual machine technology? If so, you may want to download the freely available VMware Player for Windows from http://www.wmware.com, install, and then download the freely available Mandriva 2006 Virtual Machine from http://www.mandriva.com/en/isv/vmware/ You can run the Mandriva Linux Virtual Machine from within Windows this way. If you want to go ahead and install to hard disk, you'll probably need at least 10 gb of unpartitioned space on the hard drive that you will partition and format during the install process. About 6 gb for the root partition, 1 gb for the swap partition, and if you want a separate /home partition, then the rest for that (otherwise increase the root partition size). I recommend KDE to start. If you want Gnome too, you can install that later if you want. Here's some installation references (they're for older versions, but the process is bascially the same): http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux...n/Starter.html/ http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_mandriva_2006 http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/installmdv2006.html

She's probably ok, but a good way to check is to use one of the stealth check sites that check if the machine is invisible to scans from the internet. http://www.grc.com/intro.htm (go to the ShieldsUp link for the stealth test) http://www.pcflank.com I always run a firewall on my machines in additional to having them behind a router. Routers supposedly can leak, and the firewall is probably not that much of a performance hit. You can do some tests with and without the software firewall by going to a broadband speed site and checking throughput. For example: http://www.broadbandreports.com/ http://www.speedguide.net/ Of course, you'll need to run a statistically significant number of tests for it to be meaningful.

Have any of you noticed the transformation (or maybe it's a metamorphosis)? Anyway, tyme not only looks like his brother, he is beginning to look and act administratively very much like spinynorman! :P Do we have a mind-meld situation here? :unsure: ----- BTW, we haven't seen a new photo of tyme in his cool shades B) for quite a while. Seems overdue!

Hi John. I like your new avatar! I would send the folder and files as a zip file or a .tar.gz attachment to the email message.

Glad to hear that it worked, anaconda! I bet you're gonna like 2007 (2006, too). Let us know what you think after you've had a chance to work with it some.

One of the tips on the mandriva cooker site is that if XFdrake does not work, delete the existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, then retry XFdrake. If you get a successful test pattern, then you can run mousedrake and keyboarddrake to finish the config job.

No, I doubt that you are out of luck. From the command line you can run XFdrake as root to re-configure your video as described in the link below. As a test start, you could try the generic VESA driver so that you get familiar with using the tool. But you should be able to select the ATI fglrx driver, along with selecting resolution, color depth, and monitor. Be sure to run the Test option before you Quit the tool. This tool will write a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that should work if you get a successful test pattern when using the tool. Use XFdrake from command line to configure video

I'm wondering if the problem is specific to SATA2? I have a motherboard with the VIA KT600 chipset and it has two internal SATA drives and an external eSATA drive connected to an add-on eSATA PCI card. I've been able to run everything with no problems from LE2005 to 2007 RC2 (as well as other linux distros) on the internal drives and 2007 RC2 (with cooker updates) on the external drive (Mandriva 2006 did not recognize the external drive). However, all three drives are SATA/150, not SATA2 or SATA/300. (the external drive is actually SATA/300 but the controller is only SATA/150 so I jumpered the drive for SATA/150 compatibility).

Damn, spinynorman. Your mega-wit has a lot of mega-wattage! I sure wish you would post more. You've got too devastating a wit to stay in the shadows. ------------ spinynorman - the wicked wit-meister of MUB

Using the instructions provided by vmware at their site should work just fine. For vmware workstation, here is their install instructions page: vmware workstation install instructions

I just did a fresh install of 2007 RC2 from the 3 CDs and I'm very happy about several things: 1. I was hoping to be able to install it on an external SATA drive. The installer recognized it and the install went smoothly with no problems. Mandriva 2006 did not recognize the eSATA drive, so I'm very pleased about this. The drive is connected to a new SATA PCI adapter that I recently installed as my two motherboard SATA slots were already filled. 2. Bootup is very fast. That's a major plus. 3. The 3D AIGLX works with no problems (ATI 9200SE video card). Not sure I'm gonna keep it using it, since it's seems like it's mostly flash with not that much important new functionality that I've found so far. I'll have to check into what it can really do for me once I get more time. 4. My Samsung laser printer works fine with drivers that were available on the CD. So I'm quite pleased so far. EDIT: Oh I almost forgot: arrgh to all you pirates celebrating Pirates Day out there.

The Cooker HowTo page has a section on how to install from iso files on a local hard drive: Install from iso on local hard disk But the problem is that the iso files are on a windows share and not the local hard drive. You can mount the windows share on Linux as described here: Mount network folders manually You could mount the windows share and copy the iso files over the network to your existing Linux install, and use the first link above to install from them. But I'm not aware of a way to mount the individual .iso files on a Windows share on a different machine as a loopback device, which is what you would need to do. So unless somebody has a better idea, the options I know of are to either (1) copy the files over the network and mount them as described or (2) burn them to CD.

After you've select Detailed List View (View -> View Mode -> Detailed List View), then select the Settings -> Save View Profile "File Management" menu selection.

Thanks. I am very impressed with VMware. I had also tried MS Virtual PC 2004 but its performance was a dog in comparison. Add virtualization to the many, many things I learned about first through MUB. I remember you've talked about VMware here in the past, so thank you for that great tip. Currently on each of my machines, I have at least 2 separate partitions dedicated to a different OS. Now I'm thinking I can eliminate some of those extra partitions and just go virtual. ------ Ian is a Virtual Geek Guru

Ian, were you able to configure a native driver for your video card or did you have to use this "VMware Virtual Video" driver on VM Server? I may try VM Server later on. I'm fairly new to using virtualization.

I thought I'd try installing 2007 Beta 3 in VMplayer. It went ok. I had the 2007 One KDE .iso so I booted the VM with that and then installed to the virtual HD from the LiveCD image. I also applied cooker updates. Everything seems to be working except sound (and 3D video), but I don't have the time to fool with that right now. I'm very impressed with the performance. It seems almost as quick as a native install. I read somewhere that you may not be able to boot directly into X with Mandriva in VMware and that was what I found. So I booted to the 'linux 3' command line and then executed startx from there. If I tried to boot directly into X it kept re-prompting me for network and user setups and would not take the settings or allow me to break out of an endless loop of prompts. Of course, the network and user configurations had already set up, so I'm not sure what's going on there, but booting to runlevel 3 and starting X from there is a workaround. The video driver was automatically set up during the install using the "VMware Virtual Video" driver. I wasn't able to change that to use the ATI fglrx driver for the ATI 9200SE card on the physical machine. But this VMware driver works fine. Translucency worked ok, but I turned it off cause it responded too slowly. I'm not sure if this VMware Virtual Video driver can be configured for 3D, I haven't tried yet. CD/DVD and USB functionality all worked fine. Haven't tried setting up a printer yet. No problems with networking, and I was able to ssh into other machines on the local network. This was the first time I tried setting up any Mandriva version in VMware. If anyone has experiences with Mandriva (any version) on VMware, please comment on your experience.

The code needs to distinguish between when the form is initially loaded versus the when the form has been submitted. Also, blank search criteria needs to be detected and communicated back to the user rather than processed (since LIKE "%" matches everything, you get all rows returned). You could do something like the following. This uses POST rather than GET but the idea is the same. //if the "submit" variable does not exist, the form has not been submitted - display initial page if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) { print '<h3>Search Criteria:</h3><br /> <form action="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '" method="post"> Keyword1: <input name="searchkey1" size="25"> <select name="bOption"><option>AND<option>OR</select> Keyword2: <input name="searchkey2" size="25"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go"> </form>'; } else { // if the "submit" variable exists, the form has been submitted - look for and process // form data and display result $searchfor1 = $_POST['searchkey1']; $searchfor2 = $_POST['searchkey2']; $bOption = $_POST['bOption']; if ($searchfor1 == "" && $searchfor2 != "") { $searchfor1 = $searchfor2; $searchfor2 = ""; } $s = $searchfor1 . (($searchfor2 != "") ? " $bOption $searchfor2" : ""); print "<h3>Search Results</h3>\n"; if ( $s != "" ) { print "<p>Search Criteria: $s </p>\n"; //call a function to process the search criteria my_search_function($s); } else { print "<p>Cannot Proceed - Missing Search Criteria.</p>\n"; } }

Try this: select countryName, count(*) as numberOfWins from winners group by countryName having count(*)>2 order by numberOfWins asc;

sed writes to standard output and leaves your original file intact. So you have to redirect output to a new file. To create a new file with the changes, using your example: sed 's/script/test/g' index.html > index_new.html The /g is a global option to make changes to every occurrence on a line, not just the first. Another handy command is 'tr' to translate certain non-printable ascii characters into other characters. Say you wanted to convert all tabs to spaces with the above conversion. Then you would pipe the output of the sed command through tr before redirecting output to the new file. You would use the octal value of the ascii character (see http://www.lookuptables.com/ for what the octal values are for ascii characters). sed 's/script/test/g' index.html | tr '\011' ' ' > index_new.html or alternately sed 's/script/test/g' index.html | tr '\011' '\040' > index_new.html