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Whether you intended to or not, you've inadvertantly upgraded OpenSSL. Just downgrade to the last available OpenSSL RPM for 10.1 (not sure of the name, it'd either be libopenssl or just openssl) Whether or not you think you've changed an openssl package, the .so library from it has been changed and needs to be reverted. It's the only common denominator between the affected packages. mutt definitely doesnt even link to X, let alone one of freetype/gtk/pango.

Don't use a filter, they're generally simple to bypass, and don't block everything. Further, the filter should be redundant, if he's 2 years old he should be under CONSTANT supervision anyway -- no excuses. The computer is not a babysitter. (why on earth would you give a 2 year old his own computer anyway)

it doesnt include ipw3945d? what a joke. *shrug* I havnt used mandriva because well... I can't. They still havnt fixed my install bug, which is ridiculous seeing as not only is it a bad regression, but a simple fix.

Contrary to the US... HP has wonderful support here in Australia. Their inkjet cartridges are more expensive with reason. The print heads are located on the cartridge and not the printer. This means that unlike other printers, who become useless once the print heads wear out, the HP's keep going as you get a new one with each cartridge. We had a HP 660C that worked for a good 12 years, and many of our others are years old but still print like the day we bought them. They also tend to last a good while too. Anyway, I feel like a broken record.. I know i've repeated this many times here :)

If anyone wants a little fun.... ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/ binaries dating back to 3.04... and yes, there's linux binaries. and yes, it is possible to make them work (I got 3.04 working at some stage last year for the hell of it). Let's see who can get the first post here from 3.04

More like thumbs up HP, they've been making excellent drivers for their printers for years.

He at no stage whatsoever mentioned "graphical". This is utterly semantics but..... you _could_ say urpmi, apt-get, smart are frontends to a rpm based system. The line's totally blurred now, it lies in a different spot in each distro and often there's no separation, but once upon a time -- there was more of one. RPM itself presently stands for RPM Package Manager. The management of packages, tracking files, dependencies and installation is still done at that level. You could always grab packages by hand, and install them by hand with rpm -Uvh (iirc on the args) -- fancy downloading and resolution isnt neccesarily a part of a package manager. In Arch, pacman has been split to libalpm and pacman, so you could argue that pacman is now a frontend to our package system -- any 'frontend' can utilise libalpm and do it a bit different. In other distros, there's no split -- the package manager is the package manager and there's no lower level than that. Despite this, the semantics aren't important to understand the point of scarecrow's post, and given the above, you can see his use of 'frontend' is reasonable. Anyway... chillout :) James

OT: I've always found this funny... how people say "oh, it won't be bad, you'll just lose your home directory". On Linux, your home dir is the worst thing you can lose. That's where your irreplacable data is. You can tell people to backup, but even then its easy to lose a day or two of work even if you do backup. Personally, I'd rather keep my home dir and lose my system -- a linux install is cheap and quick. I can get Arch up and running nominal in less than an hour. A basic Mandriva install can be installed with internet, office, email and other basic capabilities running in less than half an hour -- if not out of the box. So... let's not get ahead of ourselves here -- Linux isnt invulnerable, it just isnt being targetted yet. Inevitably, if Linux does get a larger market share on the desktop it will become a greater target. And in that case, you can expect to see a lot of emails, from which people will _still_ stupidly click and run the attachment. Or dodgy websites. Or bad passwords. Humans are still the biggest security flaw.

But a mailserver admin would definitely consider buying it if the detection was better (iirc NOD32 had a good reputation back in the day..). Many of the "linux virus scanners" just scan for Windows viruses. Does your ISP offer spam/virus scanning? -- they could well be using one of these solutions. I wouldnt be surprised if many of the free ones were limited and had pay counterparts for use in such larger scale situations.

You can safely delete everything in /tmp -- though, depending on your distro, you may not have to. For example, Arch wipes /tmp at boot. James

On Arch, that same utility is in the poppler package.

Another vote for LaTeX. Bit taller learning curve, but the output is brilliant.

Not using Mandriva until they deal with my long standing installation regression that I filed on the bug tracker months ago. likewise. I've got gmrun on a shortcut key, and important apps on their own shortcuts, so most things are just a few keypresses away. Reiver_Fluffi, neddie: Just stating my observations, there's a lot of projects that abuse 'rc' and many that release blindly unstable things as rc's just to get extra testing. It's not as uncommon as you think, some projects treat rc as the "feature complete" stage, enact a feature freeze, then do the bug hunting through the rc series. kernel is one example which follows a similar pattern.

Open Source projects seem to have a disregard for the terms alpha/beta/RC. Rarely, if at all will you find a project that will release on it's first RC. Take as a prime example, the kernel. By the time you run 2.6.23, it's typically been through 6 or so rc's. rc1 never had a hope of being released, and would be more correctly labelled beta - but that's inconvenient. Look at KDE3... _that_ is years old and has been through many iterations. KDE4 has yet to have a stable release, so it has barely even entered it's release cycle. KDE4 has not had a stable release, so by definition, it's unstable and things will change. It's been delayed once too, so we might not see come Jan 11.

Don't approach anything new with a closed minded approach like that, particularly something as daring as KDE4. People love sensationalism and declaring that something sucks because one itty bitty feature changed or operates differently. The KDE developers should be rewarded for the optimistic act that KDE4 is. _nobody_ has the right to say "kde4 sucks" at this early stage and if they do... they better justify it well. Sure KDE4 have some teething problems like any project of it's size, but that's more reason to embrace it with an open mind. Particularly the release candidates and unstable versions. If you don't like something, file a bug or feature request -- don't whine. For a start, they probably won't entirely remove the old Kmenu, as it would have a large following. But why don't you try kickoff before you diss it? From what i've seen, its a different way of organising what's already there. A really old flash video here looks impressive: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html Also if you had read the thread above you'd note that the dolphin engine was remarked to be as capable as konqueror. James

Nigeria looks great on the top, sponsoring all those scammers :P

none? file a bug on the mandriva bug tracker.

Generally, it's a _bad thing_ to hibernate linux and boot windows/another os... and vice versa. Don't do it. If you have a partition that you mount in both, you are _extremely likely_ to experience data loss or corruption. James

and it's just my humble opinion too :) As for me calling saying it's a "common opinion" -- i meant that I have seen it expressed in many places by other people. Though I don't see how that theme is "innovative" James

Pretty common actually. I think the fedora modified tango icons are gorgeous, I nicked em from fedora 7 and have been using them under Arch for months now. The gtk is nice and tidy. But that window theme.... For a start, look at the corners, rounded corners in metacity are a big no no, they generally look terrible. Secondly, the close button is pushed a ridiculous amount to the left, however the menu on the opposite end isnt. This results in an inconsistent and unbalanced appearance. Also is annoying, for me habit is to go to the far top-right corner to close an application, where the close button typically is, however this one is just... pointlessly shifted. The colour, I think it's terrible, but that's more personal choice an anything. And finally, it simply doesnt look professional. James

Gorgeous artwork? That window decoration is fugly!

The latest gtkpod/libgpod svn appears to have some support. As the size went up, needing some sort of software was inevitable. Either you get a nice interface with albums/artists etc, or you get raw filesystem access. For the first, there needs to be a database of some sort. Some smaller devices are able to do this on the fly with MTP, but I'm not sure if MTP is feasible for larger devices. The good old days are still here, but are simply not practical for large devices, look for something small if you want drag/drop (afaik, the Sandisk Sansas are). People want a nice interface, not filesystem access. James

What filesystem? FAT32 cannot take files larger than 2GB IIRC. edit: And also, for security reasons, some distros have a limit on file sizes by the user. (ie, so unprivelidged users cannot fill drive and cripple system). Not sure on the details on this one, i just downloaded my ISO as root last time. Lazy I know. Check out ulimit (man ulimit). (Moved to software cause it seems a software issue)

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Yeah... the article is pretty bad and contradicts itself. It has nothing to do with ubuntu, it just so happens that his 'issue' was discovered there first. AdamW's comment gives a better idea of whats up. I might add that it's fine to continue using laptop-mode, just adjust the setting for hdd power management, either turning it off altogether or setting it to 254/255 depending on your hdd. Might be a good idea to edit the topic... it's not ubuntu specific and it's not fair to give them bad press because of others' poor reporting. James