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I could send you one if that helps, you just got to tell me where to send it, and which one you want. It will take some time to get there I guess, never sent anything that far before. Sorry you are having trouble. Also ubuntu or kubuntu will ship you a cd free (not Mandriva of course) if you wanted to try that, it won't be the latest version, but the previous one. Just another option https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ https://shipit.kubuntu.org/

You could just burn your rpm's to your CD/DVD, and then you just add a custom (or whatever it's called) repository through the MCC/Software manager. Then you could just select it through MCC as one of/or the source/sources.

You will find the info you need in this thread, https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=32766&st=0 half way through page 3 will be what you need, as things seem to have changed a little from Man2006 to Man2007, so the earlier info will not permanently save the files under Man2007. When you make the changes, just do a couple of trial runs to be sure that it works for you, and you have correctly apply the changes. Wouldn't want to do all the updates etc, only to find that they have disappeared. :o

Now thats service ... :blink: Lets see Microsoft match that. :D

You could use 'Soundkonverter' to convert your .flac files to .wav and then burn them to CD. I have just started using it and like it very much, GUI, and works very well. You should be able to get it through MCC or urpmi which ever you prefer. or, http://kde-apps.org/usermanager/search.php...69c14f70f6e960b Best of luck

Well I'll be damned, I have been using krename for quite some time, and it is great for the purpose I have been using it for. I never thought it could do what I am after now, to be honest I never looked into it past what I was using it for, never really knew it's capabilities, but seeing as you mentioned it, I thought I would check it out, so I dug a little deeper, and what do you know, there it is right there, under my nose all this time. Even though it is not the program I read about the other day, and was looking for, it will do the job very nicely indeed, and I already have it installed. Thank you very much for getting me to open my eyes and look at what I already have.

I finally got around to trying out my new ipod, (it's been sitting around waiting for me to take it out of it's box for about a week) I am using Amarok with the 'ipodslave' plugin thing a ma bob, seems to work fine, I uploaded 5 cd's worth of mp3's to it without any problems, easy as really, just waiting for it to fully charge as per instructions. Should make my daily walks more enjoyable, that is when I restart after xmas/new year, going to have to walk a bit faster/longer though to work off the extra padding that seems to accumulate this time of year ;)

I think he would have already used the installer, you just download and install the patch/point release, there is no Linux installer on the disc as far as I know, you then have to copy over the required .pk4 files to your install directory. I think his is where he is having trouble, he can not access the files on the other discs, to copy them over. What if you try copying the files over as root, what I do when I need to be root to copy/edit etc anything is, I have a shortcut I call 'KingKonq', which basically opens up konqueror as root, I then do what I have to do, all in GUI.

Can anyone point me to a program which will take file names for example, and capitalize the first letter of each word in the file name, that type of stuff. I seen a tool the other day that did the above plus much more, but I didn't bother to take note of what it was or anything, now I can't remember where I saw it or anything , I think it was a CLI program, I would prefer a GUI one, but I will take what I can get, so long as it doesn't take a degree in physics to use it. One that can do directories/multiple files would also be welcomed. /me goes back to searching through the many packages in Synaptic, oh my eye's, my eye's

Thanks, I will try that next time I boot up Mandriva, I have been using Kubuntu for a while now, and haven't fired up Mandriva since :unsure: Just out of curiosity I tried the command in Kubuntu and it gave me the following bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied What ... you mean you don't have an airbag on your kitchen sink? :blink: Well, as above, if/when I boot up Mandriva I'll try it, however I get the same symptoms with Kubuntu, however without the performance hit that I get with Mandriva, and I don't believe Kubuntu has a virus scanner by default(could be wrong though), at least it doesn't have ClamAV by default, so I don't think that would be it, I will try it however, so thanks for the suggestion. It all may be a bit academic now, as it looks as if I may go the Kubuntu way, I am liking it quite a bit, and it doesn't have this problem, or another little problem I was having with Mandriva 2006/2007, https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=37376 Plus I'm very interested in Mubuntu/ubuntustudio, however time will tell...

ahh, but perhaps the users don't :D I know I would have looked at you like you had 2 heads if you gave me a tar.gz, and probably asked for a 'real' file instead ;) Most people I know wouldn't even know what a tar.gz was.

I believe you could just add your DVD (with your stored files/updates), or copy them to your hard drive and add them as a custom repository in MCC , and install/update by selecting that repository to get your packages from. Of course if there were any more recent updated packages released since you originally downloaded the ones on your DVD you'd have to get them again. Be prepared to be told that you don't need to reinstall Mandriva/Linux, it's not Windows, you can fix any/most of the problems you come across, which is most likely true, if you know how, however when you are just starting out, it is often quicker to reinstall than it is to gather the required info/skills to fix what is wrong. Having said that, learning to fix your problems would be the best way to go, and as you learn more you will find your self tending to lean that way instead of reinstalling when you run into trouble. But have fun breaking things, installing is quick and easy ;)

It may be this? http://www.mde.djura.org/kde_install_2007_32.html If not, someone will be along to point you in the right direction.

Cool, good to know, and thank you

That's a shame, maybe you would have better luck with the DVD ? I've never had any problems with any ISO's I have downloaded as yet (touch wood), as well as checking the md5sum, when burning the ISO to disk I also check the 'verify written data' (something like that) box in k3b to check what was written to disk is ok. IMO Mandriva2007 is very nice, I never had any of the problems I see a lot of people have, although I had a couple of small annoyances, but certainly no show stoppers. I have been messing around with Kubuntu for a week or so (funnily enough originally just to check if it displayed the same issues as Mandriva) and it is very nice also, I find it faster/more responsive than Man2007, plus it is free from the 'small annoyances' I had with Man2007, I'll keep messing with it a while longer, and if all continues to go well, I'll probably switch to Kubuntu. Best of Luck with it.

Well, I've been trying out Kubuntu for a little while, no problems there, everything works as it should, never got around to trying Gnome though :unsure:

I've just been trying out Kubuntu (about a week), and I have no problems with things crashing. Firefox is fine, I got mine from the Mozilla/Firefox site and installed it manually. I find Kubuntu to be generally faster/more responsive than Mandriva, and in my gaming benchmark tests it halves the gap that was between Mandriva and XP (albeit a relatively small gap, but still) Also 2 little problems I had been having with Mandriva , https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=37298 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=37376 are non existent with Kubuntu. I was going to try Ubuntu as well, but seeing how they are basically the same, except one being Gnome-centric and the other KDE-centric, and me prefering KDE, there's probably no point. Kubuntu was a very easy and straight forward install, everything worked out of the box, except for my [gasp] USB ADSL Modem [/gasp], but it didn't in Man2006 either, however as with Man2006, after finding the info it's a snap, a couple of minutes and your done. Would have been good if it set it up out of the box like Man2007 does though. All in all, I like what I have seen this time around with Kubuntu, relatively user friendly, as is Mandriva, and for an old brain dead Windows convert like myself, thats definitely a plus.

Well I got around to trying out the latest Kubuntu, and it does the same thing as in the RAM usage continually climbing, but as pointed out by Iphitus this is probably just caching/buffering, and a normal thing, however I do not get the noticeable performance hit that occurs with Mandriva, with Kubuntu it is business as usual. (With Kubuntu it would seemingly dig into the swap more than Mandriva did, although still very small amount, Kubuntu-8324KB as apposed to Mandriva-100 to 200KB after similar testings).

http://64studio.com/ I'm going to give this a whirl within the next couple of weeks, may have to wait untill xmas though when I'll have a bit more free time. I have been watching it for a while, and they have just had a new release, so I guess it's time to take a peek. Just really interested in the music creation/editing side of things, might be cool having one distro dedicated to it if it's any good. Others I am keeping an eye on, Protux - http://protux.sourceforge.net/Download.php Musix - http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html

shengchieh Thats quite a list of links you have there, will come in useful I'm sure.

It was the first Linux distro I tried, I have since tried others like a few of the 'buntu's, SUSE, Fedora, among others, but my preference was for Mandriva, the others were all nice and all, but I decided to stay with Mandriva, I at least new my way around it a little bit (emphasis on little), and will continue with it for the foreseeable future. Mandriva is very easy to install and relatively user friendly, which is important, if not essential for me, don't know if I would ever venture into the more 'technical' type distro's. The main thing would be the proprietary stuff, drivers, programs like Adobe acrobat reader, Flash, etc, being include on the installation DVD/CD (I can only speak for Powerpack), but you can get most/all that stuff anyway and install it if you want on the Free version. The main difference for me was that the Powerpack version gets my USB ASDL modem set up and working out of the box, where as with the Free version I have to do a little leg work, to get it up and running. I didn't install much of the other proprietary stuff, if any, like Adobe reader etc, I'm happy with the FOSS alternatives thus far. I joined the Mandriva Club not for the Proprietary stuff or to be able to get the Powerpack version, but just to give back a little, I was quite happy using the Free version, but now I have the Powerpack, I may as well use it.

Nice link jboy, interesting stuff, a little to technical for me :unsure: and cetrainly seems to be a little more complicated than simply overwritting, I guess it depends on how determined they are on getting your info.

I believe (and I maybe and probably are wrong) but if you overwrite the file with a blank file or a file filled with gibberish, that makes the original files contents unaccessible, or at least much harder to access. That seems to be what quite a few programs that claim to 'securely delete' files do anyway. I would imagine that deleted files under Mandriva would just as readable as under Windows, unless of course Mandriva/Linux does some little tricks, (which wouldn't surprise me, but I don't think it does)

Well, I'm going reinstall, not that I think it will have any effect on the situation, as I have a fresh install of 2007 on my other machine, and it does exactly the same thing, but I want to try the latest Kubuntu just out of curiosity to see if it happens with another distro. Then I will reinstall Mandriva and move on. I can live with it, I know what things will cause it, so I can manage it. I've got reinstalling Mandriva and getting back to where I am down to a fine art ;) so it's no real strain.

:D, well, I'm going to reinstall this weekend, but before that I will give gnome a whirl, although I have tried it in the past but didn't like it, well not as much as KDE, maybe feels to minimalistic or something, felt 'bare' or maybe KDE was just more like what I was used to, annyway I will give it another look even if just out of curiosity. Thanks. Thanks, I tried that, but no change.