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  1. for any1 that knows what windirstat is, i'm looking for a program that does something similar in linux. Basically its a program that makes it easier to visualize how much space everything on your hard drive takes up. I want to find out what is taking up so much space on one of my partitions, and i dont know of any easy way to do that other than with a program similar to windirstat. if any knows a program, or another method to solve my issue, let me know! TIA
  2. hi, i have a problem with my fans always running on my laptop computer. In mandriva, they run all the time, i can hear it, as soon as i switch to windows, they quiet down. i have installed cpufreqd for cpu throttling and thottle my cpu from 2400 to 1500 when not needed. it runs at about 140 F most the time, its a P4 2.4. Is there some setting i should look at for this problem? what controls the fans and what can i do with it? thanks!
  3. i was trying to edit the start menu (at least thats what its called in windows, lol), and i have a problem. I go to the menu, right click and go to edit, and then delete a folder. I then click save, it updated config file, and i exit the program. However, the folder is still on the menu! And when i go back into edit, it is still there? What am i doing wrong? TIA
  4. whats the difference in terms of installing them on a HD. I know that Mandriva One is a live CD, but u can install it as well. There must be a difference since One is only 1 CD, and Free is 3 CD's. Is it just the software thats included thats different? just curious, thanks!
  5. well, this is officially SOLVED. all i did was reinstall dnsmasq, kept all the defaults, set my DNS to 127.0.0.1 on top and then OPENDNS numbers under that, and it works! i always make things to complicated, i new this shouldn't have been this hard! does the cache reset with every computer restart? it seems to. how do i change that?
  6. hi, i have a compaq presario laptop. i heard something once about ndiwrapper messing with touchpad mice, is that true? i can't remember where i read this or if there is a fix. basically, the mouse goes crazy whenever i try to use my touchpad, it goes all over the place and is unusable. it was working fine when i first installed mandriva. does any1 know if ndiwrapper can do this and if there is a fix? or is it something else thats causing this problem?
  7. well, i don't want a dns server for other computers or anything like that. I'm looking to start a local DNS cache so that firefox doesn't have to lookup the DNS for every website i type in. I've heard that this could speed up browsing by 35-60 ms, which definitly adds up (especially since my DNS lookup is slow for some reason). Just a basic cache, maybe there is something other than dnsmasq to do this? i've read things about how to do this, but they are pretty complicated and i haven't got anything to work yet. this shouldn't be that hard to setup, should it? seems pretty basic to me. let me know, THANKS!
  8. I was wondering if any1 had a simple guide on how to do this? Everything I find online is really complicated and I can't seem to get it to work. I would really appreciate some help. Thanks!
  9. it seems like maybe the permissions are set wrong? its the same error message that i get when u try to run something without root permissions. let me know!
  10. thanks every1 for ur help, i think i got it working! it seems like it was working the whole time, i just had the config file wrong! once again, thank you every1 for ur help! SOLVED
  11. okay, so cpudyn is doing something. when charging it can scale from 2400 to 1800, when not charging, it runs at 1500 to 900. How do i change these values? Is this possibly a bios thing? TIA!
  12. i would love to find a "proper" solution for this problem, but at this point, i just want this to work. I will do more research. i appreciate all the help and if any1 has any tips (or solutions :) ), i would love it!
  13. great site! however, i have one problem. when i run this: $ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling, i get this: <not supported>. :( strange to me since Windows seems to throttle my CPU just fine. When I run in Linux, my fans are running constantly and it heats up very quickly. Then, when i boot into windows, after about 1 mins, it is cooler to the touch and blowing cooler air out of the computer. Obviously windows is doing something right and Linux is doing something wrong. I tried using cpudyn and have had moderate success. It seems to throttle down to 1800 from 2400, which is good, but my comp still seems to overheat. Windows seems to throttle to 1540. Is there a way to change the minmimum CPU speed in cpudyn? Also, when i let cpudyn run in auto mode, it jumps every second to 2400, then back to 1800, then back to 2400 again. So it doesn't seem to be throttling correctly. I can send it a signal (don't remember what, only that it ends in a 2), and it stays at 1800, but in auto mode, it jumps. am i doing something wrong? Thanks for all your help, learning a lot!
  14. i think i remember reading about a command to see what frequencies are available to the CPU, does any1 know it?
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