spinynorman

There's a comprehensive list of Live CDs here.  :)

it still leaves the question of how do you make it bootable!

 

you can copy the files to the USB device but that doesnt mean you can boot from it!

True, but I was leaving that bit to the experts... :D

There's a comprehensive list of Live CDs here. :)

... the socialist party is significant in Belgium, although I don't know what that translates to on the European level.

This page of the EU Parliament site shows which groups national parties belong to and the numbers involved.

• Political groups:
  PPE-DE - Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats
  PSE - Group of the Party of European Socialists
  ELDR - Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party
  Verts/ALE - Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
  GUE/NGL - Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left
  UEN - Union for Europe of the Nations Group
  EDD - Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities
  NI - Non-attached
  

I've rediscovered this post of mine...

... support for the modem in 10 is now provided in the kernel, but there are references to 'speedtch' in /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf which prevent it working. There are updates to rectify this, so the future looks brighter!

I presume that you've downloaded 10 Community Edition (unless you're a Mandrake Club member), so you probably need this update, or you could just remove references to 'speedtch' from the above files yourself... :unsure:

If that doesn't work, try this search of our site for more ideas.

I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but have you set the security level very high? This might prevent you connecting. :unsure:

While I'm grasping at straws, are you using a boxed set or download; 10 CE or OE? Have you got all the updates? The information may help someone who's using 10.0 to help you.

Have you used the search facility? There are a number of threads about speedtouch.

Gowator - I don't make a habit of lobbying anyone, but you have shamed me into writing to my MEP via his website.

Good news! Thanks for reporting back and welcome to the board. :)

However ALL lets TRY and keep this on patents since anon very generously decided this is outside of the current political ban.

It's safe to assume that anything that belongs in Everything Linux will fall outside the scope of a political ban. :)

Welcome to the board. :)

As the modem seems to be working fine, you could try turning off your firewall temporarily to check if shorewall is the problem.

As you can see below, I have a speedtouch and 9.1, and my only problem was the firewall - users have had different issues with 9.2 and again with 10.

I changed to iptables instead of fixing shorewall, but I think this is the way to do it: edit /etc/shorewall/interfaces, replacing

net     eth0     detect

with

net     ppp0     -

and put this line in /etc/shorewall/routestopped:

ppp0

Good luck!

The Register has an article explaining how the vote was lost.

One way might be to bring this up at a local level. If a free paper or something could do a small article most people could understand then people might be aware.

I think this is over-optimistic - national newspapers, perhaps - but I can't even find anything on the BBC news website. :(

This is the latest statement from Mandrakesoft:

Some of our customers who paid by credit card during the month of May have recently encountered problems. We realized the problem before the week end and have done our best to fix it. We identified that the problem was not with our system but with our payment platform provider, Natexis.

 

This morning, Monday May 17, Natexis informed us that they had identified the problem. A software bug on their side caused the amount to be debited to be multiplied by 100 (by interpreting cents as dollars). Over the month of May, 261 Mandrakesoft customers were affected. Natexis confirms that the problem has been fixed and that the platform is now functioning correctly, so we have reopened our standard payment platform.

 

Natexis is notifying the banks today. So, if you were affected by this problem, your bank will be informed today of the problem and it will be fixed.

 

Mandrakesoft deeply apologizes to its customers for this problem.

 

We will contact all the affected customers individually.

 

François Bancilhon

 

CEO, Mandrakesoft

This is the full text of a story at The Register (my highlights):

The European Council of Ministers will meet tomorrow afternoon to decide the fate of the EU Directive on software patentability, but instead of merely waving the directive through, there is to be a more thorough discussion of the issue.

 

The directive is the penultimate item on the agenda, which means that at least one member state has changed its position and is willing to stick its political neck out to get further debate, according to lobbyists at the FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure).

 

Last week, the Council declared consensus, and the directive was tabled as "A point" to be voted through without any further discussion. However, at a press conference at the European Parliament last week, ministers confirmed that the consensus on the issue was breaking up, and acknowledeged the need for more debate.

 

Germany, Belgium and Luxemborg are known to be unhappy with the revised draft, but the FFII says there has been a lot of activity in France, too. A spokesman for the organisation noted that the combined votes of France and Germany (20) would make a siginificant contribution to the 26 needed to block the draft in its current form.

 

If the Council can reach an agreement tomorrow, the text will be finalised and will be put on the agenda to be passed without further ado at a subsequent Council meeting. If not, it will be referred back to Parliament for a second reading.

 

Although no new amendments may be proposed in a second reading, those originally proposed by Parliament can be re-introduced. In September 2003, the Parliament made significant amendments to the original proposal. It defined a very strict set of circumstances under which software patents could be granted, and of the kinds of software that could be patented.

 

Passing them is difficult, however, as it requires a majority vote from all MEPs, not just those in attendance.

Strange, in my case ctrl-left and ctrl-right act on the horizontal scrollbar.....

In my case the horizontal scroll bar is affected if there are no tabs open... :huh:

Konqueror 3.1.3 Help says that Ctrl + [ and Ctrl + ] should change tabs, but it doesn't work for me. Perhaps it works for you. :unsure:

I am curious as to why this post was moved to a forum about shell commands and programming when it's really nothing to do with that.

Sorry, I've now moved it to Hardware.

Ctrl + Right and Ctrl + Left seem to do it... :)

Yep, I can see it, but it took literally 5 minutes to load on 512kb broadband... :huh:

Have you seen this thread - Lag in DNS Queries / Mozilla Rendering?

df -h

I am simply fed-up with faceless beaurocrats in Brussels living it up on MY money, making PITA decisions about me. I'd much rather have (british) faceless beaurocrats doing that - at least i can abuse them when the come a'canvassin' at my door, and in a language they'll understand.  

I'm afraid it's the British faceless bureaucrats and the British government who are the villains (along with other national governments); and the MEPs who come canvassing may well be innocent.

The European Parliament amended the proposals to get rid of the worst elements. EU ambassadors, ie British and other national bureaucrats, removed the amendments on instructions from their governments. The Council of Ministers, including British ministers, are expected to rubber-stamp the old proposals on Monday. To overturn the proposals, the EP has to get more than 50% of MEPs to vote against - not just a majority of members voting. This is not expected to happen.

We British are kept in the dark as far as Europe is concerned, so the government of the day can blame 'Brussels bureaucrats' for just about everything. Democracy in the EU is represented, however inperfectly, by the Parliament. The Council of Ministers continues to make decisions in secret, so they can return home and blame everybody else (the Commission, the Parliament and other member states) for what happens... [continued on page 94]

This is the text of an email sent to someone on the Mandrake Club forum:

questions and fresh informations :

 

We know that the problem is not within our own operation, it seems to be

happen between the VISA system and the customer bank. Unfortunately all the

banks are closed today and tomorrow.

 

Please send email to : sc.uscan.misc@mandrakestore.com

with all the relevant information :

 

- the adress of your bank and phone number

- your phone number :

- the order number (eg : 123456-USA)

- Bill date :

- Your credit card (VISA, Amex, Mastercard...)

- Amount of the order (eg : $60) :

- Over billed amount (eg : $6000) :

 

We consider this as a very serious issue, since we became aware of the

problem we are working to solve it.

 

Shawn, we are really sorry...

 

Regards.

Mandrakesoft Team. 

This notice appears on the Mandrake Club home page:

Paris, 14th of May 2004,

We have been informed that some of our customers who paid through visa card in north America at the beginning of the month are encountering problems with their visa bill.

Every complaint will be answered. Please send email with all the relevant information to :

sc.uscan.misc@mandrakestore.com

In the meanwhile we have decided to execute all our payment through our paypal platform. You do not need a paypal account to use this platefom, you simply need a credit card (Mastercard, Visa, Discover, American express).

 

Mandrakesoft Team.

I found this ones this morning but this are for the 630-11 modem, I have the 630 series, but anyway thank you.

I have now visited the Zyxel site, and it shows that the 630-11 is included in the 630 Series.

- Support speeds of up to 8Mbps downstream and 832Kbps (Prestige 630-11) or 1024Kbps(Prestige 630-41) upstream

Even if you don't have this exact model, it may be sufficiently compatible to work. :)

I have a Zyxel Prestige 630 Series and I was lloking for some driver but I didn´t find anything, in order to install Mandrake 10 I need to practice in Knoppix and now I am worried than MDK didn´t recognice my ADSL Modem also.

 

Anyone here have this modem here? Where I can find the drivers for Linux?

There's a Zyxel driver at Sourceforge - dont know if it's the right one... :unsure: