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if you recompile the kernel srpm you get the same kernel. so you could download the srpm and look at its spec file to find out how and what Mandrake did. most of it is also documented in the RPM changelog. and BTW the kernel config was usually found under /boot/config AFAIK using that to configure your kernel would produce a clone of mandrake kernel. cheers, Alaa

maybe its a permissions problem, try to run mozilla as root (I know its not generaly a good idea but you'll only do it for a few seconds), and see if it works. cheers, Alaa

well if you're sure this is due to pan then it is probably a bug you can try to use a more recent version of pan (I think texstar provides pan rpms) and see if the problem presists (backup you .pan directory though, pan trashed my configs after an upgrade before). you can try posting to the pan users mailing list http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/l...tinfo/pan-users for help and finaly you can try other newsclients. cheers, Alaa

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you can apply a patch by running the command patch orignial patch where orinignal is the filename of the file you want to patch and patch is the file name of the patch you want to apply in your case it'll probably be patch radeon_driver.c radeon_driver.c.patch or something similar cheers, Alaa

smp is semetric multi processor or something similar. its the kernel support for boards with more than one processor maybe smp is needed for the Intel hyperthreading thingy?? I wouldn't know I use AMD. cheers, Alaa

yeah I thought you'd like it :-) now if only I can find a tool to draw icons for iconified windows (thats why they're called iconfied right??). cheers, Alaa

login as root and run the command passwd or from the Mandrake Control Center use userdrake to change the password. cheers, Alaa

if you're not going to allow anonymous ftp consider using ssh with the scponly shell instead. just install scponly using urpmi create a new user and make scponly his/her/its shell put the data you want to serve in the new users home directory now you can use ssh file transfer tools like gftp to connect to the server and download/upload files. cheers, Alaa

gnome writes its gtk configs to ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 best way to sync the configs is symlink .gtkrc-2.0 to .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 let gnome handle the file and put any modifications you want to make (like font settings) in ~/.gtkrc-mine cheers, Alaa

just use split, its part of the GNU utils and comes standard with all GNU/Linux distros split -b 1400k foo foo will split foo into a series of file <=1400 KB called fooaa, fooab, fooac etc. split -b 700m foo foo will create 700MB files to joing the files just concatenate them with cat cat foo?? > foo or if you don't want to copy all the files to one place and then join them you can use cat /mnt/cdrom/fooaa >> foo swap media then run cat /mnt/cdrom/fooab >> foo etc. cheers, Alaa

you can try using wmctrl in your script http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/ I've absolutley no idea how to do it though. cheers, Alaa

IMO it is much harder to create an automated exploit or a virus for GNU/Linux thats the important thing about GNU/Linux security. some crackers will always be able to compromise some systems, but it'll not spread like fire. it is also relativly easier to limit the damage of such exploits with GNU/Linux, even for an unexperienced user. a cracker may get normal user access but will find it hard to get root access etc. cheers, Alaa

BTW you don't need to use rpm to install kernel updates anymore URPMI knows that kernel packages should be installed not upgraded check /etc/urpmi/inst.list and it downloads the files for you too. cheers, Alaa

I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 with texstar gnome 2.4 rpms installed. only trouble was I had to manualy upgrade or remove some devel packages. I just removed all devel packages and the problem went away urpmi --auto-select did the rest. cheers, Alaa