darkscot

i have got Dansguardian running on my PC and it succesfully blocks 'unsuitable' websites. However I would also like to stop certain users (i.e. my children) using Pan newsreader. What is the best way of doing this? I am using Mandriva One with KDE.

I have managed to install and setup Dansguardian (still not quite sure how) and it works great with Konqueror but not with Opera, which is something of a chink in the armour!

I think I have setup the proxy settings on Opera correctly but it looks like i have missed something. Anyone got any suggestions, other than uninstalling Opera?

Forget it! It has suddenly started working! :mellow:

It is a last ditch but ultimately useless effort by Microsoft so don't bother wasting any of your valuable attention or time with it.

I wish I could agree with you but an organisation as powerful as M$ is not going to give up easily. Over the coming weeks they are going to be loads of free publicity i the media with the launch of Vista. I am betting not one report on TV, radio or press will even mention Linux far less say something like "of course Vista costs $???? but there are free alternatives!".

It looks nice, but I hate the way they enforce sudo on you, and not give you a root account that you can easily use "su" with.

I agree 100%! I used Ubuntu for about a year but eventually moved on as I felt it wasn't a 'proper' Linux distro.

My desktop of the moment! :D

Darkscot Desktop

I have this problem periodically, as I have both Mandriva, and Fedora on my system, and they share those files. If I start thunderbird in one os, and forget to shut it down, I have this problem when I boot the second os.

But why did it work fine for two days? Or is that just one of lifes enigmas?

Due to work's strict security policy, I can't attache my mandriva laptop to the network to rsynch etc - so would like to use briefcase on mu USB stick to tranfer and synchronise files.

Any pointers?

I have just asked a similar question in another post about SyncToy and got pointed here:

Unison

I have no idea what SyncToy really does, but unison might be the sort of thing you're looking for.

Thanks for that link! At first glance it looks like Unison does exactly the same thing as SyncToy.

About the only thing i still use XP for is synchronising my MP3 files between my PC, Laptop and portable HD. I use Miicrosoft SyncToy which works really well. Does anyone know of something similar for Linux?

[moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

As a newbie, I'd like to replace Firefos 1.5...

Upgrade Firefox

:P

OK, I have taken drastic action to sort the problem. I have imported all my email messages into Kmail and installed Thunderbird. I will give Kmail a go for a while and if necessary re-install Thunderbird later.

Are you sure you're logged on as the correct user? If the .thunderbird directory is there, Thunderbird should pick it up. But now, you have two profiles configured from what I can see above.

If i delete the 'extra' profile (yild8anq.default) it makes no difference.

If I delete the 'genuine' profile (lq8r7t1e.default) I get the following message:

"thunderbird is already running. you need to close it or log out before you can continue".

Looging out doesn't make any difference. If I put back the 'genuine' profile i am back to the original problem.

Probably a little bit more background would be useful. When I first installed Mandriva I set up my email account in Thunderbird to make sure it was working. Then I copied overwrote the new .thunderbird folder with a backup .thunderbird from my previous distro (Zenwalk). i have done this before and it worked ok and it has been working fine for the last two days

The 'extra' profile (yild8anq.default) seems to be the first profile I set up before overwriting it with the backup. But why it has suddenly reappeared is beyond me!

I have been using Mandriva One for two days and until today everything as been fairly trouble free.

However, this morning when I opened Thunderbird I was presented with the 'first run' wizard and asked to set up a new account. My existing account, messages and folders have disssapeared. The .thunderbird folder is still in my home directory and contains the following:

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/lq8r7t1e.default

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/yild8anq.default

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/appreg

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/en-GB.aff

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/en-GB.dic

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/install.js

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/profiles.ini

file:///home/dt/.thunderbird/README-en-GB.txt

Also Firefox has reset itself to the default home pahe and all my bookmarks have vanished.