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I got my java (both versions) from: http://java.sun.com And i used the self-extracting to rpm files.

Isn't there a period "." missing in the end, or just the absolute path to the mozilla plugins directory? Something like: ln -s /usr/java/path/to/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'plugin' . or: ln -s /usr/java/path/to/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins I guess you could put the link in either /usr/lib/mozilla or /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4. At elast my mozilla 1.3.1 seems to find and use all plugins found in either or both those directories.

Thanks for your answers, but sill no luck... yet. bvc: Running Mozilla from a terminal gives absolutelly nothing. It just closes when trying to access a webmail or forum page. Galeon gives no output/errors on the terminal, but does show a message-window saying 'segmentation fault'. Also gives a link to the GNOME bug-report site, but that doesn't work either. So nest, you press 'Ok' and it closes. chris z: By the time I used urpmi.update, I had also updated my Java version to 1.4.2_02. Got back to 1.4.1_03, but still no luck. I haven't checked Mozilla's support page yet, but I will when I get some time. Again, thanks for your answers.

Since I issued "urpmi.update --auto-select" (successfully), I started having problems with both Mozilla and Gaelon (I gues this one for sharing stuff from the first). They crash when loging in a Webmail or php forum (like this one ;). Konqueror and Links still work fine. I use Mandrake 9.1 and FluxBox. Trying to update Mozilla and/or libnss3 to the 9.2 versions (or the Cooker's) doesn't work - I didn't have any source for them installed when I issued urpmi-update, so the current install is still a 9.1. I get some error on account of dependencies -package "don't-remember-what" can't be retrieved. Any thoughts? :unsure:

Everyone I know (not many :) ) use either Yahoo! Messenger and/or MSN, so I use Gaim, as besides those two I also use AIM. Never came across kopete...

I can translate to/from portuguese, english and french. Maybe also from spanish, but not to... Use my personal information to contact me. Perhaps a chance to make a contribution to Linux... WARNING: Probably not available until January. Certainly not before December 18th.

Yeap, very nice screenshots. I use fluxbox myself. blackbox's ok too, and smaller ;) took a look at openbox3. liked the general look. You can use a graphical tool called obconf to configure it, but no luck with the menus there - and xml is just chinese to me. PS: I'm an end-user.

Followups from FFII: http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html and http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/epet0929/index.en.html :)

Actually, as of now, I'd settle with full maildir interoperability, That is between balsa's maildir and Kmail's maildir... :? The thing is, Kmail won't read my balsa's maildir sub-directories. Just the top-level ones. How can I fix this? Thanks,

Hello again, I'd very much like to comment on the last posts, but, as I said, I have no time now... Still, I came by to share, with those of you who haven't signed FFII's newsletters, their latest (not the only one since the one that started this topic). So here it goes:

lxthusdan: First of all: I am NOT a socialist! Second of all: The official "bad girl" in this european patent story (in my eyes) IS a socialist! Third of all: The socialist partys in the European Parliament are DIVIDED about this question. Fourth of all: Considering points 1, 2 and 3, I still don't understand how this "socialist" discussion came up in this topic!... Fifth of all: I think it could be interesting to discuss "socialism" in another topic. But I will probably not come around this forum until the end of the next week (due to lack of time). So, if you prefer to pm me, you know when you'll get the answer... Sixth of all: I will NOT use the term "socialist" in this topic again! I thank you for your good will. :wink: Gowator: First line: Wise :wink: Second line: I call it 'pragmatism'. That's exactly the point here. Go and see the directive proposal on the EU's site ( http://www.europa.eu.int/ ) or on FFII's site ( http://swpat.ffii.org/ ). It's messy, it's ilogic, yet psychologicaly effective (Yeah, I thought I was getting paranoid too when I got to that conclusion). You have to remember, politicians are just human beings linke any other, and can not be experts on all subjects - their judgement often depends on other people. You can also go and look on the FFII's "Gallery of Patent Horrors". Some are rather comic! Thank you for your post. You brought up some good points. :wink: JaseP First of all, let me apologize for maybe having come too strong on you on my last post. Thank you for the infos on the american legal system. I had no idea about Louisiana. I did now about you having different laws in different states. But when it concerns to repudiating treaties, well... a "break of contract" is not something I, personally, take lightly. And, in this particular matter, you can't just put it in terms of "Well, both parts agree on that" because you'll be thinking of the governments, not the individuals who planned their lifes based on the current law. As a note, I will not comment on you know what, for the reasons mentioned above. But I found your words about Capitalism a bit confusing. But I would rather we were not going there, because it's both off-topic and a lenghty subject. We can go on about it in another topic, maybe the one we mentioned before or maybe another. Still, coming back to your first topic, the patent system being an economic "atta boy", you must also remember that the economy shoud serve the public first. It makes no sense to support a product or business which were to be useless, nor to charge irrealistic prices for a given product or service. You get the idea.. You can't boost the economy on nomatter what costs... :wink: Cheers,

Hi everyone, I appreciate your comments on this. I know it's not an easy topic... And, as I am not an expert on the question (go to FFII for that ;), but did do some homework (a few months ago, I confess, no time...), I'll just reread your posts and freely comment along the way. Roland, your small example about IBM and SUN is right AFAICS. Wile the big guys play their 'dimes', the little ones can't even afford a patent (an european patent costs between 50000 and 150000 Euros (about the same figures in US Dollars)). Now, the minimum allowed wages for a portuguese worker is about 350 Euros (I don't recall the estimated average wages, but it shoud be near 1000-1500 Euros (optimistic ;). I remember Bill Gates comming to Portugal some 3-4 years ago, and it was said that the value of our Brute Internal Product (sorry for the translation) was less than uncle Gates' personal earnings on that year!!! And yes, unfortunatelly, with this directive, lawyers will have the last word (if not the only one). By the way, I read somewhere that one thing is SUN's Developpers Department, a completelly different one is SUN's Patent Department... Well, lxthusdan, maybe you can clarify me on this one: WTH has "socialist propaganda" to do with all this? In case you didn't notice, the *official* pusher of the directive is a UK's Labour Party representative (a socialist 'alias'). And please remember, the EU is not the USA. E.g. there are not 2 but 7 political groups + 1 group of non-affilliated MEPs (8 in total) currently in the Europen Parlament (though you usually place them somewhere in a left-right line). And, in Portugal, 'Republic' and 'Democracy' mean basically the same - in latin and greek, respectivelly, 'Public Reason' and 'Public Will'. And so on, etc, und so weiter... As for what it was 'meant' and what it 'turned out' to be... well, you can learn with your mistakes... And if what you said apllies "to copyright and intelectual property as well", we already have that - and also a thing called Munich Convention that forbids patents on "computer implemented inventions". JaseP, as you said, only a something *as big as* a treatise could give a thorough explanation. I respect your education, but remember what I said to lxthusdan, and also that the US law derives from the Common Law style. Inside the EU we have the Roman style, the Germanic and the Common Law as well. The EU state-members are not the United States (of America) - try and compare histories. Then do the same but using history books from another EU country... Laws, politics, economics, culture, etc are all linked in formal and informal ways - in the present and over time. roland (again ;), point 2 is a good point. You're trying to explain the process of inovation as it most often occurs in the software industry - "sequecial and complementary", meaning, one innnovation requires a prior one (or ones) (e.g. Amazon One Click requires Internet, and lots more, I can imagine ;). It also often complements the prior innnovation, making this one more valuable. lxthusdan: Again "socialist ideology"!? There are many ways of thinking and acting, you know... There are more colors than just two. Actually, Karl Marx wasn't the only socialist (or the first AFAIR). And in sociology, you'd be teached there is the "scientific socialism" and the "utopic socialism". And guess what, Marx gets in the first group... Gowator It would be sweet if the European initiative would really be intending to "draw a line between what is patentable and what isn't". But you can't really put it like that. Tying to keep it simple: the European Comission (who actually writes the laws), procedure is pushing the directive - they are not elected but nominated. But it won't become effective unless the Europen Parliament approves it - the MEPs are directly elected byt the people. The European Union Council (representatives of the nationally elected government) also have a saying on the (non) approval of laws. Then there are several consultive organs (less political) - at least three of them are against the directive. So, who really wants what?... And, *get this*, the European Patent Office[b/] has been ilegally granting patents for over 20 years. And why? Because the Munich Convention (among others) already states what can and can not be patented!!! And "computer implemented inventions" can not be patented. On the other hand, the TRIPs agreement (signed later on) could actually induce the opposite. It really is one big mess! Ok, bye for now, sorry for the so long post. On doubt, smile... :)

Hello everyone, I got this yesterday:

What I told you before works for me as for sending e-mails to any valid e-mail adress on the internet, NOT receiving! Don't ask me why. :) . Just type: mail someone@some.mail.server And that's that. Subject, message (terminated by a line containing a single '.' (dot), and Cc will be asked to you at the prompt. Stil, you can receive e-mails form other users on your local machine. E.g.: [user1@localhost ]$ mail user2 Subejct: Testing This is a test. . Cc: And user2 on the same machine user1 sent the e-mail from will get that e-mail. Sorry, that's all I can tell you...

Thanks aru, worked fine :D

I tried the tip, but it didn't look any faster than before on loading an «empty» OOo Writer. Still, if johnnyv is right, it might work for some PowerPoint files I sometimes get by e-mail. I'll tell you later...

Hi, In rxvt, I can't get to input locale characters, such as é or ã and others. It does displays them, e.g., when a filename has them. But inputing them doesn't work. I don't know if other non-US keyboards have additional keys, but here, you just press 'followed by e to get the é. Option "-grk iso" might do the trick, but rxvt doesn't recognize that (not even the -grk which is documented in the man page). Any ideas?

H+BEDV AntiVirus ( http://www.hbedv.com ) is a virus scanner, available for Linux free of charge, no trial version... You just have to register with them (for free...) to get a license key by e-mail, renewable after a one year period (again, for free). Works fine, even detected the BugBear virus in my Windows partition (my girlfriend needs it for work purposes...), which AVG (another free virus scanner, but for Windows) didn't... :) Virus definitions are updated almost everyday, and it's as easy to do as typing "antivirus --update" as root (unless you change some permissions) to do an internet update. You can also type "antivirus --update --check" as a normal user just to check for updates. The program itself can be updated by the same means - and will, if available! In this case, you can configure AntiVir to test the update with GnuPG... :wink: AvGuard works in the background to check open/closed/executed files (behaviour configurable). It comes packed with AntiVir... 8) AvUpdater automatically checks for and installs updates. This next one I haven't tried: H+BEDV (again) AvMailgate. For e-mail server/client scanning. It's available for severall different protocols. PS: This software is free for Personal use only (after you get your personal key). A Commercial version is available as well.

Hi everyone, I installed OpenBox window manager from source and it works fine. But I'd like to have the system menu in it. And also to have it automatically updated whenever a new Mandrake package kicks a new item in the Mandrake's system menu. I guess it could work if I could get menudrake to see the *non Mandrake released* window manager as just another one (as it does for KDE or GNOME or even BlackBox). Any suggestions?

Hi In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, you'll find two variables: "myhostname" and "mydomain'. I believe the last is actually more important than the first, as I just realised I got "myhostanme" instead of "myhostname"!... Anyway, I'm far from being an expert but I realised that, to have a fully qualified hostname, you should give values to both those variables (and it can be most anything - I got it working with stuff like "jeanackle.casa"). Using the las hostname you specified, it would be: myhostname = jughead.omneb.us.com and mydomain = omneb.us.com Try that :wink:

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:shock: :roll: err, well, you're forgiven... :mrgreen:

Daned coworker! :x

Hi James, I use an antivirus with Linux for 2 reasons: 1- I could accidentally forward an e-mail with virus to someon else using windoze... 2- There are Linux virus... Did you ever ear of the Slapper virus for instance... Incidentally, a few months ago I bought a magazine called 'h4ck3r' which taught to make a linux virus... :shock: About my kernel, everything looks fine with 2.4.21-0.18mdk, even though hte compiled kernel was pre-compiled by mandrake and not myself. It's just that some 'security updates' sound like chinese to me (note: I don't understand chinese...) :) Still, thanks for yor reply...

Thanks four your replies. My problem are the security updates "relevant to my system". For instance, do I have a route cache, or do I use ioperm? Sincerely, I have no idea...