malfist

How can I set the size of the encrypted container?

I'm a programmer so I know the danger of using depreciated stuff, I'll check out cryptsetup. In ubuntu I had XKeyPass too and that doesn't seem to be in the repos and I had the ability to right-click and encrypt a folder (don't know how or why I got that feature) but does cryptsetup do that too?

I want to play around with some security tools, one of my friends sparked an interest in me for harddrive encryption/email encryption/25 char long passwords and I haven't had any luck to find a program for linux to encrypt the harddrive/partitions/file containers. I found truecrypt outside of the repos on sourceforge but it needed the kernal source but I've already installed it. Are there any good ones in the repos that I missed? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

No luck, the gnome connect to server thingy can't find it and the only thing gnomba can find is an empty network.

I think it is the 2007 version, I use smb4k to mount the network shares because for some reason MCC can't find them through samba but smb4k can.

I'm running GNOME, I don't think that would work...

When I've been mounting my network shares or windows partitions I can't access them except through /mnt/x, in ubuntu it would put an icon on the desktop and menu like a tumbdrive or external harddrive. How can I make mandriva do that?

Alacarte worked, it looked exactly like what I was using though ...

No, I haven't installed alacarte, my version is kinda old, maybe a year old.

Sorry, I forgot, it's gnome. I didn't use the repos because it only has 1.5.07 and that doesn't have the exclusive options for gmail. I know several that wont show up, like atop, nmap, gpart, etc (and I can't find deluge). edit: htop does show up.

I can't get the menu to change when I use the menu editor. Nothing happens. I've tried adding an option for rhythmbox but that wouldn't show, I tried moving things but nothing happened. Next I downloaded the newest thunderbird from mozilla's website and I can't add a menu item for it. How can I do this? I've be right clicking on the menu and selecting edit menu.

My bad, I didn't realize it was in the repos, I'll install it that way.

How can I install Firefox 2? I've got the tar file and the dependancies (FF2 has one more than FF1.5) but I can't figure out how to update or install it. When I try to run the updater I get this:

Which ndivia package should I install? I have a GeForce FX 5200.

I set up the repo's as soon as I started but urpmi didn't find a tremoulos. I had to reinstalled everything because Vista crapped that partition tables (Vista sucks) and this time there wasn't an error when adding the repos so, I'll look again. Any word on something like automatix for Madriva? Automatix installes stuff and sets it up for you with one click (really nice) it does drivers, deluge, flash plugin to firefox, Firefox 2, beryl, Java 6 (something I need, I'm a Java programmer), and all kinds of crap that may or may not be in the standarded repos for ubuntu. I've used ubuntu for 3 years and really like it but I decided to change (and didn't have the ubuntu CD) and slackware wasn't nice to me :P and couldn't find my Fendora CD's and mandriva was the next choice. It looks really nice so far. Does it come with the mp3 codecs or do I need to install them too? Malfist

Hello, I just made the jump from ubuntu to madriva (because a mess-up in my partition table and I lost my install CD for Ubuntu) and I'm trying to run Tremulous. It's not in the repositories for Mandriva but I found the sh for the installation on the website. I installed it but it doesn't put an item in the menu and it wont run. It asks for OpenGL. I've installed the gstreamer for OpenGL but that doesn't seem to do the trick. In ubuntu I installed openGL with the Nvedia(sp?) through automatix and I was wondering if there is anything like that for Mandriva?