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Write down the error message and post it.

I think you fail to distinguish between the music industry (or the economy) and the big record labels. Filesharing might not be good for the big record compenies but it's not bad for the music industry (consisting of artists, publishers, songwriters etc etc) or the economy (PC builders, CD- burner makers, software publishers etc etc). Yes, jobs are lost but other jobs are created elsewehere in the economy. If home weavers in the 18th century had succeeded in stopping industrial produced cloth we would be a lot poorer today. I'm sorry your friends lost their jobs but I think you fail to appreciate the new jobs created elsewhere. People who got a new job because of filesharing (think of all the new workers for the new broadband ISPs that exist because there is such a demand for filesharing) have friends too. I'm sure they are glad that there friends have found a new job.

Gaim-vv

If you have enabled ACPI and didn't get any errors that should be enough. When you look in your KDE control center (to start it type kcontrol in a run window), powermanagement, laptopbattery. What does it show? Do you get error messages there?

Well that depends.... :) But you can look for it with 'rpm -qa | grep <name-of-RPM>' to see if it's installed. To see wich files are installed you can do as root: updatedb, and then as user: locate <name of file>

With mplayer. The codecs you can find on the mplayer site or they come with urpmi mplayer when you add PLF.

/usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/default.png If you use KDE you can use the control center to change it. (systemmanagement-startup)

That's cooker kdebase 3.2.3-16. I would like stable kdebase 3.2.3-6 :) (http://ftp.tiscali.nl/kde/stable/3.2.3/Mandrake/RPMS/). Got only one PC and not enough time to fix things if they go wrong. I never had any problems installing KDE in KDE . Just restart X when your done.

Hi, does anyone know an urpmi repository for the new Mandrake KDE 3.2.3 rpms? I can only find the rpms on the KDE site and don't care for dowloading them one by one (guess urpmi has spoiled me).

I believe you can use the Windows XP CD to remove Lilo/Grub and restore windows default. Have never tried it though. Mandrake can safely read NTFS partitions. But I think you would be better of never writing anything to it.

In the KDE control center go to kde components, file associations and type rm in the search bar.

No it's (I'll give the full name): Screensaver Preferences (XScreensaver 4.14 , 25 Oct 2003) :D

Screensavers should also be in your K-menu (start-menu). It's under 'settings'.

C-span uses the realplayer, not a realplay plugin. So just install realplayer and associate .rm with it in the KDE control center. (I'm using opera and just watched the interview with the Dutch ambassedor. Are you sure you want to watch this stuff?)

You'll have to use the console then and not start X. Add the update source to your stable of urpmi repositories with urpmi.addmedia and then try installing the updates with urpmi --auto-select. If that doen't work you can always do a reinstall instead of an update (just make sure you don't reformat your /home.

For the rm command + options go here: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=r/rm For everything else go here: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/

Digikam (screenshots) It's in contrib so do urpmi digikam and urpmi digikam-plugins

mplayer (to lazy to type more)

Linux is not difficult and Mandrake Linux is not difficult at all. You just need to know where to look. The thing that gets new users confused is that in Linux there are many different ways to do the same thing. For instance system configuration: You have the Mandrake control center (MCC) and if you use KDE, the KDE control center and ofcourse you can edit every .conf file by hand and use the CLI. My suggestion to you, stick first to the MCC, if yo feel more comfortable with Linux, try KDE and when you're completely comfortable go with the CLI. Your palm tungesten: http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html. You need kpilot and it seems is just plug and play

For larger files BitTorrent is best I think (www.suprnova.org). For individual songs I use Kazaa (though the network seems to be flooded with fakes for newer Top40 hits) -1- The client I use is frombittornado (http://bittornado.com/download.html). Download the stable version, the source package) and untar it. -2- Install wxPython (urpmi wxpythonGTK) -3- associate .torrent (if you use KDE, in the KDE control center go to KDE components, file association, in the search bar type .torrent) with btdowloadgui.py (in the folder bittornado-cvs) -4- download a torrent from suprnova.org and doubleclick it (or just click the link for the torrent)

To remove CD4 type (as root) urpmi.removemedia CD4 If you have installed the nvidia driver that should be it. Your all set edit: too late with my reply

I can't get the eufa site to play either (opera, firefox, konqueror). Can't even play the links from the source. Guess this is a windows only site (the name 'microsoft' appears 7 times in http://www.uefa.com/video/news/index.html source) I use realplayer 9 sometimes but mostly mplayer (and real codecs). They work both fine.

I have 3 places were I can change the printer options: 1- In Konquerer (KDE), type in the adressbar print:/ 2- MCC 3- Cups. I use mostly KDE to change the printersettings. For instance, if I wanted to change the print-quality, I would go to the driversettings tab, and change the PrintOut Mode. Same for doublesided printing(also on the general tab). Anyway there are plenty of options to choose from (I have a HP printer too). I doubt the windowsdriver provides more.

CD4 means Contrib. Yo have to add Contrib as one of your urpmi repositories. See an earlier reply by SoulSe (http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/) on howto do that. PS. It must seem pretty complicated to just install a screensaver in Mandrake Linux.. Don't give up though. Once you begin to understand the jargon (xscreensaver, urpmi, grep etc etc) you will find it so much easier

The xxx in xscreensaver-glxxx are actually digits. Don't type them. urpmi xscreensaver-gl should be enough. (or look in the mandrake control center->software->install) If gl screensavers don't show make sure you have 3D acceleration working. (and yes, what's this Kazaa for Linux you have?)