AussieJohn

I always backup my bookmarks to a folder on a safe non reformatting partition e.g. account. From there it is simple to import the list into ANY browser in the event of OS reinstalls. If you have a Konquerer list then do it that way rather than try to directly import it into Firefox. Cheers. John.

Hello payasam. I am curious. Are you doing any of your work in the ROOT mode ??? Normally doing anything such as accidently deleting a font directory or other important directorys cannot be done in an account. Anything lost in an account can usually be reinstalled so no need to system reinstall. Cheers. John.

This is a bump. I hope this OK. Our own great Telstra Bigpond here in Australia (yes I think it is great despite the views of some of the knockers), had it ready to download from its customer software services servers within minutes of it being released and already it has 27 downloads to Linux users and 224 to windows users and 11 to mac users. Windows ==== 224 Linux ======= 27 Mac ======== 11 Total so far === 262 I suspect that a lot of Telstra customers are only now starting to realize it is there to download now ( It is 9.46 PM AESDST ) [Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Saving Time] Go Firefox. Go ....... away.........Microsoft. Cheers. John. As of 11.30 PM AESDST the tally is now nearly 300. An extra 40 in about 2hrs.and mostly windows users. You would normally expect Linux users to be up tto date mostly. But it looks like the message is really getting out to the Windows users at last in a really big way. Almost tidal wave. A further update as a 2.30PM AESDT (12th Nov). I seems like Windows users are really getting the message. Windows=======441 Linux===========48 Mac============21 Total===========510 It is going great. John. This post has been edited by AussieJohn: Today, 01:39 AM -------------------- The Computer Desktop of the future is already here TODAY......... Registered LINUX user #318452

A thing which comes to mind after seeing your screenshot is that such a cd had both normal cd tracks and also a video clip track which is digital and therefore recognizes it as a data track. While you can still usually play the cd music tracks, If you try to rip the tracks using GRIP you will have no success. It will not read the music tracks or any tracks. Yet in Windows, that marvellous CDEX ripping program has no difficulty dealing with it at all. Cheers. John.

Hello payasam. I do not know if this will be of any help to you but I offer it anyhow. When you open up the KDE control centre and go to File Manager and open it you will see a tab called Appearance and just below it a line titled......Standard font..... Is there anything in its adjacent box.??? If not then there should be. Click on the little blue arrow and select a font name from the drop down list. then click on apply at the bottom. I have found some times that a font can seem to disappear out of there while doing updates or upgrades etc. Cheers goodheart. John.

You are correct. You must install Windows first. Make sure that you set the BIOS to disable Plug&Play before doing any Linux install Next make sure that you thoroughly defragment Windows before you attempt to repartition the Hard Drive. If windows is to be a clean install then select fat32 as the file form rather than ntfs. A Linux OS can read and write easily to fat32 but has problems writing to ntfs. If possible export your important files vis burning them to CD-R/W discs. Mandrake10 OE is reasonably fool proof so don't be intimidated. Just start with the first disk and follow the prompts. There are many of us here who will try to help you out. One NOTE. We have all been down this path before. Welcome to our Linux Mandrake World and to MUB in particular. Cheers. John. I would recommend that if possible you move your primary slave HDD to the secondary master position and install your mandrake on that one. This will help to avoid repartitioning involving Windows. Your really are advised to not have both hard drives on the same cable. John.

When I was using Mandrake 9.2, I experimented with upgrading kernels and on one occassion had 4 different kernels and none of this caused any crashes but then of course I was using the rock solid Matrox G400 Dual head Video card. I eventually uninstalled all but one of the kernels because it they took up so much space. Now I am using the Nvidia Video card and whenever I have attempted to use another kernel other than the original installed, I have had nothing but problems. I have tried three or four times and eventually had to do a reinstall each time because it was a hell of a lot quicker. Mandrake 10 OE has been such a damned good stable performer that it really no big deal not being able to use an upgraded kernel. I eventually decided it was simpler to wait until I get the 10.1-OE set of install disks in the next weeks.

I am aware of the one you mentioned because it is in Mandrake 10 OE as well. But it is nice to have the "OFFICIAL" one though, isn't it. ??? :D :D :D :D Go Firefox. Go.....away......Microsoft. Cheers. John.

Our own great Telstra Bigpond here in Australia (yes I think it is great despite the views of some of the knockers), had it ready to download from its customer software services servers within minutes of it being released and already it has 27 downloads to Linux users and 224 to windows users and 11 to mac users. Windows ==== 224 Linux ======= 27 Mac ======== 11 Total so far === 262 I suspect that a lot of Telstra customers are only now starting to realize it is there to download now ( It is 9.46 PM AESDST ) [Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Saving Time] Go Firefox. Go ....... away.........Microsoft. Cheers. John. As of 11.30 PM AESDST the tally is now nearly 300. An extra 40 in about 2hrs.and mostly windows users. You would normally expect Linux users to be up tto date mostly. But it looks like the message is really getting out to the Windows users at last in a really big way. Almost tidal wave. A further update as a 2.30PM AESDT (12th Nov). I seems like Windows users are really getting the message. Windows=======441 Linux===========48 Mac============21 Total===========510 It is going great. John.

Hello chrism. Did you find your icon for Firefox yet. It has been in front of you all the time thanks to the good thinking of the Firefox team. Go to your Firefox folder ...... look for a folder called.....CHROME.. and click on it then click on a folder called ........... ICONS.........click on it and then click on a folder called......DEFAULT .......and in there is the excellent and official Firefox Icon. It is called default.xpm Cheers. John.

Hello payasam. Glad to see you are still in good form, literary wise. I also hope you are, other wise. I get loads of enjoyment from your posts. Best wishes. John.

Re your answer. I think maybe that the text in your /etc/sysconfig/desktop should read DISPLAYMANAGER=GDM and not the GNOME that presently appears there. Mine reads =KDM and not KDE even though it reads KDE in my .wmrc and my system works AOK. I think you have somehow created your problem rather than having a generic problem that needed to be fixed. John.

I don't think you looked closely enough. It will be there. (You need to open konquerer then click on ....View then click on "show hidden folders" (anything that has a . in front of it means it is a hidden folder or file. This bit is for newcomers looking at this thread. ) Just click on .wmrc and change KDE to GNOME (all upper case) then be sure to SAVE the change.

I have never had any success in copying the .Mail folder while in account. I have only been able to do it in while in root. I think it is a permissions problem. Try root and see if it works for you too. Cheers. John

Pray tell why your headline said "DVD playing on Mandrake 9.1" and yet later on you are talking about suse9.1 as confirmed in one of your posts. It seems a little hard to make a mistake about two dissimilar names. Just wondering. John.

For about a week, a friend of mine was experiencing skips and stutters when playing MP3s and OGGs in any player in Mandrake10-OE and it was most annoying. Her machine was using onboard audio. Yesterday (Monday) I installed a Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 for her and the transformation was incredible. No stutters or skipping and the quality of sound from the relatively cheap speakers was amazing. There was also a significent sound level boost as well. It would seem that on board sound chips really are crap and because they are so cheap is the reason they are on mainboards in the first place. I guess they fall into the same class as winmodems.............cheap and nasty ...... no matter what the PR specs say. Cheers. John.

I am sorry improbin, but you misunderstood my post. I was NOT recommending that you enable Plug&Play. I assumed you had CORRECTLY disabled it. What I was implying was that if you had not also changed the bios settings to reflect the fact that you had put an HDD on an IDE position that previously had a cdrom on it that mandrake would not necessarily correctly detect the HDD. John.

You make no mention of having changed the bios settings to reflect your new IDE setup and I presume that you have Plug&Play disabled already in the Bios. If you have disabled Plug & Play in the Bios and have not altered the IDE settings for the new setup then Mandrake will NOT be able to detect the new HDD correctly. So I suggest you check this aspect before progressing further. Cheers. John.

To mount a windows partition is really very simple. Open Mandrake Control Centre (MCC) .......> Mount Points .............> Partitions ........> Now click OK on the popup that reminds you to backup your data first.................> You will see your windows partitions shown in BLUE. Click on the partition you believe to be the one you want then click on the button called........Mount Point....in the window that pops up, type in..... /windows (or what ever you want to call it) and click on OK. Now click on the button titled ......... Mount .... now click on .....> ...DONE ( located at bottom right). Now finally click on ......> YES on the popup that asks "Do you want to save /etc/fstab modifications ". Now you can open Konqueror and you will find ?windows that you can now access. Hope this helps. Cheers. John

I do not see any security level "Medium" in MMC. Reset it to ...STANDARD.... that is all you normally need. Any higher and you get into the permissions problems you are experiencing. Cheers. John.

You don't connect to the internet from within LINUX ??? How strange. I thought the moving to Linux was so that one would have safer and more reliable connection to the internet, free from viruses, trogans and such like. But I guess I must be mistaken. John.

Hello gadgetgirl. Can you get your hands on another CDROM drive. I am starting to suspect that your present CDROM reader may be faulty and not reading consistently correctly. Especially since resulting behavior is all over the place and random. Your actual CDROMs could very well be OK themselves though. Just an idea but worth considering. Cheers. John.

When you refer to the Docker, are you referring to what others call the Panel.??? If you are and you want it transparent then why don't you right click on the Panel then select ....................>Configure Panel ......................>Layout ...........>Appearance ........> Panel Background and then put a tick (USA=check) in the box titled "Enable transparency" Is that what you were after??? Cheers. John.

You reinforced my point. If it does not recognize a DVD at insertion and has to be configured specially then it is not an easy to use program. The use of many of these players seems to be based more on geekism than anything else. Same old story, if something does its job simply and easily then it must not be as good as something that has to be mucked around with before it can do anything. Thank god for choice in Linux. When I shove in a DVD, all I am interested in is watching the DVD. I am not interested in the fact that my computer as opposed to some other form of player device is playing the DVD, and Totem does this superbly. Please note that my comments are not directed especially to the posters here so please do not take offence because none is intended. Cheers. John.

Hello fahd, and welcome to the Linux world and Mandrake in particular,especially here at MUB. You are obviously very new to Linux so I will not buy into your comments about Linux. As you learn more about the Linux world you will realise that your comments bear no relationship to the facts. I offer you this advice to save you from being flamed by someone less tolerant of such statements which are deemed to be incorrect. Enjoy Mandrake. Cheers. John.