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Sounds like good FAQ material... you volunteering ? (IF not already there.)

Making the top emailed stories today on Yahoo: Test Drive Linux and Linux on Your Desktop and surprisingly... the message boards are running generally favorably towards nix. I also took the opportunity to plug a certain cool website

How's this for a fix for my "Black Screen of Death" and *poof* problem... New coat of thermal paste inbetween the processor and heatsink ? I ended up taking it all apart and found it appeared to have a sub-par contact in this area. (The original was a peel-off strip supplied by the original heatsink. Suspecting this could cause instability (thanks also to plati in #musb) I picked some 10% silver thermel past (not as cheap as I thought) and put it all back together. Things been running smooth ever since... and about 10 degrees coolor too! :D The only other thing I noted when tearing it apart was that two of the cards (sound and nic) did not quite slide out like th others. They more like "popped" right out as opposed to sliding out (hard to describe, but...) I thought maybe somekind of short going on here, but when I seen the difference in running temperature, I credit the thermel paste more for the fix here. Moral of this story... Don't overlook the little things ? thanx again,

Normally I would say to remove xyz.rpm and reinstall, but this will wipe out half your installation in this case. Sounds like a real SNAFU... Just my suggestions here: Have you tried creating a local source with these rpms ? say, /home/rpms then try urpmi --autoselect kdepim-3.1.3-22.1.92mdk.i586 - or - rpm -ivh kdepim-3.1.3-22.1.92mdk.i586 kdepim-kaddressbook-3.1.3-22.1.92mdk.i586 etc etc from /home/rpms. (try it with and without other sources configured)

Just boot from CD1 (or maybe CD2, depending on what version you got) and choose upgrade. Choose expert install ... and of course don't format /home or whatever if there's something you need to save.

Welcome to the forum, A full list of "official" servers can be found here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 Just click on the "I'm already a member of the Club or plan on registering soon, please send me to the download page" NOW button.

Welcome to MUB, Do you know for sure if it needs one ? Do you have it installed and speakers attached ? Is sound up and unmuted in kmix or aumix?

Here's my way to move files to my local server: 1) create a new "Link to Application" by right clicking on desktop. Name this "Super Konq" and link it to "kdesu konqueror" 2) use this "Super User" konq browser to move, copy, delete my website files to /var/www/html folders. Just to be sure... you can use a browser and get the Apache test page by going to: 127.0.0.1/bsdlabs or 127.0.0.1 ???

Yes, Mandrake Control Center from console type mcc from GUI K --> System --> Configuration --> Configure Your Computer then choose, Boot, and Bootloader... You can change the settings in there. (hope I read this question right) Otherwise, you should be able to make your own links: ln -s

Looks good pcorajr Why that's grounds to lose one of your penguins. Looks like everything worked out this time... just don't let it happen again. Your allowed to start your own thread.

Sounds like that "XP" thing that started with Community Edition and hasn't been fixed yet. Not too familiar with the fix, but I keep hearing to change the Hard Disk setting from "AUTO" to "LBA" in the BIOS. This seems to help most users. ... and Welcome to the forums :D

So yeah, is that show in Harrisburg or Allentown... so confusing. Too soon either way to coordinate with your idea. So then it looks like the greater Harrisburg area needs a really cool event for us "geeks". Maybe someone here has ideas... even if they are not able to attend ???

I can probably help out somehow... and I am only about 1 hour away. I would be interesting in hearing from others about events they have attended. The closest thing I myself have went to is one of those computer shows at the Farm Show complex --- which might be a good idea to plan on holding your event on or around one of those.

Did you try a right click ? This could give you a context menu where you could get something done ? This reminded me of something that just happened here. I boot to the cli and usually type "kde" to fire up KDE, but this time I typed "startx" instead and for some strange reason I found myself in BLACKBOX, which lacks any icons.

This is my over-simplified plan... not knowing any other particulars with you or your setup: 5 GB / (root) 5 GB /home 512 MB swap (= amount of ram or 512 MB, whichever is LESS ) 30 GB /storage ( format fat32 if you want access from windows/mac )

I am a k3b user, so I am not too sure about x-cd roast, but did you install lame from PLF ? That may be the ticket to converting the mp3 to audio format... well I think it was for k3b anyway. I am also trying to catch up on some audio recordings, but have found I can't record in the "CD plus" format. I tried "mixed mode," but those don't play in my car stereo, so I am forced to reboot and use nero :(

I am not really sure, but I believe it's windows ActiveX that allows these browser hijackings that are popular these days... AND those popups that state "you have spyware" are the culprits that are doing the infecting (not sure, but there seems to be a patter here). So I believe, those browser hi-jackings ain't gonna happen... but as for tracking, we still have cookies, which can report where we have been.

Yes, journeys1, I can get the updates for 9.2 @ ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...dates/9.2/RPMS/ But seeing I am now running 10 CE, I have urpmi configured for this: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...ates/10.0/RPMS/ Once I realized 10 CE wasn't getting any more updates and about to go final (right before the screw up with gnome 2.6 and also the mix up with the ftp tree) I stop from updating anything from the /dev or /cooker branches. This is from Mandrake's download page: So its been 5 days since they should be back up... so if you have reconfigured your sources properly, they should be working by now. Maybe the mirror your using is still possibly toast for some reason ? I would double check the URLs and see if you can browse anything on that server

If you do as Ix stated, don't forget to choose the "expert install"... which really means "custom install" when translated. :P

journeys1, The mirrors did not actually go down. Everything has been rearranged and things are not where they used to be. Such as, what used to be: /pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/ /pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ is now: /pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ /pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/ Plus there may not be anything to upgrade yet... only some kde stuff, mplayer, and a slightly updated kernel and sources, as far as I can see.

I heard they are working on using another portal system. But that won't emliminate themselve's from being a target. I believe there are only two requirements you must meet in order to be hacked. 1) You are connected to the internet or another computer 2) Your machine is ON Other then that everything is hackable !--- and to increase your chances --- just use anything that allows any sort of scripting or programming that adds interactivity to your sight, whether its SQL, PHP, PERL, CGI, ASP, etc. The more the website offers, the more chances to increase the number of security holes. The more popular the program, the more popular it becomes to script kiddies. Why even the "best" of them have holes: http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?...howtopic=116163 (I just found one to list here, that happens to have the fix there too, just in case ;) , tho I am sure anon has everything up-to-date )

I don't know, I am confused... but I would try this: /pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ so then if, CE packages on OE = asking for trouble does, OE packages on CE = playing it safe ??? (I don't want to live on the "cutting edge" NO more, I got tricked into it in the first place)

/me confused too ! And seeing peeps such as us (that are at least a bit familiar with Mandrake now) are all confused on the simple things, like installing an app --- do we dare imagine what it is going to be like for newbie windows converts ? Currently running the version 10 Community Edition (with all updates before the mirror mess) I decided to dive head first into all of this tonight and went ahead and added the new 10 Official sources and began updating. This Official Edition was just released today, and I already installed 20 megs of updates (mostly kde) and also a new kernel in addition. So far, things are still running like they were. (* note I do not have gnome installed... so I can't speak for it or its updates)

:o CE, OE, final, development, stable, unstable, cooker... If you weren't confused before... you will be now ! :P As for slow transfers with BT, be sure to have TCP ports 6881-6889 open.

downgrade ??? rpm -U --oldpackage [package] Running 10CE with updates till about 2 weeks ago (the last updates I had seen). According to my "About KDE" it says I am running: Here's the rpms I have installed: [scoopy@localhost scoopy]$ rpm -qa | grep kde libkdebase4-konsole-3.2-79mdk kdebase-kate-3.2-79mdk kdebase-progs-3.2-79mdk libkdecore4-3.2-36mdk kdepim-common-3.2-32mdk kdepim-kmail-3.2-32mdk kdepim-kaddressbook-3.2-32mdk libkdemultimedia1-kscd-3.2-14mdk kdemultimedia-kmix-3.2-14mdk kdeutils-kdepasswd-3.2-18mdk kdepim-knotes-3.2-32mdk galaxy-kde-kwin-1.0.0-5mdk galaxy-kde-1.0.0-5mdk libkdebase4-kate-3.2-79mdk libkdebase4-3.2-79mdk kdebase-konsole-3.2-79mdk libkdebase4-nsplugins-3.2-79mdk kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.2-79mdk libkdepim2-kpilot-3.2-32mdk libkdepim2-common-3.2-32mdk libkdepim2-kaddressbook-3.2-32mdk libkdeutils1-kcalc-3.2-18mdk libkdepim2-knode-3.2-32mdk kdelibs-common-3.2-36mdk libkdemultimedia1-kmix-3.2-14mdk kdebase-servicemenu-10.0-7mdk kdeutils-kfloppy-3.2-18mdk kdemultimedia-kscd-3.2-14mdk kdeutils-kcharselect-3.2-18mdk kdenetwork-kget-3.2-17mdk kde-i18n-en_GB-3.2.0-4mdk libkdepim2-korganizer-3.2-32mdk libkdepim2-kontact-3.2-32mdk kdeartwork-3.2-6mdk kdepim-knode-3.2-32mdk kdeutils-ark-3.2-18mdk kdeartwork-kde-classic-3.2-6mdk kdebase-common-3.2-79mdk kdebase-nsplugins-3.2-79mdk libkdepim2-kmail-3.2-32mdk libkdeutils1-ark-3.2-18mdk kdeutils-kcalc-3.2-18mdk libkdemultimedia1-common-3.2-14mdk kdemultimedia-common-3.2-14mdk kdegraphics-ksnapshot-3.2-15mdk kdebase-kdm-3.2-79mdk kdeaddons-searchbar-3.2-15mdk