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Available at: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39157635,00.htm If any of you in the UK plan on visiting, this should be a good guide to use when you talk to Microsoft about Linux, covering security, TCO, maintenance, etc. Have at it everyone! A cool article!

The announcement is here: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelo...06/msg00799.php B)

Hey Michel! That would be awesome! I am not in a hurry, nor I want to push anyone or anything. But thanx a bunch!

I don't know how popular GIS software is among users, but I for one, find them tremendously useful. I would love to see Quantum GIS (http://qgis.sf.net/) in an RPM format. The current versions is 0.2, and I have yet to find an RPM for Mandrake (there is a SuSE one I believe). The use for this is probably towards academians or people seriously using GIS in another field. Another application on the same lines is GRASS (http://grass.baylor.edu//), a complete GIS package first developed by the US Military. It is GPL'ed and has an installer (.sh script), but still, an RPM would be nice. There is one for the stable version (5.0) but the current development version is 5.7 if I recall well. The interesting thing is, GRASS is text-based, while QGIS (see above) has created a plugin to introduce a GUI to the application that is much more professional and efficient. These are the RPMs I am looking for around the internet and could not find yet. If you would be so kind to create them, I would be grateful.

In MDK 9.2 (and I believe as old as 7.x series) included a DNS cache service, that would save most dns searches, considerably minimizing the DNS search time. My DNS search times in 10CE are extremely slow, and it is not a problem with my ISPs DNS as I am aware of. I cannot find any information on this, so if anyone can help me on this, I would be grateful.

I've had the same problem myself. What I noticed is that there is no obvious DNS cache app in MDK10, which begs for the question: shouldn't there be a DNS cache somewhere to speed up the DNS searches? I did notice that mozilla/firebird/etc always try to resolve the server, even when I browse pages on the same server. Something wrong?

I actually fixed the problem by erasing my .openoffice directory. It started just fine after that, no more questions asked.

Running OOo after first installing MDK10 brings me up the installation thing for open office, instead of running the program. I assume there is a problem and it doesn't get installed correctly. Anyone wants to verify that with me?

A Suggestion: A Groklaw Documentation Project Read all about it. More positive feedback anywhere else recently? It seems MDK is going up! Of course, she does complain a bit about the menu system and such little things, but hey! We can't have everything!

I am about to install MDK10CE and I want my TV Tuner (embedded in the graphics card) to work. I love listening to TV background noise while I am debugging the LaTeX of my thesis. Anyone had any success getting gatos to work? If I remember well, they said it is possible to work with AIW Radeon cards. If anyone tried this (successfully) let me know!

Quoted from MandrakeSoft.com: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products In other words... We don't get enough people testing our RCs, so we renamed them, so people might take the time to test the and report bugs. That will make our final releases this time look more like final releases rather than RC.

Hey guys! Thank you so much for the advice. My gf said she already had more offers for being a valentine to other guys around here I know of, after they heard of the iPod. Get in line guys... It's going to be long... And you will have to wait at least 60 more years...

My gf bought me a brand new iPod (15GB) and I was wondering what can I do to run it on my Mandrake machine. Is there a program equivalent of the legendary iTunes? What about the calendar, notes, etc. features? Any compatible programs?

i have search the forum and found numerous people having similar problems. My system: Pentium4 2.6GHz 512MB dual channel 400MHz 120GB hard drive Lite-on LTR-52327S CD Writer JLMS DVD-Rom Booting into CD1... Everything works fine until the installation procedure tries to load the image file into memory (first thing after the basic hardware detection). That's where I get the freeze. Checking the messages only gives an error about not able to access hdb... hmm... Tried passing out my own parameters... noapci - No change nodma - No change noapci nodma - No change ide2=0x180,0x386 - No change ACPI is disabled in the BIOS as well (also tried with it enabled and only disabled in the installer). The error remains the same no matter what. I may need to add that I checked the MD5 sums as well as burn at slow speeds (I have 3 copies of MDK9.2 so far). Any ideas on what I might do next? Please note I have no floppy disk or the bandwidth to do the ftp install. Michalis

I will install MDK9.2 on a friend's computer. She has P4 2.6 with 512MB RAM. One partition, NTFS, 120GBs. Will the Mandrake installer correctly resize an NTFS partition, or is there chance of loosing information? She has way too much data on it to just burn them on a couple of CDs. Should I go ahead or not? Anything special I should do? Michalis

making distros can be hard Or easy. people made a lot of work on them, and since all the work is GPL, you can use it. I had the idea myself too in the past, but it was different. I wanted a distro that I could install at school at our computers. That means consistency, LSB, ease of use, and above all, a single application to a single task. ie. Mozilla as a browser only, OpenOffice only as an office suite, sylpheed, etc But not a huge range of applications. I want it to look like a windows box when you first install it, so people can instantly have a usable system, but they should have the ability to upgrade.

I had the same debate a month ago. 9.1 boots up faster for me... Shutdown time is a bit longer, but I don't mind that anyway... Look and feel is much much better. Still needs some work, but hey :) The things I noticed from friends... If you don't download the updates during installation, you will have lots of problems. If you don't have broadband, I wouldn't overwhelmly suggest it, unless you download all the updates before you do the installation.

I've been using MDK for 2 years now, and by what I figured out, if you want a cool looking OS, you need to be TeXstar's best friend. So what applications/games do you suggest for a very functional and entertaining desktop? Here are some of the ones I love using: Karamba (monitoring) Gkrellm (monitoring) Licq (online messaging - ICQ clone) OpenOffice (word-alike) Abiword (word-alike) Evolution (Email client - outlook-alike) LaTeX (publishing - AMAZING) XMMS (multimedia player - good for mpegs too) mPlayer (movie player) Anyone wants to follow with other suggestions?

According to the rsync website and mailing list, the code errors mean that rsync could not retrieve some files, or, to put it more exact, it could not verify it got one of the files or connection correctly. This is a huge problem with rsync and there are millions of references on google about it. Them sot bizarre one I saw was that rsync would refuse to download some files for some reason, because of the owner/group tag, eventhough they were publicly available. Oh well...

Check imagemagick if you want But my camera delivers images in the right resolution, so I need to do nothing other than resize. But seriously, the best way is a simple perl script using image magic. List contents of directory, take each picture, consider zero the middle and crop 2" up and down from the center, 3" right and left. Not really hard to do.

I will after I get home I am at work now, playing around through SSH so...

Yeah, got it straight It seems my DVD player wouldn't read them, so I unplugged it, make the CD-R primary CD ROM and booted from there. But I am still striving with it. Volume thing hadn't anything to do with it Moving on...

Supermount could be the problem I will try it up and ask again I guess. I didn't see the sound settings yet, but I have the volume set through gkrellm and it's at the loudest with no sound coming

I am sure these were mentioned somewhere else before, but I can't find the posts. Please forgive the repetition... Sound. SounBlaster Live! Value: Won't play any sounds for some reason. Also recognised as TriTech TR 28602 for some reason still beyond me. HardDrake does say it's SBLive! but applications see it as the TriTech. CD-ROMs: For some reason, eventough I can mount all CDs/DVDs just fine, I always get an input/output error and can't read the contents of them. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Please note both of the above problems didn't exist before the installation of 9.1, so I am assuming it's something with my configurations. Thank you for your time

Sometimes more than 15 a month, but usually 7-15 The reason? When I start XawTV, Mozilla, Evoluion and GTK-Gnutella together, my MDK 9 seems to complain by crushing the computer completely. It freezes the whole system, I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to shut down the X Server, so I am assuming it's something at the kernel level going down. I ahve a PIII-750 with 512MB Ram... Also consider the fact I use my computer as a web server and MySQL server, doing considerable work in the background for GIS (Geographic Information Systems). I am not complaining, I couldn't even imagine doing half the work in Windows. One more complaint. Whenever I tried to open up a specific web page, my linux box crashes. Here is the URL for all in need of adventures. http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/ Please note, the whole computer simply freezes with my Mozilla (1.1 with all the plugins around). Yes, I do use lynx to view it. No need to suggest it :) :)