mtweidmann

To be honest I wouldn't be that worried about things like browser identification & IP maquerading. IMHO you'd be better just setting up a decent firewall and some sensible cookie options. Plus be careful what you install, Linux is generally more secure than Linux but it can't protect you from everything. A good site for testing firewalls is: https://www.grc.com/

A lot of the packages in the 9.2 repositories probably will work, but not all. MDK 9.2 has a different, kernel, libraries, etc... which will break a lot of dependancies.

To use Realplayer in KDE I had to adjust the command that Konqueror runs to launch it. So I went Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations then searched for "ram" and editted the entry for "RealPlayer G2". I changed the excute tab to read "soundwrapper realplayer", which works fine. BUT every couple of days it forgets that I've made the changes. GRRRR Why does it always forget?

Thanks everyone have now got it working properly.

This month's Linux Format magazine has a brief review/comparison of joysticks. It gives the Logitech Freedom 2.4GHx a rating of 8/10.

I'm writing a program in C++ which is spread across several different files. I've got a header file called "DataStructures.h" which strangely enough defines the layout of a couple of structs I use for storing data. Now these data structures are used thoughout my code, so are #included in all my other files. So the layout of my code looks something like this: The main program main.cpp (#includes DataStructures.h, class1.h and class2.h) Several files that have classes, all of which use my data structures class1.cpp/.h (#includes DataStructures.h) class2.cpp/.h (#includes DataStructures.h) The problem is my compiler then complains that my 2 data structures are declared multiple times within main.cpp which is true. As DataStructures.h is included within both of the class header files it gets it 3 times over. I've sort of got around this by daisy chaining the include statements but this is annoying. Is there some sort of command that says don't include if already included?

Sounds like your home directory has some how got dodge permissions set. Not sure this will work, but its worth a try. Trying booting using failsafe, and choose not to start X when it asks you. When you get to the log-in prompt login as root and then run "kde". This should hopefully start up KDE without any permission errors. Open up konqueror, go to the /home directory and select your user's directory the right-click properties. Set both the user and group permissions to that of the user. Reboot normally and see what happens.

The permissions a partition has is set when it is mounted, you can't use chmod. You need to make a minor change in your fstab. /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=007,gid=500,codepage=850 0 0 The above line is from my fstab file. The umask and gid bits say to give user group 500 (gid) read write access. I wanted to give a group rather than an individual user access hence gid but you could also have used "uid" for a user. You can find out the gid or uid numbers from UserDrake.

IIf you are just worried about your settings there might be an easier way of doing it. Most of the settings are stored in /home so you could copy of that directory temporarily to a CD or other computer then paste them back after re-installing on the new drive.

Thanks thats great. :)

To share your printer you have to have a Samba server running. If you go into Mandrake Control Centre and look under the Wizard tab you should see the option for configuring Samba. One of the options the wizard gives you is to share your printer. I don't know how well this works or what you have to do the windows machines but it should get you started. Edit: (If you don't see the Wizards tab go into the software installer and do a search for "wizard" and install the appropiate packages. Then re-start the Control Centre and it should appear)

I'm confused all the packages on that site are 3.1.92 not 3.2 eh?

The first thing I'd check is that the hard drive is connected properly. Is it listed in the BIOS configuration? My housemate has a SATA controller and its BIOS is seperate to the main motherboard BIOS. For it to work we had to enable SATA in the main BIOS and then configure it in the SATA BIOS. Its not worth trying to install an OS until the hard drives are properly detected and configured. Note: I hate you, I want an AMD64

Hi, A friend from Uni is having trouble setting up his DHCP client, he is trying to do it all himself (from scratch). We thought it might help if we compared my settings to his as we have very similar set us. But where are earth does Mandrake keep them?? I've be prodding around my system but I can only find scripts not configurations.

alternatively: kdesu kate /the/path/to/your/file.conf Using KDESU will mean that only that app is launched with root permissions. Be careful when editting config files directly as computers are very picky, even the slightest typo could be be a show stopper. I'd go along with Kuchwas and recommend using a graphial tool like Webmin.

Thanks :)

One of the problems is that different distributions put things in slightly different places and call them slightly different names. These slight differences be enough to make software go wrong, so try to stick to rpms with mdk in the name. There is a project called Linux Standards Base (LSB) which is trying to standarise the distros (in terms of file system and naming). This eventually (at least I hope) will make it easier to install software on diferent distros.

I'm really happy with 9.2 it working really well on both my desktop and laptop. I've only had minor issues with running RealPlayer and some of my Samba shares. So my verdict is ->

There was a project to make a bootable CD version of Mandrake. I had a copy of it and it used to work quite well. http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-linux/

Can you get RealOne for Linux? DragonMage Thanks for the tip about the soundwrapper!

I use Kopete and no it doesn't crash when I close it. There is a more recent version of it than the one that ships with MDK 9.2 which is what I am using. If you haven't already I would recommend upgrading to it.

If your partition is corrupted trying to write over coulf cause you all sorts of problems. I'd go a long with the start from scratch advice although I prefer ext3 to ReiserFS personnally. Its worth checking whether your /home partition is still ok, as if yu can save it at least all your documents+settings will be in tact.

OK I've I don't know whoes question I'm answering, but I have a Hauppauge WinTV Theatre TV+Radio card and it works perfectly with Mandrake.

Ok I've managed to find a work round. I now have both windows as Forms rather than Frames which seems to work. But if anyone knows what I was doing wrong originally I'm still like to know. joker

I know this is Windows stuff, not Linux but hopefully one of you knows what I am doing wrong. :) I'm trying to write a small Windows app in C++ for Uni, using Borland Builder 5. the app is meant to have a main window with various components on. One of these is a button for creating a new file. When this button is clicked I wanted a new window to open, you type settings into it and then it closes. The program compiles and the main window displays (and works) properly, but the sub-window will not open. The main window class is called TForm1 and is a decendant of the TForm class. The sub-window is called TFrame2 is a decendant of the TFrame class. Because its created dynamically (ie not there all the time) this is how I'm trying to get the new window to open. TFrame2* NewDesign; NewDesign = new TFrame2(this); I know the function that runs this code is being executed, but no window appears. do I ahve to call some extra functions? HELP!! :(