tyme

an approximate translation (I do not know french, I used an online translator) of the error message:

A problem occurred during the loading of sysinfo: /:

The process treating the protocol sysinfo stopped in an unexpected way.

I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the sysinfo package to see if that resolves the problem.

1) You should upgrade to firefox 2.0 anyways (in fact it may be prudent to update to a more recent version of Mandriva)

2) What site is telling you you can't view it? The only time Firefox is "incompatible" with a website is if they are using ActiveX controls, or some other IE-specific tools. Otherwise, they're lying to you.

I think I would be more confident if I had ever heard of Darwin before...

Just for clarification purposes, Darwin is the Unix base (although largely FreeBSD-based) that OS X runs on.

 

OS X keeps all of it's GUI applications (and some others) in /Applications/, and each one has it's own directory - though to a person using Finder to view applications, these directories would seem to be executables, as when you double click them the relevant application opens instead of the contents being revealed. This is also why the open command is used to start applications in /Applications/, because you don't really have access to a (binary?) executable (in the way you do with other OS's).

Yeah, having control was the reason they made their own, IIRC.

 

I think they did offer some of the mods/admins here some sort of incentive to help them with the forum (or some attempt to have the people here go there), but the mods/admins turned the offer down. I may be remembering incorrectly, though...

* I find the Board Guidelines a bit draconian. Sure, it is a good idea to moderate the forum and nip ad hominem attacks at the bud, but reading your PC guidelines just turns me off. It is enough to stop me from signing up [not that I would be missed anyway].

Well, it's the same guidelines that are in place here, pretty much.... :unsure:

But having the raw source in svg form is handy so that it's easier to edit and regenerate.

Aye. I used this technique when creating a graphic for my friends game company (their game is still in dev, writing it all from the ground up).

I'm both, that's why dreamweaver is nice; you can switch between the two, and it has shortcuts for commonly used html, php, css, etc...

I'm not a WYSIWYG type...so in Linux I usually use screem for web page development, with GIMP for images. (admittedly, most of my development is done in OS X now)

 

For vector graphics try Inkscape.

You probably won't be using svg's in web development, unless you create them and export them to a raster. Most browsers do not support svg.

that depends. are you a coder or a designer? i.e., do you know HTML/CSS/etc. or do you use programs that auto-generate the code based on a design that you visually put together?

I'm beginning to think that maybe it is time for her to have kids, just to keep her occupied. :P

She hm...has kids... :unsure:

Just for the record, I like cake.

If I had seen this in the half hour between you first in second posts...i coulda helped.

 

:D

If the government wants to find out your IP address, chances are nothing short of unplugging your computer and never getting online again will stop them.

aphelion just said ramfree was gowatorial!

Wow...I miss a page of this thread and suddenly mysti is considering resigning and apparently some people have a problem with her starting her own project?

 

Come on! I may have been critical of the idea, but I certainly would never think she was doing it to pull people away from this board, or that she would ever do anything to harm this board. Nor would I suggest that she shouldn't do something she wants to do!

oddly enough, I don't use Mandriva because I can't dig as deep as I want to...

Desktop: Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Windows (for gaming) and some other Linux installs that I don't even boot anymore. There may even be a Mandriva one, but I voted the last option anyways.

Laptop: OS X (a few OS's installed under Parallels)

YinYeti is right, that's an error coming back from the server - in this case Myspace. Myspace is notorious for having problems with their server. There is nothing you can change on your PC that would resolve this, as your PC isn't the problem.

eg, port 22 for secure shell access.

If you are using ssh, it's probably a good idea to configure it to run on a port other than 22 (a non-reserved port, obviously) as this will cut down on brute force attacks - automated brute force scripts rarely do a scan before trying to connect to ssh, so they just hit the default port and if nothing is there move on.

You didn't even need to create that. All you had to do was change the configuration settings in your player like both I and aphelion suggested. This would be a more proper solution.

I would like to see tyme in a dress.

No. :P

 

No, for real...I know there's an HCL, but it would be nice if we had a user-contributable list of specific hardware and whether or not it works with Linux and what they had to do to get it to work with whatever distro.

I like that idea. Wikipedia-style hardware list, "this has a linux driver", how to get it to work, general info on what distro's include the drivers/etc.

If this project fails, you cynics can happily rock back in your chairs, and bring the "I told you so's"

No one here is interested in seeing it fail, nor are we interested in saying "I told you so". That's what seems to be missed. Our (I think iph and I are the main "cynics", I guess) points are intended to help. You can reject them and go on your marry way...or you can consider them seriously and likely improve the chances of this thing getting off the ground. Choice is yours (or, mysti's, I suppose).

 

I don't particularly care, it seems my input isn't needed, or at the very least isn't wanted.

I messed with a lot of different config options, but everything is working now. Two notes that may be important:

with authenticating over SMTP (via saslauthd) it contacts the IMAP server. I only had IMAP-SSL enabled, by default saslauth wants regular IMAP (on port 143). Specifying the SSL port didn't resolve the problem: I assume there's a config option somewhere to make saslauth use SSL, but I didn't bother doing the research and instead just started up regular imap and things seem to be working find and dandy now.

Could one of the reasons for falling numbers be due to the fact that so many admins. and mods. openly advertise here that they don't even use Mandriva ???.

What would you expect them to do? If they choose not to run Mandriva, should we take away their status? Or perhaps we should just tell them they can't mention what distro they're using, or ask questions about it? One of the things that I've always found true at this place is that, for those who choose to run other distributions (sometimes more "hardcore", for lack of a better word), the knowledge they gain only helps in solving problems here on the board.

This really isn't something that you should need a plugin for, as it's a configuration change, not a new feature. Chances are the "plugin" that Ubuntu includes is either just their changes to the configuration or some internal piece. Though the code is probably download-able from their repositories, I don't know where...

I think the point is you should try to do what you can before releasing the site to avoid some of those initial "bumps in the road". One thing is to be sure you have a dedicated base group of individuals who are willing to be involved from the start, to help build it up. That is, don't just expect people to follow where you lead, rather, make sure you have some that are definitely going to follow. I hope that sounds right/makes sense...and doesn't come off as being devils advocate-esque :P