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neither decompress .EXE archives winzip on wine worked for me.

aaah - i've got Winzip running under Wine - i'll give that a shot.

the driver linked to from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net is a .exe file - how do i unpack that in Linux? its the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

no - my /etc/modprobe.preload has the following: evdev nvram intel-agp there isnt a ifcfg-wlan0 - Mdk 10.1 detected it on eth1 so i have a ifcfg-eth1 - I set it to use a static address rather than DHCP in the hope that it would increase boot time (it seems to just hang for 3 minutes during boot...) DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.48 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=any Also in the /etc/sysconfg/network-scripts there's a ifup-wireless

i'm having the same problem - fresh 10.1 official install on a HP nx9030, intel 2200 wireless. The 2200 is detected by mandrake on eth1 , but it fails to load. is this a bug with mandrake?

Watford Electronics online savastore has a range of Aries laptops - just wondering if anyone has experience of installing Mandrake or any other distro on one of these? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

I'd just like to say thanks to everyone whos replied - a lot of info and hints and links there. Artificial -> a break down of how you got your desktop like that would be appreciated! Seriously deserving of that monthly award. Wow!

you dont need Samba so - just ssh in Konqueror. set up a public-private key between your work and home computer so that you can ssh:// into your home box easily.

i like this one "XFace support for associating faces with mail and news articles" Plan 9 influence? (plan 9 faces , top left): http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/screenshot.html

just saw the screenshot - YES!!!! Gmail in Konqueror ! downer - that annoying kwallet thing is still there.... in the last mandrake release you had to urpmi "kwalletmanager" in order to switch the damn thing off - VERY annoying as it took me a day or two to figure that out. if kde 3.4 allows me to easily disable kwallet without having to download extra stuff, then i'm ok with that.

cant wait.... indeed! just showed a friend off mine today how I rip MP3s using the audiocd:// kio-slave in konqueror.... his words "woaaaah - now that f**king rocks!!!"

just read my local paper , and the local primary school has taken delivery of 20 Windows XP boxes. Which got me thinking - how would the school take it if i went down and offered 20 MandrakeMove or Knoppix CDs to them? Has anyone managed to do this and evangelise a Linux solution to a school? Just wondering... as I really hate to see schools spending money on a crappy, insecure and costly OS - and your story might give me enough courage to go down to the headmaster of that school armed with 20 MandrakeMove CDs. [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman]

if you had a Phd in computer science, i'd be recommending the Plan 9 operating system - want to play an mp3 on your laptop with the audio coming out of the speakers of your desktop in another room? import the desktop /dev/audio and pipe the mp3 to it. NOTE - this is NOT the same as going down to the desktop and playing via Samba an mp3 on your laptop. In the Plan 9 case you are sitting at your laptop and literally pushing the audio across the wire to the sound card on the desktop - different thing altogether. (and it works across the internet too - Plan 9 boxes can import a TV card iin Japan say, and watch the TV card output of a Plan 9 box in Tokyo. You can also push your mp3 out a soundcard in America say, while video-conferencing with someone - maybe showing off your latest music collection to that person) http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ admittedly it's real rocket-science experimental stuff, but undoubtedly we'll see more of this stuff making its way over to Linux proper in the years to come. (some of the chief architects of Plan 9 now work for Google) But back to Linux - if you want an easy streaming solution ,you might want to check out Dyne-Bolic, which is a bootable CD multimedia distro , specifically aimed at audio and video apps. Worth checking out. http://www.dynebolic.org/

celestia is even more awesome - just do a urpmi celestia full 3D solar system (you fly around it) , background constellations and much much more.

the filter bit is what you need to add. it will gain a lot of traction and a lot of notice then.

Oh -forgot to mention - TuxPaint rocks!!! kids love it - dead easy for younger kids to pick up mouse skills from it. Well, thats what i observed when i showed it to a visiting 5 year old cousin of mine and his 7 year old brother and let them have a go at it. of course the exposure to this "KDE" desktop weirdness provoked a lot of questions, but thats another story... AAAH - they'll be bash shell hackers by the age of ten if i have my way...

Is there some sort of filtering software in that distro so that kids cant visit adult/violent websites? Or some sort of mechanism where the parent can state (as root) that he/she will only allow the kid to visit THESE particular sites. That facility would really get a heck of a lot of people interested, especially in this era of porn pop-ups appearing on Windoze machines that young kids use nowadays. happened to a neighbour of mine - his 8 year old kid had over 200 spyware things running around his system, with lots of porn hijacking and pop ups - i wiped it and installed Mandrake instead. And no - the porn wasnt the pop-star soft porn that any 8 year old might be curious about - it was WAAAY more serious thanks to the kids usage of IE on an unprotected Windoze system. So, some sort of rock solid "walled garden" thing would be great -i'd then feel ok about giving out the CD to parents who want to let their 5 year old say "explore the internet". Right now ,parents cant even dream of doing that.

No - dont do that . You'll end up with a highly customised system that may turn out to be a right pig to do a Mandrake upgrade to in future. The Mplayer thing sounds like a CODEC issue - if memory serves me right,Mandrake doesnt ship with all of the correct codecs due to patent issues -you can usually get them from the PLF sources via URPMI. Google for "Easy Urpmi" and follow the instructions - add the PLF source and search for "mplayer" in the rpmdrake "Install Software" program. Before doing that you might want to try out "Kaffeine" instead of mplayer - if its not in the same menu as Mplayer just do a urpmi kaffeine (as root) from Konsole Kaffeine is a native KDE application.

a lot of valid points there gmac. sometimes i feel that the UK gov is walking into an unimaginably huge I.T. disaster. Meanwhile, the French and Germans are doing their best to start a grassroots Linux industry, independent of Microsoft - which ultimately will have spin-off companies that'll benefit the French and German economies. The UK strategy will ultimately result in a de-skilling of the UK workforce, badly prepared for the enivitable Chinese technical onslaught that is surely coming. I really must brush up on my French and get that property in the south of France!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/08/nh..._deal_analysis/ An analysis by The Register on the NHS/Microsoft deal - very scarey stuff, considering its the health sector in the UK.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mandrake French government contracts: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mandrakesoft launch “Open Source” solution for Internet in Africa French Ministry of Equipment chooses Mandrakesoft to migrate 1,500 office and infrastructure Windows NT servers to Linux By way of comparision, here's some British contracts John Prescott's £50 million web site is useless crock MS Windows. Taxpayers money wasted: £50 million 80,000 desktops blue screen at Department of Work and Pensions MS Windows. £400 million contract with EDS & Microsoft. National Health Service signs £500 million deal with Microsoft MS Windows , again. You can see where this is heading, cant you? *sigh* I really must get around to going back to night school and brush up on my French, because we've got a UK government that simply does not understand or want to understand the benefits of Linux. The way things are heading, France will be THE place to be in Europe for Linux development in the next decade. I might be wrong, i've got a strong hunch about it.

Mandrake 10.1 uses XOrg - it's already compiled for you. I dont quite understand your problem - have you installed Mandrake and does it launch the KDE desktop? If so, then your graphics card has been detected and is working ok.

strange - that font config makes my fonts even worse. i added autohint and antialiasing settings. but that Register site still looks blocky. this is getting frustrating.

It's not that -I've got those Windows fonts installed already. And the blocky font problem only occured after I upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1. My best guess is that it has to do with the move from XFree to XOrg If anyone out there has done a fresh install of 10.1 Official , could you post your /etc/fonts/local.cf file?

I really cant figure out why this is happening. Below is The Register website when I view it in Konqueror - note how the text is "blocky" And yet, when I load up Gnome based Epiphany browser in KDE I get smoother fonts. Note that Epiphany is using a "san-serif" font However, when I look in the KDE font config area , I dont see a "sans-serif" font Any idea what's going on here? The Register website stylesheet is using font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; maybe because of that "sans-serif" bit , Konqueror isn't finding a font and using a blocky non-aliasing fallback ? My system is Mandrake 10.1 , upgraded from 10.0 [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]