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  1. Editing Videos

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by tux99

    I think your PC is powerful enough for the task, it's more likely that openshot isn't, after all it's written in python which isn't exactly known to be very fast and efficient.

     

    Maybe try a different video editing software (can't give you any suggestions as I don't do video editing).

  2. Sticking with 2008.1

    in Software

    Posted

    Basically use the PC for business and rely on:

     

    OO (or LO if available for mdv 2008.1)

    need to upgrade grsync (or if luckybackup is available will use it)

    digikam

    any kind of .pdf viewer

    xsane seems OK

     

    Unfortunately those aren't packages that I use much so I haven't built any updated versions of them.

    With regards to pdf viewer, why don't you just get the latest acrobat reader from adobe?

    (just make sure you disable javascript in the acrobat reader options, to avoid security issues)

  3. Sticking with 2008.1

    in Software

    Posted

    Are there reasonably updated packages still available in ANY repos for MDV2008.1 and if so where might I find them and a list of version #?

     

    Thanks

     

    I also still have a PC running MDV2008.1, I have built some updated packages for it myself, what are you looking for specifically, maybe I can help.

     

    One of the packages I did was a backport of the MDV2009.0 2.6.27 kernel (32 bit) to 2008.1 with support for more than 4GB, in order to support newer hardware (the 2.6.24 MDV 2008.1 kernel has some serious USB related bugs with ATI chipsets).

  4. Is Mandrivausers dead?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    That is good to know. I am getting very close to needing an upgrade, but have not figured out what to do. My old 2008 Spring is not working well with this replacement MOBO. We fried the original MOBO and had to replace it, and ever since then a lot of stuff doesn't work. I suspect outdated drivers are to blame. I have been told by someone more knowledgeable than I that I could probably fix it by reinstalling what I have, but if I am going to go through a re-install, I think I want something newer anyway.

     

    I'm still running MDV 2008.1 too, but since I also upgraded my mobo like you I also had driver problems so I backported the 2.6.27 linux kernel (from MDV 2009.0) to MDV 2008.1. If you want it I could provide you my kernel RPM packages so you could try to see if 2.6.27 is new enough for your mobo.

    The backported kernel is the desktop version for 32bit. I also changed the config so that it supports more than 4GB RAM.

    It has been running absolutely stable here since I installed it.

  5. 2010.0: Host Protect Area Problem

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I went to Gigabyte site to check out what other BIOS revs they made since Dec 2008. I have rev F4. Since then they made 8 more revs ending at F12 dated Jan 2010 and none of these have anything to do with HPA -- at least from their gist of the revs.

     

    I strongly recommend a BIOS upgrade, the BIOS changelogs are never complete, they only list the most important changes, if at all, so it's very likely they have added the option to switch off the HPA in the meantime, if it's not already in your BIOS.

     

    I have a Gigabyte mobo too and it has that option, I can't check the exact naming as it's in a PC that runs 24/7 and I can't reboot it right now but you should be able to find it.

     

    The HPA is normally placed at the end of a disk and about 1MB big, so it's best to leave a couple of MB empty at the end of a disk when partitioning, this avoids any conflicts with the HPA, should it get created accidentally.

     

    I still continue to buy Gigabyte mobos, as they are by far the best quality mobos.

  6. 2010.0: Host Protect Area Problem

    in Hardware

    Posted

     

    So, I would appreciate any input on who is reverting back the HPA and with the same HPA size on both disks every time!

    Thank you.

     

    My mobo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R with Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 at 4Ghz. This is 2 years old. There is no other BIOS related software running.

     

    It's the mobo BIOS that is creating the HPA, especially Gigabyte BIOSes are notorious for that.

    The good news is that there is a BIOS option to turn this off, can't remember how it's called but you should be able to find it.

  7. mageiausers.org

    in Mageia

    Posted · Edited by tux99

    I'm not making people look bad, I let themselves do that if they want to.

     

    Oh yes you do and you are very good at that at the slightest hint of any criticism towards Mageia or the Mageia core-team, in fact you come across like a true Mageia-fanboi (in the worst meaning of the expression).

     

    The fact that you have kicked off another petty fight here doesn't surprise me at all.

     

    I don't want to bore anyone else here with details, but I just had an experience of this with wobo on his german mandrivauser.de forum.

     

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  9. possible intrusion into mandriva 2010.1 - trojan?

    in Security

    Posted

    Maybe because you guys are not random strangers, but are long time mandrivausers.org forum member strangers. I frequently consider the advice of you strangers, and often take such advice, seems to be working out quite well for me so far :thumbs:

    I meant actually letting somebody remotely log into their computer, not just advice in the forum.

     

    I do however suspect the OP doesn't have a real problem, but is perhaps more interested to read the replies than to solve an actual problem. It seems to me that anyone with a real problem would have mentioned some specific symptoms of the alleged problem in the first post, and also made a second post by now. Of course I could be mistaken.

    The thought that he/she is simply a Windows troll out to have some fun at our expense did cross my mind too...

  10. possible intrusion into mandriva 2010.1 - trojan?

    in Security

    Posted

    If this is a real post, then if you've been infected with a trojan, the fix is simple. Clean install! There's no other better way of making sure you are clean than doing this. They could have left behind all sorts of stuff.

     

    I agree, a clean install from CD/DVD is the only safe solution.

    Somehow I don't believe this is real though (seems more like FUD to me...), why would anyone who really has found a trojan on his box trust random strangers on the internet to fix his problem?

     

    I wouldn't connect to any machine that is infected with a trojan, because I don't want mine infected. I doubt anyone would.

     

    It's extremely unlikely that your machine would get infected just because you ssh onto an infected box, unless your PC is somehow insecure and the TROJAN is explicitly made to target anyone who connects to it, with the capability of scanning your box for vulnerabilities and the code to exploid any of them (like I said extremely unlikely, that would be the kind of super-trojan that only an entity with a lot of time/money to invest could make).

  12. Mageia Mailing-Lists Forum Gateway

    in Mageia

    Posted

    Well, it turns out that FUDforum is actually quite light and the virtual server provider (Linode) is quite good, their servers don't seem to be hopelessly overloaded like some of the cheaper VPS competition, so don't worry about it, use it as much as you like! :)

     

    In case you notice any problems, please let me know, thanks.

  13. Mageia Mailing-Lists Forum Gateway

    in Mageia

    Posted · Edited by tux99

    Since I'm not a fan of mailing lists and while gmane is a good option to follow the Mageia mailing-lists through a news reader, but not through the browser (their web interface is very primitve), I have set up an experimental ML forum gateway for the Mageia mailing lists.

     

    I have used the FUDforum BB software, that i mentioned in some other thread here a while ago, and I must say it works great. Of course FUDforum is no comparison to IPB, but it serves this particular purpose very well.

     

    The ML forum gateway is located here:

    http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/

     

    FUDforum automatically creates a forum user for every person/email address posting on the MLs, so anyone who has posted on the MLs since I started the ML forum gateway will already have an account on the forum, all you need to do is click on Login > Forgot Password to get a password emailed to you.

     

    To post to the MLs via the forum you will need to be a forum member AND a subscriber of the ML you are posting to (I can't help that, that's the way the MLs are set up and the Mageia guys were unwilling to change that), but of course you can read all posts and threads without being a ML subscriber or even a forum member.

     

    See instructions here:

    http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=81

     

    I will keep this Mageia ML forum gateway running until the Mageia guys implement a comparable functionality on the official forum, as they said they will do.

     

    In the meantime feel free to use my ML forum gateway, if you like! :)

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  15. forum?

    in Mageia

    Posted · Edited by tux99

    I guess there have been a lot of misunderstandings due to the difficulty to communicate with language barriers, opposite timezones, the noise on IRC and the ML, and the fact that the core team is probably a bit overwelmed and overworked by the first week of Mageia activity.

     

    I do believe it would have been a good choice to transform mandrivausers.org into the official english-language forum of Mageia, since mandrivausers.org has already so many Mandriva users registered (and we want to entice them to become Mageia users, don't we?) and so many posts and threads with useful information that would benefit Mageia, too.

     

    Even if this forum (mandrivausers/mageiausers.org) would need to be migrated (users + post history) from IPB to a FOSS forum software, it could still be a very good starting point.

     

    A busy forum requires quite a powerful server + storage space + bandwidth, it would make more sense for Mageia to take advantage of this free opportunity rather than spending donation money on it (which could be used for more important things like the build servers).

     

    My suggestion would be for all of the people involved (Paul, Raphael and Anne) to agree on a date/time when to have a chat ideally using skype or at least a private IRC channel without other distractions at the same time, to work it out.

    I think a good solution can still be found when putting aside misunderstandings.

     

    Anyway, that's just my suggestion, it's obviously up to you what you all will do.

  16. forum?

    in Mageia

    Posted · Edited by tux99

    Tux99 has been doing well in IRC :)

     

    Thanks, but not well enough as I wasn't able to change their mind about IPB...

     

    Anyway, as long as we have a Mageia forum soon, that will be still better than nothing and if Paul runs it, then I know it will be a great forum! :)

     

    Paul, will you be using myBB then? AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong) that's the only FOSS forum software that get's security patches quickly (which is crucial for a forum software).

  19. Mageia - a new Linux distribution

    in Mageia

    Posted

    The Mageia mailing-lists are now also available through gmane.org, where they can be read with the web browser or using nntp (with a suitable newsreader, like for example Seamonkey).

     

    mageia-dev:

    http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel

    nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel

     

    mageia-discuss:

    http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user

    nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user

     

    mageia-announce

    http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.announce

    nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.announce

     

    The announce list will only show up once it gets a first post.

  20. potential sad news on the horizon?

    in Mageia

    Posted

    I see there's already a wikipedia page on it now too!

     

    I must say I hate the phrase "Improve our understanding of computers and electronics devices users". Do you want to improve your understanding of computers? Do you want to improve your understanding of the users of electronic devices? :unsure:

     

    Yeah that gave me a headache too when I was doing the translation to italian, I understood it as in them (the devs) trying to improve their understanding of computer users and electronic device users (as in their needs, in other words make sure the distro is based on user needs and preferences).

  24. potential sad news on the horizon?

    in Mageia

    Posted

    I wonder however how much the migration-costs will be, setting up new servers, offices, etc.

     

    What migration costs? Mandriva already has an office with developers that work on the distro in Brasil (the former Conectiva staff and office), all it needs to do is increase staff in Brasil to compensate for the reduction of staff in Paris.

     

    The distro is not being developed for Brasil but rather from Brasil. I'd imagine the main focus will be for Russia, for that project of Linux in all Russian schools that the new investor is involved in.

     

    I don't see any problem for Mandriva the company (in fact if anything it's on a more stable financial footing now than 6 months ago), the potential concern for us users is how will the distro change (providing it will change)?

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