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You can probably get a recent RPM from rpm.pbone.net I forgot one thing on the removal list BTW - sorry if this was mentioned earlier, but you also need to rmdir /home/username/.mozilla Don't give up!

If you are having this many problems and have not yet built up a profile you can't stand to lose, here's the skinny: 1) Remove all existing Firefox as best you can. 2) Go to Firefox website and download the tar.gz archive 3) Unpack the archive (you can do this in GUI) somewhere in your home folder. Avoid any existing or previous locations. 4) Open konsole (do not su to root!) and navigate to that folder. 5) do this: ./firefox-installer (you should get the full GUI installer) 6) Once installed, create an application shortcut on your Desktop. Make it point to /yourfolder/firefox (the target is a shell script, NOT an executable binary). 7) You can click on the wheel icon during this process and select an icon. Scroll down and the Firefox icon should already be in there. Now you can click the icon on your Desktop and launch Firefox. Huzzah!

Leaving aside for now the issue of HD physical security, most BIOSes these days can be password-protected. I have a bottom-of-the-line Toshiba laptop that offers this, so you can't even use a boot-disk without knowing the password. Admittedly the password is only 8 characters, but I'm not aware of a software method to bruteforce this, so you would be stuck trying to bruteforce it manually... <please let me know if I'm incorrect, it happens quite a lot> As for the HD, these can be hardware-protected as well, and from what I read here it can be pretty tricky to use the drive again, never mind get at the data: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_20423260.html <you may want to just skip down to Darrel_fong's useful suggestions, it is a long thread> I agonise about this myself, but against the average housebreaker I think BIOS-level protection is a pretty good start. Somehow I doubt they'd just return it, but here's hoping...

I think - jump in here anyone if I'm wrong - Mandrakeonline is similar to Windows Update: priviledged, managed, user-friendly access to all the latest updates approved by Mandrakesoft, including third-party proprietary stuff that you'd get with a Powerpack box-set but not with the download version. Yes, it is a paid service but it's not compulsory or expected. You can keep your OS updated without it, there's just more manual work involved - and that's where EasyURPMI comes in. It gives you the list of active FTP mirrors, from which you can download the whole OS and updates, and generates the commands for you to issue so you can setup the URPMI program (whose graphical front-end is found in the Mandrake Control Center) to get what you need. If you've already set up an FTP source in Control Center, and it all works, there's no need to do it again. You should have, besides your CDs, these sources: main updates contrib [and, optionally...] plf jpackage That's where EasyURPMI comes in. It makes it simple to configure all these sources in one place.

Dead right. You'll probably be due another 500MB or so of updates, so get it out of the way. http://urpmi-addmedia.org/ will get you set up. Once you've executed the lines it gives you, do these # urpmi.update -a (this should have already been done though) # urpmi --auto-select If there are any errors of files not being found on the server, go back to easyurpmi and choose a different site. Lately it seems some mirrors have an up-to-date update list, but don't have the files to update. Make any sense? No, me neither... EDIT! Changed the address for EasyURPMI in light of late-breaking news! What's up there is right for the time being...!

You can edit this file to make win_c writeable, but I would advise against it. NTFS is not supported by Linux very well - it can read fine, but writing is very risky. And remember, if you mess it up, you cannot reinstall Windows without reinstalling Linux too - Windows will overwrite your boot-loader. You seem to have plenty of partitions - have you room for one more? If so, I suggest squeezing in another partition, making it FAT32 which is fully functional for both OSes. I've always done my partitioning prior to installing Mandrake, so I can't tell you the best way to go about this. Maybe one of our resident HD experts can step in?

The default install location for firefox (script that launches the binary firefox-bin) is in firefox-installer. So, you've already removed it.

After doing your best to remove old ndiswrapper, go and read this: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20356&hl= Once you've eradicated it fully, then try installing the 0.9.1 RPM from your CD / main source. It covers most recent chips.

There is an error - not so much a bug - with Mandrake and the wireless app. ndiswrapper. Before we get to that, two questions: have you added the word 'ndiswrapper' to the file /etc/modprobe.preload ? Also please post the contents of the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

Don't know why, but this bit has never worked for me. The card enables OK at boot, minus the kernel-panic I used to get if modprobing with the card already inserted, but wlan0 doesn't come up. From looking at the boot-output, it doesn't even seem to try bringing it up (unlike eth0 which isn't even configured!). Using Mandy 10.1OE, ndiswrapper 0.9.1 (preinstalled in OS), Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA card, and yes I have done ndiswrapper -m - Any ideas what could be wrong? I notice that Mandy also has a /etc/modules file as well as /etc/modprobe.preload - though it's empty! EDIT - Ah, maybe if I tried changing ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes in the ifcfg. Yep, that's done it. PS - I did a dmesg | grep ndis check, and the preinstalled version is 0.8 so I guess 0.9.1 must have come along in my updates. Ah well, it works so I'll not bother doing all the removal stuff above - too lazy

'ning I was wondering if there's a way that you can have Apache/ADVX have a different doc root for each logged-in user? In other words, whoever logs in, can bring up http://localhost/ and it will direct to /home/username/www/ I've heard of mod_rewrite being able to redirect requests according to environment variables, but I don't know if the needed variable (whatever it's called, LOGGED_IN_USER or something I guess) would be available to the server in this context. Any ideas?

That may well be true. I, umm, should have mentioned that when I upped my swap, I also upped to 10.1OE at the same time /coat

None of the above, nor the info on software-suspend, seems to correspond to my system. I'm using hibernate through Klaptop if that's any help.

Precisely...that's what (I believe) caused a very nasty b0rk for me just recently. Then I had 500MB swap, with 512MB RAM. Now I've got 800MB and hibernate works like a charm.

I had similar problems with suspend. Does hibernate work okay? NOTE - I wouldn't recommend trying it without a good size swap partition. I go with 1.5x the amount of RAM.

Cheers - bit over my head but I think I get the gist. So does that script run at hibernate/resume too?

Thanks, that works a treat! Why on earth is the prefs system so odd in Firefox? you have prefs.js (created by default) for most of the stuff in the menus, then you have user.js (which you have to create yourself) for a bunch of other (apparently undocumented) stuff. Is it some kind of legacy thing? I guess we could call this resolved, but I'd still like to hear about the hibernate/resume scripting thing. I'm sure it could come in handy for other things, and will fulfil the title of the question. Any thoughts?

That sounds more like it. Would save a lot of mucking about. I'd already symlinked the Linux bookmarks.html to a shared partition, but there was no equivalent for Win, so the being able to set it in configuration would be simpler all round. I'll give it a try and come back..

Also: another feasible option would be doing the import/export on Firefox open/close, that should be easy enough for the start/import part, but how then to catch the closing in order to export? And of course this method would not be proof against the hibernation case, if I still had the browser open when going into hibernation. Is this hopeless?

Hi all, Not sure what is the best way to approach this. Here's the sketch: I want to keep my Firefox bookmarks synchronised between my dual-boot WinXP and Mandy 10.1 desktops. At the very minimum, which is where I am now, I can have each OS import the other's bookmarks.html file at startup, and manually export before shutdown or hibernation. All the above is done by shell-scripts. My dream, though, would be to have the startup-import done automatically when resuming from hibernation as well, and similarly to export automatically before either shutdown or hibernation. I don't really want to rely on cron/Task Scheduler for the export, as that would mean waiting X minutes before shutting down/hibernating. So, any ideas?

Oh, no problem there - I lifted it straight out of the JS file you were using ;)

I can't actually get your form page, I get a 404. Is there a reason for the * in the field names? I can't be certain, but I would think javascript doesn't like special characters like this (it is also the arithmetic multiplication operator). If you only need content-validation for one field, don't bother with the linked script - it's far more than you need. Here's a simple function to check a field is non-empty: function isNonEmpty(field) { if(field.value=='') { alert('The field '+field.name+' must be filled!'); return false; } } Then you could check through all the fields like so: function isValid(form) { var checks = new Array('naam instantie','Gemeente','etc','blah'); for(i=0;i<checks.length;i++) if(!isNonEmpty(document.getElementById(checks[i])) return false; var goodMail = /^.+\@(\[?)[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/; if(!goodMail.test(form.email.value)) { alert('Email field is not valid.'); return false; } } Then add the handler to your FORM tag: <form name="myForm" action="nextpage.shtml" onsubmit="isValid(this);">

The text of the article suggests a whole year. What year though? UK tax year-end is early April (goes by weeks), accounting year-end is end September / early October (I think). Then again we ain't in the Euro yet, so who knows about France? Great to hear either way - from first impressions, I reckon Mandy 10.1 will further cement their future. Solid like Francophile bananas rejoice! </sorry>

latest: hibernate actually seems to work now, but not from the power button or lid (I've given up on those for the time being). This might be because I added the noapic and nolapic options to the boot command, as suggested elsewhere. When I use the hibernate option from Klaptop, there is a warning and something about USB, and 'doing a suspend instead'. Nevertheless, it writes to swap and FULLY powers-off. Power back on is fine too (after 2 attempts with a reboot between). GRUB starts loading, then it finds the image on swap and resumes from there. Sidenote: don't trust the '...and lock' options in klaptop. On resume, the screen was visible long enough to read everythin in my console before the screensaver kicked-in! It's interesting about the 'suspend instead' line. For a start, it was clearly still using swsusp after that point, and also, when I actually tried the 'suspend' option, that's when I DID get problems. I powered-on and just got a black screen - no Toshiba BIOS splash, no GRUB menu - and couldn't find any way to resume. I left enough time for a full reboot to occur, then tapped my power-button (which during normal operation does a normal shutdown, skipping the KDE prompt), but still nothing, so I was forced to do a hard reboot. Conclusions: resolved, but I ain't about to start doing endurance-testing on it.

Just got 10.1OE fresh-intalled and I'm in NO HURRY to try hibernating again, thank you very much...! But oddly, before I did the install, the attempted-resume happened again! Also when I looked in grub.conf I found the resume=/dev/hda6 item had been replaced! Don't know how the dickens that happens, quite annoying. I'm wondering now: is there a documented way of calculating how much swap-space is required to avoid problems? I've seen one quote off-site somewhere that recommended 1.5 times your RAM size, therefore 768MB for me, which would be about the same size as my Windoze pagefile, but a thread here said it wasn't worth making the swap bigger than 512MB if you have that much RAM. Can anyone clear that up? I know it's only one of many possible causes of the problem I've had, but if I've made my swap far too small then I guess I should rectify this anyway...