Havin_it

Wow. I see what you mean I'd fight them all the way to City Hall. I luuurve tabbing in Firefox (quelle surprise, eh?) and don't find switching from Alt+Tab to Ctrl+Tab much of a pain. I can't say how well other MDI apps reflect this, since I'm quite new to understanding the benefits of the keyboard in a multitasking workflow. (Ouch, bullshit bingo or what?) I guess the thing about the PS/Gimp case is I never thought of the dock and toolbar as separate entities in those terms. Maybe my mind was imprisoned... admittedly it makes no sense to have multiple instances of the tools when you have multiple images open, which I guess would be the fusion of my preferred type of workspace and the SDI paradigm. I guess it's the lack of choice that disappoints. FWIW, I'd campaign just as hard for a Gimp-to-PS switcher's desire to organise their windows in an SDI way. (Honest)

Well said dammit! If you told me the WM could be configured to group all the windows of a certain Application together - functionally I mean, so a single Alt+Tab would bring them all up together - then I would consider it to be 'doing its job'. The closest I can get to such functionality under X is to open Gimp in a different Desktop, but that paradigm on a single-user system seems as bogus to me as MDI does to you, Iph. (And of course it doesn't help me on Windows, where I still do most of my dev work.) You might say that Firefox using tabbing is also usurping the WM's job in this way, but I haven't heard anyone complain about this yet.

I find both horribly counter-intuitive. I don't know why someone hasn't offered a console text-editor that functions more like, say, this quick reply box here. Just a cursor, arrow keys, type text or delete/backspace. What more does one need for emergency configfile-editing?

Hey, not wanting to hijack, but do you know if the above applies to an ALPS touchpad too? That's what I have in my Toshiba Sat A30 and it constantly bums me that the side-dragging to scroll doesn't work. Any idea? (I'm not too keen on hacking xorg.conf without guidance!)

Semantics. I'm concerned with ends, not means. That traffic on the wire is coming from one BK app. and going straight to another. That is its sole purpose. What is Tridgell's purpose if not to 'break' that state-of-affairs, and with it BK's unique selling-point? I'm sorry, but no amount of side-stepping the issue will convince me that a protocol used by one program is fair game for intellectual property theft where the program itself is not. If Microsoft don't care so much about this, that's their affair, but McVoy clearly does. And he has every right to. Saying 'Well you should have had a backup plan for when we shafted you' just adds insult to injury.

Just my vote, not bringing anything new, but... If Tridgell had succeeded and created an open replacement for BK, it seems to me quite likely that: a ) A large number of kernel developers would want to use it b ) They would tell Linus 'this is what we wanted to do in the first place' c ) They would mutiny on him and Free-BK would become the de facto standard for kernel development d ) Larry McVoy, for his trouble, would be thrown out on his ear in the name of OSS partisanship. So, does that seem fair? It constantly galls me the way some OSS zealots see anything vaguely businesslike as evil and unworthy of basic respect. If I gave you an app. that I normally sell for money (people often do this you know), free of charge for PR reasons (perhaps even an inkling of altruism?), I'd expect you to use it responsibly. Cracking it so nobody needed to buy it again would not come under that heading, whether I explicitly said so or not, if you had manners. If you want to make a 'competing product' (albeit not in the money sense), go ahead, but I'm damned if I'll help you do it. Forgive the first-person narrative; I'm not Larry McVoy, but I wanted to speak from his perspective since nobody else seems willing.

I've observed something that could be a bind for those short on disk ... It looks like using this repo and the usual update steps (urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select) leads to downloading ALL of KDE apps, rather than just updating the ones you actually have installed. I'm pretty certain of this as I see things like kdepim-kwallet and stuff like that which I've never used. The full list I won't bother with, as I reckon it must be quite large. Can anyone confirm this / suggest a way to block the unwanted extras, besides going through the list manually?

I tried to use it on Windows, but never could figure out how to stream my DVDs to other boxes on the network. very frustrating. Never used it as a player, though it seemed to work in that respect.

So speaks someone who has never enjoyed a nice milky bowl of petrol in the morning before jumping into their car and wondering why the engine goes 'Snap, crackle, pop!' ConDrakula = made me laugh, but I suggest you check the meaning of 'con' in a French dictionary... Power Linux = sports drink or cereal Mandrivia = blaxploitation movie from the 70s DrakeConnect = a little too close to 'DrakConnect' for my liking, but otherwise kinda catchy. Like the duck-billed penguin idea too. Phantom Linux = Hey, it's my suggestion so of course I'm gonna vote for it (even though it was a joke too...)

Yeah, no need to throw away the machine. Just eBay the two 64Mb RAM cards, and get 2x 128's.

Thanks devries - looks good, no doubt full of more features than I'd ever use (I'm just a headline-junkie really...) At the risk of going OT, is there any type of feedreader that can run in a KDE desktop applet? I see loads of these things like KWeather in screenshots here, but an RSS applet is something I'd actually use... Back On T, further props to Thac & Jose - I updated today (from your original 3.4 to yesterday's) and can't find any bugs this time. Rest assured I will be back complaining if I find any

Not heard of it... RSS aggregator, perchance? If it's implemented as a Desklet (or whatever KDE calls the applets) I might be torn away from the Firefox+Sage combo... Details please!

Sean, that sounds interesting. I've downloaded the source and will see if I can compile it under Windows (long shot?). Thanks for the info. @Iphitus, the point is well made about us being ex-shoppers, but I'm sure there have been many more switchers who never batted an eyelid at the culture-shock factor. It's just us bolshie troll bastards that can't resist whingeing

'tis true about The Magician: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/mandrake.htm I always thought that's why they chose the name ... most of the cartoons I saw in the Eighties were French co-productions ... and he's a bit cooler than a root-vegetable that looks like a wee man and 'screams' when you cut it. If they must change it, how about Lothar Linux? FlashGordon Linux? Phantom Linux? (ooohh..!) Ming Linux? (might lose some fans in Scotland)

Just a small tangential thought, but does rm stop once it has deleted itself?

Serious? I use Gimp 2.2 (on Win) - you mean I can get the whole workspace, including the image, docked together? How to do, please!

I think what puts a lot of 'shoppers off GIMP initially is, as Sean says, the UI differences. For me it's having it spread across three or more windows that grates, because with my 'generous' quantities of RAM and short attention-span I tend to have other programs going at the same time. So, the Taskbar tends to get very crowded, and also you can't blur/refocus the whole workspace with a single click or Alt-Tab. I mean differences in where certain commands are, what keys do what etc. are not to be harped about in my book, but usability-killers like the above seem needless. I'd hope sooner or later they will make all windows dockable, while still permitting the current 'floating in space' layout to be used for those who prefer it.

Nearly successful ... apart from some of the MDK menu items are still missing after the above fixes, and I have no sound ( a problem I thought I'd kissed goodbye with 10.0 :( ) Generally lovin' it, though.

Are you by any chance logged-in as a normal (non-root) user? If so, these utilities are not normally in your PATH environment variable. You can still use some of them (those that have global execute permissions) by typing the full path. For example, ifconfig = /sbin/ifconfig You can find the paths for the others by using the whereis command: whereis <command> If you ARE logged-in as root, then paths like /sbin are not in your PATH for some reason. Not sure how to fix that, but someone should know...

So many Linux goodies are ported to Win now. Most of the good stuff (that comprises the core utilities in Cygwin) comes from http://gnuwin32.sf.net You can pretty much make a Win shell seem like a Linux one with that lot in your PATH. You actually need a couple of them to compile Apache on Windows using Visual Studio (wish those Apache buggers would just port it to GCC under Cygwin).

Because if someone's got root on your system, they may read your new password from that file before you even get the chance to 'obfuscate' it. And who knows what other nastiness...! Face it - you may think being aware you've been hacked puts you one step ahead, it doesn't. It just puts you one less step behind. Once they get root, think what they can do: create new users with innocuous names like 'webclient' or something, with root group priviliges. They could make several of these if they expect you to be a strong opponent. And as long as they can hang onto just one such account, your system is, I'm afraid, 0wn3d. Reinstall is the ONLY way to be certain of escape, unless you know every file and user-account on your system like the back of your hand (don't forget the binaries!). Hell, it's quicker to reinstall Mandrake than just think about that kind of investigative task.

iTunes can run on Crossover Office http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/b...name?app_id=134 and interVideo LinDVD - currently 'only for devices' - 'devices' currently includes HP's NX5000 laptops preinstalled with SuSE. http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF...f33-395654.html

54G cards shouldn't really be written off, if you ask me. I had no greater problems with my Belkin PCMCIA card and ndiswrapper than ... well, than anyone else has with ndiswrapper generally. It needed all the in-depth hacking to work for MDK 10.0, but actually worked out-of-the-box with 10.1 (although it did become a little more reliable when I did the full procedure). What's needed is for crappy old ndiswrapper modules to be removed from the preinstalled kernel. MDK 10.0 had v0.4, 10.1 has v0.8. Hopefully 10.2 will have version 1.0 built in, which I've found pretty bomb-proof with my card. The Belkin 54G USB card (which I've also got but never tried with MDK) is listed as usable on the ndiswrapper Wiki. The chipset is different (Prism54 I think) but a couple of reports there say it works.

Uh, are you saying it does the same thing on Windows? That did happen to me in Windows at one point, but I never figured out what the problem (nor the solution) was. One 'maybe' - try variations of connecting cables and turning the TV on/off before pushing the button. I think a good starter, if anyone knows, would be what resolution, Hz etc. should be set for television output. I guess the Intel Display manager in Windows works this out by itself, as I've never had to mess with it, so maybe what's missing is to give XOrg the correct information...

Yep, I also have that Konqueror toolbar issue. I've gotten rid of the dupe navigation buttons, by going into Configure Toolbars and removing the line that says '<Merge>'. Can't lose the dupe animated icon or 'Clear addressbar' or Go buttons without removing both sets though, and then they can't be retrieved. Doesn't bother me too much, but just be aware.