Havin_it

I dunno, poppers are getting cleverer. I've had a few - the method, I believe, being to add the popup command to a link that you click for another purpose, eg: <a href="innocent_page.htm" onClick="window.open(bastardPopUpScum.asp);">Innocent link</a> BTW, I've got a value of 2 on network.http.SendReferrerHeader. Any idea what that means? I assumed these values would be boolean...

Oh... mine's in ~/firefox (installed it as myself) - so I should be getting updates. The folder's all mine - wonder what could be up?

Well, if they can run KDE on Windows... http://ptweber.home.comcast.net/kde/ Guess anything's possible!

I tend to use the download installer anyway - have never run into any deps problems with it as yet. So is the auto-updater not even implemented for Linux?

Yes, it can and does happen. (though not too often for me ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh ... with gd.tuwien it tends to happen _during_ downloads. Add to that an average speed about 25kBps, and I think I'll be leaving that'un out of my masterplan (whatever it is...) Had a look at man urpmi and I reckon the options --media --excludemedia --sortmedia can help classifying the sources. Now just to put it all together...

Meh.. tried using InCD with my new CDRW a couple of years ago (Nero 5.5/Win). Formatting went on for over an hour, burner got worryingly hot and actually made a coaster from a CDRW. Never went near it again...

Heh, I wish I was such a 'good user' ... bringing too much Windows bad behaviour with me? I'm never sure what files in the profile are 'safe' to just copy back in place. Surely some of them are version-specific? That's why I tend to just restore bookmarks.html, cookies.txt and prefs.js

I didn't really follow the last two posts... What I normally do for an update is just urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select And when the hdlist contains packages that aren't on the media (I think that's what it is), I do rpm -rebuilddb as directed - although it doesn't seem to help most times. That's usually the point at which I swap repos. What I'm gonna do is have say ftp.esat.net (fast but fulla mistakes) named 'main', and gd.tuwien.ac.at (quite comprehensive but damn slow) 'main2', assuming that's enough to give esat precedence. I'm still keen to automate this as much as possible though. Can anyone tell me: is there a command-line equivalent of RPMDrake's checkboxes for enabling/disabling media? This could be useful for maintaining a larger list of sources while only using some of them, switching between them etc.

'ning T'other week My Firefox/Win popped up an 'update' icon. Red, not the normal green. Turned out to be a version update (1.0.1) rather than the normal extension updates. It was gonna do an in-place upgrade, so I just let it. ...And, despite the amount of doom-saying in the community about doing this, it worked perfectly. This is good. However, I actually _never_ get any update checks in Firefox/Linux, is this a common problem? Secondly, what do you consider a safe method of updating while preserving one's profile?

Well... I did so already, and it's as you describe. So that's it? I thought the framebuffer had much more behind-the-scenes significance than something so ephemeral. (Probably because it was awarded its own boot option...)

Oh... so if I go for that option, since I set the normal boot to be verbose rather than progerss-bar: it'd basically be the same thing?

Ah, so it is a manual operation? I had it in my head that it was checking automatically whether servers were 'up'. Makes me appreciate you even more! Guess I'll have to invent something myself...

Eh? So you mean the linux-nonfb option is using no Framebuffer OR X-server? (Sorry if I'm a bit dense but the whole X-server thing is still new to me.)

Thanks! Just what I needed to hear. I'll start off with 2x main and 2x updates, and put the faster source alphabetically before the slower. Just got my DSL upgraded today so it should still be faster anyway ;) Dr Banana, Fire up the orgasmatron! BTW, any idea how I could work EasyURPMI into a script to keep tabs on working sources?

No argument there ... I was really thinking of the actual GUI engine it uses though. Could it be completely the developer's work? It's kinda like a very basic QT style, but I dunno...

This Pixel32 is a mad wee program. And I do mean wee... the program folder is under 10MB! It is buggy as hell, but I reckon it's one to watch. I'm tempted to get the $32 licence, since it covers all OS ports and goes up to version 2.0 (and it's still beta right now). It's really trying hard to look like PhotoShop, right down to the splash screen, but I wonder what GUI toolkit they used? There aren't any obvious libs installed, and in the 'Skins' folder there's just an .ini file that describes various colour, dimension and style properties. Look below and tell me if you recognise it. Then you can go back to talking about Nero :P

I can't believe this is the same person who opened this post complaining about the lack of intelligible information. :) Just my 2 pee, but when I arrived here as a newbie (not so very log ago either), I found the CLI-talk utterly confusing. And there is a tendency to go over the newbie's head with a lot of directions that are very basic to you, the 'grand poobah' (love that!). But I don't think that's fear of the CLI, it's just that you don't have a clue what is being said. That can create embarrassment in the newbie - "Wow, clearly that's so basic even I should know it!" - I can imagine a fair few do leg it after that. But what's to do? I usually start by answering with a question, to try and guage just how green the asker actually is. It's a hit-and-miss strategy...

He still speaks of you sometimes... Did he used to drink so much?

Wow, this is like Kismet or something. I wonder if anyone reading/posting here would like to read about my 'experiment' proposal over here...? http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=23694 It's about how I'd like to deal with this oft-mentioned problem. Tell me what you think!

EXPERIMENT! I've come to one conclusion about the Mandrake URPMI repositories: they are not all created equal. If I stay too long with my sources set on one particular repo, the silence becomes deafening. So I change, and get a bunch of updates that the old repo didn't have yet. Soooo... it occurs that if I have a few of my favourite repo's set up at any one time in URPMI, I'd be better covered. I'd probably limit it to the main and main_updates sources, so I didn't spend too long downloading new hdlists every time I checked. Ideally I might work them into a script that could check the connection to each repo before commencing. But is this wise? I've no idea what having multiple versions of more-or-less the same repo would do to URPMI. If 2 repo's have the same update to offer, how is one chosen over the other? Alphabetically by source name, so source 'main' would be chosen before 'main2'? I'm fully prepared to try this out myself, but if it's already been done, or anyone knows reasons why it might be a bad idea, I'd like to hear about it. Oh yes, and here's my research assistant Dr. Banana

Dunno if it's essential to uninstall the new version, but I'd do so, if only to avoid confusion. The Mandy 10.1 discs come with ndiswrapper 0.9.1 (the RPM that is) - you might want to install a newer version, either by RPM or building from source. TIP: you can get Mandrake-specific RPMs that aren't in your update sources by searching on rpm.pbone.net or rpmfind.net If you look back in the Wiki, http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...Mandrake%2010.1 that tells you about the removal process. Let us know if you get stuck.

Crikey. Just going through the pixel32 site and it looks frickin' AWESOME! http://pixel32.box.sk/index.php?cat=Screenshots There're features here that I'd have loved in Photo$hop or Gimp. Sadly I can't find any reviews on it online, but then it _is_ only alpha... AI, where did you hear about it? Was there any further info/review? Anyways, I'm gonna squeeze it onto the last free corner of my Windoze and give it a whirl. <EXCITED!>

Are you sure? I thought the kernel-module is always installed, even if the RPM package is not. Do you have this file: /lib/modules/2.6.8-12/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz [the number in the middle might be different depending on what kernel version you currently have] That's the real baddie.

I've heard that a lot of folks prefer K3B over Nero/Win (and of course some just see it as a Nero clone), so I'll be watching with interest to see how Nero/Linux squares up. (By the way, I'm in that first camp. K3B is one of the BEST things about Linux for my money ... or lack of...) Pixel32 sure looks hot, not to mention the interface looks just slightly familiar ... but that's enough about cloning ;) - anyone tried it?

Welcome, shtik. That is a good question. I hope a clever person sees it as I'd like to know better myself about this. I can give you my own half-hearted answer, but it's just that. MY OWN HALF-HEARTED ANSWER.... linux-nonfb: boot Linux without the Frame-Buffer. Something to do with graphics rendering, possibly whether or not to use 'hardware acceleration' provided by your graphics card, but honestly don't quote me on that one. failsafe: basic command-line boot with no graphical environment. May have some other limits in functionality, a la Windows 'Safe Mode' Great eh? Don't worry, a real expert will be here soon