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  1. i seem to remember back in the cobwebs of my mind (around the early 80's) microsoft was working very closely with ibm (who at the time were the bigger company) and what happened?

     

    microsoft screwed ibm to the wall !!

     

    ibm has never forgotton that experience, and it looks like novell / suse is going down that same path, don't they know their industry history!!

     

    good bye novell / suse it was nice knowing you for a while !

     

    it may take months or it may take years, but just wait and see, microsoft will break you both !

     

    reb

  2. Artee is correct. I have a 4 cd set (not 3) and some stuff also was installed along with the sources and drivers. Of course, I used urpmi. I configured the mirrors manually.

     

     

    ok guys, i gave up in the end, and i am sticking with 2006 for a while longer!

     

    i found out that i had accidently downloaded the wrong one (rc2) and after a while noticed a few problems! :wall::embarassed::whistle:

     

    never mind when i have time, i shall try again :wacko:

     

    thank you guys again for the help, although i have given up for now, at least others have an explanation as to why their 3d desktop don't work. (so it was not all in vain).

     

    regards and thanx

    reb2

  3. If you use the plf stuff, including the nvidia there, your 3D desktop will work just fine. You'll have to grab 2 rpms: the dkms and the nvidia. Of copurse, the kernel sources will have to be installed in order to compile the mod/driver.

     

    thanx for that ixthusdan, :thumbs:

     

    yes the kernel source is installed for the stock kernel 2.6.17.5.mdv

    now all i have to do is find the plf repositories !

    they don't exist for 2007!

     

    i guess i shall have to add them to urpmi as "2006" ?

     

    thanks again though, i will post back if / when i have it done

     

    regards

    reb2

  4. ok so i downloaded the 4 cd iso's, burned the cd's, and did a "upgrade" over 2006, well it trashed the upgrade !

     

    rpm drake did not work (crashed), xchat crashed most things crashed when trying to use them !

     

    so i did a complete wipe and clean install, and this worked fine, everything now works !! :thumbs:

     

    as this is a spare machine i was not bothered, but maybe others would be, MANDRIVA, WHAT IS THE POINT OF AN "UPGRADE" OPTION IF IT DOESN'T WORK!!

     

    And of course i have a NVIDIA fx 5200 graphics card so the 3d desktop stuff don't work!

     

    yes i have got the correct kernel source, and installed the NVIDIA driver (8774) and its all ok.

     

    i wonder why not, maybe i have a config wrong somewhere, the error i get is "your system does not support 3d desktop fx"

    yet the 3d config tool say's i can have one of the 3d options (not the ai one) ?

     

    never mind its only eye candy after all but it would be nice to check it out !

     

    anyway i like the look of 2007, its slick, good looking, and a bit quicker than 2006, overall impression is well done mandriva keep up the good work :thumbs:

     

    it shall be on my main machine by monday :banana::bananacha:

     

    regards

    reb2

  5. My understanding is, any un-authorised entry to another persons machine is a violation of that persons privacy.

     

    even if you visit a friends house, and snoop at your friends files if he slips to the bathroom for ten minutes!

     

    but any attempt to gain un-authorised access to another computer across the internet is (as far as i am aware) illegal.

     

    if someone does gain un-authorised access ( ie: cracking passwords, decrypting encrypted files, stealing or copying files planting trojans / virus's or just moving or deleting files), then that is called cracking and is of course an even more serious offence.

     

    by cracking the defences of the target machine, be it firewall, passwords etc, the term cracker is appropriate.

     

     

    hackers, are the good guys and gals that sit up through the night burning the midnight oil, hacking code to improve it, or writing code for program's, they hack large code blocks and look for small mistakes and correct them, they hack it to pieces and study it improve it, and then re-assemble it, without hackers there would be no linux, no open source programs etc etc hackers are the god guy's !!!! :party0046::party0046::party0046:

     

    and i hate it when everywhere i go i hear "hackers are the crooks, bad, criminals" they are not !!!! :pissedoff:

     

    its the crackers we don't like they are the bad guy's !! :wall:

     

    its about time this was explained a lot more to the "un-educated" in this matter, its not the fault of the average person who has never took an interest in programming, but, i had to write an email a couple of years ago to my ISP !! about a statement on their website stating that very mistake! (stating hackers were bad guy's)

     

    i was informed by reply email that "well it is now a generally held term that "hackers", means a person of "dubious" and or "malicious intent" !!! this is an isp for gawd sake! :weird:

    man it makes me sick! :puke:

     

    and no i am not a hacker, or a cracker! lol

    i wouldn't know a "peek" from a "poke" and what is a "malloch"? (i remember peek and poke from the old sinclaire spectrum days) and "malloch" i have seen recently whilst going through the packages info during an install :huh:

     

    sorry about the rant :unsure:

    regards

    reb

  6. overall its great news that toms hardware is doing these reviews, (so many winblows users read his articles, thus more exposure for the linux platform)

    and that the graphics companies are trying so hard.

     

    keep it all coming, roll on the revolution :lol2:

     

    how long till the latest greatest games, are developed for linux (default) and windows (ports) anyone like to hazard a guess?

     

    regards

    reb2

    this linux amateur

  7. what is all this stuff about linux has to run microsofts plugins and applications etc etc etc.........

     

    the glorious thing about the open source world is that we have the chance (hackers permitting) to create new applications smaller better and more efficient, written with higher quality code, that does not break under stress.

    i hate all this guff about linux has to run windows anything!!

     

    go your own way, do it right (where they have gone wrong), don't immitate, Innovate!

     

    ok so microsoft has the market lead now, but if the linux application developers create better, more efficient applications/plugins, then they will gradually take over, and as it becomes more efficient to use linux the people will follow.

     

    IMAGINE A TIME WHEN MICROSOFT USERS SAY " WINDOWS HAS TO RUN LINUX PLUGINS OR ELSE!"

     

    human beings are fickle things, people would just as quickly leave microsoft, as flocked to them in the 80's, providing the alternative was better in all areas.

     

    what linux needs is independent, out of the box thinking (like its originator linus torvalds), create something new and different , BUT MAKE IT SMALLER, FASTER, BETTER AND MORE SECURE.

     

    so microsoft developed direct x, active x, etc etc whoopee!

    so why can't the open source world develop our own version (not of microsoft subroutines, but linux /unix sub routines), this maybe years away but don't waste valuable coding time trying to imitate that which you all despise, do it different and do it better thats the way forward.

     

    LINUX HAS ALREADY COME A VERY LONG WAY IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME, and if we keep losing the plot in our thinking, it will end up with just a linux version of microsoft.

    i know lets make linux run all microsoft stuff and then what, linux with blue screens and fatal exceptions!! no thank you, i want applications written for linux by linux coders.

     

    if i want to run microsoft anything i have a spare old machine here for that thank you!

     

    oh and just as a by the by, Bill Gates retiring from microsoft would make absolutely no difference whatsoever

    Microsoft the corp is its own entity.

    and gawd bless him Bill stuck 30 billion dollars into his foundation (which has been doubled to 60 billion by another very wealthy american (who donated 30 billion dollars!!) this according to a news snippet i watched recently will double the charitable donations to 6.6 million dollars a year!

    thats a lot of dollars helping the fight against malaria, hiv aids, etc etc

    this is a great thing to do, and his foundation is making a huge difference to the world and for that i personally thank the man.

     

    still i am reminded of the biblical story about the little old lady who had only a halfpenny, and she gave it to a poor soul who she deemed needed it more than she.

    and the millionaire who gave £10,000

    who gave more?

     

    regards

    Reb

  8. No, hokah, Linux is different from WindBlows. Its not more difficult, just different. It will run and run and run till you forget how to fix it! But that's a different problem.

    Indeed, it has been so long since i last had to use my root password i forgot it !!!

    i was pulling my hair out for all of ten minutes before i remembered i had written it down in a notebook lol.

     

    still, i can't remember my mobile phone number either (i never have to ring it) !

     

    i am just a light user of computers now, email, browsing the web, and some simple games and i find linux works fine for me and nothing to be scared of at all.

     

    stick in a cd and re-boot, follow the on screen instructions and 1 1/2 hours later i am all up and running.

    everything is installed office apps, games, email / web.

     

    and when i've tried that with microshaft winblows its a case of, install operating system, then install office, then seperately install individual apps for whatever i want to do (at a cost £), then i find out that my hardware is not direct x 9.0c compatible so i can't play latest games without buying a new graphics card / sound card etc etc.

     

    to me windows is scary not linux.

    and i don't use a cli (command line interface), i use only the gui (graphical user interface) for setup

     

    so to say linux is scary, in my own opinion is total bunkum.

    but i do understand how other people would think it, it is what they have become accustomed to, and that is "the microsoft way" :popcorn::evilbanana::puke:

    regards

    reb

  9. i was working in a computer repair shop, and basically got fed up with windows machines.

     

    it seemed every local computer running a microsoft o/s came into the shop every couple of months.

     

    great for the boss and his business, bloomin boring as hell for me.

     

    so i looked around for something else, found a "pc plus" magazine and purchased it.

     

    inside was a cd with loads of the usual crap software aplication freebies, and a second cd with mandrake 7.2.

    i was intrigued and imediately tried to install it.

    to my amazement it worked (little old me actually got something other than microsoft installed and working).

    (bearing in mind i had never seen a different o/s than microsoft).

    i was impressed and have stuck with mandrake / mandriva ever since.

    i have also tried many other flavours of linux, but mandy feels like home for me.

  10. me, i'm just a home user, and use my boxes for all the usual home user stuff, including games (quake2, vegastrike, (broken sword and broken sword 2 through scumm vm)) + all the lovely little kde games etc (i do love crack attack though lol)).

    photo's, email, internet....... you know the usual "everything".

    and i must say it answers all my needs (basic though they my be).

  11. so if i understand this all correctly.............

    Mr duvall takes hold of something and makes something different with it.

    Makes something better with it.

    gives it appeal.

    makes it work more efficiently / easier.

    in general works damn hard producing / improving adding to this thing.

    and then forms a company called mandrake to produce it, and heaven forbid, make some profit!

     

    Then along comes some "business" types to run it.

    and they say, ok thats your lot geezer sod off !! ?

    Mandrake / mandriva is his baby for gawds sake, who the hell are they to "lay him off".

     

    jeesh whats next linus torvalds sacked from producing the linux kernel?

    i know, its not a company but the principle is the same.

     

    (just a thought but..... any of that mandriva management team on microsofts payroll?

    great way to undermine the enemy eh sack the inventer and most of the original coders!).

     

    good luck Gael Duvall, i shall be watching for your new product's with drooling anticipation

     

    now i wonder which distro i should look into next mmmmmmmmmm

  12. i was working in a computer "repair" shop in 1999 aged all of 37 years :drum:

    and i just got fed up with all the machines coming in "not" running M$windows.

    i mean they had M$windows installed but not flipping working, they were screwed.

    Viruses, trojans, spyware, missing files, corrupted files, "this game won't work!"

    jeesh i just got so fed up with the constant barrage of whinging clients.

    so i thought there must be something better out there somewhere.

    i did a search on the infamous google and found suse 6.1.

    got it installed and running first time, by pure luck all the hardware in my machine was linux compatible, including my external modem.

    :banana:

     

    after that came a free magazine cd of mandrake 7.2, a copy of redhat 7.0 and then the big plunge i "purchased" the full mandrake 8.0 powerpack.

    and have stayed pretty much with mandrake / mandriva ever since, with occasional dips into other distro's.

     

    i am fortunate in that i have more than one machine (so i can play around on one whilst not messing around on my main machine).

     

    M$ business ideas leave me cold now, and so as far as i am concerned i am a "rebel"

    and shall remain so, "viva la revolution" go linus and the open source community, teach the world a better way "the way it oughta be"

    regards

    reb2

  13. i guess it's too late to stop the ministry of defence sticking microsoft o/s on the new fleet of warships they are having built, i wouldn't mind, but in control of the critical "command and control" dept !!!!

    i can just imagine the scenario,....................................

     

    .... incoming enemy aircraft detected captain,...... defence systems locked on targets................fire!........... sorry sir system lock up, blue screen ! we need to reboot !!!!!!!!!!!!............ BOOM !!!

    GAME OVER!

  14. well, i must be a lucky soul.

     

    after a bad experience first time around with 2006, (i believe due to bad cdr's) all downloads checksummed, all discs checksummed after burn, all ok, but simply refused to install properly, errors here, lockups there, damn !!

     

    i re-burned the three "free" download cd images onto a different vendor's cdr's and voila!, operating system installation nirvana!!

     

    i deliberatly did not install kat (due to comments elsewhere on this site), and i did download and install the nvidia driver for my Nvidia fx5200 graphics card.

    and so far everything including hp930c usb printer was detected and runs flawlessly.

     

    urpmi was a breeze to setup thanks to this site, and easy urpmi! thanks guy's and gals.

    everything i needed was downloaded in a single session (two hours) and the system is now complete, well except for java i have to get round to that yet lol.

     

    i am running kde, because it looks more like windows to me, and i have managed to find my way around it easier than the other desktop / window managers so far.

    it is faster at booting up and shutting down than 2005le, and applications also open quicker too.

    so far no lock-ups at all.

     

    oh it also looks great! :thumbs:

     

    i don't like that mandriva home page thing in konquerer it is extremely annoying.

    i tried to change it to something else but to no avail (any help on this point would be appreciated).

    i tried to change it too google, but it still opens up on the mandriva page and i have to click home to get google! why do they do this!

    they have mandriva web links all over the place so why hijack konquerer! :wall:

     

    still, it's a small grumble and overall a brilliant release FOR ME. :thanks: mandriva

    everything is working that i have / need which is not a lot, (by which i mean no fancy devices like usb pen drives, internal win modems, sata drives, joysticks etc).

     

    soltek sl75drv mainboard, amd athlon 1.3 ghz, 512mb ddr ram, 40gb maxtor (10 gb win me, 20gb share (fat32) 10gb /usr), 20gb ibm deskstar (root, swap, var, tmp, home), 128mb nvidia fx5200 graphics, ac97 (via onboard) sound, phillips dvd re-writer 1640 (benq), hitachi 16x dvd rom, realtek 8129 ethernet card, hp930c usb printer, ctx vl700 screen, bog standard keyboard, and microsoft intelli mouse (both ps2)

    ok its hardly state of the art but seems very well catered for with this release.

     

    i hope the bugs others are experiencing are ironed out soon.

     

    regards

    reb2

  15. opera's M2 for me, it seems so logical to have the email program as part of the web browser, anytime i'm online (which is a lot) my mail is there "live" all the while.

    easy to set up (for my needs anyway) and works a treat.

     

    just thinking out loud here but being as opera is one application / program, does that mean it uses less resources to run both browser and mail simultaniously?

    or is it just a great big hunk of bloatware?

     

    oh and the new version of the "free" opera is now adbar free! woot.

    regards

    reb2

  16. Maybe, and just maybe they are actually listening to the club and postponing the release until at least the Xorg bugs are killed, maybe, just maybe!

     

    i have just installed mandy 2006, and i must say it looks much better.

     

    however it seems slow compared to 2005le?.

     

    crack attack does not even open!

    i click "crack attack" from the games menu and then i get a little grey box come up

    where i can play extreme or not and when i click play..............................nothing!!

     

    the downloads went fine and the burning of the disks went fine also.

    checksummed all the way from the downloads to the individual disks burned.

    all check sums correct.

     

    also it identified my scsi card (adaptec 2910) but not my scsi re/writer (yamaha 4x4x16)?

    2005le did it all straight out the box so why not 2006?

    if it ain't broke why fix it?

     

    as i said it looks great, but i fear mandy are going the same way as microshaft!

    looks great but don't work very well.

     

    i must admit i had my doubts about this release, combining 3 seperate branches ( conectiva, lycoris , and mandrake) would be problematic (i just wish i had the knowledge required to help out) and i expected one of two things .............o/s nirvana or....... o/s hell.

    on balance i would say closer to nirvana, but come on mandriva why release it when you knew it wasn't ready (regarding xorg bugs)?

     

    maybe its because i'm a degenerate freeloader and i am expecting too damn much from a "freebie" but damn.... something that works would be nice after all the hype and expectation that was built up!

     

    i have tried and liked all mandrake releases from 7.2 onwards but i feel particularly let down this time around, mainly because of all the hype, kinda like being promised a ferari and actually recieving a mazda mx5 great car but not the ferari !

     

    this actually sounds a lot worse than i actually feel about 2006 it does look much better and i feel it is a great improvement over 2005le its just those silly little things that could put off a newbie and that worries me!

    i would rather wait a month or two longer and have a great release than be impatient and have a buggy one.

     

    i do however appreciate all the hard work that has gone into this release and i KNOW that these bugs will get ironed out i'll be patient and wait.

    overall 7.5 /10

     

    EDIT ADDED AFTER ORIGINAL POST

     

    OK I HOLD MY HANDS UP AND APOLOGISE !!!!!

    i have found out that the cdr's i burned too were duff discs?

    bloomin sony ones too!

    well either that or my writer didn't like them much (nor any other cd / dvd rom drive i have in three seperate machines).

    burnt the data ok and did the checksum ok but for some reason just could not install correctly from them? go figure.

     

    re-burned discs using cheap brand and voila! mandy 2006 installed properly this time.

    no issues so far, and it is definately faster than 2005le (mind you i didn't install kat!)

     

     

    by the way, these little problems are my findings on my spare machine.

    p3 500 coppermine, 128 mb pc100 ram, 32mb s3 savage 4 pro graphics card (AGP),

    10gb western digital hdd, adaptec 2910 scsi card, 4x4x16 yamaha scsi re/writer and creative 128 (ensonique 1371) sound card, 50 x afreey cd rom drive, microstar 6513 motherboard (via chipset)

     

    regards

    reb2

  17. these tweaks are great kristi but,

     

    why do we need to make these tweaks !!!

    newbies don't know how to get round these problems (this is not good for mandriva)

     

    we didn't have to in previous nvidia driver installations!

     

    just run the install script and edit the xf86 conf file and that was it it just worked.

     

    now all of a sudden everything is broken by the install of the driver!

     

    is this a mandriva 2005LE problem or a Nvidia driver installation problem?

     

    either way i'm back on to mandrake 10oe and all is working fine thank you.

     

    us newbies don't need this you know roflmao :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

  18. microsoft has market lead in server side big deal.

    it also has market lead in home users too!

     

    but linux has microsoft running to the advertisers big time.

     

    linux is gradually taking market share and will continue to do so.

    slowly eroding microsofts market share.

    quite a few isp's now run linux (i know my isp does) and it is very reliable.

    this kind of thing gets talked about amongst the isp's and it won't be long before they all run linux.

    same with business servers, those business's that try linux and it works reliably for them will pass that on to others.

    it may take a good few years but eventually microsofts market share will drop (as will its income) and this is why microsoft is advertising so heavily now, and spreading its f.u.d. (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).

    i really do get the feeling that microsoft is actually scared of this competition because it can't buy it!!!

    patience is a virtue, just be patient and you will see microsoft taken down a peg or three

    as its market share and finances decline.

    and all these legal battles are costing microsoft too keep them going and it all helps.

    regards

    reb

  19. i have used opera (since 6) as well as konquerer, mozila, firefox, galleon, epiphany,etc etc

    (i think i've tried most graphical web browsers).

     

    i personally like opera (now 8), it does most things well enough, and it is a free download!

     

    unlike most people i do not expect freebies to be perfect!

    and as opera is a freebie (well what i use is anyway) i forgive it its foibles.

     

    the main thing i like about opera is the integrated email client.

     

    it is very configurable, and the main plugins work ok for me.

     

    however, this is the linux world and choice is a great thing (at least we have a choice!!).

     

    try them all and use the one YOU like best

     

    have fun y'all

     

    reb2

  20. i think mandrake (now mandriva) has done quite well in the marketing stakes up untill now.

    i first saw it offered for free on a magazine cover disc!

    one cd of mandrake 7.2 (curiosity ensued) and i was intrigued by a different operating system to M$.

    my modem wouldn't work i had no 3d and setting up my printer was hard work but hey it was fun to try something different.

     

    then it was a baby (well a toddler) and i didn't play with it for long, but my curiosity was aroused.

    then came 8.0 much better, things started to work and i told my friends about it.

    word of mouth spreads at an exponential rate.

     

    whilst still a small concern this is fine not everything worked, so keep the numbers of people trying it out, growing slowly whilst working out the bugs.

     

    but now i feel mandriva (and for that matter linux in general) is ready to take on all comers!

     

    mandriva need to get into big time advertising, like tv, radio etc etc.............

     

    even if they combined with other distros to share costs!

     

    its what microshaft is doing right now, advertising like mad (which i take to mean they are really scared).

    and besides all that, mandrake got itself out of financial difficulties in double quick time and even got enough revenue to buy conectiva!! so they're marketing can't be that bad............................. can it?

     

    reb

  21. Reb2, edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add a line that only says nvidia. Reboot or wait for next time and you will get into regular graphic startup.

     

    well it worked i now have graphical boot straight into kde, but now i've lost the shutdown options when logging out of kde roflmao, just got login and password displayed....... no shutdown or reboot options never mind i'll get there.

     

    it was all fine untill i installed the nvidia 7174 driver roflmao (i changed nothing else!!!)

    now it seems i can either have a shutdown option or i can have a graphical boot straight into kde but not both!!! i am wondering if this is because its the download (freebie) version of 2005 LE?

    nah thats just paranoid roflmao

    excellent stuff cheers polemicz and kristi :beer::beer::beer::beer:

     

    regards

    reb

  22. in reply to both cas and aussie john,

     

    first of all to cas, there is an option to "auto allocate" in the partitioning section of the install routine.

    just look for custom partitioning and then make sure you have the hdb tab (in your case) displayed,

    you will have to delete the linux partitions you already have and then hit auto allocate!

    (this won't give you the winshare option though, but that is only an option anyway).

     

    and to aussie john,

    thanks for the tip!

    i am definately not a linux guru at all lol.

     

    i have just found, that the way i set out works ok for me so far.

    but i am alway's ready to listen to those who... 1, know more than me (nearly everyone lol),

    and 2, have different ways of doing things.

     

    although i have played with linux for a couple of years now and mandrake since 7.2, it has been just looking at it and trying to muddle through (usually just everything left at defaults and poking around lol).

    but now i have taken the plunge (april this year) and there is no microsoft at all on my machine whoopee).

    now i am really trying to learn for the first time how to configure everything from the ground up.

     

    i know i wish i had started years ago but then linux was just a plaything to me,........................ but now its serious!

     

    thanks again

    regards

    reb

  23. it looks like your partitions are not set correctly.

     

    i take it you are trying to dual boot with good old windows?

     

    on the second drive (hdb) you would need at least these (i am assuming you are a home user wanting to dual boot for home use).

     

    i would set all these partitions to a journalised format except swap (which is its own format)

    and the optional winshare (which must be fat32 for windows to see).

     

    1st partition root (/) (i set it at about 1gb but it doesn't have to be that big).

    2nd partition (swap) size depends on ram, i set mine to double the amount of ram i have, and it works fine for me. 512mb ram = 1gb swap (this is the way i do it, there are other ways of working it out).

    3rd partition /usr (i like to make /user quite large at about 12gb) (it appears to be where all the programs are stored).

    4th partition /home (where all you're personal files are stored)

    ( as big as you like even the rest of the drive).

     

    there is one other partition you may like to consider that is a winshare partition.

    i like to have this, as it makes it easier to access certain files from both operating systems eg: mp3s video clips etc etc

    size is up to you.

     

    once the partitions are setup and the system is installed just make sure the bootloader is installed in the mbr of the drive, and thats it, when all is done you should have a choice at boot, windows or linux.

     

    this should get you started, and as time goes by, you will find there are as many ways to set partitions for linux as there are stars in the sky (depends what you want linux to be: server, workstation, cluster,

    laptop etc etc)

     

    i hope this is helpful

    regards

    reb

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