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Staroffice has also been a dog show for me. My cds sumed perfectly, there are no reasons except blatant bugs for the problems I have been having with Open Office.

That said, it is a very 'young' piece of software and I'm sure the next release will be amazing. People, like me, who are having problems will just have to wait it out.

The problems I have:

- Takes super long to open

- Sometimes closes again as soon as it has opened (and after a few tries,

stays open if I'm lucky)

- Is the most frustrating wp to use tables with, keeps screwing up the spacing

- Slow, slow, slow

Scheizer. Didn't know all that.

Problem is, where I live, you can't find Mandrake in a box for love or money.

Guess I'll just have to wait it out.

You have to tell the firewall what you want to be blocked and what traffic should be allowed.

So you need to tell shorewall or whatever you are using to allow traffic through a given port before it will. By default, it will block everything (including your internet traffic). Go to Mandrake Control Panel -> Security -> firewall and you can open it up there.

I have not mucked about with a firewall for a while and I am not at my 'nix box now, so I don't want to talk you through all the editing and make mistakes, but you should be able to resolve it from the control panel or via Webmin.

I would imagine that ordering online from Mandrake themselves would be handy, cus then the money you spent would reflect a lot quicker?

Since there has been native Linux support for all the Unreal titles so far, I suspect that there will be for Unreal 2. I don't think they'd show us love for all this time and then drop us on this release?

Or why not just go native-linux like Limewire ir sometin'?

I once wrote to XFree with a problematic ATI Radeon Mobility, they recommended that I do NOT use the GATOS drivers (which are what MDKs drivers are based on, as far as I know). Rather get drivers from dri.

http://dri.sourceforge.net/

:D

Now that 9.1 beta1 is out, I was wondering what you guys would like to see implemented in 9.1?

I think the first issue should be supermount, which is the first thing to be disabled after install. If supermount can not be 'repaired' then I think there should be an option in the installation process to disable it.

I like the icons in Red Hat 8.0, but I think they are a little bit too WinXPish. It is also interesting that Red Hat 8 seems to prefer the use of Gnome and GDM, while Mandrake 9.0 prefers KDE (just looking at default installs). I personally prefer Gnome and I REALLY like GDM (it has great skins and just feels like a 'friendlier' graphical greeter). My problem is that I use Quanta all the time and it runs slightly better under KDE, for which it was made. Red Hat 8 has also made use of how customisable Gnome is, I don't ever like that, so I don't have any big problems with how Mandrake is handling the window managers, except:

I also think that some form of fluxbox should be included with MDK 9.1, it seems that most of the users on this forum like using fluxbox.

Openoffice has become a bit of an issue with many people. I personally find it to be slow and bloated. It also sometimes just does not start for no apparent reason. That said, it is the best office suite I have tried for Linux. Star Office is a bit complicated and Open Office is more 'to-the-point' if you know what I mean. I think it needs a bit of tweaking before running smoothly under MDK 9.

A few extra update sources would be nice. I think Texstar, for one, should be included by default with urpmi.

Those are some of my suggestions for now. I'm sure I will think of more. What do you think:?:

Does anyone know when the final release of 9.1 is going to be released?

Yip! I would guess that your phone line is 'dirty' if you call your service provider (phone company) and ask them to clear your line, they should be able to get rid of any static on the line.

Try using wvdial anyway, it is hella stable.

Ok, I just spoke to him and I don't think that you share our problem, exactly, but I concluded that your problem could be with users not having the correct permissions to where the attachments were stored. So that could be your problem, I guess.

We had the same problem with our server. I'm going to check with the dude who fixed it tomorrow and let you know what he did...

I had heard that most any webcam will work, but when I look in USBVIEW it seems to show as an "Unknown Device".

Every webcam except this one, by the looks of it. The fact that it is detected but is 'unknown' means that some sort of driver will probably be required. You could also try disconnecting all your other USB devices and then see if is still unkown.

Try:

 

supermount -i disable

 

Then reboot the computer.

I forgot the -i - Sorry!

I have a friend who just bought a new Powerbook (and turned me green with envy). I'm trying to convince him to use Linux on it. I'm going to show him your articles, of course, everything will be different now with the new way that Mac do things.

I would start by installing wvdial (on the mdk cds). It has a small config file and after that you type wvdial to dial in. It is the most stable PPP dialer for Linux.

If wvdial can't hold onto the connection then it might be on your ISP's side or could be a 'dirty' phone line (static).

Some more info: can you do anything on the internet before the ppp daemon dies? Does it always disconnect at the same time or is it inconsistant?

Someone's been a busy little MDK user!

Thanks for all the tuts aru, they add to this site being the invaluable resource that it is :D

I'm not sure exactly how to solve your problem, but you can clear your swap by simply deleting everything from /swap (seems too simple, I know).

You should not even consider using supermount. Type the following:

# supermount -disable

You might have to reboot after that.

The first thing I am going to recommend to you is upgrading to Mandrake 9.0. It should relieve you of that problem one time.

What does the line above the error say? We need to know what it is trying to do when the error occurs. I have heard of similar problems with older releases of MDK. Get 9.

Hell yeah!

IE5 problems are usually caused with things like table cell backgrounds, etc.

if you use CSS to define all these things, you will find that IE5 will start co-operating.

Dollars ??  What about all those diamond mines ?? surely you own at least one or two ??  :lol:

I wish! The dumbasses who ran this country until 8 years ago screwed that deal up and the new "regime" are arguably even worse at exploiting our resources.

*sigh* At least our currency started pumping the dollar towards the end of '02. Thank you Georgy for your dodgy foreign policies.

I know you are looking for a very similar solution to Mozilla Composer, and I don't know of such a program - but if you force yourself to do the code yourself, you will be amazed at how much better your pages will become.

Plus you can use CSS :wink:

My favourite editors (Quanta is on top):

Quanta Plus, Blue Fish, Screem (all on MDK cds)

Coffeecup HTML editor (free from www.cofeecup.com)