Jump to content

solarian

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1143

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by solarian

  6. Mandrake changing its name!

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    A pity..

    I agree with the top posters. Mandriva really seems one of the worst choices, though ManConnect would have been even worse. Still, they could go with ConnectDrake or something simmilar.

     

    p.s. I'm from a non-english speaking country and still 90% of users use english language versions.

  7. mdk 10.2 and kde 3.4

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    I have come to regard such comments, when not backed up with any actual *numbers*, with healthy scepticism.

    You are welcome to be skeptic! :) Those are just my subjective impressions,

    and my box runs so fine now, that I've decided to skip 10.2 (I've tried rc2_) and wait for the "2006" release.

  15. Ubuntu info

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    I've tried Ubuntu for 2 times, both times returned to Mandrake. Mostly because I prefer MCC and also because of 'root'. Oh, I know, I had enabled it on Ubuntu, but it causes some problems.

    After trying MDK 10.2 rc2 I've returned to my trusty MDK 10.1 with a fresh KDE-3.4 and Gimp-2.2 installation. :headbang:

    Mandrake just works for me :cheeky:

  21. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    Hey, can you help me a bit?

    Everything seems to be ok, but just this thing ->

    -deleted link-

    See, no icons in K-menu or Konqueror's main toolbar

    oh, and no trash icon on desktop,

    no icons at all

     

    edit: ok, I fixed it. I just applied a default theme and then changed it to how my old theme looked like

  22. choose a better name for OUR distro 2

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I like 'Mandrake' :D

     

    Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). Their roots, because their curious bifurcations cause them to have a semblance to the human figure (male & female), have long been used in magical spells and witchcraft.

     

    The mandrake, Mandragora officinarum, is a plant called by the Arabs luffâh, or beid el-jinn (i.e. genie's eggs). The parsley-shaped root is often branched. Magicians mould this root into a rude resemblance to the human figure, by pinching a constriction a little below the top, so as to make a kind of head and neck, and twisting off the upper branches except two, which they leave as arms, and the lower, except two, which they leave as legs. This root gives off at the surface of the ground a rosette of ovate-oblong to ovate, wrinkled, crisp, sinuate-dentate to entire leaves, 6 to 16 in. long, somewhat resembling those of the tobacco-plant. There spring from the neck a number of one-flowered nodding peduncles, bearing whitish-green flowers, nearly 2 in. broad, which produce globular, succulent, orange to red berries, resembling small tomatoes, which ripen in late spring.

     

    In legend it is alleged that when the plant is pulled from the ground, it shrieks in pain. Supposedly, this shriek is able to madden, deafen or even kill an unprotected human; the occult literature includes complex directions for harvesting a mandrake root in relative safety. For example Josephus gives the following directions for pulling it up:

     

        "A furrow must be dug around the root until its lower part is exposed, then a dog is tied to it, after which the person tying the dog must get away. The dog then endeavours to follow him, and so easily pulls up the root, but dies suddenly instead of his master. After this the root can be handled without fear."

    read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake_%28plant%29

×
×
  • Create New...