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Install k3b, if it isn't installed already (look in Star Menu > System > Archiving). Start k3b, under the Tools menu, you will find CD > Burn Image. Select this, find the ISO image file you want to burn, insert a blank CD and off you go.

What made you try that?

You could try to see if ping works: ping www.***.com This also uses DNS. Assuiming you get an IP address automagically, you might also want to look at /var/lib/dhcp. This contains a number of "dhclient-*.leases" files (one for each network interface you have). Here's a lump out of one of mine: lease { interface "wlan0"; fixed-address 192.168.1.100; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option routers 192.168.1.1; option dhcp-lease-time 599940; option dhcp-message-type 5; option domain-name-servers 194.168.8.100,194.168.4.100; option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.1.1; renew 4 2005/3/3 15:14:57; rebind 1 2005/3/7 00:01:05; expire 1 2005/3/7 20:50:58; } As you can see, this includes the IP addresses of your domain name servers, which may be useful.

In general terms, as I'm not within reach of a GIMP at the moment... Load a picture of you, and one of your partner, preferably face on, under identical lighting. Rotate each picture until the eyes are level with each other (if needed). Measure the distance between the eyes, and if they aren't the same distance in each photo, scale down the larger image until the eyes are an equal distance apart. Then cut one picture and paste it into the other as a new layer. Set the layer opacity to 50% and move the layer until the eyes coincide. Edit: Here's the rather worrying result of doing this with me and my wife. Note the effect when you're not quite in the same position relative to the camera, so it's best to go for a "passport-style" pose.

Under Firefox, when I'm listening to the shows I missed via BBC Radio 4's Listen Again link (for example, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/, click on "Launch BBC Radio Player" and then on "Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive"), RealPlayer has an annoying side effect. Every browser.................. operation (e.g. scrolling) tends to.................... freeze for 10-15...................... seconds then work ................... again for another 5-10 seconds then........................ You get the idea. This does not seem to affect any other running applications but does affect a second Firefox invocation too. At frst, I thought it might be competition for runtime between the browser and the player - by default, both RealPlayer and Firefox run at level 16. I've tried renice to lower the player's priority level a bit, but that didn't seem to have any visible effect. Any ideas? Anyone else even seen this problem?

XMMS doesn;t work "out of the box" because the menu shortcut invokes "soundwrapper xmms". XMMS does not need soundwrapper on a default install, so you can use the menu editor to just invoke XMMS directly. I was having different fun with XMMS (>30s startup times for some reason, and very nasty-looking menus on 2005LE) so I switched to Beep. Pretty impressed so far - see also this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...4&st=0&p=188368

I inherited one of these recently, when I was running Mandrake 10.0, and I got it to both print and scan. The configuration survived my upgrade to 2005LE. I wrote about it at the time, so if you haven't found it already, you might find the following link useful: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=23210

Just built BMP 0.9.7 from source (repeat after me: "Remember to install those -devel packages" "Remember to install...") Very nice. Starts in about 1.5s, default skin is nice and just as small as XMMS, plays OGG and MP3 out of the box. I think I'll stick with this one for a while. Thanks, rolf.

I've noticed the slow startup on XMMS, but I like the small footprint of the UI. I might give beep a try, and see what options I have there. I also noticed that, unlike in 10.0, the menus and some other UI widgets look dreadful. The file selector has blue lines between the entries in the lists, the fonts are not anti-aliased at all, and some of the buttons are too small for the fonts they contain. My guess is that this is also something to do with the GTK libraries.

The way I did it was even more drastic - I upgraded to 2005LE! I wanted a load of other updates too (x.org, KDE, etc), and this seemed like the easiest way.

Nice tip. I tried to do this under 10.0 and never quite got it working. That said, I get some VERY weird and wacky values. Basically, if these are true, I should be running around with a fire extinguisher rather than typing this. Take a look at these: it87-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.71 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) ALARM VCore 2: +2.56 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.61 V) +3.3V: +2.59 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.46 V) ALARM +5V: +1.67 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) ALARM +12V: +6.72 V (min = +11.39 V, max = +12.61 V) ALARM -12V: -18.77 V (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V) ALARM -5V: -6.30 V (min = -5.26 V, max = -4.77 V) ALARM Stdby: +2.28 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) ALARM VBat: +3.07 V Just look at those voltages! -18.77V on the -12V line; +1.67V on the +5V line. No way those are right, unless everything I know about electronic system design is wrong (it could happen...) Also: fan1: 2556 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 8) fan2: 0 RPM (min = 664 RPM, div = 8) ALARM fan3: 0 RPM (min = 664 RPM, div = 8) ALARM M/B Temp: +54°C (low = +15°C, high = +40°C) sensor = diode CPU Temp: +127°C (low = +15°C, high = +45°C) sensor = thermistor Temp3: +63°C (low = +15°C, high = +45°C) sensor = thermistor It seems pretty obvious that the thermistor labelled CPU Temp is disconnected - my guess Temp3 is CPU temp, but even so it seems pretty high. It's fairly warm in here, but not that warm. Any ideas?

How did you get on?

I can vouch for ianw's instructions - I have just upgraded from a DVD and the "udev" tip was invaluable. See also this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25525&hl=

Have you run "top" from a console to see if anything is eating your cpu time?

According to this month's Linux Format, these have changed for 2005LE. If that's what you're using, it might get you started in the right direction.

OK, that was easier than I expected, with one wrinkle. Here's a step-by-step... Booted to the 2005LE DVD, pressed Enter to install. Selected English (British) (is there any other kind?), and Unicode support from the localization screen. Accepted license. It automagically detected my existing 10.0 system, so I just selected "upgrade" Chose a UK keyboard ...and away we go. It took about 20 minutes to upgrade all the packages It kept all of the configuration options, as far as I can tell. I asked it not to install updates, because I (rightly) assumed problems with ndiswrapper, and reboot. All is well for a while, I get to the graphical login, and click on my icon, enter my password, and wait. And wait... and wait. Eventually I figure it's not just migrating settings (or whatever) and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace back to the login menu and reboot, paying more attention to the messages this time. Now, at this point I am glad I printed out this thread, because ian was right on the money. In the boot messages, there were various messages about devfs (as in "devfs still active!" or something equally amazed-sounding). A quick reboot into failsafe mode, and hasty editing of the /etc/lilo.conf file ensued, changing all the "devfs=mount" to "devfs=nomount" entries everywhere. Reboot. Now, everything works (almost). I can log in, and to my surprise all my settings are alive and well, including Firefox bookmarks, GAIM login, etc. Except, of course, that as usual ndiswrapper has evaporated, so I'm alone in the world, isolated from the net. Worse, the instructions I had used before no longer worked! The way you deal with ndiswrapper has changed since Mandrake 10.0, so I've been fighting it for the last 2 hours trying to get it to install. Of course, I can't google for the answer because I need the answer to get to google! Arggh! Thankfully, the same Linux Format cover disk that had 2005LE on it also has ndiswrapper 1.1, and more usefully, the documentation. Instead of mucking about with lots of stuff in modprobe.conf, obtaining hardware IDs, ndiswrapper seems to be in the kernel already for 2005LE. It also has a vastly simplified installation procedure and it was simply a case of typing "ndiswrapper -i /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.inf" and presto - I'm back on the net bending your ear... you lucky people :P Now all I have to do is see if it survives a reboot... Edit: yes, it does.

Marvellous. Even easier, then. Thanks once again for your help. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks very much for the info! Given the ease of a clean installation, I was expecting something more along the lines of "Boot to the CD/DVD, choose the Upgrade option, and go and make a cup of tea". (Actually, the urpmi part of the process sounds almost as easy as this.) I have 2005LE on the latest Linux Format cover DVD, so I'm thinking that it should be possible to just point the urpmi sources at the appropriate directories on the DVD, rather than relying on the internet, especially as the internet is the other side of ndiswrapper, which always seems to lose its settings when I upgrade anything. As for the kernel - and apologies for being a complete dimwit here - I've never updated the kernel before. According to this link http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1138.htm it's as simple as typing "urpmi kernel" and off it goes. Is it really as simple as that? The devfsd -> udev migration sound like a possible source of problems too, given what it does. I have a series of USB devices installed, for example. Again, is this just as simple as disabling devfsd and installing udev, or do I have to migrate any config files, etc? Well, it looks like I've certainly got a project for this weekend. Now all I have to do is convince the wife that the new lights for the hallway don't need to go up just yet...

Edit: Changed title - see below for what happened I'm seriously thinking about upgrading from 10.0 to 2005LE, since it has the new ALSA drivers, updated KDE, new versions of GIMP and Kino (which I've never quite been able to install), an update function that still works, and a bunch of other stuff. However, I've heard various tales of woe from people doing upgrades, so I'm asking for a little advice first. Is there anything I really need to know about the upgrade process? What can I expect to be preserved, and what will I have to reinstall? (I have a separate /home partition, BTW). If/when I decide to go ahead, I'll keep a log and post my experience here when I'm done. Thanks in advance...

Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, KWrite, Sun J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 (I do mobile Java development for a living, and work from home often), Ant and various other Java tools, the Gimp (well, not every day, but often enough!), SSH, K3b. Edit: Oh, forgot Konqueror for file management, FileZilla for file transfer, whetever the default console is under KDE for the shell. (OT: I note that Firefox isn't in the PHP spellchecking dictionary. Shame!)

Do you want to start the program when you log in as a user, or when you boot the system (so that it runs all the time, even when you are logged out)? To start at boot time, the easiest way is probably to use cron. You can edit a user's cron configuration by typing "crontab -e" at a terminal. You may get a blank file if you have not set anything else, or maybe a single line specifying the shell to use, like this: SHELL=/bin/bash Add a line that says "@reboot" followed by the command to run. Here is my SETI@Home command: @reboot cd /home/sean/.boinc; ./boinc_4.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu -allow_remote_gui_rpc -return_results_immediately >> ./boinc.log (That should be all on one line.)

Some time ago, I had a similar requirement, and I managed to find a little adapter (on eBay) that converts a mini-IDE connector to a full-size IDE connector, and that would allow you to put a 2.5" HDD in your desktop machine. Total cost, about $8. With one of those, and a modicum of luck, you should be able to get the files off the disk at least. Edit: Here's a url to one possible source, and to show you a picture: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/cablesonline/25hdmounkitw.html

I'm sitting and squinting at a monitor in front of a window at the moment. On an overcast day in February, it's great. On a sunny May morning, I find myself having to shade my eyes. I would find it better to have the monitor at right angles to the window (assuming my room was a different shape). Then, you're not competing with a bright field, and you don't get too many reflections. Also, may I recommend that you take a look at the book "Peopleware" by Tim Lister and Tom de Marco. This has an excellent discussion of the work environment. Basically, for serious computer work, it comes down to "something you can easily ignore". Quiet, reasonable temperature, comfortable, ability to turn off the phone. And that's about it. Too many distractions, and you never get any work done. Of course, as Dave Gorman said in his excellently funny "Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure" (DVD), "But my computer is connected to the Internet, which as we all know contains everything about the whole world, ever. I don't know about you, but I find everything about the whole world ever just a little bit distracting." So, for real work, turn off your internet connection too :-)

On the urging of a friend who was travelling to Korea, I installed Skype on WinXP last week and finally go around to putting it on Mandrake 10.0 this morning. I installed from the .tar.bz version, since I wasn't sure about the 10.1 RPM, and I needed to get another dependency (libdbus - no idea what it does, but it was available from the source-contrib RPM repository thingy). Made a link on the desktop, and it just works. Flippin' marvellous, and even with my utterly-cheap-99p-from-ebuyer microphone/earbud combo, the quality isn't bad at all. Certainly better than my actual phone. Highly recommended. Edit: 100 posts. Apparently I win another penguin.

I've just installed a Benq DW1620 Pro 16 DVD R/RW Dual Layer DVD Burner (more info at ebuyer - a bargain at £30) and it seems to be behaving itself so far. Published specs say: - Read Speed: 40x (CD) / 16x (DVD) - Write Speed: 40x (CD) / 16x (DVD±R) / 4x (DVD+R DL) - CD / DVD Rewrite Speed: 24x (CD) / 4x (DVD±RW) No problem with install; just swapped it in instead of my Toshiba DVD-ROM/CDRW drive and rebooted. K3B detects it and reports the media type of a DVD+RW OK, and I'm just running a test burn now with a few video files. Speed was as expected, about 4x, that is 3.4GB in about 12 minutes, plus a couple of minutes to erase. One minor fly in the ointment - I had to "force" the burn, as a formatted DVD+RW is apparently detected as a DVD-ROM for some reason. I'm using k3b 0.11.1-15mdk according to rpmdrake. I will upgrade, see if that fixes the problem, and report back. Result seems OK at a quick test - I am playing an episode of Alexei Sayle's "Stuff" from DVD as we speak, which makes me happy because (a) I haven't wasted £30, and (B) Alexei Sayle is very very funny. (As usual, I did cut myself putting the case back together, and had one heart-stopping moment when I turned on the power switch after bolting the system back together, and nothing happened. TIP: It helps to turn on the switch at the front of the case too.)