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  1. Well if most were paid to stay at home that would already be a progress. Not that they work much, but the few they do is to piss people off Hem .... Ok concerning your question: "degroupe" means Free or 9 Telecom use there own network without using France Telecom infrastructure. See here if your place is "degroupe" at Free. cheers roland Edit: looks good: http://adsl.free.fr/degroup/midi.html
  2. Hi gowator :) So vacation are finished ? (though vacations or work, that doesn't change much for you ) Currently you still need a line, even with FreeBox. It's going to change, next year I think. I know 9 Telecom have a quite good similar offer (high bandwidth, Telephone, TV) where you don't need a France Telecom "tax" but I think it's less widely available than the Free one. Worth a look anyway. very true. Free don't have hidden cost. That's one of there advertising. Just the modem is not yours. It's there property. You know what I think of Wanadoo ....... bye roland Edit: I forgot: TimeTwister: welcome in France, welcome in this board :) I don't know Toulouse but I've heard it's a good place.
  3. roland

    DSL...finally

    like devries said, for a home computer, the default setting is probably enough.
  4. Hi, At home and at work we use Free Telecom under Linux and we are quite satisfied. It's one that officially "support" Linux ..... well may be as badly as Windows, that means bad service for both. If you are in a "degroupe" zone you may have a "FreeBox" modem. It's very fast and it has a Ethernet connection witch is fine with Linux. It's a 2048 to 5000 Kb bandwidth, free telephone, TV. Not bad for 30€ / month. Else you may have a Sagem FAST 800 USB modem witch is also supported by Mandrake. A good invision forum (like here) of Free Telecom users: http://www.freeks-forums.org/ bye roland
  5. No problem: it's easy to expand the last partition and anyway with linux it's easy to make a new /usr or /var or else partition if they don't fit in the old / size. That's one beauty of Linux. The geometry problem is more serious. It couldn't be that simple. I wonder what happen if the source and destination disk are not the same kind, ie one IDE, other SCSI, one (P)ATA , the other SATA, ..... Nope. Not the right tool to make a disk to disk clone.
  6. Sorry I don't see what you mean :unsure: copy .. cp you mean ? I don't know how it's different. I'll have a look, no time now. I guess I've just reinvented the weel, discovered something I should have known already: the dd command. Ok, but so obvious that after hours of googling and search in this forum, nowhere I've seen that dd was the right answer for my problem witch probably a lot of people had before me :o If I've ran dd and if it was the right command, that's more luck than anything else (I don't even know how I had this command in mind) So, imo: -A there should be something about dd on tip and trick, -B the man may have to be rewritten: I don't see anybody understand anything about the crap written there about dd (at least in french) Now let's be clear: I'm NOT volunteer for job A and B. roland
  7. He he. Thanks :) Did you know the answer already ?
  8. Once again here is one where I do the questions and the answer. But, ladies and gentlemen listen, you have to know: THAT WORKED ! :D :D B) I'm not a newb any more ! How to replace a disk and copy the content of the old disk to the new one ? The right way is MY way, I've discovered myself, alone like a real geek. Look well. It is: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Hit Enter, wait 45 mn, shut down the pc when it's finished, open the pc, remove the old hda, don't forget to put the old hdb as master so it became hda, switch on the pc, THAT'S ALL !! Somebody to put this in proper english and then in tip and trick ? roland P.S: Again, thank you roland, you're the boss Edit: - of course if your new disk is somewhere else than /dev/hdb, that's a little different. - of course, if the destination hd has valuable data in it, better save them before. Ok ?
  9. I've lauched the command dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb it's currently running what do you think ?
  10. what I have to do: copy my whole hda to hdb so that I can replace hda with the new hdb. hda is 40 GB, hdb is 160 GB so that must fit. at reboot it should run as if nothing has happened ... except that now I have around 120 GB of free space. Type of partitions to copy: FAT32, ReiserFS (swap: I don't care) How :unsure: ? By the way: - my old Norton Ghost 5.1 can't do this job, - I had a look in partimage. I can be wrong, but it seems to me it's not adapted for this job (I didn't see any disk to disk option, you have to make an image file before. Worse, to make the image the source partition can't be mounted. That make create an image of root complicate no ?) - dd or cp command ? somebody ? many thanks roland
  11. check or try this one in /etc/smb.conf print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. ? :unsure:
  12. Hi, boot on the first CD, press F1 key, type rescue, that will boot on rescue mode. There you have something like "Restore bootloader" if I remember well.
  13. hem... you know what a beta is ok ? A Beta don't work properly. Well it works like a Beta, that means still has some bugs waiting for you to be discovered and reported. :P Complaining about a beta is simply not logical. Worse: be aware that even with stable release, upgrade are .. well debatable for most of people. That was widely discussed why put an upgrade that works ... well not perfectly for most but that's an other debate. There is other simple and quite fast way to upgrade doing a clean install. Anyway, good luck, take your time, practice and all the trouble will be forgotten. bye roland
  14. kdesu konqueror That will ask for root password and lauch konqueror as root. Then you can browse your disk, got to /etc (most likely) and edit any config text file just double clicking on them. Else if you really want to be able to log as root on the GUI, go to MCC->System->Connection manager (? Gestionnaire de connexion) and choose KDM instead of MdkKDM. Logout, reset X (Ctrl Backspace) and you may have the new connection manager that let you connect as root
  15. Red Hat 7.0 -> Red Hat 7.1 -> Mandrake 8.0 -> back to Red Hat 7.1 -> Mandrake 8.2 I got all version of Mandrake since 8.2. It's my only distro since 8.2. - I got RH 7.0 on a book I found in the railways station (?!), - from RH 7.1 to ML 8.2: I found them on magazines, - I bought 9.0 and 9.2 powerpack (more exactly my company) - All other were downloaded. Looks like ML 8.2 converted a lot of people. The only thing I expected from Linux is just work and improve, keeping me less dependent from Microsoft product now and even less in the future (I'll try to never switch to Longhorn: I fear all the "trusted computer" things)
  16. the link don't work with me. ping space.com gives me 75% lost :unsure:
  17. Like you said :) Carrefour is just the #2 in the world behind Wall Mart but #1 outside US. Quite promising. But Carrefour is not well known for there online sale. In fact I didn't know they did online sale. Let's see how they advertize the product, but my guess is that for the moment they are just testing something here before perhaps doing it big in the future. What are they testing ? well I don't know. See how busy the hot line is going to be ?
  18. an interesting opinion there reminded me this thread. I think the guy expressed very well what I and other here like gowator think:
  19. What about IE6 running on Linux ? yes it exists: just disguize a Mozilla or else as IE. Too bad there is no statitics on those strange mix....
  20. Ok, so lets ban Asus. But the trouble in those situation is that if ever the company decided to change it's atitude, we never know. It seems the Open Source community gives more advertizing when it's to ban than when it's to stop a ban.
  21. looks like a server would be better. Linux is clearly the best on servers. The trouble is that if you choose a M$ server, you have the right to be wrong. If you choose a Linux server, not. So better be sure. The best way imho, at least it's how I did, is if you have a M$ laptop computer and a Linux desktop at home, you test everything at home before. So almost no risk. And no hurry. Time is money and is the trouble with computer: when you change something, you know when you start, you never know when it will be finish. So if you don't want to spend nights and week-end at work ...... Edit:
  22. No that's not a joke Here is the main site http://www.nitix.com/ So my friend/me/this site were faster than Distrowatch ! what a scoop ! Looks very commercial. Commercial is not bad for me but I personnally don't like much M$ bashing as an advertizing.
  23. oula. sorry but this looks very complicate to me. you can also just run kdesu konqueror that will ask for your root password then lauch konqueror as root. looks too simple ? I tested it this morning B) Detailed HowTo: select the normal konqueror icon (the house), right clic, copy anywhere on the desktop, right clic, past enter a new name for the new icon file select the new icon right clic, property Application, enter "kdesu konqueror" (without the quotes) Ok, save done :)
  24. Here what a friend sent to me: http://www.sorrybill.com/index.php Nitix: never heard of this distro, not even on distrowatch. Is this something new ?
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