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tutut! do me a favor, dont belittle yourself. everybody starts from being a newbie. the beauty of the open source scene is that your learning is only limited by your interest and will. and you are welcome, im just repaying what others have done for me. :) ciao!

it just means that the execution bit is set. this might be caused by the file permissions set when it was zipped mapped to an execution bit in a linux filesystem. if the other dat files are not executable then just remove the appropriate bit on that file with chmod -x <filename> ciao!

the "6 7" parameter is for those mouse/trackball devices that have them in surplus. maybe the default assumption is if you are using a usb pointing device then you will have at least 5 buttons in your device plus the wheel. add 3 more if you have a clickable dual wheel device. :D ciao!

you can try one of these: A. Type init 1 in a command terminal. If it switches you into runlevel 1 (single user mode), then type 'passwd' to change the root password. B. Reboot the system. During your bootloader, (if you are using LILO) press the key (I think its escape) to get a linux prompt then assuming your label for mandriva is "linux" then pass one of the following: "linux single" or "linux init 1". Upon complete boot, type 'passwd' to change the root password. C. (NOTE: It has been so long since I needed to do this so use this only as a guide) Reboot using your Mandriva installation CD and select the other optiions when given the chance (F1, i think). Select the rescue prompt option and change the password as stated above. You can also use a live-cd distribution to reset your password but that entails some additional steps like mounting your / partition and performing 'passwd'. Use that as a last resort. In option A and B, you can switch to runlevel 3 (console login) or 5 (gui login) by passing the command init <runlevel number> Holler if you run into trouble, or something I said is gibberish. I think there was previously a FAQ item for this but I cant find it... hmmmn. ciao!

there is already a gaim plugin for chikka. its named chixx or something. some say it already works. [edit] found it -> http://chix.sourceforge.net/ ciao!

1. NWN, i got it from a local store here for only €15 so I guess its already fair for something that I have not touched in more than a week. :( ciao!

bad choice. paul has no life. good to hear that mandrivasoft now has extra cash for funding development. ciao!

my home system is a Duron 800Mhz with 128MB SDR[1], 60GB HDD, Mandriva LE2005 + Fluxbox + Rox. it is no gaming rig but up to the task of doing the tasks I assign to it (development, document writing, etc.) [1] I found out that one of hte 128 chips was faulty and causes the bootup to sometimes fail so I took it out. ciao!

the output of the dmesg command is also good. it may not list everything but it has most of the messages that you would be interested in. ciao!

is there a similar y!pops software in linux? i use that to download my files from yahoo. why dont i just use gmail's pop3? because the company is blocking all pop3 traffic. i am downloading my yahoo mails via http. ciao!

not yet. i played it in windows way back when i had some free time to burn. maybe if i get to helsinki and have my hands on a laptop then i will try this. :) ciao!

i am presuming that you have lilo as your bootloader (you can double check this when you boot your computer, or else it is grub). the GUI way is to start mandrake control center and navigate into the boot section and change the default to windows. alternatively, you can checkout the bootloaders section of our faq. this should give you hints on how to do that in the command line. ciao!

i havent because who has time to play these day? but i swear im going to try this. i havent even done your tip about the colossus. im thinking of starting from LPI again if i can use character stats when i finish it. :) ciao!

aside from what arctic has said, KDE and GNOME are Desktop Environment/Managers while flux and the rest are just Window Managers. one quality usually attributed to DE are their ability to host desktop icons/shortcuts while on Window Mangers you usually have to use another application like idesk or rox. at least thats what i understand. :D ciao!

what device is the parallel port? assuming its /dev/par0 (im guessing here) then try running lsof (you might need to run this as root if it is installed at all) against that device and kill the process which holds it before running turboprint again. you said it was working a few days ago, can you recall any configuration/application changes you have made on your system until turboprint stopped working? ciao!

i heard ruby is a good language to learn but my masteral requirements does not include it so its either python or java for me. since i already know java, python is the next best thing for expanding my horizons. :) but ruby is still in my backburner. :D ciao!

yep im aware of that tyme, but i still see it as a moot point. but since we have a penchant for wasting our time, then ok here is my opinion. its moot to even think for a reply to that question. ciao!

does gnome baker have an on-the-fly option? i think that option bypasses the need to create an image before directly writing to the media. i did the second option. i created a 10GB partition called /storage/forge. dual-layer discs here is basically nonexistent (and those that exists are way to expensive) so i will only burn a single layer of dvd data. the 10GB should be enough and it is not idle since i sort my files there. ciao!

currently trying to tame arch as my second distro. mandrake/mandriva spoonfeeds me, which is my it is still my main distro at home. ciao!

welcome to this board! aside from adamw, nobody here is affiliated with mandrivasoft so answering whether they should or should not consider sponsoring <insert event> is a rather moot point. :) ciao!

or if its on the same network and it has X installed in it then you could redirect its X output to your machine. ciao!

isnt that used mainly for laptops? i can their use on a desktop (saving computing/application state while you go on an errand) but in my case that means poweroff. :) and like what i have read in other parts of the forumusing such feature will require a swap equal or greater than the total RAM + 30%. just in case somebody gets inspired to try it. ciao!

they dont have one but i might be mistaken in mdk since i just mounted the partition and did a haphazard search for [Xx]*conf. at least i can vouch in arch because even the logs resorted to the built-in configuration (which I dont know if its hardcoded or it is another config file somewhere). the built-in one was good enough and my not noticing i dont have a x config file is a testament to that. when i ran hwd -x and renamed the file to xorg.conf, the X logs showed that it was using that file. and i saw what scarecrow said with _a little tweaking_ since it discarded a lot of the modelines and font settings. ciao!

yeah and it needs a certain degree of tweaking to make sure users of both distros have the same uid and gid. i took an indirect approach and placed all common files in a separate partition and tweaked my username in both distro to have the same uid/gid. basically my /home partition is really not /home. im planning on having a flat-file subversion repository in that for the configuration files and other stuff that i want versioned. ciao!

yeah. actually i did not copy your instruction in paper and only remembered that i needed the x option and i went by the package name. the basic config works great (but i did reduce the horizontal/vertical refresh until i find the manual). there a lots of things to be taken out but its a start. direct rendering with savage still does not work but ill see if i can investigate further this weekend. thanks again scarecrow. ciao!