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i think you got the source package that needs to be compiled first before you can use it. try installing the development packages first (gcc, make, etc.). if you start the mandrake control center (mcc), and go to the software management section you will see that there is a group for development. :) or you can download a compiled rpm version. search for it in http://rpm.pbone.net . i can see a few hits already. or if you have a fast connection, setup urpmi (link on the upper right portion of this site) and add the plf sites so it will handle the dependencies for you. ciao!

hi, does anybody know of a firefox extension that has an option for download throttling? i cant use an external download manager because they are being blocked by the sites that i need (rapidshare.de, yousendit.com, etc). firefox is hogging all of the available bandwidth and i need to throttle it down to a maximum of 10kbps. a firefox configuration hack would also be appreciated. thanks. ciao!

probably not as i will try sticking with arch for the meantime. mandy keeps on spoon feeding me and i cant learn as much if im being spoonfed. :( case in point. i want to create a 11GB partition which im going to use as a staging area for DVD writing. i fired up arch, used cfdisk to create a new logical partition with type 82 (i cant find 83 which is supposed to be the type code of reiserfs), then saved the changes. after dropping back to root console i cant for the life of me create a reiserfs partition because it says it cant stat the partitions (/dev/hda21). i tried using mkfs.ext3 with the same result. bottomline, i rebooted to mandrake and recreated the partition it using diskdrake. im pathetic so i am not upgrade mandrake as long as i can bear. ciao!

but it is still good. and catchy and, well, more commercially palatable to those who are just looking for a desktop os. kind of like watching a tv ad. ciao!

that might not be necessary ix. he only needs to remove his configuration files. that means you can just delete or move all files and directories beginning with a dot in your home directory. $ mkdir old-configs $ mv ~/.* old-configs or use a GUI-based window manager to do the select-move operation for you as my mv command might be rusty. :) ciao!

does it allow copy and pasting text (on unprotected pdf files of course)? afaik, no linux pdf viewer has that capability yet. ciao!

just take note of/write your existing partition (fdisk -l /dev/hda if you only have one harddisk) configuration somewhere so that you can refer to it someday. then if you dont erase partitions in the middle, you could deduce which partition has the /boot files and point grub there. i am already triple-booting (winxp for my wife, mdk10.1 and arch 0.7 for me) so i dont think this is an issue. and oh, i dont install any more boot loaders. i just edit the one being read by grub (the mdk one) manually. ciao!

hmmn, that might work if you anchor it in international waters and claim that specific area as your own country's area of responsibility. now to the next issue, how will you survive on a floating house/island? ciao!

im in a hurry so i am not sure if i understood all of the issues in this problem (maybe i should shut up now but my better judgement is sleeping at the moment ). in arch i was driven nuts by not having access to the audio group even if my user is already added (based on the /etc/groups file). then i found in the arch wiki that i can use gpasswd to add my user to the audio group. maybe you can use this in your scenario too. if not then you can regard this post as mere gibberish. :) ciao!

i am not sure so i will stab at it. why not use an and operator to find? you will have to figure out the sequence they are evaluated but i am suggesting to the likes of -m +5 -a ( -name "" -o -name "" -o ...) or wait till one of the cli junkies arrive. :) ciao!

good to see another pinoy on the board. afaik, nobody was able to make the official chikka client run on linux. there was a java version but it depended on the MS java runtime classes (kinda ironic). on the philippine linux user group list, there was a discussion way back about reverse-engineering the protocol used by chikka. somebody said he snopped the traffic and said it was relatively easy to 'discover'. ciao!

i am liking it but it is normal that i still am doing things the way i am used to mandrake. i admit i have not been able to boot my computer since i started this thread so i have not yet grown accustom to the urpmi-pacman shift. distro ho-ism is good if you have the time, and that is one prime commodity that i do not have. the missus is even pestering me about doing some painting in the house. the life of a married man is alway full of (time-consuming) suprises. :D ciao!

probably the TCP/IP stack. these stack has been challenged from time memorial because they are used heavily in the internet (transfer of data). ciao!

the best i can hope for is a distro-mini-ho. :D really, all i want is to experience 1 rpm based distro (Mandrake), 1 slackware-distro (im leaning towards vectorlinux), 1 debian-based distro (maybe ubuntu), and 1 hybrid distro in terms of usability and linux-guide (arch). all that hinders me is available time. :( but ill take it slowly and surely. :D ciao!

after about 3 years of using mandrake i have finally installed another distro: Arch Linux. i am still having trouble letting pacman sort the dependencies in the cd but im reading the arch linux first impressions right now from SoulSe and will try the --refresh option when i get home. over-all it looks snappy and clean although i cannot say its faster. one more perk is now i have a multi-boot computer (Win2k for the missus, MDK10.1 OE and Arch Wombat for me :D). i finally weaned myself from lilo and have transferred to grub. man, i did not know that grub was that easy. :woops: my wombat installation is still pretty bare (i managed to install xfce yesterday) and i still need to figure out how to download the extra packages since i dont have internet at home. i suppose cygwin+wget+bash will help me in that area. i also have to transfer the /var directory to its own partition and have arch share the /tmp with mdk. and i have to find out a way of making hotplug daemon work because i think im sitll missing a module. still a long way to go but at least im moving... :) enough of this rant.... i better get back to work... ciao! [edit] oh yeah, i still have around 10Gig of unpartitioned space in my 40GB drive so now that i am more confident in multi-booting, i might try the free Ubuntu CDs that arrived in my mailbox. [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman]

those are screens that have been detached and whose programs running in them has terminated, or the screen itself has been terminated by a signal. i get them all the time when i was running jboss/weblogic inside of them to prevent being killed by the HUP signal. what happens is that screen creates sockets in the temp directory (usually with the pid id of the screen plus some additional descriptors). if screen fails to do the clean-up (such as when not terminated normally) then the sockets will be left in place. the next time you issue a resume in screen, it will see these leftover sockets but could not communicate with the screen that was previously using them. either wipe or rm will do the trick. i prefer wipe so that screen cleans-up after itself. :) ciao! [edit] nah, i took a second look and missed out the bold lines. that will be nothing if you specified a name for the screens when you created them. otherwise, its better if you head off to the screen user list. :( ciao!

i was going to say its just a binary file but im not sure so i did a quick research. based on most definitions, its just a way of telling MSDOS and Windows how to run an executable. its kind of like a shortcut where you specify the fonts, screen size, etc. then i searched for a pif file in my workstation here in the office and passed it thorugh cat. its a binary file but you can see the executable that it will run (C:\winnt\_DEFAULT.pif wil try to run a _DEFAULT.bat). i guess there is no point in decompiling a pif file (you can if you know assembly). you need to study the program or file it is associating to. ciao!

isnt that installed by default? i inadvertently gave my installer away thinking that i wont need it anymore until the next release. i guess i could try downloading that package manually. :) ciao!

http://www.hunnysoft.com/mimepp/ looks like it was compiled against a proprietary library. :( ciao!

same problem. the one from 10.0 was working fine and i have already deleted most gnome related ~/.directories in my user home to no avail. anybody know which type of font will satisfy this requirement (and where to download it)? thanks. ciao!

maybe something to this effect: $ find . -exec grep good {} \; -print ciao!

another vote for eclipse, or scite+a terminal. ciao!

what errors are you encountering? does the vi(m) interface come up fine and that you just cant use any commands on it? a screenshot would be nice. ciao!

old news but just wanted to bring it up nonetheless... http://www20.tomshardware.com/business/20041230/index.html :) ciao!

you mean you like qt-based apps more than gtk-based? as for your second question, it depends on how your two trips went. sometimes it takes a new set of eyes to appreciate the beauty that old eyes has already grown accustomed with.... ciao!