Steve Scrimpshire

In ark, after you click 'New' it is just asking you to continue with an already existing archive or create a new one. Just give it a name, then on the new window that pops up, click 'Add file' or 'Add directory' icon.

I have a collection of images that are from my camera taken on a recent trip. Is there a command-line way (using ImageMagick perhaps) that i can force these images to be say 3.5" x 5" and then lay them out 3 to a 8.5" x 11" page for printing? Top two rotated to vertical orientation and next one horizontal below them.

printf "%02.0f\n" $(( $i + 1 )); That outputs the number how you want it. If you are more specific what you are using this for, I may be able to help more. Edit: I assumed bash.

'Hopelessly dated'? How about 'stable'? One would think that since this is a Mandriva help board, one would expect Mandriva users to be posting here. One would also expect that trying to assist a fellow Linux user would not be cause for another to ridicule one's choice of distro.

Not to be a stick in the mud, but I don't see it: < root ~ > urpmq -y xastir no package named xastir < root ~ > urpmq -y Xastir no package named Xastir < root ~ > urpmq --list-url Main1 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/i586//media/main debug_main1 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/i586//media/debug_main Contrib1 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/i586//media/contrib debug_contrib1 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/i586//media/debug_contrib plf-free http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/free/cooker/i586 plf-nonfree http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/cooker/i586

What are the 19 items?

You may need libcdio-devel. The *.devel pkg is usually the one you need when a configure script tells you pkg * cannot be found. Why not install vcdimager through urpmi? or even MCC?

I would love to test it out for you, but I get this error: checking for wireless-tools >= 28pre9... no configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional < root /home/omar/Download/NetworkManager-0.6.2 > rpm -qa | grep wireless wireless-tools-28-1.pre15.1mdk wireless-tools-debug-28-1.pre15.1mdk Trying to install a different wireless-tools from source gives me more errors.

Even with this command,it reports my images as 400x300, when they are actually 800x600: < root /home/omar/natchez-copy > montage -verbose -label '%f\n%wx%h' -size 256x256 '*.JPG[360x270]' -strip -tile 5x -frame 5 -shadow -geometry 120x90+5+5! index.html This command: montage -verbose -label '%f\n%wx%h' -size 256x256 '*.JPG[120x90]' -strip -tile 5x -frame 5 -shadow -geometry 120x90+5+5! index.html shows my images as 200x150. Is there no way I can limit the amount of the image it reads in to lower CPU usage and still get an accurate image size?

Still can't find the solution. Update: Running with the verbose switch I see this: Why is it doing this?

I had browsed several mirrors that gave me errors and most of them were almost completely empty. Going with LiquidZoo's mirror, everything is cool, except for now, plf is broken and I have read a fix,but have not had the time to fix it. Basically, this problem is solved. Thanks, guys.

Put all the files in one directory and run this command find . -name "*%%20*" -exec sh -c 'mv ${0} "${0//\%\%20/ }"' {} \; P.S. I don't have this problem with wget: < omar ~/rename/wget > wget "http://semperphi.com/res test" --22:55:07-- [url=http://semperphi.com/res%20test]http://semperphi.com/res%20test[/url] => `res test' Resolving semperphi.com... 66.98.142.2 Connecting to semperphi.com|66.98.142.2|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 0 [text/plain] [ <=> ] 0 --.--K/s 22:55:07 (0.00 B/s) - `res test' saved [0/0] < omar ~/rename/wget > ls res test

< root /home/omar > rpm -qa | grep ImageMagick ImageMagick-6.2.6.4-4mdk When I do a label for a montage image map, it shows the width and height of my images to be 400x300 (they did, at first, anyway...now they are showing the label as 200x150): When they are, in actuality, 800x600: Example: http://semperphi.com/natchez/ What on earth am i doing wrong?

A .1% decrease in memory and a 1.0% increase in cpu usage? Sounds pointless to me. Here's mine: swiftfox PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4376 omar 15 0 2276 1076 892 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 firefox 4379 omar 19 0 2824 1368 888 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 run-mozilla.sh 4384 omar 15 0 91256 33m 16m S 0.0 7.1 0:04.26 firefox-bin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- firefox PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4269 omar 15 0 2788 1348 904 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 mozilla-firefox 4274 omar 23 0 2816 1364 888 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 run-mozilla.sh 4279 omar 15 0 89080 38m 16m S 0.0 8.2 0:04.42 mozilla-firefox ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- swiftfox PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4492 omar 18 0 2272 1076 892 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 firefox 4495 omar 18 0 2820 1368 888 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 run-mozilla.sh 4500 omar 16 0 83008 33m 16m S 0.0 7.2 0:03.50 firefox-bin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- firefox PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4582 omar 15 0 2788 1348 904 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 mozilla-firefox 4587 omar 24 0 2820 1364 888 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 run-mozilla.sh 4592 omar 16 0 112m 39m 16m S 0.0 8.4 0:06.47 mozilla-firefox 1.2% on my 512MB system. 6.144 MB....not worth the hassle in my opinion.

To the original question: In KDE, you can use kstart: kstart --desktop 2 emacs See man kstart or kstart --help for more of what kstart can do.

Thanks. That mirror is working, as is club-internet.fr for plf. A bunch of others are broken, but not because of the mandr(ake/iva) problem, as far as I could tell.

I keep trying to update urpmi and getting errors for hdlists not being found. main ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/media/main { hdlist: hdlist.main.cz key-ids: 26752624 with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz } contrib ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib { hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz key-ids: 26752624 with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz } jpackage ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage { hdlist: hdlist.jpackage.cz key-ids: c431416d with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz } plf-free http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/free/cooker { hdlist: hdlist.plf-free.cz key-ids: caba22ae list: list.plf-free with_hdlist: hdlist.cz } plf-nonfree http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/cooker { hdlist: hdlist.plf-nonfree.cz key-ids: caba22ae list: list.plf-nonfree with_hdlist: hdlist.cz } Are all the Cooker mirrors broken?

Customer service, not marketing. No sense gathering more customers to treat like garbage.

Thanks uralmasha. I run Fluxbox and did not know of a menu way of doing this. I think maybe your way will stay through reboots without having to put the command in a script.

For a newbie, I would say that adding premade modules to an ISO might be quite a step. :D For the record, I think MandrakeMove was an excellent choice, considering that is what this user was familiar with. For the more experienced, I still prefer Knoppix for older hardware and Kanotix for state of the art hardware.

Try this. Open a console and type this command: xset r rate 500 35 (that's what my repeat rate is set to and seems to work fine) The first number is the delay and the second number is the repeat rate. The delay is the number of milliseconds before autorepeat starts, and the rate is the number of repeats per second. If this works, you will have to put that command in a script somewhere to be run after X is started. If you tell me what desktop environment you are using, I can tell you how to initiate a script for the command, if this works.

Everything's cool. To help you understand a little better, when urpmi or rpm runs, it checks for the existence of this hidden file. If it doesn't exist, it creates it, then runs. Right before the process exits, it deletes this file. This allows the rpm process to make sure that nothing is accessing any files or the rpm database that it is trying to alter. Sometimes, when the process dies badly (exits abnormally), it doesn't have time to delete this file, so it always thinks afterwards that the database is locked until you delete this file manually. You will rarely have to do this, so if you get the error again, before you manually delete this file, just make sure there are no rpm processes running. You can check in a console, as root: ps ax | grep rpm If you see an rpm process there, kill it like this: kill -s 9 PID (replacing 'PID' with the actual process id number you see from the first command (it's the first number you see on the left next to the process). Be careful that you really didn't already have urpmi running on purpose, because killing it in the middle of doing its job can (rarely) cause serious issues.

The 'fi' is part of the conditional statement in bash/shell scripting. let x=1; if [x eq 2]; then echo "test"; fi if [x eq 1]; then echo "something else"; fi it checks to see if x eq 2 and if it does, then it executes everything up until 'fi' . As for echoing to tty1, I will have to check into that.

This is a difficult problem to solve without sitting at the box. My suggestion would be to start with manually downloading urpmi and/or perl-URPM and reinstalling them with rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs <<pkg>> or if that doesn't work, try installing a new URPM module with cpan.

It should work if you put cd /usr/ventrilo . /usr/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv or /usr/ventrilo/ventscript.sh in rc.local after the fi If not, I can probably help you create a service script for it.