Steve Scrimpshire

(1) slocate is available. It should get installed by default...if not, it is on CD1...just do urpmi slocate (2) what security issues? (3) slocate -c -u

For whatever reasons, you can only execute scripts like this: sth.pl that are in your $PATH. If you want to execute sth.pl that resides in the directory you are in, you do this: ./sth.pl

/me puts away torch.

That's correct, but the version still shows as 1.0.2, which causes the mozilla site to still deny one access to extensions, themes, etc, until one updates to 1.0.4.

If you do urpmi.addmedia blahblah without the 'with ./path/to/hdlist.cz' it uses the synthesis.hdlist.cz by default and so urpmf will give you that error. Happened to me alot till I figured it out.

channels = ( { name = "#irssi"; chatnet = "ircnet"; autojoin = "Yes"; }, { name = "#irssi"; chatnet = "freenode"; autojoin = "No"; }, ); in ~/.irssi/config

As root urpmi libxorg-x11-devel

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to mount a blank disk?

I don't know why changing monitors affects it, but I have a possible solution to the clock resetting. Open Mandrake Control Center and go to System and Time settings. You may have to temporarily change timezones and change back to get this option, so change your time zone and click apply. Change it back and when you see 'Hardware Clock set to GMT" uncheck that and click apply.

Does ogg2mp3 give your cpu a workout on its own or does my loop do it? :D

I have a dumb question and you can smack me if you think this hijacks the thread...but are these icculus ports and ravage installers 'official'...meaning sanctioned by and compensated by the game producers? Meaning, does EA pay or compensate icculus and/or ravage in any way? I like to buy games that officially support Linux...not necessarily give tech support, but I like to know the designers/producers sanction/sponsor it.

find . -type f -iname "*.ogg" -exec bash -c 'ogg2mp3 "$1"' '{}' '{}' \; or inside the directory with all your ogg files: for name in *.ogg; do ogg2mp3 "$name"; done;

I hope you know that the button's actual image is just a Spread Firefox blank button...I can take no credit for that. As for the other, I just copied and pasted javascript and then had to sweat out some standards-compliant html that IE would actually treat right, so I can really take no credit for it looking terrific if it does. Yes, I'm definitely still interested in a scrolling up odometer image for the digits. I'm not sure if you are American or not, but Dave Barry is/was a syndicated humor columnist who worked for the Miami Herald. He wrote several books and is in a crazy-fun band with Stephen King, Amy Tan and another author I cannot remember. He recently retired from writing his weekly humor column so he can spend more time with his family and writing more books. You can probably find links to archives containing some of his old columns on the Miami Herald website, if you're interested. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/ (Then again, maybe not...I can't seem to find any archives of his humor columns...every other archive on the site seems to be pay-only for the whole article, so I'm guessing if one did find any of his old columns, one wouldn't be able to read the whole thing.)

Windows cannot by default see Linux filesystems, but there are programs that you can download (Explore2FS is an example) that can read, but not write to, your Linux filesystem...last I knew, it could not read reiserfs, but that has probably changed. Also, write-support may be possible now.

I'm a little confused. Would you rather have MCC (rpmdrake) tell you: "You have a disk in the drive. Please unmount and/or remove the disk." every time you tried to run it or would you rather have it muck up your CD burn when you make the mistake of trying to install software that is only on removable disk sources while you are burning a disk? The reason I don't give an answer is because every time I try to think of a solution, I reach the conclusion that it is hard to say which is the lesser of the two evils. Personally, I would never try to install software while in the process of burning a cd/dvd...even if my urpmi sources were pure web sources, the cpuload of burning and installing at the same time would surely risk toasting my disk.

A little help on installing more than one distro. I'm no expert on this, so maybe someone else can explain it better: Here's your basic HD layout: /dev/hda == primary master /dev/hdb == primary slave /dev/hdc == secondary master (usually cdrom or dvd rom) /dev/hdd == secondary slave (usually cdrom or dvd rom) /dev/fd0 == floppy Typically, your BIOS wants /dev/hda (in your case the Windows drive and that's where Windows likes to be...primary master) to be the boot drive and contain MBR (Master Boot Record. When Linux asks you where you want to install the bootloader, just tell it the MBR...each successive distro install may or may not create records of the other Linux distros and those will have to be added later. Whichever distro is installed last is the one you need to worry about editing /etc/lilo.conf in (if you use lilo....some use grub, but I don't know grub, so I can't really explain it). When installing the last distro, just give mountpoints for all your other distros like /mnt/mandriva, /mnt/fedora, etc. Boot to that distro at the end and edit lilo.conf as appropriate. Here's an example: Then run lilo -v. The tricky bits: root=/dev/hda6 should actually represent the partition that the / directory is on for whichever distro you want to boot to...and the initrd and image sections should of course point to the actual file. A /home partition can be shared across distros, but each distro may give your prmary user a different userid and that will mess up access permissions when you boot to that distro and if it is the wrong uid, then you can't log in. What to do in this case is to change each primary user to the same uid in /etc/passwd omar:x:1000:501:Omar:/home/omar:/bin/bash UID GID All the distros can use the same swap partition with no problems.

I'm sure the working copy of this script would benefit others and be more than welcome.

Hmmmm...never thought about that. Don't intend to hijack the thread. Carry on. :P

If it works on Redhat, it'll work on ManCondrakiva. By far, an external serial modem is the best bet...or really any controller-based modem as Ix suggests. Even when it comes to Windows, you'll get better dialup speed and stability with a controller-based/serial modem. Ironically, controller-based modems are way easier to get to work in Linux than in Windows.

Maybe it is your syntax, because I saw you do something like this: when it should be just: This script works fine for me. What exactly do you have now?

Try booting CD1 and hit F1 at the prompt. Then type 'rescue' without the quotes. Choose 'Mount your partitions under /mnt' Choose 'Go to console' Type 'chroot /mnt' (without the quotes) vim /etc/lilo.conf Hit 'i' to get into edit mode change the 'devfs' part of each append line to say devfs=nomount Hit 'Esc' Type ':wq' without the quotes Type 'lilo -v' without the quotes. Remove the CD and reboot. Maybe that helps.

These talk about making a DVD, but maybe you can gather enough info to translate it to CDs: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...eate%20dvd&st=0 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=14313&hl=burn

#!/bin/bash while true do while true do echo "Enter a directory:" read DIRECTORY if [ -d $DIRECTORY ] && [ ! -z $DIRECTORY ] then break else echo "Try again:" continue fi done <<do your stuff with your directory info here>> echo "That was great. Do you wish to do it again (Y/n)?" read ANSWER if [[ $ANSWER == "y" || $ANSWER == "Y" || $ANSWER == "" ]] then continue else break fi done echo "We are done." I'm sure aru can do much better.

As long as you see this: "Controller-based modem" You really should have no problem. I'm not totally familiar with BestData modems (I used a Creative ModemBlaster External Serial modem and it was amazing. I got better dialup speed with it even in Windows and it was way more stable, also even in Windows), but for the price, I think you can afford to try it.

mplayer, totem, xine, gxine, etc