{BBI}Nexus{BBI}

While this only saves about 2 or so seconds by making one action unnecessary, what it also does is join two useless short intervals into one longer one that you can utilise for say grabbing a quick drink.

Now to find me a 2 second drink

I get the same thing when going to the adobe site to test my flash, I'm told it is missing. Even so when I go here http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ flash is indeed working. I see Shockwave Flash

 

File: libflashplayer.so

Version:

Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 in the about:plugins. Have you tried another browser to see if the results are the same?

Yes, I do want to be able to boot off a DVD/CD as an option. Will setting the DVD to master and the disk to slave 'hard-wire' in this boot sequence, or will I have to edit the bios once I get the system up?? I will almost always have the DVD empty/no bootable DVD, but I would like the option to intervene prior to booting into Linux.

No need to set the jumpers, just follow dans advice and change the boot settings in your bios.

Making the DVD master and the Drive slave should suffice.

John you're only 27yrs younger than me

Thanks for that tip which worked for me. Although I can use all sorts of command line programs I've never been good at configuring the KDE task bar.

 

I was able to remove Simple Welcome and add the customary application launcher, however the launcher shows on the far right of the task bar as a mere dot. I don't know how to move it to the left end and make it appear as the star in circle I was expecting.

Right click the taskbar, unlock widgets. A cashew symbol should appear to the extreme right. Click it. To make the dot larger, use the height in the middle of the bar that pops up when you click the cashew. To move the dot. Put your mouse over the dot and a crosshair should appear. Click, hold and drag the dot into position. Once you've sorted it lock your widgets and you're good to go. :)

I put the latest Mandriva 2011_x86_64 iso onto a usb flash drive and booted it.  I noticed that the application launcher menu button does not bring up the usual list of applications, but instead fills the whole screen with an application menu showing rather large icons.  Is this change coming from KDE or was it done by Mandriva?  Can the application launcher menu be changed to the way it was in Mandriva 2010?

That monstrosity was done by Mandriva.  It's called SimpleWelcome.  Simple it is, Welcome it is not.  Right click the menu icon, then select the remove option. You can add the regular menu icon there in its place from your widgets selection. 

Have you tried option 1. You might have a corrupt disc. If option 1 works, you should be able to install from there too. If option 1 fails, I would burn another disc. Try burning the disc at the slowest speed you can to avoid corruption. Also use the md5sum check to confirm you have a valid iso file before burning.

There's a 2010.1.i586 rpm package available here: http://pkgs.org/download/libx264.so.110

Have you tried using systemadm the graphical frontend to systemd? Invoke it with kdesu systemadm. If that doesn't work try via the terminal as root:

systemctl disable networkmanager.service

GO SMS (even the free version) will backup all your text messages. There are lots of other ones too. If you can I recommend you try to either watch (or find the specific netcast) from http://twit.tv/aaa. They review all productivity (and other) apps each week. For example they will review say the most popular sms apps head to head against each other.

 

The only caveat I've found with these dual sim androids is the processor. Don't go app crazy. If you get notified an app can be moved to the sd card do so, but also be aware moving some apps breaks the link with its onscreen widget, however thankfully that side effect is not common and has nothing to do with the phones being chinese or dual sim.

Welcome to the dual sim club :) There is only one official Android Market. Even if you use third party services like AppBrain you are taken to the android market to download and install your selected app. Under Applications in your main menu make sure you have Unknown sources unchecked. This will prevent apps not from the market installing without first notifying you to allow installation.

 

Google have taken great strides to have more of an Apple approach to controlling and vetting applications allowed in the market. If at some later date an app is found and reported to be malicious they can and do remotely wipe that app from your phone. Install an app like Lookout Security (there are many others) which not only allows you to backup your phone contacts, protects your phone, it also scans apps to determine if they are safe, alerting you if your install is suspect.

 

As you become more familiar with the android ecosystem you will develop your own pattern of safe usage. Initially I strongly advise you stick to installing from the market only. Once you establish who to use as a trusted third party source you can then experiment with extending the functionality of your phone.

 

A few resources I use regular:

 

http://www.androidpolice.com/

 

http://www.xda-developers.com/

 

http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/ (podcast via miro)

 

http://twit.tv/aaa (netcast via xbmc)

 

I forgot to mention, google have been actively hunting down unofficial markets and getting them closed down.

 

 

 

You guys are saying too many positive things about Arch I'll just have to try it out myself now :) Oh nice to meet another Opera user

First I tried the upgrade route. That failed miserably, whereas with previous versions upgrading over the net always worked. So, I ended up doing a clean install, which unsurprisingly worked. It was at that point the system felt quick and agile. After installing my usual applications, things started going downhill from there.

I've been waiting to see what comments others have to make on Mandriva 2011. So far they echo what I posted in another forum.

 

Nothing has changed about my hardware yet this version started out quite nippy but is now really slow especially compared to mageia, which I also have installed on a machine with lower specs. Loading of the desktop is incredibly slow. The system feels bloated and sluggish. I can't believe the amount of swap that is being used when I have my browser open sitting idle.

 

I don't use firefox but wanted to see what release 7 looked like and if it is faster than its previous versions. Well yes it is faster but when I close it, the thing is still running and I have send a kill signal to stop it sucking the life out of my processors. The same thing for thunderbird. I don't use virtualbox as much as I used to because it just maxes out my dual core, didn't do that on 2010 or 2010.2

 

My dvd drives don't function correctly. Discs of any type are not recognised or mounted until I first launch k3b. Burning discs has crawled down to 2 kb/s totally unusable.

 

There are plenty more issues that I have with this release which I can't be bothered to go into. All in all not a pleasurable experience.

 

Like I said comments I've read here and there echo my own experiences so far therefore, I think it is safe to assume Mandriva has been made aware of these problems. I'm going to hang on and see if further updates (or the next release) remedy the situation, if not it's asta la vista Mandriva on the remaining desktop machine.

 

I'm trying my best to stay loyal but if I can't be productive with my system what's the point.

 

 

Okay I've found where you can add services in dolphin. No need to download and install that application I listed above. Open dolphin, go to Settings--> Configure Dolphin--> Services. Here you can download various other services to add to dolphin.

The only way is to add it to the Service Menu. There's an application that (supposedly) makes the process easy. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Service+Menu+Editor?content=85062

Yes that option is missing from the right click. However if you go to File--> Create New the option to create a file is there.

Hmmm interesting. In a way this is a good thing. How else would you know how secure you are if you don't get attacked? Getting compromised though unfortunate, helps you review, improve and put better mechanisms in place to hopefully thwart further attacks using this particular vector. I would be more concerned if it was found that the access was easily gained with little or no effort.

My oh so quick first impressions of Mandriva 2011.

 

Now that I've found out Simple Welcome can be disabled, I continued with my tour of Mandriva 2011. I like it a lot. It's definitely faster than 2010, also a lot smoother and polished looking.

 

I had my doubts about them replacing Amarok with Clementine, but so far no problems, it works.

 

The default login screen is useless if you hide usernames from it, no way for you to login graphically.

 

Dolphin works great. Much better than before. It feels a lot snappier and faster.

 

Configure your desktop is cluttered. Surely some of the options could have been amalgamated under one icon. Or even tabbed pages. The problem to me is they have gotten rid of the Advanced tab and thrown everything onto the one screen. If I have to search for the simplest of things, heaven help the new user. Plus, why have they still got System Administration tools in Configure your desktop, they should be with the rest of the system admin tools in Configure your computer.

 

For some unknown reason some files in my home folder previously owned by me were now owned by root, not a problem though, a simple use of the chown command sorted that out.

 

I normally like to upgrade over the net. It wouldn't work, failed, despite me following their upgrade instructions to the letter. This was both graphically and via commandline. There were some critical packages it couldn't find to download. Strange that one. So I resorted to using the live dvd. I will have another attempt on my main machine to see if the problem is resolved.

 

All in all I'm going to remain a happy Mandriva and Mageia user.

 

I'm sure there's more changes for me to discover/check out. I'm looking forward to using the free 2GB online storage and comparing it to all the others I currently use. :)

 

Let the battle of the M & M's commence

I know this is posted somewhere, but can't seem to find it so I'll ask here, what do I have to do to upgrade if I already have Mandy 2010.2 installed? I just want to upgrade what I have, not replace it.

 

Thanks

What do you mean by 'upgrade what you have and not replace it' ? By definition an upgrade is to replace what you have already. If what you mean is to update what you have, you can do that by typing in console.

urpmi --auto-update -v

or update via the software centre.

Anyone know where the repos I need to add can be found?

Apparently this is how you disable Akonadi. Taken from here: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#How_do_I_completely_disable_Akonadi_startup.3F

 

 

 

 

How do I completely disable Akonadi startup?

 

Warning

 

 

 

If you already have applications natively using Akonadi, you of course can't disable Akonadi startup. KAddressBook (as of KDE 4.4 and its test versions), Mailody, KMail (as of KDE 4.4 and its test versions for address book related things) and KPilot are applications that are already based on Akonadi.

 

 

 

Other applications, like KOrganizer, are not based on Akonadi yet, at the time of writing. Instead, they use the old KResource framework for storing contacts, calendars and notes. During the KDE 4.2 beta time, these KResources were automatically migrated to Akonadi-based KResources, the so-called Akonadi compatibility resources. Therefore, applications like KOrganizer would use Akonadi indirectly through KResources, and therefore would start the Akonadi server when being started.

 

If Akonadi doesn't start up correctly for you, the following should help you to disable Akonadi startup and use your old KResources again.

 

First, disable automatic migration like described in the above FAQ entry. (FAQ entry added below this quote) Then, open System Settings, go to the Advanced tab and open the KDE Resources config panel. There, you can configure which type of KResources are used for contacts, calendars and notes. If the migration to Akonadi was successful, you'll probably only see the Akonadi Compatibility Resource as an active resource, and all others disabled.

 

To disable Akonadi startup, enable your old resources again, then disable and delete the Akonadi compatibility resource.

 

FAQ ENTRY

 

How do I disable automatic migration from KDE's traditional framework?

 

The migration tool is controlled by standard KDE configuration file called kres-migratorrc.

 

Distributors or system administrators wanting to disable the automatism will probably want to that globally, e.g. by editing the installed default configuration file, or by using KDE's configuration hierachy and using a profile config between that and the user level.

 

The quickest way to deactivate it for one user account only is to use KDE's kwriteconfig tool to set the respective configration value with a simple copy&paste of the following command:

 

kwriteconfig --file kres-migratorrc --group Migration --key Enabled --type bool false

 

Please note that at some point KDE applications such as Kontact, KOrganizer, KMail will be using Akonadi directly, at which point migration either has to be enabled or performed manually.

 

As of KDE 4.4 (and its development releases and when building from SVN trunk) this already applies to KAddressBook and KMail's address book access.

Going to a live DVD all languages could be included and still have room for an operating system and enough programs.

So why not just have two live dvds. One KDE the other Gnome?

During the install you can choose which desktop to use as your default.