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True, it is ineffective with FTP for example. But for surfing, email, chat, irc it works fine. In the event I do come across a stubborn page/site, I simply change exit nodes. lol. I know you didn't, but that is the usual assumption (in my experience) when the name tor is mentioned! One mans paranoia, is another mans right to privacy.

As long as you have your repos setup it's there. Just make sure the two drop down boxes to the left in the Software Management window both say All. Install task-kde4 that will pull in what it needs.

First of all JOE_X!!! don't concern yourself with the opinions of others, you don't need to justify or explain why you want to surf anonymously. Be patient a while longer, when I get home I will see how I can simplify my instructions. There is no problem using tor to: Surf, Send Email or doing anything else www related. iphitus is right in the sense that tor doesn't change your physical ip, what it does is anonimize your net activities by routing your requests through a series of proxies or nodes. To cut a long story short, when you request to see a page from a website when using tor, it is not your ip that is logged on that site as requesting the page, it is the ip of the exit node that is logged. Privoxy is used to filter out any extra bits of info about your machine that in normal everyday use of the net gets sent out via your browser. I find it strange how it's accepted that all and sundry is allowed to track your net movements/activities, but if you take exception to it and take steps to prevent it, you are somehow wanting to engage in something illegal. If the latter is true then governments are also doing something illegal because they also use tor.

If you log in as root then don't bother with kdesu at the beginning of that command. If it comes back blank again, are you sure you have privoxy installed?

Sorry reply has taken so long, I had to go out. Right, I'll list the steps so you can follow. 1. Press Alt & F2 2. Type: kdesu kwrite /etc/privoxy/config (or copy and paste that in) and click run. 3. Enter your root password and click ok. Now you are working as root so you need to be careful and avoid making any mistakes. Going from the top, find this sentence: # Long lines can be continued on the next line by using a `\' as the # last character. # Make a blank line here and add this to that blank line exactly as I have written it: forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . It should look like this if done correctly: # Long lines can be continued on the next line by using a `\' as the # last character. # forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . # # # 1. LOCAL SET-UP DOCUMENTATION Now find this section: # 2.6. logfile # # Specifies: # # The log file to use Continue to scroll down and make sure you see this entry: #logfile logfile as long as it looks like that you don't need to do anything, if it doesn't have the # at the beginning, put one there. Next continue to scroll down and you should see this entry: #jarfile jarfile again if it looks like this then you don't need to do anything. The final thing to do is at this section: #debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if Privoxy intercepted the request) #debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings #debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors Change it to look like this: #debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if Privoxy intercepted the request) debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors Now save and close the file. Either restart privoxy from the services section in the Mandriva Control Centre or reboot. Make sure your torbutton is coloured green, now you're good to go. Oh and to confirm your ip has been masked, check it at one of the many sites that show you your ip.

You can either start it from the services section in the Mandriva Control Centre or do a Reboot and it will start automatically. Both tor and privoxy need to be running. Did you make the advised changes in the /etc/privoxy/config file? You really need to make those changes before using it.

You can achieve this by using the app tor. It's available in the repos. You'll need tor, privoxy & tork (this is a frontend to control tor). There's only one file you initially need to configure and that's the /etc/privoxy/config file.

Yes please change it back. It makes more sense to view all available packages by default. If the view needs restricting then, I'll do it. Same here, grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I have tried quite a few distros, but only ever ran Mandriva & PClinuxOS for the above reasons and also because they both have great user support :)

Phew! Thanks for that, I have a couple sitting in a box never been used. Not that model thank goodness.

Well apparently GNU/Linux users are not their preferred customers!

What model number was it?

There are no 2008.1 win32-codecs at the moment. All that is available is the 2007.1 one.

I assume it must be at firmware level. Anyway who cares, let Seagate (and all the others who shun GNU/Linux) die a thousand deaths.

Not wishing to hijack a thread, but after such a melodramatic post by viking777 perhaps you could expand on why you think KDE4 is so disasterous? I mean considering it's a work in progress, just what is so dire about it?

You can take the tour: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Tour before taking the plunge. I have added the KDE4 desktop to my 2008.1 install. It's still a bit flakey in places, but useable enough to have fun with. It does remember your settings after logging out.

Check the session manager settings in the KDE Control Centre.

Indeed. There are rpm packages of Miro for Mandriva 2008.0 & 2008.1.

Or there's Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/

Sorry for late reply. It's in the Main Backports (Official2008.0-4).

libqtuitools4 package provides libQtUiTools.so.4

You appear to be comfortable using commandline. If the problem with using ndiswrapper via MCC is that ndiswrapper doesn't find your winblows driver, there's a fix that may work for you (it worked for me). As with making changes to any critical system files, make a backup of the original first. The fix is to be found here: http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200712/page03.html. ** Once again this fix is only related to the use of ndiswrapper should it fail to locate your winblows driver. ** Good luck :)

There's some things you can try listed here: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Troubleshoot...62bbdf8d6067004

What you need to do is update your repositories by using the Easy-Urpmi link to the top right of this forum. Once you have done that you can use the package manager to install updated apps etc. To find out if you have the 32bit or 64bit version, open a terminal (konsole) and type: cat /etc/release, then press enter. If it comes back i586 you are using the 32bit version.

Have you done any updates to 2008 yet? If not I suggest you disable Compiz-Fusion, do an update of 2008 then re-enable Compiz-Fusion.