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My hope is that there will be a community-driven project and an enterprise-company in the future, much like fedora and Red Hat work. IMHO it would be wise für Mandriva to start something similar. Mandriva as the cutting-edge community-driven desktopsystem, Mandriva-Enterprise as the solid workhorse for servers that uses the best of the Mandriva-Packages.

Toshiba Recalls T Series Notebook Computer models: T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite ProT130 Notebook Computers.  

Read more at www.cpsc.gov. 

My Linux usage has many different facets, leading to many small tools:

 

I use Zenity a lot in scripts. In particular, URL/LNK handlers to work in a Windows network.

I use dot (from graphviz) in scripts to create graphs from various input data (eg: MPD files).

Mathopd is a helpful, very configurable, light-weight web server; I prefer it over lighttpd.

Retroshare is a great tool for easily setting up a server-less messenger among your team.

screen and tilda are must-have for terminal addicts like myself :)

Unison is not known a lot, yet very powerfull: it's a two-way, GUI/CLI, rsync.

Rox is much lighter and faster than Nautilus, and very configurable.

bc as a calculator (bc -lq) is great: why point and click on-screen digit buttons, when you can have history and variables, and your keybord already has digit keys anyway?

Geany is a nice, modern, small, little-known editor in the vein of nedit.

Nedit and links-hacked are invaluable for remote editing/browsing, when you have little RAM/CPU/bandwidth.

For language learning, my favourite tool is Mnemosyne.

For quick but not so dirty scripting, wxGlade is a world better than plain bash+zenity.

Ajaxterm and sslh are nice additions to your own server if you have one.

 

Yves.

I proclaim theYinYeti the small apps junkie (if there are no other contenders) :D

I was just wondering what small useful GNU/Linux apps do members (or visitors) use regularly?

I use Radio Tray.  It's straightforward, easy to configure and most importantly not a resource hog!

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To disable the 3d effects:

At your login screen do: Alt & ctrl & F1 to switch to the terminal.  

Login as root.  Once logged in type: drak3d, press enter or return twice.  

Type exit to leave root mode.  Do alt & f8 to bring back the login screen.

Login as normal, 3d effects should now be disabled.

That might be due to the fact you are trying to install a Fedora rpm.  There's a How-To here: Mandriva Instructions 1 or here: Mandriva Instructions 2

It appears the above is not the case.  Read more here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16608/dell_expands_ubuntu_linux_desktop_offerings

Read more about it at slashdot.org.

 Congrats, you might want to edit your email address to avoid it being harvested.  I'm sure unwanted spam is the last thing you want to receive. 

To change downloader simply go to Control Centre, Configure Media Sources For Install And Update, then press Ctrl + G (or select Options and Global Options) and this will give you the option to change downloader, wget definately works far better than aria

Sorry my mistake, you should type:

kdesu kcmshell4 'fileshare'

to run the interface as root. 

Try Alt & F2 then type:

kcmshell4 'fileshare'

See if the File Sharing - KDE Control Module appears.  If it does set who can set shares, i.e. users, users in a particular group etc.

 

If the petition was put in a more "professional" and logical way, I would gladly sign it, although I do not use either Mandriva, or PulseAudio.

 Upgrade to 2010.1 completed over 'wifi'.  The only issue during the upgrade was complaints about invalid or bad package signatures.  After upgrade KDM failed to start.  This was easily remedied by choosing vesa mode.  I then downloaded the nvidia driver and installed it myself.  All in all a smooth, pain free experience. :)

Thanks Greg :)

Does anyone know if updating via the net will still be an option?

The problem seems to be with the free na grabber.  When I select Canada (free alternative - na_dtv) I get the same error as you do.  Selecting Canada (shedulesdirect.org - costs money) it works up to a point where I am asked for a username.

Upon further investigation it seems the free grabber for Canada is currently broken. See here: http://www.xmltv.se/validator/nightly/

BTW: The latest version of Freeguide from the repositories is 0.10.12

Did you also install the grabber for your country?  From commandline:

urpmi xmltv-grabbers-<insert your country here>

For example, I live in the uk, for me I type: urpmi xmltv-grabbers-uk.

You might also want to install the xmltv-gui a graphical frontend to xmltv.

I get the same message.  All I do is leave the message there until the file transfers complete and then I click it.

Maybe it's a keyboard issue?

Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems. It is inspired by Valve's Steam software for Windows.

Check it out here: en.djl-linux.org.

Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets.

More info here: www.fsf.org

Well, I am no expert, but I would be looking into KMS as I wrote in my previous post.

+1

A few ways to make your bash prompt entertaining, colourful or more informative: http://maketecheasier.com/8-useful-and-interesting-bash-prompts/2009/09/04

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Thanks for the prompt reply John.  I'm trying to gauge how long I can expect to wait for it to perform the same job on a 20Gb hard drive.  Oh and isn't OpenShot a great app :D