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AFAIK the only way is recompiling that app with cflags suited for your CPU/hardware. Mandriva binaries are "just" i586 optimized.

If you are using KDE4, look under the "lost and found" group. Normally, it shouldn't be there, but so far there isn't a uniform opendesktop.org menu hierarchy which is 100% respected by all DE's. I regulary find my wine apps in the proper place under Gnome, LXDE and E17, while under KDE they are in "lost and found", and under XFCE4 they can be anywhere- even nowhere!

KDE 4.3.X is just great. gtk-qt engine isn't, I suggest switching to the uniform qtcurve theme for your kde4/qt4/qt3/gtk+ apps. Yes, I dο know it's the suggested solution by Canonical, but this doesn't necessarily mean it's crap!

Just be careful with pdfedit. It's excessively buggy.

mplayer %URL% or mplayer %FILE% This is the correct syntax to start mplayer from console. Of course you can add one hundred different switches. Try "mplayer -h" for more options.

Ah, OK. Actually Transmission has a cli interface as well, which is neither intuitive, nor multithreaded (you must start a new instance for every new torrent you want to add). pretty much like BitTornado, which starts a new python instance for every torrent added.

The usblp thing is quite new. Actually I do not know if the module is automatically blacklisted in 2010.0, but in regular circumstances cups 1.4.0+ will not detect the printer properly if usblp is loaded.

There used to be problems with that particular controller, but AFAIK they were fixed quite some time ago (since 2.6.24.1). On the other hand, I don't have used that hardware, but I did experience some horror stories with ext4 and 2.6.28/29. And, 2.6.31 will certainly fix the ext4 issues, and (hopefully) any outstanding issue with the sata driver.

Starting with Mandriva 2010.0 (or rather, cups 1.4.0) the first step is blacklisting the usblp module. Then of course, installing gutenprint, and picking the appropriate ppd via http://localhost:631

$ screen rtorrent Fastest, most efficient and less resource hungry client for *nix. There are also several GUI's for rtorrent (via the xmlrpc server), either purely graphical or web based, but (IMO) the client control via cli and screen is exceptionally easy.

The ext4 filesystem had massive issues on the 2.6.29.x series kernels. I would upgrade the kernel to 2.6.30 series, at least. You can get 2.6.31 for 2009.1 from the backports official repo.

Both the fallback DE LXDE and XFCE4 will work much better than GNOME or KDE4 on that machine. LXDE needs some experience to be customized, while XFCE4 is very customizable right out of the box (factly: way more customizable than GNOME, where most customization is hidden under the annoying gconf-editor cryptic UI). LXDE is evolving fast (mainly due to *buntu help), while XFCE4 is evolving very slowly (XFCE 4.6.3 was scheduled for July, but we are STILL at 4.6.1, doh!), but it's moving. XFCE 4.8 with new features (including a native virtual flesystem) is scheduled for mid-April, but I'd be suprised if it appears earlier than September, 2010. It's really a pity that such a good DE has only half a dozen of active devs, but so far none of the major distros has decided to actively help its development.

Sorry, no idea why flash is not working on the Vuze UI. I always use Azureus/Vuze on advanced mode with the classical UI. Anyway, I did update to the latest version, but since all the code optimization is for the Vuze UI, I hardly noticed any change... :D

My friend, there is no way to use your physical card in the virtual machine. The videocard is VIRTUAL, period. Remove the nvidia driver ASAP, and install guest additions. This is the one and ONLY way to have 3D effects in the virtual machine. 1G RAM in the host machine is just about adequate for what you're trying to do.

Did you install VirtualBox guest additions on the guest?

Yes. That some process is keeping the audiocard busy- most likely... PulseAudio! :P Do an init3 as root before running alsaconf (as root again).

Seamonkey is just fine... like a slow-motion variation of Opera. Chromium does not come in native 64-bit binaries, but this is no surprise: neither mozilla.org is providing 64-bit binaries of firefox- the user has to compile them by himself.

Vuze/Azureus.

In a root console: # chown -R kieth:kieth /home/kieth This WILL do some damage, if you use fuse modules to mount filesystems (the owner on those mountpoints should be "nobody" and the permissions 0666), but other than that, it will fix any other outstanding permissions' issues.

The official Google client, is still very beta. However, the opensource chromium browser is still beta, but very usable, and stable. And very fast, as well. I'm toying with the opensource chromium under ArchLinux with very few issues, currently.

Disable PulseAudio. It's next to useless, anyway. Just let alsa/esd manage your sound, if using Gnome/XFCE, or Phonon, if you use KDE4.

Open a console, and type xfwm4 --replace & Any better? It's likely that your XFCE4 installation is not complete, or the XFWM4 window manager has been replaced by a half-baked compiz- or whatever. Sorry I can't say more, but I don't use *buntu, and I will never use it again- I have had enough of it in the past.

The sequennce of the entries in the HOSTS file is not critical, and if you have no domain/ LAN name defined at your router, then the "localhost.localdomain" part does nothing useful. Anyway, if this is working better for you then defintely keep it. Some DE's like Gnome and XFCE4 definitely need the machine name pinned in the /etc/hosts file to behave properly.

Hey, my ZX Spectrum 48K is better than yours!

cups has made some major changes to the API in the last few releases (even the webUI has been totally refactored), so you can expect a couple of things being still broken with a few of the frontends for it.