Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report

[Miark]

Hi Ed,

You do get schools sharing buildings; eg Sandhurst School in Catford where
the Infant School is on the ground floor and the Junior School is (mostly)
on the first floor, they share the same entrance, but have separate
receptions on their own floors. There are also other schools where the
sharing of the building is less distinct

I am not sure what the best way to map this would be

MJ

On 2 March 2016 at 09:35, Ed Loach  wrote:

> Great news.
>
>
>
> Is it possible we can add something to the wiki page about an agreed way
> to tag multiple schools on a single site, or schools with multiple sites. I
> think earlier discussions here suggested:
>
>
>
> For a site with multiple schools (grounds shared, separate buildings) tag
> the grounds as amenity=school, and the name, edubase ref and address
> details for each school on the relevant building.
>
>
>
> e.g. http://osm.org/go/0EHYuEeGJ--?m=
>
> http://osm.org/go/0EHS4rvGk--?m=
>
>
>
> For a school with multiple sites, use a site relation, with each site
> being tagged amenity=school with the relevant address on each, and the
> edubase ref on the main site. I’m less sure about this one and have no
> examples.
>
>
>
> I also don’t have an example for multiple schools in a single building. If
> they were separate entrances I’d probably put the differing details on the
> entrance nodes, but as I’ve not encountered this I’m not sure whether it
> happens anywhere. Nor if they share an entrance how that would be tagged.
>
>
>
> Robert’s excellent progress tracking tool also shows adult education
> centres where I have been unable to find an edubase reference, e.g.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/203713626
>
> Should they have edubase references? If so how would I find them?
>
>
>
> Ed
>
>
>
> *From:* Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 02 March 2016 00:22
> *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] This evening: Night school - Status report
>
>
>
> We did it!
>
> Today we set the record for the highest number of edits to amenity=school
> features in the UK. Between us we edited 405 schools beating our previous
> high from 18th January.
>
> Looking at the detail we created 202 new school polygons (a 33% increase
> on our previous daily best) and modified 191 ways. The other edits (12)
> were to nodes.
>
> We are now at 75.4% of all UK schools mapped as ways (according to Robert
> W's fantastic progress tool). This is up from just 62.8% when we started
> this task at the start of January. All but 10 postcode areas are above 50%
> complete. When we started there was 30 below 50% (8 below 40%). At the top
> end we have 24 postcode areas 95+ percent complete. Compared to zero when
> we started!
>
> A total of 38 people edited during the day - again, another record! And
> the edits of those who used the #OSMschools comment in their changesets can
> been seen at
> http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=OSMschool#5/55.838/-1.604
>
> Thanks for the amazing effort today. I hope the MapRoulette task is
> proving popular and will encourage more edits in the least loved parts of
> the UK OSM map.
>
> Best,
>
> *Rob*
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[framework-issues] [Issue 99520] malfunction of multimedia keyboard

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--- Additional comments from mi...@openoffice.org Mon May  3 15:18:23 + 
2010 ---
I have this problem, too. The button to open Windows Media Player works, but the
seven play/volume keys do nothing. My specifics: OOo 3.2 on XP (SP3), with a
Logitech Y-UV90 keyboard.

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[sw-issues] [Issue 111347] Spellcheck marks words ar ound em dashes

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 Issue #|111347
 Summary|Spellcheck marks words around em dashes
   Component|Word processor
 Version|OOO320m12
Platform|PC
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  OS/Version|Windows XP
  Status|UNCONFIRMED
   Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
  Resolution|
  Issue type|DEFECT
Priority|P1
Subcomponent|editing
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--- Additional comments from mi...@openoffice.org Mon May  3 16:09:23 + 
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Type a sentence like, I love my wife—she's the best, where the dash is an em
dash (Alt-0151). The spellchecker will mark wife and she's as misspelled. 

If there is a space either before or after the em dash, the spellchecker acts
properly.

This does not happen with regular dashes, such as in the word X-ray or 
e-mail.

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[CentOS] Compromised

[Miark]

My wife's office server was compromised today. It appears
they ssh'ed in through account pcguest which was set up for
Samba. (I don't remember setting up that account, but maybe I
did.) At any rate, I found a bazillion ftp_scanner processes
running. A killall finished them off quickly, I nuked the
pcguest account, and switched ssh to a different port (which 
I normally do anyway). 

I used 'find' to locate ftp_scanner, which was running in a
folder under /var/tmp. It seems that before I could nuke the
directory, it nuked itself! 

Because it was running from /var/tmp, and because 'find' and
'ps' were not compromised (in that they did not hide the
ftp_scanner processes or files), I'm thinking the attacker 
really didn't get any further than eating some bandwidth. 

I suppose I have no choice but to re-install, but I thought I'd
run I'd get some feedback first. (Something other than, Way to
go, moron.) In the meantime, I'm pulling the plug.

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Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

[Miark]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:09 +0800, Matt wrote:

 I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa

Wow--that means you're not as righteous as some other
pinheads on this list! For shame!  :-)

 due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.

... and by high rate I assume you mean 100%, just as my
company has experienced.

 Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already?

I use:

  * 041/8
  * 154/8
  * 196/8

which I got from here:

  * http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

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Re: [CentOS] vncviewer

[Miark]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:01:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:

 How do you send special keystrokes in vncviewer?
 I need to send Shift-F10...
 
 Searching the net showed nothing and realvnc's webpage yielded
 nothing either.

Just a thought, but your window manager may be intercepting the
keystroke. If it is, disable it and try vnc again. 

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Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] Poodle kernel 2.6.23 images available from the angstrom stable branch

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:31:48 -0700, Hans wrote:

 Currently, there is a bug in the opie recipie that causing
 some of the wireless tools and modules to not get installed. I
 hope to get this resolved this week and have a r10 image soon.

Okay, I loaded r10 and all the keys are working fine. (Thanks
Helge!)

More Wireless networking problems, though. In Network Settings,
when I try to configure wlan0, the page that normally lets me
set the ESSID, channel, etc. is simply not there. What's
normally the second tab (which lets one set DHCP, and whether to
automatically bring up the interface) is there, though.

Anybody else experienced this?

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Re: [CentOS] Re: about mono

[Miark]

Hey guys, I propose a _new_ contest. Who can come up with the
best retorts to this jerk. 

I'll start...

 Hey mother f* I'm not playing games... the GUIs
 are not fine in CentOS, this comunity is a sheet nobody help,
 no body said anything usefull. Yes i'm begining in Mono but
 i'm not a newbie I'm master in computer science in the best
 university of Cuba, 

Best one in Cuba, eh? Meaning what, you can program in Logo?

 I have some certifications in development, 

And some deficiencies in social development.

 be carefull how do you refere to me don't f* me. 

Right, cuz after your raft ride to the mainland, you're
going to hunt us down like the capitalist pigs we are, right?

 Can any body say something or not?

How about this: leave the list, you thankless, insulting,
foul-mouthed, jerk.

 where is the super community, the friendsheep

You'll have to ask the geniuses in the animal husbandry program
at your best school about the friend sheep. I'm sure they're
well acquainted. 

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[CentOS] You can't get there from here

[Miark]

Having been accomodating about it in the past, the technical
geniuses at Comcast have permanently blocked port 25, separating
me (at my home office) from my employer's e-mail server.

What can be done on the server side to keep Postfix listening on
25 _and_ accept my connections on some other port? Is there a
Postfix solution? iptables maybe?

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Re: [CentOS] ssh terminal froze once in a while

[Miark]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:40:59 +0100, Alain wrote:

 Miark, do you suffer the problem very often ?
 Could you try to temporarily make a link from /dev/random
 to /dev/urandom ?

Actually, I have to take that back. After I made the sshd config
changes:

  ClientAliveInterval 30
  ClientAliveCountMax 5

it did hang on me once, but I'm looking at Konsole rigth now,
and my connection to the CentOS box has stayed alive all day. I
guess all is well.

I'll keep your suggestion, though. If the hangs return, I'll
give your idea a shot.

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] ssh terminal froze once in a while

[Miark]

 My ssh terminal froze some times, and I was thinking it might
 be related to centos , but now I found that even ubuntu users
 experiencing the same problem.

This happens to me when I SSH from a Mandriva box to my CentOS
server. It does not happen when I SSH to another Mandriva box,
so it's a CentOS thang.

I turned on the TCP keep alive option in the SSH configuration,
but it still happens. This is exceptionally annoying.

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Re: [CentOS] ssh terminal froze once in a while

[Miark]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:10:05 +, Steve wrote:

 Try changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config as follows:
 
 ...
 ClientAliveInterval 30
 ClientAliveCountMax 5
 ...
 
 see:
 http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#securessh


Doesn't work for me, unfortunately. 

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Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] New Poodle Images available

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It says, Page not found.


On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:01:45 -0800, Hans wrote:

 New poodle images now available here:
 http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/images/poodle/20071130/
 
 Please take a moment to read the readme.txt file for more
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Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

[Miark]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:04:30 -0700, Joseph wrote:

 No --- Don't --- Install another MTA before you try to remove
 sendmail. Warned you have been!
 
 Well, unless you install postfix first, then
 system-switch-mail, then execute switch-mail, how does the
 stuff that needs sendmail know what to use? 

But you only need switch-mail if you have both Sendmail and
Postfix, right? IOW, if you want to use Postfix exclusively,
you could just install Postfix and remove Sendmail. That's what
I did, and my mail system is working just fine. 

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[CentOS] pcre vs. regexp for Postfix checks

[Miark]

What are your opinions on pcre vs regexp for header_, body_, and
mime_checks in Postfix? 

I looked at the regexp_table and prce_table man pages, and see
almost no difference other than the available flags.

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Re: [CentOS] Port 631 closed, not hidden

[Miark]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:57:38 +0800, Christopher wrote:

 Miark wrote:
  I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is
  reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the
  firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that
  be happening?
 
 Do your firewall rules DROP or REJECT?

I assume drop, but I don't know for certain. I'm just using
system-config-securitylevel to configure it.

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[CentOS] Port 631 closed, not hidden

[Miark]

I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is
reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the
firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that
be happening?

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Re: [CentOS] Which pop3 server

[Miark]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:28:07 -0500, Miark wrote:

 What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server?

Thanks all for the feedback. qpopper and tpop3d are more in line
with what I need, but in the interest of sticking with an RPM
package, and one that's supported upstream, I went with Dovecot.

One more question while I'm on the subject of e-mail: is there
a pop-before-smtp package, or should I do I need to grab it from
sourceforge?

Thanks,
Miark
 
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Re: [CentOS] Which pop3 server

[Miark]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:29:24 +0530, Shibu wrote:

   What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server?
 
 yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi
 cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot

I dunno that this all qualifies as plain jane. But thanks for
the suggestion.

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Re: [CentOS] Which pop3 server

[Miark]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:46:55 -0800, John wrote:

 Miark wrote:
  What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server?
 
 IMHO, dovecot.
 
 YMMV.

If I only need pop3, isn't dovecot overkill?

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[CentOS] Which pop3 server

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What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server?

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Re: [CentOS] CD emulation (a la daemontools)

[Miark]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:09:17 -0400, Chris wrote:

 I was wondering if anyone was aware of a method for mounting
 virtual CD devices with CD image files.  I keep images
 (.CUE/.BIN pairs) of my CD collection on a NAS appliance
 tucked away in my closet.  I'd like to write a script to mount
 each one, create ID tags, rip the tracks, then move along to
 the next one.  I figure with a quad core opteron, it should be
 able to crank through them in a few days (it's a few thousand
 CD's worth of images).  Anyone done this before with their
 trusty CentOS box?  I'd be using CentOS 5.

Off the top of my head, I'd bchunk them into ISO images, then
mount them with -o loop. But it would be nice to skip
bchunking them, such as with CDemu.

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Re: [CentOS] mysql and windows

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:01:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Mysql is to databases what Lincoln logs are to cinder blocks.

What open source DB progs do you like--if any?

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Re: [CentOS] Random Reboots

[Miark]

 my other question where can i look (logs, files,
 Directories) or something to install to see what is
 causing these reboots.

You might consider checking hardware as well, such as a
flaky power supply.

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Re: [CentOS] Centos as a desktop, advisable?

[Miark]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:47:17 +0200, Ralph wrote:

 Scott Moseman wrote:
  I'm running CentOS on my server and I don't feel it makes a
  great desktop since several of the major applications
  (OpenOffice, Firefox, etc) lag behind since it follows
  RHEL.  I prefer to use something more dynamic and current on
  the desktop.
 
 Would you say the same if you had to herd several hundred
 desktops? I really do see CentOS (especially 5) as a viable
 alternative there. 

I agree. I don't like CentOS on the desktop, but if I had to
manage several hundred workstations, CentOS' 5-year update
cycle would make it a hands-down winner.

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Re: [newbie] Discovery OS dual boot compatibility with XP_64 system

[Miark]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:38:04 -0500, Richard wrote:

 Ross, I have the same system as yours. What I do is have
 Mandiriva on one drive and Windows on another drive. I go into
 CMOS and enable and disable the drive I wont to boot from.
 This works very well and I have used it for a few weeks now.

That shouldn't be necessary. Just make XP the slave drive, and
then tell LILO to _treat_ it as a master drive:

other=/dev/hdb1
label=XP
master-boot

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Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:42:12 +0530, Jayant wrote:

 i have tried to read-write on ntfs partition with knoppix 5.1
 but could not write. because though the properties shows that
 it is in read-write mode, the document opens only in read-only
 mode. if some one has really done it, please write in details
 about how to do it with knoppix 5.1

That sounds like an app problem, not an NTFS problem. What are
you using? OpenOffice? Have you tried Save As... to save a
copy, or to switch the document into write mode?

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Re: [newbie] Updates for 2007.0

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Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

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On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:21:20 +0100, Paul wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I have just upgraded to Mandriva 2007, the Powerpack version.
 It all looked good, but... (why are there always buts?)
 
 I hear no sound. On boot I see the message

I've had the most success using alsaconf to detect and configure
sound cards. Give that a shot.

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Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:22:14 -0800 (PST), Nicholas wrote:

 I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the
 burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? 
 
 I'm using  Burn From Image  from NERO to burn this image to
 dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? 

If you have a computer with two drives, I think the easiest way
to do this is sneak a copy of Knoppix to work. After the DVD
download, use Knoppix to md5sum it, and k3b to burn and verify
the burn.

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Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

[Miark]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:54 -0700, Shocky wrote:

 Overkill for just a checksum, but coming from a Unix
 background, I couldn't survive day to day work on Windoze
 (which I'm forced to use for work), without Cygwin
 (http://www.cygwin.com/)...

Ditto. I did some web stuff and technical editing last year at a
place that was Windoze only. (And were getting rid of Linux
because of the SCO thang--those fools.) Anyway, there were a few
things that were a total pain in the butt without Cygwin. And I
would have died without ActiveState's Perl for Win32.

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Re: [newbie] please help, no DRI w/Ati

[Miark]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:32:46 -0500, Lyvim wrote:

 That's one thing that's still wrong with the factory drivers,
 which is that the xorg.conf file gets foobared with more than
 one subsequent ATI driver install/edit.  What I would suggest
 is for you to edit your xorg.conf file back to a working
 vesa configuration, and get your gui back up.  For example,
 starting with an xorg.conf from a Live cd boot from your
 Mandriva distro would be a nice clean start. 

Or easier: drop to init 3, delete xorg.conf, and then run
drakx11 to configure vesa.

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[newbie] Ripping audio from video

[Miark]

How can I rip the audio from a video file so I
can put it on my MP3 player?

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Re: [newbie] (OT) Ogg2mp3

[Miark]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:44:34 -0500, Lee wrote:

 How does that apply to a digital reproduction?  Or, in
 this case, changing the digital format from ogg to mp3?
 And how much actual degradation are we talking about? ~

There are a lot of variables, the most important one being the
bitrates. If you go from a high ogg bitrate to a high MP3
bitrate, the degradation will be minor--at worst. But at low
bitrates, the difference will be more pronounced.

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Re: [newbie] Fwd: Oh, Please

[Miark]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:46:45 +0200, Robin wrote:

 Looks like people of all persuasions enjoy being offended.

That's not true, and I'm offended you would even suggest that!

Oh, wait...  *8-)

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Re: [newbie] Whereis slocate updatedb

[Miark]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:54:15 +, Len wrote:

 Apropos the recent installation of Mandriva PowerPack+ on
 AMD64 Opteron, where can I find updatedb and slocate?

I don't have a 64-bit machine, but in the 32-bit world, the
package is named slocate.

If all else fails, you can get it from MandrivaClub:

http://rpms.mandrivaclub.com//rpms/mandriva/official/2007.0/x86_64/media/main/release/slocate-3.1-3mdv2007.0.x86_64.html

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Re: [newbie] Whereis slocate updatedb

[Miark]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 18:37:07 -0500, Charles wrote:

  I did install that at your earlier suggestion but it seemed
  a bit complicated compared with updatedb/slocate.  I was
  looking for something pure dead simple like me.  Guess I
  will have to go with it if slocate has gone.
 
 Slocate was replaced as the default in 2007.0 by mlocate.
 
 Commands is locate and still use updatedb
 
 If after trying you still prefer slocate be sure you have a
 contrib source defined and urpmi slocate.
 That will remove mlocate and install slocate.

The slocate link I found on MandrivaClub was in the main
directory. (?)

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Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

[Miark]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote:

 M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely)
 
 ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several
 linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might trash the file
 system beyond repair. Is Knoppix known to be 'bullet-proof' on
 ntfs writes?

Pretty much. It (whatever it is) will only do what is
reliable, so if you try to write or delete a file and it
cannot be done safely, then it just doesn't do it. It's happened
to me only a couple times.

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Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

[Miark]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:39:29 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote:

 Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the
 contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition?

I don't know as I've never tried anything that extensive. I
usually do 10 or 20 files at a time that are no more than a few
MB large. Even though I trust it, I wouldn't do any 100 GB
transfers without a backup.
 
 Is there any documentation on this, showing what can and can't
 be done? Or any fairly rigorous testing? I'm VERY interested
 in a linux that is bullet-proof with ntfs writes -
 particularly one that can be run from CD/DVD.

Documentation is here: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

and here are a couple of quotes from the site:

Ntfsmount has almost full feature write support. It can resize,
create and delete files and directories and even operate on
symlinks, devices, FIFOs and sockets. Though ntfsmount has still
some restrictions, data safety should not be in risk, especially
if you make regular backups with ntfsclone.

That doesn't mean it always succeeds, it is still experimental
and might just as well refuse to complete an operation in order
to prevent corruption. See the ntfsmount page for more details.

How safe is the NTFS Driver? We aren’t aware of any reliability
problem either in the NTFS kernel driver, or in ntfsmount. But
we do have lots of positive feedbacks.

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Re: [newbie] Writing to NTFS with mandriva..Was formerly Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

[Miark]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:36:01 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote:

  No, that has to do with linefeed characters which are
  different between Winblows and *nix systems. It you have a
  text file in Linux, you can run unix2dos filename.txt and
  it will switch the linefeed chars to Winblows. dos2unix
  filename.txt does the reverse.

 oh ok.
 So if i was to write to my NTFS partition with *nix and it
 wrecked it, would the partition be recoverable or would i have
 to rewrite my partition?

Mmmm, not sure I follow the question. Linefeeds aside, if you
write to an NTFS partition and the partition gets borked, you
could probably use any standard Windows harddrive program to
get files back. It would be a pain in the ass, of course.

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Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

[Miark]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:21:44 -0800, rikona wrote:
 
 E http://www.ubcd4win.com/faq.htm
 
 Might be able to answer some of my needs, but I was looking
 for a 'real' linux. Also, I have so far avoided XP, so I don't
 have the necessary files. :-( and :-)

What _exactly_ are your needs?

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Re: [newbie] More streaming media in Linux.

[Miark]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:06:13 +0100, Paul wrote:

 
  Navigated my way to here:
 
 http://pshweb01.881903.com/framework/pccs.gateway?url=jsp/archive/prog
 Page.jspmenuID=7progID=633k=4 
 
 Have you tried konqueror too?
 
 I gave this a try just now and with Totem in FireFox it opens
 and plays just nice.

How'd you choose totem as a player?

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Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

[Miark]

 CK i havent tried mounting my ntfs hdd yet..ill get to that
 CK in a few minutes, but ill see if it will allow me to
 CK read/write to the hdd.
 
 DON'T WRITE TO THE ntfs HD! It is NOT reliable in linux. If you
 insist, make sure you have a complete backup of everything!

Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) but
for whatever reason, it can't be done--or done easily--in
Mandriva. 

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Re: [newbie] Linus T. at his best

[Miark]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:51:13 -0500, JoeHill wrote:

 On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:27:53 -0500
 Miark got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
 
   What is this HTML crap doing here? --- bin  
  
  You use Claws--what do you care? (One of many reasons I like
  Claws myself.)
 
 I have the gtkhtml plugin installed for all my clueless
 Window's using treasonous and subversive news alerts ;-)

Oh. I use the dillo plugin instead so that I can look at HTML
if I must, but by default everything is displayed as plain text.

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Re: [newbie] unable to start Mandriva Powerpack in Graphical mode (Konquerer or Gnome)

[Miark]

Welcome to the list, Joep. Little tip: use whitespace in your
messages. If I can't read messages quickly, I don't read them at
all, and there are probably others here that are just as
pathetically lazy am me ;-)

Miark


  when you say in FREE \\\'root\\\'is disabled I am not
  sure what you mean. how are you trying to be root? what
  commands are you giving? root should (must) always work, but
  some security settings can effect how root must be accessed,
  and what it can do.
 I found that in my FREE version the root application was
 prohibited. so what. I have Powerpack running.
 
  also, xterm and a bash prompt are NOT the same thing,
  while in x you start a term program called xterm, you do get
  a logged in users bash shell prompt (if the bash shell is

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Re: [newbie] Linus T. at his best

[Miark]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:47:01 -0500, JoeHill wrote:

 What is this HTML crap doing here? --- bin

You use Claws--what do you care? (One of many reasons I like
Claws myself.)

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Re: [newbie] Re: installing amsn

[Miark]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:01:15 -0500, JoeHill wrote:

 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:28:25 GMT
 John Bowden got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
 
  last time I used gaim it was not always sending my display
  picture to my windoz friends. Kopete seems to work better.
 
 Hmmm, KDE plays nicer with Windows. Go figure ;-)

I resent that insinuation!

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[newbie] Re: Oh, Please - you got my vote to stay

[Miark]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:33:33 -0500, Ronald wrote:

 I've had enough of the list police and over (abundant)
 reactions to the least little thing on this list. I'm going to
 unsubscribe shortly.

Unless you were going to do this _before_ the moron wrote you,
this doesn't strike me as a good decision. This person probably
wants you gone for no good reason, and you're giving them what
they want. That's a score for evil, and that's not cool. 

Don't let shitheads effectively make decisions for you. Just do
what you're gonna do. If others don't like it, apologize if it's
appropriate (as you well did) and move on. If others can't or
won't, that should be their problem, not yours.
 
I hope you stick around. Shit, if Joe can do it, you can.

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Re: [newbie] The Linux equivalent project

[Miark]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:45:24 -0700, Larry wrote:

 Thought this would be of interest: http://www.linuxeq.com/

Cool. I just looked through it and found out about Xara
Extreme which has apparently been open sourced. This is
going to be a kick-ass graphics app. Check out the demo videos:

http://www.xaraxtreme.org/about/movies.html

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Re: [newbie] Re: Oh, Please - you got my vote to stay

[Miark]

 I ahve to agree, but further discussions really should be
 somewhere else (like the OT list) and _I_ really will not
 discuss this here any more (and truly, do I _look_ dishonest?)

Agreed. I meant to send that direct to him, not the list. My
apologies to all.

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Re: [newbie] The usual suspects...

[Miark]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:34:19 -0500, ET wrote:

 Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
  On Tuesday 05 December 2006 09:36, JoeHill wrote:
  If you can't see that, you are a
  moron.
  and the pejorative comment?
 
 you can not spell,,,

Um, that would be cannot.

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Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

[Miark]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote:

 There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up
 xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner.
 
 For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220P Parallell port
 affair.

Is the port enabled in the bios? 

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:30:59 -0600, Chris wrote:

 On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:25 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:14:32 -0600, Chris wrote:
   So, have I got too many of the same kind installed?
 
  I think so, yes. Get rid of all the Flash 7 stuff.
 
  Miark
 
 Ok, got rid of the old flash stuff, installed v9, upgraded
 Firefox (was using Mozilla), the flash menus now load, however
 now the problem seems to be with RealPlay. According to
 about:plugins its there in both Mozill and FireFox:
 
 Shockwave Flash
 
 File name: libflashplayer.so
 Shockwave Flash 9.0 d78
 
 MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled
 application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
 swf   Yes application/futuresplashFutureSplash
 Playerspl Yes Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2
 Plug-In Compatible
 
 File name: nphelix.so
 Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version
 0.4.0.581 built with gcc 3.2.0 on Feb 1 2006
 
 MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled
 audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin   RealPlayer Plugin Metafile
   rpm Yes
 
 I get Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the
 system path to use as an embedded player
 
 Now what the heck does that mean?

Not sure. I never have dealt with Real or Helix. Instead, I use
mplayerplugin with the real and win32 codecs. I'd recommend
getting rid of Real/Helix stuff in favor of mplayer. Others
might have other ideas.

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:54:46 -0600, Chris wrote:

 On Monday 04 December 2006 3:21 pm, Miark wrote:
 
  
   Now what the heck does that mean?
 
  Not sure. I never have dealt with Real or Helix. Instead, I
  use mplayerplugin with the real and win32 codecs. I'd
  recommend getting rid of Real/Helix stuff in favor of
  mplayer. Others might have other ideas.
 
  Miark
 I've got mplayer installed and can run it from the cli, how,
 may I ask do you make it a plugin for Mozilla or Firefox?

# urpmi -a mplayerplugin codec

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:24:39 -0600, Gireesh wrote:

 On 12/4/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Monday 04 December 2006 8:42 pm, Miark wrote:
   On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:54:46 -0600, Chris wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 3:21 pm, Miark wrote:
  Now what the heck does that mean?

 Not sure. I never have dealt with Real or Helix.
 Instead, I use mplayerplugin with the real and win32
 codecs. I'd recommend getting rid of Real/Helix stuff
 in favor of mplayer. Others might have other ideas.

 Miark
   
I've got mplayer installed and can run it from the cli,
how, may I ask do you make it a plugin for Mozilla or
Firefox?
  
   # urpmi -a mplayerplugin codec
  
   Miark
  Hmm, I get:
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi -a mplayerplugin codec
  no package named mplayerplugin
 
  Possibly since I'm using 10.1?
 
  --
  Chris
 
 
  Nope, just do


 urpmi mplayerplugin
 you should also do
 urpmi win32-codecs

That's what the -a codec is for. However, that might grab more
stuff than necessary, so the following would do:

* real-codecs
* win32-codecs
* xanim-codecs

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:54:38 -0600, Chris wrote:

 On Monday 04 December 2006 8:42 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:54:46 -0600, Chris wrote:
   On Monday 04 December 2006 3:21 pm, Miark wrote:
 Now what the heck does that mean?
   
Not sure. I never have dealt with Real or Helix.
Instead, I use mplayerplugin with the real and win32
codecs. I'd recommend getting rid of Real/Helix stuff in
favor of mplayer. Others might have other ideas.
   
Miark
  
   I've got mplayer installed and can run it from the cli,
   how, may I ask do you make it a plugin for Mozilla or
   Firefox?
 
  # urpmi -a mplayerplugin codec
 
  Miark
 Hmm, I get:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi -a mplayerplugin codec
 no package named mplayerplugin
 
 Possibly since I'm using 10.1?

Maybe. Do a urpmq mplay and see if you can spot it among
the results. And you should have PLF configured as a source.

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Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes - Solved

[Miark]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:40:46 +, JRH wrote:

 Didnt know feminine hygiene products were central to Linux
 scanner operation?? :-)

Hell, central to the universe--just ask 'em.

 Anyway, have to work out a way of changing the permissions
 now, as all images that are coming are accessible as root
 only...

I'm outta ideas. But go get 'em.

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:08:14 -0600, Chris wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 I'm a bit confused about something. I've installed the newest
 version of flash for Mozilla and on some sites it works and on
 some it doesn't. For instance, I can go to the Linspire site
 and watch the demo, but if I go to the site for the television
 series Jerico (www.whodroppedthebomb.com) none of the flash
 items work. 
 
 Anyone have any suggestions?

do about:plugins, no quotes, in Firefox's address bar. See if
you have both version 9 _and_ version 7 installed. If you have 7
installed, get rid of it so that only 9 remains. 

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Re: [newbie] flash sometimes works

[Miark]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:14:32 -0600, Chris wrote:

 So, have I got too many of the same kind installed?

I think so, yes. Get rid of all the Flash 7 stuff.

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Re: [newbie] VIA sound card

[Miark]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:42:38 -0300, Pablo wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm running Mandriva 2007 on a 64 bits AMD. Booting sometimes
 leads to this --not always, though:
 
 Error while initializating the sound driver. Device=default
 can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory) The
 sound server will continue, using the null output device.
 
 I have a ‎VIA High Definition Audio Controller. Driver is (or
 should be) snd-hda-intel.
 
 Does anyone know a (permanent) fix for this? Thanks

Not specifically, but I've solved all my sound configuration
problems in the past by using alsaconf to configure sound.
That's assuming this is a configuration problem, of course. I
don't know what else it might be. Out of curiosity, what OS is
running before a reboot? Is it only Linux, or is it sometimes
Winblows?

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[newbie] Claws face file

[Miark]

Okay Joe, give it up. How'd you generate the color
face/x-face for Claws?

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Re: [newbie] strange behaviour

[Miark]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:41:58 +, Ian wrote:

 Before upgrading to 2007, I could copy files between
 partitions easily. Now, if the folder I am copying is
 uppercase, the files within don't get copied and give a can't
 write to error. Does anyone know what has changed, and what
 do I need to do to get back to how it used to work? I have
 noticed that the folder will be lower case when copied ,
 regardless of case of the original. -- 

Are you dealing with a FAT or NTFS filesystem?

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Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:39:55 +0200, Robin wrote:

 (I'm typing this on my wife's Mac).

Really? I thought you were gay!

Miark



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Re: [newbie] 2007 iso

[Miark]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:28:19 +0100, Paul wrote:

 I used Bittorrent to download the Mandrake Powerpack DVD iso a
 few days ago. When I want to burn it, K3B tells me it is not a
 valid iso-file.

Re-start the torrent. It should validate the integrity of what
you already downloaded, and fix and/or complete whatever you've
got.

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Re: [newbie] Wireless ADSL via USB port

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On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:07:13 +1100 (EST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 About to reconnect to internet, and find that best broadband
 option at present in Australia (without home phone) is Telstra
 Wireless ADSL via USB port. Currently have Mandriva 2006
 installed. Will this detect and run the wireless USB modem ?
 If not, would Mandriva 2007 have that capability ? Running
 oldish box with Athlon 1.2 gigHz processor. Regards, 

I've had great success using ndiswrapper to use wireless NICs
that are not natively supported in Linux. However, I've not
tried it with USB NICs. Give it a Google.

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Re: [newbie] Wireless ADSL via USB port

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On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:52:53 -0500, Miark wrote:

 On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:07:13 +1100 (EST),
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  About to reconnect to internet, and find that best broadband
  option at present in Australia (without home phone) is
  Telstra Wireless ADSL via USB port. Currently have Mandriva
  2006 installed. Will this detect and run the wireless USB
  modem ? If not, would Mandriva 2007 have that capability ?
  Running oldish box with Athlon 1.2 gigHz processor. Regards, 
 
 I've had great success using ndiswrapper to use wireless NICs
 that are not natively supported in Linux. However, I've not
 tried it with USB NICs. Give it a Google.

Okay, I had a 'tard attack. I just realized you were talking
about ADSL, not wireless NICs. Just ignore me!

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Re: [newbie] Forgotten Command

[Miark]

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:04:12 -0500, ET wrote:

 not sure about before, but ctrl+z seems to put some in the
 background, in bash

But that also suspends the job. I think he wants it running.

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Re: [newbie] update all?

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:15:47 -0800, Bill wrote:

 Running 2007. I am trying to find a way to select all when
 updating. I haven't been able to find that option in the
 update window. Can anyone help me out on this one?

From the commandline as root after you've updated your sources:

# urpmi --auto-select

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Re: [newbie] [OT]WineX Install

[Miark]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:39:07 -0500, JoeHill wrote:

 Okay, I've given up on Cedega. 

I have a vague memory of you doing that a long time ago--like,
pre-cedega.

 I should have listened to the  people at linuxgamers.net, it's
 a piece of crap.

Ya, you should have. Dumbass.

 Anyone who has been down this path (in particular if you've
 gotten HL2 to work), please let me know if there's anything I
 should watch out for before I go in head first, or if there
 was some resource that helped you get it going.

A resource? Ya, it's called Windows XP ;-) I have it installed
on my machine for one purpose, and one purpose alone: Half-Life
2 (which I got on eBay for $10--yipee!). My rule of thumb is, if
it doesn't have a Linux binary a la UT and id games, then it's
too difficult to make it work right in Linux.

Ironically, HL2 has been sitting--unused--on my desk for
almost two months, now. (Yes, I'm a dumbass, too.)

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Re: [newbie] slocate question

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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:47:12 -0700, grumpypenguin wrote:

 when I try to do a updatedb  update-menus
 =
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] grumpy]# updatedb  update-menus
 /usr/bin/slocate: option requires an argument -- l
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] grumpy]#
 =
 any idea what I'm doing wrong ?

It's just changed a bit. It now wants to know the security
[L]evel with which to generate the db. If you omit the -l, it
should just default to -l 1, which is to turn on security. See
the man page.

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Re: [newbie] Swap file size

[Miark]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:12:18 -0800, rikona wrote:

 Perhaps you could help with a test...

My computer never stays on for more than a few days. And even if
it did, - I - wouldn't be able to endure such a test! 300
pages? Who in the world needs 300 pages open?

 True. Only a modest number of people have raised the memory
 management issue in FF. 

I remember when you brought this up before. Are you still having
issues with FF2?

 ... they claimed the mem techniques were needed to provide
 response speed, which was apparently a MUCH bigger issue for
 them.

Which is funny because, as much as I love Firefox, I've always
thought that it was (almost) unbearably slow. 'Course, that was
when I was running at 1.1GHz; now I'm using a 3GHz hyper-
threading P4. Much better!

 Kinfocenter is a nice overall display. Htop is useful in
 showing which PID's are doing what, though. That's how I found
 out that kat and FF can be system resource hogs.

What I love about htop is the ability to scroll down and
sideways, and to tree! It's brilliant--I'd die without it.

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Re: [newbie] Swap file size

[Miark]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:29:03 +, stuart wrote:

 Both my laptop and pc installations were done using default
 settings. They both have a swap file of over 1GB. Is this
 right? I have been reading that it should be a max of 512 or
 twice the ram (320 laptop 384 pc).

A gig sounds quite excessive to me. It won't hurt you have that
much, but it's a waste of space if you're short on space. If you
have the space, don't worry about it. If you don't I'd do a test
to see how much you might actually need. 

Run whatever window manager you want, and open all the programs
that you might use at once, such as a mail client, web browser,
music player, calendar programs--whatever. Then use
free (on the commandline) or kinfocenter  Memory to see what
you're system is actually doing. Then drop the swap partition
size accordingly.

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Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws coolness

[Miark]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:03:26 -0400, Charles wrote:

 On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:24:57 -0400
 Miark wrote:
 
 Also note the each reply in the thread is compacted
 separately. 
 
  [...]  
 
 It will in its own form.
 
 Contract, then highlight the text you wish to be included
 in your response select reply and the contracted
 portion of the email will remain so.

Duh--I should have realized that! I accidentally reply to
mis-highlighted text almost every day.

 Reply back sending this in its entirety and I,ll use
 it as an example when replying back.

No need--your description was perfectly clear. Now if I was
JoeHill, you'd have to provide instructions, a diagram, a
a video tutorial... and then follow up with a question and
answer session  ;-)

Miark

PS Wow, Joe, I've forgotten just how much fun it to make you
   the butt of jokes--I need to do that more often! (Staying
   within the one-zing-per-day limit, of course.)

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[newbie] Sylpheed Claws coolness

[Miark]

I just found a new little gem in Claws. When you're viewing a
message in the preview pane that has quoted material, you can
double-click the quoted section to contract it. It would be cool
if replies reflected the changes you make, but it's still cool.

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Re: [newbie] Knemo Applet

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:49:18 +1000, Anthony wrote:

 Thanx.
 But
 I did as u advised but it tells me it is already there. How do
 I put it on the panel?

KDE Control Center  Internet  Network  Network Monitor.

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Re: [newbie] version for p3

[Miark]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:36:49 -0700, Bill wrote:

 Which version of Mandriva would the group recommend (or other
 distro?) for this first timer. 

Mandriva One, because he doesn't have to install it (but set up a
small Linux partition for his data).

 Of course, he's a windows users so a familiar
 look would probably make the transition easier. KDE or Gnome.

KDE, hands down.
 
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[newbie] Firefox 2 is out

[Miark]

No RPMs from Mandriva yet (it's been only two days), but if
you want to install it from Mozilla, it's ready, willing, and
able.

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Re: [newbie] Knemo Applet

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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:09:43 +1000, Anthony wrote:

 I would like to add this applet to my panel. I believe it
 monitors my broadband activity. I know I have it somewhere,
 but I cannot find it on any of my Add to Panel toolbars to add
 it. Any help would be much appreciated.

It's in contrib: # urpmi knemo

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Re: [newbie] Problem during install of Mandriva 2007

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:18:15 -0500, Jimmy wrote:

Ok,
I've tried getting this to work from two different
 directions, and the same thing happens. I've been running 2006
 with no problems. I backed up all my data, and then tried to
 install Mandriva 2007 as a new clean install. Everything was
 going fine until I got to cd5, and then after it was install
 from cd5 for a good while, I get a Segment Fault, memory
 seems to crash error message, and then the install won't go
 any further. I started the install all over again, and got the
 same result. Next, I re-installed 2006, and tried to do an
 upgrade instead. I got the same result. Next thing I tried was
 downloading the ISO's again, and making new cd's. Agian tried
 doing a clean install, and got the same result, and got the
 same results when I tried doing an upgrade from 2006.
   Has anyone else had this problem? Obviously, my machine
 is fine. I've been running 2006 without even so much as a
 hickup. Thanks

If it's like the CD installation, it's got an option to run the
installer with noapic. Select that for the installation. That
helped after the 2007 installer kept choking on me right at
the end of the installation. I didn't have to do that in 2006.

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Re: [newbie] IPEVO Free-1 Skype phone

[Miark]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:16:24 +0100, JRH wrote:

 On Monday 09 October 2006 20:31, John Wilson wrote:
 
  I don't know if anyone has had any but why not just plug it
  in and see what happens? :)
 
  ttfn
 
  John
 
 Oh, I will do, dont worry! and it'll probably end in much hair
 tearing!!
 
 Just wanted to get half an idea of how much screaming that I'm
 gonna get to do, whilst it's being shipped :-)

You're probably going to be screaming like Ru'afo at the end of
Star Trek Insurrection (which I watched just last night :-)

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

[Miark]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:52:34 +0100, JRH wrote:

 On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:08, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
 
 
  boot into xcfe then into MCC turn off your 3D and
  accelerated options reset the monitor to flatscreen 1024x768
  @60 hz then log out and reboot
  HTH
 
 
 Ok, so now I'm showing my intelligence level. I only been
 using Mandrake/MDV for 4 years...
 
 What's xcfe? and how do I get into it?

XFCE (not xcfe) is an excellent light-weight window manager.
Charles Edwards packages it for Mandriva folk:

* http://www.eslrahc.com

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:26:15 +0100, JRH wrote:

 On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:45, Miark wrote:
  On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:28:49 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
   By brute strength and awkwardness [and xcfe] I managed to
   reset it to 1024x768 KDE is fine now
 
  Pray tell: how?
 
  Miark
 
 Yes, please tell.
 
 I'm having the same problem!
 
 I'm fed up with my screen looking like I'm running Win95 on an
 old 486!

Boot to init 3, or from KDE, etc, type init 3 in a terminal.
Once you're out of graphics land, become root and type
drakxconf. From there you can probably set up your display
easily enough. Test the changes, of course, and then 
init 5 once you got things the way you want them.

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

[Miark]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:33:07 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

 On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:41 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:08:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
   On Wednesday 04 October 2006 05:25 pm, Miark wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:36:14 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
 trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have difficulty
 finding my video card
   
What have you done thus far?
  
   tried it with and without hardware accel
   changed resolution  it says its running in 1024x 768 it
   looks more like 640x480
 
  Are you certain it's selecting the correct video card? Do you
  know what the current refresh rate is? Can your monitor
  handle that rate?

 it (LCD flatscreen) has and is handled(ing) that rez under
 M2006 and Kbuntu (1024X768 @60 HZ )

So... you're saying the settings between 2006 and 2007 are
exactly the same, but not working under 2007? That doesn't sound
right.

What video card do you use?

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

[Miark]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:07:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

 On Thursday 05 October 2006 08:40 am, Miark wrote:
  On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:33:07 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
   On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:41 pm, Miark wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:08:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
 On Wednesday 04 October 2006 05:25 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:36:14 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin
  wrote:
   trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have
   difficulty finding my video card
 
  What have you done thus far?

 tried it with and without hardware accel
 changed resolution  it says its running in 1024x 768 it
 looks more like 640x480
   
Are you certain it's selecting the correct video card?
Do you know what the current refresh rate is? Can your
monitor handle that rate?
  
   it (LCD flatscreen) has and is handled(ing) that rez under
   M2006 and Kbuntu (1024X768 @60 HZ )
 
  So... you're saying the settings between 2006 and 2007 are
  exactly the same, but not working under 2007? That doesn't
  sound right.
 
  What video card do you use?
 Intergrated video ATI 200

It would be easier to read your responses if you used a little
white-space.

Anyway, at this point I'd go to ATI:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894task=knowledgefolderID=27

Get their driver and use it. Make sure you install kernel-source 
first, and that it matches your kernel. 

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

[Miark]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:36:14 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

 trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have difficulty finding
 my video card

What have you done thus far?

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Re: [newbie] 2007 Official

[Miark]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:08:56 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

 On Wednesday 04 October 2006 05:25 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:36:14 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
   trying Mandriva 2007 now it seems to have difficulty
   finding my video card
 
  What have you done thus far?

 tried it with and without hardware accel 
 changed resolution  it says its running in 1024x 768 it looks
 more like 640x480

Are you certain it's selecting the correct video card? Do you
know what the current refresh rate is? Can your monitor handle
that rate?

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Re: [newbie] udev

[Miark]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:43:28 -0400, Lee wrote:

 I reinstalled 2006 last week and udev does not mount sda
  and sdb when I plug in the camera and mp3 thingie.
 
 Any ideas?

No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the same
thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run:

  /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator
  expected[  OK  ] [FAILED]

I brought it up here a bit ago, but there was no solution. I'm
not using any SoS stuff, so Bill's idea doesn't apply to me.
I've been patient, though, because the the RCs for 2007 seem to
work fine.

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Re: [newbie] udev

[Miark]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote:

 On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote:
 
  No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do the
  same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to run:
 
/etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator
expected[  OK  ] [FAILED]
 
 What's on line 32 of the file /etc/init.d/haldaemon ? It
 sounds like there's a typo in the start script, should be
 fairly easy to debug.

I quoted the block and marked line 32 below. Looks okay to me. (?)


start() {
gprintf Starting HAL daemon: 
daemon --check $servicename $processname
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
PID=`/sbin/pidof $processname`
32 --  if [ $PID ]; then 
touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename  echo `/sbin/pidof $proce$
else
failure
fi
fi
echo
}


Actually, now that I start the service instead of restarting 
it, it seems to be running. But it's still not mounting my 
external harddrive.

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Re: [newbie] udev

[Miark]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:44:23 -0300, Carlos wrote:

 El Sáb 30 Sep 2006 16:25, Miark escribió:
  On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote:
   On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote:
No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do
the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to
run:
   
  /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator
  expected[  OK  ] [FAILED]
  
   What's on line 32 of the file /etc/init.d/haldaemon ? It
   sounds like there's a typo in the start script, should be
   fairly easy to debug.
 
  I quoted the block and marked line 32 below. Looks okay to
  me. (?)
 
 
  start() {
  gprintf Starting HAL daemon: 
  daemon --check $servicename $processname
  RETVAL=$?
  if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
  PID=`/sbin/pidof $processname`
  32 --  if [ $PID ]; then
  touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename  echo
  `/sbin/pidof $proce$ else
  failure
  fi
  fi
  echo
  }
 
 
  Actually, now that I start the service instead of restarting
  it, it seems to be running. But it's still not mounting my
  external harddrive.
 
  Miark
 
   Miark, you are not alone, check this:
 
 http://www.linuxfordummies.org/index.php?topic=465.msg868#msg868

Thanks for the link, but I haven't been using any SoS RPMs.

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Re: [newbie] udev

[Miark]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:07:09 -0600, Russ wrote:

 On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:25 pm, Miark wrote:
  On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0600, Russ wrote:
   On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:37 am, Miark wrote:
No, but you get my sympathy. I haven't been able to do
the same thing because, for some reason, HAL refuses to
run:
   
  /etc/init.d/haldaemon: line 32: [: 6690: unary operator
  expected[  OK  ] [FAILED]
  
   What's on line 32 of the file /etc/init.d/haldaemon ? It
   sounds like there's a typo in the start script, should be
   fairly easy to debug.
 
  I quoted the block and marked line 32 below. Looks okay to
  me. (?)
 
 
  start() {
  gprintf Starting HAL daemon: 
  daemon --check $servicename $processname
  RETVAL=$?
  if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
  PID=`/sbin/pidof $processname`
  32 --  if [ $PID ]; then
  touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename  echo
  `/sbin/pidof $proce$ else
  failure
  fi
  fi
  echo
  }
 
 Throw an echo pid = $PID on a line between the assignment
 and the test, I'll bet that service isn't really started so
 the variable PID has nothing, and so you're seeing a syntax
 error for the if [ ]; line.

Actually, there is a PID. Weird.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Mandriva Club - Your account expires soon!

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:15:19 -0400, JoeHill wrote:

 I stomped on it, ran my blade across it, folded it in two,
 spit on it, smeared it with cat excrement, *then* threw it
 out. I know I probably missed a coupla steps, but I was tired,
 and it was pretty smelly.

BWAHAHAHAHahahahaa

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Re: [newbie] Audio cable required on DVD burner?

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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:03:53 -0600, Ron wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 Some time back, just before I upgraded to 2006, I put an old
 TV card I had lying around in my Mandriva machine. My
 motherboard only has one analog audio input port, so I
 unplugged the audio cable from my DVD burner. I never watch
 movies on my PC (and don't know if the audio cable is needed
 for this anyway), and music CDs play fine without it.

Audio cable is absolutely not required. I wonder, though, if
the presence of the TV card in your computer is having some
deleterious effect? I might try removing the TV card to see if
it makes any difference.

 
 Around the same time, the burning of DVDs stopped working.
 Specifically, k3b reports success, but movie DVDs I burn will
 not play back, and on data DVDs I can only read the first
 280MB or so of data, then nothing but I/O errors. CD burning,
 on the other hand, works just fine for both audio and data CDs.

After a successful burn, have you tried reading the discs in a
drive _other_ than the one in which they were burned?

 
 I tried two different brands of disks, one DVD-R and one
 DVD+R, same result. I tried limiting the speed to 2x, same
 result. I haven't seen anything on the list about k3b DVD
 burning being totally broken in 2006.

It's not--I do it routinely.

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Re: [newbie] Xfce-4.4 RC1 rpms for 2006

[Miark]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:31:38 -0400, JoeHill wrote:

 How is the process for switching to Claws? Relatively
 painless, ie. config wise?

I don't recall because it was so long ago from me--although I'm
sure it's effortless--but what I can tell you is that it's
really well worth it. I can't live without it!

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Re: [newbie] Xfce-4.4 RC1 rpms for 2006

[Miark]

Charles, 

My panel up-and-disappeared after a crash (I was playing with
kernels). I figured there was probably a .xfce4 folder that I
could blow away, but there wasn't. I found XFCE stuff in .cache
and .config, but when I deleted those, the panel did not come
back on the following login.

How else can I reset it?

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[newbie] Hyper-threading rocks

[Miark]

I asked about HT recently and somebody (ET perhaps?) asked me to
report back as to whether or not I felt it makes a difference in
performance. All's I can say is HELL, ya! I can see it
especially in how Firefox operates, and how multimedia performs
when I'm other things at the same time. 

My one complaint to Mandriva is that when I run win4lin using
the smp win4lin kernel, my computer dies every time. Gotta stick
to UP for that. Fortunately I don't need it often.

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Re: [newbie] External hard drive

[Miark]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:11:37 -0700, Owen wrote:

 Maybe someone could explain the following in very simple
 language. I copied the NTFS files from my external HD onto a
 CD and then put the CD into the CD drive in the Kubuntu box
 and Kubuntu read them... Why could Kubuntu read the NTFS files?

If you use the analogy of a filing cabinet and its files, NTFS is
the filing cabinet. Paper files don't look any different
depending on what filing cabinet they come out of, and neither
do electronic files.

NTFS vs. XFS vs. Reiser, etc. is simply a matter of access or,
continuing the analogy, it's a matter of whether or not you
have the right key to open the lock on the filing cabinet in
order to use it. 

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Re: [newbie] Xfce-4.4 RC1 rpms for 2006

[Miark]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:48:00 -0400, Charles wrote:

 If any are interested Xfce-4.4 RC1 (4.3.99.1) for Mdk 2006.0
 can be obtained from the 2006.0 directory on my site.
 They rpms include all the Xfce base pkg and current Goodies
 as well as any extra Requires which are needed.

Thanks Charles--good to have you back in the swing of things!

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Re: [newbie] External hard drive

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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:03:32 -0400, David wrote:

 Remember that NTFS is read-only in linux (yes I know you can
 get around that somewhat - this is a newbie forum)

This is true of Mandriva, not Linux. I routinely use Knoppix 5 
to write to NTFS.

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Re: [newbie] External hard drive

[Miark]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:55:52 -0400, David wrote:

 Knoppix is a different animal altogether.  Most LIVE cd OS's
 can read and write to NTFS as they are not actually installing
 their write schema, but rather just sitting in RAM and usnig
 the host OS for support.  

Sounds like you're talking about how Knoppix 4 worked, namely by
installing Microsnot's NTFS DLLs. It's beyond that.

 Even on their own site, here is the quote... 

Let me counter-quote:

  Ntfsmount has almost full feature write support. It can resize,
  create and delete files and directories and even operate on
  symlinks, devices, FIFOs and sockets. Though ntfsmount has
  still some restrictions, data safety should not be in risk,
  especially if you make regular backups with ntfsclone. This is
  a highly advised, given that the most often problems we are
  reported are physical hard disk failures!

 I would still suggest the options I suggested of using FAT32
 if it needs to be used by M$ and nix*

I do agree with you about that. NTFS support is advanced, but
FAT32 support is superior, and accessible from any *nix.

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Re: [newbie] Watching wmv files

[Miark]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:57:30 +0100, Neill wrote:

 Does anyone know what I need to download/urpmi to see Windows
 Media Player 9 files and where I need to put the files?

If mplayer doesn't play any given video format, nothing
will. Set up free and non-free PLF urpmi sources, then as
root,

# urpmi --auto mplayer mplayer-gui mplayerplugin
# urpmi -a codecs

This will install MPlayer (GUI and commandline versions), its
plugin for Firefox and Konq, their dependencies, and all the
codecs.

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