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On Sunday, January 28, 2007, 1:28:58 PM, Dan Gordon wrote:
DG On Sun January 28 2007 16:15, rikona wrote:
I thought I'd look at the Metisse version of MD One CD that was hyped
in an email from MD. Boots up OK, asks for user/password. Can't get
past here. MD website has lots of details about
On Sunday, January 28, 2007, 5:28:37 PM, ET wrote:
E rikona wrote:
On Sunday, January 28, 2007, 1:28:58 PM, Dan Gordon wrote:
DG On Sun January 28 2007 16:15, rikona wrote:
I thought I'd look at the Metisse version of MD One CD that was hyped
in an email from MD. Boots up OK, asks for user
and beagle is a pain in the fundament.
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On Saturday, January 6, 2007, 3:17:50 PM, Len Lawrence wrote:
LL rikona wrote:
On Saturday, January 6, 2007, 1:54:15 PM, Len Lawrence wrote:
LL Apropos the recent installation of Mandriva PowerPack+ on AMD64
LL Opteron, where can I find updatedb and slocate?
Whatpackprovides LL returns
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote:
M 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
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote:
E rikona wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote:
M 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
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 1:56:51 PM, ET wrote:
E rikona wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote:
E rikona wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote:
M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote:
M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do
successful file creates about
50% of the time, but may have a limit of creating about 10 files in a
directory. This looks like a big problem for large backup/restores
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On Monday, January 1, 2007, 9:15:40 PM, Miark wrote:
M On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:21:44 -0800, rikona wrote:
M
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
a complete backup of everything!
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DA and UNIX.
Did well in Win and DOS, too. Now running a DSl modem of theirs, which
seems to be continuing the tradition.
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On Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 3:39:17 AM, Bryan Phinney wrote:
BP On Monday 27 November 2006 14:56, rikona wrote:
Back a bit there were problems with the mirrors, so I thought I'd
wait a while until, hopefully, they were solved. I again tried to
set up the sources for 2006 club.club
. It sure doesn't make them look very competent.
It sure is getting hard to stay a loyal club member. [Or - perhaps
they don't think it is worthwhile to spend any effort on the remaining
fifteen club members? :-))]
Grumble, grumble.
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? :-))
LS All that aside, helping support the distro I choose to use gives
LS me warm fuzzies ok not really but the karma has to be good :D
Agreed - I still do too.
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On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 11:31:03 PM, JoeHill wrote:
J On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:16:27 -0800
J rikona got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
It would be good to tell THEM that too. M$ keeps intruding on
hardware more and more, and without customer complaints to the
hardware
on hardware
more and more, and without customer complaints to the hardware
companies, they will think it's OK to accept M$ control.
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 9:12:02 PM, Miark wrote:
M On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:12:18 -0800, rikona wrote:
Perhaps you could help with a test...
M My computer never stays on for more than a few days.
I can almost guarantee no FF mem problems then.
M And even if it did, - I - wouldn't be able
.
Is this with FF2?
J What's amazing to watch is my memory monitor in my panel show the
J usage drop like a stone when I close Firefox.
Yep.
J Still, I really hate Opera ;)
Sounds like the best part for you is after the fat lady sings. :-))
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On Monday, October 30, 2006, 7:52:19 PM, Cameron MacDonald wrote:
CM rikona wrote:
CM snip
If you use Firefox, you might want to have LOTS of memory
available. Firefox is a HUGE memory hog. For example, I now have FF
running for about a day, ONE window, only TWO tabs open, and have
visited
On Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 1:01:57 PM, Miark wrote:
M On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:37:00 -0800, rikona wrote:
Typically, if I use it more, it will eventually use up all memory
and crash. I enlarged my swap space [1G] and added more memory
[1G], and that postpones the FF crash - but does
you're system is
M actually doing. Then drop the swap partition size accordingly.
Try htop in a console and you can see who is using what.
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R rikona ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2006, 1:27:17 PM, Jonesy MDK10.2 wrote:
JM2 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:59:50 -0700, rikona wrote: I'd
appreciate any suggestions for a fast GUI text viewer, sort of
like QuickView
most
of what needs to be done, including several display formats. How can
something like this get started, even though I'm not a programmer? It
would make a great app, IMHO.
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alternate drivers too, but no luck. Seems to find the right printer,
so I assume the parallel port is OK.
Still chuggin away.
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On Monday, July 17, 2006, 7:09:11 AM, Dan LaBine wrote:
DL Rikona, I believe that it has some of the PLF stuff included or
DL available using the package installer (Synpatic), but you can also
DL add PLF to Synaptic and install whatever you need.
Makes it sound a bit better - thanks
On Monday, July 17, 2006, 7:10:21 AM, Dan LaBine wrote:
Thanks much for the help.
DL No Problem. Trust me, I'm from the government,.I'm here to help!
Aaaah... [runs away screaming.]
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PS What Power Supply did you get?
400 watt Antec, came with the case.
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On Monday, July 17, 2006, 3:30:09 AM, Dan LaBine wrote:
DL Rikona, I forgot to send you the links;
DL www.pclinuxos.com is the main site,
I'll give it a try. It has been on my list of things to do anyway,
but you know how that goes. :-)
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On Monday, July 17, 2006, 3:26:02 AM, Dan LaBine wrote:
DL Try downloading PCLinuxOS and give it a try. It is a
DL Mandriva-based LiveCD which you can install if you decide and will
DL install in less than 20 minutes.
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RK rikona wrote:
So - everything went exceedingly well until I was there - talk about
looking like an idiot. :-))
RK Well, don't give up yet.
I won't. Thanks for the encouragement.
RK Your problems do not sound like they are at all
, and biased me toward
Via chipsets, too.
snip some ideas I agree with
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DM problems. Clean install and system is very fast. HTH Dennis M.
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issues in the past, but didn't realize
they has so much on hardware. Thanks for the resource.
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On Thursday, July 13, 2006, 5:50:32 PM, Paul Stejskal wrote:
PS I do hope this gives you some great ideas.
It does, and with a high drool factor too. :-)) This level of stuff is
a bit pricey for the current project though.
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please let me know. Also, if you know of some stuff that HAS problems,
please tell me so I can avoid it.
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suggestions.
Thanks for the info though. I'll ask her if she wants to whoop it up.
On second thought, maybe that's not the right way for me to phrase
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On Thursday, July 13, 2006, 3:24:29 PM, Dan LaBine wrote:
DL rikona wrote:
DL Asking this question is like asking to start a flame war.
Didn't mean to do that.
DL No, I realize that you didn't mean to, I just figured that all the
DL lurkers would jump in on this thread and voice
and the hardware
DL list on Mandriva's site is incomplete from what Rikona tells me.
There is a fair amount there, but the major problem is that the
hardware is about one generation old and not available in stores any
more.
DL Besides, I don't think his friend is planning on over-clocking the
DL
On Sunday, June 25, 2006, 6:10:03 AM, Dan LaBine wrote:
Thanks for the possible fix, though - it was a good idea!!
DL Rikona,
DL OK, next thing to try,.
I'm really swamped now and it will be a bit before I can get back to
this. I'll move a printer to a win box and try it.
Till then, just
On Saturday, June 24, 2006, 9:11:58 PM, Dan LaBine wrote:
DL rikona wrote:
On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 1:13:21 AM, Ma, Weimin wrote:
MW Any suggestions on how CUPS can auto-detect the printer on windows
MW 2K? I appreciate every reply.
I also have a mixed net, and have never been able
$ W2k
gurus to help, but they couldn't make it work either.
I installed network print servers on a couple of printers, and this
has been the best solution yet. The Mand* box also works well as a
server for one printer. Give up on W2k for printing
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GS If anyone can help?
Might try the mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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On Thursday, April 27, 2006, 2:45:12 AM, John Clarke wrote:
JC On Wednesday 26 April 2006 14:31, rikona wrote:
On Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 2:59:10 AM, John Clarke wrote:
JC On Wednesday 26 April 2006 00:24, rikona wrote:
Where are Konq cookies stored?
JC /home/insert your name here/.kde
On Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 2:59:10 AM, John Clarke wrote:
JC On Wednesday 26 April 2006 00:24, rikona wrote:
Where are Konq cookies stored?
JC /home/insert your name here/.kde/share/apps/kcookiejar
Thanks for the reply. I looked there but did not see any cookies. The
jar seemed to be empty
On Thursday, April 6, 2006, 8:17:40 PM, Abraham E. Mandac, Jr. wrote:
AEMJ Anybody in the know of what could be going on?
What does htop report for mem cpu?
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On Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 12:48:30 PM, rikona wrote:
r I heard about Konq having a nice feature [audiocd:/] that will
r automagically produce ogg, mp3, and flac formats. I tried it and it
r does all but the mp3's. Nice, but how can I get Konq to do the
r mp3's, which is what I wanted? I have
On Saturday, March 11, 2006, 1:21:28 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
RJH On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:13 pm, rikona wrote:
A bit of searching indicates that one should use xmms-mp3 instead
of just plain xmms, but I don't see an xmms-mp3 for 2006, even with
plf sources. I thought xmms was supposed
On Saturday, March 11, 2006, 1:52:38 PM, Ben wrote:
B On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:13 pm, rikona wrote:
How do I get xmms to play mp3's?
B Since you are using konq I'll assume you're using KDE.
B right click on the xmms icon and click edit item
B the command section should be just xmms
B
On Saturday, March 11, 2006, 4:14:09 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
RJH On Saturday 11 March 2006 05:12 pm, rikona wrote:
That's what I thought.
Thanks much for the reply. Any ideas much appreciated
RJH How about this, launch xmms from a shell (you may have to be
RJH root. Its odd but while I
Shouldn't this be: http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/ ?
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On Saturday, January 14, 2006, 6:12:43 AM, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
G Multimedia that works with very little tweaking
I'd second that. That is the future anyway; might as well get it to
work well - and easily.
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Right now, Windows comes closest to something that 'just works'. The
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should continue to grow in deployment and use, we may be faced
DL with no alternative but to make Linux easier for the end user.
Yes, yes, yes!
DL Otherwise, Linux will grow only so far and then it could very well
DL stagnate. Not a pretty alternative, at least for me.
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On Saturday, January 14, 2006, 5:43:46 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
RJH On Saturday 14 January 2006 04:41 pm, rikona wrote:
RJH If somebody wants that, let'em run Windows...
Right now, Windows comes closest to something that 'just works'. The
dominant OS will be the one that does the MOST
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On Thursday, January 12, 2006, 9:44:14 PM, Albert Charron wrote:
AC I'm connected to two MSN accounts simultaneously (home and work)
AC with GAIM. all is working fine for me!
Glad to hear it works well - at least until M$ fixes it. :-)
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membership, offer or not. Shsh! What is this - an offer you can't
take advantage of? It is getting a bit ridiculous. They seem as though
they REALLY don't want me to use their software. I've been a huge MD
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that are breaking the sig, especially if the specs are in the headers,
and not inline.
Just a couple of thoughts.
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Hello Ricardo,
Friday, November 11, 2005, 6:58:58 AM, Ricardo wrote:
RRP The reason I'm asking (and Rikona don't take me wrong, thanks for
RRP the advice)
Your are quite welcome - glad to help
RRP So many sites are not accessible unless I tried several times
A few sites seem to have
suitable for privoxy, but, unfortunately, it
has shut down. :-((
Would one of you script-writing gurus please compose one to convert a
host file into a list of names [with dupes removed] that could be
dropped into the privoxy user file? Thanks MUCH in advance...
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with that is keeping it up to date. One
advantage of the hosts file is that it also helps stop new 'sneaky'
snoops that are devised to get around the usual privacy tools.
Also note that using it can still cause problems with some pages.
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Hello H.J.Bathoorn,
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 12:52:02 AM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
HJB On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:43, rikona wrote:
Also, privoxy comes with only a few names. If you're serious about
protecting your privacy, you might want to check out a good
privacy-oriented hosts file
will encounter, I'd bet this
will get obnoxious rather quickly. :-))
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one of the items. Everything worked with no problems thank All
Oops... don't want to get into that on the on-topic list :-)
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may still be an issue, and will require using a proxy for other than
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Hello H.J.Bathoorn,
Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 1:23:53 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
HJB On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:35, rikona wrote:
As a test, go to ebay, and you should see some doubleclick ads
blocked [there will be a note on the screen for each one.]
HJB Nice, very nice. :-)
HJB Had to go
are for them. It would be worth their while to
support it better
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, open, and easy access to information is the last
MLE thing they want! People might even start holding them responsible
MLE for their actions if they have an easy way to find out what they
MLE are doing!
I could not agree more. [Trying to hold tongue to avoid a long, OT
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never seems to show high CPU. Is the kat
problem different? Will deleting the file also prevent kat from using
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on end. Again, it looks like they seem to be closely related.
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How so?
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stuff in your folder? :-))
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Hello JoeHill,
Thursday, October 13, 2005, 1:35:19 PM, JoeHill wrote:
J I'm more annoyed at the people who don't prune, like, say, ARON
J SMITH ;-)
True. For him, pruning is eating those dark colored things in the
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it,
they bottom post.
But it can get confusing about the 8th time this top/bottom thing
happens. :-)
Most people are courteous enough to keep the flow
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and a 1740. Both came up fine
in MD. Both were under $100 on sale. For lowest cost, you can easily
refill the cartridges with toner for about $12/2000 pages.
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it, and
if I liked it, join the club to update and to get new software.
Also, the MD lists are one of the MAJOR reasons why I stick with MD.
They are very helpful, and less hostile to newbies than other lists -
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until I kill the process. When I kill
it, a small blank space on the right of the bottom bar disappears.
Looks like something is trying to come up, but doesn't. What do I need
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