Re: [opensuse] AutoCAD and Linux?

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Would this work for you? - put AutoCAD onto a Win2003 terminal server. - make a Linux desktop icon with rdesktop -some-parameters... -s C:\Program Files bla. bla.autocad.exe IP-of-w2003-server That would give the user a perfect fine SuSE/Linux desktop with an AC

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
If you have USENET access, try sci.electronics.repair. I've often had good luck getting info there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Clayton wrote: Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've never discovered it) and up arrow to the previous command :-P Instead they laboriously retype the commands or type in long paths... and typos are

Re: [opensuse] Re: mailing from CLI

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
ken wrote: If I needed a mail server, well then, yes, I'd use it. But I don't need that. It just seems ridiculous to set up a mail server on every machine on which somebody sends out an email. I don't know. It depends on how you look at it. To me it's like asking, Why should I have to run

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-18 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 01:55, zoran wrote: What is lame? I have a same problem, more input needed, please. LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder. Except that it is, now. The name describes it's original status as a executive program that didn't actually perform

Re: [opensuse] FTP access via SSH tunnel

2007-04-18 Thread David Brodbeck
Matthew Stringer wrote: True SCP is preferable but I have users running a Win32 program that only uses FTP so I can't use SFTP or SCP or anything else here. All machines are on the internet, no NAT'ing or internal networks here. Any chance you can get them to use WinSCP? It's a fairly

Re: [opensuse] THANKS! Evolution pword patch!

2007-04-15 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: asideThe number of people who file bugs and then vanish or just don't respond to further inquiries is pretty significant. I've even seen people submit *patches* along with reports, but never surface either in bugzilla or mail lists again. Both weird and

Re: [opensuse] may we get official openSUSE PHPbb forum?

2007-04-13 Thread David Brodbeck
G.T.Smith wrote: I personally have mixed views about forums (annoying things like preparing a response, finding you have been logged out, and having to redo response; and brain dead search options oh of course [EMAIL PROTECTED] advertising) And having to re-find your place every time

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-12 Thread David Brodbeck
Clayton wrote: I'm running MythTV on my 10.2 system. Works great. Very easy to install and set up from the Packman repository(mythtv + mysql). Do a little reading on the MythTV site for what you need to do to configure the backend - its not hard if you follow the directions. I set up

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-12 Thread David Brodbeck
Sunny wrote: Not exactly, there are good HDTV cards, which work for off the air signals. And for cable, you should request, and your cable company have to deliver a cable box with firewire output. They are required so by an FCC ruling. Usualy they do not, but after I insisted at Comacast

Re: [opensuse] Slashdot helps to clear up ClearType Hype

2007-04-12 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:43, M Harris wrote: ... WANTED IN ALL 50 CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES The Continental U.S.A. comprises 48 states plus the District of Columbia. There are 48 *contiguous* states. Alaska is also on the North American

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-11 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: I don't like pico because there's no way to jump to the beginning or end of the file. This may have been OK for editing email, which was its original purpose, but it's frustrating when you're working with configuration files. Odd, I've found page up / page down

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread David Brodbeck
david rankin wrote: Will my .config from the 2.6.13 kernel source I got from yast work with the new kernel source from kernel.org? Yes. Copy the old .config file to the new kernel source directory, then do 'make oldconfig'. It will use the old settings where it can and ask you about any new

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-11 Thread David Brodbeck
John Summerfield wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:32, Damon Register wrote: Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value (although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi. If there is any

Re: [opensuse] Setting up WinXP VM (Xen)

2007-04-11 Thread David Brodbeck
Registration Account wrote: Because Dell don't publish their drivers to anyone I had to use and install drivers for the above from their utils CD. I did not even have a functioning NIC card at the end of a standard Windows XP install. You can also get them off their website (using another

Re: [opensuse] DRM

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Alexey Eremenko wrote: For normal Data CD, ISO does fine, but for emulating of multisession and Audio CDs we need something else... On Windows, this is no problem because Nero has it's own format called .NRG which addresses all those needs. On Linux, I see potentially the raw format taking

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Bob S wrote: Besides Vi there is also joe. (since about 10.0 I think) And some distributions ship with 'nano'. But if you're setting up an OpenBSD or Solaris system from scratch, you'll likely find yourself with just 'vi' to play with. Same with some rescue floppies. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] unique checksum? [Was: best file distribution technology for my c

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Ryouga Hibiki wrote: Then, finally, Bittorrent can accomplish the task safely, right? Sure. Bittorrent is as safe as the original file. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] to spamassassin or not to spamassassin

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-10 at 00:16 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: Spamassassin (SA) has been a nice anti-spam for years but as some of you already said, it gives a lot of false positives... Not a single one on my system. You have to train it correctly. One point about

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
G.T.Smith wrote: Actually the first thing I do is try to get pico working. Nice little very basic editor, and I would agree with Doug and go a litlle further and say IMHO vi is interesting for those with a masochistic disposition:-) I don't like pico because there's no way to jump to the

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse - a MS patent observer?

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Druid wrote: Slashdot is trolling for a long time about openSUSE. They dont publish a single openSUSE news for decades, unless its ms/novell FUD. Complaining that there are trolls on Slashdot is like complaining that there are clowns at the circus. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: disrtibution support

2007-04-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Cool! Although it turns out it is 'jmacs', at least on my openSUSE 10.2. Yeah, my bad. I should have checked. I only ever use 'jstar'...I started out using a WordStar clone 20 years ago so all those keystrokes are hard-wired into my brain. ;) -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Elevator Question

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Bill Anderson wrote: I noticed that the default elevator applies to everything, including USB memory sticks. I thought the block device driver would change the I/O scheduler to something more appropriate for a memory stick, such as the noop scheduler. While we're on the subject, I've also

Re: [opensuse] best file distribution technology for my case?

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Ryouga Hibiki wrote: PS: Unless you know that there's a way to change a package without modifying the integrity of these (MD5SUM), is that possible? I *think* it's been shown that it's possible to create two different files that have the same MD5 checksum. Exploiting this would require

Re: [opensuse] Elevator Question

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: I always get a desktop icon in KDE which has a Safe Remove option. Hmm, I'll have to look for that. I hadn't noticed it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Laptop Rebooting - Possible Memory Issue?

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: It is a Dell Inspiron 600m 1.6GHz Centrino with 1GB RAM. I bought it in July '05 and have had only SUSE on it ever since - 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 being the versions. I haven't added anything at all to the hardware, and have simply been keeping my updates running through SMART.

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Steve Jeppesen wrote: I use both Totum and MPlayer to play dvd's with no problems at all. MythTV's internal DVD player has gotten really good, too. It's not worth installing the whole Myth frontend just for playing DVDs, but if you've got it already you might want to try the mythdvd plugin.

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I've demonstrated, multiple times, dropping an LTO tape from waist height, kicking it across the floor so that it bounces of the wall, inserting it into a drive and reading data. Do that with a HD in a USB caddy. Modern tape, unless you crush the enclosure, is

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: So back it up to another part of the building on your local lan. Its highly unlikely the ENTIRE CAMPUS will burn down, and if it does you have far greater problems, as well as a collection of melted tapes. Unlikely, but it happens. WTC is one example. New Orleans

Re: [opensuse] unique checksum? [Was: best file distribution technology for my case?]

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Michael Skiba wrote: ...sure it'll be possible to have two files with the same, the point is, that it is almost impossible to make use of it to attack something, since the file with the same md5sum must be valid and contains the destructive code and this will be rather difficult. Right. On

Re: [opensuse] DRM

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Tim Hanson wrote: I don't know, but if not, you could always burn to a CD-RW disk and then rip from it. That's what I do with my iTunes downloads. How do you get from the download to the CD? Is there specific software that you use? I've heard there is some Windows/Mac software,

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 09 Apr 2007 21:31, Doug McGarrett wrote: If you're new to Unix/Linux, and you don't actually _need_VI, then use something friendly like MC, or pico, or joe - joe works fine for me . . . commands are similar to old word-processor -Star-Writer [if I

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
M Harris wrote: Well... I'm just incensed here... :-P ... first off, if you're new to unix, the very first thing you *must* learn is vi, period, end of story. So, just pull out the info or man pages and get cracking... you *will* need it before you grow up so just bite the

Re: [opensuse] unique checksum? [Was: best file distribution technology for my case?]

2007-04-09 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: Unless the checksum's are signed, getting the pgp key will do you no good. Creating a checksum, then signing it, is an unnecessary extra step. GPG can generate a signature for a file all by itself. It's pretty common for sites to include signature files for downloads

Re: [opensuse] Oh my god, zypper is such a crap!

2007-04-08 Thread David Brodbeck
Per Qvindesland wrote: True that's very true, it's a bit M$ based the whole thing, every time that I meet a Novell sales rep on a show or a presentation he/she knows very little about what the heck their talking about... Have you ever met a sales rep for any technical product that knew much

Re: [opensuse] BadRAM support in opensuse kernels

2007-04-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Alexey Eremenko wrote: Yes, this BadRAM thing looks very interesting... :) But it needs a tutorial that explains how-to find bad addresses or it does so automatically? MEMTEST86 can produce output suitable for BadRAM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] SCPM Problem?

2007-04-02 Thread David Brodbeck
John Pierce wrote: Thu Mar 15 13:50:06 2007 scpm (scpm) warning could not query scpm status Thu Mar 15 20:06:48 2007 scpm (scdb) warning could not open /var/lib/scpm/scdb/scdb.db Thu Mar 15 20:06:48 2007 scpm (scpm) ERROR could not open database I googled for it and found one bugzilla report

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-31 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: A previous message in this thread mentions two machines each with 256Mb! Of course Zen and/or Beagle thrash such a machine. Maybe the sanity of systems with 900MHz/1GHz processors having only 256Mb should be what is in question. Yeah, those were mine. When it's a

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
James Knott wrote: While my cell phone includes such a modem, it uses GPRS, which is an extra cost service. That's definitely a concern. Although the way hotels keep jacking up their phone charges it might be cheaper to pay for GPRS. ;) It always amazes me that the more you pay for a hotel

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread really does show the unfortunate direction that software development has taken even in open source: The simplest package is a rube goldberg-like conglomeration of pre-packaged code and requires 50 and 100 other packages, each one recursively depended on

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: I'm waiting for the day when I can push my insignia, say, computer! and a nice lady's voice comes on asking me what I want. Is Novell working on that yet? ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
BRUCE STANLEY wrote: What PC Card modems are they talking about? AS I posted last time, I have tried the 'True Hardware' Zonet PC Card modem and can't get it to work. On the box it came in, it even says that it is compatible with Linux that have later kernals, but does not specify which

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
Jerry Feldman wrote: We, at the BLU, run Linux installfests every quarter, and the one brand of laptop that tends to be the easiest to install is the Lenovo Thinkpad. I love Thinkpads. They're all I'll buy anymore. I do have occasional hardware issues with them (I have yet to get

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
David Brodbeck wrote: I do have occasional hardware issues with them (I have yet to get suspend/resume, or even automated shutdown, to work on my T22 since I installed SuSE 10.2) That should say occasional hardware *support* issues...the hardware is fine, but since the upgrade to 10.2 SuSE

Re: [opensuse] Re: Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
Craig Millar wrote: Perhaps beagle could check the load and decide whether it is appropriate to index at the given time? Of course said load is moot and may well require a thumb suck. Or the other way around and poll for low load times before it kicks off? I don't think load will

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
Robert Lewis wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: Not to mention ZMD. I thought I was going to have to turn off beagle, but once I removed ZMD my system stopped becoming unresponsive and I no longer felt the need to disable beagle. I've never had beagle make my system unusable but ZMD used

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
Fred A. Miller wrote: Correct, but then, that was what I was digging at. This is wrong, IMHO. Newbies coming from MickySoft have NO idea about how to add a repository nor even why they should have to. Come to think of itthat's a good point. ;) I like the current system because

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
SOTL wrote: All of this bull as you would call it plus the $1800 US is why I have not bought a new laptop to replace the one I dropped. I just do not care about fighting about why Linux is not compatible, or about working 2 to 3 months to make it compatible if the new laptop's modem is not

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-28 Thread David Brodbeck
Rajko M. wrote: Beagle is not alone, the update of manpages is also tax on computer.. Not to mention ZMD. I thought I was going to have to turn off beagle, but once I removed ZMD my system stopped becoming unresponsive and I no longer felt the need to disable beagle. I've never had beagle

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-28 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Personally, I'd never by a Dell to use with Linux. I've seen components change even within the same model#, you never really know what you are ordering. I would not recommend Dell's laptops in general. My experience with them is that the construction is shoddy and

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-27 Thread David Brodbeck
Dave Cotton wrote: It also begs the question why the hell this information was even on a laptop in a car? Outsourcing? Outside audits? The company I work for is publicly traded and we're required to have an outside company audit our books. They arrive en masse with...you guessed

Re: [opensuse] VPN connection to Sonicwall

2007-03-26 Thread David Brodbeck
James Wright wrote: After screwing around with the SonicWall software with Wine (no-go) I found SonicWall's own Linux solution. I believe that this may be your solution as well. Check out:

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-26 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: You can dismiss it if you want, but it's been demonstrated using fairly crude materials and methods. For example: http://www.dansdata.com/uareu.htm I will in fact dismiss it. Until my lap top goes missing

Re: [opensuse] Re: What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-26 Thread David Brodbeck
Eberhard Roloff wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: I don't know why, but Wine has always fought me at every turn. I've never successfully gotten it to run anything more complicated than Solitare. Well, as usual, it depends. For example I used it to run ie6/word/excel/powerpoint/outlook

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-26 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: Lifting a print and then embedding that print into a putty mold takes significantly more skill and training than the average snatch/grab artist is likely to muster. I think the method involved using the latent print to etch a PC board, then taking the mold off that.

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-26 Thread David Brodbeck
Carlos E. R. wrote: About a month or so ago the police arrested a gang that made a sophisticated device to put on top of bank on the wall holes or however you call them. You know, you push your car into a slot, you type your pin, and you get your money. Well, the trick is to put a fake

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: The replication of the finger print is a bit beyond the skills of the ordinary snatch-n-run artist. Some one has been watching too much CSI: Miami. You can dismiss it if you want, but it's been demonstrated using fairly crude materials and methods. For example:

Re: [opensuse] VPN connection to Sonicwall

2007-03-24 Thread David Brodbeck
James Wright wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:56, David Brodbeck wrote: James Wright wrote: I caught the VPN part, where exactly is the issue? I have used IBM's emulator to access an AS400 behind a SonicWall with both Linux and Windows (mostly Linux though), as well as VPN

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-24 Thread David Brodbeck
Rajko M. wrote: 2) Is there any bank that is asking for such identification for credit cards? There will be no so much problems with stolen identities if they would. Fingerprint readers are not foolproof. I remember reading an article not long ago where some researchers took impressions of

Re: [opensuse] Linus loves GPL v2 ---- and is not on a crusade

2007-03-23 Thread David Brodbeck
M Harris wrote: I understand this as well; however, think beyond M$ to MP3 or Flash. We should *never* capitulate to the enemy over their formats... if the format is closed we don't use it--- period. If I can't read your format... I don't need your format. If more folks stood their

Re: [opensuse] Anyone with working WinTV PVR350?

2007-03-21 Thread David Brodbeck
Charles philip Chan wrote: Don't forget the dual tuner version (PVR-500) which is like have two 250's in one. I would shy away from the PVR-500. Apparently there are a lot of problems with the tuners in the most recent batch. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] VPN connection to Sonicwall

2007-03-20 Thread David Brodbeck
James Wright wrote: What do you mean 'to a SonicWall firewall'? I can use http or https to connect to a SonicWall firewall. Maybe you mean through a SonicWall firewall to a PC/Server behind the firewall? If so, just set up the appropriate port forwarding to the machine behind the

Re: [opensuse] VPN connection to Sonicwall

2007-03-20 Thread David Brodbeck
James Wright wrote: I caught the VPN part, where exactly is the issue? I have used IBM's emulator to access an AS400 behind a SonicWall with both Linux and Windows (mostly Linux though), as well as VPN to a Windows Server 2003 domain. Does the SonicWall log show that your VPN attempts

Re: [opensuse] Dreamhost ?

2007-03-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Greg Freemyer wrote: --size-only also seems like a bad idea. They don't say why they recommend it. Probably speed. If you use --size-only rsync only has to check the size of each file; it doesn't have to checksum them to see which ones have changed. As you say, probably a bad idea. It's not

[opensuse] VPN connection to Sonicwall

2007-03-19 Thread David Brodbeck
Has anyone successfully set up a VPN connection from a mobile Linux system to a SonicWall firewall? Their Global VPN Client is Windows-only, as far as I can tell. I found this whitepaper: http://www.vpn-technology.com/Interoperability/SonicWALL VPN with Red Hat Linux.pdf But it assumes a static

Re: [opensuse] Root's password

2007-03-19 Thread David Brodbeck
Greg Freemyer wrote: OTOH, one of the goals of Secure Linux is to give individual users privacy from root. I have not attempted to follow the progress so I don't know how effective it is at the attempt. Windows has something like that -- it's possible to create files that Adminstrator can't

Re: [opensuse] Double Linked List patented in 2006

2007-03-19 Thread David Brodbeck
Anders Johansson wrote: What I really wish though, is that the US legal system changed, so that the losing party in such a law suit had to pay legal costs for the winner. This would tilt the system to favor wealthy corporations even more than it already does. Already, an individual is at a

Re: [opensuse] OCR and batches

2007-03-18 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I've only ever used gOCR [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/] it worked well enough to develop keyword indexes for images. It does not work well enough (and I've never seen an OCR package that does, commercial or otherwise) to turn images into readable text. The only

Re: [opensuse] graphical ftp client

2007-03-18 Thread David Brodbeck
James Knott wrote: dwain wrote: is there a graphical ftp client (like filezilla) buried amongst my os that i cannot find or do i have to download one. i have searched my program menu and haven't found one. or am i going to have to learn to do this from cli? dwain Well,

Re: [opensuse] graphical ftp client

2007-03-18 Thread David Brodbeck
dwain wrote: pardon my ignorance, but what is scp? It's the file transfer feature of ssh. It's analogous to rcp, but with encryption, just like ssh is analogous to rsh. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] IE on Linux

2007-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have been forced to run IE on Linux (I use crossover office) as our company's time report stuff is web based. It checks specifically for MS's java. That must be increasingly tricky, since MS doesn't even ship their own VM ever since they lost that lawsuit with Sun.

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
BandiPat wrote: One thing to remember here. These sites are not always designed well or correctly. Either on purpose or just stupidity, they don't always build their sites with everyone in mind, nor do they bother testing beyond one browser. Sad, but true fact of life. Very true. If

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: My point was, that without testing a samba or nfs transfer you have no way of judging the load imposed by scp. I kind of wish there was a flag to tell scp to negotiate the password in a secure way, but *not* to encrypt the transfer. Often, when I'm copying files over a

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Carlos E. R. wrote: Then you will have to get port pci cards, but if you are using portables, you are out of luck. pcmcia then? I would be shocked if no one makes a USB device with some input and output terminals for this kind of basic bit-banging I/O. PC Cards with RS-232 ports or parallel

Re: [opensuse] High-speed date transfer using a USB cable?

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Paul Abrahams wrote: I want to copy the contents of a partition from a disk drive on one machine to a disk drive on another. Within a single computer I can do this using the dd command, but it isn't clear how to use that command for networked data transfers. You pipe it through some

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: It actually works quite well on just the Wine version that ships with openSUSE. IE has worked in Wine for quite awhile. I don't know why, but Wine has always fought me at every turn. I've never successfully gotten it to run anything more complicated than

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: Did you run Memtest86+? If not, start it up before you quit for the evening (or go to bed) and let it run until the next day. Naturally, there should be no errors if the RAM is good. I routinely do this to any new machine, or any machine I've added RAM to. So far

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: I routinely do this to any new machine, or any machine I've added RAM to. So far I haven't found any bad RAM in brand new computers, but I *have* discovered bad RAM sold to me by computer stores. Those bastards! Time to emptor their caveats!! Most places

Re: [opensuse] Anyone using EncFS?

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Greg Freemyer wrote: All, I want to use EncFS. It is part of the distro and seems to be working on a newly created directory pair. My issue is I don't know how to re-mount the virtual filesystem. In theory I use fusermount, but what is the syntax? I think you're thinking about it too

Re: [opensuse] Anyone using EncFS?

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Greg Freemyer wrote: That works, but it still seems wrong to me. The mount command is encfs and the unmount command is fusermount. You have to admit that is strange. Yeah, it's a bit confusing. On my system I wrote a pair of shell scripts called 'cryptmount' and 'cryptumount' to make the

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: IE is a core part of the operating system and cannot be removed. It is always running. Don't you remember? :P If you *do* remove it, with something like XPlite, you find out just how many applications depend on its DLLs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-13 Thread David Brodbeck
Paul Abrahams wrote: If that's the case, then the sensible path is to use smbfs for now and switch to cifs whenever it becomes interchangeable with smbfs for whatever one is doing. I suspect part of the reason they switched is large file support. smbfs doesn't have it, cifs does. (I

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-13 Thread David Brodbeck
Stevens wrote: why in Hell did Suse allow this bastardized code to make it into production in the first place? It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the system should provide static mount points for a device, not the %$#@ volume info of the media in it. /soapbox off

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-11 Thread David Brodbeck
M Harris wrote: I suppose the way to handle this is to make the first server a caching nameserver forwarding to the second server and then outside. The second server then forwards only outside. Changes are made to the second server *only* (or it caches from outside) and the primary

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: I don't have 10.2 yet - and am not going at all until this is fixed - but I've read on this and other lists that SMB was somehow deleted from SUSE at that version and replaced with something inferior. It was supposed to be replaced by cifs, which is smbfs embraced and

Re: [opensuse] Bad RAM support

2007-03-10 Thread David Brodbeck
Per Jessen wrote: Even 8-9 year old systems use PC100 and that's still widely available. It's widely available, but the price has really gone up ever since DDR2 made it obsolete. I assume this is because a lot less of it is being produced. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse] SCPM and Windows domain membership

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Is it possible to get SCPM to remember Windows domain memberships? I have a laptop that I routinely take between two offices with different domains. While YAST makes it pretty easy to switch back and forth, it'd be nice if SCPM could handle this for me the way it handles my other network

Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Most laptops now days need it. Period. End of story. If you don't run

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Randall R Schulz wrote: So I take it you didn't build this system yourself? Replacing RAM is not that big of a deal, but if you want to take advantage of the manufacturer's warranty, then I guess it doesn't really matter. If it's Dell, they probably *will* ask you to open the machine up

Re: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Gordon Ross wrote: All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come back YaST, all is forgiven !) I got thoroughly sick of this, and finally after having a couple of beers one day I decided to just remove all the

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Russell Jones wrote: You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such that it does not. You just won't be able to play v1.3 files on a v2.0 player. That seems like a serious disincentive to designing

Re: [opensuse] Saving Wireless settings

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 10:00:17 am Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How does one save security setting with a wireless device? First off, enable KWallet. This is the tool which will store your passwords. In my systems, KWallet is run with a blank password. When you

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
From what I've seen on this thread, people will apparently stop using a distribution if Microsoft endorses it. Clearly, the way for Microsoft to eliminate Linux as a threat is just to endorse every distribution, then no one will use it anymore. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: PLONK away all you want. Seems to be your best answer. Well, if he eventually killfiles the entire list, it *will* solve his problem with direct replies. ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Hans du Plooy wrote: Ha ha! Problem on my notebooks is my fans don't switch on. Whic hwas OK before CPU frequency scaling started working, because the chip was underclocked and barely ever hit 60 degrees celcius. But at some point that was fixed (the frequency scaling) which now gives me a

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sooo what to do with dynamic ip addressing? If you control the DHCP server, you could tell it to nail that machine down to a specific IP. That's what I do with all of mine. I don't like doing file sharing between dynamically-addressed machines; it seems like asking

Re: Programming Bloat (WAS: Re: [opensuse] frustration and suggestions)

2007-03-03 Thread David Brodbeck
John R. Sowden wrote: A while back this thread mentioned Borland's 'Smart Linking' in one of its Pascal compilers, but not the current (at the time) C compiler). As this process only makes sense to minimize program size, therefore decreasing load time, and probably run time, as more RAM is

Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCI NG LIST MAIL

2007-03-03 Thread David Brodbeck
Sandy Drobic wrote: I see a lot of regular servers announcing themselves as mail.intranet or exchange.local and the like. MS Exchange servers are a common offender here, often saying HELO with their WIndows domain name. Unfortunately in a lot of business applications rejecting all mail

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-03-03 Thread David Brodbeck
Andreas wrote: However, do you know how to adjust apache so that it does not fork out? I was looking at the documentation for apache(2) and felt a little overwhelmed. You can't stop it from forking entirely -- it needs one process for each concurrent incoming connection, and will fork as

Re: [opensuse] undeleting files [OT]

2007-03-02 Thread David Brodbeck
James Knott wrote: With all the lists I've been on, I've never seen that happen. Because the reply to is not set to the list :-P It is on the other lists I subscribe to. There are two reasons: Most auto-responders are smart enough not to reply to mail flagged as bulk.

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