Re: [opensuse] Very long boot time

2007-12-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 10:38 +0200, Subredu Manuel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, we have installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on one of our test servers. After the install, the system has been updated and a reboot was made to ensure that we will have no problems with the

Re: [opensuse] Need help doing a batch conversation lf - cr/lf

2007-12-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:06 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/12/07 03:16 (GMT-0500) Aaron Kulkis apparently typed: Randal Jarrett wrote: A lot of the files and some of the directories have spaces in the name. ^^^ What idiot did that? The M$

Re: [opensuse] Where's my skull and crossbones ?

2007-11-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 08:13 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: Will Stephenson wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Bob S said: Why did they take away my skull and crossbones ? I used to take great delight to hit ctl+alt+escape to kill an unresponsive app. Very appropriate. Now they have some

Re: [opensuse] Where's my skull and crossbones ?

2007-11-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 08:13 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: Will Stephenson wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Bob S said: Why did they take away my skull and crossbones ? I used to take great delight to hit ctl+alt+escape to kill an unresponsive app. Very appropriate. Now they have some

Re: [opensuse] folder comparing

2007-11-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 11:11 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:48:08 am Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello list users: I'm looking for a program, possibly GUI but not necessarily, that can do: 1. Compare the contents of two directories based on file name, size, date and

Re: [opensuse] Undoing a delete

2007-11-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 16:40 -0600, Bryen wrote: Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Probably not, but thought I'd ask... -- ---Bryen--- Depending on what you want to recover the following worked for me - to recover images I deleted from a USB flashdisk (will do other file

[opensuse] Java from scratch

2007-11-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I want to follow the procedure from here (http://en.opensuse.org/Java) to get my Java sorted out once and for all. Only thing is - how do I rid my machine from anything java? I can see a whole range of old/new installations of java in /usr/lib/jvm - some stuff in /etc/alternative/java, and so

Re: [opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 22:57 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:00 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote

[opensuse] Single-signon

2007-11-15 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Is there a way to configure openSUSE (any distro version actually) to use single-signon for ALL services? After playing with AD samba, kerberos, PAM (some, I dont really know PAM yet) configurations I still have issues with the following: 1. KDE still asks for a username and password when

Re: [opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-15 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:00 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: I just need TV-out support - apparently the ati driver cant enable it. So its true? no 7.2 support for old

Re: [opensuse] OT: Eclipse 3.3

2007-11-15 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:33 +, G T Smith wrote: Personally I prefer to write code where I have just got to worry about my code not the code base or programming tools as well, so I am holding off installing 1.6 until it is reported as being a little more reliable... Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [opensuse] Single-signon

2007-11-15 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 13:06 -0500, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Is there a way to configure openSUSE (any distro version actually) to use single-signon for ALL services? After playing with AD samba, kerberos, PAM (some, I dont really know PAM yet) configurations I still

[opensuse] Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Ive checked the suse sites and did a bit of searching, but I cant get a clean cut answer about the compatibility of the latest ATI driver and the Radeon 9000 and TV-out. I just need TV-out support - apparently the ati driver cant enable it. You need the official ATI driver for it - but some report

Re: [opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: I just need TV-out support - apparently the ati driver cant enable it. You need the official ATI driver for it - but some report that the old Radeon cards are not supported anymore? And the old driver wont

Re: [opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:11 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hopefully the fact that AMD is now on the open source bandwagon will convince me to go back to ATI in the future. Not for me, I prefer to buy where I am treated like a worthy customer. Eberhard True

Re: [opensuse] GTK2 updated for Evol 2.12

2007-11-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 08:31 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:31 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi all, last week I tried to update Evolution to ver 2.12 from the Gnome Stable repo. Unfortunately it didnt work because the required GTK2 upgrades

Re: [opensuse] GTK2 updated for Evol 2.12

2007-11-06 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:31 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi all, last week I tried to update Evolution to ver 2.12 from the Gnome Stable repo. Unfortunately it didnt work because the required GTK2 upgrades are not installed (RPM not complete?) So I installed all the gtk2 stuff I could

[opensuse] GTK2 updated for Evol 2.12

2007-11-05 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi all, last week I tried to update Evolution to ver 2.12 from the Gnome Stable repo. Unfortunately it didnt work because the required GTK2 upgrades are not installed (RPM not complete?) So I installed all the gtk2 stuff I could find until evol started working again. Now my question is, how do I

Re: [opensuse] screen saver intermittant

2007-11-05 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:13 -0800, Andreas wrote: Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 17:07:24 schrieb Robert Lewis: I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate

Re: [opensuse] Bye bye opensuse...

2007-11-02 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:48 -0700, Ben Kevan wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007 03:50:17 pm mukul wrote: After persevering with you for such a long time, I think it is time to let go and move on to better world of Mandriva or Ubuntu. A few problems I have encountered on the way and have

[opensuse] Evolution 2.12 on 10.2

2007-11-01 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, I have spent the morning trying to upgrade to Evol 2.12 from the GNOME: repo on the build service. The evolution packages installed fine - but I had to upgrade gtk2 by hand to get the rest of the dependencies in a row. (Im using Smart). Is this right? Is the Evolution packages dependent on

[opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Hans van der Merwe
This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have plugins; eSVN, RapidSVN, KDEsvn, etc exist, but none come close to the feature set of tortoise. --- This is his words - what do

Re: [opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:52 +, Benji Weber wrote: On 30/10/2007, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have

Re: [opensuse] Slightly OT: Like Apple Remote Desktop.

2007-10-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:52 -0400, steve reilly wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been administering the linux side via scripts for the most part, but I'm sure someone must have made a tool like Remote Desktop for Linux by now. Any ideas? Krdc

Re: [opensuse] Slightly OT: Like Apple Remote Desktop.

2007-10-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:53 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:52 -0400, steve reilly wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been administering the linux side via scripts for the most part, but I'm sure someone must have made a tool

[opensuse] Re: [Evolution] Exchange MAPI Connector

2007-10-23 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:07 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Hello everyone, For Evolution 2.22 we should be having MAPI based Exchange connector which developed in parallel with Openchange based libmapi. The team is currently working on that and the code is currently maintianed at GNOME SVN

[opensuse] CompizFusion disable

2007-10-22 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I installed the latest builds in :XGL repo and it looks great. It uses the nvidia AIGLX interface and Im running 10.2 with KDE. Great progress made, hats off to the devs. Now, although I can work with it, my wife prefers to have her desktop in 2D. How do I just disable the loading of compiz and

Re: [opensuse] CompizFusion disable

2007-10-22 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:27 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On 10/22/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the latest builds in :XGL repo and it looks great. It uses the nvidia AIGLX interface and Im running 10.2 with KDE. Great progress made, hats off to the devs. Now

Re: [opensuse] evolution..

2007-10-22 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:26 +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote: Hi, Evolution: 10 years of development has finally paid off. Now you can almost write emails with it ;) Jokes aside, 10.3 Evolution is the first ever to work for longer than a day for me. Great. This time the only thing that seems

[opensuse] gnucash-2.2

2007-10-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi all, Is there a version of gnucash-2.2 (latest) for 10.2 somewhere? (I can see it for 10.3 in the official repo) Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] gnucash-2.2

2007-10-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:27 +0200, Josef Assad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi all, Is there a version of gnucash-2.2 (latest) for 10.2 somewhere? (I can see it for 10.3 in the official repo) Hans http://software.opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse] MPlayer documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:17 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: The MPlayer website is very clear that the Mplayer package contains all the packaage's docs, including HTML file(s). I do not find anything of the sort on my system (only a man file). Mplayer was installed through YaST. YaST itself knows

[opensuse] HP M1005 MFP

2007-10-10 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, I have this multifunction printer working (using the foo2xqx driver). The scanner part is supported by hpljm1005, which is not yet in die sane source. I added it and recompiled the sane sources. Also created a dll.conf file with the string hpljm1005 in it - as instructed by someone on a

Re: [opensuse] HP M1005 MFP

2007-10-10 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:46 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Oct 10 11:45 Hans van der Merwe wrote (shortened): I have this multifunction printer working (using the foo2xqx driver). The scanner part is supported by hpljm1005, which is not yet in die sane source. I added

[opensuse] NetworkManager and br0

2007-10-09 Thread Hans van der Merwe
openSUSE 10.2 Is there is way to have NetworkManger to use br0 as its Wired device? I have VirtualBox installed that uses br0 to bridge network the client OS to the network. Unfortunately NetworkManager still sees eth0 as the wired device. Hans E-mail Disclaimer

[opensuse] FileZilla

2007-10-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Anyone know if there is a repo with FileZilla for openSUSE 10.2? I see Packman has it for 10.3, but no 10.2 Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] FileZilla

2007-10-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:28 -0300, Gabriel . wrote: 2007/10/3, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Anyone know if there is a repo with FileZilla for openSUSE 10.2? I see Packman has it for 10.3, but no 10.2 Hans http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:queden

Re: [opensuse] Monitor timeout

2007-10-02 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 20:21 -0500, Kevin Dupuy wrote: OK... I should mention I'm not using KDE but I can rememeber how it works in KDE... Try going into the KDE Control Center and find the Power Management module (using the search function maybe). There should be some function in there to

Re: [opensuse] USB problems with Suse 10.2

2007-10-02 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:51 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: Got a new 2GB memory stick and found out that on my system the stick is sometimes automatically recognized as /dev/sda1 but if I want to work with it it tells me it does not exist. Mounting /dev/sda1 gives the same

Re: [opensuse] Keeping 2 or more machines up-to-date, without wastingbandwidth [SOLVED (Kind of)]

2007-09-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:15 +, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:40 +0200, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: It's ugly, but it works for now: /smart-update is exported as NFS on the local machine, and mounted on /smart-update on the remote User has access to smart

[opensuse] Open in current instance

2007-09-21 Thread Hans van der Merwe
openSUSE10.2, KDE How do I get videos to open in the current mplayer (gmplayer or smplayer) window - at the moment it opens a new instance for every file I click on. Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.3

2007-09-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:23 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: James Knott wrote: Are there any plans for a SUSE version of OpenOffice.2.3? tnx jk Smart updated me (10.2) to 2.3.0.1) about 10 days ago or so and the update came from one of the SuSE sites. Cheers. -- Past experience,

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.3

2007-09-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:08 +1000, Graham Smith wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:23 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: James Knott wrote: Are there any plans for a SUSE version of OpenOffice.2.3? Smart updated me (10.2) to 2.3.0.1) about 10

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.3

2007-09-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:38 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 08:15 -, Hans van der Merwe wrote: You will find OpenOffice_org-2.3.0.1-26.1.i586.rpm here ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories

Re: [opensuse] kio_ftp

2007-09-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:19 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:05, Hans van der Merwe wrote: When I use Konqueror or Krusader to connect to my GoDaddy account I get too many connections error. It seems that for every action I do on the server a kio_ftp process

Re: [opensuse] kio_ftp

2007-09-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:58 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:05 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: When I use Konqueror or Krusader to connect to my GoDaddy account I get too many connections error. It seems that for every action I do on the server a kio_ftp process

[opensuse] kio_ftp

2007-09-18 Thread Hans van der Merwe
When I use Konqueror or Krusader to connect to my GoDaddy account I get too many connections error. It seems that for every action I do on the server a kio_ftp process is spawned until the server just kicks me off. Why is there so many kio_ftp connections? When does these connections timeout?

[opensuse] Compiling OpenOffice

2007-09-11 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Im trying to recompile OpenOffice 2.2 (srpm from buildservice) but requires java2-devel-packages. Where can I find this? Google is no help. Also do I actually need the 125Meg openclipart package or can I just ignore the dependency? Thanks Hans E-Mail disclaimer:

[opensuse] PackageManager and Updater in 10.3

2007-09-10 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Ive been using Smart ever since 10.2 came out with broken updater. I like Smart its really simple, although the GUI can do with a better preferences dialog (it doesnt have one!). How does the new updated updater in 10.3 measure up? I also see there are ymp files on the build service - more

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-09-05 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 01:52 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: I think we agree on the subject. Last thing - I dont think most virus/trojan/DOSattack writers do it because its easy to do it in Windows (which it is), but because its got a huge impact

[opensuse] Openoffice and Bytecode fonts

2007-08-31 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Anyone know of a repo with OpenOffice 2.2 that is compiled with: WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=YES ? Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] compiz docs

2007-08-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Anyone know where I can find some documentation (more than howto compile). For example, where is all the config kept? I choose kde integration. Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] compiz docs

2007-08-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:31 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On 8/27/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anyone know where I can find some documentation (more than howto compile). For example, where is all the config kept? I choose kde integration. Short answer: It depends

Re: [opensuse] No Windows Decorations

2007-08-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:41 +0200, Matthias Titeux wrote: Le Vendredi 24 Août 2007 11:14, Hans van der Merwe a écrit : On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 14:12 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On 8/24/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If its the new compiz fusion stuff - 0.5.2 - then kde-window

[opensuse] htdig and other search engines

2007-08-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, can anyone recommend an web-based search tool that I can use to index and search our document server. At the moment Im using htdig, but the fact that it was last updated in 2004 and it cant do partial word searches is making me reconsider. Must be able to parse

Re: [opensuse] No Windows Decorations

2007-08-24 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 05:20 +0200, Fernando Costa wrote: I'm using KDEwith compiz and Nvidia, but don't know if compiz is working fine, because I have tried to do some changes (change themes) with compiz without success. How can I know which is my configuration? Ben Kevan wrote: Can

Re: [opensuse] No Windows Decorations

2007-08-24 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 14:12 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On 8/24/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If its the new compiz fusion stuff - 0.5.2 - then kde-window-decorator crashes about 4 times a day on me - I have a icon on my tray that restarts it! Still bit unstable. Could

Re: [opensuse] Re: Is it possible to edit and save PDF forms?

2007-08-22 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-08-22 at 12:53 +1200, Scott Newton wrote: Would pdfedit help? http://pdfedit.petricek.net/pdfedit.index_e Nope. We tried anyway, and if I remember correctly

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.3 Beta1 +Compiz-fusion

2007-08-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:22 +0800, Art Fore wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:24 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On 8/14/07, primm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2007 13:23, you wrote: On 8/14/07, primm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just deleted the -git installation and went for

[opensuse] Installing CompizFusion and gconftool-2

2007-08-15 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Im trying to upgrade to 0.5.2 of Compiz (Fusion) on 10.2 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_10.2/ using Smart. When I try and select any package I get no package provides /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2. I have gconftool-2 installed? What package provides

Re: [opensuse] Slowness since video 3D

2007-08-14 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:31 -0400, Chris Arnold wrote: I recently enabled 3D support for my video card (intel i845) and Desktop Effects in control center. Every since then, firefox2 does not scroll smooth, it is jerky. Also when clicking on apps, they open but are initialy black then load the

[opensuse] 1-Click install

2007-08-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Anyone know how to get the 1-Click Install going (from Firefox) at http://software.opensuse.org/ I get - File does not exist: 400 URL must be absolute at /usr/share/YaST2/modules/MetaPackageParser.pm line 27 Can't undef active subroutine during global destruction.

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:27 -0400, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: And... desktop users install all kinds of insane apps - when desktop linux is popular - more apps will appear - increasing the risk of installing a malicious one. Any malware capable of causing

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:31 -0400, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 01:35 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: But my main concern is that dumb users usually make up most of the desktop market out

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:38 -0400, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: lware. Ok, tell me, seeing that I know nothing, if I can compromise a Linux users home dir - why cant I send out spam? I have never claimed such a thing is impossible, but it is far more difficult

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:26 -0400, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:27 -0400, James Knott wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: And... desktop users install all kinds of insane apps - when desktop linux is popular - more apps will appear

Re: [opensuse] Linux-friendly PCMCIA Wireless Card?

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:59 +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: J Sloan wrote: Clark Sann wrote: Wifi still doesn't work as well as it should under Linux but it is usable. (What it should do is let you be connected to a wired connection at the same time you are connected via wifi, just

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:40 +0200, Clayton wrote: On 8/7/07, Registration Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know clamAV provides NO realtime virus detection and from time to time we all need to execute a clamscan - Well I just performed a clamscan and found 4 folder which a year or

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:08 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Why is it assumed that Linux is less prone to virus attacks? Primarily due to a better and much more ingrained security system. Do you normally run as root on your Linux desktop? Well, that what's

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 01:15 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: If/When Linux makes it big-time on the desktop do you think it will also be bogged down with virus attacks as MS is now. No. The reason windows is attacked is because its EASY

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:30 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 01:15 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: If/When Linux makes it big-time on the desktop do you think it will also be bogged down with virus attacks as MS

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 01:35 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: But my main concern is that dumb users usually make up most of the desktop market out there - and preaching to them that Linux will make there virus problem go away is setting them

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:24 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 08/07/2007 05:49 PM, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Again - the SETUP will involve removing windows and installing a flavour of linux to curb the effects of viruses. And it does help, not in the future but in the present. The FALL

Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:27 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: On Tue, August 7, 2007 1:28 am, Registration Account wrote: As you know clamAV provides NO realtime virus detection and from time to time we all need to execute a clamscan - Well I just performed a clamscan and found 4 folder which a

Re: [opensuse] HP Pavilion DV6000 No Microphone input

2007-08-06 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:17 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Mandag 06 august 2007 09:16 skrev Casey Stamper: On 8/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandag 06 august 2007 09:06 skrev Casey Stamper: On 8/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list,

Re: [opensuse] SN9C201 Sonic Webcam Drivers

2007-08-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 02:21 +0200, Fernando Costa wrote: Hi all, I own a Sonic (Microdia) webcam that is not supported right now, but surfing the net I found the drivers that make the webcam works in Ubuntu Feisty. The driver is not opensource and it is just compiled for Ubuntu (a .deb

[opensuse] Gnome Keyring

2007-08-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, How do I change the gnome-keyring password - I changed my password in yast and now I get a password dialog every time I open Evolution. Hans ps, running 10.2 KDE Evol 2.10 E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

2007-08-01 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:53 -0500, David Gersic wrote: On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my flatbed scanner. Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but need some

[opensuse] Re: OpenEmbedded on Suse 10.1

2007-08-01 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:42 +0530, ruk.ansari wrote: Hi, I'm unable to setup Openembedded on Suse 10.1. The instructions at - http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OEandYourDistro state to install apt4rpm and then proceed with debian instructions. When I follow the Debian instructions to

Re: [opensuse] Audacity does not start

2007-08-01 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:00 +0200, A. den Oudsten wrote: I downloaded Audacity 1.3.3 bèta for openSUSE 10.2 from audacity.sourceforge.net (as I could not download the stable 1.2.6) and installed it with Yast flawless. But I don't succeed to get it started. I made a link to the desktop (as

[opensuse] Safely remove USB

2007-08-01 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, When I right-click - safely remove USB disk on my 10.2 KDE desktop, while the drive is still open somewhere in a konsole or Krusader, it just ignores me. It it just me or shouldn't at least popup a dialog saying the drive is till busy (maybe providing a list of apps that are holding it)?

Re: [opensuse] Ideal Linux desktop hardware

2007-07-31 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:15 +0100, Jonathan Ervine wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 00:46:42 Johannes Nohl wrote: snip I asked a similar question some time ago. You can find good hardware - all supported well. But you will ever have trouble with the graphics adapter. I tried ati a well as

[opensuse] Scanner and archiving

2007-07-31 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my flatbed scanner. Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but need some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part. Something like this. 1. Set some settings, page size, PDF settings etc

Re: [opensuse] White screen with Beryl

2007-07-24 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 08:51 +0300, Sorin Peste wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get Beryl working with openSUSE 10.2 but I haven't had much success. To set it up I basically followed http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl - and I've tried both AIGLX and just plain nVidia drivers. Here's what

Re: [opensuse] Loosing KDE settings (again)

2007-07-23 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 09:22 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Hans, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi, Im goint try this again, Im running KDE 3.4 on openSUSE 10.2. Couple of reboots ago I started loosing my keyboard and mouse settings. Single click, keyboard repeat, mouse

Re: [opensuse] Loosing KDE settings (again)

2007-07-23 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 09:48 +0100, eddieleprince wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2007 09:02, John R. Sowden wrote: On Sun July 22 2007 00:22, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Hans, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hi, Im goint try this again, Im running KDE 3.4 on openSUSE 10.2

Re: [opensuse] Windows don't wobble

2007-07-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:01 +0200, Krupanský Rastislav wrote: If you want to try cutting edge Compiz-Fusion see this: http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/suse/38/want-to-take-compiz-fusion-for-a-test-ride If you are not adventurous, I'd advise you to stick with the official

Re: Re: [opensuse] Windows don‘t wobble

2007-07-19 Thread Hans van der Merwe
: Hans van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Komu: opensuse opensuse@opensuse.org Predmet: Re: [opensuse] Windows don't wobble On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:01 +0200, Krupanský Rastislav wrote: If you want to try cutting edge Compiz-Fusion see this: http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg

[opensuse] Loosing KDE settings (again)

2007-07-18 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Im goint try this again, Im running KDE 3.4 on openSUSE 10.2. Couple of reboots ago I started loosing my keyboard and mouse settings. Single click, keyboard repeat, mouse acceleration is all messed-up. When I go to the Configure Panel and click on the Default button the correct settings are

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl It went OK

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:59 -0400, Tom Parker wrote: If you are in an experimenting mood. I would recommend going to Compiz-Fusion and skipping Beryl. Beryl is no longer being developed. Seriously? Ok, time to fireup smart. E-Mail disclaimer:

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:59 -0400, Tom Parker wrote: If you are in an experimenting mood. I would recommend going to Compiz-Fusion and skipping Beryl. Beryl is no longer being developed. Compiz-fusion is the merger between the old compiz and the old beryl and it looks great. It is very

[opensuse] Mouse and keyboard settings lost

2007-07-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi The last couple of days my mouse accel and keyboard repeat functions disappear when rebooting? These are the settings Im setting in KDE Personal Settings. When I click on Defaults is shows my settings, but I still need to Apply to get it working. Where does KDE keep amd when does in load

[opensuse] Evolution and dragging object to folder highlighting

2007-07-11 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I dont like to drag objects with the mouse, but sometimes its just the easiest to move a mail item in Evolution to a different folder. When I do this in 2.8 or 2.10 the destination folder does not highlight to indicate that Im focusing the drop on that particular folder - is this just a Suse

Re: [opensuse] Display resolution 1600x1200 will not accepted by 10.2

2007-07-11 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:23 +0200, Jan Albrecht wrote: Hi Sean, I already tried that, but that did not help. The machine still does come up with 1280x1024. And even KDE does not provide me more than that resolution. I already diabled 915resolution hack and framebuffer laoding during boot,

Re: [opensuse] Trying to bring up wifi

2007-07-04 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:52 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Ah, I see no ipw3945d (notice the d) Its the accompanied userspace app that helps the module (will disappear in time). Try running ipw3945d by hand (as root) 1908 ?S 0:00 [ipw3945

Re: [opensuse] Trying to bring up wifi

2007-07-04 Thread Hans van der Merwe
understood from Google), KWiFiManager still doesn't work. But it seems I don't need it now. The normal network manager did just fine on its own. Hans van der Merwe, thank you so much for your help! I appears ipw3945d was all I needed, although it took several hours and a suspension

Re: [opensuse] Trying to bring up wifi

2007-07-04 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 08:58 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: John E. Perry wrote: ... Well, after giving up for a while, during which time my laptop suspended itself to disk, I came back intending to keep trying. ... Strangely enough (according to what I've understood from Google),

Re: [opensuse] Trying to bring up wifi

2007-07-04 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:33 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: If I'd realized that sooner, and looked at kNetworkManager rather than KWiFiManager, I probably would have had complete success much sooner. You must still figure out why ipw3945d is not loaded

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