[opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
If anything could get me to go back to MickySoft, this IS it pro. photogs and graphic artists who use Linux are at a HUGE disadvantage because there's NO WAY in Gimp to get consistant ACCURATE color matching from the screen to paper, no matter what printer one uses!! This is a VITAL area

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:34 am, jdd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Fred, i disagree. I`m working with Gimp, there is no problem here I beg he speaks about the special screen devices that allows to setup the screen colors (looks like a tripod). Don't know if it works with

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 9:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Sorry Fred, i disagree. I`m working with Gimp, there is no problem here Even on my PCC (Mac) its working perfect brite colors nice adjusting and good prints on Epson and HP printers. The same colors as my screen colors.

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:16 am, Youssef CHAHIBI wrote: Sorry Fred, i disagree. I`m working with Gimp, there is no problem here Even on my PCC (Mac) its working perfect brite colors nice adjusting and good prints on Epson and HP printers. The same colors as my screen colors. No

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 15 September 2005 10:00 am, Manfred Burkert wrote: And for the guy who doen't understand what is colormatching, I suggest you take two machines, install Suse 10.0 and compare this phantastic wallpaper of the cameleon on the screens you will recognize they will look different. Just

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into color

2005-09-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday 17 September 2005 8:29 pm, Manfred Burkert wrote: On screen color isn't my problem..PRINTING is. Getting the image on screen to paper accurately. I have an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 that, for the most part, is worthless for it's intended use. Fred  Ah I understand. I had

Re: [opensuse] libdvdcss, mp3, legal shmoo (was: ...from a former gentoo'er)

2005-10-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 5:54 am, Marcus Cooper wrote: [snip] Without slagging off anyone's country and their laws (God knows the UK have such a great history on stupid laws) that is a really scary law. Doesn't that effectively mean that any discussion of reverse enginneering is illegal in

[opensuse] Declaration of InDRMpendence

2005-10-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
Since we've been discussing this issue Fred http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1952tag=nl.e539 -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse problems with monitor signal

2005-10-10 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 10 October 2005 2:40 am, Jukka wrote: Thanks for your tip! I try it next time I am at home (writing this from work), but refresh rate is correct (according to monitor manual) and my past experiences with Suse (I have used it since version 7.1), with other linux distributions and with

Re: [opensuse] Open suse 10 GM still copyright Novell and distribution restricted

2005-10-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 9:00 pm, houghi wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 06:41:55PM -0400, Michael K. Dolan Jr. wrote: We seem to be in sync Anders... I beat you by 1 minute though :) I still declare him the winner, because you cheat by top posting. GOOD point! Fred -- Paid purchaser of

Re: [opensuse] To many bugs in Suse10, Printer problems

2005-10-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday 22 October 2005 10:09 am, jim wrote: First I can't get wireless Intel ipw2100 to work, now I can't get a Epson925 Stylus Photo to print clearly,it just prints trash on paper. This is on two different computers with Suse10 installed, cups+gimp print. I can install printer on a

Re: [opensuse] To many bugs in Suse10, Printer problems

2005-10-23 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday 23 October 2005 8:40 am, jim wrote: SUSE 10.0 arrived yesterday and I did the upgrade. The only glitch I had was that I had to get the nVidia driver from nVidia twice and after a second reboot and setup with sax2, all was well. I have an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 bulk ink fed with

Re: [opensuse] Problem with EOS 20D

2005-10-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 24 October 2005 7:24 pm, Steven Lamb wrote: Hi, I have installed Suse 10.0 on my toshiba A70 laptop but I noticed that the camera is not being detected via the USB2 port. I have other devices which are being detected fine via USB2. Any help is appreciated. I have a 300D but use

[opensuse] Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell

2005-11-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1935253tid=143tid=106 Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[opensuse] Firefox accelerating development cycle

2005-11-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] How do Athlon users apreciate suse9.3- opensuse 10

2005-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 26 December 2005 4:34 pm, Julien Michielsen wrote: Not long ago I put a Asus A8N-E with an Athlon-64 3000 into my machine, and bought a suse9.3 with it, as this was a version that supported the Athlon. I installed suse9.3 without problems. Last week I downloaded opensuse 10, and

Re: [opensuse] NVidia tainting kernel?

2005-12-27 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 10:01 am, Ken Schneider wrote: 3D isn't working in the last 12 or so installs I've done.users are NOT happy, and not all boxen have nVidia, but most do. I don't know what happened in SUSE 10.0, but once again, this is some of the stuff that keeps new users

Re: [opensuse] NVidia tainting kernel?

2005-12-27 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 10:16 am, Clayton wrote: So far, the only time I've heard of anyone having problems with nVidia on SUSE10 is from reports from Fred on this list.  I don't know what the specific circumstances are for you Fred, but... I've never experienced any problems with nVidia

Re: [opensuse] Votes for Codename Theme now Open

2006-01-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:28 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:51, Marcus Meissner wrote: ... Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs ... so they count too. That lineage is probable, but not yet definitively established, if I'm up-to-date on my

Re: [opensuse] Internet updates on suse 10.1

2006-02-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday 18 February 2006 5:20 pm, Pete Connolly wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:09, SOTL wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2006 01:00 pm, houghi wrote: Very mch Novell and especially openSUSE want to get the 'lost souls' who think they are left behind to join openSUSE and tell

[opensuse] Dell flirts with the Linux desktop

2006-02-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE in the news

2006-02-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 8:01 am, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: This is really bad.  It gives too much fuel to MS to spread more fud.  I have been watching the discussion of the FACTORY list.  The biggest problem I see with Linux is drivers and getting support for them from commecial enterprises.

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE in the news

2006-02-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 8:50 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote: I -do- know who they are and I -DO- appreciate the great work that they do I just cannot nor will I ever understand the justification for the kernel developers telling Novell to stop distributing the non-GPL drivers I.E.

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE in the news

2006-02-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday 26 February 2006 1:08 pm, Azerion wrote: Fred, sometimes you have to make a statement that will have positive effects in the long run. A speedskater that has to skate 10k won't start like a 500m skater. You can scream that he is slow and he is stupid but in the end you will see that

Re: [opensuse] HP Photosmart 8700

2006-02-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:26 am, BandiPat wrote: Fred, Why are you asking this on the Opensuse list?  You've been around long enough to know not too.  Just as you have done some OT stuff here.   This list is for opensuse topics, no more, no less.  Your question will get more response and

Re: [opensuse] HP Photosmart 8700

2006-03-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 6:18 pm, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote: Hi, I look at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/productsmf.php and do not see that printer. I think that site is a good reference to people who want to purchase HP printers. In general, it is. The new version of the 8700 is the

Re: [opensuse] HP Photosmart 8700

2006-03-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 6:38 pm, Christian Boltz wrote: Have a look at http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_8700 ;-) Yep.been there. I've seen work from the 8750 and it IS simply stunning! My Epson Stylus Photo 2200 died and I had to get a replacement here

[opensuse] Novell's openSUSE Project Named Best of Show by LinuxWorld

2006-04-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
Novell's openSUSE Project Named Best of Show by LinuxWorld Magazine-Sponsored Awards SYS-Con http://au.sys-con.com/read/204582.htm -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 is Done

2006-05-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 08 May 2006 2:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:32 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:10:52AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, will there be official DVD iso images and CD iso images available on 11th May ? No DVD images, as

Re: [opensuse] Tried XGL - How to turn it off now?

2006-05-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 29 May 2006 9:20 am, Matthias Hopf wrote: On May 27, 06 18:50:19 +0200, Johannes Nohl wrote: After disabeling XGL in GNOME (with the XGL-Button in Control-Center) my Windows don't have titels nor borders, Alt+Tab isn't working, also everything which was animated within XGL before.

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 1:31 am, Rajko M wrote: [snip] rpm -Fvh *rpm This is what I used. I think it only update what you need. I try to avoid the --force. Good Luck, Hi Boyd, I agree your method is better. YaST spoiled me, and present problems found me off guard. I used

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 2:40 pm, houghi wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:24:07PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: I does have more bugs than any release before it, IMHO. People are working hard to solve it. Moaning now is useless. The people at SUSE know that there are issues. They are working

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 7:56 pm, Rajko M wrote: Hi Fred, It is as you say, but list is downloaded in background and when you see exclamation mark it is ready, so I really don't care that it takes time. Updater is now in usable state, able to get patches. I just checked, and the Updater icon

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 7:56 pm, Rajko M wrote: Hi Fred, It is as you say, but list is downloaded in background and when you see exclamation mark it is ready, so I really don't care that it takes time. Updater is now in usable state, able to get patches. Oh boythere's 1 patch

Re: [opensuse] KDE supplementary moved to Build Service

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 8:03 pm, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: I know Adrian has written 2 or 3 times that he wants to move suppl. KDE to the BS, but what you guys think is trivial and not important is actually being used by a vast number of SUSE Linux users out there. Some announcement, e.g.

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 3:21 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote: We do have some bugs in the update stack in the running system.  But updating from on older release to 10.1 should work.  Did you file bugreports for these so that we can fix it for the future? Yepso noted. Updating a 10.0 system

Re: [opensuse] updating 10.1

2006-05-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:22 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Oh boythere's 1 patch available..but there's a permissions problem. :(  NOT good boys and girls! The update is a bugfix for dhcp client_hostname_option, and the error is: 23|A84EDAE89C800ACA|SuSE Package Signing Key

Re: [opensuse] software management, take 10+n

2006-06-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 8:35 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote: On Monday 05 June 2006 15:32, Pascal Bleser wrote: Works perfectly for me (and I haven't heard that complaint about it, at least not yet ;)). At the minute, Smart is by far the most reliable and easily-installed package manager for

Re: [opensuse] software management, take 10+n

2006-06-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:02 pm, Günter Lichtenberg wrote: Smart isn't so smart..d'led something that KDE doesn't like, and KILLED KDE...won't start up. Thankfully, I still have Gnome. Also for me KDE did not want to start - maybe it's the same as your problem. The solution was: for

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth for Linux...

2006-06-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 12 June 2006 7:47 pm, Peter Flodin wrote: Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine. I am dying to get home and try this tonight, and I will know the answers myself of course.

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth for Linux...

2006-06-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 8:57 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: Fred, On Tuesday 13 June 2006 23:58, Fred A. Miller wrote: ... The images needs some workrural areas really lack in sharp definition. But, the software works fine. That's the nature of the dataset. The high-resolution

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth for Linux...

2006-06-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 1:56 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: Optics is what it is. That is to say, the closer you are to the   object you wish to observe visually (or photographically), the better   resolution is available. The size of the lens matters, too, but   there's no getting around

[opensuse] New Smart error.

2006-06-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
All of a sudden I get the following error when trying to update channels in Smart. Fred __ Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py, line 171, in callback exec code in globals File callback, line 1,

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to opensuse 10.1

2006-07-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 24 July 2006 6:44 pm, Alexander S. Usov wrote: I have only a problem with ZMB, it keeps saying there is a missing package, but when I try install that package, it says it's there. I like the old software(for updates) manager better. And it will not install from the cd anymore

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to opensuse 10.1

2006-07-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 12:51 am, Gunnar Håland wrote: The problem is that Yast do not like me. If I tries to install new programs it Just quits, and ZEN wont give me access to used as a user. Use KPackage manager for any apps. not supplied in the distro. Get rid of the zen files in Yast AND

[opensuse] Novell bans proprietary Linux modules

2006-08-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu

2006-08-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
SOTL wrote: add wrote: SOTL a écrit : Quality in the commercial world is being able for an idiot to install the product and make it work. I think you forget that Windows come installed _with the computer_ without anything to do with the user. installing W$ in a home made computer is

Re: [opensuse] Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu

2006-08-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Shane A Broomhall (AUST) wrote: technical illiterates including very senior corporate management which make decisions of the type the new corporate computer system will be Windows because I purchased one of those damn SuSE box distribution sets and it crashed my computer causing me to have

[opensuse] NOVELL FEELS PASSIONATE ABOUT LINUX

2006-08-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
NOVELL FEELS PASSIONATE ABOUT LINUX If you ask any Novell Inc. watcher to rate the software vendor's abilities, the chances are that observer will give the company a low grade for marketing. Novell has struggled with how to position its products for years and now hopes it's finally on the right

[opensuse] NEW 10.1 desktop problem.

2006-08-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
I've noted a new problem in 10.1 that may be a KDE problem, not anything in the base code. If one chooses to use the normal Unix convention of wherever the cursor is, is the active window, then windows start to strobe and processor usage is 100% unless you try to move the window, then the

[opensuse] mkinitrd

2006-09-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
Ok.it's been known now for over 2 days that mkinitrd is messed up. Why hasn't there been an update for 10.1? Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] mkinitrd

2006-09-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:24 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:55:54PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok.it's been known now for over 2 days that mkinitrd is messed up. Why hasn't there been an update for 10.1? What is the bugzilla number? 'Don't know

Re: [opensuse] mkinitrd

2006-09-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 2:54 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: I have found one with LVM vs EVMS, and it is already assigned to the correct person. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206609 perhaps this is the one. Yep.it is. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate

Re: [opensuse] Newest Firefox runs at 100% CPU

2006-09-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 5:43 pm, Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote: El Lunes, 18 de Septiembre de 2006 14:37, Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no escribió: Hi Anyone else experiencing that the latest firefox(1.5.0.7-0.1) runs at 98-100% after a couple of minutes. Reverting back to the older

Re: [opensuse] Wireless network, no DNS

2006-09-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:56 pm, James McCartney wrote: I just installed opensuse 10.1 on my Dell D820 with centrino wireless.   It works great on my work wireless/wired network.  A hotel wireless network worked using NetworkManager, very nice. But my home network, my Belkin wireless

[opensuse] Wireless

2006-11-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
Is anyone use any of the Intel PROWireless mini-PCI wireless cards? If so, are the drivers good? I recently ended up with an HP nx9010 as part of payment for some work. 10.1 runs VERY well on it, but it didn't ship with wireless. Thanks! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite.

Re: [opensuse] Wireless

2006-11-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday November 22 2006 12:23 am, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 21 November 2006 19:57, Fred A. Miller wrote: Is anyone use any of the Intel PROWireless mini-PCI wireless cards? If so, are the drivers good? I recently ended up with an HP nx9010 as part of payment for some work

Re: [opensuse] Wireless

2006-11-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 08:45, Jeroen wrote: On 11/22/06, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok..THANKS! 'Guess I'll see about getting one at Best Buy tomorrow, along with a new router that provies both eithernet and wireless. If you have to buy one, i recommend getting

Re: [opensuse] Mini-PCI WIFI

2006-11-23 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 23 November 2006 03:10, Daniel Bertolo wrote: What do you mean with natively? In my notebook, there is an Intel ipw2100 working perfectly. I can not remember anymore if I had to install the firmware package manually, but I guess. 'Should be able to use native drivers for that card.

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.1 display problem

2006-11-23 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 23 November 2006 03:40, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:13, Jose Thomas wrote: Hi, My Video card is ATI Radeon Xpress. This is not working, so changed Radeon to vesa using sax2 -m 0=vesa. At a command console, type lspci and post that output here

Re: [opensuse] IDE-DMA like tweaks for SATA

2006-11-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday November 23 2006 9:34 pm, Basil Chupin wrote: John Andersen wrote: Are there any ide-DMA like tweeks for SATA drives? Are they necessary / Advisable? Trying to figure why xine gets pauses all the time in a machine that has an Intel Sata controller IDE. I don't have SATA

Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted

2006-11-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday 25 November 2006 14:22, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 10:55 -0600, Steve Jeppesen wrote: so do tell, what is this list for then? Discussions about suse/novell linux. In my opinion, discussions about the

Re: [opensuse] Why have I been thinking about Fedora??

2006-11-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday November 28 2006 10:03 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-28 20:47, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: *shakes head* Ahh, so that is it.. I was wondering what that rattling sound was. How many times have *you* answered someone who's posted one of these things -- not many that I

[opensuse] Introducing Novell's Cunning Plan

2006-12-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
I wasn't going to post this here, however, with all the negative discussion, maybe it needs to be widely read! Fred __ Introducing Novell's Cunning Plan When that marketing guy from Novell called me, I was expecting two things. He would either explain me that I was wrong and

[opensuse] OT List.

2006-12-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
(CET) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-24-59-100-240.twcny.res.rr.com [24.59.100.240]) by emerald.lightlink.com (8.9.3p2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18362 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:12:18 -0500 From: Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: suse-ot

Re: [opensuse] Why have I been thinking about Fedora??

2006-12-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday November 29 2006 1:42 am, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-29 00:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Tuesday November 28 2006 10:03 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-28 20:47, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: *shakes head* Ahh, so that is it.. I was wondering what that rattling

Re: [opensuse] OT List.

2006-12-11 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday December 07 2006 12:25 am, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:37, Fred A. Miller wrote: What's going on the OT list..reject after reject! An example is below. Your posts are too on topic? Write more about beer! That'll work. Oh well. ;) 'Guess they don't

Re: [opensuse] OT List.

2006-12-11 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday December 07 2006 3:39 am, Jos van Kan wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: What's going on the OT list..reject after reject! An example is below. Errmmm... Maybe you used op your quota for 2006? ;-) 'Could be. :) Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite

Re: [opensuse] About fglrx drivers

2006-12-11 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday 10 December 2006 14:15, Curtis Rey wrote: Thanks Matthias.  I thought as much.  Just wondering how overworked these guys are since the buyout/takeover by AMD.   I can only imagine how disruptive something like this might be to their work environment. I'll just wait and watch!  :)

Re: [opensuse] Anybody like the new KDE start menu?

2006-12-11 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 11 December 2006 07:23, James Knott wrote: I also don't care for the new menu. I don't know that I do either..going to give a day or two. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] About fglrx drivers

2006-12-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 12 2006 4:41 am, Clayton wrote: Agreed, except for audio! 'Worked great on this laptop with 10.1. Yast does see it, configs it, but NO mixer can find it. :( The same thing happens if I config. with alsaconf. The chipset is: M5451 PCI AC-Link. Check these bugs:

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 13 2006 2:12 am, John Andersen wrote: Dear Novell... Please speak to Digital River.  Inform therm about this wonderful modern invention we have here in the United States.  Its called a Post Office. They will come to your door with any size truck you want and actually

[opensuse] Sound problem......fixed.

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
As someone else said, adding users by their logon ID to the audio group is a work around, which is great for now, but there needs to be a proper fix ASAP. Over all, I'm very impressed (so far) with 10.2. On this laptop, I'm using the old KDE menus..MUCH, MUCH better than the new ones with a

Re: [opensuse] New ATI fglrx driver version - supports 10.2

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:06, Curtis Rey wrote: Nope!  Install went ok, or so it seemed.  But it reverts to Mesa for dri. Same here on this laptop. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] photo-editing

2006-12-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 16 2006 5:53 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Mike McMullin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-16-06 17:46]:   The boss was tooling around with the digital camera looking at the .jpg's on the hard drive when she decided to open one in GwenView, after adjusting the gamma, brightness and

[opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data needed to setup Zen correctly to update from various repositories.like get a list auto. Could that kind soul please post that address again? Thanks!

Re: [opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 17 2006 6:43 am, Pete Connolly wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data needed to setup Zen correctly to update

Re: [opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 17 2006 8:45 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:31 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data needed to setup Zen correctly

Re: [opensuse] Video Cards!

2006-12-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 18 2006 6:21 am, scsijon wrote: With what seems like a plethora of problems with Nvida and ATI controlling their drivers plus the need to replace my own ati (dying memory on the card) I'm wondering if it's time to look at something else The question is what? The box is

[opensuse] SUSE co-founder returns to Novell

2006-12-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] Beagle and SUSE 10.2

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 19 2006 5:10 pm, Torkild U. Resheim wrote: Any chance beagled will _ever_ finish what it's doing and leave me in control of my computer? It's been using all of my CPU for two days and still going. It can't take that long to index a 60G disk. Since Zen have a similar

Re: [opensuse] Beagle and SUSE 10.2

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 1:11 am, Curtis Rey wrote: On Tue December 19 2006 21:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 21:36, Kai Ponte wrote: ... ...and hampsters. And hamsters. Damn hampsterdance. OMG I'd forgotting about the evil insidious Hampster

Re: [opensuse] ATI Drivers - Not yet for everyone

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 4:25 am, Curtis Rey wrote: [snip] I have 9600XT on 10.2 openSuSE and the ati fglrx drivers installs and loads the module - but it's always fell back to Mesa software rendering.  I tried to uninstall the Mesa package and libGLU* went away - the ATi drivers have

Re: [opensuse] Hubert Mantel back at Novell

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 2:30 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:26, Peter Van Lone wrote: http://www.datamanager.it/articoli.php?idricercato=17639 fyi ... Interesting that it was carried on an Itialian website. In any case, does this mean much to the average

Re: [opensuse] Hubert Mantel back at Novell

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 3:10 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote: It is great to see Mantel back! Sure is!! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can spam be defeated?

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 3:32 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote: It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to

[opensuse] Open-source leader leaving Novell for Google

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6145615.html?tag=nl.e539 -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Hardware on SUSE OT

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 23 2006 12:10 am, Bob S wrote: Hi SuSE people. Kind of an ignorant question I guesss, but who knows. Presently running 9.2 and 10.0 on one IDE disk, Win 98 on the other smaller IDE drive. Running a CDRom and a DVD burner on the other IDE2 connector. Downloaded 10.2 and

[opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
Linux on the desktop has been a year or two away for over a decade now, and there are reasons it's not there yet. To attract nontechnical end-users, a Linux desktop must work out of the box, ideally preinstalled by the hardware vendor. Right now, Linux is usually an aftermarket upgrade on

[opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 24 2006 9:36 pm, John Meyer wrote: [snip] I've heard this argument too many times to count. With all due respect to the author, the argument is based on the assumption that we want to be mainstreram, that we want everybody and their grandmother to be running Linux.  

Re: [opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 2:34 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72342-0.html That's a broken link. Could you get the correct one and re-send? Here or on off-topic, it's all the same to me. Sorry

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 5:10 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: You can't win the desktop if you don't even try. Right now, few in the Linux world are seriously trying. And time is running out. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.h tml#id247970 But this is

Re: [opensuse] Re: [oS] Re: [oS] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 10:46 am, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 14:34, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Sunday December 24 2006 11:59 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 10:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/technology

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 10:47 am, Mike McMullin wrote: But Ken, your federal government must have used some other OS before switching to Linux which means that 'they' are a fickle lot and will switch from Linux at a drop of a hat. If they abandoned the other OS then they will abandon

Re: [opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 11:31 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:56, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Monday December 25 2006 2:34 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72342-0.html

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 6:44 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: [snip] It's not that I'm going to switch distributions, but my several-year-long practice of buying a copy of every SuSE Linux distribution, including a couple I didn't end up installing, seems to be at an end. As I said: Correct

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 6:21 pm, Tom Patton wrote: The product that you have purchased is a made to order product.  This means when the order is placed, our manufacturing department starts the process of creating the product, this can take up to 7 business days to complete.  At that time

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 26 2006 11:59 am, Mike McMullin wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 18:46 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Monday December 25 2006 10:47 am, Mike McMullin wrote: But Ken, your federal government must have used some other OS before switching to Linux which means

Re: [opensuse] Re: memories?

2006-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 26 2006 2:55 pm, James Knott wrote: FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984.  X? GUI? Mouse? Nah, everything was 80x25.  We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years later. Now that was progress!  

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