Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-14 Thread Mike
On Sunday 14 January 2007 03:13, Tom Patton wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 01:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: That's the exit hop from suse to your isp, that took 18 minutes. Too much. The only one that can tell what happened is a suse sysadmin by looking at his logs. That's correct,

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread Basil Chupin
Stevens wrote: An update: In KDE, My Computer (Why in Hell did they steal that from M$) Right-click on the icon, Rename the icon to whatever you want. Cheers. -- Hydrophobia, n: the fear of fire hydrants. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Motorola V3 Razr +Bluetooth

2007-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 13 January 2007 21:43, Art Fore wrote: The hcitool scan worked. However, still took me a couple of hours futzing around to download my pictures. Too bad it doesn't work like the Macbook and Windows. Much easier, but that is another story. Anyhow I have some questions someone can

Re: [opensuse] How to play DVD

2007-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 13 January 2007 22:20, Greg Wallace wrote: I've never played a DVD on my Linux machine and would like to know how. I've attempted to play one with the 4 different players that are installed on my machine. No luck with any of them. Here are the results -- Kaffiene -- Nothing but

Re: [opensuse] How to play DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Clayton
Do I need to install some additional software to get this to work? If I try to play it on my doze machine it says I need to purchase a decoder. Why the hell should I have to buy a decoder to play something that plays in the DVD/VCR machine? I'm just trying to play it, not make copies of it or

[opensuse] strange gnome-panel (mis)behavior after upgrade to 10.2: End and Down button pops up main menu

2007-01-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. This is rather strange and keep me puzzled for several weeks. Several weeks ago I reformatted my harddisk and installed SuSE 10.2 on it (was using 10.1). The keyboard Down key and End key no longer work: when I press the two keys, the main menu of gnome pops up (This menu is called Computer

Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-14 Thread Ulf Rasch
On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:41, david rankin wrote: Tom in NM Nope Tom, my bet is that it is an I D ten T error code. Seen it many times. Seems to plague the technical community. It is obvious though. Just substitute the number 10 for the word ten in the foregoing quote and have a

Re: [opensuse] Motorola V3 Razr +Bluetooth

2007-01-14 Thread Art Fore
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 23:39 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 21:43, Art Fore wrote: The hcitool scan worked. However, still took me a couple of hours futzing around to download my pictures. Too bad it doesn't work like the Macbook and Windows. Much easier, but that is

Re: [opensuse] different network profiles and /etc/hosts

2007-01-14 Thread Ulf Rasch
On Friday 12 January 2007 16:10, Andy Harrison wrote: I just wondered if anyone had any suggestions for a good way to do this. My laptop is configured for my wired office network and my home wireless network. Once I got the nic's configured, suse cleverly started automatically figuring out

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 install on a Mylex RAID (Partially solved)

2007-01-14 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Sunday 14 January 2007 00:23, Sandy Drobic wrote: Rikard Johnels wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 23:07, Sandy Drobic wrote: Rikard Johnels wrote: But the installer doesn't recognize them at all. It sees /dev/rd/c0d0 as a full partition, and states it cannot do anything with it.

[opensuse] 10.2/KDE logout - removing Suspend button?

2007-01-14 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
Greetings. How does one remove the suspend button from the KDE logout dialog under SUSE Linux 10.2? Best regards :o) Johnny :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] tvu or sop

2007-01-14 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
tvu is most likely sop I have no idea about They are both some kind of streaming protocol. I don't know anything about them except they seem to be very popular for broadcasting tv programs live. -- Med venlig hilsen Kaare Rasmussen, Jasonic Jasonic Telefon: +45 3816 2582

Re: [opensuse] repair of a nearly finished install of 10.2

2007-01-14 Thread constant
On Sunday 14 January 2007 06:25, John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 04:31, Henne Vogelsang wrote: Hi, On Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 20:04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would like to repair my machine. Any help is welcome. touch /var/lib/YaST2/runme_at_boot and

Re: [opensuse] Here we go again!`

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/12/07, Curtis Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, tried to run YOU as well as YaST to contact the repo and got this message AGAIN, File ./media.1/directory.yast not found on media: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ Yeah, I'm having this same problems. On

Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-01-14 at 09:21 +0100, Mike wrote: That's the exit hop from suse to your isp, that took 18 minutes. Too much. The only one that can tell what happened is a suse sysadmin by looking at his logs. That's correct, Carlos.

Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-01-14 at 01:41 -0600, david rankin wrote: Nope Tom, my bet is that it is an I D ten T error code. Seen it many times. Seems to plague the technical community. It is obvious though. Just substitute the number 10 for the word ten

[opensuse] googleearth

2007-01-14 Thread kanenas
so, is there a workaround for googlearth ending user sessions in sixtyfour bit 10.2 and a geforce 7300gs video card? The previous thread did not give an answer to that part and I just got hit by the bug: running googlearth 4 results in an immediate exit from my session and the login screen

Re: [opensuse] googleearth

2007-01-14 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:34:54AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, is there a workaround for googlearth ending user sessions in sixtyfour bit 10.2 and a geforce 7300gs video card? The previous thread did not give an answer to that part and I just got hit by the bug: running googlearth 4

[opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some time now. I've been running SUSE since 9.0 on some computer. Current 10.2 is probably the best so far (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least

Re: [opensuse] How to Clone a whole disk?

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Bo wrote: Hi I've just been lurking so far but I would be happy to recieve some help on the topic of how to clone an entire disk (with partitions and diferent filesystems and all) on a dual boot home systen. No servers or anything. You might want to investigate: BackUp/Restore HDD and

Re: [opensuse] Printer Configuration Tool Stuck Running y2base - Help

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Terry Eck wrote: My HP LaserJet 1012 (USB) printer stopped. Output from the printer is a single sheet of paper with Unsupported Personality: PCL. Started YaST2's Printer Configuration Tool. The Initializing Printer Configuration is at the Check database of printers A small window with the

[opensuse] Bugzilla and linuxprinting.org

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I, as I am sure others do, use linuxprinting.org to find out how compatible a printer is for Linux when they want to purchase a new printer. Recently there was an opensuse thread about an HP LaserJet 1012 and comment was made that a fix in the next opensuse maintenance update should fix the

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 13:17 schrieb HG: Hi! I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some time now. I've been running SUSE since 9.0 on some computer. I've been running suse since before suse even became its own distribution... Current 10.2 is probably the best so

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 install on a Mylex RAID (Partially solved)

2007-01-14 Thread Sandy Drobic
Ken Gramm wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 05:11 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: I think I've got another DAC960PRL and a DAC960PD in one of my boxes. I'll give it a try tomorrow and see if it's the controller or the combination of controller and mainboard. As a quick test, I just ran the 10.2

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 install on a Mylex RAID (Partially solved)

2007-01-14 Thread Sandy Drobic
Joseph Loo wrote: Ken Gramm wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 05:11 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: I think I've got another DAC960PRL and a DAC960PD in one of my boxes. I'll give it a try tomorrow and see if it's the controller or the combination of controller and mainboard. As a quick test,

[opensuse] o2net_idle_timer

2007-01-14 Thread José Costa
Okay, with extreme luck I finally got the problem. I've downgraded the kernel to kernel-default-2.6.16.21-0.25 and everything works. The kernel kernel-default-2.6.16.27-0.6 doesn't work with the errors show in by last email. There are only to patches about ocfs2:

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread russbucket
On Saturday January 13 2007 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat January 13 2007 7:31 pm, Billie Erin Walsh scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: Stevens wrote: Snip You can have it show on your DT when there is a disc in the drive or when it's just the

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 install on a Mylex RAID (Partially solved)

2007-01-14 Thread Sandy Drobic
Rikard Johnels wrote: This is very cumbersome, not to mention irritating, as i refurbish several older server systems, and give them a Non-microsoft environment. Any particular reason as to why SuSE/Novell changed partition manager from 10.0 to 10.2?? No idea, though I think they actually

[opensuse] Google earth and Nvidia commercial drivers

2007-01-14 Thread John Meyer
BTW, took the hint and downloaded the commercial drivers. In case anybody needs the howto on this: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux (sad but true) for nearly any other thing Linux is much better. think: when you buy Windows, you can barely do

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hello guys! I think you missed my points. On 1/14/07, Mathias Homann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 13:17 schrieb HG: Current 10.2 is probably the best so far (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Still to continue... On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux (sad but true) I do not want discussion about if my

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: Mathias Homann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current 10.2 is probably the best so far (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least for me they do not work). Must be your fault. I have four

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 12/29/06, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the opensuse reps? Not gonna happen in 10.2. -`J' Why not? I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can not get it to run

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 14:16 schrieb jdd: Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux (sad but true) then why do i have an extra 30gig partition on my main

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 15:08 schrieb HG: Still to continue... On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Mathias Homann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then put your rants on a blog somewhere where we can ignore them, not on a _discussion list_. I wanted discussion about what SUSE _could_ do at home. I've given a use case (backed up by MS), but seems that it's not interesting or sexy

[opensuse] Re: Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Franz Häuslschmid
HG writes: Hi! On 12/29/06, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the opensuse reps? Not gonna happen in 10.2. -`J' Why not? I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can not

Re: [opensuse] Re: Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Franz Häuslschmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JDK 1.5.10 came with one of the last official openSUSE patches. And I fetched JDK 6 from some sort of test channel from openSUSE's build services: http://software.opensuse.org/download/Java:/addon:/test/openSUSE_10.2/ Great! I'll try

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Stevens wrote: An update: In KDE, My Computer (Why in Hell did they steal that from M$) Change it to the computer name or whatever else you prefer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
Mathias Homann wrote: and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my next harddisk? anyway, Vista won't be able to run on any of the 5 computers I have on my home today, and I won't buy a new one for that... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Votez pour nous, merci - vote for

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Elders
On Sunday January 14 2007 15:32, Mathias Homann wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 15:08 schrieb HG: Still to continue... On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
jdd wrote: anybody know Bill gates is a very good seller... Sure, if you consider extortion and strong arming to be good sales methods. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Printer Configuration Tool Stuck Running y2base - Help

2007-01-14 Thread Terry Eck
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: Whilst not the next thing to do to get printing working, looking at linux printing at the link of http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1012 it says your printer is mostly supported ie not full and has some notes you may want to read.

Re: [opensuse] apache configuration

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 13 January 2007 23:54, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: you need mod_rewrite for that. ok, i did finally get mod_rewrite to take. i had been trying to manually edit my configuration files, but this time i did it thru yast. now, i just need to figure out how to take any url period,

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 06:49, Simon Roberts wrote: - Original Message From: HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the opensuse reps? Not gonna happen in 10.2. Why not? I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that

Re: [opensuse] arts, alsa and oss

2007-01-14 Thread Clayton
Ok, that is a bit strange. I wonder if the USB snd stuff isn't behind this. Try unpluging the usb headphones then reboot into init 3, bring up yast as root, delete any sound card (unless it shows the snd-emu10k1 drivers). I tried many variations of this in the past few days. Yesterday I even

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 07:49, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:46:08AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2007 06:49, Simon Roberts wrote: ... Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the opensuse reps? Not gonna

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
HG wrote: And he will also sell that home server to millions of homes do you really mean server? Windows was never a server (at home). If you mean really this I have a small course on the openSUSE wiki about this, for now only in french, I could translate it if there was interest (I

Re: [opensuse] How to Clone a whole disk?

2007-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 13 January 2007 22:39, Greg Wallace wrote: As long as we're introducing non-freebies, here's what I use http://www.storix.com/products_overview/desktop_edition.html And here's what I use: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/ Handles all file systems

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 15:44 schrieb jdd: Mathias Homann wrote: and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my next harddisk? anyway, Vista won't be able to run on any of the 5 computers I have on my home today, and I won't buy a new one for that... Well, I do have

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the opensuse reps? Not gonna happen in 10.2. Why not? I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HG wrote: You sent this privately to me... error After which I sent you private email also. Which you then quote some parts without my permission on a public list. Thanks. anybody know Bill gates is a very good seller... And he will also

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 jdd wrote: forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux (sad but true) OK, I'll give you that a large percentage of home computers are used just for gaming [ in the under thirty group ], BUT, I seriously doubt that it's a majority of

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
HG wrote: I wanted discussion about what SUSE _could_ do at home. good. I didn't understand that :-( . probably my fault. but let me ask something: what exacly do you want to do at home that you can't with openSUSE? personnally I have an other window box (other than the Linux one),

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Sunday 14 January 2007 14:38, HG wrote: I wanted discussion about what SUSE _could_ do at home. I've given a use case (backed up by MS), but seems that it's not interesting or sexy enough for SUSE. I'm asking for user friendliness and documentation I guess. And I can understand that it's

Re: [opensuse] vim rpm

2007-01-14 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 1/14/07, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I might be able to get a regular rpm or at least a spec file for vim that doesn't hassle with splitting it into different pieces? No clue why it's been chopped up into so many unnecessary pieces, but it's really annoying

Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-14 Thread Tom Patton
It forms the word I D 10 T ;-) But the other posts about grey listing certainly makes sense, and then makes the above error code extremely accurate! The micro-net service agent has upped the ticket to their sysadmin... Tom in NM On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 12:34 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread Stevens
To those who wrote that I could right-click on any icon and rename it to whatever, I say, No shit, Sherlocks The comment, and my point, was why in Hell did a linux shop decide to call ANYTHING on a linux desktop My Computer, al la Windows. As for the perception by some on the list that I (and

[opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Joachim Schrod
HG wrote: I do not want discussion about if my points about why Linux will not make it are really true or not. So why do you make them? Especially since you gave no reasons and just stated your opinion; then switching from the usage of SUSE at home to the usage of SUSE on a server. You

Re: [opensuse] arts, alsa and oss

2007-01-14 Thread Clayton
More on this sound thing... done a lot of digging, and found out that the SoundBlaster Live! series all use the emu10k1 driver EXCEPT the Live! 24 (the card I have). That one only works with the ca0106 driver. So SUSE is using the correct driver for this card. Loads more tinkering, and I can

Re: [opensuse] KnetworkManager wireless connection problem

2007-01-14 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 14:17, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I am operating under SUSE 10.2, and the wireless card is really a centrino chip. It is recognized as a separate wireless card (wireless 220BG) First, Centrino is a designation of a compatible set of equipment in

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 jdd wrote: I went there (http://www.tvmag.com/accueil.jspx, the clip of the black singer on the right). I assume you mean the homage to James Brown. I got a message box that wanted to know if I wanted to trust something done with Windows [ had to think about that for a bit ]

[opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that just works with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general. Thanks! - Ben Rosenberg -- We

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
HG escribió: Hi! (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least for me they do not work). yes it does work , just dont use ZenWorks. So far it seems that with SUSE you can do email, web browsing (with some

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: HG escribió: Hi! (although the software management / update systems still do not work as well as they did for example in 9.3. - well, at least for me they do not work). yes it does work , just dont use ZenWorks. Actually, I find that

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:33 schrieb Joachim Schrod: HG wrote: I do not want discussion about if my points about why Linux will not make it are really true or not. So why do you make them? Especially since you gave no reasons and just stated your opinion; then switching from the usage

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 10:12:03, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? From the FAQ: You might wonder why replies go to the original poster and not the list? Thats because we do not munge the mail headers by inserting a

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Stevens
Cristian Rodriguez R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic things of an OS, Im not sure if linux is the right choice for you. And therein lies the problem: the look down

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Elders
On Sunday January 14 2007 19:22, Stevens wrote: Cristian Rodriguez R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic things of an OS, Im not sure if linux is the right choice for

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Ok... On 1/14/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can not get it to run properly on SUSE linux. I plan to start working with Java 6, soon, and will install Sun's release, naturally. I don't really expect any

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 19:22 schrieb Stevens: Cristian Rodriguez R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic things of an OS, Im not sure if linux is the right choice

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-14-07 13:40]: I'm the one who claimed that it doesn't work as well as rpm's. There are lots of people on this list who think I'm stupid. Some will undoubtedly write to list that I'm so stupid that I should not be allowed to use SUSE. They are all correct of course...

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:37, HG wrote: Ok... On 1/14/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can not get it to run properly on SUSE linux. I plan to start working with Java 6, soon, and will install Sun's

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Henne Vogelsang escribió: Hi, On Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 10:12:03, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
jdd wrote: Mathias Homann wrote: I've been wanting to replace windows at home with SUSE for some forget it. home computers are mostly used for games and this will never work with Linux (sad but true) LOL, it's sad that you have such a strange idea. Let's get this right: Linux is a

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HG wrote: And he will also sell that home server to millions of homes do you really mean server? Windows was never a server (at home). Check the URL that I gave (Microsoft introduces Windows Home Server from ARS). If you mean really this I

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Niels Øtergaard Kjær
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Elders wrote: On Sunday January 14 2007 19:22, Stevens wrote: Cristian Rodriguez R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
On 1/14/07, Mathias Homann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there lies another problem: If we make linux as fool-friendly as windows, we get another windows. with the same problem that windows has. How did Apple do OS X then? -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Joachim Schrod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HG wrote: I do not want discussion about if my points about why Linux will not make it are really true or not. So why do you make them? Especially since you gave no reasons and just stated your opinion; then switching from the usage of

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

2007-01-14 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Saturday 13 January 2007 5:04 am, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 03:51, Greg Freemyer wrote: program, allowing Ken Thompson to access any UNIX system. The scheme was so fiendish that if you tried remove the back-door generating code from the source code and recompile

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: [...] This behaviuor is incredible annoying No, it's not - I like it. It's maybe annoying for you, but you can't speak for everyone! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] NSA programming vista...

2007-01-14 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Saturday 13 January 2007 11:10 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010 801352.html omg timeline I'll bet that NSA uses Linux internally -- and that a few NSA folks are quietly subscribing to this very list. Paul -- To

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-14-07 14:46]: *PLONK* I'm still probably just a fool, but ... what does that mean? google is your *only* friend: http://www.google.com/search?client=safarirls=en-usq=plonk -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
On 1/14/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HG wrote: I wanted discussion about what SUSE _could_ do at home. good. I didn't understand that :-( . probably my fault. but let me ask something: what exacly do you want to do at home that you can't with openSUSE? I know the correct answer here:

[opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread James Hatridge
Hi all.. My new host will not allow this php command to work: $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; Any ideas how I can program around this? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] How to play DVD

2007-01-14 Thread ianseeks
Do I need to install some additional software to get this to work? If I try to play it on my doze machine it says I need to purchase a decoder. Why the hell should I have to buy a decoder to play something that plays in the DVD/VCR machine? I'm just trying to play it, not make copies of it

Re: [opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread ianseeks
On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:49, James Hatridge wrote: Hi all.. My new host will not allow this php command to work: $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; Any ideas how I can program around this? Probably best to try a PHP forum regards ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Well, it sounds like you were expecting something a little better integrated than a generic Sun release can be. Because the SuSE engineers have done a good job at integrating the Java release in the past, your expectations went

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Ewart
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: ... This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to list) ... Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow the installation how to. Click on 'Reply All' to reply to the group.

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
HG wrote: But in the contect of this discussion, I want to have one place with reliable and large storage for all the stuff (mostly multimedia) that I have. Then I can access if from all of the computers I have; 2 laptops, workstation (currently 2 of them) and PDA (in near future). I do not

Re: [opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread Anders Norrbring
James Hatridge skrev: Hi all.. My new host will not allow this php command to work: $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; Any ideas how I can program around this? Thanks, JIM Hiya. Try the new way.. $cur_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; See

Re: [opensuse] wireless

2007-01-14 Thread ianseeks
On Saturday 13 January 2007 21:13, Paul Murphy wrote: Two weeks ago I installed open suse 10.2 and I spent a few hours figuring out how to activate my wireless. I am not to familiar with the linux and when I finally switched from the wired to the wireless it was simple, My son wanting to

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that just works with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general. www.edimax.com.tw has some rt2500

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-14-07 14:46]: *PLONK* I'm still probably just a fool, but ... what does that mean? google is your *only* friend: http://www.google.com/search?client=safarirls=en-usq=plonk Sigh, yes I've already

Re: [opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
James Hatridge escribió: Hi all.. My new host will not allow this php command to work: $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; Any ideas how I can program around this? Thanks, JIM This is legacy syntax that wont work since quite **a lot** of time . you need to replace that for

Re: [opensuse] NSA programming vista...

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Paul Abrahams wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 11:10 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010 801352.html omg timeline I'll bet that NSA uses Linux internally -- and that a few NSA folks are quietly subscribing

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 06:17, HG wrote: snip - Samba and Linux passwd synchronization... How do you setup Samba in SUSE? Well, you open up YaST and start up Samba server. How do you All you need is one password on the samba server, and then everything can be set up in SWAT (if you don't know what that

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Bob Ewart: Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: ... This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to list) ... Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow the installation how to. Click on

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
This appears to be just what I needed. Thank you. On Jan 14, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: rt73 -- We should forgive our enemies. But not before they are hanged. Heinrich Heine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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