Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

2007-02-27 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 00:18, Cody Nelson wrote: > This is a suse 10 box, that needs to connect to a MS SQL database, > trying PHP or perl.  I think they both claim to have support for MSSQL > compiled in, however that doesn't seam to be the case, or there needs > to be something werd I have

[opensuse] Is SLES-10-x86_64 available for download?

2007-02-27 Thread Adinda Praditya
Hi all... I'm going to SLES-10-x86_64 install Dell Power Edge 2950. I couldn't find the iso files on http://download.novell.com/Download. Are they available for download? I tried SLES-10-CD-ia64-GMC instead (as it's the closest one to SLES-10-x86_64) but the Dell server won't accept. If it's not

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Roger.Munoz wrote: > I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS415B laptop running opensuse 10.2. >   > The problem I have is that when the system is running on AC adapter, > the system takes about two minutes to boot up, opengl screensavers and > video playback are > very jerky despite

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Per Jessen wrote: > It depends on what sort of load you expect, but I've got a Pentium > 233MMX with 128M running 10.2 just fine. I have a low volume web server running in a Pentium 120. (No roman numerals after the word Pentium.) It has 120meg of ram, and all it does

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > Yes but something like - "But, TCO is much lower with current Widows > arch than Linux, see these reports" (classic FUD) is difficult to > counter - Any manager that believe a single word from a Gartner report is one you don't want to work

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007, ken wrote: > > One problem I generally have when I buy a machine is, if something is > > wrong with the hardware within the warrantee period, the tech help won't > > help you if you don't run Windows to help them diagn

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Joachim Schrod wrote: > Integrating OpenLDAP (or RH-LDAP, for that matter), Kerberos, > cfengine, and a few other tools to achieve the same functionality, > is not for the faint of heart. He is talking about a corporate environment. Therefore, he should be running SLED

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > J Sloan wrote: > > Your microsoft background is showing again ;) > > > > Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days > > uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little > > more conservative on

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Peter Bradley wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey: > > Yes, I had noticed that they were offering ATI cards and that was > > making me uncomfortable after hearing all of the angst about getting > > these to work on a linux box. > > Funny that. I've had no trouble install

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, ken wrote: > One problem I generally have when I buy a machine is, if something is > wrong with the hardware within the warrantee period, the tech help won't > help you if you don't run Windows to help them diagnose the problem. Well I'm certain that policy would preva

Re: [opensuse] Help!

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:54:02 am Russell Jones wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > Okay, in the past few days, I've added a ton of repositories to SMART, > > figured out how to upgrade firefox to 2.0, added a bunch of new KDE > > thingies, fixed my KWallet so I can use WPA encryption on my WiFi, >

Re: [opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:57:59 pm Don Raboud wrote: > In my case, not only was automatic spellchecking turn off, but for some > reason KMail also defaulted to composing all messages as HTML. It took me > some time to finally figure out how to turn that feature off (the same > options menu in

Re: [opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail

2007-02-27 Thread Don Raboud
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:16, Kai Ponte wrote: > I just knowticed somefing in Kmail. > > I used to have spell checking enabled by default. I have the ispell > dictionary enabled and don't recall changing anything. > > According to KMail Help... > > > KMail will automatically check the spelling

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager Weirdness

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 26 February 2007 12:06:09 am Helmut Schaa wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 16:46 schrieb Kai Ponte: > > On Friday 23 February 2007 06:20:36 am Helmut Schaa wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 15:15 schrieb Kai Ponte: > > > > It appears the password isn't being kept for some rea

Re: [opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail

2007-02-27 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 21:16, Kai Ponte wrote: > I'm rully stummpte on tis one. heh... hay... is this cuntajious caus I thinc myn quit werking 2? -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
I just knowticed somefing in Kmail. I used to have spell checking enabled by default. I have the ispell dictionary enabled and don't recall changing anything. According to KMail Help... KMail will automatically check the spelling of your message (in HTML mode this currently does not work) and

Re: [opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 15:21 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and > > goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. > > Why? > > Are you using the sa

Re: [opensuse] Trouble installing Nvidia Driver

2007-02-27 Thread Mike Noble
On Monday 26 February 2007 18:36, Rajko M. wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 15:58, Mike Noble wrote: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! > > ... > > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Have you tried to configure card using > sax2 -r -m 0=

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:26, Kai Ponte wrote: > > I was about to try to "ring their chimes" on this issue but I thought I > > would check with other users first.   Thanks. > > Same here - sound but no video. Haven't checked on the Wintendo system yet. > > SUSE 10.1, Flash 9, FF 2.x Thanks..

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 02:44:08 pm Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:36, J Sloan wrote: > > > I am running Flash 9  but 7 doesn't work either. > > >   > > > > I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site - > > > > OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, et

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice "crashes" on exit from slideshow

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 15:02 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > > > I have SuSE 10.2 installed, and have just noticed that if I present a > > slideshow in OpenOffice (the version bundled with 10.2) the thing > > "crashes" when you exit a slideshow. It's curious, it doesn't see

Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

2007-02-27 Thread Cody Nelson
Umm what? MS website for linux drivers?? Let me explain again in greater detail. This is a suse 10 box, that needs to connect to a MS SQL database, trying PHP or perl. I think they both claim to have support for MSSQL compiled in, however that doesn't seam to be the case, or there needs to be so

Re: [opensuse] konqueror ftp problem

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:39:42 pm Primm wrote: > When dragging files down from my remote webserver to a backup directory on > my desktop konq tells me that the file I'm attempting to replace is newer > than the one on the server when it in fact isn't. FireFTP seems to do a > better job but do

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:13:35 pm J Sloan wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote: > >> Peter Bradley wrote: > >>> Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my > >>> AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sor

Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

2007-02-27 Thread George Stoianov
On 2/27/07, Cody Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MS SQL, I have no problems with mysql, but I need to connect to to some other mssql database that I have no say over. What language? Did you check MS's website for drivers? On 2/21/07, Cristian Rodriguez R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cody

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Seth Arnold
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:18:29PM +, Peter Bradley wrote: > earlier. I had AppArmor going wild for no reason I could fathom and > refusing to allow Apache to do all the things it needed to do (like > access the file system). There are other, smaller, issues as well. "Going wild"? What hap

Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

2007-02-27 Thread Cody Nelson
MS SQL, I have no problems with mysql, but I need to connect to to some other mssql database that I have no say over. On 2/21/07, Cristian Rodriguez R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cody Nelson escribió: > I seam to be having problems using perl or php to connect to a MSSQL > database. The docs fr

Re: [opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:24 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kenneth Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-27-07 18:13]: > [...] > > Just a wild guess, did you set the width/height of the monitor in 10.2 > > and is it the same as 10.1? Might seem weird but may the culprit. > > Well, you did say 'wi

Re: [opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kenneth Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-27-07 18:13]: [...] > Just a wild guess, did you set the width/height of the monitor in 10.2 > and is it the same as 10.1? Might seem weird but may the culprit. Well, you did say 'wild guess'. Would really be 'wild' for the display parameters to affect

Re: [opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread David Brodbeck
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and > goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. > Why? Are you using the same PPD file for your printer in both versions? I've found switching print drivers often c

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 17:29 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: > > I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think > they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out > by javascript and I thi

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:08, Doug McGarrett wrote: > This does not hold up, I think--XP goes for $200 or more, Linux goes for > about $100, maybe a buck or two less- I think your estimates are high on both sides. XP might go for $200 to the end user who buys it in a store but an OEM

Re: [opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 23:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi, > > I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and > goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. > Why? > > Well, superpos

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Tony Alfrey
Bruce Marshall wrote: Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on www.foxnews.com I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think

[opensuse] Kmail + forwarding emails with attachements

2007-02-27 Thread ianseeks
hi I can't seem to forward an email that originally had an attachment. The email goes ok but the attachments are not included. Is there a setting for this? I'm using Suse 10.1, KDE 3.5.6, Kmail 1.9.6 (from within Kontact) but I've had this for a long time but have not bothered to raise any que

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:42, Sunny wrote: > On 2/27/07, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 26 February 2007 5:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > > > I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics > > > card, hard drive, DVD. > > > > > > It would cost me

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 - suidperl isn't setuid - what's the right way to fix this?

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 14:03 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > David Brodbeck wrote: > > On my SUSE 10.1 system, suidperl doesn't have its setuid bit set. > > Normally this would be easy to fix -- just set it. But > > /usr/bin/suidperl and /usr/bin

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:36, J Sloan wrote: > > I am running Flash 9  but 7 doesn't work either. > >   > > I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site - > > OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, etc all work fine. Yeah... same here - - - all those other sites work. I wa

Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread J Sloan
Bruce Marshall wrote: > Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on > > www.foxnews.com > > I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think > they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out > by javascrip

[opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

2007-02-27 Thread Bruce Marshall
Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on www.foxnews.com I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing somethi

[opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. Why? Well, superposing printed pages from before and now, and looking with a strong light behin

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 - suidperl isn't setuid - what's the right way to fix this?

2007-02-27 Thread David Brodbeck
David Brodbeck wrote: > On my SUSE 10.1 system, suidperl doesn't have its setuid bit set. > Normally this would be easy to fix -- just set it. But > /usr/bin/suidperl and /usr/bin/perl appear to be hardlinks to the same > file, so if I set the suid bit on /usr/bin/suidperl, *all* perl scripts > e

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread David Brodbeck
J Sloan wrote: > Your microsoft background is showing again ;) > > Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days > uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little > more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month > uptimes. At

[opensuse] Suse 10.1 - suidperl isn't setuid - what's the right way to fix this?

2007-02-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On my SUSE 10.1 system, suidperl doesn't have its setuid bit set. Normally this would be easy to fix -- just set it. But /usr/bin/suidperl and /usr/bin/perl appear to be hardlinks to the same file, so if I set the suid bit on /usr/bin/suidperl, *all* perl scripts end up running as root -- definit

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Stringer
Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Quoting Fergus Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] You do realise that many of the people who read this list are dreadful foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent!

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:14, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > ... As the Grateful Dead say, > "What a long strange trip it's been." It's over?? Where did we end up? > ;) Jeffrey RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Quoting Fergus Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > You do realise that many of the people who read this list are dreadful > foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would > throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent! > However, they s

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread J Sloan
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote: > >> Peter Bradley wrote: >> >>> Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my >>> AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of >>> things. I just downloaded them from ATI

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote: > Peter Bradley wrote: > > Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my > > AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of > > things. I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did > > a

[opensuse] konqueror ftp problem

2007-02-27 Thread Primm
When dragging files down from my remote webserver to a backup directory on my desktop konq tells me that the file I'm attempting to replace is newer than the one on the server when it in fact isn't. FireFTP seems to do a better job but doesn't inspire confidence as not all modified files get cha

[opensuse] wine and new libraries

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Bos
Hi, I just installed wine-0.9.31 for a proprietary application that is being said runs using wine-0.9.29 and up. However, it needs some libraries that are not part of wine. An example is Host.dll. I downloaded Host.dll from the net and saved it into /usr/lib/wine. After executing the applic

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice "crashes" on exit from slideshow

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 15:02 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > I have SuSE 10.2 installed, and have just noticed that if I present a > slideshow in OpenOffice (the version bundled with 10.2) the thing > "crashes" when you exit a slideshow. It's curi

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread Andreas
Le Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007, Per Jessen a écrit : > Jan Karjalainen wrote: > > What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? > > I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as > > a web and ftp/nfs/samba server. > > Does it have enough horsepower, or

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd J Sloan: If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not luck, that's extreme flakiness. Joe That's true, but I've always put it down to the fact that it's my home desktop which is powered down every night and re-awoken every evening when I get in from wor

[opensuse] Is postfix "list aware"?

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Why does postfix bounces back list messages to the originator, instead of to the "envelope from"? Why doesn't it notice that it is mail bulk list, and refuse to bounce? Look at this: |The Postfix program | | <[EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread J Sloan
Peter Bradley wrote: > Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my > AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of > things. I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did > aticonfig --initial and that was it. I've also installed quite a

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey: Yes, I had noticed that they were offering ATI cards and that was making me uncomfortable after hearing all of the angst about getting these to work on a linux box. Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - a

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James Knott: There's a Canadian company that sells notebook computers with Linux or no OS for less than they charge for the same hardware with Windows. http://www.angelcomputer.com Ditto Transtec in the UK: http://www.transtec.co.uk/GB/E/products/personal_computer/notebooks.ht

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Tony Alfrey
Sunny wrote: On 2/27/07, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 5:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics > card, hard drive, DVD. > > It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box. I don't think

Re: ATI video cards (was: Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads)

2007-02-27 Thread Sunny
On 2/27/07, ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02/27/2007 05:58 AM somebody named Tony Alfrey wrote: > John Andersen wrote: >> On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote: >>> WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops >>> checked  against linux. >> >> Exactly.If de

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Sunny
On 2/27/07, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 5:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics > card, hard drive, DVD. > > It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box. I don't think > Dell has qu

RE: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
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Re: [opensuse] Help!

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
Kai Ponte wrote: Okay, in the past few days, I've added a ton of repositories to SMART, figured out how to upgrade firefox to 2.0, added a bunch of new KDE thingies, fixed my KWallet so I can use WPA encryption on my WiFi, upgraded to Pan .124 and... ...everything's working fine. What's wron

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-02-26 16:44, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Jay Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 13:59]: > >> So I installed Flash 9 from tarball onto my computer. It works pretty >> well except on some sites, drop down menus will go behind images or >> I'll get a lot of grey in some areas. Anyone else

[opensuse] Re: Deskjet 3745 and gimp

2007-02-27 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hans van der Merwe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 00:41 -0900, John Andersen wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: >>> I cant get Gimp to print to this printer, KDE apps print fine. >>> Can anyone please explain to me what exactly the relationships are >>> between the KDE

Re: [opensuse] Installing new Installation source

2007-02-27 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Hi, A. den Oudsten napsal(a): > Hy, > I'm using openSUSE 10.2 with great satisfaction, but when I trie with > Yast to make a new installation source in a local directory > /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ it reacts with: Can't make installation > source. Unknown source type for dir:///windows/C/MyDownl

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread Per Jessen
Jan Karjalainen wrote: > What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? > I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as > a web and ftp/nfs/samba server. > Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro? It depends on what sort o

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread DElyMyth
On 2/27/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another method to impede crawlers or robots, perhaps? A robots.txt file should do the job, if it's only a matter of blocking search engine crawler's traffic. -- => Don't Let Your Fears Stand in The Way of Your Dreams !!! <= => http://ww

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 14:39 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > > My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be > > downloading my game files. > > I'm assuming your game maps are available over a public URL. How about > handing

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 15:09 -, Russell Jones wrote: > > I know, I do that myself. But I save images of each partition separately, > > not the whole disk. I haven't tried, but I have my doubts that utilities > > like "fdisk" could work on a di

Re: [opensuse] Installing new Installation source

2007-02-27 Thread Alexander Osthof
> Hy, > I'm using openSUSE 10.2 with great satisfaction, but when I trie with > Yast to make a new installation source in a local directory > /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ it reacts with: Can't make installation > source. Unknown source type for dir:///windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ > > Why this? May be

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Joachim Schrod
> "RJ" == Russell Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Care to name an Open-Source replacement for AD that is already >> integrated, and where I don't have to do the integration myself? >> RJ> Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose RJ> when it goes wrong) is to

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 07:26 -0500, James Knott wrote: Ah, right, cloning a disk, yes. But the new one would be broken as well, the partition table seems to be broken. The idea behind cloning, if possible is that

[opensuse] Linux AD server for Windows clients - Was: Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:58 +, Russell Jones wrote: > Joachim Schrod wrote: > > John Andersen wrote: > >> On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > >>> This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some > >>> information that I can use to successfully challen

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
Joachim Schrod wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-27 Thread Roger.Munoz
from mains > to battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. >That is perfectly normal. >On mains the pc runs at full speed. >On battery it drops to about half. Usually by changes to clock speed, sometimes by entering a >brief sleep mode. >You subtracted approx 50% of the CPU c

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread James Knott
Jan Karjalainen wrote: What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as a web and ftp/nfs/samba server. Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro? That should be plenty for a

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:05:10 David SMITH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:17:23PM +, Matthew Stringer wrote: > > I run a free online game service in the UK it's open to anyone to play. > > > > However it's constantly being leached to a ridiculous extent (always at > > my concurrent l

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
Jan Karjalainen wrote: What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as a web and ftp/nfs/samba server. Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro? Based on my own experience I'd

Re: [opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread Sandy Drobic
Jan Karjalainen wrote: > What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? > I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as a > web and ftp/nfs/samba server. > Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro? It is possible to run Open

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi all, I don't know whether this actually works for your scenario but it could be worth a try: http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/recover/ HTH, Martin - Original Message From: Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OS-en Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:29:11 PM Subject: R

Re: [opensuse] Motherboard help please.

2007-02-27 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-27-07 00:14]: > My old system motherboard has died. > > It has been recomended to replace with a Gigabyte VM900M > > http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?gig-vm900m&P=1 I am running 10.1 (waiting for 10.3) on a GA-K8N Ultra-SLI w/o any prob

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Per Jessen
Matthew Stringer wrote: > My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be > downloading my game files. I'm assuming your game maps are available over a public URL. How about handing out one-time URLs only to people who play the game? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 07:26 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > Ah, right, cloning a disk, yes. But the new one would be broken as well, > > the partition table seems to be broken. > > > The idea behind cloning, if possible is that you don't destroy th

[opensuse] Installing new Installation source

2007-02-27 Thread A. den Oudsten
Hy, I'm using openSUSE 10.2 with great satisfaction, but when I trie with Yast to make a new installation source in a local directory /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ it reacts with: Can't make installation source. Unknown source type for dir:///windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ Why this? May be I did so

[opensuse] Hardware req. for server?

2007-02-27 Thread Jan Karjalainen
What's the hardware requirements for openSUSE 10.2 in text mode only? I have a Pentium II 300MHz with 192 MB RAM, which I'm going to use as a web and ftp/nfs/samba server. Does it have enough horsepower, or should I look for another distro? /J -- "Attempted murder, really, what is that? Do th

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread David SMITH
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:17:23PM +, Matthew Stringer wrote: > I run a free online game service in the UK it's open to anyone to play. > > However it's constantly being leached to a ridiculous extent (always at my > concurrent limit in Apache) by people who just want the files, if I check >

ATI video cards (was: Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads)

2007-02-27 Thread ken
On 02/27/2007 05:58 AM somebody named Tony Alfrey wrote: > John Andersen wrote: >> On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote: >>> WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops >>> checked  against linux. >> >> Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for lin

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 2/27/07, David Bolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a >particular country? In a round-about way, yes. >Is there an online list of all the subnets used in each co

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread ken
On 02/26/2007 10:08 PM somebody named John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote: >> WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops >> checked against linux. > > Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for linux they wouldn't > be jamm

[opensuse] Adding myisamcheck to /etc/init.d/mysql

2007-02-27 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I am currently using SuSE and like to be able use myisamcheck when start up mysql. Is there a command that I can added to my init.d script that would do that. Thanks, Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the hu

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-02-26 at 20:56 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > > > You are correct. It works great when you have a disk that goes caput and > > you get a new disk for replacement and you try to save as much data as > > you can. It though this was Daniel's situation. > > T

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread David Bolt
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a >particular country? In a round-about way, yes. >Is there an online list of all the subnets used in each country? Have you looked at the RIPE FTP server? They

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:36:21 Fergus Wilde wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:04, Matthew Stringer wrote: > > Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a > > particular country? > But seriously, it's called 'the internet' for a reason, and you may find > you g

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Damon Register
Fergus Wilde wrote: foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent! We did not! We threw it into a _harbor_ :-) Thanks for the friendly poke. I needed a laugh this morning Damon Register

[opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Joachim Schrod
John Andersen wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and email

RE: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Pedro Marques
You can user IP2Country database, a CSV file with IP ranges (decimal) by country. Google for "ip2country database". Use your imagination to apply the data to iptables. :-) I'd use mysql and php. HTH, Pedro -Original Message- From: Matthew Stringer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: te

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:04, Matthew Stringer wrote: > Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a > particular country? > > Is there an online list of all the subnets used in each country? > > I have a webserver which I only want UK residents accessing but I've not

Re: [opensuse] Blocking foreigners!

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Howorth
Matthew Stringer wrote: > Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a > particular country? > > Is there an online list of all the subnets used in each country? You might look here. I don't know much about it but it seems it may

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-02-26 at 20:56 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > You are correct. It works great when you have a disk that goes caput and > you get a new disk for replacement and you try to save as much data as > you can. It though this was Daniel's

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