Re: [opensuse-factory] Audacity replacement

2007-05-13 Thread Stephan Binner
On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:45:58 Juan Erbes wrote: Audacity disapeared from the repositories; what audio editor is the replacement for Audacity? Audacity is still in abuild but it doesn't build atm (for some time?). Bye, Steve

Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-13 Thread Stephan Binner
On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:02:17 Andreas Jaeger wrote: We run out of time and will discuss this further next time. Was topic Smaller systems - what can be done? not discussed because of this? Bye, Steve - To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Audacity replacement

2007-05-13 Thread Juan Erbes
2007/5/13, Stephan Binner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:45:58 Juan Erbes wrote: Audacity disapeared from the repositories; what audio editor is the replacement for Audacity? Audacity is still in abuild but it doesn't build atm (for some time?). The problem is that audacity

Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda

2007-05-13 Thread Sid Boyce
Sid Boyce wrote: Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:49 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New installs recognise IDE disks as /dev/sd, no problem. On this box 10.1 -- 10.2 -- 10.3Alpha3plus via factory updates, my disks come

Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda

2007-05-13 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 11 May 2007 21:05, Sid Boyce wrote: ... If I use mkinitrd to change rootdev to /dev/sda1, resume to /dev/sda2 and also fstab, sda1 is seen, but only if I leave menu.list pointing to /dev/hda1 as root, sda2 as swap isn't registered. swapon /dev/hda2 works. When Alpha4 upgrade hits

Re: [opensuse-factory] Multimedia and Media Center patterns and optimizing

2007-05-13 Thread Edward Dunagin
As a Suse user for a while, I certainly do agree. On 5/13/07, Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a users point of view, I'll suggest and request a couple of new software patterns for 10.3 with the possibly required optimizing and setup: 1) Multimedia (Desktop functions) 2) Media

Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-13 Thread Ciro Iriarte
Yes and no. In my ~/.xsession I see: # # If ssh is configured and ssh-agent is wanted set yes # usessh=no If it is set yo yes you would get it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Looks interesting, there's no ~/.xsession, but found that ssh-agent is running already: ciro 13725 13684

Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda

2007-05-13 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 13 May 2007 19:26, Sid Boyce wrote: I presume I need to change hdb to sdb, hda to sda and sdb to sdc. With the above, somehow it did the translation. That was the only missing piece. I got similar problem when I moved 10.3 installation from reiserfs to ext3 partition, changing

[opensuse] XGL +compiz, +Nvidia Geforce 7300GT

2007-05-13 Thread Art Fore
I am running suse 10.2 where I updated the kernel to 2.6.21-6 and, xorg to 7.2.12 and latest XGL and Compiz files. (This is on X86_64) I have tried the Nvidia 1.0-9629, which worked previously, 1.0-9631, and 1.0-9755 Nvida driver, all do the same, and that is, I get a cube that Ia can rotate, and

[opensuse] Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread Cristea Bogdan
What suggestions could you give for an application who can record radio while listen over Internet? Ideally I need something very simple who can be started and stopped quickly and able to record directly in mp3 format. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread Vince Oliver
Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? Thanks Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince Oliver wrote: Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? Is your drive USB 2.0 but your Computer USB 1.1 perhaps (or vise versa)? -- _ John Andersen --

Re: [opensuse] Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Cristea Bogdan wrote: What suggestions could you give for an application who can record radio while listen over Internet? Ideally I need something very simple who can be started and stopped quickly and able to record directly in mp3 format. Xmms can do this but it is

Re: [opensuse] Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:25 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote: What suggestions could you give for an application who can record radio while listen over Internet? Ideally I need something very simple who can be started and stopped quickly and able to record directly in mp3 format. Cristea, You can

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread Vince Oliver
On Sun, 13 May 2007, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince Oliver wrote: Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? Is your drive USB 2.0 but your Computer USB 1.1 perhaps (or vise versa)? Well ...

Re: [opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-13 Thread jpff
I would chose (and have chosen) AMD, but then I use my computers for music and the underflow/denormalised numbers problem in Intel hardware is a reason for not wanting Intel anyway. I have been running on AMD64x2 on my work workstation without any significant problems. On the other hand the

[opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread scsijon
I have been asked to setup a number of single computers for a transport firm. They have no problem with it being linux providing everything they have now, they will have afterwards as they are expanding from the current four depots and twelve staff and have planned to have fifteen depots and

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
scsijon wrote: The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to provide him with a replacement that has a scriptable interface. He would like whichever is used to both have windows and linux versions so he only has to create one

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread Benji Weber
On 5/13/07, Vince Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Automounting_without_the_sync_Option _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-13 Thread Benji Weber
On 5/13/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and I'll tell you why--- because the hardware and software markets have not converged (IMO) for 64 bit processors. To put this differently... its still bleeding edge. To be frank about it... the 64bit linux stuff just isn't ready

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread James Knott
Vince Oliver wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince Oliver wrote: Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? Is your drive USB 2.0 but your Computer USB 1.1 perhaps (or vise

[opensuse] reiserfs journal on a separate device.

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to experiment placing the journal for a reiserfs on a separate device (the disk is on slow USB). What I see in man mkreiserfs is this: -j | --journal-device FILE FILE is the name of the block device on which is to

Re: [opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-13 Thread Ken Jennings
On Sunday 2007-05-13 07:55, Benji Weber wrote: [...] 4gb ram is not going to be sufficient for much longer, it's already the normal amount to get in new machines. If you need more ram (which games will require in a year or so's time) you'll need 64bit. 4G is normal? Where do you shop for

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-13 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Geez! I wish all I had to worry about in life were a few icons on my desktop. I think someone needs to get a life. -- (o:]*HUGGLES*[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: I LOVE YOU Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] XGL +compiz, +Nvidia Geforce 7300GT

2007-05-13 Thread Joseph Loo
Art Fore wrote: I am running suse 10.2 where I updated the kernel to 2.6.21-6 and, xorg to 7.2.12 and latest XGL and Compiz files. (This is on X86_64) I have tried the Nvidia 1.0-9629, which worked previously, 1.0-9631, and 1.0-9755 Nvida driver, all do the same, and that is, I get a cube that

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread Joseph Loo
Vince Oliver wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince Oliver wrote: Hi I have SuSE10. and writting to an USB pendrive is very slow (~35 KB/s). I s it posible to change this somehow? Is your drive USB 2.0 but your Computer USB 1.1 perhaps (or

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun May 13 2007 05:56, James Knott wrote: Well ... the USB pendrive is 2.0 fo sure (written on it). On the other hand (I do not know much about hardware) I have look in YAST and I have 4 USB Contollers - 3 are 1.0 and 1 is 2.0.  As a test, I tryed to write on pendrive using all of them

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:43 +1000, scsijon wrote: I have been asked to setup a number of single computers for a transport firm. They have no problem with it being linux providing everything they have now, they will have afterwards as they are expanding from the current four depots and twelve

Re: [opensuse] XGL +compiz, +Nvidia Geforce 7300GT

2007-05-13 Thread Art Fore
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 06:34 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote: Art Fore wrote: I am running suse 10.2 where I updated the kernel to 2.6.21-6 and, xorg to 7.2.12 and latest XGL and Compiz files. (This is on X86_64) I have tried the Nvidia 1.0-9629, which worked previously, 1.0-9631, and 1.0-9755

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread George Osvald
On Sunday 13 May 2007, M Harris wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 00:47, John Andersen wrote: Of course Namesys = Hans Reiser. I'm personally not aware of any other players, and Hans is not available and rumored to be difficult to work with when he is available. Funny you mention this...

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:39 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:43 +1000, scsijon wrote: I have been asked to setup a number of single computers for a transport firm. They have no problem with it being linux providing everything they have now, they will have

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Sunday 13 May 2007 17:05, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:39 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:43 +1000, scsijon wrote: I have been asked to setup a number of single computers for a transport firm. They have no problem with it being linux

Re: [opensuse] Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread Cristea Bogdan
With my mms stream it doesn't seem to work. However interesting solution. Thanks anyway. Bogdan On 5/13/07, Teruel de Campo MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:25 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote: What suggestions could you give for an application who can record radio while listen

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread Vince L
On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:14, M Harris wrote: At any rate (as you might have guessed) I'm really hoping that openSUSE will reconsider on making reiserfs the default... and I hope that a good group will take the namesys folks on and help them get the Reiser4 fs into the mainline kernel soon.

Re: [opensuse] corrupt beryl on nvidia

2007-05-13 Thread primm
On Sunday 13 May 2007 06:33, Joseph Loo wrote: primm wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 03:59, you wrote: It was the stable version hat gave me the problems in the first place. It was opensuse wiki gave me the lead to the snapshot. The results are identical. Also your fps rate seems to

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 17:31 +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote: The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to provide him with a replacement that has a scriptable interface.

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: | ... that has a scriptable interface. why not use mail ?? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] red prompt for root user

2007-05-13 Thread Carl Spitzer
I checked several of the links on: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html many are down. export PS1=$PWD/\w\[\e[0;34m\]\u:) \[\e[0m\] /home/cwsiv/~/mp3/KennyG/GreatestHitscwsiv:) As you can see it keeps up with the depth of the directory but there is an extra tilde and

[opensuse] [Fwd: Boston Linux Installfest XXV Saturday, May 19, 2007]

2007-05-13 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Original Message Subject: Boston Linux Installfest XXV Saturday, May 19, 2007 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 07:57:30 -0400 From: Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Boston Linux and Unix To: BLU [EMAIL PROTECTED],BUG Members [EMAIL PROTECTED], CONE [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 08:17 +1000, Registration Account wrote: I have raised a bug because the current system back in yast only offers an incremental backup - so if you loose the first achieve your stuffed. I don't understand this sentence...

Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-05-10 at 16:34 +0100, David Bolt wrote: and it is the version I compiled, too. Curious! Very interesting. # change according to you need PAR=par2 I did not touch that, it is dated 2006-11-25. Funny that SuSE contains

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 20:10 +0200, jdd wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: | ... that has a scriptable interface. why not use mail ?? We'll have to wait till scsijon clarifies what they need. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP

[opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread James Knott
There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. From the Suse, M$ and Dell thread. Nope, I don't need recent cites. Until retracted Ballmers statments stand as official Microsoft Policy. Therefore the

Re: [opensuse] slow usb-writting

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Carlos F Lange wrote: On Sun May 13 2007 05:56, James Knott wrote: Well ... the USB pendrive is 2.0 fo sure (written on it). On the other hand (I do not know much about hardware) I have look in YAST and I have 4 USB Contollers - 3 are 1.0 and 1 is 2.0.  As a test,

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, George Osvald wrote:   Funny you mention this... 'cause I was just doing some on-line research into the case... and found among other things (Hans' trial has been delayed until May 29th due to Du Bois availability) that the Namesys company is being offered for

[opensuse] Re: Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Cristea Bogdan wrote: With my mms stream it doesn't seem to work. However interesting solution. Thanks anyway. Bogdan Check out Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog:

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince L wrote: I seem to remember reading something either by him or quoting him, which iirc in essence said that none of the distros people understood reiserfs properly, that suse's changes were wrong, and even his developers don't fully understand it. Souce please...

[opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread riccardo35
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/bizzare_turn_in.html . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread Michael Skiba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/bizzare_turn_in.html . What do you expect people to do with this link? Simply click on it, without having any useable

[opensuse] A very interesting Virtualization Theory article

2007-05-13 Thread Alexey Eremenko
A very interesting Virtualization Theory article: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualization.html -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/bizzare_turn_in.html . What do you expect people to do with this link? Simply click on it, without having any useable

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, scsijon wrote: The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to provide him with a replacement that has a scriptable interface. He would like whichever is used to both have windows and linux versions so he

Re: [opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread Curtis Rey
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/bizzare_turn_in.html . What do you expect people to do with this link? Simply click on it, without having any useable

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:56 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 17:31 +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote: The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread Vince L
On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:52, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince L wrote: I seem to remember reading something either by him or quoting him, which iirc in essence said that none of the distros people understood reiserfs properly, that suse's changes were wrong, and even his

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:25 -0400, James Knott wrote: There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. From the Suse, M$ and Dell thread. Nope, I don't need recent cites. Until retracted Ballmers

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
James Knott wrote: There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. From the Suse, M$ and Dell thread. Nope, I don't need recent cites. Until retracted This might be completely irrelevant, but am I in

Re: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:47:52 -0500 Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the market for a new server for work here. I'm looking for some company that builds server class machines that are pretty much certified to run suse linux either version (enterprise or opensuse). I do not have to

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, scsijon wrote: The main problem left is that it uses a mail program as part of it's functions (currently Eudora) and I need to provide him with a replacement that has a scriptable interface. He would like whichever is used to both have

Re: [opensuse] Recording webradio

2007-05-13 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Cristea, If you can listen to the radio you can record it. Follow the steps one by one and you should be able to record it. If you can not you are doing something wrong :-) Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 18:39 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote: With my mms stream it doesn't seem to

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread Stephan Binner
On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:25:13 James Knott wrote: There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. Microsoft also claims The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. @

Re: [opensuse] A very interesting Virtualization Theory article

2007-05-13 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Thxs Alexey -=terry(Denver)=- On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 21:18 +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote: A very interesting Virtualization Theory article: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualization.html -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[opensuse] Pidgin

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
Does anybody know of a location for Pidgin RPMs. I tried running the source, but when it installed, it complained about libpurple. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin

2007-05-13 Thread Sean Rima
On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:58:44 -0600 Pueblo Native [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a location for Pidgin RPMs. I tried running the source, but when it installed, it complained about libpurple. As root do ldconfig, will sort out the problem you hve Sean -- Thawte, GSWoT and

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
Sean Rima wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:58:44 -0600 Pueblo Native [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a location for Pidgin RPMs. I tried running the source, but when it installed, it complained about libpurple. As root do ldconfig, will sort out the problem you hve

[opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-13 Thread Jerry Houston
I'm fairly new to Linux, but not quite a total novice. I've set up a little Linux machine for my wife, using ndiswrapper to install a LinkSys wireless NIC. I had very little trouble with that, and her machine connects to our network without a problem. However, trying to do the same for my

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew Burgess
Ndiswrapper might or might not work with your card, but for Atheros cards, I think the software to use is MadWifi (http://madwifi.org/) On 5/13/07, Jerry Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly new to Linux, but not quite a total novice. I've set up a little Linux machine for my wife,

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Vince L wrote: But I am very bothered to see some positive argument that reiserfs is well understood in the community and that should the worst happen for him personally, the community is able to maintain it with good consensus. Why does this bother you? --

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them. Security by Obscurity takes a new twist. -- _ John Andersen -- To

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Kevan
http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_10.2/ You can add that installation source or do wget http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_10.2/i586/pidgin-2.0.0-40.1.i586.rpm rpm -ivh pidgin [tab complete] Ben On Sunday 13 May 2007 15:29, Sean

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: John Andersen wrote: But I was thinking, why do you even need an _external_ mail program. Depending upon your system, wouldn't using a SMTP control or even library be easier, depending upon what you needed to do exactly. As someone who has had to

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread George Osvald
On Monday 14 May 2007, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, George Osvald wrote:   Funny you mention this... 'cause I was just doing some on-line research into the case... and found among other things (Hans' trial has been delayed until May 29th due to Du Bois availability)

Re: [opensuse] A very interesting Virtualization Theory article

2007-05-13 Thread John O'Gorman
I have installed the Xen kernel successfully on openSUSE 10.2 But my attempts to use Yast to create VMs have not worked as I expected. With the help of a friend I have been able to get VMs working and after quite a lot of fiddling about get all the GNOME graphical desktop stuff into working

Re: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Jerry Feldman wrote: he bottom line with both HP and IBM is that they have agreements directly with SuSE and Red Hat so you have a single point of contact for support. Additionally, my experience with Dell at the Boston Linux (one DEL Poweredge) is that it likes to crap

Re: [opensuse] Build Service Index or Search?

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 15:55 +0200, Stephan Binner wrote: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/ Why would anyone know about that? And why isn't it on the build service or It was linked from http://software.opensuse.org for a long

Re: [opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 22:14 +0200, Michael Skiba wrote: Simply click on it, without having any useable informations (who the hell is Hans Reiser?) about it? You are kidding, no? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: John Andersen wrote: But I was thinking, why do you even need an _external_ mail program. Depending upon your system, wouldn't using a SMTP control or even library be easier, depending upon what you needed to do

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 11:52 -0800, John Andersen wrote: Ext2 and 3 are equally candidates for dead-end-ism. The only reason suse re-emphasized ext2/3 is because RedHat does all the maintenance for them. Its more complex than that. SuSE

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 11:52 -0800, John Andersen wrote: Ext2 and 3 are equally candidates for dead-end-ism. The only reason suse re-emphasized ext2/3 is because RedHat does all the maintenance for them. Its more complex than that. SuSE people

Re: [opensuse] Hans Reiser

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-05-13 at 22:14 +0200, Michael Skiba wrote: Simply click on it, without having any useable informations (who the hell is Hans Reiser?) about it? You are kidding, no? Windows user, afraid of URLs perhaps? Welcome to Linux. --

Re: [opensuse] Mail Program wanted?

2007-05-13 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 13 May 2007 16:36, Pueblo Native wrote: ... There is that, but is there a version of mail that works on Windows applications exactly the way the linux version does? Cygwin has something. Once upon a time, when I was forced to do development on the beast that is Windows, I

[opensuse] Re: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:54:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote: It certainly wasn't done for technical reasons, seems like mostly a cost issue. It's not true, unless you count maintainability as a cost issue. Plus there will be an update path from ext3 to ext4, something that reiserfs can't offer. And

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-13 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:30 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote: I'm fairly new to Linux, but not quite a total novice. I've set up a little Linux machine for my wife, using ndiswrapper to install a LinkSys wireless NIC. I had very little trouble with that, and her machine connects to our network

Re: [opensuse] Re: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-14 at 02:15 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:54:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote: It certainly wasn't done for technical reasons, seems like mostly a cost issue. It's not true, unless you count

[opensuse] Problems with serial printer

2007-05-13 Thread George Osvald
I have a serial receipt printer connected to my server. Printing System is CUPS on SuSe 10.2. Until upgrade it was working OK. Since then how ever I often get this message: Unable to open serial port device file /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied from CUPS. I have to play with it a little set up

[opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread M Harris
ehem, vindicated ... again ... Well, the other shoe has dropped. The leopard in Redmond is really desperate... showing its final spots waaay too early. Those M$ yutz actually think they are going to get the cat(s) who have escaped the bag to not only get back into the bag on their

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread jfweber
On Sun May 13 2007, John Andersen scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them.

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-13 Thread Jerry Houston
Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow you to get it up and running under 10.2. Indeed, it seems so. Thanks to everyone for your help with this. And thanks to

Re: [opensuse] Problems with serial printer

2007-05-13 Thread Aaron Kulkis
George Osvald wrote: I have a serial receipt printer connected to my server. Printing System is CUPS on SuSe 10.2. Until upgrade it was working OK. Since then how ever I often get this message: Unable to open serial port device file /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied from CUPS. I have to play

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun May 13 2007, John Andersen scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: On Sunday 13 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew Burgess
Well that's good :). Keep plugging and let me know how it works out. It's always good to know this stuff since wireless can be tricky with Linux. On 5/13/07, Jerry Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-13 Thread M Harris
On Sunday 13 May 2007 09:54, George Osvald wrote: I don't understand why anyone would pay any money for the company. ReiserFS being open source anone can just take over the project and not pay a dime. Namesys is currently a company (two full time developers, and a score of

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, M Harris wrote: ehem, vindicated ... again ... http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867 /index.htm?section=money_latest But I have yet to see Mr Frank Nelson weigh in on this. And since he claims authority on this subject I'm sure

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread Pueblo Native
I believe the term is bold faced liars, but in any case, if you look at that article, by the way, MS seems to be trying to go after the Fortune 500 companies. Never mind the fact that they are some of their biggest and best customers. M Harris wrote: ehem, vindicated ... again ... Well,

Re: [opensuse] Problems with serial printer

2007-05-13 Thread George Osvald
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote: George Osvald wrote: I have a serial receipt printer connected to my server. Printing System is CUPS on SuSe 10.2. Until upgrade it was working OK. Since then how ever I often get this message: Unable to open serial port device file

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-13-07 22:18]: ehem, vindicated ... again ... Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by mlmmj X-Mailinglist: opensuse-offtopic List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread M Harris
On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:44, Pueblo Native wrote: I believe the term is bold faced liars, but in any case, if you look at that article, by the way, MS seems to be trying to go after the Fortune 500 companies.  Never mind the fact that they are some of their biggest and best customers.

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:40:17 -0800, John Andersen wrote: But I have yet to see Mr Frank Nelson weigh in on this. And since he claims authority on this subject I'm sure more denials of Microsoft's true intent are forthcoming If MSFT had that much *enforceable* patents, you think they

Re: [opensuse] Problems with serial printer

2007-05-13 Thread James Knott
George Osvald wrote: I have a serial receipt printer connected to my server. Printing System is CUPS on SuSe 10.2. Until upgrade it was working OK. Since then how ever I often get this message: Unable to open serial port device file /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied from CUPS. I have to play

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-13 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Philipp Thomas wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:40:17 -0800, John Andersen wrote: But I have yet to see Mr Frank Nelson weigh in on this. And since he claims authority on this subject I'm sure more denials of Microsoft's true intent are forthcoming If MSFT had that

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