Re: [opensuse] Burning CDs

2007-07-29 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jul 29, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 29 Jul 2007 it looks like Rajko M. composed: Now 'cdrecord' is only a symlink to wodim. Which works very good I might add. Tried to find a place to download wodim in source for my other Unix/Linux boxes but did not seem to find

Re: [opensuse] my SuSE can not access a solaris partition. It's weird.

2007-07-22 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jul 22, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Jonathan Ervine wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007 02:13:12 Markus Koßmann wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juli 2007 schrieb Patrik Hasibuan: Dear my friends I Installed 3 os-es in one harddisk, namely: solaris, suse10.2 and puppylinux. I mainly work with SuSE that's why

Re: [opensuse] Re: Software being accessed by another program??

2007-06-17 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Benjamin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-16-07 23:36]: [...] *laugh* Windows people talk shit about Linux people and Linux people talk shit about Mac users .. it SO reminds me of one sect of Christians talking trash about another sect

Re: [opensuse] Re: Software being accessed by another program??

2007-06-16 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jun 16, 2007, at 9:40 PM, John Andersen wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, M Harris wrote: Mac has been a single button, single click (I think forever) and it works great. Bull. Macs have been able to use any USB mouse made by Logitech, Microsoft and any other hardware maker since OS X

Re: [opensuse] The Leopard Shows its Spots

2007-05-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
The FAA is not doing anything to students. You mean the RIAA. To find out what the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is .. check out this site.. http://www.faa.gov/ - Ben On May 14, 2007, at 8:53 PM, tino perez wrote: FAA sue universities students, M$ going after few lines of codes

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-06 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On May 6, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alexey Eremenko wrote: I would like to see more proprietary drivers and applications in openSUSE. This includes: NVIDIA, softmodems, Wifi, ... Why then don't you email SUSE/Novell and make this request instead of sending this short statement to thousands of

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 9.0 iso images?

2007-03-23 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:27:47PM -0500, Ben Rosenberg wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the iso images for SUSE 9.0? I have to do some testing and one of our production platforms still uses this version. I don't have the

Re: [opensuse] gconfd = ?

2007-03-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
These programs use part of Gnome whether or not you are using Gnome as your desktop or not. If you remove a piece then the house falls down. It doesn't hurt your system so why not leave it as is and use Gimp, Firefox and other programs that have GTK interfaces? :D - ben On Mar 4, 2007, at

Re: [opensuse] OTN page kills firefox?

2007-03-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Mar 4, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Just tried konqueror and works... last night it just said the address wasn't correct, even refused to connect to google, although i was connected trough gprs (gsm phone as a modem). Tried again with firefox on my laptop at the office an it

Re: [opensuse]unsubscribe

2007-03-01 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You REALLY should open your eyes. This message is at the bottom of EVERY email you've received from the list. I mean come on .. how much

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-25 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Hogwash! If I need access to something on a floppy drive why should I need to be root to get access? If I need to shut down MY computer for some reason why do I need root access? If I had a company and one of my employees needed

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps

2007-02-11 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Rajko M. wrote: but HP is quite shy to admit that they have any hardware that works with Linux. The reason, probably their own HP-UX operating system. Nah. HP-UX runs on PA-Risc processors. I think they just are still to damn afraid to piss off Microsoft

Re: [opensuse] Recommended Website Tools

2007-01-18 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 18, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Kai Ponte wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:34, StephenW wrote: --- Billie Erin Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/18/2007 Raoul Snyman wrote: I prefer not to use WYSIWYG tools, like Nvu, I've only had bad experiences. :-( Nvu has a good text mode also.

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-17 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Wednesday January 17 2007 6:41 pm, Robert Lewis wrote: Install locate.it's a UNIX util. available from several of the servers. It runs from commandline, but quick and VERY usefull. Beagle isn't ready for prime time yet. Fred I

[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] 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]

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

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
This is JUST what I was looking for. Thank you very much. On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb 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

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

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather rest my palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is sticky because of the stupid sticker that i peeled off there ;) In the States we have this

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

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:21 PM, James Knott wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather rest my palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is sticky because

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 2, 2007, at 12:08 AM, Mike Noble wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 21:08, Renegade Penguin wrote: I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it. This is very common with some US banking sites as

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-31 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 31, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: Anyone aged 39 years or less is young. (My uncle who is close to 80 now has been 39 yo for many years :-) .) BTW, that fix mentioned in the link you gave mentions that the new file *must* be a jpeg file. However

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-31 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 31, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:59, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: Now please stop lecturing us on what is good for a business environment and what isn't .. because boot screens DO NOT qualify as something to worry about in this instance

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-31 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 31, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 07:00 -0600, Glenn Holmer wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:59, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: Now please stop lecturing us on what is good for a business environment and what isn't .. because boot screens DO

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-30 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:49 PM, James Knott wrote: you may not need to subscribe.. just search the archives. Assume I'm a user who doesn't know about mailing lists and is not interested in searching a mail list archive. How does he disable it? If he doesn't like the desktop image, it's easy

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2006-12-30 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:17 PM, James Knott wrote: See http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us They state quite clearly Currently only support ASUS Notebook and Motherboard for Microsoft Windows. Lot's of companies don't provide support for Linux. I think it's that people tend

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-30 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Ken Jennings wrote: ...but for my own system I'd like to see the glitz more often. If there a way to explicitly turn on the Christmas display? I looked in my /boot and there are no *.xpm or *.xpm.gz files per the previously posted web page directions. Where

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-30 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Ken Jennings wrote: ...but for my own system I'd like to see the glitz more often. If there a way to explicitly turn on the Christmas display? I looked in my / boot

Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset

2006-12-29 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Doctor Who wrote: Silly question, but I've always run SUSE on x86-32 machines. I now have a Intel Core Duo E6400 processor. What flavor of openSUSE do I need for this? EM64T? The AMD64 version will work fine on this, but it does seem to matter which chipsets

Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset

2006-12-29 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 29, 2006, at 8:07 PM, James Knott wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Doctor Who wrote: Silly question, but I've always run SUSE on x86-32 machines. I now have a Intel Core Duo E6400 processor. What flavor of openSUSE do I need for this? EM64T? The AMD64

Re: [opensuse] Firefox 2.0.0.2pre Add-On Compatibility

2006-12-23 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Dec 23, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 11:05, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:49, Alexey Eremenko wrote: There is a guide on how-to update extensions (and themes?) to FFox2:

Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-27 23:32, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:14 PM, John Andersen wrote: snip Let me recommend something that will make all the OS/2 guys feel right at home: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops

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

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Druid wrote: Why have I been thinking about Fedora?? Dunno. But the reason you are posting that in here is to troll and to get some attention for your little lack-of-life Microsoft deal. Does anyone else feel this way? No has. I'm I wrong to think this or

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

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Druid wrote: Maybe this person actually wanted to solicit the opinions of his peers? And maybe acting like an ass warms .. oh yeah .. you have no heart by answering an email this. ***hole. Whatever makes your little heart feel warmer OK. Now I'm just totally

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

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-28 20:00, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Druid wrote: Maybe this person actually wanted to solicit the opinions of his peers? And maybe acting like an ass warms .. oh yeah .. you have no heart

Re: [opensuse] Updating SUSE for CLI

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi, I need to know can I update SUSE 10.1 from the CLI, or do I have software update tool in the gui? You can do it via console with yast. When you start yast in console mode you should see YOU right off the bat. The rest should be pretty

Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:31 PM, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:15, James Knott wrote: There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system. The extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about each item. It included things like history, key

Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!

2006-11-27 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:14 PM, John Andersen wrote: On Monday 27 November 2006 19:52, Kai Ponte wrote: I never saw anything in OS/2s menuing system that was any better than the traditional Kmenu. You kidding? Presentation Manager rocked! http://www.os2.cz/images/clanky/os2_13_desktop1.jpg

Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted

2006-11-25 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 10:55 -0600, Steve Jeppesen wrote: so do tell, what is this list for then? Discussions about suse/novell linux. In my opinion, discussions about the future of that is more or less on topic, even if I dislike the

Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted

2006-11-25 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:23 PM, John Andersen wrote: With any proper mail reader, you can close (or delete) entire threads with one click. With Kmail, you can even assign an entire thread to ignore status, where it will not be shown expanded. Its ridiculously to bypass those parts of the list

Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted

2006-11-25 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 26, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: Proof by accusation and innuendo doesn't hold much sway anywhere, except in a campaign of FUD. And when deciding to invade nations like Iraq. U.S. politics should NOT be injected into this conversation .. that DOES belong on the OT list. It

Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted

2006-11-25 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 26, 2006, at 12:38 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Nov 26, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: Proof by accusation and innuendo doesn't hold much sway anywhere, except in a campaign of FUD. And when deciding to invade nations like Iraq. U.S. politics should

Re: [opensuse] unsubscribe

2006-11-19 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 19, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Mohammad Tashackori wrote: To: opensuse@opensuse.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bzzzt! Try again. Try reading the sig that is at the bottom of every email. It's not in the headers anymore so there is no excuse but laziness. *shakes head* --

Re: [opensuse] OT? Distro question

2006-11-15 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Stevens wrote: How long has Fedora Core been out? About 3.5 years .. give or take a few months. So the posting was close .. and was probably written by an HR goon or a PHB. Have to give them credit for being close. :D -Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:51 PM, J Sloan wrote: dinky hosts that provide NTP, FTP and nagios I don't personally consider major Linux deployments... but to each their own. Well, this is about as retarded a statement as I've seen on this list in years. I'll have you know that my company runs