Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
. * tsc appears to work well, but might be suspicious * jiffies doesn't even work, time stops, applications depending on the clock stop - even halt stops when issuing a beep because the beep never times out. * pit I haven't tried. Should I? :-/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHaaV4tTMYHG2NR9URAjquAJ0WUVdIlNyQPtFm7gQeeRIh9xGZbwCeM+q9 yUJtrXFoCB4PUd0pwIEF2FY= =5cre -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
improve the priority (decrease the nice value)? Unfortunately, that's right. You need to be root to increase and even decrease I/O priority using program ionice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
the encrypted filesystem I mentioned above is xfs. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHabZ6tTMYHG2NR9URAgOyAJsFBw8qcyATfr+bSIiwgeG4FWvZrgCfVKnU 36U6LSN7McpDtpeSMmCj8iM= =YpBY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
: state count: 2 active state:T0 states: *T0: 00% T1: 50% - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHabo+tTMYHG2NR9URAsHvAJ9ALrMSwz7XauV2FhRiNwK2ciuZwQCfebZ5

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
I, but I don't want to run apps as root. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHabqQtTMYHG2NR9URAjWrAJ4tPSHtT3tKnamvjEcyKrhmC+hZFgCfR4SZ gyKowUHU65TdJde4NE2TvDI= =A3Y7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 08:53 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 12/20/2007 08:25 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: After what jiffies did, I wouldn't. Is this your system with xfs? Just trying not to offer bad advice. As a matter of fact, I do

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-19 Thread Carlos E. R.
. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHadVptTMYHG2NR9URApzDAJ48R0AxaO2cevw1mSP53Tk8IvX9bwCdGJVx lUumOPNTtan8hgdyvsuQYKE= =6ce8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-18 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-17 at 15:18 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-12-16 at 21:29 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Other than that, just set the clock to show seconds and forget about it ;-) Tried that too. But gkrelmn does

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-18 Thread Carlos E. R.
was not running under the desktop. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZ+eUtTMYHG2NR9URAqyVAKCPeLeBmoZ1z12H+q3nW9kPs9jDigCeOqbL ks2LjfzsGmebGcIXoV2mScI= =IN8N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-18 Thread Carlos E. R.
, postfix, spamd... Is the machine doing heavy disk accessing? Maybe swapping memory to disk. No, no. And certainly not when these lapsus occur. Swap is used for hibernation. But I'll watch the swap graph in gkrellm the next time one of those lapsus occur. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

Re: [opensuse] accessing a v9.3 crypto partition with v10.3

2007-12-18 Thread Carlos E. R.
you? :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHaDYNtTMYHG2NR9URAubCAJ4ovdSAVsTusSeeunqVyHSkAm8lrQCgmTDL reewpfHm5gUPycsc95A/NU4= =FdUk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
to its graphs every second. I notice the problem by watching these graphs ans eeing them freeze. Ie, having a program update the display every second does not help. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
and /sdb2...something is amiss somewhere. Or not...I might have had a failing SATA drive...I am currently not using any of /sdb partitions. Dificult to say, yes. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZoV

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
be a hardware problem, because 10.2 had no problems, and the problems started as soon as I upgraded to 10.3 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZoXGtTMYHG2NR9URAqm5AJ4tsFGFDrk5nLXoz0+3/8i04mB7EACglI3z U6j0YK6bSL

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
, I could try jiffies, I guess... It will take days to make sure if it helps. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZyL0tTMYHG2NR9URAnF9AJ9D5vwseoeKXDZQrKB4gWnU7o4X8QCfYT+9 1is50ZEqq2+udBeeCwoGenA= =VxbD -END PGP

[opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, That's the best description, its become lazy. Some times, if I'm not typing or moving the mouse, the entire machine stops. I see the display of gkrelmn stop. I was calculating the size of a directory using 'mc', went out for an hour, and

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
period possible is 11 minutes). And both the power and suspend buttons are set to trigger hibernate. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZbm1tTMYHG2NR9URAmh4AJ0S/potXl3MpF3AYqaqg8gq7XA0uwCbBa2z 8cKu4qcHeLjvdj+uth89jNo

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
, nothing at all. I'll have to wait till another day when this happens again. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZbwktTMYHG2NR9URAhrbAKCNu3X0e/H64FCvPj6is5V90wuyKACeJ9BD q/mSDWgT5v+JNxmoWrBtdyA= =gCKR -END PGP

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
that behavior: I have to start manually both vmware and the virtual machine, although it is possible to start them automatically, which is possible why it is called server. It is configurable somewhere. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
continued working as if nothing had happened. This has happened twice, and it is very weird. The only thing I know for sure is that it is a software issue of suse 10.3: they started the day after I upgraded. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [opensuse] Basic Bash Question

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
in your script that is interfering, or there is a strangely named file(s) in that path. Or an alias, as K.R. Foley sugests. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHZd8/tTMYHG2NR9URAhUoAJ9/xlYdNr5tij89bCVYQTaKqhFFcgCdF3/c

Re: [opensuse] Riad5 array failing disk

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHY6+LtTMYHG2NR9URAkmbAKCXXfQ3M3Pvl1IjwZ07txXka0gNlACgiLiS iS6GwM1H+KlqbCkWUiZiuC8= =DMgY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] Broken info2html package

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, That package is broken. When browsing to http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html, and clicking on any of the info pages, the following error appears: ] File IO Error ] The Info file could not be opened for reading. The file

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
installation of something. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHY9lQtTMYHG2NR9URAsKyAJ93EGuKyLZ6+WuVwawrJd7Myoo7TwCglUfr R9Lyf64J39aESWnzVOaFn8s= =AMpx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] Will making changes from command line 'confuse' the GUI?

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
answer, it depends on each particular change. In this case, it doesn't matter at all, both commands above will work and not collide - but the first one is much faster. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHY

Re: [opensuse] Broken info2html package

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
with http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html ? That links gives you all the info pages in the system, using any browser. It is provided by info2html...rpm, but the rpm is broken. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] Broken info2html package

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
{ $BaseInfoFile = 'dir'; $NodeName = 'Top'; } The test that fails is the one marked ===, but that is all I'm able to trace - I don't know perl, after all. The fact remains: the package info2html is broken. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4

Re: [opensuse] FREE SOFTWARE GROUP FILES COPYRIGHT SUIT AGAINST VERIZON

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
from this page is trying to request permission to ... I forgot the rest, but it could potentially modify things in the system, and firefox warned that it was dangerous. :-/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-14 at 04:27 +0100, Stephan Hegel wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: Forget 'info', use 'pinfo'. It is intuitive, uses colors, displays either man or info pages, depending on what it finds really nice. I've tried it. Surely better

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
a 'de' directory, and the only app translated there is 'gcal'. Only one! If you instead look under '/usr/share/man' you see 'de,', 'es', 'fr, 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'pl', 'pt_BR', 'ru', 'sr', 'sv'... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] FREE SOFTWARE GROUP FILES COPYRIGHT SUIT AGAINST VERIZON

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
. :-/ I don't get such a warning.. might it be that this warning was about a Flash advertisement? Could be. But not only the flash, it must have had something else, ie, code, perhaps javascript trying to do some unusual thing, like reading/writing files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
YOU procedure - but not for long with that distro version. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYs83tTMYHG2NR9URAmiSAJ4moigsy7kackQQP6nThUrF4F+MgACeK1/F MhZ3V+drg7W/TOADVVxixRE= =2LCH -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] Floppy problems.

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
. No format option. Burn allows me to do it but I was under the impression I could set the CDRW to act like a floppy. The one method I found searching through google did not work. I would never use such a method. It will never be reliable. Use an USB gadchet instead. - -- Cheers, Carlos E

Re: [opensuse] FYI re Seagate drives

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-13 at 13:44 -0700, Don Raboud wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 12:59, Carlos E. R. wrote: On another line... what is this:? First Western Digital restricts sharing of multimedia files - does it means that somehow

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
can tell konqueror to display tem for you. Or you can use apache, too: http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html Want a remote site? Try http://tldp.org/; or http://www.gnu.org/;. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions - renice alternative

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
does this. So, yes, a method to give a group of programs realtime priority from the start would be interesting. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYtintTMYHG2NR9URArzoAJ9NFZwJoIK7O0dUUHLEsapvpaKo3ACfQ3qT

Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions - renice alternative

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
/limits.conf where rtprio and memlock are relevant for audio work with jack and its clients. Ah! Sounds interesting. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYyEQtTMYHG2NR9URAkT8AJ47oRLaz0Wtws2gOT/66xaBkKC7NACePdCi Lr

Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions - renice alternative

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
Xine does this. So, yes, a method to give a group of programs realtime priority from the start would be interesting. There is but it typically requires superuser privileges. Ie, there is no method. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
/manual/. I've looked at the gnu site before and for some reason have never managed to find that page. Thanks for making me look again. Yes, I was thinking of the manual link: obviously, they must have the documentation of their own programs :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [opensuse] Floppy problems.

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
the biggest unless I really need the capacity, because these things are, after all, easy to loose and have a limited life. Mine, a Kingston, mentions Linux in the box, so I bought that one. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
, which has syntax coloring. Program translation have the gettext utilities, and programs like poedit or kbabel to facilitate things. Info? Man? None. That's a complete failure, IMO. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] USB completely dead after the latest kernel upgrade

2007-12-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
a bugzilla. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYTvvtTMYHG2NR9URAkYhAJ9yY3fLHc+NzsFpOpzpYbS6WZ+UrACeLuqU 5gUr0c32jCHiqx/dQ1/4vfg= =stEe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] religion of info (was: Bash script problem regarding with some math)

2007-12-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
to man. This is just stupidity, and I refuse to spend the brain power memorising them Forget 'info', use 'pinfo'. It is intuitive, uses colors, displays either man or info pages, depending on what it finds really nice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
. The frequency of this oscillator can be corrected: that's what ntp does, I think. An educated guess on my part, of course. HTH - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYdUytTMYHG2NR9URAjnSAKCX6PTvILpgvVXMLn2ChyW8VvQubwCfUhPk

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
one. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHX8yitTMYHG2NR9URAmyDAJ4hv9vOgwlowEfUPN9AU6XWqupDYwCfYn/P gpD0Pmu6j+hDhx7Ueg58zOA= =6B+Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
and switched to Ubuntu. Of course, they should have trained the personnel first. What do you expect? Politicians... However, these attempts to forced switchovers in fact make people hate linux, IMO. I'm afraid I'm a pessimist O:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] Bye bye Sue 10.3

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
ran into too much troubles with 10.3. Which bugzilla entries do you have open for this bugs? I also can't use my TV card, and yes, there is a Bugzilla or two. I removed the card and use and old B/W, real, tv instead. :-/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [opensuse] pdf character spacing/alignment problem

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
to choose print one frame or all or as displayed, is grayed out, on all three previous tests. Printing a page from my bank is fine. Seems a bug to me. However, from OOo is fine here, although I haven't tried today. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [opensuse] PDF OCR

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYEJttTMYHG2NR9URAgOUAJ9CI2ba30+6v5w73ICUsbp5PeZ8tACfRJlZ GEwPpZ91qst9BT9Tcw5Sxic= =EgVe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
. The offset is /not/ the offset between the cmos clock and the system clock... Curious... Satisfied, I hope ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYEEstTMYHG2NR9URAiXcAKCIiA331Jfx2OcpMwhcOc4dueQ7fACfYkcj

Re: [opensuse] PDF OCR

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
? I am guessing that the doc contains tiff images of the scanned documents. Any and all pointers are welcome. I haven't seen any open source OCR that really works. You have to buy it. I'd love to be proved wrong, of course. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] pdf character spacing/alignment problem

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
can see what I mean. The selector to choose print one frame or all or as displayed, is grayed out, on all three previous tests. Those pages don't have frames do they? I have no idea. Could be that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
to admin without real training, yes, you are absolutely right. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYErDtTMYHG2NR9URAqvKAJ9VaEJUncCrTxYu/mvXgKgZLO2a9QCcDYES JcY5RT0wnh29YWLC9kBj7UA= =EyXz -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
placing photos exactly where I want in the text, without them getting to the next page, overlapping another photo, or many other weirdos. LyX got it right, but it has other problems. Sigh... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] Bye bye Sue 10.3

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 22:36 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: Have to find out how bug reports work but that can be certainly be found in Wiki and such. http://en.opensuse.org/Report_a_Bug - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

Re: [opensuse] PDF OCR

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 16:56 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: I haven't seen any open source OCR that really works. You have to buy it. I'd love to be proved wrong, of course. I have used

Re: [opensuse] Bye bye Sue 10.3

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
filter removes that confirmation, check your spam folder. If your provider removes it, complain to them, and contact the list owner so that he removes you manually. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] test of filters

2007-12-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 18:29 -0800, StephenW wrote: Ignore this message. i am just trying to put some filters on my incoming. sw Please, use the test list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
a bit of harmless humour. What happened? If it can be told, of course... if that provider is doing something wrong to linux users, perhaps it would be of general interest :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
by # pressing Ctrl-S and continue with Ctrl-Q (xon/xoff # flow control). # FLOW_CONTROL=no - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXmDztTMYHG2NR9URAma9AJ9xo422/yMMGNT09R6jMAQ1xY/+BwCfRNjv 9fV0L2/DK4Z68OrDYyb8ZC4= =4GmV -END PGP

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
-ST3320620A_5QF2M56F-part15: Ple Linda (off to break something else...:-)) :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXmJFtTMYHG2NR9URAj9jAJsGN6c8rlfm9TeRD2ExNQOytLwglQCfWR4X 3gABWZhqQx5eP6hG3jeh+bY= =2UiR -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] suse 9.3 boot problem

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
: Error 16 Any thoughts? I don't know if it is a grub error, a bios error (post) or what. the box has an amd bios. Then find out! info grub -- Troubleshooting -- Stage2 errors -- Error 16 -- You find out :-p Hint: boot installed system using the dvd. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 22:55 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote: On Mon December 10 2007 09:34:34 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: Obviously, it is thinking it is an octal number. How do I convince bash to use standard base ten math? Is there a prefix? Hi

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
not need that, for now, but I keep that info somewhere in the back of my mind. Both have good man pages. And info pages. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXmcztTMYHG2NR9URAl4nAKCWcXuwQKGJijTy6kkB7ZqQhNTF3gCfSFZD

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
was there but in a shorthand form that requires prior comprehension. ;-) The key was to use the error message as the search term and wade through several threads. Duh! Of course... now that I see it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] ata3.00:,exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 23:15 -, Brian Green (NET) wrote: over time - but I cannot fathom how to force a check of EXT3 at boot). touch /forcefsck - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
seconds Tue Dec 11 20:28:14 CET 2007 nimrodel:~ # ... Both have good man pages. And info pages. Gack! X'-) Try pinfo instead of info. The human interface is ussable ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
both '' quotes and does the wrong colours. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXukMtTMYHG2NR9URAoO9AJ9QIE+lS4Ghj0C13uFMe42kMUiQWQCgkqqM Ybovs372VTo1daMzjvZuGmI= =UwhM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] FYI re Seagate drives

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
to restrict what type of files I save to a drive? How? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXuwitTMYHG2NR9URApteAJ9nGnwZLL/6BrctZCNFcF/EldZrqQCeJ13Z nDW5WZ48/l3v1D680X/8oDU= =Bsrn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] unsubscribe - poeple having trouble unsubscribing

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
. So, unless the person trying to unsubscribe does it again and again, I would not infer that they are having real trouble. So, best thing is to ignore them. If they ask, then answer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
useless to them, the rest is moot. (Don't argue with me, I'm all for OOo... the problem is them) So I remain the freak of the group. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXvEZtTMYHG2NR9URAuXeAJ0eOz0P

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-11 at 21:59 +0100, peter wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: (Don't argue with me, I'm all for OOo... the problem is them) I don't argue with nobody. I just do my work in all OOo formats *only* let 'them' do convert the files

Re: [opensuse] Not enough rights for VMWare on SuSE 10.3

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
all partitions :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXxI8tTMYHG2NR9URAjidAJwPj7ZdBNhxdDNiJioJIxHH1SLjywCcDZzf eW15Z2GA5nuxNVyWRiJCTj0= =Tqry -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] FYI re Seagate drives

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
with software, either in the drive box, or in the host operating system drive. Here, they are charging a tax on DVDs and also HDs, I think. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
:-) It's a happy ending - from our point of view, of course ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXyF3tTMYHG2NR9URAsWLAJwKzSvQniTa/XY5TP1CJsUA4uU4mQCePcJR RY25svvVTtcOIgU70yS7ZyU= =CLHq -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
will never do such a thing. First, this is not the USA. Second, let that BSA watch their own bussiness, I will not help them by accusing others. Third, I have to live. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

RE: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
O... that doesn't win adepts, no matter what the reasons are. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXzALtTMYHG2NR9URAmaNAJwOhhjceyRBYLELirYwJpGJcTWj7ACfdTMc 5hDsWVyjbG7Dkak32YVjU7M= =WcGM -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
kernel in comparison to the normal kernel? diff -y --suppress-common-lines /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig.rt /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig.default | less -S What it does exactly, I dunno. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU

Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions

2007-12-11 Thread Carlos E. R.
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_operating_system Now, I'll read it myself ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHX0WptTMYHG2NR9URArKsAKCXwwae8udty4V2w406M+m41kU07QCfaVyQ xi12PG3+H2Q1J61wNxYoIBM= =L4JZ -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] Repo mirror - was: Can't Build Search Index in KDE Help Center

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
, perhaps: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version#Portugal Good advice! I added openSUSE-10.3-FTP 10.3 /pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ on cesium.di.uminho.pt (Braga univ) and it works fine. Good! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-10 at 10:06 -0500, Renegade Penguin wrote: Subject: [opensuse] UNSUBSCRIBE Resistance is futile: YOU will be assimilated. :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU

Re: [opensuse] The spamd daemon dies unexpectedly halting mail processing.

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
is used rather than when the error actually occurred and it is extremely difficult to figure out what the real problem is with code alone. I suppose so... Some kind of trace would help, I suppose. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU

Re: [opensuse] Re: resistance (was: UNSUBSCRIBE)

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
, and then you guys come warping space, er... words :-p - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXb1WtTMYHG2NR9URAk1tAJ4/h0eYWXmh4Q4UgScLGp6+NBcVcgCfWG1D WDuWO7vmO849a57aiMkGiSg= =009W -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
just wiz by on a bootup (especially after upgrades). Problem is that these init-boot-script error messages are not saved anywhere. No? Did you look in /var/log/boot.msg? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
it empty for years in my machines. Is it supposed to have something? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXdO/tTMYHG2NR9URAscXAJ4gNA3ZIzwosiBW7EabaKTGAnXZwwCdHZox da6PTbvORNAASQrfo/GJkcQ= =2WnO -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] saving boot-time console output

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
to another file. If not, perhaps you can code it. I can't be more precise, didn't study it that much :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXeYOtTMYHG2NR9URAvxIAJ9Mhp1EOLL0v/XVqEoivWgW89pCCACdFBFy atCJO/g5ZshlXuATXhMtRGY

[opensuse] Bash script problem regarding with some math

2007-12-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a bash script with this line: DIFF=$[ ($LOC_H - $HWC_H)*3600 + ($LOC_M - $HWC_M)*60 + ($LOC_S - $HWC_S) ] to calculate a time difference in seconds. Well, when the seconds are 08 it fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo $[ (00 - 00)*3600

Re: [opensuse] rsync questions - backups - again !

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
: xfs_freeze -f xfs_copy xfs_freeze -u xfsdump is missing, but mentioned. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHW9c3tTMYHG2NR9URAidsAJ4gMLkk78hpsXONxu6JJf2fu8NeVgCghhvV f1NPlbvyHa3VqyM6PXXD2ro= =yvG0 -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] Can't Build Search Index in KDE Help Center - missing htdig

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-09 at 08:52 -, Robert W Best wrote: 21:15 Carlos E R wrote: You are wrong: both are included. Hello, I use DVDs that go with Linux Magazine, SuSE 10.2 and 10.3 with issues 75 and 85. YaST can't find htdig or wine

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
it doesn't recognize my memory! Running openSUSE-10.3! I may be wrong, but I believe that 32bit cannot. It can, although it is rare. It needs support from the motherboard and bios. Maybe newer boards, prepared for Vista, can. At least, so I read :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R

[opensuse] The spamd daemon dies unexpectedly halting mail processing.

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have problems with spamd children dying on me. Right now, I have 8 emails stuck in the line. The processes are dead: root 29170 0.0 2.4 30804 25280 ?SNs 09:52 0:02 /usr/sbin/spamd -d -c -r /var/run/spamd.pid root

[opensuse] Slow updates over modem - [Was: Can't Build Search Index in KDE Help Center - missing htdig]

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
, rural lines. Some rural places use a cellular fixed telephone, meaning even lower bandwidth. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHW/ACtTMYHG2NR9URAmRDAJwO67iHWHn4BXrf+Uq9Mvl6Cu6rPQCfUvuT OdrvywXF+hbT+Y8F8DRN4Q8= =Xmey

Re: [opensuse] The spamd daemon dies unexpectedly halting mail processing.

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
, they may be from a SIGHUP restart signal if ($self-vec_all(\$eout, $self-{server_fileno})) { warn prefork: select returned error on server filehandle: $selerr $!\n; return; } But I have no idea what is all about. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] why not ship kernel with usb_suspend enabled?

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-09 at 09:43 -0800, vasilis christaras wrote: I was wondering why the kernel is not shipped with usb_suspend enabled and What does it do? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4

Re: [opensuse] format external harddisk to ntfs

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
... ext3 can use some attrributes and features that ext2 doesn't understand. An ext3 filesystem making use of those can not be mounted as ext2. AFAIK, it's not only the journal. But I don't remember where I read that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [opensuse] accessing a v9.3 crypto partition with v10.3

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
) From: Carlos E. R. To: OS-sec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [opensuse-security] Weird encrypted filesystem problem. There the different encryption methods used by Yast in 9.2 and later were explained somewhat. Basically: twofish256: --- I think this was used in 9.3, not sure ivgen='plain

Re: [opensuse] The spamd daemon dies unexpectedly halting mail processing.

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
related to perl or spamassassin there? Perhaps glibc? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXHN0tTMYHG2NR9URAiS3AJ4vZs5USslK1cYFfR7jtwHu7VhDjQCfX6Cx lhanhdB9j8JJG0JlE2MPZXE= =JLzI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] Simulating slow file system

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
/linux/Documentation/device-mapper/delay.txt: ] Device-Mapper's delay target delays reads and/or writes ] and maps them to different devices. example: ] # Create device delaying rw operation for 500ms But don't ask /me/ about it, I know nothing :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN

Re: [opensuse] format external harddisk to ntfs

2007-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
a document I can point you to. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXIBjtTMYHG2NR9URAqRfAJ4/216WmeijlmCzmiUaRZ+hnpKfRgCZAa47 fubOi/yjlCLsijFv3jdrRu4= =U5Pd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

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