Re: [opensuse] .xsession-errors huge file

2007-04-29 Thread G.T.Smith
Andrew Senyshyn wrote: this is content of .xsession-errors. any ideas? /etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started. INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method). Trying to start a default input method for the locale uk_UA.UTF-8 ... There is no default

Re: [opensuse] Issues with the latest samba update

2007-04-28 Thread G.T.Smith
Moby wrote: 3-0-24-18-1-56 worked fine on SuSE 10.0 and OpenSuSE 10.2 systems without exhibiting the problems mentioned below. The problems surface when Samba is upgraded to samba-3.0.24-22.1.57. 1) On OpenSuSE 10.2 systems: Using samba completely standalone with an smbpasswd back end.

Re: [opensuse] Trouble copying (burn) multisession CD !

2007-04-28 Thread G.T.Smith
Alexey Eremenko wrote: I have tried to burn multi session CD, that has 2 sessions: one normal session and other Boot Sector (Floppy 1.44MB emulation). This is a home-made custom MS DOS LiveCD. When I tried to Copy-CD in K3B it said that it works (copying reported to be success), but in

Re: [opensuse] [OT] - Apple Computer new product announcement (joke)

2007-04-28 Thread G.T.Smith
Stevens wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 10:25, Michael Skiba wrote: Happy Weekend Michael :) (No really, why do we have to do such jokes about womans? I've no problem with it i they're neutral, I wouldn't complain about them, when they're posted, I'd maybe even laugh - but why do we

Re: [opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-27 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-25 at 21:27 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: [Stuff deleted] I do not see the above after making the host query (though the dns logs do not seem to have been updated for quite some time and I have not made any changes the configuration in this respect

Re: [opensuse] Timestamping [ Was : Converting file system]

2007-04-27 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-04-27 at 12:50 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: I haven't really tried it yet, it is on my to do list. I do my backups to other HD and manually to DVD. Not an automated solution. A further complication is although kdar apparently offers a 4Gb slice size

Re: [opensuse] Timestamping [ Was : Converting file system]

2007-04-26 Thread G.T.Smith
Greg Freemyer wrote: On 4/25/07, G.T.Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-25 at 11:44 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: ... The conclusion I am coming too is the the current time stamping mechanism is inadequate for anything but the crudest of time

Re: [opensuse] delay boot process

2007-04-26 Thread G.T.Smith
Evan Ingram wrote: Hi there how can i insert a time delay into the booting of a server? one of my servers has ldap user and authentication data that my terminal server uses. after a power failure and when power is restored both machines come back to life at the same time, but i need the

Re: [opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2007-04-24 23:12, david rankin wrote: snip Thanks for all the responses! It looks like the primary problem is a lot of lame servers out there. As Carlos explained, the IP in question does not resolve with reverse DNS. However, I would not call

Re: [opensuse] dns on Suse 10

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
david rankin wrote: From: James D. Parra Hello, I've configured dns via yast on for internal use, however I have a couple of questions. When using nslookup from a windows box pointing to the Suse dns server we get the following error; C:\tempnslookup www.website.com 192.168.0.2 ***

Re: [opensuse] Timestamping [ Was : Converting file system]

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Joe Shaw wrote: Hi, On 4/24/07, G.T.Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: access time == modification time == creation time Note that ctime is *not* creation time, it's change time. It is set any time some metadata about the file is changed (user/group ownership, change in access rights

Re: [opensuse] YOU Repository

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Rob Sell wrote: I'm setting up a suse 9.0 machine, I guess I should've expected not to find an online YOU repository. is there any way I can take the updates from a system that was updated prior to support being pulled and copy all the packages out of /var/lib/Yast2/mnt/. and put them on

Re: [opensuse] Timestamping [ Was : Converting file system]

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-25 at 11:44 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: ... The conclusion I am coming too is the the current time stamping mechanism is inadequate for anything but the crudest of time related file management, and possibly not even that given the way some things

Re: [opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-25 at 10:29 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: Disabling ftp will solve first cause... but there is something of more concern here... Occasionally I need to enable external ssh access. When I enable external ssh access, I usually get ssh scan attacks

Re: [opensuse] vote for the 10.3's slogan

2007-04-24 Thread G.T.Smith
Thomas Hertweck wrote: M Harris wrote: [...nothing useful + 100KB attachment...] Are you nuts? Please stop sending these absurd attachments to the list! That's annoying, especially if you read your emails on mobile devices. Put it on a webserver and send a link if you feel you

Re: [opensuse] Converting file system

2007-04-24 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-04-23 at 18:44 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: I often use the modification date, sometimes the creation date, but I have never needed to use the access time. And as for dirs, simply by listing a dir that time is modified. So be it. But if you need

Re: [opensuse] Cannot get HPLIP to see my HP Photosmart C7180 printer

2007-04-24 Thread G.T.Smith
Clark Sann wrote: Hello, I installed HPLIP on SUSE 10.2. It appears to be installed ok but it cannot find my printer. Any ideas what is wrong? The printer works from my windows machines. Thanks Clark What is your printer? Is it networked, USB, or other ... Are you using YaST,

Re: [opensuse] vote for the 10.3's slogan [going OT]

2007-04-24 Thread G.T.Smith
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 02:03, G.T.Smith wrote: ... At least it is an attachment, not embedded HTML/MIME. But it was embedded--go back and look at the original, raw message text. Not that it bothers me. Networks are for data. The more, the better

Re: [opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-24 Thread G.T.Smith
James Knott wrote: david rankin wrote: Mates, I am experiencing an excessive load from the internet that looks like some kind of attack. The log entries that repeat over and over are: Apr 22 11:14:54 bonza proftpd[10488]: bonza.rbpllc.com (216.101.241.110[216.101.241.110]) - FTP session

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-23 Thread G.T.Smith
Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Apr 22 07:29 Registration Account wrote (shortened): If you are going to choose either a scanner or printer I agree make sure its a real HP. You will always have Linux drivers (shortened again) Not always! Kind Regards Johannes Meixner

Re: [opensuse] RE: Open Suse Alpha3 testing - upgradeability

2007-04-23 Thread G.T.Smith
Alexey Eremenko wrote: The problem with your ask is that we are, as a community, are volunteers, and as such we prefer to focus on features we use ourselves. That is if some tester prefers new install and KDE, he will mostly (or only) test KDE with fresh install, not matter how buggy other

Re: [opensuse] Server cannot connect to itself

2007-04-23 Thread G.T.Smith
Drew Burchett wrote: I have two servers running on identical hardware. They are both running Suse Linux 10.1. One is running Bind 9.3.2 and the other is running Apache 2.1 and MySQL 5.0. Today when I came in, the servers had been restarted and the network interfaces did not come up (I'm

Re: [opensuse] vote for the 10.3's slogan

2007-04-23 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: On Saturday 21 April 2007 01:56, jdd wrote: no, openSUSE don't mean Linux for newbies, we have to enforce the fact than openSUSE IS a Linux box jdd I got it Why is the man in

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread G.T.Smith
Stevens wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:15, Clayton wrote: Personally, I prefer a gui to cli since I am basically lazy and would rather point-n-click than lean over and open a terminal window and type, then wonder what I forgot to enter when it doesn't work right. Am I glad the

Re: [opensuse] FTP access via SSH tunnel

2007-04-19 Thread G.T.Smith
Peter Van Lone wrote: On 4/18/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] erroneously and egregiously wrote: Second -- I prefer to point people to filezilla, as it is published under the GPL - winscp is not: well shit ... I have to retract my comment. I was certain that winscp was a closed

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than how nicey-nicey people are. This is very true ... ... and very wrong. At this point in time the openSUSE distro is

Re: [opensuse] Re: mailing from CLI

2007-04-19 Thread G.T.Smith
ken wrote: On 04/17/2007 09:36 PM somebody named Joachim Schrod wrote: ken wrote: Yes! You got it!!! And this was my original question Which mail client? Remember, I already mentioned mail/mailx/nail. The problem is that the documentation for these is worthless. So if

Re: [opensuse] Can't make postfix to atutenficate to my ISP.

2007-04-18 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-18 at 08:19 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: I think you need to generate a certificate, which creates some necessary files below /etc/postfix/ssl. The certificate works for both client and server by default. Try out the etc/sysconfig Editor, fill

Re: [opensuse] Can't make postfix to atutenficate to my ISP.

2007-04-18 Thread G.T.Smith
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-04-18 at 08:19 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: I think you need to generate a certificate, which creates some necessary files below /etc/postfix/ssl. The certificate works

Re: [opensuse] Can't make postfix to atutenficate to my ISP.

2007-04-17 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, I can't make postfix to authenticate to my ISP. See the debug log: Apr 10 12:06:31 nimrodel postfix/qmgr[21346]: 7337CB6FC5: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=5210, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Apr 10 12:06:32 nimrodel postfix/smtp[21659]: smtp.telefonica.net[213.4.149.66]:

Re: [opensuse] Can't make postfix to atutenficate to my ISP.

2007-04-17 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 13:58 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote: Apr 10 12:06:37 nimrodel postfix/smtp[21659]: smtp.my.isp[213.4.149.66]: 535 invalid user ID or password Your Postfix obviously tries to authenticate using your user:pass in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd, but the

Re: [opensuse] Problems setting up Samba-3 as PDC

2007-04-17 Thread G.T.Smith
Martin Mielke wrote: Hi all, some weeks ago I posted the following message to the Samba list but haven't seen any replies so far... This might be a bit OT but I need to find an answer soon and surely someone here has faced this problem before... I need to setup a PDC on Samba 3. To

Re: [opensuse] Problems setting up Samba-3 as PDC

2007-04-17 Thread G.T.Smith
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I need to setup a PDC on Samba 3. To achieve this I followed the steps described on the Samba docs and on some other websites I found after googling for a while. From the Samba side everything seems to be OK: Sorry to touch basics but Is your record of

Re: [opensuse] Problems setting up Samba-3 as PDC

2007-04-16 Thread G.T.Smith
Martin Mielke wrote: Hi all, some weeks ago I posted the following message to the Samba list but haven't seen any replies so far... This might be a bit OT but I need to find an answer soon and surely someone here has faced this problem before... For information about correcting this

Re: [opensuse] OT: Win XP help--where?

2007-04-15 Thread G.T.Smith
Doug McGarrett wrote: On Sunday 15 April 2007 00:20, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 23:45 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Obviously not here, but where can I get some help to set up Win XP SP2, which looks nothing like my old SP1 that crashed and burned without any backup.

Re: [opensuse] 3G phone + BT dial-up

2007-04-15 Thread G.T.Smith
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 22:32 +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote: Hi, Any pointers how to configure BT capable 3G phone (Nokia e70) for 3G data over BT? BT seems to work between the phone and laptop just fine but PPP dial-up is another thing. I've only done

Re: [opensuse] THANKS! Evolution pword patch!

2007-04-15 Thread G.T.Smith
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution. Has anyone else left Evolution Nope, still using it and been using it for many years Same, been using Evolution forever; it is fast, stable, usable, and feature complete. I liked

Re: [opensuse] setting up a home network

2007-04-14 Thread G.T.Smith
Rajko M. wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 23:37, dwain wrote: samba server? dwain Yes. It should be running. Console as root: rcnmb start rcsmb start Client is used to see windows, server is used to share linux resources. You may want to configure Samba. I would read

Re: [opensuse] THANKS! Evolution pword patch!

2007-04-14 Thread G.T.Smith
Clark P. Case wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:22 -0600, Tom Patton wrote: Just did my weekly update...Evolution patch to restore the password database works fine! I'm surprised I haven't seen any chatter about it on the list...perhaps I missed it. Thanks, again! Tom in NM

Re: [opensuse] Re: Please make available a 2 DVD set for openSUSE 10.3

2007-04-13 Thread G.T.Smith
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 4/13/07, Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of bandwidth, I see one thing that can be safely removed: CDs for x64 architecture. All 64-bit systems are equipped with DVDs, so 64-bit CD is a real waste. Anybody has heard of existence of 64-bit

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread G.T.Smith
John Summerfield wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007 21:24, G.T.Smith wrote: For a long time I used reply-all in Thunderbird and edited the recipients, then I discovered a plugin for List Reply, so I only have to remember to click on Reply List. Â Once I new it existed I found

Re: [opensuse] Re: Please make available a 2 DVD set for openSUSE 10.3

2007-04-13 Thread G.T.Smith
Druid wrote: Oh please. Enough already with the lame excuses... there is nothing wrong with proposing an idea... in the States we call that brainstorming and its Just because you need it doesnt mean everybody need it. If Opensuse was about to solve all use cases, we would end up

Re: [opensuse] Re: Please make available a 2 DVD set for openSUSE 10.3

2007-04-13 Thread G.T.Smith
Alexey Eremenko wrote: and again: If we make the 2 DVDs modular the current user's needs will still be addressed, plus adding needs of many new users around. That is, the first DVD will contain all the needed things to get you up running. speaking of penalties: The mirrors live up with

Re: [opensuse] may we get official openSUSE PHPbb forum?

2007-04-13 Thread G.T.Smith
Sandy Drobic wrote: What might offer an additional value is an archive of tested solutions to problems, something like a how-to-solve-problems-wiki. That could be refered to on the mailing list to answer problems quickly and decisively. Though it still wouldn't be a forum. Useful point,

Re: [opensuse] Trouble setting up SAMBA

2007-04-12 Thread G.T.Smith
Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007 07:44:09 pm Pueblo Native wrote: Maybe somebody can help me out with exactly what I need here. I have a Windows Computer and a Linux Computer hooked up through a router to share a cable modem. I want to get them to where they can see each

Re: [opensuse] Trouble setting up SAMBA

2007-04-12 Thread G.T.Smith
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 4/12/07, Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have configured SWAT's guest account to be =root. I believe it should not be too major security problems with this, as it's at my Home, behind a firewall. besides the / partition is not shared at all. Only data

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread G.T.Smith
John Summerfield wrote: I've had enough of this list, I really do not like off-list replies to my attempts to help people. They are bad because 1. It breaks filtering (the list-id header is present in mail from the list and it's sensible to use it to filter email). 2. Other people can't

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread G.T.Smith
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:28 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: I sympathise, but this may not be entirely the person sending the replys fault, hitting reply on my copy of Thunderbird will send directly to the original sender not to the list itself. (I dunno if this case

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: According to RFC 822 (4.4.3/4.4.4) the ReplyTo field is supposed to override the From field for the purposes of replying to a message. (Useful if you are sending from account a but want any replies directed to account b). I think the above Headers are non-standard

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-11 Thread G.T.Smith
David Brodbeck wrote: G.T.Smith wrote: Actually the first thing I do is try to get pico working. Nice little very basic editor, and I would agree with Doug and go a litlle further and say IMHO vi is interesting for those with a masochistic disposition:-) I don't like pico because

Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it

2007-04-11 Thread G.T.Smith
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote: There is no reason to make it executable. Any text file will do. It can be located anywhere. Surely some mistake here, the root cron file in the example would have to executed to so needs execute rights

Re: [opensuse] Mysql question

2007-04-11 Thread G.T.Smith
James Hatridge wrote: Hi all, I have records with the date in DD-MM-, but mysql wants them in -MM-DD. Is there anyway of changing Mysql's format? Thanks, JIM I believe MySQL run there own mailing lists to deal with MySQL issues, I would suggest going to the relevant MySQL

Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it

2007-04-10 Thread G.T.Smith
John Andersen wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 10 Apr 2007 06:15, Magnus Boman wrote: There are plenty of ways to do this... you can make it as an executable file, called rootcron in directory: /var/spool/cron/tabs then, execute :

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-10 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 16:31, Doug McGarrett wrote: If you're new to Unix/Linux, and you don't actually _need_VI, then use something friendly like MC, or pico, or joe. There's a whole text-book on VI, and this is not a user-friendly thing, and neither is EMACS, altho the

Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it

2007-04-10 Thread G.T.Smith
Magnus Boman wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:54 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: John Andersen wrote: [Stuff deleted] *you can make it as an executable file, called rootcron in directory: * /var/spool/cron/tabs *then, execute : * /var/spool/cron/tabs/crontab rootcron

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 00:26, dwain wrote: How do I get to the man pages again? Actually, they are mostly obsolete... ... you want to load and use info these days Really? There are quite a few commands that do not have an info entry! Man is

Re: [opensuse] suse install problem

2007-04-08 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: hi folks, I am trying to install opensuse 10.0 on a friends old Dell Inspiron 3200 : Hardware checks out, machine was running W98 I have disabled most of the features like serial, infrared, floppy, etc. The machine boots from the CD-1 fine

Re: [opensuse] Wireless configuration

2007-04-08 Thread G.T.Smith
Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I'm new to Suse and I am not an expert in Linux. I want to configure my wireless Linksys WUSB11 Version 2.6 nic with Atmel chipset. The driver of the device is correctly loaded in the kernel (at76_usb), and Yast2 detects the card all right. Problem is, when I

Re: [opensuse] best file distribution technology for my case? (getting OT)

2007-04-07 Thread G.T.Smith
John Andersen wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007, G.T.Smith wrote: Checksums as it has been already pointed out provide no security, only a guarantee of the integrity of the source files, and as such are essential for technologies such as bittorrent to work. However, checksum + datasource

Re: [opensuse] best file distribution technology for my case?

2007-04-06 Thread G.T.Smith
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear list Recently I need to start a small project to distribute about 100GB megabytes of audio files to local university campus. I'd like to post my requirement hoping I can get some insightful recommendation on what software/technology to use to distribute these files.

Re: [opensuse] best file distribution technology for my case?

2007-04-06 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-04-06 at 20:41 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: Should I remind you that SuSE/Novell uses torrent to distribute the iso images of the distribution? Indeed, the virus that SuSE distributes is the one I have installed in my system, alive and running - it

Re: [opensuse] Migrating from Thunderbird

2007-04-05 Thread G.T.Smith
Curiously, just experienced the permanent timeout issue myself. However, I migrated in opposite direction (evolution - thunderbird) some time ago as my evolution setup never worked properly again after an upgrade from v1 to v2 when upgrading between different version of SuSE 9. While I liked v1,

Re: [opensuse] Konsole problems

2007-04-05 Thread G.T.Smith
Does this happen with just this command sequence, or all command sequences? Martin J Hooper wrote: http://martinjh.myby.co.uk/ss1.png Does anyone have the problem with Konsole in the last line there? It does the same thing with xterm as well. Is it a bug or something else?? I have tried

Re: [opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files

2007-03-30 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 13:03 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: Sorin Peste wrote: After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install [Stuff deleted] I admit to be being surprised about

Re: [opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files

2007-03-30 Thread G.T.Smith
Larry Stotler wrote: The inclusion of zenworks is a little intriguing as I have some familiarity with the commercial variant of the beast, cannot see it being of benefit to SOHO users, but if some the workstation management stuff is in place could rather useful for multi-machine environments.

Re: [opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files

2007-03-29 Thread G.T.Smith
Sorin Peste wrote: Hi, After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install while keeping all my /home files (they are on a separate partition). But I can't seem to get the installer to leave that partition

Re: [opensuse] logrotate and crontab

2007-03-29 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 11:08 -0300, Rejaine Monteiro wrote: as far as i can see, the default crontab entries (in /etc/cron.daily, etc/cron.hourly etc.) are being scheduled via the /etc/crontab master file: -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer [getting OT]

2007-03-26 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-03-25 at 13:19 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: No, you throw them away when you see a hold up comming, so that they can't force you to give up the pin. For instance :-) The problem with that is that many times, all you need to buy with a credit card

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-26 Thread G.T.Smith
ka1ifq wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007 13:34, David Brodbeck wrote: Rajko M. wrote: 2) Is there any bank that is asking for such identification for credit cards? There will be no so much problems with stolen identities if they would. Fingerprint readers are not foolproof.

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer [getting OT]

2007-03-26 Thread G.T.Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 26 Mar 2007 07:59, G.T.Smith wrote: Probably means that they do not have, or unable to get a credit card trader account, which apparently can be expensive to set up and maintain. - I do not understand the trader account machinery . . . maybe using

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer [getting OT]

2007-03-26 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-03-26 at 08:59 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: By the way... I know of at least one e-commerce institution that does not accept credit card payment from Internet. It has to be bank transfer, or postal payment on arrival (which is more expensive). I wonder why