Re: [opensuse] Latest Version of Acroread

2008-01-09 Thread Ken Jennings
On Tuesday 2008-01-08 19:58, Dave Howorth wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 01:35 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2008-01-08 at 18:14 -0600, JB2 wrote: Kpdf is better. Not if you need features such as forms. Ooh! I must look for that tomorrow - I care about forms. Thanks :) Having

Re: [opensuse] Question about VMWare

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 2008-01-02 21:58, Robert Smits wrote: On my laptop, I currently have a dual boot Windows/OpenSuse 10.3 setup. I have installed VMWare Server. This laptop is a Compaq X1000, and comes with a hidden partition and XP Home install disks. I'd like to get rid of the XP and hidden

Re: [opensuse] good notebook

2007-11-22 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-11-22 06:43, Donald D Henson wrote: ken_jennings wrote: [...] Linux on Laptops maintains reports of linux compatibility for a wide variety of laptops: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com I have recently installed openSuse on several Dell notebooks -- an Inspiron 1501, a

Re: [opensuse] Scripting Question - Converting value to minutes:seconds

2007-11-19 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-11-19 21:59, Bryen wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:40 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-11-19 at 13:06 -0600, Bryen wrote: I'm trying to convert a value to an output to the user of minutes:seconds. For example: if $A=100 (for seconds) Then echo This is

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Boxes (shipping?)

2007-10-29 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-10-29 12:48, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: russbucket wrote: On Monday October 29 2007 01:02, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Did you get in the meantime some reaction? The problems should have been solved by now... Only response I have gotten so far is an email saying its on back order

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Boxes (shipping?)

2007-10-23 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-10-22 23:54, Kevin Dupuy wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:11 -0700, russbucket wrote: On Monday October 22 2007 16:09, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello gys, Does anyone knows if the 10.3 boxes are already shipping? I ordered mine last Monday and I haven't received any

Re: [opensuse] home partition is full

2007-08-26 Thread Ken Jennings
On Sunday 2007-08-26 02:08, Rajko M. wrote: . . . but for instance: ~/.kde directory contains not only settings, but also KMail has all your mail in one of subdirectories. That you don't want to delete too. Is this new? I'm using 10.2 and Kmail keeps only a few config files in locations

Re: [opensuse] Re: Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-22 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 2007-08-22 11:16, Joachim Schrod wrote: Sloan wrote: It seems to be essentially one of the honor system viruses for unix, you know the drill: 1. download the hostile executable 2. save the save the hostile executable somewhere appropriate 3. change the file mode to make

Re: [opensuse] printing emails with loooooong lines from kmail ...

2007-08-21 Thread Ken Jennings
On Tuesday 2007-08-21 09:45, Daniel Bauer wrote: Hello, When printing an email that contains a very long line (an URL) the whole email gets scaled, so that the long line fits on the paper - thus makes the printout unreadable. any idea how/where I can set that when printing such

Re: [opensuse] Small database program?

2007-08-18 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-05-28 20:22, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Nick Zentena wrote: Is there something small and simple? All I want is to set up a simple home database. Items,serial numbers maybe a couple more fields. Every time I go looking all I seem to find is stuff geared at running a Fortune 500

Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?

2007-08-11 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-08-11 02:36, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install

[opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?

2007-08-10 Thread Ken Jennings
labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? Thanks, Ken Jennings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] zmd update status

2007-08-04 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-08-04 01:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just trying to do a few things on my laptop (centrino duo 2GHz/2GB RAM/160G 7200RPM HDD) and noticed things were running really slow. . . . The process was zmd update-status. What's that? I

[opensuse] Slow Motion KDE Open Folder Animation

2007-07-14 Thread Ken Jennings
openSUSE 10.2, 2.6.18.8-0.3-default x86_64 KDE 3.5.5 release 45.5 When Konqueror opens a folder there's a short animation of an expanding box drawn with a dashed line superimposed over the icon. On most systems it plays too fast for most people to really see it. On this particular system it

Re: [opensuse] Slow Motion KDE Open Folder Animation (Solved)

2007-07-14 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-07-14 16:42, Ken Jennings wrote: openSUSE 10.2, 2.6.18.8-0.3-default x86_64 When in doubt, update. openSUSE 10.2, 2.6.18.8-0.5-default x86_64, and the animation problem went away. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can't get the OpenSuse 10.2 64 disc to run

2007-07-14 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-07-14 17:32, John Meyer wrote: I have an AMD 64 Athelon which can run the 32 bit version of OpenSuse perfectly, but when I boot up from the 64 disc and select install, the screen goes black and stays there. Am I missing something? Or does AMD 64 not mean that it's a 64 bit

Re: [opensuse] kdepim3 patch update crashes KNotes

2007-06-18 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-06-18 15:03, drek wrote: On 06/18/2007 11:59 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:55:18AM +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote: I installed the following patch through YOU last Friday: - kdepim3-3.5.5-36_39.i586 After rebooting my laptop, the KNotes

Re: [opensuse] Run Dual-boot XP simultaneously? (SOLVED (mostly))

2007-06-17 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-05-24 11:35, Rainer Klier wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 23.05.2007, 21:06 -0400 schrieb Ken Jennings: Windows on my wife's Dell 4700C finally imploded. Since the opportunity to fix it was presented, I added dual-booting Suse 10.2 after reinstalling XP. It occurs to me now

Re: [opensuse] Dell optiplex GX280

2007-06-13 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 2007-06-13 01:47, Wade Berrier wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:16 -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: I tried installing 10.2 on a Dell optiplex GX 280. It booted fine from the CD. Initial setup and the first part of the software install went fine. However, after the first reboot

[opensuse] Dell optiplex GX280

2007-06-12 Thread Ken Jennings
I tried installing 10.2 on a Dell optiplex GX 280. It booted fine from the CD. Initial setup and the first part of the software install went fine. However, after the first reboot to continue the rest of the install it locks up hard. The grub menu displays, it starts to boot, but right after

Re: [opensuse] Motherboard suggestions for AMD 64 bit

2007-06-11 Thread Ken Jennings
On Monday 2007-06-11 14:12, Chris Haynes wrote: I'm planning to build my own development workstation and want to use an AMD dual 64 bit processor. I'm currently trying to select a motherboard for use with openSUSE 10.2 (-64) From general product reviews I liked the look of the Asus M2N32 WS

Re: [opensuse] GUI for environment variables

2007-06-06 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 2007-06-06 00:20, M Harris wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 21:13, Kai Ponte wrote: Kai stands up Hi, my name is, Kai. (from audience) Hi, Kai! I am a Kate user and I don't know Vi. Ok, these are for Kai... you have our pitty, but you are our friend. These

Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

2007-05-30 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2007-05-25 08:41, Kai Ponte wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 7:57 pm, Pueblo Native wrote: I'm putting together a document listing alternatives for Microsoft Publisher, and so far I can only think of Scribus. Are there any others out there that show promise? AFAIK, no. There's

Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

2007-05-30 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote: [...] I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would depend upon circumstances. I'm sure your going to have some people scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and purchase another program (as

[opensuse] Run Dual-boot XP simultaneously?

2007-05-23 Thread Ken Jennings
Windows on my wife's Dell 4700C finally imploded. Since the opportunity to fix it was presented, I added dual-booting Suse 10.2 after reinstalling XP. It occurs to me now with a complete XP install on its own partition separate from linux, shouldn't it somehow be possible to run both at the

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 ?

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 05:14, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. lazy is unfair and exaggerated. Every version of Suse since I started with 8.0 has had

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

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 20:51, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Felix Miata wrote: My guess is that those on the SUSE payroll have a portion of their job performance officially measured by how many bugs assigned to them remain open and how long they stay open while assigned to them, which would make it

Re: [opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 23:40, Registration Account wrote: Given the choice when getting a new PC would you choose Intel Core 2 duo or AMD Athlon 64bit x 2 CPU With 1000 and 1 benchmarks and both are similar cost to me - can you help. Please don't go anywhere outside the CPU - I can do all the

Re: [opensuse] Firefox on AMD64 X2

2007-05-11 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2007-05-11 22:13, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:31 +1000, George Osvald wrote: I use to favour Firefox for my web browsing. Recently I upgraded my computer to AMD core duo processor and a 64 bit version of Firefox does not work properly. Java does not work,

Re: [opensuse] How to configure the text displayed in the StarWars screen saver?

2007-05-10 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-05-10 02:24, M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:31, Ken Jennings wrote: I recall in a previous version of Suse I could control the text to display in the StarWars screen saver.  (I have a file with the intros to all six movies.)  Can't seem to figure out how to do

Re: [opensuse] How to configure the text displayed in the StarWars screen saver?

2007-05-10 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-05-10 02:37, M Harris wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:24, M Harris wrote: 1) Enter the Control Center suse--control center 2) Appearance Themes, Screen Saver, Banners Pictures, StarWars 3) click Setup 4) enter the file name in the

[opensuse] How to configure the text displayed in the StarWars screen saver?

2007-05-09 Thread Ken Jennings
I recall in a previous version of Suse I could control the text to display in the StarWars screen saver. (I have a file with the intros to all six movies.) Can't seem to figure out how to do it now. The screen saver config for KDE doesn't appear to have any visible means of specifying a file

Re: [opensuse] Chameleon and Suse Menu

2007-04-30 Thread Ken Jennings
the random graphics garbage, forever. Thanks, Ken Jennings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-03-24 11:43, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 09:00 -0500, 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. I read somewhere that there are,

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-03-24 19:08, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 12:47 -0800, John Andersen wrote: In my country, we have official ID cards, so the photo is not necessary. Plus, in a pinch, you can discard the card: the tugs can not find the owner and force him/her to give

Re: [opensuse] Need explanation - question 1

2007-03-06 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2006-12-01 15:52, usr wrote: ... I gave 10.2 a 3GB partition for / I also made separate partitions for /tmp, /var, and /home, each 10GB in size. I went to update 10.2 and was warned that the / partition is 97% full. /tmp, /var, and /home don't necessarily have a lot of stuff in

Re: [opensuse] MSworks (huh!)

2007-02-22 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-02-22 21:13, Robert Lewis wrote: Any recommendations for how to view a *WPS *MS Works Text Document on Linux. ... Do you know what version of Works was used? Even Works won't often load other, older versions of Works file. If you can get the sender to use Works to export

Re: [opensuse] tall PNG images don't load in Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 2007-02-16 05:18, Pete Connolly wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57:03 Dave Howorth wrote: I have a problem with loading some PNG images in Firefox. The images are generated using GD and most of the images load OK, but some don't. As near as I can tell, it is tall (or maybe

Re: [opensuse] tar

2007-01-21 Thread Ken Jennings
On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:04, John Meyer wrote: And while we're at it, let's see what the -9 does: before adding -9 to the script: total 44523 -rw-r--r-- 1 jmeyer users 44065843 2007-01-21 18:01 Pictures.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/backups backupfiles.sh After adding -9 [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2007-01-01 Thread Ken Jennings
On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:05, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 16:09 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: Server database. When determining if results were found, I put a default not found message: No results found - Bummer. When I gave a demo, the bummer message came up, as I had

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins

2006-12-30 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:32, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote: Kai Ponte wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:07, James Knott wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: James Knott wrote: Whenever I boot my notebook computer, after installing 10.2, I get those Marching Penguins. The screen is

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-06 Thread Ken Jennings
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 04:55, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:40 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: Yes. I suspect 80%-90% of the SUSE box manuals never were opened and just discard or burned, which is pretty much a waste. I wonder... I think people do look. If they

Re: [opensuse] Dell Computer with Suse 10.1

2006-11-30 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Some years ago I wanted a keyboard for a non-IBM computer which had the same solidity and tactile feel. I researched and purchased a Northgate keyboard. The base was metal, not plastic, it was heavy, it had the tactile feel,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] Red Hat's take:

2006-11-10 Thread Ken Jennings
On Friday 10 November 2006 15:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-10-06 13:22]: Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-) Does a VIC-20 count?? I suppose it can count up to $ff before using multi-byte math.