Re: [opensuse] Burning CDs
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 any... GTMF is the way to go. :D http://www.cdrkit.org/ The cdrecord program has been renamed to wodim (write optical disk media) .. You can get source for all of the cdrkit from the URL above. :D - Ben -- 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] my SuSE can not access a solaris partition. It's weird.
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 my SuSE should also be able to read/write on the puppy'es and the solaris partitions. reading/writing onto the puppy'es partition by my beloved SuSE has no problem absolutely. But my SuSE can not read/write on the solaris'es partition. Solaris is on hda1 puppy is on hda2 and the SuSE is on hda3 both of them are primary partitions. the puppy'es and the SuSE use ext2 partition. and the solaris use default as it installed namely ext3. Why do you think, that solaris is using ext3 as filesystem ? AFAIK solaris uses some variant of ufs and you also need an ufstype parameter for the exact subtype of ufs ( see man mount) . I think Solaris uses ZFS. There is a project to make ZFS filesystems available under Linux via fuse, but I don't think it's particularly mature at the moment. Solaris by default still uses UFS. The issue is that Solaris UFS has the same partition id as Linux swap space which is 83 I believe. This would make Linux by default see a Solaris partition as swap space. :) If one wants to mount it then UFS support must be loaded into the Linux kernel and the FS specified when mounting it. That's about all that need be taken into account. -- 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] Re: Software being accessed by another program??
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. My, we're close to the edge today, Ben. He did indicate the statement was in jest :^) Beer time :^), happy Father's Day. Nah. I knew that one of the statements was just being silly .. the other one .. I dunno. My reply was tinged with sarcasm though. :D Just me being me. Happy Dad Beer Day to you too. -- 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] Re: Software being accessed by another program??
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 10.0 and *seven* years later it still can and most Mac's have shipped with multi- button mice for at least 2 years. This is like saying there is no software for Linux and no one uses Linux .. it's a myth. Yeah, but thats because mac users can't fathom more than a single button. Funny, I know what each button on my 9 button Logitech mouse does when it's connected to my Macbook Pro .. and oddly enough it's the same mouse I've had attached to my laptops since I got my Titanium Powerbook in 2003. :D I guess we who use Mac's don't need to know more then click.. click.. to get our UNIX terminal windows open to ssh to our Linux and Solaris servers. ;D *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. - Ben -- 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] The Leopard Shows its Spots
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 in my computer. please ... my dear Americans, get a hold of your lawyers! M$ is about to get stump in the head... tamate tamate! Both articles are interesting and relevant in terms of the American Marketplace as being the largest in the world. I would view this article as an analysis intended to keep investors and shareholders on board, and the business equivalent to the Haka(*) before the big (rugby) game. bla bla bla (*) The maori haka is a ritual hurling of abuse and threats before getting down to the serious business of mutual brain bashing... used by the All Blacks in Rugby Union for much the same purpose... [NZ members of the list may wish to elaborate] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSCvMasN0sSnLmgIRAvlwAJ9hHgBNuUtkkX2aHPqfFYX5x8I5CwCg3zt1 HIpTWtUBzhJjADKG9Ldkx80= =Wu4N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] NVIDIA drivers
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 users on a help list that most SUSE employees don't pay attention too? -ben -- 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] SUSE 9.0 iso images?
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 disks or iso images because this machine existed prior to me joining my current group at work. And of course they don't have them either. Any help would rock. Do you mean SUSE Linux 9.0 or SUSE LInux Enterprise Server 9? Do not use SUSE Linux 9.0 anymore, it has been out of support for a year now. Ciao, Marcus Yes, I'm quite aware of the state of SUSE Linux 9.0. The reason I need it is that we have some servers that are heavily ACL'ed via the switches they are on and have hugely restrictive iptables rules .. but they do run 9.0 and in order to replace them I must do a base set of benchmarks the software they currently use on a test system running the same version of the OS. I will then have to test SUSE 10.2, Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 6.10. I'm not happy about it, but the PHB's in upper management are requiring it. I threw away 6.0 - 9.2 almost a year ago thinking I'd be upgrading away from 9.0 within a few months. I was wrong and now I need copies. :D I've contacted one of the others to get iso's. Thanks all. :D - Ben -- 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] gconfd = ?
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 4:38 PM, Daniel Barna wrote: What is starting this process? Why? gconfd-2 is part of the gconf2 package, which is, according to its description: This is the development version of GConf, the GNOME configuration database. It is used by the GNOME 2.x Desktop platform I am NOT using gnome, but kde. If I want to remove this package, smart wants to remove also (among others): firefox, openoffice, gimp -- 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] OTN page kills firefox?
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 crashed again, just noticed it doesn't happen with zip files, only with the rpm ones. That's because the default meta data for RPM as far as FF is concerned is for Realplayer files .. always has been. It's such a pain. You have to right click on the rpm file and do a save as. - Ben -- Works doing the right-click-thing, still think firefox shouldn't crash... No, it actually shouldn't .. it's probably a bad bit of site scripting along with FF's mishandling of the file. There is a way to change how FF handles files with .rpm extentions, but for the life of me I don't remember where it is or how to do it. Do a bit searching and you'll find it. cheers. -Ben -- 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]unsubscribe
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 easier could it be. -- 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] Consistency with power privileges
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 something off a floppy I would hate to think they would have to wait hours for IT to get around to getting them access. It might just mean the difference in a sale or not. I can appreciate the need for some of the access restrictions in unix like systems. Mostly they are used in a business situation. You don't want every jack leg in the place screwing with the company system. I am not in an office/company situation. I'm in a home computer situation. I'm the only person that ever touches this computer. There should be some switch somewhere that will allow for home use. Some things do need root access. Most everyday things should not. Access to information on other drives is not one that should be hindered. I see it sort of like the government interference in our everyday lives. If I'm driving in a reckless manner, that's their business, I'm endangering others. If I want to hit myself in the head repeatedly with a ball bat, that's my business. I'm not hurting anyone but myself. [ I know bad analogy - it's late for me and I have to get up EARLY so I'm in a hurry. sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Just put this in your /etc/sudoers file .. usernameALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL Note: replace username with your username This way you can keep the security of not letting anyone else do things they shouldn't. You do have to be root to edit the /etc/ sudoers file, so it's not like just anyone can add things to it. So this should work for your purposes. - Ben -- 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] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps
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 plain and simple. Just my 0.02 -- 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] Recommended Website Tools
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. I have used it for several pages and it never trashed anything I had done beforehand. It's very similar to Quanta. OK ... now I am lost on this web design thing. I have a teacher at school who asked for an easy web design program she could use. I suggested Nvu ... now I wish I had not. Seems it is not for beginners (since she will be limited to the WYSIWYG. I am afraid our school system is stuck (mired, sinking in the quicksand of MS) using WinXP. I guess the easiest is some MS slop -- like Frontpage. Unless, you can steer me to an acceptable OSS. I was under the impression that Frontpage was no longer being produced or supported. If you want something that is compliant and that quite a few use .. try Dreamweaver. You'll have to get CrossOver to use it. You could always use Quanta which is a KDE program and free. :D -- 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] beagled CPU usage
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 like locate and have been using it for years. It's an RPM installable off the installation media. I think you have to turn it on after installation through YaST services. No..once installed, open a konsole, su or sux to root, then run updatedb Once done, then locate works fine. And after this it will be updated via a cronjob each night or whenever the cron is set to run .. I forget when that is as I've had the same modified crontab for quite awhile now because I disable a lot of SUSE crons that are installed off the DVD. -Ben -- 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]
[opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?
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 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?
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?
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 ndiswrapper and would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that just works with SUSE or hell .. Linux in general. any atheros-based card. and yes, i know that they need madwifi, and madwifi is not part of opensuse anymore. no problem. download the whole content of http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2/ and burn it to a cd. then, during installation of 10.2 choose include additional media and point it to that cd. installation will complain about no product on cd or somesuch, because that folder on madwifi.org is a YUM source and no yast source. ignore that and choose the presented option to add all packages from media. then, during installation there's a point where you can customize the package selection. you have to click on details on that screen to be able to actually select individual packages. set the filter to installation sources and select the second source which has only a device shown but no product name. then you'll notice that yast already choose the madwifi package from that source. add the kernel driver package matching your system (SMP or normal) and you'll be able to use your wlan card right from the start, even during the registration process that comes just before the first online update. did that just yesterday, worked like a charm. the card i'm using myself is a level one wpc-0300, was pretty cheap, too. bye, MH -- Die unaufgeforderte Zusendung einer Werbemail an Privatleute verstößt gegen §1 UWG und 823 I BGB (Beschluß des LG Berlin vom 2.8.1998 Az: 16 O 201/98). Jede kommerzielle Nutzung der übermittelten persönlichen Daten sowie deren Weitergabe an Dritte ist ausdrücklich untersagt! gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Future of SUSE (at home)
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 wonderful product called GooGone .. I don't know if they sell it there, but if so then grab some. After you peel the sticker off .. just use some of that on tissue and no more sticky spot. :D - Ben -- 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] Future of SUSE (at home)
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 of the stupid sticker that i peeled off there ;) In the States we have this wonderful product called GooGone .. I don't know if they sell it there, but if so then grab some. After you peel the sticker off .. just use some of that on tissue and no more sticky spot. :D I find that ordinary lighter fluid works well for most label glues. True. It does. But it can also eat through the plastic if one isn't careful. :) -- 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] Speaking of Firefox...
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 of late unfortunately. RP BandiPat wrote: Firefox v2.0.0-8.1 Have any of you other users noticed it not working correctly on sites that didn't have problems before? I noticed on a banking site the other day I had to spoof IE where I had never before. Firefox just always seem to work fine. May have been a couple of others also, but still I thought it unusual. bye, Lee I have Bank of America and Firefox works just fine, can't answer for other banks. I use the current version of Firefox with U.S. Bank and it works fine. -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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, the Marching Penguins is an animated picture which means that it is not a jpeg - unless what I read about jpegs is wrong. So how can I put my own animated pix as the boot piccy? Not sure as I turn ALL that stuff off directly after install by remove the rpm's that make it possible to have the gfxboot. I wouldn't care if it was a picture of Warren Buffet the conservative business guy or daffy duck. ;D Cheers! Happy New Year to all. -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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. There are a great many of us who have been in corporate environments for a great many years and what you're saying is complete CRAP .. it's a boot screen you see for a few seconds when you start your computer .. w00p! First, drop the attitude. Then consider this scenario: your CEO calls you and says I understand we've been using this Linux thing for the last eight years; I'd like to know more about it. When you explain that you run it not only on the servers in the machine room but also on your workstation and your laptop, he asks you to come to his office and show it to him. You grab your laptop bag, walk into his office, switch it on, and... first impressions are everything. Your right. First impressions are everything .. and if he couldn't figure out how to change the bootsplash then he should boot it in his cube/office prior to walking in the PHB's office. He gave attitude and was condensing so quite frankly I will not drop the attitude . If one is civil then you get civility out of me .. if one is a jackass .. well .. we can have that conversation. It's a bootscreen for the love of God and you'll never get me change my mind about how irrelevant it is because it can be changed after GTMFing a little .. not even a lot. I realize a lot of people actually like it (e.g. small children), but even at home, I find it silly. Agreed! I disable the gfxboot as one of the first things done after install. It's removing 2 rpm's so that it won't be able to DO the graphic boot splash. :D I think the instructions for penguin neutralization bear repeating: Why? So it can get archived so that he and his ilk can go look for it .. he and others have already said that GTMFing is to unreasonable and shouldn't have to be done. :/ -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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 NOT qualify as something to worry about in this instance. There are a great many of us who have been in corporate environments for a great many years and what you're saying is complete CRAP .. it's a boot screen you see for a few seconds when you start your computer .. w00p! First, drop the attitude. Then consider this scenario: your CEO calls you and says I understand we've been using this Linux thing for the last eight years; I'd like to know more about it. When you explain that you run it not only on the servers in the machine room but also on your workstation and your laptop, he asks you to come to his office and show it to him. You grab your laptop bag, walk into his office, switch it on, and... first impressions are everything. And you have of course had the presence of mind to customize your splash screen to show something that will wow the d00d. Not to be snarky about this, but think about it. EXACTLY! :) We could nitpick this to death. I mean what if you've put a custom picture in for your KDM/GDM splash, a wallpaper or whatever .. will you have time to disable all of that? Quite frankly if my boss discounted Linux because he saw my Superman GDM splash .. then he shouldn't be in charge of a group of tech geeks. :D But then again the director in my department has Harley icons, Harley wallpapers and a stupid little engine sound when he empties his Recycle Bin .. and as I've said I work for a pretty decent size CLEC. :D Again, if the environment that one works in is that snotty about such things then disable the gfxboot ALL together .. make it as plain jane as possible by removing the RPM's that make the system able to even have pretty bootscreens. It's pretty simple. OH! That's right .. he didn't want to figure out how to change it so he'd not want to figure out which RPM's he'd have to remove. Damn! Forgot about that. ;D -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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 enough to change. If he doesn't like KDE, he can chose Gnome during install or later. He doesn't have to search archives he doesn't know about, to find the answer. Why is it necessary to do that, to get rid of that penguin screen? So in other words you're saying I don't want to find the answer myself. I just want someone to tell me because I'm too lazy to look it up. This doesn't work whether you're using Windows, MacOSX or Linux .. and quite frankly it makes a great many people in business environments or at home want to respond with GTMF. But since I'm feeling nice I'll GTMF for you .. and here it is and it was the first bloody link. http://homevellt.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/changing-the-grub-boot- screens/ 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. There are a great many of us who have been in corporate environments for a great many years and what you're saying is complete CRAP .. it's a boot screen you see for a few seconds when you start your computer .. w00p! - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI
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 to confuse phone support with the hardware supporting the software. I found very few motherboards these days that Linux doesn't run on, but it's hit or miss whether or not the company with give phone/email support for their hardware if one loads Linux. -ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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 does SuSE keep the Christmas boot screen? Ken, I screwed up in that previous post. Please visit this link to get instructions for the boot splash. Sorry about that. :) http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Changing_the_GRUB_background - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of Marching Penguins
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 and there are no *.xpm or *.xpm.gz files per the previously posted web page directions. Where does SuSE keep the Christmas boot screen? Ken, I screwed up in that previous post. Please visit this link to get instructions for the boot splash. Sorry about that. :) Right, well, you go and stand in the corner for an hour young man! That should teach you to mislead people on such a critical matter! :-) Thank you! Thank you for calling me a *young* man. You have a wonderful 2007. Cheers! -Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset
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 are on the motherboard when it comes to Intel for some odd reason. You'll need the DVD version as the 64 bit version of openSUSE isn't on the CD's. - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset
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 version will work fine on this, but it does seem to matter which chipsets are on the motherboard when it comes to Intel for some odd reason. You'll need the DVD version as the 64 bit version of openSUSE isn't on the CD's. It is if you download the 64 bit CDs. OH! I stand corrected. It's changed and I wasn't aware of it. :D Thanks for tip! - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Firefox 2.0.0.2pre Add-On Compatibility
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: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Updating_extensions_for_Firef ox_ 2 try it. (remember your themes must be uncompressed first) Ummm, yes, but I'm talking about a failure that occurred when I applied the latest SuSE-supplied update to Firefox 2.0. Modern Pinball was working on the version of Firefox 2.0 that was installed before that. oops, so you are saying that the security update reports itself as 2.0.0.2pre? Yup. That's exactly what shows in the About... dialog. Curiously enough, this is what RPM believes: % rpm -qa |egrep Fire MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.1-0.1 MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.1-0.1 You can change what Firefox reports itself as if you take a look in the about:config dialogue. You can make it basically anything you'd like and I'll bet that if you change it there that your theme will read that and have no issues. :D - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!
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/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/ screenshot.jpg why its enough to make an OS/2'er swoon. ick! So I should make my Linux box look like my Mac did circa 2001? Please .. are you really serious about this? I'd rather not. :D But it's such a pretty OS/2 blue :-) I'd rather colour the default FVWM2 theme blue .. it would be closer. And all those pinstripes! Oh my! -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why have I been thinking about Fedora??
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 be thinking about Fedora? Whatever makes your little heart feel warmer 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. -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why have I been thinking about Fedora??
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 confused. Why would my little heart feel warmer by cutting someone some slack? Is this some silly little colloquialism? No wonder I barely pay attention to this list anymore .. it's got wonderful people like you subscribed. I do agree with the opinion expressed on the list the last few weeks that I wish this list could go back to being what it was circa 1998 .. at least the jerks were drummed out with a quickeness then. - ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why have I been thinking about Fedora??
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 by answering an email this. ***hole. Whatever makes your little heart feel warmer OK. Now I'm just totally confused. Why would my little heart feel warmer by cutting someone some slack? Because there are no fewer than 8 separate threads on this crap since the deal was announced. Anyone who is *not* trolling can easily read those, and get all the feedback to answer his questions. Anyone asks a technical question that was answered sometime last year, and he gets dumped on from all sides about how he didn't research the matter enough -- someone posts yet another piece of troll-spam, and we are expected to sit idly by and give him some *encouragement*??? In that case. I wholeheartedly agree! Off with his head! That bastard! He didn't GTMF before asking his question! Good thing I've got the last five years of the list on my Mac .. I can just shake the magic Spotlight and get told to go screw myself! w00p! Right ON! *shakes head* Oh well .. guess thread 9 is the death sentence on the list now. Man, I wish I would have known that. I wouldn't have helped all those people with their ppp and sendmail questions for so many years! What a relief! Maybe we can have another 200 email thread about how to unsubscribe? Wouldn't that be fun! Maybe we can become like the Solaris lists circa 1996 and just answer everything with RTFM! That just warms my little heart to death! In any event .. enough vitriol for one night. -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Updating SUSE for CLI
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 self explanatory. - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!
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 words, comments etc., all searchable Extended atts are available in lots of file systems. Even newer suse releases use user_xattr in mount points (although I'm not sure what it buys us at this stage). Its just that nobody has come up with a good cross platform way to do it and there are few real world uses for it that are compelling enough for it to be used widely. Interesting. This sounds like Spotlight in OS X. But no one uses OS X in the real world. ;D -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!
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 Let me recommend something that will make all the OS/2 guys feel right at home: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/ screenshot.jpg why its enough to make an OS/2'er swoon. And, No, I'm not dissing fwvm2, I have a couple old machines that really work well with it. ick! So I should make my Linux box look like my Mac did circa 2001? Please .. are you really serious about this? I'd rather not. :D - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
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 tone of some of them. Complaining will not make them go away, but rather, will increase the number of disccusions and the noise. After close to 9 years on this list and hundreds of thousands of emails answer and sent .. I find the deal between SuSe (I'm an old fart, so leave me alone) and Microsoft VERY relevant to the future of what I will support and use. I remember quite well Microsoft crushing my beloved OS/2 with their bull and FUD. I don't want it to happen again to Linux. Believe the PHB's out there pay more attention to Microsoft paid pundits there we would believe. If they start seeing stuff like what Ballmer put forth .. they will shy away from Linux. This we can NOT have. So if Novell makes bad decisions that could effect my livelihood .. then by damn I want to know what they are. And if Novell has to be relegated to a bit player in the computing world .. so be it. It's not about SUSE, SuSE or SuSe .. it's about Linux and other GNU software. Not one person here can accuse me of being a Chicken Little or having an agenda. I've used SUSE since 4.1 and even worked for SUSE in Oakland. I want them around just as much as anyone else, but I won't have their parent company making shit decisions that in danger Linux. All Microsoft has to bloody do is release their specs for things such as SMB, NTFS and other such things .. the FOSS developers will do the rest to make them work together better. We don't need an agreement for better operability .. that crap. Anyway. The deal that Novell and Microsoft signed is very much ON topic. And if you people want to get back to the way this list was .. I'd agree that actually answering questions instead of RTFM or check the archives would be the way to go. This list hasn't been very great for information in quite a few years. I wish we could have it back, but I doubt that will happen. - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
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 you don't want. In the absence of any list focused on SUSE Futures and Features this is the proper place, and those complaining that its too hard to wade thru need to learn how to run their email client. I fully agree with you on this. I have no problem deleting whole threads either in Gmail's web client or from my MUA of choice .. Mail (OSX). I never had issue with this. But I do see a lot more bickering and RFTM answers then there use to be. But such is life. It is the failure of what is producing the air between the keyboard and the monitor in most cases. :D - ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
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 inflames people to much and has not a bloody thing to do with Microsoft, SUSE, or Linux. Please people .. let us not devolve into stupidity. -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
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 NOT be injected into this conversation .. that DOES belong on the OT list. It inflames people to much and has not a bloody thing to do with Microsoft, SUSE, or Linux. Please people .. let us not devolve into stupidity. A bit sensitive about it, aren't we? Australia and others are also in there - and I live in Australia. Not sensitive at all. Just trying to keep the conversation from devolving into crap. My politics are well known on the suse-ot list where this type of thing belongs. -- Jumping to conclusions burns 45 less calories than searching for facts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] unsubscribe
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* -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OT? Distro question
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 born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft
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 our DNS caching platform (10 machines x 65 core node locations aka central offices), our SecureID auth servers, about 4500 web/MX/SMTP servers and quite a few machines that I actually don't have root on using SUSE and Ubuntu. So if that's a dinky deployment .. as the other respondent said .. please step up and let us know what a large enterprise deployment of servers you have. Otherwise, I'd refrain from such comments. I'd also add that our hosting devision runs all their MX/SMTP (mail) servers with Linux. Those 10 machines do an average of 3 million messages a day. I'd say that's pretty damn good. - Ben -- Envy, n: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage instead of having to try and acquire one. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
