Re: [opensuse] MySQL Update Table Error.

[J Sloan]

G T Smith wrote:

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SuSE 10.2

Did an update today including MySQL security updates.

Found MySQL had failed to reload for some reason.
Restarted MySQL and got a a duplicate column error message when an
attempt to update the mysql database tables was applied. (unfortunately,
error message went before I could take notes and nothing in logs).
Nothing seems to broken but unable to repeat error (I suspect because
the database schema update has now been flagged as applied).

Because there is an issue with funambol I am running MySQL with case
sensitivity disabled...

As I do not think this is a change applied at the MySQL end (the mysql
schema is reasonably consistent across platforms and if this is a case
of two columns differing by case this it would generate problems on
Windows) I am not sure whether the update has been applied a second time
for some reason (then I need not worry) or there has been a change and I
should have two columns lexically differing only on case or replaced.

Has anyone noticed anything similar?

  
Yes, I noticed that mysql was dead after the last upgrade on my suse 
10.2/64 server, and a bit of lookikng in the the mysqld log turned up a 
complaint about a duplicate column IIRC - but I started it with the rc 
script and it has run normally from that point on, so I hadn't give it 
too much further thought.


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

[J Sloan]

James Knott wrote:

Tero Pesonen wrote:


I'd be too. But when the person asks me why they need to run alsaconf 
as root after each reboot to get sound, I tell them I have no idea, 
as I need to do it myself too. Or why they need to run k3b as root to 
burn something. When they ask why this or that peripheral does not 
work, or how to have it work, I say I do not know. Linux desktop, to 
me, is already almost too difficult to administer. I'm happy to have 
my own PC running more or less trouble-free. I cannot provide help to 
others; I lack the expertise.
  


I dont think I've ever had to do either as root, certainly not k3b.

Yes, very bizarre symptoms, I've never seen that, and I have suse 10.2 
installed on 8 computers including a couple of laptops. His computer 
needs some service, there's something wrong.


If he were a windoze user, that problem would not magically cure itself, 
he'd have to take it to someone knowledgable and (hopefully) honest, and 
get it fixed.


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Re: [opensuse] Linux-friendly PCMCIA Wireless Card?

[J Sloan]

koffiejunkie wrote:

J Sloan wrote:

Clark Sann wrote:



 Wifi still doesn't work as well as it should under Linux but it is
 usable. (What it should do is let you be connected to a wired
 connection at the same time you are connected via wifi, just like
 windoze does.)

 If you get one of these and need any help, let me know.

 Clark



LOL, "just like windoze"... sheesh. Well, it's good to hear that 
windoze can finally handle that sort of thing too.


Windows has been able to do this for years.  At least from 98, if not 95.
In the mid-90s, I was the lone linux guy in an office, and the windoze 
users were mystified as to how I could be on several networks at once.


(shrug) - take it for what it's worth.

Joe


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Re: [opensuse] Linux-friendly PCMCIA Wireless Card?

[J Sloan]

Clark Sann wrote:



 Wifi still doesn't work as well as it should under Linux but it is
 usable. (What it should do is let you be connected to a wired
 connection at the same time you are connected via wifi, just like
 windoze does.)

 If you get one of these and need any help, let me know.

 Clark



LOL, "just like windoze"... sheesh. Well, it's good to hear that windoze 
can finally handle that sort of thing too.


FWIW Linux has no problems talking to all sorts of different networks at 
the same time - the limitation you're referring to is simply a design 
decision in the network manager applet you most likely use to manage 
your connection. If you like network manager but want to be able to use 
it on several networks, that might be a good feature for an enhancement 
request.


In the meantime it can be done with good old ifup.

Joe





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Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

[J Sloan]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on 
>
>  www.foxnews.com 
>
> I used to be able to view them using 10.1  but at some point in time I think 
> they made a change and the videos no longer work.   The videos are called out 
> by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard  (which 
> naturally obviously only IE  understands)
>
> I have tried several distros, Firefox,  Opera, Konqy  etc...  and nothing 
> works.  Sound comes through but no video.  
>
> I am running Flash 9  but 7 doesn't work either.
>   

I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site -

OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, etc all work fine.

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Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

[J Sloan]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:03:01 am J Sloan wrote:
>   
>> Peter Bradley wrote:
>> 
>>> Funny that.  I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
>>> AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
>>> things.  I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did
>>> aticonfig --initial and that was it.  I've also installed quite a few
>>> updates as well.  Same procedure.  No problems - except the box
>>> sometimes (once a month - ish) refuses to boot to runlevel 5.  I just
>>> run aticonfig --initial from the command line, let it tell me there's
>>> nothing to do, then reboot and all's well again.
>>>   
>> If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not
>> luck, that's extreme flakiness.
>>
>> Joe
>> 
>
> I reboot my desktops every day - my laptop sometimes twice a day.  Nothing 
> wrong there. :)
>   

Your microsoft background is showing again ;)

Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days
uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little
more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month
uptimes. At work we tend to have the 400-600 day uptimes in the server room.

Joe

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Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

[J Sloan]

Peter Bradley wrote:
> Funny that.  I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my
> AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - and I'm hopeless at these sorts of
> things.  I just downloaded them from ATI, ran the install script, did
> aticonfig --initial and that was it.  I've also installed quite a few
> updates as well.  Same procedure.  No problems - except the box
> sometimes (once a month - ish) refuses to boot to runlevel 5.  I just
> run aticonfig --initial from the command line, let it tell me there's
> nothing to do, then reboot and all's well again.

If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not
luck, that's extreme flakiness.

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Re: [opensuse] su required to run, but permission denied?

[J Sloan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> first time this has happened to me in the 4 yrs ive been using linuxnew 
> install of 10.2 on an acer 5100, unfortunately has an ati radeon 1100 
> chipset, any clue here?
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cd ~/Desktop
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop> su
> Password: 
> reilly:/home/steve/Desktop # ./ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run
> bash: ./ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run: Permission denied
> reilly:/home/steve/Desktop # 

Hmm, why not get root's environment? I'd do it like this:

su -

sh ~steve/Desktop/ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run

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Re: [opensuse] recompiling kernel

[J Sloan]

Crox Godofcheats wrote:
> Hi!
> I decided to recompile my kernel (I have openSUSE 10.2 with kernel
> 2.6.18...). I say
> make xconfig
> make
> make install_modules
> make install
> 
> After rebooting it failed to restart. Not only new kernel, but two old
> and failsafe. I've done something wrong?

Could you have overwritten the factory supplied kernel with your home-built
version?

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Re: [opensuse] How to setup TUN/TAP networking adapter?

[J Sloan]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> hi all !
> 
> Anyone has an idea how-to setup TAP adapter on SUSE?
> 
> I have heard, that I need "tunctl" utility to do this, but were unable
> to find an RPM for this.

Are you sure you want tap? tun works fine, out of the box, and I thought tap
was used mainly on peecee OSes, which don't have support for tun.

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

A. den Oudsten wrote:
>>> Next to the running gears this is what appeared on the screen after
>>> 'glxgears'
>>>
>>>
>>> 762 frames in 5.0 seconds = 152.330 FPS
>>> 749 frames in 5.0 seconds = 149.599 FPS
>>> 611 frames in 5.0 seconds = 122.001 FPS
>>> 654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 130.662 FPS
>>> 665 frames in 5.0 seconds = 132.999 FPS
>>> 661 frames in 5.0 seconds = 132.050 FPS
>>> 661 frames in 5.0 seconds = 132.144 FPS
>>>
>>> André
>>
>>
>> Those numbers are pretty poor.  They should be a factor
>> of 10 higher if you can get hardware rendering working.
>>
> In my sysinfo:
>
> nVidia Corporation
> GeForce2 MX 100/200
> nv (no 3D-support)
>
> So I suppose that my card indeed is too old for 3D
>
Those numbers indicate you are not using the nvidia drivers, and the
sysinfo confirms it.

That card should be well supported by the nvidia legacy driver,
available on their website.

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Re: [opensuse] bind help

[J Sloan]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, J Sloan wrote:
>   
>> John Andersen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>   
>>>> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp
>>>>> from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts.
>>>>>   
>>>> No, they wont. Ever. The hosts file is private to the machine having it.
>>>>
>>>> Define it in bind files instead.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>Carlos E. R.
>>>> 
>>> Yes, but WHERE is this defined in bind, Carlos.
>>>
>>> Not being a bind wizard, I was asking specifically how I might
>>> add a name such as "securitycam" to bind so that windows
>>> users can just key that into their web browser without having
>>> to know the IP of said camera.
>>>   
>> Perfect opportunity for you to buy the O'Reilly BIND & DNS book and set up
>> dns services on linux for your lan. You won't regret the experience.
>>
>> Joe
>> 
>
> Joe, you have a very nice way of saying RTFM   ;-)
>
> I bet you can tell people to go to hell, and have them looking
> forward to the trip!
>   

Perish the thought sir! I was only encouraging you to embrace the
wonderful learning experience which I myself undertook not so long ago,
and have never for a moment regretted. Such skills will stand you in
good stead in many arenas. Indeed, I myself have earned a bit of beer
money now and again, puttering with dns setups.

Joe




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Re: [opensuse] bind help

[J Sloan]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp
>>> from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts.
>> No, they wont. Ever. The hosts file is private to the machine having it.
>>
>> Define it in bind files instead.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>Carlos E. R.
> 
> Yes, but WHERE is this defined in bind, Carlos.
> 
> Not being a bind wizard, I was asking specifically how I might
> add a name such as "securitycam" to bind so that windows
> users can just key that into their web browser without having
> to know the IP of said camera.

Perfect opportunity for you to buy the O'Reilly BIND & DNS book and set up dns
services on linux for your lan. You won't regret the experience.

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Re: [opensuse] pathping

[J Sloan]

Dave Howorth wrote:
> Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping?
> 

At first glance, it just looks a lot like good old mtr

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

A. den Oudsten wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>>
>> A. den Oudsten wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in
>>> openSUSE 10.2
>>
>>
>> So, what is the output of "glxgears"?
>>
>> Joe
> Nice running blue red and green gears!!

Well, I meant the numerical output (fps)...

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

A. den Oudsten wrote:

> Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in
> openSUSE 10.2

So, what is the output of "glxgears"?

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Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

[J Sloan]

Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
> Cody Nelson escribió:
>   
>> I seam to be having problems using perl or php to connect to a MSSQL
>> database.  The docs from both claim MSSQL support is built in, but the
>> errors I get kind of suggest otherwise.
>>
>> Does Suse do something weird that I need to turn on, or do I have to
>> break the Suse RPM manager and compile my own with the support built
>> in?
>> 
>
> At least with PHP, you cannot connect to MSSQL at the moment, since
> there is no official nor Buildservice only packages. (altough I already
> packaged the needed libraries, Im yet to enable mssql support in
> buildservice PHP packages)
>
>   
Is there a php-sybase module? That worked with peecee sql, last I checked.

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

A. den Oudsten wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>> A. den Oudsten wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My card is a GEFORCE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-OUT and from 2001, so could
>>> be a little outdated!!
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Card should be OK, but are you using the Nvidia binary driver for
>> hardware
>> accelerated OpenGL, or just the non-accelerated "nv" driver?
>>
>> Joe
> I just installed openSUSE 10.2 as it is and I have no idea what kind of
> driver for that card is installed.

Unlike earlier editions of SuSE Linux, where installing the accelerated nvidia
drivers was done with just a mouse click in online update, you now have to do
a bit of tweaking to get them installed, using one of 2 methods.

Experienced users often just download the latest linux video drivers from
nvidia.com and install by hand according to the directions there, but then the
nvidia driver has to be rebuilt if the kernel is ever upgraded.

The other way involves adding the nvidia driver repo to your software sources
- I think there are some howtos on that floating around.

In either case, the nvidia driver makes a dramatic difference in the video
performance.

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

A. den Oudsten wrote:

> My card is a GEFORCE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-OUT and from 2001, so could
> be a little outdated!!
> Thanks,

Card should be OK, but are you using the Nvidia binary driver for hardware
accelerated OpenGL, or just the non-accelerated "nv" driver?

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

Sunny wrote:
> On 2/18/07, Masaru Nomiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the Message;
>>
>>   Subject: Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT
>>   Message-ID :
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>   Date & Time: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:18:31 -0600
>>
>> [Sunny] == Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has written:
>>
>> Sunny> I just installed Google Earth on my 10.0 x86_64. After I start
>> it, it
>> Sunny> displays the splash screen and hangs there forever, getting 95%
>> CPU.
>> Sunny> Any ideas what may be wrong?
>>
>> If you are using ATI's video card, its driver causes such a phenomenon.
>>
> 
> Yes, it is ATI. Any workaround?

Toss the ATI card, install an Nvidia card?

SCNR

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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

[J Sloan]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Thursday 2007-02-15 at 20:40 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> 
>> Doug McGarrett wrote:
> 
>>> Unless you are in a business, where time of messages is important, what 
>>> difference does it make if the time change is out of sync?  I'd fix mine,
>>> if someone would say "YaST this" for 9.3  So somebody tell me,
>>> Yast (timefix).  But i really don't care if it's fixed.  The clock is a few 
>>> minutes off now, who cares if it's off an hour?  Am I missing something?
>> Hmm, ntp service is free, and the software ships with suse. Why would any
>> linux user settle for having the wrong time on their system?
> 
>> In any case, whenever I'm looking at the logs, I find it pretty important to
>> know what time something happened. Not approximately. Exactly.
> 
> The ntp service is not affected by the daylight time saving adjustement, 
> nor by it being correct or incorrect, because ntp uses UTC, which does not 
> vary summer or winter.
> 
> Nor will using an ntp client correct the daylight time saving adjustement 
> when the time comes.

But it would correct the OP's condition, that of his system time being "a few
minutes off". Nothing more was implied.

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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

[J Sloan]

Bob S wrote:
> Hello SuSE people
> 
> Downloaded Google Earth this afternoon. Seems to be a script of some 
> kind. What do I need to do to run it.



sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

to start the installer. No need to become root, it installs in your home dir.

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Re: [opensuse] Apache question

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/srv/www/htdocs/index.html?

James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all,,
> 
> When I go to "http://localhost/"; on my system I get "It works!". Where is 
> that 
> page in the file system? I can not find it!
> 
> Thanks,
> JIM
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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

[J Sloan]

Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:39, JB wrote:
>> On Thursday 15 February 2007 10:38, Hirayama, Pat wrote:
 On Friday February 9 2007 16:21, JB wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 16:46, Hirayama, Pat wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>> To verify that I had to fix DST:
>> * zdump -v US/Pacific | grep 2007
>   What's all that stuff mean after one does the above command (mine
> /snip/
> and so on. . .
> 
> Unless you are in a business, where time of messages is important, what 
> difference does it make if the time change is out of sync?  I'd fix mine,
> if someone would say "YaST this" for 9.3  So somebody tell me,
> Yast (timefix).  But i really don't care if it's fixed.  The clock is a few 
> minutes off now, who cares if it's off an hour?  Am I missing something?

Hmm, ntp service is free, and the software ships with suse. Why would any
linux user settle for having the wrong time on their system?

In any case, whenever I'm looking at the logs, I find it pretty important to
know what time something happened. Not approximately. Exactly.

Joe

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Re: [opensuse] weird firefox problem

[J Sloan]

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
> 
>> Does your firefox plugins directory contain symlinks to all the files in
>> /usr/lib/browser-plugins?
> 
> Please note that there shouldn't be symlinks to /usr/lib/browser-plugins
> since this directory is used directly as plugin directory from Firefox.

Ah, you're right - only my tarball install of firefox has symlinks in the
plugins directory...

But in any case, the plugins need to be present in /usr/lib/browser-plugins.

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Re: [opensuse] weird firefox problem

[J Sloan]

Dan wrote:

> Maybe i was not quite clear on what I did.  I already had java installed
> using yast.  But to get java working in firefox you need to add the
> plugin.  Those instructions allowed me to use java in the browser.  I
> could not access any java app in the browser without doing this.  Java
> itself is working fine and I now have java support in firefox.   I
> reverse my steps and the bouncing goes away, but then I have no java
> support in firefox.  If this is the wrong way of getting this support

The java plugins are normally part of the suse install. I'm thinking You must
have done some personal "customization" somehow. On all the suse systems I've
seen, the firefox plugins directory contains links to plugins located in
/usr/lib/browser-plugins.

The plugins in /usr/lib/browser-plugins are all owned by various packages -
For instance, the java plugin is owned by "java-1_4_2-sun-plugin".

Do you not have "java-1_4_2-sun-plugin" or something similar installed?

Does rpm -V java-1_4_2-sun-plugin show any errors?

Does your firefox plugins directory contain symlinks to all the files in
/usr/lib/browser-plugins?

Joe

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Re: [opensuse] Internal Firewalls

[J Sloan]

NB iptables ships with every linux distro, and there's a fairly simple
default configuration on suse.

Joe

Jay Smith wrote:
>
> So my notebook, I take from network to network to network since I travel a 
> lot. I
> like protection but i can't bring my office network with me wherever I go. 
> What
> is a good firewall that you can install on individual clients rather than
> networks? I have never thought about it so I am not sure so I was wondering if
> you guys had any suggestions. Thanks for all of your help. 
>   
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Re: [opensuse] More 10.2 nightmares

[J Sloan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun February 11 2007 10:27 pm, J Sloan scratched these words onto a 
> coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
>   
>> I tried to raise my kids right, and today all the guys in this house
>> run linux, and all the girls use macs, so it's an all-unix house, and
>> virus free!
>> 
> Do you have a reason not to have the girls Linux literate as well? My 
> main grief w/ Mac is it's determination to sell both proprietary 
> software and hardware. Talk abut a lock in, whiew!
>
> It's like console game companies, w/ the exception that game makers 
> actually want lots of private companies to make games for their 
> systems. Something that MS seems only to like if it's kids making 
> programs that are free, or mainly free. 
>
>   
My girls are linux literate, and know their way around kde, the gimp,
and some command line stuff,  but tended to migrate towards macs, for
the specific apps and commercial support. They both have macbooks. I'm
much happier seeing them on OSX than windoze.

My son and I both use linux all day every day - so overall it's a win IMHO.

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Re: [opensuse] Trouble installing 10.2

[J Sloan]

That is a statement difficult to deny.

Adam Jimerson wrote:
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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare

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Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>   
>> On Mon 12 Feb 2007 18:58, Bryan Tyson wrote:
>> 
>>> why doesn't OpenSuse have a package system that works.
>>>   
>> _
>>
>>  - my first impressions of "smart" - Good, Good   :)
>>
>> 
>
> SMART rox!
>
> I have it running on three systems and have no complaints.
>   

Agreed smart is pretty nice - but yast has improved enough that it's not
so painful on 10.2 in comparison to the situation that existed
with10.1.  That said, I tend to use YOU for core updates, and smart for
the goodies (desktop bling, multimedia etc)

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Re: [opensuse] More 10.2 nightmares

[J Sloan]

John Pierce wrote:
> On 2/11/07, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Why not just change change line 18 of /etc/sysconfig/videobios to read:
>>
>> VIDEOBIOS_PARAMETERS="5c 1440 900"
>>
>> Joe
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> Well, Joe that sounds like a winner.  After all of the googling I only
> found the 915 thing that I posted about.
> 
> I found that result and gave it a try and it worked for me, I had know
> Idea about the VIDEOBIOS_PARAMETERS= setting.  I have been using linux
> since about 1998 with an early red disto that I downloaded and
> installed from rpms.  I have learned quite a lot about linux since
> then and am willing to try anything.  To me the best move I have ever
> made was ditching windows.  I have converted my wife and sons and they
> hate to even use windows at work and school.

Wow that's cool - I've been running linux for some years too, and find that I
have to keep learning, as it is constantly being refined and updated.

I tried to raise my kids right, and today all the guys in this house run
linux, and all the girls use macs, so it's an all-unix house, and virus free!

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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare

[J Sloan]

Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:46, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>> While I was waiting for the "new" install of 10.2 to set up the Yast
>> update sources I watched an episode and a half of American Hotrod.
>> That's about an hour and a half. Well, actually an hour and forty-five
>> minutes. And that's just the "stock" sources.
> 
> Why would suse be released like this? Why don't they fix it?

10.2 works quite nicely for the majority of users here, but you can't please
everyone - or every environment...

I've got 10.2 on 6 different machines here, 3 servers, a desktop and 2
laptops, all of them working nicely, and only one problematic one: one laptop,
a new hp DV600 with intel graphics which doesn't want to do more than 1024x768
with opengl enabled. The other laptop with nvidia graphics works perfectly.
The servers have been great -  all systems here are running better than any
previous release of linux I've tried.

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Re: [opensuse] More 10.2 nightmares

[J Sloan]

John Pierce wrote:
>>
>> I too have a problem with frequencies on SIS card and 1440x900
>> monitor. What
>> was your problem?
>>
> Turns out I needed to put the following command into /etc/init.d/boot.local
> 
> 915resolution 5c 1440 900 32
> 
> However, this is to correct a problem with the intel 945 chipset, I do
> not know if it would have any effect on an sis card.  I found this
> solution with sever nights of googling.

Why not just change change line 18 of /etc/sysconfig/videobios to read:

VIDEOBIOS_PARAMETERS="5c 1440 900"

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

[J Sloan]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:33:50 -0800
> "Charles R. Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Granted on one level, it's nice to be able to configure things to ones
>> liking(s), and that's fine and dandy, but for the most part, major
>> things like video drivers and the such, it should be a lot painless than
>> it is. 
> 
> For my amusing experiences over on Fedora setting up video, see:
> 
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html

Oddly enough, the ease of the suse video driver installation has regressed
since the time of 9.3 and before. It used to be that you could simply click on
a checkbox in online update that said "install nvidia drivers", and you were
good to go. period. no tweaking of configs, no building of drivers, no
worrying about reinstalling the driver if the kernel gets updated.

IIUC it was pressure from a shrill anti binary driver faction among the kernel
devs that led novell to revert to the more awkward manual procedure we now
find ourselves with.

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Re: [opensuse] Packaging applications for linux

[J Sloan]

Rami Michael wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been looking around about packaging applications on linux.
> Opensuse uses rpm and many others use .deb.  However, in all honestly,
> I think this is one area where linux is sorely lacking.  The RPM
> specfile just seems atrocious to me, however, there does not seem to
> be a good alternative.  I know there are a couple of projects out
> there that use distro agnostic install tools like auto package but
> those break the "dependency structure" of such things as the rpm
> database if you install something outside of it.
> 
> What have some of you done in the past?  I don't see a real good
> alternative here...

rpm works for all - those that don't use rpm can use alien to convert to deb
or tarball. I've installed rpms on debian this way.

Feel free to offer enhancement patches if rpm is not to your liking, but I
find it quite workable, And there are tools which will automagically generate
an rpm package for you, if you don't like getting into the details.

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Re: [opensuse] standard for init scripts and usage

[J Sloan]

Rami Michael wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have noticed that openSuse seems to have a slightly different way of
> dealing with init scripts and services than Ubuntu or RHEL.
> 
> Is there a standard for the way init scripts are supposed to be built?
> I like the idea of being able to write one script and have it work on
> all (or as many as possible) linux based systems.


The wonderful thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
Seriously, pick a flavor of linux and go with it - it makes management a lot
more straightforward. For us, that flavor used to be redhat, now it's suse.

> Also, on RHEL one can do the following command "service mysqld
> restart" and this is the equiv of doing a "/etc/init.d/mysqld restart"
> does anything similar exist in openSuse?


Suse also has the "service foo" compatibility command, which is equivalent to
running /etc/init.d/foo, but I don't find it useful. I much prefer the native
suse rc commands, which are symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d, and they
have the wonderful quality that they allow tab completion. No contest.


> Also, I noticed that Ubuntu has in its latest version moved away from
> the current init.d way of doing things.  What is your opinion on that?
> Is it better/worse or just more of the same?
> 
> I love linux but it seems this type of stuff should be pretty standard
> or compatible otherwise there might be some type of lock in if you get
> familiar with a distro?  I personally would like to use the one that
> is most standards compliant, just for the sake of supposrting it.


Yeah, it would be great if solaris, hpux, aix, and all the BSDs were all the
same too. but there's really no substitute for knowing what's what and acting
accordingly.

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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

[J Sloan]

Rami Michael wrote:
> Honestly, this is why we switched all our timezones to UTC/GMT in the
> past, headaches like this one and now we are all on the same page.
> 
> On 2/10/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> The Friday 2007-02-09 at 19:54 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> 
> ...
>> ntp deals only with UTC. timezone and DST translations are the
> responsibility
>> of the ntp client, not the server. Your output above is correct.
> 
> Rather of the operating system, not even the ntp client.

Indeed, that is how I meant it - client as in "the client sytem", not the "ntp
client program".

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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

[J Sloan]

russbucket wrote:

> I was wondering what it all meant also. I don't think you have the patch. I 
> assume the first two are start dates and next two end dates. Not sure why 
> there is a couple minutes difference in the times. 
> I also use the NTP service so I assume it will automatically correct the time.
>  Here's mine:
> US/Pacific  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST 
> isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> US/Pacific  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT 
> isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> US/Pacific  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 PDT 
> isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
> US/Pacific  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 PST 
> isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> And I know DST starts in March this year and goes past Halloween.I am on 
> OpenSUSE 10.2 

ntp deals only with UTC. timezone and DST translations are the responsibility
of the ntp client, not the server. Your output above is correct.

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Re: [opensuse] Hardware Requirements for openSUSE 10.2 - file server

[J Sloan]

Janus wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 23:32, J Sloan wrote:
>
>   
>> Such hardware would probably be fine as a firewall, dns/dhcp server, but
>> I'd recommend running the graphical yast tools remotely from your linux
>> desktop, for best results.
>> 
>
> Yes, thats what I had in mind, unless the price is installing stuff which 
> would steal performance while the box is just acting as a file server.
>   
I've not noticed any appreciable resource consumption from displaying
the graphical apps remotely.
The load is mostly on the display side. my firewall/dns/dhcp server is
an old bulletproof compaq with 500 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM, and while it
can run fairly well with xfce, I prefer to access it remotely, and yast2
always runs snappy on my local high powered linux desktop when I start
it up on the little firewall box.
>   
>> The little box would probably be OK as a file 
>> server for backup, assuming sufficient disk space, but you will want to
>> ruthlessly shut down any services that are system hogs (beagle, zmd,
>> etc) as well as any unneeded processes.
>> 
>
> Uh! Will I have to do this manually? I was hoping openSUSE came with some pre 
> defined "server template" which would help me avoid things like Beagle in the 
> first place.
>
>   
Depends on what you mean by manually. You can make sure during the
detailed package selection, not to include the offending apps, and/or go
into yast after the fact and keep them from starting on boot. There is a
server template but none of the templates ever suit my needs, I've
always had to go in and add things that the template designer didn't
think I should have, or remove things that the template designer thought
I should have.

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Re: [opensuse] Hardware Requirements for openSUSE 10.2 - file server

[J Sloan]

Janus wrote:
> I need a small server in my household - for laptop/workstation backup and 
> file 
> sharing in my family across Mac, Windows and Linux using Samba. Would like 
> graphical Yast2 for config, but do not need KDE desktop etc.
>
> I have an old Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 mb and a new 250GB disk.
> Am I right in thinking this will do with openSUSE 10.2? 
>
> Novell mention 256 mb ram as minimum requirement, but I guess this is for a 
> workstation setup with KDE/Gnome etc?
>   

Such hardware would probably be fine as a firewall, dns/dhcp server, but
I'd recommend running the graphical yast tools remotely from your linux
desktop, for best results. The little box would probably be OK as a file
server for backup, assuming sufficient disk space, but you will want to
ruthlessly shut down any services that are system hogs (beagle, zmd,
etc) as well as any unneeded processes.

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Re: [opensuse] Blocking traffic going to port 1863

[J Sloan]

André Malin wrote:
> My boss ask me to lock msn. My answer was to fire this guy, but...
> ANyway I found some interesting way to do it:
> blockink port 1863 and using squid to prevent acces on port 80 for those 
> pesty 
> M$ server.
> But I can figure out how to block that port using 1863.
>
>   
We use a different approach - set up dns zones on our dns servers for
all the sites we don't want people to reach  - msn, aim, etc all have
dummy dns zones for which we declare ourselves authoritative internally,
and populated with dns records which will not allow them to look up and
connect to the services.

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Re: [opensuse] Processor Recommendations?

[J Sloan]

Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> John Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>   
>> I have googled, read xen wiki, looked at amd and intel web sites and
>> still cannot come up with a definitive answer.  I am, within the next
>> week, going to purchase two laptops and I want to be able to run xen
>> source with full virtualization on at least one of them (my wife still
>> needs win xp).
>> 
>
> I won't help with the laptops.  I just want to mention that a CPU with
> hardware virtualization support doesn't guarantee that Xen will be
> able to use full virtualization.
>
> I use Xen on a server with two dual-core Xeons 5150 (2.66 GHz) and a
> Supermicro X7DAE motherboard.  Both the CPU and the BIOS support
> virtualization.  Virtual machines using paravirtualization work OK
> there but the creation of a virtual machine using full virtualization
> failed.  (I used the openSUSE 10.2 iso file)
>
> If you don't find the right hardware then you may consider Win4Lin Pro
> Desktop (http://www.win4lin.com/) instead.
My .02: win4lin pro works well for me -

It's lightweight in comparison to vmware, but more comprehensive than wine.

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Re: [opensuse] Opensuse 10.2 and server edition

[J Sloan]

jdd wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>
>> Either one could be the right choice, depending on the type of
>> environment and requirements - I personally use OpenSuSE for my own
>> consulting servers and all the system on my home network, and have been
>> very happy with it.
>
> and, just in case, you can use suse 10.1, older so better known than
> 10.2. critical bugs are fiwed, the others referenced in bugzilla
>
The other little feature is that OpenSuSE 10.1 and SLES/SLED 10 are the
same code base, so programs are interchangeable, even drivers. Despite
that advantage of 10.1, I found 10.2 attractive enough that over half of
my systems are on 10.2 now, the rest still on10.1

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Re: [opensuse] Opensuse 10.2 and server edition

[J Sloan]

Jose wrote:
> Hi Gents/Ladies,
>
> I have a rather silly question, I have been reading about the
> differences between the server and desktop editions, among different
> distros, as per Suse, I find that whatever I need to install for
> server apps I can find it on the 10.2 distro, without having to go for
> the server edition. Aside of the support, what other difference exists
> between the free 10.2 and the enterprise server edition on Suse?
Only the enterprise (SLED,SLES) is currently separated into "server" and
"desktop" versions - no such distinction exists for OpenSuSE, though at
one time, there were SuSE "personal" and "professional" editions.

So, 10.2 *is* a server edition. and a desktop edition. It's all of the
above, and works just as well on a laptop as on a headless server in the
data center. It's just not as thoroughly QA'd, and comes with fewer and
less stringent guarantees. So if you have local linux talent, OpenSuSE
is a great way to go, but if you need that official support, go with SLES.

Either one could be the right choice, depending on the type of
environment and requirements - I personally use OpenSuSE for my own
consulting servers and all the system on my home network, and have been
very happy with it.

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Re: [opensuse] Blocking IP's using apache and iptables.

[J Sloan]

Arie Reynaldi Z wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I got this IP 75.126.21.163 spam my site, I try to block using apache
> and add this in my vhost.conf
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> Order Allow,Deny
> Deny from 75.126.21.163
> Allow from all
> 
> But this spammer stil can get thru it. Why is this happen ? I'm using
> suse 10.0 and apache2-2.0.54-10.8
> 
> I also try to block using suse-firewall, but I dont know where should
> I add in susefirewall-custom. Is there any clue for this problem ?

Reverse the Order Allow,Deny -> Deny,Allow?

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Re: [opensuse] DVD iso on of non-SUSE CD's

[J Sloan]

JJ Gitties wrote:
> Hello, i read it and tried it and she won't work.
>
> I am trying to make a bootable DVD out of Red Hat WS CD iso's.
>
> this keeps asking for SUSE iso's.
> http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs
>
> the makedvdiso.sh script needs anaconda-runtime.
>
> Does anyone know how I can make a DVD iso of Red Hat on SUSE? Or do I
> need to make a Fedora/Red Hat box for this?

Have you considered asking about this sort of thing on a redhat mailing
list?

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Re: [opensuse] Nvidia

[J Sloan]

mye wrote:
> yup you can use it on Linux
>
> If your sistem is Fedora Core 6, you can use RPM version.
>
> # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
> # yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> # yum -y install compiz (If you no have compiz)
> # reboot
>   
Reboot? eh? Coming from a microsoft background, are we?

I can't imagine why anyone would reboot linux to install drivers - at
most you might need "init 3" then "init 5"

Joe - happily installing nvidia drivers for years, and never a reboot
required ;)
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Re: [opensuse] Error occurred while creating the catalog - Unknown error: unable to copy media directory

[J Sloan]

Bryan Tyson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:38 +0100, robermann wrote:
>   
>> And did the new ordered DVD work?
>> 
>
> Yes!
>
> Unfortunately, although I thought it was generally nice, I was so
> disappointed by the excruciatingly slow package manager, after less than
> a week I ended up replacing Suse with Mandriva on that computer. To me,
> it does not matter how nice the rest of the system is when the package
> system is that bad.
>   

How sad, that you threw out the baby with the bathwater, rather than
simply using a different tool for updates -

yum, rug, zypper, apt, smart are all update tools that different suse
users are happy with.

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Re: [opensuse] Problems with HP Pavilion DV6000 [SOLVED]

[J Sloan]

Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 07:48, J Sloan said:
>   
>> Actually, I was able, after several trials, to get knetworkmanager to
>> connect to the wireless access points. I had to make some guesses (for
>> instance, where kde says "40 bit key" it really means 64 bits) and it was
>> less intuitive than the gnome version, but I must admit that it was
>> possible after all to connect.
>> 
>
> We are going to change the "40 bit" label since it's caused plenty of 
> confusion.  What you call a 64 bit key is a 40 bit key with 24 bits of 
> padding, likewise the 104 bit key is aka 128 bit encryption, and when we 
> wrote knetworkmanager we just took the IEEE802.11 internal names for the 
> encryption types.
>   

Ah, and I was wondering if you guys were just using hexadecimal to
confuse us -

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Re: [opensuse] Scripts

[J Sloan]

charles buchanan wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:15, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
> I just ran the check.sh and this is what it said:
> 
> =
>  ATI Technologies
> =
> You are either not running this script from the console
> or simply do not have console ownership.  Requirement failed.
> Unable to determine XFree86 Version. Stopping now.
> 
> Now, is console and terminal two different things? 
> 
> I used the "bash check.sh" command. 

To set up X11 drivers, you typically need for X11 to be not running.

Console in this case means glass CRT. Normally a console and a terminal window
are functionally equivalent, but when it is required that X11 not be running,
there is a major difference.

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Re: [opensuse] Problems with HP Pavilion DV6000 [SOLVED]

[J Sloan]

Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 04:20, J Sloan said:
>> #1 - wireless connections via network manager: In gnome, I can connect to
>> the secure wireless networks in my house, but with kde network manager I
>> can't connect to either of them. The gnome applet allows me to choose all
>> the correct parameters, while the kde applet allows fewer options, and does
>> not allow me to enter e.g. the correct the key type as in gnome. If only
>> the kde network manager applet provided all the functionality of the gnome
>> one, we'd be set.
> 
> There's not a lot to go on here.  Speaking as one of the knetworkmanager 
> authors, I thought we had parity with nm-applet.  We need to know exactly 
> which options are missing, for which type of wireless 
> encryption/authentioncation, and what the network hardware in the dv6000 
> actually is.  Please report these in a bug at bugzilla.novell.com.

Actually, I was able, after several trials, to get knetworkmanager to connect
to the wireless access points. I had to make some guesses (for instance, where
kde says "40 bit key" it really means 64 bits) and it was less intuitive than
the gnome version, but I must admit that it was possible after all to connect.

> 
>> #3 - display problems - Despite the fact that this is an intel 945 graphics
>> chipset with 100% FOSS drivers, I can't get anything more than 1024x768
>> resolution, although it's capable of 1440x900. Any attempt to set a higher
>> resolution than 1024x768 gets a corrupted xmd screen, and I have to fall
>> back to the basic 1024x768 to get up and running again.
> 
> Sounds like you need to use 915resolution to patch the video bios so that it 
> reports that it's capable of 1440x900.  There's plenty of info on the web on 
> how this works, and the readme in our 915resolution package (rpm -ql 
> 915resolution) is quite helpful, but note that we now 
> provide /etc/sysconfig/videobios where you can add the right parameters so 
> that 915resolution is run on boot.


Yep, the 915resolution package did the trick, with a 1-line modification to
/etc/sysconfig/videobios as you suggested.

So, the non-working function keys in gnome are now a non-issue, since
everything works in kde, and that's all I need.

Thanks for the tips -

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[opensuse] Problems with HP Pavilion DV6000

[J Sloan]

I just Installed opensuse 10.2 on a new HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop.

intel duo core CPU
intel wireless network
intel graphics

I'm seeing a disparity between gnome and kde functionality -

#1 - wireless connections via network manager: In gnome, I can connect to the
secure wireless networks in my house, but with kde network manager I can't
connect to either of them. The gnome applet allows me to choose all the
correct parameters, while the kde applet allows fewer options, and does not
allow me to enter e.g. the correct the key type as in gnome. If only the kde
network manager applet provided all the functionality of the gnome one, we'd
be set.

#2 - laptop buttons (volume, dvd, etc) In kde, the laptop buttons surprisingly
work, but in gnome there is no response to any of the buttons. If the buttons
would work under gnome, we could just run gnome and be happy.

#3 - display problems - Despite the fact that this is an intel 945 graphics
chipset with 100% FOSS drivers, I can't get anything more than 1024x768
resolution, although it's capable of 1440x900. Any attempt to set a higher
resolution than 1024x768 gets a corrupted xmd screen, and I have to fall back
to the basic 1024x768 to get up and running again.

Anybody had any luck with linux (any distro) on an HP DV6000?

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Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

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charles buchanan wrote:

> Not being a fan of cli's, guess I'd better start if I need to install 
> programs 
> huh? I did realize yesterday/last night that there was a "." in front of one 
> of the commands I was trying to run. The type on some of these (web) pages 
> are really small and it's easy to miss that period. 

Not at all - you can install from a cli, but nothing stops you from using the
package management systems instead...

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Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

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Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:29 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
>> Doug McGarrett wrote:
>>> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>> You can't run a program from the directory it's in.  That seems to be a 
>>> UNIX 
>>> no-no.  Back up one directory, and run the command 
>>> with /directory/install...etc.  I know it's goofy, but that's UNIX--and 
>>> Linux.  In this case, the "directory" is /username.
>> Eh? In unix, you can run a program in any directory, from any directory, no
>> limits, whatsoever.
>>
>> If the program is not in the path (regardless of what directory the program 
>> is
>> in, or your current directory) simply use the full path to the program.
>>
>> For Example:
>>
>> If the file "install.sh" is in the current directory, simply type:
>>
>> ./install.sh
>>
>> "." means the current directory in unix speak.
>>
>> You may need to chmod 777 install.sh first, if it's not executable.
> 
> Actually 555 would do. the modes are rwx where r=4, w=2 and x=1. Add
> them together for the total. The minimum needed to run a file (script)
> is r_x=5, you need the ability to Read the file and eXecute it.

Of course - 755 is most common, I was in noob mode for some reason.

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Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

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Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote:
>> ...
>>
> if the program is  "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance,
> The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory
> /home/(username), do a dir and the file is there, I issue the
> command(s) that is/are listed on the website for this program, what
> else am I suppose to be doing?
>> ...
>>
>>> I wanted to try out Thunderbird but couldn't get it to install.
>> What is wrong?
>> Program not running?
>> Shell reports that can't find program?
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Rajko.
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
> 
> You can't run a program from the directory it's in.  That seems to be a UNIX 
> no-no.  Back up one directory, and run the command 
> with /directory/install...etc.  I know it's goofy, but that's UNIX--and 
> Linux.  In this case, the "directory" is /username.

Eh? In unix, you can run a program in any directory, from any directory, no
limits, whatsoever.

If the program is not in the path (regardless of what directory the program is
in, or your current directory) simply use the full path to the program.

For Example:

If the file "install.sh" is in the current directory, simply type:

./install.sh

"." means the current directory in unix speak.

You may need to chmod 777 install.sh first, if it's not executable.

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Re: [opensuse] kaffeine crash on wmv in suse 10.2

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Robert Lewis wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>   
>> Robert Lewis wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> Actually my point was that kaffeine works works fine for me with out any
>>> win32codec as I just did a find and locate as well.
>>>
>>> However, you forced me to do some further checking.
>>> There is now such thing on packman that I can see as a
>>> win32codec.  However, what I do have installed from packman
>>> is w32codec-all-20061022-0.pm.0
>>>
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>> So, you have the w32 codecs installed - then why do you say that
>> kaffeine works fine without them?
>>
>> Of course, kaffeine will "work" to some degree out of the box, but
>> without the w32 codecs, you won't be able to play quicktime, wmv, etc,
>> and without libdvdcss, you won't be able to watch DVDs.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>   
>> 
> I think you may have missed my point.
> Originally the email said win32codec so when I did a
> rpm -qa | grep win32codecnothing came back.
> The original poster should have used the correct name
>
> w32codec-all-20061022-0.pm.0
> which would have helped.
>   


Ah, I see -  you were simply not recognizing that "w32codecs-xxx" is the
name of the package containing the "win32 codecs". Just as "open office"
and "ooo" are really taking about the same thing.

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Re: [opensuse] kaffeine crash on wmv in suse 10.2

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Robert Lewis wrote:
> Actually my point was that kaffeine works works fine for me with out any
> win32codec as I just did a find and locate as well.
>
> However, you forced me to do some further checking.
> There is now such thing on packman that I can see as a
> win32codec.  However, what I do have installed from packman
> is w32codec-all-20061022-0.pm.0
>
>   

So, you have the w32 codecs installed - then why do you say that
kaffeine works fine without them?

Of course, kaffeine will "work" to some degree out of the box, but
without the w32 codecs, you won't be able to play quicktime, wmv, etc,
and without libdvdcss, you won't be able to watch DVDs.

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Re: [opensuse] kaffeine crash on wmv in suse 10.2

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Robert Lewis wrote:
> Michal Hlavac wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I installed suse 10.2 with latest updates with libxine libxineaa, kaffeine, 
>> win32codec from packman. But kaffeine always crash when I try to open wmv 
>> file.
>>
>> thanks, miso
>>   
> Works perfect here.
> kaffeine-mozilla-0.2-0.pm.1
> kaffeine-0.8.3-0.pm.1
> libxine1-1.1.4-0.pm.0
> 
> I don't have libxineaa
> win32codec doesn't seem to appear either although I remember installing it.


rpm -qa | grep w32

comes up empty? did you install by hand from a tarball?

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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

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Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2007-01-31 23:35, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> 
>>
>> Is there any specific problem? Because timezone should be fine as-is.
> 
> Please fire up any 9.3 system, and check the date of time changes in
> 2007 for any US timezone. Then compare that with the date of the time
> change for any 10.x version (I presume they have all been updated to
> reflect the recently announced change to daylight time in the US -- PS,
> I believe Canada, for reasons which should be obvious, has followed
> suit, but don't quote me on this, because sometimes we like to be
> stubborn about our differences with the USA :-)

More specifically: (substitute your local TZ for PST8PDT as applicable)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> zdump -v PST8PDT  | grep 2007
PST8PDT  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0
gmtoff=-28800
PST8PDT  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1
gmtoff=-25200
PST8PDT  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1
gmtoff=-25200
PST8PDT  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0
gmtoff=-28800

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Re: [opensuse] Re: POP3 mail server

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This sounds like a tremendous hassle - why not just install dovecot and
be happy...

Joe

Chuck Davis wrote:
> Hi Sandy:
>
> I put the certificate in /etc/ssl/certs.
>
> There is nearly nothing in my /etc/imapd.conf.  No instructions or
> samples of what should be there.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Chuck.
>
>
>
>
> On 1/31/07, Sandy Drobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Chuck Davis wrote:
>> > It's really annoying when what worked with 10.1 does not work with
>> 10.2!
>> >
>> > I have postfix working and mail is arriving at my server.
>> >
>> > I installed the imap package and POP3 is running on port 110 per nmap.
>> >
>> > I created a certificate as I have in the past and as is currently
>> > documented in the mail HOW-TO @ opensuse.org.
>>
>> And what did you do with the certificate?
>>
>> > Attempting to configure Kmail:  Set up a POP3 account.  On the Extras
>> > page "Check what the server supports" reports "Use TLS" and
>> > Authentication:  "Clear Text".
>> >
>> > Attempting to connect gives error:  "Could not connect to host  Your
>> > POP3 server does not support TLS.  Disable TLS if you want to connect
>> > without encription"
>> >
>> > Disabling TLS on the Extras tab and reconnecting results in:  "Coult
>> > not login to myserver.  The server said: 'Unknown AUTHORIZATION state
>> > command'".
>> >
>> > I've been unsuccessful finding any config files for POP3 that would
>> > let me enable TLS.
>>
>> Take a look at /etc/imapd.conf, it is also responsible for POP3.
>>
>> Sandy
>>
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Re: [opensuse] Flash 9 --again

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Doug McGarrett wrote:
> How do I determine what version of Flash is in Firefox?
> If an older version is there, how do I change it to the latest one I have 
> downloaded, which I thought I installed?  ( A video from the net said
> I would have to install Flash 9, which I thought the helpful guys on this
> list helped me install.)   

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Re: [opensuse] Syncing ipod with Suse 10.2

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Alexander Osthof wrote:
> Have you formatted your iPod mini on MacOS maybe, or was the HFS+ Filesystem 
> located on the iPod since the beginning? Because if your linux kernel doesn't 
> support HFS+ read/write you will encounter such problems.
>   

I actually bought the ipod from a mac user, but I didn't think he'd used
it yet.

> Maybe this can help you:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/gnupod.html
>
> Or just reformat your iPod mini with FAT32 and everything should be fine. :)
>   

Thanks, I'll check out those 2 things -

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Re: [opensuse] I give up!

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Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:31:35 +0100, jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took time to say 
> the following:

> My experience has been totally opposite. Don't ask me why! :-)  When I
> did have Mandriva installed, the response, scrolling and operations were
> almost Windows like. 

So, it was really crappy then. crashing a lot?

> For some reason, SuSe responds like Windows XP
> running on a 386 with 32mb of ram! :-O But that's another problem for
> another day. :-) 

Get rid of beagle and zmd, and 10.2 should be pretty responsive, assuming your
hardware is OK (dma not disabled, sufficient RAM, etc)

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Re: [opensuse] Syncing ipod with Suse 10.2

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Alexander Osthof wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2007 02:38 schrieb jim tate:
>> How do I sync a Ipod on 10.2 using KDE ?
> 
> Jep, amarok is doing a good job here. :)

I noticed that my ipod shuffle (formatted as fat32) works fine, but my ipod
mini (formatted as hfs+) is not recognized. Did you have to reformat the ipod
before using it?

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Re: [opensuse] a user call for attention on SuSE's mp3 support issue

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Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>> The only package I know that plays mp3 thanks to packman is MPlayer.
>>   
> I've been playing in Amarok. Maybe not elegant, but functional.

kaffeine, xine and xmms work as well...

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Re: [opensuse] video looking for Windows Media Player 9 or above

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Robert Lewis wrote:
> Any suggestions for how to get video working on sites that return:
> 
> The CNN.com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9 or
> above.
> We are unable to determine the version of Windows Media Player installed.
> 
> If you choose to not upgrade your player to Windows Media Player 9 or above
> your overall experience may be affected.  You may continue to veiw the Video
> without a player upgrade, although you may be prompted to install a
> Microsoft
> Windows codec in order to do so.
> 
> Mplayer did come up but went into a continuous loop and never played the
> video from this site.  Does anyone have this working?
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/video/
> 
> Click on any of the videos on the right hand side will probably reproduce
> the issue I am talking about.

I went to the site and clicked on a video on the right hand side.

The weird notice about mickeysoft media player appeared, and I clicked the
"continue to video" button. A player window popped up, and the news clip
played, with no problems, just as I would expect.

No special setup here, just suse 10.1 + packman, using mplayer plugin.

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Re: [opensuse] Daylight Savings Change

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We are running Suse 9.3 Enterprise at work that have no updates.  Do I
> need to patch the machines so that they are aware of the change in
> daylight savings in the United States?

There is no such thing as suse enterprise 9.3.

You might be running suse enterprise 9, or perhaps you're running suse 9.3
professional. There have been gigabytes of updates for sles 9 and suse pro 9.3.

To check whether your timezone config is up to date, run the following
command, and if your output shows the old dates rather than March 11/Nov 4,
you'll need the current timzeone package, which IIRC depends on the current
glibc package.


lucy: /home/jjs
(tty/dev/pts/4): bash: 1004 > zdump -v PST8PDT | grep 2007
PST8PDT  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0
gmtoff=-28800
PST8PDT  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1
gmtoff=-25200
PST8PDT  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1
gmtoff=-25200
PST8PDT  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0
gmtoff=-28800
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Re: [opensuse] Software updater orb

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Robert Lewis wrote:
> This morning when I got up the orb was missing in the panel.
> I then looked with YaST to see if my installaton sources were
> still intact and they were.
> 
> A reboot brought the orb back.

Logging out then logging in would have most likely done the trick, there's no
magic in rebooting, unless you're on ms windoze.

> When I click on it a popup appears and says that
> zmd is not running.  Hovering over it says there are
> no software updates available.

How about:

 chkconfig -a novell-zmd; rczmd start

Joe

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Re: [opensuse] KDE Cleanup

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Jay Smith wrote:
>
> So I just had someone bring in a notebook that had SuSE on it, 10.2. His 
> friend
> got all this crap on his desktop and asked me if it was possible to clean it 
> up.
> By that he means erase history from Ark and Kaffeine and all that good stuff. 
> I
> honestly don't know, I would just tell him to reinstall the OS but that can 
> be a
> pain since you can't have YaST2 memorize your packages. Anyone know how to 
> clear
> history on like Ark and Kaffeine? If not, I'll just have him reinstall and not
> let anyone borrow his notebook anymore lol.
>   

userdel -r 

useradd 

presto, virgin account.

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Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

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Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME?
> As well as the distribution has decide to "switch" to GNOME, who stayed
> faithfull to KDE?

I switched from gnome to kde when I moved from redhat to suse, and despite the
gnome push by novell management, I still run kde, for all desktop machines.
I've tried gnome recently, but it's pretty bare bones in comparison to kde.


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Re: [opensuse] pure-ftp

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Both vsftpd and pure-ftpd are on the suse install disks, and work fine.

Joe

Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> I'm failing miserably to get vsftpd running on SuSE 10.1 but I have
> pure-ftp running well on 9.3.
> 
> Is it possible to obtain pure-ftp for SuSE 10.1?
> 
> I need a RPM binary install due to brain issues with compiling.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
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Re: [opensuse] fsck running amok

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Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>   
>> On 2007-01-22 13:09, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>
>>> I don't know details about ReiserFS - this FS has been banned from all
>>> our systems a long time ago. I know a bit about ext3 and xfs though.
>>>   
>>>   
>> Interesting. I'd be interested in knowing why, if you can share that
>> information. 
>> 
>
> We have used ReiserFS when it became known and when it was available in
> Linux distributions. However, at that time we faced lots of weird
> problems that were caused by the filesystem (yes, these were problems
> with the FS and not the hardware) and reiserfsck was not working very
> well, i.e. if something went wrong, we had situation where reiserfsck
> made things much worse instead of repairing the FS. We then decided that
> this is certainly not a filesystem we would like to use in a production
> environment. Since we usually have to deal with large systems (tens or
> hundreds of TiB) and (very) large files, we decided to try xfs (which we
> already knew from our SGI servers) - xfs was designed and optimized for
> large filesystems and large files right from the beginning. It turned
> out to be a very good decision and, thus, there was no need to come back
> and try ReiserFS. On thin clients or laptops and/or dual-boot machines,
> we are using ext3. It's a bit safer when it comes to losing data at
> power cuts (which is due to the way the journalling works) - our
> desktops have no UPS. Furthermore, there exist tools to access ext
> partitions from Windows OS.
>
>   

Sorry, but that just sounds too bizarre to me - we've been using
reiserfs in our data center for years, since it's the default filesystem
on suse linux. It's been rock solid here, and is also the fastest
journaling filesystem we've found. I understand that reiserfs
maintenance going forward may slow down, so we'll have to eventually
settle on a different filesystem, but there's no reason to suddenly
change all of our stable systems on a political whim.

Hopefully some other filesystem will be able to fill the gap - possibly
ext4, or xfs.

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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse KDE: Konqueror or Firefox?

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Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 8:20 PM, M Harris wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 22 January 2007 16:55, Samir van de Sand wrote:
>>>  On the other side Konqueror has problems with displaying some web
>>> sites.
>>  Konqueror has trouble displaying many sites... its falling behind
>> fast.
> 
>>  Firefox is the way to go... bar none.
> 
> Can you access your SuSE filesystem with Firefox like you can with
> Konqueror?

You can, sort of, but konq is more elegant and flexible for these things.

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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse KDE: Konqueror or Firefox?

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Samir van de Sand wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> after using Gnome for a very long time, I recently switched to the KDE 
> environment (withhin my general switch to OpenSuse). So which browser should 
> I choose? Konqueror is a native QT app and also integrates nicely with other 
> KDE apps (like KDE Wallet) and furthermore it seems more lightweight than 
> Firefox. On the other side Konqueror has problems with displaying some web 
> sites.
> So what do you guys think? What are your experiences?
>
>   
Konq is a very nice all purpose network transparent file browser, but I
prefer to use Firefox for web browsing, for the compatibility reasons
you mentioned.

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Re: [opensuse] tar

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Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:41, John Meyer wrote:
>> Here is what I am trying:
>>
>> cd $HOME && tar uf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar Pictures
>> gzip $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar
>>
> 
> I'm no expert on tar but what you are trying never looked right to me.
> 
> Just where is this Pictures?   a directory off your home directory??
> 
> I would think  Pictures/*   would be the thing to use..

Not a good idea IMHO - if you say Pictures/*, then when that archive is
untarred, it will barf all over the current working directory, and I hate it
when naively constructed tarballs do that. Better to leave it at Pictures, and
the untar will confine itself neatly to the Pictures directory.

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Re: [opensuse] 32 bit SuSE on 64 bit CPU

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> I repeat it again: glxgears is *NOT* an appropriate benchmark.

All information is useful.

We see a repeatable 30% difference, and you say it's meaningless. Pardon me if
I'm skeptical, but you seem too quick to dismiss a result that is clearly
telling us something. I've noticed that without exception, good video hardware
plus good drivers gives high numbers, while low quality video hardware and/or
poorly written drivers gives low numbers.

Feel free to cite an "appropriate" graphics benchmark, and I'll be happy to
run it. Obviously I won't be at all surprised if whatever benchmark you
mention also shows better performance on a 64-bit OS.

>> Being able to move memory around in bigger chunks can really help things like
>> database performance too. *Having* to move data around in bigger chunks might
>> not be as helpful for some scenarios, but I can't think of any. Got a 
>> specific
>> example?
> 
> Quite all libc functions profit from it, memcpy using rep movsq as a prime
> example.

Yes, that makes sense.

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Re: [opensuse] tar

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John Meyer wrote:
> I'm still working my way through tar manuals and I'm coming across this
> problem:  creating tarballs is easy, however, when I try to create it to
> where only files that are newer are added (such as in Pictures, where I
> don't want multiple backups based by dates), tar complains about it.
> Does anybody know the right way to do this, given that:
> 
> 1.  The directory you want to backup is $HOME/Pictures
> 2.  The file you want to backup to is $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar.gz


tar -cvf $HOME/backups/Pictures.tar.gz $HOME/Pictures

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Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

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Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
> Yes I had restarted firefox, renaming
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat made no difference (ie
> about:plugins still shows 7.0 r69), 
> 
>   /usr/lib/browser-plugins:
> 
>   -r--r--r--1 root root 856 2006-10-27 21:42 flashplayer.xpt
>   lrwxrwxrwx1 root root  23 2006-12-27 13:49 gxineplugin.so -> 
> ../gxine/gxineplugin.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root   70436 2005-09-13 03:35 libdragonegg.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2158864 2006-10-27 21:42 libflashplayer.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  490456 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  490600 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  490724 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  490764 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  493236 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root  491004 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 981 2006-12-14 01:09 mplayerplug-in.xpt
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root   63167 2006-08-15 17:00 nphelix.so
>   -rwxr-xr-x1 root root5086 2005-09-14 12:47 nphelix.xpt
>   lrwxrwxrwx1 root root  52 2006-11-16 17:30 nppdf.so -> 
> ../../X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so


I'd be curious about the output of the following:

rpm -qf /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
rpm -V flash-plugin

Clearly, your flash plugin is not the current version, as you can see from the
timestamp of October 27th 2006. In any case, you'll want to properly install
the flash 9 plugin.

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Re: [opensuse] 32 bit SuSE on 64 bit CPU

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Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:44, J Sloan wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> 32-bit suse can run on x86_64, but not ia64. It's unlikely that you
>> have ia64 hardware, so the answer is most likely yes.
>>
>> Just curious why you'd want to do that though.
> 
> Possible reasons:
> 
> 1) Fewer problems with plug-ins.
> 2) Better performance for many applications or classes of applications.

1. My x86_64 installs defaulted to 32bit browsers, ergo no plugin problems.

2. On my main workstation, glxgears got 10,000 frames/sec with the x86_64
install, and 7,000 frames/sec with the i386 install, a noticeable difference.

Being able to move memory around in bigger chunks can really help things like
database performance too. *Having* to move data around in bigger chunks might
not be as helpful for some scenarios, but I can't think of any. Got a specific
example?

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Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

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StephenW wrote:
> I have heard from my friend who wrote the blog.
> 
> FLAMERS is too soft of a word for some of you who posted to his blog. The use
> of obscenity and profanity was outrageous.
> 
> I am embarrassed (nay, chagrined) and humiliated by most of the responses that
> were sent to him.

That's a shame. Such nonsense as appeared on the web page you cited should
probably have just been ignored. But I can understand people being outraged
when they read things they know from experience to be false, and especially
when this sort of propaganda is used in an effort to prop up a malevolent
corporate monopoly.


> I like working with linux at home, but it would be a real pain trying to keep
> up with all the problems I would have if it were in the school. 

Pray tell, what problems? I find managing multiple linux systems much easier
than multiple windoze systems. When I was managing labs of windoze peecees,
the amount of maintenance required to keep things afloat was a real annoyance.
In one of the labs, we finally resorted to doing an automated wipe and
reinstall of windoze every night. In contrast, the linux systems were pretty
much a matter of install, set up and walk away.


> My job as a
> school tech support person will be much easier when the switch to all MS is
> complete.  This multi-platform situation is a real hassle.

I must admit, that sounds absurd to me. I can only comment that the statement
says more about you than it says about anything else.


> I doubt it will happen, but I would that some of you who were less than
> courteous in your reply to his blog would return there with an apology.  (I
> guess FLAMERS don't do that, do they?)

I suppose if the troll retracted some of his outrageous claims and apologized,
  the folks who flamed him might well turn out to be in a conciliatory mood,
and apologize for their tone.

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Re: [opensuse] 32 bit SuSE on 64 bit CPU

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Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> Although not new to linux I am not a hardware person.  I have a rather 
> simplist (perhaps) question.  The question is whether 32 bit SuSE will work 
> on a 64 bit CPU?
> 
> I am planning on upgrading by linux machine to 64 bits and would like to use 
> the primary master (linux installation only) on the new machine - which would 
> make life considerably simpler for me.

32-bit suse can run on x86_64, but not ia64. It's unlikely that you have ia64
hardware, so the answer is most likely yes.

Just curious why you'd want to do that though.

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Re: [opensuse] Kernel Update + Source + NVidia +Suse 10.1

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ianseeks wrote:

>> So, you must that the installer exited with an error. Did you boot into the
>> new kernel before running the nvidia installer? It can't use kernel headers
>> that are already gone..
> 
> Yes, and i checked the file did exist

So, the main question remains: Did you boot into the new kernel before
attempting to run the nvidia installer?

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Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

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Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
>> - it's true that you can install whatever you want but after a 
>> while the installs/unistall makes your system very unstable.
>> Many of my friends complain that they have to reinstall the 
>> whole system frequently (2-4 times a year).
> 
> Some "major" Linux updates are painfull.
> I remember a hard FC3 -> FC4 I had to make on a dedicated server (SSH
> only).
> I dont know if it's the same under Windows: is W2k -> W2k3 very easy?
> Is it just about Next-Next-Next-Next-(Agree)-Finish?

I've done a number of major linux version upgrades: redhat 8 to fc1, redhat 9
to fc1, etc. The upgrades were done remotely, while the boxes remained in
service. It was a matter of copying an apt sources file and typing an apt-get
command, then going about my other work while the systems upgraded themselves.

There is no way that windoze can do that - with windoze you're going to sit
down in at the peecee, boot from cd, and go through the install screens,
reboots, driver installs, reboots, bug fixes, reboots and a lot of face time.

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Re: [opensuse] Kernel Update + Source + NVidia +Suse 10.1

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ianseeks wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I attempted this because the "Updater" icon kept showing that a new kernel 
> was 
> available evn though YaST2 did not show this. I've been attempting to upgrade 
> the NVidia drivers (9746) after updating the kernel.   I've followed the 
> http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#3 
> instructions. Needless to say, i couldn;t get the latest drivers to install, 
> it kept crashing out with "unable to find. kernel.h" even though it was 
> there.  

There's no way the nvidia driver would have caused a crash if you couldn't
even build the module.

So, you must that the installer exited with an error. Did you boot into the
new kernel before running the nvidia installer? It can't use kernel headers
that are already gone.

> I was wondering if it was down to version number mismatch, should the 
> source and binary kernel version numbers match?  The don't seem to 
> on this mirror I use for updates 
> http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/Kernel/SUSE_Linux_10.1/i586/
> 
>  Parent Directory-   
>  kernel-debug-2.6.18.1-1.3.i586.rpm 15-Nov-2006 20:55   19M  
>  kernel-default-2.6.18.1-1.3.i586.rpm   15-Nov-2006 11:57   18M  
>  kernel-source-2.6.18.5-36.1.i586.rpm   29-Dec-2006 11:37   45M  
>  kernel-xen-2.6.18.1-1.4.i586.rpm   14-Nov-2006 22:41   18M  

AFAIK you can't use the nvidia drivers in a xen kernel. Are you running the
xen kernel?

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Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

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John Meyer wrote:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>> John Meyer wrote:
>>> Anybody have any recommendations?
>>>   
>> Tools > Junk Mail Controls
>>
> Current junk mail controls still let a few e-mails in, as well as
> sometimes doing a false positive.

The more you train it the better it gets. Of course it's not going to be very
accurate at first. After a few months of use, mine is extremely accurate, and
catches what little spam gets by spamassassin.

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Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

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Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
> Johannes Nohl escribió:
> 
>> You could use suPHP (www.suphp.org),
> 
> nope.
> 
>  which will use php5-fcgi without
>> the exe-line #!/usr/bin/php5 .
> 
> php5-fastcgi does the same thing
> 
> 
> instead of uing usPHP, run separate php fascgi instances running as a
> normal user
> 
> You can do that somewhat easily with lighttpd.

And with apache as well...

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Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

[J Sloan]

JB wrote:
> On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:03, Matt Stamm wrote: 
> 
>> -- Original Message --
>> From: "Alexey Eremenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date:  Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:15 +0200
>>
>>> Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro
>>> packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a
>>> linux world. Which doesn't prevents my father and mother use Linux
>>> successfully.
>>>
>>> There are many solutions that try to solve both problems (such as
>>> Autopackage and klik), but the most serious undertake is the LSB, The
>>> Linux Standards Base.
>> He makes a valid point. From the average user's point
>> of view, some things tend to install easier with Windows.
> 
>   Especially things like, trojans, worms, viruses, malware, ad nauseum, heh 
> heh.
> 
>> My most recent experience, went to a website that required
>> flash-player 9. On windows the download and install
>> went smooth. On my linux suse-10 the install didn't go
>> as smooth, the rpm provided by Adobe installed the plugin
>> in the wrong place, something like /usr/..., but it
>> was supposed to go /opt/MozillaFirefox/..
> 
>   I'm still with 9.3 and in /opt/ all the libflashplayer.so's are 
> linked to /usr/lib/browserplugins all except for in /home/me/.firefox 
> and .mozilla
> 
>> I love linux, using since suse-8, would never go back to
>> windows, but windows does make some things easier on
>> the "average joe"
> 
>   When I was still using M$, the only thing it made easier for me was to cuss 
> the system and kick the side of the tower every once in a while, which I know 
> didn't help the the system get any better, but picturing BG's face on the 
> side of the tower while giving it a few good bumps with the side of my foot 
> made *me* feel better.

I'm using suse 10.1 and browser plugins are also in /usr/lib/browser-plugins.
The various browsers all have symlinks to that directory. So the problem the
OP reported is completely a non-problem.


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Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

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John Meyer wrote:
> Anybody have any recommendations?

Thunderbird's built-in junk filter, once trained, is excellent. In general
though, spam filtering is better done at the smtp server.

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Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

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StephenW wrote:
>>From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting:
> 
> http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/

There are plenty of fools at educational institutions, unfortunately.

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Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

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Greg Wallace wrote:
> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file.  Tell me what
> package it's in, if any.".

rpm -qf /path/to-file


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Re: [opensuse] Recommended Website Tools

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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.
>> 
>
> Try Visual Studio 2005.  I was using it today. Seemed to make nice W3C 
> compliant output.  
>
>   
So, it runs on linux then? If so, I might look at it sometime. But if
it's windoze-only, it's a non-starter.

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Re: [opensuse] flash player 9 problems?

[J Sloan]

Dennis E. Slice wrote:
> Mathias Homann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> first, rest assured. this is not yet another announcement that flash player 
>> 9 
>> has been released for linux.
>>
>>
>> BUT. If I install it, and go to 
>> http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=144166 and hit "play this 
>> game", 
>> or go to www.kartoo.com, in about 95 of 100 tries the running flash applet 
>> doesn't get any keyboard input.
>> And you'll all agree that a search engine with a dead input field (or a game 
>> that tells you to "hit space to start") are pretty useless without keyboard 
>> input...
>> Am I the only one who has such problems?
> 
> So far.
> 
> I haven't bothered with Flash and such (I'd just bail on a page that
> demanded it), but recent posts about flsh player 9 led me to install
> from here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/ via YAST.
> 
> Yours was the first mention of sites to try, and they work just fine for
> me. Some anime girl seems to have just kicked my ass.
> 
> SUSE 10.0

Worked great for me - the download was a bit choppy, but that was because
Azureus is sucking up most of my bandwidth right now, but the game worked fine
and responded to keyboard input.

suse 10.1 i386

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Re: [opensuse] Mouse movement Jerky!

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John Pierce wrote:
>>
>> That sounds exactly like beagle. I saw the same symptoms on a new
>> install of
>> 10.1, but after removing all traces of beagle, the system became silky
>> smooth
>> and responsive, and quake 3 arena ran like a scalded cat.
>>
>> Joe
> 
> I do not have beagle or kerry either one installed.  I even
> uninstalled zmd.  I even suspected the mouse, but the problem even
> happens in init 3 with the keyboard.

Something might be funny with the hardware then. How much RAM do you have? is
swap being used?

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Re: [opensuse] Mouse movement Jerky!

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John Pierce wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have just installed opensuse 10.2 on an older computer for my son
> and the mouse is jerky.
> 
> I will describe my system and hardware for possible solutions.
> 
> Processor Pentium III coppermine @ 667 Mhz
> VIA chipset
> ATI Radeon 7000 RV100 QY (Radeon 7000VE)
> System Memory 512 Mb
> 
> Here is what I am experiencing, even on a desktop with nothing open if
> I move the mouse around the screen it will move with a sudden stop and
> then start moving again.  It seems (I have not timed this) to stop
> about every 2 seconds with about a 0.5 second delay before it starts
> moving again.  This I set the screen resolution to 1024x768 down from
> 1152x864 to see if that would make a difference but it would not.  I
> have disabled just about everything thing that may run in the
> background with the exceptions of critical system components.
> 
> I made sure the system had the correct settings in xorg.conf regarding
> dri subsection.
> 
> I have looked at dmesg and messages but I do not see any blatant errors.
> 
> Any thoughs would be appreciated, this is annoying but I would can at
> least use the machine.  It just interferes with games like ppracer.
> That game plays fine except for the momentary system freezes.


That sounds exactly like beagle. I saw the same symptoms on a new install of
10.1, but after removing all traces of beagle, the system became silky smooth
and responsive, and quake 3 arena ran like a scalded cat.

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Re: [opensuse] Is this a big deal?

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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I don't use SUSE as a desktop much, so is this a big deal?

Maybe not for you, if you're basically a windoze user.

For those of us who use linux it is a good thing.



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Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

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Michael Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
>   
>> Web sites are independantly written, and there's plenty of MickySofties who 
>> are willing to mess them up!! ;)
>> 
>
> Congrats Fred, you've qualified for my kill file.
>   

Fred's statement seems reasonable to me. Why the killfile?

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Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

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Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:35:21PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, but that is just silly. I have no trouble viewing youtube,
>> quicktime movie trailers, flash, java, wmv, mpg, DVDs or any other
>> multimedia on my SuSE desktops.
>> 
>
> I don't give a tinker's d*mn about on-line video, myself, but since you
> mention QuickTime specifically...
>
> Why does Totem have such a problem with accurate playback of .MOV files?
> It seems to be independent of codec... it'll play them, but the colors are
> all shifted weirdly.  Mplayer, of course, plays the same file accurately.
>
> We won't talk about the disaster that is Xine... it's bad enough that Totem
> uses its libraries, but I'll be d*mnned if I'm ever going to use that
> disaster of a UI the Xine devs think is so cool.  I'll do without first.

Good question - But I'm probably not the person to ask about totem,
since I use kaffeine or mplayer for all my dvd or video file watching,
amarok for music, and the mplayer plugin handles the bulk of the
multimedia browser content.

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Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BUT, shouldn't the linux version handle said "braindead webside coder" the 
> same way the windoze version does? Can we do with a bit less of a superiority 
> nonsense and a bit more of "can do" coding? 
I don't think you understand what's happening in such cases. If a
website is written to conform to standards, and sends the video content,
linux handles it beautifully. When the website checks to ensure that a
client running their accepted OS and web browser, and denies access if
the client is not said OS and browser, that is against standards, and
what I consider brain dead.

> Video over the net is just about 
> impossible in a standard 10.2, far worse in the 64 bit 10.2 and it only gets 
> marginally better if one goes to packman. The 32/64 bit issues with firefox, 
> konqueror and plugins, compounded by the limitations of "linux" realplayer, 
> mplayer, flashplayer etc make it imperative that one should keep a doze 
> version handy, if one is keen on watching on line video... 
>   
Sorry, but that is just silly. I have no trouble viewing youtube,
quicktime movie trailers, flash, java, wmv, mpg, DVDs or any other
multimedia on my SuSE desktops.

BTW I've got a windoze image under win4lin on my main SuSE system, but
after firing it up initially and futzing around some months ago, I
haven't bothered with it, and haven't missed it.

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Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

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steve reilly wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:31, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
>
>   
>> I was disappointed to see that the Linux flash9 didn't allow me to access
>> the content on:
>>
>>  http://www.cbs.com/innertube
>>
>> Does anyone know how to access the online video streams on that site from
>> Linux?
>> 
>
> they are probably using the latest version for windows which is greater than 
> 9, probably 10 or 11?? you wont see that for linux for prob another year 
> maybe more.
>   

Nope, windoze latest is 9, same as mac and linux.

More likely it's a brain dead website coder who is checking to make sure
you're running ms windoze and msie like a good little sheep, before
sending you the video content.

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Re: [opensuse] Network on suse 10.2

[J Sloan]

Peter Nikolic wrote:
> Hi those that have to common decencey to communicate  with me the rest can go 
> **
>
> In Suse 10.2 i need the network to behave like it used to in 9.2  ie be fully 
> active in runlevel 3  so that before any GUI kicks in networking is fully  up 
> and running.
>
> if-up does not do this  at all it is still much too late in bringing 
> networking fully up   .
>
> 10.2 is great but it also needs a few bits from 9.2  the networking was far 
> better in 9.2 the behaviour was better   .. it was also a lot easier to make 
> it work the way YOU want it to not the way IT wants you to work  as it does 
> right now (the M$ Corp way) 
>
>   
Use "traditional method with ifup" instead of network manager.

joe


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