Re: [opensuse] off-list replies
On Thursday 12 April 2007 21:24, G.T.Smith wrote: > > For a long time I used "reply-all" in Thunderbird and edited the > > recipients, then I discovered a plugin for List Reply, so I only have to > > remember to click on "Reply List". > > > > > > Once I new it existed I found it, downloaded it and it seems to work... > Thanks That fixes it only for those who find out about and install them. It doesn't fix the problem, it's only a bandaid. Better to configure the list so it just works. Even ig rbird, kmail, evolution and all the other *x email clients are fixed to work well (some do), there are still others such as Lookout/Lookout Express. Pegassus etc. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] off-list replies
On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:37, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > This comes about about once a year on almost every list I am on [the > debate about Reply-To headers]; it is really annoying. The *ONLY* > relevant person/people to discuss this with is the list maintainers. > Look up the maintainers address(es) and bother them. In my experience, they mostly ignore the views of one person. Presumably, if approached by several then they might listen. Especially, in this case, it's someone from Novell or SUSE. Pointing to this thread might help. -- Not appeased John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] off-list replies
On Thursday 12 April 2007 18:28, G.T.Smith wrote: > BTW: As a dejected England fan my only rejoinder would have to be "What > prowess" :'( I'm old enough to recall when we couldn't win a game of cricket, so I have some sympathy. Not a lot, mind you, and I'm sure JB's not going to stir that pot again. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] off-list replies
On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:21, Benji Weber wrote: > On 4/12/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had enough of this list, I really do not like off-list replies to my > > attempts to help people. > > > > They are bad because > > 1. It breaks filtering (the list-id header is present in mail from the > > list and it's sensible to use it to filter email). > > 2. Other people can't see my errors and correct them. I'm not perfect. > > 3. Other people can't see corrections to my errors and learn from them. > > 4. Off-list replies don't get archived. > > 5. It breaks threading. I like email one topic to be grouped into one > > thread. Since most email clients support this feature, I suspect others > > value it too. > > Quite. > > I frequently accidentally email people off-list due to the reply-to > being not set to the list. Which I expect may be responsible for most > of the off-list emailing. Default reply for many email clients is to > reply off-list. I have argued with many people regarding misconfigured lists over the years, and almost invariably they say "standards," while ignoring the paucity of email clients conforming to those "standards," often despite the fact that the list is hosted, as here, by the vendor who provides the software. I use several distros, and for reasons unrelated to this list, I'll shortly be removing this one. The main reason I chose opensuse 10.2 was the notion it comes with support for my Atheros wireless in my laptop; as that's no longer the case I plan to switch to something else, and live with the need to fiddle with wireless. > > > I equate off-list with spam, and unless I specifically give you > > permission to email me, you don't have the right. > > This is rediculous. Not so ridiculous as you mailing to me off-list as you highlighted a reason for the problem. I could argue that spam is less inconvenient as there's only one way to deal with it: . -- I'm outa here. John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] off-list replies
I've had enough of this list, I really do not like off-list replies to my attempts to help people. They are bad because 1. It breaks filtering (the list-id header is present in mail from the list and it's sensible to use it to filter email). 2. Other people can't see my errors and correct them. I'm not perfect. 3. Other people can't see corrections to my errors and learn from them. 4. Off-list replies don't get archived. 5. It breaks threading. I like email one topic to be grouped into one thread. Since most email clients support this feature, I suspect others value it too. I equate off-list with spam, and unless I specifically give you permission to email me, you don't have the right. Now, I do make some exceptions. For example, if I make a little joke about the Poms' cricket prowess, and someone wants to send me a good-natured rejoinder, it's probably best off-list. -- Grump! John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Please make available a 2 DVD set for openSUSE 10.3
On Thursday 12 April 2007 09:26, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > Distribution is already too big, and if you want all packages, buy the > boxed set. otherwise this will only be a non-sense waste of resources. Debian disagrees. Download Debian 4.0 now, all three DVD-sized ISO images. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Putting /boot on a pendrive...
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 23:22, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Is it possible, yes if you can boot from a pen drive. > I would certainly not do that.. > first, on a hard drive, the boot sector contains a physical address of > the stage1 boot code. The boot process then loads stage1. Stage1 then > loads the specific stage1 for the file system (eg. e2fs_stage1_5) which > then loads /boot/grub/stage2. stage2 then reads the menu.lst (or > grub.conf) and presents the boot menu etc. Since pendrives are normally > FAT devices, Do you know an example where fdisk plus mke2fs can't change that? fwiw I have a system whose BIOS has decided not to boot directly from hda, Couldn't figure why, but booting grub on CD is fine, and this works: root (hd0) chainloader +1 boot There is, of course, no reason /boot can't (with a little work) be on a CD. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:32, Damon Register wrote: > Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value > (although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then > there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi. If there is any possibiltiy that you will be called on to maintain any *x system at all, you can bet a lot of them do not have nedit, joe, pico, jed, emacs or many of the others. You _can_ expect to find vi, ed and sed. vi is light-weight and designed to be used over slow links. ed is pretty similar, but lacks the visual element. sed is strictly batch-oriented. _I_ regularly do system maintenance by dialup, and no GUI is especially useful at the other end of a modem. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] kmail gone screwy
On Thursday 12 April 2007 08:09, dwain wrote: > I added some other pop accounts this afternoon and now I can't log into the > gmail server. I get the message that login failed and the server > terminated the connection. I unchecked the save password and erased the > password in identities. I got the login screen and still couldn't login > receiving the above message. Any thoughts? You're a bit short on detail, but generally to check an email account telnet works well. I was going to produce an example, but I can't find a pop3 server that will talk to me. Basically, you telnet mail 110 then follow the pop3 protocol; google can find the details, search on these terms: pop3 protocol rfc You can also run tcpdump on your desktop: tcpdump -i any -A -s port 110 which can be very illuminating. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [kernel]What is the main difference between pxelinux and isolinux and normal kernel?
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 17:04, Magiclouds Magicloud wrote: > Dear all, > I want to make a custom pxelinux for our product If you don't know the answer to your question, I have some concerns about your ability to customise any of the three to any great extent. pxelinux is a boot manager, it's loaded over the LAN using the built-in ability of many network cards (and particularly those built into recent motherboards), using DHCP to find an IP address, a server address and a file name. pxelinux then reads some more file and presents a menu, somewhat as grub does. isolinux is from the same family as pxelinux, but boots directly from a CD. Other than that, it's very like pxelinux. Neither is very useful for very long. Both are small programs, neither fulfills any role performed by the Linux kernel, but rather include amongst their capabilities the ability to load one amongst several Linux kernels. The Linux kernel, of course, is the guts of any Linux distro: it includes drivers for all the hardware you have, routines to share use of system resources such as RAM, CPU, disk and so on. It used to be able to be booted directly by the BIOS - that might still be possible with 2.6 kernels - but the process is inflexible and rarely used. btw Grub, with which you are more familiar, also is able to be used to boot Linux (and other operating systems) from CD - I just created a CD for that purpose a few minutes ago. Grub too, is a small program. Perhaps you should explain in some detail what you want to do - too often, people ask how to do something (and people ask them) when they really should be outlining a problem and asking for suggestions on how to solve the problem. > > Thanks. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] grub
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 12:28, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I suppose this should go to the bugzilla thing, but I don't know how to get > there, and those who do that probably read here. > > On another computer, which is down partly for this reason, I had XP on the > first hard drive, and SuSE 10.0 on the second hard drive, using Grub for > the boot controller, and Reiser FS. > > It turned out that the second HD failed. Then it was impossible to boot > the system, since it seems that Grub portions out its booter between the > first and second drives. The first drive attempts to boot the system, but > it comes up with Grub, and then Grub error, and then you are in the pot. > Nothing will help, since part of Grub must be on the second drive, which > has failed. > > (I have had some semi-professionals check out drive 2 and verify that it > failed. The Best-Buy Geek Squad. They don't seem to know very much about > Linux.) > > It's absolutely ridiculous that a boot manager should share its secrets > over two drives. This is an excellent example of why not. Who configured it that way? I would have done one of two or three things, none of them what you did. 1. Configure Windows to boot drive 2. I don't know the details, but Google does. 2. Configure the BIOS to boot drive two. Configure Grub to be able to boot Linux, and to boot the first drive. I know how to do this: Title Winders. root (hd) chainloader +1 boot 3. Maybe, swap the drives, install Linux on the first and able to boot either, as in 2. I've had this setup, it works well. > > I need some kind of boot CD or DVD (or floppy) that can be run from a CD > drive that will restore the boot of the XP system. Or some kind of NTFS > boot disk. I think I need to have a program that will access the disk and > send it "FIX MBR" from some conversation some time ago, here. > The Geek Squad doesn't seem to know how to do any of this. And I don't > either. You need to find a means to get a boot record into place, without corrupting the partition info. I think freedos can help with its fdisk. Probably, Your XP Install disk can do it, certainly reinstalling without reformatting will fix it. You need a new disk, "borrow" it to backup stuff or transfer XP to it. Knoppix plus the ntfs tools it contains can do this. Just take it slow and steady, check each step before committing it and it's fairly painless, but you do need to use the commandline. > I would be happy to pay for the floppy or CD that would make the XP machine > work again. It will never have Linux on it anymore, but I have this > machine, with its own problems running Linux, and until I couldn't print, > fairly happily. Your choice, but a bit radical. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Linus loves GPL v2 ---- and is not on a crusade
On Thursday 22 March 2007 12:37, M Harris wrote: > > > > It just seems to me that there is a kind of religious intensity that > > is out of place -- the world is destined to have both F/OSS and > > proprietary (closed source) software. There has to be a mechanism for > > allowing these two approaches to software development and licensing, > > to co-exist peacefully. To "interoperate" to all of our advantage. > > The statement is a contradiction in terms. Interoperability is only > relevant An excellent example of a fanatic at work. "I give now quarter because I am Right. No other point of view has any validity, is is JUST PLAIN WRONG." I could do that too, but I prefer to discuss the matter. Sometimes, I am wrong. Oftentimes, there is merit in my opponents point of view. He might be wrong, but I can't tell that before listening and understanding what he has to say. Then, perhaps we can discuss it further and maybe come to an agreement: if not, then we can part on good terms, each understanding the other. Fanatical ranting with never persuade anyone with the ability to think, to question. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] I see a crack in the walls!
On Thursday 22 March 2007 13:47, Kai Ponte wrote: > I put in a $20,000 line item in my budget for fiscal year 2007/2008 - > starting in July - for four notebooks for me and my staff. I was told today > that I need to spend the money by the end of this month, in order to > re-adjust the funds (or some sort of thing) for this year. > > Okay, so IOTW, I must spend $20K now for notebooks. > > Wellif I HAVE to > > In any case, I first go to the HP site and click on the enterpise business > notebooks. Look what I see: > > HP Compaq nw9440 Mobile Workstation Hmm, what's the battery life? > > Operating Systems > > -Genuine Windows Vista™ Business 32 > -Genuine Windows® XP Professional SP2 > -Genuine Windows® 2000 > -FreeDOS > -SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 > -Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP3 certified > > w00t! That doesn't mean that I can yet BUY the notebook with SUSE but at > least they mention it. Personably, I'm rather partial to Thinkpads;-) IBM has supported Linux on some Thinkpads for years, and I think the Chinese crew's following suit. I recently bought a used R40 2722-GDM (near the top of the R40s I think, with 1 1440x1050 low-gloss screen. I hate glossy screens, I thought they were a bad idea when IBM introduced them for the IBM PC (the CGA monitor), and I still think so. Also, while widescreens might be good for watching videos, that's not what I want to do. Reputedly the T series have better Linux compatibility. The only problems I have are Wireless (Atheros, requires third-party mostly OSS driver), and I'm not sure whether the modem works, though Google thinks it does. Toshiba actively supports Linux on its hardware too, but it's a little quieter about it. One of the nicer things about the Thinkpads is their Ultrabay: one can hot-remove the Optical drive and replace it with something else, a battery, a second disk drive Oh, _my_ R40 has the Ultranav thing, a "joystick" thing in the middle of the keyboard that one can lean on to move the mouse cursor plus three mouse buttons, all functioning under Linux. There's also the usual touchpad, with two buttons and scrolling and clicking gestures. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Linux AD server for Windows clients - Was: Win vs Lin info
On Thursday 01 March 2007 19:13, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > I'm not sure about AD, no-AD? Do I need it? > > I have never found a use for AD or even Windows Domain controllers. > Certainly never for a network that small. > > Even where they are claimed to be of use (really large installations where > people want to log into their desktop from any workstation) they > don't work well enough for anyone to actually DO that. So everyone > graduates from the Microsoft course and runs out an defines > Domain controllers and Active Directory, only to burry themselves > in a maintenance nightmare that doesn't meet its very reason for being. John really hasn't any idea of what he's talking about. It works very well for us. It sure beats running around our dozen or so computers (we're a small shop) applying security and getting them all different, installing software manually on each one, going to each one and going through Windows Update to get the results of the latest Patch Tuesday. But don't trust me either, do your own research and ask people who actually use it, not a bunch of Linux geeks. Of course you're not going to get good unbiased advice here~ -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Oh where oh where have the updates gone?
On Sunday 11 March 2007 07:24, Michael Skiba wrote: > On Saturday, 10. March 2007 20:28, jdd wrote: > > linux/suse.com/suse/update/10.1 > > he should probably use 10.2 :) (depending on his installation..) Probably you're right Michael. I've shozen one, and now Yast is amusing itself tying up my modem downloading lots of stuff it thinks I want. Yesterday, I took the laptop to work so I could find this stuff and get a full update. Today, all I want is timezone data, because m Internet connexion's through a modem. For some reason copying /etc/localtime from something else that's right didn't work. Consider it fixed for me, I'm sure that when Yast has finished its little games I'll be able to get the one update that matters. I've chose one in .de - while not ideal for the home of Kangaroos, it's better than nothing. However, if anyone else wants to add stuff to the thread for those who use google, I won't object. Thanks for your help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Oh where oh where have the updates gone?
I've spent a good hour and an half looking for where ti get updates for my OpenSUSE 10.2, All that I can find is that "The current patches for openSUSE™ are available from an update software catalog. If you have registered your product during the installation, an update catalog is already configured. If you have not registered openSUSE, you can do so by running Software>Online Update Configuration in YaST." http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/index.html?page=/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_reference/data/book_opensuse_reference.html I couldn't register when I installed because I wasn't connected to the Internet. Now, I don't have "Software>Online Update Configuration in YaST." Google found me this: http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/index.html?page=/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_startup/data/cha_y2_sw_instsource.html#cha_y2_sw_instsource but I don't want to add GPhoto, I want to add an updates repo. So, I went to my usual mirrors, planetmirror.com and some less official but more local, and I don't see any updates accessible by HTTP - there didn't seem to be any merit in researching the same mirrors with ftp. Logically, this document should mention the updates repos and where to find their mirrors: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories Can someone point me to the missing info, and even better, could someone with update access to the wiki add the missing pointers there? Updating the opensuse docs would be good too:-) Thanks for your patience. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:27, Russell Jones wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:58, Russell Jones wrote: > >> Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when > >> it goes wrong) is to use something like AutoYaST to roll out software > >> and configuration packages (which you roll yourself). Far more powerful > >> than the MS mandated and controlled policy system, though you can do > >> similar things with MSIs and the MS package distribution system (SMS is > >> it?). > > > > At this point, the battle's over. One can control pretty much every > > aspect of > > I guess you'd better stop using Linux-based systems then. What an odd > thing to say... I'm sure there's room for improvement, but there is no > reason why windows cannot be displaced. Granted, it may be hard (though > I don't think it is in many cases), but it's far from impossible, > especially if Linux-based systems are being used on the desktop. Which > is what we're talking about AFAIAA. I've been using Linux extensively for around a decade - not SuSE to be sure, but other distros. "hard" means error-prone. Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Xp are designed to work with AD, and by now it's pretty solid and fairly easily scales to cover a world-wide network, with bridgehead servers to cache settings and distribute them round servers in the local office, and the ability to establish trust relationships between forests (think a hierarchy of domains == a forest). Implementing the controls available in AD on Linux isn't possible in any reasonable time. First, you need the schema. Then the tools to ad the information. And the tools to distribute the information. And, if it doesn't work with your XP clients, where do you go for help? (I don;t know the answer here) What about when you deploy Windows Vista: likely there will be additional data required in the schema, and maybe again when Windows 2003 Server's successor arrives. > > As for institutions not rolling out FF, that's not true. > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_Institutional_Deployment That is very recent then, in the past month I spent quite some time reading through extensive discussion of the question. Like Windows Vistam FF2 is a little young for extensive deployments. > Again, it may be harder (I'd say less convenient in this case), but it's > far from impossible. Of course, rolling out to Windows desktops, they > use AD. But AD being a requirement to fully utilise windows desktops was > an inevitable and predictable part of MS' server and lock-in strategies. > If the roll out were to Linux desktops the same functionality is > certainly possible, though probably harder. And "harder" mitigates against "free licences." I'm on the Linux/390 list, mostly because I used to be an MVS systems programmer, and so I know a bit about those machines, even though they're far-descended from what I used. I hear about people running their webservers and web applications on the zSeries, and they share files with Windows systems using Samba, and they run their databases on zLinux, but I don't recall anyone considering replicating AD functionality there, and a few years ago someone found he could run 42000 virtual penguins on one, and someone did manage to run Windows on one. More likely, they will want to authenticate Linux users using AD. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:58, Russell Jones wrote: > Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when > it goes wrong) is to use something like AutoYaST to roll out software > and configuration packages (which you roll yourself). Far more powerful > than the MS mandated and controlled policy system, though you can do > similar things with MSIs and the MS package distribution system (SMS is > it?). At this point, the battle's over. One can control pretty much every aspect of a user's desktop with AD, including the ability to use right-clicks for context menus etc, access to software (the fact that Office is installed doesn't mean you can use it). Q Why do IT managers not deploy Firefox on Windows? A Because of their security concerns Q What security concerns? A Things that users might do, that they are not allowed to do. Such as download software. Such as change their proxy settings. If a site's using AD, and if they have lots of Windows desktops they should be, you won't get more than peripheral stuff off the Windows boxes, and the Windows serverss (some of them anyway) will remain because they are required for AD. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] group ware info
On Thursday 22 February 2007 06:44, Jack Malone wrote: > A shared address book would have been handy today OpenLDAP should be able to do this, though you may need to add to the schema. this is a standard directory service, and all your email clients should directly support it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Perl question [Solved]
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:09, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:20, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> >> I know very little about this problem, so I will share what I know and
> >> if anyone knows perl if you can give me a hint. Problem is this line in
> >> ddclient,
> >> debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");,
> >>
> >> which causes this error when run,
> >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> >> /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1646.
> >
> > What version of ddclient?
> > I'm using 3.3.7 (on CentOS) and do not have a problem, even though it has
> > that line:
> >1644 debug("server = $server");
> >1645 debug("opt(fw = ",opt('fw'));
> >1646 debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");
> >
> > Hang on, what's that at the end of line 1646 in yours?
>
> Well, a bit more digging and looking around the file (after thinking
> through what I learned from Patrick yesterday, I think I got it. At
> least it looks right to me and works. The bug is in that line. I
> changed it to debug("glo fw = ",$globals{'fw'});
> I have no real idea what that does, but it looked different to the one
> above it, and they seemed to be very similar (and I changed the the line
> 1645 to be like 1646 and that still didn't work, but making the 1646
> line like the 1645 line allowed it to work, and running with debug (an
> option I found looking in the script) output looks correct. Thanks for
> your help. If this looks correct, please let me know so I can file a
> bug report. Thanks.
Your response confuses me, but that comma is definitely wrong: Perl statements
are (mostly, and this one is) separated by semicolons, and the comma is not a
good way to start a new one.
If you didn't put it there, it's a fairly important bug, as you noticed:-)
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Re: [opensuse] Re: About Backing Up
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 23:42, Joachim Schrod wrote: > For the record, I should add that one needs to collect MTBF numbers > (actually, MTTF and MTTR numbers) onself. Data from other > organizations is not reliable, the variance seems to be quite high. That would be because shops' environmentals vary (and maybe California the Shaky is worse than average); Manufacturer's results would be derived in perfectly controlled circumstances, quite unlike where I work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Microphone blues
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:35, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Attached business cards > Daniel Feiglin > > Work 972 9 8616204 > Fax 972 9 8621052 > Mobile 927 52 3869986 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Add this contact to the addressbook] Please, no business cards on the list, my modem's too busy already. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] cookies
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:10, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:57, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > Hello, all-- > > > > Apparently, ebay requires you to have a cookie. Is this the case, > > and if so, how can you enable JUST the cookie for ebay? And should > > you? Or is there another way? (I used to use ebay occasionally on > > Windows, and I suppose it allowed cookies.) > > What's wrong with cookies? It's amazing what can be tracked with cookies, including across sites. There was an article, in The Australian I think, a few years ago describing information PBL had accumulated through cookies. How many times do you go to a website and get cookie requests from several? How hard would it be to match cookies across domains? Information readily available to seach site supplying a document includes referrer, client IP address, time. Say I go to http://www.example.com/ which sets a cookie and includes a document from http://tracker.example.com/, and passes the cookie data (or a token identifying it so as to hide what's going on), and tracker also sets a cookie. Then I go to http://shop.example.com/ and it includes a document from http://tracker.example.com. Cannot tracker match my two visits, and maybe record my credit card detaisl "for my greater convenience>" I tend to allow session cookies, but rarely permanent cookies. I also tend to use divers browsers and computers which surely must help confuse things. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Perl question
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:20, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> I know very little about this problem, so I will share what I know and
> if anyone knows perl if you can give me a hint. Problem is this line in
> ddclient,
> debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");,
>
> which causes this error when run,
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1646.
>
> Since it appeared to me to be a line added for debugging, commenting it
> out allowed the script to work (with a few other things. Does anyone
> understand the error or see the problem? TIA for any ideas.
What version of ddclient?
I'm using 3.3.7 (on CentOS) and do not have a problem, even though it has that
line:
1644 debug("server = $server");
1645 debug("opt(fw = ",opt('fw'));
1646 debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");
Hang on, what's that at the end of line 1646 in yours?
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Re: [opensuse] Can't burn DVD's with K3b
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:01, Patrick Kirsch wrote: > Hey, > > >> When trying to burn a data dvd K3b opens a popup window saying Found > >> Media: DVD-R Sequential (empty) Please insert an empty or appendable > >> Double Layer DVD+-R medium into the drive - I have a new TDK DVD-R 4.7GB ^^^ I thought that was, more-or-less, a warning. The fact it said, "Double layer." And place, DO NOT reply off-list. I equate off-list replies with spammers. > >> Data/Video DVD > > > > Them's 4.7*1,000,000,000 > > > >> in the drive, and I am trying to burn 4.4GB of data. > > > > And those? Probably 4.4*1024*1024*1024 and that's a little bigger, and > > that's why you might need a bigger DVD . > > k3b should print a warning or an error, if this is an issue. > > > -- > Patrick Kirsch - Quality Assurance Department > SUSE Linux Products GmbH GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Can't burn DVD's with K3b
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 16:57, Phil Burness wrote: > I used to be able to burn DVD-R with my DVD writer via K3b and now I > cannot. I am using :- > cdrecord-2.01-25 > cdrdao-1.2.0-18 > libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1 > dvd+rw-tools-7.0-0.pm.0 > libdvdnav-0.1.10-14 > radvd-0.9-11 > libdvdread-0.9.7-0.pm.0 > k3b-0.12.17-100.pm.0 > > When trying to burn a data dvd K3b opens a popup window saying Found Media: > DVD-R Sequential (empty) Please insert an empty or appendable Double Layer > DVD+-R medium into the drive - I have a new TDK DVD-R 4.7GB Data/Video DVD Them's 4.7*1,000,000,000 > in the drive, and I am trying to burn 4.4GB of data. And those? Probably 4.4*1024*1024*1024 and that's a little bigger, and that's why you might need a bigger DVD . > I'm using SuSE 10.1 and kernel Linux 2.6.16.13-4-default #1 Wed May 3 > 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > By the way, I've tried a different DVD writer as well. > Any suggestions? > Thanks > Phil -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] CD woes on Thinkpad R40.
This problem occurs with several current distros, I'm asking here because I'm
running OpenSUSE 10.2 right now.
I've been having these problems pretty solidly while running Linux, but the
installations all run okay. Afterwards though, the problem all-but-hangs the
system.
It seems to work fine in Windows XP (SP2), and I've booted into the IBM
diagnostics (PC Doctor) and run the full set of tests: it passed everything
except writing DVDs, but since it's not a DVD burner that's no surprise.
Here are the messages I get:
Feb 18 08:35:21 linux-ucfn syslog-ng[12987]: STATS: dropped 0
Feb 18 08:44:44 linux-ucfn kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 3
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x20
{ DeviceFault }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 18 08:44:53 linux-ucfn kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Google found a few hits, but I don't see a resolution to the problem. One,
http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/archive/Sep2003/msg00143.html is fairly similar
superficially, but I can get the errors without removing the DVD or the
drive.
There is this:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.1/1112.html but I'm using a
standard SUSE kernel. Note that, like my computer, that's a Thinkpad R40
At present, I'm running without the drive: I rhink that's the same model drive
I have. At any rate, the system's an R40 model 2722-GDM.
Is there anything anyone can think of before I feed it into Bugzila?
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