Re: Network question

2003-11-12 Thread James McDonald
Hmmm, OK well I to take care of the occassional laptop I would install dhcpd on one of the linux/Unix boxes and configure a small 192.168.x.x DHCP scope to hand out an IP address when needed. If you have the occassional Windows box then you will be needing samba at some point. Installing samba

StarOffice 7 user question

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
StarOffice 7 user question: I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how it should be. When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the little startup box with a progress bar. On mine, the window shows up

Re: StarOffice 7 user question

2003-11-12 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 4:27 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: StarOffice 7 user question: I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how it should be. When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the

Re: Love on board

2003-11-12 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:45, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:02 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:01:57 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yes, he had a hand in many of today's circumstances; however, I choose to disassociate today's

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Wilson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:02, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Are you using Calendars from the exchange server? Yep. Been working fine. I don't get invited to very many meetings but the ones I have gotten and I've replied to have added nicely to the calender. The same with ones that I've sent out.

Re: Apt question

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Grewell
Did you do an apt-get update before the apt-get upgrade after you changed you sources.list file? If you didn't, apt is still hitting the sid repository instead of the experimental. Yes, thankfully I've got the whole update/upgrade thing figured out. It turned out that what I

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:13 -0500 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:02, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Are you using Calendars from the exchange server? Yep. Been working fine. I don't get invited to very many meetings but the ones I have gotten and I've replied to

OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Hipp
Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: My wife has a gazillion calendar entries. The web access nicely only shows the ones for this month, and thus only downloads those. Probably settable. However, evolution seems to read all the calendar entriesyou have. If you have a couple of hundred, this takes a bit of

RE: OT The Grinch who stole Linux

2003-11-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
-Original Message- From: Alan Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very funny parody... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 I just had a bizarre thought. Parody of a copywritten work is a protected form of

ReiserFS Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a 250GB EIDE drive. So I carefully saved some data and

NYTimes.com Article: I.B.M. Helps Promote Linux

2003-11-12 Thread rathaus
This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] A big blue penguin anyone? [EMAIL PROTECTED] / advertisement ---\ FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: IN AMERICA - IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 26 Fox Searchlight Pictures proudly presents IN AMERICA

Re: OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Can't help with the windoze side, but mplayer can do realaudio realvideo.

Re: ReiserFS Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a

Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, The first part will look a bit like the last message, but that is just the background. Please read on. I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB EIDE disk (master on Primary IDE). I decided to

SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I received the Update version SUSE 9.0 Professional yesterday and installed it last night. The first things I noted were: 1. No cool graphical representation of a math formula on the box or cover. (Aha! Already we see the corporate smothering of creativity!) 2. The DVD was bad. (Or do

Re: ReiserFS Problem

2003-11-12 Thread dep
quoth Condon Thomas A KPWA: | I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary | desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is | a 20GB EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE | 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a 250GB EIDE drive. So I |

Re: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Bob Hemus
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, The first part will look a bit like the last message, but that is just the background. Please read on. giant snip Could your BIOS have been corrupted? Could yo try to flash it with newer upgrade? Might try that before for new MB. Bob

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-12 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consulted for a place once that, when I told IS I wanted to run linux on the in-house computer they gave me to use, basically threated to fire me. I literally had to hide the linux partition on the box. I'm

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:48, Ted Ozolins wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: My wife has a gazillion calendar entries. The web access nicely only shows the ones for this month, and thus only downloads those. Probably settable. However, evolution seems to read all the calendar entriesyou have.

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Has anyone done an update to an existing 8.2 system? Or will I be in a bad mood tomorrow evening? -- Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: a great site for following sco v. ibm

2003-11-12 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:52:37 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: neat site. and no, i have no connection whatsoever with it. -- Hey, dep, you don't have to say it twice! :-) Terence ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:31, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: [snip of tales of woe] In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should have been fine after a gentle shut down). This implies a problem

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:34 pm, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Has anyone done an update to an existing 8.2 system? Or will I be in a bad mood tomorrow evening? I don't do updates anymore... just new installs but no one over on the SUSE list has had any real problems with an update. Most

Re: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:31, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: [snip of tales of woe] In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should have been fine after a

RE: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Not being facetious but have you set the HD jumpers to be the master or stand-alone? Make sure the IDE cable is plugged into the mb with the pins aligned right? Older motherboards often don't have the guides on them. Also, some bioses (IBM's come to mind) keep giving the error until you

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. No cool graphical representation of a math formula on the box or cover. (Aha! Already we see the corporate smothering of creativity!) Do we? 2. The DVD was bad. (Or do you need a special DVD reader for

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:03 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. No cool graphical representation of a math formula on the box or cover. (Aha! Already we see the corporate smothering of creativity!) Do we? I

SCO Subpeonas Linus...

2003-11-12 Thread kwall
...and others: SCO said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stewart Cohen, chief

RE: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Actually, Intel mobos have a BIOS option to 'clear errors', which is neccesary or you keep getting the same failure, over over, even if the problem no longer exists. Thanks, Lonni. I'll try to find that option tonight. In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom Condon Registered

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-12 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 12:22 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consulted for a place once that, when I told IS I wanted to run linux on the in-house computer they gave me to use, basically threated to fire

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot the wink. (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.) :-) Remember Ambrose Beirce (The Devil's Dictionary) A cynic is a man whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. :-)) Terence

Re: OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You might check mplayer. Michael Hipp wrote: Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Thanks, Michael -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.5K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot the wink. (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.) :-) Remember Ambrose Beirce (The Devil's Dictionary) A cynic is a man whose faulty vision sees things as

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-12 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:16 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner? I wonder where SA stores her rules. It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1 ot

2003-11-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:44:47 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consuming 0.5K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot the wink. (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.) :-) Remember Ambrose Beirce

OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Just in case you've read the bad reviews and got turned off, Matrix III is at least 2x as good as Matrix II. The reviewers must like mindless, repetitive kung fu and must not like interesting dialogue that probes the meaning of the human experience, heavily interlaced with the usual astounding

Re: OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread MHeinrich
I agree with your assessment. This movie was a proper end to a bad a@@ trilogy. The film critics I've read seemed to have missed the real message in the movie. Definitely a good one to see. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/12/2003 09:32:49 PM: Just in case you've read the bad reviews

Re: OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:32 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: Just in case you've read the bad reviews and got turned off, Matrix III is at least 2x as good as Matrix II... DITTO! I took my son and his buddy last Friday night... My son's buddy was so blown away by the movie that he bear hugged

Re: OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Gary Wilson
--- Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Can't help with the windoze side, but mplayer can do realaudio

Re: OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.8K bytes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] blathered: I agree with your assessment. This movie was a proper end to a bad a@@ trilogy. The film critics I've read seemed to have missed the real message in the movie. Definitely a good one to see. No surprise there. Since we're on a Bierce

Re: OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/12/03 19:32, Joel Hammer wrote: Just in case you've read the bad reviews and got turned off, Matrix III is at least 2x as good as Matrix II. The reviewers must like mindless, repetitive kung fu and must not like interesting dialogue that probes the meaning of the human experience, heavily

another warm fuzzy from M$

2003-11-12 Thread Collins Richey
Slashdot: Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? Microsoft supplies no method of backing up and restoring fully operational copies of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Microsoft's advice is to reinstall the operating system and all programs every time you want to move to a new or backup computer. I

Re: StarOffice 7 user question

2003-11-12 Thread Joel Hammer
I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to