Re: [opensuse] mailing list issues

2006-06-04 Thread Rajko M
Peter Flodin wrote: On 6/4/06, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: houghi wrote: What else can we do then point out each time we see a technical discussion starting? My idea is to kill this list, as it already is lost and make a new one: opensuse-community. I don't think changing the list

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 03 June 2006 21:42, houghi wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:23:21PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: I truly do not. I see no need whatsoever to have an email forum about the community. OK. so you do not think that the community as such needs anything else? My god. What does

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Peter Flodin
On 6/4/06, houghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I will try another aproach: The openSUSE community is the group of people that are involved, directly or indirectly, in the openSUSE project. I think that it is classic that you have in the space of one post, changed your definition of what the

Re: [opensuse] SuSE-watcher/ksmarttray

2006-06-04 Thread Adrian Schröter
Am Sunday 04 June 2006 00:34 schrieb Pascal Bleser: Richard Bos wrote: Op zaterdag 3 juni 2006 15:45, schreef Pascal Bleser: The idea behind this is to be able to add a channel using the command: smart --install channel-whatever name It's even easier to provide .channel files somewhere

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no
Randall R Schulz wrote: My god. What does the community need to discuss that's not what it's working on? Is this some kind of social club? Please give me some examples of non-technical, non-product issues that are pertinent topics of discussion in your conception of this list's charter.

Re: [opensuse] SuSE-watcher/ksmarttray

2006-06-04 Thread Richard Bos
Op zondag 4 juni 2006 00:34, schreef Pascal Bleser: I think that the buildserver could build/create a channel rpm for each project and have those stored in a central place.  This would be a good start. It won't be in a central place, unfortunately. In my phrase above, I referred to the

Re: [opensuse] mailing list issues

2006-06-04 Thread Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no
houghi wrote: Not wanting to highjack a thread, I start a new one. People having issues with the wording of my standard reply, please tell me *here* what it should be. As I believe this is (unfortunatly) on-topic here, I won't reply to any personal mails concerning this subject. What else

[opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread jdd
Houghi do a very goos job with his moderating messages. But may be messages signed houghi seems too personal initiative, newcommers can't know how long was the houghi's engagement for openSUSE. I think Novell should give Houghi an e-mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something similar) for that

Re: [opensuse] mailing list issues

2006-06-04 Thread jdd
Peter Flodin wrote: So my vote is that if we want a list to only discuss community lets create [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then delete opensuse@opensuse.org anyway it can do no harm, try it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net

Re: [opensuse] Anything right about 10.1?

2006-06-04 Thread Sven Burmeister
Hello! Am Sonntag, 4. Juni 2006 01:47 schrieb Andreas Hanke: I'm not sure that using these packages really helps finding and fixing bugs for the next release. The best and maybe even the only way to do that is using factory. You are saying that using factory 10.2 (most bleeding edge, as

Re: [opensuse] SuSE-watcher/ksmarttray

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Schröter wrote: Am Sunday 04 June 2006 00:34 schrieb Pascal Bleser: Richard Bos wrote: ... The best place to host those channel rpms are of course suse itself as they get than mirrored automatically. But as you already stated that might

Re: [opensuse] mailing list issues

2006-06-04 Thread Rasmus Plewe
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:38:25AM +0200, houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:02:32AM +0200, Jerry Westrick wrote: Maybe we can cross post the users message for them? with a note like that is a lot shorter? Something like: I would like that. I think however it is not possible to do it

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: Houghi do a very good job with his moderating messages. But may be messages signed houghi seems too personal initiative, newcomers can't know how long was the houghi's engagement for openSUSE. I think Novell should give Houghi an e-mail

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no
Randall R Schulz wrote: My god. What does the community need to discuss that's not what it's working on? Is this some kind of social club? Please give me some examples of non-technical, non-product issues that are pertinent topics of discussion in your conception of this list's charter.

Re: [opensuse] mailing list issues

2006-06-04 Thread Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no
houghi wrote: Not wanting to highjack a thread, I start a new one. People having issues with the wording of my standard reply, please tell me *here* what it should be. As I believe this is (unfortunatly) on-topic here, I won't reply to any personal mails concerning this subject. What else

Re: [opensuse] Anything right about 10.1?

2006-06-04 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Sven Burmeister schrieb: You are saying that using factory 10.2 (most bleeding edge, as somebody called it) for SuSE 10.0 is less risky than the Build-Service? No. A KDE-bug will be in the build-service, as well as in the factory-packages, so it does not matter which ones one

[opensuse] Build Service builds and debugging symbols (was: Anything right about 10.1?)

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Hanke wrote: No, really: Yesterday I had a closer look at what is currently there in the build service just to find out that the amarok package from there is 19 MB compressed and ca. 100 MB on disk after installation. Guess why, it is

Re: [opensuse] error

2006-06-04 Thread S Glasoe
On Saturday 03 June 2006 1:25 pm, houghi wrote: My idea is to just kill off this list and make a new opensuse-community Untill then or another solution arises, I will keep posting to go to the correct place. You can run but you can't hide... No matter how you label this list the tech

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 04:21:35PM +1000, Peter Flodin wrote: Instead of fighting against all this, as said in other thread, I think the community specific discussions should be in a new list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list can then be deleted. This has been an issue since the beginning

Re: [opensuse] Build Service builds and debugging symbols

2006-06-04 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Pascal Bleser schrieb: That's the reason why the spec files in the Build Service currently don't use the %debug_package macro and, hence, include debug symbols in the binaries. Thanks for the hint, I'll subscribe to [opensuse-buildservice]. ;) Andreas Hanke

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:15:04PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: snip SuSE Linux snip Since a long time it is SUSE Linux. Perhaps the people at SUSE could do a grep on SuSE in documentation and see where it still says SuSE and not SUSE when refereing to the product. houghi -- This openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Graham, On Sunday 04 June 2006 07:23, Graham Anderson wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 07:15, Randall R Schulz wrote: My god. What does the community need to discuss that's not what it's working on? Is this some kind of social club? Please give me some examples of non-technical, non-product

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 07:58, houghi wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:15:04PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: snip SuSE Linux snip Since a long time it is SUSE Linux. Perhaps the people at SUSE could do a grep on SuSE in documentation and see where it still says SuSE and not SUSE when

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:58:11PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: May be this way Houghi's messages will have more power? No, I really don't think so, and I sure hope that's not necessary. I would then feel pbligatory to do things and I want to do it because I want to, not because I have to,

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:59:21AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: I don't believe I suffer from that confusion at all, and that's not the answer I'm trying to get. And there lies the problem. You asked a question and determined what the answer should be or should be like and untill you have

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:01:22AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 07:58, houghi wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:15:04PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: snip SuSE Linux snip Since a long time it is SUSE Linux. Perhaps the people at SUSE could do a grep on

Re: [opensuse] error

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:46:50AM -0500, S Glasoe wrote: Maybe if you weren't so quick others of us would be able to issue the same 'help message' and then it would look like the community is responding not just one person. Let us see if this actually happens. :-) houghi -- This openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 08:14, houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:59:21AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: I don't believe I suffer from that confusion at all, and that's not the answer I'm trying to get. And there lies the problem. You asked a question and determined what the answer

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 08:18, houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:01:22AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 07:58, houghi wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:15:04PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: snip SuSE Linux snip Since a long time it is SUSE Linux.

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:27:40AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: It is not that the answer was not to my liking, it was that the answer was not given. And just before you said: And while Graham has actually answered my question So was the aswer give or was the answer not given? houghi --

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:28:57AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: Since a long time it is SUSE Linux. Perhaps the people at SUSE could do a grep on SuSE in documentation and see where it still says SuSE and not SUSE when refereing to the product. That's not a mistake on my part.

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 08:47, houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:27:40AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: It is not that the answer was not to my liking, it was that the answer was not given. And just before you said: And while Graham has actually answered my question So was the

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 08:51, houghi wrote: ... Or is it some joke I don't get, ... Probably. Then please elaborate. I am willing to learn. Jokes that need to be explained are failures. houghi RRS - To

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:55:46AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: By him, at long last, but not by you. You made eight posts in this thread and never once gave the definition I asked for. I think I did. Sorry if you did not like it. houghi -- This openSUSE mailinglist is about the

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 09:10, houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:55:46AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: By him, at long last, but not by you. You made eight posts in this thread and never once gave the definition I asked for. I think I did. Sorry if you did not like it. You just

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Alexey Eremenko
The best description of community I ever found is from our friendly-competition - Fedora: http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html Look: Objectives of Fedora Core: 1. Create a complete general-purpose operating system with capabilities equivalent to competing operating systems,

[opensuse] Community, this list, and other things

2006-06-04 Thread T. Lodewick
Hi all, after all the eMails about Community and what this could be, this list and how to handle technical questens and to ask for some kind of moderations, I just want to give you my point of view of it. first at all: Who I am: My name is thomas, living in berlin, germany. I'm on this list

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-06-04 12:31:47 +0200, jdd wrote: Houghi do a very goos job with his moderating messages. But may be messages signed houghi seems too personal initiative, newcommers can't know how long was the houghi's engagement for openSUSE. I think Novell should give Houghi an e-mail as

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:11:29PM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: 1. your on join warning could be easily integrated into the mailinglist messages send on join. ask henne. OK. Henne? 2. instead of directly spamming you are wrong here post something like: try this and that. that

Re: [opensuse] Community, this list, and other things

2006-06-04 Thread jdd
T. Lodewick wrote: I've had that situation myself a lot of times, and the only way to find answers was to read every thread that looks like it could be the right one ( but that was often not the way ). the better search function I know for that sake is google site search.

Re: [opensuse] Community, this list, and other things

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:08:16PM +0200, jdd wrote: T. Lodewick wrote: I've had that situation myself a lot of times, and the only way to find answers was to read every thread that looks like it could be the right one ( but that was often not the way ). the better search function I know

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Martin Schlander
Søndag 04 juni 2006 08:21 skrev Peter Flodin: People are confused. The market is confused. Novell even refers to openSUSE as a distro. It is therefore totally understandable why OT posts happen this list, as the definition of what is On-topic is obviously not clear. Education is of limited

Re: [opensuse] Community, this list, and other things

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 14:35, houghi wrote: ... The only drawback is that it does not work. Try searching for the postings about backups on the openSUSE list. I am specificaly looking the message about storeBackup and the explanation and examples somebody gave.

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 14:55, Martin Schlander wrote: ... We have to fight against this - the alternative is worse. We already have people thinking that SUSE and OpenSUSE are two different distros (including Randall apparently). ... I've written nothing that would suggest such a

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Martin Schlander
Mandag 05 juni 2006 00:58 skrev Randall R Schulz: We have to fight against this - the alternative is worse. We already have people thinking that SUSE and OpenSUSE are two different distros (including Randall apparently). ... I've written nothing that would suggest such a misunderstanding.

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Flanagan
houghi wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:11:29PM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: 1. your on join warning could be easily integrated into the mailinglist messages send on join. ask henne. OK. Henne? 2. instead of directly spamming you are wrong here post something like: try

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 16:21, Martin Schlander wrote: ... Maybe this extract from the OpenSUSE.org frontpage will clarify things: Here at openSUSE.org, you'll find a community of developers, end users, and other open source enthusiasts who all have the same goal in mind. We work together

Re: [opensuse] Novell, please, help for moderating the lists

2006-06-04 Thread houghi
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:30:37PM -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote: I did read a recent post on suse-linux-e indicating that better information and explanations to all the packaging changes in 10.1 could be found over here on the opensuse lists, or at least the opensuse-factory list and irc.

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 16:21, Martin Schlander wrote: ... Maybe this extract from the OpenSUSE.org frontpage will clarify things: Here at openSUSE.org, you'll find a community of developers, end users, and other open

Re: [opensuse] Anything right about 10.1?

2006-06-04 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 19:01 +0200, houghi wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:27:08AM -0400, BandiPat wrote: Hi all, Just finished doing the updates for KDE3 and associated files, but noticed a little problem. snip Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... Randall, could you just please stop being so aggressive... You think _I_ am being aggressive? I'm not the one throwing boilerplate spam in the face of everyone who posts a technical question telling them to go away. It took me forever

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... Randall, could you just please stop being so aggressive... You think _I_ am being aggressive? I'm not the one throwing boilerplate spam in the face of everyone who

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... What the hell is going on here? Stop this thread please now. I feel we should create [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an elisa intelligence which does convince every poster

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 June 2006 18:55, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... What the hell is going on here? Stop this thread please now. There sure are a lot of censors on this

[opensuse] Help... My Wireless Card isn't working!

2006-06-04 Thread Aaron J. Shafenberg
Hello all, This is my first posting and I hope I'm doing it in the right place. I am pretty new to linux; I've used Kubuntu and Xandros and so far SUSE has been the best over all by far! Anyway, I am dual booting Windows XP Pro and SUSE Linux 10.1 on a DELL Inspiron 6000. I have an Intel

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 18:55, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... What the hell is going on here? Stop this thread please now.

Re: [opensuse] Help... My Wireless Card isn't working!

2006-06-04 Thread BandiPat
On Sunday 04 June 2006 22:14, Aaron J. Shafenberg wrote: Hello all, This is my first posting and I hope I'm doing it in the right place. I am pretty new to linux; I've used Kubuntu and Xandros and so far SUSE has been the best over all by far! Anyway, I am dual booting Windows XP Pro

RE: [opensuse] Help... My Wireless Card isn't working!

2006-06-04 Thread Aaron J. Shafenberg
Thanks for the resources! Aaron J. Shafenberg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.shafenberg.com -Original Message- From: BandiPat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 8:26 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Help... My Wireless Card isn't working! On Sunday 04

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread BandiPat
On Sunday 04 June 2006 22:17, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] Yes. Cheers to you for the suggestion that we shoot ourselves. I love you, too. This fucking sarcasm or indirectness is really destroying any community efforts. Maybe you are a superior intelligence, but please respect: not

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, BandiPat wrote: On Sunday 04 June 2006 22:36, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] This discussion is growing as foolish as I never thougt was possible between humans. So go one step away from your screen, breathe the fresh air, and AFTER that reflect if it is good to

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread BandiPat
On Sunday 04 June 2006 23:38, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: So what are you expecting constructive from this thread? Since hours there was nothing. But it is extremely nerving if one after the other suspicious creature is feeling forced to stuble into this thread. So fuck off here, please.

Re: [opensuse] What is Community?

2006-06-04 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, BandiPat wrote: So the rest of us should just hold our opinions because you have the foulest mouth and worst attitude? I don't think that will happen. If your self control is so weak and you are so weak minded as to presume because you throw a lot of trash out of your