[opensuse] dependency hassle, take 13453356

Hi, Getting back to my favorite topic, the dependency hassle. I'm 100% sure system current packaging system can never ever be ready for prime time desktop wise. One way or the other complexity will have to be stripped so that different parts of the software delivery chain would be less prone to pr

Re: [opensuse] vpnc

On Friday 12 January 2007 05:02, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > Is vpnc supposed to work in 10.2? At least via knetworkmanager > > > it seems to be hosed, it never connects everywhere. Updated > > > packages available? > > > > I've been trying to use it to configure a PPTP VPN. No luck. > > vpnc

Re: [opensuse] bug #148409 not accessible

On 2007-01-11 15:38, Stephan Binner wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:50, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > > >> why is access to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148409 denied? >> i thought opensuse's bugzilla open for everyone... >> > > It's not a report against openSUSE b

Re: [opensuse] Listarchive ?

Robert Lewis wrote: Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. Where can I find the opensuse list archive ? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/ Thanks very much Robert. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:23, Paul Abrahams wrote: > Many years ago Ken Thompson (or maybe it was Dennis Ritchie) gave the ACM > Turing Lecture on, essentially, coding tricks.  He showed how it was > possible to booby-trap a compiler using repeated bootstraps in such a way > that the compiler

Re: [opensuse] SATAII PCI / PCI-X Raid Controller Recommendation

On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:03, Alex Daniloff wrote: > Hello SuSE folkz, > Could somebody please recommend > SATAII PCI / PCI-X Raid controller (4 ports or more) which is > NATIVELY supported in Open SuSE 10.1 or 10.2. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Alex What do you hope to gain with a raid co

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 22:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> > > that's .5, point five, not 5gb > With 4G system memory, you could probably get away with point-oh-five of swap space :-) -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 18:12, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted > OK, my apologies for even suggesting such a blocksize, even if it is correct (but I think I had a count of 1, not 1K). Patrick and Randall hav

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 18:12, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm' as > equivalent to upper-case 'M'. Lower-case stands for 'milli' and there are no millibytes :-) The 'k' can be upper or lower case, depending on context (eg. KB vs. km/h, etc),

[opensuse] SATAII PCI / PCI-X Raid Controller Recommendation

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody please recommend SATAII PCI / PCI-X Raid controller (4 ports or more) which is NATIVELY supported in Open SuSE 10.1 or 10.2. Many thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Listarchive ?

Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Hi. > > Where can I find the opensuse list archive ? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.2 Nvidia and Xgl

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 19:14 +0100, Matthias Titeux wrote: > Le Jeudi 11 Janvier 2007 03:18, Clint Tinsley a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > Everything I have read indicates at 5600 and higher Nvidia GPU's are > > supposedly supported by openSuSE in Xgl. I have an GeForce 7300 GT Nvidia > > board which

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:52 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: > James Knott wrote: > > Primm wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone > >> > >> Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its > >> icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what > >> does > >> it ac

[opensuse] Listarchive ?

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Re: [opensuse] automount?

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:08, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > So, what do I need to do to duplicate the automount function > > that works so well in 9.1? > > It works different. > > If you use gnome or kde, it works. I mean, both environment > handle automount themselves, somehow. This means that yo

Re: [opensuse] eth0 on Compaq Presario SR2020NX with openSuSE 10.2

> Under YaST, Network Devices, Network Cards did you choose NetworkManager or > Traditional Method? If you want to do command line then choose Traditional > Method. While you are there you may as well go through all the options on > that card. From the command line, as root, use ifup eth0 and if

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:04 -0500, George Stoianov wrote: > > operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it > > thought of their products." > > ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the > NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux sys

Re: [opensuse] Printer Initializing Lockup 10.2

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:11 -0700, Richard wrote: > Chris: no hammer needed. Suggestions from Robert and others just worked for > me. His suggestion re volume of mail here is right on. I added a separate > folder to my kmail that I named "Linuxinfo" and I try to move any emails that > look e

Re: [opensuse] Printer Initializing Lockup 10.2

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:48 -0500, Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote: > By the way...how did the hp-toolbox get there...does it come with 10.2? > Chris It's one of the tools installed by hplip, and possibly a default install in SuSE. There are several hp-* scripts on my system. Mike > Chris

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:50, John E. Perry wrote: > ... > > ...By the way, all this discussion has been about swap _files_, ... > > Are there any advantages to one arrangement over the other? It seems > there would be some advantage to having the possibility of building a > new swap file if

Re: [opensuse] Printer Initializing Lockup 10.2

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:39 -0500, Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote: > Ok Mikethat one takes the cake today! That worked. > After everybody help me with the other issue I was having and I re > installed all the driversthe printer scanned no problem..but > wouldn't print anything.that

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:45, Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > Rather, it would be something more like: > > P - (K + B + U) By which I mean this, of course: (K + B + U) - P > RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Any Suse Users attenting LinuxConf in Sydney ?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:50, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > I was wondering if any suse users are attending the Australian Linuxconf > [1] being held in Sydney ? It would be good to get to know anyone with > similar interests. > > [1] http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ > Send me a plane ticket and I'm

Re: [opensuse] automount?

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:08, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-01-10 at 11:44 -0600, Stevens wrote: > > I added a drive to my system, put 10.2 on it and can boot to > > either it or my old 9.1 drive, mainly to compare operations > > between the versions. My big problem with 10.2 is ti

[opensuse] Any Suse Users attenting LinuxConf in Sydney ?

I was wondering if any suse users are attending the Australian Linuxconf [1] being held in Sydney ? It would be good to get to know anyone with similar interests. [1] http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ cheers, -- Jeffery Fernandez Internet Vision Technologies Level 1, 520 Dorset Road Croydon Victori

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > The only thing you can say for sure is that whenever the system's > overall working set size exceeds the available RAM, you'll be thrashing > (if swap space is available at all). And if the total RAM required > exceeds available physical RAM plus swap, then the unl

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:38, John E. Perry wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm' > > as equivalent to upper-case 'M'. > > Maybe because M == Mega and m == milli? There's no such collision > with k and K. Ah. Perhaps that's it.

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:46, jan kalcic wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > > > There's no fixed relationship and its never strictly necessary to > > have any swap space at all. Rules of thumb are just that: rough, > > generic guidelines that may be suitable for some non-negligible >

Re: [opensuse] Compac SR2050NX with Lightscribe DVD Drive

On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:27, S Glasoe wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 13:52, Mike wrote: > > They have gone down a lot in price. And the software from > > lightscribe works quite nicely under 10.2. > > > > I picked up the samsung sh-182 and it works quite well. Burns a lot > > faster tha

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm' as > equivalent to upper-case 'M'. > Maybe because M == Mega and m == milli? There's no such collision with k and K. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:23, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 8:59 pm, James Knott wrote: > > > #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as > > > what the source is? > > > > Compile from source. > > Many years ago Ken Thompson (or maybe it was Dennis Ri

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 8:59 pm, James Knott wrote: > > > > #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what > > the source is? > > Compile from source. Many years ago Ken Thompson (or maybe it was Dennis Ritchie) gave the ACM Turing Lecture on, essentially, coding tric

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

* jan kalcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 22:05]: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > I have 4gb ram and .5gb swap and after 45 days up, only 26mb swap is > > used. > > > > htop reports 277 total tasks with 15 running atm. > > > > > > That's what meant. You don't need 5gb of swap file at all. >

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:04, Terry Eck wrote: > >> ... >> >> I have always thought that the larger the real memory the smaller the >> swap space required. There are exceptions of course. In general, if >> your system uses a large swap space then you need to add mo

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:04, Terry Eck wrote: > ... > > I have always thought that the larger the real memory the smaller the > swap space required. There are exceptions of course. In general, if > your system uses a large swap space then you need to add more memory. There's no fixed relati

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:39, James Knott wrote: > >> George Stoianov wrote: >> #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what the source is? #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Terry Eck wrote: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> I have 4gb ram and .5gb swap and after 45 days up, only 26mb swap is >> used. >> >> htop reports 277 total tasks with 15 running atm. >> >> >> > I have always thought that the larger the real memory the smaller the > swap space required. There > are

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:39, James Knott wrote: > George Stoianov wrote: > >> #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as > >> what the > >> source is? > >> > >> #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he > >> saw one? > > > > #3 Why the NSA why not

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 +two network cards

On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:42, James Knott wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > Having said that, there is one small issue with YasT that has been > > this way for years. It will not let you give different names to the > > cards. After assigning the system name, it is applied to both > > cards

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Patrick Shanahan wrote: I have 4gb ram and .5gb swap and after 45 days up, only 26mb swap is used. htop reports 277 total tasks with 15 running atm. I have always thought that the larger the real memory the smaller the swap space required. There are exceptions of course. In general, if you

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * jan kalcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 21:39]: > [...] > >> Everything very useful in this topic but... Do you really need a swap >> file bigger than 1GB? Remember that, as a rule of thumb, swap file >> should be the double of your RAM size but anyway not useful bi

Re: [opensuse] vpnc

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:57 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Janne Karhunen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is vpnc supposed to work in 10.2? At least via knetworkmanager > > it seems to be hosed, it never connects everywhere. Updated > > packages available? > > > > > > > I've been trying to use it to configu

Re: [opensuse] encrypted usb disk under linux how-to]

On Thursday 11 January 2007 06:59, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > Can you point me at an archive time period and/or the Subject? > > I think I have the mount point articles saved here somewhere. > > Let me see... > > * Testing encrypted backup to dvd, Carlos E. R. (24 February, > 2006)

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

* jan kalcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 21:39]: [...] > Everything very useful in this topic but... Do you really need a swap > file bigger than 1GB? Remember that, as a rule of thumb, swap file > should be the double of your RAM size but anyway not useful bigger > than 1GB. I have 4gb ram and

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 +two network cards

Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > Having said that, there is one small issue with YasT that has been this > way for years. It will not let you give different names to the cards. > After assigning the system name, it is applied to both cards. So, you > need to edit /etc/hosts and give one card (IP addres

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

George Stoianov wrote: >> #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as >> what the >> source is? >> >> #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? >> > > #3 Why the NSA why not some international security body or industry > institution? > The NSA i

Re: [opensuse] Postfix, stunnel, and MS Exchange

On Friday 12 January 2007 00:54, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > Got a problem I hope someone can answer. This is my situation. My home > office (i.e. mail relay) uses MS Exchange. It seems it will only listen > on port 25. The Port is configurable. And you can add additional Ports of course. > T

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

James Hatridge wrote: > HI Joe et al.. > On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:43, J Sloan wrote: > >> George Stoianov wrote: >> operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it thought of their products." >>> ...Thanks!!! it is good to know

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

James D. Parra wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:12, James D. Parra wrote: > >> ... >> >> Okay, this is interesting. >> >> #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K >> dd: memory exhausted >> > > You're asking dd to allocate a single, contiguous 2 gigabyte block of > primary st

RE: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:12, James D. Parra wrote: > ... > > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted You're asking dd to allocate a single, contiguous 2 gigabyte block of primary storage (a.k.a. RAM) to use as the buffer for tran

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

George Stoianov wrote: >> #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as >> what the >> source is? >> >> #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? >> > > #3 Why the NSA why not some international security body or industry > institution? > The NSA i

Re: [opensuse] vpnc

Janne Karhunen wrote: > Hi, > > Is vpnc supposed to work in 10.2? At least via knetworkmanager > it seems to be hosed, it never connects everywhere. Updated > packages available? > > > I've been trying to use it to configure a PPTP VPN. No luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

James Knott wrote: > Primm wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its >> icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what does >> it actually do? Can't I just pull the plug and walk away with it? >> >> >>

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

J Sloan wrote: > George Stoianov wrote: > >>> operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA >>> what it >>> thought of their products." >>> >> ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the >> NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux sy

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

George Stoianov wrote: >> operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA >> what it >> thought of their products." > > ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the > NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux system... the same > way as for Window

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

James, On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:12, James D. Parra wrote: > ... > > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted You're asking dd to allocate a single, contiguous 2 gigabyte block of primary storage (a.k.a. RAM) to use as the buffer

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Friday 12 January 2007 00:10, S Glasoe wrote: > > Actually, for dd the units are CS (1024, 1024 * 1024, 1024 * 1024 * > > 1024, resp.). > > > > To wit: > > > > % dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2K count=1M > > 1048576+0 records in > > 1048576+0 records out > > 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied,

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

Primm wrote: > Hi everyone > > Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its > icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what does > it actually do? Can't I just pull the plug and walk away with it? > > First, that's only a concern if you've

Re: [opensuse] Which graphic card should I buy?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:33, ken wrote: > > Sorry if you think this is a bit sharp but i am getting a little short in > > the fuse department thses days with all these people wetting there > > collective nappies over the Nvidia drivers , If you/they dont like the > > way the drivers are built

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:04, George Stoianov wrote: operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it thought of their products." ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 03:32, James Knott wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista > > > > "THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security > > Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to > > Microsoft's o

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:04, George Stoianov wrote: > > operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what > > it thought of their products." > > ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the > NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux syst

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

* James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 19:15]: [...] > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted > > # free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 1003424 179012 824412

RE: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:32, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-11 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> (Note that kB, MB and GB all refer to powers of 1000, not 1024. > >> This is standard SI nomenclature.) > > > >

RE: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >> ... >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1K count=1K >> >> The following byte/count specifications will all create the 2G file >> you desire: >> >> bs=2G count=1 (though this will p

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:32, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-11 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> (Note that kB, MB and GB all refer to powers of 1000, not 1024. > >> This is standard SI nomenclature.) > > > >

[opensuse] Postfix, stunnel, and MS Exchange

Got a problem I hope someone can answer. This is my situation. My home office (i.e. mail relay) uses MS Exchange. It seems it will only listen on port 25. They are wanting all mail to be transport encrypted. They have setup stunnel to listen on port 465 and 2525 for their exchange server. It

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:26, James D. Parra wrote: > > ... > > Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I am trying to wrap my noodle around the > math logic here. > > bs=2m count=2k > > (1024*1204*1024) is 1073741824, but that isn't right? What am I > overlooking? 2 million (or CS or SI) times 2 thousa

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:26, James D. Parra wrote: > Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I am trying to wrap my noodle around the math > logic here. > > bs=2m count=2k > > (1024*1204*1024) is 1073741824, but that isn't right? What am I > overlooking? > > Much obliged. > > ~James bs=2M is (1024*1024

Re: [opensuse] eth0 on Compaq Presario SR2020NX with openSuSE 10.2

On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:20, Richard Hollos wrote: > I've got a Compaq Presario SR2020NX desktop, and have installed OpenSuSE > 10.2. I had to add the kernel option acpi=noirq so that it would boot up > OK, otherwise it would get stuck on udev. > > The problem now is that I cannot successfull

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 +two network cards (partially solved)

Art Fore wrote: > Anyhow, I got them both working. I setup Yast to use traditional > control, then set the eth0 as it was default from the installation. Then > set eth1 DNS servers etc. so DHCP would not update them. Then executed > the command route add gw 192.168.99.1. I could then access the wir

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >> ... >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1K count=1K >> >> The following byte/count specifications will all create the 2G file >> you desire: >> >> bs=2G count=1 (though this will pr

RE: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

> ... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1K count=1K > > The following byte/count specifications will all create the 2G file > you desire: > > bs=2G count=1 (though this will probably hardly be practical) > bs=2M count=1K > bs=2K count=1M > > (Note that kB, MB and GB all refer to powers of 1000,

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Actually, for dd the units are CS (1024, 1024 * 1024, 1024 * 1024 * > 1024, resp.). > > To wit: > > % dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2K count=1M > 1048576+0 records in > 1048576+0 records out > 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 1.30146 s

[opensuse] OpenOffice 2.0.4 multimedia

This is probably the wrong Forum for this topic. Does anyone known when OpenOffice will deal with wav files attached to powerpoint slides? I find when I run OpenOffice on an XP machine the multimedia stuff attached works but on Linux it never has. Possibly a secuity issue? All these wav file at

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > ... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1K count=1K > > The following byte/count specifications will all create the 2G file > you desire: > > bs=2G count=1 (though this will probably hardly be practical) > bs=2M count=1K > bs=2K count=1

Re: [opensuse] CUPS error "client-error-not-authorized"

On 2007-01-11 16:17, Mike Coan wrote: > > > lppasswd -a -g sys root > Now that you have done this, you'll probably have to add root to group sys in the user/group manager. Had you used just "lppasswd -a root" without specifying a group, it would work properly. -- The best way to accelerate a

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

On 2007-01-11 15:57, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my system, > however how can I create such file by modifying the command below; > A swap ~file~?? You'd be far better off doing some repartitioning to create a new swap partiti

RE: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=1024 > > Is 'count' in Mb or Kb? in blocks. and in your example, the blocksize (bs parameter) is 1 kb, so the file would be 1024kb = 1 megabyte. ~~~ Thank you. So would modifying the command to; dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2048000 count=10

Re: [opensuse] Using K3B as user

* Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 16:04]: > I answered on here on the list, that he could use kdesu k3b for using > k3b. ?? I find no other messages in this thread ?? > But after I could understand, that it is possible to do it as user > too. Yes, it is. > What I didn't understan

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

James, On Thursday 11 January 2007 13:57, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my > system, however how can I create such file by modifying the command > below; > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=1024 > > Is 'count' in Mb

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 +two network cards

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 19:05 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:51 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- Original message -- > > From: Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:45 -0600, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > >

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 +two network cards (partially solved)

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:45 -0600, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > On 01/10/2007 Art Fore wrote: > > How does one get two networking cards to go at the same time in Suse > > Linux 10.2? I have eth0 which is wired network, and eth1 which is > > Wireless. If I connect to the wireless using network manager

Re: [opensuse] Compac SR2050NX with Lightscribe DVD Drive

On Thursday 11 January 2007 13:52, Mike wrote: > They have gone down a lot in price. And the software from lightscribe > works quite nicely under 10.2. > > I picked up the samsung sh-182 and it works quite well. Burns a lot > faster than the older ones I had. > > Mike How is the label burning spee

Re: [opensuse] CUPS error "client-error-not-authorized"

On 2007-01-11 15:48, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:11 -0500, Mike Coan wrote: > >> add printer failed client-error-not-authorized >> >> This looks like a permission error to me. Note that I run the script as >> root. >> >> > > > lppasswd -a -g sys > > supply passwo

[opensuse] eth0 on Compaq Presario SR2020NX with openSuSE 10.2

I've got a Compaq Presario SR2020NX desktop, and have installed OpenSuSE 10.2. I had to add the kernel option acpi=noirq so that it would boot up OK, otherwise it would get stuck on udev. The problem now is that I cannot successfully assign an IP address via DHCP. Typing dhcpcd -n eth0 does not do

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 21:55 schrieb Peter Bradley: > But hey! If you want to believe they're out to get you, don't let > me stop you. Not believing that THEY are after you doesn't mean that they aren't. ;) and given the recent developments here in germany and the EU in general, I'm p

Re: [opensuse] CUPS error "client-error-not-authorized"

On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:48, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:11 -0500, Mike Coan wrote: > > I recently upgraded from opensuse 10.1 to 10.2 > > > > My office has a Canon ImageRunner 2800, a networked digital > > copier/printer/scanner. For these type of Canon copier/printe

Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file

Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 22:57 schrieb James D. Parra: > Hello, > > I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my > system, however how can I create such file by modifying the command > below; > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=1024 > > Is 'count' in Mb or

[opensuse] Creating a swap file

Hello, I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my system, however how can I create such file by modifying the command below; dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=1024 Is 'count' in Mb or Kb? Many thanks, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

On 2007-01-11 13:54, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * George Stoianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-07 14:33]: > [...] > >> ...Thanks!!! it is good to know Novell is giving a permission to the >> NSA to install an _official_ backdoor in my Linux system... the same >> way as for Windows. Do not flame m

Re: [opensuse] CUPS error "client-error-not-authorized"

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:11 -0500, Mike Coan wrote: > I recently upgraded from opensuse 10.1 to 10.2 > > My office has a Canon ImageRunner 2800, a networked digital > copier/printer/scanner. For these type of Canon copier/printers there is a > shell script from BrightQ that configures the devic

Re: [opensuse] bug #148409 not accessible

On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:00, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > why is access to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148409 > > denied? i thought opensuse's bugzilla open for everyone... > Novell's Bugzilla _is_ open to everyone. Some bugs, this one, e.g., are Everyone seems to have a diff

Re: [opensuse] bug #148409 not accessible

On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:50, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > why is access to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148409 denied? > i thought opensuse's bugzilla open for everyone... It's not a report against openSUSE but a (fixed) report against a SUSE Linux Enterprise product. B

[opensuse] CUPS error "client-error-not-authorized"

I recently upgraded from opensuse 10.1 to 10.2 My office has a Canon ImageRunner 2800, a networked digital copier/printer/scanner. For these type of Canon copier/printers there is a shell script from BrightQ that configures the device. The file is called canon-brightq-2.3.0-linux-2006-04-14.r

Re: [opensuse] bug #148409 not accessible

Richard, On Thursday 11 January 2007 12:50, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > hi! > > why is access to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148409 > denied? i thought opensuse's bugzilla open for everyone... Novell's Bugzilla _is_ open to everyone. Some bugs, this one, e.g., are not. Why t

[opensuse] Using K3B as user

Hi. I answered on here on the list, that he could use kdesu k3b for using k3b. But after I could understand, that it is possible to do it as user too. What I didn't understand was how to do it. I was in control center, where I found the kded as it is called afaik. But it is greek to me, and I

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

Ysgrifennodd James Hatridge: Its quite true that the source is available, but two questions. #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what the source is? #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? JIM #1. You screw your tin foil h

[opensuse] bug #148409 not accessible

hi! why is access to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148409 denied? i thought opensuse's bugzilla open for everyone... thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

#1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what the source is? #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? #3 Why the NSA why not some international security body or industry institution? I am sorry, I am jumping to conclusions the article ;

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