Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
Mike wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2007 16:15, Jan Elders wrote: I think HG made a valid point. Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are desparate and lost how to get for instance their DVD working. His point was that XP could do this. you forget the main point. I beg you

Re: [opensuse] Periodic system check scripts on Suse?

2007-01-14 Thread Ian
On Saturday 13 January 2007 19:43, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:29:04AM +1030, Ian wrote: > > Hi, just wondering if Suse has any sort of regular system checks akin to > > the periodic scripts that FreeBSD runs every day/week/month to report on > > the general health & securit

Re: [opensuse] Evolution password prompting and Keyring manager problems

2007-01-14 Thread Clark P. Case
Well, It's either a fluke, or there is something strange going on. Since no one responded, and since I am sure someone will encounter something like this... here we go. I was having other issues because of my curiosity on Orca, the accessibility tool. I ran it, answered a few questions and have h

Re: [opensuse] Removing compiz

2007-01-14 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:36 -0500, Rami Michael wrote: > if you are going to do a clean install anyways, you might as well put > compiz back in, and just set the decorators after startup... so you > can use the window decorators you want. I think there is probably > some x config that is giving y

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports--working

2007-01-14 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
> I guess there was another version of Firefox open. It seems to be working > fine now. (I don't understand why the Weatherbug website says that there is > no version for Linux, when that URL you gave me has this version for Linux, > but anyway, thanx a lot--doug Because, weatherbug for wind

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports

2007-01-14 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:07 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I seem to recall that there is some sort of service you can connect to to > get local weather reports/forecasts, but I don't see anything on Google, > nor in the SuSE 9.2 instruction books (I don't have the 9.3 books), and the > Windows We

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports--working

2007-01-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 14 January 2007 23:16, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:07 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I seem to recall that there is some sort of service you can connect to to > > get local weather reports/forecasts, but I don't see anything on Google, > > nor in the SuSE 9.2

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports

2007-01-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 14 January 2007 23:16, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:07 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I seem to recall that there is some sort of service you can connect to to > > get local weather reports/forecasts, but I don't see anything on Google, > > nor in the SuSE 9.2

Re: [opensuse] Printer Initializing Lockup 10.2

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 10:58 am, Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a USB HP1210 PSC printer that was working fine copy, scan and > print-+...then I open YAST and went to PRINTER and when the screen > reaches "The list of installed drivers has changed. Building databas

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 8:15 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > Is it only me? > > No it is not only you. Fred apparently has little else to do then bash > MS everyweek on this list. This is why I have added his address to the > filters and outright delete his email postings. I seem to remember h

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

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 7:32 am, 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

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:44:35PM -0600, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > However, Linux does use a sort of drive letter. FD, HDA, HDB, etc. A, C, > D, etc are shorter designations. Especially when you have to add the > partition number, FD0, HDA1, HDA2, HDB1, HDB2, etc. It's all in how you > keep track

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 21:06, J Sloan wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > > Windows doesn't care whether you use forward or backward slashes. > > They both work in most contexts. > > hmm, didn't know that changed. So it's sort of like the upper/lower > case distinction - unix cares, and m

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:52, J Sloan wrote: >> Marc Wilson wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or >>> remember where you mounted the partition. What's the

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:52, J Sloan wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > ... > > > > I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or > > remember where you mounted the partition. What's the difference? > > The differenc

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > On 01/14/2007 J Sloan wrote: >> I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For >> instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? And one single desktop - >> bleh. > > How many times a day do you even have to think about where something is

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: >> I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For >> instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? > > I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or remember > where yo

RE: [opensuse] How to play DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Greg Wallace
On Sunday, January 14, 2007 @ 2:49 AM, Clayton wrote: >> Do I need to install some additional software to get this to work? If I try >> to play it on my doze machine it says I need to purchase a decoder. Why the >> hell should I have to buy a decoder to play something that plays in the >> DVD/VC

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 J Sloan wrote: > I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For > instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? And one single desktop - bleh. How many times a day do you even have to think about where something is on a harddrive, unless your using CLI e

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:49:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For > instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? I see no difference there myself... remember the drive letter, or remember where you mounted the partition. What'

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-14-07 21:19]: > > > Distro and desktop designers, developers and others in the Linux > > > community need to drop their holier-than-thou attitude and concentrate on > > > the masses who need to escape the clutches of M$. > > I'm afraid I don't have the origi

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports

2007-01-14 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:07 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I seem to recall that there is some sort of service you can connect to to get > local weather reports/forecasts, but I don't see anything on Google, nor in > the SuSE 9.2 instruction books (I don't have the 9.3 books), and the Windows >

Re: [opensuse] Weather reports

2007-01-14 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi, do you mean Kweather? (included on the KDE Toys package) or LiquidWeather for SuperKaramba?? (first install SuperKaramba and then this plug-in from the internet) HTH, Martin - Original Message From: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Monday, Jan

[opensuse] Weather reports

2007-01-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
I seem to recall that there is some sort of service you can connect to to get local weather reports/forecasts, but I don't see anything on Google, nor in the SuSE 9.2 instruction books (I don't have the 9.3 books), and the Windows Weather Bug says it has no Linux version. Is there such a thing,

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > On 01/14/2007 Marc Wilson wrote: >> Actually, the main problem is that people will never understand that >> there's no reason for Linux to be like Windows in the first place. > > Actually, except the fact that the icons look funny, in everyday use it > really isn't THA

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:22, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-14 10:12, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > > Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? > /snip/ If you use KMail, the reply button automatically replies to the list. As I am doing at present. --doug --

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 Marc Wilson wrote: > Actually, the main problem is that people will never understand that > there's no reason for Linux to be like Windows in the first place. Actually, except the fact that the icons look funny, in everyday use it really isn't THAT different. [ IMHO ] -- (o:]>*HUGG

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > > In the States we have this wonderful product called GooGone .. I > don't know if they sell it there, but if so then grab some. After you > peel the sticker off .. just use some of that on tissue and no more > sticky spot. :D WD40 works wonders. Also,

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, they do have a program that analyzes your system. Go to www.windowsvista.com/upgradeadvisor with a list of requirements at www.windowsvista.com/systemrequirements. On Sunday 14 January 2007 21:56, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 16:01 +0100, Mathias Homann wrote: > > Am Sonnta

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:21 PM, James Knott wrote: > >> Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: >>> On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: >>> I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather rest my palm on some stupid sticker than on some

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 01/14/2007 Jos van Kan wrote: > KMail has a menu entry and keyboard shortcut to reply to the list, So > has mutt. > Thunderbird has an extension. Yeah...well..I looked at the site someone sent to "get" the extension. Looked like half the page was written in Martian. HOWEVER

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 19:54, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:36, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >>> Free software isnt really free, it requires at least you to spend some >>> of your time to get a least a minimal understanding about how it works. >>> >>> >> Quite a bit of my rev

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:38 -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > Mathias Homann escribió: > > > But there lies another problem: > > If we make linux as fool-friendly as windows, we get another windows. with > > the > > same problem that windows has. > > The main problem is that people does not

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 16:01 +0100, Mathias Homann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 15:44 schrieb jdd: > > Mathias Homann wrote: > > > and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my > > > next harddisk? > > > > anyway, Vista won't be able to run on any of the 5 computers > > I h

Re: [opensuse] Dell E520 and snd_hda_intel

2007-01-14 Thread Robert Lewis
Marc Wilson wrote: > I know there was a big thread about this earlier in December, but no one > since has said anything about it. :) > > Just got my new E520. Core 2 Duo, 965 chipset, and no sound support in > 10.2 to speak of. It looks like it's deliberate, based on the information > at http://e

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread russbucket
On Sunday January 14 2007 14:09, Paul Ollion wrote: > > Does anyone know what creates the mount point in /media. YaST is able to > > read the dvd drive, hal sees the drive and it looks described correctly. > > > > Hope this is not off the topic. > > You can use the yast partitioner to add mount po

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Wilson
> > Distro and desktop designers, developers and others in the Linux > > community need to drop their holier-than-thou attitude and concentrate on > > the masses who need to escape the clutches of M$. I'm afraid I don't have the original message, otherwise I'd attribute the above properly. Woul

[opensuse] strange gnome-panel (mis)behavior after upgrade to 10.2: "End" and "Down" button pops up "main menu"

2007-01-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
(this message is recent because I didn't receive it from opensuse mailing list when sent yesterday. Sorry if duplicated posts) Hello. This is rather strange and keep me puzzled for several weeks. Several weeks ago I reformatted my harddisk and installed SuSE 10.2 on it (was using 10.1). The keyboa

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread russbucket
On Sunday January 14 2007 07:43, Stevens wrote: > To those who wrote that I could right-click on any icon and rename it to > whatever, I say, "No shit, Sherlocks" > > The comment, and my point, was why in Hell did a linux shop decide to call > ANYTHING on a linux desktop "My Computer", al la Window

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:38:09PM -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > The main problem is that people does not understand that Linux is not > windows and will never be. Actually, the main problem is that people will never understand that there's no reason for Linux to be like Windows in the fir

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Slice
Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: > >> I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather >> rest my >> palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is >> sticky >> because of the stupid sticker that i peeled off t

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:36, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > > Free software isnt really free, it requires at least you to spend some > > of your time to get a least a minimal understanding about how it works. > >   > > Quite a bit of my revenue comes from a friend who would try to dispute > what you

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Sunday 14 January 2007 7:37 pm, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > > I find that ordinary lighter fluid works well for most label glues. > True. It does. But it can also eat through the plastic if one isn't   > careful. :) WD-40 is great for removing adhesive, and it will not eat through the plastic.

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 18:35, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > >> >> > > Free software isnt really free, it requires at least you to spend some > of your time to get a least a minimal understanding about how it works. > Quite a bit of my revenue comes from a friend who would try to dispute what you

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 18:23, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > Bob Ewart escribió: > >> Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: >> >>> ... >>> This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does >>> not have **official support** for reply to list) >>> >> ... >> >> Yes it does. It's a

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

2007-01-14 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Sunday 14 January 2007 5:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: > Where is this "remove safely" option? I am not sure what you are using. > Is it part of the CLI? > Hmmm...must be missing something. Right-click its icon. Bryan Powered by Mepis Linux 6.0 KDE 3.5.3

Re: [opensuse] Large /tmp dir w. many files

2007-01-14 Thread Winfried Huber
Hi Kai, Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 14:49 schrieb Kai Ponte: > I was running out of space on my lappie and eventually noticed about 20G of > files in /tmp/kai - never even knew the folder existed.  Of course, I > deleted everything, since nothing seemed to be needed. kdirstat is your friend.

[opensuse] Dell E520 and snd_hda_intel

2007-01-14 Thread Marc Wilson
I know there was a big thread about this earlier in December, but no one since has said anything about it. :) Just got my new E520. Core 2 Duo, 965 chipset, and no sound support in 10.2 to speak of. It looks like it's deliberate, based on the information at http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Sound_Cards

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Tom Patton
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:37 -0600, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:21 PM, James Knott wrote: > > > > > I find that ordinary lighter fluid works well for most label glues. > > True. It does. But it can also eat through the plastic if one isn't > careful. :) I find that wd-40 on

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Darryl Gregorash wrote: > Upgrade TBird at > http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_ > -- for example, the changelog from > http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_9.3/repodata/repoview/MozillaThunderbird-0-1.99.1-44.1.html > reads > > * Tue Nov 21 13:00:00 2006 [

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Mathias Homann escribió: > But there lies another problem: > If we make linux as fool-friendly as windows, we get another windows. with > the > same problem that windows has. The main problem is that people does not understand that Linux is not windows and will never be. signature.asc Desc

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:21 PM, James Knott wrote: Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather rest my palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is sticky because of the

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stevens escribió: > "Cristian Rodriguez R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PEBCAK . all you telling us can be done with yast or with a simple >> tutorial, if you actually dont want to **get a clue ** about basic >> things of an OS, Im not sure if linux is the right choice for you. > > And therein l

Re: [opensuse] power saving

2007-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 09:56, Janne Karhunen wrote: > Hi, > > Noticed that 10.2 seems to be hogging one CPU once left 'idling'. > Same effect on my laptop + desktop. What's it doing? Some power > saving tidbit going haywire? Quite hard to catch it as what ever > it's doing finishes instantly onc

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Bob Ewart escribió: > Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: >> ... >> This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does >> not have **official support** for reply to list) > ... > > Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow the > installation how to. Click on

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: > >> I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather >> rest my >> palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is >> sticky >> because of the stupid sticker that i peeled off th

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
>> Ysgrifennodd Bob Ewart: >>> Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: >>> ... This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to list) >>> ... >>> >>> Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow t

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: I thought along those lines already, but it's a laptop, and i rather rest my palm on some stupid sticker than on some place where the palmrest is sticky because of the stupid sticker that i peeled off there ;) In the States we have this wo

Re: kevin:Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Niels Øtergaard Kjær <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-14-07 17:34]: > a community ? sound a bit holy to me, think some and too some who > have left the list because it looks like a very closed community ?? It is not mandatory to join the 'community' or participate. But, then you *will* be outside the

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Jos van Kan
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? KMail has a menu entry and keyboard shortcut to reply to the list, So has mutt. Thunderbird has an extension. Regards, -- Jos van Kanregistered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscr

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 10:12, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? > Upgrade TBird at http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_ -- for example, the changelog from http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_9.3/r

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 23:35 schrieb James Knott: > Mathias Homann wrote: > > Well, > > > > I do have a box with a "vista compatible" sticker on it, but i guess I > > wont let vista get close to that box. > > Many years ago, a friend of mine peeled a "Ready for Windows 95" sticker > off a moni

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kevin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-14-07 16:52]: [...] > I think one of the problems is that many new users come along and > expect to be told exactly what to do in their specific situation to > solve whatever problem they're having. "If Linux is as good as > Windows, it must be able to do

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 16:04, Mike wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 16:15, Jan Elders wrote: > > >> I think HG made a valid point. >> Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are >> desparate and lost how to get for instance their DVD working. >> > > His point was that XP could do

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Mathias Homann wrote: > Well, > > I do have a box with a "vista compatible" sticker on it, but i guess I > wont let vista get close to that box. > Many years ago, a friend of mine peeled a "Ready for Windows 95" sticker off a monitor and stuck it on the toilet. Perhaps you could do the same wi

kevin:Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Niels Øtergaard Kjær
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a community ? sound a bit holy to me, think some and too some who have left the list because it looks like a very closed community ?? Maybe a good idea to listen to what standard questions the newbies come with and remake some wikis ?? so all hav

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Tom Patton
EXTREMELY well stated, Kevin... On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:49 +, Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:15, Jan Elders wrote:XTRE > > I think HG made a valid point. > > Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are desparate and > > lost how to get for instance thei

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HG wrote: [...] > Sigh, yes I've already learned that there are no friends on SUSE list. > I've noted this many times - and not just towards me, but against many > others also. What I have not yet learned is what one can say or ask > here without gett

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jfweber
On Sun January 14 2007 3:01 pm, HG scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On 1/14/07, jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HG wrote: > > > I wanted discussion about what SUSE _could_ do at home. > > > > good. I didn't understand that :-( . probably my fault. > > > > but

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

2007-01-14 Thread Pete Connolly
On Sunday 14 January 2007 22:17, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:48, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 8:45 am, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 03:44, Primm wrote: > > > > Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon

Re: [opensuse] remove usb disk

2007-01-14 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:48, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 8:45 am, Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 03:44, Primm wrote: > > > 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

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:16, jdd wrote: > ... > > my wife asked me this mornig: "you must show me this > wonderfull clip on the net. > > I went there (http://www.tvmag.com/accueil.jspx, the clip of > the black singer on the right)". Here's what I've found: - Under Firefox on Linux the applet

Re: [opensuse] DVD Mount problem

2007-01-14 Thread Paul Ollion
On Sunday 14 January 2007 14:08, russbucket wrote: > > As past messages I've posted say, My dvdrw drive is not being mounted. > Every box that says dvdxx under Desktop Behavior is checked. What I have > found is there is no mount point being created in /media. All other drives > cdrw, floppy, CF c

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mike
On Sunday 14 January 2007 16:15, Jan Elders wrote: > I think HG made a valid point. > Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are > desparate and lost how to get for instance their DVD working. His point was that XP could do this. It can not do it without extra software. It wil

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Ewart
Peter Bradley wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Bob Ewart: >> Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: >> >>> ... >>> This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does >>> not have **official support** for reply to list) >>> >> ... >> >> Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
Randall R Schulz wrote: I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can not get it to run properly on SUSE linux. "Why not?", indeed. Why doesn't it work? What goes wrong? my wife asked me this mornig: "you must show me this wonderfull clip on the net. I went there (h

Re: [opensuse] KnetworkManager wireless connection problem

2007-01-14 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi Dennis, On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:17 -0600, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > I am operating under SUSE 10.2, and the wireless card is really a > centrino chip. It is recognized as a separate wireless card (wireless > 220BG) and it was recognized on installation. I want to connect through > vario

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:15, Jan Elders wrote: > I think HG made a valid point. > Look at the various threads in this list from newbies who are desparate and > lost how to get for instance their DVD working. > Yes, for you (and me) it is quite simple because we know what actions we > must take

Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6

2007-01-14 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message ... > > > Any ideas when JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6 are going to be added to the > > > opensuse reps? ... > I know that you can get it from SUN, but with that installer you can > not get it to run properly on SUSE linux. ... > What kind of "not work properly" it seems OK to me

[opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Is there some way to set the list to reply to list rather than to sender? -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] power saving

2007-01-14 Thread Janne Karhunen
Hi, Noticed that 10.2 seems to be hogging one CPU once left 'idling'. Same effect on my laptop + desktop. What's it doing? Some power saving tidbit going haywire? Quite hard to catch it as what ever it's doing finishes instantly once you touch it. -- // Janne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Elders
On Sunday January 14 2007 19:42, Mathias Homann wrote: // snip > That means there are enough fools out there who still do not believe in the > necessity of antivirus software for their windows systems. Why dont they? > because they dont have a clue. > Do we REALLY want more people like that on the

Re: [opensuse] googleearth

2007-01-14 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so, is there a workaround for googlearth ending user sessions in sixtyfour > bit 10.2 and a geforce 7300gs video card? The previous thread did not give an > answer to that part and I just got hit by the bug: > running googlearth 4 results in an immediate exit from my

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 22:17 schrieb Darryl Gregorash: > On 2007-01-14 08:28, Mathias Homann wrote: > > > > > > then why do i have an extra 30gig partition on my main gaming box > > which is mounted to /usr/local/games? > > > > and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my n

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 12:11, Mathias Homann wrote: > > > There are TWO things right now that I still use windows for: > ... > - playing ragnarök online (since it just doesnt work under wine). > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=928 The reporter installed and ran it in Gentoo, the only add

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: You can ask anything you want, and just ignore all the "RTFM" responses you get. Most of the rest of us will help as much as we can. I'll second that. I have on more than one occasion asked questions that, looking back, deserved little more than an RTFM respo

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
This is JUST what I was looking for. Thank you very much. On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mathias Homann wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb Benjamin Rosenberg: I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card that needs nd

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 18:55 schrieb Benjamin Rosenberg: > I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He > no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and > would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that > "just works" with SUSE o

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 08:28, Mathias Homann wrote: > > > then why do i have an extra 30gig partition on my main gaming box > which is mounted to /usr/local/games? > > and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my next > harddisk? Because you have too much spare time on your hands? :-)

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 14:11, HG wrote: > Hi! > > On 1/14/07, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * HG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-14-07 14:46]: >> > >> > >*PLONK* >> > >> > I'm still probably just a fool, but ... what does that mean? >> >> google is your *only* friend: >> http://www.google.com/s

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
This appears to be just what I needed. Thank you. On Jan 14, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: rt73 -- "We should forgive our enemies. But not before they are hanged." Heinrich Heine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Bob Ewart: Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: ... This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to list) ... Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow the installation how to. Click on 'Re

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-14 06:17, HG wrote: > > - Samba and Linux passwd synchronization... How do you setup Samba in > SUSE? Well, you open up YaST and start up Samba server. How do you All you need is one password on the samba server, and then everything can be set up in SWAT (if you don't know what that is,

Re: [opensuse] NSA programming vista...

2007-01-14 Thread James Knott
Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Saturday 13 January 2007 11:10 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010 >>> 801352.html >>> >> omg timeline >> > > I'll bet that NSA uses Linux internally -- and that a few NSA folks are > qui

Re: [opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
James Hatridge escribió: > Hi all.. > > My new host will not allow this php command to work: > > $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; > > Any ideas how I can program around this? > > Thanks, > > JIM > This is legacy syntax that wont work since quite **a lot** of time . you need to replace that for $_SER

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread HG
Hi! On 1/14/07, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * HG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-14-07 14:46]: > > >*PLONK* > > I'm still probably just a fool, but ... what does that mean? google is your *only* friend: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=plonk Sigh, yes I've al

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of > wifi card. He no longer wants to use the internal card > that needs ndiswrapper and would love to just have a > PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that "just works" > with SUSE or hell > .. Linux in general. www.edimax.com.tw has some r

Re: [opensuse] wireless

2007-01-14 Thread ianseeks
On Saturday 13 January 2007 21:13, Paul Murphy wrote: > Two weeks ago I installed open suse 10.2 and I spent a few hours > figuring out how to activate my wireless. I am not to familiar with the > linux and when I finally switched from the wired to the wireless it was > simple, My son wanting

Re: [opensuse] PHP question

2007-01-14 Thread Anders Norrbring
James Hatridge skrev: Hi all.. My new host will not allow this php command to work: $cur_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR; Any ideas how I can program around this? Thanks, JIM Hiya. Try the "new" way.. $cur_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; See http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread jdd
HG wrote: But in the contect of this discussion, I want to have one place with reliable and large storage for all the stuff (mostly multimedia) that I have. Then I can access if from all of the computers I have; 2 laptops, workstation (currently 2 of them) and PDA (in near future). I do not want

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