Re: [opensuse-factory] factory sync

2007-01-20 Thread Claes Bäckström
On 1/20/07, Hans Witvliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:14 +0100, Claes Bäckström wrote: Is there some problems with the sync to factory? Been a lot of commits to the commit mailinglist but nothing new at the mirrors since 15 Jan. You mean brand-new or new-upgrades?

[opensuse-factory] Zenupdater vague in actions..

2007-01-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed several times now, (at least 3), that the systemtray icon tells me that there are updates, in this case 7. When i choose to install the updates, there is al kind of cpu activity, but the list of available updates is not being fetched..

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-20 Thread James Tremblay
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:52 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Pascal Bleser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Robert wrote, I think we should first define what kind of minimal package sets we want/need. And I made a proposal for that one. From the discussion up to this point, there were

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-20 Thread James Tremblay
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:33 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 02:39, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I heard from several sides that the base system of openSUSE 10.2 is a bit large - and agree and would like to discuss with you what we can do. ... I would set target to a basic

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I am happy with the base system we have now (10.2), and do *not* want any major changes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller

2007-01-20 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:51, Alexey Eremenko wrote: I am happy with the base system we have now (10.2), and do *not* want any major changes. The present status is that we need small base that can be expanded. How to achieve this is a topic of this thread, but obviously no one wants

Re: [opensuse] Zen troubles again.

2007-01-20 Thread jdd
John E. Perry wrote: Yesterday, zen asked to update libzypp among other things. I let it go, and all seemed to go well. Among the updates was some X stuff, so I rebooted, and all seemed good. Today, zen is asking to update hal, hal-32bit, and hal-devel. I've tried 3 times -- the last time

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Clark P. Case
Maybe you misunderstand me... what I am saying is that this email group is setup for SUSE users to post issues they are having to solicit solutions or workarounds from other community members. I am simply stating that the original poster, StephenW, is posting an URL for a FUD piece in this group.

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Niels Øtergaard Kjær
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 StephenW wrote: From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting: http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/ Stephen Agree with troll alert.lol even the degree on the

Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

2007-01-20 Thread Markus Bach
- Original Message - From: Cristian Rodriguez R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markus Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI Thank you, that solved my problem!!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a linux world. Which doesn't prevents my father and mother use Linux successfully. There are many solutions that try to solve both problems (such as Autopackage

[opensuse] printing to a printer on a windows XP machine

2007-01-20 Thread Phil Burness
I want to share a printer on a windows XP machine with my LInux machine. Although I can see printers on the Linux machine from the Windows machine I can't see the windows printer from the Linux machine How do I set it up? Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
J Sloan wrote: StephenW wrote: From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting: http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/ There are plenty of fools at educational institutions, unfortunately. Well, if most are like

[opensuse] Amarok and Various Artists

2007-01-20 Thread John Meyer
You remember the thread I started about Amarok listing some people under various artists. One of the people here mentioned clicking on Do not show under various artists. Well, that option wasn't there...when my collection was grouped under artist. I group under album, and that option shows up!

Re: [opensuse] Re: Creating a swap file

2007-01-20 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Mon, 15 Jan 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 15 January 2007 17:50, John E. Perry wrote: Joachim Schrod wrote: Hans Witvliet wrote: And btw, B is for bytes (octets) and b for bits The term Byte comes from by-eight. Do your have any reference for that? A byte is the

Re: [opensuse] Apache problems

2007-01-20 Thread Carl Hartung
On Fri January 19 2007 20:51, John Meyer wrote: I think I'm copying and pasting this up to my blog! Thanks. You don't mind, do you? Hate having to ask this question every bloody time this happens. Hi John, André is correct. If you're going to post it, clip out the 'SuSEconfig

Re: [opensuse] How can I set Kopete so that it opens URLs in Firefox (instead of Konqueror) ?

2007-01-20 Thread Samir van de Sand
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:51, Pete Connolly wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:30, Samir van de Sand wrote: Hi everyone, yesterday I switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse (using KDE). I must say my overall impression is very good. Anyway, when a friend sends me an URL in Kopete those

Re: [opensuse] xen cannot allocate memory

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 04:56 +0100, jan kalcic wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 17776641769308 8356 0 16288 673308 Swap: 6626728606626668 Whne I create a (256M RAM, 1 vcpu)

Re: [opensuse] Apache problems

2007-01-20 Thread Carl Hartung
On Fri January 19 2007 22:00, André Malin wrote: Le vendredi 19 janvier 2007 20:51, John Meyer a écrit : I think I'm copying and pasting this up to my blog! Thanks. You don't mind, do you? Hate having to ask this question every bloody time this happens. Carl Hartung wrote: On Fri

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Kai Ponte wrote: [...] That's because man pages are less than useless. Nonsense. Manual pages are perfect as a reference, nobody really knows all the options for Unix commands. They are at least 10 times better than info pages. However, both are usually not meant to be a tutorial or a

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:11:35 -0800 Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed openSUSE 10.2. I resolved most of the problems I encountered, but I can't connect with my news server account with Pan. The news server says to check the 'authorization required' checkbox in the Pan

Re: [opensuse] How can I set Kopete so that it opens URLs in Firefox (instead of Konqueror) ?

2007-01-20 Thread Pete Connolly
On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:30, Samir van de Sand wrote: Hi everyone, yesterday I switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse (using KDE). I must say my overall impression is very good. Anyway, when a friend sends me an URL in Kopete those are opened in Konqueror. How can I change this so that they

[opensuse] How can I set Kopete so that it opens URLs in Firefox (instead of Konqueror) ?

2007-01-20 Thread Samir van de Sand
Hi everyone, yesterday I switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse (using KDE). I must say my overall impression is very good. Anyway, when a friend sends me an URL in Kopete those are opened in Konqueror. How can I change this so that they are opened in Firefox ? regards Samir -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] seamonkey 1.1 rpm makers

2007-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
jdd wrote: Daniel Bauer wrote: Hi just wanted to say thanks to those who made the seamonkey 1.1 rpm available for 10.0 in such a short time after publishing of the new version! Thanks ;-) ber aware that seamonkey 1.5 is available, for example as daylybuilt from mozilla. It's _not_

Re: [opensuse] fsck running amok

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Darryl Gregorash wrote: [...] I may have mentioned in another note that this is likely due to the introduction of journalled file systems. I believe the situation is roughly this: Re-running the journal on boot allows the system to keep the file system in better order. Before that happens,

Re: [opensuse] Re: Creating a swap file

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-01-20 at 11:26 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Well, my instructors in the early '70's told me that a byte was analogous to bite -- not the smallest bit accessible, but smaller than the full-size word of most architectures

Re: [opensuse] How do I keep monitor from going to sleep

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-01-20 at 10:41 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Mine is even a bit older, and I don't have those many problems, either O:-) But you obviously pay attention to the output of rpmconfigcheck and resolve your older config files.

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Stamm
-- Original Message -- From: Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:15 +0200 Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a linux world. Which

Re: [opensuse] How do I keep monitor from going to sleep

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-01-20 at 00:22 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I have several displays, all made by Sony, but some branded Dell, that have unacceptably long warmup times coming out of sleep mode. On some systems, POST completes and boot is well along

Re: [opensuse] FW: Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-19 at 23:51 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: snip I'm still at sea Caught red handed... I guess that was pretty confusing. Only to Patrick ;-) No, he was faster that us ;-) I also did not understand,

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread jan kalcic
StephenW wrote: From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting: http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/ Stephen I think that there are always the prons and the crons in everything. That man points his finger on the crons

Re: [opensuse] Not all process get killed

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-19 at 16:45 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: deleted Novell bug # 229632. You'd think that people would look. Where can I look for this bug? Bugzilla. http://www.opensuse.org/ - --

Re: [opensuse] seamonkey 1.1 rpm makers

2007-01-20 Thread jdd
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Everybody is free to use them but I won't recommend it for general usage. I use nightly built from several years now without real problem. I only keep one stable copy in case I have a broken one (sometime there is a diplay problem) - I can't wait :-) jdd --

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:14 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a linux world. Which doesn't prevents my father and mother use Linux successfully. Isn't this one

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread StephenW
Note to Bob: I seem to always want to learn another linux trick or two. So, I wanted to see what you had at http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html. Could not get there until I added www. before the bhf. Also, when I click on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] link it stays in the narow column on the

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
There are many solutions that try to solve both problems (such as Autopackage and klik), but the most serious undertake is the LSB, The Linux Standards Base. How many RPMS will work across LSB compliant distro's? They will, provided they are compiled for LSB, and passes LSB Application

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:52, StephenW wrote: Note to Bob: I seem to always want to learn another linux trick or two. So, I wanted to see what you had at http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html. Could not get there until I added www. before the bhf. Also, when I click on the [EMAIL

[opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

2007-01-20 Thread John Meyer
Anybody have any recommendations? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 04:19, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:11:35 -0800 Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed openSUSE 10.2. I resolved most of the problems I encountered, but I can't connect with my news server account with Pan. The news server

Re: [opensuse] Amarok and Various Artists

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:09, John Meyer wrote: You remember the thread I started about Amarok listing some people under various artists. One of the people here mentioned clicking on Do not show under various artists. Well, that option wasn't there...when my collection was grouped under

[opensuse] Linux kernel kvm and Xen (Was: [Xen-users] Using Xen from within VMWare)

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
for KVM, when they merged the new fast mmu branch, they also broke Xen. Thanks for the info. Do you know if they have fixed anything in any bleeding edge versions, or is this likely to remain broken in the name of speed? Fedora fixed the documentation building: It was pretty broken in

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:49:36 -0800 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 04:19, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:11:35 -0800 I'm using 0.120 right now - which is the latest and greatest. Where'd you get that? I'm only on .119 - Karma Hunters. Is

Re: [opensuse] Amarok and Various Artists

2007-01-20 Thread John Meyer
Kai Ponte wrote: Yeah, amarok has some funky options. I find that the Various Artists thing is more a wake-up call that your IDv2 or IDv3 tags are out of line. IOTW, go about and fix each one as you listen to the song. Makes for great fun at work while idling the hours away. :) The

Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

2007-01-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello, I installed all PHP-RPMs on Suse 10.1, they contain the Apache modul and the CLI, but I also need the CGI. But I can not find it in the installation or I can not find a hint which package could include it. Does anybody know something about? Why does not apache's mod_php5 suffice?

Re: [opensuse] Packman's k3b not writing DVDs correctly

2007-01-20 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Bob, I spent two weeks with the same problem you have. Now is working perfect and I do not know what caused the problem. I will not tell you what I tried because I tried everything that came to my mind or other users suggested. I believe the problem was with growisofs. Try it from the CLI. What

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 19 2007 20:27, J Sloan wrote: StephenW wrote: From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting: http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/ There are plenty of fools at educational institutions, unfortunately. The statement

[opensuse] Global setting to make ooo save as doc format

2007-01-20 Thread Zhang Weiwu
How can I configure SuSE 10.2 installation so that OpenOffice by default save writer documents as Microsoft Word 97 format for All users on it? I knew you hate it, I hate doc format as much as you hate it and I hate it with passion. It's a pity I have to make doc default save format, but it's

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: ... That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers. -- kai RRS -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Global setting to make ooo save as doc format

2007-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
to make it: Tools-options-load/save-general-always save as-MS Word to make it multi-user, u need to track which files OOo modifies, and then put this files as a template for creating new users. I don't remember how-to do that, but after few-hourse digging, I could do that. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Global setting to make ooo save as doc format

2007-01-20 Thread StephenW
Maybe my answer is too simple: GoTo Tools Options Load/Save General There you have several options of how OO saaves documents (writer, calc, presentation, etc.) SW --- Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I configure SuSE 10.2 installation so that OpenOffice by default save

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 20 January 2007 05:02, StephenW wrote: As the original poster perhaps I should have added a bit of explaination for posting. So, I shall. I also work as a technical support person in an educational setting that is moving away from a mixed platform to a Windows only scenario. The

Re: [opensuse] How can I set Kopete so that it opens URLs in Firefox (instead of Konqueror) ?

2007-01-20 Thread Samir van de Sand
On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:03, Samir van de Sand wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:51, Pete Connolly wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:30, Samir van de Sand wrote: Hi everyone, yesterday I switched from Ubuntu to OpenSuse (using KDE). I must say my overall impression is

RE: [opensuse] fsck running amok

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-19 at 20:13 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: Yeah. I'm doing a full system backup and creating a log of which ones I'm changing in case something breaks. Then I'm going to go through one by one and examine them, renaming them to

RE: [opensuse] fsck running amok

2007-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-19 at 21:57 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: AFAICT, your BIOS clock was set to localtime Here we go again with the BIOS clock being set to localtime. I've already been admonished on this topic and told that the BIOS clock is just

[opensuse] 10.2 Xine problem

2007-01-20 Thread Charles A Kunce
Hi folks, I have just performed a fresh/new install of SUSE 10.2 on an older machine completely overwriting a previous 10.0 install. I'm giving the computer to someone else and wanted everything to be the newest and figured there'd be less problems with a completely new install than with an

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:35, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: ... That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:12, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.120/ been doing the tarball thing for sometime now. 0.120 came out earlier this month; January 2, 2007 (beta) Plate of Shrimp I guess I shouldn't have referred to it as the latest and

[opensuse] suse firewall settings for Xen

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to setup a firewall for Xen, because: When I install an OS, in Full Virtualizaton mode, it cannot received any DHCP lease. I give you my configuration as attached file. I run Xen on my laptop. I access the Internet via a DHCP modem-router. The used interface is eth1 I already

[opensuse] runlevel 5 inifinite loop

2007-01-20 Thread Glenn Holmer
One of my machines enters an infinite loop when going to runlevel 5 (the NVIDIA logo appears, then disappears, then appears...). Issuing startx from runlevel 3 works just fine, so it's not the actual X configuration (and it worked find until the last reboot). What might be wrong? openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] runlevel 5 inifinite loop

2007-01-20 Thread Michael Ayers
On Saturday 20 January 2007 17:42, Glenn Holmer wrote: One of my machines enters an infinite loop when going to runlevel 5 (the NVIDIA logo appears, then disappears, then appears...). Issuing startx from runlevel 3 works just fine, so it's not the actual X configuration (and it worked find

Re: [opensuse] runlevel 5 inifinite loop

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Lewis
Glenn Holmer wrote: One of my machines enters an infinite loop when going to runlevel 5 (the NVIDIA logo appears, then disappears, then appears...). Issuing startx from runlevel 3 works just fine, so it's not the actual X configuration (and it worked find until the last reboot). What

Re: [opensuse] runlevel 5 inifinite loop

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 20 January 2007 08:42, Glenn Holmer wrote: One of my machines enters an infinite loop when going to runlevel 5 (the NVIDIA logo appears, then disappears, then appears...). Issuing startx from runlevel 3 works just fine, so it's not the actual X configuration (and it worked find

Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

2007-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
Hello! I installed all PHP-RPMs on Suse 10.1, they contain the Apache modul and the CLI, but I also need the CGI. But I can not find it in the installation or I can not find a hint which package could include it. Does anybody know something about? Why does not apache's mod_php5 suffice?

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never- overtake- windows-its-not-user-friendly/ Hello: I've read the article at the above link and I disagree with its statements. I used windows for several years and my experience was that - you have to become a windows power user to get

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-20-07 11:18]: On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:12, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.120/ been doing the tarball thing for sometime now. 0.120 came out earlier this month; January 2, 2007 (beta) Plate of Shrimp I

Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
John Meyer wrote: Anybody have any recommendations? Thunderbird's built-in junk filter, once trained, is excellent. In general though, spam filtering is better done at the smtp server. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread JB
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:03, Matt Stamm wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:15 +0200 Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and cross-distro

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:32:40 -0500 Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-20-07 11:18]: On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:12, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.120/ been doing the tarball thing for sometime now. 0.120

Re: [opensuse] Dell hates Kong

2007-01-20 Thread S Glasoe
On Friday 19 January 2007 16:38, John Andersen wrote: Am I the ONLY one who can't log into a Dell account with Kong? http://www.dell.com openSUSE 10.2, KDE 3.5.5, Konq 3.5.5 release 50.1, I set the browser ID to Firefox 1.5.0.4, added dell.com to the Java and Javascript areas in Konq config

Re: [opensuse] suse firewall settings for Xen

2007-01-20 Thread jan kalcic
Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: Hi, I would like to setup a firewall for Xen, because: When I install an OS, in Full Virtualizaton mode, it cannot received any DHCP lease. I give you my configuration as attached file. I run Xen on my laptop. I access the Internet via a DHCP

[opensuse] Transferring songs to Ipod Nano via Amarok does not work !

2007-01-20 Thread Samir van de Sand
Hey guys, I recently moved from Ubuntu Edgy to OpenSuse 10.2. Unfortunately my Ipod Nano doesn't completely work anymore. When I plug it in Amarok correctly detects my IPod and mounts it. I can also move files from the Ipod to my HD, but when I try to transfer songs on IPod I get an error from

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread S Glasoe
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:02, StephenW wrote: As the original poster perhaps I should have added a bit of explaination for posting. So, I shall. Get subscribed to the opensuse-offtopic list and post this nonsense there. Thanks, Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:10, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:32:40 -0500 Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-20-07 11:18]: On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:12, Steve Jeppesen wrote:

Re: [opensuse] runlevel 5 inifinite loop

2007-01-20 Thread Glenn Holmer
On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:12, Robert Lewis wrote: Glenn Holmer wrote: One of my machines enters an infinite loop when going to runlevel 5 (the NVIDIA logo appears, then disappears, then appears...). Issuing startx from runlevel 3 works just fine, so it's not the actual X

Re: [opensuse] Global setting to make ooo save as doc format

2007-01-20 Thread John Meyer
We all understand it. After all, in a conversation between two people of different IQ, lowest always controls the pace. Zhang Weiwu wrote: How can I configure SuSE 10.2 installation so that OpenOffice by default save writer documents as Microsoft Word 97 format for All users on it? I knew

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread James Knott
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: ... That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to managers.

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

2007-01-20 Thread Clark P. Case
Well, now I get to respond to myself again in the hope that this will at least be a record of the issue. Keyring manager worked for about a day. It is totally hit and miss as to when it will actually intercede. There isn't any kind of a pattern and the daemon is still running through all of

Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

2007-01-20 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Johannes Nohl escribió: You could use suPHP (www.suphp.org), nope. which will use php5-fcgi without the exe-line #!/usr/bin/php5 . php5-fastcgi does the same thing instead of uing usPHP, run separate php fascgi instances running as a normal user You can do that somewhat easily with

Re: [opensuse] new user - help with Pan Newsreader needed

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:46:35 -0800 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't aware that there was an RPM. I'm sure there are those out there who would prefer installing by source. In any case, thanks! the same version you were/are running Kai is available for 10.2 by rpm (which is

[opensuse] Connection being actively refused - error

2007-01-20 Thread Tom Miller
I am setting up a Xen server and my first guest (DomU) is a Firebird server. It listens on port 3050. Every time I try to connect to port 3050 it is actively refuse, even when I am trying to connect locally through 127.0.0.1 How can I figure out what is misconfigured? I would like to trace

Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

2007-01-20 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
John Meyer wrote: Anybody have any recommendations? Tools Junk Mail Controls -- (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]

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
JB wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:03, Matt Stamm wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:15 +0200 Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:11, James Knott wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: ... That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English

Re: [opensuse] PHP as CGI

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Johannes Nohl escribió: You could use suPHP (www.suphp.org), nope. which will use php5-fcgi without the exe-line #!/usr/bin/php5 . php5-fastcgi does the same thing instead of uing usPHP, run separate php fascgi instances running as a normal user

Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

2007-01-20 Thread John Meyer
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: John Meyer wrote: Anybody have any recommendations? Tools Junk Mail Controls Current junk mail controls still let a few e-mails in, as well as sometimes doing a false positive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird anti-spam plugins

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
John Meyer wrote: Billie Erin Walsh wrote: John Meyer wrote: Anybody have any recommendations? Tools Junk Mail Controls Current junk mail controls still let a few e-mails in, as well as sometimes doing a false positive. The more you train it the better it gets. Of course it's not

[opensuse] WiFi setup

2007-01-20 Thread Alec Ross
Hi, I'm looking for advice on setting up a WiFi connection to an openSUSE 10.2 installation. I've been trying to use a Belkin wireless G, version 3000uk card, having been told that this version has an appropriate chipset to work w/ SuSE 10.0, and openSUSE 10.2. (Though not - at least directly -

[opensuse] firefox locale

2007-01-20 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have set my desktop's locale/language to Hungarian. Most of the applications changed the language (menus, icons etc) to Hungarian after this except Firefox. After startup firefox shows the default English menus. How could I fix this? The firefox translations package is installed. The

[opensuse] Kontact, KMail + Main Toolbar kmail_part

2007-01-20 Thread ianseeks
Hi all I added the threading buttons to this toolbar and ever since then after exiting Kontact, i lose the first button on the toolbar New Message. Its still configured but does not display until i update the toolbar in some way. And again it disappears when I exit Kontact. Does anyone

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Update + Source + NVidia +Suse 10.1

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
ianseeks wrote: Hi All I attempted this because the Updater icon kept showing that a new kernel was available evn though YaST2 did not show this. I've been attempting to upgrade the NVidia drivers (9746) after updating the kernel. I've followed the

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
- it's true that you can install whatever you want but after a while the installs/unistall makes your system very unstable. Many of my friends complain that they have to reinstall the whole system frequently (2-4 times a year). Some major Linux updates are painfull. I remember a hard FC3 -

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread J Sloan
Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: - it's true that you can install whatever you want but after a while the installs/unistall makes your system very unstable. Many of my friends complain that they have to reinstall the whole system frequently (2-4 times a year). Some major Linux

[opensuse] Plugin directory hierarchy

2007-01-20 Thread Carl
For Suse 9.3 and later what is the order. I have multiple copies of several plugins /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ also then there ~/.mozilla CWSIV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] Re: Creating a swap file

2007-01-20 Thread Greg Wallace
On Saturday, January 20, 2007 @ 6:42 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote: The Saturday 2007-01-20 at 11:26 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Well, my instructors in the early '70's told me that a byte was analogous to bite -- not the smallest bit accessible, but smaller than the full-size word of

[opensuse] External Drive Formatting Question

2007-01-20 Thread Kai Ponte
What would y'all suggest here? I just bought a new Maxtor 300 GB (though that's their measure as if 1GB = 1M bytes) and external usb drive enclosure. I plan to use this to back up data on both my *nix systems and a Win2K system. What do you suggest for formatting? -- k -- To unsubscribe,

RE: [opensuse] How do I keep monitor from going to sleep

2007-01-20 Thread Greg Wallace
On Saturday, January 20, 2007 @ 6:33 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote: The Saturday 2007-01-20 at 10:41 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Mine is even a bit older, and I don't have those many problems, either O:-) But you obviously pay attention to the output of rpmconfigcheck and resolve your

RE: [opensuse] fsck running amok

2007-01-20 Thread Greg Wallace
On Saturday, January 20, 2007 @ 9:44 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote: The Friday 2007-01-19 at 20:13 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: Yeah. I'm doing a full system backup and creating a log of which ones I'm changing in case something breaks. Then I'm going to go through one by one and examine them,

[opensuse] Xen-opensuse_10.2-SDL keymap workaround

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I have to install an OS in full virtualization mode (I have VT CPU). During installation, network is not up yet. My Linux distribution, openSuSe 10.2, uses Xen 3.0.3 and SDL 1.2.11. I use SDL console/monitor to perform the domU installation. The problem is keyboard is messed up. My azerty

Re: [opensuse] External Drive Formatting Question

2007-01-20 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: What would y'all suggest here? I just bought a new Maxtor 300 GB (though that's their measure as if 1GB = 1M bytes) and external usb drive enclosure. I plan to use this to back up data on both my *nix systems and a Win2K system. What do you suggest for formatting?

Re: [opensuse] External Drive Formatting Question

2007-01-20 Thread jdd
Kai Ponte wrote: What would y'all suggest here? I just bought a new Maxtor 300 GB (though that's their measure as if 1GB = 1M bytes) and external usb drive enclosure. I plan to use this to back up data on both my *nix systems and a Win2K system. What do you suggest for formatting? I

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