[opensuse] Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread Joachim Schrod
Carlos E. R. wrote: On large installations such as those you and Kai mention, are SMART tests useful to predict failure? When SMART tells that a disk will fail, that's a very good prediction. We don't collect data how many disks fail without SMART alerts before. But the recent Google paper

[opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread riccardo35
- apt lives :) . . . have just used 'Smart' to install APT in SuSE 10.2, BUT, the apt Sources List for SuSE 10.2 does not appear to be working at present - does someone have a Sources List for Trusted Repositories, that is currently working please ? Friendly Greetings -- To unsubscr

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Bos
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:29:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - apt lives :) > > > . . . have just used 'Smart' to install APT in SuSE 10.2, > > > BUT, the apt Sources List for SuSE 10.2 does not appear to be working at > present Can you be more precise? WHat kind of error do y

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

2007-02-22 Thread A. den Oudsten
J Sloan wrote: A. den Oudsten wrote: Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in openSUSE 10.2 So, what is the output of "glxgears"? Joe Nice running blue red and green gears!! Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EM

[opensuse] Gnome Menu and Application Browser, need to add an application.

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Marjoram
Can anyone tell me how to add applications to both the Classic style and the new Application Browser style menus? I have tried using the "Menu Layout" in the desktop preferences but the new item never gets saved back to the menu and does not appear in the Menu Layout application. I have tried as ro

Re: [opensuse] Microphone blues

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Replied privately. John Summerfield wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:35, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > >> Attached business cards >> Daniel Feiglin >> >> Work 972 9 8616204 >> Fax 972 9 8621052 >> Mobile 927 52 3869986 >> Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [Add this contact to t

Re: [opensuse] Lightscribe.

2007-02-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 22 February 2007 1:11:35 am Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:55, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:47, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > Does anyone know of any other software than the simply label maker > > > for Linux that is available fr

[opensuse] New Computer Menu positioning in Dual Screen

2007-02-22 Thread Neil Marjoram
Can anyone tell me how to adjust the position (or screen) of the new style computer menu? I have two screens 1 and 2 in config, they are split to give one big desktop and use the Nvidia driver. The first is a 17" Analogue, the second is a 19" digital, obviously I mainly use the 19", due to the det

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday 22 February 2007 1:14:23 am John Andersen wrote: > Especially given the intermittent flakeyness of the keyservers of late. > Some may just not be reachable from time to time, others just > disappear for days at a time.  I've had to change my > primary keyserver in kgpg three times in th

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Clayton wrote: >  At least with Synaptic, the new users caught on within a > couple minutes. Like i've said in other threads, the one thing that (k)(X)Ubuntu does right is make updates drop dead simple with either Synaptic or the kde front end equivelent. It just wo

Re: [opensuse] guide to remotely upgrading Suse

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Kirsch
Hey, > > Netdevice > > Specifies the interface or hardware address linuxrc should use for > installation if there are several network interfaces available on the > installation host. Wildcards are allowed. > > Example: > Netdevice=eth1 > Netdevice=00:09:1a:34:7d:69 > Netdevice=*:69 >

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Clayton
Like i've said in other threads, the one thing that (k)(X)Ubuntu does right is make updates drop dead simple with either Synaptic or the kde front end equivelent. It just works, and it doesn't take all day. Its as fast as your bandwidth, and seemingly never errors out. Agreed. The only real

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 22 Feb 2007 08:43, Richard Bos wrote: > It works for me and others, see above be a bit more speific in the > problems you get __ Hello, Richard . . . and Thank You :) ... this is what I am getting :- __ Failed to fetch ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-biele

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 11:20:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Richard - I fear that my problem is of the "RTFM" variety . . . but > will appreciate a short-route :) your problem is more like a RTFEM variety: read the fucking error messages. > ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de

Re: [opensuse] bind help

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> The server can use your host file. Unless you are using DDNS updates >> from your dhcpd, it is very easy to edit your zone files via Yast, >> Network Services, DNS Server, Zone files. I am impressed by this Yast

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, A. den Oudsten wrote: > > So, what is the output of "glxgears"? > > > > Joe > > Nice running blue red and green gears!! > > Andre Andre, he meant you should launch it from a shell and report the numbers, not the colors... ;-) -- __

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 22 Feb 2007 10:38, Richard Bos wrote: > From where did you get the apt rpm?  Just from suse base, or was it > from: > ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/rbos/openSUSE_10.2 >/i586/ > > If did you did not get it from the link above, you should > download and install it from the

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 22 Feb 2007 10:35, Mathias Homann wrote: > basically, you need to use actually working mirrors in your > sources.lst file. - being non-expert, seems one much exercise Care to use TRUSTED mirror only thanks friendly greetings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: [opensuse] Coupons for SUSE

2007-02-22 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Thursday 22 February 2007 08:48, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > What does it mean when they say MS is providing coupons for Novell Linux > Enterprise ? MS is a reseller of SLES. Read: you can buy it from them. > Do I want one? How would anyone know but yourself? If you want to check it out,

Re: [opensuse] Perl question [Solved]

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
John Summerfield wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:09, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> John Summerfield wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:20, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >>> Problem is this line in ddclient, debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");, which

Re: [opensuse] bind help

2007-02-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote: ... > All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp > from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts. No, they wont. Ever. The hosts file is pri

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Fred Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 00:40]: > Don't you just love the never ending insistance from Smart that it > must have a key from subkeys.pgp.net or it will puke on the install? > Of course, frequently the key is not available. This has been a major > pain in the butt since the first

[opensuse] KNetworkManager Weirdness

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
Yesterday evening, when I got home from work, I fired up my laptop. After a while, I went to check messages and found it wasn't on the intraweb. I looked and saw KNetworkManager wasn't running in the system tray. Restarting it by going to root and typing in the command did nothing. I - being a

[opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Howorth
Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager Weirdness

2007-02-22 Thread Helmut Schaa
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 13:45 schrieb Kai Ponte: > Yesterday evening, when I got home from work, I fired up my laptop. After > a while, I went to check messages and found it wasn't on the intraweb. I > looked and saw KNetworkManager wasn't running in the system tray. > > Restarting it by g

Re: [opensuse] Yast bad manners

2007-02-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 22:17 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > They use some memory anyway :-) > > It seems that it depends on available graphic memory. > With 256 MB card switch between desktops is instantenuous without redrawing. > The older with 4

Re: [opensuse] Some more oil in the fire ...

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:47:36 pm Mathias Homann wrote: > Am Mittwoch 21 Februar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On Wed February 21 2007 2:50 pm, Jeffrey Taylor scratched these words > > > > onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > > > Quoting M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:44:33 pm Joachim Schrod wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: > >> There really is a reason that SCSI costs more in general, and HP uses > >> good SCSI drives on top of that. > > > > The good reason is that people beli

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:38:44 pm Fred A. Miller wrote: > Don't you just love the never ending insistance from Smart that it must > have a key from subkeys.pgp.net or it will puke on the install? Of course, > frequently the key is not available. This has been a major pain in the butt > sinc

Re: [opensuse] Yast bad manners

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Howorth
Rajko M. wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:30, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 21:06 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: >>> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:24, John Andersen wrote: I've often wondered, but never took any measures to find out, what the memory use implicatio

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 08:04]: > I have been trying to install Firefox 2.0, which I grabbed from Guru. > It doesn't show up in SMART or YAST. > > When I try to install I get some message that it isn't signed. > > I need to get that onto the labix list, because it is an annoyin

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager Weirdness

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thursday 22 February 2007 04:50:20 am Helmut Schaa wrote: > > Looking at /tail var log messages I got nothing about the etherweb or > > even anything about lost tokens in the ethernet: > > Have a look at /var/log/NetworkManager. Etwas? sith:/home/kai # tail /var/log/NetworkManager Feb 22 04:50

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thursday 22 February 2007 05:09:00 am Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 08:04]: > > I have been trying to install Firefox 2.0, which I grabbed from Guru. > > It doesn't show up in SMART or YAST. > > > > When I try to install I get some message that it isn't sign

Re: [opensuse] Perl question [Solved]

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
>>> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:20, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >>> I know very little about this problem, so I will share what I know and if anyone knows perl if you can give me a hint. Problem is this line in ddclient, debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}");, which

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager Weirdness

2007-02-22 Thread Helmut Schaa
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 14:42 schrieb Kai Ponte: > sith:/home/kai # tail /var/log/NetworkManager > Feb 22 04:50:59 sith NetworkManager: Activation (eth1) > Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled... > Feb 22 04:50:59 sith NetworkManager: Activation (eth1) > Stage 4 of 5 (IP

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:03:43 Kai Ponte wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:38:44 pm Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Don't you just love the never ending insistance from Smart that it must > > have a key from subkeys.pgp.net or it will puke on the install? Of > > course, frequently the key

[opensuse] Xgl/Compiz desktop focus

2007-02-22 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
Hi In suse10.2/kde/xgl/compiz/GF7300GT I have the following two problems: -I have to click each window to activate it. Focus does not follow mouse, even it is set in the kde config. -When I log out and log in again, all my open windows appear on the first dekstop. % rpm -qa | grep -i compiz com

Re: [opensuse] Smart.

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 08:47]: > Hmmm... I have a suse-mozilla not a mozilla channel. yes, that's what YOU named it. You could have called it fox or coyote or > [suse-mozilla] > type = rpm-md > name = Latest mozilla.org packages > disabled = yes > baseurl = ftp://ftp.sus

Re: [opensuse] Xgl/Compiz desktop focus

2007-02-22 Thread Jigish Gohil
On 2/22/07, Morten Bjørnsvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi In suse10.2/kde/xgl/compiz/GF7300GT I have the following two problems: -I have to click each window to activate it. Focus does not follow mouse, even it is set in the kde config. Make sure you have compiz running with compiz --replace

[opensuse] MTBF was: Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
|From: Kai Ponte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:44:33 pm Joachim Schrod wrote: |> John Andersen wrote: |> > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: |> >> There really is a reason that SCSI costs more in general, and HP |> >> uses good SCSI drives on top o

Re: [opensuse] Some more oil in the fire ...

2007-02-22 Thread George Stoianov
you mean,something like running up and down a stage like a monkey on speed, yelling "developers! developers! developers!" all the time? I saw that after the interview with Novell on the agreement, at which I thought he made some remarks/comments that are not quite suitable for a man running such

Re: [opensuse] Some more oil in the fire ...

2007-02-22 Thread George Stoianov
On 2/22/07, George Stoianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you mean,something like running up and down a stage like a monkey on speed, > yelling "developers! developers! developers!" all the time? I saw that after the interview with Novell on the agreement, at which I thought he made some remarks/

Re: [opensuse] Coupons for SUSE

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Folsom
Micro$oft is seeling cupons for support - you can get copies of SLES/SLED from Novell but it doesn't include support (patches, help, & etc-). To get access to the support system for the "long term" you need to subscribe. It works the same way for Red Hat and now Sun. M- On 2/22/07, Hans van d

Re: [opensuse] X weirdness in 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Folsom
Thanks! Done all that - for whatever reason no matter how anything is set the monitor still only displays 800x600 (see the xorg.conf file). M- On 2/22/07, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:12, Michael Folsom wrote: > Had a perfectly happy 10.2 box (dual

Re: [opensuse] How to connect to MSSQL database?

2007-02-22 Thread George Stoianov
Are you talking about MS SQL Server or MySQL??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] X weirdness in 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Folsom
One additional note - I just used Yast - sax2 to change the monitor and screen to 1280x1024, xorg.conf file below, and no matter what I set it to the "Screen Resolution" tool in the control center says my only choice is 800x600 at 50Hz. This is wierd . M- xorg.c

Re: [opensuse] Gnome Menu and Application Browser, need to add an application.

2007-02-22 Thread James Ogley
> Can anyone tell me how to add applications to both the Classic style and > the new Application Browser style menus? I have tried using the "Menu > Layout" in the desktop preferences but the new item never gets saved > back to the menu and does not appear in the Menu Layout application. I > have t

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread James Knott
Dave Howorth wrote: Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? Thanks, Dave I don't know about pathping, but there is traceroute. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Howorth
James Knott wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? >> >> > I don't know about pathping, but there is traceroute. Thanks, James. I know about traceroute but it doesn't perform

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 2/22/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? Thanks, Dave Not sure what pathping is. For a tool that provides more detail than traceroute consider bing. Man

Re: [opensuse] Linux on an MacBook

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel Bornkessel
On Thursday 22 February 2007 08:44, Banana Flex wrote: > Anyone has successfull installed openSUSE-10.2 or SUSE Linux Enterprise > on an Apple MacBook ? yup ... me ;) Important things: - install bootcamp and repartition - install refit for the mac book - When installing and yast asks whether you

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 22 February 2007 08:32, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 2/22/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? > > >.html?printversion> > > > > Thanks, Dave > > Not sure what pathping

Re: [opensuse] Missing conduits for pilot applet

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Cunningham
Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble syncing my palm pilot with Evolution. I managed to > build the latest versions of pilot applet and the daemon and it now > seems to work up to a point. The point at which it fails is that the > conduit list doesn't include the ability to sync th

[opensuse] A 3D World Beryl

2007-02-22 Thread Jay Smith
Hey, I have Beryl running (I believe 2.0 beta) and I was wondering, have any of you gotten that 3D world function up? I've tried everythign and cant' seem to get it. I don't know if maybe there's a thing I need to do in SuSE to get it to work or what. I have an Intel 950 GMA with 3D Rendering e

Re: [opensuse] Missing conduits for pilot applet

2007-02-22 Thread James Ogley
Sorry, missed the original mail. > > I'm having trouble syncing my palm pilot with Evolution. The point > > at which it fails is that the conduit list doesn't include the > > ability to sync the calendar or address book! This is bug #222182 [1] - I think it's a bug in the Evolution conduits, not

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 10:59]: > Thanks, James. I know about traceroute but it doesn't perform the same > depth of analysis as pathping. My ISP has asked me to run pathping. you might look at tcptraceroute-1.5beta7-1.guru.suse101 -- Patrick ShanahanR

Re: [opensuse] A 3D World Beryl

2007-02-22 Thread Sunny
On 2/22/07, Jay Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, I have Beryl running (I believe 2.0 beta) and I was wondering, have any of you gotten that 3D world function up? I've tried everythign and cant' seem to get it. I don't know if maybe there's a thing I need to do in SuSE to get it to work o

Re: [opensuse] APT for Open SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Bos
Op donderdag 22 februari 2007 12:08, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > All works fine now > > > > The version that did NOT work - got it from SMART   :( That's because you did not configure smart to use my repository ...home:/rbos/openSUSE_10.2 Smart would have pulled in

[opensuse] K3B ??

2007-02-22 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. On my SuSE 10.2 I have something, that is not ok with k3b. I'm receiving this message: Unable to find growisofs executable K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you will not be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10. Solution: Install the dvd+rw

[opensuse] Blackberry 7100 Series & (openSuSE) Linux 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I have a friend whom I'm helping make the transition to Linux (openSuSE 10.2). He has a 7100-series Blackberry he'd like to sync with that system. Searching with Google has turned up nothing definitive, but left me with the impression that it might be possible to use this device on Linux (

Re: [opensuse] Blackberry 7100 Series & (openSuSE) Linux 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Jay Smith
>So in fact there are two questions: > >1) Is there a way to use a Blackberry 7100 on openSuSE 10.2? It doesn't >have to be a stock solution complete with RPMs, we can build the >software if necessary (and if it's open source). Ideally integration >with the KDE PIM software (KOrganizer, KAddres

Re: [opensuse] Blackberry 7100 Series & (openSuSE) Linux 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jay, On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:16, Jay Smith wrote: > >So in fact there are two questions: > > > >1) Is there a way to use a Blackberry 7100 on openSuSE 10.2? ... > > Don't quote me on this but I believe you need a piece of RIM software > to get it working. It is indeed possible to do, but I

Re: [opensuse] bind help

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > > ... > > > All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp > > from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts. > > No, they wont. Ever. The

Re: [opensuse] X weirdness in 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Folsom wrote: >   VendorName   "--> VESA" There's your problem. -- _ John Andersen pgpzx5EfTa4kb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Blackberry 7100 Series & (openSuSE) Linux 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread jfweber
On Thu February 22 2007 3:41 pm, Randall R Schulz scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > Jay, > > On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:16, Jay Smith wrote: > > >So in fact there are two questions: > > > > > >1) Is there a way to use a Blackberry 7100 on openSuSE 10.2? ... >

Re: [opensuse] MTBF was: Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > |From: Kai Ponte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > |On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:44:33 pm Joachim Schrod wrote: > |> John Andersen wrote: > |> > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: > |> >> There really is a reason that SCSI c

Re: [opensuse] New Computer Menu positioning in Dual Screen

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Neil Marjoram wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to adjust the position (or screen) of the new > style computer menu? > > I have two screens 1 and 2 in config, they are split to give one big > desktop and use the Nvidia driver. The first is a 17" Analogue, the > second is

Re: [opensuse] Blackberry 7100 Series & (openSuSE) Linux 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
JF, On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu February 22 2007 3:41 pm, Randall R Schulz scratched these > words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > > > Jay, > > > > On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:16, Jay Smith wrote: > > > >So in fact there are two questions

Re: [opensuse] Coupons for SUSE

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Michael Folsom wrote: > Micro$oft is seeling cupons for support - you can get copies of > SLES/SLED from Novell but it doesn't include support (patches, help, & > etc-). > > To get access to the support system for the "long term" you need to > subscribe. It works the

Re: [opensuse] Keyboard gone Craaaziiiiiey

2007-02-22 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:24, John Andersen wrote: > I don't think it is fair to say that "Every Suse distro I have used has had > this problem to a greater or lesser degree" unless you state up front > that the lesser degree includes ZERO!. Specifically, I noticed this first on Suse

[opensuse] ATA vs. SCSI

2007-02-22 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 2/21/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 06:42:19 am Joachim Schrod wrote: > Joachim Schrod wrote: > > David Brodbeck wrote: > > At one of my customers, 10,000s of disks are in use at the servers. > > There MTBF numbers are reliable indicators of how much dis

Re: [opensuse] MTBF was: Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:21, John Andersen wrote: > ... > > Yet some here persist (you know who you are Kai, ;-) in echoing the > dogma of yesteryear as to why scsi is better. ... I suppose "better" can be measured many ways. I can find 15,000 RPM SCSI drives but only 10,000 RPM SATA driv

[opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-22 Thread Angus MacGyver
Hi All, Running Suse 10.2 on a number of machines and have some issues with power management. When I first installed suse 10.2 on one machine, I couldn't get a normal user to be able to suspend or hibernate the machine, even though root could (so know the hardware was capable) I found a workaro

Re: [opensuse] Aircards and Linux.

2007-02-22 Thread Jerome R. Westrick
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 03:04, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote: > Jay Smith wrote: > The second issue is that although it works great in the laptop and I do > sharing so the desktop can use it, I have not been able to get the > desktop along with PCMCIA/PCI adapter (One that is supposed to wor

Re: [opensuse] New Computer Menu positioning in Dual Screen

2007-02-22 Thread tleslie
Devil's Pie is good for that, and other cool things as well. works with compiz too. -tl On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:23 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Neil Marjoram wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to adjust the position (or screen) of the new > > style computer menu? >

Re: [opensuse] MTBF was: Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-02-22 at 14:44 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > One thing I've noticed is that as drives get faster (especially head > positioning speed), mounting them properly seems to be more important. > If the drive can physically vibrate wi

[opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Damon Register
I have a feeling I am really slipping. I have been tinkering with SuSE since 6.2 and have learned a few things on the way. For a while I hadn't done much and am now just getting back into it with SuSE 10.2. I see a lot has changed. Now that I am really interested in it, I see that Rosegarden is

Re: [opensuse] Yast bad manners

2007-02-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 06:56, Carlos E. R. wrote: > h. Mine has 64MiB, and I'm using a depth of 24 at 1204x768... That may be > it. [...]. Well, no, that's 2.25 MiB. I'm using 9 workspaces, so that > makes 20.25 MiB. There should be memory enough. > > Unless there is a setting somewhere... :-

Re: [opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-02-22 at 19:35 -0500, Damon Register wrote: ... > because I remember reading a recent thread that mentioned that can > cause some conflict with the SuSE software management. Not if you create an rpm, with checkinstall, for instance

Re: [opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:35, Damon Register wrote: > I have a feeling I am really slipping. I have been tinkering with SuSE > since 6.2 and have learned a few things on the way. For a while I > hadn't done much and am now just getting back into it with SuSE 10.2. > I see a lot has changed.

Re: [opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Rajko M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-22-07 19:53]: > I think it was packman repository that I used to download Rosegarden. > See > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal/OpenSUSE_Installation > > for articles about installation. 19:54 wahoo:~ > smart query --show-channels rosegarden4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Differences between boxed version and Download Version of 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Jesse L. Purdom
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 08:09, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > Was wondering if anyone would have information as to the differences if any > of subj. I really like the DL version and am impressed. > > Phil Hi Phil, To my knowledge the only difference is the packaging and price tag. Jesse

Re: [opensuse] Differences between boxed version and Download Version of 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Jesse L. Purdom wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 08:09, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Was wondering if anyone would have information as to the differences if > > any of subj. I really like the DL version and am impressed. > > > > Phil > > Hi Phil, > > T

Re: [opensuse] Differences between boxed version and Download Version of 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:59, Jesse L. Purdom wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 08:09, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Was wondering if anyone would have information as to the > > differences if any of subj. I really like the DL version and am > > impressed. > > > > Phil > > Hi P

[opensuse] Subversion 1.4 RPMs for SuSE Linux 10.0

2007-02-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Does anyone have or know where I can find Subversion 1.4 RPMs for SuSE Linux 10.0? Thanks. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] how to read .gif files

2007-02-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
Hello all-- I got an interesting message with a lot of photos, most in .jpg format, and had no trouble reading them with gwenview, which came up automagically, but there was one .gif, and it didn't open. What do I need to read .gif files? (SuSE 9.3) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] how to read .gif files

2007-02-22 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 22 February 2007 20:12, Doug McGarrett wrote: > What do I need to read .gif files?   > (SuSE 9.3)   gwenview works just fine... as does knoqueror, firefox and others. More likely than not the .jif is broken (corrupted). -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsu

[opensuse] MSworks (huh!)

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Lewis
Any recommendations for how to view a *WPS *MS Works Text Document on Linux. Someone is sending these to my wife who only uses Linux. Openoffice doesn't want to do this. At least the version that came with 10.2. Cheers, Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] MSworks (huh!)

2007-02-22 Thread Art Fore
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:13 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote: > Any recommendations for how to view a > *WPS *MS Works Text Document > on Linux. Someone is sending these to my wife > who only uses Linux. > > Openoffice doesn't want to do this. At least the version > that came with 10.2. > > Cheers, >

Re: [opensuse] MSworks (huh!)

2007-02-22 Thread Ken Jennings
On Thursday 2007-02-22 21:13, Robert Lewis wrote: > Any recommendations for how to view a > *WPS *MS Works Text Document > on Linux. ... Do you know what version of Works was used? Even Works won't often load other, older versions of Works file. If you can get the sender to use Works to expo

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

2007-02-22 Thread J Sloan
A. den Oudsten wrote: > J Sloan wrote: >> >> A. den Oudsten wrote: >> >> >>> Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in >>> openSUSE 10.2 >> >> >> So, what is the output of "glxgears"? >> >> Joe > Nice running blue red and green gears!! Well, I meant the numerical output

Re: [opensuse] pathping

2007-02-22 Thread J Sloan
Dave Howorth wrote: > Is there a Linux equivalent to pathping? > At first glance, it just looks a lot like good old mtr Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: [opensuse] bind help

2007-02-22 Thread J Sloan
John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote: >> >> >> ... >> >>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp >>> from this server, but they still can not resolve entries in hosts.

Re: [opensuse] Keyboard gone Craaaziiiiiey

2007-02-22 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 22 February 2007 21:06, you wrote: > BTW, 9.3 is pretty near bulletproof also.  It could be wished that > its successors were as good. Yeah, I know. I have seriously considered going back to 9.3... solid as a rock. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mai

[opensuse] 10.2 and SaX2 problem

2007-02-22 Thread Carl Hartung
Hi All, Up through SUSE 9.3, SaX2 accepted the following configuration for my on-board graphics chip, SiS 630, and monitor, an NEC MultiSync 77F: Monitor display size: 325 x 244 mm, aspect ration 4:3 horizontal rate: 28 to 70 Khz vertical rate: 54 to 120 Hz colors: 8-bit, 16-bit (24-bit to 1280

[opensuse] Hardware check

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Fischer
Hi folks. Time to purchase a new barebones, and my lack of hardware knowledge is showing again If anyone with experience could advise: Dual Opteron (strong workstation, but no need for 3D graphics, etc.) Tyan Tiger (url with useful specs) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=57

Re: [opensuse] bind help

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, J Sloan wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 01:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > >> > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> All the windows machines on the network get their dns set up by dhcp > >>> from

Re: [opensuse] Keyboard gone Craaaziiiiiey

2007-02-22 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 22 February 2007, M Harris wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 21:06, you wrote: > > BTW, 9.3 is pretty near bulletproof also.  It could be wished that > > its successors were as good. > > Yeah, I know. I have seriously considered going back to 9.3... solid as > a > rock. Yup.

[opensuse] Switch box problem

2007-02-22 Thread Jose
Hi List, I just got one of those switch boxes to change from computer to computer, and when I hop from server to another I loose the mouse, keyboard is ok, but how to avoid/fix this problem? The box is a cheap KVM 4 port switch ,model kys-104, box says it does support Linux, so I don't know

Re: [opensuse] X weirdness in 10.2

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Folsom
Thanks but no, that doesn't appear to be the issue - Take a look at this thread: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=51056&hl=800x600 It turns out that after I set the video aperature in the bios to the amount of memory on my Nvidia video card all was fine. This is very, very

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