Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Stevens
On Friday 16 March 2007 03:02, Clayton wrote: > > What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the > > streaming videos included on many websites, including the different > > news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the > > trailers at film.com. Basically the sa

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Norrbring
Hans du Plooy skrev: On Fri, March 16, 2007 11:09, Anders Norrbring wrote: Oh yeah. Today the Adaptec 2820SA adapter arrived... What a difference! Everything runs on the controller, and it's MORE than twice as fast than the Highpoint. Glad to hear! Hans You get what you pay for.. ;) T

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:12 -0600, Tom Patton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:14 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > I'm not a script wizard, maybe someone will chime it... > > Couldn't you parse a NEMA sentence to get "mmddhhmm.s

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:39 +, Dave Howorth wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: > >> Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all > >> connected > >> to the net or a network with one machine connected to the in

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, March 16, 2007 11:09, Anders Norrbring wrote: > Oh yeah. > Today the Adaptec 2820SA adapter arrived... What a difference! > Everything runs on the controller, and it's MORE than twice as fast than > the Highpoint. Glad to hear! Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse] Re: setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Joachim Schrod
James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0, however I am unable to carve out mount points on it or put a swap partition on it. One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. What is the best way to accomplish this? Normally you don't mirror drives, b

[opensuse] Re: setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Joachim Schrod
Jerome R. Westrick wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, David Mayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: > On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: > > Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? > > Mirroring is not too bad for sw

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Abstract
Russel and all others, thank you for the tip. You make a good point about why the applet is not available easily anyways and stuff like this is probably it. I never had a compiled source break after the ./configure or make steps, especially in make install. I thought that was th easy part. :)

Re: [opensuse] Mount problem

2007-03-16 Thread Sunny
On 3/15/07, Bob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Sunny, Yast partitioner did the trick. Still am curious why editing fstab didn't work though, Oh Well! Thanks again If you have saved your old fstab, than compare it with the one cuild by yast and you will see why :) Anyway ... I'm glad i

[opensuse] Re: Kernel Modules [OT]

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Kai Ponte wrote: For example, I often use the Cisco VPN client to telecommute. It seems that every few weeks - I guess when kernel update happens - the client fails. I'm then forced to recompile. In the case of a vpn client I would tend to agree, I see very little reason for placing that

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: >> Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected >> to the net or a network with one machine connected to the internet setup >> a ntp server use that to check against at boo tim

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Tom Patton
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:14 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > I'm not a script wizard, maybe someone will chime it... Couldn't you parse a NEMA sentence to get "mmddhhmm.ss" to use for the argument to date? Use that in a script parse

Re: [opensuse] Mount problem

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Sunny wrote: I used the 10.0 fstab as an example to mount the hda partitions for my 10.2 fstab and added the hda lines I needed. No good. When I boot 10.2 it boots to a console and X is not started. I had to delete the new 10.2 fstab to resta

Re: [opensuse] Re: Novell's Virtual Server Deployment Solution [Was: VMware]

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: Novell Data Center Management Solutions The "brain" of Novell data center management is Novell ZENworks(r) Rest of post missed due to the commotion of every one running screaming from the room. They really shou

Re: [opensuse] Off Topic List ?

2007-03-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-15-07 23:13]: > Is there an off topic list officially? I went out to the openSUSE site > and looked through the mailing lists... but don't find it... if it > exists. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by mlmmj X-Mailinglist: opensu

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Friday 2007-03-16 at 11:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get screwy > > between boots. It is usually the time of

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > So, we then tried setting the computer to local time, informing SUSE of > > this. Same problem. > > It is not SuSE's problem, it is yours :-p By 'informing SUSE of this', I meant that we made sure the sysconfig was set to understand that

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: > On Friday 16 March 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: > > > > > Any ideas or suggestions? > Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connecte

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-16 Thread David Bolt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Folsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >David, Richard, & Bruce - > >Thanks to all - I have learned lots however still not enough to solve >the original problem - > >Anyway, after I edit mod_perl.con to include the suggested changes I >still can't run scripts from /srv/www

Re: [opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:18 +0100, Michael Schmuker wrote: > Dear list, > > I tried to update 10.1 to 10.2 using the download-iso. Yast was > resolving the dependencies, and I followed the suggestions. Now, > after two iterations of dependency display and resolving, the > dependency-resolver-sc

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: But Open Source should not have these problems. That's why its open. Anybody can pick it up and maintain it. It still has the advantage that there isn't abandonware and cemeteryware, i.e. products that are dead /and/ buried. These projects can be picked up, whilst cl

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: > > The OS/2 machine finished all tasks in about two minutes. > The Win95 machine finished in half an hour. > > It was amazing. > > My morning routine at work, with a computer running XP. Turn on computer. Go get coffee Logon to XP Enjoy coffee and read newspaper, while wai

[opensuse] Vista shares again

2007-03-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I can't find any bug reports at kde.org or openSUSE about Vista shares not working in KDE Konqueror (smb://). Anyone else also having issues with this - or just me? (mount -f cifs, by hand works) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Adam Williams
> What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the > streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news > services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at > film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have > on

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Russell Jones wrote Though it's not very revealing. You need to see what the configure script was doing at that point (use the "less" command). It may give you a clue. Sorry, see the install: section of the Makefile, not the configure script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Abstract escribió: /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet /bin/sh: line 3: 11269 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -p "`scrollkeeper-config --pkglocalstatedir`" -o there is your problem, some application segfaults there. segfault is short for (m

Re: [opensuse] What I Want

2007-03-16 Thread Tony Alfrey
Stevens wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:02, Tony Alfrey wrote: I am in the process of building a new box and am loading up Firefox/Sea Monkey and found that flash and quick time plug-ins were not available for Firefox/Sea Monkey for linux. Did you somehow get flash functioning? Thanks

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Norrbring
Anders Norrbring skrev: Sandy Drobic skrev: jdd wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: actually a software based piece of trash with a BIOS onboard. Oh, I also placed an order for a Adaptec 2820SA HBA which is a real RAID controller sqorry if I seem silly, but how can any raid controller work w

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 11:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get screwy > between boots. It is usually the time of day more than the date. The > error seems to be random. Not just the ho

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Fredag 16 marts 2007 11:23 skrev Roger Oberholtzer: > This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: > > I run SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 on various computers. Usually, we set it up so > that the computer time is set to UTC, and we then state where we are in > the world. > > On ma

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread peter nikolic
On Friday 16 March 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: > > Any ideas or suggestions? Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to the net or a network with one machine connected to the inte

Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Jerome R. Westrick
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, David Mayr wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: > > On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? > > > > Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the syste

[opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: I run SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 on various computers. Usually, we set it up so that the computer time is set to UTC, and we then state where we are in the world. On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get scre

[opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Schmuker
Dear list, I tried to update 10.1 to 10.2 using the download-iso. Yast was resolving the dependencies, and I followed the suggestions. Now, after two iterations of dependency display and resolving, the dependency-resolver-screen reappeared, but it was blank! No package displayed, no choice off

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Friday 16 March 2007 08:21, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: > > Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant? > > > > The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ... > > > > I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about

Re: [opensuse] Getting YaST to update 3rd party apps

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Adam Jimerson escribió: >It is slightly annoying > to run the online update in YaST and it will tell me that there is no > updates, then I go into Package > All Packages > Update if Newer Version > is Available and it will have several updates listed. The default beaviuor is sane and I expect it w

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:02 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: > > >> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph >> >> hth & regards, >> >> Carl > > Yes, it helps, thanx. Curiously I get IIS on Linux ?? Akamai might use a reverse proxy cache that runs on linux but the webserver w

Re: [opensuse] install early version without messing grub

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
kanenas escribió: > What's the easiest way to install an earlier suse version on a spare > partition > and still keep the latest grub that comes with 10.2 (along with an intact > 10.2 partition)? why you need to install an earlier version in the first place ?? signature.asc Description: Op

[opensuse] install early version without messing grub

2007-03-16 Thread kanenas
What's the easiest way to install an earlier suse version on a spare partition and still keep the latest grub that comes with 10.2 (along with an intact 10.2 partition)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Clayton
What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have on the same w

<    1   2