Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer [getting OT]

2007-03-25 Thread G.T.Smith
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Sunday 2007-03-25 at 13:19 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > >> No, you throw them away when you see a hold up comming, so that > they can't > >> force you to give up the pin. For instance :-) > > The problem with that is that many times, all you need to buy with a > cr

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

2007-03-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David Brodbeck wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> It actually works quite well on just the Wine version that ships with >> openSUSE. IE has worked in Wine for quite awhile. >> > > I don't know why, but Wine has always fought me at every turn. I've > never successfully gotten it to run any

[opensuse] lirc - "does not support sending"

2007-03-25 Thread SimpleSimon
So, I've built a lirc receiver/transmitter. The receiver works well and I've learning a number of my remotes. Now, I want to be able to send these commands. When I issue the irsend command (irsend send_start 57F510 PowerToggle) I am told that the hardware does not support sending. I compiled lir

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 25 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > The replication of the finger print is a bit beyond the skills of > > the ordinary snatch-n-run artist. Some one has been watching > > too much CSI: Miami. > > You can dismiss it if you want, but it's been demonstrated using

[opensuse] Compaq Presario V3040TU headphone jack and speaker sensing problem.

2007-03-25 Thread Tommy Lim KW
Hi, I got another problem on my laptop. My speaker and my headphone jack got no problem. Both got sound out. But the problem is when I plug in my headphone to headphone jack, my speakers still get sound. What happen actually? Sensing problem? Regards, Tommy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: > The replication of the finger print is a bit beyond the skills of > the ordinary snatch-n-run artist. Some one has been watching > too much CSI: Miami. > You can dismiss it if you want, but it's been demonstrated using fairly crude materials and methods. For example: ht

[opensuse] Compaq presario V3040TU microphone cannot be use!!!

2007-03-25 Thread Tommy Lim KW
Hi, Anyone of you face this problem before? I am using Opensuse 10.2. How am I going to solve this problem? Regards, Tommy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Gnupg question/problem

2007-03-25 Thread Bob S
Hello SuSE people. Running 10.2 64 bit. Right after I installed it I setup pgp as root. Mistake, Every time I want to encrypt or decrypt a file I have to change to root. Real pain since most of those file are in my own /home directory. How do I undo the root pgp and then set up a user (me) t

[opensuse] Love that KMail!

2007-03-25 Thread Kai Ponte
So my mom calls the other night - she's got a problem with KMail (SUSE 9.2). According to her she's getting a few spam accounts which are somehow auto-sending into her drafts folder. She thinks someone has a hold on her system. Tonight my family goes over to have dinner. I take a look at her co

Re: [opensuse] k3b crash

2007-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Low Kian Seong wrote: > Is this a bug ? My initial wild guess is Yes, but the place to check is the k3b bugzila. -- _ John Andersen pgpykYNT7OFEy.pgp Description: PGP signature

[opensuse] k3b crash

2007-03-25 Thread Low Kian Seong
Kdb keeps on crashing on my laptop and attached is the output of the trackback System configuration startup check disabled. (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found

Re: [opensuse] File copy boring issue

2007-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 25 March 2007, jan kalcic wrote: > Hi People, > > when I copy any file on a nfs directory it slows down and suddenly stall > after about 300 MB. > > /etc/fstab looks like: > > host:/data /data nfs noauto,user,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 > > /etc/exports: > > /data/

Re: [opensuse] Linus loves GPL v2 ---- and is not on a crusade

2007-03-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 08:48 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > And many more examples. My country oficial tax program runs only in > > windows. Take it or leave it... So I keep a windows partition. Have > > to. > > And, since you are required

[opensuse] File copy boring issue

2007-03-25 Thread jan kalcic
Hi People, when I copy any file on a nfs directory it slows down and suddenly stall after about 300 MB. /etc/fstab looks like: host:/data /data nfs noauto,user,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 /etc/exports: /data/ *(rw,root_squash) I tried also with the async option but noth

Re: [opensuse] Linus loves GPL v2 ---- and is not on a crusade

2007-03-25 Thread Robert Smits
On Friday 23 March 2007 21:07, M Harris wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2007 16:08, Robert Smits wrote: > > hi Bob, thanks for your comments, > > > And I think that the distinctions being made between "Free" and "Open > > Source" are not worth fighting over. When you read the definition of Open > > Sou

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 17:39 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2007 10:25, Mike McMullin wrote: > > > It may well be easy to fake this form of document. In which case > > forcing one to present a hard to impossible to fake ID is better, IMO. > > Something hard to impossible to copy, c

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 25 March 2007 10:25, Mike McMullin wrote: >   It may well be easy to fake this form of document.  In which case > forcing one to present a hard to impossible to fake ID is better, IMO. Something hard to impossible to copy, can turn as a problem. Who can check with bare eye and little

[opensuse] Re: Backup Software

2007-03-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 24. March 2007 16:08:23 Per Qvindesland wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> What backup software would be best if you want it to do a automated >> backup to a dvd during night time, someone mentioned dacula or something >> like that. > bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ and h

[opensuse] Re: My Yahoo

2007-03-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-24-07 04:55]: >> On Sat 24 Mar 2007 00:59, Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] >> However, the new 'Improvements' by Yahoo have snookered just That - >> >> It is NO-longer possible to open a 'Saved-As' html file when Off-Line > >

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread sfreilly
Pete Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2007 16:20:32 Pascal Bleser wrote: > > Was finally able to build working Democracy Player RPM packages for 10.2 > > (32bit and 64bit): > > > (install 0.9.5.3, not 0.9.2.2) > > > > cheers > > Cheers for that Pascal. Much apprec

[opensuse] How to make Wake On LAN setting persistent?

2007-03-25 Thread Richard Bos
How to make Wake On LAN setting persistent? According to this answer: http://ahh.sourceforge.net/wol/faq.html#q2 the modules.conf needs to be adjusted. But on openSUSE-10.2 there does not seem to be a modules.conf, but a modprobe.conf. Are those the same (or at least similar)? How should I co

Re: [opensuse] Novell Finally Promoting Linux

2007-03-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Sunday 25 March 2007 12:40:22 am Stephan Binner wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is nice to see the Big Red N promoting Linux... > > Hint: http://www.novell.com/video/ > I was going to mention that - I just saw it. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http:/

Re: [opensuse] Fatal error: Could not load /lib/modules/....... /module.dep: No such file or dir

2007-03-25 Thread mikecoan
Anders, > On Sunday 25 March 2007 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Any pointers would be appreciated > > It might help if you posted your menu.lst. Could it perhaps be that your > initrd entry for the -usb kernel refers to the standard initrd, and not > the -usb? > That is impressive. That is

[opensuse] AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Honestly, whoever wrote this AppArmor thing must have been on drugs. After fighting with it over what Apache could do, I now find it won't let Acroread open PDF files! What's that all about? I tried adding read permissions for *.pdf into the profile, but it still won't have it. Can anyone e

Re: [opensuse] Help Killling Process

2007-03-25 Thread BandiPat
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2007 20:23, BandiPat wrote: > > > > > > Also, if you guys love "top" a lot, take a look at "htop"! ... > > That looks interesting, but I cannot seem to find one feature of top > that I like to use, namely top's "n" comman

Re: [opensuse] Fatal error: Could not load /lib/modules/....... /module.dep: No such file or dir

2007-03-25 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 25 March 2007 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any pointers would be appreciated It might help if you posted your menu.lst. Could it perhaps be that your initrd entry for the -usb kernel refers to the standard initrd, and not the -usb? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [opensuse] Help Killling Process

2007-03-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 24 March 2007 20:23, BandiPat wrote: > > > Also, if you guys love "top" a lot, take a look at "htop"! ... That looks interesting, but I cannot seem to find one feature of top that I like to use, namely top's "n" command which allows you to limit the number of processes shown.

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:26 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sunny wrote: > >> what are the chances for packages for 10.2? > > > > Ooops, I meant 10.0, sorry. > > Chances are 0 > It requires a very recent gnome-python package. > Actually, you must

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 17:19 -0800, John Andersen wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 19:52 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > > > > I know... but it was a bank manager who told me the photo is dangerous. > > > > > > I would change the bank, promptly. > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread ka1ifq
On Saturday 24 March 2007 13:34, David Brodbeck wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: > > 2) Is there any bank that is asking for such identification for credit > > cards? There will be no so much problems with stolen identities if they > > would. > > Fingerprint readers are not foolproof. I remember reading a

[opensuse] Fatal error: Could not load /lib/modules/....... /module.dep: No such file or dir

2007-03-25 Thread mikecoan
I am running opensuse 10.2 32bit. I need to compile the kernel with CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS enabled because of certain USB issues and vmware running a Windows guest. My current kernel is 2.16.18.8-0.1-default. My goal was to to compile a kernel with the CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS enabled and call it 2.6.18.

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer [getting OT]

2007-03-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-03-25 at 13:19 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > No, you throw them away when you see a hold up comming, so that they can't > > force you to give up the pin. For instance :-) > > The problem with that is that many times, all you nee

[opensuse] 10.2: charset/language difference between su and kdesu?

2007-03-25 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
Greetings. By default 10.2 is set up to use UTF-8. How do I get kdesu to obey this system standard? When I kdesu , the application starts with ISO-8859-1, diplaying my danish letters wrong. When, from a konsole, I su -c , the application starts with UTF-8, displaying my danish letters right.

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread kanenas
On Sunday 25 March 2007 00:03, Pascal Bleser wrote: > kanenas wrote: > ... > > > tried to install it in my x86-64 10.2, first i installed smart. > > then i asked it to install democracyplayer: > > apparently smart is told to look for the wrong version, it gives the > > following error: > > Run "sma

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 25 March 2007 12:53, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 18:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote: > > And in other parts of the world, no own would think of throwing away > > a credit card, even an expired one without cutting it up and > > disposing of the pieces in different places

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 18:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote: > And in other parts of the world, no own would think of throwing away > a credit card, even an expired one without cutting it up and > disposing of the pieces in different places. > > I

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kanenas wrote: ... > tried to install it in my x86-64 10.2, first i installed smart. > then i asked it to install democracyplayer: > apparently smart is told to look for the wrong version, it gives the > following > error: Run "smart update" first.

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread kanenas
On Saturday 24 March 2007 12:26, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Sunny wrote: > >> what are the chances for packages for 10.2? > > > > Ooops, I meant 10.0, sorry. > > Chances are 0 > It requires a very recent gnome-python package. > Actually, you must even upgrade gnome-python to the build that's in my > re