Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Should we evaluate Zimbra ? - a next-gen Mail Server

2007-05-12 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I think besides Zimbra and Kolab there is: Courier that is both email-server/email-client/HTTP server for emails. http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html I see no screenshots of it. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov - To

[opensuse-factory] 3M's src TWDrv.

2007-05-12 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, (No answer for the call for GPL and getting the driver in the official kernel...yet...) But as it is very dangerous, and also very difficullt, to use a mouse in a car..(while driving), i tried to build the suggested driver for 'specific'

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Should we evaluate Zimbra ? - a next-gen Mail Server

2007-05-12 Thread Richard Bos
Op Saturday 12 May 2007 11:41:28 schreef Alexey Eremenko: I think besides Zimbra and Kolab there is: Courier that is both email-server/email-client/HTTP server for emails. And?? Courier on its own does not provide a groupware solution, that is what zimbra and kolab do. If you like, it would

Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-12 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:32 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sat 12 May 2007 16:02:42 NZST +1200, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Isn't that just for commandline?, it would be nice to have an applet in KDE to add/delete the keys snip Hi list, Some time ago, i came across a very nice tutorial

Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans Witvliet wrote: [...] Some time ago, i came across a very nice tutorial (some hundred pages) how to build your own yast(2) applets, and the the main example that the SuSE-engineer was using, was the management of SSH !! AFAIR, from

[opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-12 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Here're the minutes from the last meeting, Andreas * dbus restart Restarting of d-bus needs special handling in every package, otherwise they might crash. Upstream d-bus maintainer currently say that d-bus should not get restarted. The long-term goal is that all applications and

[opensuse-factory] Audacity replacement

2007-05-12 Thread Juan Erbes
Audacity disapeared from the repositories; what audio editor is the replacement for Audacity? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: And the reason I am forwarding this as a last point to aj is that I am deeply concerned about the ongoings. Whenever I experienced situations like this they did not survive. With situations like this I explicitely mean people not listening and acting like

Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 16:32 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sat 12 May 2007 16:02:42 NZST +1200, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Isn't that just for commandline?, it would be nice to have an applet in KDE to add/delete the keys kgpg Note

Re: [opensuse-factory] Add to wishlist (SSH)

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 00:02 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Please, trim extra text from the emails. Hi, it would be nice to have an SSH Key Agent on KDE, like Ksshaskpass (http://hanz.nl/p/program). I make extensive use of Putty Pageant

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sun 13 May 2007 09:16:09 NZST +1200, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: 5. resist to understand that distributions needs to move on in every aspect. and that usually means that legacy software should be removed. Nice theory. In practice I think I understand what Stephan is talking about. Suppose

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Friday 11 May 2007 23:27, M Harris wrote: If the file system has problems then every system would display symptoms of those problems... under conditions that are (software remember) repeatable... reproduceable... and most importantly, fixable.  Where are the bug reports... ?  How

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread George Osvald
On Saturday 12 May 2007, M Harris wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 23:27, M Harris wrote: If the file system has problems then every system would display symptoms of those problems... under conditions that are (software remember) repeatable... reproduceable... and most importantly,

[opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Alexey Eremenko
hi all ! Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. The lazy number one is: marcio ferreira and Stefan Hundhammer link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264716 What's worse is that

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:14:25AM +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. The lazy number one is: marcio ferreira and Stefan Hundhammer link:

[opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread Anders Norrbring
How do I delete the entire contents of my LDAP database to then import the edited version via slapadd? If I use slapadd directly, it of course doesn't delete the entries that are in the LDAP but not in the ldif file. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-12 Thread jef peeraer
Jack Malone schreef: Hey taharka I will give them a look see. Thanks for info. hey jack, i have good experiences with supermicro motherboards, and they specify a compatibilty matrix. They have complete servers, or home grown. But indeed, if you want to be sure, and spend more money, a good

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 5/12/07, Richard Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provide updated/improved icons, so it is easy to patch. Did you read the bug report ? Look at the gray-background. The updated icons exist, but are not rendered correctly somehow... (In Yast) -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe,

[opensuse] kmail duplicating message

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Colvin
I have a perplexing problem. It seems to be since the last kde update from the build service for my opensuse10.2 kmail is duplicating mails. This is how it is doing it. I have an imap server where I collect all my incoming mail from (dovecot). The emails are delived through postfix to the

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Richard Bos
Op Saturday 12 May 2007 11:14:25 schreef Alexey Eremenko: What's worse is that they tell me something like: If you do that again I will formally ask a certain account of bugzilla to be canceled. How am I supposed it eat that as a community-member ? Provide updated/improved icons, so it is

Re: [opensuse] opensuse and problem of poland users

2007-05-12 Thread Jan Tiggy
George Osvald wrote: I came late to this thread so I appologize if I repeat something that was said before. What do you mean if they need ADSL support? I am running 5 computers all with SUSE on them and they are all connected to internet via ADSL. There is absolutely no problem with it.

Re: [opensuse] opensuse and problem of poland users

2007-05-12 Thread Alexey Eremenko
While I agree that buying ADSL Ethernet router is the way to go in most cases, I also believe that we need better support for ADSL and Cable Modems, among other technologies. Cable Modems in Israel usually use L2TP protocol which is patented and very problematic to support for Linux, but it must

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: No, there are problems with reiserfs.  I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable.  Since, I have moved to exf3 and have not lost data. Reiser crashed? It just up and crashed all by itself? Are you sure your machine

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. The lazy number one is: marcio ferreira and Stefan Hundhammer link:

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, M Harris wrote: hy don't you (suse) fix the problems??      So, Hans is in the slammer... its open source--- fix it!   (if its broke, that is). Exactly SO! This is one of the clearest demonstrations of the a FAILURE of open source. This free open source package with

Re: [opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread Petr Klíma
A bit hamfisted approach is to stop ldap server, delete contents of /var lib/ldap, start server, stop it once again (it will create empty database) and then import. Tosuja Anders Norrbring wrote: How do I delete the entire contents of my LDAP database to then import the edited version via

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 00:00 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: No, there are problems with reiserfs. I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable. Since, I have moved to exf3 and have not lost data. I will stand the

[opensuse] Bonding two network card

2007-05-12 Thread Jan Kalcic
Hi People, I configured bonding (mode=1 - active-backup) and it seems to work properly but there's on thing which maybe I'm missing. Two network cards are used, as far as I understood one is the master (eth0) and the other one (eth1) is the slave. Testing the job I found that when eth0 goes down

Re: [opensuse] kmail duplicating message

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Andrew Colvin wrote: What is happening is that the kmail move rule is happily making a copy of the email in the local folder but is not removing the message from the imap. Hence with every refresh it creates a new copy of the email in my local folder. Check your

Re: [opensuse] More display problems

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 12 May 2007 01:44:18 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-11-07 18:47]: then copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.save.0511 as root from a console in runlevel 3, run either: nvidia-xconfig or sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia and do as

Re: [opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Anders Norrbring wrote: Petr Klíma skrev: A bit hamfisted approach is to stop ldap server, delete contents of /var lib/ldap, start server, stop it once again (it will create empty database) and then import. Tosuja Anders Norrbring wrote: How do I delete

Re: [opensuse] Build Service Index or Search?

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-11-07 20:41]: Since the Build Service has become such a wealth of packages, is there any way to search for a package there? I realize there is individual indexes for a particular version for adding as a

[opensuse] Re: Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
hi all ! Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? Your bug can be perfectly valid, but is a minor issue that will dissapear soon. They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. The lazy number one is: marcio ferreira and Stefan Hundhammer

Re: [opensuse] Maximum PC's article and shot about Linux gaming

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, Pueblo Native wrote: i thought that this was a rather unfair and inaccurate shot about Linux gaming. Maybe it's just that my definition of limited is, well, limited, but when you get around 100 games (arcade, strategy, board, card, etc), Computer Games and Computer

Re: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, steve reilly wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 14:47, Jack Malone wrote: I'm in the market for a new server for work here. I'm looking for some company that builds server class machines that are pretty much certified to run suse linux either version (enterprise or

Re: [opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread Petr Klíma
Back up the dir and try. If there's *CONFIG* file, don't delete it... I've done that myself several times. Tosuja Anders Norrbring wrote: Petr Klíma skrev: A bit hamfisted approach is to stop ldap server, delete contents of /var lib/ldap, start server, stop it once again (it will create empty

Re: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, taharka wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:55 -0500, Jack Malone wrote: Hey taharka I will give them a look see. Thanks for info. Please do, they'll appreciate your business go the extra mile for you. Bear in mind, I'm slightly biased towards them, as they're located in

Re: [opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread Anders Norrbring
Petr Klíma skrev: A bit hamfisted approach is to stop ldap server, delete contents of /var lib/ldap, start server, stop it once again (it will create empty database) and then import. Tosuja Anders Norrbring wrote: How do I delete the entire contents of my LDAP database to then import the

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Vince L
On Saturday 12 May 2007 10:46, Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 5/12/07, Richard Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provide updated/improved icons, so it is easy to patch. Did you read the bug report ? Look at the gray-background. The updated icons exist, but are not rendered correctly somehow... (In

[opensuse] Video editing with Cinelerra Kino

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Williams
I am using Kino to capture my miniDV movies, and would like to use Cinelerra for the editing, but it runs pig slow even though I've recently upgraded my graphics card to nvidia 7600 and got direct rendering working. Having read Rob Fisher's http://www.robfisher.net excellent guides I understand

Re: [opensuse] Build Service Index or Search?

2007-05-12 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 12 May 2007 06:16, John Andersen wrote: Why would anyone know about that? And why isn't it on the build service or at least hosted at opensuse? Look for this threads: [opensuse-project] Add/Remove Programs idea [opensuse-project] Community Meeting: Package Manager Redesign on

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Sorin Peste
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 5/12/07, Richard Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Provide updated/improved icons, so it is easy to patch. Did you read the bug report ? Look at the gray-background. The updated icons exist, but are not rendered correctly somehow... (In Yast) Like somebody commented, it

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 00:25]: On Friday 11 May 2007 23:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote: No, there are problems with reiserfs.  I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable. I have several questions for you: I will answer as best I recall.

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 06:18]: On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: No, there are problems with reiserfs.  I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable.  Since, I have moved to exf3 and have not lost data. Reiser crashed? It just

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 06:29]: [...] And I have lost data on an ext3 partition. And on another with XFS. And with reiserfs. So? I've even had an 8 floppy fail :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org

Re: [opensuse] Build Service Index or Search?

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 07:16]: On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/ Why would anyone know about that? And why isn't it on the build service or at least hosted at opensuse? I run into the same problem often. Google

Re: [opensuse] How can I disable xgl-compiz from CLI (solved)

2007-05-12 Thread Art Fore
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 20:43 +0800, Art Fore wrote: Done an upgrade to xgl and compiz, now all I get is a white screen. I an rotate the cube etc, in either gnome or kde, but everything is white. This dis work before the upgrade, so guess I messed up something. Is there a way to disable the

Re: [opensuse] More display problems

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 07:11]: Thank you and good morning. A combination of your magic incantations and reinstalling the nvidia drivers via Yast did the trick. good :^) BTW, Patrick, if you make your signature separator dash dash space as opposed to just dash dash,

[opensuse] How can I disable xgl-compiz from CLI

2007-05-12 Thread Art Fore
Done an upgrade to xgl and compiz, now all I get is a white screen. I an rotate the cube etc, in either gnome or kde, but everything is white. This dis work before the upgrade, so guess I messed up something. Is there a way to disable the xgl from the command line and if so, how? Art -- To

RE: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-12 Thread Jack Malone
On Friday 11 May 2007, taharka wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:55 -0500, Jack Malone wrote: Hey taharka I will give them a look see. Thanks for info. Please do, they'll appreciate your business go the extra mile for you. Bear in mind, I'm slightly biased towards them, as they're located in

RE: [opensuse] Linux server company info

2007-05-12 Thread Jack Malone
On Friday 11 May 2007, steve reilly wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 14:47, Jack Malone wrote: I'm in the market for a new server for work here. I'm looking for some company that builds server class machines that are pretty much certified to run suse linux either version (enterprise or

Re: [opensuse] Maximum PC's article and shot about Linux gaming

2007-05-12 Thread Pueblo Native
John Andersen wrote: What Maximum PC was talking about were multi-player, internet based games like Doom, Quake, Hexen, Unreal Tournament, and several dozen others (I'm dating myself here) where you are competing with other players all over the world in real time across the internet. That

Re: [opensuse] kmail duplicating message

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Colvin
On Saturday 12 May 2007 12:05:30 John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007, Andrew Colvin wrote: What is happening is that the kmail move rule is happily making a copy of the email in the local folder but is not removing the message from the imap. Hence with every refresh it creates

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Stephan Binner
On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:32:42 Marcus Meissner wrote: What's worse is that they tell me something like: If you do that again I will formally ask a certain account of bugzilla to be How am I supposed it eat that as a community-member ? Stefan has quite a huge number of incoming bugs and

[opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread Jim Flanagan
This is an updated post on problem getting the new ATI driver to work. I can get to KDE, but there are things still broken. What I've done so far: 1. Installed the new ATI driver rpm (v. 8.35.5) thru YAST sources, got black screen, uninstalled. 2. Followed instructions at

Re: [opensuse] Build Service Index or Search?

2007-05-12 Thread Stephan Binner
On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:16:02 John Andersen wrote: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/ Why would anyone know about that? And why isn't it on the build service or It was linked from http://software.opensuse.org for a long time until the service had a temporary problem and the link

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 08:13 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: And I have lost data on an ext3 partition. And on another with XFS. And with reiserfs. So? I've even had an 8 floppy fail :^) And I have dozens of tea saucers with a hole

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 02:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: No, there are problems with reiserfs.  I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable.  Since, I have moved to

[opensuse] LVM usage wrong

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have an LVM consisting of 3 300GB SATA drives reporting the wrong usage info... FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/system-Data 839G -64Z 872G 101% /data I can access the volume with no problem and all its files and folders, but

[opensuse] kde keyboard problem

2007-05-12 Thread jdd
I had a curious problem with my keyboard, related to Kde (openSUSE 10.1) I know it's Kde, because I could fixit :-), but not on a convenient way. Suddenly, my keyboard stopped working- mouse was OK, so I could go out, even reboot, with no change. after some tweaks, it turned back partially,

Re: [opensuse] list mail

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:41 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2007-05-10 18:09, James D. Parra wrote: Is the mail list having problems? I am not seeing my posts. Thank you, James It arrived here.. I seem to be having the same problem. Looks like the your getting bit by the

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Druid
This is not different from the previous bugzilla abuses where one-closes-bug-other-reopens-countless-times that happened a lot and usually ends with the bug being set private... Its an abuse what you did, and I mean exaclty what Ive wrote, that if you kept re-opening and making people waste

Re: [opensuse] Re: Yast Update

2007-05-12 Thread Susemail
On Friday 11 May 2007 13:02, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Susemail wrote: myhome:~ # grubonce 0: XEN -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3 1: openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3 2: Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3 3: openSUSE 10.2 4: Floppy 5: Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 Using openSUSE 10.2

Re: [opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread Jim Flanagan
Jim Flanagan wrote: This is an updated post on problem getting the new ATI driver to work. I can get to KDE, but there are things still broken. Running glxinfo returns the following message, glxinfo: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce Another issue

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 05:14, Alexey Eremenko wrote: Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. lazy is unfair and exaggerated. Every version of Suse since I started with 8.0 has had

Re: [opensuse] Delete the LDAP database?

2007-05-12 Thread Petr Klíma
John Andersen wrote: I hope you aren't running SLES. It uses LDAP for lots and lots of stuff, and deleting the database may leave you with a system that is more than a little hozed... Well, SLES (as well as other distros) use LDAP only where you set it. I don't see a problem being within

Re: [opensuse] fatal error in chmod-ing on root partition /

2007-05-12 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 11 May 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: Now, we have to get those modes into something we can use... Let me see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm -q -a --queryformat %{FILEMODES:octal}\t%{DIRNAMES}%{BASENAMES}\n 40755 /usr 40755 /etc/udev 40755 /usr/share/latex2html 100644

[opensuse] Palm Pilot problems

2007-05-12 Thread ka1ifq
I borrowed a Palm Pilot to use. I can't seem to get it to connect to my computer at all. I am not too familiar with these at all so please bear with me. The back of the unit says Palm TX, I have the usb cable for it. It can also connect via wireless, and I have actually done

Re: [opensuse] [OT] - Australian extradited to US to stand trial

2007-05-12 Thread James Knott
Damon Register wrote: M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 18:08, George Osvald wrote: I bought a new fridge yesterday. Anybody cares to discuss? Is it one of those smart fridges with an embedded linux server? Is that the one that makes ice cream? I remember reading about an ice

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
Private message sent to a bug author - mine was a dupe. It was been partially edited for understandable reasons Scott OMG its morning 08:08 GMT+10 Quote With respect to the above bug, I also raised the same issue after I installed 10.2 when it was first installed by me and my bug was duped as

Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
I have raised a bug because the current system back in yast only offers an incremental backup - so if you loose the first achieve your stuffed. The reply came back and described it as a Hugh code re-write within Yast and it was just a font end based on ---I forgot: I suggested that the new front

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 06:29]: [...] And I have lost data on an ext3 partition. And on another with XFS. And with reiserfs. So? I've even had an 8 floppy fail :^) And I've had punch cards and paper tape get chewed up. Also,

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread riccardo35
On Sat 12 May 2007 22:18, James Knott wrote: Also, anyone who's used audio cassettes for data storage can tell you about failures!   ;-) TRS-80 days . . . probs with wobbly plugs! . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Registration Account wrote: but for what its worth, just getting this very small, but significant bug fixed has been a huge effort on your behalf, lest a battle and I thank you for making the software just a little better. very small, but significant bug Background

[opensuse] RE: Native Distro does not include your Laser Printer Model - what do you do first?

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
Just about every Laser printer in the Market, and NOTHING to do with brand/Model, will either has a PCL or Postscript emulation. Printer Control Language is propriety (PCL) to HP. There are a few exception, notably a small release of cannon laser printer which were released with their

[opensuse] Project launch: openSUSE Software Portal / Application Manager

2007-05-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (sorry for the somewhat exhaustive list of recipients, just trying to spread the word and hunt for participants) We had our kickoff openSUSE Software Portal project meeting today. The goals are to provide the best possible end-user experience with

Re: [opensuse] fatal error in chmod-ing on root partition /

2007-05-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 22:32 +0200, David Haller wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: Now, we have to get those modes into something we can use... Let me see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm -q -a --queryformat

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
If anything this bug should just have been changed to an enhancement - Major reason functionality was not effected. This would have been a far more productive exercise. If I log a serious bug and some one closes it wontfix, and after considering the impact of a fault in functionality I am happy

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
My guess is that those on the SUSE payroll have a portion of their job performance officially measured by how many bugs assigned to them remain open and how long they stay open while assigned to them, which would make it in their own personal best interest to get rid of them as quickly as possible

[opensuse] Changes in .RPM files - Their Technical Future - Personal issue.

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
Does anyone know what is contained the the last byte of an RPM update file. Hey you say.What the hell ?? I ask this question because in version 10.0.-10.1 I did not need to include an exemption from application gateway Layer inspection done by my IDS02. It is an easy thing to place exemptions in

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Registration Account wrote: The concept of quality in creation and testing of new code they produce myself is in my opinion - extremely poor, If you had to restate that into meaningful english, how would you rephrase it? In other words: What in the hell did you mean?

Re: [opensuse] Palm Pilot problems

2007-05-12 Thread ka1ifq
On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:07, ka1ifq wrote: I borrowed a Palm Pilot to use. I can't seem to get it to connect to my computer at all. I am not too familiar with these at all so please bear with me. The back of the unit says Palm TX, I have the usb cable for it. It can also connect via

Re: [opensuse] LVM usage wrong

2007-05-12 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an LVM consisting of 3 300GB SATA drives reporting the wrong usage info... FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/system-Data 839G -64Z 872G 101% /data I can access the volume with no problem and all its

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Felix Miata wrote: My guess is that those on the SUSE payroll have a portion of their job performance officially measured by how many bugs assigned to them remain open and how long they stay open while assigned to them, which would make it in their own personal best interest to get rid of them

Re: [opensuse] Palm Pilot problems

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* ka1ifq [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 21:35]: Ok, I did a couple hrs of googling and reading and have found the error of my ways. Well, be sure not to tell any secrets. We wouldn't want anyone else to be able to connect to their Psalm Pylots. Must remember that this forum is for bragging

[opensuse] looking for Mplayer

2007-05-12 Thread William Biggs
I looking for Mplayer for 10.2 and the dvd iso of 10.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Palm Pilot problems

2007-05-12 Thread ka1ifq
On Saturday 12 May 2007 22:10, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * ka1ifq [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-12-07 21:35]: Ok, I did a couple hrs of googling and reading and have found the error of my ways. Well, be sure not to tell any secrets. We wouldn't want anyone else to be able to connect to their Psalm

Re: [opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 12 May 2007 08:57, Jim Flanagan wrote: At this point I'd like to get back to my original defalult KDE/xorg install. I will try the ATI driver agian later, but for now I'd like to get back to the original install. How do I do this? This is really easy... ... put the

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 20:51, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Felix Miata wrote: My guess is that those on the SUSE payroll have a portion of their job performance officially measured by how many bugs assigned to them remain open and how long they stay open while assigned to them, which would make it

Re: [opensuse] looking for Mplayer

2007-05-12 Thread steve reilly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 May 2007 22:16, William Biggs wrote: I looking for Mplayer for 10.2 and the dvd iso of 10.2 youll find everything you need in this guide. http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/ - -- powered by OPENSuSE 10.2 athlon

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 12 May 2007 07:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote: You make valid points and ask good questions, then you go bonkers as if your meds gave way.  I suppose you also debate with an ak47. heh... no... sorry No, we is the USA use the M16 to settle our debates... its a little bulkier,

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 12 May 2007 19:38, John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007, Registration Account wrote: The concept of quality in creation and testing of new code they produce myself is in my opinion - extremely poor, If you had to restate that into meaningful english, how would you

Re: [opensuse] RE: Suitable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 12 May 2007 02:14, George Osvald wrote: If I could compare that experience with anything then I would probably mention my experience with MAXTOR drives (or superdrives). They were supposed to be superior,best, fastest and all that advertising rubbish. Yes. The folks at

Re: [opensuse] looking for Mplayer

2007-05-12 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:16 -0400, William Biggs wrote: I looking for Mplayer for 10.2 and the dvd iso of 10.2 If you mean the dvd iso for the dvd in the retail box you will never find it. If you mean the openSUSE dvd you will find it here:

Re: [opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread Jim Flanagan
M Harris wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 08:57, Jim Flanagan wrote: At this point I'd like to get back to my original defalult KDE/xorg install. I will try the ATI driver agian later, but for now I'd like to get back to the original install. How do I do this? This is really

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
Without Prejudice:- I trust we all utilise and share our experiences here and without mentioning OT discussions, we are all after the one thing Technical Excellence. We are discussing technical issues here and a statement, as mention Specs on paper and superior technology are not always the

Re: [opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 12 May 2007 08:57, Jim Flanagan wrote: Running openSUSE 10.2, radeon 9800 pro. Thanks for any assistance. ... and another thing... ... did you try running aticonfig --initial ?? The instructions change for suse 10.2 and on... previous to 10.2

Re: [opensuse] ATI driver problems - continued

2007-05-12 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 12 May 2007 22:25, Jim Flanagan wrote: I have not tried your last method yet. Tha ~install file is in /etc/X11/. Why would I use ln instead of just cp xorg.config.install xorg.config? Sorry... forgot to tell you... ... I have several xorg.conf files... like this:

[opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-12 Thread Registration Account
Given the choice when getting a new PC would you choose Intel Core 2 duo or AMD Athlon 64bit x 2 CPU With 1000 and 1 benchmarks and both are similar cost to me - can you help. Please don't go anywhere outside the CPU - I can do all the limiting factors of different I/O subsystems. On the other

Re: [opensuse] RE Processors

2007-05-12 Thread Ken Jennings
On Saturday 2007-05-12 23:40, Registration Account wrote: Given the choice when getting a new PC would you choose Intel Core 2 duo or AMD Athlon 64bit x 2 CPU With 1000 and 1 benchmarks and both are similar cost to me - can you help. Please don't go anywhere outside the CPU - I can do all the

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