Re: [opensuse] Always mount a USB drive with NTFS-3G?

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Chee How Chua wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 6:15 AM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just as long as you make sure that /media/WD_Passport exists, you're set. oh, and why do I use volume label, rather then the unique device ID? Because with a volume label, you can replace the device without h

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Stan Goodman wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote: Stan Goodman wrote: I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as generic icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more intuitive icons for these. How must I go about replacing one for the othe

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
James Knott wrote: Stan Goodman wrote: I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as generic icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more intuitive icons for these. How must I go about replacing one for the other? Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the

Re: [opensuse] KDE 4.0

2008-01-20 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:28:22 pm Fred A. Miller wrote: > I ran the live CD from openSUSE and KDE 4.0 is coming along nicely, but > I noticed it's not as configurable as previous releases.no personal > settings as before that, IMHO, should be there. I also couldn't find a > "hide" feature f

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:35:31PM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi Greg KH, > >What specific problems with "backward-compatibility" do you see on Linux > today? Where are you having problems that you see needs to be solved. > Specifics please. > > I'm happy that one of the best is listening :)

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
PerfectReign wrote: > Heh - I know. I've got the young generation learning the ways of > TuxRacer, X-Moto and L-Breakout. > > http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/51 That's cool, expose them while they are young! I turned my kids on to linux when they were young - My oldest son, an anthropology

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED)

2008-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: --- Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. An update could be the culprit. I noti

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 5:08 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: >> On Sun, January 20, 2008 3:16 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: >>> PerfectReign wrote: >>> I actually see the end of Linux games here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 >>> >>> hmm, OK, so mickeysoft is c

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21 (SOLVED)

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:29:11 EST Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 8<-- snip -->8 Have

[opensuse] KDE 4.0

2008-01-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
I ran the live CD from openSUSE and KDE 4.0 is coming along nicely, but I noticed it's not as configurable as previous releases.no personal settings as before that, IMHO, should be there. I also couldn't find a "hide" feature for the taskbar. For those who use 'Bloze and might want to take a ga

Re: [opensuse] MySQL 5 rpms for SuSE 9.3?

2008-01-20 Thread Jonathan Ervine
On Monday 21 January 2008 10:42:51 Ciro Iriarte wrote: > 2008/1/20, Jonathan Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Saturday 19 January 2008 09:22:35 Ciro Iriarte wrote: > > > 2008/1/17, Jonathan Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:49:07 Michal Marek wrote: > > > > > Kev

Re: [opensuse] Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-20 Thread Jonathan Ervine
On Monday 21 January 2008 06:23:48 Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: > > Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > > Since I have to use MS Office every > > > now and then I would consider to run alternatively > > > Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now

Re: [opensuse] MySQL 5 rpms for SuSE 9.3?

2008-01-20 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2008/1/20, Jonathan Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 19 January 2008 09:22:35 Ciro Iriarte wrote: > > 2008/1/17, Jonathan Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:49:07 Michal Marek wrote: > > > > Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know where I can get mysql

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-20 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Sloan wrote: | John B Pace wrote: |> You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to |> know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an |> extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in eac

Re: [opensuse] MySQL 5 rpms for SuSE 9.3?

2008-01-20 Thread Jonathan Ervine
On Saturday 19 January 2008 09:22:35 Ciro Iriarte wrote: > 2008/1/17, Jonathan Ervine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:49:07 Michal Marek wrote: > > > Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > > Does anyone know where I can get mysql version 5 for SuSE 9.3? > > > > > Packages for SLES9 shou

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
John B Pace wrote: > You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to > know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an > extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I > have found it impossible to install a tarball.Thanks! John

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: > You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to > know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an > extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I > have found it impossible to install a tarball.Thanks! John

[opensuse] Re: [users] How did I get this OpenOffice program?

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John Shelton wrote: > I was not aware of the revised tutorial that was published in mid 2007 > that indeed does have at least a chapter devoted to Math. I guess I > had more or less given up by then. I have been to several OOo user > group forums and have not found the information that I need on

[opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-20 Thread John B Pace
You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I have found it impossible to install a tarball.Thanks! John -- To unsubscribe, e-mai

[opensuse] Re: [users] How did I get this OpenOffice program?

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John Shelton wrote: > I am here because I would like to find out that most of my problems > with Open Office are related to the learning process and perhaps not > the fault of the program itself. Regardless of the problem, I am > finding it very difficult to "do things" with Open Office that I am

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
PerfectReign wrote: > On Sun, January 20, 2008 3:16 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: >> PerfectReign wrote: >> >>> I actually see the end of Linux games here... >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 >> >> hmm, OK, so mickeysoft is changing one of their APIs yet again... and >> that relates to

Re: [opensuse] Latest xorg update is problematic

2008-01-20 Thread Mike
On Sunday 20 January 2008, Georg wrote: > Hello, > > > Since installing the latest xorg updates for OpenSuSE 10.2, some > > applications fail to start. One example I was able to verify is eclipse > > (ver. 3.2). Here is the error message: > > > > Is anyone here aware of this issue ? > > similar pro

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 3:16 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: > >> I actually see the end of Linux games here... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 > > > hmm, OK, so mickeysoft is changing one of their APIs yet again... and > that relates to linux games how? I'm just

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux (was: Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Kevin Dupuy
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:16 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > >From my own point of view, the lack of support for peripherals is one of > the biggest problems for Linux. Yes, I know that the source codes are > not available, and I'm not a real programmer myself, but some of this > stuff could be r

Re: [opensuse] Always mount a USB drive with NTFS-3G?

2008-01-20 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 20, 2008 6:15 AM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just as long as you make sure that /media/WD_Passport > exists, you're set. > > oh, and why do I use volume label, rather then the > unique device ID? Because with a volume label, you > can replace the device without having to ch

Re: [opensuse] Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-20 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 15:23 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: > > Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > > Since I have to use MS Office every > > > now and then I would consider to run alternatively > > > Windows and SuSE through WMware. No

Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4

2008-01-20 Thread Jim Sabatke
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 01/20/2008 02:29 PM, Joseph Loo wrote: >> I am worried about the dependencies. If I un-install the program it >> impacts sane, etc. I need to know what impacts on the other programs >> otherwise, i may need to re-install a series of programs. >> > I installed the pac

[opensuse] Connecting a Bluetooth Mouse to 10.3 why is it so hard?

2008-01-20 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
Got a new Dell Latitude D630 this week computer complete with 4 GB of ram, 160 GB SATA drive, DVD burner and a Dell Bluetooth Mouse. I wiped out that other OS and did a fresh install of OpenSUSE 10.3. After much angst I have finally gotten the Bluetooth mouse mostly working with OpenSUSE 10.3.

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
PerfectReign wrote: > I actually see the end of Linux games here... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 hmm, OK, so mickeysoft is changing one of their APIs yet again... and that relates to linux games how? > ...though I could care less about such things, apparently the DirectX

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote: What Sandy said was that it isn't doable at all. As I understood even not with FILTER. NOT WITHOUT SEPARATE INSTANCES. If you set up separate instances it would work. Ok, but that would mean that I have to set up at least 4 instances. And I have no idea right now what a

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux (was: Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 20 January 2008 06:06, Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > > From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) > > > > Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know > > when to give up. ;) > > You wanted to but were kin

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 12:21 pm, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility > (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work > 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can > be played within ~10-15

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: --- Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. An update could be the culprit. I noticed

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
> > What Sandy said was that it isn't doable at all. As I understood even > > not with FILTER. > > NOT WITHOUT SEPARATE INSTANCES. If you set up separate instances it would > work. > Ok, but that would mean that I have to set up at least 4 instances. And I have no idea right now what about the co

Re: [opensuse] Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-20 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: > Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > Since I have to use MS Office every > > now and then I would consider to run alternatively > > Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office > > through CrossOveR. > > Is WMware stable and reli

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread Maura Edelweiss Monville
--- Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked > > fine up to the night before. I turned off the > computer > > in the end of my working session. > An update could be the culprit. I noticed that my laptop is

[opensuse] Apache, PHP works but the PHP extensions don't

2008-01-20 Thread David L. Martin
PHP functions normally from the command line, but is missing features when running from Apache Both tests use this code (hello_gd.php): php ./hello_gd.php => Dumps the expected diagnostics out to the terminal. When I do this: firefox http://localhost/~dlmarti/hello_gd.php => I get a blank s

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi Greg KH, >What specific problems with "backward-compatibility" do you see on Linux today? Where are you having problems that you see needs to be solved. Specifics please. I'm happy that one of the best is listening :) OK: my own experience: I took tuxracer.RPM from Mandrake Linux 9.2 to Mandr

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote: So then you're back to Sandys suggestion of using check_sender_access with FILTER results, but judging by his research, it doesn't seem possible after all. I would have never thought that. It seems that it was possible until postfix 2.2 using sender_based_routing. What San

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
> So then you're back to Sandys suggestion of using check_sender_access > with FILTER results, but judging by his research, it doesn't seem > possible after all. I would have never thought that. It seems that it was possible until postfix 2.2 using sender_based_routing. What Sandy said was that i

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Joe Sloan wrote: The real issue IMHO is the elephant in the room that nobody seems to have noticed: The frantic efforts of an extremely wealthy monopoly, bent on fighting linux adoption at every turn, and using their seemingly endless budget to that end. Is this so hard to see? Joe, i mentioned

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility > (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work > 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can > be played within ~10-15 year compatibility range. That is:

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:21:15PM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility > (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work > 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can > be played within

[opensuse] Where to define environment variables for Gnome?

2008-01-20 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
Was: "LANG wrong on Gnome" I didn't get any response, so I try it again with another headline: After installation of Suse 10.3 everything worked well, but from one day on I have been getting frequently the following error message: Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

Re: [opensuse] Gimp and Firefox

2008-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-18 at 21:24 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote: Also, if gimp is running and I restart firefox, the tabs that were there before the crash appear, but never load; they just sit there like they're waiting for something to happen (like gimp

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can be played within ~10-15 year compatibility range. That is: Windows 95 games still mostly w

Re: [opensuse] Gimp and Firefox

2008-01-20 Thread Jason Craig
Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:22 +0100, peter wrote: > > >> Consider what would happen to Apple sells if Adobe would perform such a >> port. >> > > To be frank, I'd say it wont do much. My observations tell me that most > Apple users in the arts and ad business have no i

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Sloan
David wrote: > I only pop over > to the XP side to play games. It always strikes me as odd when I hear people say how 'bloze is so great for games. There is one thing in ms favor, and that is the availability of game titles, due to their large, long term market share. But that's not to say that

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: >> It returns the described error: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Host or domain name not found. Name service >> error for name=smtp155 type=: Host found but no data record >> of requested type > > This looks to me as if postfix is trying to lookup an IPV6 address > for 'sm

Re: [opensuse] Phenom and opensuse

2008-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Yoriaki FUJIMORI wrote: Dear listers, (3) OpenSUSE 10.2 No problem. But, the benchmark showed the half speed of the CPU. On the window executing top, the cpu load level of all 4 cores showed 50%. So, the recent kernel 2.6.18 does not know Phenom. (4) OpenSUSE 10.3 I had got a lot of trouble in

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Per Jessen
Johannes Nohl wrote: > master.cf: > > smtp unix - - n - - smtp > # ^ first IP for all except example.com > # bind second IP for example.com > smtp155 unix - - n - - smtp > -o smtp_bind_address=xx.xx.xx.155 Looks good. > m

Re: [opensuse] BASH .bashrc su question

2008-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
Chee How Chua wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 5:17 PM, Marcin Floryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With screen you can easily attach and detach from the session and continue it being connected remotely so it is easy to start some task in the terminal window on my machine and the continue when I am away. Sc

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote: More from my master.cf. I've integrated amavisd-new. Maybe this is disturbing the rest?? # hand over an spam / virus filter amavisfeed unix - - n - 2 lmtp -o lmtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o lmtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o disable_dn

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
More from my master.cf. I've integrated amavisd-new. Maybe this is disturbing the rest?? # hand over an spam / virus filter amavisfeed unix - - n - 2 lmtp -o lmtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o lmtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o disable_dns_lookups=yes -o ma

Re: [opensuse] Latest xorg update is problematic

2008-01-20 Thread Georg
Hello, Since installing the latest xorg updates for OpenSuSE 10.2, some applications fail to start. One example I was able to verify is eclipse (ver. 3.2). Here is the error message: Is anyone here aware of this issue ? similar problem here: since this update IceWM icons and renderings arou

Re: [opensuse] KDE 4 opensuse repo?

2008-01-20 Thread CF
Chris Arnold wrote: > I want to install 10.3 on a test drive and during that install of 10.3, > install kde4 from opensuse repo. I look through KDE on opensuse and see > KDE Backports > KDE Core Packages > KDE Community > KDE Playground > KDE 4 > > Which one do i use to get stable KDE4? Or do yo

Re: [opensuse] I can't hear nothing using front plugs

2008-01-20 Thread CF
Manuel Mely wrote: > Well, i installed alsa 1.0.15, i can use the plugs that are back of > the chasis, but i would like to use the ones that are front of it. This may sound stupid, but did you already see if the front plugs are really connected to the motherboard? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
> dig example.com: > > ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> example.com > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18538 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;example.com. IN

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
Hello Sandy & Per, first I list my configuration, I work with IPv4: master.cf: smtp unix - - n - - smtp # ^ first IP for all except example.com # bind second IP for example.com smtp155 unix - - n - - smtp -o smtp_bind_addre

[opensuse] KDM login window not going into power save mode

2008-01-20 Thread Carlos F. Lange
I have a few 10.3 installations, but on only one of the machines, which has an NVidia GeForce 7300 LE, the KDM login window never goes black or to stand-by/power save mode. Since this is outside of the KDE environment, I don't know how to control it. I thought it had something to do with acpi a

Re: [opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:22:00 Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 09:56:27 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:05:27 James Knott wrote: > > ... > > > > I have never seen that behaviour. When I attempt to go to a bogus site, > > > both Firefox and Konqueror give an e

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Per Jessen
Johannes Nohl wrote: >> > I think you can use the 'sender_dependent_relayhost_maps' setting: >> > >> > @domain1.com smtp1: >> > @domain2.com smtp2: >> > > Hm, don't know. I'm not relaying I send directly to recipient. I tried > and mail returned with following error: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote: I think you can use the 'sender_dependent_relayhost_maps' setting: @domain1.com smtp1: @domain2.com smtp2: Hm, don't know. I'm not relaying I send directly to recipient. I tried and mail returned with following error: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Host or domain name not found

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread Richard
On Sun January 20 2008 9:17 am, James Knott wrote: > Richard wrote: > > I suspect that many might use it as I do, for all net and surfing time, > > some personal apps, eg gnucash. Still have to keep a copy of Win around > > as I coach swim teams and the software written to manage my team, keep > >

[opensuse] Virtualbox versus WMware (was: SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Since I have to use MS Office every now and then I would consider to run alternatively Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable and reliable ? Yes, others recommend VirtualBox though (free too). Or if it is just

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. An update could be the culprit. In short I had to reinstall SuSE 10.3 which fixed the problem. But the serious difficulty

Re: [opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 20 January 2008 09:56:27 am Stan Goodman wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:05:27 James Knott wrote: ... > > I have never seen that behaviour. When I attempt to go to a bogus site, > > both Firefox and Konqueror give an error message. ... > I do find it curious that the same behavior e

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: | problem. But the serious difficulty was to save three | directories where I have all my recent developments. I | thought through knoppix I could mount both the | internal and external hard drive and make copies. | Ap

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Richard wrote: > I suspect that many might use it as I do, for all net and surfing time, some > personal apps, eg gnucash. Still have to keep a copy of Win around as I > coach swim teams and the software written to manage my team, keep times, run > meets, manage financials, etc, all run only on

[opensuse] SuSE 10.3 troubles on my GamePC laptop

2008-01-20 Thread Maura Edelweiss Monville
About 2 months ago I replaced SuSE 9.3 with 10.3. Last Friday I turned on my laptop. To my dismay the screen was messed up... sort of divided into three areas with wrapped up boundaries. The pointer position in any of the 3 area was no more mapped to what actually was selected. Therefore by clickin

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
> > I think you can use the 'sender_dependent_relayhost_maps' setting: > > > > @domain1.com smtp1: > > @domain2.com smtp2: > Hm, don't know. I'm not relaying I send directly to recipient. I tried and mail returned with following error: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Host or domain name not found. Name

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Landau wrote: | Dave Barton wrote: |> From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |>> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) |> Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know |> when to give up. ;) | You wanted to but were ki

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux (was: Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Richard
On Sun January 20 2008 3:06 am, Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > > From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) > > > > Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know > > when to give up. ;) > > You wanted to but were kind

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Olaf Dabrunz
On 19-Jan-08, Dave Barton wrote: > OK, I believe I have tried just about every GRUB alternative option and > come up blank every time. In desperation, I used "fixmbr" from the XP CD > and deleted all partitions from the second drive. Started a totally clean > 10.3 install and accepted the defaul

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-18 at 09:48 +1100, Dave Barton wrote: I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no p

Re: [opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:05:27 James Knott wrote: > Stan Goodman wrote: > > In other OSes here, When Firefox is unable to find the URL entered in the > > navigation field, it says so (Error 404). And it is possible to enter > > into the the field a URL less top domain, e.g. "cnn", without "com"

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 20 January 2008 07:16, Stan Goodman wrote: > ... > > Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about > "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the > properties of the underlying file, not of the icon. In the past few > days I have been looking fo

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread Stan Goodman
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote: > Stan Goodman wrote: > > I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as generic > > icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more intuitive icons > > for these. How must I go about replacing one for the other? > > Ope

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Per Jessen wrote: I haven't tested this, but I'm pretty certain it should work. Well, I tried but it doesn't work. The left hand argument in transport is for receipt not for sender. I want to choose the smtp by sender. Hi Johannes, I think you can use the 'sender_dependent_relayhost_maps' se

Re: [opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: > In other OSes here, When Firefox is unable to find the URL entered in the > navigation field, it says so (Error 404). And it is possible to enter into > the the field a URL less top domain, e.g. "cnn", without "com" (at least for > the "com" case, if not others, and FF woul

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: >> From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) >> Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know >> when to give up. ;) > You wanted to but were kind enough to honour the efforts of list > member

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Per Jessen
Johannes Nohl wrote: >> Hi Johannes >> >> you set up the transports in master.cf: >> >> smtp2 unix - - n - - smtp >> -o smtp_bind_address=1.2.3.2 >> smtp3 unix - - n - - smtp >> -o smtp_bind_address=1.2.3.3 >> smtp4

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: > I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as generic icons. > I have much better icons, or can make, much more intuitive icons for these. > How > must I go about replacing one for the other? > Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-20 Thread David
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:02 -, Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But why is the percentage of surfers using Linux so small ? Is it mainly because of the games or are the shortcomings of Linux an important factor and which ones most ? Kind regards Philippe I'd say games, ye

Re: [opensuse] Advanced postfix question: IP and reverse DNS

2008-01-20 Thread Johannes Nohl
Dear Per and others! > > Thanks for your fast answer but I've never seen such a setup. How do I > > set smtpdomainX? All I've seen so far is one configuration for one > > server. How do I splitt it up? Is it inside main.cf? > > Hi Johannes > > you set up the transports in master.cf: > > smtp2

Re: [opensuse] A useful and fun .bashrc welcome screen

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:29 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 18:41:26 Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > The way to fight that is, when posting code which goes on > > for more than one line, put a \as the last character > > on the line (which effectively turns the carriage > > return

Re: [opensuse] A useful and fun .bashrc welcome screen

2008-01-20 Thread Rodney Baker
On Sunday 20 January 2008 18:41:26 Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Rodney Baker wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:41 David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Listmates, > >> > >>After finding some interesting information in the .bashrc tips at > >> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/17142.html, I adap

Re: [opensuse] Graphical representation of directory

2008-01-20 Thread Gryffus
Or you can just use konqueror's one. Open konqueror and switch to file size browser by long clicking on 3rd view switcher icon (the one with image browser)... Heh, sry for my bad english :-) Carl Spitzer napsal(a): How do I get a graphical representation of the directorys of /home/ I have a

[opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread Stan Goodman
In other OSes here, When Firefox is unable to find the URL entered in the navigation field, it says so (Error 404). And it is possible to enter into the the field a URL less top domain, e.g. "cnn", without "com" (at least for the "com" case, if not others, and FF would make the guess. That is n

Re: [opensuse] Encrypted file system: disable mount on boot.

2008-01-20 Thread nordi
Carlos E. R. wrote: > Use the noauto option where it is due: in '/etc/crypttab'. More info, > "man crypttab". Unfortunately, that does not work as expected. See bug #351061 [1] for more details and a workaround. Regards nordi [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351061 -- To unsubscr

Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

2008-01-20 Thread Sandy Drobic
Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote: Well, the case is exactly this one. I have a mail to fax gateway, but the fax jobs are sent always with the same user (the sendfax). What i want is that the fax job is sent each time with the user who really send the mai Now i have this line in the master.cf fax

[opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux (was: Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Philippe Landau
Dave Barton wrote: From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know when to give up. ;) You wanted to but were kind enough to honour the efforts of list members :-) Still no joy with Lilo ? Did

[opensuse] Re: Phenom and opensuse

2008-01-20 Thread Yoriaki FUJIMORI
It seems I got a reply(?) to my previous post. His follow contained nothing informative, but seems to be misleading, so I decided to add my comments. My previous post refered to rather kernel version and BIOS. This is why I plan to test opensuse 11.0 Alpha1. FC8 seems to have newer kernel than o

Re: [opensuse] Phenom and opensuse

2008-01-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Well, at work I have several Phenoms running Fedora 7, 64-bit as servers. No problems. Unfortunately my boss doesn't allows me to install openSUSE on those servers, but in general Linux works on Phenoms. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat 19 Jan 2008 08:21:16 EST You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know when to give up. ;) Still no joy with Lilo ? Kind regards Philippe

Re: [opensuse] Phenom and opensuse

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Yoriaki FUJIMORI wrote: Dear listers, Recently I got a black edition of Phenom 9600 with DFI's UT790FX-M2R. BIOS is Jan 3, beta. I tested several operating systems on it. (1) Fedora C. 8 Install went on rather smoothly, but the login window seemed to be messy. A lot of non fatal errors. So, I

Re: [opensuse] A useful and fun .bashrc welcome screen

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Rodney Baker wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:41 David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, After finding some interesting information in the .bashrc tips at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/17142.html, I adapted the welcome screen idea to capture useful system information on logi

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Stan Goodman wrote: I have on the desktop some Java programs which are > displayed as generic icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more > intuitive icons for these. How must I go about > replacing one for the other? What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows > or OS/2 ico

Re: [opensuse] Always mount a USB drive with NTFS-3G?

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Doctor Who wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 8:28 PM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-18 at 14:22 -0500, Doctor Who wrote: Thanks. I installed the package successfully, but I don't see how it helps to mount

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