Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha1 installation on PPC

2008-01-21 Thread Mohammed Omar
Hi all, I do Community Distro Testing at IBM. Basically I test OpenSuSe/Fedora releases (GA and development) on PPC Hardware. I want to know meeting time(online timings)of OpenSuSe developers and testers. If any body can share OpenSuSe Test Plan, that will be great. I need contacts of PPC Team.

[opensuse] BadAlloc in gtk programs

2008-01-21 Thread Michal Hlavac
Hello, some gtk programs e.g. eclipse, apache directory studio, amule, ... I get this error: The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 651 error_code 11 request_code 149 minor_code 5) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported

[opensuse] Re: Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
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 I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable

Re: [opensuse] BadAlloc in gtk programs

2008-01-21 Thread Michal Hlavac
Dňa Monday 21 January 2008 09:10:41 Michal Hlavac ste napísal: Hello, some gtk programs e.g. eclipse, apache directory studio, amule, ... I get this error: The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 651 error_code 11 request_code 149 minor_code 5)

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

2008-01-21 Thread Graham Lauder
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:19:17 James Knott wrote: 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. No-ones fault just the normal learning curve

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Stan Goodman
On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] Re: Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-21 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Eberhard Roloff wrote: 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 I run MS Office through

Re: [opensuse] BadAlloc in gtk programs

2008-01-21 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 21 January 2008 02:14:50 am Michal Hlavac wrote: Dňa Monday 21 January 2008 09:10:41 Michal Hlavac ste napísal: Hello, some gtk programs e.g. eclipse, apache directory studio, amule, ... I get this error: The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread peter nikolic
On Monday 21 January 2008, Stan Goodman wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] BadAlloc in gtk programs

2008-01-21 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:05:22AM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 02:14:50 am Michal Hlavac wrote: Dňa Monday 21 January 2008 09:10:41 Michal Hlavac ste napísal: Hello, some gtk programs e.g. eclipse, apache directory studio, amule, ... I get this error: The

Re: [opensuse] Update to Gimp 2.4

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 01/21/2008 07:29 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote: Do you know if that compiled version includes EXIF support? If I were to hand compile, configure would pick up my EXIF lib, but the package I got from the SuSE site doesn't seem to have EXIF enabled. I would assume so, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm

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

2008-01-21 Thread Marcin Floryan
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:06:02 -, Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to get over this, and since then I only pop over to the XP side to play games. I wonder if I hadn't had such a bad feeling about MS in general and I have yet another reason, the need to develop Windows software. It

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 kernel default vs. SMP

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:28 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Are you sure it is the SMP kernel and not the bigsmp one? There's no explicit SMP one anymore. The system is used in a road measurement vehicle, so they are not always handy. I got the

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 kernel default vs. SMP

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:02 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: The reason this came up was that I stopped worrying about supplying an -SMP version of a local device driver in our packages. Life was getting simple: only the -default kernel was needed.

Re: [opensuse] BadAlloc in gtk programs

2008-01-21 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 21 January 2008 03:19:07 am Marcus Meissner wrote: ... This is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345131 The workaround in comment #36 fixes problem temporarily. Section Extensions Option MIT-SHM no EndSection It is too late to test fixed xorg. -- Regards, Rajko --

Re: [opensuse] Mic not working with 10.3 64bit

2008-01-21 Thread Marcin Floryan
Hi! Check the Alsa web site. I believe that is a bug report there. Thanks, I didn't think to look there. Good hint. Unfortunately. The issue is being worked on so it seems. Should anyone else need a reference, some bug reports are available:

[opensuse] Odd video related issues

2008-01-21 Thread Clayton
I am trying to figure out if the video issues I am having are related to some odd thing about my new install of 10.3 or if my video card is dying. Some of the symptoms of the problem are: - MythTV running on an LCD TV as a second desktop can no longer autoscale the MythTV UI (after updating to

[opensuse] modems/providers and kinternet

2008-01-21 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello list users: I want to configure a modem on my openSUSE 10.3 system. This is a serial line external modem. I have no problem with adding the modem and configuring providers with YaST but I have the following issue: Whenever I add or remove a modem and/or provider it won't be reflected in

[opensuse] Help with jack

2008-01-21 Thread jpff
I have a small application I use for teaching that uses FLTK and audio, in particular portaudio. I attempted to rebuild just now with a small adjustment and I get the error messages g++ -O3 -g nFresp.cxx -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfltk -ldl -lm /usr/lib/libX11.a -lsndfile -lportaudio -ljack

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

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Ross
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Joe Sloan wrote: LOL, nobody has ever ported a game to opensuse, no need. Like I said, my quake 3 arena demo binary from 1999 has played just fine on every distro I've tried. Except that Quake III Arena (I have the limited edition metal box version from Loki) has no

Re: [opensuse] modems/providers and kinternet

2008-01-21 Thread Rodney Baker
On Monday 21 January 2008 21:21:38 Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello list users: I want to configure a modem on my openSUSE 10.3 system. This is a serial line external modem. I have no problem with adding the modem and configuring providers with YaST but I have the following issue: Whenever I add

[opensuse] openSUSE 10.3, XVideo and ATI ES1000 rev 2 515E

2008-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Hello all, I have always used the XVideo extension when showing images on Nvidia cards. Never a problem. I now have a system with an on-board ATI chip (ES1000 rev 2 515E) that is not acting as expected. The X server claims there is an XVideo extension, and I can access it as usual via X in a C

Re: [opensuse] Odd video related issues

2008-01-21 Thread Rodney Baker
On Monday 21 January 2008 21:15:28 Clayton wrote: I am trying to figure out if the video issues I am having are related to some odd thing about my new install of 10.3 or if my video card is dying. [...snip...] Do these things sound like nVidia driver and X config issues or a video card in

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
Chris Ross wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Joe Sloan wrote: LOL, nobody has ever ported a game to opensuse, no need. Like I said, my quake 3 arena demo binary from 1999 has played just fine on every distro I've tried. Except that Quake III Arena (I have the limited edition metal box

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
(This looks like a continuation of your previous post) Chris Ross wrote: So yes, you can play your old 1999 games if you keep an old 1999 Linux around to play them on. I do understand that if I were to install and maintain several parallel out-of-distribution old versions of glibc I could

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 kernel default vs. SMP

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 11:18 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I must be one of the few people on earth running a machine with a single, non smp, processor, so I usually recompile the kernel to suit. O:-) You should not see any performance

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was used to it on the left behind windows (Vista was it! No more microsoft!). One had to download a tarball to go with it or it wouldn't work. Don't ask what the name of the tarball. That was in the Fedora distro I tried for

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

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 08:12:31 pm you wrote: John Shelton wrote: I was not aware of the revised tutorial that was published in mid 2007 Please respond only to the mail list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not directly to me. -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Sloan schrieb: | 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

Re: [opensuse] Re: Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-21 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:11 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 07:18 -0500, John B Pace wrote: I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was That would be a binary. You have to read their instructions, then. This brings up another question. Does Suse

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

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Ross
Joe Sloan escreveu: There are more games available for 'bloze, no argument there. I'm trying to keep it on the topic Why don't more people use Linux?. It's not /just/ that there /more/ games for Windows, enough that my kids can find them in the high street and afford them with pocket money.

[opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and system maintenence processes

2008-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
When a 10.3 system is installed, by default some things are set up that will result in a daemon or some other agent occasionally waking up and getting very busy. These activities can impact other running applications. I am hoping to make a list of these so that I can (1) decide if I need them and

Re: [opensuse] Odd video related issues

2008-01-21 Thread Clayton
Did you do an online update after installing 10.3? How recently? I did a full update on the install which was done on 11 January. No updates have been applied since then. been discussion on the list over the last couple of days concerning the latest x.org update that has broken a number of

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and system maintenence processes

2008-01-21 Thread CyberOrg
On Jan 21, 2008 6:13 PM, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Not so big a list. But I know there are more of these. I would be happy if anyone who knows of another would add them to the list. ls /etc/cron.daily/* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
I keep an XP-Pro machine at home, specifically to connect to my workstations at the office, so I can remote desktop to them and work at home from time to time. I'd _really_ like to be able to retask that machine to a more useful (Linux) purpose. I already know that the KDE4 rdp client works

[opensuse] pptp vpn and windows

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Hochreiter
Hi! I am running a pptpd server with the require-mppe-128 optin and a loaded ppp_mppe kernel module. If I set the Dataencryption required in the Windows XP VPN Setup Dialog, I got an error the locale computer does not support the encryption type ... Could anyone help me? lg martin -- To

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

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
Chris Ross wrote: You've just proved my point really. It's that from my kids' point-of-view even if they do buy Linux games, with the penguin on the box and everything, they may or may not work. Whether it's old ones like Quake 3 or even new ones like Quake 4. I'm not arguing with you that

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
Thanks again, Joe and Peter and I think there's another fellow named Steve. I appreciate it and now that I know how to do them, I probably won't have to--which is fine by me. There's better things to be doing! Like checking out security issues on Suse next! John On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 13:22 +0100,

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 5:34 am, Jerry Houston wrote: Has anyone here successfully connected to a corporate NT domain using KVpnc? Other than providing the correct authentication info, did you need to change any of the other settings away from the defaults? In the two different vpn

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:28 am, Chris Ross wrote: Even the new Linux Quake 4 demo doesn't run on OpenSuSE 10.2 because the sound is all broken and horrible, let alone old bargain basement Windows games. I had teh same problem on 10.2 and 10.3 - no valid sounds coming from it. I even tried

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 10:26 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: 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

[opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably sticking my foot in my

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:52 am, Joe Sloan wrote: I fixed Q4 sound after a bit of googling, blue skies. I just don't like the game that much - ut2004 is more enjoyable IMHO. You mean, Unreal tournament? I've never heard of that. Will check it. I see they have a demo version... -- To

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 5:09 am, Jerry Houston wrote: I'm an enthusiastic Linux user, and in fact, have been somewhat of an evangelist about it at times. However, I earn a six-figure income ($US) working all day with computers running Windows. Just because we use and enjoy one doesn't

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
PerfectReign wrote: What's your Wintendo VPN client? Thanks for your reply. On the XP machine, it's part of the OS, rather than a separate utility. In the Network Connections dialog, it's just one of the options for creating a new connection. You select the radio button marked Connect to

Re: [opensuse] postfix master.cf question

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos Lorenzo Matés
Hi. El Domingo, 20 de Enero de 2008, Sandy Drobic escribió: 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

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
Well, I went to the clamav website and it was as Carlos said. If it protects email, is it used in a server that ultimately comes to my email. And as my wife uses Windows XP and I am connected to her via wireless, do I need to be using this antivirus program? Have a good day! John On Mon,

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Mon January 21 2008 07:03:10 Jerry Houston wrote: PerfectReign wrote: What's your Wintendo VPN client? Thanks for your reply. On the XP machine, it's part of the OS, rather than a separate utility. In the Network Connections dialog, it's just one of the options for creating a new

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Stan Goodman wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread Clayton
So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably sticking my foot in

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Clayton
client. In both cases, I was/am connecting to a cisco vpn and seem to only be able to use the cisco vpn client. Kvpnc didn't - for some reason - want to pull in my .pcf file or run my profile. Keep in mind, I have a RSA SecureID card which changes my password every 60 seconds. I cannot

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread John ffitch
I have been using ClamAV in my mail server system for years and am very happy with it. I too have a couple of Windows machines inside the firewall/mailer so it seems a good idea. I also have spamassassin and exim to add to the mix. For these critical packages I build from source. ==John ff

Re: [opensuse] Re: Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-21 Thread Sunny
On Jan 21, 2008 2:35 AM, Erik Jakobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: However, For the quick check whether my documents will look ok with MS, I use wine and the Microsoft Office Viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Wher are they to be found for free ?. The Word

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

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
PerfectReign wrote: By the way - on the corporate note. I just put my first openSUSE server box into production. It is a small app server running apache for a LAMP based software inventory program, but it is a start. Congratulations! Options are good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Michal Vyskocil
Hi all, as you probably know, there were many problems with java updates in the past. It was an unlucky combination of my fault in spec and a bug in update-alternatives, which breaks the /etc/alternatives symlinks. Because Sun released the new update of Java, I'd like to do some tests. The

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation voila: Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties Examining

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread peter nikolic
On Monday 21 January 2008, John B Pace wrote: Well, I went to the clamav website and it was as Carlos said. If it protects email, is it used in a server that ultimately comes to my email. And as my wife uses Windows XP and I am connected to her via wireless, do I need to be using this

Re: [opensuse] BASH .bashrc su question

2008-01-21 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 21, 2008 3:26 AM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for leading me to screen! It is an amazingly elegant way to manage multiple terminal sessions in a text console or in konsole in X. The cut and paste, an ability to turn logging on and off is great. No

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Howorth
Michal Vyskocil wrote: You should visit the http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSuSE_10.3 This page is specific to a particular way to work around a problem. Nothing wrong with that but I think it should link to an overiew page. Is there somewhere that describes

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread Gabriel .
If your linux machine is not acting as a server (for more than one win machine) then install an antivirus to the windows box like NOD32 or AVG. -- Kind Regards Visitá/Go to http://www.opensuse.org

[opensuse] Support for NIC RTL8168 Graphic Adapter Intel G33 (Compiz-Fusion)? [Partly solved]

2008-01-21 Thread Chee How Chua
On Jan 19, 2008 1:50 AM, Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chee, The solution was easy and seemed generic to any NIC that was not passing interrupts. From the bugzilla: == It seems that the controller doesn't generate any interrupts, maybe a problem with MSI. Please unload forcedeth

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was used to it on the left behind windows (Vista was it! No more microsoft!). One had to download a tarball to go with it or it wouldn't work. Don't ask what the name of the tarball. That was in the Fedora

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

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: Furthermore, it's not just about games. Most business runs on Windows machines, and is likely to for years to come. Unless you're independently wealthy -- such that your kids will never need to work in the real world -- preventing them from learning how Windows works

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: Well, I went to the clamav website and it was as Carlos said. If it protects email, is it used in a server that ultimately comes to my email. And as my wife uses Windows XP and I am connected to her via wireless, do I need to be using this antivirus program? Have a good day!

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Dave Howorth wrote: Michal Vyskocil wrote: You should visit the http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSuSE_10.3 This page is specific to a particular way to work around a problem. Nothing wrong with that but I think it should link to an overiew page. Is there

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Gabriel .
On Jan 21, 2008 2:27 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only page (I know) is the above :-( But I don't agree with it. IMHO it's the worst workaround I can think about. I've explained the Java-Plugin on x86-64 on different mailinglists already and offered another workaround.

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
I appreciate everyones' and I do mean everyones' input on the security thing. I now definitely have a better understanding of it. Completely different than windows as it always has been and I'm very happy to find out it is the way it is. My wife does have AVG and some other programs to protect

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

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
James Knott wrote: Why is it that people have to learn Windows or Microsoft Office, instead of how to use a computer or an office suite? Do you teach your kids how to drive a Ford? Or how to drive a car? We should be teaching skills, not products. I love my kids too much to teach them to

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Bjørn Lie
man, 21.01.2008 kl. 16.15 +0100, skrev Michal Vyskocil: Hi all, as you probably know, there were many problems with java updates in the past. It was an unlucky combination of my fault in spec and a bug in update-alternatives, which breaks the /etc/alternatives symlinks. Because Sun

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

2008-01-21 Thread Sunny
On Jan 21, 2008 11:01 AM, Jerry Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Knott wrote: Why is it that people have to learn Windows or Microsoft Office, instead of how to use a computer or an office suite? Do you teach your kids how to drive a Ford? Or how to drive a car? We should be

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and system maintenence processes

2008-01-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: When a 10.3 system is installed, by default some things are set up that will result in a daemon or some other agent occasionally waking up and getting very busy. These activities can impact other running applications. I am hoping to make a list of these so that I can (1)

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Michal Vyskocil
On Monday 21 January 2008 17:58:00 Bjørn Lie wrote: I fixed some minor errors on that page. Hope you are fine with that. Thanks Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Kmail problem Can not preform LIST operation

2008-01-21 Thread Adam Jimerson
This is the second time a email on my POP3 mail server has caused kmail to spit out the Can not preform LIST operation.  After going through the web system for my email and cleaning it up Kmail works fine.  I want to know if anyone here in the mailing list has any clue what in an email could

Re: [opensuse] KitchenSync

2008-01-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Saturday 19 January 2008 21:30:59 Chris Arnold wrote: I don't have a Q or use KDE, but what OS does the Q run? Windows Mobile? Yep, WM5 If so, I don't know very many folks that have successfully synced a Windows Mobile device with Linux. I am finding it that it may not work Hopefully

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 07:18 -0500, John B Pace wrote: I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was used to it on the left behind windows (Vista was it! No more microsoft!). One had to download a tarball to go with it or it wouldn't work. Hi Joe, afaik, avira is

[opensuse] error in the repository initialization

2008-01-21 Thread Maura Edelweiss Monville
Whenever I launch Yast to install new s/w a arning pops up which reads There was an error in the repository initialization. Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s) History: - Wrong checksum for patch-fetchmsttfonts.sh-4347.xml Should I be concerned ? What does it imply ? What is the remedy,

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
Chris Ross wrote: You've just proved my point really. It's that from my kids' point-of-view even if they do buy Linux games, with the penguin on the box and everything, they may or may not work. Whether it's old ones like Quake 3 or even new ones like Quake 4. I'm not arguing with you that

[opensuse] permament symlinks in /dev

2008-01-21 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello list users: What is the way in openSUSE 10.3 to create permanent symlinks in /dev? Eg I want to make symlinks like /dev/modem - /dev/ttyS0, /dev/dvdburner - /dev/sr0 /dev/dvdrom - /dev/sr TIA, IG HÁZTARTÁSI GÉPET szeretnél? RENDELJ MOST! AEG-ELECTROLUX gépek AKCIÓS áron ORSZÁGOS

Re: [opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update

2008-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Gabriel . wrote: On Jan 21, 2008 2:27 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only page (I know) is the above :-( But I don't agree with it. IMHO it's the worst workaround I can think about. I've explained the Java-Plugin on x86-64 on different mailinglists already and offered

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: I appreciate everyones' and I do mean everyones' input on the security thing. I now definitely have a better understanding of it. Completely different than windows as it always has been and I'm very happy to find out it is the way it is. My wife does have AVG and some other

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
Jerry Houston wrote: I keep an XP-Pro machine at home, specifically to connect to my workstations at the office, so I can remote desktop to them and work at home from time to time. I'd _really_ like to be able to retask that machine to a more useful (Linux) purpose. I already know that the

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
PerfectReign wrote: On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:28 am, Chris Ross wrote: Even the new Linux Quake 4 demo doesn't run on OpenSuSE 10.2 because the sound is all broken and horrible, let alone old bargain basement Windows games. I had teh same problem on 10.2 and 10.3 - no valid sounds

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

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry Houston
Sunny wrote: Exposing the kids to different environments is very important in terms of making them adapt easier to a changed situation. Exactly like the languages - kids learn easier and faster a second (and third language) than adults. And when they have the mindset to think in different

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

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: James Knott wrote: Why is it that people have to learn Windows or Microsoft Office, instead of how to use a computer or an office suite? Do you teach your kids how to drive a Ford? Or how to drive a car? We should be teaching skills, not products. I love my kids too

Re: [opensuse] error in the repository initialization

2008-01-21 Thread Gabriel .
On Jan 21, 2008 4:02 PM, Maura Edelweiss Monville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I launch Yast to install new s/w a arning pops up which reads There was an error in the repository initialization. Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s) History: - Wrong checksum for

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
PerfectReign wrote: On Mon, January 21, 2008 5:09 am, Jerry Houston wrote: I'm an enthusiastic Linux user, and in fact, have been somewhat of an evangelist about it at times. However, I earn a six-figure income ($US) working all day with computers running Windows. Just because we use and

Re: [Kiwi-devel] [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and LTSP

2008-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:03 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 7:53 PM, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was on the kernel command line in /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. After I changed that, it finds the tftp server. Then it is looking for network config files.

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and system maintenence processes

2008-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:24 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: When a 10.3 system is installed, by default some things are set up that will result in a daemon or some other agent occasionally waking up and getting very busy. These activities can impact other running

[opensuse] Why Bind dies, where is its log file?

2008-01-21 Thread shigeru serizawa
Hi, My Bind daemon dies but I do not know why. I want to debug my system but I am not sure where bind error log file is? Does someone help me where I find bind error log file? Thanks, PS My system configuration: Opensuse-10.2 kernel-default-2.6.18.2-34 bind-9.3.2-56.3 Starting name server

Re: [opensuse] permament symlinks in /dev

2008-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:07 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello list users: What is the way in openSUSE 10.3 to create permanent symlinks in /dev? Eg I want to make symlinks like /dev/modem - /dev/ttyS0, /dev/dvdburner - /dev/sr0 /dev/dvdrom - /dev/sr One way is in udev rules. I link

Re: [opensuse] error in the repository initialization

2008-01-21 Thread Maura Edelweiss Monville
How can I refresh the repository ? I do not even know which one causes the problem Thank you, Maura --- Gabriel . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 21, 2008 4:02 PM, Maura Edelweiss Monville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I launch Yast to install new s/w a arning pops up which reads

Re: [opensuse] modems/providers and kinternet

2008-01-21 Thread Istvan Gabor
Have you tried simply logging out and back in again to start a new KDE session? If that fails, try CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart the X session, although this should be unnecessary. Just restarting KDE should be sufficient. Thanks. Loggin out/in does not do the trick. IG

Re: [opensuse] error in the repository initialization

2008-01-21 Thread Gabriel .
On Jan 21, 2008 4:41 PM, Maura Edelweiss Monville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I refresh the repository ? I do not even know which one causes the problem Thank you, Maura zypper refresh -- Kind Regards Visitá/Go to http://www.opensuse.org

[opensuse] Evolution IMAP oddities

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi all, I mostly use Thunderbird to access our IMAP servers but sometimes I try with Evolution just for fun... Although it has been configured to copy the sent email under the same Sent folder as Thunderbird it's quite strange not to find all the sent items inside... oddly enough under

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

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
Jerry Houston wrote: James Knott wrote: Why is it that people have to learn Windows or Microsoft Office, instead of how to use a computer or an office suite? Do you teach your kids how to drive a Ford? Or how to drive a car? We should be teaching skills, not products. I love my kids too

Re: [opensuse] permament symlinks in /dev

2008-01-21 Thread Istvan Gabor
What is the way in openSUSE 10.3 to create permanent symlinks in /dev? I'll assume that none of the links you're trying to make will cause problems or confusion. If they do, it's your problem, not mine. Is this want to be a joke? Very funny. Eg I want to make symlinks like

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

2008-01-21 Thread Sunny
On Jan 21, 2008 12:25 PM, Jerry Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sunny wrote: Exposing the kids to different environments is very important in terms of making them adapt easier to a changed situation. Exactly like the languages - kids learn easier and faster a second (and third language)

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