> >> And now, the "general problem": I just don't see ex-Ximian people
> >> involved into openSUSE at all.
> > I see quite a few of them involved in some way or other, but when the
> By "involved", I meant being on this mailing-list and/or on
> opensuse-packaging. Besides a few of them being aggreg
> Garry Ekker and Stanislav Brabec, GNOME packagers.
> Robert Love, NetworkManager... You like it in 10.1, right?
> Larry Ewing, f-spot ... working nicely.
> Aaron Bockover, banshee ... working nicely and greatly enhanced for 10.1.
> Jeffrey Steadfast, gnome-volume-manager ... greatly enhanced for
> > Well, lets list some of the most visible for 10.1 development:
> > Garry Ekker and Stanislav Brabec, GNOME packagers.
> > Robert Love, NetworkManager... You like it in 10.1, right?
> > Larry Ewing, f-spot ... working nicely.
> > Aaron Bockover, banshee ... working nicely and greatly enhanced fo
> > I have an IBM xSeries with an IBM ServeRAID controller running
> > openSUSE 10.1. Previously, for years, this server ran SuSE 9.2 and
> > was absolutely ROCK solid.
> a lot changed, also the driver, as you can (now) see it is now capable
> to fetch this special case
"it is now capable to fe
> > Some sites are still designed for
> > Internet Explorer only, and it will be a cold day in hell before
> > Microsoft ports that to Linux.
> I understand you can get it to work in CrossOver Office. If you really
> want to.
It actually works quite well on just the Wine version that ships with
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:18 +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 23:11, schreef Adam Tauno Williams:
> > It actually works quite well on just the Wine version that ships with
> > openSUSE. IE has worked in Wine for quite awhile.
> Do you have a procedure how to
> I'm trying to connect between two notebooks using it's wireless.
> Someone told me to set the wireless to 'adhoc' mode.
> But, I don't think I can make it work, yet.
> Both are Opensuse10.2 and SLED 10 respectively.
Both your wireless chipset AND your driver need to support adhoc mode;
so you pr
> Well, I plan to make those notebook as a testbed for Linux HA (High
> Availability), so, just be able to ping each other is enough.
> >>>Okay, that should be easy enough.
> >>>So, in both instances you are setting up notebooks that are going
> >>>through a router? If not, you need a rout
> > Does anybody know of a way to scan several thousands pictures on disk
> > with an OCR application to look for a specific text, and then list the
> > images where that text was found?
> I've been doing apps like that for the better part of twelve years. However,
> I've yet to see an OCR app in
> I've got an old PC that's called server which runs SuSE 9.3.
> Basically it's a samba file server for 5 Windows clients.
> It "knowes" every user so that they can access Samba. There is no local
> user access besides that.
> Up until now I configured all our (few) users on every PC so that they
> >> The manual seems to indicate that once the password for the root has
> >> been fed into the system during installation then it cannot be changed
> >> by any means.
> > Then it needs rewritten or you didn't read it right.
> >> I would like to change my (root) password. Can this be done? Or do
> > I bought a Xerox Phaser 6120
> I've been reading very good recommendations for Xerox printers, specially
> because of their driver support. I've you already changed the toners?
I have several generations of Phasers, all work VERY well. Also have an
HP2550ln which, with the 128Mb RAM upgrade
> Ok, Suse fans, I just received a revelation from the XFree86.org mailing list
> which turned away an XFree (Ubuntu user) because he is using Xorg. Well, my
> Suse 10.0 uses Xorg as well... so, at least in XFree86 land, Xorg is no
> longer considered XFree86??
Old news, dude. (Febuary, 2004?
> I'm looking for hints about switching user authentication to LDAP.
> (We're using NIS up to now.) The LDAP server will be SLES, the
> clients are a variety of SUSE Linux systems, in different versions,
> and other Unix hosts.
> I'm familiar with setup of LDAP servers and know how to configure
> >> I'm looking for hints about switching user authentication to LDAP.
> >> (We're using NIS up to now.) The LDAP server will be SLES, the
> >> clients are a variety of SUSE Linux systems, in different versions,
> >> and other Unix hosts.
> >> I think that nscd should run on the clients, as LDA
al replicant is a
third option - run a local caching DSA.
Again, it all depends upon you needs/applications.
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(c) AD and Linux play quite nicely together.
> necessary :-) You need to do your own research. People here will know
> about what is relevant to them.
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tion of existing behavior. If one is forced
to assume a future scenario it is always best to assume things will
continue as they are; they usually do. Don't let ideology or
ideologues fog things up - ideologues are the people most certain to
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replacement for all
replication purposes. A SyncREPL consumer can bring itself up to
syncronization with the SyncREPL master.
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ay you can check the
wireless, video, etc... for compatibility information [via Google].
I've looked at various of the current Toshiba models and most check out
Ok; my previous two laptops have been Toshiba Satellites, and
everything has worked on both of them.
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ordering. Not to mention that I think both Toshibas and Thinkpads both
have superior construction to the [we can save 15 cents here] Dells.
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> windows and the windows recovery partition so all is suse. If I have to
> get a new one I would go for the x-60 now.
Agree, very good luck with the Thinkpad laptops in the past. I've set
several up for other people and gotten no complaints
hese run XP.
Toshiba or Thinkpad, the only two I can recommend. I've never met an
Acer, so I can't comment on previous recommendations (I hope they are
good since they are so tantelizingly inexpensive).
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n't forget the most often overlooked solution - your cell phone. Most
cell pones can attach via a USB port, emulate a serial port, and support
the Hayes command set. Every cell phone I've had I've been able to make
a terminal call with (using nothing but the USB cable a
e mildly compressed, so that
> decompression time is negligible, but space requirements are improved?
> Another thing that could definitely be cleaned up is the Log. I have
> logs of a week or so (oldest is March 24) and the Log directory is
> 250MB big!
My .beagle/Log is a scant 8Mb on my Laptop which I use all the time.
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le times over the years), but that is ancedotal.
I think price ways they ate all about the same.
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, on neither of my laptops (both Toshibas) does
sensors-detect find anything useful, nor on my IBM workstation. In
fact, on about half of my IBM xSeries servers it finds nothing useful.
The value of lmsensors, IMHO, is pretty dubious.
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> financial
> data for your local tax institute - IANAL. But if you "only" have to
> deal with important data it is better then most solutions I know about.
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> FYI: Media that has an alignment track laid down by the manufacturer
> will be destroyed by using a tape degausser, so a quick test to see if
> your drive uses an alignment track is to take a tape media you plan to
> throw-out and run a $30 tape degauser across it. If the tape fails to
> work at
ive? No way. Not unless one copy counts as a backup;
it certainly won't cut it in the corporate world, absolutely not in any
corporation subject to audits.
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> On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > But if you want to have 50+ USB chassis with hard drives to cycle your
> > backup on then by all means.
> And if you purchase eggs in a sac you will see breakage a
> I use Evolution.
+1 for evolution.
> > I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it
> > possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this?
Yes.
> > What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux?
Evolution.
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No, TB won't. Evolution should work fine.
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adds. Adds of course put a positive spin on
stuff, that is what adds are for. Not to mention this is $500 and only
provides the storage it has inside - no way does this compete with a
tape drive; it is equivalent to 5 tapes; so most shops I visit would
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> > I always get a desktop icon in KDE which has a Safe Remove option.
> Hmm, I'll have to look for that. I hadn't noticed it.
GNOME offers the same thing, right click -> eject
You can't just yank removable media in any OS.
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> I have records with the date in DD-MM-, but mysql wants them in
> -MM-DD. Is there anyway of changing Mysql's format?
I don't EVER use MySQL; but with most databases this is just a matter
of changing your locale. Should be doable via an environment variable
(client side) or a paramete
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:05 +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Wed, April 11, 2007 17:54, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >> I have records with the date in DD-MM-, but mysql wants them in
> >> -MM-DD. Is there anyway of changing Mysql's format?
> > I don't
l bit of
> information that I had put in a tomboy note, but would never have
> remembered.
> Perhaps I'm not as organized as you are --- but I really like this feature.
+1; Beagle is fabulous for this kind of work. If you have lots of
*DATA* the uses for Beagle are innumerable
configure
Of course it does.
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t person/people to discuss this with is the list maintainers.
Look up the maintainers address(es) and bother them.
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> used (like a high-water mark). I was hoping to discover some command
> that did before I resort to scripting.
To track performance use SNMP + an NMS(1) and/or sar (2).
(1) http://www.opennms.org
(2) man sar
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chkconfig sysstat on
Sar has been around since dirt, there are lots of docs floating around.
Start in file:/usr/share/doc/packages/sysstat/
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r questions [in my 10+ years experience] prefer
mailing lists [because they also prefer real mail clients which make
using mailing lists almost effortless?].
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> > Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
> > Has anyone else left Evolution
> Nope, still using it and been using it for many years
Same, been using Evolution forever; it is fast, stable, usable, and feature
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gets updated all the time, and certainly with
almost every GNOME release (every ~6 months).
And "Development vision"??? Sounds nice, but totally a straw dog.
Software has goals and purposes, people talking about vision don't
belong within light years of a code repository.
> Then suse.de released its RC with a alpha test3 blocker still unresolved
I never run alpha, betas, or RCs.
> Of everyone who replied they were happy to keep evolution could you
> please tell me if you are operating in a commercial work place?
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no/Apache/SuSE).
Since you are acquiring a completely new skill set might as well pick
one as maximally portable/marketable as possible.
Now cue the horde's of LAMP minions to tell you this is heresy... :)
> What all do I need to install to begin this journey besides the basic php5
> a
VM and you can carve up your disks as many ways as you want.
> all the fstabs, backup scripts and other system software from braking
> with a new openSUSE release. This should be made as a
> backward-compatibility measure.
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straight forward as submitting "a patch that worked for me". Developers
will frequently have questions about the patch, the patch will have
been created incorrectly (suprisingly frequent), etc... You'd think
someone who took the time to create a patch would be willing to respo
kages for SUSE.
It is included in the quagga package.
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em like Bugzilla. It
will never make it upstream (into packaged versions) and thus will
languish and be forgotten.
A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't
apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
Bug/patch trackers and code repositories e
"
None of the above are required with recent versions of Samba. Don't do
any of the above.
> Because I think that XP Home Edition can not join a domain
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See the instructions at
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
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> > I need to email from the command line a previously created file.
If you want to e-mail a file vs. just a message look at the "nail"
command, very handy.
> (The
> > finished working command will go into cron and so should be completely
> > programmatic.) Using Linux, There are a few open s
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> > I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
> > at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back,
> > and decided it was not worth it.
> Some yes, for sure, but not all.
I think that proportion is very low; and I'
e system will grind to
a nearly complete halt.
> It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit
> of C should be submitting patches.
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> I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105,
P105 isn't a model number. You have a P105-X, what is "X"? For
example, I'm using a P105-S6207.
> Came with Vista, and I
> installed Suse 10.
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mentioned in the release notes that were displayed when you installed).
I had the same problem with my P105-S6207. I switched to the other
driver using the YaST GUI and then everything worked.
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e helpful. Please remember that I am something
> > >> of a beginner, so please try to keep that in mind when advising me.
Did you see any ACPI warnings when you booted? (dmesg | grep -i acpi)
> > btw login as root
> > # su
> > # alsaconf
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It must be awfully
> boring if the most maddening thing in your entire
> existance is an Xconsole that you see for oh, like
> 10 seconds before you log in, and then it disappears.
> Whoop-de-freakin'-do.
Because it (a) looks very wrong and (b) screws up other stuff.
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poster either, but maybe before firing an off-the-cuff answer someone
should "man xconsole" so they at least know what "xconsole" is.
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t will run issue free.
Hopping distributions to resolve issues is just chasing the fantasy that
someone else is going to pre-solve all your specific problems.
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C#/Mono. That I think will be a HUGE boon for
Evolution.
http://psankar.blogspot.com/2007/10/write-evolution-plugins-using-mono-c.html
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mes it can [or
should] just do whatever it wants in ~.
Beyond GConf, if you want to customize your desktop in a kosher way, I'd
look into Devil's Pie.
http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
A good example of that is this article
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-create-a-transparen
etc/skel, deleted the directory 'Documents' from
> /home/dhenson, and logged off/on. It came back.
Expected. The folders have in GNOME have nothing to do with skel
functionality, skel only relates to useradd and related tools. GNOME
will automatically recreate your Documents folder.
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