Re: [opensuse] suddenly slow

2007-04-26 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:19 -0400, James Knott wrote: Carl wrote: whats up this list seems to have dropped to zero I know it was not myrealbox because until yesterdays changeover to Messaging Architects it was working fine. CWSIV I've been getting lots from this list. Looks

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

2007-04-18 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: By the way... I know of at least one e-commerce institution that does not accept credit card payment from Internet. It has to be bank transfer, or postal payment on arrival (which is more expensive). I wonder why. Either better laws

[opensuse] Beagle and Indexing Zips

2007-04-18 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
I have heard a lot about beagle good but mostly bad. I need an index of my article collection which is mostly in text files spread across multiple zip files. Does Beagle penetrate such things or do I need another tool? -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ --

Re: [opensuse] Help Killling Process

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Gnome System Monitor also works great. On one machine I use Gnome a lot so It helps to have something handy on the tool bar. I keep it on the lower one. CWSIV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
An African charity my church works does micro loans to help really small businesses. These are not cash but small bank accounts secured with cards, passwords and fingerprint readers which also check for a pulse. This last eliminating the cut finger risk and well publicized to save the customers

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:48 +, Russell Jones wrote: Don't confuse certainty with ideology. Hedge your bets and you won't be wrong. But you won't be right either. I know MS is appropriate in certain situations. But one needs to take their strategy and the distortions they create to

Re: [opensuse] Lightscribe.

2007-03-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 19:45 +0700, Matt T. wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007, Fred A. Miller wrote: Does anyone know of any other software than the simply label maker for Linux that is available from Lightscribe? It is marginalthat is, it works fine, but the features are less than

Re: [opensuse] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-03-06 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 09:39 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:40, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: Do they still broadcast Dr Who? Both the BBC and the CBC still have Dr Who. Series 3 of the programme, starring David Tennant as the Doctor and Freema Agyeman

Re: [opensuse] Getting 2nd DVD drive to work properly.

2007-03-06 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 01:47 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: With the change in the system and how DVD/CD drives are seen by the system, I'm at a loss as to how to get the second drive on my new box to work properly in 10.2. The 1st DVD drive is a LightScribe drive, which works fine burning

Re: [opensuse] selecting different video card in Yast - Suse 10.0

2007-03-06 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 12:18 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, The MB has on onboard VIA video card that freezes the computer after Yast, Sax2, or X tries to access it. I noticed that in 9.3 you can select a different video card in Yast (or Sax), but not in 10.0. In 9.3 I can atleast

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Good or bad this could force Novell to fix a few annoying issues like crippled mp3 and video playing. Just make it an option via Dell which is big enough to make bulk licensing cheap enough to interest the end user. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ --

Re: [opensuse] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-23 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:26 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Clayton wrote: The BBC is asking if they should support Linux in the proposed on-demand media service they want to launch. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=17103

Re: [opensuse] Autopackage ?

2007-02-23 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 01:52 -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Joop Boonen escribió: Hello All, It seems an autopackage system exists. I'd like to know how people especially the people @ Novell/SuSE think about this? Will it be added to openSuSE? http://autopackage.org/ An

Re: [opensuse] device.map - Darryl/Carl/Boyd

2007-02-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:44 -0500, James Knott wrote: Why would a tax program have to change the MBR??? Copy protection I suppose. Like I said no good reason. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-07 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:28 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * John E. Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-04-07 23:38]: Darryl Gregorash wrote: ... There are no MS patents in code in any GPL software. There never will be. That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of

Re: [opensuse] device.map - Darryl/Carl/Boyd

2007-02-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: As far as I know, it won't, but I'm not an MS Guru. Someone mentioned Norton Anti Virus (and IIRC McAffee) might have auto-repaired the boot sector thinking it might have been changed due to virus activity. I do remember having this

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.2 I gave up too!

2007-02-02 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 08:59 -0600, Stevens wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:40, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: I found almost all positive but because I could not have the dvd burner working with growisofs / wodim /k3b I had to go back to SuSE 10.1. Without dvd burning I could not

Re: [opensuse] Installing WordPerfect 8

2007-02-01 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:16 +0100, A. den Oudsten wrote: Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:55 +0100, A. den Oudsten As all my old documents were in .wpd I have not any problem to open them in OO Writer. As I was able to add the fonts I used in WordPerfect I even

Re: [opensuse] mouse pointer disappears

2007-02-01 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:43 -0800, Dog Walker wrote: On 1/29/07, Carl William Spitzer IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:43 -0800, Richard Pace wrote: Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. My mouse pointer disappears

Re: [opensuse] KDE Census

2007-01-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 17:36 -0800, n7nkj wrote: Just installing 10.2 from the DVD. Been using KDE since 6.2. The little Gnome just doesn't cut it for me. Gnome is little alright but for this old box with only 256mb and a PII 350Mhz processor its lean enough to run Evolution without problems.

Re: [opensuse] mouse pointer disappears

2007-01-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:43 -0800, Richard Pace wrote: Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried

Re: [opensuse] CrossOver and Visio

2007-01-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:16 -0500, James Knott wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Sorry the truth: we are living in the world that we needs to be compatible with other people. Tell that to Bill Gates. You git that right. He is backward but not backward compatible. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _

Re: [opensuse] not able to use evdev

2007-01-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:12 -0800, Collin Marc wrote: hi i tried use evdev for my mouse in my xorg file Section Module Load dbe Load type1 Load freetype Load extmod Load glx Load v4l Load evdev EndSection Is

Re: [opensuse] Evolution address book and OpenOffice

2007-01-28 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Is that OOo from Openoffice.org directly or the Suse RPM which is usually a patched version? I use both but I have not tried that version. Looks like it disappeared in OOo 2.0 rpms from OpenOffice. What you need to do is describe the database type to OOo. So find out what evolution uses so I

Re: [opensuse] strange gnome-panel (mis)behavior after upgrade to 10.2: End and Down button pops up main menu

2007-01-24 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 09:52 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Thank you very much for taking care of this issue (after so long time!) I have tracked down this issue and now I think I am pretty close to the answer. My SuSE 10.2 is using evdev as xorg input driver (while most other xorg input driver

Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

2007-01-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 06:31 -0800, Michael Nelson wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: Web sites are independantly written, and there's plenty of MickySofties who are willing to mess them up!! ;) Congrats Fred, you've qualified for my kill file. Don't

Re: [opensuse] Not all process get killed

2007-01-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:15 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: - -- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229632 Bug 229632 - GNOME leaves stale processes after user logs out Even in 9.2 there are traces of Evolution in memory after the user is out. Not much of a problem save on this old

Re: [opensuse] Is there an RPM command that will do this?

2007-01-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 07:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote: ... That's because man pages are less than useless. Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written in a special dialect of English that renders them

Re: [opensuse] This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

2007-01-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
So the whole world must trust their data is safe from prying eyes of Microsoft looking for bootleg copies and the NSA looking for terror plots. Looks like the Arabian Pennsula won't be buying Microsoft any time soon. Forget China they dumped billy boy back in 95 when the PIII unique processor id

Re: [opensuse] Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 15:44 +0100, jdd wrote: Mathias Homann wrote: and why am i so sure that that partition has to be bigger on my next harddisk? anyway, Vista won't be able to run on any of the 5 computers I have on my home today, and I won't buy a new one for that... Ill stick to

Re: [opensuse] Re: k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 03:06 +1100, Graham Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 02:42, Eberhard Roloff wrote: well, this simplifies running k3b in root mode, but this is not what I am after. Honestly, imho it is absolutely rediculous that you have to be root to burn a cdrom. I last

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 21:41 -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 8:36 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: On Tue January 9 2007 13:45, Paul Abrahams wrote: On bootup I get the following failure message: /dev/hdb9 on /windows/E type vfat

Re: [opensuse] Bootup mount of Fat32 filesystem fails -- but it doesn't!

2007-01-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:45 -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: On bootup I get the following failure message: /dev/hdb9 on /windows/E type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) failednotice'boot.localfs start' exits with status 0 However, the /windows/E drive gets mounted

Re: [opensuse] Installing Suse Linux 10 on Migrus C787

2007-01-11 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 19:44 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Has anyone had any luck installing Linux on a Migrus C787 motherboard? I've disabled/enabled ACPI in the BIOS and in the kernel installer to no avail; it hangs when probing for devices. Any ideas how to get around this? Do

Re: [opensuse] Is SUSE using KDE 4 already?

2007-01-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 16:23 +0100, Markus Koßmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2007 15:02 schrieb Mathias Homann: Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2007 13:47 schrieb Stephan Binner: On Friday 05 January 2007 23:47, J Sloan wrote: that internal suse people might be running kde4 development

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.1 rpms

2007-01-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 00:40 -0500, James Lockie wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, Anyone know when OpenOffice 2.1 is going to arrive in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/ ? Thanks Hans When it's ready. :-) Meaning in time for Valentines day because there

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-08 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:11 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:35 am, BandiPat wrote: Actually, that's what I use for most things now Fred. Kong seems to be falling into the works with everything category pretty well. If not, I can spoof as Safari, which uses the

[opensuse] big jump 9.2 to 10.0

2007-01-04 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Older box PII 350 with 256mb though Ill buy more soon. I wish to upgrade an older computer from 9.2 to 10.0. I think its too old for 10.2 which I do not have yet. Which dot directories should I keep besides dot evolution? Is it better to remove the old ones some of which date to 9.1 or will

Re: [opensuse] Hibernate on Lid-close - OpenSuSE 10.2

2007-01-04 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 15:53 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 16:11, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 18:09 -0700, jim barnes wrote: You'll find that in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/events Look for EVENT_BUTTON_LID_CLOSED=screen_saver Change to any

Re: [opensuse] Future hardware and support.

2007-01-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:19 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Fredag 29 december 2006 05:19 skrev Fred A. Miller: I debated about posting this here, but decided to do so since there's been a lot of interest in what AMD will do with ATI in regards to Linux. Well, after reading the below

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders (OT)

2007-01-01 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:09 +1100, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 08:04, Mike wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:24, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Now, utter OT.. - may I ask, how do you automatically include the technical details of your computer in your

Re: [opensuse] sound recorder recommendation

2006-12-31 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 20:00 +0100, Primm wrote: Any recommendations apart from krecord? I want good quality sound files via a hand held microphone to burn to a cd. 10.2 apropos record | grep sound arecord (1) - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA soundcard driver ecasound

Re: [opensuse] how to install usb external disk

2006-12-31 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 19:25 +0100, Primm wrote: Sorry but how do I do that? I've tried fdisk but don't know what device to name it. What is the commant to format this drive? Do it when you install after you backup your /home. Install / custom then you can manually choose your pattitions or

Re: [opensuse] Hibernate on Lid-close - OpenSuSE 10.2

2006-12-31 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 18:09 -0700, jim barnes wrote: You'll find that in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/events Look for EVENT_BUTTON_LID_CLOSED=screen_saver Change to any value such: Possible Values: notify, wm_shutdown, wm_logout, standby, suspend_to_disk, suspend_to_ram, screen_saver,

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 10:22 -0700, Tom Patton wrote: The question wasn't whether to download or buy...I've nearly every boxed set since 6.2, because I'm on a modem here, no dsl, cable, or satellite. I'm looking at 10 boxes on the shelf, and with the exception of 10.1, every one was a good deal

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 and Evolution

2006-12-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:20 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: Has anyone checked Evolution in 10.2 to see if it now includes the patch to delete mail from the server after x number of days? (Patch was written by a gnome community developer.) POP3 or IMAP protocol? I have problems with

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 19:17 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Monday December 25 2006 6:44 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote: [snip] It's not that I'm going to switch distributions, but my several-year-long practice of buying a copy of every SuSE Linux distribution, including a couple I didn't

Re: [opensuse] Need monitor recommendation

2006-12-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 07:45 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:02 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: I am in the market for a new monitor (still using old CRT). I'm looking for just a small monitor, say 17 inch. Can someone suggest

Re: [opensuse] Need monitor recommendation

2006-12-19 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:02 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: I am in the market for a new monitor (still using old CRT). I'm looking for just a small monitor, say 17 inch. Can someone suggest a brand and type (if there is more than one type like there are with TVs these days -- i. e. plasma, etc,

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-18 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 21:32 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Friday 15 December 2006 19:05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 23:46 -0800, Curtis Rey wrote: Kinda silly isn't it!?! I garner the Novell has followed RH's lead and decided not to supply boxed sets that can

Re: [opensuse] fortran on 10.2

2006-12-18 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 12:37 -0500, James Knott wrote: Primm wrote: Don't forget the punch cards. ;-) I still have some from my time at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo when I studied IBM 360 / 370 Assembler. They were cannibalizing punch card machines even then to keep the few museum pieces

Re: [opensuse] Re: Release of 10.2

2006-12-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:40 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:29, S Glasoe wrote: Most of the Novell/SUSE employees on these lists are involved with the software _not_ the marketing, packaging, corporate decision making. And thank god for that. Can you imagine

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 23:46 -0800, Curtis Rey wrote: Kinda silly isn't it!?! I garner the Novell has followed RH's lead and decided not to supply boxed sets that can be bought at the local area Bestbuy/CompUSA/Pick_A_Store. Instead they partner up with DIgRiv and charge rates for Over

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:16 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: Don't buy anything from Compaq. Their computers are incompatible with everything. I had one at work, and I could not even install a second hard drive. It had one HD and a CD/ROM, and that's all it ever had. Oh, and one floppy.

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-16 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 00:00 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:55, jdd wrote: so I wondered if Alaska was served as well as the remaining of US. Yup. We get mail delivered right to our Igloo just like we were real people. Doesn't it get rainy inside when you

Re: [opensuse] Horizontal scrolling

2006-12-15 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 00:26 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2006 20:29, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: Once I had a rare two wheel mouse by micro innovations which allowed verticle and horizontal scrolling. When it stopped working I bought a MI trackball mouse on which

Re: [opensuse] More fallout on the Novell MS Deal on /. and Groklaw

2006-12-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 07:17 -0500, James Knott If you don't want to pay it, you only have to download the ISO's. On dialup which is all I have that would take a decade. Likely Ill borrow someone elses set of DVD. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Re: [opensuse] OT List.

2006-12-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 06:06 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: On Thursday December 07 2006 3:39 am, Jos van Kan wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: What's going on the OT list..reject after reject! An example is below. Errmmm... Maybe you used op your quota for 2006? ;-) 'Could be. :)

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 RC1 upgrade stories

2006-12-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 02:29 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: I may be wrong but there won't be a GoldMaster release -- what's being released this coming Thursday is the final 10.2 release. GoldMaster has been skipped. Why -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Re: [opensuse] More fallout on the Novell MS Deal on /. and Groklaw

2006-12-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 07:44 +0200, Janne Karhunen You missed the point again. You, as a Novell customer, are paying to MS from now on [for something that does not exist, ie. FUD]. Is that what you wanted? If its FUD its a failure and M$ customers dumb enough to buy into that deserve all the

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:12 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:43, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: ... I would say that boxes are expected to be on the shelfs before christmas? No problem, then. I never pass up an opportunity to take a trip to Fry's... Not

[opensuse] Horizontal scrolling

2006-12-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Once I had a rare two wheel mouse by micro innovations which allowed verticle and horizontal scrolling. When it stopped working I bought a MI trackball mouse on which the middle button was the ball. Now I have another same brand with a middle wheel which rocks side to side to permit horizontal

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-07 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:15 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: I want manuals too. But I don't want the ordinary simple manual, getting started (whatever) that's usually in the box. I want a real thick brick filled with hi-tech details and how-tos. That's too expensive to print, of course.

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-06 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
http://www.unixtree.org/ For those who love the old look. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:06 -0600, M Harris wrote: I mean, how in the world is M$ going to compete with an OS that runs four times faster on existing hardware for a fraction of the money??? Do any of you see my point??? Mickey$oft has the best marketing department bar none. No

Re: [opensuse] Re: How much memory does Suse need?

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:04 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: To work with openSUSE in Graphical KDE Mode, you will need about Pentium III 450 MHz Computer + 256 MB of RAM + 10 GB Hard Disk. This is the recommended workable minimum, below which the OS will be slow. Looks like Ill have to stick

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:14 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:52 -0600, M Harris wrote: How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. Performance of Vista is highly dependent upon how much memory is installed in the PC. For Vista, the minimum is 1

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 22:40 +0100, jdd wrote: Carl William Spitzer IV a écrit : It was when I had a TRS80-4P and my HP-41 with 64 10 bits registers :-) - 640 _bits_ I figured you were one of us old farts. These kids have it easy now. Graphical installs that just work unlike 7.0 which

[opensuse] Mouse model PD945P by micro Innovations

2006-12-04 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Seems to work generally but horizontal scrolling does not work in most applications in Suse 9.2. Its a USB mouse converted to PS2 for my KVM. From /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Driver mouse Identifier Mouse[1] Option ButtonNumber 7 Option Buttons 7 Option

Re: [opensuse] ISOs and LAN network install

2006-12-01 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:01 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-29 12:49, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: :-) I agree about the french. At least in Paris, you can say bon weekend and everyone will understand you -- try that in Montreal, and they look at you funny :-) Same thing

Re: [opensuse] Yast update log location? - SOLVED

2006-11-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:12 -0600, John wrote: Tnx, I am well aware that I am usinf an unsupported version. 'Unfortunately' 9.2 just works mostly the way I want it to. Not having to have the latest and greatest hardware and OS is a strength of Linux. I'll upgrade when I can, and

Re: [opensuse] ISOs and LAN network install

2006-11-29 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 15:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: What rubbish! Precision is precision, no matter what system you use. How does it make a difference whether or not you use the metric system? I guess the rest of the world can't build houses or bake a cake. I don't recall ever seeing a

Re: [opensuse] ISOs and LAN network install

2006-11-26 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 07:14 -0500, James Knott wrote: Stevens wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:26, Darryl Gregorash wrote: -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² Is that the same as 32 ft/sec/sec as I was taught? Back in the dark

Re: [opensuse] A Five Year Deal to Dump Novell/SuSE

2006-11-23 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 08:50 -0800, frank nelson wrote: --- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, to whom are you addressing yourself when you say you folks? Secondly, how much effect do you think what transpires here will have on the decision-making process as

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-19 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 23:36 -0500, James Knott wrote: M Harris wrote: You guys heard it your selves... Ballmer *believes* that Linux contains M$ innovation... wait... the roccos laughter is almost as explosive as the night ALGORE claimed to have invented the Internet I'm

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-18 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 22:01 -0600, M Harris wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:16, JJ Gitties wrote: I would be interested in knowing exactly what feature of SUSE do you find that there is no equivalent or similar or even better corresponding feature that may be found in other major

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-17 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:11 -0600, M Harris wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:00, JJ Gitties wrote: *We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend. Sad, but true. Isn't it interesting...

Re: [opensuse] 10.0 Evolution Background Processes

2006-11-14 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 21:51 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote: I just upgraded from 9.3 to 10.0 and found that Evolution showed up on my start menu. Being the curious type, I fired it up just to take a look, spent a few minutes looking it over, then quit it. Apparently, that simple looksee caused

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] Red Hat's take:

2006-11-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:55 -0500, James Knott wrote: John E. Perry wrote: Ken Jennings wrote: ... But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by hand on their Altairs. Hey, I did that! Well the bootloader, at least -- on Digital PDP-8, PDP-11, HP 2100,

Re: [opensuse] Reiser Linux - FYI

2006-11-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 23:14 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 23:02, Basil Chupin wrote: So what's happened since we got migrated? I'm guessing Henne hasn't had time to figure all the new stuff out while migrating all the lists. As I understand it, its new

Re: [opensuse] Real programming

2006-11-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:14 +0100, jdd wrote: James Knott a écrit : Stevens wrote: Now, after around 30 years of personal computing I am finally starting to see some decent desktops. OS/2 had an excellent desktop back in '92. frankly, windows 3.1 with HP extension (the one with

Re: [opensuse] Real programming [Was: [SLE] Red Hat's take:]

2006-11-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 07:56 -0500, James Knott wrote: Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: A teacher of mine used a blank slide rule, he was PHI Beta Kappa. A blank slide rule? Doesn't that make it hard to read? ;-) Not for someone who is a mnemonic. Instant perfect memory. Markings

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] Red Hat's take:

2006-11-13 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 17:43 -0500, James Knott wrote: Patrick Shanahan wrote: * James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-10-06 13:22]: Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-) Does a VIC-20 count?? I modified a couple of those, to increase memory from 5K to 8K (yes, that's right, 8

Re: [opensuse] Real programming [Was: [SLE] Red Hat's take:]

2006-11-11 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-10-06 14:46]: Lucky you! I don't think any of my teachers new what a computer or a program was. I had a Texas Instruments Programmable Calculator TI-58C, with a wonderfull 500 program steps

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] Red Hat's take:

2006-11-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, JJ Gitties wrote: But it's not gonna happen. 10.1 is probably going to be my last SUSE distro. I am going Ubuntu or Fedora. I would ever go with Red Hat at this point. They seem the lesser of evils. Forget Dead Rat try CentOS. I know someone who will be

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] Red Hat's take:

2006-11-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:19 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: I love it! You guys should go on the Letterman show, or something. But I must tell you that I kept a 4 diameter roll of paper tape, punched on a model 35, for over 30 years, in my desk, thinking it might come in handy someday. Of

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] Trouble on Novell's Site?

2006-11-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:42 -0500, Geoffrey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 06:47 -0500, JJ Gitties wrote: Just look at the comparison with M$ at an annual glance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=mys=NOVLl=onz=mq=lc=msft

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] This list will be migrated to opensuse@opensuse.org

2006-11-10 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 14:52 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: Private answers are private and should be archived diferently from the list mail. I disagree. I do not like a full inbox. It also enables me to track a thread and how it forked into OFF List. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__