Re: [opensuse] rsync questions - backups - again !

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Cotton
sophisticated or run a commercial backup solution) Which could well be based on rsync. but for my needs at home it works fine. And for all the machines I do this for across Internet for the past few years. -- Dave Cotton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [opensuse] How do I find out why my server crashed?

2007-09-11 Thread Dave Cotton
-way across the city by our Australian friends who can't go to bed at a sensible time. Big gap in the logs suggests to me no electricity. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Gnome version of YAST vs KDE version

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Cotton
about Vista is that yet again they've changed the way things are done and it adds nothing, let's hope this will not be the same for this. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: Update of VMware ?

2007-07-02 Thread Dave Cotton
of /etc/udev/30-net_persistent_names.rules? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: Update of VMware ?

2007-07-02 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:49 +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Dave Cotton wrote: Have you changed the physical ethernet card because this would occur because of /etc/udev/30-net_persistent_names.rules? Hi Dave. Yes I have, as it's not the mainboard I originally ran: SUBSYSTEM

Re: [opensuse] ASUSTeK MCP55 Ethernet supported?

2007-06-20 Thread Dave Cotton
Ethernet NIC. For now I have a 3com PCI card installed that is working fine. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the MCP55 Ethernet working? According to my MSI MB the MPC55 works fine with the forcedeth drivers. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] ADSL wanadoo France: speedtouch problem

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Cotton
customers using Dlink DSL320T modems without any problems I also use Linksys AM200 modems both retail around 65/70€. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-05-09 Thread Dave Cotton
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 00:53 +0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Which is why i invited the two people who started the political tangent to shut the fuck up Which is what I, and probably many others, would like you to do. Please take your foul language somewhere else. -- To unsubscribe,

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

2007-05-08 Thread Dave Cotton
was responding to, and the person who made it. Do you have a problem with that? Well yes I do, and probably many others, it may be all that people as portrayed by Eddie Murphy can manage to utter, but then he's often portraying inept characters. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Cotton
your laptop. Absolutely. I wonder whether the British bank that lost a laptop last week with 13000 customer records on it has even thought of any of this? It also begs the question why the hell this information was even on a laptop in a car? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] Root's password

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Cotton
(root) password. Can this be done? Or do I need to reinstall the whole sheebang? logged in as root type passwd that's all there is to it. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Root's password

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:52 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Dave Cotton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:45 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] Root's password

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:00 -0400, James Knott wrote: Enter the passwd command. You will then be prompted for the old password etc. Are you sure? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Root's password

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:42 -0400, James Knott wrote: Dave Cotton wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:00 -0400, James Knott wrote: Enter the passwd command. You will then be prompted for the old password etc. Are you sure? Yes. The please type passwd when logged

Re: [opensuse] Changing from GNOME to KDE

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Cotton
be documenting my odyssey a little more on my blog. And still do not know how to use mailing lists correctly. New subjects require a clean start and not using incoming messages with there titles and content wiped out. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[opensuse] make cloneconfig failure

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Cotton
/fixdep] Error 1 make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 Everything was installed through YAST so there should be no missing dependances. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Any experiences with ATI 8.32.5 (x86_64)?

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Cotton
freezes of X. Just after some time lapse. Am I the only one? Is there a secret switch in xorg.conf, I don't know? Any comments, suggestions, please? I've never got that far. I have an X300 and I have only ever got a black screen. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse] CUPS problem after update?

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Cotton
printer, when this was selected manually everything worked. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] CUPS problem after update?

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Cotton
rebuild the driver list from scratch? Other options? Thanks! I've uninstalled all of cups and then reinstalled it but it still stops at the same point. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vedr. Re: [opensuse] New ATI fglrx driver version - supports 10.2

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Cotton
they *do* work - at least on some chips ;) Odd, the ATI webpage still reported only xorg 7.1 support http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-firegl.html The i386 version works perfectly on my laptop but the X86_64 version just gives a black screen on my desktop. -- Dave

Re: [opensuse] Vmware won't compile because kernel-source-2.6.18.1-24.4 != kernel-default-2.6.18.1

2006-11-19 Thread Dave Cotton
it. That's what I've had to do to overcome this problem with asterisk zaptel drivers and ndiswrapper, after that vmware had no problems. I'm sure this will cause lots of queries on various lists. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [opensuse-factory] DVD iso?

2006-10-06 Thread Dave Cotton
virtual images are often only on bit torrent even though they are often very small, it's a real PITA that the film/music bunch have killed it for everyone else. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL