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

2008-01-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 21 January 2008 12:30, Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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

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

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

[opensuse] Brother printer

2008-01-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
I recently downloaded instructions from Brother which were supposed to apply to the HL-2040 printer. In the examples they gave, the printer model appeared to be HL-2030. I changed that in the instructions, as I followed them, to be HL-2040. Perhaps this was in error, and I should have left it

Re: [opensuse] Brother printer

2008-01-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 13 January 2008 21:37, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-13-08 21:21]: I recently downloaded instructions from Brother which were supposed to apply to the HL-2040 printer. In the examples they gave, the printer model appeared to be HL-2030. I changed

[opensuse] [OT] windows scam

2008-01-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
For those dual booting, or otherwise running Windows, I got this message on my Linux (only) machine: [18:25:52] Update ®: WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION = ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected malware on your computer ! Affected Software: Microsoft

Re: [opensuse] About offtopic posts

2008-01-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 07 January 2008 05:56, Mike McMullin wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:52 +0100, jdd wrote: Besides, the subject says OT, so a reasonably decent filter should flush any OT message for those who detest OT posts. After they get dl'ed from the host, and some people getting the

Re: [opensuse] [OT] windows scam

2008-01-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 07 January 2008 20:42, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 17:31, Doug McGarrett wrote: For those dual booting, or otherwise running Windows, I got this message on my Linux (only) machine: /snip/ Please clarify what you mean by got this message, especially since you

Re: [opensuse] how-to make your linux desktop look like a mac

2007-12-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 28 December 2007 17:13, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 28 December 2007 15:10, Alfredo Cedeño Borges wrote: Can somebody please help me to do this? TIA (Thanks In Advance) http://store.apple.com/ Alfredo. RRS I don't think this is what Alfredo had in mind! --doug

[opensuse] file_control

2007-12-18 Thread Doug McGarrett
Quick question: does deleting an icon on the desktop remove the file, or does it work like Windows, where it just erases the icon? Thanx--doug Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[opensuse] Fwd: can't open file, why?

2007-12-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Mw] Need one hand for school project in Columbus , Ohio Date: Friday 14 December 2007 07:10 From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David M. Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you mean that pulse

Re: [opensuse] How to turn off screen blanking?

2007-12-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 18:37, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 23:25 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have checked and turned off every power saving app under KDE3 on my desktop: openSuSE 10,3. I have set up my screen saver and all works well except, somewhere my

Re: [opensuse] Simpler forum for OpenSUSE?

2007-12-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 03 December 2007 03:47, Tony D'Souza wrote: Hi All: This mailing-list is pitched too high for me. Please point me to any resource for OpenSUSE 10.3 which is simpler to understand. (I do have elementary knowledge of UNIX.) I'm hoping to migrate from WinXP to OpenSUSE 100% once I'm

Re: [opensuse] linutop

2007-12-01 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 01 December 2007 02:33, jdd wrote: I just find this: http://www.linutop.com/blog/photos.html it works with ubuntu (and also Mandriva) I don't know if this small computer, not so cheap (approx 300$, but nearly 400¤ in France with Mandriva) is really interesting. Is there an

Re: [opensuse] CD titles artist how to?

2007-11-23 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 23 November 2007 10:18, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 12:23 +0100, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Freitag, 23. November 2007 03:43:04 schrieb Teruel de Campo MD: I made a wav files of vinyl records. Then I burned those wav using k3b. I fill the spaces for artist title

Re: [opensuse] addresses

2007-11-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 09:59, jim barnes wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 23:08:26 Doug McGarrett wrote: Using SuSE 9.3: There are a bunch of bad adresses in KMail, which are almost surely my own fault, but where are these stored, and how can I correct or eliminate them

Re: [opensuse] addresses

2007-11-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 14:00, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2007 schrieb Doug McGarrett: [...] There are a bunch of bad adresses in KMail, which are almost surely my own fault, but where are these stored, and how can I correct or eliminate them?   [...] ~/.kde

[opensuse] addresses

2007-11-20 Thread Doug McGarrett
Hi, all-- Using SuSE 9.3: There are a bunch of bad adresses in KMail, which are almost surely my own fault, but where are these stored, and how can I correct or eliminate them?   On a similar question, there are a whole lot of Google inquiries that I would just as soon not have recorded on the

[opensuse] Jaron's World, Discover Mag, Dec. [OT]

2007-11-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
An interesting comment on proprietary software in the referenced mag. Should probably be on the OT list, but I don't get that. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] How to tell SuSE folks to NOT include yealink driver in their distro

2007-11-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 05 November 2007 11:06, Chris Worley wrote: The USB TelBox (allows your phone to send/receive both POTS and Skype calls) only works with the drivers from kb2skype.sourceforge.net. The Yealink driver only works with a closed-source front-end that (supposedly) worked in an old version

Re: [opensuse] Installing windows last

2007-11-01 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 13:42, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 07:14 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I have openSUSE setup right now on my machine that has 2 mirrored 80gb disks. I just got another disk 80gb disk but I would like

[opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
Trying to open a .wmv file in Kaffeine, it says no plug-in available. Is there one, and if so, where, and what's it called? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] Installing windows last

2007-10-26 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 26 October 2007 07:14, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I have openSUSE setup right now on my machine that has 2 mirrored 80gb disks. I just got another disk 80gb disk but I would like to install windows on it. My question is, is it possible to install windows on

Re: [opensuse] New Printer Info

2007-10-23 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 06:06, G T Smith wrote: Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I am looking for users' experience with printers under OpenSuSE. My Lexmark Optra E310 gave up the ghost, and I am looking for a replacement. I need it for small jobs (10 pages or fewer) but with reasonable

Re: [opensuse] Re: New Printer Info

2007-10-23 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 11:19, Eberhard Roloff wrote: G T Smith wrote: Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I am looking for users' experience with printers under OpenSuSE. My Lexmark Optra E310 gave up the ghost, and I am looking for a replacement. I need it for small jobs (10 pages or fewer)

Re: [opensuse] CD not found

2007-10-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 22 October 2007 00:04, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 10:21:16 pm Doug McGarrett wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:03, Don Raboud wrote: ... What is the output of /usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom That should tell you what the CD device is to help narrow things

Re: [opensuse] CD not found

2007-10-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 22 October 2007 00:04, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 10:21:16 pm Doug McGarrett wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:03, Don Raboud wrote: ... What is the output of /usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom That should tell you what the CD device is to help narrow things

[opensuse] CD not found

2007-10-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
I just tried to play an audio CD. I got a message that said CD not found, try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root. So I tried that. Here is what I got (long, sorry about that) cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Xiphophorus Report bugs

Re: [opensuse] CD not found

2007-10-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:03, Don Raboud wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:03, Doug McGarrett wrote: I just tried to play an audio CD. I got a message that said CD not found, try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root. So I tried that. Here is what I got (long, sorry about

Re: [opensuse] Microphone

2007-10-15 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 15 October 2007 16:48, Kai Ponte wrote: I just realized that I have a microphone on my laptop (Compaq nw9440). What software would I use to do - say - voice messaging or IM with voice? Does Kopete handle voice or would I need Gaim. I'm not even sure where to start looking but this

Re: [opensuse] Another problem with KMail

2007-10-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:18, Clive wrote: On Saturday 13 October 2007 10:59:41 Clive wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem in Kmail version 3.5.7 release 72 in SuSE 10.3 ? Going through my mail an deleting the mail I tried to empty the wastebin only to find that 12 messages are

Re: [opensuse] windows that won't wobble with desktop effects enabled

2007-10-13 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:11, Frank Hale wrote: Everything should wobble if anything does. I don't have netbeans here, but xterm wobbles like jelly on my screen gnome apps, firefox all wobble as expected when moved. xterm, xcalc, xman, java swing based apps do not wobble at all when

[opensuse] phone number for Novell

2007-10-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
Good evening: I tried twice to order 10.3 on the 'net, but I kept running into a loop, and could not order the product. I did not see a phone number there. Does anybody have a number for Novell/SuSE? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides.

Re: [opensuse] Kmail locking pc

2007-10-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 11 October 2007 10:12, Tero Pesonen wrote: On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Clive Rogers wrote: Hi Carlos, On Tuesday 09 October 2007 03:56, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-10-08 at 23:49 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: Has anyone found a way of stopping Kmail from locking the

Re: [opensuse] Now for a really simple question

2007-10-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 07 October 2007 19:01, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007 15:06, Stevens wrote: I hate it when a really stupid problem stumps me. How do I get Firefox to open a kmail window when I click on a mailto link? It works ok with one of the users on this system but

Re: [opensuse] Where 10.3 DVD?

2007-10-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
Gabriel . wrote: 2007/10/5, Clint Tinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is the problem. I have selected the http/ftp download under section 3 and currently I am getting a page error but earlier when it worked, I was only given a 153 MB (that number might be in error but close) .iso file for

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 13:13 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they

Re: [opensuse] Openoffice

2007-10-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 18:43, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 14:48 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I believe that he has. He was not aware of the splitting of the different parts of the OpenOffice_org package. MOST of us were not. When MAJOR changes, as this was, are

Re: [opensuse] Sending FAX

2007-09-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:19, James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: 'Learn something all time time with Linux. ;) I started to look for a decent GUI FAX application that will send FAXs via a FAX/Modem and am amazed that there's nothing to be had.unless it's a halafax client,

Re: [opensuse] Sending FAX

2007-09-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 27 September 2007 14:38, James Knott wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 27 2007 10:36, James Knott wrote: The Thursday 2007-09-27 at 07:19 -0400, James Knott wrote: I know of many businesses here that do not have email, but they do have a fax. And

Re: [opensuse] A subject line crashes email program

2007-09-25 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 16:40, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 25 2007 22:32, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-09-25 at 22:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I was browsing the spam folder, and I saw one with this subject line: Subject: **)( *)(!+**]]:[]:!! well, it crashes

Re: [opensuse] PCI USRobotics FAX/Modem for Linux.

2007-09-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:41, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:24 -0400, BandiPat wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007, Fred A. Miller wrote: 'Never needed to FAX much till now, so I've looking for a NON-Win modem and found this one USR has made. It's a tad pricey,

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.3

2007-09-20 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 20 September 2007 13:20, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 17:31 +0200, Michael Skiba wrote: However I just wanted to say, that openoffice.org also offers downloads of the latest OOo versions ;) (also rpms) Which will not have all Novell modifications. Some

Re: [opensuse] No openSUSE 10.4

2007-09-15 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 15 September 2007 00:24, Tom Patton wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 08:32 +0200, jdd wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Maybe this time we can get rid of the point release silliness like Fedora did. Call it 11. Call the next 12, and the next 13 true. the .x should be reserved to

Re: [opensuse] Eclipse IDE not working in 10.3

2007-09-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 13:22, Bogdan Cristea wrote: It seems that Eclipse installed from openSuSE 10.3 repositories does not work on my Athlon64. Has anyone found a solution to this? What is Eclipse, and why should I need to know? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they

Re: [opensuse] windows does not recognize second vfat partition on usb drive, if the first one is ext2 or ext3

2007-09-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 03:24, Pavel Nemec wrote: Now, the problem is, that windows XP can not recognize the vfat partition. It recognizes only the first ext2, and can not access it (of course). I made some tests, and if the vfat partition is the first one, XP is ok, as well as

[opensuse] jpeg?

2007-09-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
Is it possible to open .jpeg files on 9.3? Someone sent me a whole batch, and they wouldn't open. I haven't had trouble with pictures before, but I never noticed what the file format was. Thanx--doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.

Re: [opensuse] list cops blaming top posts

2007-09-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 08 September 2007 18:48, Kai Ponte wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 11:42, jdd wrote: Billie Walsh wrote: (nothing interesting) very long thread. amusing to jump in from time to time. do you mean to continue until christmas? I hope they at least get to some exciting

Re: [opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 03:10, Clayton wrote: In any event, peak power consumption occurs only during 100% CPU utilization (and that power consumption depends somewhat on the mix of instructions, i.e., which portions of the CPU's processing logic is active). When the CPU is idle,

Re: [opensuse] printing emails with loooooong lines from kmail ...

2007-08-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 03:09, Daniel Bauer wrote: On Mittwoch, 22. August 2007, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2007 00:36 schrieb Ken Jennings: Yeah, reeeal annoying. I went through every option for configuring KMail and every dialog related to printing and didn't see

Re: [opensuse] when? - Oct. 4

2007-08-19 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 19 August 2007 11:43, Ben Kevan wrote: Don't listen to Glenn regarding this issue. I have stock in Novell :o) Just bought Wed when they were dropping a bit this week, friday was a nice up.. Don't expect this to be a short term stock of course, as the last few years it hasn't had

[opensuse] when?

2007-08-18 Thread Doug McGarrett
Quite a few months ago, it was stated that 10.3 would arrive in August. August is well into ending, and nothing has been mentioned. Has the schedule changed, or what's up? Will it be possible to buy a desktop version on media, with any sort of manual? Where? --doug

Re: [opensuse] keyboards, was: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 09 August 2007 21:52, James Knott wrote: Robert Smits wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote: Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without any encoder logic. I designed built my own encoder and used that keyboard with my IMSAI

Re: [opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 09 August 2007 03:48, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 05:03, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Hi One missing thing in your list imho: How silent will your computer need to be and what will you be able to spend

Re: [opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 05:03, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Hi One missing thing in your list imho: How silent will your computer need to be and what will you be able to spend for silence? Anyone has any input to this? Any sites that can help me with the

Re: [opensuse] Newbie question - How stable is OpenSuSE vs SLES9

2007-07-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
Greg Freemyer wrote: On 7/30/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, July 30, 2007 6:51 am, John Mok wrote: Hi, It is a newbie question. Is OpenSuSE is comparable to SLES9 in terms of Stability, like CentOS to RHEL? or it is a desktop Linux distribution? Well, you're

Re: [opensuse] Re: Ot O. (What the heck is this?)

2007-07-23 Thread Doug McGarrett
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Re: [opensuse] Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400W printer

2007-07-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:57, Jos van Kan wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Have any of you used this machine with SuSE 9/3, using the driver available on the net, named Minolta-PagePro_1400W- min12xxw.ppd and found it to work without any screwing around? Tiger has a sale on them

[opensuse] Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400W printer

2007-07-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
Have any of you used this machine with SuSE 9/3, using the driver available on the net, named Minolta-PagePro_1400W- min12xxw.ppd and found it to work without any screwing around? Tiger has a sale on them. Or if there's a different driver, then what is it, and how does it work? Remember, I'm

Re: [opensuse] GoogleEarth

2007-06-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 22 June 2007 08:16, Pueblo Native wrote: Daniel Feiglin wrote: Has anyone managed to get the current Linux release of GoogleEarth running under 10.2? It crashes with a double seg error. With the export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.10 hack, It claims that it cannot find various shared

Re: [opensuse] Repo for Freetype with BCI/sub-pixel hinting enabled

2007-06-19 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:39, Pascal Bleser wrote: Michael wrote: Kevin Donnelly wrote: On Mon 18 June 2007 22:12:33 Michael wrote: I'm thinking of trying out 10.2, but was wondering if there's a repository that includes a freetype package with the bytecode interpreter and sub-pixel

Re: [opensuse] What Does This Mean For Our Future?

2007-06-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 11 June 2007 09:01, Stevens wrote: Take a look at this and you'll start to understand what our great grandchildren will grow up with and think of as normal. Or, Practical Applications For Eye Candy http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html I envision (no pun

Re: [opensuse] Help me to buy a new laptop

2007-06-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 04 June 2007 18:31, John Andersen wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007, Dinar Valeev wrote: Hello, i've decided to buy a new laptop. I'm looking for a small lightweight 12,1'' laptop based on a new Intel santa-rosa platform. I have 5 models. Acer TM6292 HP 2510p HP 2710p IBM

[opensuse] copying CD--more

2007-06-01 Thread Doug McGarrett
I suppose I broke the thread, but I have no choice--the Linux machine is apart, and I have to write in Windows. I put the new writer drive in the machine, but I probably don't have the master/slave thing set right. The original, read-only drive has S L A available, and is jumper-set on A. The

Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

2007-05-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:15, Ken Jennings wrote: On Friday 2007-05-25 08:41, Kai Ponte wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 7:57 pm, Pueblo Native wrote: I'm putting together a document listing alternatives for Microsoft Publisher, and so far I can only think of Scribus. Are there any

Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

2007-05-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 15:56, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Onsdag 30 maj 2007 21:47 skrev Ken Jennings: On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote: [...] I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would depend upon circumstances. There have to be UNIX

Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

2007-05-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:45, Pueblo Native wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Yes, I know UNIX programs are horrendously expensive, but they are such because the purchasers are going to make a lot of money using them. (Does the expression Microsoft ring a bell?) If you really need a real

[opensuse] copying music CD's

2007-05-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
Since my Win machine crashed, and I am now stuck with XP/sp2, a lot of software no longer works, including Roxio CD Creator, which came free with a drive, and now sells for $100, I am going to put a CD recorder in my Linux machine. What is the program or command to copy a music CD, so I can play

Re: [opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany

2007-05-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 28 May 2007 14:55, Rauch Christian wrote: Thomas Meindl wrote: Reading the news I came across the legal issue of a new law in Germany. Because of this, I removed today one piece of software from my (small) repository. Let's see if the Bundesrat will use his revocation right on

Re: [opensuse] Bye Bye Vista - Hello issue with SUSE...

2007-05-23 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 20:44, Mike McMullin wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:42 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: I think you should be using the smp kernel. What kind of a machine do you have? Anything in the system logs? IIRC for 10.2 the kernel default is the smp kernel. What happens if

Re: [opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?

2007-05-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:01, Jerry Houston wrote: Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at activating device mapper ...) and high frequency FireFox

Re: [opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:22, M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:45, James Hatridge wrote: #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. Well, that is what I thought too. And I am willing to pay a distributor for linux (Novell, whoever) because I value their time,

Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems

2007-05-11 Thread Doug McGarrett
Registration Account wrote: The current default file system for any new installation is now ex3. I have a RAID0 over 2 x 186GIG + 2 x 20GB over 2 HDD. The current file system format is reiser + Encryption. Previous to that I had the same RAID0 config however I was using ex3. The / partition is

Re: [opensuse] Google hosts as Ira Hyman introduces PC LinuxOS

2007-05-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
Nick Zentena wrote: On Saturday 05 May 2007 21:54, Pueblo Native wrote: Also, the inexpensive nature of Linux compared to Windows only compares Linux to legitimate' versions of Windows, not to the pirated software that is just as free (if technically illegal). You miss the point.

Re: [opensuse] Google hosts as Ira Hyman introduces PC LinuxOS

2007-05-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 06 May 2007 21:09, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-06-07 20:27]: [...] You can buy a computer from Fry's that does not have any OS on it, and then put SuSE or some other OS on the machine. I have one like that, running SuSE, and it works fine

[opensuse] Thunderbird [OT]

2007-05-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
Can anybody tell me how to get Thunderbird to create and use an Outbox, that will preserve messages you send? This is on an XP machine which is giving me fits in all kinds of ways. TIA--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 08 April 2007 09:31, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 22:14 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: I need to thoroughly cleanse the system of all printers, of any type or serial number and then start over. How do I do that? In cups, remove or delete printer. If kde doesn't

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 30 April 2007 23:07, Kai Ponte wrote: On Monday 30 April 2007 06:46:09 pm Doug McGarrett wrote: I don't mean to piggyback on this thread, but it seems easiest, and is not really OT. Yeahright... /jane curtian mode I don't know who jane curtian might be, sorry-- Having had

Re: [opensuse] mail

2007-04-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 22 April 2007 00:32, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-21-07 21:59]: [...] What he doesn't seem to grasp is that KMail doesn't delete email from the directory it's in unless you tell it to do so, ... What he doesn't understand is the difference

Re: [opensuse] mail

2007-04-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 21 April 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote: The problem with the KMail I have mentioned before:  when you save a mail to the documents, or wherever it goes, it copies itself to the screen under the existing picture instead of just

Re: [opensuse] mail

2007-04-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
. Am I making sense? If anyone here has used Eudora, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, and perhaps you can explain it better than I can. I like KMail. I would like it better if I could save certain notes without the goofy problem. -doug On Saturday 21 April 2007 18:23, Doug McGarrett

[opensuse] chipmunk basic

2007-04-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
I have a copy of chipmunk basic, but I don't know how to run it or use it. Can anyone here help? I have a bunch of Basic programs from way back in Dos world, and even CPM times. I'd like to be able to run these. These are on floppies formatted in DOS style, so can Linux read them? I guess

[opensuse] mail

2007-04-20 Thread Doug McGarrett
Hi-- I am surprised to find that I actually like the KMail program just a little bit more than the Eudora program. I have my Windows machine back on line, more or less, and I have been using both machines and programs. The problem with the KMail I have mentioned before: when you save a mail

[opensuse] OT: Win XP help--where?

2007-04-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
Obviously not here, but where can I get some help to set up Win XP SP2, which looks nothing like my old SP1 that crashed and burned without any backup. My first impression: I hate it! But I need a few things that Windows does. (If Borders has a nice manual, not $40, I'll just go buy it. My

Re: [opensuse] OT: Win XP help--where?

2007-04-14 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 15 April 2007 00:20, Mike McMullin wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 23:45 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Obviously not here, but where can I get some help to set up Win XP SP2, which looks nothing like my old SP1 that crashed and burned without any backup. My first impression: I hate

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE wallpapers vote proposal

2007-04-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 12 April 2007 02:02, Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! It's too bad that openSUSE 10.2 shipped with poor wallpapers, and the default one was not beautyful. In the past, SUSE Linux 9.1 and 10.0 shipped with BEAUTYFUL wallpapers, installed by default ! This is important since this

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-10 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 02:51, jdd wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: You're right, Pat. WordStar debuted on cpm, and it was a while to get to know the key-strokes to move around and modify things, nope: it was written on the top of the screen :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 09 April 2007 01:54, dwain wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2007 23:45, M Harris wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 00:26, dwain wrote: How do I get to the man pages again? Actually, they are mostly obsolete... ... you want to load and use info these days But

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 08 April 2007 22:44, dwain wrote: How long is a distribution (i.e. 10.2) supported with patches and updates before I need to upgrade to the newest distribution? Is it prudent to upgrade when the new distribution is released from a RC? Does opensuse go from beta to release candidate

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-09 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 09 April 2007 20:15, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-09-07 18:06]: [...] The default keybindings are based loosely on WordStar, which had a lot of clones that used the same commands. which, iirc, originated on cp/m. After learning Wordstar

Re: [opensuse] Migrating from Thunderbird

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:17, Bob S wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 18:51, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:01, Matthew Stringer wrote: Hi, /snip/ I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it possible to import my mail from

Re: [opensuse] Migrating from Thunderbird

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 07 April 2007 21:40, Doug McGarrett wrote: Apparently not.  Under message list, there are 3 Option boxes, none of them referring to fonts.  Bummer.  I got everything else to a nice readable size, but the message list will not, until after you've already opened the message, by which

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 07 April 2007 05:36, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Lørdag 07 april 2007 02:26 skrev Doug McGarrett: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: [..] Please somebody, tell me how to salvage this mess--in plain English, one step at a time. doug HI Doug and list

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 07 April 2007 05:36, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Lørdag 07 april 2007 02:26 skrev Doug McGarrett: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: [..] Please somebody, tell me how to salvage this mess--in plain English, one step at a time. doug HI Doug and list

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 07 April 2007 06:50, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 01:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Well, the password thing seemed not to have worked. When I went to the print manager, and it asked for a password, it burped and said it didn't recognise the pw. I gave

Re: [opensuse] printer problem partly solved

2007-04-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Saturday 07 April 2007 22:25, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2007 06:50, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 01:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Well, the password thing seemed not to have worked. When I went to the print manager, and it asked for a password

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 21:17 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: not tried, not interested There are only three communications, and they did not seem helpful. Used Google: opensuse list archive lppasswd WHAT!!! First

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 21:17 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: not tried, not interested There are only three communications, and they did not seem helpful. Used Google: opensuse list archive lppasswd WHAT!!! First

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 06 April 2007 22:11, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:16 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: You do not listen. We already told you several times, several people, how to do it, you do not listen. First

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Friday 06 April 2007 22:11, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:16 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: You do not listen. We already told you several times, several people, how to do it, you do not listen. First

Re: [opensuse] Migrating from Thunderbird

2007-04-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:01, Matthew Stringer wrote: Hi, /snip/ I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this? What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux? Regards Matthew Another email

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