[opensuse] 10.3: thunderbird does not open weblinks

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I am using 10.3/32bit with KDE and use Thunderbird/Mozilla for Mail and Surfing the web. I did a clean install from scratch, not an update. However I preserved my /home/username directory. With 10.2 I had thunderbird open firefox when I clicked on a web link inside a mail. Now I found to

[opensuse] Re: 10.3: thunderbird does not open weblinks

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi, I am using 10.3/32bit with KDE and use Thunderbird/Mozilla for Mail and Surfing the web. I did a clean install from scratch, not an update. However I preserved my /home/username directory. With 10.2 I had thunderbird open firefox when

[opensuse] Re: Adding user images using Personal settings window in KDE

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Adam Jimerson wrote: I'm trying to add images to user accounts using the Personal Settings tool in KDE on my 10.3 box, but I seem to ran into a snag. I'm going through Configure Desktop - Security Privacy - Password User Account. Once there I click on the box to add an image, its says

[opensuse] Re: MPlayer documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-16-07 12:01]: You work tooo hard: rpm -qd MPlayer good one, I haven't used that, but will:^) tks, really good one. But how will I know that the MPlayer rpm is written with capital M and captal P? For example:

[opensuse] 10.3:order of software repositories

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I am working with 10.3/32 bit. First of all congratulations to the best linux that I ever saw. Much easier, many things much quicker (look at package management) and overall it is polished greatly, I am amazed. Now: I installed from DVD and after the install I copied the DVD as an iso to my

[opensuse] Re: 10.3:order of software repositories

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Sloan wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:23 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Now, my impression is that although many files are on the DVD (iso), very often, the Internet repositories are queried and used for downloading. Wouldn't you know it: my problem

[opensuse] Re: 10.3: thunderbird does not open weblinks

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: Hi, Eberhard Roloff wrote: That's not the proposed solution (at least not mine). I haven't used Thunderbird on 10.3 for production but it should still work, if firefox is set as your default http url-handler in gconf. Could you please check if that's the case

[opensuse] Re: 10.3: thunderbird does not open weblinks

2007-10-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/17/2007 03:43 AM, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Done. It does not work from klick in TB to open a weblink in FF. Did you close and reopen Tbird? In the meantime I also changed the KDE default Applications for email and browser to Thunderbird and Firefox

[opensuse] subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

2007-10-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, The ongoing issue of ugly fonts after the installation now has been brought up multiple times. Indeed, the workaround that was given by using http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting works greatly. I tried on 10.2 and read that the brand new shining 10.3 needs it, just as well. My

[opensuse] Re: subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

2007-10-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 8 2007 16:44, Eberhard Roloff wrote: My question: Why on earth is this not included in the default out of the box installation? Because some people have CRTs, and Subpixel Rendering looks horrible there. I agree that CRTs are around anywhere. But this does

[opensuse] Re: subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

2007-10-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 09:44:38 am Eberhard Roloff wrote: ... -What about the infamous Novell/MS deal? I thought that it was done to prevent exactly such things from happening? If previous 10k messages about this topic wasn't enough to explain, than nothing will. I

[opensuse] Re: subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

2007-10-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Stefan Hundhammer wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 18:11, Aristidis Zoutsos wrote: Isn't it possible to be an international and a European version DVD? And in what way would that stop a US-based company from filing a lawsuit against another US-based company that is responsible for all that?

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 AWESOME!!

2007-10-07 Thread Eberhard Roloff
primm wrote: Hype and expectation. This really does seem like a hobbyists only upgrade. Most are. However, someone working in an office (or, like me, who use Linux as their home desktop) there are many cool improvements. I'm not sure which desktop (KDE or GNOME) you're running, but if you let

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 64-bit.

2007-10-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Lior Avital wrote: On Friday 05 October 2007 05:14:17 Fred A. Miller wrote: Is the 64-bit release any better than 10.2; i.e., modules, apps., performance, etc.? Thanks! Fred -- This message originated from a Linux computer using Open Source software: openSuSE Linux 10.2. No Gates, no

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 64-bit.

2007-10-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jay C Vollmer wrote: On Friday 05 October 2007 02:51, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hey, just completed a fresh install of 10.3 (Gnome) and a move from Ubuntu, OpenSuse 10.3 is really FAST. It utilizes my AMD X2 cpu to the max (I guess AMD is more than just a sponsor). The hardware support

[opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Per Jessen wrote: Richard Creighton wrote: I cranked up 10.2 on a 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2? I've got a 486DX2 machine running as firewall/gateway, but it's stuck on SuSE 7.1 - I

[opensuse] Re: ipcop

2007-09-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Per Jessen wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Per Jessen wrote: I've got a 486DX2 machine running as firewall/gateway, but it's stuck on SuSE 7.1 - I would certainly be interested in getting it upgraded to 10.2. The 256Mb yast memory requirement might be a problem, but I'm sure I'll find

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice questions

2007-09-28 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: I believe it is just a file. openintro_suse.bmp in the program directory. BTW, here it is green. Do you mean you want the blue back? If so replace the above file with the old one. It is just a splash screen, only on the screen for a few seconds with 2.3 (nice job

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

2007-09-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Damon, Damon Register wrote: 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, but should work well, just in case someone else is in need of one. 'Ordered tonight. I am planning to visit

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

2007-09-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Damon, Damon Register wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: If the new PC will have a serial port, imho your best bet is to buy a (read: any) external modem. I guess it has been so long since I had to use a modem myself that I completely forgot about that option. That is an excellent idea

[opensuse] Re: Thinking about the 10-month release schedule

2007-09-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Greg Freemyer wrote: All, I installed 10.2 on a couple machines this month. Just realized they will go out of support in 15 months. Amazing how a 2-year commitment turns into a 15-month reality. Also, given the recent release cycle, only 2 new openSUSE releases will come out in that

[opensuse] Re: how do i unsubscribe

2007-09-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Henne Vogelsang wrote: Hi, On Friday, September 21, 2007 at 14:29:43, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 03:13:35 schrieb Aaron Kulkis: Just how stupid are you? May I return this question? No you may not ;) Aaron is no longer on this list. Im sorry but it seems

[opensuse] Re: Something wrong with opensuse.org's web sites?

2007-09-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Sun, 16 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I got this yesterday or the day before as well and it is continuing now, in my case through the YAST software update/installer app. This is a general subject that has been bothering me, specifically I don't understand why pkg

[opensuse] Re: IDE for Mono

2007-09-10 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kai Ponte wrote: I'm getting kind of tired of fighting Java for one of my apps. Since most of my staff is C# trained, I'm thinking it is time to switch and leverage their knowledge. Anybody know of a good IDE for Mono? I know there's the MonoDevelop editor, but I've yet to find an IDE

[opensuse] Re: No icons

2007-09-07 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bogdan Cristea wrote: I am using openSuSE 10.2 with KDE from DVD GM distribution. I have changed the kernel to 2.6.22.5-8 version due to some issues with ACPI. I have two distinct partitions for root and home dir and my guess is that there are some configuration files left behind from

[opensuse] Re: USB IDE disk caddies [Was: Tape Drive for personal usage]

2007-09-07 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-09-07 at 08:45 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Somebody knows of an external ide-usb box supporting smart (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)? You'll have to go with an eSATA enclosure My MB doesn't have sata. With e.x. the

[opensuse] list cops blaming top posts (was: Re: No icons)

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html I am also happy that I had something to add to the discussion of the actual problem. ;- regards Eberhard Stevens wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:06, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi please stop top posting. It makes it very hard to follow

[opensuse] Re: SuSE 10.2 with ASUS motherboard

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
clive wrote: Hello Group, Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it. Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics. SuSE 10.2 uses VESA which is only 1024 and 16 colours. After around 10 mins

[opensuse] Re: SuSE 10.2 with ASUS motherboard

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Dave Howorth wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: clive wrote: Hello Group, Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it. Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics. snip Best wishes, Clive. From

[opensuse] Re: list cops blaming top posts

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: List cops wax and wane, just ignore the ridiculous or insulting and keep focused on the technical issue at hand and all will be well. David, this is wise advice, indeed. I accept and happily follow your advice. Consequently I already sent a comprehensive answer to a

[opensuse] Re: list cops blaming top posts

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Stevens wrote: Eberhard, and others: I view the list's messages individually in kmail, not as a newsgroup and not with a threaded view. It matters not to me if someone top posts, bottom posts or inserts comments in the included text. In fairness to those who make the mistake of top

[opensuse] Re: list cops blaming top posts

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Sunny wrote: In support to Eberhard: On 9/6/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that there is a bit of confusion here. On the one hand we talk of standards and on the other speak of accomodation. I submit that the de facto standard is the way that millions of emailers send email,

[opensuse] Re: list cops blaming top posts

2007-09-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
to see how a top-poster might feel. ;-)) I feel lousy and will not accomodate it. Eberhard Roloff wrote: Sunny wrote: In support to Eberhard: [...] Cheers, and let the this thread die, please. Hi Sunny, per PM, since this thread indeed deserves to die. Thank you very much

[opensuse] Re: Counter needed

2007-09-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Jerry Houston wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Linux is not Windows, so kindly quit offering solutions which are most appropriate for that horrific abortion of an O/S. Responses like this make the writer appear to be very young, or very inexperienced with computers, or both.

[opensuse] Re: No icons

2007-09-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Cristea Bogdan wrote: I have already tried this. I loose my configurations, but I don't get back the usual look of my desktop. On 9/5/07, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bogdan Cristea wrote: I have already posted two messages about this issue with no sollution. However, I will try

[opensuse] Re: No icons

2007-09-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Cristea Bogdan wrote: Hi After creating a new account the problem repeated after some time, but at the beginning the desktop was usable. It could be related to a hardware failure, I agree with that Bogdan Hi please stop top posting. It makes it very hard to follow the discussions.

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Richard Atcheson wrote: When asked about getting a non defective board they told him to take it or leave it or he could purchase another board. He did, and gave the ASUS to someother poor fool. No ASUS boards in either of our computer rooms again. I fully agree that ASUS and

Re: [opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Matthew Stringer wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: I fully agree that ASUS and (feel free to insert any other brand name here) in fact do supply faulty hardware and underdone Firmware and BIOS editions. I should have mentioned that I also buy ultraconservatively. I.E. I never buy

[opensuse] Re: XEN Help Please

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote: Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how reliable it really is? Server should run

[opensuse] Re: Fixed: Firefox won't show any webpages

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Wilfred van Velzen wrote: [...[ Program that is changing it's behavior like that might be signal of failing hardware, It's a brand new machine. So unlikely, but not impossible... or your ISP DNS server was slow and Firefox considered that IPv6 should be used instead. Very unlikely...

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
BandiPat wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007, Matthew Stringer wrote: Hi, [...] Couple of things I've not pinned down, main one is the motherboard, I'm leaning towards an Asus P5K3 Deluxe as it ticks all the boxes and looks sufficiently high quality to last.

[opensuse] Re: Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: BandiPat wrote: You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. There are better choices. if you don not mind, could you kindly name them? The real point is that ASUS support

[opensuse] Re: Tape Drive for personal usage

2007-08-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello Guys, Do anyone of you use any tape drive for personal backup? I personally use a 2nd internal hard-drive where I perform nightly backups but twice a year I backup to offline media (DVD-R DL media)...but right now I'm reaching 100 GB of data...that's a bunch

[opensuse] Re: Screen Rotate

2007-08-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
ka1ifq wrote: I have a dell computer with a built in Nvidia Ge Force 6150 LE. In yast Hardware - Graphics Card Monitor - Monitor - Display 1 - Options , there is a button to rotate the screen but it is greyed out. I think I installed the Nvidia 3d driver at some time

[opensuse] Re: home partition is full

2007-08-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Sunday, 26. August 2007, jdd wrote: Cristea Bogdan wrote: My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? specially

[opensuse] Re: Screen Rotate

2007-08-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
ka1ifq wrote: [...] Do you see the cool NVIDIA logo when your PC boots up? If not, the Nvidia drivers are not ionstalled, if yes, you most probably do not have the nvidia drivers installed. Then proceed from there. regards Eberhard Yes, I do get the Nvidia splash screen.

[opensuse] Re: Is there a linux based program that can handle .drw files?

2007-08-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ciro Iriarte wrote: 2007/7/25, Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On July 25, 2007 01:38:27 pm ianseeks wrote: On Wednesday 25 Jul 2007, Robert Smits wrote: Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which was a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out my lot, my septic

[opensuse] Re: Is there a linux based program that can handle .drw files?

2007-08-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Ciro Iriarte wrote: 2007/7/25, Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On July 25, 2007 01:38:27 pm ianseeks wrote: On Wednesday 25 Jul 2007, Robert Smits wrote: Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which was a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out

[opensuse] Re: Printing photos easily.

2007-08-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
pelibali wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:14:52 -0400 ken . wrote: On 07/25/2007 05:01 PM somebody named pelibali wrote: ... At the end we managed to print the above four images via an OpenOffice.org template my boyfriend prepared few months ago and like that we succeeded. With Gimp I had

[opensuse] Re: PCMCIA fax modem card install

2007-08-22 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: Have a older thinkpad with an internal softmodem. Still working on a working driver but in the meantime i would like to use my PCMCIA Thinfax modem. This modem I still use regularly with my HP200LX palmtop. The modem seems to be recognized but I have no

[opensuse] pinting simultaneously to several printers (was: Re: drucken auf mehrere Drucker)

2007-08-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Johannes Meixner wrote: Hallo, On Aug 21 08:28 Daniel Gompf wrote (shortened): ich muss aus Zwecken der Archivierung alle Dokumente die auf einem bestimmten Drucker gedruckt werden gleichzeitig noch in einer Datei (am besten tif, kann aber auch gerne ps sein) ablegen.

[opensuse] Re: Unable to connect to internet in China

2007-08-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Michael Skiba wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 18:38 schrieb Jacky Woo: Hello guy, I'm now in China and is now using LAN in my flat instead of ADSL. My OS is openSuSE 10.2 (KDE) and my default internet explorer is Firefox. But when I tried to connect to internet, it alwasy failed and a

[opensuse] printing simultaneously to several printers (was: Re: drucken auf mehrere Drucker)]

2007-08-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Johannes Meixner wrote: Hallo, On Aug 21 08:28 Daniel Gompf wrote (shortened): ich muss aus Zwecken der Archivierung alle Dokumente die auf einem bestimmten Drucker gedruckt werden gleichzeitig noch in einer Datei (am besten tif, kann aber auch gerne ps sein) ablegen.

[opensuse] Re: AGP vs PCI-E

2007-08-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Chris Arnold wrote: OK, so i got a nVidia 5700 agp card but i have a dell optiplex 260 and i should have known that a full size video card would not work in this proprietary system (this system takes half-height cards) :( ~ Just out of my curiosity: Please name a few non

[opensuse] Re: DIA export of pdf

2007-08-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Greg Freemyer wrote: All, I'm trying to export a dia diagram as a pdf. It is die'ing when I try to do that. Do I need to install something else? === Detail dia sys:1: GtkWarning: idle activate multiple times without clearing the folder obje ct

[opensuse] Re: how to use this with thunderbird?

2007-08-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 14 2007 23:16, Jacky Woo wrote: I got millions of emails these days and no idea how to reply... How to do it? Generally, using the Reply button. Jan and, rarely and with caution and only, if it makes sense to you, you can also use the Reply All Button.

[opensuse] Re: how to use this with thunderbird?

2007-08-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Cristian Rodriguez wrote: Jacky Woo escribió: I got millions of emails these days and no idea how to reply... How to do it? Use the reply-to-all button and remove the excess recipient. this lists unfortunately have a behaviuor that no massively deployed, real life email client supports.

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Doug McGarrett wrote: Fully agreed Although I confess being a silent PC geek and there is hardly anything that nerves me more than noisy PCs that I must work with for hours , this does not apply to keyboards. This is typed on a Model M style keyboard with 122 keys that I got from ebay

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
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 for silence? Anyone has any input to this? Any sites that can help

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Hi It's time to find me a new machine for home office and related work. But what is the best choice right now? It's a tough one. I need to balance the requirements and make choices like - 32 or 64? If you are buying secondhand or very low down, this question could

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kaare Rasmussen wrote: If you are buying secondhand or very low down, this question could be discussed, otherwise 64bit is what you get. Aren't there still problems with some applications, plugins for Firefox, binary drivers for graphics adapters? : Just to clarify: I understood the OP's

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Imho, for a desktop nowadays, it comes very close to be the most important consideration since it is the machine's noisiness that either supports or distracts my mental attention. Doesn't it (mostly) come down to CPU heat production? (And btw. which 64 bit CPU is

[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Imho, for a desktop nowadays, it comes very close to be the most important consideration since it is the machine's noisiness that either supports or distracts my mental attention. Doesn't it (mostly) come down to CPU heat production? (And btw. which 64 bit CPU is

[opensuse] Re: DHCPd, how to ignore one particular host...

2007-08-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, On SUSE10.2, I've got my dhcp server running, serving out IPs just perfect. - for a number of reasons, I want one particular client (a windoze box) which is actually set to be a dhcp client, to be ignored by my dhcp server. I know

[opensuse] Re: Copy hard drive

2007-08-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jonathan Arnold wrote: SMART is saying that one of my hard drives is an accident waiting to happen and that I should replace it. No worries there, as I have two 160gb hard drives just sitting around in an unused box I was going to cannibalize anyway. But it does have / and /home on it, so what

[opensuse] Re: DHCPd, how to ignore one particular host...

2007-08-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, On SUSE10.2, I've got my dhcp server running, serving out IPs just perfect. - for a number of reasons, I want one particular client (a windoze box) which is actually set to be a dhcp client, to be ignored by my dhcp server. I know the MAC adr of that

[opensuse] Re: ReplyToList broken in thunderbird in 1.5.0.12

2007-08-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
G T Smith wrote: All, Has anyone else noticed that ReplyToList extension in Thunderbird is no longer working since the last update. Option is greyed out. Does not look as if there is much chance of an update from the author soon however :-( Hi, I am using tbird 2.0 but I remember that

[opensuse] Re: HP PSP

2007-08-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
jdd wrote: Hello, Having to buy a new HP printer/scanner/copier I see an offer for an HP 2575 with HP wifi kit. I have two questions: * I have already an HP PSP 750. I _can't_ both print and scan (openSUSE 10.1). When I try to configure the scanner with Yast, I have a warning of

[opensuse] Re: Baby Shower for Silvia and Zahari's baby

2007-07-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Sunny wrote: On 7/30/07, Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would really be aiding all and presenting a courteous nature if you would translate non-english language posts you respond for those of us who are linguistically deficient :^) I really have no idea how pressing reply

[opensuse] Re: solved: Re: Display resolution 1600x1200 will not accepted by 10.2

2007-07-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jan Albrecht wrote: Okaz, that was quite difficult: My DVI extension card could not handle that resolution. SUB-D works fine. Thanks for your help so far. Jan Then imho you should consider investing into another card. Because: When I compare my 1600x1200 DVI against using the same

[opensuse] Re: Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Giorgos wrote: Hi!!! :-) Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related error! My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in older BIOSes, worked for me ONLY for 1 OS

[opensuse] Re: Question for openSUSE installation disk space. [SOLVED]

2007-07-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Giorgos wrote: Hi!!! :-) Finally, after A LOT of searching, I realized that it was a BIOS related error! My BIOS (6yo) can't properly recognize my IDE 230GB disk. Elite hasn't any BIOS updates and Ontrack utility (from WD site) for LBA support in older BIOSes, worked

[opensuse] Re: Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-27 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kai Ponte wrote: [vmware works great for anything that is busineee related...] yes, it does and it does it remarkably well. Still if you had anything in Linux and consequently could live solely on Linux without using a windows vm, you would get a cost benefit. When using Windows in a VM, you do

[opensuse] Re: A video mode and vmware question [~solved]

2007-06-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-06-24 at 21:38 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: How can I tell Vmware not to change the video mode, or at least, restore the proper video mode, not the one /he/ thinks is the proper one? I'm using VMware-server-1.0.3-44356 maybe you can set the video

[opensuse] Re: XFce4

2007-06-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007, Anders Johansson wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 18:30:30 Chuck Payne wrote: Well, What I was asking, for distro to have everything. I know you can download and there a skeleton rpm on the disc, but I would to see a full version to be there. Well, I

[opensuse] Re: XFce4

2007-06-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
John Andersen wrote: On Monday 25 June 2007, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Indeed I wonder whether this is a good thing. After all when working with XFce4, I want to have something low-fat and fast. I do not want to have all the menue and icon abundance that I get. ;-) Icons cost nothing

[opensuse] Re: Network install frustration

2007-06-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Knott wrote: John Bennett wrote: I have spent the last 8 hours trying to install on a PC with a CD and no floppy. I have an Opensuse 10.2 DVD, and a PC running it on the network, but for the life of me, haven;t been able to connect via FTP, HTTP, SMB, NFS and various other options.

[opensuse] Re: A video mode and vmware question

2007-06-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, In Linux, I have my video mode set to 70 Hz, at 1024*768 (gnome desktop, 10.2). If I start vmware (a windows virtual machine) and select Full Screen, when I come back to linux I find myself at 75Hz, which doesn't work well, forcing me to manually set 70Hz again

[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

2007-06-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Robert, Robert Best wrote: [...] No. I can't find it in YaST2 / Security and Users / Firewall. Yes, you can: ;-) Yast2 / Security and Users / Firewall / Allowed Services (for External Zone) / Service to allow / choose SSH from the List / klick on Add And: you are done!! Don't

[opensuse] Re: Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kai Ponte wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050

[opensuse] Re: Some crazy suggestions for Desktop Effect

2007-06-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 06/20/2007 05:45 AM, CyberOrg wrote: On 6/20/07, Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Lots of crazy things. But, that's all for today :) Isn't it amazing all your ideas are already implemented ;) -J Now I finally figured out a reason to buy a quad-core

[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

2007-06-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Robert Best wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2007 13:16, Kenneth Schneider wrote: As far as the ADSL Speedtouch it should suffice as a firewall for you. Really? Firewall software on the computers connected to the router are superfluous? Robert Hi Robert, well not directly superfluos. For

[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

2007-06-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Robert, we will help you to get along. Don't despair Robert Best wrote: Eberhard, it is not easy. On Saturday 16 June 2007 17:53, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Robert Best wrote: rwb:~ ip a 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,1 mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue .. 2: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS

[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

2007-06-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:34 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi Robert, we will help you to get along. Don't despair snip Congratulations!!! It's easy, isn't it? No. Kenneth on this list learned me about the command ip a which is not mentioned in O'Reilly's

[opensuse] Re: simple LAN

2007-06-16 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Robert Best wrote: rwb:~ ip a 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,1 mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue .. 2: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP,1 mtu 1500 qdisc .. inet 192.168.1.65/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 .. fam:~ ip a .. inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd

[opensuse] Re: Motherboard suggestions for AMD 64 bit

2007-06-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Registration Account wrote: The following is suggestions for CPU and motherboard and Graphics and RAM proven to be totally compatible. AMD AM2 Athlon 64 x 2 Dual Core 4200 + ASUS AM2 M2N8-VMX Motherboard # Palit 7600GT 256M PCIe ^^ Hi, should you have lower 3D

[opensuse] Re: lexmark X1270 or HP...

2007-06-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
jdd wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Carefully check this is as difficult as hell... may I think than than nobody here have one cheap Hp printer working? I have been so often disapointed by internet assumptions... well, not directly cheap but greatly working for me since 2 years with b/w

[opensuse] Re: RE Error response with simple WINE usage

2007-06-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Registration Account wrote: Can someone help me with the following error response using 'wine' multivac-ii:/home/xx/dell # wine YDS8.EXE wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'... Failed to open the service control manager. The.exe file is a self compressed .exe file.

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and Vista?

2007-06-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
George Stoianov wrote: What version of VMWare are you talking about, I think 6.0 is the first one to support it officially?? and it runs here just like XP on the free (as in beer) vmware server, latest edition. I must admit, I did not read about official support before I did it. Just

[opensuse] Re: Motherboard suggestions for AMD 64 bit

2007-06-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Chris Haynes wrote: I'm planning to build my own development workstation and want to use an AMD dual 64 bit processor. I'm currently trying to select a motherboard for use with openSUSE 10.2 (-64) From general product reviews I liked the look of the Asus M2N32 WS Pro, That looks very

[opensuse] Re: smartctl and too high temperature?

2007-06-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Rauch Christian wrote: Bernd Melchers wrote: Your disk is 56 degree Celsius, this is too hot! I have restructured my workstation some weeks ago. My disks now have a temperature of 35°C with room temperature of 22°C. These two disks are combined as software RAID 1. Both are now in S-ATA

[opensuse] Re: router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (10.1)

2007-06-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Carlos F Lange wrote: On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote: Perhaps the cable dropped down. No cable problem. That is exactly what is killing me. The lights on the router are on (also when I changed ports and cable) and when I reboot into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the

[opensuse] Re: presentation to show linux

2007-06-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Watkins wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 21:32, Joe Zien wrote: I belong to a computer club that is 98% window$ and want to show the advantages of linux. What I need is a Impress or Powerpoint presentation to introduce users to linux. I assume what you mean by this is that the machine

[opensuse] Re: smartctl and too high temperature?

2007-06-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bernd Melchers wrote: hellmsklamm:~ # smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sdb | grep -i temperature 190 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 044 045Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 56 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 094 094 000Old_age Always bb-dpnb.avi- 56 Your

[opensuse] Re: backup for home users

2007-06-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Jdd, jdd wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: rsnapshot, doing backups to usb-drive(s)? ;-) backup forn home user can only be acheived on a one by one thinking. let me give an example: my son spend much time downloading films and games from the net (I know it's not fair, but are your

[opensuse] Re: copying CD--more

2007-06-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Doug McGarrett wrote: 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,

[opensuse] Re: backup for home users

2007-06-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joseph Loo wrote: It was mentioned on a podcast Security Now http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm episode #81 Thanks much for pointing that out. Never heard about securitynow! Thanks again Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] Re: backup for home users

2007-06-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
jdd wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: In fact that means that your usb drive will only need to accomodate 200GB+ a little more. Ex 300GB will most likely do for a VERY long time. I think you did miss the point. Yes I did. Sorry for this. I wonder whether your type of usage, while being

[opensuse] Re: backup for home users

2007-06-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Carlos E. R. wrote: [...] External usb hard drives are very convenient, but they are not reliable, unfortunately. They are exposed to handling, for instance, and a HD should not be even moved while spinning. Agreed. However I never ever experienced a simultaneous failure of data loss and

[opensuse] Re: SUSE Laptop Now Setup with VMWare

2007-05-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kai Ponte wrote: [...] ...as I mentioned, I couldn't stand Vista. It is - IMO - worse than XP for usability. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register1.jpg.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vista_register2.jpg.jpg I love this, especially the second

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