Re: [opensuse] About fglrx drivers

2006-12-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 12 2006 4:41 am, Clayton wrote: > > Agreed, except for audio! 'Worked great on this laptop with 10.1. Yast > > does see it, configs it, but NO mixer can find it. :( The same thing > > happens if I config. with alsaconf. The chipset is: M5451 PCI AC-Link. > > Check these bugs: >

Re: [opensuse] Dear Novell...

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 13 2006 2:12 am, John Andersen wrote: > Dear Novell... > > Please speak to Digital River.  Inform therm about this wonderful modern > invention we have here in the United States.  Its called a Post Office. > > They will come to your door with any size truck you want and actual

[opensuse] Sound problem......fixed.

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
As someone else said, adding users by their logon ID to the "audio" group is a work around, which is great for now, but there needs to be a proper fix ASAP. Over all, I'm very impressed (so far) with 10.2. On this laptop, I'm using the "old" KDE menus..MUCH, MUCH better than the new ones wit

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

2006-12-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:06, Curtis Rey wrote: > Nope!  Install went ok, or so it seemed.  But it reverts to Mesa for dri. Same here on this laptop. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: [opensuse] Need monitor recommendation

2006-12-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday December 14 2006 2:02 pm, 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,

Re: [opensuse] photo-editing

2006-12-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 16 2006 5:53 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Mike McMullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-16-06 17:46]: > >   The boss was tooling around with the digital camera looking at the > > .jpg's on the hard drive when she decided to open one in GwenView, > > after adjusting the gamma, bright

[opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data needed to setup Zen correctly to update from various repositories.like get a list auto. Could that kind soul please post that address again? Thanks! Fre

Re: [opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 17 2006 6:43 am, Pete Connolly wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone > > posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data > > needed to s

Re: [opensuse] Zen updater

2006-12-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 17 2006 8:45 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:31 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > OkI lost it and am too tired to continue looking tonight. Someone > > posted in the past couple of days, a web site that has all the data > >

Re: [opensuse] Video Cards!

2006-12-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 18 2006 6:21 am, scsijon wrote: > With what seems like a plethora of problems with Nvida and ATI > controlling their drivers > > plus the need to replace my own ati (dying memory on the card) > > I'm wondering if it's time to look at something else > > The question is what? > > T

[opensuse] SUSE co-founder returns to Novell

2006-12-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] Beagle and SUSE 10.2

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 19 2006 5:10 pm, Torkild U. Resheim wrote: > Any chance beagled will _ever_ finish what it's doing and leave me in > control of my computer? It's been using all of my CPU for two days and > still going. It can't take that long to index a 60G disk. > > Since Zen have a similar be

Re: [opensuse] Beagle and SUSE 10.2

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 1:11 am, Curtis Rey wrote: > On Tue December 19 2006 21:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 21:36, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > > > ...and hampsters. > > > > And hamsters. > > > > Damn hampsterdance. > > OMG I'd forgotting about the

Re: [opensuse] ATI Drivers - Not yet for everyone

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 4:25 am, Curtis Rey wrote: [snip] > I have 9600XT on 10.2 openSuSE and the ati fglrx drivers installs and loads > the module - but it's always fell back to Mesa software rendering.  I tried > to uninstall the Mesa package and libGLU* went away - the ATi drivers have

Re: [opensuse] Hubert Mantel back at Novell

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 2:30 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:26, Peter Van Lone wrote: > > http://www.datamanager.it/articoli.php?idricercato=17639 > > > > fyi ... > > Interesting that it was carried on an Itialian website. In any case, does > this mean much to the avera

Re: [opensuse] Hubert Mantel back at Novell

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 3:10 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote: > It is great to see Mantel back! Sure is!! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can spam be defeated?

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 20 2006 3:32 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote: > It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email > address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my > inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to > be able to b

[opensuse] Open-source leader leaving Novell for Google

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6145615.html?tag=nl.e539 -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [opensuse] Hardware on SUSE OT

2006-12-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 23 2006 12:10 am, Bob S wrote: > Hi SuSE people. > > Kind of an ignorant question I guesss, but who knows. > > Presently running 9.2 and 10.0 on one IDE disk, Win 98 on the other > smaller IDE drive. Running a CDRom and a DVD burner on the other IDE2 > connector. Downloaded 10.

[opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
Linux on the desktop has been a year or two away for over a decade now, and there are reasons it's not there yet. To attract nontechnical end-users, a Linux desktop must work out of the box, ideally preinstalled by the hardware vendor. Right now, Linux is usually an aftermarket upgrade on deskt

[opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [opensuse] Re: [oS] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 24 2006 11:59 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 10:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72342-0.html > > And when are you comming back on the OT list? I've heard from a bunch of people who wonder w

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 24 2006 9:36 pm, John Meyer wrote: [snip] > I've heard this argument too many times to count. > With all due respect to the author, the argument is based on the > assumption that we want to be mainstreram, that we want everybody and > their grandmother to be running Linux.  Per

Re: [opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 2:34 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72342-0.html > > That's a broken link. > > Could you get the correct one and re-send? Here or on off-topic,

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 5:10 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > You can't win the desktop if you don't even try. Right now, few in the > > Linux world are seriously trying. And time is running out. > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.h > >tml#id247970 > >

Re: [opensuse] Re: [oS] Re: [oS] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 10:46 am, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 14:34, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Sunday December 24 2006 11:59 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > > > On Monday 25 December 2006 10:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > >

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 10:47 am, Mike McMullin wrote: > > But Ken, your federal government must have used some other OS before > > switching to Linux which means that 'they' are a fickle lot and will > > switch from Linux at a drop of a hat. If they abandoned the other OS > > then they will aba

Re: [opensuse] The latest on Hans Reiser, even though slightly OT.

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 11:31 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:56, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday December 25 2006 2:34 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:21, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > > > http://www.wir

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
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 end up installing, seems to > be at an end. > > > As I said: C

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday December 25 2006 6:21 pm, Tom Patton wrote: > The product that you have purchased is a made to order product.  This > means when the order is placed, our manufacturing department starts the > process of creating the product, this can take up to 7 business days to > complete.  At that time

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 26 2006 5:01 am, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 15:17, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Well, there are a number of users who should buy the Novell release, like > > those who are dependant on the manual, are bound to phone lines for Net. > > a

Re: [opensuse] 'Goes along with those mad at Novell/SUSE and leave.

2006-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 26 2006 11:59 am, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 18:46 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday December 25 2006 10:47 am, Mike McMullin wrote: > > > > But Ken, your federal government must have used some other OS before > > > &g

Re: [opensuse] Re: memories?

2006-12-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday December 26 2006 2:55 pm, James Knott wrote: > > FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me > > on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984.  X? GUI? Mouse? > > Nah, everything was 80x25.  We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years > > later. Now that was progr

Re: [opensuse] Update fails on 10.2

2006-12-27 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 27 2006 4:13 am, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > Transaction failed: Resolvable MozillaFirefox 2.0.0.1-0.1 > > (http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linux/suse.com/suse/update/10.2) not found. > > > > This site seems to be there, although there seems to be yet one more > > subdir to the path g

Re: [opensuse] ups and suse

2006-12-27 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday December 27 2006 2:53 pm, James Knott wrote: > Marc Collin wrote: > > hi > > > > does somebody with suse 10.1 or suse 10.2 used nut (rpm suse package? > > > > what user the suse nut packager used ? (./configure --with-user= ) > > > > with usb ups, we need to set right access, somebod

[opensuse] Finally user-friendly virtualization for Linux

2006-12-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
This is important for a number here.new kernel, new BIG feature..to some anyway. http://www.osdir.com/Article9578.phtml Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Ten of the biggest Dutch municipalities say 'enough!' to Microsoft

2006-12-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
Ten of the biggest Dutch municipalities say 'enough!' to Microsoft "Nonetheless, open source software isn't mentioned in the manifest. This is done deliberately. Instead of asking for open source, the manifest explains what the goals of that 'open source' should be; making it harder for suppli

[opensuse] Future hardware and support.

2006-12-28 Thread 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 referenced article, the question as to AMD's intentions is MUCH, MUCH broader, raises my blood pressure considerably, and

Re: [opensuse] ups and suse

2006-12-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday December 28 2006 8:13 am, James Knott wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Wednesday December 27 2006 2:53 pm, James Knott wrote: > >> Marc Collin wrote: > >>> hi > >>> > >>> does somebody with suse 10.1 or suse 10.2 used nut

Re: [opensuse] Future hardware and support.

2006-12-28 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Friday December 29 2006 1:59 am, Curtis Rey wrote: > This move may have well been done to placate those such as the RIAA and > MPAA, as well as M$' own obsession with piracy - but it spells nothing but > heartache for a host of devs/OEM's/ISV's and independent hardware vendors. > Just imagine al

[opensuse] Nouveau: A First Look - Help just might not be far off!

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
Nouveau: A First Look (Dec 26, 2006, 16:00 UTC) (1663 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback) "Nouveau is a community project that is working on producing open-source 3D display drivers for NVIDIA's graphics cards. Nouveau is not affiliated with NVIDIA Corporation and is an X.Org Foundation project. W

[opensuse] The State of Open-Source Wi-Fi Support

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
The State of Open-Source Wi-Fi Support * Wi-Fi Networking News; By Glenn Fleishman (Posted by dcparris on Dec 29, 2006 10:53 AM) Fantastic article by Jem Matzan provides the background and specifics on why support for Wi-Fi in open-source, GPL, and free operating systems is so problemati

[opensuse] Putting openSUSE 10.2 through its paces

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
Sooner than anyone expected it, Novell Inc.'s openSUSE community Linux distribution project has delivered a new version: openSUSE 10.2. As a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user since S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 first appeared in 1996, I decided to immediately give this version a try. I'm far from the only one. A

[opensuse] Konq. revisted.....EXCELLENT!

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
VERY good article on Konq. 'Features I'll be a number didn't know existed! Fred http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4753761802.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSuSE 10.2 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). I will use the followi

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders

2006-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 30 2006 12:33 am, Tom Patton wrote: > > My God man .. how much is your dial-up? AT&T has DSL for $15.00 a   > > month .. I don't know how you still deal with a modem. You're a   > > better man then I am in that regard. :D > > > > - Ben > > -- > > It's a question of availability

[opensuse] Mail from FireFox.

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
I'm sure this has been "covered," but I can't find it. In openSUSE 10.2 and FireFox, how does one have FF send a link in email via KMail? I've spent all the time, and more, I had to try and find the "hook" to do this. Thanks! Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:46, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: ... - the line with "network.protocol-handler..." is there and looks ok. But the "mozex.command..." line is nowhere to be found? Should it be inserted, if so, how? Right-click anywhere in the preference lis

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
Terry Eck wrote: BandiPat wrote: \ Most here will recommend you stay away from anything Asus! There are better, more compatible motherboard brands out there. bye Can you or anyone on the list name some brands (with model numbers) which are AMD 64. Looking to replace an older mod

Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
Jeffery Fernandez wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 10:35, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:46, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: ... - the line with "network.protocol-handler..." is there and looks ok. But the "mozex.command..." line is nowhere to be found? Should it be insert

Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:39, Fred A. Miller wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:46, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: ... - the line with "network.protocol-handler..." is there and looks ok. But the "mozex.command..." l

Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:41, Fred A. Miller wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:39, Fred A. Miller wrote: ... 'Too bad the 'Bloze version(s) don't work like that. ;) A) It (they) does (do). B) Why do we care? A)

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2006-12-30 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday December 30 2006 8:33 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:46, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > ... > > > > - the line with "network.protocol-handler..." is there and looks ok. > > But the "mozex.command..." line is now

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
BandiPat wrote: [snip] I've probably had one or two asus boards, but they were during the time they were trying to make a name for themselves and were of good quality. I never used one with the SiS chipset and I know it was questionable during the asus good days. Recently though, and I thin

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
Adam Jimerson wrote: I would have to agree with that, first impressions is everything when it comes to showing off linux, really it doesn't matter what environment you are in. If you have something that can catch someones eye because how good it looks and the added bonus of it running perfectl

[opensuse] Happy New Year!!

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
Yepit's OT, but it's New Year's Eve and I thought you might find the following article from snopes.com Interesting. http://www.snopes.com/holidays/newyears/beliefs.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 2006-12-31 a las 20:22 -0500, Fred A. Miller escribió: You forgot to email to the list. T-Bird doesn't handle mail properly.like KMail does. :( Programmers seem to have a "funny" sense of humour. I rem

Re: [opensuse] Cant setup up repos

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
Curtis Rey wrote: [snip] Opps! typo in email post. It is and was indeed the above you posted, I just mistyped. Eitherway. I did a "mv .kde kde-bkup" and then transferred my files for such things as kmail/kontact, etc. When I updated to 10.2 (as well as other version) I have sequestered my

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 31 2006 2:18 am, Basil Chupin wrote: [snip] > > No...doesn't work. Under perferences and a right click, NO menu comes > > up. > > Well, it does Fred or at least it should :-) . > > Which version of FF are you using? 2.0.0.1 > BTW, whatever you can access via about:config

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday December 31 2006 2:18 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > > No...doesn't work. Under perferences and a right click, NO menu comes > > up. > > Well, it does Fred or at least it should :-) . > > Which version of FF are you using? > > BTW, whatever you can access via about:config is actually what

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 1:59 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > Of course editing this file won't work - it's not the file. > > Something is really screwed up there Fred if you can only find the one > prefs.js on your system. > > Below are all the prefs.js file on my 10.2 install - and not all relate > to

Re: [opensuse] Cant setup up repos

2006-12-31 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 1:37 am, Curtis Rey wrote: > On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:28, Fred A. Miller wrote: [snip] > > > Now my mail and book marks are saved and my desktop is nice and crisp > > > and snappy. > > > > Told ya you'd like it! So

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday January 01 2007 1:59 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > >> Of course editing this file won't work - it's not the file. > >> > >> Something is really screwed up there F

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 7:59 am, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > BandiPat wrote: > > [...] > > Nobody has to bait you Ran, you manage to slip the noose around your > > head all by yourself. We watch, we read, we laugh at you falling face > > first into the mud you make for others. You never seem to le

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 12:23 pm, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > Anyone else remember the game in Excel? :) > > > > Yes. And there is another one in OO-calc, but I don't remember right now > > how it is fired. > >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a play

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > > This is interesting. The FireFox I have installed is from SUSE, including > > their latest update. There ISN'T in my home dir a /home/xxx/firefox > > directory. There's a .firefox dir. with not much in it. Now, WHY is there > > so > > [Are

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 12:08 am, Renegade Penguin wrote: > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got > upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it.  This > is very common with some US banking sites as of late unfortunately. As an aside, have you t

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:23 am, John E. Perry wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > >>> This is interesting. The FireFox I have installed is from SUSE, > >>> including their latest update. There ISN&#

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:35 am, BandiPat wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 00:46, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Tuesday January 02 2007 12:08 am, Renegade Penguin wrote: > > > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they > > > got upgraded

[opensuse] Interesting video finding.

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Now that I'm taking some time off, I started to look further into tweaking this box. One common problem was that I didn't care for a PERCEIVED slowness in my nVidia 16X performance, and of course because of well known continual driver problems blamed nVidia that I had to reduce the color depth t

Re: [opensuse] Konq. revisted.....EXCELLENT!

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 8:27 pm, Jim Flanagan wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > VERY good article on Konq. 'Features I'll be a number didn't know > > existed! > > > > Fred > > > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4753761802.html

Re: [opensuse] "Interesting" SAX2 Issue

2007-01-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 03 2007 10:00 am, Gordon Keehn wrote: > I just installed OpenSuSE 10.2 on an IBM A60 (video adapter > unknown; it's at home and I'm at work) that had previously had 10.1 > installed. When I originally installed 10.1, after the first boot I got > a popup stating that my mo

Re: [opensuse] anyone else having problems w/ smart not finding keys?

2007-01-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 03 2007 7:25 pm, Curtis Rey wrote: [snip] > Ya, I've had repeated problems with pgp keys and it seems to be related to > the site it's getting them from. Best that I can tell it's all about with > the pgp key is old or outright borked. The other thing is that it may have >

[opensuse] Novell Trumpets Support for Open Source Development

2007-01-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
Novell Trumpets Support for Open Source Development Novell moved Wednesday to underscore its support for free software development after volunteer technical support collapsed for rival Red Hat's free Linux version. Novell spokesperson Ke

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 09 2007 2:09 am, Peter Cannon wrote: > I could go on the list of 'I can drive but don't ask me whats under the > bonnet' users is endless. That it is! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

[opensuse] Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes

2007-01-10 Thread Fred A. Miller
Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes Microsoft released three security patches for its prevalent Office line of software and one for the Windows operating system on Tuesday, fixing holes that could let an outsider take control of an unwit

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

2007-01-10 Thread Fred A. Miller
Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista "THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft's operating system Vista. According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret

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

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 7:32 am, James Knott wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista > > > > "THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security > > Agency, has admitted that it is b

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 8:15 am, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > Is it only me? > > No it is not only you. Fred apparently has little else to do then bash > MS everyweek on this list. This is why I have added his address to the > filters and outright delete his email postings. I seem to remember h

Re: [opensuse] Printer Initializing Lockup 10.2

2007-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 11 2007 10:58 am, Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a USB HP1210 PSC printer that was working fine copy, scan and > print-+...then I open YAST and went to PRINTER and when the screen > reaches "The list of installed drivers has changed. Building databas

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

2007-01-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:52, Curtis Rey wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 15:39, Michael Nelson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:39:00PM -0800, Curtis Rey wrote: > > > Checkinstall makes it a lot easier to fix problems and keep the rpm > > > database coherent. > > > > It is especially cri

Re: [opensuse] Formatting a USB memory stick

2007-01-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 16 2007 10:07 pm, Robert Lewis wrote: > Joseph Loo wrote: > > I have a memory stick that works under 10.0 and 10.1. In 10.2 the stick > > is not recognizable because the partion table is not recognized. I was > > thinking of repartition the stick and reformat it. Is it possible t

[opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=228&tag=nl.e589 -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Flash 9 player

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 4:10 am, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > Hi everybody, > > some might have heard it, some not yet. Flash 9 is finally available > for i586 Linux. (the x86_64 is even planned now). > > Now the question for us as users: will there be updated RPMs available > for openSUSE (

Re: [opensuse] Formatting a USB memory stick

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 7:16 am, James Knott wrote: > Robert Lewis wrote: > > Joseph Loo wrote: > >> I have a memory stick that works under 10.0 and 10.1. In 10.2 the stick > >> is not recognizable because the partion table is not recognized. I was > >> thinking of repartition the stick and re

Re: [opensuse] Formatting a USB memory stick

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 7:21 am, James Knott wrote: > > I think he's asking about what application to use. This IS a problem in > > Linux, as there's no GUI app. that I know of. > > > >   > > They appear in Yast Partitioner on my system. That's the only option, as far as I know. What I had ho

Re: [opensuse] Flash 9 player

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 9:58 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > > I've been playing for several weeks already with Flash 9 Player with my > > x86_64 FireFox installation. So maybe the tip did not work for me, but > > others might use it. and of course I'll gonna update this evening too. > > And I'll up

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 2:07 pm, Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:05, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >Beagled seems to be constantly hogging one CPU (in 10.2) once you > > >leave system to idle. Any way to limit this? Uninstalling this is > > >probably not an option anymore a

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

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 5:31 pm, Jay C Vollmer wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:21, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=228&tag=nl.e589 > > > > Yeah, I installed it earlier this evening. Not sure if they support > > transparency yet, though. > > I was disappo

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 6:41 pm, Robert Lewis wrote: > > Install locate.it's a UNIX util. available from several of the > > servers. It runs from commandline, but quick and VERY usefull. Beagle > > isn't ready for prime time yet. > > > > Fred > >   > > I like locate and have been using it

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

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 6:44 pm, Curtis Rey wrote: > > It is, after all, a CBS site, which is bound at the hip to MickySoft. > > This should tell you something about the way that site is setup. > > > > Fred > > So what was the deal between Novell and M$ all about again???  Did I miss > somethi

Re: [opensuse] Formatting a USB memory stick

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 6:48 pm, S Glasoe wrote: > > That's the only option, as far as I know. What I had hoped for, and some > > others as well, was a different app. so one doesn't have to go into Yast. > > > > Fred > > As root in a terminal window you can use yast for the ncurses version or

Re: [opensuse] Formatting a USB memory stick

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 7:38 pm, Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:52:52 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > >Yeah..sooner or later I've got to get onewish they were a bunch > >quicker, however. > > Take one with SATA connection like the new

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Wednesday January 17 2007 11:52 pm, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > > No..once installed, open a konsole, su or sux to root, then run   > > "updatedb" > > Once done, then locate works fine. > > And after this it will be updated via a cronjob each night or   Yep..runs via cron. > whenever t

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 18 2007 1:23 am, Kai Ponte wrote: > I officially gave up a year or two ago. Besides, I'm a manager now and > don't have to actually think anymore.  :P I'm going to be good and not take advantage of that. :) Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscrib

Re: [opensuse] beagled CPU usage

2007-01-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Thursday January 18 2007 4:36 am, Janne Karhunen wrote: > On 1/18/07, Stephan Binner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > New KDE menu for one is utterly worthless without it. > > > > Not exactly true: application, bookmark and addressbook search for > > example will also continue to work without kd

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
J Sloan wrote: StephenW wrote: From a technical suppport person in an eduational setting: http://kumaryu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/linux-will-never-overtake-windows-its-not-user-friendly/ There are plenty of fools at educational institutions, unfortunately. Well, if most are like Cornell

Re: [opensuse] Linux in Public Schools

2007-01-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 22 2007 11:26 am, Greg Freemyer wrote: > The Atlanta Public School systems has allowed at least one school to > totally drop MS and go with Linux thin clients instead.  IIRC, most of > the apps run on Linux Servers thus significantly reducing IT support > issues. > > See http://ar

Re: [opensuse] Linux in Public Schools

2007-01-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 22 2007 12:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Even with the significant benefits available to Linux, at least, in the > state of > Michigan there are soo many obstacles out of control of the districts > preventing > a full move.  WINE can help and so can clever use of Citrix or oth

Re: [opensuse] US torturing its own citizens

2007-01-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 23 2007 2:16 am, poor destiny wrote: > The CIA (Central Inteligence Agency) and other US > military inteligence agencies (like the DIA, defense > inteligence agency and Army CID) have been using > torture on american citizens. Garbage! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporat

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