Re: [opensuse] Bandwidth usage and capping per application

2007-04-26 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
download an ISO i don't want to use up all my bandwidth, how about if i allocate it 50%? I know Azuerus allows things like this, but does anyone know of anything else? Good old wget has the limit-rate option that approximates this. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
e a NFS related problem. Ideas? Help? Thanks, Linda 4 GB is the limit of a 32bit processor. Mike Looks more like she may be using NFSv2. Try NFSv3 instead. You specify it as a mount option. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Some more oil in the fire ...

2007-02-21 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
pecifics, that's what it is. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] fsck running amok

2007-01-16 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 14:03, Patrick Shanahan wrote: ... remember Goggle ??? As in "beer goggles?" Or Goggles - the Google Maps flight simulator: http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html It looks great, especially with beer goggles... -- Geir A.

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
n. We can do so, because we only run SLES9/10 with SLES10/SuSE10.2 on top. If only we had known Again, thank you for your views! You may want to give VirtualBox a shot too... http://www.virtualbox.org -- Geir A. Myrestrand

Re: [opensuse] Partition Resizing

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
me to edit /dev/hdb2. You may want to have a look at this: http://gparted.sourceforge.net -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: J Sloan wrote: Have a look at http://www.ntp.org. Or install package xntp / xntp-doc and read the documentation. You want to use a pool of time servers (preferably in a region near your machine), and then run the ntp service. ntpdate is the manual time sync tool

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
w the other replies. Sounds like EMC/VMware have the work cut out for them if they haven't fixed it already. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
You want to use a pool of time servers (preferably in a region near your machine), and then run the ntp service. ntpdate is the manual time sync tool. It is configurable though YaST (from SLP 9.3): Yast2 > Network Services > NTP Client. -- Geir A. Myrestrand

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
OpenSUSE 10.2 for free instead. If the money saved is filling your pockets, then donate some to open source projects... :-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] test of sending to list using TEXT not HTML

2007-01-05 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-05 at 15:46 -0500, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: I send and receive lots of e-mails which contain equations. I just prepare them using any equation editor and paste them as pictures in

Re: [opensuse] test of sending to list using TEXT not HTML

2007-01-05 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
. Then count and enforce the result... ;-) Why enforce? So we can exterminate HTML e-mail messages... ;-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] test of sending to list using TEXT not HTML

2007-01-05 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I say, "HTML mail is OK." I say, ban all HTML in e-mail messages. Everyone who agrees, raise your arm. Everyone who disagrees, raise both arms. Then count and enforce the result... ;-) I send and recei

Re: [opensuse] test of sending to list using TEXT not HTML

2007-01-05 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Randall R Schulz wrote: I say, "HTML mail is OK." I say, ban all HTML in e-mail messages. Everyone who agrees, raise your arm. Everyone who disagrees, raise both arms. Then count and enforce the result... ;-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [opensuse] Question for iPod users out there!

2007-01-04 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
than one computer). -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] pata and sata

2006-12-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
, each connected to a eSATA PC Express card, giving me (in theory) 3 Gbps speed to 1 TB of storage from my notebook. My enclosure uses individual cables for each SATA disk. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] [OT] What's in a Name? [was: Missing i686 packages from download.opensuse.org]

2006-12-13 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
u weren't *that* far away :) No need to guess, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulz If it is in Wikipedia then it is true, right? ;-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: Release of 10.2

2006-12-12 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Mark Hounschell wrote: Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Mark, if you're in the U.S. I think you have to order it via http://shop.novell.com. It is available for order now for $59.95 + $5 shipping. You get the 32-bit and 64-bit packages on DVD, and the 32-bit packages on CD-ROM, a printed manua

Re: [opensuse] Re: Release of 10.2

2006-12-12 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
ation support, and "Security patches and bug fixes for up to 2 years". -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] NO PERSONAL REPLIES TO POSTINGS ON THIS LIST!!

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
O.K. ;-) M Harris wrote: ... and QUIT TOP POSTING CAUSE ITS RUDE AND SCREWS UP THE ARCHIVE ! -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Elementary Device Info Question

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
for me to use them. I believe NetApp used 520 bytes for a while to facilitate block checksums. Also, I think both IBM AS/400 and iSeries use 520 bytes. I think EMC Clariion uses 520 bytes too, but I am not sure if it has to be. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [opensuse] Elementary Device Info Question

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Greg Wallace wrote: one that would list all drives and their attributes would probably be more useful long term. For that purpose you could use `hwinfo --disk`. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] Elementary Device Info Question

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
t now (/dev/sda5), though one that would list all drives and their attributes would probably be more useful long term. blockdev from the util-linux package. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
e are quite big. You may save more by using a "low-cost" country like China, see for example http://www.hxbookprinting.com. I have no experience with them or others though. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-12-07 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
onger ships manuals with Windows but why should Novell sink to Microsoft's level? I can only think of 348 million reasons... Just kiddin'... I miss the printed Admin guide too, although my PDF collection of books is probably 100 times bigger than my collection of printed books.

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-06 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
t the subshell. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-06 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
10 6/06. You are right though, not everything is as elegant as on Linux. I like ZFS, DTrace, and their TCP/IP stack though --neat stuff. However, to be back on topic, `echo ${SHELL}` works on Solaris too...(ducks again)... ;-) -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-06 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:30, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 11:17, Thomas Hertweck wrote: Anders Johansson wrote: ... ls -l /proc/$$/exe Could you please elaborate why you came up with this solution? I think

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-06 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Anders Johansson wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:30, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Note that procfs is deprecated. It is likely to be removed one day. To make your solution future-proof you should avoid using it. procfs deprecated? What are you talking about? It's the first I'v

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-06 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
proc file system. Note that procfs is deprecated. It is likely to be removed one day. To make your solution future-proof you should avoid using it. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] gotta love Ron

2006-12-01 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
..sort of reaching an all time high with this agreement... ;-) Please turn off your flame-throwers, I don't mean to say anything negative about Ron or Novell. I just interpreted it in a way that made the statement sound quite funny IMO... -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

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

2006-11-30 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
James Knott wrote: Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: James Knott wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:52 -0600, M Harris wrote: How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. "Performance of Vista is highly dependent upon how much memory is installed in the PC. For

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

2006-11-30 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
f RAM And there I thought 64K was more than enough for anyone. :-) Actually, that was 640K. ;-) Yes, but Bill claims he never actually said it. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to Linux from Windows

2006-11-27 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-27 15:12, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: Concise directions on how to set up and configure Samba can be found at www.samba.org, but you may want to check your SLP 9.3 documentation as well since you may be able to configure Samba via YaST. You can configure quite

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to Linux from Windows

2006-11-27 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Samba via YaST. If this is overkill for your needs, then another alternative is to install and configure SSH on your systems. -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to Linux from Windows

2006-11-27 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
;s Xmanager too, it is a very slick X implementation for Windows. This one ain't free though... For command line stuff nothing beats PuTTY. I use it a lot to access mainly Linux and Solaris boxes, and is perhaps my most important tool. You'll never look back after having used this.