[opensuse] Virtualization and printing

2007-01-25 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. The printer works flawlessly on Windows but has its moments on Linux, probably due to configuration errors. I could repair the configuration errors but I am wondering if their is

Re: [opensuse] Recommended Website Tools

2007-01-22 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to maintain an existing website. The last time I did this was with Windows and Dreamweaver. However, I'm now running OpenSuse 10.1 with KDE and am wondering what are some recommended Web Authoring tools. Is Quanta any good or are there others. Also, are

Re: [opensuse] flash player 9 problems?

2007-01-22 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Mathias Homann wrote: Darryl Gregorash schrieb: On 2007-01-19 00:57, Mathias Homann wrote: Hi all, first, rest assured. this is not yet another announcement that flash player 9 has been released for linux. BUT. If I install it, and go to

Re: [opensuse] How to Clone a whole disk?

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Bo wrote: Hi I've just been lurking so far but I would be happy to recieve some help on the topic of how to clone an entire disk (with partitions and diferent filesystems and all) on a dual boot home systen. No servers or anything. You might want to investigate: BackUp/Restore HDD and

Re: [opensuse] Printer Configuration Tool Stuck Running y2base - Help

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Terry Eck wrote: My HP LaserJet 1012 (USB) printer stopped. Output from the printer is a single sheet of paper with Unsupported Personality: PCL. Started YaST2's Printer Configuration Tool. The Initializing Printer Configuration is at the Check database of printers A small window with the

[opensuse] Bugzilla and linuxprinting.org

2007-01-14 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I, as I am sure others do, use linuxprinting.org to find out how compatible a printer is for Linux when they want to purchase a new printer. Recently there was an opensuse thread about an HP LaserJet 1012 and comment was made that a fix in the next opensuse maintenance update should fix the

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes

2007-01-12 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Dominique Leuenberger wrote: On 11-01-2007 at 09:28, Basil Chupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominique Leuenberger wrote: On 11-01-2007 at 00:13, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft Fixes Four Security Holes snip To be informed on the products you need / use, subscribe to

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

2007-01-08 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Jan Kupec wrote: Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello there, I'm planning to buy an ipod and after googling for linux+ ipod I think I'm going to use GTKpod. I have a question though... Assuming my iPod is already formatted with FAT32, isn't it just a matter of mounting the ipod and copy my

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

2007-01-07 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hi to the OP, I recently saw this but have not used it or read the article, yet so YMMV. HTH Hylton -- Using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla Mail 1.7.13 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org

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

2007-01-05 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Jan Kupec wrote: Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello there, I'm planning to buy an ipod and after googling for linux+ ipod I think I'm going to use GTKpod. I have a question though... Assuming my iPod is already formatted with FAT32, isn't it just a matter of mounting the ipod and copy my

Re: [opensuse] Intrusion attempt?

2007-01-01 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 31 2006 14:51, Jan Engelhardt wrote an explantion of a /var/log/messages error: Tnx Jan for the comprehensive report back. I am going to assume it is nothing to worry about. TA -- Using SuSE

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.2 in South Africa yet? - SOLVED

2006-12-31 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Sorry for replying to my own thread, but at least it closes it. Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I went to the shop.novell site to obtain SUSE 10.2 and navigated to EMEA region where I see that only 10.1 is available. snip I see that Linux Magazine is going to have 10.2 on their software CD

[opensuse] Intrusion attempt?

2006-12-31 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I have seen the following popup on my /var/log/messages and wonder what it could be especially as my current box has the IP of 10.0.0.14: Dec 31 15:03:09 Spy kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:40:f4:cf:bc:a7:00:02:96:48:71:87:08:00 SRC=208.184.36.73 DST=10.0.0.14 LEN=56

[opensuse] SUSE 10.2 in South Africa yet?

2006-12-28 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I went to the shop.novell site to obtain SUSE 10.2 and navigated to EMEA region where I see that only 10.1 is available. It was available on the Americas and ASia Pacific link so I tried that instead but was not able to order a box set of 10.2. When I proceded to the checkout after selecting

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.2 mirroring securtiy updates and smart channels

2006-12-24 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Dominik Zalewski wrote: Hi All, I have a office network with couple of workstations running OpenSUSE 10.2. Since they are all sharing same DSL link, I was wondering what is the best solution to mirror security updates and smart channels on our local server so they can use it instead of

Re: [opensuse] Can spam be defeated?

2006-12-24 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
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 block these idiots. I'm running a postfix

Re: [opensuse] Need monitor recommendation

2006-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:02 -0600, 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

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander - SOLVED

2006-12-16 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: El 2006-12-13 a las 16:14 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) escribió: Had a look in the file and found the StarOffice line. Commented out what was there and inserted the above. Viola, now when I Enter or double click on a selected file

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-15 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: El 2006-12-13 a las 16:14 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) escribió: Had a look in the file and found the StarOffice line. Commented out what was there and inserted the above. Viola, now when I Enter or double click on a selected file it opens up in OOo, provided of course

Re: [opensuse] Thanks...and...

2006-12-15 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Michael Comperchio wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2006 03:25, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: snip right.. I did that ... maybe I don't have the right sintackswithout dot.commas and broken chicken feet I get confused Purely for interest sake, you mention broken chicken feet. What does a

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-12 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2006-12-11 at 12:08 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I would add something into the HOWTO about opening files that require a GUI from an XTerm or terminal ie using an xterm i open mc and navigate to the OOo file I want to edit. How can I open that selected

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-11 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Rajko M wrote: snip One of them is a file manager that was designed for text mode, but it can be used in GUI too. It is good old Midnight Commander. http://en.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander Once user overcomes initial learning how to handle basic operations, and that is really minimal

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO Configure window open location and size - SOLVED

2006-12-11 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:33, Don Raboud wrote: On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:00, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: How/where can I get the respective windows to remember their locations and size. I would assume on each app window but have driven myself arounnd

[opensuse] HOWTO Configure window open location and size

2006-12-07 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
When I power on my machine, I normally open a shell console, konqi, Mozilla Mail and KWrite. No problem so far. The annoyance/'problem' comes in when I have to move the windows of each and decide if I would like it to fill only part or the full screen ie location and size of each app window.

[opensuse] Syntax forc combining tailf and grep

2006-11-28 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I am viewing the /var/log/messages file and as there are alot of entries in it and it is constantly being updated, I wondered if there was a way to display an updating grep on the file without having to create a script and corresponding cron entry to run every time the file is updated ie

[opensuse] Yast update log location?

2006-11-25 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hi, I would like to find out where/what file I can look to find out if the system has done an online update as it has been enabled to check on a daily basis. The reason is so that I can then make a copy of the updated RPM's/deltas/patches in /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.2/ folder. I

Re: [opensuse] Email signature command execution help

2006-11-16 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Basil Chupin wrote: Scott Leighton wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 9:07 pm, Basil Chupin wrote: I missed previous posts in this thread, but in Mozilla/TB under Account Settings you have the item Attach this Signature where you can specify the file to attach as the sig. Wouldn't selecting

Re: [opensuse] Email signature command execution help

2006-11-16 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Darryl Gregorash wrote: snip So, apart from the cosmetics, using a named pipe as the signature file and overwriting the signature are identical. OK, Hylton has two methods now to get what he wants in his signature :-) mmm, Tnx all and it would seem esp houghi. --

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] dhcpcd terminating on signal 15 - SOLVED

2006-11-10 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: From Konqueror file:/var/log/localmessages Sep 7 15:46:32 spy dhcpcd[5588]: terminating on signal 15 Why would I be receiving many(5-8 per day)) of these messages in the log file since Sept 7? I read from YAST that dhcpcd gets an IP address and other

[opensuse] Email signature command execution help

2006-11-10 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hi, I have a file in /home that I use as a signature file. Whatever I write in there is displayed as my signature. In the signature, as you can see below, I would like to have the current machine uptime displayed when the message is put into the Outbox before being sent. I thought that just

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