[opensuse] DVD iso on of non-SUSE CD's

2007-02-08 Thread JJ Gitties
Hello, i read it and tried it and she won't work. I am trying to make a bootable DVD out of Red Hat WS CD iso's. this keeps asking for SUSE iso's. http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs the makedvdiso.sh script needs anaconda-runtime. Does anyone know how I can make a DVD iso of Red Hat

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-19 Thread JJ Gitties
a traditional problem with geeks has always been that they are very opinionated, especially sitting in their undies typing away in a dark room on a back lit keyboard. however, when geeks start to interpret law and pretend to be lawyers -- now that takes the cake. :-) -- jjgitties, "Precious Fa

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-19 Thread JJ Gitties
IMHO, Its not the installation part of yast that is so good, its all the other tasks it does, organized into one place. Ubuntu has a good installer. Heck, even Red Hat has a good installer. agreed. actually the Ubu installers kicks SUSE ass. But Yast used to have the all the tasks in one plac

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye and thanks for all the fishes

2006-11-19 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/19/06, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not a fish, it's a geeko. ;-) Novell,... how to go from Godzilla to Geeko to sleeping with the fishes in 5 easy steps. 1 - screw NetWare 2 - screw exisitng customers 3 - screw SUSE 4 - screw Linux 5 - Go to bed with MS :-) -- jjgitt

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-18 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is > a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend." A tip, if you're going to use a sig that makes you sound like an idiot anyway, at least try to use

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-17 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/17/06, John E. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uh, guys, suse was a _commercial_ enterprise, not a community effort. Novell bought a _commercial_ company, therefore owns that _commercial_ trademark. As do a number of other _commercial_ linux vendors, who have done a great deal of good fo

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-17 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/17/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-17-06 17:03]: > > yup. it there a good reason why YOU is still breaking everytime I update? > Probably has something to do with your sig! Really..!! Did you come up with that a

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-17 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/17/06, Peter Nikolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You talk of headway into the corperate sector well .. Fix the miriad of major show stoppers that were 10.1 and as far as i can see they are still there infesting 10.2 . yup. it there a good reason why YOU is still breaking everytime I u

Re: [opensuse] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

2006-11-17 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/17/06, JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/17/06, Saill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the same time, to the vast credit of the Novell developers it looks like Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza are fighting fiercely for a rewording of the agreem

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So please, name one that is equivalent to SuSE, and does things better.I would be interested in knowing exactly what feature of SUSE do you find that there is no equivalent or similar or even better corresponding feature that may be found in

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you for your opinion. it's not an opinion.it a fact based on my own personal observation. i really have not met anyone who deplyed SLES. up here Novell have these free seminars that IT guys go to because, well its free, the food is better than o

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was looking for a good distro when I found Suse, and good asSuse is, its not the ONLY one out there, and its not the only oneI use.damn right!! i run freebsd on an old laptop. i  run suse 8.2 on another old laptop. i also run mac osx on anoth

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just where have you been?Munich, 2003: http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1010740.htmlBergen, 2004: http://www.networktimes.co.za/news.asp?pklNewsID=15337&pklIssueID=433&pklCategoryID=309Dundee, 2004: http://www.novell.com/success/dundee.pdfCornwa

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 19:35, JJ Gitties wrote:> I am not trying to shut down anyone. I am also in the "wait and see" camp.With your comments about lying to people you talk to, and general trollishness, you could

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would seem that people bitching about can't do their work probably havea point.   If your method of conversion is install and run away, you deserve thehell you've put your self in.The point of the post was users aren't as open to changes as o

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am blindly waiting for you to go over to the Red Hat mailing lists and startscreaming about their contracts with IBM, who did far worse than anyone,including Microsoft, in their dayWhy would I do that. I don't use Red Hat. I really couldn't

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   When does this stuff happen? It all starts to happen once you start getting paid to proffessionally support customers with their computer problems. They develop the attitude of ,"well, why should I waste my time  with this. I will call support and have t

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/14/06, Lev Lafayette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:25 -0500, Joe Zitnik wrote:> You underestimate people.>> I work in an enterprise with less than a thousand people.  Because of> those people, we went from a Word Perfect shop to a MS Office shop. > Why, because they ran

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-14 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, ted leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree, i like to see the feed back in the group to see how thecommunity is taking it.Not in this group buddy. Over here the lemmings prefer to stay focused and keep it a "team effort" as they jump off the cliff. -- jjgitties,"*We* need to convin

Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, Theo v. Werkhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can try to be as positive as you like about this "deal" houghi,but in the end you know just as well as the rest that MS is not init to make nice with OSS "community" or anyone supporting OSS for that matter, they're it it to find some wa

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling You

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/12/06, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This differs from university to university. At my university, the department Iwas in, known as computer science ('datalogi' in Swedish) dealt withtheoretical stuff, understanding algorithmic theory, analysing and proving stuffHe... he... One

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, Stan Glasoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For JJ, dishonesty is the best policy. Sounds very Microsoft-ish to "market"something in that manner...It's my form of protest. If you read Samba groups open letter to Novell (it's been circulating in the net media today), i think they perfectly e

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While this is true of the desktops, its not true for servers in my area.I was talking desktops. And you are right. Many local businesses (especially small business) are running Linuxservers for their fleet of windows desktops.Most of my clients

Re: [opensuse] Doubts about OpenSuse Project

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, Anderson Fernandes de Alencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone! I have a little doubt, sorry for my terrible english...After these discussions about the relation between Microsoft-Novell, weneed to be sure about a thing.If, somehow, we have serious problems in the future because

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, Hans van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But without starting one of those boring anti MS threads:  What doesthis really mean for OpenSUSE users? Aren't this just the thing to provethat big corps cant kill Distros (as long as they are fully OSS)? Ahhh . well thats the $64,000

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, SheridanJ West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe/maybe not some us remember the netware days, and the days whenwordperfect was the 'thing'.  I imagine in five years time novell willbe wondering 'wow how did that happen' and Novell will be once againtrying to redefine 'Novell'. Yeah, but

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, TheOldWiseKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...I think Microsoft did this step whenshe realized that Novel SUSE has became a strong competitor to her OS.However much I would have liked it if I could wokr on more SUSE and less Microsoft, from my experience, at least in my neck of the wood

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse

2006-11-13 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/13/06, SheridanJ West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to thank all of you who have answered posts of mine to thismailing list (before it renamed).  For the record i was waiting 10.2and then bang Novell did a sco like licensing deal with the evil borgpersons. Linux does not mean 'i support

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling You

2006-11-12 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/11/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very little of programming is mathematical.The logic involved is usually no more than find the RED ball.Programming is mostly moving stuff around, getting it from hereand putting it there.  More akin to organizing your closet than math.I always

Re: [opensuse] Re: A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-11 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/11/06, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We used to run NetWare and ZENworks but like everyone else in the industry> we migrated away from NetWare becuase Novell are run but a bunch of idiots> who like to screw over their best products. Funny, I just found out that my retirement associat

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 19:29, Arie Reynaldi Z wrote:> JJ, you're not answering Sloan's question. He asked cause you're being> double standart. You accept using windows for a living, but you wont> allow Novell get more money from MS... Wake u

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/10/06, Arie Reynaldi Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JJ, you're not answering Sloan's question. He asked cause you're beingdouble standart. You accept using windows for a living, but you wontallow Novell get more mon

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, Arie Reynaldi Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JJ, you're not answering Sloan's question. He asked cause you're beingdouble standart. You accept using windows for a living, but you wontallow Novell get more money from MS...Ohh. Now I see what you are asking. What do I care how the money go

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would think it's quite obvious - it's a double standard. Either it's OK tobe involved with microsoft, or it's not. You can't have it both ways.Are you saying that if you use SUSE or Linux, then you are automatically against Microsoft? Total horse ru

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He's trolling.  His sig should get him dropped from the list.  Chris,where are you when we need you...?Nope. I am not trolling. Just bitching. But you are right. There is no point bitching about SUSE. It leads to nowhere. Buy my estimate

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You also do a lot of work on microsoft windows, you use microsoftwindows yourself, and you buy software for microsoft windows.I don't quite understand where you are going with this. Yes, I am an IT. I also work on products made by palm, blackberry, 3C

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:23]:> I am migrating to Ubuntu because, the way I see it, if I am going to> use an alternative OS to "help the little guy who is trying to make a > difference"

Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

2006-11-10 Thread JJ Gitties
On 11/10/06, Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JJ Gitties wrote:> I am migrating to Ubuntu because, the way I see it, if I am going to> use an alternative OS to "help the little guy who is trying to make a> difference". Then by golly, it better be a "little guy