Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-30 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Before that, I had no interest in actually owning > my own computer. > > What I find amusing is that I'm running the same OS as a super computer! -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-29 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Other than this laptop I'm on, I've never owned an > Intel CPU... my first machine was Cyrix, and then > I switched to AMD. Intel has always had the worst > price/performance evaluation. > > My first CPU was an Intel, an 8080 in my IMSAI 8080. My 2nd was an 8088, in an XT

Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Sloan wrote: > Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > >> Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay: >> >> >>> ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by >>> not forcing new computers to have to made. >>> >>>

Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Knott: > > >> I have it installed on my almost 6 year old notebook and it runs >> fine. The notebook has a 1.13 GHz P3. It certainly runs better >> than XP on thatg same computer. >> > > Ok, good

[opensuse] closing an open DNS server

2008-01-28 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Running Bind 9.3 on Suse 9.3; How can I stop the DNS server from doing recursive lookups and also ensure that is not an open DNS server? Thank you in advance, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay: ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made. This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box

[opensuse] closing and an open DNS server

2008-01-28 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Running Bind 9.3 on Suse 9.3; How can I stop the DNS server from doing recursive lookups and also ensure that is not an open DNS server? Thank you in advance, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)

2008-01-28 Thread James Tremblay
ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made. Vista is demanding tons of new hardware plants to be built and that is one of the worst cases for pollution I know of. James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School

Re: [opensuse] Will there be a LTS version of OpenSuse?

2008-01-28 Thread James Tremblay
o load a Distro with very little "gotcha's" . This would not really be an "LTS" as much as a "this one is absolutely not beta" version.  Novell could actually profit from this in that it's support of the ".3" could  relate more directly to &quo

Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> >> At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? > > > > When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or > the 64-bit installation DVD. > > IIRC, the boxed set includes both versions on one DVD, but the download ones don't. -- Use OpenOffice

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-28 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > > Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. (and the field can't > be reduced below two, because every competent military > purchasing department on the planet requires that all > electronic components be "2nd-sourced" -- so if AMD > fails, then Intel is cut out of that lucrative market

Re: [opensuse] How to Set Netbios Name

2008-01-27 Thread James Knott
Donald D Henson wrote: > I've just spent two hours trying to find the procedure to set a netbios > name on a Linux machine, for use in a Samba network. Can someone point > me to the procedure? I'd appreciate it. > > Don Henson > You can change it in "Personal Settings", under Internet & Network

Re: [opensuse] postfix relay host problem.

2008-01-27 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 10:46 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > > >> but my stupid ISP rejects some from domains I need to send from, like > >> @users.sourceforge.net to @lists.sourceforge.net. > > > Why do you (ab)use the Envelope From header to set the from address? > >

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-26 Thread James Knott
Billie Walsh wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> M9. wrote: >> >> >>> Joe Sloan schreef: >>> >>> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uptime >>> | 5:32pm up 1016 days 1:24, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 2.56, 2.36 >>> >&g

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-26 Thread James Knott
M9. wrote: > > > Joe Sloan schreef: > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uptime > | 5:32pm up 1016 days 1:24, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 2.56, 2.36 > > More than 3 years, is quite impressive... Not quite. Three years is 1095 days, ignoring leap years. -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?

2008-01-25 Thread james wright
On Friday 25 January 2008 08:37:24 am Ken Schneider wrote: > Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to > > be used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is > > not possible to create p

[opensuse] RUN sax2 adjust display just right-- restart xserver-- adjustments gone

2008-01-24 Thread James Roman
# /.../ # SaX generated X11 config file # Created on: 2008-01-23T23:23:31-0600. # # Version: 8.1 # Contact: Marcus Schaefer , 2005 # Contact: SaX-User list # # Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1) # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! # Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"

Re: [opensuse] Epson printer on ethernet connection

2008-01-24 Thread James Knott
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Torsdag 24 januar 2008 10:28 skrev Paul Ollion: Hello list I hope I am not OT with this question : I have been given an Epson stylus Color 1520 printer, which is very interesting since it can accept larger sizes of paper. It works nicely on a parallel connection, but it

Re: [opensuse] Epson printer on ethernet connection

2008-01-24 Thread James Knott
Paul Ollion wrote: Hello list I hope I am not OT with this question : I have been given an Epson stylus Color 1520 printer, which is very interesting since it can accept larger sizes of paper. It works nicely on a parallel connection, but it is provided vith an Ethernet connection add on card C

Re: [opensuse] Installing 64bit version

2008-01-23 Thread James Tremblay
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 05:23:20 pm Husam Senussi wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install Suse 10.3 on my server and I'm getting blank > screen as soon as I hit install then nothing.\ > My machine has: > > Supermicro X7DWA-N motherboard > 2x Xeon Quad-Core 5450 (3.0GHZ) > Areca 1231ML Raid Contr

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-23 Thread James Knott
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:06:02 +0100 Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did anyone ever attempt to make a systematic survey of reasons why Linux remains such a small player ? Of course corruption on a massive scale is involved in selling Windows to governments and cor

Re: [opensuse] Postfix - howto deliver mail for user to 2 machines?

2008-01-23 Thread James Knott
Sandy Drobic wrote: James Knott wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Sandy, Where do I tell postfix to deliver mail for a user to localhost and deliver a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has to be easy, -- I hope. Deliver it locally, and then use NFS so that both

Re: [opensuse] Postfix - howto deliver mail for user to 2 machines?

2008-01-23 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, Sandy, >> >> Where do I tell postfix to deliver mail for a user to localhost >> and deliver a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has to be easy, -- I hope. >> > > Deliver it locally, and then use NFS so that both machines > can read the incom

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-23 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Webmasters who recently migrated from Lose-DOS and new to > Linux oftentimes wouldn't even realize that such a thing > could be done. > let alone >> > > > A little competence goes a long way. -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-23 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> David Bolt wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, James Knott wrote:- >>> >>> >>> >>>> Anti-virus software is generally not necessary with Linux, unless it's >>>> being used as a mail or

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 12:39 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > >> Isn't ntfs more resistant? > > > No, it still gets fragmented > > Too bad. > > >> I suppose FAT has outgrown its initial design usage for floppies

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
Ken Schneider wrote: > James Knott pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > >> File systems, such as HPFS and ext2 try to resist fragmenting, by >> storing a file in the smallest free space that will hold it and only >> fragment if a big enough contiguous free space does n

RE: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-22 Thread James D. Parra
ses. > > Wrong! > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virii > > :-P > > Yep, it is incorrect, but it exists. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus > > You cannot rely on Wikipedia for accuracy. Try a dictionary instead. ~~ http://linuxmafia

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 20:10 -0600, JB2 wrote: And concerning virii FYI, there's no such word as 'virii'. Multiple for virus is...viruses. Wrong! http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virii :-P Yep, it is incorrect, but it e

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 20:41 -0800, Joe Sloan wrote: David Bolt wrote: The reason being that if a worm is able to install on the server using root privileges, there's no way to know just what else has been installed by it

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: Just a little note here. In my few weeks of searching for a distro, I tried Ubuntu also. I'm not knocking it as every distro has positives and negatives, though I like this and Debian the best. What I didn't like about Ubuntu is that one signed in as root and then one would hav

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 14:48 -0500, James Knott wrote: > '80s) defragging wasn't required. Here it is almost 20 years later and > Windows still requires it. Requires, requires... not really. It does

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
David Bolt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Joe Sloan wrote:- Yes, I remember dealing with some similar worms on linux servers - the difference being, if a linux system gets a worm, you install the security upgrade from the vendor, clean up the files left behind by the worm (which will typically b

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
David Bolt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, James Knott wrote:- Anti-virus software is generally not necessary with Linux, unless it's being used as a mail or file server in a Windows network. AFIK, there's never been a viable Linux virus. That depends on whether you include worms a

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> Again, teach them the skill. It doesn't take a genius to find out how >> to do something in a new app, that they've already been doing. On the >> other hand, teaching people that the Microsoft way is the

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 13:09 -0500, James Knott wrote: It's amazing that degragging is still required in this day & age. I ran OS/2 for many years, and with the HPFS file system (available in late '80s) def

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: James Knott wrote: Why is it that people have to learn Windows or Microsoft Office, instead of how to use a computer or an office suite? Do you teach your kids how to drive a Ford? Or how to drive a car? We should be teaching skills, not products. I love my kids too

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: I appreciate everyones' and I do mean everyones' input on the security thing. I now definitely have a better understanding of it. Completely different than windows as it always has been and I'm very happy to find out it is the way it is. My wife does have AVG and some other pro

Re: [opensuse] clamav

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: Well, I went to the clamav website and it was as Carlos said. If it protects email, is it used in a server that ultimately comes to my email. And as my wife uses Windows XP and I am connected to her via wireless, do I need to be using this antivirus program? Have a good day!

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably stick

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: Furthermore, it's not just about games. Most business runs on Windows machines, and is likely to for years to come. Unless you're independently wealthy -- such that your kids will never need to work in the real world -- preventing them from learning how Windows works isn'

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was used to it on the left behind windows (Vista was it! No more microsoft!). One had to download a tarball to go with it or it wouldn't work. Don't ask what the name of the tarball. That was in the Fedora dis

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation "voila": Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties Examinin

Re: [opensuse] Re: [users] How did I get this OpenOffice program?

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
st ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not >> directly to me. >> -- >> Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> >> > > This lands on opensuse@opensuse.org James. > > Sorry. That's one of the "features" of lists that don't return to the list. You

Re: [opensuse] tarballs

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: > You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to > know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an > extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I > have found it impossible to install a tarball.Thanks! John

[opensuse] Re: [users] How did I get this OpenOffice program?

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John Shelton wrote: > I was not aware of the revised tutorial that was published in mid 2007 > that indeed does have at least a chapter devoted to Math. I guess I > had more or less given up by then. I have been to several OOo user > group forums and have not found the information that I need on

[opensuse] Re: [users] How did I get this OpenOffice program?

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
John Shelton wrote: > I am here because I would like to find out that most of my problems > with Open Office are related to the learning process and perhaps not > the fault of the program itself. Regardless of the problem, I am > finding it very difficult to "do things" with Open Office that I am

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Richard wrote: > I suspect that many might use it as I do, for all net and surfing time, some > personal apps, eg gnucash. Still have to keep a copy of Win around as I > coach swim teams and the software written to manage my team, keep times, run > meets, manage financials, etc, all run only on

Re: [opensuse] Browser behavior

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: > In other OSes here, When Firefox is unable to find the URL entered in the > navigation field, it says so (Error 404). And it is possible to enter into > the the field a URL less top domain, e.g. "cnn", without "com" (at least for > the "com" case, if not others, and FF woul

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: >> From: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-) >> Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know >> when to give up. ;) > You wanted to but were kind enough to honour the efforts of list > member

Re: [opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop

2008-01-20 Thread James Knott
Stan Goodman wrote: > I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as generic icons. > I have much better icons, or can make, much more intuitive icons for these. > How > must I go about replacing one for the other? > Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the

Re: [opensuse] Always mount a USB drive with NTFS-3G?

2008-01-18 Thread James Knott
Doctor Who wrote: > I have a Western Digital 250GB USB drive formatted with NTFS. I use > it interchangeably with my openSUSE boxes and a Windows XP work > laptop. > > When I plug it into my openSUSE laptop, it mounts fine and I can > browse the contents (with Konqueror, for example). But it does

Re: [opensuse] Serial terminal installation

2008-01-18 Thread James Knott
vasilis christaras wrote: > It should be straight forward. That was and i think still is > how linux is installed in computers in data centers. > A dumb terminal connected to the server via a serial cable. > > Many servers these days come with built in KVM or you can plug in a keyboard and moni

Re: [opensuse] Serial terminal installation

2008-01-18 Thread James Knott
vasilis christaras wrote: > It's a new system. No OS. I'm trying to install it from the opensuse DVD > using a serial console.I can't even get past the boot loader screen of the > DVD. > > Is that even possible? I've certainly never heard of it. -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] Remove KDE Desktops

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Jesse L. Purdom wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008, Chris Arnold wrote: > >> Hello all! Using 10.3 and kde3. On the panel are 4 "desktops". I want to >> remove those from the panel. I don't see a way to do it in "look and feel" >> module. How does someone remove those 4 desktops? >> > > G

Re: [opensuse] Remove KDE Desktops

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Chris Arnold wrote: > Hello all! Using 10.3 and kde3. On the panel are 4 "desktops". I want to > remove those from the panel. I don't see a way to do it in "look and feel" > module. How does someone remove those 4 desktops? > Right click on the panel and select Panel Menu > Remove from panel >

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Dave Barton wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re:[opensuse] Grub Error 21 > From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: SUSE Linux > Date: Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:09:11 EST > >> Dave Barton wrote: >>> I have just upgraded a PC for a colle

Re: [opensuse] Grub Error 21

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Dave Barton wrote: > I have just upgraded a PC for a colleague, who, after much badgering and > encouragement, conceded to have a dual boot install of OpenSUSE 10.3 > on a second drive. Installed XP Pro on hd0, no problem. Created a > FAT32 partition on hd1 using 50% of the disk capacity, leaving >

Re: [opensuse] How to tell ssh to log in as machine name.domain.tld?

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
David C. Rankin wrote: > Marcin Floryan wrote: >> On 17/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ken Schneider wrote: >> >>> No, this is just another of my anal retentive moments where >>> I can't >>> understand why my machine wants to ssh out to the world as >>> mail.3111sky

Re: [opensuse] How to tell ssh to log in as machine name.domain.tld?

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Sandy Drobic wrote: > Marcin Floryan wrote: >> On 17/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ken Schneider wrote: >> >>> No, this is just another of my anal retentive moments where >>> I can't >>> understand why my machine wants to ssh out to the world as >>> mail.3111skylin

Re: [opensuse] How to tell ssh to log in as machine name.domain.tld?

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
Marcin Floryan wrote: > On 17/01/2008, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ken Schneider wrote: >> > > >> No, this is just another of my anal retentive moments where I can't >> understand why my machine wants to ssh out to the world as >> mail.3111skyline.com. It's an

Re: [opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
G T Smith wrote: > James Knott wrote: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-16-08 18:36]: > >>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) > >>> Gecko/20070803 SUSE/1.1.7-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 >

Re: [opensuse] How to tell ssh to log in as machine name.domain.tld?

2008-01-17 Thread James Knott
David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > How do you tell ssh to log in as machine x.y.z? With bind running > a single machine may be known as: > > ftp.domain.com > mail.domain.com > machinename.domain.com > www.domain.com > > When using ssh outbound from that box, how do you tell it to ssh >

Re: [opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-16 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-16-08 18:36]: > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) > > Gecko/20070803 SUSE/1.1.7-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 > > > It sure looks like it says SUSE. I'll have to capture the tex

Re: [opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-16 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > James Knott schrieb: >> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: >>>> No, I was just curious. Every now and then, I get a pop up saying >>>> there's an update and asking if I want to get it. If there was no >>>> difference, I'

Re: [opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-16 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > James Knott schrieb: >> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: >>> James Knott wrote: >>>> Is there any difference between the SUSE versions of Seamonkey, >>>> Thunderbird etc., and those provided directly by Mozilla? >>>

RE: [opensuse] Graphical representation of directory

2008-01-16 Thread James D. Parra
figure out what is taking up so much space. CWSIV ~~ Hello Carl, Run this command in the /home dir; # du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11 The results will show the 10 largest dir's under /home. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-16 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Is there any difference between the SUSE versions of Seamonkey, >> Thunderbird etc., and those provided directly by Mozilla? > > Yes. Some added features for integration purposes. > Firefox 2.0.0.11 counts 30 patches. The o

[opensuse] Mozilla package differences?

2008-01-16 Thread James Knott
Is there any difference between the SUSE versions of Seamonkey, Thunderbird etc., and those provided directly by Mozilla? -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Updates..........

2008-01-14 Thread James Knott
Fred A. Miller wrote: > What's going on with the openSUSE sites..can't even d'l the list of > community sites!! > > Fred > > They're probably running Beagle. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread James Knott
PerfectReign wrote: > Not to mention my Win2003 workstations. > > Yes, some things are best left unsaid. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-13 Thread James Knott
Jerry Houston wrote: > I use remote desktop connections all the time at work, because we're > commercial Windows software developers. At home, however, I've always > used a rather clumsy KVM switch to change from my Linux hardware to my > Windows hardware. One of the disappointments has been that

Re: [opensuse] Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts

2008-01-12 Thread James Knott
Rajko M. wrote: > On Thursday 27 December 2007 04:33:15 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> Joe Sloan wrote: >> >>> James Knott wrote: >>> > ... > >> And then the NIS map of the automount files can be used >> to allow ANY worksta

Re: [opensuse] Help - My system in only starting on blck screen

2008-01-12 Thread James Knott
bandoneon 08 wrote: > My system is starting only on the black screen. > It is asking me the login an password, and it stays that way. > > How can I come back to the GUI? > > THe last thing I did yestarday was reconfiguring the smpppd on the > yast System. System services (run level) > > Type st

[opensuse] asus Eee mini laptop

2008-01-12 Thread James Tremblay
Hey guys Anybody try to get opensuse running on one of these yet? I want to try getting SLED on one. Any thoughts? JT -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District 213 S. Main st Newmarket NH, 03857 603-659-3271 *318 CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user

Re: [opensuse] strange IP

2008-01-12 Thread James Knott
jdd wrote: > Hello :-)) > > Any time networkmanager fail to find a dhcp server (for example if > there are none available :-)) it gives me the IP 169.254.16.90 > > shouldn't it continue searching (may be the server is just rebooting) > and from where do this IP come?? (I have no idea, never used su

Re: [opensuse] Access a remote openSuSE installation sitting behind NAT

2008-01-10 Thread James Knott
Marcin Floryan wrote: Hi! I have recently installed a fresh openSuSE 10.3 for one of my friends who mainly uses his box to browse the Internet and has little technical skills. It seems like he has some problems with the sound card setup and I would like to investigate but have no access to the c

[opensuse] Re: [OT] Einstein's Plagiarism

2008-01-08 Thread James Hatridge
On Monday 07 January 2008 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, How many of you are voting for Hillary? ;) Personally if I'm not able to vote for Ron Paul, I might vote for the Hitlary. The way I see it, she might just push enough to make the people shoot back (at last). JIM -- Jim Hatridge L

Re: [opensuse] [OT] windows scam

2008-01-08 Thread James Knott
Joe Sloan wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: > >> For those dual booting, or otherwise running Windows, I got this >> message on my Linux (only) machine: >> > > > > >> http://www.updatew.org/?q=scan >> >> I wouldn't dare >> run this on th

Re: [opensuse] Migrate data from Evolution to M$ Outlook

2008-01-07 Thread James Knott
Ken Schneider wrote: > James Knott pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > >> Ritchie Fraser wrote: >> >>> On Monday 07 January 2008 20:06:34 Alfredo Cedeño Borges wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> My

Re: [opensuse] Migrate data from Evolution to M$ Outlook

2008-01-07 Thread James Knott
Ritchie Fraser wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008 20:06:34 Alfredo Cedeño Borges wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My boss ask me if is there a way to migrate her emails from Evolution >> data to M$ outlook >> >> Alfredo. >> > > Hi Alfredo > > I read somewhere that if you install Mozilla Firebird (

RE: [opensuse] Migrate data from Evolution to M$ Outlook

2008-01-07 Thread James D. Parra
to migrate her emails from Evolution > data to M$ outlook You could resign ... :( ~~~ There is a way to do it, but you need to provide more details on how the Evolution connects to the mail server, imap or pop, and provide any other details. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [opensuse] [OT] Einstein's Plagiarism

2008-01-05 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > so by this latest evidence, > the 9-11 plot goes all the way back to the "Roaring `20's", > before the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. > > Both of which were Dubya's fault! ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: [opensuse] Adding files to an ISO

2008-01-05 Thread James Knott
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > Fri, 04 Jan 2008, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> Is it possible to mount an ISO, and files to it and then save it so that >> it can then be used to create a CD with the new file included? Is there >> a better way to do this? >> > > Look for isomaster > $ rpm -qi is

[opensuse] Adding files to an ISO

2008-01-04 Thread James Knott
Is it possible to mount an ISO, and files to it and then save it so that it can then be used to create a CD with the new file included? Is there a better way to do this? tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command

Re: [opensuse] /boot

2008-01-04 Thread James Knott
K.R. Foley wrote: Rasmus Plewe wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:11:48PM +0200, Dirk Moolman wrote: Question: what happens if /boot gets full (Use% = 100%) How will this affect the server ? Your next kernel update will fail. Rasmus It is worth noting that nothing should typically be wri

Re: [opensuse] CD to MP3 - Way OT

2008-01-04 Thread James Knott
jdd wrote: > Carlos E. R. a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> The Thursday 2008-01-03 at 22:01 +0100, jdd wrote: >> >>> closer, but not identical. In fact standard audio cd have no file >>> system, only some sort of raw data, so even wav files make ages to read

Re: [opensuse] how to mount ext2 USB-stick as user

2008-01-04 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Thursday 2008-01-03 at 22:26 -0700, Carlos F. Lange wrote: > > > On Thu January 3 2008 17:44:45 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >>> And in case I connect it to someone else's machine, it will be > >>> mounted with however is user UID in their machine, which might not > >>> b

Re: [opensuse] how to mount ext2 USB-stick as user

2008-01-04 Thread James Knott
Carlos F. Lange wrote: > On Thu January 3 2008 17:44:45 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >>> And in case I connect it to someone else's machine, it will be >>> mounted with however is user UID in their machine, which might not >>> be the current user and then the permissions are not right, etc. >>>

Re: [opensuse] CD to MP3 - Way OT

2008-01-03 Thread James Knott
Guido Pinkernell wrote: Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008 06:35:22 schrieb Bob S: Hi SuSE people,, So my question is what is the best program to convert my huge collection of music CD's to MP3 format so that I can load the music on the MP3 player. No need to convert. I haven't checked all my

Re: [opensuse] deleting soft links

2008-01-02 Thread James Knott
Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: How can I delete only soft link files from a directory using the command line? I have too many files to delete them one by one. I don't know of any command that will do that, though you could build a script around find, with the type or xtype tests, to find the fi

Re: [opensuse] Laptop recomendations

2007-12-31 Thread James Tremblay
driver testing team. since then I have never had to even think about my drivers. Basically the more Intel chips you get the easier the install , and no I don't work there, I just have been a Big Blue customer for close to 15 years. Good luck -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Ne

Re: [opensuse] Where do I put scripts for run at Startup

2007-12-30 Thread James Knott
Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007 18:48:14 Joe Sloan wrote: > >> Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> >>> Joe Sloan wrote: >>> Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm not at all new to Linux, I'm quite new to Suse Linux and > having a bit of

Re: [opensuse] Downgrade to Vista

2007-12-30 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Sun, December 30, 2007 6:50 am, Mike McMullin wrote: > > >>> Unless anyone has further suggestions, it appears I need to >>> downgrade >>> to Vista (which came with the laptop) and bite the bullet. >>> >>> Ideas? >>> >> Having followed your discussion on encrypting

Re: [opensuse] Re: Installing OS2008 on N800

2007-12-29 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: > Piotr Zagorowski wrote: > >> what's the harm of using web search? >> simple query leads you to nokia website, nokia website leads you to >> os2008 website and on os2008 website there is maemo logo which leads >> you to meamo website and

[opensuse] Re: Installing OS2008 on N800

2007-12-29 Thread James Knott
Piotr Zagorowski wrote: > what's the harm of using web search? > simple query leads you to nokia website, nokia website leads you to > os2008 website and on os2008 website there is maemo logo which leads > you to meamo website and there we are. it takes about 7 min.. > And what's the harm of putti

Re: [opensuse] Where do I put scripts for run at Startup

2007-12-29 Thread James Knott
Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm not at all new to Linux, I'm quite new to Suse Linux and having a > bit of a challenge finding where certain things are located. > > I've got a bash script that initializes my wireless adapter and on redhat > based systems I'm call the script from rc.loc

Re: [opensuse] how-to make your linux desktop look like a mac

2007-12-29 Thread James Tremblay
ections or go back to the store and return you PC and any copies of Linux you bought (much to complicated for you) and buy the MAC. {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1512;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs20 James Tremblay\par Director of

Re: [opensuse] TV recording programs

2007-12-28 Thread James Tremblay
Robert Lewis wrote: what you need to look for is 64\256 QAM usually a card that carries this standard also carries digital cable capabilities. Most cards right now hide the fact that there "Digital HDTV" is the "Over - The- Air" type, My suggestion for anyone looking into PVR tech this year (in t

Re: [opensuse] Why the SMTP delay? (was Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts )

2007-12-28 Thread James Knott
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 28 December 2007 11:03, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> ... >> >>> cool your knickers and get more information before condemning. >>> GMail provides web, pop and imap and smtp services. >>> >> Really? >> > > Really. > > > >> When did they add tha

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