[opensuse] CD woes on Thinkpad R40.

2007-02-19 Thread John Summerfield
that's a Thinkpad R40 At present, I'm running without the drive: I rhink that's the same model drive I have. At any rate, the system's an R40 model 2722-GDM. Is there anything anyone can think of before I feed it into Bugzila? -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscrib

Re: [opensuse] Can't burn DVD's with K3b

2007-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
; 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > By the way, I've tried a different DVD writer as well. > Any suggestions? > Thanks > Phil -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can't burn DVD's with K3b

2007-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
sue. > > > -- > Patrick Kirsch - Quality Assurance Department > SUSE Linux Products GmbH GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Perl question

2007-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
debug("glo fw = $globals{'fw'}"); Hang on, what's that at the end of line 1646 in yours? -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] cookies

2007-02-20 Thread John Summerfield
tp://shop.example.com/ and it includes a document from http://tracker.example.com. Cannot tracker match my two visits, and maybe record my credit card detaisl "for my greater convenience>" I tend to allow session cookies, but rarely permanent cookies. I also tend to use divers browsers a

Re: [opensuse] Microphone blues

2007-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:35, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Attached business cards > Daniel Feiglin >     > Work 972 9 8616204 > Fax 972 9 8621052 > Mobile 927 52 3869986 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Add this contact to the addressbook] Please, no business cards on the list, my

Re: [opensuse] Re: About Backing Up

2007-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 23:42, Joachim Schrod wrote: > For the record, I should add that one needs to collect MTBF numbers > (actually, MTTF and MTTR numbers) onself. Data from other > organizations is not reliable, the variance seems to be quite high. That would be because shops' environment

Re: [opensuse] Perl question [Solved]

2007-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:09, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:20, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> I know very little about this problem, so I will share what I know and > >> if anyone knows perl if you can give

Re: [opensuse] group ware info

2007-02-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Thursday 22 February 2007 06:44, Jack Malone wrote: > A shared address book would have been handy today OpenLDAP should be able to do this, though you may need to add to the schema. this is a standard directory service, and all your email clients should directly support it. -- To unsubscrib

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-03-06 Thread John Summerfield
Such as download software. Such as change their proxy settings. If a site's using AD, and if they have lots of Windows desktops they should be, you won't get more than peripheral stuff off the Windows boxes, and the Windows serverss (some of them anyway) will remain because th

Re: [opensuse] Re: Win vs Lin info

2007-03-09 Thread John Summerfield
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:27, Russell Jones wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:58, Russell Jones wrote: > >> Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when > >> it goes wrong) is to use something like Au

[opensuse] Oh where oh where have the updates gone?

2007-03-10 Thread John Summerfield
I've spent a good hour and an half looking for where ti get updates for my OpenSUSE 10.2, All that I can find is that "The current patches for openSUSE™ are available from an update software catalog. If you have registered your product during the installation, an update catalog is already confi

Re: [opensuse] Oh where oh where have the updates gone?

2007-03-10 Thread John Summerfield
On Sunday 11 March 2007 07:24, Michael Skiba wrote: > On Saturday, 10. March 2007 20:28, jdd wrote: > > linux/suse.com/suse/update/10.1 > > he should probably use 10.2 :) (depending on his installation..) Probably you're right Michael. I've shozen one, and now Yast is amusing itself tying up my mo

Re: [opensuse] Linux AD server for Windows clients - Was: Win vs Lin info

2007-03-11 Thread John Summerfield
tually use it, not a bunch of Linux geeks. Of course you're not going to get good unbiased advice here~ -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] I see a crack in the walls!

2007-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
one can lean on to move the mouse cursor plus three mouse buttons, all functioning under Linux. There's also the usual touchpad, with two buttons and scrolling and clicking gestures. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Linus loves GPL v2 ---- and is not on a crusade

2007-03-22 Thread John Summerfield
x27;t tell that before listening and understanding what he has to say. Then, perhaps we can discuss it further and maybe come to an agreement: if not, then we can part on good terms, each understanding the other. Fanatical ranting with never persuade anyone with the ability to think, to que

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-04 Thread John Summerfield
never have Linux on it anymore, but I have this > machine, with its own problems running Linux, and until I couldn't print, > fairly happily. Your choice, but a bit radical. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] [kernel]What is the main difference between pxelinux and isolinux and normal kernel?

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
program. Perhaps you should explain in some detail what you want to do - too often, people ask how to do something (and people ask them) when they really should be outlining a problem and asking for suggestions on how to solve the problem. > > Thanks. -- Cheers John Summerfield

Re: [opensuse] kmail gone screwy

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
to me. Basically, you telnet mail 110 then follow the pop3 protocol; google can find the details, search on these terms: pop3 protocol rfc You can also run tcpdump on your desktop: tcpdump -i any -A -s port 110 which can be very illuminating. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubsc

Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
. sed is strictly batch-oriented. _I_ regularly do system maintenance by dialup, and no GUI is especially useful at the other end of a modem. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Putting /boot on a pendrive...

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
n't change that? fwiw I have a system whose BIOS has decided not to boot directly from hda, Couldn't figure why, but booting grub on CD is fine, and this works: root (hd0) chainloader +1 boot There is, of course, no reason /boot can't (with a little work) be on a CD. -- Cheers

Re: [opensuse] Re: Please make available a 2 DVD set for openSUSE 10.3

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
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[opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-11 Thread John Summerfield
rejoinder, it's probably best off-list. -- Grump! John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread John Summerfield
On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:21, Benji Weber wrote: > On 4/12/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had enough of this list, I really do not like off-list replies to my > > attempts to help people. > > > > They are bad because > > 1

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread John Summerfield
sure JB's not going to stir that pot again. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread John Summerfield
maintainers address(es) and bother them. In my experience, they mostly ignore the views of one person. Presumably, if approached by several then they might listen. Especially, in this case, it's someone from Novell or SUSE. Pointing to this thread might help. -- Not appeased John

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread John Summerfield
n and all the other *x email clients are fixed to work well (some do), there are still others such as Lookout/Lookout Express. Pegassus etc. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]