Re: [opensuse] CD to MP3 - Way OT

2008-01-03 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 3, 2008 2:15 am, jdd wrote: > Guido Pinkernell a écrit : >> Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008 10:47:28 schrieb jdd: >>> Guido Pinkernell a écrit : I haven't checked all my CDs but it seems that an audio CD comes with MP3 and ogg-files for ready use. Just open it in konque

[opensuse] Konqueror and Flash

2008-01-07 Thread PerfectReign
On my 10.3 systems, I'm noticing Konqueror tends to crash when a flash site comes up. Looking it up I found the bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348088 Any idea on when this is going to be fixed? Oh, and is there going to be any openSUSE/Novell representation at SCALE this year

Re: [opensuse] [OT] SCALE (So Cal Local)

2008-01-09 Thread PerfectReign
On Wed, January 9, 2008 4:19 pm, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Sloan wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Sorry for the OT post, but I wanted to know, are any of you going to >> SCALE this year? >> >> I'm thinking of going. It's not much compared to linuxworld, but it >> is >> just down the road... It might be nice

Re: [opensuse] like acobat reader

2008-01-10 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 10, 2008 1:40 pm, peter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ugo De Marinis(191) schrieb: > > | can someone help me to find an editor like acrobat reader in linux > suse 10.2 > | 0r 10.3? Acrobat reader is not an editor. Do you mean, like Acrobat Profession

Re: [opensuse] Flac to mp3

2008-01-10 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 10, 2008 6:53 pm, clarge wrote: > Is there a program to do the above? And if so what is it? Yeah, Flac. I think they even have a Canadian translation, eh. :P Something like this on the command line will copy a group of .flac files and create .mp3 files for file in *.flac;

Re: [opensuse] Laptop recomendations

2008-01-11 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 11, 2008 8:52 am, Anna Langley wrote: > > At my work we buy quite a few IBM/Lenovos which all seem to work > pretty > well, we've also had quite good experiences with HP and Toshiba > machines. We've not been buying Sonys for quite some time because > they > used to be a right pai

[opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host

2008-01-11 Thread PerfectReign
On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUSE 10.3 as the guest. I'm wondering - and I've googled this - how do I mount the host filesystem so I can do stuff. I want to burn a DVD with openSUSE, since there are no good tools in Windows to do this which match K3B. Ideas? -- To

Re: [opensuse] Banning verbal violence (was: Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2008-01-12 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 11, 2008 10:11 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: > I made a filter marking messages by Aaron Kulkis as read some time > ago, > but can he please be placed under moderation for making appeals to > violence and torture ? ROTFL > > I understand the stresses placed on someone paid to wage w

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2008-01-12 Thread PerfectReign
On Sat, December 22, 2007 3:09 pm, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: >>> The thing needs a complete overhaul. >> >> Excellent idea, Aaron. >> >> I think I just read you volunteering. > > Wrong. > >> >> Here you go... > > I don't need this application in the first > place. Why would I waste my

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2008-01-12 Thread PerfectReign
On Sat, January 12, 2008 7:33 am, peter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > PerfectReign wrote: > > | If you don't like it, don't install it. There's no one holding your > | fingers to the keyboard. > > I'm tired of some arg

Re: [opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host

2008-01-12 Thread PerfectReign
On Sat, January 12, 2008 2:40 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Saturday 2008-01-12 at 19:53 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > > >> I would like to mount the vmdk file(s) on one of these (not running >> clients) >> in much the same way that I can mou

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-13 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 13, 2008 10:58 am, 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 o

Re: [opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host

2008-01-13 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 13, 2008 5:03 pm, Chee How Chua wrote: > On Jan 13, 2008 9:28 PM, Manfred Hollstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, 04:19:11 +0100, PerfectReign wrote: >> > On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUS

Re: [opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 4:10 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Rodney Baker wrote: >> On Monday 14 January 2008 19:50:07 Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> [...] >>> Kai, >>> >>> on a sidenote. I saw that you have a visio icon on your Linux >>> desktop. >>> >>> How do you run visio on Linux? >>> >>> Thanks much

Re: [opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 7:32 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> > > Great! > OTOH: > Good god, while this is surely impressive, what is the real reason you > are using Linux? Simple - because Linux sucks less than Windows. :P Seriously, I only use Project and Visio about once a month. It is just tha

OpenProject (WAS: Re: [opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!)

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 9:17 am, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: > >> Yes, you can run Excel and the all-important Outlook, and my other >> must-have, Project, if necessary. > > Just curious, why would you run ms project under wine, when you could > run open

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

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 12:29 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote: > What's going on with the openSUSE sites..can't even d'l the list > of > community sites!! > beagle is trying to index the files on the site -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: OpenProject (WAS: Re: [opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!)

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 12:39 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: >> On Mon, January 14, 2008 9:17 am, Joe Sloan wrote: >>> PerfectReign wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, you can run Excel and the all-important Outlook, and my other >>>> must-have, Pro

Re: OpenProject (WAS: Re: [opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!)

2008-01-14 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 14, 2008 1:39 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: > >>>> jabba:/home/kai # openproj >>>> Java auto-detection... >>>> Checking /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java >>>> Java version: 1.5.0_13 OK >>>> Java imple

RE: [opensuse] encrypting your home partition

2008-01-18 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 18, 2008 3:32 am, Wayne and Leanne Roberts wrote: > Hi all > > Does/ has anybody used the "encrypt your home partition" feature ON > SUSE 10.3? > How transparent is it in use? Any performance overheads? Any > technical primers available? I've tried on two different mach

Re: [opensuse] Remove KDE Desktops

2008-01-18 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 17, 2008 6:33 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > 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? > > Why on earth

Re: [opensuse] Gimp and Firefox

2008-01-18 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 18, 2008 6:19 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote: > Every time I run gimp (latest 2.4, updated via Yast) firefox dies. > > Does anyone have a clue what is going on, and hopefully a fix? > > Don't use gimp? Use something better like Krita? http://www.koffice.org/krita/ At least Krita doesn't h

Re: [opensuse] Gimp and Firefox

2008-01-18 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 18, 2008 7:55 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: >> On Fri, January 18, 2008 6:19 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote: >>> Every time I run gimp (latest 2.4, updated via Yast) firefox dies. >>> >>> Does anyone have a clue what is going on, and

Re: [opensuse] encrypting your home partition

2008-01-19 Thread PerfectReign
On Fri, January 18, 2008 5:38 am, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Wayne and Leanne Roberts wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Does/ has anybody used the "encrypt your home partition" feature ON >> SUSE 10.3? >> How transparent is it in use? Any performance overheads? Any >> technical primers available? >> > >

Email Threading (WAS: Re: [opensuse] encrypting your home partition)

2008-01-19 Thread PerfectReign
On Sat, January 19, 2008 7:11 am, Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:18:51 -0800 (PST), PerfectReign wrote: > >>This is email. There is no thread. > > Either you simply forgot a smiley or I don't get it. Of cause there > are > mail threads. What do you thi

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

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 12:21 pm, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility > (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work > 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can > be played within ~10-15

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

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 3:16 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: > >> I actually see the end of Linux games here... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10 > > > hmm, OK, so mickeysoft is changing one of their APIs yet again... and > that r

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

2008-01-20 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 5:08 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: >> On Sun, January 20, 2008 3:16 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: >>> PerfectReign wrote: >>> >>>> I actually see the end of Linux games here... >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedi

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 5:34 am, Jerry Houston wrote: > Has anyone here successfully connected to a corporate NT domain using > KVpnc? Other than providing the correct authentication info, did you > need to change any of the other settings away from the defaults? > In the two different vpn netw

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:28 am, Chris Ross wrote: > Even the new Linux Quake 4 demo doesn't run on OpenSuSE 10.2 because > the > sound is all broken and horrible, let alone old bargain basement > Windows > games. I had teh same problem on 10.2 and 10.3 - no valid sounds coming from it. I even t

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Sun, January 20, 2008 10:26 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > PerfectReign wrote: > >> Heh - I know. I've got the young generation learning the ways of >> TuxRacer, X-Moto and L-Breakout. >> >> http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/51 > > > That's cool, expo

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:52 am, Joe Sloan wrote: > I fixed Q4 sound after a bit of googling, blue skies. I just don't > like > the game that much - ut2004 is more enjoyable IMHO. > You mean, Unreal tournament? I've never heard of that. Will check it. I see they have a demo version... -- To

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

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
On Mon, January 21, 2008 5:09 am, Jerry Houston wrote: > I'm an enthusiastic Linux user, and in fact, have been somewhat of an > evangelist about it at times. However, I earn a six-figure income > ($US) > working all day with computers running Windows. Just because we use > and > enjoy one doesn

[opensuse] KMail Question

2008-01-21 Thread PerfectReign
Just curious - I noticed I have two kmail folders on my KDE system. I have one a /home/kai/kmail and one at /home/kai/.kde/apps/shared/kmail What's the difference? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-23 Thread PerfectReign
On Wed, January 23, 2008 12:22 am, Rajko M. wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 06:50:44 pm Mike McMullin wrote: > >> Â Or use your mouse and double click on the file. Â > > Sure. > >> Â I have mc installed >> but really don't do much with it, though I know there are those on >> list >> who are q

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-23 Thread PerfectReign
On Wed, January 23, 2008 7:24 am, Ken Schneider wrote: >>> For few private emails it is not needed, but on mail lists and in >>> usenet is >>> really necessary. >> >> LOL! >> >> Trying to prove me wrong? >> > > Threading not only allows you to see who is answering whom but also if > a > post has a

Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

2008-01-23 Thread PerfectReign
On Wed, January 23, 2008 12:08 pm, Russ Fineman wrote: > I tried to setup ktorrent under SUSE10.2 to download the SUSE11.0 > developer > alpha version. Followed the steps on > http://software.opensuse.org/developer. > Ktorrent keeps reporting authorization failure on the ip addresses. Is > there >

Re: [opensuse] hello, please, help

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 24, 2008 9:12 am, Sunny wrote: > 2008/1/24 Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> hello everybody, i have a problem, well, first, please worry for my >> bad >> english, second, i need Nero for Linux and i have OpenSuse KDE 10.3 >> installed, and i get the file of Ner

Re: [opensuse] complete system halt..

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 24, 2008 7:31 am, Sampsa Riikonen wrote: > Dear List, > > I have suse 10.3 installed on a hp tx1000 laptop. > I am using KDE. > > Ultimately, the system has become very unstable.. > It halts completely very frequently. I have observed > this halt while browsing the web (it has happe

Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Wed, January 23, 2008 10:31 pm, David C. Rankin wrote: > Russ Fineman wrote: >> I tried to setup ktorrent under SUSE10.2 to download the SUSE11.0 >> developer >> alpha version. Followed the steps on >> http://software.opensuse.org/developer. >> Ktorrent keeps reporting authorization failure on t

Re: [opensuse] hello, please, help

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 24, 2008 9:54 am, Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: >> However, I always thought Nero came as a .rpm or a .deb file. You >> should have gotten an RPM file. >> > > It's true, i get Nero in RPM File, and it's "installable" with > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i was wrong, i must talk abo

Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 24, 2008 9:33 am, Russ Fineman wrote: > Actually it did finally download the iso I was after, it took about > 3.5 hours > on a 100mb fiber link (4.2GB){SUSE 11.0 Alpha} That's not a bad result. > after that it went into > some > mode called seeding, Seeding is how torrents work.

Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

2008-01-24 Thread PerfectReign
On Thu, January 24, 2008 8:14 pm, Joe Sloan wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > >> No firewall enabled, ktorrent just runs for a few hours and dies. >> This >> is on a 10.0 box where (aside from ktorrent) everything else works >> flawlessly. I mean flawlessly. It runs until I take it down for >> main

[opensuse] Ping SUSE KDE Users - Nokia to buy Trolltech

2008-01-28 Thread PerfectReign
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236 Interesting news about this. Not sure if openSUSE will be affected at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change the licensing in some way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e