Re: [opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)

2007-06-01 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Registration Account: Peter, just to start with I would remove all the duplicated identical data sources. Then type the data source in your browser and make sure you get a directory/file listing in reply. Lets us all know what happens after this Scott Hi Scott, Thanks a lot

Re: [opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted. I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source: http://g

[opensuse] Adding an installation source to YaST (SUSE 10.0 AMD64 x 2)

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Bradley
It's time I got this business of adding installation sources to YaST thing sorted. I'd really like to install the latest versions of Mono and Monodevelop, so I went to the web site, which advises SUSE uses to add the installation source: http://go-mono.com/download-stable/suse-100-x86_64 to

Re: [opensuse] Major problem ! Delta iso doesn't work !

2007-05-19 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Per Qvindesland: Whats up with people and this list? touchy about this and touchy about that, it's a shame since this could be a good list which really wants to help regardless of top posting or any other posting at the end of the day we really want to inform and help other people

Re: [opensuse] [OT] - Australian extradited to US to stand trial

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Aaron Kulkis: Clayton wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue 08 May 2007 03:54, Aaron Kulkis wrote: >>> free to shut the f*** up >> >> - Toujours la Politesse? >> > > It's a way of communicating UNMISTAKABLY complete and > utter contempt for the statement w

Re: [opensuse] Help with ATI drivers - please

2007-05-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jim Flanagan: Hi John, I did what you suggested, and followed the detailed steps at http://en.opensuse.org/ATI at the same time. I still got the black screen of death. Went to runlevel 3, watched the splaten and sparken, did the rpm install, rebooted, black screen of death. At that

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Wolfgang Rosenauer: You state that you are using SUSE but you don't use SUSE's Thunderbird since you wouldn't need to install enigmail as it's already preinstalled in those builds. As stated often enough this extension doesn't work w/o a modification to the thunderbird source code.

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Wolfgang Rosenauer: You state that you are using SUSE but you don't use SUSE's Thunderbird since you wouldn't need to install enigmail as it's already preinstalled in those builds. As stated often enough this extension doesn't work w/o a modification to the thunderbird source code.

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jan Karjalainen: Try this one (I modified it to work with TB > 1.5): http://www.fmbv.nu/replyToList-0.1.xpi It doesn't need enigmail or any other extensions to work. You are a star! What are you? A star. Correct. Joking apart, thanks Jan. This mail coming to you (or rather t

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jos van Kan: You should not *install* it in Firefox, but *save* it somewhere. (I have a directory "downloads" for this type of thing). Then in TB click Tools>Extensions>install. It opens up a file dialogbox where you can click on the file just saved. bingo, it installs *in TB* this t

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jos van Kan: You should not *install* it in Firefox, but *save* it somewhere. (I have a directory "downloads" for this type of thing). Then in TB click Tools>Extensions>install. It opens up a file dialogbox where you can click on the file just saved. bingo, it installs *in TB* this t

Re: [opensuse] Slashdot helps to clear up ClearType Hype

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd M Harris: Well, well, Slashdot **has published today** in an attempt to clear up the suse ClearType hype... see http://slashdot.org/ today Relevant links from the article: Linux Watch: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6944795565.html Tuesday's Slash

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Dylan: On Thursday 12 April 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: perhaps, it is soon time to move from Israel :) That goes without saying Only if you're Welsh :) Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: On 2007-04-12 12:36, Peter Bradley wrote: It's now installed, but useless because it's always deactivated. For example I couldn't use it to reply to this mail. It doesn't seem to know that this is a list. Or am I missing something els

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James D. Parra: Ysgrifennodd Alexey Eremenko: -UK (England) Erm. Excuse me. The UK is definitely not England. It may include England, but it is not synonymous. Some of us live in the UK and don't even speak English as our first language. I don't, for one. ~

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Wolfgang Rosenauer: Peter Bradley wrote: It's now installed, but useless because it's always deactivated. For example I couldn't use it to reply to this mail. It doesn't seem to know that this is a list. Or am I missing something else blindingly obvious.

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd mourik jan: Last time I saw that was when I tried to install a _thunderbird_ extension in _firefix_. Thunderbird: Tools, add-ons, install and then locate an xpi file, *or paste the url to the xpi* :-) mj >>> blush <<< You're so right. It's now installed, but useless because it

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Alexey Eremenko: -UK (England) Erm. Excuse me. The UK is definitely not England. It may include England, but it is not synonymous. Some of us live in the UK and don't even speak English as our first language. I don't, for one. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd G.T.Smith: Once I new it existed I found it, downloaded it and it seems to work... Thanks (Though for some reason it is not seem to be an official Thunderbird plugin, I found it at http://open.nit.ca/wiki/attachments/replytolist-0.2.0.xpi if anyones interested). Doesn't work fo

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Sandy Drobic: For a long time I used "reply-all" in Thunderbird and edited the recipients, then I discovered a plugin for List Reply, so I only have to remember to click on "Reply List". Just had a poke about in the TBird extensions. There's a thing that puts a Reply Group butt

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Carlos E. R.: SuSE version of thunderbird contains a hidden setting to modify "reply all" behaviour so that it sends to the list instead. I forgot how I activated it, though. Any clues at all? I'd like to try that. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd ken: What do people outside the US pay for their internet connection and how fast is the connection? If you have links to this info understandable by English/German reader, that would be appreciated also. tnx++ I'm with Pipex in the UK. I pay about $35 per month. Maybe a b

Re: [opensuse] Re: AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold: Any other problems with AppArmor, don't hesitate to yell. I'll be sure to! You and Dominic have been great over this. Thanks for all your help. I mean it. I hope you haven't been upset by my occasional facetiousness. It comes from the frustrations of worki

[opensuse] Re: AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Dominic Reynolds: Hi Peter, Hi Dominic Can you attach this file so we can look at it and identify the problem? Just to prove I'm not totally useless (almost totally, but not entirely), I've fixed it. See below. Also is that what the error says? I would have expect

Re: [opensuse] AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold: My best guess (without seeing your chages) is that you wrote something like: /*.pdf r, into the profile. '*' will not traverse directories, so this would only read pdf files stored in the filesystem root. /**.pdf r, would let your acroread read any PDFs anywher

Re: [opensuse] AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:00:31PM +0100, Peter Bradley wrote: Honestly, whoever wrote this AppArmor thing must have been on drugs. Thanks :) Sorry. I think I was in hysterical overstatement mode. The AppArmor in 10.0 is unfortunate. It was hastily

[opensuse] AppArmor - SuSE 10.0

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Honestly, whoever wrote this AppArmor thing must have been on drugs. After fighting with it over what Apache could do, I now find it won't let Acroread open PDF files! What's that all about? I tried adding read permissions for *.pdf into the profile, but it still won't have it. Can anyone e

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-22 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd russbucket: On Thursday March 22 2007 14:23, Peter Bradley wrote: Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: I've run Memtest on it for 11 hours and 30 minutes today. No errors. So we're looking good. And I've had no crashes or other weird events either, so it'

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-22 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: I've run Memtest on it for 11 hours and 30 minutes today. No errors. So we're looking good. And I've had no crashes or other weird events either, so it's looking good for a public apology to SuSE 10.0 for ever doubting it, as well. But I&

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-17 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Stevens: In this part of the world the response is to say, "You are entitled to your opinion, no matter what I think of it." Of course, you can infer from that what I thought of your kind suggestion. You have an odd concept of "polite". I have a problem with a process on this sys

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: On Friday 16 March 2007 15:25, David Brodbeck wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Did you run Memtest86+? If not, start it up before you quit for the evening (or go to bed) and let it run until the next day. Naturally, there should be no errors if the RAM is go

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd David Brodbeck: Some sites are still designed for Internet Explorer only, and it will be a cold day in hell before Microsoft ports that to Linux. I understand you can get it to work in CrossOver Office. If you really want to. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [opensuse] RAM problems - Was: Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-15 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: Yes, indeed, you have bad RAM. It's far from rare. Did you, by any chance, tweak your RAM access parameters in the BIOS for speed purposes? If so, go back into the BIOS and let it use the RAM's SPD (Serial Presence Detect) to determine the appropriate RAM access pa

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
I think this might already have become boring, so I'll make this my last comment on this subject. As one or two have pointed out, it is rather OT anyway, so perhaps I shouldn't have raised it at all. Ysgrifennodd tleslie: Their list might be rather generic, maybe there are a lot of MS people

Re: [opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Jan Karjalainen: JB wrote: On 07 March 07 13:06, Peter Bradley wrote: I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is,

[opensuse] Recommended by Microsoft

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Bradley
I've tried to ignore the business of Novell's agreement with MS, but today Novell wrote to me offering a free seminar on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. In their email they inform me that SUSE is, "The only Linux recommended by Microsoft". Are they deliberately trying to annoy me? Anyway, I've wri

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: I think Peter was just anticipating the response of his hardware vendor. Anyway, the SuSE installation disks include Memtest86+ as one of their boot options. Greg Yeah, I was; but there'd be no harm is saying to the vendor: "Here's a boot CD with Mem

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Greg Freemyer: You can get Memtest86+ for a boot floppy. That is actually how I run it most of the time. http://www.memtest.org/#downiso(See the 6th download choice) For windows people it makes them better understand that it is just a diagnostic tool not related at all to Lin

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: Peter, Well, BIOS configuration doesn't involve internal surgery, you know. It's just more of that magical keyboard incantation stuff that programmer geeks do so well... Hell no! I might be tempted to write the program that allows you to make the incantati

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: [ For this kind of information, turning off line wrap when sending is advisable. ] Thanks. I'll remember that in future. The bottom table was coloured a frightening shade of red. Do I have a problem? What do you think?? Hoping against hope, y

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote: However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or crashes and has to be re-started

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: On Sunday 04 March 2007 20:18, Peter Bradley wrote: Thanks Hans. I will be doing that, when I get the time. I'll be very upset if I find anything wrong. The machines on 6 months old. This mail comes to you after 3 Thunderbird crashes and two KDE SI

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Hans du Plooy: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote: However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or crashes and has to be re-started (in fact this is the second

Re: [opensuse] frustration and suggestions

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Sunny: On 3/2/07, Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: never know. Can someone give some details about this memtest or whatever it was? There doesn't seem any harm in giving it a go. Just boot with the install cd/dvd. The last grub option is memtest. Just run

Re: [opensuse] frustration and suggestions

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: On Friday 02 March 2007 21:57, Peter Bradley wrote: I hate to say it (because I don't want this to turn into a bashing session), but my experience with SuSE 10.0 on AMD64 x 2 is almost identical. Running 10.2 here on an AMD X2 10:03pm up 6 days

Re: [opensuse] frustration and suggestions

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd David Brodbeck: kanenas wrote: 3. This is the only SuSE system besides 10.1 where a reboot "makes things ok for a while, then shtuff lapses into an almost predictable pattern of problems". 10.1 is guilty too, but does the dirty deed with much less frequency. You know,

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:18:29PM +, Peter Bradley wrote: earlier. I had AppArmor going wild for no reason I could fathom and refusing to allow Apache to do all the things it needed to do (like access the file system). There are other, smaller, issues as

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd J Sloan: If you're somehow having to reboot a linux box that often, that's not luck, that's extreme flakiness. Joe That's true, but I've always put it down to the fact that it's my home desktop which is powered down every night and re-awoken every evening when I get in from wor

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey: Yes, I had noticed that they were offering ATI cards and that was making me uncomfortable after hearing all of the angst about getting these to work on a linux box. Funny that. I've had no trouble installing the ATI drivers on my AMD64 x 2 SUSE 10.0 Compaq box - a

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James Knott: There's a Canadian company that sells notebook computers with Linux or no OS for less than they charge for the same hardware with Windows. http://www.angelcomputer.com Ditto Transtec in the UK: http://www.transtec.co.uk/GB/E/products/personal_computer/notebooks.ht

Re: [opensuse] SubDomain REJECTING ... messages

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Thanks David, That's much cleaner now. phpinfo() still can't see mysql for some reason, but that looks to be another problem, I guess. Cheers Peter Sorry to reply to myself. I spoke too soon. It was AppArmor. For some reason I had to go th

Re: [opensuse] SubDomain REJECTING ... messages

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd David Drewelow: You should update your AppArmor profiles. Run logprof (command line) or the yast version of logprof: YaST -> Novell AppArmor -> Update Profile Wizard Either way, the tools will ask questions and walk you through the process. If you're not sure what the wizard'

Re: [opensuse] SubDomain REJECTING ... messages

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/messages, and I notice that phpinfo() now cannot recognise any of the installed extensions (like MySql). Is it something to do with AppArmor again? Either way, can anyone advise on what I should do? Many t

[opensuse] SubDomain REJECTING ... messages

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Bradley
I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/messages, and I notice that phpinfo() now cannot recognise any of the installed extensions (like MySql). Is it something to do with AppArmor again? Either way, can anyone advise on what I should do? Many thanks. Messages follow: Feb 14 18:32:1

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Carlos E. R.: Force download of the rpm again. It's broken, the signature says so (not missing, but invalid). Ie, delete the rpm in "/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/rpm/". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Bingo! Thanks Carl

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Carlos E. R.: Force download of the rpm again. It's broken, the signature says so (not missing, but invalid). Ie, delete the rpm in "/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/rpm/". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Bingo! Thanks Carlos. And thanks to everyone else whose help

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Carl Hartung: On Wed January 31 2007 17:14, Peter Bradley wrote: Here's what I'd do (as superuser): cd /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/rpm/x86_64/ rpm -Uhv bind-*-9.3.2-56.1.x86_64.rpm --test watch for errors... if none, then repeat but drop the '--test&#

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Is there something I can do with rpm? I've tried rebuilddb without any luck. Sorry for replying to myself (again). If I do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locate bind-libs I get (amongst a lot of other stuff): /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/rp

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd russbucket: Looks like YaST --> Software Management (I typed bind) will allow you to deinstall them, but I'm not sure what all it would effect since I do not run a Domain Name Server on my system. It downloaded three packages when I updated and it looks like they are separate in Ya

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd russbucket: On Tuesday January 30 2007 11:13, Peter Bradley wrote: YOU tells me I need to update BIND, but when I try to download the patch, I get the following error: ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.) I've tried rpm --rebuilddb, in the vague hope that it might do

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: YOU tells me I need to update BIND, but when I try to download the patch, I get the following error: ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.) I've tried rpm --rebuilddb, in the vague hope that it might do some good, but to no avail. There's nothing i

[opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Bradley
YOU tells me I need to update BIND, but when I try to download the patch, I get the following error: ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.) I've tried rpm --rebuilddb, in the vague hope that it might do some good, but to no avail. There's nothing in /var/log/messages. I don't know where rpm

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): There is an annoying fashion these days, consisting of making almost all things through http-related ports: Webmail (instead of using IMAP/SMTP ports), and so on... (I wont list). Please stop wanting to have all-in-one stuff. Subversion has the abilit

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Cristian Rodriguez R.: bad question, why you want svnserve in the first place ?? just subversion in apache with ssl and all will be fine. Couple of reasons Cristian. Firstly, the book I'm reading concentrates on the client/server method, so I want to follow along. Secondly,

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to "switch" to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains KDE and K*/Qt* apps in OpenSu

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: Yes, you need to create the user svn. The detailed information is in /usr/share/doc/packages/subversion/README.SuSE (most packages have a README.SuSE with instructions on how to get things up and running) section 2 in that file reads 2. create svn user/group for

[opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Bradley
I've posted on this before, some time ago, but got no response: so I thought I'd try again to see if I have any more luck. The SUSE version is 10.0 on AMD64 x 2 I'd really like to use svn, so I need to get svnserve to start. I've done a fresh installation from the SUSE installation DVD and I

Re: [opensuse] [feature-request] password strength meter in Yast (was: passwordless users in Yast)

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Alexey Eremenko: Yes, what I want, is that Yast allow me to create a user account, but a passwordless one (currently impossible) during SUSE install. For one-user (home) it's a non-problem as I trust people that I live with (my family). Alexey, Why can't you just accept that you

Re: [opensuse] [feature-request] passwordless users in Yast

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: and if you run as root, this won't protect you at all If you run as root, you deserve everything you get. It's folly and stupidity, and I certainly hope you're not suggesting this to any other newbies you're showing linux to. In fairness, I don't think that

Re: [opensuse] [feature-request] passwordless users in Yast

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Alexey Eremenko: I call to people: please make user-passwords during Yast SUSE setup non-mandatory. Did I miss the tags? Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] US torturing its own citizens

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd poor destiny: The CIA (Central Inteligence Agency) and other US military inteligence agencies (like the DIA, defense inteligence agency and Army CID) have been using torture on american citizens. ... etc ... For goodness sake. I'm probably the only genuine Communist reading thi

Re: [opensuse] Acroread

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Seth Arnold: Thanks for all the good advice, Seth. I've squirrelled your post away somewhere safe. And I'm very grateful to you and the list for all the help I've received. Again! :O) Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] Acroread

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Marcus Meissner: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:35:33PM +, Peter Bradley wrote: For some reason, Acroread has stopped working. No great loss, I know, but I'd like to know what's going on. In /var/log/messages, I get: Jan 22 19:32:45 li

Re: [opensuse] Acroread

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Marcus Meissner: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:35:33PM +, Peter Bradley wrote: For some reason, Acroread has stopped working. No great loss, I know, but I'd like to know what's going on. In /var/log/messages, I get: Jan 22 19:32:45 linux kernel: SubDomain: R

[opensuse] Acroread

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Bradley
For some reason, Acroread has stopped working. No great loss, I know, but I'd like to know what's going on. In /var/log/messages, I get: Jan 22 19:32:45 linux kernel: SubDomain: REJECTING r access to /bin/bash (acroread(13724) profile /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread active /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread)

Re: [opensuse] Recommended Website Tools

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd StephenW: Seems it is not for beginners (since she will be limited to the WYSIWYG. I am afraid our school system is stuck (mired, sinking in the quicksand of MS) using WinXP. I guess the easiest is some MS slop -- like Frontpage. Unless, you can steer me to an acceptable OSS. Tha

Re: [opensuse] Recommended Website Tools

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Marc Wilson: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:55:03PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to maintain an existing website. The last time I did this was with Windows and Dreamweaver. You can't continue to use Windows and Dreamweaver? What's wrong with Dreamweaver? It produ

Re: [opensuse] Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James Knott: Some idiot has deliberately misconfigured his mail server info. Is it possible to have this bozo removed from the list? Or should we just shoot him? I've had a few of these. Me too. So I suppose that means it's not me. That's a relief. :0) Peter -- To unsubsc

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: You can ask anything you want, and just ignore all the "RTFM" responses you get. Most of the rest of us will help as much as we can. I'll second that. I have on more than one occasion asked questions that, looking back, deserved little more than an RTFM respo

Re: [opensuse] Moderator - Reply to settings

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Bob Ewart: Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: ... This behaviuor is incredible annoying ( especially when thunderbird does not have **official support** for reply to list) ... Yes it does. It's an extension called 'Reply in Group'. Follow the installation how to. Click on 'Re

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] I messed up my desktop]

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: If that tools menu route really is just in the Windows version, then I am very disappointed -- it would leave a prefs.js edit as the *only* way to access a great number of user preferences. I think it's just the the Windows version has Tools > Options, but the

Re: [opensuse] Most used applications

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: On Saturday 13 January 2007 19:16, Anders Johansson wrote: I don't think there is a GUI way of doing that (someone will surely correct me if I'm wrong) but the recent applications are stored in $HOME/.kde/share/config/kickerrc in the RecentApps. Deleting the ent

[opensuse] Most used applications

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Here's a silly one I'm sure someone can help me with. Using SuSE Linux 10.0, the SuSE (K) menu has a list of "Most Used Applications". I would like to delete one from the list, because I've uninstalled it. Unfortunately, the menu editor only seems to apply to the items under "All Application

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] I messed up my desktop]

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: I found this on mozillazine (I'm using Seamonkey, so am not certain of the accuracy of Tools menu option). Tools/Options/Advanced/General, and press the Config Editor button, then find "message.forward_message_mode", and change it to 2. Alternatively, edit prefs.j

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James Hatridge: Its quite true that the source is available, but two questions. #1 How can I know that the software that I install is the same as what the source is? #2 How many of us Linux users would recognized a backdoor if he saw one? JIM #1. You screw your tin foil h

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.1

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Basil Chupin: Well you really do need the "new features" because OO 2.1 fixes a security hole. Download the tar.gz file from OO.org itself then unpack it. It is all RPMs which you then install (together with the SuSE oriented file in desktop-integration sub-directory) using "rp

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] I messed up my desktop]

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Kenneth Schneider: Can you please change your quoting to be inline and _not_ as an attachment? Yes. I agree with you. It only seems to be problem when I forward something. Ordinary replies, like this one, are OK as far as I can see. I'm using thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and hav

[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] I messed up my desktop]

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
*sigh* Forgot the reply all again Peter --- Begin Message --- Hi Peter Can you go to the Personal Desktop Settings screen again, choose 'Appearance and Themes', then 'Theme Manager', then choose 'SuSE Default' or 'Redmond' or something? This should get most of the main settings back to r

Re: [opensuse] I messed up my desktop

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Hi Peter Can you go to the Personal Desktop Settings screen again, choose 'Appearance and Themes', then 'Theme Manager', then choose 'SuSE Default' or 'Redmond' or something? This should get most of the main settings back to reasonable setting. From there, you can start to play again :)

[opensuse] I messed up my desktop

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Guys, I messed up. I was playing around with the desktop preferences and now I've ended up with the ugliest thing imaginable. All the toolbar icons are yellow on blue. The background to everything is deep blue. The KDE menu seems to have fonts of about 18 point, and I can't find a way to ch

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Dylan: But new hardware comes out every day, and there are effectively infinite permutations which cannot be effectively tested - how would you compile, verify and update that list without it being out of date before you started unless A) you control the hardware design process (Ap

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Let me see if I can succinctly restate my position: 1. If Macs were cheap, people would use Macs, not PCs (possibly a false premise, otherwise the Mac Mini would be more successful). 2. Linux/SuSE or some other distro has the potential to be like a cheap Mac. It needs a. the GUI and ap

[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT]

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Sorry. Forgot to Reply All Peter --- Begin Message --- Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey: What is the configuration of your box? You're our first entry in our Linux_Standard_Hardware_Base.Complete_System!! I see many posts on this list of others who did not find that the install of SuSE 10.2 went

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Tony Alfrey: But surely those who decide on such things as a Linux Standard Base could decide on a Standard Hardware Base, and vendors could be encouraged to advertise their products as Linux Standard Hardware Base compatible. Surely everyone at SuSE "knows" their own box; thi

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd James Tremblay: Let's face it, if Lenovo, HP, or Dell pre-installed and set up SmartPM or one of the other repo's, using linux and getting software for daily use would be just as easy. as getting your laptop from the store was for you. p.s and a 3rd less cost. http://www.trans

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger: I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? One sol

Re: [opensuse] k3b on suse 10.2: no devices

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Dominique Leuenberger: I would say that can only be a workaround. I remember on my system I don't have to su for k3b. (but I did not upgrade that machine to 10.2 yet). Will this be something I'll have to take care after updating? One solution I've seen mentioned, although I've

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: You can send me a pint of vitual Bitter. ;-) Charles _.._..,_,_ ( ) ]~,"-.-~~[ .=])' (; ([ | ]:: '[ '=]): .) ([ |:: '| ~~~~ Enjoy! Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs]

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
--- Begin Message --- Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: On Monday 08 January 2007 10:21, Peter Bradley wrote: Huh? The only thing I wrote on this topic was a question about S/PDIF outputs from disc players and inputs on contemporary sound I/O hardware. Sorry Randall. My bad. I got

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: [EMAIL PROTECTED], I checked the rpm's for you. They moved kscd to kdemultimedia3-extra. kdemultimedia3-CD now only contains kaudiocreator. Bingo Now, I realise I've not behaved like the most intelligent of users, and I apologise for that. Many thanks

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