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

2007-12-29 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Dec 29, 2007 11:33 AM, Bryen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but they do rely on the stupidity of their userbase. Their revenue is based on telling their users what it is the users want, not the other way around, which is how they got to be successful. please stop this non-sense. I know

Re: [opensuse] SLES 10,tomcat and apache

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Dec 28, 2007 12:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But into my distro disks (SLES10) does't appears the tomcat connectors packages. There is the rtomcat and the apache but the connector is not. From when can i download? i can remove the connector instalation (mod_jk.so) but how can i

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Dec 16, 2007 4:39 PM, Joe Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The standard procedure for me on any new suse build is to nuke beagle completely Beagle doesn't give me any problems at all ... and I use it often to find stuff ... I guess if I was using the box as a server I would remove it, but

Re: [opensuse] DOCX files and Novell OpenOffice

2007-12-09 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Dec 9, 2007 5:40 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had heard that the Novell version of OpenOffice can open .DOCX files, from Word 2007. I tried several different files and found that while the text is there, formatting, tables, bullet lists, images etc., tend to take a beating,

Re: [opensuse] DOCX files and Novell OpenOffice

2007-12-09 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Dec 9, 2007 7:22 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed that and it does not appear to make much difference. Also, my understanding was that v2.3 included support for OOXML. Is that package even necessary for the latest version of OpenOffice? It is also an i586

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Nov 24, 2007 12:22 PM, Don Raboud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks strange. Are you running the 2.6.22.12-0.1-default kernel (uname -r)? What happens if you run the same command as root? Did you try Kevin's suggestion? I have to jump in here: I have had the same issues as the OP, but

Re: [opensuse] feature rich website design software for Linux?

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Nov 13, 2007 10:51 PM, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: I remember long time ago I had tried IBM Homepage Builder, which I cannot recall but should have a Linux version. This software also allow easy web design like simple drag drop. However this software seems to

Re: [opensuse] Re: sound .. stopped?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/28/07, Bjørn Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going into the gnome-control-panel. Look at the settings for gstreamer and sound there, put them to automatic or alsa. Does that make any change? well I went into control center/gstreamer, and tested everything with the little test button.

Re: [opensuse] sound .. stopped?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/28/07, Basil Chupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Van Lone wrote: On 10/27/07, Kevin Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound. when I go into YAST / sound

[opensuse] sound .. stopped?

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Van Lone
running SLED 10 10 SP1 with GNOME Sound has been fine (well, other than the built-in mic not working). Today, I turned my laptop on and ... nothing. The little volume thing in the task bar is not muted (in fact is turned way up) and I have tried toggling it. I went into preferences, and made

[opensuse] Re: sound .. stopped?

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/27/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running SLED 10 10 SP1 with GNOME huh? Any ideas what to do? So, I dropped to term as root, did a find for alsa* and came across alsaconf in /usr/sbin. Figuring what the heck I ran it. First time, no change, except that the little volume

Re: [opensuse] sound .. stopped?

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/27/07, Kevin Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go into YaST, then Sound. Choose Other, then Volume. Make sure the sliders at the top are on and that you can hear the test sound. -- Well I have sound working again, as I said in my second post ... probably alsaconf does something similar to

Re: [opensuse] Re: [Evolution] Exchange MAPI Connector

2007-10-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/24/07, Srinivasa Ragavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It wont speak to OWA any more. It (libmapi) does RPC :) Over http(s):? :-) Peter -- The more I see the less I know/The more I learn to let [delusions of absolute truth] go www.the-brights.net -- To

Re: [opensuse] Re: [Evolution] Exchange MAPI Connector

2007-10-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/23/07, Srinivasa Ragavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, the new MAPI plugin/provider can support 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007. But I'm currently developing with 2003 and 2007 and it WORKS. This is very good news, I *think*: I wonder whether this means an end to the nasty, brutish slowness

Re: [opensuse] how to enable mic?

2007-10-21 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/20/07, Robert Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to get this to work so don't give up for awhile. When you say allowed me to record what does that actually mean? There is a button you can press in Krecord that lets you see the VU meter moving with your voice? Did you see

[opensuse] how to enable mic?

2007-10-20 Thread Peter Van Lone
On my HP NW4480 laptop I don't seem to be able to use the microphone. On my last laptop (a whitebox asus mboard unit) SLED found the mic just fine. Now, on this much nicer unit, with nearly everything else working beautifully, when I run Skype I can't talk. I originally installed SLED, and now

Re: [opensuse] how to enable mic?

2007-10-20 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/20/07, Robert Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running Krecord if your using KDE to see if the OS sees the microphone. If it doesn't then you can't expect Skype to see it. If Krecord doesn't work think about trying SUSE 10.3 as newer versions of ALSA seem to detect more sound chips/

Re: [opensuse] To all people who have JAVA problems, please read

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/8/07, Damon Register [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now you have gotten me curious. Why is this funny? because it was so droll ... and because the post it was in response to was so arrogant and assuming, but probably did not realize it. Because very possibly the OP would need a gui/menu item

Re: [opensuse] To all people who have JAVA problems, please read

2007-10-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/7/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Should have known that one. Just out of curiosity - what menu in GNOME is that under? Do we have it in KDE? ROFLMAO! -- The more I see the less I know/The more I learn to let [delusions of absolute truth] go

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.3

2007-10-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 10/5/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried that KDE 4 preview. Yuck!!! I certainly hope that's not what KDE 4 is supposed to look like. It's terrible!!! I like it ... so, now should we flaim each other? P -- The more I see the less I know/The

Re: [opensuse] SLED10_SP1 vs 10.3

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 9/17/07, Random P. Numbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Are there any xtra repos (for YAST) for SLED10 SP1. There are a few programs that I miss? I do not think there are any extra repos ... however, SLED 10 is essentially similar to OpenSuse 10.1 ... so I have successfully used this repo

[opensuse] crontab problem? How to debug?

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Van Lone
we are having odd problem with running PHP scripts from cron, we are able to execute the same commands from shell under clotho04 user, but crontab for the same user sends us following email: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 14 06:30:01 2007 X-Original-To: clotho04 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] crontab problem? How to debug?

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 9/14/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin Try setting that one. Are you saying that the path listed is incorrect? What should it be set to? And ... any idea how it might have changed from just a day or two ago, when none of the users have modified env

Re: [opensuse] crontab problem? How to debug?

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 9/14/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not incorrect, different. The path, and other environment variables, that programs running as cron jobs get are different that what they get when running normally. Whether this is a problem or not depends on each particular script, program,

Re: [opensuse] Skype 1.4 on SLED

2007-09-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 11 Sep 2007 19:52:54 GMT, Chris Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes having problems, can' t get it installed due to dependencies libqt4, dbus 1.0.0. Let me know if you get it installed and what you had to do to get it installed. the install of 1.4 failed for me with a pretty generic

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 in OpenSuSE 10.3 alpha/beta?

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 8/8/07, Mohammad Bhuyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do I get KDE4 (If KDE is chosen as my DE during installation) as default installation with OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha / Beta release? If not, can I install and make KDE4 as my default DE? Or any suggestion regarding getting latest OpenSUSE

Re: [opensuse] Newbie question - How stable is OpenSuSE vs SLES9

2007-07-30 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 7/30/07, Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: computer-savvy, but now I think I'm just a dunce!) And, no, I don't spend all my time in this Win OS, but I had to print something yeah, isn't that discouraging? I have a xerox workcenter 35 or some such. I installed the drivers once

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 7/17/07, G T Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to have to re-download all the patches I have

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I don't think the host-to-guest file sharing is done via SMB / CIFS. When I view the Properties dialog in my current VMware setup, it shows the type as Network Drive and the File System: as HGFS (which I've never seen or heard of

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I recall. I've had this setup in place for quite a while, now. Of course, you have to configure the shared folders in the VM configuration dialog _and_ enable them. But beyond just doing those ordinary things, there's nothing

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it something about how you installed or configured VMware? I know the configuration Perl script asks you a lot of questions. One of them might bear on the availability of the shared folders function. If you've been carrying forward

[opensuse] gnome system monitor, processes and CPU resouces

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
sometimes my SLED machine gets very sluggish, and I have to wait a while to do anything (especially if I am in evolution -- often the rest of the system is slow but ok, while the EVO window gets grey and is un-responsive. At any rate, just now this happened ... and when I looked in system

[opensuse] SLED10 (and opensuse, too) update questions

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
I have some items that I'm just not clear about. Probably simple, but I have not been able to find answers by googling, etc ... As a routine, I follow the procedures in the gem report Hacking SLED 10 to add additional repos and then software, so that I can get a more complete multi-media

[opensuse] where does one find the OT list to subscribe to it?

2007-06-19 Thread Peter Van Lone
I'm wanting to query about SSL and apache2 on SLES, where the apache is not the one provided by the distro. I assume the OT list would be the place for such a question? But, I can't find reference to it on opensuse.org ... where does one go to learn how to subscribe to OT? Peter -- Do not

Re: [opensuse] Wine and iTunes

2007-06-19 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/19/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.perfectreign.com/files/images/itunes_linux.jpg That works under Wine just fine. My mother had the wacky idea of buying one of those iPods. I convinced her to get a good audio player from Cowan that supports .ogg format. nice! Can

Re: [opensuse] Mount ISO as user

2007-06-06 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/6/07, Scott Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: I'm not sure this is an option even in Vista or MacOS. I'd just like it. I have an ISO of a DVD I made, and would just like to mount it for the purposes of viewing the DVD. I also have an ISO of files

Re: [opensuse] Mount ISO as user

2007-06-06 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/6/07, Mike McMullin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umount -d /mnt/mountiso mount -o loop $1.iso /mnt/mountiso I have this script, Kai, it works rather well for me. Mike, a couple things here that confuse me: 1)Kai wanted something that could mount an ISO from the GUI ... I suppose if you

Re: [opensuse] again ndiswrapper!

2007-06-03 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/3/07, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a Broadcom driver in 10.2 bcm43xx.ko. It needs firmware. You don't need NDISWRAPPER. You can use bcm43xx-fwcutter to cut the firmware out of the Windows Broadcom .sys file. Works much better than NDISWRAPPER. If I were to grab the

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org-2.2 for 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, SLED10 in the Build Service

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/29/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some where in the Novell Beta web page there is a windows version, OOo-2.1.0-7.zip two weeks ago. Will this also be updated? Could it be placed somewhere easier to find? I know, it is for windows, but it is kind of useful to make proselytism

Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/22/07, Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always used seyon to connect to the Cisco equipment. Worked very well every time. The tty would most likely be ttyS0. how do I know (confirm) that ttys0 is the serial port? I don't have my cable handy (or a device to connect to) and

Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/22/07, Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always used seyon to connect to the Cisco equipment. Worked very well every time. The tty would most likely be ttyS0. when I try screen (now, with a serial cable connected to a device): screen /dev/ttys0 9600 I get an error

Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/23/07, Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dmesg|grep tty that was helpful, thank you. I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ dmesg |grep tty serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ so theoretically that

Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/23/07, Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was that a typo, or did you actually use ttyS0. ttys0 is not the same. funny, I was wondering that. When I first tried to config the serial port in minicom, it flipped the S to s ... so I figured maybe it needed to be lower case. Now, I

[opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Van Lone
I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc I found reference to gtkterm, but there does not appear to be an RPM for it, and I'm just wondering whether there is a util that comes with suse distros? Peter -- Do not be

Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/22/07, Seth Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:35:49PM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc screen /dev/ttyS0 9600(or whatever) thank you

Re: [opensuse] Default File Manager

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/17/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The filemanager in gnome is responsible for somethings like painting the desktop icons. No nautilus, empty desktop. I did use another one some versions back, but konqueror, never. However, you can easily fire up konqueror inside gnome, I do

Re: [opensuse] Default File Manager

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/17/07, Jos van Kan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. The obvious suggestion would be to install some lib or other. Did you try that? well yes, obvious indeed. But which package to install, in order to get the particular needed lib, was not so obvious. Of course you need a whole slew of

Re: [opensuse] A very interesting Virtualization Theory article

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/14/07, John O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:40 -0400, Gordon Keehn wrote: John O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 20:49 +0200, jef peeraer wrote: John, do you mean that in the future, we will be able to install a new distribution by just copying

Re: [opensuse] Groupwise - Open-Xchange

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/9/07, Catherine Carminati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I work at a company that has about 160 users, we are thinking of upgrading our servers, one of them being the mail server. what i would like to find out is if anyone works with Groupwise 7 and if you would recommend the product.

Re: [opensuse] How to post a support query

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/8/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Andrea Lanza wrote: I would like to know how to post a support query. I prepared support.txt but I can't undestrand where to post it. We have a kernel-level problem in a new HP Server that should be solved. If

Re: [opensuse] Re: Suse, M$ and Dell

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/8/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it interesting that Mr Hovsepian seems to know all about this issue and is worried about it enough to address it on Novell's web site, but yet Mr Meissner remains ignorant of the issue. Head in sand Marcus? These are all old, dating to

[opensuse] Fwd: broadcom (??) wireless on dell latitude D810

2007-05-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
first try bounced. Here goes the second try -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 7, 2007 4:11 PM Subject: broadcom (??) wireless on dell latitude D810 To: Open SuSE mail list opensuse@opensuse.org SLED10/SUSE10.1 No wireless adapter appears

Re: [opensuse] Fwd: broadcom (??) wireless on dell latitude D810

2007-05-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 5/7/07, Danesh Daroui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I had same problem. Install ndiswrapper and then copy all .inf files (and maybe .sys files also) from windows driver. Follow ndiswrapper to install driver from Windows drivers and your wireless neteork will then work like a charm! OK, so

[opensuse] how to enable figer print reader?

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Van Lone
My HP nw8440 laptop has a fingerprint reader. My compatriots who also have this device (and are running vista) have easily been able to configure this such that when prompted to login, they simply swipe their finger. How to go about this, with SLED 10 or OpenSuse 10.1? Peter -- Do not be

Re: [opensuse] how to enable figer print reader?

2007-04-30 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/30/07, Pueblo Native [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader Hope this helps. yikes ... well, if that's what there is, that's what there is. I need to start learning how to configure from source ... it just seems like there are so

[opensuse] WPT -- John Lennon's jukebox

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
great show: Great Performances John Lennon's Jukebox CHANNEL 28 (WPT) * View more broadcast times Visit the Web site http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/lennon/ John Lennon's Jukebox recalls many of the influences who stirred Lennon's musical imagination. Among those interviewed:

[opensuse] Re: WPT -- John Lennon's jukebox

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/23/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great show: terribly terribly sorry ... fat finger special. This was intended for friends only, somehow I managed to allow the list address instead of an alphabetically near friends name ... Peter ps - but it IS a great show

Re: [opensuse] FTP access via SSH tunnel

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/18/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: True SCP is preferable but I have users running a Win32 program that only uses FTP so I can't use SFTP or SCP or anything else here. All machines are on the internet, no NAT'ing or internal networks here. Any chance

Re: [opensuse] FTP access via SSH tunnel

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/18/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] erroneously and egregiously wrote: Second -- I prefer to point people to filezilla, as it is published under the GPL - winscp is not: well shit ... I have to retract my comment. I was certain that winscp was a closed source product ... at least

Re: [opensuse] Firewire and linux?

2007-04-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/16/07, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I also read that firewire can be twice as fast as USB 2.0, I want to use firewire. I've not yet tried, but this is what I found last week when I googled: http://www.linux1394.org/ http://www.linux1394.org/faq.php

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse - a MS patent observer?

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/12/07, Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know. That was my point. You dont have a point. no, druid ... it is you that have no point No need for cheap talking and random off-topic thoughts of yourself. Nobody is interested please do not pretend to speak for me I dont

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse - a MS patent observer?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/10/07, Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right, novell marketing folks? Can you read this? If you can, remind next time to not PAY the people that are trying to bring down your company, product and your salary 2 inaccuracies here: 1)really that is not how marketing works. You notice that

Re: [opensuse] Does openSUSE loses ClearType functionality due to Novell-Microsoft patent deal ?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/11/07, Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, if he wasnt so desperated posting 50 emails per minute, he could actually have read the list and even found this thread, that even has an official explanation from aj and jw, with this link:

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse - a MS patent observer?

2007-04-10 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/10/07, Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. So since you make a threat and dont have anything to do, and is annoyed with me (and you can bet Im not going to stop), life and novell, why dont you go cry in silence somewhere and make no further posts? thanks a lot

Re: [opensuse] What's all about

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/7/07, Jan Tiggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this Concord Consortium, Inc. anyway? It looks like it belongs to Novell. from the very first google result: http://www.concord.org/about/sponsors/ Peter The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. --Annie

Re: [opensuse] What's all about??

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/7/07, Jan Tiggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A whois on 'concord.org' snip Domain Name:OPENSUSE.ORG Created On:05-Jul-2005 18:49:38 UTC Last Updated On:03-Jun-2006 11:32:05 UTC Expiration Date:05-Jul-2008 18:49:38 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:MarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE

Re: [opensuse] 3d acceleration

2007-04-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/5/07, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stay tuned to what is happening with these 2 projects... seems they are merging back together. that would be very good news, indeed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Times font handling problems in OOo when exporting to PDF - 10.1 vs 10.2 -- BUG

2007-04-02 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 4/2/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Plus, in 10.2 I haven't found any font from the times family that OOo doesn't embeds. Nice work ... Peter -- One of the penalties of an ecological education, is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Aldo Leopold A Sand Count

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.2 for openSUSE

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 3/30/07, JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was just a bogus groklaw report. We simply patch OO like every other distro, we just happen to patch more (and with features) because we have a good sized team working on OO. We send it all upstream however and most of it eventually ends

[opensuse] activate dual head mode

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Van Lone
Using SLED 10 I can activate dual head mode, but the only option available to me it cloned multihead mode -- both xinerama multihead and resolution settings are greyed out and unavailable. What might be the cause of this? My device is a fairly generic white box notebook clone, with an intel

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 3/29/07, Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add the other side to this for any lurkers; I run, and use, and like Beagle. I also let ZMD run. And I have no performance problems, and neither of the machines are earth-shatteringly powerful. me, too ... though I think

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

2007-03-22 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 3/22/07, Jan Karjalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree with Linus on this one, here's his statement from the article mentioned above: Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not evil or immoral, it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and

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

2007-03-21 Thread Peter Van Lone
The article linked below is titled Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2 --- and the interview is why I absolutely love Linus Torvalds. http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070320/tc_cmp/198002077 I have long been troubled by some aspects of the angst and anger around Novell when they first purchased

[opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-12 Thread Peter Van Lone
I have used the terms samba and cifs as essentially interchangeable. However lately on the list I have seen postings that discuss cifs as being not fully baked despite that SUSE has shifted to it ... I've done some googling, but the sheer volume of site having to do with these topics is

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-12 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 3/12/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba is a service that allows you to PUBLISH shares for other computers to mount. smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows box. (perhaps to do a backup or some such)

Re: [opensuse] zmd mysteries

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 3/8/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still the same: http://en.opensuse.org/Understanding_zmd is the paragraph below (from the link you provided) correct? libzypp is the new package/patch/pattern/product management library written in C++. Currently, it installs, upgrades

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/26/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was my assessment too. This stuff has no place on a working machine. Maybe just to show off, but realistically it adds nothing to usability that can not be achieved easier with multiple desktops. I tend to agree, but I do think that

Re: [opensuse] How do I save the desktop in Gnome?

2007-02-19 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/19/07, JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gnome-session-save. It being missing is part of a little disconnect we have with the upstream logout menus right now. Out of curiosity, how often do you use this feature? We'd been considering removing it. I definitely use it., would piss and

[opensuse] network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
Using SLED10, there is a nice-looking option in the network manager, a left click on the icon in the panel, and there is a VPN Connections option, you can configure vpn definitions, and then launch those that have been configured. If you choose to configure, there is a nice little wizard, and

[opensuse] Re: network manager vpn vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/16/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: addendum: the documentation for Novell VPN client for Linux talks about copying your user certificate to a particular path. Where do I find/get a user certificate? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ... Peter

Re: [opensuse] Remote desktop on 10.2

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/12/07, IG Coolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, Are you trying to connect from your 10.2 workstation to a (windows) server? I have it running, using my opensuse laptop as a RDP client to a windows server. that really works? I can get an RDP session to a windows server, without having to

Re: [opensuse] Remote desktop on 10.2

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/13/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use it all the time to go through VPN into my Windows XP and Windows 2003 workstations. Just use rdp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] to connect. Because I'm not on the DNS for my LAN when going through VPN, I use rdp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] to connect.

Re: [opensuse] Remote desktop on 10.2

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/13/07, Carl Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You still need to call the remote site and have them physically plug the box back into the network, though, right?... so you can connect to it? lol! well, yes, -- since all my customers are C2 Blue Book secure, they have to enable networking

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/11/07, Charles R. Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to end this, the market share is out there for the taking, just have to solve these irritants IMO. With that said, SuSe has come the closest to bridging that gap. They just have a ways to go in my opinion. I agree, linux has a way to

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/11/07, Brian J Berrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worse still is all the inane replies they incite. Linux is NOT MS, thank heaven, and for most of us it is easy to READ the F_Manuals, then if needed, dig up some HOWTO's and archives or ask intelligent questions of the helpful gurus here.

Re: [opensuse] What will it be? (was) 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/11/07, Charles R. Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip With ALL of that said, I will abide what the list wishes. If people want me off the list, I will un-subscribe. good lord ... please don't be so maudlin. That is about the only wish I have for your participation on the list. Get a

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare - ps

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/11/07, Benjamin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah. HP-UX runs on PA-Risc processors. I think they just are still to damn afraid to piss off Microsoft plain and simple. well I did only use HP as an example, but I think you are right in part (that they are hesitant to piss off

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/6/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, control file is the XML file generated by AutoYaST or by the cloning at the end of the installation. I found the final, what appears to be definitive statement buried in

Re: [opensuse] Kmail, groupware solution, what is recommended?

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/6/07, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good. Can it be a client to a real Outlook server? I currently use evolution to at least respond to calendar messages. However, I have never gotten evolutoin to use the Outlook address book that is on our company server. I would love to

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.suse.de/~ug/ You can specify a kernel boot parameter at start up, autoyast=URL Or grab YaST CD creator, that is capable to put the profile on a CD, including a boot menu entry:

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, control file is the XML file generated by AutoYaST or by the cloning at the end of the installation. that is very good, thank you. Now, one or two more can it do this questions, and if the answer is yes, I'll go to the docs to

[opensuse] Re: autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-03 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/1/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked over the basics of autoyast ...and it seems as though for a one off situation (a single, or only a few, repeated installations) that it is over-kill. However, I see that at the end of an install, you can select to have the autoyast

Re: [opensuse] Re: autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-03 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/3/07, Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Third hit using Google: http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/autoyast.html I'm sorry, but this tells me nothing. I know that AutoYaST allows unattended and automated installation I also know that, In addition to AutoYaST,

[opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Van Lone
I've looked over the basics of autoyast ...and it seems as though for a one off situation (a single, or only a few, repeated installations) that it is over-kill. However, I see that at the end of an install, you can select to have the autoyast xml file created. Can I just save that file, and

[opensuse] *free* RHEL to SLES training materials

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Van Lone
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=ReHgN8b1qhU%7E Just thought some might like to know of this ... looks like reasonably good guide covering the major how is SLES different from RHEL for major admin/install tasks. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] KDE Census

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/31/07, John Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome form the start untill SuSE went kde 7.? then back when Novell stepped in. I like both (certain aspects) and am irritated by both. Have not settled in yet. My first extended full-time linux desktop was KDE with SUSE 9.3 - 10.0 Currently

Re: [opensuse] updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/29/07, Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you also upgraded GNOME and then found evolution ceased working? I had the same experience on 10.0 a week or so ago. I am living with kmail now and I must say, evolution deals with IMAP servers with many sub-folders MUCH better than the

[opensuse] enable 3d -- disabled keyboard???

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
SLED 10 The story of how I got here is below. What is happening is this: when the system boots, I can use the keyboard to select the regular SLED OS choice, or the safe one, but once it gets to the login screen, the keyboard does not seem to work. I cannot type my user name into the username

[opensuse] Re: enable 3d -- disabled keyboard???

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/28/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SLED 10 The story of how I got here is below. What is happening is this: when the system boots, I can use the keyboard to select the regular SLED OS choice, or the safe one, but once it gets to the login screen, the keyboard does not seem

[opensuse] Re: enable 3d -- disabled keyboard???

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/28/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh -- if I choose the failsafe boot optioon I can login fine. Then, doing startx, the gui loads fine. Programs launch properly, my profile seems fine ... but the keyboard does not work. At all. No special key sequences, nothing

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