On January 7, 2008 05:43:19 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
I would love to see a show of hands (here) as to how many read the OT list.
I certainly don't, and I would bet that 95% of the rest of you don't
either.
I certainly don't . I come here to read On Topic posts. But those who
intentionally
On December 30, 2007 04:48:33 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder.
I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something
that will be around when opensuse gets louder.
I keep a 500Gb USB drive and use rsync to copy all my data
On December 30, 2007 08:21:30 am Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
P.S. This is a true linux checkmate.. I can't even migrate to
KMail.. the tool (KMailCVT) for importing evolution data to Kmail does
not work (it just tilts).
tilts?
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A: Because it messes up the
On December 28, 2007 11:37:55 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
In order to comply with my IT department's need to encrypt all
personal data on laptops, I removed my working 10.2 installation from
my HP/Compaq NW9440 laptop (2G ram) and installed 10.3.
I used KDAR (first mistake) to archive all my current
On December 29, 2007 10:27:24 am Stan Goodman wrote:
** Reply to message from Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Nov 2007
14:39:48 -0400
In brief, this is about recovery from a failed update of openSuSE from
v10.2 to v10.3. I am sorry that I have had to wait so long since the event
On December 24, 2007 09:26:53 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 24 December 2007 09:24, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 24 December 2007 09:11, James Knott wrote:
...
Boilers requires a specific trade to install service, because
when water heats, it
On December 24, 2007 03:54:30 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-12-24 at 12:11 -0500, James Knott wrote:
If a plumber connects a hot water system wrong it can explode an
destroy the computer downstairs as well as half the house.
It seems that I'm missing something, but forgive me and
On December 22, 2007 09:07:01 am Philippe Landau wrote:
Robert Smits wrote:
On December 22, 2007 04:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote:
Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts
while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3.
Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ?
I am using
On December 22, 2007 06:00:53 pm James Knott wrote:
About the only thing in Linux that requires a reboot is a kernel
update. However, some configuration changes may require restarting some
service.
Yes. For example, tonight I changed the address of the airport I get weather
info from in
On December 23, 2007 02:24:16 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
As ever, the U.S. and the U.K. are two nations separated by a common
language.
And those of us in Canada aren't too sure about either of you.
Yanks can't spell and the Brits drive on the wrong side of the road...
:-) :-)
--
Bob
On December 22, 2007 07:56:12 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed:
Tnx jdd,
I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide
greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the
updates
On December 22, 2007 04:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote:
Hello
Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts
while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3.
Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ?
I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu,
buildservice mozilla
On December 13, 2007 02:25:29 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-13-07 16:38]:
Of course, if you're like most of us on KDE
you take *great* liberty here
Yes, I know, Patrick. But as long as I don't have to use the new Suse KDE
desktop, I'm happy.
--
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On December 11, 2007 10:28:04 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 21:39, Jason Craig wrote:
snip
Furthermore, is there some way to change the behavior in Konqueror (now
I'm browsing local files) such that when I double click a text document
it will open it for EDITING instead
On December 6, 2007 05:54:39 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Carlos,
I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the
problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually,
as root, from the
On Thursday 22 November 2007 12:06:18 John Layt wrote:
On Thursday 22 November 2007, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via
USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and
is still on sale (especially in
On Friday 23 November 2007 03:17:40 Thomas Goettlicher wrote:
Hi everyone,
we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking
for a radical new design.
This is your chance to share your ideas regarding YaST Control Center.
Please feel free to contribute with mockups and
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 10:19:50 Richard Creighton wrote:
I have a friend that has a huge investment in Microsoft Publisher
files. She desperately would like to somehow be able to convert/import
the projects into OpenOffice or other LINUX program like Scribus perhaps.
Does anyone know
On Monday 19 November 2007 19:09:46 Billie Walsh wrote:
Yes, but wouldn't it be nice to just have to pop in one disk and have
your computer back to where you made the CD/DVD with all the settings
and special configurations in place. Save a few hours downloading all
the updates and special
On Saturday 10 November 2007 02:49:34 williamkow wrote:
Could anybody highlight me 'some' of the major differences between
OpenSuSE 10.3and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED).
As some others have said in this thread, one of the major differences is
support. And a commitment for a
On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote:
Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for some
time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, unfortunately
Robert did not give a link for the paper he referred to. I would be
interested to have a look
On November 9, 2007 10:24:20 am Eberhard Roloff wrote:
While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage
environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly comparable to
what most people do at work or at home.
I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned data
On November 9, 2007 08:33:03 pm Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm mentioning this because of some complaints about some USB drives
that don't like Linux. BestBuy and I imagine some other stores have
several of the Seagate FreeAgent Pro external drives on sale. I picked
up the 500G drive today setup
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 16:55:13 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Billie Walsh wrote:
On 11/07/2007 James Knott wrote:
One thing to bear in mind, is that drives have spare sectors, which get
used as others fail. The warning is to tell you that the drive is well
on it's way to failing and should
On Thursday 08 November 2007 15:38:40 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:05, Robert Smits wrote:
...
Go to www.grc.com and get Spinrite, a low level formatting, repair
and maintenance utility. It works for any kind of file system,
including Linux ones. I've used
I'm noticing that when i have a CD in the drive on my laptop, and I
subsequently open the drive, I now get a KDE Daemon window popping up telling
me the KDE Daemon (kded) has crashed and caused the signal 6(SIGABRT).
This is with two installs of Suse 10.3 on two different machines. Why am I
On October 23, 2007 10:18:02 am Robert Smits wrote:
Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes through
all the motions as if it's correctly burning and verifying the DVD.
Yet when I examine the disk that's been burned, Konqueror tells me
the disk I just burned
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 18:15:20 Fernando Costa wrote:
Hi all,
Some days ago I began to receive the following message: Your hard disk
drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 currently
unreadable (pending) sector I don't know what it refers to but I have
run a Live
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 03:04:06 G T Smith wrote:
Robert Smits wrote:
On October 22, 2007 05:40:08 am G T Smith wrote:
Robert Smits wrote:
I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd
writer.
Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:43:40 ianseeks arrogantly wrote:
Nobody is expecting you to scan all of your previous
email. You are expeted to DELETE all that unneeded text before you write
the answer at the bottom.
No.
I guess you don't correspond to people in the business world very
I have a number of systems I'd like to regularly back up with rsync. Let me
describe them.
Computer 1 is my main desktop at home. It runs 24-7 and has a 500 GB USB SATA
drive to do back ups on. It uses OpenSuse 10.2. It is networked to all other
computers in the house with nfs.
Computer 2 is
I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd writer.
Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes through all the
motions as if it's correctly burning and verifying the DVD. Yet when I
examine the disk that's been burned, Konqueror tells me the disk I
On October 22, 2007 05:40:08 am G T Smith wrote:
Robert Smits wrote:
I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd
writer.
Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes through all
the motions as if it's correctly burning and verifying the DVD
On October 22, 2007 05:57:40 am Gavin Chester wrote:
Good advice for fault-finding. The only time I have had the 'coaster'
experience described by the OP was when the media was no good. Change
brands of dvd disc and definitely avoid 'no-name' cheap discs - they're
false economy.
Gavin.
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:13:39 Doug McGarrett wrote:
As this goes to print, does anyone know if the Brother HL-2040 is
supported out of the box, in 10.3? There is supposed to be a driver, which
I think I downloaded, but I don't know how to make it work.
I haven't tried it yet, but I
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:11:02 Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
Hi,
I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what freezes my system too.
And my hardware is similar to yours:
Motherboard: Asus A8n32-SLI DELUXE
AMD Athlon 64 DualCore 4500+. 2 Gb RAM
Graphic Card: GeForce 7300 LE.
On Thursday 11 October 2007 04:16:07 Cristea Bogdan wrote:
I need to install openSuSE on a machine without Internet connection.
Further, it will be more efficient to download the KDE CD and
additional packaged that I need, instead of the whole DVD (which
however does not have all applications
On Friday 07 September 2007 10:49, jdd wrote:
Sloan wrote:
What I don't like is having to wade down through the tedious history of
a huge series of postings (all of which I've read several times before)
just to see a one-line answer buried at the very bottom.
this is also a very bad
I collect old time radio programs and store the main collection on a 320GB
sata drive on my desktop computer. I export the sound directories with nfs,
so that I can connect to my sound files either from my laptop or my wife's
desktop.
The desktops, as well as the laptop are running opensuse
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote:
Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without
any encoder logic. I designed built my own encoder and used that
keyboard with my IMSAI 8080.
Had one of those. Mine came with the optional 4K memory, and I entered
On Thursday 09 August 2007 18:52, James Knott wrote:
Robert Smits wrote:
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote:
Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without
any encoder logic. I designed built my own encoder and used that
keyboard with my IMSAI
On Thursday 02 August 2007 10:43, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Hi Pete,
Must be close to the solution.
No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not fine anything
useful.
Go to Yast/Network Devices/Network Card, and when the window opens edit the
configuration for your
On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:25, James Hatridge wrote:
HI Bob et al...
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 22:27, Robert Smits wrote:
Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which
was a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out my lot, my septic system, and my
landscaping
On July 25, 2007 01:38:27 pm ianseeks wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jul 2007, Robert Smits wrote:
Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which
was a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out my lot, my septic system, and my
landscaping. It produces files in a .drw format
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 09:11, Johannes Nohl wrote:
The problem is that (at least using knetworkmanager) you can't choose
between infratructure only and adhoc connections.
The point is the hotspot I'm using (it's inside a library with many
students) is hiding its SSID. And windows
Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which was
a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out my lot, my septic system, and my
landscaping. It produces files in a .drw format, which is a Microsoft vector
format.
Is there any Linux based program that will allow me to view
On Sunday 08 July 2007 09:49, James Hatridge wrote:
Color me dumb, but where on the 'net can I get this stuff? One reason that
I've used SuSE since 1998 is that SuSE always had everything I needed on
the set of disks, now the DVD.
But just yesterday I got my DSL 2000 up and running, so I
On July 6, 2007 10:44:08 pm Robert Smits wrote:
I've just spent three very unproductive hours wrestling with a couple of
printers on my SuSe 10.2 desktop.
(I've had both printers - a Brother HL-5140 and an HP-1220c connected via
USB cables for a without any problem. Both printers print fine
On Saturday 07 July 2007 16:42, BandiPat wrote:
If you've recently updated Gimp, it's probably overwritten or removed
your Gutenprint plugin and that may be your trouble there. Reinstall
the gutenprint or drivers where the plugin will again be installed. I
don't thing the Gimp developers
I've just spent three very unproductive hours wrestling with a couple of
printers on my SuSe 10.2 desktop.
(I've had both printers - a Brother HL-5140 and an HP-1220c connected via USB
cables for a without any problem. Both printers print fine to Windows, and
the Brother works fine for Linux.
I'm presently using KDAR to back up my sound file collection to an archive on
a USB (2.0) drive.
Kdar is taking a VERRRY long time to do this. It's true the collection is 250
GB or so, but it's been running since midnight and it's only at 22%.
Is this normal? (I've also told it not to
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 11:00, Dylan wrote:
Please, can't you people find something more important to worry about in
life?
Dylan, you need to understand that those who make off-topic posts are just
rude and inconsiderate people who waste everyone's time and goodwill. The
simple way not to
I've installed a 320 GB sata drive in my Suse 10.2 box. I can see it
at /dev/sda, but don't have permission to access it, although root does. Even
adding the disk group to my username makes no difference.
How do I go about getting access to my drive?
Thanks, Bob
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As usual, the open suse community hasn't let me down. Thanks to everyone for
their recommendations.
Bob
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Windows - noun. 1. Global virus. 2. 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for
a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit
I need a sata pci card to allow my suse 10.1 system to see a 320 GB sata
drive. Any recommendations?
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Windows - noun. 1. Global virus. 2. 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for
a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 07:02, 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 which I was responding
to,
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:41, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:49 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Much posturing, but Balmer is still
claiming Linux violates MS IP
Any cites for this statement? Its just FUD.
If I need to
On Monday 07 May 2007 07:41, James Knott wrote:
jpff wrote:
It had to be said. I worked on the Burroughs B1700 which has a
1bit word; it was bit addressable and as a soft machine the programmer
could select whatever virtual word length they liked. I remember the
other LISP team
I noticed after a recent K3B update that now, after burning a CD, after the
burning was completed, but before K3B did verification, that it ejected the
CD, and then complained about not finding the disk. Reinserting the CD would
allow it to finish the disk.
Anyone else notice this?
I'm using
On Monday 23 April 2007 20:13, Robert Smits wrote:
I noticed after a recent K3B update that now, after burning a CD, after the
burning was completed, but before K3B did verification, that it ejected the
CD, and then complained about not finding the disk. Reinserting the CD
would allow
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 23:27, M Harris wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:21, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
argh, the level of stupidity and ignorance from both writers and readers
that believes on this articles is becoming very annoying **sigh**.
/me shakes head.
Please, it is
On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:06, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:43, M Harris wrote:
...
WANTED IN ALL 50 CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
The Continental U.S.A. comprises 48 states plus the District of
Columbia.
And you sure he's wanted?
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On Saturday 21 April 2007 08:58, Chris Steve wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have to ask this question with the hopes that somebody out there has
used SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Destkop) and OSL (Open Suse Linux)
enough to know if SLED is really that much more refined and stable.
SLED currently is
On Saturday 21 April 2007 14:41, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 20 April 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The problem with the
KMail I have mentioned before: when you save a mail to
the documents, or wherever it goes, it copies itself to the
screen under the existing picture instead of just
On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 4499 will run only with the Epson propritary driver. The 4990 will run
also with the sane. I went through the same process you are going through
now. After considering all the pros an cons of all the generation scanner O
went with
On Thursday 19 April 2007 14:24, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
look here:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Scanners#Hewlett-Packard
HP OfficeJet 5610 is a very powerful device configured within seconds.
That's compared to my previous scanner, UMAX Astra 3600 that doesn't
work in linux at all - thats a
My old HP-5470 scanner has bit the dust, and I'm looking for a good quality
scanner that will not give me problems with Linux drivers.
I've been looking at the Epson Perfection 4490 Colour Flatbed Scanner, and I
wonder if anyone here has any experience with one.
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On Thursday 12 April 2007 07:04, Clayton wrote:
This popped up on the opensuse.us forum on Monday. A good read, and
looks to be nicely compatible with Linux.
http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv
-hvr-950.html
Maybe at least somewhat useful... of only
On Sunday 08 April 2007 04:15, Lennart Jonasson wrote:
Dwain wrote:
So are you then recommending that i use clamav? Is it a command line
program? I guess I can find the instructions in the man pages? Do I
access the man pages through the command line? Is the command /man/man?
Dwain
On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:18, russbucket wrote:
Is anyone else having problems with packman this weekend. yesterday and
today mu suseupdater on YaST on-line update hang when trying to access
packman. I deleted it and recreated it in installation sources but it still
hangs. Has the repository
On Sunday 08 April 2007 15:21, dwain wrote:
I think that I have set up some kmail filters properly, but when the mail
comes in everything goes to the inbox instead of the folders I have
assigned to certain subjects.
Have you completed all the steps in making a filter?
Create a folder.
Right
On Thursday 05 April 2007 04:01, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Hi,
I've been using Thunderbird on my Suse Desktop for years but have grown
ever more frustrated with it's unreliability which seems to get worse with
every update.
Main symptoms are it randomly fails to download mail, just sits there
On Friday 23 March 2007 21:07, M Harris wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2007 16:08, Robert Smits wrote:
hi Bob, thanks for your comments,
And I think that the distinctions being made between Free and Open
Source are not worth fighting over. When you read the definition of Open
Source at http
On Thursday 22 March 2007 10:54, M Harris wrote:
... it is essential to differentiate two important camps within the
F/OSS
community. There are those who champion open source software. There are
also those who champion free (as in freedom) software... like myself, and
like the FSF.
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:54, Damon Register wrote:
pelibali wrote:
batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable
1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs
I am using a Logitech trackball wireless mouse on my PC tower and a
wired
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:41, John Andersen wrote:
Yikes. couple days?
Throw that thing away and get a Logitech wireless optical.
My wife got one for christmas and she till has not replaced
the batteries. She uses it for a couple hours every day and
can't be bothered to shut it off. It
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 01:24, John Andersen wrote:
The down side of that is SLED with a $50/year price tag will quickly
outpace the cost of XP.
Nonsense, John. Windows Vista costs far more to buy and to use than SuSE SLED.
First, SLED will run on most anything that's reasonably
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:40, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Do they still broadcast Dr Who?
Both the BBC and the CBC still have Dr Who.
Series 3 of the programme, starring David Tennant as the Doctor and Freema
Agyeman as his companion Martha Jones, will follow in March 2007 on BBC
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:41, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
rganization should be outlawed. Harumph!
Hey, give credit where credit is due here. They are still dreaming up
sitcoms for American TV to copy.
AND they DID bring back Dr. Who!
Now if we can get it back on public TV
On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:47, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
Packman is a repository made by home users for home users. With the
current legal situation, I suspect it's as close as you will get
STOP USING MP3! USE OGG!
It's not as simple as just switching from one format to another. I already
On Monday 29 January 2007 11:25, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
The existence of ogg means that we do have a choice. I never said anything
about forcing anyone to release content in ogg. What I said was, if the
content is mp3 only, reject it. Do not use, and especially do not pay for,
mp3 files.
On Thursday 25 January 2007 00:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
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?
KDE. I don't like Gnome, it always feels
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On Monday 15 January 2007 04:54, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
I had this working under 10.0.
I have an Internet connection via my cellphone/mobile on my home PC,
working fine.
I have a laptop connection via wireless to the home PC network.
Home PC
On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:26, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote:
I have tried to configure updates and am not having success. I have never
had this problem with Suse before. I have registered the purchase with
Novell, tried configuring KDE_Updater_Applet and all to no avail. I have
read the
On Monday 01 January 2007 17:06, John Andersen wrote:
Yup, 10.1 pretty slow. I found 10.2 much better in this regard.
I still have one 10.1 machine to upgrade.
It's not much slower than 10.2 . I leave only the update,and the opensuse
distribution repos turned on and set to refresh, and it
On Monday 25 December 2006 16:28, Tom Patton wrote:
The real question is why the offshore responders to my other thread
indicated they are getting overnight delivery...and so far NO one here
in the states has chimmed in with a success story on their order. So
what gives??
Last time I
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:30, jdd wrote:
SLED is mostly an openSUSE with the Gnome desktop (see the
10.2 Gnome desktop).
But you can choose KDE desktop, right?
Bob
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On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:32, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:22, Robert Smits wrote:
...
Joe is absolutely correct to be worried about the future viability of
Linux software. Of course, it's not game over today, but if you've
looked at the implications
On Monday 25 December 2006 02:10, Marcus Meissner wrote:
But this is not a Linux problem, it is more a problem of the current
state in the software industry where everything multimedia interesting
requires per-copy royalties, NDAs, closed source and so on.
But this makes it a Linux problem!
On Monday 25 December 2006 04:39, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
We (Linux users) are at what 4-5 % of computer users?
Actually closer to 10%
Good. I haven't seen estimates that high, but I suspect it's because it's much
harder to aggregate all those downloads and magazine DVDs.
Much of our
On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:39, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:03, J Sloan wrote:
...
Unfortunately, it's not about being mainstream anymore - at this
point, it's about viability, period.
If linux can't achieve enough of a critical mass on the desktop to
on my part. I
certainly did'nt ask for zen, don't want it now, but am stuck with it.
Bob
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when I added Suse 10.1
I wouldn't change to ext3 unless you anticpated resizing problems.
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On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:57, James Oakley wrote:
On Thursday 30 November 2006 3:24 pm, Robert Smits wrote:
The only problem I have with reiserfs is that suse's partition manager
doesn't seem to be able to resize a reiserfs partition, which is why I
installed with ext3 when I added
On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:09, John Meyer wrote:
I'd like to know what you guys favorite e-mail client is. I've tried
KMail and Evolution, but I keep coming back to Thunderbird.
K-mail. It can do everything I need, integrates well with the other apps in
Kontact, has good filtering, and
On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:13, Primm wrote:
My hp c3180 suddenly will not auto recognise photo quality paper. I've
tried all types. It attempts the recognition but flashes the paper out
warning light. Normal paper works fine.
Any chance you just have dusty paper sensors?
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On Friday 24 November 2006 21:49, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Actually, I wrote, and goofed on the address:
(I have probably broken the thread, but I don't know how not to. It's my
thread anyway, so I guess I can chew thru it if I have to.)
It drives me crazy. I can't seem to print from Suse
, I had it bungied to the back of my
motorcycle. When the customs agent asked what it was, I told him a computer,
he said sure, and waved me through.
I think I ended up putting 23K of additional memory in and using it to rum
amateur radio teletype beside my IMSAI 8080.
Bob
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Robert Smits
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