Re: [opensuse] AGP vs PCI-E

2007-08-16 Thread frank nelson
--- Chris Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so i got a nVidia 5700 agp card but i have a dell optiplex 260 and i should have known that a full size video card would not work in this proprietary system (this system takes half-height cards) :( So, i can install a PCI video card and i

Re: [opensuse] bugzilla.novell.com ?

2007-06-19 Thread frank nelson
--- Billie Erin Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/18/2007 Kenneth Schneider wrote: LOL. Good one James. Reminds of when I need to call my ISP to report an outage and the on hold messages keep telling you to report problems on their web site. You know the one you can't get to

Re: [opensuse] Seeking Simple Image Editing Tool for Web Development

2007-05-19 Thread frank nelson
--- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if I get myself intoxicated in just the right way, GIMP will become intuitively usable... And if it doesn't, you won't care anymore. :) The fish

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-14 Thread frank nelson
--- James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was some recent discussion on this list about MS claims of patent infringement and someone claimed they hadn't done so recently. From the Suse, M$ and Dell thread. Nope, I don't need recent cites. Until retracted Ballmers statments

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-14 Thread frank nelson
--- M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 04:59, frank nelson wrote: thank you for bringing this article to my attention, so that I might be allowed an opportunity to correct a situation in which I was in error. Ya done good kid, and I truly appreciate

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

2007-05-10 Thread frank nelson
--- John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, frank nelson wrote: You used the word still as in ongoing. These are all from last year. If you have nothing newer to cite, your claim is false. Says you. Find me ONE published report of Ballmer retracting his

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

2007-05-08 Thread frank nelson
--- John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, 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

RE: [opensuse] USB 2.0 external hard drives

2007-05-02 Thread frank nelson
--- Morten Bjørnsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK FAT32 has an upper limit of 127GB. which means you need lots of partitions. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154997 FAT32 supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size. It would appear you do not know. As it only took a few seconds to get the

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade OpenSuSE 10.2 with latest kernel 2.6.21 (because hpt366 module crashed with 2.6.18)

2007-04-28 Thread frank nelson
--- Jörg Spilker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i recently bought a Highpoint RocketRaid 133 PATA Adapter. The adapter is equipped with 4 single disks (no RAID configuration). Unfortunately the hpt366 driver crashed after scanning the devices. Are there any repositories containing

Re: [opensuse] grub

2007-04-06 Thread frank nelson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest question for me here is why does the linucs boot cd hide the boot to an installed system option so hard. I have always wondered about that and i wish the suse boyz and gals change it it really belongs to the very first boot disk screen,

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 k3b could not find growisofs executable...

2007-03-17 Thread frank nelson
--- Johnny Ernst Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. When logged in as an ordinary user, I kdesu k3b and select a DVD image to burn. Out of curiosity, why are you using kdesu? As a normal user, I open k3b by clicking on the icon, and then burn the DVD image.

Re: [opensuse] Installling a second OS...

2007-02-28 Thread frank nelson
--- JB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I'll do the simplest thing as another suggested and just do a couple things with the BIOS whenever I need to boot into windoze. Time to start over. You have not told us how much memory you have in your box. Win98 can't see more than 768 MB. If you

Re: [opensuse] GRUB issues at stage 1.5

2007-02-10 Thread frank nelson
--- Christopher Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My menu.lst looks like this (for this email, I am not including all the YAST-inserted comments): default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message title openSUSE 10.2 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-34-default

Re: [opensuse] Bootloader

2007-02-09 Thread frank nelson
--- Rohan NARULA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed the Bootloader config yesterday so that I could log into Linux (after Windows rewrote my MBR), however now I cannot boot into WIndows? I am using Opensuse10.2 How lucky for you. Had you lost SUSE, and been stuck with Windows, it would

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-07 Thread frank nelson
--- Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never heard of a menu item not showing up without some error being shown. Same here. Since he used to use lilo, his 10.2 should be the only grub and menu.lst. And I agree, I don't understand how it doesn't even show up either.

Re: [opensuse] A Five Year Deal to Dump Novell/SuSE

2006-11-19 Thread frank nelson
--- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, to whom are you addressing yourself when you say you folks? Secondly, how much effect do you think what transpires here will have on the decision-making process as Novell? My guess would be slim to bupkis. Bupkis? Shame on you.

[opensuse] mirrors

2006-04-26 Thread frank nelson
Once 10.1 final is released, are all the installation sources, as well as the ISOs going to be available on the regular SUSE mirrors, like they were with 9.3? God knows they should be. Having two sets of mirrors to install different parts of a basic SUSE Linux installation is just plain silly.

Re: [opensuse] mirrors

2006-04-26 Thread frank nelson
--- Martin Schlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the standard oss installation source (freeze of factory) will be on openSUSE mirrors. And Extra, KDE-update, Misc, etc. will be on ftp.suse.com-mirrors. I agree that it would be nice to have inst-source on ftp.suse.com-mirrors

Re: [opensuse] mirrors

2006-04-26 Thread frank nelson
--- Martin Schlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 14:44, frank nelson wrote: and everything has always been in one place, as it should be. Well, a combination of wanting to show off our openess Sounds more like the truth, about a misguided ego-trip, and more