Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-01 Thread Jeffery Fernandez
On Monday 01 January 2007 11:12, Mike Noble wrote: > On Sunday 31 December 2006 14:32, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > > On Monday 01 January 2007 00:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 13:38 +1100, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > > > > > set the ENV variable to be: > > > > > > > > > > TMP

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Benjamin Rosenberg
On Jan 2, 2007, at 12:08 AM, Mike Noble wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 21:08, Renegade Penguin wrote: I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it. This is very common with some US banking sites as of

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Mike Noble
On Monday 01 January 2007 21:08, Renegade Penguin wrote: > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got > upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it. This > is very common with some US banking sites as of late unfortunately. > > RP > > BandiPat wrote: >

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-01 Thread Mike Noble
On Monday 01 January 2007 21:17, Greg Wallace wrote: > On Monday, January 01, 2007 @ 1:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:53 +0100, Marcel de Reuver wrote: > >> > > To change the environment on login, where (which file) do make the > >> > > environment change ? > >> > > >> >

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 12:08 am, Renegade Penguin wrote: > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got > upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it.  This > is very common with some US banking sites as of late unfortunately. As an aside, have you t

RE: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-01 Thread Greg Wallace
On Monday, January 01, 2007 @ 1:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:53 +0100, Marcel de Reuver wrote: >> > > To change the environment on login, where (which file) do make the >> > > environment change ? >> > > >> > ~/.bashrc >> > >> >> TMPDIR=~/tmp >> export TMPDIR >

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Renegade Penguin
I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they got upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like it. This is very common with some US banking sites as of late unfortunately. RP BandiPat wrote: Firefox v2.0.0-8.1 Have any of you other users noticed it not wor

[opensuse] color in rxvt-unicode

2007-01-01 Thread Joseph Comfort
The rxvt terminal was nice in that it provided color to directory listings (like xterm), and also to man-page output. Now that rxvt has been removed in 10.2 and rxvt-unicode is to be used in its place (a good thing), the color feature is only partly available. To get color in the directory li

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > > This is interesting. The FireFox I have installed is from SUSE, including > > their latest update. There ISN'T in my home dir a /home/xxx/firefox > > directory. There's a .firefox dir. with not much in it. Now, WHY is there > > so > > [Are

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 12:23 pm, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > Anyone else remember the game in Excel? :) > > > > Yes. And there is another one in OO-calc, but I don't remember right now > > how it is fired. > >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a play

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Mike McMullin
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 12:57 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:25, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > marketing?) who might raise an objection later. Far simpler to just make > > > things look 'professional' from the start

[opensuse] Re: cvs to subversion

2007-01-01 Thread Joachim Schrod
James D. Parra wrote: Create a dump file from the CVS repository: project=XXX cvs2svn --dump-only --dumpfile=$project.svndump --use-cvs \ --cvs-revnums --no-default-eol $CVSROOT/$project Thank you. It helps a lot. What is 'project=XXX'? Is that in a file? This is a s

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Ken Jennings
On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:05, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 16:09 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > Server database. When determining if results were found, I put a default > > "not found" message: "No results found - Bummer." > > > > When I gave a demo, the "bummer" message came up,

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations [solved]

2007-01-01 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 01 January 2007 18:10, Carl Hartung wrote: > This is similar to what I need to do, but I already know how to proceed > *after* I've booted the installation kernel from grub. Solution: a. loop mounting the dvd .iso image and copying the contents to a spare partition b. boot the install

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 16:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > Each configured repository can individually be set to "Refresh" or not. > > Only when the repository's refresh is "on" does it retrieve the content > > information every time you launch the Software Management module. > > Where is that explai

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 14:37 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Each configured repository can individually be set to "Refresh" or not. > Only when the repository's refresh is "on" does it retrieve the content > information every time you launch th

Re: [opensuse] Switch from KDM to GDM

2007-01-01 Thread Doctor Who
On 1/1/07, Detlef Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 01:41 schrieb Doctor Who: > I want to switch to using the gnome display manager from kdm. How do i do > that? # $editor /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager # SuSEconfig Detlef Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: [opensuse] Switch from KDM to GDM

2007-01-01 Thread Detlef Reichelt
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 01:41 schrieb Doctor Who: > I want to switch to using the gnome display manager from kdm. How do i do > that? # $editor /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager # SuSEconfig Detlef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 18:35 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > It may be that this is what you are observing. kdar is (I guess) creating > > backup archives bigger (slices?) than 4GB, which growisofs can't process. > > > > > Yes, that's what's happenin

[opensuse] Switch from KDM to GDM

2007-01-01 Thread Doctor Who
Hi- I want to switch to using the gnome display manager from kdm. How do i do that? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 18:58 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > [...] > > It may be that this is what you are observing. kdar is (I guess) > > creating backup archives bigger (slices?) than 4GB, which growisofs > > can't process. > > so a work-a-r

Re: [opensuse] Tux Magazine - Bad News

2007-01-01 Thread Lee Ross
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:30:41 -0900, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been reading and learning from Tux Magazine since they started releasing it. At first it was a free download then they were to turn to a paid subscription. Finding it valuable - as it contained much information for

Re: [opensuse] Boxed 10.2 orders (OT)

2007-01-01 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:09 +1100, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > On Thursday 28 December 2006 08:04, Mike wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:24, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > > Now, utter OT.. > > > > > > - may I ask, how do you automatically include the technical details > > > of your compute

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Fred Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 19:03]: [...] > Yep.I'm sure. 'Pure openSUSE boxNO FF from Mozilla. jumping the gun a little here :^). It's not Firefox from Mozilla, it's from openSUSE. The openSUSE Firefox install, MozillaFirefox places the user/pref files below ~/.mozilla

Re: [opensuse] Tux Magazine - Bad News

2007-01-01 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
why can't you just keep it a controlled magazine. On 1/1/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been reading and learning from Tux Magazine since they started releasing it. At first it was a free download then they were to turn to a paid subscription. Finding it valuable - as it contained

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 7:59 am, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > BandiPat wrote: > > [...] > > Nobody has to bait you Ran, you manage to slip the noose around your > > head all by yourself. We watch, we read, we laugh at you falling face > > first into the mud you make for others. You never seem to le

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday January 01 2007 1:59 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > >> Of course editing this file won't work - it's not the file. > >> > >> Something is really screwed up there Fred if you can only find the one > >> prefs.js o

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 18:34]: [...] > It may be that this is what you are observing. kdar is (I guess) > creating backup archives bigger (slices?) than 4GB, which growisofs > can't process. so a work-a-round to conserve dvd platter space would be to create 2.2G dar files a

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 16:34 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > >> growisofs appears to be limited to 4G, that 4000*1024*1024. I have no > >> problem writting <=4G. >4G growisofs faults. > >> > >> 16:16 wahoo:~ > rpm -qf `which growisofs` `which k3b` > >> dvd+rw-tools-7.0-0.p

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 15:23 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > Some peopel seems to have too much spare time to worry or complain about > > > a simple splashscreen, that he may see less than 10 seconds a day. > > > **grin**. > > > > Tell that to someon

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:59 -0500, James Knott wrote: > cold pizza? ) The clock slowdowns seem to appear when I'm doing > both. It only loses a few minutes. It shouldn't loose even half a decisecond, no matter what. That's a bug in the kernel

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 16:34 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > growisofs appears to be limited to 4G, that 4000*1024*1024. I have no > > problem writting <=4G. >4G growisofs faults. > > > > 16:16 wahoo:~ > rpm -qf `which growisofs` `which k3b` > > dv

[opensuse] Tux Magazine - Bad News

2007-01-01 Thread Kai Ponte
I've been reading and learning from Tux Magazine since they started releasing it. At first it was a free download then they were to turn to a paid subscription. Finding it valuable - as it contained much information for us ordinary users - I paid. Too bad, they didn't get enough subscribers. F

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:36, BandiPat wrote: > Firefox v2.0.0-8.1 > > Have any of you other users noticed it not working correctly on sites > that didn't have problems before? I noticed on a banking site the > other day I had to spoof IE where I had never before. Firefox just > always seem to

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 01 January 2007 09:33, James Knott wrote: > Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > > Marcus Meissner escribió: > >> And who cares about the GRUB splashscreen? It is shown for 1 second > >> before I hit return when booting my machine once a day. > > > > Some peopel seems to have too much spare tim

[opensuse] Software Updater not updating

2007-01-01 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi all, first off, happy new year 2007 to everybody! :-) I've been away from my email so please bear with me when this subject has already been discussed before... On my OpenSuSE 10.2 the Software Updater announces some online updates. So far, so good... When I click on the "Update" button for

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 18:09]: [...] > Are you burning the DVD at the same time? I burn one disk, while KDar > is generating the next slice. yes > (I wonder if the developer eats a lot of cold pizza? ) nothing wrong with cold pizza, warm beer, or lukewarm coffee, but I

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.1 and SPICE

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone knows a repository where I can find SPICE program (for simulating > electronic circuits) for SuSE 10.1 ? > > Googling on spice linux suse lists a few, including RPM find. However, I didn't notice any specifically for10.1, so you may have to use o

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-01 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 01 January 2007 17:52, Robert Lewis wrote: > I am not sure if this is helpful. When I last installed 10.2 into a > machine that had > two DVD drives I found them both to be defective. Probably needs cleaning. I can't find a power supply small enough with the extra amperage needed to c

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 16:45]: > [...] > >> Another thing I've noticed is that doing backups this way causes my >> computer clock to run slow, despite running on an AMD 64 bit cpu and >> running ntpd. >> > > I don't see that, amd 4200+ X2 ???

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 16:37 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > > Another thing I've noticed is that doing backups this way causes my > > computer clock to run slow, despite running on an AMD 64 bit cpu and > > running ntpd. > > By running slow you mean that it shows a differen

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 16:37 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Another thing I've noticed is that doing backups this way causes my > computer clock to run slow, despite running on an AMD 64 bit cpu and > running ntpd. By running slow you mean that it sh

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Lewis
Carl Hartung wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a box without the space or power supply to accommodate a CD/DVD > drive > or burner without a great deal of hardware reconfiguration hassle. What it > *does* have is a presently unused 100MB boot partition. > > Does anyone have a short checklist or proc

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 16:45]: [...] > Another thing I've noticed is that doing backups this way causes my > computer clock to run slow, despite running on an AMD 64 bit cpu and > running ntpd. I don't see that, amd 4200+ X2 ??? -- Patrick ShanahanRe

[opensuse] SuSE 10.1 and SPICE

2007-01-01 Thread Lívio Cipriano
Hi all, Does anyone knows a repository where I can find SPICE program (for simulating electronic circuits) for SuSE 10.1 ? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Mike Grello
On Monday 01 January 2007 04:57 pm, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:25, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > marketing?) who might raise an objection later. Far simpler to just > > > make things look 'professional' from the star

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 01 January 2007 14:11, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 08:01, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > It never > > hurts to add more repo's as long as you know what you are doing. > > Well, yes, Ken it does hurt. > It hurts every time you launch yast to install something because it

[opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-01 Thread Carl Hartung
Hi All, I've got a box without the space or power supply to accommodate a CD/DVD drive or burner without a great deal of hardware reconfiguration hassle. What it *does* have is a presently unused 100MB boot partition. Does anyone have a short checklist or procedure for -- after I've loop mounte

Re: [opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 12:32, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:48 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > That is the preferred way for SLES, and although it is dramatically > > different than the traditional suse (opensuse), its pretty neat because > > ldap is used for everything, users

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-01 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2007 22:38 schrieb Pascal Bleser: > > error: file /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1 from install of > > mad-0.15.1b-1.pm.3 conflicts with file from package > > libmad-0.15.1b-2.0 > Remove that libmad RPM that wasn't made for SUSE and let smart > install the mad package from Packman in

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 08:01, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > It never > hurts to add more repo's as long as you know what you are doing. Well, yes, Ken it does hurt. It hurts every time you launch yast to install something because it has to connect to those repos. In 9.3 you could be in and out

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 05:52, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Does the boxed edition ship with a dual-layer DVD that combines the > 32-bit and 64-bit versions of binary packages on a single DVD, or has > even that distinction vanished? > > > .. > > -o) Pascal Bleser > > Randall Schulz Yes. -- _

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 05:34, Robert Lewis wrote: > Thanks! One more question. > If I purchase the Commercial DVD-9 release of 10.2 then is this the same > as the repositories or is there still a benefit to pointing to them? Never having to dig out the dvd is one of the benefits. Especially w

Re: [opensuse] Routing Question

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 08:08, James Knott wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 07:39, ka1ifq wrote: > >>I have to pick up a couple things ( patch cables & a powered usb hub ) > >> and > > > > N, not a hub Mike, get a switch. A little 5port switch is cheap. > > It

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:25, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote: > > marketing?) who might raise an objection later. Far simpler to just make > > things look 'professional' from the start. > > Then get the professional version, not the "geek" version

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-security] Security report from rkhunter on default install of openSUSE 10.2

2007-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 01 January 2007 02:49, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 00:42 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > > Er... notice that you are answering in the wrong mail list, he may not > > > see it ;-) > > > > I was replying to your mail Carlos, just following your example. ;-) > > Yes, yes,

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 14:29]: >> [...] >> >> >>> FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB >>> (IIRC) available. So, something is keeping K3B from writing to the full >>> capacity of t

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 14:29]: > [...] > >> FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB >> (IIRC) available. So, something is keeping K3B from writing to the full >> capacity of the DVD. >> > > growisofs appears to

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Goldstein wrote: > I've installed smart (smart-0.49.1-40.guru.suse102) and almost > immediately bumped into the following situation: it indicates that > there is upgrade for amarok but fails to perform upgrade: ... > error: file /usr/lib/libmad.so

Re: [opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:48 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > That is the preferred way for SLES, and although it is dramatically > different than the traditional suse (opensuse), its pretty neat because > ldap is used for everything, users mail (even mail for non users, e.g. > people with no login acc

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 15:06]: [...] > libmad is required by vlc-0.8.6-2.1.i586 and k3b-0.99.1.0rc2-100.pm.1.i586 > > It looks like this is the same library (http://www.underbit.com/products/mad) > Maybe the name was changed from mad to libmad. > > How could I tell smart

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 14:29]: [...] > FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB > (IIRC) available. So, something is keeping K3B from writing to the full > capacity of the DVD. growisofs appears to be limited to 4G, that 4000*1024*1024. I have

[opensuse] Using Zip Drive on 10.1

2007-01-01 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
I moved my external Zip Drive to my Linux box to access a file stored there. KDE popped an icon on the desktop. HOWEVER, when tried to access it this came up: Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist In my 10.0 installation this method wo

[opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-01 Thread Mark Goldstein
I've installed smart (smart-0.49.1-40.guru.suse102) and almost immediately bumped into the following situation: it indicates that there is upgrade for amarok but fails to perform upgrade: Computing transaction... Upgrading packages (1): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installing packages (5): [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Sunday 31 December 2006 21:50, Bill Spernow wrote: > I've purchased dozens and dozens of ASUS MBs over the last 15 years (P4s & > P5s) and found that under 24x7 operation they last about 5-6 years Yes, I have used many Asus boards (not dozens like you, though), and every one of them ran Linux

Re: [opensuse] Kate Document Tab

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:14, Kai Ponte wrote: > > In the new Kate, you have to click on the document tab itself for > > it to retract (toggle). If you close Kate with the tab retracted, > > it will stay so when you reopen the same session. > > Thank you! > > Is that 10.2 Kate? I tried this (

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:53 +0100, Marcel de Reuver wrote: > > > To change the environment on login, where (which file) do make the > > > environment change ? > > > > > ~/.bashrc > > > > TMPDIR=~/tmp > export TMPDIR > > Put this in /etc/

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 13:48]: > [...] > >> Further on this. I can run KDar and burn DVD's, if I log in a root, >> but not if I run as root, from a user log in. I still haven't >> determined why I can't have a slice bigger than 4000 MB. >> >

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote: > marketing?) who might raise an objection later. Far simpler to just make > things look 'professional' from the start. Then get the professional version, not the "geek" version :-p - -- Ch

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 10:02 -0800, Michael Nelson wrote: > >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playable > > version of Space Invaders > >2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:C3;"TicTacToe") into cell A4 for a > >

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Monday 01 January 2007 16:35, Mike McMullin wrote: > > Enough already guys. Take the opportunity in this new year to set > aside this kind of stuff. Ha .. You got more chance of getting struck by Lightning down a sealed , capped flodded , disused coal mine . Really have Pete

[opensuse] banshee and ipod problems

2007-01-01 Thread lrutledge
Hi Folks, Well, I was having trouble getting banshee to recognize my ipod. It didn't see it, even though the automounter was mounting it. I read in the docco that there were two packages to install to add ipod support, which I did. But now I seem to have a new problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> bans

[opensuse] Re: Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Russ Fineman
James Knott wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> >>> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> [12-31-06 17:22]: >>> >>> I have noticed that if I start K3B manually, it can find growisofs, but not when it's started by KDar. >>> Doesn't th

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-01-07 13:48]: [...] > Further on this. I can run KDar and burn DVD's, if I log in a root, > but not if I run as root, from a user log in. I still haven't > determined why I can't have a slice bigger than 4000 MB. well, I cannot burn a 4.2G slice from dar.

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Lewis
Michael Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:10PM -0500, James Knott wrote: > > >>1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playable >> version of Space Invaders >>2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:C3;"TicTacToe") into cell A4 for a >> playable version of

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-31-06 17:22]: >> >> >>> I have noticed that if I start K3B manually, it can find growisofs, but >>> not when it's started by KDar. >>> >>> >> Doesn't this make you think that there might b

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 01 January 2007 09:23, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > Anyone else remember the game in Excel? :) > > > > Yes. And there is another one in OO-calc, but I don't remember right now > > how it is fired. > >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playabl

[opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-01 Thread BandiPat
Firefox v2.0.0-8.1 Have any of you other users noticed it not working correctly on sites that didn't have problems before? I noticed on a banking site the other day I had to spoof IE where I had never before. Firefox just always seem to work fine. May have been a couple of others also, but

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread BandiPat
On Monday 01 January 2007 13:02, Michael Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:10PM -0500, James Knott wrote: > >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a > > playable version of Space Invaders > >2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:C3;"TicTacToe") into cell A4 for a > >

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Michael Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:10PM -0500, James Knott wrote: > > >>1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playable >> version of Space Invaders >>2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:C3;"TicTacToe") into cell A4 for a >> playable version of

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-01 Thread Tom Patton
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:17 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday January 01 2007 1:59 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > >> Of course editing this file won't work - it's not the file. > >> > >> Something is really screwed up there Fred if you can only find the one > >> prefs.js o

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Glenn Holmer
On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:11, ianseeks wrote: > It makes you wonder why a business is not using a business product > and also why they are installing 10.2 immediately after its been > released - not a sensible thing to do particularly if it had a show > stopper like 10.1 did with its new mono'e

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Michael Nelson
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:23:10PM -0500, James Knott wrote: >1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playable > version of Space Invaders >2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:C3;"TicTacToe") into cell A4 for a > playable version of the game This is January 1, not A

Re: [opensuse] Javascript issues (i think)

2007-01-01 Thread ianseeks
On Monday 01 January 2007 12:38, Daniel Bauer wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > have you installed flash player? > both sites work fine here with firefox, seamonkey and opera. I'm on Suse > 10.0, have flash player 7. > > Daniel Yes, if I look in /usr/lib/opera/plugins, i see the flash files and the same

Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > I take it that 30% faster is in 64-bit mode? Yes. However, it's not always 30%, this is the maximum we observed. > Is that FORTRAN code? It's C and Fortran code. > Anyway, what I need to optimize for my Core 2 Duo system is Java doing > long-running symbolic

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 12:33 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Tell that to someone who's building a corporate desktop, and his boss > says the penguins have to go. > > Many companies are very fussy about what appears on their computers. I agree with James. The corporate worry may not even be about t

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: > Marcus Meissner escribió: > > >> And who cares about the GRUB splashscreen? It is shown for 1 second before >> I hit return when booting my machine once a day. >> > > Some peopel seems to have too much spare time to worry or complain about > a simple splashscr

Re: [opensuse] Intrusion attempt?

2007-01-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 1 2007 18:40, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Dec 31 2006 14:51, Jan Engelhardt wrote an explantion of a >> /var/log/messages error: > Tnx Jan for the comprehensive report back. > > I am going to assume it is nothing to worry about. I would worry. Because if co

Re: [opensuse] Several users with multiple languages

2007-01-01 Thread Rui Santos
Andreas wrote: > Le dimanche 31 décembre 2006 10:06, Rui Santos a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using SuSE 10.1 with KDE, and several users. >> Most of those users will use their native language ( mine too ), while >> I prefer to use English. >> Usually I define the main language as

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > Anyone else remember the game in Excel? :) > > Yes. And there is another one in OO-calc, but I don't remember right now > how it is fired. > 1. In Calc, enter =Game("StarWars") into any cell and get a playable version of Space Invaders 2. In Calc, enter =Game(A1:

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-31-06 17:22]: > >> I have noticed that if I start K3B manually, it can find growisofs, but >> not when it's started by KDar. >> > > Doesn't this make you think that there might be a path problem? I > would check that kdar has

Re: [opensuse] Routing Question

2007-01-01 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: > On Sunday 31 December 2006 07:39, ka1ifq wrote: > >> >> I have to pick up a couple things ( patch cables & a powered usb hub ) >> and >> > > N, not a hub Mike, get a switch. A little 5port switch is cheap. > It will keep all that machine to machine traffic

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 07:10 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: > > Robert Lewis wrote: > > > > cheers > The download off the internet is a 3.8-GB DVD roughly for the I386 version. > The boxed set has the combined 32-bit/64-bit version with extra DVD's. > It is close to 8.4-GB for th

Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset

2007-01-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Thomas, On Monday 01 January 2007 08:03, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > [...] > > > > What sort of an application mix do you run? > > We develop and run software for seismic data processing on our Linux > clusters (some 64-bit, some 32-bit). In other words, it's mainly > numb

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-01 Thread Marcel de Reuver
Mike Noble wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 14:32, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 00:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 13:38 +1100, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: set the ENV variable to be: TMPDIR=~/tmp In looking at my env, it shows: TMPDIR=/tm

Re: [opensuse] Intrusion attempt?

2007-01-01 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 31 2006 14:51, Jan Engelhardt wrote an explantion of a /var/log/messages error: Tnx Jan for the comprehensive report back. I am going to assume it is nothing to worry about. TA -- Using SuSE

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Mike McMullin
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 09:45 -0500, BandiPat wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 07:59, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > BandiPat wrote: > > > [...] > > > Nobody has to bait you Ran, you manage to slip the noose around > > > your head all by yourself. We watch, we read, we laugh at you > > > falling face

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 01 January 2007 07:49, BandiPat wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:34, Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > > > > You started it Randy, you always do. > > [...] > > > Randall Schulz > > == > Tell ya what Randy, I'll prove that I'm the bigger man. I'll not > comment on this thread

Re: [opensuse] Which flavor of openSUSE for Intel Core Duo chipset

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Randall R Schulz wrote: > [...] > > What sort of an application mix do you run? We develop and run software for seismic data processing on our Linux clusters (some 64-bit, some 32-bit). In other words, it's mainly number crunching. We saw performance differences of up to 30% on the same hardware

Re: [opensuse] Asus M2N SLI

2007-01-01 Thread BandiPat
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:34, Randall R Schulz wrote: [...] > > You started it Randy, you always do. [...] > Randall Schulz == Tell ya what Randy, I'll prove that I'm the bigger man. I'll not comment on this thread again. It serves no purpose to engage into a battle of wits with an u

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