July 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Ideal Linux desktop hardware
by Matthew Stringer 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, I'm wanting to build myself a new desktop PC for home shortly as my current one is getting long in the tooth (Athlon +XP 2600!) I was wondering if anyone knows of a hardware review site that specifically looks at hardware from a Linux users point of view? Am thinking Intel CPU and chipset with nVidia graphics although my current nForce chipset board has never been that stable under Linux. Regards Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Please help me to get the feature 'spotlight bracket pairing' back.
by Patrik Hasibuan 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Dear my friends, I downloaded and compiled bluefish on my SuSE10.2 as usual this way: " ./configure --enable-unicode make make install " It runs properly but it seems my bluefish looses a small thing but it's very important for me. Previously, my bluefish showed the couple/pair of a bracket. If my cursor standed on an 'opening braket' ('{') than my bluefish will spotlight its 'closing bracket' ('}') (pair of the 'opening bracket' such as '{') . But this time my bluefish does not have this feature. Please help me to get the feature 'spotlight bracket pairing' back. Thank you very much in advance. -- Patrik Hasibuan <patrikh(a)penguin-teknologi.com> Junior Programmer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Second Monitor
by James Tremblay 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hey everyone, I just hooked my server to my home entertainment system and I have a Nvidia Gforce mx 400 with auxilary svideo and coax outputs , would it be possible to define a second monitor for these outputs? -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gcc Linking Problem
by Daniel Feiglin 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello folks! During the course of trying to build an app from the tgz sources, I received an odd looking message that gcc could not create an executable. After a little research, I tried to compile the canonical "Hello, world" program with this: gcc -o hello hello.c and I got this: daniel@danny:~> gcc -o hello hello.c /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0xc): undefined reference to `__libc_csu_fini' /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x11): undefined reference to `__libc_csu_init' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I've never seen anything like that before (since SuSE 6.1). Can anyone tell me what's going on here & how to fix it? Environment: openSUSE 10.2, kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3-default. I'm using gcc as provided. gcc -v gives: Using built-in specs. Target: i586-suse-linux Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.2 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --host=i586-suse-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) ld -v gives: GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux) Cheers, Daniel

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[opensuse] yast2_theme is needed
by clifford jackson 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I get yast2_theme is needed by yast2-2.9.89-0.3.s390x.rpm, all I see on the install disks are yast2-theme-suselinux-2.9.13-0.5.noarch.rpm what's going on here.... _________________________________________________________________ http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migrati… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Apache
by Willem Grooters 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

FWIW: If you want to do this using plain http or (anonymous) ftp, the answer is likely to be "no". You can do so, however, if the download is under control of a CGI procedure, started by a <FORM> on a plain HTTP page (Either static of dynamically created). In this procedure, you can check the size of the file and decide to return the file, or a page stating the file is too big to download, or any other message of your choice (or just disconnect, which is, IMHO, not very polite). If you wish files to be protected agains unauthorized download, it might even be a better solution, because the files can be loaded anywhere, and you can require authentication before downloading the file. Willem On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:34:14 +0100 Jonathan Ervine <jervine(a)novell.com> wrote: >On Tuesday 31 July 2007 06:11:13 you wrote: >> Thanks for your interest. Restriction can be for a file or a total amount >> of size of the files that wants to be downloaded for a session. It is not >> important for us to be broken. The main aim of us is to restrict users to >> download all files that they can for some reason of security. It can be >> such a way that if anybody wants to download files above some quota , if >> the system can warn me about it, it is also a solution for us. Can we >> really use squid instead of Apache? I could not understand your suggestion >> for squid Best > ><direct reply originally - sorry> >Your original query was when a user connected to an Apache server. It was >never made clear if this Apache server belonged to you or if it was just a >random Apache server out there... It now seems that it's 'your' Apache server >and you wish to restrict sessions to a certain amount of data allowed to be >transferred before the session is forcibly ended? > >It seems a very odd request. What's to stop someone simply opening another >browser session? Or to run two browsers? I don't think what you're trying to >do is: >a) possible >b) providing any security benefit whatsoever > >(and probably in reverse order) > >Jon > >> >>> Jonathan Ervine <jervine(a)novell.com> 31.07.2007 04:09 >>> >> >> On Monday 30 July 2007 13:00:44 CETIN OVALI wrote: >> > Hello >> > When I connect to a server (that is running apache on it ) and want to >> > download a file from this server , is it possible to restrict the file >> > size or limit file size of the downloaded file that logged in for a user >> > with his own password. Is there anybody in this group have any idea >> > about this item >> > Thanks >> >> Presumably you don't administer the Apache server. If you restrict the >> allowed file size to be downloaded the file that is downloaded is broken. >> Is that what you want? Seems a weird request to me. >> >> As far as I'm aware you can't restrict a single file size for a user >> (although you can obviously use quotas). For your specific needs about >> connecting to an Apache web server you might want to consider looking at >> squid as a proxy cache and see if it can have a maximum file size. >> http://www..squid-cache.org >> >> Jon >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Apache
by Jonathan Ervine 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 06:11:13 you wrote: > Thanks for your interest. Restriction can be for a file or a total amount > of size of the files that wants to be downloaded for a session. It is not > important for us to be broken. The main aim of us is to restrict users to > download all files that they can for some reason of security. It can be > such a way that if anybody wants to download files above some quota , if > the system can warn me about it, it is also a solution for us. Can we > really use squid instead of Apache? I could not understand your suggestion > for squid Best <direct reply originally - sorry> Your original query was when a user connected to an Apache server. It was never made clear if this Apache server belonged to you or if it was just a random Apache server out there... It now seems that it's 'your' Apache server and you wish to restrict sessions to a certain amount of data allowed to be transferred before the session is forcibly ended? It seems a very odd request. What's to stop someone simply opening another browser session? Or to run two browsers? I don't think what you're trying to do is: a) possible b) providing any security benefit whatsoever (and probably in reverse order) Jon > >>> Jonathan Ervine <jervine(a)novell.com> 31.07.2007 04:09 >>> > > On Monday 30 July 2007 13:00:44 CETIN OVALI wrote: > > Hello > > When I connect to a server (that is running apache on it ) and want to > > download a file from this server , is it possible to restrict the file > > size or limit file size of the downloaded file that logged in for a user > > with his own password. Is there anybody in this group have any idea > > about this item > > Thanks > > Presumably you don't administer the Apache server. If you restrict the > allowed file size to be downloaded the file that is downloaded is broken. > Is that what you want? Seems a weird request to me. > > As far as I'm aware you can't restrict a single file size for a user > (although you can obviously use quotas). For your specific needs about > connecting to an Apache web server you might want to consider looking at > squid as a proxy cache and see if it can have a maximum file size. > http://www..squid-cache.org > > Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] [hope not OT] asking for office network optimize suggestions
by Zhang Weiwu 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Dear all: Due to the extremely bad competition between ISPs in my country (bad competition means competition that doesn't leads to better quality but leads to division of the Internet) it's very hard for me to figure out a way that solves my connectivity problems. As demonstrated in the attached graph (made with dia), we have one server on the internet, and 3 offices, office A, office B and office C. Each office must use different ISP because of the location of the office (each city is occupied by a different ISP). Here is the connection quality. ======= Table: connection quality ======= [office A] <-almost impossible to connect-> [office C] [office B] <-almost impossible to connect-> [office C] [office B] <- very fast and realiable -> [office A] [office B] <- very fast and realiable -> [internet server "bossdog"] [office C] <- very fast and realiable -> [internet server "bossdog"] [office A] <-almost impossible to connect-> [internet server "bossdog"] Note: All the "almost impossible to connect" means the ISP of the two sides compete by (almost) blocking each other using bandwidth limit, a problem existed in my country for years. The goal is fast and reliable inter-communication within the company. First idea I have is to install VPN service the best-connected hosts. The two best connected hosts are the host in office B ("renaissance") and "bossdog", see connection quality table. The connection quality from every office to the Internet server "bossdog" is the top priority, thus I have only one choice: to install VPN on office B ("renaissance") and let office A dial to office B so that it gets fast access to Internet server "bossdog". The problem remaining is office C cannot access to hosts and servers in office A, but let's just face this impossibility and accept it. Before I begin I post my plan on the mailing list as past experience suggested me that my humble ideas often have faults and there are often very good ideas coming from kindly help on the list. I'd like to hear some suggestions. Thank you very much for your comment and I really appreciate. Another question is, if I install VPN on "renaissance" and let office A dial to this VPN server, I can 1) install VPN client on every workstation in office A and ask everyone to dial or 2) install NAT firewall on the router "hatch.realss.com" and let hatch.realss.com dial to renaissance.realss.com, and masqueraded all workstation connections. (maybe there are other possibilities, but I only know this two methods.) Which one of 1) and 2) would be better for my case? -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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[opensuse] Apache
by CETIN OVALI 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello When I connect to a server (that is running apache on it ) and want to download a file from this server , is it possible to restrict the file size or limit file size of the downloaded file that logged in for a user with his own password. Is there anybody in this group have any idea about this item Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox and Java
by Richard Creighton 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Earlier today I got a security update for java 1.4.2 (I think it was) and elected to install it. After installation, it happened that I got bit by the Openoffice.org writer freezes your system bug (which has an open bugzilla bug open) and I ended up having to reset my machine for the first time in months. After the reboot, I noticed that none of the web sites that use java scripts worked within Firefox 2.0 that had been working previous to the reset. At the top was a message to install a missing plugin - yeah, right. I've been here before. I went into Konqueror and guess what, the pages were all working properly which means that *something* has again diddled with the pointers to the java plugins that Firefox uses. For the life of me, I can't find out WHERE the link is stored and what it is supposed to be pointing to (now) in order to restore the function that has been working fine for many months. I even downloaded the Java 1.6 update rpm and installed it but they only tell how to install it for mozilla, not firefox. Any help would be appreciated. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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