August 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Namebench
by Steven Hess 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

There was a previews thread where namebench was mentioned. I thought it was the optimizing resolv.conf thread. Anyway this is a different issue. Id like to run it. The ones I located in OBS were not functional here. What could I do to try another source? Thanks Steven -- ____________ Apply appropriate technology. Use what works without prejudice. Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 Owner Flex-1500 and Flex-3000, FT-857D, FT-817ND, FT-450 openSUSE Linux 12.3 KDE Known as FlameBait and The Sock Puppet of Doom. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Spreadsheet : Paste-Special
by ellanios82 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

Hello List , - in case of interest : Paste-Special , from webpage Number , into Spreadsheet of LibreOffice : Version: 5.0.0.5 does not work : Edit ---> Paste-Special is not selectable , and remains greyed-out ............. regards ellan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache
by Chuck Payne 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Grub2 does not boot
by Koenraad Lelong 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Hi, After ugrading OS12.3 to OS13.2 (from scratch), the PC fails to boot. I get to the grub2 rescue console. After booting with the rescue mode of the DVD/stick I ran the bootinfoscript. The result is here : http://susepaste.org/3633045 You can ignore sdc and sdd, those are the installation-stick and a data-stick I used to run the bootinfo-script. It's a laptop with a small SSD (sdb) and a HD (sda). / is on the SSD. /home is on the HD. The PC should boot from sdb1. It seems not possible to tell the BIOS which drive to boot first. The boot-mode is legacy (other options : EUFI with or without CSM). Is it possible I should wipe the MBR of sda ? Grub2-rescue says it can't find disk 0e89e408-341d-41d6-b6c5-d6653e270240. That disk is referenced in the MBR of sda. So, what can I do next ? TIA, Koenraad. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Palestinians and the truth
by Billie Walsh 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

Every year the world hears about a group calling themselves “Palestinians.” In June 1967, so the story goes, the Israelis pushed them out of their homeland. (Or did the Jews throw them out in 1949?) Western people accept that narrative without judging it for accuracy. They do this because they don’t know the true history of the region. Who were the Palestinians? Beginning in 2002, a certain writer began a series of provocative essays about “Palestine” and “Palestinians.” This writer published them under the false name “Yashiko Sagamori.” (The first name could have come from a Japanese trademark for twin-lens reflex cameras, the Yashica line.) Whatever his (or her) origin, “Yashiko Sagamori” asks some pointed questions: (paraphrased from the original) Who founded a country called “Palestine,” and when? What borders did they draw? What cities did they build? (And which did they build as their capital city?) What industry did they build their economy on? Farming? Fishing? Ironworking? What government did they have? Before Yasser Arafat (or, for that matter, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), can anyone name even one supreme leader of that country? Has any other country, or superpower, or group of nation-states, recognized the “Palestinians” as a country, with no quibbling? What language did Palestinians speak? What sort of gods did they worship, and how did they worship them? How did they name their monetary unit? Can anyone quote a rate-of-exchange between this unit and, say, the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan? What brought about the downfall of Palestine, and when? When could one call the Palestinians a “proud” nations? What gave them their “pride”? And: If the people you mistakenly call “Palestinians” are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over – or thrown out of – the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War? Or for that matter, before the Arab Legion tried to shove the Jews into the sea in 1948-9, and failed miserably? Palestinians: real history Pontius Pilate, a key figure in killing Jesus, is here confirmed as a real person. He also was governor of Judea Province, which became Palestine. So much for the claims of the Palestinians to a long history. A dedicatory stone credits Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea, with erecting the Hippodrome in Caesaria Maritima. CNAV File Photo (March 30, 2011) Those who call themselves “Palestinians” can’t or won’t answer these questions. But those who know the thousands of years of the history of the region, can. “Palestine” never existed as a country. Not, that is, with Arabic people living in it. Emperor Hadrian of Rome gave the region the name Palestine in 135 A.D. (or C.E., if you don’t believe in the Lord, as in “Year of”). Hadrian ordered his legions to disperse the Jews throughout his Empire in that year. Simon bar Khochva rebelled against Rome. (And to this day the Seder Olam Rabah lists him as the Messiah and figures the Years of the World on that listing.) Hadrian’s legions put him down and scattered the Jews. They then renamed their province of “Judea” to “Palestina.” Palestine comes from Philistia. In fact the Arab, in referring to Palestine, call it Filastin. But the Arabs do not descend from the original Philistines. The name Philistine means an outsider, an immigrant, or an invader. For these generic Arab residents, Philistine seems as good a name as any. One could then call them a third generation of Philistines, after the Avvites of Abraham and Isaac’s day, and the Caphthorites who displaced the Avvites during the Sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt. But now the champions of the Palestinians have a problem. “Philistia,” in the days of the Hebrew Judges and Kings, never occupied a contiguous area in modern Judea and Samaria (“The West Bank”). In fact, in those days nation-states consisted of cities and their immediate surroundings, not of vast tracts of land far removed from any one city. They did not know the concept “territory” as we know it. So any two monarchs might control groups of cities in overlapping territories! At most they occupied the present Gaza Strip and a few lands north and east of it. And by the time the Arabs even reached that far, the Caphthorites no longer lived there. And hadn’t lived there since Nebuchadnezzar the Great eliminated them. The Philistines of old do not seem to have had one capital city. They had the Five Cities: Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza. Of the Five, only Gaza City remains to these third-generation Philistines. Not Jerusalem. Furthermore, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath existed mostly as ruins when the first Zionists arrived. (Gath still does not work as a proper city. It exists only as ruins.) The Caphthorites fished for their living. And they worshiped a god in the shape of a walking, talking fish: Dagon. The Arab Palestinians worship Muhammad, not Dagon. The Caphthorites always had a monarchy, and a nobility: the Lords of the Five Cities. The modern Palestinians had no self-government for over a thousand years. The Romans brought them in after chasing the Jews out. The various rulers who succeeded the Romans, including the Mamluks, the Crusader Kings, and especially the Ottoman Turks, never offered them self-government. In fact, the first Zionist pioneers came to an empty land. The Turks sold them that land, and laughed all the way to the bank. Like Sanballat of old (see Nehemiah chapter 5), they said one to another, “What will these feeble Jews do with all that swamp and desert?” Plenty. They planted eucalyptus to drain the swamp naturally, and invented drip irrigation and other techniques to reclaim the desert. Then Arabs came, looking for jobs. As to language: the Caphthorites spoke a Semitic language. The Arabs, of course, speak their own language. Eliezer Yitzak Perelman, alias Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, single-handedly taught his fellow Jews to speak Hebrew every day, not merely in clerical school or when reading the Tanakh. The British Mandatory authorities, in 1922, recognized Hebrew as an official spoken language. Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini became the first leader of any “Palestinians.” Even then, the region had that name only because the British owned it. They called it “British Mandatory Palestine,” after they had won World War One. And the Grand Mufti called for mass murder. He even cooperated with Adolf Hitler. After that he came back to Jerusalem, to say, “I declare a holy war! Murder them! Murder them all!”, talking about the Jews. Yasser Arafat eventually succeeded him. But in fact the “Palestinians” did nothing more than furnish guerilla shock troops to Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Then Egypt started the Six-day War. And Israel finished it. The “Palestinians” have no central bank, and no monetary unit. Even the so-called Palestine National Authority never created one. Never in history have any “Palestinians” had any unique money. They used Roman or Turkish money. Now, ironically, they use American money! The last question from the pseudonymous “Yashiko Sagamori” asks why, not what. That can have no answer. In sum “Palestinians” do not qualify as a national “people.” At best they sit on a territory overlapping that of two generations of invaders from the sea. At worst they have let certain great powers use them as an excuse to rag on Israel in general, and the Jews in particular http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2015/07/09/editorial/talk/palestini… http://tinyurl.com/nmc2h3z -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Managing multiple Firefox profiles
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

A number of list members have posted about their usage of multiple Firefox profiles for a single user account. Due to a number of browser management issues, I am considering switching from the stock, single profile setup to using multiple browser profiles. However, I have several questions that have come up as I have been working this out. I was hoping to pick your brains and get some insights. The mechanics of setting up the separate profiles, and their basic usage seems rather straightforward. However, I am not sure how to manage certain aspects of a multiple-profile setup. BTW, this is for my desktop system, which I keep running essentially 24/7 and only intentionally logout or reboot when dictated by software updates. I also use SeaMonkey, sometimes exclusively, alongside Firefox. I would expect the profile considerations to apply generally equally to both browsers. 1. How does one copy plugin settings and assoc metadata (e.g., from NoScript) from one profile to another? Having to manually set up each plugin in each profile would be rather tedious and repetitive. Is there any way to expedite that? I imagine that a base profile could be set up then new profiles could be created as copies of that profile. However, what to do in the case of updates, etc., after the new profile is created, and they begin to diverge? 2. Does anyone know of a way to merge bookmarks from the various profiles in to a single, master bookmark list? It is OK for each profile to have its own bookmarks list, but it would be nice to have a way to copy/move bookmarks between profiles, and to have a master list somewhere. (BTW, too bad FF doesn't have a two-pane bookmark manager, somewhat like MC; would make a number of operations much easier IMO). Some of the reasons I am considering using multiple FF profiles, in addition to the common ones of sandboxing, sanitizing, or having custom configs for certain sites, etc., include: - There is less to save or clean up when memory runs out due to browser bloat and I have to restart a browser instance. Currently, my browser generally has windows on most or all of my severl virtual desktops. If I restart the browser, all of the browser windows end up on the current virtual desktop and I have to manually move them to the proper virtual desktops. I could have each profile confined to a single desktop to avoid this situation. - It is easier to isolate a CPU hog or othwerwise resource hogging browser tabs. Going through multiple tabs on potentially dozens of windows on several desktops is very time consuming. Would like to constrain that somewhat if possible. (BTW, FF has an "about:memory" page; what about an "about:cpu" or "about:threads" page? Though memory is frequently a concern, excessive CPU usage is also very frequently also a concern, esp that common heavy usage of client side javascript is so prevalent (and flash is still around)). I do know that running multiple brower instances (separate linux processes) uses more VM that having a single combined instance. However, I believe the considerations above could make it worthwhile. Any and all advice, info pointers, etc., would be most appreciated. Personal experiences and profile policy info also welcome. Thanks, --Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli openSUSE-13.1 psaeli(a)zorodyne.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] booting with "console=ttyS0,115200,8n1" and without
by Per Jessen 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

I have a dual-Opteron box that refuses to boot unless I specify: console=ttyS0,115200,8n1 on boot-up. If I don't, the boot-up grinds to a halt somewhere in PCI initialisation. Trying to grab some diagnostics with a serial console only leads to the system booting just fine :-) I guess I can leave it with "console=ttyS0,115200,8n1" ... -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Rounding of numbers in LO Calc
by Carlos E. R. 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have to enter long numbers in 20150630xxxx75579OO LO CALC. Like "20150630xxxx75579", wich is an invoice number. It gets rounded to 2,01506300101756E+016, and displayed as "20150630xxxx76000", which is obviously the wrong invoice. How do I tell CALC to use Integers, not Reals? The numbers are not made by me, so no, I can't use shorter numbers. They are copy pasted from PDF files by me. I'm using libreoffice-calc-4.4.5.2-1.1.x86_64 in oS 13.1 - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXiU2oACgkQja8UbcUWM1xUlAD/a2Dr1Op4tmVoy31K/9Herd9M /l6EKwUmdykwS+PUz+4A/R6xoDiYHMq60XgNQzVKj5lMkhX4EZnePdafVcTTHJjt =6czh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] adjusting window title for firefox launched on remote hosts
by Olaf Hering 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

To make it easier to distinguish the various Firefox windows I want to have the hostname in the window title. After some experiments I found that the window resulting from this command # ssh -X -t -l user $HOST firefox -new-instance will be named '<website title> - Mozila Firefox (on $HOST)', which is mostly what I want. Unfotunately I also have FF windows from localhost, like # ssh -X -t -l user localhost firefox -new-instance Here the "(on $HOST)" part is missing. Does anyone happen to know how to tell FF to put the hostname into the window title bar for localhost? Preferable in the form of "(on $USER@$HOST)". Olaf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Running .NET on (OpenSUSE) Linux (13.2) still crashes with thread overload...
by André Verwijs 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

OS: Linux 3.16.7-24-desktop - openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64) KDE 4.14.9 Mono version 3.8.0 (tarball Fri Oct 10 15:00:11 UTC 2014) when running Windows .NET code on (OpenSUSE)Linux (13.2) still crashes with thread overload. tips on fixes or performance settings are welcome.... view stacktrace online here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_TSVggahj8MDFOMVR1V2dUc3M/view?usp=drive… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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