Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15:14, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> *** Reply to message from Örn Hansen <orn.hansen@xxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 8
> Jun 2004 14:14:31 +0200***
>
> > > 2) 3)    No pbm here
> >
> >   Ditto
>
> okay, I am now officially and idiot and would put on me dunce cap if
> that damned Gnome would bring it back and wear something else on 'is
> travels...
> WTflock is pbm? To me it means Polarbar mailer, and that is obviously
> not what you are talking about.

PBM = portable bug module, man or info pbm should get you started.  See also 
man pbmd for running it as a daemon so that other machines can connect and be 
supplied with bugs remotely (/usr/sbin/pbmd).  It listens on port 10877, but 
is nearly deaf and machines attempting to connect need to 'shout' by sending 
SYN in the biggest possible font.
HTH
Fergus

>
> Re: the home/personal version, it seems they might have drpped the ball
> w/ that one. My kid is on her 4th or 5th version of Suse... but so far
> at least hasn't been able to get her 9.1 home version up and running.
> OF course it hasn't helped they got their modem ( at least the modem)
> wacked by a lightning strike nearby...  But before that happened we had
> one of those 4 hr phone calls, asking well, can you find/install
> find-locate, for instance, or other things that had been part of the
> home versions.
>
> her reason for prefering to install that, it doesn't ask her so many
> questions on the install... I'm taking my pro cds when I go visiting
> soon.. attempting to show the pro install isn't all that scarey any
> more. But the real killer for her was that lack of Evolution, her
> prefered email program.... So I suspect I'll be suplimenting her cd's
> w/ at least some of the pro version ones.
>
> It's surprising they seem to have dropped the ball there... But I
> installed a copy of teh home/personal version on a box here to see if I
> could figure out what the problems are... and mainly they are a lack of
> programs , expected... Maybe I can find a box of 9.0 personal? Someone
> must have one for sale... It seems much more a lack of expected
> elements than complete non function, well barring the dialup which will
> have to wait til a new modem appears. I had hoped the winmodem might
> have been a lucent... but it wasnt, so no help from that quarter.
>
> OTH I have had almost no problems w/ the pro install, and will put it
> on my husbands box this week end. Which worries me only a little, his
> is an emachine.. but it seems happy w/ 9.0 pro. but since the new
> kernal really does help a lot of things we will jump him to 9.1 . He
> doesn't upgrade each time, about every three on average. But he has
> been a bit envious of this one...
>
> Biggest PITA in all new installs/upgrades is backups... backup
> everything, even if you don't have any idea why you are backing it
> up... do it on rewritables if you are convinced you wont need the files
> for anything. At least if worst happens, you are back where you left
> off in an afternoon.. Always excepting any strange , weird or excentric
> hardware...
>
> --
> j
> --
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>
>
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Fergus Wilde
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