May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

.mp3 to .wav conversion tool
by neal mcdermott 16 Jun '02

16 Jun '02

Hi All, At the moment I am learning how to use cdrecord and have been able to make data cds. I am now trying to make a music cd from mp3s, and am assuming that I will have to convert them to .wav files and then burn them to a disk. I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good conversion tool, preferably one that comes with the personal edition of 8.0. I tried using sox but got the error message that it could not recognize .mp3 files. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks Neal McDermott

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DON'T DO ANYTHING!!!
by Curtis Rey 16 Jun '02

16 Jun '02

if you get a message in you email saying "WARNING YOU MAY HAVE A VIRUS" - It's a hoax!!!! It's meant to trick you in order to have you delete needed Java files from you system and screw it up. so Dont Do Anything - Delete the message. Love Me.

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SUSE 8.0 and prism2_cs
by stefmit 16 Jun '02

16 Jun '02

I am trying to use a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card with my laptop running SUSE 8.0. Under 7.3 I used to choose orinoco_cs under the modules (thus not the PCMCIA option), and used to work fine. Now this option won't work in 8.0, but - according to some fellow Linux users - regular pcmcia incorporated should. Oh, well, when doing that here is what I get in the message log: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Loaded init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs prism2_cs: CardServices release does not match! p80211.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Unloaded Any ideas on how to fix this? This is an 8.0 patched with the latest from SUSE's site (via a regular Ethernet wired card I had to use :)) NOTE: I could probably try the http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ but I was hoping in something done by SUSE right! Thx, Stefan

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kde updates
by geek＠PageZero.com 15 Jun '02

15 Jun '02

I suspect that i am merely stupid and that this is the reason i cannot figure out how to do an online update to the latest KDE release. It is my assumption that i need to provide a directory string at ftp.suse.com, but can't for the life of me figurre out what it is. Although i can find the files, yast2 can't, and i never seem to be able to download the right files in the right order to just run the rpm's myself. For the sake of my crumbling self-esteem, can someone please help me. bc

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Windows emulator for Linux
by Jaakko Tamminen 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi What would be a good win-98 emulator for Linux? Is it vmware of win4lin? I have tried the vmware that comes with SuSE, but I found it to be quite slow what comes to screen handling. Reason is that my spouse wants to go to Linux, but one bookkeeping software and banking software needs win-98. We are also ready to pay for this sw... Jaska.

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Argggh. Stupid Futureshop
by James Oakley 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok. It's been a month. I was waiting to buy 8.0 locally just so that there'd be one more shelf sale for distributors to look at. I waited patiently... Very patiently. I regularly checked Future Shop for it. They kept saying "Check back in a couple of days." Now they're saying that they don't have it and won't get it. That really pisses me off. I thought they were going to carry it. That's why I didn't preorder from the States this time around. Arrggh... - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley(a)solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE88ieJ+FOexA3koIgRAmK7AJ9uKrY3rJgF3SgpFLkJ1vptVXunngCbBAUd kCRzZ+jghGhZI/AKtBSYAYk= =Stap -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Using Linux/SuSE at the Desktop--Telnet or X?
by Andrew Lietzow 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Dear SuSE Wizards, I have sold an application for years that has a *nix backend but traditionally terminals or PC with terminal emulators running Telnet clients at the front end. What do I use if I want to run Linux at the Desktop with Linux at the Server? Basically, I think I'm looking for a Telnet Client like what is offered by the James River Group but not for windoze but for Linux. Any ideas? Is there something already in there that does a nice job? (I am familiar with Putty and it is decent, but I'm looking for a few more bells and whistles so that it might even be GUI. TIA -- Andrew Lietzow The ACL Group, Inc.

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RE: [SLE] Can't Powerdown SuSE 8.0?
by Jostein Berntsen 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Hi, You could check if APM is enabled in your kernel: http://brenner.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de/sdb/en/html/apm.html Regards, Jostein >===== Original Message From Marc Boorshtein <mboorshtein(a)yahoo.com> ===== >I have SuSE 8.0 installed. When I shutdown the system, it won't power >down. I looked in lilo.conf and tried setting append="apm=on", but that >didn't help it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Marc Boorshtein > > > >--=-HJNVbzfgJFlLiIOurwYX >Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc >Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > >iD8DBQA89FSSlngxtbePWOERApCXAKCiQ/BIqBB973V09kq0e1uoEyfJqwCbBAdD >wQ1PWToxpbSx5sC3OLJ1HoU=tnV4 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >--=-HJNVbzfgJFlLiIOurwYX--

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Spyware
by usb 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

A recent mail mentionned that Netscape included Spyware. I thought Sun did'nt play those dirty games at expenses of our privacy/liberty. Man knows that Intel, since Pentium III, includes spyware into its CPU's (theoretically unactivable, but is man sure that NSA or CIA or else, - and not necessarily US -, are unable to discretly reactivate it ?). Openly Windows XP bears spyware. Does anybody on the list have knowledge abt other such softs/hard which let You inherit spyware at home ?

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About new update Yast2
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

Hi, Can somebody knows if after the last update of Yast2 I can install kde 3.01 with problems? Thank you Thadeu

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