November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] OpenDocument vs. MS Open XML
by James D. Parra 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

<quote url="http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4875"> 29 November 2005 Sun urges US state to reject Microsoft open format By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Sun has urged the state of Massachusetts to rethink its opinion that Microsoft's Open XML meets the acceptable parameters for an open format In a letter signed by the director of corporate standards for Sun, Carl Cargill, the company asked the state to keep in mind the reasons for its previous commitment to the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) specification. ... </quote> This article is also very interesting. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1894039,00.asp ~James

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Unreal Tournament 2003 simply doesn't work...
by pelibali 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, After my several unsuccessful tries, now based on info from the web I managed to install UT2003 on SUSE Linux 10.0. (Yes, original German box, containing 3CDs, reg. code, etc.) I was extremely happy to see it on the harddisk, but running it as user (or even root) resulted the same error message: agika:~ # ut2003 C++/ Script class size mismatch History: Exiting due to error agika:~ # When running it not from console, but e.g. from K-menu resulted the splash of the game came up for few seconds, then disappeared... I'm very disappointed now, but didn't find any corresponding info on Google how to get the game up and running. Please, did anyone overcome this kind of annoying error?! Thanks, Pelibali

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floppy drive problems with SuSE 9.3
by Gil Weber 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, everyone. Something has happened to my floppy drive. I had removed it from the box and then put it back in after doing some upgrades. Perhaps I have reinstalled it wrong, but I can't figure out why things have gotten messed up. Nor can I figure how to fix. When I insert a floppy disk now and click on <my computer/floppy drive> I get two boxes on the screen. One says "Error - Konqueror The process for the medial protocol died unexpectedly." The other says "Mounting /dev/fd0." Then the progress bar shows 0% progress and goes no farther. No files are displayed. If I then right click on the floppy drive icon I see the following: Under the general tab I have: Type: Unmounted Floppy Location: / (media) And under the permissions tab I have: Ownership: User: (there is nothing here -- it is blank) Group: (there is nothing here -- it is blank) I cannot make any changes to the permissions. If I try I get the same two error boxes mentioned above. The only way I can hope to see the files on the floppy is to go to </media/floppy> I can then try to access the files. However, when I click on the floppy drive folder the floppy drive starts searching, and the green drive light goes on. But it never stops searching. The drive will turn for awhile, the green light will go out momentarily, and then it will start up again. This repeats forever. So something is totally screwed up with the floppy drive. I don't seem to have "ownership" of the drive as user. And even as root I can't change anything (or at least I can't figure out how to change anything). What can I do to regain proper operational control over this silly floppy drive? Can I delete the damned thing and get SuSE 9.3 to re-recognize it? Help!! :o) Thanks. Gil If

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Re: [SLE] Firewall recomendation [SOLVED]
by Sunny 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

On 11/29/05, Randall J. Parr <RParr(a)temporalarts.com> wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2005 19:28, Randall R Schulz wrot > > >So my recommendation is FWBuilder for all firewalls (Including some firewall > >hardware boxes) for networks of all sizes. I have yet to see a linux > >workstation firewall ala Windows with dynamic rules via pop-ups, etc. So no > >recommendation Single workstation firewalls. > > > > > > There is one called firestarter for linux that is of the more dynamic > type (ala ZoneAlarm for Windows). > > I looked at it but decided on Guarddog (in the past) and am now > switching to FWBuilder. > > R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts > > I need it for a server config, not workstation, so such a functionality as ZoneAlarm is not needed :) Anyway, I already switched to FWBuilder - this is amazing product, I can't believe I could live so long without it :) Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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Re: [SLE] Firewall recomendation
by Sunny 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

On Thursday 24 November 2005 06:59, you wrote: > Sunny wrote: > >Hi there, > > > >I'm hunting for good firewall. What I need is precise control on per host > >base, i.e. I want to be able to control which host can comunicate with > > which over specific protocol, like: > > > >host1 can accept ssh only from host3 > >only host2 can make http requests to host4, etc. > > > >All this, combined with per zone rules :) and good user interface - either > >web, or console(text) for remote administration. > > > >Any pointers? > > > >Thanks > > Try FirewallBuilder. It does what you want... > http://www.fwbuilder.org/ Thanks, looks very impressive. -- Sunny

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RE: [SLE] Install from SuSE 10 DVD hangs
by James D. Parra 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hello, >After using many different Linux distros to figure out what was hanging >the install, I think I found the problem. It appears the problem >involves the loading of the Symbios|53c1010-33 driver/module during the >install. There are no IDE drives in this server and the installer can't >find a device to create a file system. Hello Linux Gurus, Trying everything to figure what is going wrong and have thus so far. Fedora Core 1 can install or at least loads the correct RAID driver, 53c8xxx (LSI/Symbios), to see the two SCSI drives. For those of you who enjoy nostalgia, this server is a VA-Linux 1220, 1U, with a dual PIII ASUS motherboard. I am *really* looking forward to getting Suse 10 on this beauty, but I am stuck. Is there a problem with the 53c8xxx driver with the 2.6 kernel? Many thanks again. ~James

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Emacs and Opensuse 10.0
by John Meyer 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, I've been trying to find emacs on my system ever since I installed, but it doesn't seem to be there, even though Yast tells me that it has been installed on my system. What is the problem? -- "I'm American, fatboy. What's your excuse?"

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BOINC performance
by Mike 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

I have a dual boot machine. When I checks the stats on the seti page I noticed that they were different when running XP, or SuSE. The machine is mostly idle. Is anyone else running setiathome? Any thoughts on boosting perfromance? Running under XP GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz Microsoft Windows XP SP2, (05.01.2600.00) Measured floating point speed 1390.1 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 2412.94 million ops/sec Average upload rate 18.98 KB/sec Average download rate 4.31 KB/sec % of time BOINC client is running 81.8484 % Running under SuSE 9.3 with X GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz Linux 2.4.21-297-default Measured floating point speed 733.63 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 1895.05 million ops/sec Average upload rate 1.09 KB/sec Average download rate 494.71 KB/sec % of time BOINC client is running 58.6482 % -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca

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source instalation
by boricua 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

where is lisit of source instalation for new packages i want to install clamav gparted and neither appear in packman also yast keeps asking for dvd1 which is already in the drive but yast fails to load it i can see it in /media/suse....... but yast won't see it

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Is Tooltalk supported in LINUX??
by rekha.subbiah＠wipro.com 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi! I have a doubt whether "Tooltalk" is supported in KDE-Linux (SuSe). (It is supported in CDE). Tooltalk is a utility which is available in Unix Operating System, providing support for various tool communications. I would like to know if the same utility is available in Linux-KDE? If so how to use it and where can I get info related to it? Thanks in advance, Best regards, Rekha Project Engineer Wipro Technologies rekha.subbiah(a)wipro.com <mailto:rekha.subbiah@wipro.com> Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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