June 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Intel Core Duo "buggy as hell"?
by Stevens 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

From PC Mag http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070628/tc_zd/210662;_ylt=AmYyw1F0Qpb5eUjr.fYoN… Excerpt from article that might explain some of the weirdness of Core Duo based systems: "With the recent release of a microcode reliability update on Microsoft's site that addresses a handful of Intel Core 2 processors, concern over the pervasiveness of bugs in some of the company's latest processors is growing, especially now that OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt released his own rundown of outstanding, fixed, and what he deems as "non-fixable bugs." Details are still lacking about what, precisely, the June 22 patch fixes—not to mention how severe the actual bugs were—but in de Raadt's own words, some of the Intel's latest processors "are buggy as hell." " Click on the above link to read the rest. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] THIN Clients and opensuse
by James Tremblay 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hey Everyone, We have been building a new version of LTSP for openSUSE using KIWI. I have written a set of installation instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP try it out and let me know how it goes. -- 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] 32 or 64 bit?
by Bob Williams 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

ATM I am running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, but I notice that some programs, outside the standard repository tree, are only supplied for 32bit OS. Will I be able to install and run these apps? If not, how do I force the openSUSE installation to allow me to install a 32bit OS? I only have 2G RAM, so no real need for 64bit. -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- 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] Intel Core Duo "buggy as hell"?
by James D. Parra 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

On Friday 29 June 2007 20:16:11 Stevens wrote: > I personally think that Intel chip problems and their potential impact on > opensuse, Redhat, Ubuntu or any one of the mryiad variants of Linux out > there would be very much on topic or, at the very least, close enough to > not warrant an admonition from you. >I agree, I thought it was highly interesting, and might explain a few issues >I've been seeing. I don't think it was off topic I concur. If this bug affects Linux, then it affects OpenSuse as well. The article seemed relevant and a good warning for anyone installing Linux on boards utilizing this Intel chip. Best regards, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SSH & Rkhunter
by Bob S 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

Hello SuSE people, I keep getting messages everyday from rkhunter about possible root login because SSH V1 is running. I shouldn't need SSH because this is a stand-alone PC, right? So how do I disable it? Found something in the Yast /etc/Sysconfig editor but have no idea what the option should be Running 10.2 64 bit. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Intel Core Duo "buggy as hell"?
by Joachim Schrod 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

russbucket wrote: > On Friday June 29 2007 14:28, Marcus Meissner wrote: >> The exact problem Theo de Raadt mentions affects only SLES 8 if at all. >> SLES 9 and SLES 10 and 10.0-10.2 are not affected. >> >> So: "No worries". > How about openSUSE 10.2. You haven't read the third-to-last line of Marcus' message above with sufficient alertness. :-) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Command line calculator?
by Adam Jimerson 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know if there is a program for a command line calculator, and if so what it is called? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGhWGYzZAvb+u/9+oRAkPXAKDg7DOBwipqfMo+82TAz4eSn5eRLwCghaT2 mnPrt9oqzOhrS2bhoUgpFAU= =//RH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Command line calculator?
by sysadmin 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

> command line interface for dos or unix/linux??? from Larry On Friday 29 June 2007 12:58, G T Smith wrote: > > Adam Jimerson wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is a program for a command > > > line calculator, and if so what it is called? > > > > bash :-) > > > > try > > > > echo $((5+2)) > > echo $((7*6)) > > Or, try these: > > % echo $(( 5.5 + 2.2 )) > bash: 5.5 + 2.2: syntax error in expression (error token > is ".5 + 2.2 ") > > % echo $(( 010 * 020 )) > 128 > > % echo $(( 080 + 020 )) > bash: 080: value too great for base (error token is "080") > > % echo $(( 0xa * 0xa )) > 100 > > > > at CLI > > > > of course if you want trig and logs you need do a little > work... > > > It only does integers and has an inflexible way of > treating numeric radixes (e.g., leading zero forces > octal), as shown above. > > Dc (RPN) or bc (infix) are the way to go for non-trivial > scripted calculation. They do floating point, arbitrary > precision and have formatted printing. (BASH has this, > too, perhaps even better, being modelled after the C > library printf() function.) > > > Randall Schulz > -- > 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] fileserver box to box swap
by Primm 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

On Thursday 28 June 2007 18:52, you wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:43:44PM +0200, primm wrote: > > After a year of heavy academic > > use and abuse, the hidden files account for around 70% of /home. > > Something I must look into. > > Possibly cache files in .mozilla . Nah. Not even. Most of the list run standalone boxes. It's that bad. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Swahili localisation for Novell OpenOffice?
by Clayton 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Is there a Novell/openSUSE Swahili localization file for OpenOffice? I'd like to be able to switch OpenOffice (and KDE if I can) over to Swahili once in a while. I found the OOo Swahili localisation builds for Ubuntu (here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/editors/openoffice.org-l10n-sw)... but.. nothing yet for openSUSE. On the OO.o site the last reference to it is 1.1.3 :-( If there are more recent swahili language builds that anyone knows about, I can update the OOo site (the current OO.o link to http://www.kilinux.com is dead). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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