October 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] PDF File conversion
by Mark Misulich 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, a couple of months ago I wrote about the large file sizes that I was getting when I converted a word .doc file to OO odt file, with the intention of later converting it to pdf. They were in the size of megabites. This is a bit of an ongoing saga for me, as this time I made up the newsletter for the organization using Open Office from the start, and then attempted to convert the odt file to pdf in linux. I ended up having to go back to windows in order to get the file sizes to a manageable size, the linux files were too large. Here is a rundown of what I did. 1. I made up the newsletter using Open Office. The final file size was 198kb. Not too bad, I thought that it was going to work out as I expected the file to be smaller yet when I converted that to a pdf file. 2. I converted the odt file to pdf. The resultant pdf file was 758.8kb. I am shooting for around 200kb, but will send a file up to 300kb. Any larger and it takes too long for the dialup users to download it. 3. I tried to play around with the pdf conversion process by reducing picture quality, and/or reducing the quality of the total pdf document. I produced two other pdf's this way, and believe it or not when I reduced the quality of the document to 50% it actually produced a larger file on my first attempt. That file was 789kb. The second attempt (30% quality) was 750 kb. I decided to save the newsletter odt file in doc format to see how large it would be, before I quit linux for Windows. It came out to 270kb. I was hoping to open it in word in winxp, and then convert it to pdf. But the formatting was so messed up it was easier to start over fresh in Word. But then, they tell me it isn't going to work right when try to save it as a doc file in open office. The new word file displaying the same information (plus an extra couple of pages of text that I forgot on the copy that I produced in OO) as the newsletter produced in odt came out to 220kb. 4. Those linux pdf files were too large to use, so I went back to WinXP and made up the file in Word (220kb). I then converted that to pdf, and got a file size of 270kb. That is useable, and I don't know of any way to make it smaller in Windows unless I start removing some pictures from the newsletter. As it stands now, I think that I will have to stick with windows for this task unless someone has a brainstorm and thinks of a way to make these linux pdf files smaller. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde 4.1 factory update
by lynn 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I just tried to update to the latest factory version. Loadsa 'nothing provides' or 'do not install' resolution issues with yast. Everything else updated via YOU fine. Anyone else? Gracias. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Upgrade to OpenSUSE 11
by Ray Madigan 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I had a machine hard drive go south so I upgraded that machine to opensuse 11. I have other machines in my lab and I want to upgrade them from 9.1 to 11.0. I have tried to find some information in the documentation, but I couldn't find a thread. My highest priority is to have smooth running machines. Is it better to start from a bare hard drive and reinstall everything or to upgrade the current installation if this is even possible? Will it keep all/some of my applications/settings? If the answer is written somewhere point me near it and I will ferret out the answer myself. I appreciate your help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Youtube videos
by Chris Arnold 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Opensuse 11 kde 4.1.1 x86 64. Firefox does not play youtube videos. Flash-player is installed. How do i get flash videos working? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4.1 wallpapers
by Michael S. Dunsavage 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I used to use the wallpaper called water or water effects or whatever but now when I pick a wallpaper it simply defaults to the opensuse default wallpaper. No matter which ones I pick. However, the slide show works (but won't keep the time I set) Any one else have this problem? and if so how to fix? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- 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] Evolution-Exchange to open other users mailbox
by Ken Gramm 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:45 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote: > Does anyone use evolution-exchange and have it set to also open > another user's mailbox? I cannot get this to function. When I go to > File > Subscribe to another Users Exchange Folder option and enter the > mailbox name I get a message saying "generic error" with no real > insight as to the problem. If I enter an invalid mailbox I get an > error stating such I can't offer you a solution, but I can say that it isn't just you. I also get the same error message when I try to open another user's mailbox. openSUSE 11.0 evolution-data-server-2.22.1.1-11.2 evolution-exchange-2.22.1.2-6.1 evolution-2.22.1.1-15.1 evolution-exchange-lang-2.22.1.2-6.1 Connecting to Exchange 2k3 sp2 running on Win 2k3 sp2. K -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse 10.3 and 11
by Cornelius Franken 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi All Time for me to get back on the bandwagon. Been so busy at work with M$ SQL crap that I have not furthered my education in Linux for a while. Anyway down to brass tacks. Is it possible to run OpenSuse 11 and 10.3 on the same machine? I have a 160 GB hard drive that has my opensuse 10.3 on it. I don't use all the space so I was thinking of giving 11 a trail run. Has anybody done this or know how to do it? Regards Neil ----------------------------------------- Engen Petroleum Limited, disclaims liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the sending, receipt, or use of this e-mail and on any reliance placed upon the information provided through this service and does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information. Please visit http://www.engen.co.za/home/server/common/disclaimer.asp to view the full disclaimer. -- 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: openSUSE (11.0) getting worse with the influence of KDE4 - Part #1: zypper
by Joachim Schrod 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Basil Chupin wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> The Thursday 2008-09-25 at 17:15 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: >> >> > posting from a Novell employee - ie, an "official" posting - >> >> No, that's not "official" either. None of the Novell/suse employees >> write here in any official capacity. Some do so in their free time and >> even from home. >> >> They have, of course, knowledge and information from inside, but they >> don't represent the official opinion/say of the company. > > You know this for a fact, do you? > > As far as I am concerned, if I see in the sender's address a reference > to Novell or openSUSE then the response comes officially from an > employee of Novell/openSUSE. > > If the response is NOT from someone connected with Novell/openSUSE then > there *must* be a disclaimer to indicate same. > > If the response *is* from someone in Novell/openSUSE but reflects only > their *personal* view/opinion then the poster must specifically mention > this (as I have seen at least one person from Novell/openSUSE stipulate > in his/her posting). You are very, very, very stupid. It's been a long time that I have read such garbage on the Net. *PLONK* SUSE/Novell folks, just put him in your KILL files. Don't let yourself be taken off your valuable contributions by such brain-dead comments. 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] formatting a flash drive
by Duaine & Laura Hechler 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I'm trying to run rsync against a hard drive directory to a usb flash drive directory and I'm getting errors about can't change the permissions. Currently, it's mkdosfs -F 32 What should a flash drive be formated as (specifically if I want to run rsync to it) ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- 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: [Samba] Samba over bridged ethernet VPN
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Wes Deviers wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2008 12:33:33 Daniel Bye wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have Samba 3.0.32 on FreeBSD-7-RELEASE, set up to act as a very simple >> workgroup file server (i.e., no domain or anything fancy like that). It >> is the latest version of Samba available in ports. >> >> I am seeing timeouts and connection reset errors in my per-client logs such >> as the following. For clients on the local LAN, the errors don't cause any >> real problems. However, for remote clients connected over OpenVPN in >> bridged Ethernet mode over cheap domestic ADSL lines, they result in the >> clients being unable to open or otherwise manipulate files on the server. > > SNIP > >> This client machine is running WinXP Pro, but we are seeing the same for >> WinXP Home, Vista HP, FreeBSD and Linux-based clients. I have found several >> references to the same problem in numerous mailing list archives and bug >> reports around the web, but none of them seems to have a definite fix. >> Anyone know of anything I can try here? >> >> Thanks for any help or insights you can offer... >> >> Dan > > Dan, > > I've had problems similar to this with OpenVPN when path MTU discovery was > broken. In theory it should never break, but there have been a few times when > I've had to tweak it by hand. The general theory, if you're unfamiliar, is > that different networking media have different Maximum Transmission Units (MTU) > which is the largest size an L2 chunk can be and still be transported. In > Ethernet, it's typically 1500 bytes (+ some overhead, the actual max is 1514). > > Your OVPN link is probably using 1500 as well. But OpenVPN wraps some header > information around the Ethernet frame to deliver it correctly; what can happen > is that the payload size can be larger that 1500 on the VPN link, forcing the > entire frame to be dropped. > > A quick way to diagnose this..if you ssh and do commands with minimal output, > it will work fine. If you do a huge directory listing, it will spaz and die > (because you go from small to large packets). > > Have you seen anything like that? Can you give us a quick breakdown of how > the routing looks between sites? > > Wes Dan, I also recall some discussion from the samba list about changing: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 to socket options = TCP_NODELAY and letting samba manage the buffer sizes. I don't know if this will specifically help your vpn problem, but you could give it a try. It may also help samba performance on its local lan as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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