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[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #74 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 74 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program * openSUSE Education * Gnome 2.26.2 for openSUSE 11.1 * Ben Kevan : How to find out how long a process has been running * Duncan Mac-Vicar: Facebook on Kopete, take II For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74 -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't read mounted floppy disk
by Stan Goodman 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Only rarely anymore does one have to read of write diskettes, and I am having to do so now for the first time since I installed openSuSE. I have a floppy disk containing files. I can read these files in another OS using the same floppy drive on the same machine, but not in openSuSE. The Disk List in the Konqueror /sysinfo display shows that the available space on this diskette is much smaller than the total space, so it does see that there are files there. According to the Properties for fd0, the diskette is mounded on "/media/floppy". The following is the line in fstab that relates to the floppy drive: ***** /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 ***** When I click on the floppy-disk icon, Konqueror opens a window, showing the Location as: "media:/fd0", which doesn't look quite the same as the alleged mount point. The window is empty, although I know that there are files there. In the Konqueror view of directory "floppy", the status line at the bottom shows "No Items - No Files - No folders". The permissions for the floppy drive are RW for the owner (which is me), RO for group and others. It is not possible, even as root, to extend writing to group. Can someone help me see what is wrong here? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Error "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" on Remote SSH Connection
by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi, I'm installing openSUSE 11.1 without firewall (firewall was not active). I could ssh from local network but failed on remote network with the following messages : server1:~ # ssh -v -v -v -v 125.xxx.xxx.xxx OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 125.xxx.xxx.xxx [125.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I've modified /etc/hosts.allow with this line : sshd: ALL (for temporary used) and remove any entry from /etc/hosts.deny. The remote server has 2 Network card, the second card was deactivated. Port 80 has been successfully forwarded. Is there any clue for this problem ? -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id /************************************************************/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Have ancient portable scanner (Visioneer Paperport) -- seeking driver(s)
by Dan Goodman 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Always wanted to have one of those portable scanners for my road-warrior kit, but never got high enough on my needs list to fork out a couple of hundred dollars. Then, as fate would have it, I found on at a yard sale, an ancient but working Visioneer Paperport MX/VX model (says one on front, another on label on bottom). Checked a bunch of semi-obvious sites for driver and/or HW compatibility. Seems the last known driver for this was made for Win98, and never one for Linux. But I'd like to try fooling around with Wine and a driver to see if I could get this working. Problem is, I have no idea where to find one of the ancient Windoze drivers. Does anyone happen to have one laying around somewhere in an archive, or whatever? And does anyone have any good links to setting up various HW on Linux which might have only a Windows driver published? TIA. Dan Goodman Systems Engineer PS Yes I know I could easily spend more time than what it would cost to buy a new one, but (a) I like the lightweight form factor of this unit; and (b) I would like to get some experience trying to solve the problem of running a device under Linux using a Windows driver, if that is possible. Now, if you want to DONATE a more modern portable scanner, that's a different story... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with VirutalBox
by Chuck Payne 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Guys, I am using AD to log into my linux box. I want to use VirtualBox, but I can't see to add my account to the group. How can I add my account to the group? -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- 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 tunnelling for firefox
by jdd 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hello :-) I try using a tunnelling from openSUSE 11.1 to an online server with the syntax below with firefox: $ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server and proxy localhost 9999 in firefox google seems to say there is nothing more to do, but FF keep saying the proxy don't accept the connection I tried this with a 10.2 server (old, I know, to be replaced by the next) and ubuntu server with the same result. of course the connection terminal to the server opens, I give the pass, but FF still don't works any idea? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4 counterpart for KitchenSync?
by Malte Gell 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi there, is it true that KitchenSync is a KDE 3.x application? Is there a KDE4 counterpart? What uses KDE4 as a frontend for opensync? Thanx Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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