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[opensuse] Gnome apps floating point exception
by John Batistic 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Suddenly I cannot open either Gimp or Gnome-games Solitaire. They both generate a floating point exception fault. Any help appreciated -- 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] Finding files with K3b
by hensandpat＠earthlink.net 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

John Andersen wrote: > On 3/11/2010 5:33 AM, hensandpat(a)earthlink.net wrote: > >> John Andersen wrote: >> >>> On 3/9/2010 2:17 AM, hensandpat(a)earthlink.net wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I am trying to find files in Windows Vista 64 bit (crashed again), >>>> wich are located in c/programfiles/turbotax/ 2008 >>>> With opensuse I selected K3b. Than new data project, root, windows, >>>> /C, program files and that's it, ofcourse it's there but I don't see >>>> it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Well you have given us half the story. >>> >>> The missing half is how is your machine set up? >>> Are you running vista in a virtual machine? >>> Are you Dual booting? >>> Is Vista on another machine all together? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hi, The machine: Gateway 64 bits, dual booting, has Vista installed >> but crashed, opensuse active. >> > > > I see. Well you will have to mount the Vista partition with SUSE first, > It won't be referenced as C/ or anything like that. It will be something > like /dev/sda1 or such. > > Then you have to pick a mount point. If this will be a temporary mount > so that you can rescue files, you can mount it at /mnt > Then your files will be located at subordinate to that directory. > I would mount it read only for now. That way you can't damage any files. > You can do this with yast, Partitioner. (BE CAREFUL). > > If nothing else yast will tell you the drive/partition name. > Look for an unmounted partition of type NTFS. If you find one, change the > settings in yast partitioner to have it mounted. > > If there are no unmounted NTFS partitions perhaps it is already mounted. > Again Yast will tell you that. Just get its Mount point and start > surfing that directory with Dolphin (or what ever) looking for your files. > > > Hi John thanks for your patience, I don't have Dolphin on open suse10, and I am afraid to update it untill I rescue that particu;ar file out of vista. besides I am no good with machine lanquage soo a good way, I think would be to find it with Kb3. For me the best way would be to use kb3, find the file and copy it to a cd. You see windows has an easy listing as you can see above ;windows/programs/turbotax/2008, but I don.t see that sequence with Kb3, of cource it is there ready to be copied, can wew try and explore it this way. Thanks for your helpm John. John H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Compaq Presario CQ5320F Desktop
by Bob Rea 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

I am being given one of these for my birthday. Any info related to it would be useful, problems or praise. -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery Where is Bill Stringfellow now that we really need him? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] From offtopic list.
by Fred A. Miller 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

On 03/10/2010 07:34 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hi Fred, > > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 19:04 -0600, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > >> Well, I didn't write it. Sorry you're offended, but I'm not, and as per >> many others who have varying opinions, we are all entitled to them. >> > You are if course entitled to have this opinion. You are not entitled to > voice this opinion on an opensuse list. Please, I don't want to see this > signature ever again on our lists. I find it just too offensive for a > very sensitive topic. Thanks in advance. > First off, Henne, I'm taking this public because I want everyone to know what's going on and why I probably won't be on the lists any longer....NOT my choice but yours. There are MANY here who don't agree with you. Part of the MAJOR problems presently being experienced in Europe is that there's been a great deal of PC towards Muslims, and now look at the problems!!!! It is a pagan religion of HATE, lies, and deceit. I can not give into any Muslim whining. The truth is the truth and I WON'T hold back at any time anywhere.....period!! So, I guess you might as well take me off all openSUSE elists. I use various sigs as I rotate them from time to time. I don't worry if one isn't PC for a Muslim nor anyone else. Principle is MUCH more important than my being here. I'm an American with a 1st amendment right, and a God given right of free speech, and I WON'T give either up!! I've enjoyed using SuSE for MANY years, have helped a LOT of people with their problems, and have it installed on a whole LOT of systems. Oh well, there are other distros. It just seems really ignorant, Henne, that you have responded this way to me because of someone who's NOT been on this list till now, who more than likely - IF we knew the truth and I know we won't - isn't who he/she claims to be and has a REAL name he/she's not giving. Further, what about the anti-Christian snide remarks that have been on more than one list off and on for a LONG time? Have I or anyone else been complaining to you about that?! Of course not!! I know, Henne.....what's fair for the goose isn't fair for the gander as long as you're a Muslim or a Muslim sympathizer, then no one better tell the true about Islam or criticize it in any way! ALL other religions are fair game, however. But, it's your show, Henne. Fred -- “The sword of Muhammad and the Qur'an are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty and truth which the world has ever known - an unmitigated cultural disaster parading as God's will.” --Sir William Muir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VLC - white is blue
by Duaine Hechler 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

All of a sudden the faces (white) is now blue The only thing I tried was to play the TV via v4l2 Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.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] powersaved on a server
by aragonx＠dcsnow.com 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hello all, I was wondering if I could disable powersaved on a 24x7 server without any negative side effects? --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] graphical ocr for linux/opensuse - a report
by Istvan Gabor 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hello: This is only a report about an ocr (optical character recognition) program for linux / opensuse. It has been a problem for me for a long time to find a reliable, good working ocr program for linux that can recognize Hungarian accented characters. Recently I found 'cuneiform' ocr program, and a graphical frontend for it, called 'yagf'. These two together work very well, and the usage is straightforward. Cuneiform has several language modules, and reliably can recognize "normal" and accented characters. It can use several image types inlcuding jpg, tiff, png and bmp images. The recognition options are easliy configurable in yagf. If html output is chosen it even can make difference between smaller and larger fonts and can identify section titles and bold face fonts. Of course it does not do it without some errors, but it is acceptable. yagf can invoke xsane directly and use the scanned image from it. Both cuneiform and yagf are available in opensuse build service (obs) repositories (cuneiform 0.9.0 and yagf 0.8.1). Cheers, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] a small hardware question
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

After my sound card suddenly stopped working I changed to the build in sound card until I can get another card. (is now around 12 at night) This build in sound card has no indication where which plug belongs Very handy. Saw with a flashlight that the female plugs have different colors. One is orange, one is green and the third is blue. Does somebody on the list know if these colors are standardized and where which color is used for? -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.1 (KDE 4.4.1) "release 227" 23:37pm up 0:26, 3 users, load average: 0.72, 1.04, 1.39 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hardware problem
by Koenraad Lelong 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, Last weekend I experienced problems with my home desktop. It locked up hard. When I power-cycled I remarked that some letters of the BIOS boot-messages were distorted. If I had these, the PC could boot but it couldn't go into graphics mode. Character-mode seemed fine. Now and then it worked for a while. I suspected the video-card. I took it out, and this morning I put it in a PC here at work. Now it seems to work OK ! It's running a few hours now without problem. I ran memtest for several hours with zero errors but the screen was distorted. With this I mean : the characters are there and readable but there were a high number of small vertical lines, few tens of pixels long, 1 pixel wide (I guess these numbers). The video-card is an NVidia GeForce 8500 GT, a PCIexpress 16x board. Next thing is the power-supply I'm going to investigate. Before it locked up, it had good voltages though. Anything else ? Thanks for hints. If it matters, the machine runs suse 10.2, but OS 11.2 is also installed and has the same problems. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Thunderbird - exception certificate
by Johan 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Good day, Thunderbird seem not to like my dsl service provider namely telkomsa.net. Keep giving me to confirm this certificate. I already marked it as to accept. What to do to get rid of this annoyance please. Thanks. Regards, Johan Sch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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