Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:54, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
If these days getting a current SuSE to be usable requires Registration
It doesn't
it does require you to have online update servers listed. In the past, you got the list every time you ran online update. Now you run a registration once to add one or two to your installation sources. But if you have preferred addresses already, you are perfectly free to use them yourself
Then why call this process "Registration"? Call it something else. As far as I am concerned calling it Registration is a deliberate choice which at some later stage WILL become a proper Registration process. It is called introduction of a mandatory process by stealth. For example, one of our local TV stations did not have advertising like the commercial TV stations. Then it introduced advertising by only selected advertisers whose ads. were considered "tasteful", shall we say, and not the yelling, screaming, inane type which occur on normal commercial stations - you know what I mean. The other thing is that these commercials were only shown between programs and the programs themselves were never interrupted by ads. A few weeks ago I noticed that the news broadcasts on this TV station were "interrupted" at the mid-point where the newsreader started to say that such-and such news items are to follow; then the station's logo would come up and then immediately be followed by the newsreader continuing to read the news. This I found to be most strange - but then the penny dropped, and I groaned. Last week it came out that this TV station will be introducing commercial breaks into their programs and not just show the ads. between programs. So what the station is now doing is sneakily getting people accustomed to commercial breaks during the news broadcasts (to be followed by other programs). So calling the process during installation as "Registration" is deliberate. What is the last button called when this "Registration" menu comes up? Why is that button there? Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com