Hi, I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it. To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse. I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at Princeton, however this list is a joke as I posted a query there on the 10th of Aug and have yet to see any other activity on the list. https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/vmware Does anyone know of an active list or should I just add more, possibly unrealted, mail to this list? TIA Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it.
To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse.
I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at Princeton, however this list is a joke as I posted a query there on the 10th of Aug and have yet to see any other activity on the list.
Will a forum suffice or must it be a mailing list? http://vmware.com/community Jan -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it.
To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse.
I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at Princeton, however this list is a joke as I posted a query there on the 10th of Aug and have yet to see any other activity on the list.
Will a forum suffice or must it be a mailing list? http://vmware.com/community
And if you do want the messages in a mail-like format, you could subscribe to the relevant RSS feed(s), e.g. in Thunderbird http://www.vmware.com/community/rss.jspa?feed=rss/rssmessages.jspa?categoryI... Not clear on how replying works, but there seems to be a link in each message item, so I guess you can click to open the message in your browser and reply that way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Russell Jones wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it.
To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse.
I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at Princeton, however this list is a joke as I posted a query there on the 10th of Aug and have yet to see any other activity on the list.
Will a forum suffice or must it be a mailing list? http://vmware.com/community
And if you do want the messages in a mail-like format, you could subscribe to the relevant RSS feed(s), e.g. in Thunderbird
http://www.vmware.com/community/rss.jspa?feed=rss/rssmessages.jspa?categoryI...
Not clear on how replying works, but there seems to be a link in each message item, so I guess you can click to open the message in your browser and reply that way.
Tnx Russell for the input. I am afraid I do not know how RSS feeds work but from your discription it seems to be a kind of 'group' facility ie GoogleGroups. What I DO NOT want is a mail to be sent to me each time there is a new message that requires me to visit the site, log-in, read the msg, reply and logoff ie I would like each message to come to me so that I can answer it/store it for later knowledge or discard it into my personal trash bin with no effect on the archive. Email works for me and I am only at Thunderbird 1.5. I have emailed the webmaster at VMWare and asked him/her to establish a free mailing list, like this excellent one at opensuse, for VMWare Server. Time will tell. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:38, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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I am afraid I do not know how RSS feeds work
Look into Akregator. It's a very good RSS reader. It directly integrates a Konqueror Web viewer so you need not leave that application for viewing both the feeds, posting summaries and full articles.
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I have emailed the webmaster at VMWare and asked him/her to establish a free mailing list, like this excellent one at opensuse, for VMWare Server. Time will tell.
That is extremely unlikely to happen, new IPO and bales of cash notwithstanding. They long ago chose to go with News as the technology supporting their community forums and that's not going to change at this point. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:38, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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I am afraid I do not know how RSS feeds work
Look into Akregator. It's a very good RSS reader. It directly integrates a Konqueror Web viewer so you need not leave that application for viewing both the feeds, posting summaries and full articles.
Tnx Randall. I might look at it but it is just another application screen I have to open/concentrate on and work on. Currently I'm receiving upwards of 200 emails a day, and with the sorting out of filters, reading and replying, there is not alot of time to go to another app and do the similar thing all over again, hence my request for an email list.
I have emailed the webmaster at VMWare and asked him/her to establish a free mailing list, like this excellent one at opensuse, for VMWare Server. Time will tell.
That is extremely unlikely to happen, new IPO and bales of cash notwithstanding. They long ago chose to go with News as the technology supporting their community forums and that's not going to change at this point.
mmmm, so I see from the reply I rec'd from the webmaster. He did identify how I could integrate it with email, so I am going to give that a try and see if the result is something I can work with. Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 23 2007 12:51, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am using VMWare Server on 10.2 and am very happy with it.
To improve my knowledge and ask the od question I wanted to join an active users group ie like this one for opensuse.
I checked the VMWare site and found nothing, did a Google search which gave me several hits and one list at Princeton, however this list is a joke as I posted a query there on the 10th of Aug and have yet to see any other activity on the list.
Will a forum suffice or must it be a mailing list? http://vmware.com/community
I'd really MUCH prefer and can use a mailing list. I also allows me to keep email about certain subjects pertinent to me. Tnx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 23 August 2007 04:11, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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Will a forum suffice or must it be a mailing list? http://vmware.com/community
I'd really MUCH prefer and can use a mailing list. I also allows me to keep email about certain subjects pertinent to me.
The VMware user forums, conducted via News, are very active, mature and the de-facto place to go for collaboration and community support for all VMware's products. I think you have very little chance of getting an alternate, mailing-list-based forum going. Furthermore, good news readers, and there are a few for Linux, including the SeaMonkey (Mozilla), KNode (KDE) and Pan (Gnome). There are others and their features vary, but you should work with what's available.
Tnx
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 06:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'd really MUCH prefer and can use a mailing list. I also allows me to keep email about certain subjects pertinent to me.
The VMware user forums, conducted via News, are very active, mature and the de-facto place to go for collaboration and community support for all VMware's products.
I think you have very little chance of getting an alternate, mailing-list-based forum going.
Furthermore, good news readers, and there are a few for Linux, including the SeaMonkey (Mozilla), KNode (KDE) and Pan (Gnome). There are others and their features vary, but you should work with what's available.
Some of the available readers allow keeping a local copy for reading off-line. Plus, in linux there is "fetchnews" that can pull a full copy of the news groups you want automatically, creating a local news server. It comes with package... Mmmm... things have changed... seems to come with "cyrus-imapd" :-? No, its package "leafnode": Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/ Summary : A Leaf Site NNTP Server Description : Leafnode is a small NNTP server for leaf sites without permanent connections to the Internet. It supports a subset of NNTP and is able to automatically fetch the newsgroups the user reads regularly from the ISP's news server. Once you have configured it, and defined a news server to pull from, then news groups are pulled (fetched) as soon as you try to read from a group the next time you run "fetchnews". Quite nice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGzs36tTMYHG2NR9URAmUmAJ0aXQRwjyBbQnVJcxqO288m43EBTwCfYdhf Xozpmk9eTCQDTg8HlE7JeXA= =t32U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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