On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:23:59PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 12 May 2006 23:12, Erhard Sanio wrote:
Hello,
I realized that in 10.1, I am forced to register at Novell in order to be able to activate Yast Online Update even when I chose the OSS version. This made me abort the installation.
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Is there a way to circumvent that annoying attempt on my privacy?
Lie?
There is not that much to lie about, as it is just a script that collects some HW info. Minimal is: Processor type (uname -p) Hardware platform (uname -i) Hostname (uname -n) As that is selected by themselves at that moment, who cares? Mine says : linux-t6zw A bit strange is that if you ask for more info, there is a connection to the server. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau