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6 Days To Go Til OpenSuSE 11.2 Released!!!

2009-11-06 07:59:27

http://www.opensuse.org/en/ So who here is planning to install it? The reported lack of KDE 3.5 is a dealbreaker for me. I won't end up mibrating to 4.whatever until I am, absolutely forced to...

November Desktops

2009-11-01 01:59:21

First this time =) Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

[Opera] Opera's nice but it also sucks...

2009-11-08 07:08:12

Well, on my LinuxMint laptop I've been using Opera because I have to go to a website that doesn't like Firefox for work. Opera seems to play nice with this site.. My questions are as follows... Can I uninstall Opera Mail? When I installed Opera through the Synaptic manager it did not give me a choice. I use Thunderbird... Maybe I'd like to keep Opera mail, but I need to use a sync program for calendar and contacts. I presently sync through Thunderbird and Lightning with the Funambol plug in but I can easily switch to Google Sync. I found an Opera widget for Google Calendar I can live with. Is there anything I can use for Opera Contacts? What can I do to sync Opera contacts with Google? Or Funambol? I can't believe Opera hasn't answered that issue. It really is a Nice browser and very fast. Just impractical for me at least.. with their email program... -- I'm proud to be a troublemaker! America was founded by "troublemakers"!

Newbie Babe Crying for Help!

2009-11-08 18:37:48

I'm a Windows user from way, way back (like Windows 1.0) and I manage around 15 computers at work and 4 at home (3 teenagers). I've grown very concerned about the epidemic of malware in recent months and finally installed Ubuntu 9.1 on my home computer and have been using it a great deal, with mostly satisfaction. My first hurdle was increasing the width of the scrollbar. After some web searching, I figured out how to login as root, run the editor, and what commands to add to increase the width of the scrollbar. I was impressed that as I entered various numbers, the scrollbar's width increased in size immediately. Very nice. Windows doesn't do that. Now, I'm on my 2nd hurdle and haven't been able to resolve the issue myself using just internet searching: My computer uses an nVidea GeForce8200 graphics card. I use a DVI flat screen as my primary monitor, not the VGA but Ubuntu always wants to default to the VGA port. So I fiddled with the video settings and figured out how to make the DVI flatscreen primary, etc. Problem is Ubuntu won't save the settings and everytime I boot up, the correct settings are gone. Trying to save the correct settings using the nVidia X Server Settings panel gets this message: "failed to parse existing X config file "/etc/x11/xorg.conf" Now, I kinda know that the problem is trying to save the file outside of the root. I tried logging into root using the terminal with the su - command but it failed. So what steps do I need to take so that the nVidia X Server Settings panel can save the xorg.conf file? Thanks for the help in advance. It's rather daunting to go from Windows where I pretty much know everything to an OS where I feel so inadequate.

Looking to adopt a new *nix

2009-11-06 14:31:38

Hey everybody, I've never started a topic on here so bear with me, as I bang this one out between calls. :) I'm looking to adopt a different *nix from Ubuntu seeing as I want to get a little more "in-depth" about linux. I'm looking for something modern, with a frequent release schedule (rolling release distro maybe?) and hopefully good support for modern hardware. I would consider myself somewhere between beginner and intermediate, I've compiled a few programs, and I'm not overly terrified of command lines and CLIs. I was wondering what your preferences were? I'll be taking your distros, reading up on them on distrowatch and probably installing a few of them on a wired machine. Thanks again. -- They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.

"Turn off" sound card in Linux? (Notorious hissing issue)

2009-11-08 12:22:25

I've had this problem on my laptop (integrated Intel HDA audio chipset) when on openSUSE, and even now using Linux Mint. Basically, after booting up or resuming from suspend, I have no problems with the laptop's speakers. This remains the case, until I "activate" the sound card by playing any audio (video file, music, YouTube, even running a certain program). After doing so, whenever I have no audio playing, there is a constant "hissing" sound emitted by the speakers. If I play another audio file again, the hissing sound disappears, but then returns once I close the audio file. This issue will remain until I either power off the laptop or suspend to RAM, in which case the problem is gone upon resuming, that is, until I "activate" the sound card again. The whole process repeats itself, as I described above. Muting makes no difference. Changing the audio plugin (ALSA, OSS, Pulseaudio) makes no difference. I even completely removed pulseaudio. This did not make any difference either. I tried solving this through alsamixer, and still to no avail. This happens regardless of whether or not I have the laptop plugged into the AC charger. If I plug in headphones, the hissing is routed through the headphones, instead of the speakers. If there is hard disk activity, then I can literally "hear" the inside of the computer through the hissing in my speakers. I've tried to find a solution to this problem by reading up on other message boards and IRC chats. The thread is either abandoned, inconclusive, or unresolved. I figure that the only way to "fix" this is to somehow "turn off" the sound card completely, either automatically or manually, when it is not needed. (In other words, whenever I am not currently listening to any audio.) I'm not really sure how this would be done under Linux. I've tried sudo rmmod snd and sudo rmmod snd-hda-intel, but both times I get an error message telling me that the modules are in use. If I add snd-hda-intel under /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf then I will need to comment it out and reboot the system in order to play audio again. Here is some information if it helps out. sudo lspci -v output: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a5Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22Memory at d0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link Kernel driver in use: HDA IntelKernel modules: snd-hda-intel I am running Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) based on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).

[Need Info] smallest footprint of an OS on a netbook

2009-08-08 11:34:16

I have a dell mini 9. it only has a 10 gig hard drive. While I have dealt with it for a few months now, I am really looking for an operating system that has the smallest footprint. On average i can keep close to a gig free but then there are times like now that i cant get find enough wasted space to free up even for a badly needed defrag. Iam familiar with ubuntu as well ) The programs I use on it are OpenOffice, adobe9lite, firefrox, skype and a remote access program (i think i can beg for a linux version of it if i need to) suggestions? -- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. -Marie Curie

[solved]can't start mysql

2009-11-08 13:41:24

I just installed slackware, and now I'm trying to start a mysql server. I copied /etc/my-medium.cnf to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and ran mysql_install_db. However: root@mythtv:~# mysqld_safenohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdoutStarting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysqlSTOPPING server from pid file /var/lib/mysql/mythtv.pid091108 12:37:34 mysqld ended I can't find anything for mysql in /var/log. What am I missing here? Edit:File permissions weren't setup correctly! -- My pbase gallery

Bash scripts nested loops?

2009-11-06 02:10:10

In the 2nd example the value of $NUMBER is equal to the value of $file (the filename). What am I doing wrong? works for line in /dialer/lists/test.ucsv; do NUMBER=`echo $line` cat /dialer/template.call | sed "s/NUMBER/$line/g;" > /dialer/spool/$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM.call & echo "[`date`] Dialed $NUMBER" >> /dialer/logs/dials.log sleep 2.$RANDOM done; brokenfor file in /dialer/lists/*.ucsv; do THISLISTSIZE=`du $FILE` echo "[`date`] do-call-list[bin]: Working on list $file, $THISLISTSIZE bytes" >> /dialer/logs/lists.log for line in $file; do NUMBER=`echo $line` cat /dialer/template.call | sed "s/NUMBER/$line/g;" > /dialer/spool/$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM.call & echo "[`date`] Dialed $NUMBER" >> /dialer/logs/dials.log sleep 2.$RANDOM done; echo "[`date`] do-call-list[bin]: Done with list $file, deleting" >> /dialer/logs/lists.log rm -f $file >> /dialer/logs/lists.log

What do you recommend for vnc?

2009-11-03 11:16:13

So what do you recommend for vnc? Using KDE 4.3 and krfb is just terrible. Even if I am under the same lan the vnc connection is horrible and takes seconds for anything to even respond to what I click never-mind display. Just want to get everyone's recommendations since there are plenty of alternatives to choose from... Ohh and I dont want to hear any ssh remarks!! ;)