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Does the CIA control the internet?
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:52:31 -0800, "Proconsul" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: Paranoia is where you find it - nowadays, it's more pandemic than AIDS...... The notion that "powerful people" want to "control distribution of information" is arrant nonsense..... It's not the "powerful" people that want to contro... 19 Apr 2008 12:19

Open Office security update hangs
The RED triangle on OpenSUSE updater told me that there were two security updates for Open Office. When I told it to install them, it gave me error messages. Then, I remembered a similar problem that occurred last year and a solution that was kindly given to me on this group. So, I went into terminal as root, and... 21 Apr 2008 01:55

Icedtea Java on 10.3
Hi there, any idea how I can get icedtea 1.7 on a 64 bit 10.3 (it brings a working browser plugin)? I already installed it a while ago on a different pc whithout problems, but obviously something has changed since then Following that howto http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSu... 17 Apr 2008 10:08

Customise openSUSE Live CD
Hello all, Does anyone know of a URL that explains how the openSUSE 10.3 Live CD can be customised? I would like to "remaster" the Live CD by adding some RPMs that I use. My goal is to make a bootable CD that I could use in case my laptop were to die. My idea is that I would put the CD in any computer and be a... 17 Apr 2008 12:32

How to save the Firewall Zone setup for wireless Interface setting
On 2008-04-17 08:02, akarui.tomodachi(a)gmail.com wrote: I don't see any config file other than a log file. The find from the root directry outputs as below: Linux-2000:/ # find ./ -name "*.SuSEconfig" ./var/log/YaST2/y2log.SuSEconfig Every time after start, I have to manually configure the wir... 21 Apr 2008 04:18

How to save the Firewall Zone setup for wireless Interface setting
akarui.tomodachi(a)gmail.com wrote: <snip> This is not a flame. This is advice on how to get better help and keep this newsgroup clean Short story: Please read http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/ Long story: Google unfortunately decided not to use the standards of quoting on Usenet. There are se... 17 Apr 2008 02:48

Big OpenGL problems
I am running Suse 10.2. I have an ATI Radeon X800 and thus I cannot use ATI's own linux driver for this reason: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499 (Yes, I have tried it. The X800 card runs hot like a grill with ATI's driver.) For this reason I'm using the 'radeon' device driver. Problem is: No... 16 Apr 2008 15:38

Bar-code scanner gun to database?
Anyone with this experience recommend the right tools? I have a zillion CDs and DVDs I'd like to zap into a database. However, I don't know exactly what data to expect from the bar code label on these things as there are different types of codes. Any resources or references would help me. Easily over 2000 items a... 17 Apr 2008 22:53

How to save the Firewall Zone setup for wireless Interface setting
(Similar posting also posted in the SUSE Forum::Wirless Network) My wireless network card (D-link Air Plus DWL-G520) stopped working and lost the network connectivity after an update (automatic update) was installed on April 12, 2008. Unfortunately, I didn't check what update was that. I am using madwifi drive... 17 Apr 2008 22:05

Update gremlins openSuse-10.3 i586 on amd64
I keep getting these Yast update errors for the same packages, even if I delete the update rpm's and download afresh ???????????? ipw-firmware-8-74.noarch.rpm : unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic ipw-firmware-8-74.noarch.rpm install failed: cpio: Bad magic iwl4965-ucode-4.44.1.20-3.noarc... 15 Apr 2008 12:21