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Re: Caption this pic .....
October 25, 2009 by hcvv
You forgot the caption:
"Did you already try openSUSE 11.2 RC1 and what is your opinion about it?"
I Like them, they look like very intelligent Linux users.
Re: To make a living on Linux
October 16, 2009 by hcvv
Only lunches and refreshments. But it looks rather serious.
It is almost in the midst of the country, so travel would not be a problem for many.
To make a living on Linux
October 16, 2009 by hcvv
An ad was added to the forum page. I mostly do not even look at them, but somwhow this draw my attention:
Linux - 10 daagse cursus
7 sept t/m 18 sept Linux 10-daagse EUR 4200,00 +Toshiba notebook kado!
Did you know the forum is not only poluted with dutch from the Belgian, Dutch and South African members, but also by ads? I will try to translate:
Linux - 10 day course
7 - 18 September Linux 10-day EUR 4200,00 + Toshiba notebook included!
Nice price for a notebook.
Re: Post your Image and it may become the new Theme.
October 1, 2009 by hcvv
One is really tempted to join them!
Re: Forum topics not easily readable
September 21, 2009 by hcvv
Hehe!. My ISP filters spam for me and is rather good at it. From time to time I check what they put in my spam-box and empty it.
I just checked and found a mail from 11 september telling me to read posts on this forum. Apparently the first one of those was caught in the act, as I suspected in my post above. Two later mails were not accused of being spam. Don't know why.
But I suspect tthat such a never before used address (and not from Lefora) is on nobody's green list.
Re: Forum topics not easily readable
September 20, 2009 by hcvv
Thanks. The facts being that I subscribed to mails long ago. I made a special inbox for them in Kmail and a filter to put mails coming from lefora there. Also a long time ago (somewhat less long then the one above), mails stopped comming. I did not bother to much, because I am rather up to date using the RSS feeds.
And now since about two days these mails are comming in. They are not comming from a lefora host, but from forum@forumnotification.com (be glad that such a nothing saying name was not filtered out by any spam filter).
They do not inform me that a new post was added to a thread I contibuted to, but tell me I did not read some posts (naughty boy), which is not true.
Another remark about the mails themselves. They are HTML formatted. Which Kmail does not render to begin with (security, security!). I consider it being a bad example using HTML coded emails. (But I am an old grumbler 
).
Re: Forum topics not easily readable
September 20, 2009 by hcvv
It is quite readable for me now. Black on Yellow is a "Best combination" in my list. 
But I do get e-mails now from something that supposes I am not reading the posts. Which is not true. I do read them, because they are signaled in my RSS feeds in Akregator. But I do not always log in then when I do not wish to add a new post to the thread.
Re: Forum topics not easily readable
September 18, 2009 by hcvv
There are still some difficult to read combinations, like the blue on black of the names and number of posts. Also there was something white on yellow on the login screen (do not know what it said, could not read it).
Also the fact that hovering over a text is brightening it does not attract new users IMHO. When I come to a site and have difficulties in reading it, I am not going to hover everywhere in the hope that will better it. No, I go elsewhere.
I once (long ago) studied this subject a bit further using a set of three papers by Gerald Munch printed in 1984 in three Volumes of "Tekniques" (from Textronix, Inc). It contains a chart of Best/Worst Color Combinations (Jo Ann Kinney 1962). As computers improved a lot since those times, but man did not, I suppose they are still valid.
Amongst the worst combinations I find:
. Yellow on White and vv.
. Blue on Black
It is not a trivial subject.
Re: Poll: How often do you change your desktop?
September 9, 2009 by hcvv
Almost never. I made a clean environment with two desktops with two very different wallpapers. I think the last change was about two years ago when I changed one of the wallpapers.
And as a reinstall/update (to a next openSUSE level) should give continuity at the first place, it would be the worst time to change the desktop. The update first has two prove that it can behave the same as before!
Re: I'm looking forward to Opensuse 11.2
August 19, 2009 by hcvv
Not particular "looking forward". I am happy with 10.3 and KDE 3.5. I am for stability, not for eye-candy.
I am also afraid that my wife and two other friends which I lured into using openSUSE will not be happy when they have to adopt to a new environment, and that only for security reasons.
Security reasons because 10.3 will have half a year shorter lifetime now and thus no security updates shortly after 11.2 will be there. So you may come to the conclusion that I am very unhappy with the shortened openSUSE lifetime. For one of the systems I have to travel rather far to update it.
I know that openSUSE is a coal for many of us (that confirms that it is not mature as an alternative to Windows, but a hobby), but it is a means to get you work done for others (as a better alternative to Windows).
Re: You say tomatoe and I say...
August 19, 2009 by hcvv
That settles it then. (I don't have to adopt, I did it always like that 
Ik denk niet dat die amerikanen het kunnen. Hun mond staat helemaal verkeerd.
Ik heb je naam verkeerd geschreven alastairo, mijn excuses daarvoor.
Henk
Re: You say tomatoe and I say...
August 18, 2009 by hcvv
I, (northerner), have no problem to understand alastario (southerner).
Alastario, dit kan nog heel leuk woren, ze begrijpen ons niet.
Henk
Re: You say tomatoe and I say...
August 18, 2009 by hcvv
That sounds good, but as we have no bias, we are as wise as before. You seem to use a sort of English as your base for "Li (as in lint)- nicks (as in nicks)". But as there is considerable difference between English and American (and inside those two emanations of those languages), we, non native speakers of any those, do still not know anything now. How do we know how an English/American speaker pronounces the Finnish name Linus? (mostly lousy from the Finish point of view).
When talking about pronounciation you should use IPA . Nice, a new language to learn!
Re: I've been designing a website
August 15, 2009 by hcvv
It is only ONE error and IMHO that makes it more tempting to go for the ZERO then when you had 50 or so.
It could be your fault, but also that of the tool. As I mentioned earlier I think it is a very good achievement both of the tool (which I recommend for this aspect without ever having used it) and of you.
BTW it looks nice also (but you may already have understood that that comes second for me 
)
Re: I've been designing a website
August 12, 2009 by hcvv
I checked the home page with the W3C Markup Validation Service. It came up with but 1 error. This is very, very good when you compare to most web-sites.
Congrats.
Re: Voyages of SUSEUnbound Lug CCN-911
August 2, 2009 by hcvv
Welcome back captain. I am glad you did not get into troubles with CP people. Even I, as a diplomat, have problems communicating with them. They also use an almost unspeakable language where many characters seem to be missing. So I doubt if my talents could have helped you here.
Re: What I learned today.
July 28, 2009 by hcvv
Yes eberhard, that is what I meant to say with "(or Scroll lock)". It is generating the ASCII codes.
About the stopping of the boot process: I remember in very early (Unix) times, that when you did Ctrl-S and thus stopped output, the output buffer (somewhere in the TTY-handler) filled up, and when filled up the process was suspended. Could that still be the case?
Re: What I learned today.
July 27, 2009 by hcvv
As the console is a ANSI terminal/VT100 emulation, I would expect it to stop output on Ctrl-S (or Scroll lock) and resum on Ctrl-Q. Would be a bug if it didn't.
Re: Poll: How often do you backup?
July 21, 2009 by hcvv
Well, reading this it reminds me of the fact that my HP slim desktop has a 'HP Pocket Media Drive Bay'. You can get disks (> 300Gb) that fit in there like you mention. Not bad for backup IMO.
But for a good backup scenario you need at least a few. With two you can bring them to a save place (a friend, a bank) and use them alternative. A bit to much for just your home PC.
Re: Poll: How often do you backup?
July 21, 2009 by hcvv
How long? As I told above, 10 of the backups, that is about 10 weeks.
Read the rsnapshot docs for all sorts of combination of daily, weekly, etc.
I understand why you do as you it. It means that you have enough space to backup all of your data (I have not, that is why I do not backup everything). I tht case I still would do it my way. Using rsync means that, once you have your first backup, your next backup will only transfer the differences. Using the hard links means also that files that never change will only be once on the backup media.
This again means that running a backup does not take to much time even on the LAN, let alone on the same system. It also means that a backup can be taken while you are working on the system. Doing a dd means in fact that both disks may not be in use, else most likely you will have corrupted files in the end.
You could even, when you have the system switched on normally, start the backup from cron, omitting the need to wait for a rainy day.
On the other hand, when you clone to a disk, you may want to remove the disk and keep on a more remote place. My backup system is about 1m from my own system, so when a fire starts ....
I must add that I save some of my most important data (a database with the description of 15.000 colour slides) by exporting them (after e.g. adding the data of a vacation). The exported files are gathered by tar and compressed. The resulting file is stored at my ISP on the disk space I have there (comes with the connection) using webdav.
Re: Poll: How often do you backup?
July 21, 2009 by hcvv
Just did it this morning. It is a Tuesday morning job because my wife is away and I can then update, backup, etc. her system. And of course mine also.
I backup both systems to a third one (a headless old type of a beast) using my own version of rsnapshot (I save 10 backups , normally 10 weeks; uses rsync and hardlinks to see that a file that stays the same is only stored once for those 10 backups).
In fact I do not backup the system software, because that can be retrieved by installing and updating. So what is saved? First and for all /home. Then /etc for all the system configurations and /boot for menu.lst. I have a small website on one system (only for the LAN) so /srv is also saved. And, as long as I have space for it, I save /var because once I needed something from there.
Re: It happened to me !!!
July 15, 2009 by hcvv
You have my sympathy. You have to check to most stupid things indeed. And you forget always one of those because people are very good at giving you the impression that they know what they are talking about. They just usr the words the hear from others or read in the papers 
And when you check if they know what are talking about, they get irritated very soon because you do not understand them at a first glance.
Re: Whats your rank and serial number?
July 12, 2009 by hcvv
Thanks a lot for this explanation.
Anybody else having an translation what it means in their local speach?
