[Pan-users] Pan goes rogue and hogs CPUs

2017-06-15 Thread Mike Brown
Pan 0.141 Fedora 25 64bit AMD 6 core 32 GB RAM The version of pan that ran under Fedora 14 never had the issue. But with version 0.141, pan likes to hog CPUs. I normally catch it in the resource monitor. Pan has just been sitting there doing nothing and I will see that one CPU goes to 100%. Ev

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:41:51PM +, RW wrote: > I suspect that in the long-term it would be less trouble to deinstall > and use stunnel. That way he gets updates through the packaging > system, and doesn't have to rebuild manually for security updates, > library changes etc. Thanks. I'll me

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:38:41PM +, RW wrote: > IMO the benefit of having TLS/SSL support in a newsreader is > pretty small. It's so easy to setup stunnel to handle it and just point > the newsreader at one or more localhost ports. True. He downloaded the source and compiled it. It is work

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:21:34AM +, Duncan wrote: > I believe you mean that you were told that TLS/SSL was *NOT* supported in > 0.133 yet, correct? Sorry, I did indeed mean "not supported." Brain fart. Thanks for the explanation as to what is going on. I will pass on the info. He will ha

[Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
I have 0.133 on my Linux system, as it is an older version of Fedora. I also have it un my XP laptop, but it is version 0.139. On the Linux system I was told that TSL/SSL was supported in 0.133 yet. It is in the 0.139 that I have on the XP box. But, my friend loaded 0.139, via yum, on his latest

[Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
I have 0.133 on my Linux system, as it is an older version of Fedora. I also have it un my XP laptop, but it is version 0.139. On the Linux system I was told that TSL/SSL was supported in 0.133 yet. It is in the 0.139 that I have on the XP box. But, my friend loaded 0.139, via yum, on his latest

Re: [Pan-users] Light Bulb

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:57:11AM -0800, walt wrote: > Hm. Something seems broken, yes. To turn the task pane tooltips off, go to > the > Edit Preferences/Panes tab and uncheck the box for Task Pane Notifications. Thanks. I turned it off. I really didn't care for it anyway. MB -- e-mail: v

[Pan-users] Light Bulb

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Brown
When the tasks GUI is open, when the rodent was hovered over a task, it would display info. Something changed (don't know how it changed) so that now all it does is display a little box with a light bulb in it. What does it mean and how do I get rid of it? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.c

[Pan-users] My XP runtime issue - solved

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Brown
Silly me. It had been a while since I downloaded the XP version. It was for backup reasons. Now I needed to load it on the laptop, as I'll be taking a trip. After getting the latest 139 installer, I was reminded that I needed the gtk package as well. Once installed, all is well. MB -- e-mail

[Pan-users] XP version 138 fails to run

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Brown
After I installed pan-0.138-209.msi, I tried running it. It complains that the following file is missing: libcairo-2.dll What needs to be done to fix that problem? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net/~\ The ASCII 6082066...@email.uscc.net (1

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 02:25:21PM +, David Shochat wrote: > Are you sure you have the gmime-devel rpm installed? I looked at a list > for Fedora 14 and the rpm did seem to include /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > gmime-2.6.pc. The /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmime-2.6.pc file does not exist, but the /usr/lib64

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 03:26:33PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > I think that the vast majority of software that uses configure scripts > also uses pkgconfig, these days. IMHO, I think that the use of pkg-config is unfortunate. > As I understand it, pkgconfig is used to determine *where* something is

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:50:37AM +, Duncan wrote: > 1) It's really cool that, of all the apps you could choose to use for > that sort of news download volume, you choose to use pan. There was a > time when it would have had a very hard time scaling, and it's great that > it not only can d

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:34:48AM +, Duncan wrote: > While blocknews has HISTORICALLY been cheaper, Astra's current $50 1000 > GB plan seriously undercuts blocknews ATM (that's roughly their 500 gig > plan price, 1024=$91, 3072=$240). So Astra's WAAAYYY ahead, price-wise, > ATM. Let's see

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:07:29AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/24/2012 11:34 PM, Duncan wrote: >> But, I've done a bit of research as I keep thinking I'll start with a >> paid service again at some point and I thought I'd pass this on in case >> you weren't aware of it... > > I've been very happ

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
Looks like us.news.astraweb.com is this one having issues, not me. Major issues. I've submitted a ticket with them and I am now using eu.news as the news server. Anyone else use these guys as a news server? MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net/~\ The ASCII

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:17:32PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > > Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. > > > > It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. > > I forget why I had to

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. > > It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. > I forget why I had to quite pan. > > Now it refuses to work at all. I've deleted all the articl

[Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. I forget why I had to quite pan. Now it refuses to work at all. I've deleted all the articles in articles-cache and all of the group files, but pan refuses to attach to the newsserver and down

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:31:04AM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: > Have a look at the cinnamon package, it makes GNOME 3 a lot like GNOME > 2, it's what the Linux Mint guys have been doing to plough their own > furrow. Thanks, it is on my list. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:56:21AM +, Duncan wrote: > > The readme file lists the packages as shipped by upstream. It's the > binary distros that are splitting lib packages in half, into runtime and > devel pieces, since that allows most users, the binary-only users who > never build anyth

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50:06AM +, Duncan wrote: > [...] > This is certainly more complicated than pan doing it by itself, but pan > simply didn't support ssl itself until very recently, and this was the > workaround people who needed a secure connection with pan had used for... > well, p

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:52:13PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Well, of course; what else did you expect? Fedora 14 is well past its EOL, > and there are no further updates of any kind, even security updates. If > you dislike the new Gnome as much as I do, try migrating to a different DE; > perso

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:17:06PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm using Fedora 16 and Pan 0.135. You should be able to get an update > from the standard repos. What distro are you using? Fedora 14 x86-64. I have a friend that went to 15 and absolutely hates the Gnome massive change. 16 is suppo

[Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
Pan version 0.133 Yes, I know that it is an older version, but the newer versions do not appear to have a yum rpm update package available. Either that or I don't know which mirror to get it from. Pan works fine with the non-SSL server that I have subscribed to. But, when I change to their SSL

[Pan-users] configure fails on GMIME package check

2012-04-06 Thread Mike Brown
System is Fedora 13 64-bit. When configure is run from the 135 source, it bails when it gets to the gmime package test. The problem is that while gmime 1.5.1-1 is installed (yum is used), but a "pc" file is not created, so pkg-config doesn't think it is on the system. What is needed to get aroun