Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On 07/11/10 22:38, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Not to mention what I said in the beginning... Oracle wants to > integrate Java into OO.o Everything so far is speculation. OpenOffice? http://support.openoffice.org/index.html > and someone here already said that LO´s idea is replacing the existing >

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 11/7/10, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Thank, you are probably right. > After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or > 13. I just > gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm > db. > I checked the hardware. > The system became unstable after an access to the rpmdb. >

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Ankur Sinha
I haven't really followed the thread but here's a link that might be handy: http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html -- Thanks! Regards, Ankur https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha "FranciscoD" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 17:13 +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: > http://www.correctpi.com/ I was always under the impression that pi was merely the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, something that's easy enough to prove empirically (me

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/08/2010 12:32 PM, Tim wrote: > The notion that you save time by upgrading then sorting out what went > wrong has been destroyed by my prior experiences (fresh install in > *well* under an hour, versus many hours of install routine CPU and disc > grinding, and post-install repairs), and watchi

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 12:30 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > when I see someone post about "updating" from one ancient Fedora > version to another and complaining that something isn't working, I > ignore it. I tend to do the same, mostly because I don't do it, so I wouldn't be able to offer a

Re: Failure of compiling mplayer

2010-11-07 Thread stan
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:06:24 +0900 > Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > The compilation and installation on my box with newly installed fc14 > seemed to produce corrupted mplayer. > The command line ( > mplayer file.video.name ) gave the following > message: > > Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied

Re: F14 going well so far.

2010-11-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > The only thing I seem to be missing so far is avidemux from > rpmfusion (which currently has a dependency problem and won't > install). I did a preupgrade from F13 to F14 and my install of avidemux works fine. Maybe a good ole' rpm -ivh --nodep

Re: PDF Reader for X86_64 Firefox plugin

2010-11-07 Thread Jim
On 11/06/2010 08:56 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 09:00 -0400, Jim wrote: >> FC 14 >> >> Is there a PDF reader for X86_64 Firefox plugin ? >> >> How do I fix this Error Message ? >> >> Can't launch Adobe reader 9.3.4. Please make sure it exists in PATH >> variable in t

Re: F14: no gnome-terminal

2010-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 14:23:20 -0800, Colin Brace wrote: > > Thanks, Rahul. That downgraded eight packages. There are still some 128 fc13 > packages in my system; I assume they will be upgraded eventually. > > Perhaps this has occurred with earlier Fedoras, but I didn't notice it. I believe

Re: F14 =)

2010-11-07 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Ankur, On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 17:09, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 21:24 -0200, Andre Costa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just for the record, installing F14 x86_64 was pretty painless for me. >> Installed from scratch (kept /home partition, reformatted everything >> else, as I've been doin

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno dom, 07/11/2010 alle 11.38 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht ha scritto: > Sam Varshavchik writes: > connect : Connection refused On f13 run # DISPLAY=:0.0 evince from a VT (ctrl+alt+f2) work. On f14 same command do not work. For resolve I have run from a gnome-terminal on X this co

F14 going well so far.

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Horsley
I finally got my main system at home converted to run F14 as the primary boot. Biggest challenge so far has been figuring out how to reconfigure dovecot to work the same way it always did (f14 has switched to the new version 2 and, naturally, the config files are all totally different :-). The onl

Failure of compiling mplayer

2010-11-07 Thread Abu Attar Musharih
Hi, Can anyone suggest how to successfully install the source code mplayer-vaapi-latest-FULL.tar for fc14? I installed several times before for fc7 and was OK. The compilation and installation on my box with newly installed fc14 seemed to produce corrupted mplayer. The command line ( > mplayer fil

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Piscium wrote: > On 7 November 2010 21:58, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Piscium wrote: >>> On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium wrote: >>> This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not going well, or else t

Re: F14: no gnome-terminal

2010-11-07 Thread Colin Brace
Rahul Sundaram-3 wrote: > > On 11/05/2010 12:12 AM, Colin Brace wrote: >> It turns out I had an older fc13 version installed. For some reason, >> preupgrade didn't upgrade all my packages. I have now fixed that. >> >> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. > > It is probably because the

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: > >> >> Sam Varshavchik writes: >>> On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port >>> forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other >>> host, I start emacs. Emacs appears to come up properly,

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Patrick Dupre writes: >> My last 5 or 6 posts did not receive any feedback. >> This is bothering a bit ! >> For now, I am trying for the 4th time to update a system from >> fedora 11 to fedora 12. I started 2 week ago ! >> Apparentl

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 21:58, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Piscium wrote: >> On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium wrote: >> >>> This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not >>> going well, or else that the OO team was so small that need not have >>> tim

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Piscium wrote: > On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium wrote: > >> This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not >> going well, or else that the OO team was so small that need not have >> time to examine and take a small patch. > > Correction: "nee

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium wrote: > This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not > going well, or else that the OO team was so small that need not have > time to examine and take a small patch. Correction: "need not" should be "did not". -- users mailing list users@

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Piscium wrote: > On 7 November 2010 05:30, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Piscium wrote: >>> On 6 November 2010 00:35, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> In short: according to former Sun employees, Sun had around 100 people working

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 05:30, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Piscium wrote: >> On 6 November 2010 00:35, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >>> In short: according to former Sun employees, Sun had around 100 people >>> working on OpenOffice.org. 30 of those left and went to work wi

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/07/2010 01:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I found it really hard to believe that such "results" are still possible to > get published by anyone. I'll bet that if you looked carefully, the book was "self published," which just means that he's gotten the book printed at his own expense, pro

Re: F14: no gnome-terminal

2010-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/05/2010 12:12 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > It turns out I had an older fc13 version installed. For some reason, > preupgrade didn't upgrade all my packages. I have now fixed that. > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. It is probably because the Fedora 13 version is higher than the F

Re: F-14 upgrade -

2010-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/11/10 15:22, Bob Goodwin wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: F-14 upgrade - Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:04:29 -0800 From: Gordon Messmer Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users To: Community support for Fedora users On 11/07/2010 01:40 AM

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Patrick Dupre writes: > My last 5 or 6 posts did not receive any feedback. > This is bothering a bit ! > For now, I am trying for the 4th time to update a system from > fedora 11 to fedora 12. I started 2 week ago ! > Apparently the update looks OK, but then, after I log, I cab > rebuild the db b

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/07/2010 12:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Klaus-Peter Schrage writes: >> You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: >> http://www.correctpi.com/ > > Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow > his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB wa

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Manuel Escudero
2010/11/7 Bruno Wolff III > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:45:37 +, > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I did, but at one point, the system is unstable. > > All the commands give one after the other with a > > segmenation fault > > or non sense. > > > > And no way to reboot. > > Have you done any hardw

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Klaus-Peter Schrage writes: > You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: > http://www.correctpi.com/ Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB warning. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsr

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread JD
On 11/07/2010 11:45 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, JD wrote: > >> On 11/07/2010 11:36 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:14:54 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Thank, you are probably right. >

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: Sam Varshavchik writes: On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other host, I start emacs. Emacs appears to come up properly, with its window tunneled, and opening on my

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:45:37 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I did, but at one point, the system is unstable. > All the commands give one after the other with a > segmenation fault > or non sense. > > And no way to reboot. Have you done any hardware testing? Does a live image work on your s

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, JD wrote: On 11/07/2010 11:36 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:14:54 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank, you are probably right. After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just gave up. In

Re: To Administrator of users-owner < at> lists.fedoraproject.org

2010-11-07 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... Prior to that I received e-mail in my Gmail account that while being responded to (edited) was constantly flagged as spam. The e-mail text was about a post that could not be delivered, but actually it was posted to this list. Text of e-mail: from Mail Delivery Sys

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:27 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > On 11/3/10 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Now, having said that, I didn´t like the hysteria surrounding >> OpenOffice.org, and I think Oracle will do an OK job advancing the >> open source project going forward. >> > The

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread JD
On 11/07/2010 11:36 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:14:54 +, >> Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>> Thank, you are probably right. >>> After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just >>> gave up. In my opinion,

Re: ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port > forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other > host, I start emacs. Emacs appears to come up properly, with its > window tunneled, and opening on my desktop. Everything looks

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:14:54 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank, you are probably right. After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm db. I checked the hardware. The s

KWin has no plugins

2010-11-07 Thread Tim and Alison Bentley
After upgrading from F13 to F14 I no longer have any plugins for KWin to allow desktop effects. How do I install them? -- Tim and Alison Bentley h...@trarbentley.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

To Administrator of users-ow...@lists.fedoraproject.org

2010-11-07 Thread JB
Hi, there is a problem with e-mail beeing returned from users-ow...@lists.fedoraproject.org as Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gui

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 19:14:54 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Thank, you are probably right. > After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just > gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm db. > I checked the hardware. > The system became unstable after an acc

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Thank, you are probably right. After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm db. I checked the hardware. The system became unstable after an access to the rpmdb. My last 5 or 6 posts did not receive any fe

Re: F14 =)

2010-11-07 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 21:24 -0200, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > just for the record, installing F14 x86_64 was pretty painless for me. > Installed from scratch (kept /home partition, reformatted everything > else, as I've been doing since F10), upgraded, installed my usual > additional packages, a

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > #boot=/dev/sda > > default=1 > > timeout=5 > > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > hiddenmenu > > Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: > default=0 > # hiddenmenu > > Reboot. > JB > Hi, I got your response

Re: F-14 upgrade -

2010-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/07/2010 01:40 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > 1.I can't copy/paste using the usual two buttons. Works for me. Run "xev" from a terminal and use the second mouse button in its X window. What is printed to the terminal when you do that? You should see: ButtonPress event, serial 30, syntheti

Re: ndiswrapper

2010-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:03:46 -0500, Lee wrote: > FC14 missing ndiswrapper. Should I try old b43 kernel mod? It should just work. There is open firmware available for it and I believe it is installed by default. Take a look at the b43-openfwwf package. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: GIMP Tool Install Problem

2010-11-07 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/06/2010 10:59 PM, Frank Tanner wrote: all it by using gimptool --install fix-ca.c I get > the following error: > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cckhAeee.o: undefined reference to symbol > 'floor@@GLIBC_2.0' > /usr/bin/ld: note: 'floor@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 > so try adding it to t

Re: gnome-shell

2010-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/05/2010 10:59 PM, Eric Tanguy wrote: > In fedora14, i just give a try to gnome-shell and then i go back to > compiz. But now in the Applications menu i have only 3 items : Apps, > Games and Tools. How to go back to "good" configuration ? > Thanks Relogin Rahul -- users mailing list users

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/06/2010 11:19 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > My last 5 or 6 posts did not receive any feedback. Either people aren't interested or don't have an idea or you formulated your problem not very well and people don't understand it. > This is bothering a bit ! I guess you can always ask

Re: F12 -&gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... > #boot=/dev/sda > default=1 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: default=0 # hiddenmenu Reboot. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Convert DRM infested EPUB file to Kindle supported format (SOLVED!)

2010-11-07 Thread Kevin Martin
On 11/07/2010 10:49 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > Hey, that sounds cool. Didn't even fathom this concept for getting books for > my Kindle but now that you mention itplease send > me the link. > > Thanks. > > Kevin Crud. Didn't mean for this to go to the list. Sorry. Kevin -- users mailing

Re: Convert DRM infested EPUB file to Kindle supported format (SOLVED!)

2010-11-07 Thread Kevin Martin
>> or contact B&N for a Kindle friendly version. > They have such a thing? > > All that being the case, I followed some directions that I ended up finding, > and > the result was an unencrypted epub that I could then convert to a mobi file > that > I can now use properly in my Kindle! > > If a

test #2 - please ignore

2010-11-07 Thread Joachim Backes
-- Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: Fedora F13 to F14 upgrade leaves RPM database with strange mix of fc13 and fc14 packages

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:39:20 + (UTC), Andre wrote: > At present it's not too uncommon for packages to have newer versions in older > releases, unfortunately. I think the upcoming AutoQA is supposed to prevent > this > automatically, but for now it depends on maintainers doing it manually. Whi

Re: Fedora F13 to F14 upgrade leaves RPM database with strange mix of fc13 and fc14 packages

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:08:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > However, if I look through it for packages with tzdata in their name, I > find the following: > > joda-time-1.6.2-2.tzdata2010l.fc14.noarch.rpm > joda-time-javadoc-1.6.2-2.tzdata2010l.fc14.noarch.rpm > tzdata-2010k-1.fc14.noarch.rpm > tzdat

ndiswrapper

2010-11-07 Thread Lee
FC14 missing ndiswrapper. Should I try old b43 kernel mod? Lee -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Missing icons in Fedora 14 Xfce

2010-11-07 Thread Christoph Wickert
Hello world, as you may already have noticed there are a lot of missing icons in the Xfce desktop on Fedora 14. The reason is that we are using gnome-icon-theme by default and it switched to the 'new' XDG icon naming spec [1] a while back. In Fedora 13 GNOME had a lot of missing icons too and the

Re: root rpm package list?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 05:38:41 -0400, Tom wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:20:32 -0700 > JD wrote: > > > So, how could zoneminder package be a root package? > > No one depends on it. Those are the "roots" I'm trying > to find (i.e. packages that must have been installed > intentionally rather than v

Re: root rpm package list?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:39:31 -0700, JD wrote: > Another way to do it is > > for pkg in `rpm -qa`; do > deplist=`rpm -qR $pkg 2>/dev/null` > [ "x$deplist" = "x" ] && echo Root pkg: $pkg > done > > The only root or leaf packages listed from the above script: > > Root pkg: gpg-pubkey-a3780952-4a

F-14 upgrade -

2010-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
I've upgraded this F13 system to F14 from a dvd without difficulty but I have two annoying problems: 1.I can't copy/paste using the usual two buttons. 2.I need to set the optimum screen resolution for this older Dell LCD but don't know how to display the model number to Google for the

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 12:18 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Really, I'm curious, is there any real-world problem where anyone > would actually *need* pi to a G decimal places? Making math is the best and pure form to develop creativity, art. Theory(science) can be learned by reading. Technique by

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Piscium wrote: > On 6 November 2010 00:35, Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> In short: according to former Sun employees, Sun had around 100 people >> working on OpenOffice.org. 30 of those left and went to work with >> LibreOffice. That's 30% of the work force. Sounds

ssh on F14 complains when I run emacs with X11 port forwarding

2010-11-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
On F14's desktop, from gnome-terminal, I ssh to another host with port forwarding (ForwardX11 yes, and ForwardX11Trusted yes). On the other host, I start emacs. Emacs appears to come up properly, with its window tunneled, and opening on my desktop. Everything looks normal, but I notice that the

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread James McKenzie
On 11/3/10 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi there, > > Now, having said that, I didn´t like the hysteria surrounding > OpenOffice.org, and I think Oracle will do an OK job advancing the > open source project going forward. > The 'hysteria' surrounding 'OpenOffice.org' is not what you state it

GIMP Tool Install Problem

2010-11-07 Thread Frank Tanner
I am having a problem installing a GIMP tool that I am having problems with. I'm hoping that, even though this isn't a GIMP mailing list, someone can assist me as I am trying to install it from source and the error is coming from LD and appears to be an issue with something in glibc. When I attem

Re: PDF Reader for X86_64 Firefox plugin

2010-11-07 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 09:00 -0400, Jim wrote: > FC 14 > > Is there a PDF reader for X86_64 Firefox plugin ? > > How do I fix this Error Message ? > > Can't launch Adobe reader 9.3.4. Please make sure it exists in PATH > variable in the environment. If problem persists, please reinstall the >

Re: FC12 - Thunderbird update fails

2010-11-07 Thread Richard England
On 11/05/2010 12:33 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Kevin J. Cummings > wrote: > > >> Its in updates-testing. It was quite a few packages when I installed it >> just prior to upgrading to F14 >> > I believe it is now fixed in the updates repo - so try agai

F14 =)

2010-11-07 Thread Andre Costa
Hi, just for the record, installing F14 x86_64 was pretty painless for me. Installed from scratch (kept /home partition, reformatted everything else, as I've been doing since F10), upgraded, installed my usual additional packages, and I was up and running in less than an hour. If it wasn't for the

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Les
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 12:18 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > >> http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/pi_fft.html > >> > >> You'll need RAM to get many digits. > > > > 1.6 G decimals in 20 hours on a machine with 16G RAM, running > > x86_64 Fed

Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, My last 5 or 6 posts did not receive any feedback. This is bothering a bit ! For now, I am trying for the 4th time to update a system from fedora 11 to fedora 12. I started 2 week ago ! Apparently the update looks OK, but then, after I log, I cab rebuild the db but then any rpm -Uvh remov

XFCE terminal cursor with opaque background

2010-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have just upgraded from F13 to F14, and I am using XFCE. The problem I am experiencing now is the following: the background of the cursor on consoles is opaque, i.e., the letter behind is not showed. Is this a bug or a configuration issue? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing li

automate installing Fedora into VMWare using scripts

2010-11-07 Thread bruce
hi. Trying to understand/figure out if it's possible to install fedora into a vmware/vmdk virtual machine, using the cmdline/script process. I can create the basic vmdk/vmx files using the something like: -set vdiskman="C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -set

Re: F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 November 2010 14:35, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: >> >> $ df >> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda5            100790004   8666260  87003832  10% / >> tmpfs                  412564

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 06.11.2010 13:18, schrieb Marko Vojinovic: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: >>> http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/pi_fft.html >>> >>> You'll need RAM to get many digits. >> >> 1.6 G decimals in 20 hours on a machine with 16G RAM, running >> x86_64 Fedora 12. > > Really

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-07 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:18:45PM +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > >> http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/pi_fft.html > >> > >> You'll need RAM to get many digits. > > > > 1.6 G decimals in 20 hours on a machine with 16G RAM, running > > x86

Re: Convert DRM infested EPUB file to Kindle supported format (SOLVED!)

2010-11-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> On 06/11/10 15:44, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 07:22:42 -0500, > >"Steven P. Ulrick" wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> I just bought a EPUB ebook from Barnes& Noble, hoping I could convert it from > >> the EPUB format (which the Kindle does not support) into something