Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:43 PM, William Case wrote: Parshwa, Two basic questions: 1) Do you want to use programming as a way > to understand the inner workings of your computer? Or, 2) Do you want to > acquire a programming language primarily to have the most used/useful > programming skills in

Re: enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

2010-12-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:01:31 -0600 Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Montag, den 20.12.2010, 18:29 -0600 schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:32 -0600 Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naiv

Banshee segfaults on Fedora 13/KDE 4.5.3

2010-12-20 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Gnome... If I attempt to run it under KDE 4.5.3 (soon to be 4.5.4) it crashes thusly: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20101220-2023-banshee-ErrorLog.txt None of the bugs listed here seem to have anything to do with my issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=banshee Also, the

Re: enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

2010-12-20 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 20.12.2010, 18:29 -0600 schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:32 -0600 Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I > > > was wondering if there is an easy way to en

networkmanager - priorities

2010-12-20 Thread Genes MailLists
Hi: If I have 2 or 3 wifi AP's available at one time - is there a way to tell NM what my priorities are so it chooses the one I want ? I could not find a way to specify preferences in the NM applet. thanks for help! gene -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

2010-12-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 15:17 +, Beartooth wrote: > I *like* this idea -- and apologize for not discovering it till > now. But the latter half is Geek to me: what I know about fstab is how to > spell it. And the man page is totally opaque, depending as usual on > umpteen other things I

Re: A very simple query

2010-12-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 12:15 -0500, Robert Myers wrote: > Information about Linux gets out of date so fast that I have taken to > adding 2008 OR 2009 OR 2010 to all my Google queries about Linux. The > problem is not confined to Fedora. Though, the basic concepts behind things, still remain the sa

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 16:37 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > You might also when to check the head load cycle count with smartctl > > smartctl -a /dev/sdX | grep Load_Cycle_Count > > They have stupidly aggressive power saving which as I understand it > cause many unnecessary head parks, depending o

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 14:49 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > and with the default F14 setup disallowing root logins, you need to > make a second 'rescue' user to remove such nasties without reverting > to a text console and root When I've set up systems, I've always set up more than one user. Even thou

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:18 +0100, Benito Mourelo Caldeiro wrote: > It can be more complex in future. Look at the section "3.2.2 Host" in > RFC 3996. So, the best is to use the host name for the destination to > which you want to connect. You can add it to the hosts file, or to > your .ssh/config

Re: enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

2010-12-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:32 -0600 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I > > was wondering if there is an easy way to enable Bluetooth in F14. I > > have a Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Latitude 540

Re: enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I > was wondering if there is an easy way to enable Bluetooth in F14. I > have a Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop apiece, and my hope > is to use the Bluetooth to use my

enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

2010-12-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I was wondering if there is an easy way to enable Bluetooth in F14. I have a Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop apiece, and my hope is to use the Bluetooth to use my GPRS phone as well as wireless mobile while I am trav

Re: Installation problem

2010-12-20 Thread L
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, David Lehman wrote: > This error indicates that your are doing a kickstart install and that > your supplied kickstart configuration script contains invalid syntax. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_1._Introduction > > HTH > > On Sun, 201

Re: sendmail problem in F14

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Stevens
On Monday, December 20, 2010 02:14:37 pm JB wrote: > Dave Stevens uniserve.com> writes: > > ... > > [root davehost ~]# mailq > > > > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > > > > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > > Sender/Recipient--- > > oBE00415002020*1054959

Re: lvm

2010-12-20 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 12:59 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Can I modify a logical partition size of a mounted partition > by using system-config-lvm ? First, I don't run system-config-lvm, so I'm not directly answering your question. Are you dealing with a logical partition, eg: sda5,

Re: sendmail problem in F14

2010-12-20 Thread JB
Dave Stevens uniserve.com> writes: > ... > [root davehost ~]# mailq > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > Sender/Recipient--- > oBE00415002020*10549593 Mon Dec 13 16:03 uniserve.com> > (reply: read error

Re: Installation problem

2010-12-20 Thread David Lehman
This error indicates that your are doing a kickstart install and that your supplied kickstart configuration script contains invalid syntax. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_1._Introduction HTH On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 10:33 +0900, 外川 康徳 wrote: > Hello, > > I have downloade

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Benito Mourelo Caldeiro
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 21:18 +0100, Benito Mourelo Caldeiro wrote: > > It can be more complex in future. Look at the section "3.2.2 Host" in > RFC 3996. > I'm sorry, RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax. -- -

sendmail problem in F14

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Stevens
I use kmail with Fedora 14 and have a problem with sending an email to a Yahoo address. The mail appears (I'm guessing) to be too big for the recipient's mailbox but I get no bounce message. Rather, after some putzing around I've been able to get this: [r...@davehost ~]# mailq /

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Benito Mourelo Caldeiro
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 17:12 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 12/20/2010 04:18 PM, Benito Mourelo Caldeiro wrote: > > > > See RFC 2732, "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's": > > > > << > > 2. Literal IPv6 Address Format in URL's Syntax > > > >To use a literal IPv6 address in a URL,

Re: dmidecode not working?

2010-12-20 Thread Audio Phile
Found this post via a google search when I found that my GA-EP45-UD3P did the same thing when I tried using dmidecode. Turns out that it's a GB problem which has been addresses in the most recent BIOS (FFb - 2010/10/06). Download it here if you're still experiencing problems: http://www.giga

Re: gpk-update-viewer vs. yum

2010-12-20 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:01:08 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: BeartoothHOS | Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 > 18:51:05 + (UTC) | > | Is it just me?? > | > | I've noticed, on several machines (PC, laptop, netbook) that if | the > machine has no connection, or thinks it has none, the

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Patrick Kobly
On 12/14/2010 12:45 PM, les wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 09:50 -0700, Patrick Kobly wrote: >> A first programming language should avoid concepts like: >>* Pointers (at least in the C conception of them, breaking the >> typing system) >> > I see a lot of complaints about pointers

Re: F14 boot hangs on atd ...

2010-12-20 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:40:50 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:19:09 + (UTC) I Beartooth wrote: > >> Anyway, I suspect the real trouble is misrecognition of the >> monitor. That's an HP w2207h, at 1680x1050; but xrandr reports 800x480. That much seems now confir

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest. On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:32 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > > If one has to start from the scratch, from the zeroth level to do the > programing, which programing language one should start with? In the > ocean of the langu

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I agree. The important part of computer programming (and I have been a > programmer for 45 years) is that you understand the basic concepts as > well as data structures initially. Okay. Really cool to know that you are programmer for 45 ye

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I agree. The important part of computer programming (and I have been a > programmer for 45 years) is that you understand the basic concepts as > well as data structures initially. Okay. Really cool to know that you are programmer for 45 yea

Re: [389-users] attrcrypt_unwrap_key: failed to unwrap key for cipher AES

2010-12-20 Thread Chun Tat David Chu
Hi Rich, Can you tell me what triggers this message? Thanks, David 2010/12/17 Rich Megginson > On 12/16/2010 03:41 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > Hi All, > > Occasionally I see the following messages when I start the 389DS. > > attrcrypt_unwrap_key: failed to unwrap key for cipher AES >

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/20/2010 04:18 PM, Benito Mourelo Caldeiro wrote: > > See RFC 2732, "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's": > > << > 2. Literal IPv6 Address Format in URL's Syntax > >To use a literal IPv6 address in a URL, the literal address should be >enclosed in "[" and "]" characters. F

Re: F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
I think, the chain - and the procedure only examines these key decoders. If they are installed, then it means for the procedure an end, because of that could mean that you don't need more. That's why basically leaved so. If you do it manually, then it's your decision (and you know your needs), but

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Benito Mourelo Caldeiro
See RFC 2732, "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's": << 2. Literal IPv6 Address Format in URL's Syntax To use a literal IPv6 address in a URL, the literal address should be enclosed in "[" and "]" characters. For example the following literal IPv6 addresses: FEDC:BA98:76

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/18/2010 03:40 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > That's nice, but starting with the pointers is not good, I guess and > hope as to learn pointeers, the things prior to pointers should be > well grasped and someone told me, e.g., arrays and loops. I agree. The important part of computer programming

Re: F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Antonio M
2010/12/20 Zoltan Hoppar : > The problem I think that you have manually installed these key > decoders. Therefore, the chain is not complete. I basically do > nothing, just try to open many video files at first, and the rest is > done by the installer. > I removed all plugins included xvidcore...a

Re: modprobe options and initramfs?

2010-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
> I don't think most of the options are needed for a rebuild. I've used > this before things were worked out with the nouveau/Nvidia driver. > --- > su - > mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-backup.img > dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) Thanks. I'll st

Re: modprobe options and initramfs?

2010-12-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:51:32 -0600 > Richard Shaw wrote: > >> More >> specifically, let dracut rebuilt it. > > I know I did it the hard way, except, of course, > for the difficulty of obtaining the answer to the > question "What the devil is th

Re: F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
The problem I think that you have manually installed these key decoders. Therefore, the chain is not complete. I basically do nothing, just try to open many video files at first, and the rest is done by the installer. 2010/12/20 Antonio M : > 2010/12/20 Zoltan Hoppar : >> Hi, >> >> Did you added r

Re: F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Antonio M
2010/12/20 Zoltan Hoppar : > Hi, > > Did you added rpmfusion repos? This is needed to trigger the automatic > decoder installation. > > Z > > 2010/12/20 Antonio M : >> I have a fresh installation of Fedora 14... >> >> Both VLC an Xine can play avi files, but Totem doesn't work (It can >> play mp3 f

Re: F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, Did you added rpmfusion repos? This is needed to trigger the automatic decoder installation. Z 2010/12/20 Antonio M : > I have a fresh installation of Fedora 14... > > Both VLC an Xine can play avi files, but Totem doesn't work (It can > play mp3 files) > What am I missing?? > > Tnx > > -- >

F14: Totem and avi files

2010-12-20 Thread Antonio M
I have a fresh installation of Fedora 14... Both VLC an Xine can play avi files, but Totem doesn't work (It can play mp3 files) What am I missing?? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 SIP: antoniomon...@ekiga.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: disable given SELinux messages/gui

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/19/2010 04:56 PM, S Mathias wrote: > after i: > > yum install privoxy > chkconfig --level 5 privoxy on > > and > > yum -y install caching-nameserver > chkconfig --level 5 named on > > rebooted: > > http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3205/s

Re: disable given SELinux messages/gui

2010-12-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday, December 20, 2010 09:40:40 am Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Could you please post the complete SELinux warning message? Better still... Please send the message to the Fedora SELinux mailing list. There you have a better chance of getting help regarding this. Here's the info where you can s

Re: disable given SELinux messages/gui

2010-12-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Sunday, December 19, 2010 05:56:21 pm S Mathias wrote: > how can i disable this 2 selinux warning, that appears at every boot? Could you please post the complete SELinux warning message? -- Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: samba shares visibility in vista and windows 7

2010-12-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 10:12 -0700, dave perry wrote: > Hi, > > I have an f14 samba file server with several f14 work stations and a > vista notebook and a win7 desktop. > > On my f14 systems, if I go to Places > Network, It displays all the > shares on all the systems except for homes for the f

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-20 Thread jdow
From: "Jim" Sent: Saturday, 2010/December/18 13:12 > On 12/18/2010 03:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 12/18/2010 11:29 AM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> I have no idea what a Windows Virus Test is or how it's relevant to >>> Linux, but >>> if it's some kind of a automated advertisement or something similar

Re: modprobe options and initramfs?

2010-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:51:32 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > More > specifically, let dracut rebuilt it. I know I did it the hard way, except, of course, for the difficulty of obtaining the answer to the question "What the devil is the command I actually need to run to let dracut rebuild it?" :-). T

Re: A very simple query

2010-12-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: I also suggest that, if possible, you take that book back and get a refund > because it is, as I said, several years out of date. > The shop keepers are not fool that they take back anything they sell year back! It would better be there but not

Re: A very simple query

2010-12-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Robert Myers wrote: Information about Linux gets out of date so fast that I have taken to > adding 2008 OR 2009 OR 2010 to all my Google queries about Linux. The > problem is not confined to Fedora. > > Robert. Oh I see. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- use

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/20/2010 10:18 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/20/2010 05:04 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> helps. But where is this documented? I found nothing when using "man >> scp" or "info scp". > > AFAIK, it isn't documented. It is just the only way I could think of > getting it to work, like when sending

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/20/2010 05:04 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > helps. But where is this documented? I found nothing when using "man > scp" or "info scp". AFAIK, it isn't documented. It is just the only way I could think of getting it to work, like when sending email directly to an IP address > Kind regards

Re: VirtualBox guest addition

2010-12-20 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Yes that's it... It works fine with 3.2.1 release... I prefer VirtualBox rather than VMWare Fusion Thanks to all Le 20/12/10 04:00, Qi Guai a écrit : > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:39, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: >> In fact, my OS is Mac OS X. So to have Fedora, I've installed it on a >> VirtualBox on Ma

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/20/2010 09:43 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/20/2010 04:17 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Hi, having a scp problem with IPV6: >> >> I want to copy a local file to a remote server without DNS entry via the >> server IPV6 address >> (for example "scp file 2001:638:208:ef45:0:ff:fe00:65:) >> >> Sy

Re: scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/20/2010 04:17 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, having a scp problem with IPV6: > > I want to copy a local file to a remote server without DNS entry via the > server IPV6 address > (for example "scp file 2001:638:208:ef45:0:ff:fe00:65:) > > Syntactical Problem: The first server part (2001) is

scp with IPV6

2010-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, having a scp problem with IPV6: I want to copy a local file to a remote server without DNS entry via the server IPV6 address (for example "scp file 2001:638:208:ef45:0:ff:fe00:65:) Syntactical Problem: The first server part (2001) is interpreted as target host name, the rest as filename, and