Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread g
On 02/07/2011 11:46 AM, les wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 17:07 +, g wrote: <> >> on a curious side, if not deleted, what is in user.js? > > I use Southern California Bell, so originally it pointed to > sbc.yahoo.com i.e. "http://www.sbc.yahoo.com";. SBC seems to have lots > of adware these

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven Stern writes: On 02/07/2011 12:21 PM, kellyremo wrote: How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Fedora install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx Open any Nautilus window (e.g., PLACES -> COMPU

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Hiisi wrote: > What's the name of the program? One can usually find the actual command > executed by desktop icon examining it's properties. IMHO, there's not > yet a thing that can't be done in text mode. And hopefully will never > be. It's a bash script that uses

Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> Claude Jones wrote: > > > On Monday, February 07, 2011, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps > >> described below and get back to me with the results, I would > >> greatly appreciate it :) > >> > > > > yes, I"m getting

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 12:38 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets? Did you mean the kind of >>> desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? >> >> No, I wrote screen

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets?  Did you mean the kind of >> desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? > > No, I wrote screenlets and that's what I meant: > http://screenlets.o

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 03:46 AM, les wrote: > I use Southern California Bell, so originally it pointed to > sbc.yahoo.com i.e."http://www.sbc.yahoo.com";. SCB doesn't even host its own website? I'm amused. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread les
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 17:07 +, g wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:22 AM, les wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 07:12 +, g wrote: > >> On 02/03/2011 10:20 PM, les wrote: > >> <> > >> > >>> I did that as well. No joy, it only worked when I hand modified the > >>> two .js files. > >> > >> did you rea

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/07/2011 12:21 PM, kellyremo wrote: > > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a > standard Fedora install?? > > http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx > Open any Nautilus window (e.g., PLACES -> COMPUTER) and then ED

Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread kellyremo
How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Fedora install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-07 Thread Jim
On 02/07/2011 12:13 PM, DB wrote: > On 02/07/2011 04:42 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >> Subject: >> Re: KRandRtray ?? >> From: >> Rex Dieter >> Date: >> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0600 >> >> To: >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> >> DB wrote: >> I have the feeling wha

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 01:16 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > Oh, IBM 1620! It was also the first computer I programmed :-) You're in good company with Jerry Pournelle and Daniel J. Alderson. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/07/2011 12:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by Screenlets? Did you mean the kind of > desktop applets you can use after installing gdesklets? No, I wrote screenlets and that's what I meant: http://screenlets.org/index.php/Information -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/07/2011 10:16 AM, H Xu wrote: > On 2011/2/8 0:59, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:54:32 +0800 >> H Xu wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new >>> version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package. >> Folks ar

Re: Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread H Xu
On 2011/2/8 0:59, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:54:32 +0800 > H Xu wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new >> version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package. > > Folks are working on it, but there's a lot of legal c

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-07 Thread DB
On 02/07/2011 04:42 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Re: KRandRtray ?? > From: > Rex Dieter > Date: > Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:17:33 -0600 > > To: > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > DB wrote: > >> > I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've got

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread g
On 02/07/2011 12:22 AM, les wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 07:12 +, g wrote: >> On 02/03/2011 10:20 PM, les wrote: >> <> >> >>> I did that as well. No joy, it only worked when I hand modified the >>> two .js files. >> >> did you read and follow instructions in the 'User.js_file' link? > > As

Re: Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:54:32 +0800 H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new > version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package. Folks are working on it, but there's a lot of legal checking still to do. :( You could join in and

Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread H Xu
Hello, Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package. Thanks. Regards, H Xu 02/08/2011 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: mplayer doesn't like me again

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
My .mpg files (mpeg1) do not result in a DRI failure message, nor do my .avi files. Flash still gives me DRI failure, but the video is looking good again. Don't know why. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer:

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 02/07/11 18:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:57 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: I've never heard of cagibi and it's not present in my system, so it's clearly not a default install. Why don't you just remove it? poc Because at lot of dependencies in KDE: That explai

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 02/07/11 18:15, Rex Dieter wrote: Adrian Sevcenco wrote: On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it causing problems? i have the habit

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:57 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > > I've never heard of cagibi and it's not present in my system, so > it's > > clearly not a default install. Why don't you just remove it? > > > > poc > > > > Because at lot of dependencies in KDE: That explains it. My current office sy

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> >>> Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? >> >> We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it >> causing problems? > i have the habit that if i dont need som

Re: how to change nautilus' default browser?

2011-02-07 Thread Mike Wright
Richard England wrote: > On 02/06/2011 05:36 AM, Hiisi wrote: >> ke, 2011-01-26 kello 08:49 -0800, Mike Wright kirjoitti: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Subject says it all. >>> >>> I've gone through every option I could find, right clicked everything, >>> grepped through .nautilus and .gnome2* and haven't th

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/07/2011 04:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 17:42 +0200, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? >>> >>> We can try to implement that, but ... why?

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 21:57, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest > of the installation actually worked fine. > > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 17:42 +0200, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > > > >> Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? > > > > We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it > > causing problems? > i

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it causing problems? i have the habit that if i dont need something it shouldn't run .. i don't use up

Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, February 07, 2011, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps >> described below and get back to me with the results, I would >> greatly appreciate it :) >> > > yes, I"m getting the same thing I

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it causing problems? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
kellyremo wrote: > Even kdesu isn't in the offical repositoryes. Why? kdesu is included in kdebase-runtime. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
DB wrote: > I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've got > something set wrong on my box.) it *is* true :) , but not free of bugs. Sounds like you've found one, if you could be so kind as to file one @ bugs.kde.org ? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-07 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-02-07 14:33, Steve Underwood skrev: > On 02/07/2011 02:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure >> if I have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links >> with PDF files downloads them as any other file, instead of b

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-07 Thread Steve Underwood
On 02/07/2011 02:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure > if I have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links > with PDF files downloads them as any other file, instead of being > opened with evince inside a Firefox

Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Claude Jones
On Monday, February 07, 2011, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps > described below and get back to me with the results, I would > greatly appreciate it :) > yes, I"m getting the same thing I'm running F14 and KDE 4.5.5,

f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? Thanks! Adrian 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

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/07/2011 04:19 AM, Tim wrote: > 1. "Sans" isn't the actually same font on each. I checked this the other day wich fc-match and it returned "DejaVu Sans" so it's the same as Fedora. On their latest release, 10.10, they introduced their new font (the "Ubuntu Font") and they use that across

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-07 Thread cheng chen
Thank you for you all. I used "dd & hexedit" to fix the MBR. And then with disk recovery software I gain most of files back. It makes me thrilled. Thanks again. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Hiisi wrote: > su, 2011-02-06 kello 10:41 -0600, Richard Shaw kirjoitti: > > You overwrote a lot more t

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Hiisi
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:42 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > I didn't mention that the script is a graphical program which is > launched by a .desktop file, so I never see the prompt to put in the > password if I use su or sudo. Thanks for the link to gksu, that's what > I used to use.. not in Fedora th

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > Look at the following URL: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file > http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file > > This does not explain why user.js file exist. It should not hav been > there in the first place. Oh God... this comes back from

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Jatin K wrote: > su -c '/path/to/script'     > I didn't mention that the script is a graphical program which is launched by a .desktop file, so I never see the prompt to put in the password if I use su or sudo. Thanks for the link to gksu, that's what I used t

Re: GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Jatin K
On Monday 07 February 2011 03:45 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Anyone know the GNOME version of kdesu? I thought it used to be gtksu > or something, but I can't find it. > > I have a script which I want to run as root, so in KDE I have kdesu > '/path/to/script' - how can I do this in GNOME? > > Thanks,

GNOME kdesu?

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Smart
Anyone know the GNOME version of kdesu? I thought it used to be gtksu or something, but I can't find it. I have a script which I want to run as root, so in KDE I have kdesu '/path/to/script' - how can I do this in GNOME? Thanks, -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Banshee segfaults on Fedora 13/KDE 4.5.3

2011-02-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, I have seen this subject in many places on the internet in my attempt at solving my problem on my own... But, no one offers any solutions that I found. I want to use Banshee music player because it supports AmazonMP3 downloading. It runs perfectly on my system IF I log into Gn

Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps described below and get back to me with the results, I would greatly appreciate it :) Steven P. Ulrick > Hello Everyone, > I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13 > and KDE 4.

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-07 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-02-07 03:08, Joe Zeff skrev: > On 02/06/2011 12:13 PM, Michael Miles wrote: >> Shall I add my Commodore Vic -20 to the discussion? >> >> How about my very old PET which is worth quite a bit right now. >> > > How about the first computer I ever owned: a TI 99/4A, or, for that > matter, the firs

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/06/2011 08:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest > of the installation actually worked fine. > > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions on >

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread les
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 07:12 +, g wrote: > On 02/03/2011 10:20 PM, les wrote: > <> > > > I did that as well. No joy, it only worked when I hand modified the > > two .js files. > > did you read and follow instructions in the 'User.js_file' link? > As I recall now, the link said I could remov

Re: Things are getting really messed up on Fedora 14

2011-02-07 Thread les
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 07:01 +, g wrote: > On 02/03/2011 10:36 PM, les wrote: > <> > > > Interesting that these pages never came up when I was searching for > > preferences stuff using google. > > hello les, > > could be you need to start using google advance search; > >http://www.google

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 14:57 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions on > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but the fonts > look pretty much unchanged: > > http://www.rath

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 10:49 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>   So a weather notification that we are familiar >> with on the taskbar will not be permanently visible in gnome3 - but >> there may be some weather  information available for access via the >> calenda