Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 08:54 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you won't try IPv6, so > it won't cause any delay. I can't speak for Yum, but if I try to listen to streaming media via mplayer, the first thing it tries to do is make a connection using IPv6, wai

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/29/2012 05:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: I still don't understand why deprecating XDMCP furthers the Open Source cause. Guys, slow down. There's no reason to believe that XCMCP has been deprecated. It can be enabled exactly as it was in the previous release. It looks like there's a bug th

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > Pulseaudio has always struck me as a solution looking for a problem and > failing to find one. I thought it solved the problem of multiple applications play some sound simultaneously on the same device? It's not as rare as you might think; a voi

Re: Fail to start bacula director with systemctl.

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Shirley
Is there any information in /var/log/messages or bacula's log? What does 'Starting bacula-dir manually' mean? From systemd vs upon boot? Bill On 6/29/2012 5:55 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: When migrating to fedora 16 (from 14) I have to start bacula using systemctl. It works fine with the client

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/29/2012 04:54 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Great tip. How do I get to about:config ??? Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General. There's a button on the tab for Config. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/30/2012 07:54 AM, Mike Wright wrote: > Great tip. How do I get to about:config ??? Edit--->Preferences--->Advanced Tab--->Config Editor -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list u

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/29/2012 07:57 AM, Mark Haney wrote: On 06/29/2012 10:34 AM, Chris Adams wrote: set attribution = "Once upon a time, %n <%a> said:" The "%n" is the full name of the sender and "%a" is the email address. I got bored with the normal attribution line one time and changed to that. Looking b

update

2012-06-29 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On a fedora 16 (3.3.8-1.fc16.i686.PAE) I am experiencing update issue: 1) If I make install latex2rtf, it want to install latex2rtf.i686 0:2.1.0-2.fc15 while there is a latex2rtf-2.2.0-2.fc16.i686.rpm 2) if I make yum update, nothing happens while there is a kernel to update: kernel-PAE-

Re: Upgrade vs Install: request for recommendations (trick questions, sort of)

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:41:42 -0400 (EDT) "Max Pyziur" wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS in > upgrading machines. > > I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot > partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Cons

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/29/2012 03:31 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Security. If it can't be used it can't be misused. If it can't be used, it's worthless. Pulseaudio has always struck me as a solution looking for a problem and failing to find one. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.06.2012 00:31, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the >>> sound system? >>> >>> Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennar

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the sound system? Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, th

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you

Re: Upgrade vs Install: request for recommendations (trick questions, sort of)

2012-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 06/29/2012 01:41:42 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS > in > upgrading machines. > > I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot > partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Consequently, I crea

Re: Help needed for NFS behind a firewall on F17

2012-06-29 Thread Kernel Guardian
what is status of iptables? On 29 June 2012 15:48, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jouk Jansen > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running a NFS-server on a F17 system. Normally I set it to use fixed >> ports by inserting (as the system-config-nfs tool does) the followin

Fail to start bacula director with systemctl.

2012-06-29 Thread Erik P. Olsen
When migrating to fedora 16 (from 14) I have to start bacula using systemctl. It works fine with the client and storage daemons but the director service fails. systemctl status bacula- shows: [root@epohost ~]# systemctl status bacula-dir.service bacula-dir.service - Bacula-Director, the Backup-

Re: F16 rocks. Thanks.

2012-06-29 Thread Lee
> > On 06/27/2012 04:02 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> >> On 27 June 2012 20:05, linux guy wrote: >>> >>> I've been using F16 since before Christmas and I must say that it has >>> become a very polished and powerful release. >>> >>> Kudos to those who have worked so hard on it. We don't thank you >>> peopl

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/29/2012 09:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 29.06.2012 22:35, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: >> I make no apologies for trying to help > nobody did say that > >> but it appears to be a futile >> experience in this case. You are entitled to your opinion, as you are >> entirely convinced that y

Upgrade vs Install: request for recommendations (trick questions, sort of)

2012-06-29 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS in upgrading machines. I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Consequently, I created a /boot partition of 1GB and did a fresh install. (This w

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2012 22:35, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: > I make no apologies for trying to help nobody did say that > but it appears to be a futile > experience in this case. You are entitled to your opinion, as you are > entirely convinced that you have made yourself clear, well if that was > so, h

powerdown restarts

2012-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Leach
This problem has been submitted to Bugzilla (836657), but I thought I'd ask here to see if there are any fixes lurking. System is running 3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64. When I systemctl poweroff the kernel reboots instead of powering off. Under Windows 7, power off works as expected. All packages are up-

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/29/2012 09:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 29.06.2012 22:05, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: >>> how comes? my systems are working since many years >>> on many many fedora setups and a local repo was never >>> a solution for anything >> Well that doesn't mean it never will be, does it? > it w

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2012 22:05, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: >> how comes? my systems are working since many years >> on many many fedora setups and a local repo was never >> a solution for anything > > Well that doesn't mean it never will be, does it? it will never be a solution in case of the OP's probl

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/29/2012 08:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 29.06.2012 17:08, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: >> On 06/29/2012 03:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> where is any single benfit in creating a local repo >>> to put the one-shot RPMs compared between >>> >>> "yum install localfile.rpm" >>> or >>> "yu

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2012 17:08, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: > On 06/29/2012 03:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> where is any single benfit in creating a local repo >> to put the one-shot RPMs compared between >> >> "yum install localfile.rpm" >> or >> "yum install --nogpgcheck localfile.rpm" >> >> >> >>

Re: Would-be local mirror in Argentina...

2012-06-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > It is the rough size of the whole thing, which is what a lot of mirrors > carry. You have to start somewhere. Yes, but according to my math, mirroring F16, +F17 plus the updates repos for both, accounts for less than 400 GB. That is IMHO wh

Re: Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 29.06.2012 20:00, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote: >>> Fedora 17 >>> >>> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 >>> or a ntfs partition ? >> ext4 >> > btrfs > If you care about your data, especially for a

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:59:30PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> You may want to look into running PA as a sys

Re: Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

2012-06-29 Thread Terry Polzin
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 13:54 -0400, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > > Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 > or a ntfs partition ? It depends upon it's use. Strictly a linux drive btrfs or ext4, if you plan on extracting files on to a Windows machine, better make in

Re: Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

2012-06-29 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 29.06.2012 20:00, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote: >> Fedora 17 >> >> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 >> or a ntfs partition ? > ext4 > btrfs -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

2012-06-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > > Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 > or a ntfs partition ? ext4 -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

2012-06-29 Thread Jim
Fedora 17 Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 or a ntfs partition ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-29 Thread Robert Myers
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > ** > > > I understand what Robert is meaning especially exporting apps rather than > whole desktops. > > But I was attempting to get some hands on experience of F17 via a Virtual > Machine installation. The VNC based window from the VM is only

Re: Fedora 17 and USB 3.0

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/28/2012 06:44 PM, Fernando Cassia issued this missive:: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Rick Stevens mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: You won't get USB 3 speeds without a USB 3 driver for the port and I don't think any of the current drivers are USB 3. I could be wrong

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/29/2012 03:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 29.06.2012 15:53, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: >> On 06/29/2012 02:31 PM, Mark Haney wrote: >>> I've googled this a couple of times, but can't seem to find a straight >>> answer on this problem. I installed the >>> rpmfusion repos both with the GUI

Re: Memory......

2012-06-29 Thread Digimer
On 06/29/2012 04:45 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: Hello All, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that give you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, it should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, the AMOUNT of memory, and the M

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Haney
On 06/29/2012 10:34 AM, Chris Adams wrote: set attribution = "Once upon a time, %n <%a> said:" The "%n" is the full name of the sender and "%a" is the email address. I got bored with the normal attribution line one time and changed to that. Looking back, I started using that in early 1996; ma

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mark Haney said: > Okay, I gotta ask. Where on earth do you get the customized lines like > this: > > Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > said: > > (Thanks Bob. Give credit where it's due.) > > I've seen various and sundry others like this one, and I can

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2012 16:28, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:07:27PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> where is any single benfit in creating a local repo >> to put the one-shot RPMs compared between >> >> "yum install localfile.rpm" > > yum localinstall [--nogpg] file.rpm [1] > >>

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:26pm on Friday, June 29, 2012 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: > Okay, I gotta ask. Where on earth do you get the customized lines like > this: > > Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > said: You need to configue your mail client, as long as it supports it. I don't k

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:07:27PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > where is any single benfit in creating a local repo > to put the one-shot RPMs compared between > > "yum install localfile.rpm" yum localinstall [--nogpg] file.rpm [1] > or > "yum install --nogpgcheck localfile.rpm" > > > >

[OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Haney
Okay, I gotta ask. Where on earth do you get the customized lines like this: Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: (Thanks Bob. Give credit where it's due.) I've seen various and sundry others like this one, and I can't really google it since I don't have a clue what

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/29/2012 09:54 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.06.2012 15:53, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: > On 06/29/2012 02:31 PM, Mark Haney wrote: >> I've googled this a couple of times, but can't seem to find a straight >> answer on this problem. I installed the >> rpmfusion repos both with the GUI and from the CLI and I get this same >> problem,

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: >Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I >suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager >from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you won't try IPv6, so i

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/29/2012 02:31 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > I've googled this a couple of times, but can't seem to find a straight > answer on this problem. I installed the rpmfusion repos both with the > GUI and from the CLI and I get this same problem, 'Cannot find valid > baseurl'. > > Any ideas? > The followi

Re: Would-be local mirror in Argentina...

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Fernando Cassia said: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > If you read further down in the document you'll see this > > > > "You may exclude any content you desire, such as architectures, using an > > EXCLUDES file." > > Well call me stupid then but th

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Haney
On 06/29/2012 09:38 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: You downloaded the appropriate RPMs from here? http://rpmfusion.org/ In my .repo files the base URL is commented out and instead depends onthe mirror lists from http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org Yes, downloaded straight from the source. And the

Re: Help needed for NFS behind a firewall on F17

2012-06-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a NFS-server on a F17 system. Normally I set it to use fixed > ports by inserting (as the system-config-nfs tool does) the following lines > in /etc/sysconf/nfs : > > LOCKD_TCPPORT=4000 > STAD_PORT=4002 > RQUOTAD_PORT=40

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:31:03AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > I've googled this a couple of times, but can't seem to find a > straight answer on this problem. I installed the rpmfusion repos > both with the GUI and from the CLI and I get this same problem, > 'Cannot find valid baseurl'. > > Any id

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:45:15PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/27/2012 02:34 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local > > That's on a non-routable subnet. Considering that nslookup is a > program to query Internet domain name servers, there's no way in the > world tha

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:31:15PM -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >What hostname are you trying to find? Maybe there's something > >wrong with the name, or the way you're specifying it. Is it fully > >qualified, as mine is? > > server can't find risingstar: NXDOMAIN This the results of nslookup.

Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Haney
I've googled this a couple of times, but can't seem to find a straight answer on this problem. I installed the rpmfusion repos both with the GUI and from the CLI and I get this same problem, 'Cannot find valid baseurl'. Any ideas? -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@a

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >Dude, replace "[hostname]" with the hostname for the machine you're > >trying to access. > > Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it > still comes back to what you see in this post. Go back and read what I

Re: F17 XDMCP

2012-06-29 Thread Ken Smith
Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: On 06/26/2012 04:19 PM, Robert Myers wrote: {snip} I have more than a hint and guidance. I have emphatic advice. Stop trying to import and export desktops, no matter the system. Import and export windows or create virtual machines, but do not ever under any

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 18:56 +1000, Roger wrote: > On 29/06/12 09:05, quicksort wrote: > > > > Plaform: Fedora 17 x64 > > > > Evolution loses its data and launches the Setup Assistant. > > Upon reboot everything is OK. > > > > I don't like Windows because of its poor performances but > > I am gettin

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 12:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > All this is going to achieve is breakage. It'd denial-of-service > some > > clients that are actually trying to work, perhaps even DOS something > > that's central to all the clients, and put the whole network into > > failure, in one go. >

Re: Memory......

2012-06-29 Thread Zdenek Pytela
Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I pise: > I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that > give you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, > it should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, > the AMOUNT of memory, and the MAX capacity that your machine c

Re: Memory......

2012-06-29 Thread fedora
cat /proc/meminfo suomi On 06/29/2012 10:45 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: Hello All, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that give you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, it should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, the A

Re: transaction error updating python-qpid

2012-06-29 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:18 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 23:44 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 17.06.2012 23:42, schrieb Robert G. (Doc) Savage: > > > Transaction Check Error: > > > file /usr/bin/qpid-python-test from install of > > > python-qpid-0.16-1.fc

alias ip make eth lose its default gw

2012-06-29 Thread Pablo Pérez Fernández
hi, we have eth1; in the beginning it was proposed to create from eth1, eth1.2500 and eth1.240. It did not worked cause vlan 1.2500 was not tagged in the switch. so they decided to leave eth1 like a physical interface with eth1.2500 config (removel vlan tag) and create eth1.240 but it did not wo

Re: Memory......

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:45:40 -0400 "Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I" wrote: > Hello All, > > I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that give > you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, it > should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, the >

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-29 Thread Roger
On 29/06/12 09:05, quicksort wrote: Plaform: Fedora 17 x64 Evolution loses its data and launches the Setup Assistant. Upon reboot everything is OK. I don't like Windows because of its poor performances but I am getting tired of Linux utilities bugs. Too much is too much. I wish Fedora secondar

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/29/2012 12:52 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 18:03 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: It looks as if yum chooses IPv6 sources when available, over IPv4. Who knew? There will be a few things that prefer it, because it's supposed to be better... ;-) and it's the replacement for IPv4 ("repl

Memory......

2012-06-29 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
Hello All, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that give you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, it should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, the AMOUNT of memory, and the MAX capacity that your machine can hold. Any advice

Re: Fedora 17 and USB 3.0

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
> I would imagine that those 3.0 ports are backward compatible with USB-2 > devices. Yes - although you find the odd device that at the hardware level refuses to play. Pretty much all boards have a mix of USB-3 and USB-2 only ports for this reason and for pricing reasons. Alan -- users mailing

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-29 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
On 06/29/2012 04:39 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Judging only from that article, it looks as though Microsoft is trying to reinvent the Unity Desktop. Unity is just a bad re-invention of Windowmaker anyway. Windows 8 actually looks more like the Nintendo Wii than anything else I've seen - with the "til

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Judging only from that article, it looks as though Microsoft is trying > to reinvent the Unity Desktop. Unity is just a bad re-invention of Windowmaker anyway. Windows 8 actually looks more like the Nintendo Wii than anything else I've seen - with the "tiles" and the fact some tiles update the

Help needed for NFS behind a firewall on F17

2012-06-29 Thread Jouk Jansen
Hi all, I'm running a NFS-server on a F17 system. Normally I set it to use fixed ports by inserting (as the system-config-nfs tool does) the following lines in /etc/sysconf/nfs : LOCKD_TCPPORT=4000 STAD_PORT=4002 RQUOTAD_PORT=4003 LOCKD_UDPPORT=4000 MOUNTD_PORT=4003 After restarting nfs I check

Re: Fedora 17 and USB 3.0

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:27:25 -0400 Jim wrote: > Is Fedora 17 compatible with USB-3.0 ? The Fedora 17 kernel is new enough to do USB 3.0 (XHCI) properly. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-29 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 09:30 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > 1. Check that everything is ok with your home directory and it's > read/write mounted and file system is consistent. And that the drive/partition isn't too full. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-29 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 29.06.2012 08:41, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.06.2012, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > >> Use Thunderbird, it's more stable at last in my case. > Don't know if this is important, but if he uses Evolution as an > Outlook replacement (this is what I do at work, to avoid using > Wind*ws), Thunderbird

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-29 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Maximiliano Marín Bustos < maximiliano.ma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > How did you run grub2-install? > $ /usr/sbin/grub2-install I think... be patient with me and I will try to reproduce the error. > > It is very important to know the error message. > > R

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/28/2012 08:55 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: If you think Windows Vista was bad, and Windows 7 sucked, then check this out! And mind you I'm not a "Windows" basher at large, I just feel that they've never really been "about the consumer" but more "about the cash"I understand most corp