Re: where is gamma4scanimage?

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:02:38 +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote: > scanimage should come with gamma4scanimage but it does not. > yum provides gamma4scanimage and yum search gamma4scanimage give nothing. > Where can I find gamma4scanimage for F17? Do a little bit of homework. Fetch the Source RPM (the src

Re: Remove my e-mail

2012-12-17 Thread Jan Litwiński
Thomas Deperno writes: > Please remove my email from userlist or tell me how to...thanks > Tom D. on the end off every mail on this list you have unsubscribe link -- Jan Litwiński http://netsjanek.blogspot.com/ http://netsjanek.bloog.pl/ Linux is like a wigwam no gates no windows but apache in

Remove my e-mail

2012-12-17 Thread Thomas Deperno
Please remove my email from userlist or tell me how to...thanks Tom D. -- 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 Have a

Search function will not find recent files

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The search function on the windows screen? only finds apps, not also recent files. In my old f16 install this worked fine. Of course I had so many Gnome extensions that I could no longer tell what was original and what was extended. So here on f17, how do I get the search to also search on r

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 06:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 03:13 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/17/2012 05:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and USE Fuduntu Linux on her old Dell Ins

Re: NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 06:50 PM, William Brown wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 18:41 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Just wanted to know what anyone else thinks about this? I mean can Android be considered "Linux" officially?or is it an offshoot of Linux?anyone at all? http://www.zdnet.com/wind

Re: where is gamma4scanimage?

2012-12-17 Thread Frédéric Bron
> I think the --gamma-table 0..255,.. option that is part of scanimage > command > may need to be use? > it is listed in scanimage man page. hope that helps:-) I have seen that but it is rather teddious to use and gamma4scanimage is supposed to derive the table given some rather

Re: where is gamma4scanimage?

2012-12-17 Thread Edward M
On 12/17/2012 4:02 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: scanimage should come with gamma4scanimage but it does not. yum provides gamma4scanimage and yum search gamma4scanimage give nothing. Where can I find gamma4scanimage for F17? Frédéric I think the --gamma-table 0..255,.. option that is part of

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 11:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 12/17/2012 05:28 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >>> On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > OMG!...incredible! > W

Re: NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

2012-12-17 Thread William Brown
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 18:41 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > Just wanted to know what anyone else thinks about this? I mean can > Android be considered "Linux" officially?or is it an offshoot of > Linux?anyone at all? > > http://www.zdnet.com/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple-ios-and

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2012 03:13 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/17/2012 05:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and USE Fuduntu Linux on her old Dell Inspirion... If I weren't so interested in

NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Just wanted to know what anyone else thinks about this? I mean can Android be considered "Linux" officially?or is it an offshoot of Linux?anyone at all? http://www.zdnet.com/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple-ios-and-google-android-708699/ EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 05:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and USE Fuduntu Linux on her old Dell Inspirion... If I weren't so interested in personal survival, I'd forward this to my older sist

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 05:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:23 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: because she couldn't get a grasp of the "Workspace" features and Unity she "scrapped the entire thing, she's only recent;y returning to it because.like me.she's intrigued by something that WORKS.

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 05:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:15 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: just because some developers or what-have-you decided to finagle things and make them different. This reminds me of an interesting way to describe political movements on a two-axis graph that a friend

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 05:28 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: OMG!...incredible! Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on (IBM 1620

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 05:03 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 12/17/2012 01:47 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to get them to do what I want them to. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I on t

Browser problem

2012-12-17 Thread Roger
I have Fedora 16 with Firefox, Thunderbird and chromium browser, everything worked until this morning. For some reason Chromium fails to load giving the "aw Snap" error message, it won't even load localhost. What can be done to resolve and get chromium up again. It's never done this before. Hel

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and USE Fuduntu Linux on her old Dell Inspirion... If I weren't so interested in personal survival, I'd forward this to my older sister. Guess how old she is... -- users ma

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2012 02:23 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: because she couldn't get a grasp of the "Workspace" features and Unity she "scrapped the entire thing, she's only recent;y returning to it because.like me.she's intrigued by something that WORKS...but is different! I guess it takes all

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 03:38 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 12/17/2012 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: OMG!...incredible! Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete. M

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2012 02:15 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: just because some developers or what-have-you decided to finagle things and make them different. This reminds me of an interesting way to describe political movements on a two-axis graph that a friend of mine (http://www.jerrypournelle.com)

Re: Epson Stylus SX525WD: scanner resolution can only be 75, 300, 1200 and 2400

2012-12-17 Thread Frédéric Bron
> Educated guess: The list is what's actually supported by the software > and the scanner. Putting in *any* value probably doesn't reflect what > the scanner actually does, and probably is the software converting the > scanned data into the resolution that you think you've picked. My Epson scann

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 03:37 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2012, Joe Zeff sent: There's not enough reward for most people, no. That's not to say that it can't be done or that somebody won't have the right combination of skills and low self-esteem needed to do something like this just

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >>> OMG!...incredible! >>> >> >> Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on >> (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: The honour system, in the computing fraternity, at least, died long ago. Viruses, trojans, spyware, facebook... Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: And yet...I don't hear often of many Linux machines getting hacked or being infected with viruses, as much as oth

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 03:21 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Surely you're not serious? Do you really think people bother to do so? Most don't, even less would know that they should. That's evidenced by the massive numbers of infected computers. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I should have clarified: I meant that m

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/17/2012 03:17 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to get them to do what I want them to. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I on the other hand am curious to see the inner-worki

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: OMG!...incredible! Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete. Sorry! I'm just amazed!because I was born

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Edward M
On 12/17/2012 12:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: No. There's one too many there. Everybody knows that there's only three, starting with, "Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My! Lions and tigers and bears!" Like, totally, fer sure. y'know.:-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2012 12:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/17/2012 04:28 PM, Tim wrote: I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list didn't even get a wry smiley... That because you phrased it "wrong" It should have been Viruses, trojans, spyware, and facebook, Oh My!

Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/17/2012 02:06 PM, Edward M wrote: On 12/17/2012 9:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Has anyone tried the Fitbit application on Fedora via Wine? while back, found this article about fitbit and linux, may help:-) http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2012/11/fitbit-and-linux.html

Re: f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread Neal Becker
William Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 08:12 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> William Brown wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:30 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> >> On 12/17/2012 03:26 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> >> > I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a lon

Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-17 Thread Edward M
On 12/17/2012 9:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Has anyone tried the Fitbit application on Fedora via Wine? while back, found this article about fitbit and linux, may help:-) http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2012/11/fitbit-and-linux.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-17 Thread Ted Roche
The current rating for fitbit on Wine is "Garbage," although it is flagged as a rather old entry: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=10766 On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Has anyone tried the Fitbit application on Fedora via Wine? > > It

[389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.3.0.rc2 Testing

2012-12-17 Thread Noriko Hosoi
The 389 team is pleased to announce the availability of Release Candidate 2 of version 1.3.0 for Testing. This release supports slapi transactions, improves performance, as well as fixes numerous bugs. * Tracking tickets for 1.3.0 release - https://fedorahosted.org/389/report/14 The new packages

Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Has anyone tried the Fitbit application on Fedora via Wine? It uses Bluetooth to sync up then some port or other to communicate with hosting app. I got the Fitbit zip as an accessory for my Galaxy, only to find out that the Android app is not ready yet! I currently don't have Wine installed

Re: Transfering files to a Samsung Galaxy III

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/14/2012 06:31 PM, Jim wrote: On 12/14/2012 05:20 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2012 19:06:26 Paul Smith wrote: You could try to transfer your files via Dropbox, which has an Android application: https://www.dropbox.com/ Paul i already do but it seems oddly wrong to

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/17/2012 10:19 PM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list >>> didn't even get a wry smiley... > Ed Greshko: >> That because you phrased it "wrong" >> >> It should have been >> >> Viruses, trojans, spyware, and facebook, Oh My! > Sai

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list >> didn't even get a wry smiley... Ed Greshko: > That because you phrased it "wrong" > > It should have been > > Viruses, trojans, spyware, and facebook, Oh My! Said in a George Takei voice? ;-) But, it was

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 December 2012, Rejy M Cyriac sent: > Everyone has their own area of interest, and I believe that all > 'fiddling', big or small, contributes to improving Open Source > Software. There's a difference between customising something, to someone who thinks that the be-all and

Re: f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread William Brown
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 08:12 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > William Brown wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:30 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> On 12/17/2012 03:26 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> > I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a long time. > >> > Now for some

Re: f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread Neal Becker
William Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:30 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 03:26 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> > I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a long time. >> > Now for some reason, my machine is not registering in DNS. >> >> Why do you th

Re: f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread William Brown
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:30 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 12/17/2012 03:26 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > > I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a long time. > > Now > > for some reason, my machine is not registering in DNS. > > Why do you think a workstation would

Re: f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 12/17/2012 03:26 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a long time. Now for some reason, my machine is not registering in DNS. Why do you think a workstation would register in DNS? What exactly do you mean by registering in DNS? What are your che

f17 NM stopped registering with DNS

2012-12-17 Thread Neal Becker
I've been using f17 wired enet at work, and it's worked for a long time. Now for some reason, my machine is not registering in DNS. I don't know if some change to NM, or something changed in our corp net (which I don't control). Any ideas? Ways to debug? Thanks -- users mailing list users@

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 12/17/2012 01:47 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to get them to do what I want them to. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I on the other hand am curious to see the inner-work

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Roger
On 12/17/2012 07:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/17/2012 04:28 PM, Tim wrote: I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list didn't even get a wry smiley... That because you phrased it "wrong" It should have been Viruses, trojans, spyware, and facebook, Oh My!

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/17/2012 04:28 PM, Tim wrote: > I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list > didn't even get a wry smiley... That because you phrased it "wrong" It should have been Viruses, trojans, spyware, and facebook, Oh My! -- Programming today is a race between

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> OMG!...incredible! >> > > Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on > (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete. My brother (he's eleven years older

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2012, Joe Zeff sent: > There's not enough reward for most people, no. That's not to say that > it can't be done or that somebody won't have the right combination of > skills and low self-esteem needed to do something like this just for > bragging rights, but th

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:58:52 +1030 Tim wrote: > Tim: > I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list > didn't even get a wry smiley... Actually, Ithough the line would make a good sig. -- Regards, Frank Life's great questions "If a brickie lays bricks, why don't a plumb

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> The honour system, in the computing fraternity, at least, died long >> ago. >> >> Viruses, trojans, spyware, facebook... Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: > And yet...I don't hear often of many Linux machines getting hacked or > being infected with viruses, as much as other OS'es(don't want

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Surely you're not serious? Do you really think people bother to do so? >> Most don't, even less would know that they should. That's evidenced by >> the massive numbers of infected computers. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: > I should have clarified: I meant that most people who use Linux are

Re: automatic helpers which really suck!

2012-12-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the >> last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to >> get them to do what I want them to. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: > I on the other hand am curious to see the inner-workings of some of > the apps on