Re: Turning off SELINUX

On 9/5/2013 1:41 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Until I hear of a thorough code review by a non-USA team of this code, I do not feel safe using it, privacy wise. With NSA's Utah Data Center opening this month, I don't think using SElinux will seem a problem http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/201

Re: Turning off SELINUX

Ah Ken's ACm lecture on Trusting trust. yes good reading. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting Rahul Sundaram : > > Hi >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Javier Perez wrote: >> >> I know SELinux is not about encryption, it is about limiting access to >>> the >

Re: Turning off SELINUX

Quoting Rahul Sundaram : Hi On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Javier Perez wrote: I know SELinux is not about encryption, it is about limiting access to the system AFTER a breach has ocurred. (That is my understanding AFAIK, and that is why I think it is a good idea). My beef is given the NS

Re: Turning off SELINUX

Hi On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > I know SELinux is not about encryption, it is about limiting access to the > system AFTER a breach has ocurred. (That is my understanding AFAIK, and > that is why I think it is a good idea). > My beef is given the NSA origin of this soft

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

Hi On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > In fact that paragraph should go quoted verbatim to the yum man page, if > man pages were actually manual (documentation) pages instead of pages long > description of switches/options rarely with any useful real-world usage > case exa

Re: Making yum say what mirror it is downloading from

Fernando Cassia wrote: > Any idea why yum doesn't show by default from what mirror it is > downloading from? that seems to be a feature of the yum-fastestmirror plugin (it does tell you when this is installed). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Turning off SELINUX

On 09/05/2013 01:41 PM, Javier Perez wrote: After reading this, I am turning off SELINUX http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security What, if anything, does this have to do with SELinux? SELinux is all about making sure malicious or badly-written code doe

Re: VMware install problem -

Am 05.09.2013 19:54, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: > On 05/09/13 13:01, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 05.09.2013 18:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: >>> 2013-09-05T12:32:39.424-05:00| vthread-3| I120: The header path >>> "/lib/modules/3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64/build/include"

Re: Turning off SELINUX

Am 05.09.2013 22:41, schrieb Javier Perez: > After reading this, I am turning off SELINUX > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security > > Until I hear of a thorough code review by a non-USA team of this code, I do > not feel safe using it, privacy wise.

Re: Turning off SELINUX

I know SELinux is not about encryption, it is about limiting access to the system AFTER a breach has ocurred. (That is my understanding AFAIK, and that is why I think it is a good idea). My beef is given the NSA origin of this software, It could very well have a backdoor to turn itself off under th

Re: VMware install problem -

Am 05.09.2013 18:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: > 2013-09-05T12:32:39.424-05:00| vthread-3| I120: The header path > "/lib/modules/3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64/build/include" for the kernel > "3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64" is valid. Whoohoo! > 2013-09-05T12:32:43.232-05:00| vthread-3| W110

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

Am 05.09.2013 07:31, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S > wrote: > > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it > would report 21.0 already installed. And > find nothing to do. > > Suppose we're t

Turning off SELINUX

After reading this, I am turning off SELINUX http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security Until I hear of a thorough code review by a non-USA team of this code, I do not feel safe using it, privacy wise. It's a pity because SELINUX is a good idea. -- --

Re: VMware install problem -

On 09/05/2013 03:08 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > However I am still unable to enter the key. It wont even let me type > in the "enter key" box. Yeah, I had this problem too. Try this: sudo /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn xxx (from: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/

Re: Turning off SELINUX

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2013 04:41 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > After reading this, I am turning off SELINUX > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security > > > > Until I hear of a thorough code review by a non-USA team of this

Re: VMware install problem -

On 05/09/13 16:51, Raman Gupta wrote: On 09/05/2013 03:08 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: However I am still unable to enter the key. It wont even let me type in the "enter key" box. Yeah, I had this problem too. Try this: sudo /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn xxx (from: h

Re: Turning off SELINUX

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:41:06 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > After reading this, I am turning off SELINUX > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security > > > Until I hear of a thorough code review by a non-USA team of this code, I > do not feel safe using it,

Re: VMware install problem -

On 05/09/13 14:12, Reindl Harald wrote: you are *not* following the instructions because they are clearly contain these two curl-commands downloading the patches, if you follwed the first step "cd /tmp" to the /tmp directory and the full path is referred by the next steps curl -Ohttp://pkgbuild

Re: run script when USB serial device unplugged?

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:30:38 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Anyone know how to notice when a USB device is removed? Worked out the answer. For some reason when ACTION=="remove" the ATTRS{} match on product and vendor doesn't work, but if I use the ENV{} match on the corresponding environment variables

A Question On Fedora Libcurl Performance

Gentle People: While I thought that this was initially a libcurl problem it may be a DNS or other Fedora problem. This explains the Fedora User Group post. I am using libcurl and some of Curl Website example code as calling routines for a multi-platform project where a webpage is read

Re: A Question On Fedora Libcurl Performance

On 09/05/2013 07:59 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: > Gentle People: > > While I thought that this was initially a libcurl problem it may be a DNS > or other > Fedora problem. This explains the Fedora User Group post. Hi, wireshark will tell you what's happening at the network level. -- Rober

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

Thx for your time, ... On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:14 AM, wrote: > Naturally speaking is supposed to work under wine. All the speech to text > stuff is defunct. > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity > > -Original Message- > From: Jack Craig > Sender: users-boun...@

run script when USB serial device unplugged?

So I'm reading about udev and have this script that does correctly run when I plug in my solidoodle printer: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0483", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/solidoodle-connect" I see an ACTION="add" environment variable inside the script which gets run.

Re: VMware install problem -

On 05/09/13 13:54, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 05/09/13 13:01, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.09.2013 18:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: 2013-09-05T12:32:39.424-05:00| vthread-3| I120: The header path "/lib/modules/3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64/build/include" for the kerne

Re: VMware install problem -

On 05/09/13 13:01, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.09.2013 18:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA: 2013-09-05T12:32:39.424-05:00| vthread-3| I120: The header path "/lib/modules/3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64/build/include" for the kernel "3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64" is valid. Whoohoo! 2013-09-05T1

Speech to text on Fedora?

Hi folks, Anyone doing this on Fedora? TIA, jackc... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedor

VMware install problem -

The trial version of VMware Workstation 9 expired last night. I bought a new version but after the expiration I found it would not accept an entry for a new key so I ran the vmware uninstall app. and installed the new one from scratch. It starts but only runs to the point where I get the messa

Re: Speech to text on Fedora?

Naturally speaking is supposed to work under wine. All the speech to text stuff is defunct. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Original Message- From: Jack Craig Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:08:22 To: Community support f

Re: kernel IO_PAGE_FAULT error messages

On 05.09.2013 15:11, Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote: > On Thursday, September 05, 2013 01:26:02 AM poma wrote: >> On 04.09.2013 16:09, Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> The following message (its one line) is swamping /var/log/messages, >>> occurring many times per second. Does anyone know wha

Re: kernel IO_PAGE_FAULT error messages

On Thursday, September 05, 2013 01:26:02 AM poma wrote: > On 04.09.2013 16:09, Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote: > > Hi > > > > The following message (its one line) is swamping /var/log/messages, > > occurring many times per second. Does anyone know what it means, and > > especially how to fix it, or at

Re: how long (repo update)

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Martin S wrote: > does it usually take for repos to catch up with releases? > Just recently it was announced that Choqok 1.4 contains Once they're processed, updates are pushed nightly and should be on the mirrors in a few hours. To follow along, you can

Re: add to favorites

> - Original Message - > From: Roger > Sent: 09/05/13 11:02 AM > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: add to favorites > > Hi Patrick > have a look at this link, I used it to Fedora 16 but not since. > http://fedoraproject.org/en/using/tutorials/launcher.html > I've forgotten

Re: add to favorites

Hi Patrick have a look at this link, I used it to Fedora 16 but not since. http://fedoraproject.org/en/using/tutorials/launcher.html I've forgotten how to include one's own icon, Did it in the past but not lately tho! Oh yes, -- click on the springy thing icon in the dialog and you can select yo

Re: add to favorites

OK, Additonal question, How can I add my own launcher? or modify an existing favorite? Thank. > On 09/05/2013 07:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In fedora 19, how can I add an application launcher to the favorites menu? > > > > Thank. > > > > > Call it up from by entering the nam

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > irrelevant, Not irrelevant, I was responding to Martin's comment that said "as it would report 21.0 already installed". I wanted for Martin to understand I asked for the default behavior, regardless of whether a given package was already in

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In fact, yum does not have an idea about what is a base package and what > is an update, > it just looks at all the configured repos and selects the newest version. > On the other hand, if you tell yum "--disable-repo=updates", the updates

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

On 09/05/2013 08:39 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> > wrote: > > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do > anything else? > > > I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed the