Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 14/05/14 07:56, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly whe

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/13/2014 05:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Bill Shirley
On 5/13/2014 8:59 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: On 05/13/2014 05:39 PM, Russell Miller wrote: I want to run the same software on all of these machines and having inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to impossible. Using the new names means that my software has to learn all those d

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora > from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when > I display it on the monitor in the meeting room. >... I don't understand why this sh

Re: Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:33 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:17 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:04 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -04

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 17:59:54 -0700, CLOSE Dave wrote: I've done that. The problem seems to be that what I want to do is to /exchange/ the names assigned. One of the renames works but the other fails, claiming the new name is already in use. In other circumstances, I'd use an intermediate n

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> You could learn to love the default udev nomenclature > > Of course the major problem with the new "consistent" names > is they keep changing the software and making the names > consistently different :-). > > The original biosdevname changed

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 May 2014 15:23:27 -1000 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Please help figure out the font selection. I have occasionally poked around in acrobat with a stick and never determined why wacky fonts happen. It seems to depend on the document, and I've sometimes suspected when the document claims t

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
> You could learn to love the default udev nomenclature Of course the major problem with the new "consistent" names is they keep changing the software and making the names consistently different :-). The original biosdevname changed two or three times with the names of the ports on my machine cha

Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am displaying IEEE 802 standard pdfs. In Acrobat that I get for Fedora from Adobe's repo, the font used is basically unreadable, particularly when I display it on the monitor in the meeting room. But switching to Evince document viewer, the fonts are 'normal' and readable by myself and ever

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread CLOSE Dave
On 05/13/2014 05:39 PM, Russell Miller wrote: >> I want to run the same software on all of these machines and >> having inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to >> impossible. Using the new names means that my software has to learn >> all those different names and can't easily

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 5:33 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > > I want to run the same software on all of these machines and having > inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to impossible. > Using the new names means that my software has to learn all those > different names and can't eas

Re: Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:17 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:04 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > > > > I'm kind of at a loss here

Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread CLOSE Dave
I manage a lab with more than a hundred machines, all doing the same things. Presently they are running Fedora 13 and are obviously sorely overdue for an upgrade. But doing an upgrade is likely to present several issues, one of which I'd like to discuss today. The machines come from several man

Re: Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:04 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > > I'm kind of at a loss here. I recently (yesterday, May 12) updated my > > > Fedora 20 laptop (ori

Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-05-06)

2014-05-13 Thread Matthew Miller
Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-05-06/ Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to e

Re: Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > I'm kind of at a loss here. I recently (yesterday, May 12) updated my > > Fedora 20 laptop (originally a fresh install of F20 a couple of months > > ago, no update from

Re: Rather interesting problem with upgrade

2014-05-13 Thread Geovani B. R.
On 05/13/2014 07:30 PM, Roger wrote: Yesterday I upgraded my Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 and find that Grub shows Fedora 20 option, Centos 6.5 option but does not find my ubuntu 14.04LTS installation, instead showing 2 Fedora 19 options. As far as I can tell nothing of Fedora 19 remains. I am unfam

Rather interesting problem with upgrade

2014-05-13 Thread Roger
Yesterday I upgraded my Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 and find that Grub shows Fedora 20 option, Centos 6.5 option but does not find my ubuntu 14.04LTS installation, instead showing 2 Fedora 19 options. As far as I can tell nothing of Fedora 19 remains. I am unfamiliar with how one should get grub to

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 05/13/2014 01:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On May 12, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 05/12/2014 09:36 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: The one limitation with GPT as I understand it is that in order to use GPT you must also have UEFI a

Re: Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:13 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > I'm kind of at a loss here. I recently (yesterday, May 12) updated my > Fedora 20 laptop (originally a fresh install of F20 a couple of months > ago, no update from previous rev). I had previously updated it on April > 30, less tha

Two failures after a recent Fedora 20 update...

2014-05-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
I'm kind of at a loss here. I recently (yesterday, May 12) updated my Fedora 20 laptop (originally a fresh install of F20 a couple of months ago, no update from previous rev). I had previously updated it on April 30, less that 2 weeks ago. Now two critical applications, liferea and evolution, ar

Fedup 19 to 20 fails after stuck keyboard

2014-05-13 Thread linuxnutster
I sent this one to the fedora forum; perhaps somebody here knows the solution: Here's a new one. Right in the middle of using fedup to upgrade F19 to F20, an acquaintance came in, removed his notebook, and promptly dumped his notebook case on the upgrading machine's keyboard. By the time I lo

Re: Fedora 20 update problem

2014-05-13 Thread Roger
On 05/13/2014 02:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/12/2014 07:59 PM, Roger wrote: Where do I go from here? To be more accurate, you were upgrading, not updating, but that's just a matter of terminology. Try running this as root, and see if it reports anything: package-cleanup --problems Thank

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/13/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 13 11:40, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 05/13/2014 11:21 AM, Antonio M wrote: >>> not working here >> >> Seems i'm not the sole exception :-) >> >> Even if starting without extensions (-safe-mode) I have no favicon. > > https://addons.mozi

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/13/2014 12:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/13/14 17:40, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 05/13/2014 11:21 AM, Antonio M wrote: >>> not working here >> Seems i'm not the sole exception :-) >> >> Even if starting without extensions (-safe-mode) I have no favicon. > > OK Maybe my idea of f

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/13/14 17:40, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 05/13/2014 11:21 AM, Antonio M wrote: >> not working here > Seems i'm not the sole exception :-) > > Even if starting without extensions (-safe-mode) I have no favicon. OK Maybe my idea of favicons is different that yours? I get the "icon" of

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 13 11:40, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 05/13/2014 11:21 AM, Antonio M wrote: > > not working here > > Seems i'm not the sole exception :-) > > Even if starting without extensions (-safe-mode) I have no favicon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/classic-style-for-favicons/

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/13/2014 11:21 AM, Antonio M wrote: > not working here Seems i'm not the sole exception :-) Even if starting without extensions (-safe-mode) I have no favicon. Joachim Backes > > > 2014-05-13 11:14 GMT+02:00 Ed Greshko : > >> On 05/13/14 15:46, Joachim Backes wrote: >>> Since some (

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Antonio M
not working here 2014-05-13 11:14 GMT+02:00 Ed Greshko : > On 05/13/14 15:46, Joachim Backes wrote: > > Since some (??) firefox version (my current version is > > firefox-29.0-5.fc20.x86_64) favicons don't work. I'm sure that in some > > earlier firefox versions they were supported. This iss

Re: Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/13/14 15:46, Joachim Backes wrote: > Since some (??) firefox version (my current version is > firefox-29.0-5.fc20.x86_64) favicons don't work. I'm sure that in some > earlier firefox versions they were supported. This issue seems to be > distribution independent. > > Anybody knows when the su

Firefox and favicons

2014-05-13 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, Since some (??) firefox version (my current version is firefox-29.0-5.fc20.x86_64) favicons don't work. I'm sure that in some earlier firefox versions they were supported. This issue seems to be distribution independent. Anybody knows when the support will resume? Kind regards Joachim B