Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 13:59 -0400, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: > Cool! I just downloaded and installed it. It installed without a hitch > with Virtualbox, though Microsoft insisted I create an account -- which > I've never done before. I didn't know that Win 10 was free from > Microsoft. I

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2017, fred roller sent: > This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of > charge. > > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO Have they changed to a new business model? Some kind of try before you buy scheme? (I re

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:35:18 - "William Mattison" wrote: > (replying to all three messages) > > When I boot, the bios display says it is UEFI. Am I > mis-understanding what that means? Am I mis-using the term? Your system supports efi, but it seems you aren't using it. > > My /boot dire

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread William Mattison
(replying to all three messages) When I boot, the bios display says it is UEFI. Am I mis-understanding what that means? Am I mis-using the term? My /boot directory has only two sub-directories: "grub" and "grub2", no sub-directory "efi". Each of the two sub-directories has a file called "gru

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:16:49 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/27/2017 01:05 PM, stan wrote: > > But, I think you might have to fix the /etc/fstab file also before > > you do the above. If you cloned the drive, it will still be using > > the block ids for the previous drive in the /etc/fstab. > >

Re: Unable to bring TigerVNC server to get a remote display of other than the default 1024x768 in FC25

2017-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/17 01:46, Walter H. wrote: > On 27.06.2017 19:23, Walter H. wrote: >> xrandr only shows >> >> Screen 0: minimum 32 x 32, current 1024 x 768, maximum 32768 x 32768 >> VNC-0 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm >>1600x1200 60.00 + >>1920x1200 60.00 >>1920x1080 60.

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2017 01:05 PM, stan wrote: But, I think you might have to fix the /etc/fstab file also before you do the above. If you cloned the drive, it will still be using the block ids for the previous drive in the /etc/fstab. This is why fstab uses the UUID by default, and you should too. Cloni

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread stan
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:12:29 -0600 William wrote: > I want the grub menu to offer the three most recent patches of > Fedora, the most recent Fedora rescue shell, and windows-7, in that > order. (This is a dual-boot system.) And I want the shells launched > by the menu entries to be correct. How

how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2017-06-27 Thread William
Good afternoon, I found out the rather hard way what caused those boot failure problems that were the subject of a threat starting last month. After my weekly "dnf upgrade" last Thursday, I checked my root e-mail, and found the hard drive had 8 bad sectors, then 16 bad sectors. A smartctl sh

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread vendor
On 2017-06-27 11:02, fred roller wrote: This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of charge. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO Virtual software on Fedora is free of charge. For simple programs you should not need a stand alone system. If,

Re: Unable to bring TigerVNC server to get a remote display of other than the default 1024x768 in FC25

2017-06-27 Thread Walter H.
On 27.06.2017 19:23, Walter H. wrote: xrandr only shows Screen 0: minimum 32 x 32, current 1024 x 768, maximum 32768 x 32768 VNC-0 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1600x1200 60.00 + 1920x1200 60.00 1920x1080 60.00 1680x1050 60.00 1400x1050 60.00 1360

Re: Unable to bring TigerVNC server to get a remote display of other than the default 1024x768 in FC25

2017-06-27 Thread Walter H.
On 26.06.2017 05:10, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/26/17 01:19, Walter H. wrote: Hello, I did nearly the same as here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-TigerVNC.html#s3-configuring-vnc-server by the way this ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l USER -c "/usr/b

Thunderbird needs update

2017-06-27 Thread SternData
There's a bug in TB 52.2.0 that causes TB to lose track of imap accounts and download stuff again and again, when it's not crashting. "Problems with Gmail (folders not showing, repeated email download, etc.) introduced in version 52.2.0." This is supposed to be fixed in 52.2.1. Unfortunately, it

github/rupy project help!

2017-06-27 Thread bruce
I know. Way off base. I'm trying to find a resource to fix restore a github app. The app's Github url is. --- lockitron - https://github.com/lockitron I've placed requests on different sites. So thought I'd post here to see if anyone might have thoughts on where I can post as well. Basically

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread fred roller
This link will get you the win10 .iso image to burn, should be free of charge. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO Virtual software on Fedora is free of charge. For simple programs you should not need a stand alone system. If, however, you do need a full system then t

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:02:07 -0400 ven...@billoblog.com wrote: > Do you know if those OEM $39 > distros will actually work in Virtualbox? I bought the cheapest OEM Windows 7 I could find from a legitimate source (I don't remember how much I paid, I think it was 50 or 60 bucks). I was able to ins

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread vendor
On 2017-06-27 08:49, fred roller wrote: Glad you found your solution. I will agree with Tom on building a basic virtual windows machine for these odd non-crossover. You don't need to register it as, in your case and a few times I have needed similar, one can simply fire up the vm and use for a

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread fred roller
Glad you found your solution. I will agree with Tom on building a basic virtual windows machine for these odd non-crossover. You don't need to register it as, in your case and a few times I have needed similar, one can simply fire up the vm and use for a simple purpose. A non-registered OS will

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread vendor
Apparently, it's very proprietary. I've asked around and all the lawyers I know say you have to download the e-transcript software, which only runs on Mac or Windows. I ended up calling the lawyer, and they translated into a PDF for me. Thanks for trying! billo On 2017-06-20 16:51, stan wr

Re: ACPI errors revisited

2017-06-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/06/17 00:26, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/26/17 23:01, John Pilkington wrote: A few weeks ago I started seeing error lines on a black screen at the start of the f25 boot process, but only recently have I found them in dmesg and examined them. [0.110117] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): \_SB.PCI0._

Re: Cannot get PHP to talk to PostgreSQL (Resolved)

2017-06-27 Thread Stephen Davies
On 27 June 2017 9:03:24 AM GMT+07:00, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On 06/25/2017 01:41 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: >> The RoundCube installation went smoothly and I checked that the >PostgreSQL extensions were included inthe PHP configuration. >> (Initially, I had duplicate extension= entries but the htt