Installing NVIDIA drivers killed wireless...

2025-02-06 Thread Bill Oliver via users
I have an ASUS ROG Strix laptop running Fedora 41, KDE spin.   It was working OK, though there were some screen issues.  So, I installed akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion.  All the screen issues cleared up, but I lost wireless networking.   There's no wireless device, it seems.  The networking widget ju

Re: I need grep . help

2024-09-09 Thread Bill Oliver
The escape works only if you include everything in quotes, in my experience, e.g. cat jnk: 9.1.2 9n4n4 9.4.4 9.3.3 grep 9\.4\.4 jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9.4.4" jnk: 9n4n4 9.4.4 grep "9\.4\.4" jnk: 9.4.4 billo On Sun, 2024-09-08 at 18:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/8/24 6:10 PM,

Is there an equivalent of Ubuntu Pro for Fedora?

2024-07-13 Thread Bill Oliver
I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because some software I used was available in binary form only in that distro.  Recently, I've moved back to Fedora.   One thing i took advantage of when I was using Ubuntu was the free level one Ubuntu Pro program that provided some usefu

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 13:10 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > [snip] > For a lot of "public" wifi networks, it's not even a firewall, it's > that > the access points are set to client isolation mode (so the AP only > allows clients to talk to the gateway).  It's basically an extra > security layer

Re: Hotel wifi network - how to connect / ssh between 2 laptops

2024-03-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 10:09 -0600, Sbob wrote: > All > > > I have 2 laptops I need to connect for testing / coding via ssh, if I > connect each to the hotel wifi I cannot connect across laptops with > ssh, > If I grab a wifi router and connect it to the hotel wifi and use the > router's wifi wi

Re: rsync very slow

2023-10-30 Thread Bill Oliver
Linux is notoriously slow for large copies over usb3. The reading I've done on it seems to suggest that it has to do with how buffering in RAM works. There doesn't seem to be an elegant solution. Some solutions posted are: 1) Make sure the external drive is ext4 or other linux-friendly format

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 11:52 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 5/19/21 9:58 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > The CentOS developers seem to be moving to a new workalike called > > Rocky > > Linux: > > Rocky Linux was created by a former CentOS developer (one of the > foun

Re: Honest Questions -- Trying to decide on version of linux/os

2021-05-19 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 11:23 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On 19 May at 11:16, Terry Polzin wrote: > > Actually you may be better off with CENTOS for stability. > > Except Redhat has dropped CentOS. They announced it in December; > lessee...here's an article: > > The CentOS developers seem t

Re: Concealing posts with email address

2021-01-21 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 17:55 +, Am Titan wrote: > Someone? > > I need to contact an admin before my mailbox is starting to get > spammed. > > Hyperkitty Fedora Admin, Please? > ___ > I don't think you can hide the email address in this list. Some

Re: Is it possible to create an email-only user in fedora linux?

2021-01-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > Am 11.01.2021 um 19:24 schrieb Bill Oliver : > > > > So, I am setting up some forum software on a VPS server I have > > rented > > and would like to invite users to have access to the forum *and* an >

Re: Is it possible to create an email-only user in fedora linux?

2021-01-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 13:04 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 1/11/21 11:24 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > Is there a better way to do this? > > If memory serves, you can specify that the user isn't able to log in; > I > think the option is nologin. If not, you can always

Is it possible to create an email-only user in fedora linux?

2021-01-11 Thread Bill Oliver
So, I am setting up some forum software on a VPS server I have rented and would like to invite users to have access to the forum *and* an email account, but nothing else. I have dovecot set up, and make roundcube available as the web-based mail client. The only thing I know to do is to add them a

Re: Search engines -

2020-12-18 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 16:19 -0500, Bill Oliver wrote: > [snip] > Note that this is for my personal use, and so it's clunky, and there > are no guarantees. Also, if you choose one of the multipage search > options, you have to turn off popup blocking. Finally, if you do > mul

Re: Search engines -

2020-12-18 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 10:57 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I think that Google has become nearly useless. If my search term > includes a word that triggers their advertising I am overwhelmed > with > responses that have little relationship to my query, it amounts to > being > overwhelmed with comme

Re: linux command "shred"

2019-12-11 Thread Bill Oliver
Funny you should mention that. I have a bunch of old laptops I have never gotten around to throwing away because I didn't want to just dump my hard drives somewhere without cleaning them up. I've made a router jig just for that purpose. billo On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 08:44 -0400, George N. White

Re: e-mail security. [SOLVED]

2018-12-02 Thread Bill Oliver
Sorry for the top post, but my phone seems to insist on it using K9 mail. Anyway, I keep an old smartphone that I no longer use -- I have moved my SIM card to my current phone. It can still connect to WiFi, though. I use it to try out dodgy links. I figure there's little loss if it gets scre

Re: [Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

2015-11-24 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I do it quite often. It does work, but you may find that some things depend on which Desktop *Manager* you use (gdm, kdm, sddm, ...) as they don't all support each other equally well. The specific manager you're running (probably gdm for you) does

Re: Multi-OS setup: dual/multi-boot vs virtualbox

2015-10-25 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/26/2015 05:55 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I'm a novice at assessing the question of multi-boot vs using virtualbox [snip] Sounds as if you're asking for opinions. So, I'll give you mine. I've never used dual-boot and never saw the need in my us

How do I install rpmfusion packages in Fedora 23 beta?

2015-09-25 Thread Bill Oliver
Just for kicks, I decided to play a bit with Fedora 23 beta. Yes, I know it's not supposed to work like a production distro, but I thought it would be fun to poke around on it a little. I sorta need to install a couple of packages from rpmfusion, though. Unfortunately, they don't have a Fe

Re: ImageMagick: possibly OT

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Am 17.09.2015 um 19:36 schrieb Bill Oliver: On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: You can also write a little script for gimp if you don't want to do it interactively.

Re: ImageMagick: possibly OT

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: I want to crop a PNG picture. I see how to do it with ImageMagick, once I know the pixel-positions of the corners of the rectangle. I'm wondering if there is a way of imposing a grid to read these numbers, either with ImageMag

Re: ImageMagick: possibly OT

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Bill Oliver wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: I want to crop a PNG picture. I see how to do it with ImageMagick, once I know the pixel-positions of the corners of the rectangle. I'm wondering if there is a way of imposing a grid to read these nu

Re: ImageMagick: possibly OT

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: I want to crop a PNG picture. I see how to do it with ImageMagick, once I know the pixel-positions of the corners of the rectangle. I'm wondering if there is a way of imposing a grid to read these numbers, either with ImageMagick or some other applicat

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-07-01 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01Jul2015 10:19, jd1008 wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:02 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote: > > > > Personally I tend to use a nontexty character for this kind of > > > placeholder, such as ^G. Less risk of excountering th

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-06-30 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote: [snip] Here is the simplest solution and it does what I want without resorting to awk: for i in `/bin/ls -1 lists*`; do sed '/./{H;d;};x;s/\n/={NL}=/g' $i | sort | sed '1s/={NL}=//;s/={NL}=/\n/g' > $i.sorted.txt done I bow before a Master. So, I'm try

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-06-29 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote: On 06/29/2015 03:39 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno dom, 28/06/2015 alle 18.38 -0600, jd1008 ha scritto: > Hi, > I have text files made of paragraphs of text, separated by > blank lines. > > Each "paragraph" is information about a different item. > >

F22 no loading Virtuabox kernel module

2015-06-03 Thread Bill Oliver
Man, I'm having a fit with F22 right now. Still can't get grub to recognize my Win 8 loader for dual boot, and now I can't get VirtualBox to run. Sigh. VirtualBox had been doing OK until I did the most recent upgrades, which included a kernel upgrade. Then I got the ever popular "there ain't

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-30 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 29 May 2015, Christopher Bachner wrote: You can find bootmgr.exe on your Windows 7 Disk. If the system partition has been removed,  I don’t think you are actually screwed. Sorry, I think it was not clear enough. I meant Windows 7 Installation Disk. Thanks for the suggestion. I

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-30 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 30 May 2015, Pete Travis wrote: Look in /boot/efi/EFI.  There should be Microsoft files there.  If not, they are... in c:\Windows\something...  I'll check notes if need be but mostly replying to point out: on a UEFI system, the grub config is at /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg - not th

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-29 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 30 May 2015, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 13:54, Bill Oliver wrote: Date sent: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:54:14 + (UTC) From: Bill Oliver To: "Michael D. Setzer II" Copies to: Community support

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-29 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote: 1) Install ntfs "support" yum install -y epel-release yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs Someone else mentioned this, but I inadvertently deleted the post. Nonetheless: %dnf install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs Last metadata expiration check

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-29 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 29 May 2015, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: [snip] I was going to recommand the grub2-mkconfig, but you show it isn't finding the windows? With my Fedora 21, I ran it with an strace to see what it was doing to find the windows 7 that I have on machine. Seems it is the following. /etc/gru

Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-28 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +, Bill Oliver wrote: Help! I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out yesterday, I jumped to it. I in

I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

2015-05-28 Thread Bill Oliver
Help! I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out yesterday, I jumped to it. I installed it without a problem, but the Windows option is no longer listed. The Windows partitions are still there(th

Re: Firefox Thumbnails

2015-05-06 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 6 May 2015, jd1008 wrote: FF does not seem to have a setting that disables/enables display of thumbnails from browsing history. Has anyone figured out how to do this? If you mean the tiles, you can turn that off by clicking on the little gear-looking thing in the upper right corner

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:24:32 -0700 Randy Wyatt wrote: Any ideas? I've had at least two separate linksys NIC cards die like this. The MAC would be randomly different on each power cycle. I chucked those cards in the recycle bin :-). If these are built

Re: WiFi restoration

2015-04-25 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/25/15 18:18, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm running Fedora/KDE, and I don't see anything called "Airplane mode" (or Airplane anything) in KNetworkManager. I don't know what you mean by "KNetworkManager" but I am running F21/KDE. I am using "kde-plasma-

Re: /tmp vs /var/tmp

2015-04-13 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Is there a setting that controls where temporary files are stored (/tmp vs /var/tmp)? When I did a fresh install of F21 temporary files such as the pdf ones opened by Firefox are now stored in /tmp; before they were stored in /var/tmp. Mu

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-24 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 17:50 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: OK I'm going to display some total KDE ignorance here, hopefully a KDE user can answer this. Note that there's a Fedora-KDE list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde H

Re: Which scanning application for colour-profiled scanner?

2015-03-20 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, Tim Waugh wrote: Hi, I've used gnome-color-manager to generate an ICC profile for my scanner using an IT8.7/2 target I ordered. The next step, obviously, is to scan something. I was trying to work out how to set up xsane to use the profile I'd generated, but I'm having tro

Re: [ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

2015-03-09 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 06:32:22PM -0300, Martin Cigorraga wrote: I'm a newcomer to Fedora and still learning its ways so excuse me if my question sounds stupid. Now, I want to remove GNOME from my install as I use i3; from what I saw there's no gnome-grou

Re: rsyslog

2015-03-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Pete Travis wrote: If my tone at the beginning suggested otherwise, it was because I've seen threads like this turn into "I like the old thing fine so Fedora should not use the new thing" many, many times.  The discussion is never productive and rarely based on any techn

Re: End of 32-bit support?

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:12:23 + (UTC) Bill Oliver wrote: I recently read an interesting article recently that suggested that Fedora 23 might be 64-bit only: See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-23-64-bit-Proposal

End of 32-bit support?

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Oliver
I recently read an interesting article recently that suggested that Fedora 23 might be 64-bit only: See: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-23-64-bit-Proposal It's not a big deal to me -- all of my boxes are fairly modern. However, I thought one of the big selling points

Re: man sections

2014-12-23 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections. 1 Executable programs or shell commands 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) 3 Library calls (function

Re: Tuijgcfyuijbcxttyewwhb

2014-12-19 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Ted Roche wrote: Perhaps you should rephrase your query in the form of a question. Gfdxvjkjvxddghn.mnn  cfy ? billo (sorry, couldn't resist) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

[SOLVED]Re: Network problem. Is this a fedora issue?

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 15:06 +, Bill Oliver wrote: Over the past few weeks, basically since I moved to Fedora21, there are extended periods where I simply cannot get to web pages using http. Things will work fine for hours, and then stop for hours, and then

Re: 21 beta -> 21

2014-12-10 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Andras Simon wrote: 2014-12-10 17:35 GMT+01:00, Bill Oliver : On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Andras Simon wrote: Following suggestions in this list, I'm trying to use yum distro-sync to update a Fedora 21 beta laptop to Fedora 21, but yum wants to remove my running kernel (3

Re: 21 beta -> 21

2014-12-10 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Andras Simon wrote: Following suggestions in this list, I'm trying to use yum distro-sync to update a Fedora 21 beta laptop to Fedora 21, but yum wants to remove my running kernel (3.17.4-302.fc21.x86_64) and downgrade 87 packages. Should I go ahead with this? Andras I d

Network problem. Is this a fedora issue?

2014-12-10 Thread Bill Oliver
I'm trying to figure out a networking issue, and I can't tell if it is a fedora thing or not. Here's the issue: I work at a place where the wired network has very strict security. One can go to very few web pages, one has very limited access to applications, every box has a keystroke logger

Re: Questions about Fedora 14 Workstation

2014-12-09 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Jeffrey Needle wrote: Just downloaded the .iso and installed it on my desktop.  Really nice! The repositories seem to be a bit limited, though.  No Chrome or Chromium, but I've installed it directly from Google's download page.  And I need the program gpart in order to atte

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-27 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 11/27/2014 11:34 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 20:47:25 +, > Bill Oliver wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: > > > > Actually,

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-27 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 20:47:25 +, Bill Oliver wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: Actually, let me be more specific. Let's say I have data on a flash drive that is encrypted using gpg. We can even say the flash drive itse

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/26/2014 12:47 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: Now let's say that flash drive is stolen, lost, etc. *and* the passphrase is compromised. I want the data on the flash drive to be available *only on one computer* even if the passphrase is known.

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 17:39:34 +, Bill Oliver wrote: > > For the HP issue, the fix is easy -- you just delete the command to > check during boot up. But, I was thinking about t

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bill Oliver
. So, when you encrypt, you incorporate that data into the encrypted file(s), then remove the thumb drive. On 11/26/2014 10:39 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: I was thinking about the infamous "code purple error" for HP computers, where Windows is keyed to the hardware of the machine. If you sw

Re: Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 17:39:34 +, Bill Oliver wrote: For the HP issue, the fix is easy -- you just delete the command to check during boot up. But, I was thinking about this as an encryption option -- where one could encrypt files in a

Somewhat OT, encryption question

2014-11-26 Thread Bill Oliver
I was thinking about the infamous "code purple error" for HP computers, where Windows is keyed to the hardware of the machine. If you swap out a hard drive or change a card, it won't boot. Apparently, there is a "tattoo" of various hardware identifiers in static memory somewhere and the OS m

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-19 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 21:25 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:36:46 +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes pretty good sense for a private box

Port knocking script/server for fedora?

2014-11-18 Thread Bill Oliver
I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes pretty good sense for a private box, at least for stuff like ssh and ftp. Does anybody know of a good tutorial/example/script for fedora for this? Thanks! billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: HP Envy Touchpad button problems

2014-11-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, fedora wrote: Hi Gary i own an HP EliteBook with similar touchpad as you describe. I followed the instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics but was only partially happy, to say the least: 1. single tap as click left mouse button works practic

Re: Clearing the unallocated disk space

2014-11-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 11/17/14 12:58, Tim wrote: There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did have the previous owners data on them. Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've just heard about? The reason I ask this is I

Re: Kudos to the Fedora 21 team

2014-11-08 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Mike Chambers wrote: On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:20 +, Bill Oliver wrote: Thanks for the suggestion -- as a diehard KDE fan, I'm always excited by new KDE toys. But... what am I supposed to be noticing? I mean, I like KDE, and this works, so I like it. But I

Re: Kudos to the Fedora 21 team

2014-11-07 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: F21 has been awesome all along. I installed alpha release a few days ago and it was as good as any stable release would be. While you are at it you should try Plasma 5 which IMHO the best and the most beautiful desktop experience. https://ask.fedorapr

Kudos to the Fedora 21 team

2014-11-07 Thread Bill Oliver
I like to bitch a lot on mailinglists, so I thought it's only fair to post a congrats as well. I just installed the 21 beta. For hygeine reasons, I prefer clean installs to upgrades, so I can't comment on the upgrade process, but the install for me went flawlessly. I easily groupinstalled

Is there a "real" 3d desktop for Fedora?

2014-10-28 Thread Bill Oliver
This talk about desktop in the no-maintenance thread got me thinking. Some years ago when I was still using Windows, I played around with a 3D desktop that had a cute virtual environment with 3d-ish rooms, etc where you could stash applications. Back in the day, it was called "3DNA." I thin

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-28 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 11:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: Why don't you install Fedora and put up with having to use an external repo for non-free stuff (if necessary) and upgrading every 6 months or so? For some people, or lots of people, upgrading every 6 months is a h

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-27 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:24 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 10/23/2014 12:46 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 19:11 -0600, jd1008 wrote: Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Along with other suggestions, consider the support aspect. If they can't do i

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

2014-10-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I am able to backup files with this command:  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels but I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup I tried in many different way:  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Am 18.10.2014 um 01:41 schrieb Bill Oliver: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:08 + Bill Oliver > wrote: > > > > 3) One specific statistics package th

Re: Can Fedora change the MAC address?

2014-10-18 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Can Fedora 20 by itself change the MAC address? Thank in advance, Paul http://www.billoblog.com/?p=1252 billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What I mean is that R has the capability of generating PDFs, and R has the capability of calculating various goodness of fit measures, but if you want to check goodness of fit measures against, say, 50 PDFs, then you have to write the package. It's eas

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Rolf Turner wrote: It would be a bit of work, although not an overwhelming intellectual challenge, to produce an R package that would do essentially the same thing as "easyfit". There are a number of questions that would have to be addressed of course. E.g. just how do

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:08 + Bill Oliver wrote: 3) One specific statistics package that I use about four times a year Just curious: what is this specific statistics package that you use about four times a year? R can not substitute

RE: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Funny, one sees these questions on the lists of all distros With regards to filling-in form, sometimes one can manage around it, like Silvia wrote. But when it comes to official PDF's from (regional) gouvernements, TAXes, etc etc, that are

Re: Off topic -- Can anybody tell me what this means?

2014-10-06 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:07:16PM +, Bill Oliver wrote: First, I apologize for this not being fedora-specific, but I just got the oddest email. It looks like an intrusion attempt, trying to get sendmail to execute a perl script. Is anybody

Off topic -- Can anybody tell me what this means?

2014-10-06 Thread Bill Oliver
First, I apologize for this not being fedora-specific, but I just got the oddest email. It looks like an intrusion attempt, trying to get sendmail to execute a perl script. Is anybody familiar with this particular pattern? The email is below. Thanks, billo Return-Path: Received: from ince

Re: SpoofMAC

2014-09-16 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 09/16/2014 08:11 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 18:11:03 +0300, > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC > > > > Has anyone use

Re: SpoofMAC

2014-09-16 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 18:11:03 +0300, Robert Moskowitz wrote: https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC Has anyone used this? I will be using it to test the impact of using randomized local MAC addresses. I would like to have a Gnome widget that I ca

Re: Doing "Secure Documents" in Fedora

2014-09-15 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Mickey wrote: On 09/13/2014 01:39 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 09/13/2014 11:56 AM, Mickey wrote: > Fedora 20/KDE > > How do you use Secure Documents in Fedora ? > > Secure Documents like someone that wants to send you MONEY is that some sort of brand name or produc

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Ralf Corsepius wrote: ... Then let me turn this story around: Where would systemd be if Poettering wasn't RH-employed and if RH wasn't backing him? Nowhere. It would be an anecdotal footnote in Linux history, nobody would remember. Conversely, it's entirely silly and ar

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/12/2014 04:13 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: And I'm not saying that it's all bad -- open source systems go the way developers want it to go, I'd consider this to be an urban legend, which may have applied in the past. These days open

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-11 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Mike Wright wrote: I've been holding my nose and keeping my mouth shut for the last couple of years but I have to concur. Time was, a signature with `uptime` showing many hundreds of days, if not multiple years, was a badge of honor. Now people cavalierly toss out, ".

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-11 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 17:33 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:30:11PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: There are plenty of complaints that can be *legitimately* leveled against systemd. The correct way to do this ... With all d

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Bill Oliver
I thought it was for systems where you had automatic logins. I've never set up my boxes that way, so I've never watched it happen. But if you really had a machine that would go from poweron to desktop without stopping for a login, you might not get the chance to change desktops the normal wa

Re: ssh problems

2014-09-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Aaron Konstam wrote: I have two machines on a Local LAN. Machine A can ssh and sftp to Machine B. But ssh on Machine B to Machine A results in port 22 connection refused. How can this be fixed and or port 22 be opened? The two things that I forget about when I set up a ma

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Tom Horsley wrote: I've given up using anaconda on my targets. I almost always install now into a virtual machine, partition a hard disk manually, then guestmout and rsync the virtual install onto a real disk partitioned the way I want it :-). Need to clean up UUIDs and su

Re: Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

2014-08-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:25:16 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight

[Solved] Re: Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

2014-08-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:25:16 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight

Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

2014-08-03 Thread Bill Oliver
I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight it and hit ctl-c or to copy it or ctl-v to paste it. Is there anything analogous to "named registers" in vim that will allow me to copy into different buffers (or, in vi

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, JD wrote: /snip/ Well don't leave us all hanging! Tell us what the problem was! --doug Perhaps the OP is just too embarrassed? :) :) Been there, done that... billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: eth0 again

2014-07-21 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 07/20/2014 09:39 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: It's doing exactly the opposite of what I want. Have you tried this? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-rename-ethernet-devices-named-using-udev/ -- I have the same issue, and I don't have this

Re: eth0 again

2014-07-20 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Amadeus W.M. wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:59:15 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: That's why I'm so baffled. Neither the old nor the new methods work. If I boot interactively, what should I be looking for? Has anybody referred you to this? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/12/2014 11:43 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: I really am starting to see this as an example of the Microsoft-ish philosophy of "tell the users where they must go and let them catch up as they can." It works when the users don't have any ot

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Edward M wrote: On 07/12/14 09:43, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. Or... file a bug if you think you have fou

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, David Benfell wrote: Russell Miller writes: > I regard what you say as abusive because you are using the accusation of mental illness as a weapon. That is intolerable. I agree. It is intolerable. For the record, I never accused anyone of mental illness and I am not qua

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, David Benfell wrote: So in your view, I have no right to object to his behavior but you have a right to object to my objection? Something ain't right there. Some things are above criticism. It's important that you know your place. billo -- users mailing list users@list

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 5 Jul 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/05/2014 04:21 PM, Tim wrote: The old system was considered bad, because it had 6 run levels, of which a few of them were never used. Now we have 12? I didn't exactly like systemd when it first came out, but I've gotten used to it. And, like it or

Re: Sudden onset ftp problem - can't ftp through vpn

2014-07-02 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, poma wrote: Yeah, it would be good to hear from the service provider that everything is OK on their side, so you're 120% sure. It is always good practice. poma, Actually, cotse.net is one of the more responsive companies I've dealt with. They don't do much hand-holdi

Re: Sudden onset ftp problem - can't ftp through vpn

2014-07-02 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Bill Oliver wrote: No joy. I have a support call into my virtual machine vendor. I'll see if they have any words of wisdom. billo Well, for what it's worth, I still don't know why this happens but: 1) My vendor hasn't changed anything recent

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