Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-12 Thread Darr
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 @12:46 zulu, Tim scribed: > Well, it /could/ stop either threat, however we don't run SELinux > as tightly as it could be run. I'm not sure who "we" is, but I run it in restricted mode and rarely even get told something has mislabeled files... and when I do get s

Yet another problem with this list (was: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?)

2011-02-12 Thread Darr
On Friday, February 11, 2011 @23:22 zulu, Fernando Cassia scribed: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Darr wrote: >> On Thursday, February 10, 2011 @21:49 zulu, Fernando Cassia >> scribed (twice): >> >>> Are you using a time machine to report news, from t

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Darr
On Thursday, February 10, 2011 @22:35 zulu, Rahul Sundaram scribed: > but this has absolutely nothing to do with viruses and > anti-viruses tools are not going to help against security exploits > > Rahul Wouldn't SELinux stop that, anyway? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Darr
On Thursday, February 10, 2011 @21:49 zulu, Fernando Cassia scribed (twice): > Are you using a time machine to report news, from the past? look > at the dates... > > Published: Mar 07 2010 12:00AM > Updated: Apr 27 2010 02:22PM > > FC Please don't CC to fedora-l...@redhat.com Thanks. :-) --

CC'ing to fedora-l...@redhat.com (was "where is the gedit dictionary?")

2011-02-01 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 @00:38 zulu, Frank Cox scribed: > gedit uses aspell for its spelling checker > > http://aspell.net/ I believe the fedora-l...@redhat.com address has been deprecated... But cc'ing to fedora-l...@redhat.com AND still results in 2 copies in the digest. It looks lik

Re: newbie wireless question

2011-01-25 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 @17:14 zulu, Adel ESSAFI scribed: > Any input will help. "Any" input? OK! 1) In GMail, after clicking Reply, please click the 'Plain Text' link above the text entry area. 2) please don't "top post" in replies. Both topics are covered in http://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: wireless usb adapter for fedora core 13

2011-01-19 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @11:03 zulu, Suraj Polade scribed: > Hi, > I want to bye new wireless USB adapter, > I am using Fedora core 13 operating system > > can i get the suggestion which USB adapter i should bye, that > will work with Fedora Core without any problem > > Thanks in adva

Re: Printing directly on DVD

2011-01-09 Thread Darr
> Question: for Epson Artisan 810, what is the tray type? > 1 or 2? Where might I go to find that out? Almost-certainly it's type 2. Type 1 dimensions appear to be for older wide carriage printers, and my R1800 uses the same tray as my R800. CUPS prints to CD/DVD fine on both, connected to a DL

Re: Question/Problem creating a live USB

2011-01-01 Thread Darr
Try $ sudo /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr /path/to/yourimage.iso /dev/sdb (assuming the stick mounts as /dev/sdb.) The extra parameters should format the thumbdrive and make its sector 0 a standard MBR, also. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Darr
On Monday, 27 December, 2010 @02:09 zulu, Peter Boy scribed: > Do I have a chance to successfully reuse an existing Cat 3 cable (8 I didn't see anyone else suggest this, so I'll just mention that if you can remove the staples at each end (it's probably not stapled in the middle, unless it was ins

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-26 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 26 December, 2010 @16:36 zulu, Tim scribed: > Usually, it's just a galvanised iron guywire strung between > buildings, turnbuckles at each end, with the electric wires > strapped to it every couple of feet. For what it's worth, the support cable is called the "messenger." -- users ma

Re: bluetooth mouse suddenly stopped working

2010-12-25 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 25 December, 2010 @10:28 zulu, François Patte scribed: > Bonjour, > > I have a logitech V470 bluetooth mouse which did work fine up to > day > > This morning, it no more works! Cells are OK. > > I tried hctool scan and it does not see the mouse, except if I press a > small button

Re: Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?

2010-12-11 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 09 December, 2010 @13:48 zulu, Richard Shaw scribed: > That's what I was looking for. It seems rather kludgy to rely > on yum sorting the repo's and using them in a particular order > even though that's what yum-plugins-local does. The yum-plugin-local app makes/keeps a copy of ever

Re: apxl file under Fedora?

2010-12-10 Thread Darr
On Friday, 10 December, 2010 @ 12:02 zulu, S Mathias scribed: > I got a file from a friend: > > asfd.apxl > > it's some kind of xml > > with what could i open this file under Fedora 14? > > Thank you for any tips! A more-relevant link *might* have been http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+apxl+file+fedora

Re: Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?

2010-12-08 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 08 December, 2010 @16:57 zulu, Richard Shaw scribed: > I copied all the packages from the F14 x86_64 installation disc into a > directory (/var/local/packages/fedora/14...) and then ran createrepo > on it. I setup a new repo file called local.repo. > > It recognizes the repo fine bu

Re: Any Dittoheads out there?

2010-11-26 Thread Darr
Did you try the InfoRSS add-on in Firefox? It looks like you should be able to enter http://rss.premiereradio.net/rushlimb/podcast.xml and your subscription credentials on the Advanced tab in the Synchronization section. I'm not a subscriber, so I can't try it... but if he offers them in an RSS f

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-22 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 21 November, 2010 @15:39 zulu, Robert G. (Doc) Savage scribed: > Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs > Help] menubar in gnome-terminal on my Thinkpad laptop. The "show In GEdit, do Open and browse to /usr/share/doc/gnome-globalmenu-0.7.8/ and open the

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-16 Thread Darr
On Monday, 15 November, 2010 @04:16 zulu, Juan R. de Silva scribed: > With i8krellm I always kept the CPU temperature below 48 degrees C. > True - fans run a lot. But again, fan is a cheap part. I could never get the i8k plugin for GKrellem to work... seemed like it was looking for its files in

Re: F14 disc labels

2010-11-11 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 11 November, 2010 @12:16 zulu, Robert G. (Doc) Savage scribed: > Many thanks to Alexander Smirnov! He has repackaged his beautiful > Fedora 14 artwork into individual disc labels (one per image). This > should make it a lot easier for folks to print their own labels. > > http://inksca

Re: UUID

2010-10-24 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 24 October, 2010 @12:27 zulu, Patrick Dupre scribed: > There is probably a tool to change the mounting point of the > /etc/fstab file to UUID automatically ? Anaconda does it automatically. :-) I'd be interested in a standalone tool with that feature, too. The only way I know how to d

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 23 October, 2010 @21:11 zulu, sumatheja scribed: > i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried > changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one > dint work. Why not just start out mounting it in /etc/fstab with the owner and group (e.g. UI

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 17 October, 2010 @12:07 zulu, Antonio Olivares scribed: > I would just compile from source if it is *nowhere* available except > for a tar file? This alleviates the problem of *getting it* from > someone else. Of course, you need to get the source from _somewhere_. Over a year ago I

Re: Scottrade streaming quotes errors on latest fc13

2010-09-26 Thread Darr
On Monday, 27 September, 2010 @00:18 zulu, Ed Greshko scribed, > So, what is the link for this "streaming stock quotes" applet? No kidding... I have my Roth IRA with scottrade ($7/trade), yet I have no idea what that applet's about or where to find it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: Need advice for which photo printer to buy!

2010-09-25 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 25 September, 2010 @08:29 zulu, Tim scribed: > Unfortunately, refilling isn't really an option for some printers. That site's not really all about refills. CIS = Continuous Ink System e.g. http://www.efillink.info/index.php?p=1_188 You can top off the external tanks before they ge

Re: Need advice for which photo printer to buy!

2010-09-24 Thread Darr
On Friday, 24 September, 2010 @07:16 zulu, Tim scribed: > That has to be one of the biggest, and widest, perpetuated rip-offs, http://efillink.com/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: change login screen to KDE

2010-09-22 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 21 September, 2010 @15:06 zulu, Doron scribed: > I use switchdesk for that Is that what makes the choices appear in the picklists on the bottom toolbar/panel as soon as I select a username in the logon dialog? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: ctrl-alt-+ doesn't work for me

2010-09-20 Thread Darr
On Monday, 20 September, 2010 @16:24 zulu, Aaron Konstam scribed: > (labeled 1 in the screenshot below) and press the Layout Options > button (labeled 2 in the screenshot below) to bring up the Keyboard You might consider putting your screenshots on a sharing service like flickr, photobucket, e

Re: New install

2010-09-17 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 18 September, 2010 @00:51 zulu, JD scribed: > All released binaries are for the i686 architecture. Live spins, yeah... but the OP should be able to install the i386 version from DVD or CDs. e.g. http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/ -- users mailing list

Re: yumex error; need f11 files for f12

2010-09-14 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 14 September, 2010 @ 03:01 zulu, "g" scribed: > when i get this error, none of the updates are installed. After scanning for updates, on the menu under Options, check 'Skip Broken' then 'select all' and 'apply'. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Can't connect DD-WRT Router to Comcast

2010-09-14 Thread Darr
On Monday, 13 September, 2010 @17:46 zulu, Jim scribed: > I checked in FC13 for the mac address for eth0 and physically > entered it in the router clone mac # . I usually just use the 'Get Current' button if connected to the router with the same computer. That often works better than manually tra

Re: wireless networking problem (fixed)

2010-09-05 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 05 September, 2010 @20:16 zulu, Gerhard Magnus scribed: > Here are the details of what worked (possibly of use to someone beside > me with basic networking issues): The reason I suggested using a LAN port on the D-Link, instead of its WAN port, was in case you wanted the wired and wire

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Darr
On Friday, 03 September, 2010 @18:38 zulu, Ankur Sinha scribed: > I'll connect it to a windows machine someplace and check. I have a > feeling the SATA to USB thing *may* be the culprit too. Being an electrician, I would suspect the exceedingly cheap (yet quite efficient and about zero phantom lo

Re: How to find rpm for fedora

2010-09-02 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 02 September, 2010 @08:06 zulu, admin lewis scribed: > I'm trying to compile partclone (http://partclone.org/) because I > havent found it on any repos of mines. > I run make but I see I need of libcursesw-dev ... > well my newbie question is: > where I have to look for find rpms tha

Re: SELinux

2010-09-01 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 02 September, 2010 @02:17 zulu, James McKenzie scribed: > be in permissive mode and that is my decision. I do agree that > SELinux is not the easiest thing to configure (I don't know if there > is a GUI interface and I would be pleasantly surprised if there is.) # yum install polic

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-01 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 01 September, 2010 17:29 zulu, JB scribed: > Please feel free to add some thoughts to my modest idea of the future > concept of security. Do not assume that it has to be something big or > revolutionary - we have seen that small and evolutionary things can > make a difference too. JB

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Darr
On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto > Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html suggests the RAW_TXPOWER_SETTING parameter needs to be

Re: SELinux

2010-08-29 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 29 August, 2010 @17:14 zulu, Erik P. Olsen scribed: > I would advise Patrick to disable Selinux. I've made that decision > long ago because it gives me more problems when enabled that I can > possibly solve. IMHO the user interface is so bad that selinux is > unuseable for an ordinary

Re: Fedora 13 & screen resolution

2010-08-29 Thread Darr
Why weren't those attachments stripped (from the digest) by the list processor? All we have to do to send everyone (using the digest) an attachment via the list is bzip it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?

2010-08-29 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 29 August, 2010 @14:05 zulu, Greg Woods scribed: > On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 07:21 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote: > >> Can the dev team make it easier to install Fedora 14 >> when Windows is already installed on the same hard drive? > > For that, "gparted" is required. I don't know why Fedora

Re: Dual boot Fedora 13 and Windows XP ???

2010-08-28 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 28 August, 2010 @23:54 zulu, James McKenzie scribed: > > Before the days of LVM, I put /swap and / as primary partitions and > everything else (/opt, /usr, /home, /WHATEVER) on an extended > partition. This worked well. If all you have is WindowsXP, you have > two primary partitions

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-24 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 @06:13 zulu, Michael Schwendt scribed: > Where is the confusion? Linux and Windows don't share their > swap partition with eachother, so a Suspend-To-Disk option in > addition to Suspend-To-RAM is useful. I'm not sure windows uses a separate swap space for its hibernat

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-24 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 @02:15 zulu, g scribed: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiplexing > got me started, now i am looking for more > thorough knowledge to read. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/channel/deployment/guide/Channel.html Shows

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Darr
On Friday, 20 August, 2010 @21:21 zulu, Bob Goodwin scribed: > >With my equipment layout that would require installing another >computer downstairs at the "modem" and wireless router location. Hmmm... I guess I don't understand why you say that. The DHCP server can be located anywhere,

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Darr
On Friday, 20 August, 2010 @12:33 zulu, Bob Goodwin scribed: >There is no other dhcp server in the system. About all I could do >is change a dozen dhcp devices with fixed addresses. I changed too >dhcp since there were fewer router configuration problems using it. I have only a couple

Re: Question about Bluetooth

2010-08-20 Thread Darr
On Friday, 20 August, 2010 @04:38 zulu, JD scribed: > $ ps -ef | grep blue > root 1200 1 0 18:30 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd > --udev > jd1441 1230 0 18:31 ?00:00:00 > bluetooth-applet > It is the gnome applet that does not show up after I log in. Just to cl

Re: Question about Bluetooth

2010-08-19 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 19 August, 2010 @22:51 zulu, JD scribed: > Is this the expected or normal behaviour? Which bluetooth manager are you using? I recall at least 2 - bluez and blueman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-19 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 19 August, 2010 @03:22 zulu, g scribed: > with what all i am involved with at this time, it looks like > it will be mid of next month before i can bust my virgin. That should give you plenty of time to digest this http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486 in case you had

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-18 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 @12:46 zulu, Bob Goodwin scribed: >I found a place under "Services" where I can start listing the >assignments I want but it wont let me save or apply them. That's the right place. But on the Setup Basic page you should set the DHCP scope to exclude t

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-16 Thread Darr
On Monday, 16 August, 2010 @ 20:05 zulu, g scribed: > now i will have someone to fall back on when i > change my linksys wrt54g. (gbwg) I think there are some versions of WRT54G that simply can't be converted (version 7 comes to mind)... so check its version number following the model # on the un

Re: wireless networking problem

2010-08-09 Thread Darr
In this case, you don't *have* to use the WAN/Internet port on the DIR-615 at all. In the D-Link's web menu, SETUP on the top, NETWORK SETTINGS on the left, the ROUTER SETTINGS section in the middle... Set the Router IP Address to an unused IP in the same network of your LAN. Check the Enable DNS

Re: Dell MediaDirect and GRUB (was: how not to initialize HD)

2010-08-03 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 03 August, 2010 @10:57 zulu, Paul Cartwright scribed: > On Mon August 2 2010, Darr wrote: >> However, if that is the hard disk that came in your Dell, >> MediaDirect is ALREADY installed... you just can't see >> it because from the factory it was installed i

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-02 Thread Darr
On Monday, 02 August, 2010 @12:46 zulu, Paul Cartwright scribed: > not a matter of getting RID of it, it's GONE, since I redid my > partitions.. reclaimed space :) > wonder what happens if I press that button NOW..."NO, DON'T DO IT > :-0)" If that's the drive that came in your Dell, no - you didn

Dell MediaDirect and GRUB (was: how not to initialize HD)

2010-08-02 Thread Darr
nstead of the hard drive). Now, this tool might not be able to fix the problem[s]... if the reserved sectors are all used up, there's not much that can be done for 'bad sectors.' Sorry this is so long; I didn't have time to make it shorter. Darr -- 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

Re: USB Install problem with Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD

2010-08-02 Thread Darr
On Monday, 02 August, 2010 @06:31 zulu, j.halifax scribed: > I have created 8GB USB flash memory installation media > with LiveUSB-Creator on MSW and used it for USB installation. > > After creating Install Target Device (HD) I got the following > Error Message: > > == > Missing

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @21:10 zulu, Paul Cartwright scribed: >> Does your Dell have a MediaDirect button next to the Power button, >> Paul? > I have media buttons on the front of my laptop, to play, sound > up/down... I think it is windows Media center version, I think.. I If your Dell has

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @16:34 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed: > Then you weren't looking closely. > > - From the original post: > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1446235840983

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @15:04 zulu, JD scribed: > Does mediaDirect need 1308MB (i.e. 1.3 GB) > be unallocated or was that a typo? Not a typo... some people recommended leaving 2GB unallocated, but instructions I found elsewhere were specific about 1308MB (that's 1.27GiB, btw). Dell doesn't g

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @04:08 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed: > Now, looking at your logical partitions (with minor rearrangement to > make things more obvious): > >> /dev/sda54718 --> 5961 9989120 83 Linux >> /dev/sda65962 --> 809417133291 83 Linux >

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-07-31 Thread Darr
I agree that 3 primaries don't need to be used before an extended partition is created for logical volumes (I've done 1 primary and 1 extended before, too), but why is there no /sda4 ? i.e. If the extended partition was /sda2 would the first logical volume *still* be /sda5? -- users mailing

Re: FC13 Connect to DD-WRT WPA2

2010-07-25 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 25 July, 2010 @12:43 zulu, fred smith scribed: > Ah. on the guess that that is what the OP is asking about, FYI > I'm using a 63-character WPA2 shared key and it works fine. 8-chars is WPA2's minimum Pre-Shared Key (PSK) size; 63 is the maximum. I have found between 15 and 20-characte

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-20 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 20 July, 2010 @17:22 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed: >> H... if grub's boot menu never appears, how do you know >> there's only 1 kernel listed in it? >> >> If grub's boot menu never appears, how do you choose to run >> windows or fedora? >> > By looking in the directory /lib/modules

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-19 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 20 July, 2010 @01:00 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed: > I couldn't not remove any thing. Grub.conf apparently is a non > editable file we were not advising to edit the grub.conf file. If the kernel arguments from the boot menu are edited, they return to 'normal' at next boot. Another w

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Darr
Since you won't stop using HTML quotes, I won't bother quoting you at all anymore. If ebay can't stop the site paypalsucks.com, I doubt there's much redhat can (or should) do about the fedorafaq or fedorasolved sites. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-18 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 18 July, 2010 @14:24 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed: > By runing depmod -a I got the following: > WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686: > no such file or directory. > FATAL: could not > open /lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/modules.dep.temp for writing: >

Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot

2010-07-18 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:56 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed: > I used the rescue disk typed: chroot /mnt/sysimage > then dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) and got the > fallowing answer: > find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory Follow that same

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-17 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:44 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: > Where can I read the board's position on the name copyright? You're mixing nomenclatures... you can't copyright a name - names can be trademarked, though. If you look closely on fedoraproject.org you might notice the little (tm) mar

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-17 Thread Darr
On Friday, 16 July, 2010 @02:48 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: > and it will most probably prove my point that while Nouveau developers > pretend they work really hard to get new users, installing Kmod is a > one way ticket. Unless, of course, you're willing to spend a day or > two trying suggestions

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-17 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 15 July, 2010 @23:21 zulu, Robert Myers scribed: > You left out the Department of Energy, which is a much bigger > player than the DoD. Well, it sure would be nice if the DoE spent some of our tax dollars making applications like the Clean Energy phase 2 task, being run by IBM's World

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 @01:56 zulu Thomas Taylor scribed: > Where else should I look? Did you try # yum update yumex ? FWIW, I do not recall ever seeing that message from yumex, even when I didn't have a connection to the network. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-13 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 13 July, 2010 @20:46 zulu, Jozsi Avadkan scribed: > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather > uses the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] > > Or this solution is still in the "beginning part"? > > Thanks for any tips, link, suggestions. Have you chec

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread Darr
On Friday, 09 July, 2010 @07:35 zulu, Thomas Taylor scribed: > The apparent size difference could be in how the sizes are > calculated. One program may use the 1K = 1000 Bytes where the other > may use 1K = 1024Bytes which would result in the latter displaying a > smaller size. Also, if you use a

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 07 July, 2010 @17:30 zulu, Linuxguy123 scribed: > Try scaling to 200% or more to see some detail. In adobe reader I zoomed it to 300% then paged down a couple times + scrolled over, opened the 'about' window and took this screen shot: http://to.ly/5rzs If you don't have the adobe r

Re: Help me troubleshoot this problem

2010-07-07 Thread Darr
>> Question showing my ignorance of what acpi is. If pci=noacpi works >> or does not work, what clues is that giving me? >> > > I didn't respond earlier because we've reached my level of ignorance > too. ACPI is the successor/combination of plug & play, advanced power management, et al... If

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-07 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 07 July, 2010 @ 10:19 zulu, Felipe Contreras scribed: > Wrong; that spam mail is totally unrelated. > > Say moderation was enabled, and I was made moderator *today*. Would > any extra spam reach your inbox? No. > > *I* (the moderator) would have to approve it first. If I'm bad at m

Re: Making things easier for lurkers (was Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers)

2010-07-07 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 07 July, 2010 @ 05:43 zulu, Joel Rees scribed: > Okay, the digest listing does give us the message-ID line from > the headers, so it shouldn't be too hard to maintain threading > with a little extra copy/paste. If your MUA doesn't provide a > way to set arbitrary headers, though, th

Re: WiFi security (was wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi)

2010-06-22 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 22 June, 2010 @22:00 zulu, JD scribed: > WPA2-PSK + AES : I thought it is not possible for inter-customer > traffic to figure out the keys because once the connection is > established, > keys change dynamically per the protocol. Perhaps a an expert on the > WPA2-PSK protocl can shed s

Re: some strange yum bug?

2010-06-22 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 22 June, 2010 @15:55 zulu, Neal Becker scribed: > yum.log: > > Jun 22 06:51:16 kdebase-workspace-debuginfo: ts_done name in te is > python- argparse should be kdebase-workspace-debuginfo > Jun 22 06:51:18 cups-debuginfo: ts_done name in te is > kdebase-workspace- debuginfo should be cu

Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu

2010-06-21 Thread Darr
On Monday, 21 June, 2010 @04:30 zulu, JD scribed: > I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via > VirtualBox without any problems. But when > I try to boot it with qemu: > qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std > I get the blue screen of death. > $ rpm -q qemu > qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 Was that sti

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 20 June, 2010 @15:53 zulu, Richard Shaw scribed: > If dd wrote the image but it does not boot, the problem is likely with > your computer not the USB disk. Not all BIOSs support that boot > method, or in some cases, particular USB flash drives. I have an old You can check if the stick

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Darr
On Monday, 14 June, 2010 @ 23:13 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: > Here's the last update suggestion I received today: > [snip] > kernel x86_64 2.6.32.14-127.fc12 Most of the other replies have focused on RPMFusion... but what's funny to me is the version that went in

Re: RPMFusion Depository issue

2010-06-13 Thread Darr
The simplest way is open Firefox, surf to http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration then click the pertinent links under Graphical Setup. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Strange message from yum.

2010-06-09 Thread Darr
Besides the other tips people have pointed out, the 'local' plugin for yum causes a copy of every package and update it's ever installed to be saved in /etc/yum/plugins/local. So I would look there. You might find about 6GB of files in that subdir, depending on how long after fc12 was installed t

Re: FC13 won't start

2010-06-07 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 08 June, 2010 @00:42 zulu, Yogesh scribed: > I am sorry, I did not read correctly. > > I get a fail message for: *FnFx Daemon. Could not find > /.../proc/toshiba/keys* That's supposedly a Toshiba-specific service that maps the secondary effects of the function keys when the Fn key is

Re: FC13 won't start

2010-06-06 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 06 June, 2010 @ 17:02 zulu, Yogesh scribed: > Now when I boot it, nothing happens. I just reach the Fedora icon > (before the login page). I do not get the option to login. If you hit the Esc key when the first graphics appear, that should make the underlying bootup messages visible, p

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Darr
I think few people are aware of the fedora-easy-karma package, let alone the workings of bodhi. If a package does not get negative karma, I think the 2-week-wait / push-to-stable treatment is reasonable. YMMV. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-31 Thread Darr
On Monday, 31 May, 2010 @ 17:28 zulu, David García Granda scribed: > Maybe it's confusing, and it looks like link above mixes things up > when talking about labels, but what it worked for me (pasted from > my bash history): > > su -c 'yum -y install livecd-tools' > > su -c 'livecd-iso-to-disk --fo

Re: Personal file share (Bluetooth) folder elimination howto -Permantently?

2010-05-30 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 29 May, 2010 @ 19:44 zulu, KC8LDO scribed: > I keep getting the Bluetooth file sharing folder reappearing and > I want to eliminate it - permanently. I'm not using Bluetooth or > the personal file sharing feature. I erase the folder but it always > seems to come back. How do I get rid

Re: Replying to digest with threading (was: Regarding Get Fedora page)

2010-05-28 Thread Darr
On Thursday, 27 May, 2010 @ 20:22 zulu, Todd Zullinger scribed: > I don't know if it will help you, but if you visit your list > configuration page and set the 'Get MIME or Plain Text > Digests' to MIME, the digest you receive should have > individual messages which you can reply to. The in-reply

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Darr
On Wed 26 May 2010 @ 21:35:14 zulu, Máirín Duffy scribed: > I'm sorry, but Fedora Planet is not a vacuum. Nor is Fedora Weekly > News. Are folks on this list really unaware of those forums? Yes, really. The only forums of which I was aware of are those at http://fedoraforum.org Still, I think a

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Darr
On Sun 23 May 2010 @ 16:06:31 zulu, Gene Heskett scribed: > Well, at some point I have to move cables and then > convince this cable modem its a valid client, probably > by cloning the right MAC address. Often you can just power down the cable modem for a half hour or so, and when you bring it b

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-18 Thread Darr
On Tuesday, 18 May 2010, @ 03:10:44 zulu, Gene Heskett scribed on the fedora users list: > so at some point I'm going to be back asking how > to do this mkinitrd command line: > > mkinitrd -f initrd-$VER.img $VER $ dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) Still, I think if you want it

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-12 Thread Darr
On Wed 12 May 2010 @ 13:54:33 UTC, Jesse Palser scribed: > > Ubuntu 10.04 LiveCD has OpenOffice installed. > Don't understand why Fedora LiveCD can't do the same. Hi Jesse, You could also make one yourself... the instructions are at the bottom of https://spins.fedoraproject.org/support 3 quick h

Libdvdcss

2010-05-05 Thread Darr
On Tue 04 May 2010 @ 08:59:01 zulu, Michael Schwendt scribed: > > And those checksums are independent from the GPG signature > (here done with key ID a109b1ec). That means, you can sign the > package with a different key and still get the same internal RPM > checksums. Only the file's checksum wil

Libdvdcss

2010-05-03 Thread Darr
On Mon 03 May 2010 @ 13:29:35 zulu, Michael Schwendt scribed: > You two are talking past eachother. There is a problem with the "debug" > repo metadata: > http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-February/000610.html Yeah... but as I said in that message back in February, there

Re: Libdvdcss

2010-05-02 Thread Darr
On Mon 03 May 2010 @ 04:15:04 zulu, Andre Robatino scribed: > > Not sure what you mean - I had no trouble installing libdvdcss.x86_64 > from the repo when F12 came out, and just now erased and reinstalled > it to be sure. It's in > > http://rpm.livna.org/repo/12/x86_64/ Good catch; I was wrong a

Libdvdcss

2010-05-02 Thread Darr
On Sun 02 May 2010 @ 15:31:35 zulu Andre Robatino scribed: > Henry Wyatt writes: > >> Were can I get libdvdcss for f12 x86_64 > > The Livna repository at http://rpm.livna.org basically exists > just for that one package - install the livna-release package, > then libdvdcss will be available. Th

Re: how would this work as a fedora laptop?

2010-04-30 Thread Darr
> You know, if you go to Dell you can build a laptop that you > *know* will be supported by Linux for about the same as an > "off-the-shelf" laptop at TigerDirect. That's about what I was going to say, but I suggest starting at http://outlet.dell.com and one with 4GB of DD3, 500GB HDD, 17.3" 900p