Re: Google Account in GNOME

2014-09-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:58:29PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:51:43PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > * Click /Turn off 2-step verification…/. > > You can also turn on app passwords for applications. > > https://support.google.com/acco

Re: Google Account in GNOME

2014-09-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:06:03PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:59:53PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > You can also turn on app passwords for applications. > > > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en > > ...except

Re: Google Account in GNOME

2014-09-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:51:43PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > You can also turn on app passwords for applications. > > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en ...except it seems GOA doesn't accept them. WTH? -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.blogspot.co

Re: Google Account in GNOME

2014-09-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
il password under /Password:/ and > click /Sign in/. > * Click /Turn off 2-step verification…/. > * Now click /OK/. You can also turn on app passwords for applications. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.blogspot.com/ Famous last

Re: Google Account in GNOME

2014-09-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
Every time I wake the system from sleep, I get a > dialog box asking for my Google account password which I have to > cancel. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Confirming I had this same problem for the longest time. I ended up deleting my Google

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
best way to rational self interest is helping your neighbors so they help you. Translates beautifully to open source work! :D -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpQW9Nn5ung_.pgp Description: PGP signature -- use

Re: f20 - Suspend not working

2014-01-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
my Lenovo T530. It's hit or miss if, after a suspend, the system comes back or if instead it shows me the grey screen with the fedora logo that you see when booting. If the latter then I have to power off and reboot to get my desktop back. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/

Re: Audio problems

2014-01-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
e audio always goes to the digital output via HDMI. I have to go into sound settings to put it back to analog for my docking station or headphone jack. F19 didn't have this issue. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynma

Re: what's the point of filing bugs against Fedora?

2014-01-14 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
elp you" ? I guarantee you not very long. Fedora packagers aren't paid. It's not a job. It's a service they're providing *for free*. > It > was my responsibility to work with whoever I needed to to fix the > customer's problem, but the customer dealt

Re: Fedora Magazine

2013-11-05 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
> But I haven't seen any for some time. +1 I think that would be a great thing, to have some group capture discussions from the fedora-devel and fedora-user lists (at minimum) and summarize things for the newsletter. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do

Re: Package that will install in Fedora to view files on Android Phones.

2013-10-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:09:14PM -0400, Jim wrote: > Isn't there a Package on Fedora repo that you can install so as to > view files on Android Phones by USB ?? I know of no special package: I just use Nautilus to brown the device as just another disk, granted one that speaks MTP. -

Re: Installed wireless NIC, cannot configure...

2013-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:59:27AM -0400, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda wrote: > On 8 October 2013 09:40, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > The wireless card (Linksys WMP54G PCI) is recognized > > by the machine, I see the kernel modules (rt61pci + others) loaded and I > > ca

Installed wireless NIC, cannot configure...

2013-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
erfectly on the network. But I'm not sure of how to proceed with getting the card configured in an already setup machine. Any recommendations are appreciated. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpKiUPhHBUYp.

Re: Turning off SELINUX

2013-09-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
igin of this software, It could very well have a > backdoor to turn itself off under the appropriate circumstances like an > NSA-sponsored breach an allow unrestricted access to my system.. Then by turning SELinux off you've spared any such intruder the necessary step of using that

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

2013-09-06 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
epos.d that are either 1) configured as enabled or 2) enabled from the command line via --enablerepo. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgplkOARmYjjY.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ng done earlier. Maybe there's something > equivalent for this that will work for all users on prompts. The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:temp (master) $ rpm -qf /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh coreutils-8.21-11.fc19.x86_64 -- Darryl L. Pierce http:/

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 06:40:41PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.07.2013, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > I have a Lenovo T530 with Optimus. But I only use the nVidia chipset on > > the laptop. But I run the Nouveau drivers (after initially having to use > > the c

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
achines ship with an Intel > CPU..). At first I couldn't use nouveau (see my previous post) but now I have no problems with them on my T530. I couldn't use the Intel hardware at all since it can't drive an external monitor and I use two docking stations (work and home) for work.

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
709/linux/319-23-the-infamous-blank-black-screen-/) I have a Lenovo T530 with Optimus. But I only use the nVidia chipset on the laptop. But I run the Nouveau drivers (after initially having to use the closed source drivers fro nVidia) and all works fine for me. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ay is to go into Virtual Machine Manager on the host os, edit the Default network interface and have it bridged on one of your physical network devices. That way any VM that uses the Default network interface will be bridged. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do yo

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
dealing with a > NAT configuration. > > I don't know virt-manager, but if possible I'd switch to a bridged network > configuration so the VM has a 10.X.X.X IP. I'd only do that if you absolutely need to access the VM from the outside, or at least outside

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:03:07PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:57:21 -0400 > "Darryl L. Pierce" wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails &g

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I specifically targeted with my reply. Look at what I quoted and, specifically, where I ended my quote of your text. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpu7pUOwH5gG.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails > >>totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
and played around with it and have a question for you: were you editing the "Runtime" or the "Permanent" configuration? If you were editing runtime and then hit reload then you overwrote your changes with the permanent config which you didn't modify. -- Darryl

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07:20PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 23.07.2013 23:02, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > > I'm sorry, the quoting format is the default for Mutt and has been > > around for a long time. Surely you've seen it for literally YEARS >

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:02:08PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 23.07.2013 22:52, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > > How is telling someone you won't be helping them in future "a straight, > > clear answer"? > > *boah* you did not quote the context as well as Ri

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:52:06PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 23.07.2013 22:39, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:35:44PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> Yup, just received my first insult... Do I get a badge now or is there a

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
;a straight, clear answer"? > Yes, this is kindergarden. I'm leaving this mailing-list. Too bad for the > precious knowledge I'll miss. Gonna use the forums instead. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, M

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ple. > seriously? ***sorry for point to a solution which > worked many hundret times for me, i will try > not try to help you again....*** -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgp9382A_axCX.pgp Description:

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
and it worked just fine. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpRsm_p1tpPy.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of "yum" killed in bike accident

2013-07-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
sidering the magnitude of his contributions to Fedora, > I think that a dedication to him in F20 would be a nice thing to do. > It won't bring him back, but would probably help the community. +1 -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care wh

Re: fedup major fail

2013-01-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ode and had to eventually install F18 from DVD. For other machines (two physical machines, one virtual machine) running F17 I was able to upgrade withou any issue. But for them I used: fedup-cli --network 18 instead of pointing to an ISO. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ &

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

2013-01-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
and then with my laptop, and it's always accompanied by constant hard disk activity. No ideas on what is causing it, though. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpxMFshTK6L9.pgp Description: PGP signature -- us

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
; that after installing yumex I can't get it to run. It asks me to > authenticate, but always fails, claiming the password's wrong. I know that > I haven't forgotten the root password because it's the same one I used to > install yumex. Isn't it asking you for YOUR

Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

2012-09-26 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:52:40PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 14:03 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:27:03PM -0700, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > No, generically it isn't. iPod (and iPhone, and I sus

Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

2012-09-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
gt; > working for me, Thx!! You're welcome, and glad you're happy. :) -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpbgUIG5PYsu.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

2012-09-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
am in order to communicate > with > the iPod. You can access the files on an iPod as a USB drive. I do so on my system (F17, Gnome, iPod 160GB) without an issue. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpwVYKMmdp24.pgp Descri

Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

2012-09-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
e them into a directory structure on your system that makes sense. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpWI6uWrDGEf.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
estarted Mutt. > > Any ideas? Don't use Mutt to send emails. Instead use something like esmtp to do the sending, which is able to handle the sending for you. -- Darryl L. Pierce http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?" pgpoheAcWaOYJ.p

Re: Gnome-rdp (re-post)

2012-07-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ot them but what they have in common (the server in this case) might be the problem. Can you connect to the RDP servers using a Windows box? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http:

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
nstall --nogpgcheck localfile.rpm" > > > > there is no difference from any point of view [1] - for some, the square brackets aren't a part of the commandline but just indicate an optional parameter...and the [1] is just a foot note to read this at that point in the text and is also

Re: Cannot find valid baseurl for rpmfusion repo

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
nd valid baseurl'. > > Any ideas? You downloaded the appropriate RPMs from here? http://rpmfusion.org/ In my .repo files the base URL is commented out and instead depends onthe mirror lists from http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
#x27;s no way in the > world that they'd know its address. Not necessarily. If you have a _local_ DNS server then it can resolve a hostname on a non-routable IP block. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 i

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
wildcard.fedoraproject.org Address: 152.19.134.146 Name: wildcard.fedoraproject.org Address: 209.132.181.16 Name: wildcard.fedoraproject.org Address: 66.35.62.166 -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among so

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ee in this post. Go back and read what I said originally as well as what I posted above. I never said to leave the brackets. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:42:24AM -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: > > On 06/26/2012 07:39 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >nslookup [hostname] > Password: > [root@Jehovah ~]# nslookup [hostname] > Server:192.168.1.1 > Address:192.168.1.1#53 > > ** server c

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-26 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
e trying to access via RDP? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpGU9DPRvVTs.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: fc17 minimum install, no X11 forwarding

2012-06-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
UseLogin no > > Any suggestions would be great, I checked that xorg auth was > installed, but I think is something x related missingthanks much, The system SSHing to the other has to enable display forwarding: ssh -X [remote host] -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Re

Re: Problem shutting down laptop...

2012-06-01 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 06/01/2012 02:53 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 04:28:01AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>>No, but it sounds like a kernel panic. > >>In my case, it was an obvious kernel pa

Re: Problem shutting down laptop...

2012-06-01 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
; kernel-PAE-3.3.7.fc17.i386 > kernel-PAE-3.3.7.fc16.i386 Hrm, for me I still have an F16 kernel that seems to be eclipsing the F17 kernel: mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~ $ rpm -qa kernel kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 kernel-3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~ $

Problem shutting down laptop...

2012-05-31 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
shutdown having a problem. Then the laptop just stops and the CapsLock light starts blinking. At this point I have to power down the old Irish way by holding the power button. Anybody else hitting this? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. R

Re: Gnome-rpd

2012-05-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
wait until final release candidate. I've been using xfreerdp for a long time without trouble. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpTN4NBqBmn

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:08:43PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/17/2012 01:54 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >Then that's not a usable system is it? I'm not talking about the base > >boot speed but the boot speed with everything running. I have none of the > >on

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
hing of taste I think this is what others are pointing out regarding your tone. You keep saying "is meaningless" but fail to realize that it's not. That _you_ find no meaning does not mean _I_ don't find meaning (as in usefulness) from such a feature. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 17.05.2012 22:37, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > >> currently 25 seconds including a lot of services > >> not used on a typical end-user machine > > > > Not so quickly for me.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ocation where they are all > not available or have different IPs it is not funny Still, that's an issue separate from hibernating or suspending a machine that should be handled similar to any other network interruption scenario. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, In

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
; and services having open network connections is that it sucks if they > are woken up in another network The machine should be able to handle it like any other interruption to networking (network down, switching APs, etc.). If it doesn't then that's a separate problem to be solved.

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
y shutdown/boot And I used to do it all the time. There's no reason to shutdown and reboot a system unless there's a kernel update, so being able to suspend or hibernate a system and then restore at a later date is a convenience. I only don't do it now because hibernate doesn'

Re: "Power off" is coming back!

2012-05-11 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
_Updates There's already a shell extension [1] that enables this now. [1] gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/prom

Re: Obama will back down...

2012-05-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
/news/2012/may/3/russia-threatens-strike-nato-missile-defense-sites/ > > I think you posted to the wrong list. Nah. > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; >rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Just a troll gobshite. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Ha

Re: red hat?

2012-04-13 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
gt; > You buy vanity sizes instead of your real size? > You're a rock star who keeps getting mobbed? > You're a stripper? > You're The Incredible Hulk? That would explain the excessive pairs of purple pants... > > ;-) -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Enginee

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-03 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
> > >> Fedora 18 > > >Fedora 17++ > > Fedora 19 Beta?? Fedora Core 3 with lots of fixes and updates. :) -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/p

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

2012-04-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code > names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: > >Fedora 18 Fedora 17++ -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering valu

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
en setting it (rather than zoom/tile/center/etc.). Is that option not available? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpGD1rRdmU1f.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: Graphic boot

2012-02-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
rivers? The problem for the OP is that he's using a driver that's not compiled with the kernel but is instead from a separate source. The ones used during startup are those that are built along with the kernel. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value ye

Re: Graphic boot

2012-02-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ade that uses the nVidia drivers. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpgypVTWbuPo.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list us

Re: Fedora vs openSUSE

2011-12-20 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:34:00AM -0600, charles zeitler wrote: > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. What is the law? No spill blood. Who makes the rules? Someone else. :D -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. R

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-16 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 05:42:25PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > On 15 November 2011 15:34, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:11:32PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> >>  If not, why not? > >> > - Drowning in F16 bugs. > >>

Re: Skype

2011-11-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
go try to get that. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgp33k9AXGY4j.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
any > replies in this thread. +1 A bugzilla takes a much time and effort as posting an email to complain about a missing feature or a bug. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-15 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
s using a real disks. That's irrelevant. From the installation's point of view /dev/vda was as real as a physical drive. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/v

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-14 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
llowed you to > do a custom partitioning scheme. If it doesn't in F16, it's a serious > bug and you should report it. Having just finished up two new VMs based on F16, I can attest that yes you can create custom partition schemes during the installation from the GUI. -

Re: Fail on login after preupgrade F15->F16 (x86)

2011-11-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > I've upgraded two systems since yesterday (my laptop and a desktop at > work) to F16 from F15. Both are 64-bit systems and had no issues with > the upgrade itself. > > On my laptop, after the upgrade, I was a

Fail on login after preupgrade F15->F16 (x86)

2011-11-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
do to fix this? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpHZGtFUEsAY.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Request for Recommendations on Linux compatible eReaders

2011-11-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
cape mode. And the battery life is awesome. It's advertised as 30 days, but I've taken it to over 40 days [1] several times now. [1] http://mcpierce.blogspot.com/2011/06/true-battery-life-of-kindle.html -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year af

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:54:02PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Thu October 13 2011, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > The adults also realize that Fedora already has a process pretty much > > > exactly as Thomas described, and participate in it if they want to. > > >

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-13 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
gt; > The adults also realize that Fedora already has a process pretty much > exactly as Thomas described, and participate in it if they want to. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. h

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
otherwise to remove any > DE > dependence. Providing a compatibility layer or keeping them in sync with > libgnome would be patching up a wrong solution to the problem, not to mention > the wasted coding effort. Well, a compatibility layer would be the foundation for abstracting out the

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
appily surprised. Having a gnome-free install of Fedora is one of my dreams. > ;-) Okay, then. So in the above 4 cases (not reall "a lot") I would say the challenge is to keep them in sync with the newer (or older) libgnome. Perhaps provide a compatibility layer? -- Darryl L. P

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 09/28/2011 02:43 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > >>I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE. > >>But its seems like a lot of people wou

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08:55PM +0900, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > 28.09.2011, 21:43, "Darryl L. Pierce" : > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > > > >>  I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE. > >>  But its seems like a l

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ed at the source > code level, if it is to interoperate with the rest of the distro. This > is much more complicated than just rebuilding srpms. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
erent package name) ? +1 That's the open source way. Don't like Gnome 3? Then fork and maintain Gnome 2 and build a new project around it. If there are enough people who support such a move then a community will form around it. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, In

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-28 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:13:39PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 11:47 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > Given how small the market is for tablets (compared to the server > > business) I would find such a statement highly questionable. > > If Red Hat is still pri

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
he market is for tablets (compared to the server business) I would find such a statement highly questionable. And since there's no path from tablet to server it would make very little sense to do this. All in all, I would say you should question your own "wild speculatio

Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

2011-09-26 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
d dependencies on 32-bit libraries. Even though it _claimed_ to be 64-bit, it was really a 32-bit package with a targeted arch of 64-bit. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/p

Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

2011-09-23 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
at am I missing by not using Skype? Is the Google chat code native or is in running under WINE? And, if so, do they have a native 64-bit version yet rather than requiring 32-bit libraries? -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1

Re: Where is the computer network name set and stored ?

2011-09-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
ommands) do permanently affect the system. Pretty much the whole thing is configuration based so any change is going to require editing a configuration file somewhere. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among softw

Re: Where is the computer network name set and stored ?

2011-09-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
nd would be used by _other_ systems who use that hostname to find the box. It has no bearing on how the Fedora instance identifies itself. IOW, it submits "farkle" to HDCP so someone can ping farkle.mydomain.com, but the system itself could be named "hungadunga". -- Darryl L. Pierc

Re: Where is the computer network name set and stored ?

2011-09-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
localhost6 > > Thanks The system's hostname is set by the HOSTNAME field in /etc/sysconfig/network -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpOtss

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:23:26AM -0700, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > On 09/02/2011 07:31 AM, Stefan Held wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 02.09.2011, 09:44 -0400 schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > > > >> Great points. If we didn't have change and innovation we'd all still b

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
to another desktop environment, or mix and match what's there, without giving up the whole OS. If your work is completely tied to a single implementation of one version of a desktop environment then I think you might be doing it wrong... -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-01 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:15:25PM -0700, Linda McLeod wrote: Try to differentiate: Gnome 3 is not Fedora 15, and vice versa. There are other desktop environments that you can use rather than Gnome 3. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year

Freezing emacs...

2011-09-01 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
sn't show any updates in the client window area. I have to resize and then select a buffer in order to get it working again. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/p

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-31 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
en select a buffer each time to get it back to normal. I've not filed a BZ for it personally. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpgYWZyFcXGK.pgp

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
one can always fork Gnome 2 and start a new project around it. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ pgpsoVPtIno6o.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailin

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-18 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
well. Maintenance and fuel > > costs go down as well. However, the F15 needs much more runway and > > cannot handle the catapult, so it's airfields only, no carriers. > > > I'll wait for the F22 Raptor? Damn near killed 'er! -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Eng

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
; Though, I wonder what you'd do with it then? dd or cat track to the > sound device? mplayer /media/music/track2? (Though it can already do > such things, directly.) It sounds then like any other read-only file system. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Deli

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:57:07AM +0930, Tim wrote: > There's a table of contents (TOC) at the start of the disc that says how > far in, and how far for, each track is located. Sounds like a file system to me. ;) (j/k - I know what you're saying) -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. S

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