Re: YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

2012-03-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/06/2012 07:11 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 03/06/2012 06:09 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> I still can't find what HTML5 has to do with Pepper or Flash, do you >> have a link? >> > > Neither do I - but in my experience when this happened html5 (e.g

Re: YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

2012-03-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/06/2012 06:09 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > > I still can't find what HTML5 has to do with Pepper or Flash, do you > have a link? > Neither do I - but in my experience when this happened html5 (e.g. youtube) did not work either ... I have no link to how html5 couples to this ... did you try htm

Re: YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

2012-03-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/06/2012 05:07 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Its true that 19 is a dev build, but still, it all worked before, and > that is the main issue. I cannot remember making any significant > changes. Videos simply stopped playing. > The new pepper api flash is broken - fix is committed (and

Re: is fedora really bleeding edge?

2012-03-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/04/2012 03:34 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > One of the reason for using Fedora is quick access > to the latest software -- sometimes even too quick > (hence the "bleeding edge" moniker.) > > But I have noticed this is not true for some things. yes and no. imo anyway. Leading edge and bleedi

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Genes MailLists
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:53:17AM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: >> Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never >> "just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules >> will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring >> them, when I don't a

Re: synchronize time

2012-02-28 Thread Genes MailLists
Comment: ntpd is not deprecated - fedora decided to use chrony as it is supposed to handle situations like a mobile laptop where you're not permanently connected to the net. ntpd is still the benchmark time management tool. However, if you're using a laptop you may prefer chrony. g

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

2012-02-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/22/2012 02:59 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > If you are using VirtualBox-OSE from rpmfusion, there is no USB support. > If you need USB support, you must install VirtualBox *and* the > VirtualBox Extension pack, both from VirtualBox.org. > I thought the OSE was no longer - and that there

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/19/2012 07:02 PM, Roger wrote: > > Mouse batteries are new. > Other desktops are fine. Then it seems to me it may not be the kernel per se ... perhaps its a gnome or X driver bug that is triggered by gnome which can put more pressure on the graphics sub system. gene/ -- users mailing

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/19/2012 08:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/19/2012 07:15 PM, Roger wrote: >> >> Mouse. Wireless mouse and keyboard with the receiver plugged into a ... > > It would seem you have uncovered a bug within X affecting your mouse. > My guess is that it would be the same problem under any deskto

Re: Desktop desires and questions

2012-02-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/18/2012 03:17 PM, les wrote: > HI, everyone, > I know that this has been discussed before, and I will go back and read > more of that. > > I want more efficient use of my desktop. Pretty is nice for most > people and of course design driven types, but I am a technophile, clos

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/18/2012 01:42 PM, les wrote: > > Hi, gene, > I know, and I even had a separate disk for the users for a while, which > I really like using. I can unplug it for some work, or even substitute > it for some security type work, but some time ago I had a problem with > the disk not mounti

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/17/2012 10:59 PM, Les Howell wrote: ... > 1. back up all users using TAR. ... > 7. copy the splits back to /home , use cat to rejoin them and tar -xf. > : all good user directories fully restored. Most people have /home being a separate partition ... I'm not sure I really understand your s

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/10/2012 09:37 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Just use google sync like most people. > > What do you mean by "use google sync"? > Are you talking about a Fedora program? > According to "man google" there is no option "sync". > Perhaps if you just wrote down the command you give or might give

Re: Android-tools

2012-02-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/10/2012 07:21 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> On 02/09/2012 07:38 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I just want to transfer contacts from my PIM/AddressBook to my phone, >>> and vice versa. >>> But this appears to be impossible? >> >> Can you not sync with Google and

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/10/2012 07:08 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I see that this program is far from my needs or desires. > I just want to transfer contacts from Fedoar/KDE PIM to my Android phone, > and vice versa. > Is this possible under Fedora, or do I have to go over to Windows? > > Just use google sync

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

2012-01-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/19/2012 05:02 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > ... > I hope this isn't considered thread hijacking, but can anyone offer a > DE-agnostic method of disabling/managing suspend? I have been > experimenting with a wyse client, and while its much easier to boot from > USB or LAN than hack the locked on

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

2012-01-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/19/2012 03:03 PM, linux guy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: > >> I won't go so far as say 'over-heat', but _my_ laptop does get 'a lot >> warmer' with its lid shut. >> Its due to the fact that its backlight rarely gets turned off when the lid >> is closed. >> (The

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

2012-01-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/19/2012 01:05 PM, linux guy wrote: > I'd like to run my new laptop with the lid closed. I'm using > external displays and keyboard, mouse, etc. When its at my desk, I > only want to use it as a processing unit. > > How do I disable the lid switch from putting it into sleep mode ? > > Th

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/11/2012 11:57 PM, g wrote: >On 01/10/2012 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I've not searched for any existing utility since I keep all of my emails >> on an imap server and text based searches from email clients work just >> fine as the un-encoding is done behind the scenes and I've never fo

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2012-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/02/2012 07:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Do you have a concrete application you have used nepomuk/strigi for? > > Not me sorry - I turn it off :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/01/2012 03:06 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > Beagle was used in the past. Currently it uses Tracker. Before the > release of 3.0, Tracker could still negatively impacted performance. > This was fixed before 3.0 (you can tell the kernel to give a low/idle > priority for a processes IO, etc). >

Re: nfs mounts in fstab

2012-01-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/01/2012 11:15 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > (I have line wraps here) > > my.server.here://nfs/store01 /home/myuser/Net01 nfs > user,rw,noauto,hard,intr0 0 > > > The problem I'm having is myuser on the client is uid:1000 > (my son set up his own PC with Fedora16

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/01/2012 08:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Genes MailLists wrote: ... >> >> K-menu->System Settings-> Desktop Search > > As a matter of interest, what is lost if one does this (as I have). > Presumably running strigi indexing must have some benefit? >

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 10:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/31/2011 08:29 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>K-menu->System Settings-> Desktop Search > > This is a kde feature then, not in gnome? > yes - tho Gnome has a similar thing - it may be called Beagle .. but I&

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 08:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/31/2011 11:09 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: .. >> >> You may want to turn off nepomuk/strigi indexing ... it can be >> offensive at times ... > > Can you provide some info on where this is located? It sounds

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 06:18 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: . > > It was linked to the dbus bug with error messages > "Property get or set does not have an interface string as first arg" > which affected various applications, including upowerd, as in > . > g

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 04:47 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:10:40 -0500 > Genes MailLists wrote: > >> Tom - Im curious - why are you using fetchmail to pull gmail via pop >> instead of just connecting to it via imap with your mail client? > > Because I want

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
Tom - Im curious - why are you using fetchmail to pull gmail via pop instead of just connecting to it via imap with your mail client? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelin

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 01:58 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I have ... written the trollfilter program: Nice project for you I'm sure .. but as I'm sure you know, procmail and just about any decent mail client can do this already ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Desktop "stickiness" under Fedora-16/KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/31/2011 08:36 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > My desktop siezes up every hour or so; > I can continue in the current desktop, > but cannot change to another desktop > or go to another application by clicking on an icon in the panel. > > The problem cures itself in 20-30 seconds, > so it is not l

Re: Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !?

2011-12-18 Thread Genes MailLists
> I guess groups are a purely an initial install convenience and offer no advantages beyond that - in which case if one wants to ensure that an install has all packages of a previous install - then simply ignoring groups and doing yum list installed | (clever script or human) > fixinstall.s

Re: Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !?

2011-12-18 Thread Genes MailLists
So how does one get a list of all installed packages - i.e. all groups and all packages not already installed as part of any installed group? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:45 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > I tried both suggestions, singly, and both together though I didn't > think the forward slash in lieu of "netmask" was right. > > Nothing worked. It's so strange... > bah sorry - the "/" wasn't supposed to be literal ... i just meant change the .1

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:21 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/15/2011 04:10 PM, Claude Jones wrote: >> The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: >> >> subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ... > > Try 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0 >

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:10 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: > > subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.199; > option routers 192.168.2.1; > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time 7200; > > From my messages l

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 08:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty wrote: >> >>> And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the >>> maildirs and can save them as mboxes. :) >> >> >> Where d

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/14/2011 09:41 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno mar, 13/12/2011 alle 07.57 -0500, Genes MailLists ha scritto: >> That said - how do I remove it? > > # yum remove abrt > I had no such package before or after ... yet abrtd ran anyway .. the only reference in the packa

Re: Fedora 16's Performance

2011-12-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/14/2011 12:41 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >> > I just re-installed Fedora 16 on my desktop and before the re-install > every thing was running fine. Now Gnome3 is freezing and nautilus is > having trouble opening and the list goes on. I agree with Christopher > and Cox, maybe there needs t

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/14/2011 05:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Just me being nosey. > *DSL may be more correct as OP could have SDSL. > OP (me I think) was actually using mobile broadband at the time .. :-) so neither really ... not that it matters much ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/13/2011 01:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500 >> Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>> >>>I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI >>> crash - a

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/13/2011 09:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > > Indeed so - however it is not unusual for abrt to require pulling in > several hundred megabytes of debuginfo stuff in order to file a report > - and I wonder if that might put a significant number of users off and > abandon completing the report at

Re: Is there a Linux "file-safe" for Fedora's home file..?

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/13/2011 07:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > This works if you have a single-user system, but it's not great if you > have a shared machine. I think he's asking for a file vault of some sort > where you can maintain your own home directory as encrypted separate > from the whole filesystem. >

abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread Genes MailLists
I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need. I think abrtd needs help with its decisions ... it appears way too naive in the debuginfo files it n

Re: lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/12/2011 12:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic > cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both > to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. > Hardware spec is one way ... or check the bi

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > >> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot > > I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/10/2011 10:44 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > > I did save the password and shadow file, but it looks like the seed for the > hash function changes through the upgrade. I admit that I didn't try using > old > files, though. The old hashes are still supported - tho you could encoura

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: > I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to > > Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now > have > > to reset their passwords. The question I have is: what is the preferred > method

Re: Partition Management

2011-12-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/01/2011 09:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > why dual boot this days? > > "windows XP on due to constraints at her work" sounds not > like playing 3d games and all other things are running fine > in a virtual machine, most time faster than a physical > winxp, without driver troubles and y

Re: Partition Management

2011-12-01 Thread Genes MailLists
> On 02/12/2011 03:55, Mike Dwiggins wrote: >> My wife's machine is a full up FC14 x86_64 and I now have the joy of >> trying to put windows XP on due to constraints at her work. >> >> I figured no problem, Install windows from scratch and constrain the >> partition size and reinstall Fedora. Win

Re: GNOME2 support revisited

2011-12-01 Thread Genes MailLists
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> What did I say which in any way referenced RHEL7? We are running Fedora on >> our >> support machines (not the servers) and my question was pretty specific as to >> FC17 being the issue, so we can get off FC14. > Seems you have some c

Re: mkfs.ext4: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size

2011-11-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/29/2011 02:54 PM, jackson byers wrote: > trying to format a partition as ext4 > getting following error > > [root@f14 ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc7 > mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > mkfs.ext4: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size > [root@f14 ~]# > > I did this same

speed of yum

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
I happened upon pacman on Arch linux - and it appeared to be substantially faster than yum. Now this was casual "visual impact only" - no formal tests using similar packages and same computer etc - but it was very much noticeably faster. Installs of even large packages seemed to fly compared

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/27/2011 07:09 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 00:57, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Or the default DE >> choice could "rotate" for each release --- XFCE for F17, LXDE for F18, KDE >> for >> F19, Gnome3 for F20, and over again, in turns. That way each DE would have >> equal amount

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/27/2011 11:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/27/2011 09:10 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> >> Actually, I have to disagree with you on that. What works or not is >> *partially* subjective, especially when it comes to user experience. >> There are some things that just don't work, per

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/26/2011 05:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/27/2011 03:50 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> Try this instead: >> >> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/growisofs >> dvd+rw-tools-7.1-5.fc14.x86_64 >> >> (this is on F15 - for some reason I have never

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/26/2011 05:07 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > No idea, > Where possible I stick to gui. > But out of curiosity: > ~$ rpm -q wodim growisofs > wodim-1.1.11-8.fc16.x86_64 > package growisofs is not installed > > > Try this instead: rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/growisofs dvd+rw-tools-7.

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/26/2011 12:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> > > I never had a problem burning DVD(-RW)+- > with xfburn\Xfce in F14\15\16. > Curious - does xfburn use wodim or growisofs? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Suddenly cups does not run on boot

2011-11-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/26/2011 10:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Suddenly cups is not stared on boot on the machine that is my > printseerver. (F16) > > Now when I run systems-analyze blame cups.service is not one of the > services that appears in the printout. However, systemd says the > cups.service is enabled. >

Re: Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/24/2011 10:14 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > There are several choices - xerox 6100 has a list price of USD 299 - make that xerox 6010 .. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/23/2011 05:31 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer > I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver > for it. > > Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer > that works well with

Re: F16: GDM user list, only show GDM logins

2011-11-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/23/2011 08:03 AM, Rich Boyce wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm rolling out F16 in a enterprise (well, academic) environment, and I > need to get the GDM user list to only show users that have logged in via > GDM. At the moment it also shows users that have logged in via SSH. > > I know that

Re: mount command absurdly verbose?

2011-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
How about something like this (fix line wrap) use -se instead of -s if you prefer: # cat mydf #/bin/bash df ${@} $(findmnt -s| egrep -v '^TARGET|^swap|^/sys|^/proc|^/dev/pts|^/dev/shm' | awk '{ printf("%s ", $1)}') -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Gnome Shell periodically locks up hard in F16

2011-11-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/19/2011 12:32 PM, Jon Ingason wrote: > This not an yum command. Just do: > > debuginfo-install gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64 > > Read man debuginfo-install. >> what (s)he said above. Hopefully you can get a trace when it crashes ... that will help the gnome devs. a ton ... good

Re: Gnome Shell periodically locks up hard in F16

2011-11-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/19/2011 12:33 AM, Deron Meranda wrote: > Since upgrading to Fedora 16, I have experienced several periodic hard > lock-ups of the Gnome Shell session. I never experienced such > behaviour in F15. I am wondering if anybody else is seeing something > similar or may have advice, or can suggest a

Re: F16 GDM: Howto disable user-list, change background, enable date?

2011-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/14/2011 10:21 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > > Thank you for your feedback. I tried that one and it did not work. > Perhaps the setting is hidden in dconf. The search continues... You may want to try kdm - it doesn't have security implications from information leakage ... gene -- users

Re: F16 GDM: Howto disable user-list, change background, enable date?

2011-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/14/2011 09:44 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Hi, > > After making some changes to my F15 kickstart file I succeeded in > installing F16 on my laptop. Unfortunately some things that worked in my > F15 kickstart file don't work with F16: > > How do I disable the user list (aka face browser) in

Re: F16 Printer Setup

2011-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/14/2011 10:52 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:13 -0500, Tim Evans wrote: > The ability to configure network printers using the GNOME System > Settings program is fairly basic at the moment. You may have more luck > with system-config-printer (Applications -> Other -> Printin

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

2011-11-14 Thread Genes MailLists
One option is simply to have all your hosts use your own DNS server. You may want to run a second slave server. Now you will be authoritative for your internal domain and it will answer for outside zones as well - very probably faster than your ISP anyway. gene -- users mailing list use

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/11/2011 09:27 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: \ > > systemd replaces numerical runlevels with named "targets". Apart from > that, it works very similar to how chkconfig works under the hood. > "chkconfig --level 3 squid off" essentially just does "rm > /etc/rc3.d/squid". "chkconfig --level 5

Re: F16--Something went wrong in Gnome...

2011-11-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/10/2011 01:28 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: > Tim ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 10/11/2011 06:16: >> And doing a relabel twice is hardly likely to produce a different >> result. >> >> > because I am not sure that he effectively switched from Selinux=targeted > to Selinux=d

Re: Is btrfs ready to be default fs in F17 ?

2011-11-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/06/2011 12:11 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Right now btrfs is not a production fs. In 18 months maybe, in six months > the bits like fsck may exist in a usable form but I don't believe there > will be enough testing history to be sure. > > It took a very very long time to get the reiserfs fsck u

Re: OT? want to connect my router to a wireless network

2011-10-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/27/2011 08:01 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I have a Linksys wrt54G V8 wireless 4-port router. I need to connect > to a wireless access point through this router's radio and then share > the connection to the wired units in my office. It would also be nice > if I could set up the router to

Re: Persistent WIFI connection

2011-10-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/27/2011 07:03 PM, Weydson Lima wrote: > I do have that option enabled. I guess my solution is to have a script > that runs periodically to check for my device's wifi?! I googled a lot > about that but couldn't find anyone that implemented something > similar. > Also - obvious point, but b

Re: Persistent WIFI connection

2011-10-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/27/2011 12:39 AM, Weydson Lima wrote: > Hey there, > > I have a portable 4G device which is my main device to connect to the > Internet. Whenever I return home with my device I have to manually > connect all my Fedora boxes to my 4G device as they are not able to > connect automatically. Wha

Re: remeber non broadcasted SSID

2011-10-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/25/2011 07:56 AM, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > > >> You didn't say if you're using gnome or kde or something else. > > Im currently using F15 with Gnome3 > Try KDE - it seems to work fine for me (tho as was already mentioned, if you have control over the AP it makes more sense to broadcast S

Re: remeber non broadcasted SSID

2011-10-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/25/2011 06:20 AM, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > > So there is not actual way of having the net manager remember the settings > when not broadcasted then? > Thanks a lot! > > You didn't say if you're using gnome or kde or something else. I use KDE on F15 and also have to deal with hidden SS

bluetooth problems F15

2011-10-24 Thread Genes MailLists
F15 - I notice that on my laptop - sometimes - not always - bluetooth stops working after a wake from sleep. It works most of the time, and always works on a fresh reboot - but I usually sleep my laptop unless I'm rebooting a new kernel. Bluetooth works again by restarting: systemctl res

Re: more attempts to resolve NSF issues

2011-10-23 Thread Genes MailLists
One question - is this the only export which would be available to the client in question? Is it possible there are others which for some reason may be interfering (I have seen this issue in the past with overlapping exports). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: NFS issues

2011-10-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/22/2011 08:43 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > I didn't get anything running sealert -b. The widget "SELinux Alert > Browser" showed no alerts. In /var/log/messages I get this message > repeated at intervals: > Oct 22 17:37:49 PuteB mount[1460]: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.14' > failed: Conn

Re: NFS issues

2011-10-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/22/2011 08:07 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: >> >> >> Is this the right mount command? >> mount -t nfs >> 192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/Music /home/magnusg/Music >> >> I get this error message: >> mount.nfs: Connection timed out

Re: Fedora15 focus issues.

2011-10-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/13/2011 12:35 AM, Hardik Soni-Ennovate wrote: > Yes > KDE resolves that problem but i dont want to use KDE i m a Gnome user, > and i have to use Gnome compulsory,so is there any solution with Gnome > theme. Good - now you have confirmed it as a bug with Gnome - please file a bug report and

Re: No, I don't want to maximize my window

2011-10-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/12/2011 11:35 AM, Alessandro Brezzi wrote: > > Hi, > in my opinion, Larry is right : the question must be addressed to the > Gnome dev team. But, as long time Fedora / RedHat user, I must agree > with Sam : Fedora *MUST* be filled by default with all the gnome-shell* > / gconf* stuff. > To

Re: Fedora15 focus issues.

2011-10-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/12/2011 07:35 AM, Hardik Soni-Ennovate wrote: > Hi All, > I am using Fedora15 with the Gnome theme, > but the problem I am facing is that, > > When ever i run my Installer which is built using the InstallJammer so > at the time of installation, > the first window of installer hides behind th

Re: FC15 Upgrade Gnome Issue Dell Inspiron => Make Gnome a tablet spin

2011-10-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/04/2011 02:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/03/2011 08:08 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> Gnome Shell - a tablet/phone like window system - won't run without >> decent 3D support - if 3D graphics not available it drops down to >> simpler interface. For some reason

Re: FC15 Upgrade Gnome Issue Dell Inspiron

2011-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/03/2011 06:09 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: > I burned the DVD version of the distro so I could update an old dell > Inspiron 600M laptop from FC13. It seemed to go well until I rebooted > then a message flashed by saying something about Gnome3 and > comparability with older displays. I get a Gn

Re: School me on server hard drive management. (Hot swap, SATA channels, LVM, backup, etc.)

2011-09-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/29/2011 12:26 AM, linux guy wrote: > I'm building a home server that will run a MythTV backend, zoneminder ... > > Questions > > 3) How does one mount the drives for the OS to access ? I know all > about the mount command and auto mounting, etc, but how do I reference > the drives ?

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/28/2011 11:34 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > * How to get rid of gdm and what to replace it with? > Gdm had always been a major nuissance, which had never worked > flawlessly, so I am inclined to use switching to xfce as an oportunty to > get rid of it, as well. > I switched to KDM a

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-27 Thread Genes MailLists
> On 09/27/2011 08:00 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 27 September 2011 14:37, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Because the Gnome devs are preferring not to listen to their former users' complaints and prefer to furtherly isolate themselves in their "devine ivory cathedral's tower"? >>

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/24/2011 05:20 PM, Craig White wrote: > >> lets >>> not pretend you're gonna hold your laptop up to your face and make a >>> call ... are you? > > You seem to be conveniently ignoring the context. > > Craig > > So did you a bit - I put a smiley in there ... my comment was light hearte

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/24/2011 07:46 AM, Craig White wrote: > > Whether people are programmers or not is decidedly not the point here. > The GNOME developers have made a decision to revamp the UI to account > for the fact that computers are extending beyond the model borne out of > Xerox PARC... a keyboard, scre

Re: selinux is a pain

2011-09-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/20/2011 02:13 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 08:14 -0300 schrieb Martín Marqués: > >> My question is, how many people are using selinux? > > 60,8% [1] > > Regards, > Christoph > > [1] http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html > I see 68.6 % in enforcing mo

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/16/2011 12:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > impression of Gnome-3 Sorry - what is this Gnome-3 thing? Perhaps that is indeed its fate .. 'Hey, you remember the Gnome 3 experiment?' ... 'No sorry- never heard of it .. is it something for the lawn or a comedic horror movie?' :-) -- users mai

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

2011-09-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/08/2011 09:32 AM, Pedro Francisco wrote: > Too much work. I'd recommend either Gnome's fallback mode or use a > taskbar like tint2, which is what I'm doing now :) > > It makes far more sense to do what many have already done and switch to a stable and configurable DE that better suits yo

Re: reaching a server behind a NAT

2011-09-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/08/2011 06:52 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> did you tried your NAS in DMZ mode ( add your NAS IP in DMZ mode on >> router ) ??? is it working ?? >> > > Will try that when I get home, sitting at a lecture right now Security comment - I assume you don't actually care that your NAS i

Re: reaching a server behind a NAT

2011-09-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/05/2011 11:20 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey all, > > sorry if this is not purely Fedora related, but I was hoping I might get > some feedback anyhow from someone who knows more than I do. > > I have this: > > A NAT-configured router between my house and the internet. > A NAS behin

Re: reaching a server behind a NAT

2011-09-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/05/2011 11:20 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey all, > > sorry if this is not purely Fedora related, but I was hoping I might get > some feedback anyhow from someone who knows more than I do. > > I have this: > > A NAT-configured router between my house and the internet. > A NAS behin

Re: [fedora] dd

2011-09-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/04/2011 10:53 AM, xinyou yan wrote: >> I am not sure what the problem is. >> The following works for me: >> tar cf archive.tar first >> tar -rf archive.tar second > Yes it can , But tar czf tar rzf can't work > Second : For what its worth tar understands gzip/bzip2 tar files automatically

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/02/2011 01:42 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 09/02/2011 06:17 PM, Wade Hampton wrote: >> I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending >> support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address >> the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully. > > That doesn't make sense; extending support

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-09-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/29/2011 08:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 30.08.2011 02:05, schrieb Chris Adams: >> Once upon a time, Alan Cox said: >>> If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as >>> simple as that. >> >> Is there a simple way to do that on Linux? > > dd if=/dev/urandom

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/23/2011 09:05 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In addition to the 3.x parsing problem, it was my impression that > kernel upgrades turned out more problematic than usual since the moment > graphic stuff was moved into the kernel. This has created more > dependency between the kernel and some X

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