Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-29 Thread Ian Malone
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 03:32, Robert Nichols wrote: > > On 1/28/19 8:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > >I wouldn't recommend just doing /dev/zero if the CIA, > > or even a moderately funded newspaper might specifically be after your > > data, > > I would be interest

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-28 Thread Ian Malone
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 15:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 14:03 +, Ian Malone wrote: > > > > /dev/urandom isn't purely pseudorandom, it does use entropy from the > > pool, it will become pseudorandom when entropy runs out and become

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-28 Thread Ian Malone
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 10:13, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 20:46 -0800, jdow wrote: > > On 20190127 14:44:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 19:56 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > Given that encrypting the disk means (at a minimum) reading t

Re: Breaking LVM (on purpose)

2019-01-04 Thread Ian Malone
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 18:13, Roger Heflin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM Chris Adams wrote: > > > > Once upon a time, Ian Malone said: > > > Does anyone have suggestions for easily simulating a missing volume in > > > LVM on bare metal? >

Breaking LVM (on purpose)

2019-01-03 Thread Ian Malone
Does anyone have suggestions for easily simulating a missing volume in LVM on bare metal? I'm trying to test behaviour like a network attached physical volume going missing (actually, a network mounted virtual disc image). The normal loopback approach to testing falls a bit short, while overwriting

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-31 Thread Ian Malone
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 05:42, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 10/29/18 6:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:26:46PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > >> The big question is how will IBM look at it. RHEL is pretty much > >> unusable for newer software as RHEL is so

Re: Live ISO image creation

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 June 2018 at 08:31, Jozsef K via users wrote: > Hi, > I have a question about live ISO image creation. What I would like to > achieve is to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat while I am in live > environment and then to create a new ISO image file which would be the same > as the one I boote

Re: Terrible F25 WiFi Performance

2017-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2017 at 16:46, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/23/2017 05:40 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 12 January 2017 at 05:04, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Damn strange. >>> >>> The computer is in a static location for all tests. This is still using >>>

Re: Terrible F25 WiFi Performance

2017-03-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2017 at 05:04, Chris Murphy wrote: > Damn strange. > > The computer is in a static location for all tests. This is still using > iperf in all cases, but abbreviated since I'm copying by hand. Each test is > about five seconds apart. > > Fedora 25 live > 58 Mbit/sec > 61 > 41 > > Fedo

Re: OT: what does this expression mean?

2016-09-15 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 September 2016 at 16:34, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Thanks to all for the question and discussion. I enjoy diversions like > this. I nearly always pick up some new technique and interesting points of > view. Yes, interesting to see these discussions ever so often. I wasn't aware of the BA

Re: Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

2016-08-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 August 2016 at 06:44, Rick Walker wrote: > >> 1. Open /etc/sysctl.conf, append a command >> "/net.ipv4/tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9". > > I'm very skeptical. The default on my stock machine is 100. You can check > your own with: > > sysctl -A | grep tcp | grep limit > > In the

Re: sed regex oddness

2016-05-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 May 2016 at 10:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 16:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Oh, right. I never use a regexp that can match nothing, so I missed >> that. :-) > > You never use '*'? > I guess he meant "match *only* nothing", most of the time using * you'll still u

Re: Photo app's -

2016-04-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 April 2016 at 06:25, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/11/2016 08:43 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >> I just installed simple-mtpfs and gat the following: >> >> [root@Box10 bobg]# simple-mtpfs -l >> No raw devices found. >> [root@Box10 bobg]# simple-mtpfs -l >> No raw devices found. >> > You said it is

Re: rooting/flashing an android phone from fedora

2016-03-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 March 2016 at 14:50, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:21:20 +0100 Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > >> On 17/03/16 03:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have been trying to install Cyanogenmod on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus using >> > Fedora 23. According to the documentation

Re: Protecting my network from rogue IoT devices.

2016-03-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 29 February 2016 at 17:49, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 16/02/29 12:24, Javier Perez wrote: >> >> Probably Off Topic, but maybe tangentially related to Fedora. >> >> I read with interest this forum piece about IoT devices phoning home. >> >> >> https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/IoT+The+Rise+o

Re: sudo disappears after latest update

2016-02-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 February 2016 at 18:33, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 02/11/2016 05:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 10 February 2016 at 23:22, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> >>> I am sorry to burst the bubble that was perpetrated by Sun Microsystems. >>> I worked

Re: sudo disappears after latest update

2016-02-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 February 2016 at 23:22, jd1008 wrote: > > > I am sorry to burst the bubble that was perpetrated by Sun Microsystems. > I worked at Sun Microsystems as a contractor and talked to a very senior > developer at Menlo Park. I knew this developer from working with him in > a previous company. Und

Re: sending data to usb port

2016-02-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 February 2016 at 13:24, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 03:06:19PM +0300, Hiisi wrote: >> > Yes. Well, C. http://libusb.info/ >> Thanks a lot! >> Stupid gmail webinterface doesn't allow me to change topic. Otherwise I >> would mark the topic as [solved]. > > Well, it's a maili

Re: cdrdao and gcdmaster

2016-01-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 January 2016 at 00:05, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 01/26/2016 04:59 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 26 January 2016 at 21:05, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> Have cdrdao-1.2.3-23.fc22.x86_64 installed, but no gcdmaster available. >>> Does anyone know

Re: selinux??

2016-01-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 January 2016 at 02:41, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 26 January 2016 at 17:23, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >>>> >>&g

Re: cdrdao and gcdmaster

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 January 2016 at 21:05, jd1008 wrote: > Have cdrdao-1.2.3-23.fc22.x86_64 installed, but no gcdmaster available. > Does anyone know of whereabouts of it? > dnf says no match for gcdmaster. > Looks gone, merged into cdrdao, http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/gcdmaster.git/ Then removed

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 January 2016 at 17:23, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 26 January 2016 at 17:07, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: >>> I couldn't agree more bruce. >>> >>> It's the 1% who get paid too much f

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 January 2016 at 17:07, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > I couldn't agree more bruce. > > It's the 1% who get paid too much for doing too little that have such > indulgent luxuries. > > The rest of us 99% have to work for it :P > > Remember that next time your bank gets hacked. -- imalone http://

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 January 2016 at 16:57, bruce wrote: > What the Heck??? > > So.. people who think/decide to just disable seLinux, instead of > diving in to "learn" it are just lazy Lord.. shaking my head.. > > How about.. some might be lazy.. > > Or, some have a bunch of different things to get accompli

Re: selinux??

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 January 2016 at 15:56, wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Tim wrote: > >> >> I watched a friend get his box hacked four seconds after establishing a >> network connection. He had to re-install to fix the problem. Same >> thing happened the next two times he connected up. I just about wet >> m

Re: selinux??

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 January 2016 at 14:28, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, bruce sent: >> I fully get the need for security.. But if I can't get the security >> working as it should, but I still need to build whatever the project >> might be.. the project is going to get created. >> >> If r

Re: selinux??

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 January 2016 at 08:02, bruce wrote: > Look. > > I fully get the need for security.. But if I can't get the security > working as it should, but I still need to build whatever the project > might be.. the project is going to get created. > > If running Selinux in permissive mode is enough, gr

Re: selinux??

2016-01-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 January 2016 at 15:11, bruce wrote: >> I am always amazed that people think shutting off a security >> something-or-other for some-amount-of-time can be considered safe. >> >> It takes virtually the blink of an eye to get compromised. >> >> If you need to turn off a security feature to do so

Re: Audio CD burner question

2016-01-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 January 2016 at 20:57, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:26:42AM -0700, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> On 01/24/2016 11:20 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: >> >Am 23.01.2016 um 03:39 schrieb jd1008: >> >>Tried a few audio cd burners, but none of them seem to have >> >>an option to automag

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 18:38, Raman Gupta wrote: > On 01/14/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone wrote: >>> On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: >>>> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: >> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends >> on iText, which has some licensing issues. >> >> Here is some of that discussion: >> &g

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2016 at 16:09, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > pdf-stapler has finally made it to the Fedora testing repos on Bodhi. > > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > > If you are in need of this alternative/workaround to the discontinued pdftk, > please test an

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: > This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends > on iText, which has some licensing issues. > > Here is some of that discussion: > > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/ > > I also have client applic

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2016 at 21:34, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> Of course you can have single tools that act on files to get well >> defined information. But while it's a useful model it doesn't work >> we

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 13 January 2016 at 06:58, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> That can't be the only place they're put. > > > Fernando Cassia: >> The ID3 info is put at the end of MP3 files, that is per design. >> (Actually, a clever hack, so mp3 player that don't know anything about >> id3 could still play the files). > >

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2016 at 16:17, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> >> >> You are proposing having an http server in the way as *simpler*? >> Anyway, again, id3 tag lengths are not fixed. > > > don't

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2016 at 14:31, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> If you want to do that >> you have to cheat and cache everything before you start playback. Or, >> in more general terms, doing anything non-linear wit

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2016 at 13:40, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Schwendt > wrote: >> >> such as when searching for ID3 >> tags in an MP3 file. > > > You could also use gnu 'tail' part of gnu textutils -I believe it's now > called coreutils-, to get the last 'n' b

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2016 at 13:39, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Schwendt > wrote: >> >> Which would get funny, if you wanted to seek back and forth in a large >> chunk of data fed to a program via stdin, such as when searching for ID3 >> tags in an MP3 file. > > >

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 January 2016 at 16:41, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 11 January 2016, Fernando Cassia sent: >> Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a static, single binary to perform >> a simple task like playing a mp3 file - you know, the Unix way, do one >> thing and do it self-cointained. > > There'

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 January 2016 at 11:42, Philip Brown wrote: > On 01/11/2016 11:48 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim wrote: >>> >>> Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent: >>>> >>>> however, in a

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent: >> however, in a couple of very simple steps, this gives me a very usable >> multimedia system on my default fedora workstation without having to >> install any additional repos. which for me is aw

Re: Is rfkill new?

2016-01-08 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 January 2016 at 18:36, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've just been getting switched over to fedora 23 from 22, and > spent a long time figuring out why the heck my wifi dongle > as access point didn't work any longer. > > I finally found log messages about the interface being soft > blocked by rfkill

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 23:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the >> start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the >> disc (you'll

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 23:56, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > First, I strongly recommend to put /home in a separated partition. It > will save you time any time you make a fresh install. Yes, it's how I've got my desktop set up, previously my laptop didn't have enough space to make that practical. Though

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 22:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > You could use LVM thin p for / and /home. > > The advantage is LV sizes are virtual, and can be larger than the VG. So > it's an on demand pool of extents, assigned when needed by whichever LV. > > The installer won't let you over commit though. So

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 20:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:23:55PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> I can only see the windows in a vm helping >> in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent >> access to a filesystem on the host

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 18:33, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 01/06/2016 10:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: >>>> >>>&

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 17:49, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> by catenation to a partition on an external drive. >>> >>> I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could >>> if necessary; i

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> Is there any less drastic approach? > > You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the > occasional Windows session i

partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
It's been a while since I touched LVM, I don't use it on my personal machines since I don't need what it provides and when it was first introduced in Fedora I found it slowed things down a bit. Right now I'm changing my laptop to a 250GB SSD (from the 100GB it had previously). It dual boots and wa

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-21 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 December 2015 at 01:17, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >>> >>> It's neither of these, >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 December 2015 at 05:39, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2015, Fernando Cassia sent: >> Thanks for the reply. I choose to stop using so-called "persistent >> storage" because it eventually goes FUBAR. Something about the loop >> device if I remember correctly. The issue being

Re: Why was YUM removed

2015-12-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 December 2015 at 14:44, Ian Malone wrote: > On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim wrote: >> Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent: >>> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being >>> work-in-progress, when its maintainer p

Re: Why was YUM removed

2015-12-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent: >> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being >> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away. > > One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool >

Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2015 at 18:47, Neal Becker wrote: > Ian Malone wrote: > >> On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker wrote: >>> I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. >>> >>> A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all t

Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker wrote: > I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. > > A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory, > driving it into swapping hell. > > I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On

Re: Appending the file modified date to the file name

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2015 at 02:30, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/30/2015 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> You could: >>> mv "$file" "$file-$(stat -c %y "$file")" >> >> >> Not quite as the script: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> for i in `seq 20 42`; >> do >> file="Voice "0${i}.m4a >>

Re: F22 kernel 4.2.6 - No sound cards

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 November 2015 at 03:28, Richard Shaw wrote: > Thanks for the quick feedback! I may try that if needed but so far going > back to the previous kernel has fixed the problem and I don't reboot > frequently on that machine. > If you can confirm that it doesn't work booting into the newer kernel

Re: alternative to Rhythmbox

2015-11-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 November 2015 at 17:15, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 11:32 -0500, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: >> VLC if you only want to listen or watch your favourite media >> smoothly. > > I have nothing against VLC but if you just want to play videos a good > alternative is mpv. > >> Son

Re: alternative to Rhythmbox

2015-11-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 November 2015 at 16:02, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Did you try Parole? It's a very nice player. > Or Amarok. It's a bit too much for me, but maybe it's what you're looking for. > > A quite like amarok, it is of course a KDE program, some people seem to object to using things from "the other sid

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 November 2015 at 11:40, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Now, I am really confuse! > > Sorry. > >> What is the combined Workstation & Live ISO? >> I can get: Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso >> and >> Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-23-10.iso >> Not a "combined" one. > >

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 November 2015 at 14:58, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >>> > How can I get an iso image for fedora 23 (workstation) ? >>> >>> https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ >> There is only the Live version not the DVD iso. > > The Fedora Workstation Live image is a co

Re: An interesting sort problem

2015-11-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 13 November 2015 at 18:32, Ian Malone wrote: > On 13 November 2015 at 16:54, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> On 11/12/2015 07:38 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> >>> Awk can do what you want: >>> { >>> lines[NR]=$NF " " $0 >>

Re: An interesting sort problem

2015-11-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 13 November 2015 at 16:54, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 11/12/2015 07:38 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> Awk can do what you want: >> { >> lines[NR]=$NF " " $0 >> } >> >> END { >> PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@val_type_asc" >> for line in lines { >> j=index(line, " ") >> print

Re: Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 November 2015 at 17:49, George Avrunin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:31:54 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > >> I've also got a Canon not showing up, putting camera:// into the >> dolphin address bar while it's connected works and I haven't got >> ar

Re: Fedora 22 and 23 don't (fully) recognize Canon camera; Fedora 20 and 21 did

2015-11-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 November 2015 at 17:19, George Avrunin wrote: > I have a Canon EOS SL1 camera (also known as an EOS 100D). With Fedora > 20 and 21, when I connected the camera to a USB port, it was recognized and > the KDE device notifier would ask whether I wanted to open it with the > file manager or dow

Re: Detecting empty office doc containing virus macro

2015-10-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 28 October 2015 at 11:56, Gary Stainburn wrote: > We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty XLS or DOC documents with > embedded virus macros. These are getting past SPAMASSASSIN, Clamav and > Kaspersky. > > I'm trying to write a filter for EXIM to block these emails but I need to kno

Re: YouTube videos in full-screen mode block Firefox

2015-10-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 October 2015 at 20:49, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/08/2015 12:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> >> Gee, I get nervous when I have a dozen tabs open... :) > > > I don't think I've ever had as many as half that open at once; can't see the > point, either. > I currently have 7. Admittedly two are blank r

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 September 2015 at 13:50, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:33:16 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: > >> On 2 September 2015 at 21:45, Ranjan Maitra >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was wondering if it is possible to use a PC

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 September 2015 at 21:45, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use a PCI-e SSD for the root and swap > partitions of a workstation running F22. I am thinking of installing F22 and > my swap here -- the machine has 64GB memory. So I am considering getting a > 1

Re: Aaugh! Sound devices changed again!

2015-09-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 September 2015 at 12:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > Every single fedora release, and sometimes even just from > an update where there wasn't a full release, the sound > devices get renumbered or renamed. The last time I > tried to play a movie and send the sound to the optical > output connected to

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 September 2015 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. > > Thank. Not sure, maybe a question for the developers list. itext (I'm assuming it's the same itext), appears to be back: https://admin.fedorap

Re: This is what I was talking about

2015-08-21 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 August 2015 at 01:18, Martin Cigorraga wrote: > What!? > Is this a part of another thread or what? > It's part of a thread that was posted here by mistake and rightly died about two weeks ago. > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:38 PM Sylvia Sánchez wrote: >> >> Because every one of them are pull

Re: LINUX is full of music: K3b identifies kernel images in /boot as audio files :-)

2015-08-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 August 2015 at 10:47, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > seems, LINUX is full of sound: Trying to write /boot/vmlinuz... to a > data CD with k3b. If I drag such a file to the "Data Project" subwindow > of k3b, it is identified as audio file, and the CD burning is rejected. > Same with files

Re: How do you store a Live Feed from a guitar

2015-07-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 July 2015 at 10:11, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > > On 01/07/15 00:08, Doug wrote: >>> >>> Any suggestions >>> >>> Greg Ennis >>> >> I have seen ads for a setup that will record vinyl records from a >> turntable >> onto a PC thru a gizmo plugged into the USB port. If you we

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-06-29 Thread Ian Malone
On 29 June 2015 at 02:38, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 06/28/2015 07:02 PM, Stephen Davies wrote: >> >> >> On 29/06/15 10:13, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 06/28/2015 06:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: Hi, I have text files made of paragraphs of text, separated by blank lines. Each

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 May 2015 at 19:57, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Well, I'd count the "systemd and docker don't work together well" >> bit with some degree of skepticism. But, on the larger point: >> >> Fedora doesn't strive to be bleeding edge. We strive to be the first to >> offer the newest and best of _fun

Re: WiFi restoration

2015-04-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 April 2015 at 11:02, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ian Malone wrote: > >> If restarting the card allows it to reconnect when it gets into the >> connection lost state that does somewhat suggest there are accumulated >> errors somewhere (in the driver maybe) due to

Re: WiFi restoration

2015-04-25 Thread Ian Malone
On 25 April 2015 at 11:18, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 01:22 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Airplane mode? Is there such a thing on a laptop? >> >> I would have thought so, people do use laptops when they travel. > > I'm running Fedora/KDE, and I don't see anyth

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 April 2015 at 20:50, jdow wrote: > > Forums don't work after a remarkably short time unless there is a strong > moderator presence and participation. For over a decade I moderated one of > the most active Amiga developer related forums on any online service. I have > grown to prefer mailing

Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 28 March 2015 at 11:33, Ian Malone wrote: > > Differential pricing, if a menu option can be disabled it can be monetized. > (Or at least the sales people will think so.) -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Microsoft may lock out other OSes with Windows 10

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 March 2015 at 23:26, Pete Travis wrote: > On 03/27/2015 03:30 PM, Mickey wrote: >> Is this true with Linux, Fedora ? I though Secure Boot was overcome as a >> problem. >> >> >> http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/03/23/microsoft-may-lock-out-other-oses-with-windows-10/?intcmp=ob_article_footer

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 March 2015 at 01:25, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:01:36 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 16:42 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > If you update libraries a running program uses, it won't get the new >> > libraries until it is restarted since it's a

Re: calendar servers?

2015-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2015 at 14:51, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 01:04:55PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> I've got a project I'm developing for the raspberry pi which requires >> a calendar server. ... > > You could consider using ownCloud. Among all the

calendar servers?

2015-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
I've got a project I'm developing for the raspberry pi which requires a calendar server. While it will probably run on raspbian it would be handy if I could do some of the work on Fedora. Is radicale the only calendar server? It's the only one that shows up in a DNF search. They have a pretty webpa

Re: current laptop recommendations

2015-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2015 at 14:41, Andras Simon wrote: > 2015-01-09 15:03 GMT+01:00, Ian Malone : >> On 9 January 2015 at 13:54, Ranjan Maitra >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:43:58 + Ian Malone wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone have an

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 March 2015 at 19:03, stan wrote: > I'm running Fedora 21 with a custom compiled kernel, > 3.19.0-1.20150211.fc21.x86_64. > > I have a multi core system with 6 cores. All are recognized by the > kernel. > > But, when I run a compile job with -j6, in order to allow all six cores > to be used,

Re: Problems while installing NVdivia proprietary drivers

2015-02-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 February 2015 at 19:19, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I have installed the NVidia property drivers from RPMFusion >> repositories, inside a text session. >> >> Afterwards, I ran as root: >> >> nvidia-xconfig >> >> and rebooted

Re: What is Ghost i.e security hole in the Linux?

2015-01-29 Thread Ian Malone
On 29 January 2015 at 02:17, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2015, Doug sent: >> ... A remote attacker able to call either of these functions could >> exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the >> user running the application > > All these security fl

Re: No sound in Skype on Fedora 20 64-bit

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 28 January 2015 at 02:53, Jim Lewis wrote: > >> >> On 01/27/2015 06:37 PM, Jim Lewis wrote: >>> Okay, so I installed lpf-skype on Fedora 20 and also got the no sound >>> problem. When I tried to fix it by doing what I did on F21: >>> >>> yum -y install pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulse

Re: End of 32-bit support?

2015-01-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 January 2015 at 15:53, poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 03:24, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:12:23 + (UTC) >> Bill Oliver wrote: >> >>> >>> I recently read an interesting article recently that suggested that >>> Fedora 23 might be 64-bit only: >>> >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.p

Re: current laptop recommendations

2015-01-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 January 2015 at 18:12, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> I've installed some newer Asus machines recently, and all worked >> flawlessly. > > I am taking care of a new Asus that I'm just about to put Linux on, so > that is good news. Meant to

Re: current laptop recommendations

2015-01-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2015 at 13:54, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:43:58 +0000 Ian Malone wrote: > >> Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux >> compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking >> for anything sup

Re: current laptop recommendations

2015-01-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2015 at 13:49, EGO-II.1 wrote: > On 01/09/2015 08:43 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux >> compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking >> for anything superspecced to r

current laptop recommendations

2015-01-09 Thread Ian Malone
Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced battery life and the wifi switch playing up are starting to build up (plus people have poke

Re: pdftk

2014-12-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 December 2014 at 10:59, Jon Ingason wrote: > Den 2014-12-11 05:08, Paul Allen Newell skrev: >> >> On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell >>> wrote: >>> On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2014

Re: Questions about Fedora 14 Workstation

2014-12-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 December 2014 at 22:46, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 12/09/2014 12:25 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: >>> >>> __ >>> My vote: some ability to install whatever is availab

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2014 at 16:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >> >> My question was "What part(s) of the systemd suite has not been adopted". >> Note the not part. > > > Yes. I understood that fine. I was pointing out which parts have bee

Re: Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20

2014-10-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 October 2014 13:48, M. Fioretti wrote: > On 2014-10-27 07:41, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> I have a workaround that should let you finish your task for now, and >> let you handle the issue with dolphin later. I would suggest install >> one of the light weight filemanagers where the sorting is lik

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