Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-01 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 11:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You did online updates? This is the reason why offline updates is the > default now, because doing updates without a reboot can cause weird > situations like this. Ok, you maniacs finally did it, you made a Linux suck as hard as Windows.

Re: [OT] HP EX920

2018-05-31 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 15:40 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > newegg has a good price on the 512G HP EX920 M.2 ($180US) NVMe SSD > drives this weekend. > > I can find no references to this part and Linux. Everything refers to > Windows (and the problems they're having with it). > > This is supposed

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 12:51 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I also found an curious issue. The system > this problem is occuring on is a laptop, and I have an external monitor > attached. When I loggen into Gnome Classic the external monitor was an > extension of the laptop display, i.e. I move

Re: Not sure which FM I need to be reading: auto media mount trouble

2017-07-31 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 00:35 -0500, John Morris wrote: > In Fedora 24 about 2/3 of the time when I login the only item in > Computer was "File System" and inserted media (CD/USB) neither mounts or > appears. The other 1/3 of the time it worked. Not good. But the clock > is

Re: regionset for DVD playback and ripping

2017-07-26 Thread John Morris
On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 20:20 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to change > the region code on a DVD player? > > Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region code > 0)? And if so, with what result? > > The

Not sure which FM I need to be reading: auto media mount trouble

2017-07-14 Thread John Morris
I have managed to hose something in my account. In Fedora 24 about 2/3 of the time when I login the only item in Computer was "File System" and inserted media (CD/USB) neither mounts or appears. The other 1/3 of the time it worked. Not good. But the clock is ticking on F24 now so I updated to

Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-29 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 20:38 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > Personally, I assume that my computers are always on the verge of being > compromised. It's one of the things I like about fedora -- I always do > a clean install when a new version comes out, and I occasionally to a > clean reinstall mid

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-28 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 22:18 +0930, Tim wrote: > My understanding was that only an Original Equipment Manufacturer can > sell/supply those OEM versions of the OS, and only to go with a > particular PC (one of those "not to be sold separately" conditions). > With only a retail package being somethin

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 13:59 -0400, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: > Cool! I just downloaded and installed it. It installed without a hitch > with Virtualbox, though Microsoft insisted I create an account -- which > I've never done before. I didn't know that Win 10 was free from > Microsoft. I

Re: Brother, can you spare a printer?

2016-12-09 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 16:57 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The most likely definition for "Linux is supported" is that somewhere on > Brother's dusty web site you can find a binary blob that you can install on > an Ubuntu LTS, or an RHEL distribution. Close. Perl scripts instead of blobs, w

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 12:10 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 > workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? You are changing archs. RPM just wasn't meant to do that. There are no simple ways and as o

Re: OT: recommended way of timing two pieces of code in C

2016-02-26 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 12:06 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thank you! So, is there any way that these other processes can be > separated out in the time calculations? I can not come up with > definitive statements unless I can do these comparisons in a fair > manner. Not really. The days of pur

Re: I'm shocked, shocked!

2015-06-02 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 13:48 -0400, Digimer wrote: > I dealt with this by setting names I want in > /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules to match MAC to device names > (and then the name to IP in the usual ifcfg-X files). Yup, did that one long ago. Now where do I lock down the names of my dis

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-09 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 16:38 +0200, poma wrote: > On 06.04.2015 17:57, Jonathan Allen wrote: > > Hooray - thank you, that's sorted. Now all I have to do is get the > > background > > to display. The screen always shows what was last on it when a task closes > > and the default wallpaper never app

Re: log message when starting firefox

2015-03-30 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 10:21 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: \ > This is with firefox 36.0.3-1 and 36.0.4-1. I have set > > toolkit.networkmanager.disable:true > network.manage-offline-status:false > browser.offline-apps.notify:

Re: log message when starting firefox

2015-03-26 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 08:54 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Either way, is there a way to get rid of this log message other than > installing NetworkManager? Yup. Navigate to about:config and create the following entry: toolkit.networkmanager.disable: true Works for me, somebody at Moz Corp f

Monitor madness

2015-01-22 Thread John Morris
Ok, I'm helping convert an XP user. I'm doing it long distance though. Testing with live images hasn't went well but have narrowed the problem down a bit. It is the video setup that is going Boom! Guy has an older ATI RV370 with a 32inch TV on the DVI port (via HDMI converter) and a 1600x1200 4:

Re: End of 32-bit support?

2015-01-21 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 10:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > I honestly do not see any reason to make so much noise about it. > Where are 16 bit OS'es today? Does anyone want to go back to them? > Not me. > So, I think it is inevitable that support for 32 bit OS'es will come to > an end. Of course it wil

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 16:31 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security > subsystem? > *eyeroll* That actually isn't as crazy as you seem to think. Security should always be seen as tradeoff between the cost of the security vs the potential

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > In older "traditional" practices, swap space was normally > about twice the ram size. Today, with some systems having > 64 and even 128GB and even larger RAM, it becomes interesting > how big swap space should be. Where is the cutoff for performan

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Can it be done? > > So far, swapon says: > swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. > ... > Maybe the devs can have a look and see if they can modify the swapper to > allow sparse swap files?? > There is a reason why it acts l

Re: Fedora & Android

2015-01-07 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 12:46 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > My bad, I had misspelled it. Thanks. No, I did it. > However my phone is a Nexus 5 so it doesn't look like this will work for > me. If you have a Nexus device you don't need anything special, they are all developer friendly. Kinda

Re: Fedora & Android

2015-01-06 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 17:55 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > There's something that isn't been mentioned yet, but I would love to > know. Is it possible to root an Android mobile from a Linux computer, > e.g. Fedora? All the solutions I found are about Windows PC. :-/ Rooted a Blu phone and some S

Power management and docks

2014-12-05 Thread John Morris
Been banging my head against a minor problem for months now. Finally giving up and asking... Have a Thinkpad and a dock. Mate still allows for this arrangement, I can even configure it to stay powered on with the lid closed off of the dock if I want. The problem is I can't logout and back in or