Re: Gimp

2018-11-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
>> As far as I can see from his comment he only disaprove some GNOME UI >> decisions not GNOME entirely. >> >>> kind of comment is not welcome on the mailing list. >> >> Well, IMHO his is entitled to have his opinion. His comment is on topic >> and in the right list. >> >> Your statement instead

Re: Gimp monstrosity

2018-11-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:21:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/17/18 7:24 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> That is, indeed, hideous. >> >> Some out of work Gnome 3 UI Expert must've found a home at the Gimp >> project. > > I think we've all figured out by now that you don't like Gnome. This As fa

Re: FYI: ransomware virus on Linux (From FreeBSD Users mailing list)

2015-11-19 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:27:06 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > You might wish to read this thread online. Does not look terribly scary, > but it is good to be aware of the piece of SW causing it. And what is "the piece of SW causing it"? And what do you mean by stating:"You might wish to read this thread

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:45:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm on the lookout for a reliable all-in-one mono laser printer to use > under Fedora. Must be networked, preferably wireless, and both print and > scan functions must be supported with standard tools (CUPS etc.) > > The Samsung Xp

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-05-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 26 May 2011 02:26:18 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Juan R. de Silva gmail.com> writes: > >> Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown >> and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it >> especially dangerous to

Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-05-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME folks assume people do not shutdown/restart their computers anymore? This "feature" could drive crazy any

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Hi, > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly then > GNOME desktop? A basic question indeed. :-) Yes, like almost everybody states it is very personal. I'm GNOME follower. And I hate KDE. In fact I hate

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:48:31 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 12/23/10 10:34 PM, JB wrote: >> Juan R. de Silva gmail.com> writes: >> >>> ... >> Do you see the same SMART errors under your other distros ? >> >> Suggestions: >> 1. see if BIOS

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:45 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 24/12/10 11:46, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >>> I haven't used badblocks, but suspect that the hard disk drive >>> electronics is clever enough to hide damage and relocate bad sectors. >>> The S.

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:34:33 +, JB wrote: > Juan R. de Silva gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Do you see the same SMART errors under your other distros ? Yes, the same errors under all of them. I've tried it under systemrescuecd - same results. > Sugg

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:04:22 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: > On 12/23/10, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I did the stupidest thing I could as to forget that I was running on >> battery while installing FreeBSD on a free (1st) partition. and I found >> the laptop shutting d

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:36:46 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I did the stupidest thing I could as to forget that I was running on > battery while installing FreeBSD on a free (1st) partition. and I found > the laptop shutting down when it was too late. > > After this event smartc

smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I did the stupidest thing I could as to forget that I was running on battery while installing FreeBSD on a free (1st) partition. and I found the laptop shutting down when it was too late. After this event smartctl consistently reports Read Failure starting on LBA 26203589, Current_Pending_Secto

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

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:20:30 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:38:36 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my >> laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not &

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

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:11:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my >> laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not >> functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any temperature >> settings anymore. Instead it runs

i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any temperature settings anymore. Instead it runs fans at full speed continually and leaves as the only option M

Re: F14 fails to insert a module with a strange error message

2010-11-03 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:52:52 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 06:09:00 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> I've successfully (%99.99) upgraded from F12 to F14 using PreUpgrade. >> >> There is a little (missing %0.01) but rathe

F14 fails to insert a module with a strange error message

2010-11-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I've successfully (%99.99) upgraded from F12 to F14 using PreUpgrade. There is a little (missing %0.01) but rather weird problem. I use gkremllm with a Dell I8K plugin installed. Two errors are reported after the boot: 1. ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: un

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:56:37 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> at this point i've given up. > > OK :-) that's really very interesting. this time the update worked out as a charm. no need to get rid of the old

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:03:41 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> Moving out of the way xorg.conf worked out as you suggested.  I am now >> in F14 using vesa driver.  Thanks for that. :-) > > No worries. > >

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> 1) mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-moved-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) Moving out of the way xorg.conf worked out as you suggested. I am now in F14 using vesa driver. Thanks for that. :-) > 2) yum install kernel-devel dkms akmod-nvidia \ > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-lib

cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I've had F12 installed on Dell Latitude D820 as a part of multi distro system. Today, just for curiosity sake, I've tried to upgrade it directly to F14 (still in beta until tomorrow) using PreUpgrade utility. After upgrade completed and reported successful, the system stalls at boot. It shows

Re: test management system

2010-09-22 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:28:45 +0100, Piscium wrote: > Hiya, > > I am looking for a test management system, to help software/firmware > testing. Something like an application that runs on a server that would > allow testers to create test plans, write test cases, mark test cases as > passed or fail