Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 11:40:05 AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > Quick definition: fora is the plural of forum, as in a web based forum to > discuss a topic or technology, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/. > > Having said that... > > I love mailing lists. I have filters set up they

The migration mistake, again. Was: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-03 Thread M. Fioretti
Thanks to Samuel Sieb and to Fred, who in the tens of replies so far to a request about LibreOffice Base seem the only ones to have noticed that the OP had two almost completely unrelated issues, not one. The first is some LO installation problem. The other is the REAL issue, and the REAL, REALLY i

Re: Re[2]: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 09:05:54 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: >   I end up spending a lot of time testing new Python versions and > new libraries to ensure they are still working properly (new > versions often have problems,  but they generally get fixed without > my help)... > > I agree that

Re: Re[2]: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 09:21:05 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Open source makes it easy for people to innovate, and we need to > encourage experimentation, but we can't have  experiments in linux > distros. George, the core of that post of mine is that what you say has become impossible.

Re: Perl is now failing for me

2022-02-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 21:02:55 PM +0200, Iosif Fettich wrote: > Hi Fulko, > > > I'm not sure when it started, but on everything more complicated > > than print 'Hello World' my perl is failing. > > ... > Try to identify which cpan you're using (the one from Fedora repos > installed via dnf or the o

Thanks for: [OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

2019-07-07 Thread M. Fioretti
Many thanks to all who answered this request, and added very useful general comments. I have synthesized all the feedback collected here and elsewhere, and forwarded the result to the client. We'll know how it ends next month. For the record, and to give more context: both the client and I know,

[OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

2019-06-29 Thread M. Fioretti
year. Thanks in advance for any feedback, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you ___ us

Re: Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-12 00:43, Doug wrote: On 10/11/2017 02:44 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: ... I had EXACTLY, exactly the same problem on a fully updated F25 system, a couple of weeks ago. Unbearable. But in my case even libreoffice and kate were very slow. I solved the problem brilliantly by... switching

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-11 17:26, stan wrote: ... I have noscript and privacy badger installed, though, and they block content that would come from ad servers. So, it is possible that adnauseum functions as you think, and I am just not seeing the effect because of these other plugins. ah, OK. This makes a

OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-11 00:20, stan wrote: I'm running the latest firefox from the repositories, and I would characterize the response as 'snappy'. Some possibilities: Your configuration is allowing a lot of third party communication to slow down page loading. Typically pages load ads before content, a

Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-10 23:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally get around to responding to keyboard strokes. He

Re: SOLVED (sort of): cannot use Pitivi because of obscure missing library/plugin

2017-07-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-07-22 15:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/22/17 20:09, M. Fioretti wrote: On 2017-07-21 23:50, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, I urgently need to clip and save a few scenes from some mp4 files. Nothing more. I enabled rpmfusion and added the packages that were suggested. Pitivi continued

SOLVED (sort of): cannot use Pitivi because of obscure missing library/plugin

2017-07-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-07-21 23:50, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, I urgently need to clip and save a few scenes from some mp4 files. Nothing more. I enabled rpmfusion and added the packages that were suggested. Pitivi continued to complain just the same as before. I installed kdenlive and managed to

cannot use Pitivi because of obscure missing library/plugin

2017-07-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I urgently need to clip and save a few scenes from some mp4 files. Nothing more. Only machine I can do this right now is a fedora 25 x86_64 box. When I launch PiTiVi from the command line, it starts, but it says: Missing soft dependency: - libav not found on the system -> addi

Re: [Solved (with Windows..]: F25 rsync failure on USB drive, folder corrupted

2017-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-05-22 15:40, Tim wrote: If you both have your own LANs, you can plug a portable drive into a LAN, just the same as you can plug directly into a computer. I know that, but it is not the case for the people I have to share this with.. But if USB is what you have to do, look for a "US

[Solved (with Windows..]: F25 rsync failure on USB drive, folder corrupted

2017-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-05-22 06:51, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm going to guess underpowered drive, if this is a port powered drive without an external power supply. This can cause corruption. Pretty much only chkdsk can reliably repair NTFS. I confirm this. I plugged the drive into a Windows 8 computer, let its

Re: F25 rsync failure on USB drive, folder corrupted

2017-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-05-21 09:41, Alessio Ciregia wrote: Did you try to perform an fsck on such partition? Sorry. Of course that was the next thing to do, but I forgot it. Anyway, I did it ten minutes after posting, and this is what I got: [root@polaris ~]# umount /dev/sdb1 [root@polaris ~]# fsck /dev/s

F25 rsync failure on USB drive, folder corrupted

2017-05-20 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have a computer running fc25.x86_64. It has one folder, /home/photo, with ~100 GB of photographs (about 40K files) organized in many subfolders named like username/year/MMDD-event I use rsync to have a full copy of that folder on an external drive, connected via USB. This mo

update on: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-04-21 08:59, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or /etc

crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc but the only line in my own cron

"solved": KDE toolbar frozen in F25, was: Cannot choose window manager at login, and keyboard problem

2017-01-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-01-04 23:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 17:23 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On 2017-01-04 16:22, M. Fioretti wrote: ... I have noticed only now that the KDE toolbar is REALLY frozen: if I type "date" in a terminal, I get the current date (5:17pm

KDE toolbar frozen in F25, was: Cannot choose window manager at login, and keyboard problem

2017-01-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-01-04 16:22, M. Fioretti wrote: The other problem in my original post does exist though, i.e. the keyboard switching, without possibility to revert it. In addition to this, now that I am working in a KDE session, I have to report that the toolbar at the bottom does NOT responds to

Re: Cannot choose window manager at login, and keyboard problem

2017-01-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-01-04 01:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 01/03/2017 12:53 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: 1) I have also installed KDE, OpenBox and other window managers. But when I reboot and get the login screen, I see no menu to select the window manager This depends on the login manager you're using

Cannot choose window manager at login, and keyboard problem

2017-01-03 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I just installed fedora 25 workstation, 64 bit, and updated all the packages. There are two things that don't work so far, and *maybe* they are related, so here they go: 1) I have also installed KDE, OpenBox and other window managers. But when I reboot and get the login screen, I s

Re: gnuplot help

2015-11-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-11-12 02:48, Antonio Olivares wrote: Hi Antonio, I only found time today to look at your graphs and gnuplot code. After reading your first email I was going to send this exact suggestion: then modified 2015gfga.plt and added a range set yrange [0:10] will fix the graph to what I would

Re: gnuplot help

2015-11-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-11-10 19:04, Antonio Olivares wrote: The only one that works is the following one: http://plotshare.com/index.ws/plot/858779550 I wanted to change it, put the dates and the opponent and make it look like a bar graph. I tried modifing the code and add the style used by Marco F. a fellow

Re: OT: help with search

2015-11-01 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-11-02 01:30, jd1008 wrote: I googled for a way to list all items found on a single page. What I am searching for is very very specific (in double quotes) and only on a specific web site: FOr example: my_Favorite_Site.com: "my specific phrase" -some_word It comes up with a total of 12K

ssh connections now freezing, part 2

2015-10-22 Thread M. Fioretti
Thanks for the many answers to my initial request: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-October/465783.html which I am only reading NOW, in the list archives, because... I had wrongly flagged my own message and all its replies as spam :-( (long story for another day). Anyway: I

SSL, not: ssh connections now freezing, if left idle for a few minutes

2015-10-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-10-19 14:08, M. Fioretti wrote: I have also noticed that if I rsync via ssh several GBs of stuff in the same moments, from/to the same servers, with the same accounts, same ports... etc, THOSE operations work just fine, pretty quick too. In other words, it's all and only the plai

ssh connections now freezing, if left idle for a few minutes

2015-10-19 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings and... an admittedly very broad questions, maybe not even related to Fedora except for "what are the best tools on Fedora to diagnose this?" I have this fedora desktop on which I usually keep open shells connected to several servers, via ssh (on different ports too). Until 3/4 days ago

[SOLVED] (kinda): fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-06-05 Thread M. Fioretti
now, thanks to all who answered! Marco On 2015-05-28 16:37, M. Fioretti wrote: On 2015-05-28 14:43, Dan Mossor wrote: Well, one way to check if it is indeed the video driver is to stop the service utilizing it. issue 'systemctl stop kdm' from your ssh session (or sddm if you'v

Re: ssh-agent called by gnome, cinnamon... but not by openbox

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-28 17:02, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/28/2015 06:56 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: don't seem to do anything under Fedora. What is the fedora way to do make Openbox start ssh-agent every time, then? the old .startx of yore, or what? I'm not familiar with openbox, so I can't

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-28 14:43, Dan Mossor wrote: Well, one way to check if it is indeed the video driver is to stop the service utilizing it. issue 'systemctl stop kdm' from your ssh session (or sddm if you've switched it to that, kdm was still default in F20). This will stop the desktop processes and dro

ssh-agent called by gnome, cinnamon... but not by openbox

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I just realized that if,under Fedora (20, btw), you set up your gnome or cinnamon desktop sessions to use ssh-agent, so you can automatically ssh without typing passwords from any terminal you open in those sessions... this setting does not "transfer" to openbox. The solutions menti

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-28 08:37, Gilboa Davara wrote: Most likely you're using software acceleration (due to poorly supported [by F20] graphics card) with a heavy desktop environment (E.g. GNOME 3). Thanks Gilboa for the quick answer. As I understand it, the behavior I reported is the SAME with any deskto

fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-27 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have come across a computer running Fedora 20 X86_64 that is basically unusable. I would really appreciate your help to: 1) figure out and fix the current problem (including: would installing fedora 22 help or make things worse because of dropped support for some hw component, et

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-12 21:50, Pete Travis wrote: On May 12, 2015 11:54 AM, "jd1008" wrote: > > > It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide > a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release > (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user > decides (for some reason) to return to t

Re: F20: YUM - failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates

2015-05-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-11 16:52, Kevin Fenzi wrote: OK, I'll wait until I see that announcement here then, no big deal for me. Things should be back to normal now since last night. ;) confirmed, thanks. Marco -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-11 18:40, jd1008 wrote: On 05/11/2015 12:45 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: Why not backup everything, then completely ERASE the old installation, installing over it the current version from SCRATCH, then configure it to work as you need? Seriously. Wouldn't it be a much more reliable

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-11 12:43, Timothy Murphy wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: Why not backup everything, then completely ERASE the old installation, installing over it the current version from SCRATCH, then configure it to work as you need? Seriously. Wouldn't it be a much more reliable path, and co

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-11 09:04, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/11/2015 08:45 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: ... Seriously. Wouldn't it be a much more reliable path, and consume much less time in the end? I don't think, these questions can be answered in "broad generality". Indeed. Tha

Re: F20: YUM - failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates

2015-05-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-10 17:58, Kevin Fenzi wrote: There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in mirrormanager. We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course proving more difficult than it seems at first. ;( Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later toda

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-11 06:08, Rolf Turner wrote: I have finally reached a stage where I may have to bite the bullet, grasp the nettle, screw my courage to the sticking place and upgrade my Fedora version. I am currently running Fedora 17. Which is of course antediluvian. Hi Rolf, and all. Your ema

F20: YUM - failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates

2015-05-10 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have, on a Fedora 20 x86_64 box, "yum update" failing with lots of messages like the one in the subject, and others like: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror.

graphical interfaces for just **using** MySql/MariaDB?

2015-02-27 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am looking for a FOSS graphical interface to ONLY USE, NOT manage, an already existing MySql or Maria DB database. In other words, I only need a decent GUI that, with as little setup as possible, lets me choose a table in a database find a record in it create or modify records in o

Re: Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20

2014-10-27 Thread M. Fioretti
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 like ls; my recommendation: Thunar (from XFCE), or pcmanfm

Re: Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20

2014-10-26 Thread M. Fioretti
to the list: I think there's still more to this issue than what already said. In detail, answering both to Sudhir and Roger (thanks for your quick answers!) Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:18 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: 196511-holidays-1.jpg 1968summer.jpg 1961-july-15-birthda

Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20

2014-10-26 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am running Fedora 20 x86_64 with all updates. These days I am, among many other things, reordering old family pictures scanned in several occasions, by different people. So I have folders with many, many files named like: 196511-holidays-1.jpg 1968summer.jpg 1961-july-15-birthday

any decent mysql/mariadb form gui for Fedora? was: working howto for accessing mysql/mariadb from libre office?

2014-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
work above by themselves. I found Formit, or something like that, but it seems unmantained...) TIA, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* y

any working howto for accessing mysql/mariadb from libre office?

2014-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
same machine? that's why I am also asking here. TIA, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you - End forwarded message - -- M. Fio

CLOSED: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:47:01 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/20/14 16:28, M. Fioretti wrote: > > ok that's why then. So the only thing I need, if anything, is further > > confirmation that increasing it on F17 would not cause problems. I'll > > wait until to

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:24:08 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: > FWIW, everything I've seen indicates this value is not calculated > but configured when the kernel is compiled. I just happen to have > an old F17 disk and created a VM. As expec

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
ons: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
g confirmation/feedback, instead of risking to stop work for a day to fix some problem... Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- users mail

advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
xplanation of possible unwanted side-effects of this. Should I check/do something else (but what?) or can I safely apply those suggestions and reboot? Is there risk that doing that stuff "as is" messes things up and forces me to spend a day or so recovering the system? Thanks, Marc

Re: gmvault fails on fedora 17

2013-12-19 Thread M. Fioretti
ke it". It only, explicitly says "any feedback is appreciated". I am just checking if somebody already HAPPENS to know what the answer may be. -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily

Re: gmvault fails on fedora 17

2013-12-18 Thread M. Fioretti
t, exactly, makes gmvault fail in that way, on that system. Thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- users mai

gmvault fails on fedora 17

2013-12-18 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I'm testing gmvault (http://gmvault.org/) a gmail backup tool, on fedora 17 x86_64. I have followed all the instructions (enable the app, change gmail settings etc) in the install page: http://gmvault.org/gmail_setup.html However, the program aborts with the python error below, whic

Re: Best (Fedora) way to capture/archive videos for LATER editing?

2013-12-02 Thread M. Fioretti
ture in your computer. thanks Fred, I'll look into that too. -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Best (Fedora) way to capture/archive videos for LATER editing?

2013-12-01 Thread M. Fioretti
u, 7 Nov 2013 14:22:58 +0100 > "M. Fioretti" wrote: > > > What Fedora-compatible video capture hardware should I buy to hook VHS > > players, Firewire camcorders... to my computer? > > For VHS, you want to get a TV card. Lookup "video4linux" documenta

Re: Best (Fedora) way to capture/archive videos for LATER editing?

2013-11-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 13:58:24 PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:23:06 +1030 > Tim wrote: > > > Allegedly, on or about 07 November 2013, M. Fioretti sent: > > > I already know my way around nonlinear video editing on Linux. > > > > I'

Best (Fedora) way to capture/archive videos for LATER editing?

2013-11-07 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I already know my way around nonlinear video editing on Linux. This time I'm looking for pointers to general information useful for the procedure below, as well as tips on the best software and hardware peripherals to do it on Fedora boxes. My relatives asked me to "make sense" of the

solved: trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

2013-10-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 11:37:24 AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a fedora 17 x86_64 box with abiword 2.8.6 installed via RPM in > /usr/local/bin > > Yesterday I decided to try for a moment, just for the fun of it, > abiword 3.0 from source. I ended up with a binary in > /usr/

Re: trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

2013-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 12:33:31 PM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > Hmm, I don't even have that 19626 file in .libs. The entirety of my .libs > directory is: > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 100047055 Oct 17 10:48 abiword > lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 1000 20 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.la -> > ../libabiwor

Re: trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

2013-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 10:52:30 AM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > If you cd into your abiword-3.0.0/src directory and execute ./abiword (which > happens to be script) what does Help->About tell you > (once abiword has started)? interesting. On my box, it aborts when done as normal user (marco): [m

Re: trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

2013-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 08:31:32 AM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 10/17/13 04:37, M. Fioretti wrote: > [snip] > > When I launch THAT binary from the command line, I get an abiword > [snip] > > > Is /usr/local/bin/abiword a script that runs the abiword executable > (per

trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

2013-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have a fedora 17 x86_64 box with abiword 2.8.6 installed via RPM in /usr/local/bin Yesterday I decided to try for a moment, just for the fun of it, abiword 3.0 from source. I ended up with a binary in /usr/local/bin/abiwowrd. When I launch THAT binary from the command line, I get an

current way to show pop-up windows in other users sessions?

2013-09-12 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, it's been a looong, long time since the last time I did this, so I need a bit of help to refresh my memory. In a sense, what I'm unable to remember right now is what docs I should read... I have a cron shell script that, if some event happens, must: 1) check if a *local* user A is cur

Re: Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, September 6, 2013 2:09 pm, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > I need to be able to collaborate writing documents with colleagues who > use MS Office. That is, we send documents back and forth while each party > edits them. > > It used to be that LibreOffice was acceptable, alt

Re: Working twitter client

2013-06-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 16:36:12 PM +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Sure, you can try turpial, gwibber all of it one yum away. didn't you read Steve's reply and mine too? We did use yum. Turpial etc all have the same problem. Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com

Re: Working twitter client

2013-06-22 Thread M. Fioretti
uot;yum search twitter" command and can't get any of them to > authenticate either. Very interesting coincidence. Can't help you unfortunately, just confirming that exactly the same thing happened to me this morning. On Fedora 17 x86_64, in case it matters. So I second your request! Mar

Re: best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?

2013-03-30 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 09:54:41 AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It makes a difference if you are concerned about attacks by users of > the machine, people who grab the machine while it is powered on The two cases above are exactly what I had in mind, regardless of how frequent/realistic they are

Re: best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?

2013-03-30 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 13:41:20 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > if you have a virtual machine with growable disks and delete a lot of > data the disk will not get smaller, shrink the disk will not really work > > after write zeros to the free space in the guest you can successful > shrink the virt

Re: best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?

2013-03-30 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 13:10:57 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > dd if/dev/urandom of=random.bin bs=16M; sync; rm -f random.bin thanks. I assume there should be an equal sign after the "if", right? Anyway: - shouldn't this be done several times, to make sure that whatever was in the free space

best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?

2013-03-30 Thread M. Fioretti
Greatings, I started reading online to refresh what I knew about secure deletion of files, and being sure that "free space" on an ext3/ext4 partition is surely "free", that is you can't recover the files that _were_ there. After reading this article: http://techthrob.com/2009/03/02/howto-delete-

Best way to run a KDE application as another user?

2013-02-18 Thread M. Fioretti
Hi, I am looking for the best/safest way (if it exists) to set up Fedora to make it possible for users B, C, etc..., when logged in with their userid and password, to run one and one only KDE application as if they were user A. That is, the equivalent of - opening a terminal - type su - A - launc

SOLVED: help needed to start java/eclipse app on F17

2013-02-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 12:23:30 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to start Xowa (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/ ) on > a fc17, x86_64 box > > when I launch it as explained in the readme file, I get the error > below, even if I have Java and eclipse-swt installed:

help needed to start java/eclipse app on F17

2013-02-09 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am trying to start Xowa (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/ ) on a fc17, x86_64 box when I launch it as explained in the readme file, I get the error below, even if I have Java and eclipse-swt installed: test #> rpm -qa | egrep -i 'java|eclipse' eclipse-swt-4.2.1-2.fc17.x86_64 ja

Best way to make sakis3g and Network Manager/FC coexist?

2012-12-13 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have a laptop running FC16 x86_64 with all updates applied. Today I set it up to connect it via 3g network with the sakis3g script from http://sakis3g.org (I'm asking here for support both because the problem **seems** Fedora-specific, and because the sakis3g support forum is offli

[SOLVED]: why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

2012-11-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 14:32:56 PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Use --modify-window=1 this seems enough to make the problem disappear, without mounting the file system Harald suggested. (I prefer not to do that because sometimes I have to do this on boxes on which I have no root password and/or c

Re: why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

2012-11-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 23:07:33 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > as said: please compare the timestamp on the target most likely the > timestamp on vfat contains daylight-savings which is not the case on > unix-filesystems Indeed! Thanks. Here are the outputs of fstat on two copies of the same file

Re: why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

2012-11-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 22:44:25 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > IIRC, adding a trailing slash /media/Verbatim/photo/ would cause > > another "photo" folder to appear inside /media/Verbatim/photo/, > > which is not what I want > > i am using rsync since many years in any environment > for backups

Re: why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

2012-11-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 22:10:04 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/z/photo/ /media/Verbatim/photo > >> > >> this command has a error > >> the last aparm is missing a trailing slash > > > > Why would that be an error? > > because i had enough cases with rsy

why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

2012-11-22 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am running Fedora 16 x86_64. When I connect an external USB drive and rsync to it my pictures with this command: rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/z/photo/ /media/Verbatim/photo because I don't care about ownership and permissions, I just want to have the same files,with the s

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 07:52:45 AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 08:55 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > How could he use Calibre, or any other graphical interface for that > > matter, if the system below does NOT see the Kindle in the first > > place? >

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 22:46:09 PM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: > > Just got a Kindle Fire HD (brand new in my country): when I > > connect to my Fedora 17 nothing happens. I get from lsusb: > > Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 > > >

Re: criminal use of linux [not]

2012-08-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 12:27:25 PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 August 2012 11:36, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 08:13:33 AM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > > > >> licensing of compiled binaries can be interesting depending on your > >> compiler l

Re: criminal use of linux [not]

2012-08-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 08:13:33 AM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > licensing of compiled binaries can be interesting depending on your > compiler license Ian, could you provide some concrete example of this? Thanks, M. Fioretti -- http://mfioretti.com -- users mailing list

Thanks for: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 22:39:16 PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > If you are trying to put 110 GB on a 128 GB drive, you are probably > running out of room. Run "df -h" when the drive is mounted, and see > how much space the drive has after things like the space used by > formatting the drive,

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 10:40:02 AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/18/2012 12:18 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > >the folder that I am backing up contains <25k files total, in lots of > >folders and subfolders, and afaik the max number of files for vfat > >(both 16 and 32) is well ab

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 07:54:15 AM -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > >rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo > > > >the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only at some point, thus making rsync fail > > > >dmesg

F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I'm running F17 x86_64, and I have a problem with one of the external USB drives I use for backups. Changing _cable_ doesn't make any difference. The problem never happens with my other drives, so the most likely explanation is that this one is slowly breaking, and it is time to replac

SOLVED, was: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-25 Thread M. Fioretti
it turns out the external ADSL modem was configured in a state to block incoming ssh connections. How this happened is beyond me, since the configuration WAS working until 2 hours before we replaced the computer, I have no memory of changing it in any way, and the same is true for all of the people

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 13:12:39 PM -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: > You do realize that Ubuntu has the firewall turned off by default > and Fedora it is enabled? I had thought to that, but as I said I have ran system-config-firewall to allow incoming ssh connections. Answering to the other poster, IIR

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 15:44:49 PM +0100, Emilio Lopez wrote: > > telnet his.ip.address 22 times out > > Also check router NAT. 99% times this is the problem. but noting changed in the router, see previous message. Basically, it's like we had unplugged the ethernet cable going to the router/ADSL m

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY > networking changes wrt the internet connection? none whatsoever. The only hardware thing that is changed (sorry for forgetting this in the first message, but I'm alm

cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have just installed F16 on a friend's box. Now I want to enable sshd in order to log in from home and do system administration, updates, etc... for him. Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh without problems. Now every attempt from my home times out.

Re: About expelling "Linda" and similar people

2012-01-05 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 18:34:42 PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 05.01.2012, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > As far as "Linda" is concerned, she (?) really, really felt to me > > from the very first moment as nobody else than the K. Larsen guy > > who messed up around

About expelling "Linda" and similar people

2012-01-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 21:29:45 PM +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 04-01-12 20:08, JB wrote: > >I think this list should not be moderated at all because as I > >already said it can be easily manipulated into killing it. > ... > IMO that Linda person is killing this list As far as "Linda" is concer

SOLVED : BIOS doesn't see hard drive with Fedora 16, may it be an install issue?

2011-12-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 18:04:50 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > we just installed Fedora 16 x86_64 KDE spin on an Intel DH61CR board, > from the live CD. New computer, no other OS is installed. > The live CD worked fine, no problem with the installation. However, > ... > if I press

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