Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
may want to check: http://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/#linuxutils or the URLs at: https://www.google.com/#q=lightscribe+software+for+linux Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 04:27 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:49:00 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Dragons, or my signature? Sig, ready made, or good writing skill. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com The inspiration came from a Tolkien quote and a suggestion from anot

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! I doub

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 02:20 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com Dragons, or my

Moderated message...

2014-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
nty of more appropriate places to have this sort of conversation. And there's plenty of things to discuss here that are on-topic. Thanks to all to understanding. > Aw shucks - just when it was getting fun - I was even sworn at. Oh well - back under my rock. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/20/2014 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Paul: This is the second or third person to abuse me because of my expertise. If you want to stay on topic, then where I make a contribution where it concerns my expertise, I would appreciate if idiots would defer to my wisdom as I continually st

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
are why you do computers and why I should hang my hat, quit the group, pursue my projects and let you live your false assumptions about the state and its institutions, and build the operating system without me. Regards, Richard Sounds like a plan... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that is listened to at the university. When talking about e-mail service, what does thats have to do with the trade-offs when using a "free" service compared to paying for the service? You are just paying for the "free" service with a different coin. Mikkel -- Do not medd

Re: Install problem

2014-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
have data you want to keep, then you can not easily install from a live CD. You have to do a custom partitioning telling the installer to use the existing partitions and where you want to mount them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with

Re: email failure

2014-01-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/18/2014 12:17 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: The problem with bottom-posting on this server is that when I send, it is hard for some, perhaps everyone, to know where the quoted message stops and my contribution begins. If you go to the bottom of this email you will see that your contributio

Re: F20 On-screen keyboard for login

2014-01-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in the /etc/gdm/custom.conf. You may also want to look at the /etc/X11/xinit directory tree. Add a file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.d? I am sorry I can not remember how to do it, but it has probably changed sense the last time I did it. This should at least get you pointed in the correct direction... M

Re: memory stick not recognized

2013-11-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 11/04/2013 11:28 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > There is no output to /var/log/messages when I plug it in. > > On 11/04/2013 07:50:57 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> On 11/03/2013 10:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >>> I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora

Re: memory stick not recognized

2013-11-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
t; > Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora? > > Thanks. What shows up in /var/log/messages when you plug it in? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
k up the AUTH sequence.) > > Cheers, > -- > Dave "don't need no stinkin' MUA" Ihnat > dih...@dminet.com I think he may want to use EHLO foo.bar.com instead of "HELO foo.bar.com" to see the security options. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-v -s "tst1" "ti...@gmail.com" instead of: echo "test" | mailx -vvv -s "tst1" "ti...@gmail.com" and see if that helps. One other thing - unless your ISP uses Yahoo as its mail service, or you have a premium Yahoo mail account, you are not going

Re: HDMI to USB

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
; with a HDMI output. You will have to see if the adapter you want to use will work with Linux. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
you have your MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, etc) set up correctly, they all work good. For a basic test message, they all work about equally well. It is when you want to send a bunch of mail from a batch file that the differences come into play. I find Nail is the best of the three if you want to send

Re: LAN driver problem

2013-09-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
nk you in advance for the help you want to give me. >>> Greetings to all, >>> >>> Friendliness. >>> >> When you changed the motherboard, the network device named probably >> changed with it. This is because Fedora remembers the hardware >> associat

Re: LAN driver problem

2013-09-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
f running: /sbin/ifconfig -a It will show you what network interfaces the system knows about. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIwsqUACgkQqbQrVW3J

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>> Hi, all. >>> >>> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >>> always the

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
old IP address? Do you have one machine on the network that runs a catching name server and the rest of the Fedora machines are looking for it at the old address? Or are you running something like dnsmasq on the machines, and have the old IP address in the config file? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in th

Re: Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

2013-05-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
m to be able to answer my > question. > > thanks in advance, > > Ananda Samaddar You may want to read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.42.2/sysconfig.txt - search for PEERDNS. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users ma

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

2013-05-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
It looks like a USB drive to Linux. The micro-SD card, if you have one in, will show up as a second drive. They will both get mounted. As an added benefit, it has an FM tuner and will also play Slot Radio cards. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste

Re: Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

2013-05-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
b-creator installed. > Have you actually tried this? Unless the USB device gets detected as a CD-ROM, the format is going to be wrong. The partition table and boot loader for a USB drive detected as a hard drive are different then the format of a CD-ROM. That is why programs like liveusb-creator

Re: no audio with HDMI

2013-05-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
monitor died, and I had to go back to a set of speakers off the sound card. (Hardware problem - it does not work with the analog input either.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Two HDs

2013-05-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ou have partitioned and formated the drive, you will have to add it to /etc/fstab if you want it mounted automatically. (I forget the GUI tool that does that - I just edit it by hand...) You may be able to mount the partition on /dev/sdb1 if you really want to. Use something like this to see if it has

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
h a partition marked as bootable has come up on the list many times in the past. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlEJtoQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTZ3wCYn6yGP

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ve order may be different when booting from a DVD/CD/USB drive then when booting from the hard drive. So /dev/sda may not be your boot drive when you select booting from the hard drive. You can usually reset this in the BIOS... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
oing this! > > To wipe all of track zero: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=63 > > "Zero out" the entire drive: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo > > You'll need to replace foo with the appropriate device (hda, sda, etc). > > Kevin > Mikkel - --

Re: Time settings are wrong on Desktop

2012-11-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
time, or UTC? The check-box is for the hardware clock. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCdHNkACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQ1BwCfS4di9H475psQXin+uTa5u3z6 xGAAn0qhh1S3HwGKSK7ZGy8SEm8T3p5b =afih -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailin

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
y messed up a partition table to see how well it works. It does a great job on drives that have only been partitioned and formatted once. If you have had different partitioning sachems, you may have to pick out the correct partitions from a list of partitions it finds. But it usually isn't to

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
tock UEFI with an open source version like you can replace the stock BIOS with an open source version on some motherboards? That may be something to look into. I am not sure what hoops you have to jump through to change/upgrade the UEFI image... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for

Re: cd reader external

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/2012 04:46 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/19/2012 12:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson uttered this comment: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/19/2012 11:50 AM, Rick Stevens

Re: cd reader external

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ox using the > appropriate mechanism (NFS or CIFS). I wounder if ISCSI would let you do this? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBaGgQACgkQqbQrVW3J

Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
t want to. How old am I? Well, if you write out my new age in hex, I appear to be the same age as Jack Benny. Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. Happy birthday. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: Disconnect

2012-08-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the disconnect and I don't think that's easy to do and certainly would require > an in depth knowledge of programming at the driver level to do it. > > Kevin > One thing you could try is creating a /sbin/ifdown-pre-local script. You will have to do a compare of $1 with pp

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/26/2012 12:05 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/26/2012 10:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 08/25/2012 09:49 PM, JD wrote: > >>> using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work > >>> using ... speed=2 . d

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
; > > Do you have blank CDs that will burn at 2x? The blank CD media that will burn at 2x is different then the media that will burn at +4X. Also, a lot of newer drives will not burn CDs at slower the 4x. DVD burning is different - a 2x DVD speed is not the same as a 2x CD speed. Mikkel - -

Re: boot: linux text => "Could not find kernel image: linux"

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
4 3717164 0 100% /mnt/iso2 (DVD) > /dev/loop2 603008 603008 0 100% /mnt/sq (LiveCD squashfs.img) > > FWIW, you *don't* need to burn the image. Like I said, you loop mount it. > > I cheat - I use Midnight Commander (mc) to open the image. Also, instead of downloading the DVD image, you

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 02:54 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2012/08/07 12:09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> On 08/07/2012 01:19 PM, jdow wrote: >>> Removing PATA "because I'll never use it" leads to you discovering >>>

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 02:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You are not the only packrat when it comes to old disks. I still >> have a couple of 8" floppies yet, as well as some paper tape. I &

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
lem with most (all?) current monitors. They just give a message that the signal is out of range. But with the old analog-only monitors you could really damage hardware with software settings! Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 01:19 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2012/08/07 04:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/06/2012 11:29 PM, jdow wrote: >>> On 2

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ou do a rescue boot, chroot to the "real" installation, and install the kernel RPM. This has the advantage of automatically building the needed initrd file. Then you can do a normal boot. I have only had to do this a couple of times, and it was because of drastic hardware changes. But when I

Re: boot: linux text => "Could not find kernel image: linux"

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the documentation is > correct) on the install DVD, but not the Live DVD? So far as I can see > that should be the name of the image that gets started. Rather than > trying to compare them side by side and guess I was hoping someone who > knows could actually explain what processe

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2012 11:29 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2012/08/06 19:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> Disabling it because the system you are compiling the kernel for >> will not support the hardware. No need for SATA, PCI, or cardbus >

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2012 10:05 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 08/06/2012 09:17 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Compiling a kernel for a laptop will let you eliminate a lot of >> drivers because you only have limited hardware changes...

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
nly has PCMCIA slots for expansion. You do not need the USB drivers because it does not have, USB hardware, and you can not find PCMCIA USB cards. (I have a cardbus USB card, but that does not help.) But this is not something most people run into. Compiling a kernel for a laptop will let you eliminate

Re: vmlinuz

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
do it correctly. I know how to do it, but I do not bother except for use on low-resource machines. (I have a 486 table with 24M of RAM and 360M of storage.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
u only want output if there is an error, or any output to be output through syslog. Normal program output would generate an unwanted e-mail message from the cron job. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/2012 08:00 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 7/31/2012 4:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/31/2012 07:12 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> Wouldn't -R work better then -r? >> Yes, it would be better. >>

Re: Modifying nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf ?

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Automatic (DHCP) address only. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAYMLoACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQQzgCfU+WLI+nHZeILIr9d7sMJi0fv HBwAn1+Qm2LIl5lYBcssYz4/X9T+Lf36 =4H

Re: question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
> less -r outfile > > Will show the colors Is that sufficient? > Wouldn't -R work better then -r? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlA

Re: systemd and ssh/ftp

2012-07-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
good advice. > > Bill > Another thing to consider - if OP's system is connected to the Internet, then his security decisions affect more then just him. Look how poor or uniformed decisions by Windows users has affected our use of the Internet. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affa

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
it needs, telling the user that it's ok if the system > doesn't "do anything" for a longer time. > I did an install of F17 from the live CD the other day, and it gave you a message that it was going to take a while before the pause. I am not sure if you see the same

Re: Run my windows dual-boot install in a window in f17

2012-07-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
machine running on the same box. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAR+bIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSs7gCfZVTRDurEkq0ANz4Md0QzPa16 fFgAn3oCmbdSlMIMzC4EpW8Ozk8V

Re: Run my windows dual-boot install in a window in f17

2012-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
anual. It used to be possible from VMWare, but I have not tried it in a while, so I do not know if it is currently supported. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: Hard drive not mounting

2012-07-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/2012 03:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mailto:mellert...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/08/2012 11:27 A

Re: Hard drive not mounting

2012-07-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
powered by the USB connection? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAIHDwACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTn8wCeJIFgso6xzVSbGtPyhb8pBCL4 7rEAn1ia2jTvek9PnOt1M5xXj7TCUYfN

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

2012-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
m the error message, it looks like you are running out of allocation units. The system tried to allocate more FAT entries that there were on the drive. "deleting FAT entry beyond EOF" Just for fun, what does "fdisk -l " te

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 04:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > [] >> Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme >> you can select differ

Re: Hard drive not mounting (was: F17- Internal USB hub not working)

2012-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
are running. (Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, etc.) From there, we can tell you what settings to check. It is possible to turn off auto-mounting. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
n you want to align one thing against something else > that it's nowhere near (objects on the page, or rulers along the edge of > the window). > Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings --> Theme --> Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors an

Re: F17- Internal USB hub not working

2012-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
k?? You can try it on another computer. But I suspect that you have a defective unit. Dumb question - do you have a power supply connected to it, or are you running it "bus powered"? If you do not have an external power supply for it, then do not expect to be able to use any "bus powered&q

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a >> user daemon. > > I have done s

Re: Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

2012-06-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
erent when you are installing and when you boot with the drive back in the Dell. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qYs8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMS8LgCffA6sx

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2012 02:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the > sound system? > > Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart > Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of

Re: tracker-store and tracker-extract eating 50% of cpu time on a Dual-core AMD Opteron

2012-06-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
d, and the system load below x". A simpler fix might be to change when the daily cron jobs run. Pick a time when you know you will not be using the system. You could also remove the cron daily job run, and run it when you are finished for the day, but you run the risk of forgetting to run i

Re: Backup for server

2012-06-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ssh being an option. There are security concerns with using the older r* tools. If I remember correctly, it has to do with the service you had to run in order to use them. (I can not remember what it is called - it has been too long sense the last time I had it installed/enabled.) Mikkel - -- Do no

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
> > Thanks in advance, Paul What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way tail -f works. You may want to read the man or info page on tail. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art c

Re: yum package cleanup

2012-05-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/cache/yum//packages. This directory is expunged during package cleanup." > > ...I now know where they are stored. > > Two part question: > > When is package cleanup performed? > > Is there a way to prevent the expunging? > > Thanks, > Mike Wright In /etc/yum.conf

Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ermissions as /tmp > everybody can store files there, only the owner have access > to them and nothing of the OS is touching it > > > The way I do it is to create a tmp directory in each user's home directory. (Add to /etc/skel) Then I have TMP set to this directory. (Add local

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
dera in 1999) I find it mind-blowing that mounting devices is still the same mess as usual when every other modern OS detects and mounts devices automagically > > Oh well... > FC > > > One thing to keep in mind is that a USB floppy drive will not be /dev/fd0. It will show up a

Re: Which Windows for Virtual Box ? (F16, USB, etc)

2012-04-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
hard drive space is cheap > I think Steven was talking about memory, not drive size. Depending on the amount of system memory, you may want to increase that. As far as disk space, you may want to create another virtual drive that you can connect to the XP VMs. I have a 50 GB drive just for medi

Re: OT: Getting local IP addresses from a gateway

2012-04-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
file as you stated. I have not checked the specifications for your router, but most will let you assign a static IP address in the DHCP setup. The only drawback is that if you change NICs, you have to modify the settings in the router, or change the configuration on the computer so it uses the old MAC

Re: mknod

2012-04-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
an example of what to detect. This is the system rule that creates /dev/fd[0-9]. I do not have time to generate a rule right now, but if you need help, I can come up with one later... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGI

Re: EasyCAP driver.

2012-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
s a device, not as a file system that gets mounted. I would check your logs when you plug it in and see what device is created. I expect it would be a video device. You would then use that device as your source. You may need to read up on Video 4 Linux. (v4linux) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in

Re: soft link vs. direct efficiency

2012-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in either case, so the only delay would be in resolving the symlink on the first read. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk97NI

Re: How to change network address ?

2012-03-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
t with F16/XFCE I > am lost. > > Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this? > > Bob > > > You could run: sudo route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 eth0 from a terminal. This will add a route to the 192.168.2.0/24 network that you can use to talk to the device wi

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/2012 04:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Pushing the power button, as opposed to holding it,

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
s to see if a power manager is running. If so, the event is passed to the power manager. Is not, the system runs the shutdown command. Now, depending on what desktop you are running, you set what you want to happen by setting the action in the power manager setup. (This is under System Settings --&

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> It is not for conditioning the battery. It is to update the battery >> calibration. > > Most do this at boot so if Robert did a full power re

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the time. You put the battery back in about once a month to recharge it from storage losses. It does require that the laptop be able to run without the battery. I do not know if any current laptops use the battery as a filter capacitor to keep the supply voltage constant... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Sorry for the late response. This is normally covered in the user's >> manual. What you do is first fully charge the battery

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On 03/10/2012 04:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 03/10/2012 08:41 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> It sounds like a bad battery. At least I have had the same thing >>> happen in both Linux and Windows when a

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
you run. KDE and Gnome are examples of a desktop environment. I do not know about KDE, but you can run Gnome on top of a couple of different window managers. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ery, the chip that monitors battery life in the battery does not get updated to the current battery life, so it ends up reporting the battery state incorrectly. (The chip is in the battery, not the computer.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste goo

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ore messages to the address he uses for posting to the list. I have considered it, but a kill filter works for my needs. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECA

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the display manager. Because he is using KDE as his desktop, he wants to use KDE for his display manager as well. That will probably take care of the error message. It is partially covered up by the login block, but we suspect that it is complaining about missing thyme files. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: switching on wireless after minimal install: f16

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You can do it using iwconfig. You can also do it by using the >> network service instead of NetworkManager. You should have both >> options ava

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
y shows up in the logs in /var/log or /var/log/(display manager) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9XsNYACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQmnwCeJ0MBstguVHIAR5AJ7xgKvTQl W

Re: switching on wireless after minimal install: f16

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
PA type access points from a command-line. You must have a GUI (X+Gnome/KDE) installed. You can do it using iwconfig. You can also do it by using the network service instead of NetworkManager. You should have both options available with a minimal install. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
roblem. It is a system configuration problem that affects CUPS browsing. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9WJQAACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQS8QCdGLDN2V6h5Xlr1/7ZnVy

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
u > Password: > [root@box6 bobg]# > > So what are you really doing? > [mikkel@x86 Foster]$ su Password: [root@x86 Foster]# -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9U4sMACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRS6ACeNKjnshZqXGuokzO/SgezwfH+ k14AnRw2m26afEXtnKhodkAEZ

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
su) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9U4I8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQI4QCeIww1YdJtrnPT4As4MENYG4vi 9KkAn00WaPRbRXUx4g0/21R8pK3QIjvt =icNI -END PGP SIGNAT

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/2012 02:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/04/2012 12:26 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You also used to run into a problem with some older BIOS where you >> needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the >

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to run into a problem with some older BIOS where you needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the BIOS could read it... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 11:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 03.03.2012 17:50, schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson: >> >> On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clo

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ups browsing did not work properly and ntpd would crash shortly after starting. ntpd would not really crash - it would exit with an error because the time difference was too great. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Li

Re: Bizarre kernel messages

2012-02-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ug it into another port? It may be that the dongle is drawing too much power for the port it is plugged into, and the port is resetting itself. Especially if you are using a bus-powered hub. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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