Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
ind it, for $10 I can easily get another 8GB anyway. Regards Chris Jones [image: linux.png] <>-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: floppy support

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
when I feel the need to, I go about it by whatever other means is necessary to avoid anything to do with floppies. That's not to say that the Linux kernel should not support floppy drives. That's an entirely different discussion really. Regards Chris Jones [image: linux.png] <>

Re: Co-maintainers wanted

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Jones
This looks like a very interesting project mate. I'm very interested in becoming a co-maintainer. ;-) *Cheers, Chris Jones** * * * “Oh, so they have internet on computers now?” — Homer Simpson * * Signature powered by <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=4&des

Re: Lack of space on /

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:08 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > Some of us do watch movies also, which of course requires an X > > session. > > Not really. mplayer has several outputs which function without an X > sessio

Re: Lack of space on /

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Jones
Some of us do watch movies also, which of course requires an X session. Cheers Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
ch a dick for not even thinking of that! The problem is, I use Ubuntu/APT also, so sometimes I can confuse myself as to which system (yum/apt) does what. Nice work. Cheers Chris Jones This message was sent using IMP, the Inter

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
bout 5-10sec > pass. > > Tom I'd suggest you purchase a new card reader. You do realize you can pick them up for around $10? If I had a card reader with that much drama just to get it to operate, it'd be out the door in no time! Cheers Chris Jones --

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
tp://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.i686.rpm yum install VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.i686.rpm Or for 64bit: ~$ su wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.x86_64.rpm yum install VirtualBox-

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
lization technology becomes more and more involved and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users, I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie. Virtualbox. Perhaps a dedicated tea

Bringing down Java packages in size

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Jones
mage editing package) in under 10MB. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this and perhaps more effort put into bringing down the size of java packages, if possible? Regards Chris Jones This message was sent using IMP, th

RE: GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Jones
Regarding whether G3 should even have a fallback mode; of course it should. At least until it becomes stable. That's a no-brainer. Regards -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com @: chrisjo...@com

RE: Firefox releases, going forward

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Jones
es and include the updates in their repos. Because I can see that the current Firefox inclusion model, not only for Fedora but Ubuntu too, is seriously going to generate issues when Mozilla speeds up the release cycle of Firefox. Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

RE: A "whatuses" command for yum?

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Jones
be able to find packages which are not installed on the current system. Thanks, Jeff Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't "yum info jansson" give you this? Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org h

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
5 is really not that far off. Thanks to all for the information. ;-) Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell and F14 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011

RE: Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
From: drago01 [mailto:drag...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell and F14 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Chris Jones wrote: Is the final Gnome-Shell going to be made available for Fedora 14 or solely for Fedora 15? The later

Gnome-Shell and F14

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Jones
Is the final Gnome-Shell going to be made available for Fedora 14 or solely for Fedora 15? Is yes for F14, what sort of time frame would we be looking at for availability? CD99E035AC72E359508CD3A58A335BD6 -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors

RE: firefox/xulrunner-bin confusion

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- From: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Orion Poplawski Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:06 AM To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: firefox/xulrunner-bin confusion Fired up top on my F-15

Re: kernel-2.6.36.x for F14?

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Jones
the next recipient of a new kernel version? Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Some thoughts on Audacious in Fedora

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Jones
So it seems that Audacious is not as flexible between its own different version releases? What is with that? Surely that much can't change between releases to make the plug-ins fail between versions? -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors AB

Re: NetworkManager doesn't start on boot

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Jones
Agreed with others, I can't see Network Manager having issue with SELinux. Can you post SELinux reporting details? -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com @: chrisjo...@comcen.c

Re: Introducing wicked

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Jones
y have. I certainly didn't ready it as a replacement proposal. Good work Olaf. Keep up the good work. For future reference, we need to encourage these sorts of development projects. It's great for both Fedora and Linux. Regards -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web ABN:

Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
style DOS partitioning setups on Linux. Regards -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web ABN: 98 317 740 240 @: chrisjo...@comcen.com.au WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: A comps group for the Design Suite

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
of the "Graphics" group and creating a new > "Design Suite" group? > > Is there a procedure for this? I mean like filing a ticket some place? > -- I'm confused about the whole conversation. What exactly are you talking about Bill when you refer to creat

Re: Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

2010-10-13 Thread Chris Jones
user, the Fedora Development Team should be very proud of what they've achieved with the Fedora and Anaconda Installer. Regards Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: LibreOffice

2010-10-02 Thread Chris Jones
at). > The full release version is penned in for Christmas (or there abouts). > > I have no problems helping package this behemoth! > > TTFN > > Paul I'll say one thing for LibreOffice, there's certainly no shortage of interest in it. Cheers -- Chris Jones PHO

Re: Tsclient

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Jones
7;s much better and much more stable. Christoph, what on earth makes you think that gnome-rdp is obsolete and has been replaced? Although they have a similar look, feel and function, gnome-rdp and remmina are two completely different applications. Regards -- Chris Jones -

Re: F14 youtube support?

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Jones
bit as my primary operating system and have 32bit Flash installed with wrapper inside Firefox 4.0 beta 4 and have no problems. There I ask the question, what is wrong with doing the same thing in Fedora? Regards -- Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proprietary search engines

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Jones
my of FOSS here, but they're not. And I think it's disgraceful that's how you're all painting a unsubstantiated target on them. My solution to a problem that never was; amend the policy guidelines and move on to some more serious issues. Regards -- Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
e/Yahoo and Bing Search. Let's hope this changes in the future. Regards -- Chris Jones -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 11:15 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > By network install, I meant using a local intranet-based HTTP or FTP > server to install from. Ok fair enough, I misunderstood what you meant. My apologies. Regards - -- http://home.comcen.com

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is common for iso size to be over the 700MB target size due to most developers and testers doing their work in virtual machines these days. Therefore, iso size is not an issue. And bringing it back down to below the 700MB size limit for CD is always

Re: Nice work...

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > Hello, > >  I recently acquired a Toshiba L655 laptop, fairly new stuff (both > network card drivers have yet to be merged into the mainline kernel). I > had issues getting Fedora installed, it had massive kernel panics > related to AC

Re: desktop responsiveness patches

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > > This sounds interesting: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3OQ > It's funny because I never really thought it was a problem on such a large scale of systems. I had always though that it was something to do with one of

Re: Gnome 3 delayed

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Jones
2010/7/29 Michał Piotrowski : > 2010/7/29 Chris Jones : >> >> I'm not going to pretend that I'm not pleased about the delay. I plan >> to keep using G2 for as long as I possible can, long after the Gnome 3 >> release. > > Is it possible to disable gnome-s

Re: Gnome 3 delayed

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:36 AM, James Laska wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 16:27 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems that Gnome 3 will be released in march 2011. How will this > > affect Fedora 14? Gnome 3 was an important feature of F14. > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/39

Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Jones
I'm sure there'd be enough time to squeeze in FF4.0. Assuming there's no development delays with Mozilla. Regards -- http://home.comcen.com.au/foxmulder881/signature/details.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 14 and firefox

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Jones
It'll come through as an update in the updates repo, I suspect. There might be a beta version included depending on its stability at the time of a F14 release I guess. Regards -- Chris Jones Freelance Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 PHOTO RESOLU

Re: I am not available

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > It is all listed at > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TillMaas > > Rahul Thanks mate. Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: I am not available

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Jones
What packages do you own/maintain? Listing them might be helpful. Oh, and sorry to hear about your accident. And I hope you get better soon. Regards -- Chris Jones Freelance Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web W

Re: Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

2010-07-06 Thread Chris Jones
stic. If you can't access your email and reply within 4 weeks then there's definitely something going on there. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations Web: http://pho

Re: Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

2010-07-06 Thread Chris Jones
maintainers could grow co-maintainers > without going through the complicated AWOL-process. > > -- > sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net > -- Sounds reasonable enough to me. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo

Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile

2010-07-05 Thread Chris Jones
for other willing developers to take over development of unplanned orphaned and unmaintained code from unresponsive developers/maintainers and co-maintainers? Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing

Re: @fedoraproject.org email alias

2010-07-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > > I just added him to the Design Team group so his alias should start > working. > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ > > Thanks. Yes it is now working correctly. Regards -

@fedoraproject.org email alias

2010-07-02 Thread Chris Jones
ectly and every time I send an email to that address as a test, it bounces. What's going on or what am I doing wrong? Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations

Re: Firefox conflicts xulrunner

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Jones
Good to hear. Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Firefox conflicts xulrunner

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Jones
Firefox 3.6.4 has come through the Ubuntu repos already. I would have thought that 3.6.4 would be through the Fedora sets by now. Has it not yet arrived? Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing

Re: Looking for Design Suite (Co-) Maintainers

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
I'd be interested if you're still after some help mate. Let me know. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations Web: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com Email:

Re: Can anyone contact Gérard Milmeister (gemi)?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Jones
He's probably just out of the game. Considering he's been inactive for 8 months now. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations Web: http://photoresolutions.free

Re: Orphaning diveintopython

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Jones
able to take care of it better than yourself. Good move. Regards -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Printing, Editing and Restorations Web: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com Email: -- devel mailing list

Re: libjpeg for F14

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Jones
Right, so they're still using libpng* but the more updated version. I read the original post as not using libpng at all and using another library as an alternative. Sorry, my misunderstanding. -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240

Re: libjpeg for F14

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Jones
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > I'm curious as to what Debian/Ubuntu are using as a replacement for libpng10? -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions - Photo Prin

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Jones
I was under the impression that a timeout is intentional/used only if another operating system is detected upon installation. ie. Windows. If no other operating system is detected, then there's no point having a timeout. -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designe

Re: Increase grub timeout

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Jones
So what's the actual bug? I've read through the tracker list and I still can;t for the life of me detect an actual bug, but rather an annoyance for a select few. However, I do agree that there should be a delay increase for GRUB timeout. More so like that of Debian, Ubuntu etc. -- C

Re: s/redhat/system in package names

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Jones
derecho y dé pecho a mi valor.» > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Although I am not familiar with what you've mentioned, is there a point for the change? I'm curious, -- Chris Jones Photographic

Re: Great work on F13

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Jones
the time of installation. Although I can't remember what disro it was at the time. But Fedora does seem to have this continuing issue from release to release. I never seem to experience it with Ubuntu, Debian etc. What's the story with Fedora and its ignorant grub config upon instal

Re: os

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Jones
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > ** I'm happy to test it out. If your interested, send me an email with some more details. As others have mentioned, we need more information. -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professi

Re: Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

2010-04-20 Thread Chris Jones
r. And for those who do want to learn it, do exactly that--learn it. It just takes time. Be patient. I think there's more important things to focus on regarding Linux development. -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional and Graphic Designer ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions Web: ht

Re: Update question: some user data

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Jones
good because it gives us, the user, choice. Which is what Linux is all about after all. Cheers. -- Chris Jones Photographic Imaging Professional ABN: 98 317 740 240 Photo Resolutions http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel