Re: kernel headers - Now a BIGGER Issue

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher A Williams
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:16 -0700, Christopher A Williams wrote: > O > n Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:20 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > > > > > > > ...And because of the way Workstation 9.0.1 is trying to deal with it, I > > > believe this now falls squarely

Re: kernel headers - Now a BIGGER Issue

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher A Williams
O n Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:20 -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > > > > ...And because of the way Workstation 9.0.1 is trying to deal with it, I > > believe this now falls squarely back on the Fedora team to look at and > > resolve. You can't blame Workstation or its licensing model - don't even >

Re: kernel headers - Now a BIGGER Issue

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher A Williams
On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 07:49 -0800, Tom London wrote: -- Christopher A Williams > > found in: > > > > /usr/src/kernels/3.6.11-3.fc18.x86_64/include/linux > > > > Put that all together and I suspect that the actual issue isn't so much > > the differen

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-13 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 19:32 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > ...Looked again at this. It's actually not quite what's needed. It says > to make a symbolic link from: > > /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h > > to > > /usr/src

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 09:23 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:26 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:56:40 -0700 > > "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > > > > > http://slackblogs.blogspot.ie/2012/12/

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:26 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:56:40 -0700 > "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > > http://slackblogs.blogspot.ie/2012/12/linux-kernel-37-vmware-workstation-and.html > thank the great God Google, > now why did

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:26 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 01/12/2013 02:56 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 07:26 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:09:41AM -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 10:29 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:56:40AM -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 07:26 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > VMware Workstation for my work (some things needed for my job require > > Windo

Re: kernel headers

2013-01-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
ext chance. In my case, I'm running the 64-bit kernel, so there's no PAE stuff to worry about. I know that's not all of the information people are asking for, but hopefully it does shed some additional light on the situation... Cheers, Chris -- Christopher A. Williams -

Re: Blocker Tracking App Reskin - Feedback on New Mockups

2012-09-12 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:18 -0600, Tim Flink wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:33:57 -0400 (EDT) > Kamil Paral wrote: > > > > The two mockups that I'm looking at right now (identical other than > > > the table column ordering) are: > > > http://tflink.fedorapeople.org/blockerbugs/reskin-draft3/bloc

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread Christopher A. Williams
dvocate taking away function that others are using, especially when positioning it as an upgrade or enhancement, you will always get push-back. That will be true no matter how strongly (right or wrong) you believe that function needs to be taken away. Again, if that is a short-term sacrif

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 12:49 -0500, David Lehman wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:23 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:52 -0500, David Lehman wrote: > > > > Exactly what is so bad with "that practice" (of installing both > &g

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread Christopher A. Williams
e): We need to save the novice users from themselves, while letting "geniuses" hack kickstart files. This is pitting one extreme vs. another in a situation where neither is realistically encountered. Just because I might be a genius doesn't mean I should be required to hack kickst

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 23:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/09/2012 11:43 PM, David Lehman wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 07:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >> Agreed. And I fear the universe, in this case, may be winning by > >> producing "bigg

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-08 Thread Christopher A. Williams
y. > This is once again an imaginary, or made-up user, so that you can support > your arguments and ignore > real Fedora users. How is it that this practice of making up users to support > cases for writing > software for idiots has spread so much lately? Write software for you

Re: Firefox and Java Plugin on F15

2011-05-06 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 14:06 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:29:06AM -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Before I go ahead and submit a BZ on this, has anyone else noticed that > > the Java plugin is not listed in Firefox on F15? If you do &g

Firefox and Java Plugin on F15

2011-05-05 Thread Christopher A. Williams
Before I go ahead and submit a BZ on this, has anyone else noticed that the Java plugin is not listed in Firefox on F15? If you do about:plugins, everything else you would expect to be there is. The Java plugin is visibly absent. I've even tried adding the latest Java (Update 25) from Sun/Oracle.

Re: !! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > You can run whatever you what, but when you are talking about fixing issues > with nVidia on Fedora then you bring in the expectations of the people who > work on Fedora not run it. For the most part the people who work on the > kernel hav

Re: !! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 16:49 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > But the two camps can - and should - at least be expected to "play > > nicely" with each other. The rules of engagement between the two could > > be similar to when two

Re: !! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 13:08 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "CAW" == Christopher A Williams writes: > > CAW> Actually, this is an oversimplified view based on pure ideology - > CAW> and exactly the one which causes issues between the Open

Re: !! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 13:33 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:59:35 -0600, > "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > > > The pragmatic reality is that we will all be dealing with a mix of > > OpenSource and proprietary software for the

Re: !! NVIDIA WORKS !!!

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 12:33 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "SR" == Scott Robbins writes: > > SR> I've never quite understood this logic. If it's working, there is a > SR> change in Fedora, and it doesn't work, this is NVidia's job to fix? > > Yes, precisely. > > Their code is not o

Re: flash player 64bit?

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:43 -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote: > > The issue with nspluginwrapper and the 64-bit plugin remains, however. > > But since Adobe has pulled the 64-bit plugin for now, we'll have to wait > > and see if the new version still has the problem. Based on the behavior > > I'm seeing,

Re: flash player 64bit?

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:02 +, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I wasn't being snarky, I was being pragmatic. > > You're absolutely right that a triager should have looked at the bug > in bugzilla, tried to reproduce it, and comment on the results. I > can't comment on why that didn't happen. What I w

Re: flash player 64bit?

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:04 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > On 7/7/2010 10:44 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Not true. Just because YOU can't reproduce it doesn't mean it isn't > > happening. Others have reproduced the problem and also commented as such >

Re: flash player 64bit?

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:01 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > On 7/7/2010 9:55 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer. Your install method works just great. > > > > ...Unfortunately, it also still means that certain sites still do not > > play vi

Re: flash player 64bit?

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 01:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 20:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:38 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > > > Greetings: > > > > > > Is there anything that can be used as a substitute for the flash > > > player since Adobe