Re: semantics

2010-04-01 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: >> >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) >> > > Not quite. FOSS is a umbrella term and using it is one way of avoiding > th

[SOLVED] gedit ...cannot create backup !!!

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin K
On 04/02/2010 07:00 AM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:38:23 +0530 > Jatin K wrote: > > >> Dear all >> >> suddenly I'm getting this error whenever I try to edit a text file >> and click save button >> >> " Could not create a backup file while saving /path/to/file.txt" >> ged

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:32 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White > >> wrote: > >> > >> > yes, I can see what you mean > >> > > >> > truth be told, fo

Re: Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/02/2010 06:22 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > While the weekly updates might be larger in size, but as they occur weekly, > it might help out for producing a weekly unity (re)spin. For example, with my > idea or weekly updates and weekly (re)spins, if I stay with F12 for a month > after

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White wrote: >> >> > yes, I can see what you mean >> > >> > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers' >> > would turn off N

Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-01 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
First and foremost, ever since version 8, I have personally had no problems with Fedora releases and the usual daily set of updates.  For my testing and use, Fedora is stable.  In fact, for my use, Fedora 13 as delivered is stable. We are more then one month away from the official release of Fed

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > yes, I can see what you mean > > > > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers' > > would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put 'ONBOOT=yes' in the > >

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I'm confused. If you want Red Hat to treat you as an employee, that > seems to be here: http://www.redhat.com/about/careers/ > > If you want to create your own commercial Linux distribution, using > Fedora as your upstream, you're welcome to

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White wrote: > yes, I can see what you mean > > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers' > would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put 'ONBOOT=yes' in the > configuration and be done with it. > > ;-) > > Craig :) It was

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Tom H wrote: >> Get a blog for your uninformed opinions. I think you are seriously >> underestimating the amount of hostility your ramblings generate. >> > > +1 > +100 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Tom H
> Get a blog for your uninformed opinions. I think you are seriously > underestimating the amount of hostility your ramblings generate. +1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:39 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > probably did miss it > > > > In system-config-network, if you double click the interface, there is a > > checkbox for 'Activate device when computer starts' > > Ahhh... I understand no

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > That's the document about the board I was referring to, but it's not > Fedora statutes, it doesn't say where Fedora stands in relation to Red > Hat. Nowhere in this document will you find something to back your > assertion that "F

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:23:48PM -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: >As a matter of fact, as Fedora is mainly financed by Red Hat as a test >bench for RHEL. Fedora is more than a test bench for RHEL. >I can hardly see how Fedora could stand as "a completely >separate entity". Legally,

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Craig White wrote: > probably did miss it > > In system-config-network, if you double click the interface, there is a > checkbox for 'Activate device when computer starts' Ahhh... I understand now.. That button is only available on the graphical configurator whe

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:14 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Hello All: > I just did a Fedora12 Desktop Edition installation to hard drive and > an update. This went smoothly, but I had some errors immediately > afterwards. > > During the installation I don't recall being prompted for network > configura

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:02 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Craig White > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > > > > as far as I can tell, you seem to be

New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Lawrence E Graves
ind one. When my > > Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another > > machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video > > there, and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into > > an article I wrote. > > > > And when I wen

Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I just did a Fedora12 Desktop Edition installation to hard drive and an update. This went smoothly, but I had some errors immediately afterwards. During the installation I don't recall being prompted for network configuration. On initial boot, I did the normal configuration such as time

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:40 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > So! No more 'The "Stable" offering is Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' ? > > What? OK, RHEL might finally prove more solid than Fedora, but final > is stable. Only security patches and important bug fixes should be > uploaded. No program update

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 1 April 2010 22:23, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > >> > >> Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: > >> > You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of > >> > saying this time a

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 18:45 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 1 April 2010 15:35, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: > >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > >> > software packa

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

2010-04-01 Thread Temlakos
On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 > Temlakos wrote: > > >> I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not >> wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that >> might provide a clue. >> >> Fox News Channel h

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:02 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Craig White > wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused > about Red >

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused about Red > Hat/Fedora. Fedora is a completely separate entity with its own > management, resources, servers though clearly

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread suvayu ali
On 1 April 2010 15:35, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own >> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. >> > >> >> And I

Re: gedit ...cannot create backup !!!

2010-04-01 Thread Aram J. Agajanian
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:38:23 +0530 Jatin K wrote: > Dear all > > suddenly I'm getting this error whenever I try to edit a text file > and click save button > > " Could not create a backup file while saving /path/to/file.txt" > gedit could not backup the old copy of the file before saving the ne

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

2010-04-01 Thread Aram J. Agajanian
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 Temlakos wrote: > I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not > wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that > might provide a clue. > > Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding > link to ea

Re:

2010-04-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > -- > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. > > 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) > Not quite. FOSS is a umbrella term and using it is one way of avoiding the free beer vs freedom confusion

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2010-04-01 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) 2) does fedora need a "stable release" ? (there is already "current" "next" "previous" and "eol") charles zeitler Love is the law, love under will. -- users maili

Re: N wifi broke after kernel update

2010-04-01 Thread Mail Lists
On 03/31/2010 09:15 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > > Wireless stopped working after latest kernel update. ... > > Filed bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578663 > Happy to report this has already been fixed (thank you john linville!!) in the 2.6.32.10-94.fc12 kernel build avail

Re:

2010-04-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/01/2010 06:10 PM, Don Vogt wrote: > --- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:13:55 +0200 >> From: David Garc?a Granda >> Subject: Re: New Firefox Won't run >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Message-ID: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; c

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 04:36 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: > >> I believe that diverting resources into maintaining older releases >> does not further any of the Foundations. It takes resources away from >> further the last two principles. >> > I would say that pushing

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2010-04-01 Thread Don Vogt
--- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:13:55 +0200 > From: David Garc?a Granda > Subject: Re: New Firefox Won't run > To: Community support for Fedora users > Message-ID: >     > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Don, > > > Yesterday I

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: > I believe that diverting resources into maintaining older releases > does not further any of the Foundations. It takes resources away from > further the last two principles. I would say that pushing major updates to older releases takes more resources, not les

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:43 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 1 April 2010 23:35, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: > >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > >> > software packa

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Craig White said: > > as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused about Red > > Hat/Fedora. Fedora is a completely separate entity with its own > > management, resources, servers though clearly it was incubate

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 April 2010 23:35, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own >> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. >> > >> >> And I

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: > > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. > > > > And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o ---

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, suvayu ali said: > On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: > > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. > > And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o Well, I guess you learn

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Craig White said: > as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused about Red > Hat/Fedora. Fedora is a completely separate entity with its own > management, resources, servers though clearly it was incubated using > resources supplied by Red Hat. While Fedora is a se

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread suvayu ali
On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White wrote: > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. > And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o > Craig > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread g
Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I don't know how I can explain this problem. I am not able to record it > or take picture of it a part of problem with computers is that people tend to forget what pencils and paper are for. > there is just too much information on the screen. _normally_, everything y

Re: New Firefox Won't run

2010-04-01 Thread David García Granda
Hi again, >>> Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 >>> and now firefox won't start. I get a notice in the bottom bar for a few >>> seconds and then it goes blank. >> >> Strange, I have the same package versions and firefox runs fine... >> >>> I tried startin

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 April 2010 22:23, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> >> Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: >> > You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of >> > saying this time and time again. >> >> I would welcome you stopping saying this,

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:55 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > I've written a case study about how Ubuntu is run and how Red Hat > is/should, IMO, be run. >From a non-geek like me, it might seem > pretentious. pretentious would probably be a most generous characterization. Get a blog. Spare us. Red

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 April 2010 22:06, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: >> You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of >> saying this time and time again. > > I would welcome you stopping saying this, since you present two extremes > as the only possible choices (wh

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Adams > wrote: > Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe > said: > > You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am > bored of > > saying this time and tim

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread NoSpaze
Am Donnerstag, den 01.04.2010, 07:33 -0600 schrieb Lawrence E Graves: > When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. Press the ESC key to see any messages. Maybe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578217 applies to you. Greets.

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: > > You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of > > saying this time and time again. > > I would welcome you stopping saying this, since you present two extremes > as the only possible

Re: New Firefox Won't run

2010-04-01 Thread suvayu ali
On 1 April 2010 12:13, David García Granda wrote: > Hi Don, > >> Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 >> and now firefox won't start. I get a notice in the bottom bar for a few >> seconds and then it goes blank. > > Strange, I have the same package versions

New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Lawrence E Graves
I don't know how I can explain this problem. I am not able to record it or take picture of it and there is just too much information on the screen. If I can be told what to look for, this might help fix the problem. I really don't know what to do.:-S Lawrence E Graves -- users mailing list

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe said: > You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of > saying this time and time again. I would welcome you stopping saying this, since you present two extremes as the only possible choices (which they are not). -- Chris Adams Systems and Net

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 1 April 2010 21:55, Marcel Rieux wrote: > As I already observed here, Ubuntu, Google, Intel/Nokia are newcomers > on the free/open source scene and if Red Hat is to keep up, even though > it's presently doing quite well, some important changes are needed. Red > Hat/Fedora will have to provide

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:25:48PM -0400, Margaret Doll wrote: > We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex > which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. > > I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora. Where can I > access monitor drivers for Fedora? As noted i

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:20:30PM -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alan Cox <[1]a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk > > > >wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:07:33 -0400 > > Marcel Rieux <[2]m.z.ri...@

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Thompson
On 1 April 2010 18:42, psmith wrote: > On 31/03/10 17:12, Michael Thompson wrote: >> On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: >> >> >>> This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of >>> Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has >>> version 3.6.2 out. >>> >

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:20:30PM -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: >On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alan Cox <[1]a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> >wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:07:33 -0400 > Marcel Rieux <[2]m.z.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've been a bit late to get to the Distro

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:07 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> > I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I >> > finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Projec

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:07 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I > > finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, stepping > > down. > ... > > So, I was wondering i

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:07:33 -0400 > Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I > > finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, stepping > down. > > Can you explain why you post

Re: New Firefox Won't run

2010-04-01 Thread David García Granda
Hi Don, > Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 > and now firefox won't start. I get a notice in the bottom bar for a few > seconds and then it goes blank. Strange, I have the same package versions and firefox runs fine... > I tried starting firefox in a te

New Firefox Won't run

2010-04-01 Thread Don Vogt
Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 and now firefox won't start. I get a notice in the bottom bar for a few seconds and then it goes blank. I tried starting firefox in a terminal and it returned "can't load XPCOM" I tried 'locate XPCOM' and it returned some

Re: update help

2010-04-01 Thread Adalbert Prokop
Am 01.04.2010 18:53, schrieb Olaniyi Moluga: Hi! > Thanks a lot I really appreciate but upgrading had been a problem > because whenever I run a yum update I still get similar errors. I can image that. :) But still, those "errors" can be safely ignored, if yum finally succeeds. If in the end you

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Paul
Hi, > > I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I > > have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get > > Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I need to get > > something working. > > I would recommend VirtualBox over qemu.

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-01 Thread psmith
On 31/03/10 17:12, Michael Thompson wrote: > On 31/03/10 16:35, Temlakos wrote: > > >> This much is a fact: Firefox is at least one minor version ahead of >> Fedora in its updates. We are at Firefox 3.5.8; Firefox already has >> version 3.6.2 out. >> >> Temlakos >> >> > And OpenOffice is

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:07 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > So, I was wondering if somebody who followed the matter could just > drop a few lines explaing what the real story is. Could the real story be that it's April 1st? poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:45 +0100, Michal wrote: > On 01/04/2010 15:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, > > Lawrence E Graves wrote: > >> I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > >> 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my s

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:07 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I > finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, stepping > down. ... > So, I was wondering if somebody who followed the matter could just > drop a few lines

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:07:33 -0400 Marcel Rieux wrote: > I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I > finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, stepping down. Can you explain why you posted this to the support list. It doesn't look like a bug or confi

Re: Audio Device Permission setting

2010-04-01 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/01/2010 10:00 AM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I've been using MP3Act, an AJAX based web application that allows you > to organize your music centrally. > The thing is, I've been using the application partially being limited > to streaming mode only.Mp3act has a > jukebox mode too that allows the u

FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
I've been a bit late to get to the Distrowatch weekly this week but I finally heard about Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, stepping down. "I’m interested in branching out into other ways of championing free and open source software at Red Hat", he says. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~pa

Audio Device Permission setting

2010-04-01 Thread Leonard Adjei
I've been using MP3Act, an AJAX based web application that allows you to organize your music centrally. The thing is, I've been using the application partially being limited to streaming mode only.Mp3act has a jukebox mode too that allows the user to play directly from the web page. In the installa

Re: update help

2010-04-01 Thread Olaniyi Moluga
Hello Adalbert  Thanks a lot I really appreciate but upgrading had been a problem because   whenever I run a yum update I still get similar errors.I plan to upgrade to F12 but the problem now is the update.I guess a new installation would resolve the problem but my fear is my windows partition,is

Re: update help

2010-04-01 Thread Adalbert Prokop
Am 01.04.2010 10:21, schrieb Olaniyi Moluga: Hello! > [r...@localhost olaniyi]# yum -y update > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > > http://linux.mirrors.es.net/fedora/updates/10/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 4] IOError: > > Trying other mirror. > > http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/fed

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 04/01/2010 06:33 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain > exactly what is happening becau

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-01 Thread Jim
On 04/01/2010 10:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: >> >>> Mail Lists wrote: >>> >>> On 03/31/2010 07:38 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > flash works in google-chrome. This is F12-x86_

Re: [389-users] Cache tuning errors

2010-04-01 Thread Roberto Polli
On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:58:18 j...@scusting.com wrote: > > on 64bit or 32bit? > Fedora 10 - 32bit: Linux 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sun > Jun 21 18:51:33 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux so that's it.. ;) see rich answer. on 64bit I got no issues. Peace, R. -- Roberto Polli

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/01/2010 08:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > dell inspiron e1705 The former laptop has a Ati chipset and the 1705 has a Nvidia chipset. I would suggest it is the Video driver setup that is causing the problem Whenever I do a update that has a new kernel the kernel mod must be installed for t

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/01/2010 06:33 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain > exactly what is happening becau

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:35:19 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:18 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, > > Lawrence E Graves wrote: > > > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > > > 2 days ago.

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/2010 11:08 PM, Michal wrote: > >> >> You don't have the install cdrom ? >> > > My friend had a problem with their laptop and the Vista Business key > sticker was on the back but they had no Vista Business CD. I simply > downloaded the CD. It

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Michal
> > You don't have the install cdrom ? > My friend had a problem with their laptop and the Vista Business key sticker was on the back but they had no Vista Business CD. I simply downloaded the CD. It does get a little difficult legally, I mean anti-download groups could say "HE'S DOWNLOADING ST

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/2010 10:14 PM, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I > have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get > Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Michal
On 01/04/2010 15:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, > Lawrence E Graves wrote: >> I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about >> 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the >> Fedora sign in the middle of the s

Re: Upcoming Fedora User & Developer Conferences

2010-04-01 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
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Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Michal
> > Be very careful. I think XP will automatically write the NTLDR > (Windows boot system) to the primary drive and primary partition even > if you install elsewhere. So you might possible destroy your Fedora > GRUB (your Fedora data/partitions should be safe). > > You might consider unplugging

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-01 Thread Neal Becker
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: >> Mail Lists wrote: >> >> > On 03/31/2010 07:38 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> >> flash works in google-chrome. This is F12-x86_64. Using >> >> 32-bit flash wrapped for 64 bit. >> >> >> >> In chromium-browser 5.0.365

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Mauriat Miranda
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I > have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get > Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I need to get > something working. I wo

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread suvayu ali
On 1 April 2010 07:14, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I > have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get > Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I need to get > something working. > You don't sa

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain > exactly what

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Marvin Kosmal
It has been a long time since I installed XP, But, as I remember the only option I had at that time was the first hard drive.. Good luck with that.. You could check to see if you can change the boot disk in BIOS.. If so, you could select Operating System that way?? YMMV Marvin On 4/1/10, P

Windows partition?

2010-04-01 Thread Paul
Hi, I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I need to get something working. I have a shed load of space on a secondary drive, so I was th

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Mauriat Miranda
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > 2 days ago.  When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen.  It is hard for me to explain > exactly what is happen

New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Lawrence E Graves
I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain exactly what is happening because I am not good with the technical terms used. -- Lawre

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Mail Lists wrote: > > > On 03/31/2010 07:38 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> flash works in google-chrome. This is F12-x86_64. Using > >> 32-bit flash wrapped for 64 bit. > >> > >> In chromium-browser 5.0.365.0 flash is detected, but does not wo

Re: [389-users] Strange behaviour - SAMBA is writing on a Dedicated Consumer Server

2010-04-01 Thread Diretorio Livre
Richard,I set the nsslapd-accesslog-logbuffering as you recomended and nothing was logged on the master ldap (ServerA). So I shutdown the master ldap machine and repeat the test. The result was the same behaviour: SAMBA writes on the userpassword attribute of the dedicated consumer (ServerB). Ana

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-01 Thread Neal Becker
Mail Lists wrote: > On 03/31/2010 07:38 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> flash works in google-chrome. This is F12-x86_64. Using >> 32-bit flash wrapped for 64 bit. >> >> In chromium-browser 5.0.365.0 flash is detected, but does not work. In >> about:plugins flash is there (1st item). But visiting a

is some codec missing ffmpeg

2010-04-01 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Dear list I have a M2V video that i can read with kaffeine (the codec exists in the system). however, when trying to convert this file to avi (or other) I get this message Could you help plz. Regards Adel [a...@adelonlinux disk]$ ffmpeg -r 1 -i MATINALE\ SPORT\ \(INFOSPORT\)\ \(01avr2010\ 075

Re: gedit ...cannot create backup !!!

2010-04-01 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/2010 05:53 PM, Gregory Hosler wrote: > On 04/01/2010 01:08 PM, Jatin K wrote: >> Dear all > >> suddenly I'm getting this error whenever I try to edit a text file and >> click save button > >> " Could not create a backup file while saving /p

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