Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 00:46:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > After tremendous pain, I finally managed to install F13. > I'm still getting software rendering. > I hate this. > Has anyone *ever* used a Radeon HD 3650 AGP with linux? > If I want hardware acceleration, do I have to get yet a

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500, >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> >>> *sigh* >>> I suppose I'll have to. >>> It's always a pain. >>> I prefer to climb one hill at a time. >> >> The Radeon driver an

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500, > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> *sigh* >> I suppose I'll have to. >> It's always a pain. >> I prefer to climb one hill at a time. > > The Radeon driver and related stuff has been changing a lot over the last > c

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Remi Collet
Le 03/06/2010 07:04, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : >> If a package does not get negative karma, I think the 2-week-wait / >> push-to-stable treatment is reasonable. YMMV. +1 > With the exception of critical security and bug fixes which needs to be > tested but for a shorter period of time. +1 I a

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Darr wrote: > I think few people are aware of the fedora-easy-karma package, let alone the > workings of bodhi. > > If a package does not get negative karma, I think the 2-week-wait / > push-to-stable treatment is reasonable. YMMV. > With the exception of critical sec

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Darr
I think few people are aware of the fedora-easy-karma package, let alone the workings of bodhi. If a package does not get negative karma, I think the 2-week-wait / push-to-stable treatment is reasonable. YMMV. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/03/2010 10:03 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > Good issues - so how do you propose fedora devs et al can engage to > help advance chrome in linux - it is in googles interest and ours. > The list of issues in that tracker comes from Spot's work with Google. If anyone is interested to help,

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/03/2010 12:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: a remix before it is ready > wouldn't help at all in advancing anything. Quite the opposite. If > anyone is interested in fixing the issues, take a look at > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 > > Rahul > Good issues

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/03/2010 09:52 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > I dont understand your point. I am encouraging us and to advance chrome > and/or chromium - either or both of working with google to allow fedora > to distribute it - or/and advancing spots repo so it can be in regular > f14 or sooner. > > If that

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/03/2010 12:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/03/2010 09:35 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> However, that is google-chrome - I have not tried spots repo for a >> while but when I first tried it it was far less functional than >> google-chrome - cannot tell you why (java flash problems pri

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/03/2010 09:35 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > However, that is google-chrome - I have not tried spots repo for a > while but when I first tried it it was far less functional than > google-chrome - cannot tell you why (java flash problems primarily if I > recall). > You are just making my

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM, fred smith wrote: > Hi gang! > > I installed F13 on my eeepc 901 on Friday. Since I changed the partitioing > scheme, I backed up the whole thing onto a USB HD first so I could restore > my home directory afterwards (in fact I also kept dd images of /dev/sda > and

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/02/2010 11:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/01/2010 01:54 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Chrome/Chromium browser has more than 70 million users[3], much more >> than Fedora itself, for me that proves it is a good and stable >> browser. >> > > I think that assertion is wrong. Firefox h

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/03/2010 09:01 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Well sure enough, I tried several different options in anaconda under > virtualbox and it asked me to init my nic every time. At this point I > don't know if it's a problem of using the livecd tools, which is > unlikely, or that it doesn't see the nic o

Re: netinst images: What's the point?

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >>>I'm not sure what's wrong, I just know it never asks me to initialize >>>a network connection unless I specify "askmethod", then it does it in >>>the non-graphical part of the setup

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/01/2010 01:54 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Chrome/Chromium browser has more than 70 million users[3], much more > than Fedora itself, for me that proves it is a good and stable > browser. > I think that assertion is wrong. Firefox has more users but more importantly, the large majority o

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/02/2010 03:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman writes: > >> One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and >> move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, >> but this is not the case, or so I am led to believe... > > It's been my consistent experience that yum waits about 3

Re: twin display f12

2010-06-02 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:01 AM, pankaj singh wrote: > twin display on fedora 12 > > Hello friend I have HP pavilion dv4 laptop and fedora 12 is installed on > that. I would like to display the laptop screen on other monitor. I do not > have NVIDIA graphics card. > Can anybody help me setting the l

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 19:54 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > > > Uh, dude. I'm an amateur astronomer and truly enjoy "exploring the > stars". . > > No need to insult us stargazers :) > > > you know what they say... 99% of the lawyers give the rest of them a bad name. Craig -- This m

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Fedyk writes: Pushed to testing and then to stable a few days later with zero karma. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bti-026-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vidalia-0.2.9-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EekBoek-2.00.02-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/02/2010 08:31 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Here is a sampling of the recent updates that have been pushed to > stable. There are more, I didn't look at every update. > > Released straight to stable: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.0.1-47.fc12 > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda

fnfx trouble on Toshiba

2010-06-02 Thread Yogesh
Hello, I have very recently migrated to Fedora from Windows. I have installed it on my Toshiba L505-S5971 laptop. I installed fnfx after reading about it in some forum. That went fine. Now with every boot I get the following message. Starting fnfxd: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi

Re: Ugly little hand [Solved]

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 19:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The cursor that displays over desktop icons and links in Firefox, among > other places -- a little black hand pointing up -- is really ugly. (At > least I think so.) How can it be changed? > Appearance Preferences->Theme->Cust

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Uh, dude. I'm an amateur astronomer and truly enjoy "exploring the stars". . No need to insult us stargazers :) This is an individual not suited to have any interaction with humans On 06/02/2010 06:05 PM, jack craig wrote: > >> Of course he is a "Superior Being". Don't you realize thi

Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Here is a sampling of the recent updates that have been pushed to stable. There are more, I didn't look at every update. Released straight to stable: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.0.1-47.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ClanLib-2.1.1-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: USB to parallel port printer adapter does not work anymore. (F13)

2010-06-02 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:54 -0700, Mick M. wrote: > Any help appreciated Since you say "any help," if you cannot overcome this problem, or wish to avoid similar problems in the future, I reckon that parallel to network adaptors, rather than parallel to USB, are far more useful. -- [...@localhost

Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > >> On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 01:30:45 pm Rex Dieter wrote: >>> So, long-story-short, not sure why firefox isn't using these items for >>> you. >> >> long-story-short, I looked at those files and Okular was definitely >> listed as the relevant app - tha

Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Claude Jones wrote: > On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 01:30:45 pm Rex Dieter wrote: >> So, long-story-short, not sure why firefox isn't using these items for >> you. > > long-story-short, I looked at those files and Okular was definitely listed > as the relevant app - that's all, I just looked, chang

Re: Problems with fetchmail

2010-06-02 Thread Mats
Yes, Oluwagbenga, sendmail is a good thing. I installed postfix because I thought it should be easier and more safe (I'm used to it on freebsd). Now I have switched back and it worked perfect as I wanted it. I'm not used to sendmail in fedora, in freebsd it's more just out of the box. I had to inst

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 06:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Of course he is a "Superior Being". Don't you realize this he is... > > Dave Ocame, WS1ETI So in the immortal words of Ralph Cramden: "To the moon, Alice!" -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread jack craig
> Of course he is a "Superior Being". Don't you realize this he is... > > Dave Ocame, WS1ETI > Awards Chair > The SETILeague, Inc > > Stony Creek Observatory > FN31og > -72.834 longitude > 41.272 latitude > Member: The SETILeague, Inc. and, > The Society for Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA) and, >

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2010 06:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:34 -0700, David Ocame wrote: > >> Thanks for not providing any help. Fuck off prick! >> > Way to go in convincing people to help you. Did you actually *read* the > list guidelines? Or are you one of those Superior

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:34 -0700, David Ocame wrote: > Thanks for not providing any help. Fuck off prick! Way to go in convincing people to help you. Did you actually *read* the list guidelines? Or are you one of those Superior Beings that normal rules don't apply to? poc -- users mailing list

Re: Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Robert Posey
On 06/02/2010 02:50 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:31pm on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 (UK time), Robert Posey scrawled: > > >> Hello: >> >> I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one >> program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a >> way to do

twin display f12

2010-06-02 Thread pankaj singh
twin display on fedora 12 Hello friend I have HP pavilion dv4 laptop and fedora 12 is installed on that. I would like to display the laptop screen on other monitor. I do not have NVIDIA graphics card. Can anybody help me setting the laptop display on the external monitor. thanks and regards Simran

Re: Problems with fetchmail

2010-06-02 Thread Oluwagbenga Shobowale
Ok why not look into the man pages for fetchmail, I know there is an option which can direct mails to smtp servers (not sure how postfix works). Mails end up in the directory /var/spool/mail/yourname which is where mail clients pick up the mails for you. I am assuming that you have a mail and th

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Daniel B. Thurman writes: One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, but this is not the case, or so I am led to believe... It's been my consistent experience that yum waits about 30 seconds or so, before giving up and going to the next mi

Re: [389-users] Multi Master Replication + SSL

2010-06-02 Thread Rich Megginson
Stephen Agar wrote: > That was my thought as well, so what configuration(s) should I > check/change to ensure that it connects to port 636 as it's supposed to? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Managing_Replication-Configuring_Single_Master_Replication.html#smrepl-replagmt >

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:56:01 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Often it isn't actually the mirror, it is some router > > on the path from the mirror to your computer. > > > You mean a router outside my DSL router? Right, somewhere on the list you get if you do a traceroute. I had a problem

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/06/10 22:56, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:16:11 -0700 >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> but then again, >>> why isn't it that these bad mirrors are being removed >>> for misbehaving? >>> >> Often it isn't actually

Re: Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Robert Posey
On 06/02/2010 02:51 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:31 -0700, Robert Posey wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one >> program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a >> way to do so. I would like to in

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:16:11 -0700 > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> but then again, >> why isn't it that these bad mirrors are being removed >> for misbehaving? >> > Often it isn't actually the mirror, it is some router > on the path from the mi

Re: Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:31 -0700, Robert Posey wrote: > Hello: > > I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one > program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a > way to do so. I would like to install the Flash player on my machine. > Does anyone kn

Re: Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:31pm on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 (UK time), Robert Posey scrawled: > Hello: > > I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one > program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a > way to do so. I would like to install the Flash player on my mac

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 June 2010 22:34, David Ocame wrote: > Thanks for not providing any help. Fuck off prick! When you've quite finished with the rude words, you might also want to check out the list guidelines in full: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines This is particularly relevant:

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread David Ocame
Thanks for not providing any help. Fuck off prick! *** I'm not dead, yet! *** Dave Ocame, WS1ETI Awards Chair The SETILeague, Inc www.setileague.org Stony Creek Observatory FN31og -72.834 longitude 41.272 lat

Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Robert Posey
Hello: I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a way to do so. I would like to install the Flash player on my machine. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you in advance, Rob -- users mailing li

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:28 -0700, David Ocame wrote: > Any help would be much appreciated. The first thing you need to do when asking for help is not to hijack threads. Instead of composing a new message to the list you just replied to an existing one and changed the Subject. Don't do this. poc

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Andre Costa
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:07, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Valent Turkovic > > wrote: > >> In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are > >> looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due

Re: F13: Evolution icons - configurable?

2010-06-02 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail > > client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this > > image on the 'net

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('),

Re: Bash History How to?

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank Murphy wrote: > I would like to prevent .bash_history being > created for root. > > And when "sudo" invoked by user. > > Have tried: > export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth > > but nothing seems to be added to .bashrc > > this has come abote as I seem to have > /tmp/.bash_history > which may not

Re: F13: Evolution icons - configurable?

2010-06-02 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded to Fedora 13, and am finding the evolution mail > client icons a bit awkward. I use KDE for the desktop. I found this > image on the 'net of basically what it use to look like: > http://www.backuphowto.info/files

Re: problem with awk

2010-06-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:41 -0500, Dave Ulrick wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:08 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I have a "little" proble with awk > >> here I have a file which contain data like this > >> > >> > >> 101663.dat > >> 1 12

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:16:11 -0700 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > but then again, > why isn't it that these bad mirrors are being removed > for misbehaving? Often it isn't actually the mirror, it is some router on the path from the mirror to your computer. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:50:03 +0200 brizly vaan van Ulciputz wrote: > or do i have to edit ifcfg-br0 by > hand? That's the way I've always done it. Just move all the ipaddr and wot-not into the br0 file and tell the eth0 file it is part of the bridge by adding BRIDGE=br0. I don't know if NetworkM

screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread David Ocame
Hi all, I've been using Fedora since the FC7 release a long time ago. This past weekend, I upgraded to F13 from F11 (I know, I skipped one). The upgrade went generally well, except for one problem: It won't detect my monitor. In monitors, I am seeing only "Unknown Monitor" and the highest res of

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 19:20:45 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > Now, does anyone know if/how I can enable encryption on my disk partitions > without havinig to use LVM? Yes you can do that at install time. If you use a custom install you can choose which file systems (and other kinds of block de

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Not that incredibly difficult, but when I do it, if I have space, I create a tarball of the directories of files to rename. Then: find -type f | \ while read OLDFILE do NEWFILE=`convert_file $OLDFILE` if [ ! -f $NEWFILE ] then mv $OLDFILE $NEWFILE fi done create an appropriate

Re: problem with awk

2010-06-02 Thread Terry Polzin
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:44 -0500, Dave Ulrick wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Dave Ulrick wrote: > > > Looks like a field separator (FS) problem. The field separator is used by > > 'awk' to divide a line into fields. The default 'awk' field separator is > > "\t" (tab) but your fields are separat

Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread Claude Jones
On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 01:30:45 pm Rex Dieter wrote: > So, long-story-short, not sure why firefox isn't using these items for > you. long-story-short, I looked at those files and Okular was definitely listed as the relevant app - that's all, I just looked, changing nothing then, I re-boote

USB to parallel port printer adapter does not work anymore. (F13)

2010-06-02 Thread Mick M.
Hi; I have two of these which worked fine in older releases [r...@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04b8:0002 Seiko Epson Corp. ISD Smart Cable for Mac [r...@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05ab:0002 In-System Design Parallel Port I downloaded kernel 2.6.34 from kernel.org.

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-06-02 Thread brizly vaan van Ulciputz
so, this had not been a solution :-( i would like to give the bridge-solution a try, but don't know how to set up a bridge in F13. is there an easy way to set it up or do i have to edit ifcfg-br0 by hand? i tried from http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-fedora-11-server , but v

Re: problem with awk

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Ulrick
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Dave Ulrick wrote: Looks like a field separator (FS) problem. The field separator is used by 'awk' to divide a line into fields. The default 'awk' field separator is "\t" (tab) but your fields are separated by spaces. Try adding this inside the BEGIN {} block: FS = "

Re: problem with awk

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Ulrick
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:08 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote: >> Hello, >> I have a "little" proble with awk >> here I have a file which contain data like this >> >> >> 101663.dat >> 1 122837.920343696 >> 1 121875.899726134 >> 1 8011.13164749145 >> 1 24955.11029

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Valent Turkovic wrote: > In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are > looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having > duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clients. > > How about switching to Chromium only in our next release? > > Are there some pitfal

Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I have in the past, complained of hanging yum updates and over time, I finally realized that there are such things as bad mirrors, and for some reason or another, causes yum to hang indefinately. One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, but

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster > > One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as > an already existing file. > Here there be tigers ;-) I did pull out the directory name to prevent renamin

[389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server 1.2.6 Alpha 4

2010-06-02 Thread Rich Megginson
The 389 team is pleased to announce the availability of Alpha 4 of version 1.2.6. This release contains a new replication session API, auto DN index upgrade, and several bug fixes. ***We need your help! Please help us test this software.*** It is an Alpha release, so it may have a few glitches,

Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Claude Jones wrote: > This is Fedora 13 with the KDE desktop and all the latest updates: > > When I click on a pdf link in Firefox, I get a message saying the helper > application doesn't exist and to change that in preferences. In Firefox > preferences in the Applications tab, the helper app is

Re: Problems with fetchmail

2010-06-02 Thread Mats
Oluwagbenga, I followed your tips (thank you) and found that a file called my_name.lock was created in /var/spool/mail when I fetched my mail. Then in the logfile "access denied" to that file. I have not solved the problem yet but it feels that I'm on my way. Thank you. /Mats tis 2010-06-01 klock

Re: Ugly little hand (and annoying progress animation...)

2010-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:52 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > I changed my mouse pointer theme to Oxygen Black in KDE's System > Settings. That worked fine except in Firefox and Google Chrome. These are both Gnome apps, so you need to configure the Gnome settings. Try gnome-control-center. You mig

Re: RPMs in FC13 with wrong or missing release

2010-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/02/2010 07:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 07:52 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On 01/06/10 23:24, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> --snip-- >> >>> I filed a bug report against evolution-remove-duplicates in the Fedora >>> bugzilla. But maybe it should be in the

Re: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread DB
On 02/06/10 14:42, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox From: Claude Jones Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:42:12 -0400 To: Community support for Fedora users This is Fedora 13 with the KDE desktop and all the latest updates: When I cli

Re: Ugly little hand (and annoying progress animation...)

2010-06-02 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:19 -0700 > > > From: Jonathan Ryshpan > > > To: Fedora List > > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, > > > UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.2.5 > > > Subject: U

Re: RPMs in FC13 with wrong or missing release

2010-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 07:52 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 01/06/10 23:24, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > --snip-- > > > > I filed a bug report against evolution-remove-duplicates in the Fedora > > bugzilla. But maybe it should be in the Evolution Bugzilla. Who *is* > > responsible for this? > > >

Re: Ugly little hand (and annoying progress animation...)

2010-06-02 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:19 -0700 > > From: Jonathan Ryshpan > > To: Fedora List > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, > > UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.2.5 > > Subject: Ugly little hand

Re: NMI error with kernel 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE

2010-06-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/01/2010 04:50 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > When using the latest kernel, 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE, my machine > crashes with the message > > Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0 on CPU 0. > You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI > Dazed and confused, but trying to continue >

Re: problem booting F13 kernel

2010-06-02 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:51 +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote: > Craig, > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:20 +0100, dexter wrote: > >> On 1 June 2010 16:59, Craig White wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:46 +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote: > > >> > >>

Re: Saving VLC snapshots

2010-06-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 12:42:29 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/02/2010 07:14 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to tame VLC so that snapshots are always saved > > to a specific folder? Currently it seems to use a random destination. > > > > Please cc me with any answer, as I don't se

can't set Okular as helper pdf app in Firefox

2010-06-02 Thread Claude Jones
This is Fedora 13 with the KDE desktop and all the latest updates: When I click on a pdf link in Firefox, I get a message saying the helper application doesn't exist and to change that in preferences. In Firefox preferences in the Applications tab, the helper app is set to Okular. If I download

Re: Saving VLC snapshots

2010-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/02/2010 07:14 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to tame VLC so that snapshots are always saved > to a specific folder? Currently it seems to use a random destination. > > Please cc me with any answer, as I don't seem to be getting the list > messages even though my mailman pa

Re: Ntpd problems FC13

2010-06-02 Thread Marius Feraru
Phil Meyer wrote: > This is done by adding the -x argument to: >     /etc/sysconfig/ntpd > [...] > With -x in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd, the ntpd startup script will first run > ntpdate against a clock in /etc/ntp/step-tickers, if any, or from the > general pool if not. That's no longer true for Fedora.

Saving VLC snapshots

2010-06-02 Thread Anne Wilson
Can someone tell me how to tame VLC so that snapshots are always saved to a specific folder? Currently it seems to use a random destination. Please cc me with any answer, as I don't seem to be getting the list messages even though my mailman page says that receiving is enabled. Anne -- KDE Co

SOLVED Re: Ugly little hand DMZ-Icons

2010-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/06/10 09:32, kalinix wrote: -snip-- > > > Hehe, found it: > > for system-wide is in /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme > > mine reads: > > [Icon Theme] > Inherits=dmz-aa Changed the heading slightly for digest\archive readers. Found it, works also in XFCE. -- Regards, Frank Murphy

Re: Ugly little hand

2010-06-02 Thread kalinix
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:56 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 02/06/10 08:52, kalinix wrote: > --snip-- > > > > It's system specific, since I had it on KDE. I changed it from System > > settings->Computer administration->Keyboard and mouse->Mouse->Cursor theme. > > > > > > It ought be a simper wa

Re: Ugly little hand

2010-06-02 Thread Gabriel VLASIU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:19 -0700 > From: Jonathan Ryshpan > To: Fedora List > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, > UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.2

Re: Network Manager, WPA, "available to all users"

2010-06-02 Thread kalinix
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:37 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I have a desktop with wireless, due to some cabling difficulties. I'm > trying to switch from "Network" to "NetworkManager" because we're moving > our wireless from WEP to WPA-PSK. > > Using Network Manager, I can configure a connection wit

Re: Ugly little hand

2010-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/06/10 08:56, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > yum erase dmz\* (the little hand, it's from opensuse) > Bad idea of mine, want to remove 200 pkgs. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: Ugly little hand

2010-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/06/10 08:52, kalinix wrote: --snip-- > > It's system specific, since I had it on KDE. I changed it from System > settings->Computer administration->Keyboard and mouse->Mouse->Cursor theme. > > > It ought be a simper way though, like changing a parameter in a text file. > You can do: (but

Re: Ugly little hand

2010-06-02 Thread kalinix
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 07:50 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 02/06/10 03:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > The cursor that displays over desktop icons and links in Firefox, among > > other places -- a little black hand pointing up -- is really ugly. (At > > least I think so.) How can it be changed?