Re: python threading limited to 1 or 2 cores

2010-10-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/14/2010 06:35 PM, Kevin Abbey wrote: > > Can someone explain why this is happening? I can't, but I'd start looking here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python.git;a=blob;f=python.spec;h=e62431869ce98004670dad3d4d9ccaf8b5303ad5;hb=HEAD and here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/

Monospace GStreamer plugin?

2010-10-14 Thread Silent-Hunter
I miss the Monospace visualization. It used to be in Rhythmbox and Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu and Mint. But I can't find it for Fedora. Is there any way to get it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 08:03 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >>> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text >>> they seem exactly the same. >> They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be >> used together if you so choose > Okay, I can now say I really do

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 14 October 2010 06:38 PM, sumatheja wrote: > Hi Bruce and Jatin, > Thanks for the info. I am thinking of > using a live cd first and install it everything wotks fine thats a good idea > . How about RHEL5 does it have all the drivers??? which one is bette

RE: CUPS broken?

2010-10-14 Thread Scott Ford
I had a similar problem it wasn't CUPS that was broken it was Samba...YUM'ed the maintenance for Samba, and it resolved it I was running FC12 Regards, Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer [mobile] 609-346-0399 [direct] 678-266-3399 x304 identityforge.com http://identityforge.com This messa

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Alex
Hi, > They are usually desktop specific. I only know of Klipper on KDE and > Clipman on XFCE. I'm sure there is one for Gnome too. Maybe you can > do, > > $ yum search clipboard Good thought. For completeness, here are the results: perl-Clipboard.noarch : Copy and paste with any OS parcellite.x8

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Alex
Hi, >> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text >> they seem exactly the same. > > They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text.  They can be > used together if you so choose Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It requires

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:41 PM, JD wrote: >  On 10/14/2010 02:40 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> The list info on >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users states that >> "this list provides community assistance, encouragement, and advice >> for Fedora users" without specifying a release v

Re: python threading limited to 1 or 2 cores

2010-10-14 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 10/14/2010 06:35 PM, Kevin Abbey wrote: >Hi, > > I've discovered from a user I support that the python in fedora 13 does > not use all cores with the threading module but when the python source > is complied and installed with default options then all cores are used. > > Can someone explai

python threading limited to 1 or 2 cores

2010-10-14 Thread Kevin Abbey
Hi, I've discovered from a user I support that the python in fedora 13 does not use all cores with the threading module but when the python source is complied and installed with default options then all cores are used. Can someone explain why this is happening? Is there a setting to allow use

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 06:21 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/15/2010 12:56 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > [snip] >>> Would you mind sharing which networks your attacks came from? >>> >> I hesitate to answer, but will. >> >> The people who own 67.222.1.124 and 184.106.213.202 >> were very cooperative and intere

Re: CUPS broken?

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 06:10 PM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> Have you re-started the cups daemon >> since the update? >> Else, simply restart the cups daemon: sudo service cups restart >> >> See if that will fix it. > I rebooted. Nothing. Are there jobs in the queue? Also, post the entry in /etc/printcap --

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/15/2010 12:56 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: [snip] >> Would you mind sharing which networks your attacks came from? >> > > I hesitate to answer, but will. > > The people who own 67.222.1.124 and 184.106.213.202 > were very cooperative and interested. > > The Chinese IP address was 218.14.146.200. >

Re: CUPS broken?

2010-10-14 Thread Amadeus W.M.
> Have you re-started the cups daemon > since the update? > Else, simply restart the cups daemon: sudo service cups restart > > See if that will fix it. I rebooted. Nothing. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: CUPS broken?

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 04:30 PM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > Anybody else having problems printing with CUPS after the latest updates > a few days back? Running F12. The printer seems to be fine but I get an > print error dialog box when I print anything, including a test page. It > was working flawlessly befor

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 03:56 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/14/2010 02:58 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> On 10/14/2010 09:29 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> >>> This is off topic, but I thought I should t

Veriton S661 Internal Speaker Issue

2010-10-14 Thread Jafaruddin Lie
Hi guys I own a Veriton S661 running Fedora 13 64bit. Currently I am using the embedded 7.1-channel high-definition audio that comes with the machine. I have an old Logitech Z530 (5.1) speakers plugged into the rear I/O ports, and the sound works perfectly (tested each channel with the Sound Config

CUPS broken?

2010-10-14 Thread Amadeus W.M.
Anybody else having problems printing with CUPS after the latest updates a few days back? Running F12. The printer seems to be fine but I get an print error dialog box when I print anything, including a test page. It was working flawlessly before. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/2010 02:58 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/14/2010 09:29 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> This is off topic, but I thought I should tell people. >> >> This past weekend, I suffered a DOS atta

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 02:40 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:27 PM, JD wrote: >> On 10/03/2010 04:46 AM, Craig White wrote: >>> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:42 -0700, JD wrote: That may be so! But it is not YOUR place to say to anyone if their post is out of place. Especial

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:27 PM, JD wrote: >  On 10/03/2010 04:46 AM, Craig White wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:42 -0700, JD wrote: >>> That may be so! >>> But it is not YOUR place to say to anyone >>> if their post is out of place. >>> Especially if the post IS about Fedora! >> >> actua

[389-users] replication between 1.2.2 and 1.2.6.1

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Viduya
Can we expect replication between 1.2.2 and 1.2.6.1 to work? I'm trying to set up MMR between two servers running the two different versions and the 1.2.6.1 master is failing with the following message in it's errors log: [14/Oct/2010:16:26:19 -0400] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt="cn=people moul

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Rick Sewill writes: > This past weekend, I suffered a DOS attack launched against VOIP SIP > Clients. The attack came, at different times, from 3 separate IP addresses. I'm seeing a vast increase in attemted SIP registers too. Asterisk (f13 more or less stock via yum) seems to handle the onsla

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread suvayu ali
On 14 October 2010 08:17, Alex wrote: > I also knew about gpm for the console, but what selection managers > could be running in X11? > They are usually desktop specific. I only know of Klipper on KDE and Clipman on XFCE. I'm sure there is one for Gnome too. Maybe you can do, $ yum search clipbo

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/14/2010 10:03 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Rick Sewill wrote: >> >> This is off topic, but I thought I should tell people. >> > > Can these clients be run on Fedora? Well twinkle is available on F13: $ yum info twinkle Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Available Packages Name

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

2010-10-14 Thread Claude Jones
On 10/14/2010 2:29 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > A recent kernel had debug mode turned on. The nvidia module will not > load with debug mode on. > > I had to rebuild the kernel by hand to fix the issue, but the latest > kernel I have installed: 2.6.35.6-39.fc14.x86_64, seems to work again. > > Another t

Re: [389-users] incorrect DNs sometimes returned on searches: 1.2.6 and 1.2.6.1

2010-10-14 Thread Eric Torgersen
Noriko, I did not notice any special characters, but I have not been checking specifically for non-printable characters - the next time I run into this problem I will check for that. I am monitoring for this problem by periodically outputting a search for objectclass=* as directory manager to a f

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread James Mckenzie
Rick Sewill wrote: > >This is off topic, but I thought I should tell people. > Can these clients be run on Fedora? Also this attack may target more than just VOIP SIP clients. Thank you for the warning. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: [OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/14/2010 09:29 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > This is off topic, but I thought I should tell people. > > This past weekend, I suffered a DOS attack launched against VOIP SIP > Clients. The attack came, at different times, from 3 separate IP addr

Re: [389-users] Strange wedging

2010-10-14 Thread Rich Megginson
Edward Z. Yang wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm too tired right now to write up a proper report, but would > the following behavior be something y'all be'd interested in > debugging? > We have tested server to server SASL/GSSAPI with replication on RHEL5, but we have not seen this happen. Do you have

[OT] To people with VoIP SIP Clients (twinkle, etc), friendly-scanner DOS attack

2010-10-14 Thread Rick Sewill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is off topic, but I thought I should tell people. This past weekend, I suffered a DOS attack launched against VOIP SIP Clients. The attack came, at different times, from 3 separate IP addresses. I blocked the IP addresses using IP Tables when

Re: [389-users] incorrect DNs sometimes returned on searches: 1.2.6 and 1.2.6.1

2010-10-14 Thread Noriko Hosoi
Hello, Eric. Is it possible to share any sample DNs with us? (No need to be as it is, you could replace a real uid with something else. But if there are any special characters in the string, we'd like to learn it.) And if you could tell us your use cases, it'd be a big help. For instance

Re: [OT] ping Tim

2010-10-14 Thread g
On 10/14/2010 09:34 AM, Tim wrote: > To be clear, it's not spoofing, since it's > a real address, and one of my own. ok. thank you for reply. i had a rough recall of what you posted. missed it on having public address not receiving list post. i would consider it myself, but about 98% of my spa

[389-users] incorrect DNs sometimes returned on searches: 1.2.6 and 1.2.6.1

2010-10-14 Thread Eric Torgersen
Hello, We recently started using the 389 Directory Server and are seeing an odd problem where searches start returning the wrong DN for a small number of entries in our directory. For example, our users are in ou=People,dc=acs,dc=albany,dc=edu but for a few user entries the server starts returnin

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/12/2010 07:04 AM, Claude Jones wrote: > This is an F14 box with all the latest patches > It has an nVidia GeForce 8400 GS video card > It had been running the proprietary nVidia driver from rpmfusion > About two weeks ago, after some updates which unfortunately I didn't > take note of, X wo

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

2010-10-14 Thread Claude Jones
On 10/14/2010 1:16 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > OTOH, you might try to boot a Fedora Live CD, just to be sure that hardware is > still ok, run a memtest, etc. In general I hate to suggest a reinstall of the > whole OS, but since there is no obvious way to understand the problem you > have, maybe a

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 10/14/2010 10:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text > they seem exactly the same. They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be used together if you so choose -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cumm

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/03/2010 04:46 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:42 -0700, JD wrote: >> That may be so! >> But it is not YOUR place to say to anyone >> if their post is out of place. >> Especially if the post IS about Fedora! > > actually, it is my place to say to someone that their pos

Re: Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread TortuXm
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:47:11 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > I was afraid this might be the reply! However it is always possible > that someone has quietly been developing this and possibly someone may > point to where there is information. > You could also look what was done here : http://www.l

Re: Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:57 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I did find a few references though - > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-xorg-multitouch > http://blogs.gnome.org/carlosg/2010/01/29/multi-touch-support-in-linuxxorggtk/ > > So it seems that there are people workin

Re: Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> I'd search for multi-touch in the Xorg mailing lists. >> I remember doing that a while back and it didn't look >> like X support was ready for prime time then. Perhaps >> it has improve

Re: Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'd search for multi-touch in the Xorg mailing lists. > I remember doing that a while back and it didn't look > like X support was ready for prime time then. Perhaps > it has improved since then though. I was afraid this might be the reply!

Re: Problem when trying to preupgrade to Fedora 13 Goddard

2010-10-14 Thread Tsvetomir Totev
Thanks :) On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Serge de Souza wrote: > Sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598629 > after running preupgrade and before rebooting edit the grub file and > add the missing space > > On 13 October 2010 22:47, Tsvetomir Totev wrote: > > Hello, > > > >

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

2010-10-14 Thread Claude Jones
On 10/14/2010 4:56 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > The only idea I am able to think of is to investigate further (ie. read more > logs). You can do a startx with the "--logverbose 4" option (or higher than > 4), and try to find out what happens in that blank second (between [35.965] > and > [36.682]

Re: Vuze + IP block list?

2010-10-14 Thread James Mckenzie
Alex wrote: > >Hi, > >I understand vuze supports the peerguardian p2b binary IP block lists. >Is it still peerguardian that generates and maintains these lists, or >is there something more updated that I'm missing? > >I've found references to peerblock, but seems to only be for Windows? > Have to

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:45:02 +1030 Tim wrote: > (they buy the cheapest crap they can get, or have no damn idea that some > particular brand is crappy). There is certainly a difference when it comes to double layer DVD media. I've never gotten anything but Verbatim to work consistently. Certainly

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 08:20 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> This is how I tested it: >> in one window, I highlighted text, and Edit->copy >> In another window, I only highlighted. >> in a third window, Edit->paste yields contents from first window, >> and click middle button yields contents from seconds windo

Vuze + IP block list?

2010-10-14 Thread Alex
Hi, I understand vuze supports the peerguardian p2b binary IP block lists. Is it still peerguardian that generates and maintains these lists, or is there something more updated that I'm missing? I've found references to peerblock, but seems to only be for Windows? Suggestions appreciated. Thanks

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Alex
Hi, > This is how I tested it: > in one window, I highlighted text, and Edit->copy > In another window, I only highlighted. > in a third window, Edit->paste yields contents from first window, > and click middle button yields contents from seconds window. > ctrl-shift-v yields same contents as Edit

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Alex
Hi, > I think the behaviour to expect now a days is, > > 1. If you select but don't copy with either of the following then it >    is expected that you should be able to paste with a click of the >    middle button. >    + right click copy from the context menu >    + Ctrl + c (on regular desktop

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 07:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> I have been copying and pasting as I described above >>> ever since the first X release on BSD. >>> No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c . >>

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:06 +0530, sumatheja wrote: > > Hi All, > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if > its a good idea to i

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:22 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > > And you are missing the point. There are two separate processes. One > > of them copy/pastes to the system wide copy/paste "buffer", is the same > > as EDIT/copy and EDIT/paste in most menus, and can be bound to > > keystrokes or either

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote: > > > I have been copying and pasting as I described above > > ever since the first X release on BSD. > > No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c . > > Just hightlight with left button and paste with

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread JD
On 10/14/2010 02:26 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> I normlly burn with speed=4. but > Tangential question: Are you guys using media that supports such slow > speeds? And, if you are not, and if you could previously burn slower, > that might be down

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread bruce
Sumatheja, In my case, I was never able to get Centos 5 to install using the livecd/dvd. fedora 13 worked from the dvd, although the issues i mentioned had to be dealt with. i'm not sure that the updated functions/drivers in f13 could be backported to centos5, and i have no idea if centos 6 woul

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 08:30 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I never have to set the speed on burning CDs, Audio CDs? If so, that's down to a couple of things. Firstly, having an audio CD player that will handle burnt discs, most players built in the last decade seem to be fine. Secondly, audio

Re: Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:32:48 +0100 mike cloaked wrote: > Would be interested to hear any experiences in this area... I'd search for multi-touch in the Xorg mailing lists. I remember doing that a while back and it didn't look like X support was ready for prime time then. Perhaps it has improved si

Does this touch/multi-touch monitor work with Fedora?

2010-10-14 Thread mike cloaked
I was being nosy about available monitors with novel properties, and came across the Dell SX2210T 21.5"(55 cm)W Multi-Touch Monitor. It would be quite cool (!) to use multitouch when dealing with photo albums, and also some other functions such as messing with files and directories and I wondered

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Thanks a lot David. :) On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, David García Granda wrote: > Hi, > > > How about using rhel?? does't work well? > > If you have any problem with new hardware, any new driver or fix will > be implemented first on Fedora, so it should be the preferred option. > >

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread David García Granda
Hi, >     How about using rhel?? does't work well? If you have any problem with new hardware, any new driver or fix will be implemented first on Fedora, so it should be the preferred option. HTH, David > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David García Granda > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >  

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi David, How about using rhel?? does't work well? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David García Granda wrote: > Hi, > > > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems > > with i

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi Bruce and Jatin, Thanks for the info. I am thinking of using a live cd first and install it everything wotks fine. How about RHEL5 does it have all the drivers??? which one is better in this case RHEL or fedora?? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Jatin K wrote: > O

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread David García Granda
Hi, >     I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers problems > with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if its a good idea > to install fedora on dell ? Yes it is. > Is anyone successfull

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 14 October 2010 04:06 PM, sumatheja wrote: > > Hi All, > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if > its a good idea

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread bruce
Hi. Saw your msg. I've successfully gotten F13 running on a 17" n7010 inspiron laptop. Never could get the Centos 5.5 to install from DVD. My issues: -xorg, for monitor, --ensure that i have a blank xorg.conf in the /etc/X11 dir and things seem to work ok, if i had a test xorg.conf, the display

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu October 14 2010, Tim wrote: > When set to automatic, your software should be trying to burn as fast as > the media can handle.  It's the media that tells it what's the top > available speed.  Likewise, for burning at other speeds, the media has a > list of what it can do, and the burning sof

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Andrew Haley wrote: > On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 >> Tod Thomas wrote: >> >>> I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard >>> and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other >>> media. I'm pretty

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 06:58 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > but it seems to me that the burning software tests might test to see > how fast it could burn.. maybe.. if you set it to auto.. When set to automatic, your software should be trying to burn as fast as the media can handle. It's the media

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 06:29 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other > media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that > the VHS standard was retire

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
Geoffrey Leach: >> H ... I think I understand your problem. However, unless you wish >> to have the wrath of the Open Source community descend upon your >> head, Valent Turkovic: > What is "the wrath of the Open Source community" ? ;) Please define > this first so that I can decide if I want i

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:42:13 +0100 Andrew Haley wrote: > On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 > > Tod Thomas wrote: > > > >> I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > >> and without special equipment it was difficult to t

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/2010 07:50 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > I believe Hauppauge makes a decent card that works with Fedora. > I have a rather old card based on Brooktree Corporation Bt878 chip. Works fine. -- An evil mind is a great comfort. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Brown
I believe Hauppauge makes a decent card that works with Fedora. On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 >> Tod Thomas wrote: >> >>> I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary >>> standard

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 10/14/2010 12:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 > Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard >> and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other >> media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the la

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:29:10 -0400 Tod Thomas wrote: > I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other > media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the > VHS standard was r

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu October 14 2010, Tim wrote: > The above example is from a Verbatim DVD-R disc.  According to the disc, > itself, it can *only* be written at 8x or 4x.  I don't have any other > writeable media to hand, at the moment, to test. I never thought about the DISK burning capabilities.. but it make

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 October 2010 11:29, Tod Thomas wrote: >  I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other > media.  I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the > VHS standard was retired, or its

Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi All, I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if its a good idea to install fedora on dell ? Is anyone successfully running fedora on

VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Tod Thomas
I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something. I expected someo

Re: [OT] ping Tim

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 21:45 +, g wrote: > do you recall date of message you posted with instructions on how you > spoof your email address? > > if not, would you please post again. > > i know several folks who are plagued with spam and need a good way to > eliminate it. Not off the top of my

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-14 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I normlly burn with speed=4. but Tangential question: Are you guys using media that supports such slow speeds? And, if you are not, and if you could previously burn slower, that might be down to burning software overriding the data that

Re: Test GIMP 2.7/2.8 ?

2010-10-14 Thread Valent Turkovic
> I would love to test out GIMP 2.7/2.8 on Fedora but haven't seen any > RPM packages made for Fedora. If anybody knows of them please send me > the link. > > Thank you, > Valent. GIMP 2.7 packages for Fedora 13 are available thank to Luya - http://luya.fedorapeople.org/packages/RPMS/ #fedora #gim

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-14 Thread Valent Turkovic
This post has raised some heat in blog comments and also in Fedora mailing list discussion so please lets all calm down and give your vote here: http://fusionlinux.org/2010/10/13/proprietary-or-open-source-nvidia-drivers/ or directly http://poll.fm/2c1q3 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-14 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 10/13/2010 10:55:18 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> I would like to ask any NVidia Fedora users do you use open source or >> proprietary NVidia drivers? > ... >> I’m asking because Fusion Linux [1] ships only with default open >> source dr

Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

2010-10-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 09:22 PM, Alex wrote: > Ideally, I'd like to be able to highlight text in any application and > have it automatically copied to the buffer, then use the right mouse > button, or ctrl-v, to paste somewhere else. I think the behaviour to expect now a days is, 1. If you