Developing a Command-line course for technical users

2010-10-17 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
Hello, I've just started to develop a technical user introduction to linux and, specifically, to Fedora and it's misterious ways ;) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renich/Course/Introduction_to_GNU_and_Linux#Introduction Please, contribute if you feel like it. It just aims to get developers

Re: Fedora 14 livecd fails when converted to liveusb ?!?

2010-10-17 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:29 PM, JD wrote: >  On 10/16/2010 09:41 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Hi, >> I just released Fusion Linux 14 Beta >> (http://fusionlinux.org/downloads/), I can start image both in >> qemu-kvm and VirtualBox as livedvd but after transfering image to usb >> stick with liveu

Warning KDE Users

2010-10-17 Thread Jim
Fedora 13 The plasmoid that Monitors in KDE the IP address of your computer on the internet , is freezing up the KDE Desktop. The plasmiod has a Earth Globe at the left side of IP address. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Re: CUPS broken?

2010-10-17 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:22:18 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 00:33 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: >> 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 >> Se

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 04:42 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:27:23 +0200 > Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > >> Is it available from repository? I didn't know about it - thx for >> sharing. Btw. For lightscribe labelling there is no open source >> alternative? > Nope, just the source on my web site,

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Well, I still like them to store my precious data - without tintpen trails. :) I have used printed discs, but too much hassle if you are on road, and you have to carry the printer too. Yes, I know - there are good small mobile printers - but this is not an option if I fill my notebook case. Also, w

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 04:27 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Is it available from repository? I didn't know about it - thx for > sharing. Btw. For lightscribe labelling there is no open source > alternative? > > 2010/10/17 Tom Horsley: >> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:46:31 -0400 >> Alex wrote: >> >>> Is there a prog

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 04:01 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Thhe above is what I have inabout:plugins, is what you have so it is > mysterious. Except it looks like the video is being played by: > totem-plugin-vi Well, does it play? I would not mind if it is played by something other that what the plugin says

Re: Using hdparm to enable diabled features of a hard drive

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 02:49 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > JD wrote: >> When I issued >> sudo hdparm -I /dev/hdb I got, among other info, >> a list of commands/features, most of which are enabled, >> except for a few. To wit: >> >> Commands/features: >>EnabledSupported: >> *SMAR

Re: How to update an EeePC?

2010-10-17 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Forgot to mention, that if you have separated boot partition, there was always that blocker with the new kernel doesn't fits into the same boot partition. That's why I do clear install, and save my data to my cards. HTH, Zoltan 2010/10/18 Zoltan Hoppar : > I had, I have - and still use it. B

Re: How to update an EeePC?

2010-10-17 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
I had, I have - and still use it. Basically I do installs always with an 2 G usb key, and install the smallest option what I could have in Fedora. It's the LXDE spin, witch works perfectly. You could install any versions of our beloved OS, but don't forget that you have only 4G SSD storage. When u

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:27:23 +0200 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Is it available from repository? I didn't know about it - thx for > sharing. Btw. For lightscribe labelling there is no open source > alternative? Nope, just the source on my web site, no binaries or rpms. I've never seen any open source

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Is it available from repository? I didn't know about it - thx for sharing. Btw. For lightscribe labelling there is no open source alternative? 2010/10/17 Tom Horsley : > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:46:31 -0400 > Alex wrote: > >> Is there a program that can be used to print to Avery CDROM labels? > > My

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 19:07 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > >> So, you must have a plugin for it. > >> Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used > >> for .mov extentions and is it enabled? > >> I have latest F13 fedora and > >> MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled > >> vid

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread Alex
Hi, >> So, you must have a plugin for it. >> Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used >> for .mov extentions and is it enabled? >> I have latest F13 fedora and >> MIME Type          Description Suffixes Enabled >> video/quicktime  Quicktime   mov       Yes >> but the video link r

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Alex
Hi, > http://www.iso9660.org/Labels/ > http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/153788 > http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/56209 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273234 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=484346 Great, thanks everyone. gLabels looks to do the trick, and the reference

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:38 -0700, JD wrote: > On 10/17/2010 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can > >> download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one: > >> > >> ht

Re: Suspend/sleep

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 09/28/2010 09:58:43 AM, Roger K. Wells wrote: >> >>Months ago when I started using Fedora 13 from Centos 5.3 >> one of the reasons was that things just worked. Things >> like suspend when the laptop lid is closed. Lately starting >> perhaps six weeks ago the probabi

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/17/2010 06:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > list user wrote: >> Hi All; >> >> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in >> a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural >> method based on a template. Haven't used it but this may work f

How to update an EeePC?

2010-10-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have an EeePC (4G 701) with 500kB RAM and a 4GB hard disk. It's currently running Fedora-10/KDE . (I haven't used the computer for a couple of years.) I have been trying to update it to Fedora-13. I tried installing LiveXFCE on a USB stick, but this hung when it was looking at or for Storage De

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
list user wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in > a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. > > We tried to do this via open office & it's templating features but this > process requ

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> what you mean is sftp. >> >> No, FTP-S. FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990. sftp is a part of ssh >> and uses it's encryption mechanisms. > > what I SHOULD have said is " what I 'THINK' you mean", and obviously I was > wrong

Re: Cannot get rid of ipv6 address

2010-10-17 Thread Jason Brown
Try this: echo "install ipv6 /bin/true" > /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6 Then add the following lines to /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING_IPV6=no IPV6INIT=no On Oct 17, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > My EeePC 4G 701 is running Fedora-10/KDE . > (I haven't succeeded in upgrading to Fedora-13 y

Cannot get rid of ipv6 address

2010-10-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
My EeePC 4G 701 is running Fedora-10/KDE . (I haven't succeeded in upgrading to Fedora-13 yet.) It seems to run reasonably well, but there is one curious feature - I can only get an IPv6 address for eth0, the ethernet connection. I get an IPv4 address for wlan0, the WiFi connection. 1. lsmod shows

Re: Using hdparm to enable diabled features of a hard drive

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: >When I issued > sudo hdparm -I /dev/hdb I got, among other info, > a list of commands/features, most of which are enabled, > except for a few. To wit: > > Commands/features: > EnabledSupported: > *SMART feature set > Security Mode feature set<

Re: Connection wizard

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Noel Edyvane wrote: >Fedora 13 did not have a connection wizard. > > Will the connection wizard to added to Fedora 14? > - What is a connection wizard - how does it differ from NetworkManager? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:46:31 -0400 Alex wrote: > Is there a program that can be used to print to Avery CDROM labels? My "kewpie" program is what I use for printing directly to CDs and DVDs, but there is no reason it wouldn't work for labels as well: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/k

Re: Testing graphics card capabilities

2010-10-17 Thread g
On 10/17/2010 04:21 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sunday 17 October 2010 03:44 AM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> I would like to test the capabilities (speed, 3D, etc.) of my ATI >> graphics card. Any ideas? > > You can try the Phoronix test suite. The version in the repos is old, > try to get it from the

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 11:46 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a program that can be used to print to Avery CDROM labels? > I've tried the various CDROM burning programs, but none seem to have > support for making labels... > > Hopefully I'm not missing something obvious, but would think the > default CD

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread stan
> Somewhat off topic, does atrpms play nice with rpmfusion nowadays? It > used to have a problem with livna, and most of livna is now > rpmfusion... > You can use the yum plugin priorities. That allows you to set priorities for all the repositories you use. yum-plugin-priorities I don't thin

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 17 October, 2010 @12:07 zulu, Antonio Olivares scribed: > I would just compile from source if it is *nowhere* available except > for a tar file? This alleviates the problem of *getting it* from > someone else. Of course, you need to get the source from _somewhere_. Over a year ago I

FC13 and raid0

2010-10-17 Thread Mirko Jankovic
hey guys. I've installed FC13 to my home comp but installation was able to see only 1 single unpartitioned 1Tb drive. There was also 2x640Gb RAID0 with win7 on it and install reported that there is raid there but couldn't reckonize it. So it wasn't able to install dual boot too. But now after fedo

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can >> download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one: >> >> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 17/10/10 17:45, Jim wrote: >On 10/17/2010 03:54 AM, Piscium wrote: >> On 17 October 2010 08:47, Piscium wrote: >> >>> /usr/sbin/alternatives --install >>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so >>> /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2 >> Obviously you need to ty

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Me either used lately glabels, just be careful on printing -and check correctly the papersizes, and positions. Cheers, Zoltan 2010/10/17 Josep Sanchez : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Al 17/10/10 20:46, En/na Alex ha escrit: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a program that can be use

Re: F13 Yumex question

2010-10-17 Thread JD
On 10/17/2010 04:40 AM, TortuXm++ wrote: >>Yumex popped a banner saying: >> Please insert media labeled Fedora 13 #1 >> I have never seen this before. >> Why would yumex do that? >> I check the python scripts, but I >> never programmed in python, so >> did not find the program logic that >> c

Re: Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Josep Sanchez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Al 17/10/10 20:46, En/na Alex ha escrit: > Hi, > > Is there a program that can be used to print to Avery CDROM labels? > I've tried the various CDROM burning programs, but none seem to have > support for making labels... > > Hopefully I'm not missing

Avery Label maker for CDROMs?

2010-10-17 Thread Alex
Hi, Is there a program that can be used to print to Avery CDROM labels? I've tried the various CDROM burning programs, but none seem to have support for making labels... Hopefully I'm not missing something obvious, but would think the default CDROM application would have such support, and I've ob

apmd rpm missing

2010-10-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After trying to install it with yum I found that there are apmd rpms in Everything/i386 and Everything/source but not in Everything/x86_64. It's not just missing in m

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 18:39, Jim wrote: >>   i believe you can rename that (or delete it) and it will be recreated >> but that probably wont help. > > /pluginreg.dat has all the same thing that shows up in about:plugins Exactly, that file is a sort of cache. If the file is deleted (thereby possibly

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Jim
On 10/17/2010 12:32 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 10/17/2010 12:26 PM, Jim wrote: >>On 10/17/2010 12:18 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> On 10/17/2010 11:45 AM, Jim wrote: >>> >>> Go to about:plugins - and check for multiple versions of jre - if so >>> disable the undesirable ones. >>> >>

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 17:26, Jim wrote: > There is nothing about jre or java in about:plugins , Things to try: 1. Do you still have in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins a ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_21/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so? If so, and you added the other link to /libjavaplugin.so, then you can remove that o

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/17/2010 12:26 PM, Jim wrote: > On 10/17/2010 12:18 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 10/17/2010 11:45 AM, Jim wrote: >> >>Go to about:plugins - and check for multiple versions of jre - if so >> disable the undesirable ones. >> >>I dont use firefox anymore (switched to google-chrome)

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Jim
On 10/17/2010 12:18 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 10/17/2010 11:45 AM, Jim wrote: > >Go to about:plugins - and check for multiple versions of jre - if so > disable the undesirable ones. > >I dont use firefox anymore (switched to google-chrome) but I'm pretty > sure there is a way to cho

Re: Testing graphics card capabilities

2010-10-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 17 October 2010 03:44 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to test the capabilities (speed, 3D, etc.) of my ATI > graphics card. Any ideas? > You can try the Phoronix test suite. The version in the repos is old, try to get it from their home page. > Thanks in advance, > >

Re: authentication issues in system settings

2010-10-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 11:29 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I'm running F14TC1x64 - it's a fresh install over a problematic > F13x64 installation that had problems with X starting; display > problem is now fixed. When I try to access system settings GUI's > for Samba I get a grayed out display and

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/17/2010 11:45 AM, Jim wrote: Go to about:plugins - and check for multiple versions of jre - if so disable the undesirable ones. I dont use firefox anymore (switched to google-chrome) but I'm pretty sure there is a way to choose when conflicting plugins provide same service. May be wo

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Jim
On 10/17/2010 03:54 AM, Piscium wrote: > On 17 October 2010 08:47, Piscium wrote: > >> /usr/sbin/alternatives --install >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so >> /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2 > Obviously you need to type the above in a single line (it was br

authentication issues in system settings

2010-10-17 Thread Claude Jones
I'm running F14TC1x64 - it's a fresh install over a problematic F13x64 installation that had problems with X starting; display problem is now fixed. When I try to access system settings GUI's for Samba I get a grayed out display and no prompt to give the root password. There are similar issues

Re: Downloading trailers from Apple?

2010-10-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can > download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one: > > http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/ > > I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It d

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 10/16/10, Dan Thurman wrote: > From: Dan Thurman > Subject: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010, 6:48 PM > I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, > but I am > unable to get livna repo t

Re: F13 Yumex question

2010-10-17 Thread TortuXm++
> Yumex popped a banner saying: > Please insert media labeled Fedora 13 #1 > I have never seen this before. > Why would yumex do that? > I check the python scripts, but I > never programmed in python, so > did not find the program logic that > caused it to do this. > Wish there was something simi

Re: Testing graphics card capabilities

2010-10-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:44:46 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to test the capabilities (speed, 3D, etc.) of my ATI > graphics card. Any ideas? Well, there is gltestperf in the mesa-demos rpm, but it crashes every system I run it on that has an ATI card :-). -- users mailing list users@list

Testing graphics card capabilities

2010-10-17 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I would like to test the capabilities (speed, 3D, etc.) of my ATI graphics card. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread poncho
On 17.10.2010 03:48, Dan Thurman wrote: > I used to get libdvdcss from Livna, but I am > unable to get livna repo to work manually or > downloaded. I thought RMPFusion was supposed > to have livna's repository in its own repository > and this package does not exist? > > Any suggestions? > > th

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On 16/10/10 23:36, JD wrote: > So, I have to do run > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > every time a new kernel rpm is installed? cronjob set to run at bootup. Wastefull, if no new kernel, but beats the grub> -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing lis

Re: F13: Where can I get libdvdcss? Livna seems to be down

2010-10-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On 17/10/10 03:43, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Somewhat off topic, does atrpms play nice with rpmfusion nowadays? It > used to have a problem with livna, and most of livna is now rpmfusion... > limit atrpms to those pkgs you need from it: includepkgs= -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Frien

Re: Chromium Codecs Problem...

2010-10-17 Thread Hiisi
2010/10/16 Manuel Escudero : > Hi! as many of you may know, Chromium is having problems > inside fedora with youtube's HTML 5 Video, see, when I want to > play a HTML 5 Video in youtube, this message comes out: > "Your browser does not correctly recognize any of the video formats > available" > in

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 08:47, Piscium wrote: > /usr/sbin/alternatives --install > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so > /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2 Obviously you need to type the above in a single line (it was broken in pieces by the mailer). -- users mailing

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 03:20, Jim wrote: > I ran the commands and everything compared,  but when I ran; > > # /usr/sbin/alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so > > It ran , but I did not get the result shown below > > > There is 1 program that provides 'libjavaplugin.so'. > >   Selection    Command >