Re: how to change nautilus' default browser?

2011-02-06 Thread Richard England
On 02/06/2011 05:36 AM, Hiisi wrote: > ke, 2011-01-26 kello 08:49 -0800, Mike Wright kirjoitti: >> Hi all, >> >> Subject says it all. >> >> I've gone through every option I could find, right clicked everything, >> grepped through .nautilus and .gnome2* and haven't the slighted idea why >> nautilus

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
su, 2011-02-06 kello 22:10 -0500, David kirjoitti: > On 2/6/2011 9:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 02/06/2011 06:37 PM, David wrote: > >> FIRST: Would someone please try to help the OP? > > > > Alas, except for pointing out that the two events probably aren't > linked > > I have no idea how to help

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread g
On 02/06/2011 03:11 PM, Alan Cox wrote: <> >> ?uzi? | ?uzix? sounds strangle familiar, but recall does not bring it up. > > UZI is a V7 Unix clone for Z80 ok. as i wrote, strangle familiar. and i should have written, ?uzi | uzix?. better yet, ?uzi or uzix?. uzi was not familiar. uzix i knew, b

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread David
On 2/6/2011 9:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 06:37 PM, David wrote: >> FIRST: Would someone please try to help the OP? > > Alas, except for pointing out that the two events probably aren't linked > I have no idea how to help. I wish I did. True. The two times, that I can think of, tha

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 06:37 PM, David wrote: > FIRST: Would someone please try to help the OP? Alas, except for pointing out that the two events probably aren't linked I have no idea how to help. I wish I did. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread David
On 2/6/2011 9:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 06:14 PM, David wrote: >> Buzzz You win Hiisi!! First place for The Most Stupid Worthless,Useless >> Comment by a Smart A$$ Award. >> >> My comment cones in second at the best. > > If I suggest that he look in lost+found, do I get third place?

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 06:14 PM, David wrote: > Buzzz You win Hiisi!! First place for The Most Stupid Worthless,Useless > Comment by a Smart A$$ Award. > > My comment cones in second at the best. If I suggest that he look in lost+found, do I get third place? Seriously, I'd like to help, but all I can rea

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread David
On 2/6/2011 6:00 PM, Hiisi wrote: > su, 2011-02-06 kello 17:33 -0500, John Aldrich kirjoitti: >> I recently moved my computer to another room and then brought it back. In >> the process, I lost my desktop icons. I'm running KDE/Openbox on F13. I've >> been playing with linux for years, so I'm not

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 12:13 PM, Michael Miles wrote: > Shall I add my Commodore Vic -20 to the discussion? > > How about my very old PET which is worth quite a bit right now. > How about the first computer I ever owned: a TI 99/4A, or, for that matter, the first one I programmed, an IBM 1620 Mod 2, compl

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 10:49 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > So a weather notification that we are familiar > with on the taskbar will not be permanently visible in gnome3 - but > there may be some weather information available for access via the > calendar or similar - the is significantly different to what w

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik writes: Chris Smart writes: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It uses either one. I also have xpdf installed, as well. No dice. Does it work for you? Yep, it works for me.. i.e. http://xena.sourceforge.net/media/DigitalPresevervationBrochure.pdf Com

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 13:07 -0500, Sam Varshavchik a écrit : > Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure if I > have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links with PDF > files downloads them as any other file, instead of being opened with evinc

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Smart writes: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It uses either one. I also have xpdf installed, as well. No dice. Does it work for you? Yep, it works for me.. i.e. http://xena.sourceforge.net/media/DigitalPresevervationBrochure.pdf Comes up inside Firefox using

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > It uses either one. I also have xpdf installed, as well. No dice. Does it > work for you? > Yep, it works for me.. i.e. http://xena.sourceforge.net/media/DigitalPresevervationBrochure.pdf Comes up inside Firefox using xpdf. -c -- user

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Smart writes: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure if I have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links with PDF files downloads them as any other file, instead of being opened with ev

Re: Links in /boot

2011-02-06 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Here's the script I'd run manually every time I upgraded my kernel: #!/bin/bash cd / mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.old mv initrd initrd.old NEW_KERNEL=`rpm -q kernel | tail -1 | sed -e 's/kernel-//'` ln -s boot/vmlinuz-$NEW_KERNEL vmlinuz ln -s boot/initramfs-$NEW_KERNEL.img initrd exit 0 -- us

Re: Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
su, 2011-02-06 kello 17:33 -0500, John Aldrich kirjoitti: > I recently moved my computer to another room and then brought it back. In > the process, I lost my desktop icons. I'm running KDE/Openbox on F13. I've > been playing with linux for years, so I'm not a N00B, but I can't figure out > how

Lost desktop icons (F13)

2011-02-06 Thread John Aldrich
I recently moved my computer to another room and then brought it back. In the process, I lost my desktop icons. I'm running KDE/Openbox on F13. I've been playing with linux for years, so I'm not a N00B, but I can't figure out how to bring back my desktop icons. Thanks! -- users mailing list use

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > man adduser > > has some clues on adding a user to a default group with -g and > multiple groups with -G. There's further discussions in the man page > on these behaviors. Hope that helps. > Thanks Ted, I'm well aware of these but I'm specificall

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > How about a shell script that envokes adduser and then one or more chgrp > commands. Yeah, I did something like that in the end. I just was looking for the least disruptive and most in-line way to do it. Debian has a config file for specifyin

Re: Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Smart
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure if I > have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links with PDF > files downloads them as any other file, instead of being opened with evince > inside a Fi

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
su, 2011-02-06 kello 10:41 -0600, Richard Shaw kirjoitti: > You overwrote a lot more than the partition table but I have had luck > with testdisk in the past. It's available on System Rescue CD, or in > the fedora repos if you still have a bootable system. > > I also vote for testdisk. However w

Re: Links in /boot

2011-02-06 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 14:58 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to get initrd.img and vmlinuz symlinks in /boot or / that > are automatically updated to point to the newest installed kernel? > > > Thanks, > >-Nikolaus > I am not sure what you are asking, but when yum up

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/06/2011 02:15 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 02/06/2011 03:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look >> different. > > I'm on Fedora 14 and mine looks like this (which is more similar to your > Ubuntu screenshot than the Fedora one):

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:29:10 -0400 Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Why are we still getting the freetype package without the > bytecode-interpreter on? Read here: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,110733 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WAT

RE: Authenticating virtual web host with LDAP

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Tseng
Figured it out... I put the lines below in a config file separate from httpd.conf: == ServerName svnrepos ServerAlias svnrepos.at.home DocumentRoot /var/hda/web-apps/svnrepos/html Options Indexe

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 18:49 +, mike cloaked wrote: > Since gnome3 will be the default desktop for us at the next release I > felt it was pretty important to try and understand what it will and > will not do, and test it now that it is starting to become functional > in rawhide. May not want t

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/06/2011 04:15 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > (which is the regular freetype package but compiled with the > bytecode interpreter enabled) ...and on why doesn't the stock freetype package comes with the bytecode-interpreter enabled? There were some patents from Apple that prevented Fedora from

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/2011 04:50 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? > > Say I want to create a new user and have them automatically added to a > few more groups, how can one do that? > > Thanks! > -c

Re: Links in /boot

2011-02-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
"Kevin J. Cummings" writes: > On 02/06/2011 02:58 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to get initrd.img and vmlinuz symlinks in /boot or / that >> are automatically updated to point to the newest installed kernel? > > Huh? I don't have any links in /boot Not on any of 3

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/06/2011 03:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I'm on Fedora 14 and mine looks like this (which is more similar to your Ubuntu screenshot than the Fedora one): http://imagebin.org/136443 The only thing I did after

RE: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Miles
From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of g Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 6:55 To: fedora users Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ? On 02/06/2011 11:44 AM, Alan Cox wrote: <> > Yeah that may

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:57:26 -0500 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Any recommendations? Not really, but if you figure it out, please post the solution. I don't know what ubuntu does (maybe just different defaults), but one of the things I suspect that attracts people to ubuntu is that the fonts just alway

Re: Links in /boot

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/06/2011 02:58 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to get initrd.img and vmlinuz symlinks in /boot or / that > are automatically updated to point to the newest installed kernel? Huh? I don't have any links in /boot Not on any of 3 different systems here at home. If yo

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/06/2011 01:56 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > your help worked! Just glad I could help out. > I still do not understand the ins and outs of a monitor, > but the following xorg.conf worked. The > System->Preferences->Monitor tool now offers a reasonable > selection of resolution,

Links in /boot

2011-02-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, Is there a way to get initrd.img and vmlinuz symlinks in /boot or / that are automatically updated to point to the newest installed kernel? Thanks, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E

How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest of the installation actually worked fine. Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look different. I followed all the instructions on http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:20:41 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > > https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg ...snip... This isn't the place to talk about ssh development. ;) I would suggest asking the upstream openssh devel list, and/or filing a bug with their bugtracker to get

Re: Resizing PVs

2011-02-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Oh, I didn't know about that. It seems that this thread finally produced > some useful information as well, thanks! What an obnoxious so-called thank you! :( -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: Which Linux to use with a Mac?

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "James" == James McKenzie writes: James> All: I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of James> hardware. I've tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed James> up' and it only has 384MB of RAM. Also, I now have a brand James> new, shiny MacBookPro. Any ideas

Re: Which Linux to use with a Mac?

2011-02-06 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:30 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > All: > > I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of hardware.  I've > tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed up' and it only has 384MB of > RAM. As far as my understanding goes, there are two kinds of old macs. The older of

Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

2011-02-06 Thread Burkhard Plache
Hi Kevin, your help worked! I still do not understand the ins and outs of a monitor, but the following xorg.conf worked. The System->Preferences->Monitor tool now offers a reasonable selection of resolution, including as a maximum the 1280x1024 value I was looking for. The xorg.conf file that fina

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> For example I would like to have an >>> icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that >>> would be added to the dash - is th

Which Linux to use with a Mac?

2011-02-06 Thread James McKenzie
All: I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of hardware. I've tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed up' and it only has 384MB of RAM. Also, I now have a brand new, shiny MacBookPro. Any ideas on what to install on it as far as Linux. I'm trying to stay away from the Linu

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread James McKenzie
On 2/6/11 7:04 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:01 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 2/5/11 5:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:30 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/05/2011 06:43 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > The only Linux you might get going on small me

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> For example I would like to have an >> icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that >> would be added to the dash - is that possible in Gnome3? > > I don't know much about Gnome3,

Re: Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/05/2011 08:28 PM, compdoc wrote: >> One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able > to automatically relocate. > > > Just curious, what's the reallocated sector count for the drive? And how > many bad sectors do you feel comfortable with? > > I used to live with dri

Mozplugger does not work for PDF files

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Does anyone have mozplugger working for them for PDF files? Not sure if I have something broken, or if its a mozplugger bug. Opening links with PDF files downloads them as any other file, instead of being opened with evince inside a Firefox window. Mozplugger seems to be working for other file

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
"gksu -u SOMEUSER SOMECOMMAND" SOMEUSER isn't "root". On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:43:26 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote On 02/06/2011 09:29 AM, kellyremo wrote: > i knowed beesu before, but i think it's only for gaining priviledge to > the root user. > > i'm missing the "gksu -u S

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > Or is there not such config and in the scripts (such as firstboot) it > passes the group options to adduser command? > man adduser has some clues on adding a user to a default group with -g and multiple groups with -G. There's further discu

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 09:29 AM, kellyremo wrote: > i knowed beesu before, but i think it's only for gaining priviledge to > the root user. > > i'm missing the "gksu -u SOMEUSER SOMECOMMAND" from Fedora 14 :( What do you think gksu does, if not give root access? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 09:02 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > For example I would like to have an > icon to execute nightly versions of Thunderbird from an icon that > would be added to the dash - is that possible in Gnome3? I don't know much about Gnome3, but I presume you'd do that the same way as you do now:

Authenticating virtual web host with LDAP

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Tseng
I suspect it's something simple but since I'm still somewhat new at this I can't figure it out myself... I was using this to guide me to set up an virtual web host to authenticate against OpenLDAP: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/LDAP#Control_a_web-application_access_using_LDAP (FYI I had

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
i knowed beesu before, but i think it's only for gaining priviledge to the root user. i'm missing the "gksu -u SOMEUSER SOMECOMMAND" from Fedora 14 :( On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:57:28 -0800 Marko Vojinovic wrote On Sunday 06 February 2011 13:02:34 kellyremo wrote:

Re: Hardware for Gnome3

2011-02-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't expect GNOME 3.0 to be functionally equivalent to GNOME  2.x. > GNOME Shell does support extensions and I hope some of them cover the common > use cases over time.  Netspeed is something I depend on as well Sure it is very different

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 01:52 AM, Tim wrote: > It's still a very long time. Which may all be wasted if it turns out > not to be viable. Have you ever actually had that happen, or are you just looking for a worst-case scenario to complain about? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, cheng chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have > 400GB d

Re: Resizing PVs

2011-02-06 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 6 February 2011 14:34, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Chris Adams writes: >> Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath said: >>> You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in >>> the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing. >> >> Changing the size of something is

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 02/06/2011 07:20 AM, cheng chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I > have 400GB data in t

Re: Security - Run apps with other users

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:59:37 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > Are there any howtos/docs/links? man sudo -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

still suffering from ENE0100 bug

2011-02-06 Thread antonio montagnani
After installation of kernel 2.6.35.10-74, my laptop sometimes doesn't complete boot complaining with this message: Starting udev: udevd-work[495] `/sbin/modprobe -bv acpi: ENE0100:` unexpected exit with statua 0x0009 [OK] this bug has been reported as closed (see #664145) __

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 February 2011 15:20:53 cheng chen wrote: > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have > 400GB data in

misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread cheng chen
Hi all, I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have 400GB data in the disk which means other data are still there. Is there an

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Alan Cox
> not really obscure. there where several s100 system that started out as > z80, then updated as z80/m68k. Very obscure. Yes it was common for S100 setups (and also appeared with some other systems even early Unix ones) but in the big picture of things its drowned out by the world of mainstream 68

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-06 Thread DB
On 02/06/2011 12:23 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Re: KRandRtray ?? > From: > Rex Dieter > Date: > Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:08:48 -0600 > > To: > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > Jim wrote: > >> > F14/ KDE-4 >> > >> > KRandRTray, how does it work ? >> > >> > As Use

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread g
On 02/06/2011 11:44 AM, Alan Cox wrote: <> > Yeah that may be a slightly obscure configuration ;) and probably about a > hundred times faster to emulate than for real. not really obscure. there where several s100 system that started out as z80, then updated as z80/m68k. most would boot up z80 and

Re: Resizing PVs

2011-02-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Chris Adams writes: > Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath said: >> You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in >> the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing. > > Changing the size of something is called resizing. How would you distinguish between the

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 11:46 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > When you use the user add gui it puts that user into a group with his > > username as the group name. Then you can use chgrp to put that user into > > any group you want to. > > Sure,

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:01 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 2/5/11 5:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:30 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 02/05/2011 06:43 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>> The only Linux you might get going on small memory machines is DSL (Damn > >>> Small > >

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 February 2011 13:02:34 kellyremo wrote: > I want to run an app [graphical] not with my default user on my laptop when > using GNOME. > > Are there any gksu alternatives for Fedora 14? Even kdesu isn't in the > offical repositoryes. Why? # yum info beesu [snip] Description : Beesu is

if the file changes send email about diff

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
I have 2 script. Script "A", Script "B". Script "A" is regulary watching the "dhcpacks" [dhcp release is configured to 2mins] in the logs, for the past 2 minutes. it writes the MAC addresses to a file [/dev/shm/dhcpacks-in-last-2min.txt] every 2 minutes. Ok, this is working, active clients are

Re: how to change nautilus' default browser?

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
ke, 2011-01-26 kello 08:49 -0800, Mike Wright kirjoitti: > Hi all, > > Subject says it all. > > I've gone through every option I could find, right clicked everything, > grepped through .nautilus and .gnome2* and haven't the slighted idea why > nautilus insists on opening Chrome when the system

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
su, 2011-02-06 kello 05:02 -0800, kellyremo kirjoitti: > I want to run an app [graphical] not with my default user on my laptop > when using GNOME. ssh -f -Y @localhost HTH -- 'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux over the wire". Film at 11.' -- Linus Torvalds

gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
I want to run an app [graphical] not with my default user on my laptop when using GNOME. Are there any gksu alternatives for Fedora 14? Even kdesu isn't in the offical repositoryes. Why? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These buffers often end up acting as a bottleneck for network throughput of SC

Re: "https is faster on amd64?"

2011-02-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 February 2011 10:14:34 kellyremo wrote: > http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-th > e-new-ssl-myth.aspx > > according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions per > second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bi

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Alan Cox
> ria, i have 4 cromemco s100 systems with z80 and m68k that i am wanting to > convert to linux. > > i have posted to linux-m...@lists.linux-m68k.org, but as yet not had > any responses from cromemco users. Yeah that may be a slightly obscure configuration ;) and probably about a hundred times fa

"https is faster on amd64?"

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions per second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit kernels? is this true, or i am just misunderstanding so

Security - Run apps with other users

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
OS: Fedora 14 i386 It's used as a ""normal desktop laptop"". "USER A" - it's the mainly used user, i log in with GDM with it, etc. Goal: I need a little more security - separate a few apps! How: run 3 applications ( Transmission, Google Chrome, Wine ) with other users ( so not with "USER A" ).

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-06 Thread Tim
Tim: >> An upgrade takes ages. It's got to assess what you've got, work out the >> dependencies, etc. Joe Zeff: > That's what's nice about using preupgrade. Start it going and then get > on with whatever you were doing. Then, once it's done, you can reboot > into the upgrade at the end of the

Re: [OT] Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:02 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Maybe if I can find a TRS-80 MOD III somewhere? I've still got a Z80 based personal computer in the spare room. A VZ300. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-06 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Not yet... The thread hasn't gone off-topic enough. > David: > Good. Then I did not miss the ceremony. I have the lamb and the sacred > daggers cleansed and prepared. Just let me know were to take them when > the time arrives. Are your sure that you're not mixing the gnomes up with drui

yum error creating exported file system for diskless client

2011-02-06 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I was following the directions in Chapter 18. Setting Up A Remote Diskless System and got to 18.3