Re: how to run kdesu without asking password?

2011-02-13 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 01:19 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > >> I just need it for "bigger security". i don't only want to run >> transmission-gtk with another user, i want to run e.g.: Google Chrome >> too. [run application with a user that has low perm

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:17:51 -0600, Ranjan wrote: > > What files do you find below /var/spool/cups? > > > > You've only shown the total size, but not what files are stored > > in there, when they have been created, and whether you print *from* > > that machine to some remote print server. > > --

Re: Problem with thumbnails

2011-02-13 Thread antonio montagnani
antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 13/02/2011 23:32: > antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on > 13/02/2011 22:22: >> I m using Fedora for photo manipulation with Gimp. >> When I open a folder containing raw files I don't see thumbnails of

Re: Problem with thumbnails

2011-02-13 Thread antonio montagnani
antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 13/02/2011 22:22: > I m using Fedora for photo manipulation with Gimp. > When I open a folder containing raw files I don't see thumbnails of > pictures on one of my system while on the other I can see them (Jpeg, > Pef and Dgn file

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread JD
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:04 PM, JD wrote: > > > Actually, my chipset is the RalinkTech RT2860, which is now supported > > by mainline (AFAIK). It seems serialmonkey no longer maintains this > > driver??? > > > > At any rate, I have had othe

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:20:05 -0600 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:03:40 -0600, Ranjan wrote: > > > Thanks very much, all! There is no printer attached to this machine > > anymore so I am not sure where this comes from. (there was a printer > > attached briefly for which F went

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:04 PM, JD wrote: > Actually, my chipset is the RalinkTech RT2860, which is now supported > by mainline (AFAIK). It seems serialmonkey no longer maintains this > driver??? > > At any rate, I have had other issues with the rt2xxx driver re: setting the > Tx power. > After

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/13/2011 03:03 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:10:53 -0600 Bill Davidsen > wrote: > >> Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have noticed that my / is no

Re: gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-13 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > gnote does not copy and paste within gnote the same way as every other > Linux program.  I use gnote a lot.  I can't select a phrase or whatever > move the cursor to the spot were I want to paste a copy of the phrase > and click the mi

Problem with thumbnails

2011-02-13 Thread antonio montagnani
I m using Fedora for photo manipulation with Gimp. When I open a folder containing raw files I don't see thumbnails of pictures on one of my system while on the other I can see them (Jpeg, Pef and Dgn files). I made the test with the same folder copied from my network storage. Any idea?? From

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:03:40 -0600, Ranjan wrote: > Thanks very much, all! There is no printer attached to this machine > anymore so I am not sure where this comes from. (there was a printer > attached briefly for which F went and found the drivers to install, > however.) In any case, when does th

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:10:53 -0600 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: > > On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have > >> noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate >

Re: PPTP VPN how?

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:41 AM, L wrote: > I got FortiClient SSL VPN 4.0.2010  FortiClient SSL VPN for Linu > > it works , but forget where I got from > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:14 AM, erikmccaskey64 > wrote: >> >> Originally i'm searching for a PPTP VPN howto for OpenWrt...but i just can't

Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread erikmccaskey64
People "usually" suspend their laptop, so that they can continue their work when they open the laptop. OK! Two choices [GNOME]: 1 - Menu -> Shut Down -> Suspend in this case, the gnome-screensaver locks the PC. but the gnome-screensaver is just a "normal process", and it could be killed e.g

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread les
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 01:08 +1030, Tim wrote: > mike cloaked appears to be having a conversation with himself: > > This driver seems to refuse sens values in dBm > > Surely it wouldn't be specified in "dBm"? > > 0 dBm is 1 milliwatt into 600 ohms. Is the antenna really 600 ohms? > That would be

Re: Update on: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-13 Thread Piscium
On 13 February 2011 07:17, M. Fioretti wrote: > secondly, I have to report that a simple "vacuuming" of the sqlite > databases of Firefox as explained here: > > http://www.gettingclever.com/2008/06/vacuum-your-firefox-3.html > > is enough to make a real difference. I tried this and the Firefox p

gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-13 Thread William Case
Hi; gnote does not copy and paste within gnote the same way as every other Linux program. I use gnote a lot. I can't select a phrase or whatever move the cursor to the spot were I want to paste a copy of the phrase and click the middle mouse button to paste in a copy of the selected phrase. gno

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-13 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 13 February 2011 18:03, Bill Davidsen wrote: > This is Linux (from IBM) going into AIX, in an IBM shop. The chances of IBM > dropping AIX are remote (new major release out last year), and there are > apps in > AIX which are not in Linux. So I think the chances are that I will die > before > AI

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Nichols wrote: > On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have >> noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate >> so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation,

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> You didn't mention bandwidth saving: You download a list of headers, >>> of what's become available since your last look, but you only >>> download the actual body of message when you go to read it. > > Bill Davidsen: >> "that's also possible with decent mail clients," > > IM

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andy Blanchard wrote: > > Bill, I think you need to take a step back from the immediate problem > and think about the long term. It's never fun when a tool we use is > EoL'd, but unless you plan on sticking with AIX and trust that it will > continue to support their version of "nslookup", you may

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have > noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate > so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I > have come to realize that

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/13/2011 09:24 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have > noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate > so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I > have come to realize tha

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Laurin, Thanks very much for looking into this! I do not print from this machine at all. sudo ls -l /var/spool/cups/tmp total 0 Btw, I did a clean install when I installed (64-bit) F14 with LXDE. The machine in question is a IBM Thinkpad T61. Best wishes, Ranjan On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:4

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:09 PM, JD wrote: > I am also plagued by the same problem for rt2xxx driver. > So I opened a bug: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28972 > You might want to add your comment to this bug and report > your device and loaded wireless drivers. I entered a report

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Laurin
Hello. How much do you print? How big is your '/var/spool/cups/tmp'? Regards -- Laurin Novak Member Of The Fedora Localization Project - German Translators Team (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_German_Team) GPG-Key-ID: 0xF4239033 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-13 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Well, it /could/ stop either threat, however we don't run SELinux >> as tightly as it could be run. Darr: > I'm not sure who "we" is Us using it, and them who preset its parameters... > but I run it in restricted mode What's "restricted" mode? There's "enforcing" (SELinux doing what it

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have > noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate > so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I > have come to re

Fedora 14 and wifi problem

2011-02-13 Thread Jan Litwiński
Welcome! For a long time of I used Ubuntu I switched to Fedora. Wifi is working but sometime drops network connection. My laptop use wifi network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01). Module 43 i loaded and I install firmware from: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/D

why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I have come to realize that my /var/spool/cups is almost 4GB. sudo du -sm /var/sp

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Tim wrote: > mike cloaked appears to be having a conversation with himself: >> This driver seems to refuse sens values in dBm > > Surely it wouldn't be specified in "dBm"? > > 0 dBm is 1 milliwatt into 600 ohms.  Is the antenna really 600 ohms? > That would be an u

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-13 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 21:56 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > Man, it would be really ironic if after years making fun of Windows > because it needs defragmenting to run faster, it turns out you have to > defragment Firefox to keep Linux fast... Though, that'd be a case of bagging Firefox, not Linux. F

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-13 Thread Tim
Tim: >> You didn't mention bandwidth saving: You download a list of headers, >> of what's become available since your last look, but you only >> download the actual body of message when you go to read it. Bill Davidsen: > "that's also possible with decent mail clients," IMAP servers and clients

Re: Change wireless interface "sens" value how?

2011-02-13 Thread Tim
mike cloaked appears to be having a conversation with himself: > This driver seems to refuse sens values in dBm Surely it wouldn't be specified in "dBm"? 0 dBm is 1 milliwatt into 600 ohms. Is the antenna really 600 ohms? That would be an unusual antenna impedance. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname

Re: Update on: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 08:26 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 08:17:00 AM +0100, Marco Fioretti > (mfiore...@nexaima.net) wrote: > > > Almost surely, today I won't be able to try and report about the > > latest suggestions. I have to leave with family in a few minutes, for > > stuf

Eclipse oin Fedora 14

2011-02-13 Thread Frank Murphy
Have done a "yum search eclipse JavaScript" Can I configure eclipse to work with JavaScript and css. Using the Fedora supplied rpms. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https