Re: Create an rsyncd.service fedora 16

2011-11-27 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM, David Highley wrote: > We are trying to create an rsyncd.service with fedora 16. We can get the > process to start but it acts like it never opens the socket and exits a > short time later. The two files we have are below. > > rsyncd.socket: > [Unit] > Description=

Re: speed of yum

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2011 10:55 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Is yum considered to be a GUI application? Anyway, an aspect of > yum which may be helpful to look at is that when used with presto, it > never tells you how much it is going to really download. What I mean is > that it says Total download size: 11

Re: speed of yum

2011-11-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> > apt seems faster than yum but it seems that it is colored by the fact > that a typical Fedora/RHEL/CentOS install will have a lot more packages > installed than Debian/Ubuntu and it's perceptual, not that I have ever > timed it. I do have a kitchen sink Ubuntu box at my work and it has a

Re: speed of yum

2011-11-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 21:54 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > I happened upon pacman on Arch linux - and it appeared to be > substantially faster than yum. Now this was casual "visual impact only" > - no formal tests using similar packages and same computer etc - but it > was very much noticeably fas

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-27 Thread g
On 11/28/2011 04:36 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: <> > Thank you for you opinion kafba. B-D -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend tod

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/2011 12:32 PM, g wrote: > > you where one who was upset. > > i just wanted to be sure that there was not another misunderstanding > on your part. > > Thank you for you opinion -- A common mistake that peole make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underesti

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-27 Thread g
On 11/28/2011 12:13 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/28/2011 08:10 AM, g wrote: >> which sl does not install by default. only adds packages. which in a later >> post you correct yourself. > > So, that is all you had to say The other stuff is just noise. you where one who was upset. i just want

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 04:43 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> User interface research is what I suggested. Not surveys. I >> don't really think this list is a reasonable sample. Mailing >> list tends to attract a

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2011 01:11 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > You have to be kidding! "research"? On a 6-month release early release > often desktop? If you do research, then what influence will the research > have? Developers have already made up their minds and released their new > innovations, and

Create an rsyncd.service fedora 16

2011-11-27 Thread David Highley
We are trying to create an rsyncd.service with fedora 16. We can get the process to start but it acts like it never opens the socket and exits a short time later. The two files we have are below. rsyncd.socket: [Unit] Description=rsyncd Service Sockets [Socket] ListenStream=873 [Install] WantedB

speed of yum

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
I happened upon pacman on Arch linux - and it appeared to be substantially faster than yum. Now this was casual "visual impact only" - no formal tests using similar packages and same computer etc - but it was very much noticeably faster. Installs of even large packages seemed to fly compared

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/27/2011 07:09 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 00:57, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Or the default DE >> choice could "rotate" for each release --- XFCE for F17, LXDE for F18, KDE >> for >> F19, Gnome3 for F20, and over again, in turns. That way each DE would have >> equal amount

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
> |  But side posting is more fun = It > |  and by far a more interesting = certainly > |  challenge, isn't it? = is > |= more > |  {O,o}   Ack! = challenging > > -- = with

Re: using document camera with linux

2011-11-27 Thread g
On 11/27/2011 02:44 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a ELMO document camera with my linux laptop (Fedora 16). > Is there any way to do so? I can get the exact model number of the ELMO > tomorrow if that would be helpful but I wanted to see if this is at all > possible. > > Many th

Re: system console redirection - all but boot messages redirected ttyS0?

2011-11-27 Thread Morgan Read
On 24/11/11 18:27, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Morgan Read said: >> Thanks for getting back - I followed your instructions. It seemed I >> needed to swap console=ttyS0 and console=tty0 BUT opposite from what you >> suggested. That is, console=ttyS0 was last and by swapping it with >>

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 05:05 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > You may want to run "yum reinstall" instead. I am > not 100% sure, but it should generate a new initrd. I've just gotten home and haven't had time to bring in everything (too tired) let alone set up my laptop. However, man yum has this to say

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 10:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/27/2011 06:13 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> Again, I'd suggest uninstalling the most recent kernel, and reinstalling >> it, in order to regenerate the initrd, and the grub menu item for it, >> afresh.

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 06:28 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2011/11/27 15:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Well, considering that top posting | But side posting is more fun > > is strongly discourages in the | and by far a more interesting >> list guidelines,

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread jdow
On 2011/11/27 15:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 11/27/2011 01:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini: >>> >>> A. Because people read from top to bottom. >>> Q. Why should I not top post? >>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally r

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/2011 08:10 AM, g wrote: > which sl does not install by default. only adds packages. which in a later > post you correct yourself. So, that is all you had to say The other stuff is just noise. -- A common mistake that peole make when trying to design something completely foolproof

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-27 Thread g
On 11/26/2011 04:50 AM, g wrote: > On 11/26/2011 04:13 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > <> > >> What part isn't true? Nowhere in what I've written did I compare SL >> with Fedora. --- i did not say that you did. >> Nowhere did I make any claims of stable v.s. unstable. --- i never said that you did. >>

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 00:57, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Or the default DE > choice could "rotate" for each release --- XFCE for F17, LXDE for F18, KDE for > F19, Gnome3 for F20, and over again, in turns. That way each DE would have > equal amount of "visibility" among users, more bugs would get fi

Upgrade F14 to F16 system logon/logout and event sounds but no other sounds

2011-11-27 Thread The Walters
Since upgrade from 14 to 16 (using DVD) I can hear the logon sound and system events but nothing else with a HDA NVidia ALC662 rev1 card (MB - ASRock K10N78M-PRO) thru the analog output. And when I try to play anything that accesses the default sound card I get the message "The audio playback d

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 28 November 2011 09:43:05 Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 11:41 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Developers have already made up their minds and released their new > > innovations, and "not" what the research is asking for. You want to > > look at new small screens like tablets, pho

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 11/27/2011 01:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini: >> >> A. Because people read from top to bottom. >> Q. Why should I not top post? >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >>

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/28/2011 07:13 AM, Tim wrote: >> > I have since spent some time examining the files and they appear >> > to be vcards interspersed among huge fields of meaningless data >> > which at first looked like image files but I have since come to >> > think it may be some sort of encryption? > Very

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Cox
For survey data there is the Phoronix Gnome survey. That actually has a lot of quite interesting comments from people who've taken it. In many ways the comments are more valuable than the percentages as it's not a random 'mug people for data' type survey so somewhat self selecting. I also don't t

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 05:13 PM, Tim wrote: > > And then there's the point of view that it's a community > project, and this is the forum for that community, and > *significant* numbers of this community are saying that it > sucks. Yet we're being told we're

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 14:15 -0700, Craig White wrote: > The thing to do is to use a completely different address book program > that you never use and you can import this data into this address book > without any fear of corrupting the data in an address book that you do > use and in the process, g

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 11:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Yes, I now understand what they are. I suspect that Apple has > sold her on a software system that doesn't fit her needs. If I > understand what she is telling me her data is stored in a > "cloud" server somewhere while she wants local copi

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 11:41 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Developers have already made up their minds and released their new > innovations, and "not" what the research is asking for. You want to > look at new small screens like tablets, phones and other small stuff > and replace the traditional

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > User interface research is what I suggested. Not surveys. I don't > really think this list is a reasonable sample. Mailing list tends to > attract a specific type of audience. You have to be knowledgeable > enough to subscribe and follo

For gPodder users out there - Podcast Crash

2011-11-27 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hi, Could you please confirm if you get a crash when adding the following TWiT podcast? http://feeds.twit.tv/twit_video_large I get the ABRT warning as soon as I add the podcast. Don't know if it's something on my setup. I'm on F14 and using the latest: gpodder-2.20-1.fc14.noarch. Thanks! Jo

Re: F15: how to set clamd service?

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 26/11/11 22:55, sean darcy wrote: > I can't find a daemon script for clamav. I can start clamd directly, > that seems to work. > > Is there a chkconfig or systemd script? Or do you need to stick > something in rc.local? > > rpm -qa | grep clam | sort > clamav-0.97.3-1500.fc15.i686 > clamav-data-

Re: Suddenly cups does not run on boot [re: Tim Waugh]

2011-11-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 16:59 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 09:21 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Aaron Konstam > > wrote: > > > Suddenly cups is not stared on boot on the machine that is my > > > printseerver. (F16) > > > > > > Now when I

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 11:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I appreciate all the help and if nothing else I know what a .vcf > file is and know that I can display the data in address book > format if nothing else. The thing to do is to use a completely different address bo

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 27 November 2011 20:00:20 Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini: > > A. Because people read from top to bottom. > > Q. Why should I not top post? > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad th

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread David
On 11/27/2011 12:13 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 27/11/11 17:08, Joe Zeff wrote: > >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >> Possibly so someone can say >> "It's not bloated, you installed all that stuff" >> >> Please get your attributions right. There's n

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
> You will have to do a fairly extensive user interface > research with > samples from non technical users fully new to the user > interface to > conclude anything meaningful.  > > Rahul > > -- You have to be kidding! "research"? On a 6-month release early release often desktop? If you do

Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It works well

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:00:20 -0600 Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini: > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 + > > Frank Murphy wrote: > > > >> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ) > >> Let's see the rant's now. > > > > A. Because people read from top

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 + > Frank Murphy wrote: > >> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ) >> Let's see the rant's now. > > A. Because people read from top to bottom. > Q. Why should I not top post? > A: Because it messes up the order

Re: f16 netinst from fedora 16 beta disc?

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 November 2011 15:28, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if using a Fedora 16 beta netinstall disc will get me > to Fedora 16 release version directly? I've got one from previously > upgrading a system to F16 beta and want to know if I can save burning > a new disc to upgrade anothe

Re: Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 + Frank Murphy wrote: > That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ) > Let's see the rant's now. A. Because people read from top to bottom. Q. Why should I not top post? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such

Re: F15: how to set clamd service?

2011-11-27 Thread sean darcy
On 11/26/2011 07:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:55:37 -0500, SD (sean) wrote: > >> I can't find a daemon script for clamav. I can start clamd directly, >> that seems to work. >> >> Is there a chkconfig or systemd script? Or do you need to stick >> something in rc.local? >>

Re: Putting Gnome on a diet --- Aaarrrghghg

2011-11-27 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:41:01 +, Ian Malone wrote: > On 26 November 2011 19:30, Beartooth wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:31:49 +, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >>> Just install fedorautils. >>> I'll give you a good gui way of doing it, along with other stuff: >>> http://fedorautils.sourceforge.

Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 27/11/11 17:08, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Possibly so someone can say > "It's not bloated, you installed all that stuff" > > Please get your attributions right. There's nothing of mine quoted here. That's what top-posting b

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:27:12 +0800 > Ian Chapman wrote: > >> Thanks to Gnome 3 I may well be heading back. > > Don't worry, in the current climate it is only a matter > of time before the KDE developers are seized with the > same "all the world

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 08:57 AM, David wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >> On 27/11/11 16:33, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> >> >> Possibly so someone can say >> >> "It's not bloated, you installed all that stuff" Please get your attributions right. There's nothing of mine quo

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread David
On 11/27/2011 11:45 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > What is this thread about? Or maybe it's easier to say what it's not about > ;-) It started as a Troll and has morphed into what you see now. Which was probably the intention of the Troll. A long, never ending 'chat type' thread that meanders in cont

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:45:50 -0600 Neal Hogan wrote: > What is this thread about? Or maybe it's easier to say what it's not > about ;-) > Well, now that you ask, I'd say that its about 50 to 100 messages too long. -- cmg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 10:13 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > In the past some surveys were done - and some complained that the > sample was biased - whether by fedora users or users who subscribe to > the mailing lists - but the complainers were generally those who > disagreed with the outcome :-) User i

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:45:50 -0600 Neal Hogan wrote: > What is this thread about? Or maybe it's easier to say what it's not > about ;-) welcome to fedora users! I love this mlist for this threads without head and tail. This is the only list by which i can't unsubscribe, really -- users mailing

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Neal Hogan
What is this thread about? Or maybe it's easier to say what it's not about ;-) On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 27/11/11 16:33, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 11/27/2011 08:02 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: >>> It's also required for me to add an applet to the gnome panel which is >>> w

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/27/2011 11:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/27/2011 09:10 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> >> Actually, I have to disagree with you on that. What works or not is >> *partially* subjective, especially when it comes to user experience. >> There are some things that just don't work, per

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/28/2011 12:33 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > AIUI, you have to write and/or install various extensions to Gnome 3 to > regain functionality that was in Gnome 2 out-of-the-box. What I don't > understand, however, is why this is called progress. You're not supposed to understand. Just know that it's

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 27/11/11 16:33, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/27/2011 08:02 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: >> It's also required for me to add an applet to the gnome panel which is >> what I was referring to. I'm not understanding why I should have to > > AIUI, you have to write and/or install various extensions to Gnome 3 t

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 08:02 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: > It's also required for me to add an applet to the gnome panel which is > what I was referring to. I'm not understanding why I should have to AIUI, you have to write and/or install various extensions to Gnome 3 to regain functionality that was in Gnome

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/11/11 21:26, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Is there a Linux application that will display a .vcf file? > You can use any text editor to look at the contents, it's just a list of > fields and data, in a form style. Not exactly like this, but it's the >

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 06:13 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Again, I'd suggest uninstalling the most recent kernel, and reinstalling > it, in order to regenerate the initrd, and the grub menu item for it, > afresh. That's probably the best idea of all. I don't remember your mentioning it before and don't

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 09:10 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Actually, I have to disagree with you on that. What works or not is > *partially* subjective, especially when it comes to user experience. > There are some things that just don't work, period. I don't think you will find any real consensu

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 05:28 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/27/2011 07:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 11/26/2011 12:18 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >>> This*is* the bleeding edge. Sometimes it's dangerously sharp, but it >>> always produces better and better code. >> >> No it doesn't. Sometimes it turns out

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/27/2011 04:09 AM, JB wrote: > From there you can run all you can, e.g. > # fsck > # package-cleanup --dupes > # package-cleanup --problems > # rpm -V -a --quiet > and whatever else you wish I suspect that things aren't quite as bad as you think; I'm using the "badly corrupted" computer rig

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/27/2011 11:22 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: >> Or why I have to press Alt + RMB to pop up a menu on a panel in Gnome? >> Seriously, WTF? > > RMB on the window's title bar produces the same pop-up menu. It's only > when you want to do that from another location on the window that > Alt-R

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/27/2011 08:40 PM, Tim wrote: > > Joe Zeff: > >>> No it doesn't. Sometimes it turns out that an idea that sounded good > >>> Just Doesn't Work. > > > > Rahul Sundaram: > >> People who do the work decide what works or doesn't work.

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 08:40 PM, Tim wrote: > Joe Zeff: >>> No it doesn't. Sometimes it turns out that an idea that sounded good >>> Just Doesn't Work. > > Rahul Sundaram: >> People who do the work decide what works or doesn't work. This isn't a >> democracy. > > No. They can decide what they want t

Re: using document camera with linux

2011-11-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:51:05 -0600 suvayu ali wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 15:44, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I want to use a ELMO document camera with my linux laptop (Fedora 16). > > Is there any way to do so? I can get the exact model number of the ELMO > > tomorrow if that would be helpful

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:47 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 11/27/2011 05:56 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > KDE4.0 was released very early and it was underdeveloped at the time, which > > was considered stupid by a lot of users. But there were no mistakes in > > *design*, it just lacked configura

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/24/2011 06:07 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I find the whole thing familiar and friendly and it answers the wishes > of those who miss the Gnome2 feel. It does and I currently use it now, although fallback mode doesn't offer the full Gnome 2 experience. Unfortunately I believe it's deprecated

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/27/2011 11:10 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:47 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >> why I have to press Alt + RMB to pop up a menu on a panel in Gnome? >> Seriously, WTF? > > Gosh, gee, Gnome just don't understand the concept of a menu. It's > supposed to present you with your list of ch

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/27/2011 10:39 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Thanks to Gnome 3 I may well be heading back. > > Don't worry, in the current climate it is only a matter > of time before the KDE developers are seized with the > same "all the world's a tablet" disease and come out > with a KDE5 where they try to win

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
Joe Zeff: >> No it doesn't. Sometimes it turns out that an idea that sounded good >> Just Doesn't Work. Rahul Sundaram: > People who do the work decide what works or doesn't work. This isn't a > democracy. No. They can decide what they want to do. But what works, or doesn't work, is born o

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:47 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > why I have to press Alt + RMB to pop up a menu on a panel in Gnome? > Seriously, WTF? Gosh, gee, Gnome just don't understand the concept of a menu. It's supposed to present you with your list of choices, neatly categorised, simply by lookin

Re: using document camera with linux

2011-11-27 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 15:44, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I want to use a ELMO document camera with my linux laptop (Fedora 16). > Is there any way to do so? I can get the exact model number of the ELMO > tomorrow if that would be helpful but I wanted to see if this is at all > possible. Disclaimer:

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/27/2011 05:56 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > KDE4.0 was released very early and it was underdeveloped at the time, which > was considered stupid by a lot of users. But there were no mistakes in > *design*, it just lacked configurability and features. This of course improved > over time, and to

using document camera with linux

2011-11-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I want to use a ELMO document camera with my linux laptop (Fedora 16). Is there any way to do so? I can get the exact model number of the ELMO tomorrow if that would be helpful but I wanted to see if this is at all possible. Many thanks for any pointers! Best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing

Re: Suddenly cups does not run on boot

2011-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:37:24 + mike cloaked wrote: > I am running several f16 machines, both i686 and x86_64 and they all > have cups running after a boot - Yea, I didn't have a problem with cups either, but even though systemd was starting some of my problematic services at boot, and even th

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:27:12 +0800 Ian Chapman wrote: > Thanks to Gnome 3 I may well be heading back. Don't worry, in the current climate it is only a matter of time before the KDE developers are seized with the same "all the world's a tablet" disease and come out with a KDE5 where they try to wi

Re: Suddenly cups does not run on boot

2011-11-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:27:03 -0600 > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> it is: systemctl restart cups .service that I have to run to get cups to >> work. >> >> Where is the init file for cups.service? > > I haven't had problems with cups, but I've cert

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/26/2011 04:10 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 13:30 -0500, Matt Rose wrote: >> As well, KDE's track record on this is not exactly stellar. KDE4 was >> basically unusable up until 4.3 or so. > > I'd dispute that. I've used KDE 4 since it came out and never had major > p

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Zeff writes: On 11/26/2011 09:27 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > No, you most certainly do. Everyone who installs Fedora ends up > encrypting something. I'll bet that all your passwords in /etc/shadow > are encrypted, for example. Because that's the kind of things > libgcrypt.so.1 is responsibl

Re: .vcf files -

2011-11-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:45 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 26/11/11 19:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> Is there a Linux application that will display a .vcf file? > > Depends what you mean by "display". Most of the mail clients can impor

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 07:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/26/2011 12:18 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> This*is* the bleeding edge. Sometimes it's dangerously sharp, but it >> always produces better and better code. > > No it doesn't. Sometimes it turns out that an idea that sounded good > Just Doesn't Work

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 05:28 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > quality and security should ALWAYS win against features and glitter > especially in free software where no marketing is announcing the next > big thing and calculate how much money in what time must be generated You appear repeatedly demanding for

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2011 04:22 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > How do you (or maintainers) know with certainty that there isn't a > header file dependence, or a compiler change that would lead to a faster > (or a bug for that matter). The base toolchain has a lot of Red Hat developers working on it and they

Re: Problem booting under F16

2011-11-27 Thread JB
Joe Zeff zeff.us> writes: > > On 11/26/2011 09:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Furthermore, if you have a corrupted libcrypt.so.1, it wouldn't matter > > which kernel you're booting > > The specific message is that /sbin/sulogin failed because it coulden't > find libcrypt.so.1. > > I touche