Re: Magic sysrq key

2012-08-23 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday, 23. August 2012. 11.53.33 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2012 11:09 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > As many times before it is counter productive to call someone stupid, > > even if you mispell stupid. > > *Especially* if you misspell stupid! :-) I remember there was some rule that basical

Re: samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 14:32 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've always been a great believer in putting documentation of this > type directly into the config file concerned. I used to do that until I found that certain things, like Apache, took an age to start up as they had to parse through huge config

Re: samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2012 01:03 PM, gary artim wrote: (tom) thanks will check that out. (joe) yes I doc everything in a filestructure like ~/doc/product/ will review and compare, but quite frustrating...any samba switches that will track a specific user and log...just being lazy. My Linux experience is

Evolution - import contacts not working.

2012-08-23 Thread John Horne
Hello, I wanted to copy the contacts from my F17 work PC to my home PC. Both use Evolution 3.4.3. I could see that I could save the contacts as a vcard, so I did this. I then transferred the file to my home PC. On my home PC, when viewing 'contacts' I told it to import a single file, and gave the

Re: samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread gary artim
(tom) thanks will check that out. (joe) yes I doc everything in a filestructure like ~/doc/product/ will review and compare, but quite frustrating...any samba switches that will track a specific user and log...just being lazy. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2012

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Kernel Guardian wrote: > First of all: > I have no intention to initiate a new discussion on the usefulness of the > GNOME 3 desktop environment. I just want to find a solution for my problem. > In fact, I have a huge problem with OpenGL applications. The m

Re: samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2012 11:52 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I had to throw some "acl check permissions = false" settings into my /etc/samba/smb.conf file at some point on a recent samba upgrade in order to keep my anonymous guest shares actually working correctly (i.e. my definition of correctly, not cifs develop

Re: Magic sysrq key

2012-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2012 11:09 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I have almost finished a python program where you can type: magic reisb which will make thwe whole process less trying.. That's nice, but how does it help in an emergency? As many times before it is counter productive to call someone stupid, even

Re: samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
I had to throw some "acl check permissions = false" settings into my /etc/samba/smb.conf file at some point on a recent samba upgrade in order to keep my anonymous guest shares actually working correctly (i.e. my definition of correctly, not cifs developer definition of correctly :-). https://bugz

samba/cifs/smb issue with libreoffice.

2012-08-23 Thread gary artim
I got a dozen or so people using smb/cifs on both fedora desktop and virtualbox/win7. Recently I upgraded a desktop to fc17 and her linux desktop dolphin file browser stalls/hang and she can still run other apps, but libre and dolphin and hung. I have double checked the setting and they looked the

Magic sysrq key

2012-08-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
I combined your e-mails together so I could respond to both of them _ > you hear the emegency.sync on a RAID10 device >: i see that if KDE freezes a come back to Login >: you SHOULD NEVER use it alone because you could also use hardware-reset >osted ma

Re: Second Monitor Configuration Confusion

2012-08-23 Thread Andrew Parker
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Fedora User wrote: > > What on earth is the difference between "absolute" and "clone of?" > > Furthermore, and I am reasonably sure that this is a dumb question but I > have a brain freeze; Suppose I configure the second monitor above, how > would I get, say, mplay

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

2012-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/24/2012 12:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/23/2012 03:31 AM, Lailah wrote: >> >> How can Unity be installed in Fedora? Works fine? > See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana > > There are pros and cons. I for one, will not be testing. > Or maybe read this http://www.omg

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

2012-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/2012 03:31 AM, Lailah wrote: > > > How can Unity be installed in Fedora? Works fine? See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana There are pros and cons. I for one, will not be testing. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

2012-08-23 Thread Lailah
How can Unity be installed in Fedora? Works fine? Thanks! Lailah -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a q

python-qt4 libqt4-qt3support

2012-08-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Is there any packages python-qt4 libqt4-qt3support for fedora? I would like to get scidavis on a fedora 16 machine. I cannot get any version running or even compilable without error I may need libpython2.5.so Thank == P

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Kernel Guardian wrote: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651075 (When I read this I had > the impression that someone is trying to insult my intelligence.) Not fixed and a lot of discussion why it isn't good. > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/De

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/22/2012 02:38 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > >As I found in Gnome 3.4 release notes, this is default options for all > >applications. > > Are you serious about this? Who in their right mind thought that > the average user wanted this

Re: F17 External Monitor on 945GM

2012-08-23 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Philippe LeCavalier < > supp...@plecavalier.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David G. Miller wrote: >> >>> Philippe LeCavalier plecavalier.com> writes: >>> >>

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ian Malone : Pick another one, e.g. Ubuntu (Debian based), and you have to learn a new way of doing things. Useful to learn, but may be more than you want to put up with. You need to learn their different admin techniques, join another mailing list or forum for advice, and to hear abou

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:16 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > now I'm thinking I should "switch" to CEntOS?LoL! NahI'm NEVER > leaving Fedora!...But I do have an old Dell Optiplexrunning > WIndows XP right now.hmm.maybe a new "face" with Ubuntu?...or > Gentoo? (Who's update

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very >> similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). Ian Malone: > Well, strictly speaking, CentOS is based on RHEL, which is made by > RedHat and I don't think (but don't know for sure) that it's directly >

linux distributions (was Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact)

2012-08-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 August 2012 11:09, Ian Malone wrote: > * There are far more distributions than I ever realised. > > To answer to your question about how you choose one (or even half a > dozen), that list does seem to make it rather hard. Though I can wholeheartedly recommend you don't use this as a filese

Re: Why httpd wants to access /boot?

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/21/2012 04:06 AM, Georgios Petasis wrote: > Στις 20/8/2012 12:53, ο/η Daniel J Walsh έγραψε: >> On 08/19/2012 02:09 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am getting this strange selinux denial, each time the httpd server >>> is resta

Re: Can't print text file

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/20/2012 04:42 PM, Jim wrote: > On 08/20/2012 04:28 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/20/2012 01:16 PM, Jim wrote: >>> The box I'm having problems with is a HP 3gb processor , it work fine >>> with Fedora 15, but I can't get it to work on f17, even wi

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 August 2012 03:22, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 08/22/2012 09:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: >>> >>> There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of >>> Ubuntu. Where you install a particular release, and there isn't a >>> cut-o

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-23 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday, 22. August 2012. 15.05.05 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/22/2012 02:17 PM, jdow wrote: > > Even with the reminders I've seen people keep forgetting that most > > modern keyboards are two key roll-over keyboards. The keys are matrix > > scanned in a fashion that any two keys pressed at the sa

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 August 2012 18:36, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:08 +0930, Tim wrote: >> There's CentOS ... > > Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very > similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). So, > if you don't want to learn knew tricks, it's th