On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John Wendel wrote:
>
> Actually, '?' is not "an invalid character" in a Linux filename. Only "/"
> and the NULL character (0) are invalid in filenames.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
Well, it´d be akin to writing FAT with filenames that later can´t be
read from other OSs.
On 09/01/2012 12:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3
running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under
.cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love?
that ABSOLUTEL
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 16:27 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> And I´m afraid of running CHKDSK because I have tons of stuff there
> not backed up, and it wouldn´t be the first time that CHKDSK decides
> "oh, there´s a lot of invalid dirs in there, I´ll now happily lose
> your data by mangling folder
On 09/01/2012 04:36 PM, jackson byers wrote:
I wish I'd known this before I fumbled my way through xfce.
I don't think I am getting that drop down box.
Just to be clear. After you select your username, you get prompted for
your password. At the bottom left of that window, there should be
>> So I tried xfce via "yum groupinstall xfce"
>>That seemed to complete without error
>> not sure now, but I think gnome persisted even with reboots.
Joe Zeff responded:
> Log out, then back in. When you log in, after you've selected your username,
>but before you give your password,
>there's a
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:26:10 -0700
Joe Zeff wrote:
> Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid
> characters, such as spaces, by quoting the name so that the shell knows
> to pass it on to the program as one string so I suggested trying it in
> XP to see if it worked.
Wha
F17 / KDE
I have updated a couple of time and I loose the Flashplayer function to
play Flash videos.
I used fedorautils to install flash-plugin, and repaired it one time by
deleting flash-plug and reinstalling it with fedorautils, but the second
time around that did not work .
any Ideals, n
On 1 September 2012 21:26, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>
>> You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it.
>> It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid
>> confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs).
>
>
> Not q
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> You cannot have filenames containing wildcard characters in MS-Windows. I do
> agree that NTFS and FAT drivers should reject filenames containing ?, *, :,
> and whatever else MS Windows barfs on.
exactly my point. Where should I write this
Joe Zeff writes:
On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it.
It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid
confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs).
Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get a
On 09/01/2012 01:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
You say it is invalid, then you say you have to escape it.
It is perfectly valid in Linux. You just have to escape it to avoid
confusion inside the shell (no issue with GUI programs).
Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid
On 09/01/2012 09:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3
>> running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under
>> .cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love?
>> tha
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs.
Thanks for the help and suggestion. I´m sure I´ll end up fixing this
on Monday when I return and have access to the drive from my F17 Linux
machine.
Right now, I´m stuck with a XPSP3 netbook for t
On 09/01/2012 12:27 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being
>expanded?
Yes, tried everything... wildcards, enclosing it, rename first, move,
rename with wildcards nothing works.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being
> expanded?
Yes, tried everything... wildcards, enclosing it, rename first, move,
rename with wildcards nothing works. :-(
And I´m afraid of running CHKDSK because I
On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3
running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under
.cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love?
that ABSOLUTELY can´t be removed from WinXP, as windows
Good day... (or not depending on your POV ;)
Situation: I have one 1TB drive in a usb enclosure, formatted ntfs.
On my main Linux system (which runs Fedora 17 with NTFS-3G) I used
this external drive to copy some files from my home dir.
Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my ol
On 09/01/2012 07:53 AM, Lailah wrote:
I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough.
Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD
addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app.
I can't encourage you to make the change. Time ago I t
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:53:18 -0300, Lailah wrote:
>
> I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough.
> Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD
> addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app.
>
> I can't encourage you to make the c
I think that setting properly your POP account will be enough.
Your contacts are easily exportable. Just save them as a VCARD
addressbook (or separate VCARD files) and import them in the new app.
I can't encourage you to make the change. Time ago I try Claws Mail but
I didn't like and never t
Hi
I am trying to add a language in Ferdora, but the new language is not kept
I go to
System Settings
Region and language
Press "+" and select Dansih from the list.
Then close the dialog window.
After I open the dialog window again, the new language I added does not appear
I tried the same with
On Aug 13 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since upgrading from F16 to F17, I have a weird problem with the
> monitor settings on my desktop machine.
>
> I'm using the nouveau driver. The controller is an Nvidia GeForce 7100
> GS. The controller is somewhat older, it has one DVI and one
Artifex Maximus wrote:
> Is there any good tutorial on how to lower the power consumption of my
> netbook? I mean sysctl, proc, etc. settings.
There is a tool called powertop in the standard Fedora repos: run it
from a terminal as root. There is a tab (you get to it with the right
arrow) called tu
On Aug 31 18:46, Doug wrote:
> On 08/31/2012 02:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> >>On 31.08.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >>
> >>>[1] Actually everything except Emacs. Emacs has many input methods of
> >>> it's own; I prefer a Te
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