Re: ping -R on Fedora 18 d does not work (firewalld problem?)

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/17/13 13:18, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello, > I try: > ping -R www.google.com > > I get: > PING www.google.com (173.194.113.112) 56(124) bytes of data. > > > but the list of nodes does not appear, and I wait for more than 5 minutes. > > traceroute www.google.com gives immediately the list of n

Re: install the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 11:29 PM, poma wrote: On 10.06.2013 06:28, Lingxian Guo wrote: Just but unfamiliar,I am using Fedora 18 64bit .The plugin of the Adobe Flash Player should be installed to Firefox,I do not know how to do? http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ poma You could just always install it f

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 10:23 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than configuring Windows to Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I have never used SAMBAbut I've always been told (by Windows admins no less!...LOL!) that it was the easiest thing in the worl

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2013 07:52 PM, lee wrote: No, they explained what it is supposed to do and made invalid assumptions. Their point seems to be that it could be useful for instances when the logged output of mcelog helps you to figure out what might be wrong with your hardware. Have you considered the p

ping -R on Fedora 18 d does not work (firewalld problem?)

2013-06-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello, I try: ping -R www.google.com I get: PING www.google.com (173.194.113.112) 56(124) bytes of data. but the list of nodes does not appear, and I wait for more than 5 minutes. traceroute www.google.com gives immediately the list of nodes. This is fedora 18, iptables stopped (and flushed)

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2013 07:09 PM, lee wrote: Just think it through and then explain to me how it would make sense to dedicate (a part of the limited) resources to have mcelog constantly running. I take it, then, that you've either never heard of logrotate or have some reason not to use it. -- users mai

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2013 06:44 PM, lee wrote: Are you assuming that most ppl using Linux have fallback systems with independent internet connections and emergency power generators standing by that automatically take over seamlessly when something with their used system or around it fails? I can't speak fo

Re: Software about playing movie and TV

2013-06-16 Thread lee
LingxianGuo writes: > Who can recommend a popular software about playing movie and TV ? If you want to record like from a TV card, kaffeine is easy to use (and currently doesn't work right). VLC and mplayer are nice for playing. There's also mythtv the design of which was flawed last time I tr

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
"T.C. Hollingsworth" writes: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:25 PM, lee wrote: >> Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has >> the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect >> the drives to? > > In this situation I'd be much more concerned about al

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tim writes: > lee: >> I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the >> task. Not even a simple mailmerge worked without crashing LO, and the >> closer I looked at it, the more bugs I found that were getting in the >> way. So I went with LaTeX (and had to do without tables

Software about playing movie and TV

2013-06-16 Thread LingxianGuo
Who can recommend a popular software about playing movie and TV ? -- 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 ques

Re: Flash plugin RPM installed but not being used by Firefix

2013-06-16 Thread poma
On 06.06.2013 14:46, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > I've followed the instructions to install the flash plugin by downloading the > YUM version and then installing the RPM. I got no errors when doing any of > this. However, flash still does not work in Firefox. If I do 'about:plugins' >

Re: install the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player

2013-06-16 Thread poma
On 10.06.2013 06:28, Lingxian Guo wrote: > Just but unfamiliar,I am using Fedora 18 64bit .The plugin of the Adobe > Flash Player should be installed to Firefox,I do not know how to do? http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 17.06.2013 04:29, schrieb lee: >> You're missing the point which was someones assumption that a particular >> component must be useless because it can be spf. I was merely asking if >> there's also the assumption that ppl go to all the considerable lengths >> required

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:25 PM, lee wrote: > Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has > the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect > the drives to? In this situation I'd be much more concerned about all the data I lost since my last backup

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 17.06.2013 04:09, schrieb lee: >> Joe Zeff writes: >> >>> On 06/16/2013 05:25 PM, lee wrote: Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect the drives to? >>> >

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 17.06.2013 03:44, schrieb lee: >> Reindl Harald writes: >>> well, most people on Linux are using mdraid to avoid the useless >>> question about "compatible hardware RAID controller" because it >>> is pretty useless to have a RAID with a single-point-of-failure >>> in f

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort >> than configuring Windows to Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: > I have never used SAMBAbut I've always been told (by Windows > admins no less!...LOL!) that it was the easiest thing in the world to > useis it not so?..

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> As far as the original poster's question is concerned, I have printed >> landscape documents, with text and diagrams. I used OpenOffice.org, or >> the LibreOffice version, and used its own export as PDF function. lee: > I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Joe Zeff writes: > On 06/16/2013 05:25 PM, lee wrote: >> Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has >> the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect >> the drives to? > > Are you saying that you have the only computer in the world with that > har

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 17.06.2013 02:25, schrieb lee: >> Joe Zeff writes: >> >>> On 06/15/2013 08:40 PM, lee wrote: When the hardware has gone so bad that I can't start mcelog anymore, I very likely can't retrieve information from the logfiles, either, without fixing the prob

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2013 05:25 PM, lee wrote: Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect the drives to? Are you saying that you have the only computer in the world with that hardware? If so, you have only yo

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Joe Zeff writes: > On 06/15/2013 08:40 PM, lee wrote: >> When the hardware has gone so bad that I can't start mcelog anymore, I >> very likely can't retrieve information from the logfiles, either, >> without fixing the problem first. > > As long as it's not the drive itself that went bad you can

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Rolf Turner writes: > On 16/06/13 16:03, lee wrote: > > >> Like I said, tables that may go over several pages are a pita with >> LaTeX. There are some packages to handle them, and the ones I tried >> failed miserably. If that was working, the output would look a lot >> better. > > I have had

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Rolf Turner
On 16/06/13 16:03, lee wrote: Like I said, tables that may go over several pages are a pita with LaTeX. There are some packages to handle them, and the ones I tried failed miserably. If that was working, the output would look a lot better. I have had good experiences with the longtable p

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/15/2013 08:40 PM, lee wrote: When the hardware has gone so bad that I can't start mcelog anymore, I very likely can't retrieve information from the logfiles, either, without fixing the problem first. As long as it's not the drive itself that went bad you can always connect it to another,

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:10:43 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> BTW, how would I control where cups puts the pdf files it creates? > > Nope. Like virtually everything else, it puts the files where > the linux developers think they obviously belong (until the next > developers come alon

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Tim writes: > As far as the original poster's question is concerned, I have printed > landscape documents, with text and diagrams. I used OpenOffice.org, or > the LibreOffice version, and used its own export as PDF function. I ruled out Libreoffice quite a while ago because it isn't up to the t

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus writes: > Well I don't know what do you need exactly, but in my own experience, the > best way for configure a document right and get it in pdf is to compose it > with LaTeX, but if you're not familiarised with it perhaps will be better > to use Scribus or if you o

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Terry Polzin writes: > My method, > > [command] | a2ps [options] -o - | ps2pdf - [output file name] Thanks, a2ps looks somewhat promising with options like: a2ps --borders=0 -B --columns=1 -l 150 Apparently it doesn't do line breaks and prints the ends of long lines outside the page, so I

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-16 Thread lee
Joe Zeff writes: > On 06/15/2013 12:21 PM, lee wrote: >> Well, I usually don't do that, so what's the point in running this >> service all the time? > > Once your hardware's going bad it may be too late to start it, and > having it always running may help you learn (if it matters) when > things s

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 07:21 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent: Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a linux box. I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much mor

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Terry Polzin
My method, [command] | a2ps [options] -o - | ps2pdf - [output file name] -- 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 Ha

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 20:41, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/16/13 19:33, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: > You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? >>> Such as lpr. >>> >>> I

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 19:33, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Tom Horsley wrote: >>> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like >>> such as? >> >> Such as lpr. >> >> Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called C

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? Such as lpr. Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called Cups-PDF. So, you would use lpr -P Cups-PDF whatever And you

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Doug sent: > I have put a JetDirect into an HP2200D and it works, mostly. But when > I run a self-test, the paper shows an IP address of 192.168.0.149. > If I ping that IP, I get inknown host. Anybody know any more about > the JetDirect? If I had a static addres

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Reindl Harald sent: > these days printers with WLAN and Ethernet are cheap > > why bother with workarounds while virtually nobody > is still using non-network-capabale printers? Because many modern printers are crap? They just get worse and worse (short life

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent: > Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that > wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a > linux box. I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than configuring Windo

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Tim
Tom Horsley: >> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like Timothy Murphy: > such as? Any program that can print to the printer, and you can select which printer it prints to. You choose the PDF printout option. Having said that, I haven't got cups-pdf installed, yet if I call up th

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like > such as? Such as lpr. Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called Cups-PDF. So, you would use lpr -P Cups-PDF whatever And you'd get a whatever.pdf on your desktop (d

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom Horsley wrote: > You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like such as? > to print > anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us