Re: Scrabble??

2013-11-11 Thread Jiri Vanek
On 11/12/2013 04:39 AM, John Wendel wrote: On 11/11/2013 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: Does anyone know a way to run a Scrabble program on Fedora? (I realize the obvious existence of Wine and of virtual machines; but my experience with both has been thoroughly unsatisfactory; my hope is that a linu

Re: Scrabble??

2013-11-11 Thread John Wendel
On 11/11/2013 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: Does anyone know a way to run a Scrabble program on Fedora? (I realize the obvious existence of Wine and of virtual machines; but my experience with both has been thoroughly unsatisfactory; my hope is that a linux-native app may exist.)

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 10/11/13 19:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: >>> No, it won't allow any other DNS server, no matter what I configure it >>> for it always goes to theirs, that's why I gave up open.

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 11/11/13 19:12, Tim wrote: That'd be HTTP caching. They don't need to subvert DNS records for you to see cached websites. Unless they're doing something stupid, your web requests are still made of the original IPs, just the results are cached. I have the same thing, here, on my LAN. A Sq

Re: Meaning of boot messages?

2013-11-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:01:29 -0500 Robert McBroom wrote: > While starting my system I get the following messages. What is > happening? Up to date Fedora 19 I don't know for sure, but "hal" was declared dead a while back (I think maybe it was blown up in orbit around europa :-). Anything talki

Meaning of boot messages?

2013-11-11 Thread Robert McBroom
While starting my system I get the following messages. What is happening? Up to date Fedora 19 [ 11.835466] systemd[1]: Unit iscsid.service entered failed state. [ 14.019245] systemd-udevd[991]: failed to execute '/usr/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freed

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Unless you're doing something odd, the amount of traffic from DNS >> data is minuscule compared to everything else. Bob Goodwin: > But what if they are caching stuff, e.g. foxnews, some popular video > clips, etc. and delivering them to the user without going through the > satellite loo

Re: Scrabble??

2013-11-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/11/2013 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: There seem to be two proprietary Scrabble programs, one in which you play against the computer, and one in which you play against a remote friend. (I don't play Scrabble.) Scrabble itself is a proprietary game. Any FOSS version would either ha

Scrabble??

2013-11-11 Thread Beartooth
Does anyone know a way to run a Scrabble program on Fedora? (I realize the obvious existence of Wine and of virtual machines; but my experience with both has been thoroughly unsatisfactory; my hope is that a linux-native app may exist.) There seem to be two proprietary Scrabble

Re: Frozen screen

2013-11-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/11/2013 01:05 PM, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda wrote: On 11 November 2013 17:58, Patrick Dupre wrote: Every time that I have an USB key plugged inside my computer, if it switches to screensaver mode, I lost the access to the graphics session. gnome3 on fedora18 Hi: That's odd. Anything int

Re: Frozen screen

2013-11-11 Thread Carlos "casep" Sepulveda
On 11 November 2013 17:58, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Every time that I have an USB key plugged inside my computer, if it switches > to screensaver mode, I lost the access to the graphics session. > gnome3 on fedora18 Hi: That's odd. Anything interesting in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

Frozen screen

2013-11-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Every time that I have an USB key plugged inside my computer, if it switches to screensaver mode, I lost the access to the graphics session. gnome3 on fedora18 The only way that I found to recover is to open a text session and to kill the graphic session. Thank for your help. ===

Re: openssh-6.3p1-5.fc20 fails with "EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name failed"

2013-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 11 12:14, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? > > Only ECC NIST Suite B curves were enabled in Fedora packages. If > your keys use a different curve then they wouldn't work. If you call ssh-keygen -t ecdsa, there's no

Re: openssh-6.3p1-5.fc20 fails with "EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name failed"

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? Only ECC NIST Suite B curves were enabled in Fedora packages. If your keys use a different curve then they wouldn't work. I see OpenSSL was patched a few days ago to enable another curve, but no update has been pus

Re: Firefox absolute positioning stopped working

2013-11-11 Thread Gary Stainburn
Firstly, appologies for missing out the relevent bit of code, i.e. the bit that was wrong. Secondly, I've managed to find the solution. The original code was: hp.style.top = yOffset; hp.style.left = xOffset; The new code is: hp.style.top = yOffset+'px'; hp.style.left = xOffset

openssh-6.3p1-5.fc20 fails with "EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name failed"

2013-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-19918/openssh-6.3p1-4.fc20 claims openssh-6.3p1-4 and later, in conjuntion with openssl-1.0.1e-30.fc20 will allow to use ECDSA keys for pubkey authentication. I have existing ECDSA keys from my non-Fedora installations using vanilla openssh

Firefox absolute positioning stopped working

2013-11-11 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks, Sorry if this is O.T. but I only seem to be having the problem on my Fedora workstations. I use popup div's in my web pages - div's that are initally display:none but then on an event have their absolute size and position changed. This method worked fine until recently (not sure how

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 11/11/13 08:40, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Don't exclude the possibility that the modem itself is flipping out. My DSL started going down once a week or so, some years ago. Powercycling the modem always put me back online. Troubleshooting with the ISP wasn't very productive. I ended up buyin

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: But what if they are caching stuff, e.g. foxnews, some popular video clips, etc. and delivering them to the user without going through the satellite loop? I don't know what they are doing but they claim to be "optimizing" the system with their cac

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 11/11/13 07:18, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 10 November 2013, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA sent: when I began using this service I was advised not to try to work around their system since it would result in my being charged for higher usage and my allotment is limited. Unless yo

Re: DNS problem -

2013-11-11 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 10 November 2013, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA sent: > when I began using this service I was advised not to try to work > around their system since it would result in my being charged for > higher usage and my allotment is limited. Unless you're doing something odd, t