Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote: It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs that are for some reason I do not quite understand yet, are not relocatable to other sectors (blocks :) ). I don't know if it's still true, but back in the days of DOS and FAT, any file that

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/24/14 12:16, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I tried exactly the above but I got a message which says that I can > > only shrink it to some 226 GB (or something like that). The HD is 500 > > GB. So where did the rest go? All on Windows? Contain

[FIXED] Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread JD
I had to remove a few ancient lines in my .profile (I am a user of the old ksh) for changing a couple of keys using a xmodmap. To wit: # xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" # xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete" # xmodmap ~/.xmodmap As you can see I commented out those lines and I

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/24/14 12:16, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I tried exactly the above but I got a message which says that I can > only shrink it to some 226 GB (or something like that). The HD is 500 > GB. So where did the rest go? All on Windows? Containing what? I did > not fill anything. When you bring up the di

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/23/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote: >> >> The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk >> an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS), >> has been ParttionMagic 8.0. > > > Thank you; I've never

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:00:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/24/14 11:46, JD wrote: > > The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk > > an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS), > > has been ParttionMagic 8.0. > > Unfortunately, it is only

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/23/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote: ​The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS), has been ParttionMagic 8.0. Thank you; I've never needed to shrink an ntfs partition, and didn't know what programs

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/24/14 11:46, JD wrote: > The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk > an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS), > has been ParttionMagic 8.0. > Unfortunately, it is only available for win32. It will NOT run on > win64. I know, because

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on >> Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB >> availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new and I have only logged in, not added anything. What would happ

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my > > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will > > be here tomorrow. I had two questions: > >

Re: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card for Dell Inspiron 1545: How to Drive It! [Solved]

2014-06-23 Thread Temlakos
On 06/19/2014 10:49 AM, poma wrote: On 19.06.2014 16:27, Temlakos wrote: On 06/19/2014 10:19 AM, poma wrote: On 19.06.2014 12:55, Temlakos wrote: On 06/18/2014 05:37 PM, poma wrote: On 18.06.2014 22:42, Temlakos wrote: On 06/18/2014 04:37 PM, poma wrote: On 18.06.2014 19:11, Temlakos wrote:

Re: Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ??

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu < navdeepsingh.sidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello friends, > > Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ?? > > Regards > Navdeep Singh > Also, take a look at https://spins.fedoraproject.org/scientific-kde/ -- users mailing l

Re: Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ??

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu < navdeepsingh.sidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello friends, > > Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ?? > > Regards > Navdeep Singh > Try https://www.scientificlinux.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Jun 22, 2014 9:48 PM, "JD" wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> >> On 06/22/2014 06:10 PM, JD wrote: [root@pauls-server ~]# ps -ef|grep getty root 1580 1 0 16:14 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty3 root 2397

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Roger
On 06/23/2014 09:57 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Can the same be done with xp? >If dual boot is used can we choose to boot to linux first without >overwriting the MBR. >Thanks >Roger Hello Roger, Yes, this can be done with XP. My wife (who prefers the Debian-based distributions) does exactly that w

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 June 2014 19:43, Liam Proven wrote: > On 23 June 2014 20:33, Tim wrote: >> Tim: Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some moronic number code? >> >> >> Liam Proven: >>> I know this wa

Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ??

2014-06-23 Thread Navdeep Singh Sidhu
Hello friends, Are there any older version for fedora scientific available ?? Regards Navdeep Singh -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproje

Re: Yum/dnf Search Functionality

2014-06-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/23/2014 07:02 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: On 06/23/2014 12:49 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I undertook a search for the string blueray in both yum and dnf and both, in my view, behaved strangely. From yum I received the following messages: yum search Blueray This does

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 06/23/2014 04:06 PM, JD wrote: My KB also issues ^[OQ when I press the F2 key by itself. I am going to try another idea and get back to the list. I am suspecting something in my ~/.gcon

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/23/2014 12:20 PM, JD issued this missive: > > >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin >> mailto:robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> wrote: >> >> On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: >> > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. >>

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 06/23/2014 03:45 PM, JD wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin > > mailto:robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> > wrote: > > > > On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > >

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/23/2014 12:20 PM, JD issued this missive: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin mailto:robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> wrote: On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:45 AM, fedora wrote: > Hi Ranjan > regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed Windoze 7 > as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the Windoze partition. > Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on Linux I installed > VirtualBox

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin > mailto:robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> wrote: > > On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into > Mate D

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread JD
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin wrote: > On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate > Desktop. > > > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? > > > > It my

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/23/2014 11:43 AM, Liam Proven wrote: Now let's assume we were both Japanese. Could we record and search accurately for a written sentence in English? Considering that most Japanese students study English in school? Probably. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 23 June 2014 20:33, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock >>> manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some >>> moronic number code? > > > Liam Proven: >> I know this was a rhetorical question, but: >> >> These days softwa

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock >> manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some >> moronic number code? Liam Proven: > I know this was a rhetorical question, but: > > These days software is expected to be localised into hundreds o

Re: yum update from 3.14.4 looks ok, but still stuck 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64

2014-06-23 Thread Jackson Byers
I doubt I still have both before and after grub.cfg I have no proof at all that grub2-mkconfig after each kernel update is needed. I got this from an old thread [including you Chris Murphy] [And specifically the combo command from Gilboa Davarra] I could easily have misinterpreted it. I did have

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 22 June 2014 17:04, Tim wrote: > Why the hell couldn't the > computer just have said to set the clock manually, since it couldn't > manage to do it itself, instead of some moronic number code? I know this was a rhetorical question, but: These days software is expected to be localised into h

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 06/23/2014 11:16 AM, Laing, Robin wrote: > Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping? My > keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function keys. Is > this being reset when Mate starts? > > > showkey can be used to see if they are working. > > On my keyboard, i

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread Dan Thurman
On 06/23/2014 12:59 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno sab, 21/06/2014 alle 17.44 -0700, Dan Thurman ha scritto: Clicking on [x] does not terminate the program but simply "hides" the GUI, by design. I known To show the GUI window, look for the Jitsi icon in the system tray, right click, and sel

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-23 Thread Laing, Robin
On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate Desktop. > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? > > It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen, Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO >

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread poma
On 23.06.2014 10:59, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: And when it's iconed, click or right click on the tray icon or in overview mode do nothings ... until HTML5 UI appears. :) What does this mean? Jitsi has got a users mailing list. I suggest you

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread poma
On 23.06.2014 10:07, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno dom, 22/06/2014 alle 07.03 +0200, poma ha scritto: Alt+F & Alt+Q Not work: I do not see any windows to do so. WTF!? :) $ export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel' $ jitsi Not work None happen

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:55:24 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > > > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my > > > local distribution center for delivery tomo

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:16:44 +1000 Roger wrote: > > > Hi Ranjan > > regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed > > Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the > > Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on > > Linux I inst

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my > > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will > > be here tomorrow. I had two questions: > >

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Roger
Hi Ranjan regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on Linux I installed VirtualBox and I made Windoze 7 to operate in VirtualBox. This

Re: Yum/dnf Search Functionality

2014-06-23 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On 06/23/2014 12:49 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I undertook a search for the string blueray in both yum and dnf and both, in my view, behaved strangely. From yum I received the following messages: yum search Blueray This doesn't deal with yum/dnf messages, but if you're lo

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: > And when it's iconed, click or right click on the tray icon or in overview > mode do nothings > >> ... until HTML5 UI appears. :) > What does this mean? Jitsi has got a users mailing list. I suggest you guys take your support questions there.

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno dom, 22/06/2014 alle 07.03 +0200, poma ha scritto: > Alt+F & Alt+Q Not work: I do not see any windows to do so. > $ export > _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel' > $ jitsi Not work None happened: I get this messages: > [lesca@dodo ~]$ rm -r

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno sab, 21/06/2014 alle 17.44 -0700, Dan Thurman ha scritto: > Clicking on [x] does not terminate the program > but simply "hides" the GUI, by design. I known > To show the GUI window, look for the Jitsi icon in > the system tray, right click, and select 'Show'. Not work. None happened >

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread fedora
On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will be here tomorrow. I had two questions: 1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not sure i