Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 19:11 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Along with other suggestions, consider the support aspect. If they can't do it themselves, it's going to be you. Which distro can you put up with? Either working it for yourself, or finding a suppo

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 10/22/2014 09:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, > > in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her > > windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusabl

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings < cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote: > On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the > > nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this case > > it meant "Va

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the > nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this case > it meant "Valley Computer Club". This was when we used to wire-wrap our > own circuit boards and the Zilog Z8

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Isn't that what Ubuntu is for? I do not know as I have only installed it once for someone but have no idea about it's maintenance requirements. I recomend Ubuntu 14.04 it is very easy and has a 7 year life span. It's a one stop install from usb

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On 10/22/2014 07:39 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/22/2014 09:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. So, since she is not techn

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On 10/22/2014 09:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking of findin

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On 10/22/2014 07:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/22/2014 06:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Isn't that what Ubuntu is for? I do not know as I have only installed it once for someone but have no idea about it's maintenance requirements. -- users mailing list

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

On 10/22/2014 06:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: Any ideas what linux to use for such a person? Isn't that what Ubuntu is for? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

A Linux for the totally maintenance free

Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking of finding a linux distro that is practically sel

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

Mickey writes: > I don't have uefi on my box and I'am getting the same error message > that pops up in the Notification Jobs in my system tray. Did you answer to the wrong thread or to what message do you refer? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 22/10/14 22:07, Ted Roche wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Roger > wrote: Can someone please advise what's wrong and how to fix, hopefully without reinstalling. And if there is an apple forum similar to LUV or Community for Fedora Users Th

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD). Tom, you may find the discussion about windows passwords somewhat more off topic than my request? Just thinking. Roger -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 23/10/14 11:31, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/22/2014 05:21 PM, Roger issued this missive: On 23/10/14 09:16, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to Yosemite, which has nothing to do with L

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

Error is: ERROR 2002 Can't connect to local MYSQL through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) From installation instructions I did ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock which is no help. Error 2002 is usually a permissions/ownership problem. Try: cd /var/lib/mysql touch mysql.sock ch

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 10/22/2014 05:21 PM, Roger issued this missive: > On 23/10/14 09:16, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to >>> Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD)

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 23/10/14 09:16, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD). I suggest you look for Yosemite-specific help on the Apple for

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

On 10/22/2014 05:14 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: Chris Murphy writes: So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that it did not updat

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to > Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD). I > suggest you look for Yosemite-specific help on the Apple forums. Isn't LUV a mispelled

Re: XBMC Missing NFS Support

On 10/23/2014 01:27 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 10/21/2014 11:47 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to not have support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that is, or is it the case that in order to get it I have

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

Chris Murphy writes: So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that it did not update grub from the beginning. Maybe I make a switch

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

On Oct 22, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > >> >> Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of >> these things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs >> doesn't do anything differently than other filesystems in this reg

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

OK... thank you very much to all Angelo On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 22 October 2014 10:41, Angelo Moreschini > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am able to backup files with this command: > > rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels > > > > but I am n

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On 10/22/14 23:13, R. G. Newbury wrote: > On 22/10/14 08:00 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >> Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:23:40 +0800 From: Ed Greshko >>> >On 10/22/2014 11:41 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >>I would like to know how to start this command (after it is

Re: Browsing Insecurity

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:04:20 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > is much worse than I thought :) > > See > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/22/ canvas_fingerprinting_is_privacy_pirates_new_web_weapon/ > > I wonder if web browser developers will do something to counteract this > attack on privacy.

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 11:34 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > My wife's MacAir is a black box to me too. I have NO idea how > services > are started on a Mac. Google may be your friend. AFAIK it uses something called launchd, but that's about it. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On 22/10/14 06:56 AM, Roger wrote: Error is: ERROR 2002 Can't connect to local MYSQL through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) From installation instructions I did ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock which is no help. Error 2002 is usually a permissions/ownership problem. Try: c

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On 22/10/14 08:00 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:23:40 +0800 From: Ed Greshko >On 10/22/2014 11:41 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >>I would like to know how to start this command (after it is inside a shell >>script) at the boot. >Did you tr

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

Chris Murphy writes: > > Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of > these things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs > doesn't do anything differently than other filesystems in this regard, > which is exactly nothing. It all depends on an earlier to

Re: XBMC Missing NFS Support

On 10/21/2014 11:47 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to not have support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that is, or is it the case that in order to get it I have to compile libnfs? The library[1] that XBMC requires

Re: Password Needed

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:57:25PM +1030, Tim wrote: > Not that I have a great deal to do with Microsoft products, their use > and abuse thereof, anymore, but I was sure that when my friend fairly > recently registered his Windows installation, there were some names, > numbers, and/or addresses, in

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On 22 October 2014 10:41, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > I am able to backup files with this command: > rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels > > but I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup > > I tried in many different way: > > rsync -av --delet

Re: Password Needed

Tim: >> You should say whether you're wanting to keep that Windows installation >> (which could be a problem in itself, as it's registered to someone else, >> using their details, and you may need to keep supplying those details >> over time), ... Dave Ihnat: > Actually, not. Microsoft doesn't ca

Re: Password Needed

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 06:01:27PM +1030, Tim wrote: > You should say whether you're wanting to keep that Windows installation > (which could be a problem in itself, as it's registered to someone else, > using their details, and you may need to keep supplying those details > over time), ... Actual

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I am able to backup files with this command:  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels but I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup I tried in many different way:  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On 10/22/14 17:48, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 10/22/2014 11:41 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: >> I would like to know how to start this command (after it is inside a shell >> script) at the boot. > Did you try /etc/rc.local? For the most recent versions of Fedora that has changed. It is now, /etc/r

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Roger wrote: > > Can someone please advise what's wrong and how to fix, hopefully without > reinstalling. And if there is an apple forum similar to LUV or Community > for Fedora Users > Thanks in advance A quick web search suggests there are several threads on

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 12:48 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I would like ALSO to know how to start AUTOMATICALLY, at the boot, > this > command (after that it is inside a shell script) > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Angelo Moreschini < > mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Notification Process Doesn't Show Progress

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 15:39 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Stephen Morris > wrote: > > How do I get this app to show the real progress, instead of its currently > > functionality of only notifying when the process has actually completed? > > That sounds like a bu

Re: Extremely Off Topic -- but!

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:00 +1100, Roger wrote: > I've been using Linuxen, mainly Fedora, for many years so am familiar > with Nix command line. > Recently I was provided a new Apple Macbook Pro to be used to develop > specific apps for the App store. > > Following a tutorial on computersnyou.co

Re: Notification Process Doesn't Show Progress

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: > How do I get this app to show the real progress, instead of its currently > functionality of only notifying when the process has actually completed? That sounds like a bug to me. You may file a bug at https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?pro

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

On 10/22/2014 11:41 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > I am able to backup files with this command: > rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels > > but *I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup* > > I tried in many different way: > > rsync -av --de

Re: selecting some kind of files using the resync command

I would like ALSO to know how to start AUTOMATICALLY, at the boot, this command (after that it is inside a shell script) On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Angelo Moreschini < mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am able to backup files with this command: > rsync -av --delete /home/pro

selecting some kind of files using the resync command

Hi, I am able to backup files with this command: rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels but *I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup* I tried in many different way: rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels/*.java /media/saved_lab rsync -avr --d

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

Allegedly, on or about 20 October 2014, Angelo Moreschini sent: > I answer to J.Witvlie that I don't know what are NAS-box. > For what I saw now on Internet I don't think I need it.. > My problem is simple enough: > I just want to protect themselves from the possibility of losing data. > I use a pr

Re: Password Needed

Allegedly, on or about 20 October 2014, Bill Kuns sent: > I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the > machine, it asks for a password. I don't have that password. What > can I do to use the machine? You should say whether you're wanting to keep that Windows installation (wh