Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/06/16 14:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/05/2016 09:48 PM, Doug wrote: >> On 12/05/2016 03:29 PM, Tim wrote: >>> Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the CD. >>> /snip/ >> I have a CD with a fil

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 09:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/05/2016 03:29 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the CD. /snip/ I have a CD with a file on it that is not recognized by Linux, but Windows reads i

Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:16:14PM -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > > Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech > > software. > festival? Unfortunately, it's in really sad shape in Fedora, and needs a *lot* of work to fix. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader

Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/05/16 11:11, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech > software. festival? > espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. > > Much thanks, > > Max Pyziur > p...@brama.com >

Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech > software. > espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. Your best bet is probably FLITE (packaged in Fedora), or possibly Mimic (a fork o

Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Greetings, Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech software. espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Doug
On 12/05/2016 03:29 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the CD. /snip/ I have a CD with a file on it that is not recognized by Linux, but Windows reads it fine. I think maybe it was not "f

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/05/2016 01:22 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, John Pilkington sent: >> I don't really understand the wish to use dd for this. > > Because it used to work... And you were very fortunate to have that happen. As many others have pointed out, the CD-R/DVD-R drive must

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 01:22 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, John Pilkington sent: I don't really understand the wish to use dd for this. Because it used to work... I burn dvds from iso several times a week, using k3b in verify mode. FWIW the growisofs command it uses is appar

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 01:29 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the CD. That's the one part of this that I wouldn't have thought to be a problem. The ISO image being streamed to the disc has the be

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/04/2016 08:20 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities in the 70's, and linux since 1988/1989. Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I described.

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: > Also, I'm sure that dd is not going to run the finalizing step on the > CD. That's the one part of this that I wouldn't have thought to be a problem. The ISO image being streamed to the disc has the beginning, the middle, and the end, o

Re: setup for localhost web (PHP) development

2016-12-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, Gour sent: > I'm interested what would be recommended way to configure my desktop > machine as localhost for web (PHP) development? > > I've few entries like: > > 127.0.0.1 foo.local bar.local > > in my /etc/hosts in order to be able to access development

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 December 2016, John Pilkington sent: > I don't really understand the wish to use dd for this. Because it used to work... > I burn dvds from iso several times a week, using k3b in verify mode. > FWIW the growisofs command it uses is apparently: In essence I agree that a

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 11:45 AM, jd1008 wrote: dd does not HAVE to know ANYTHING about the layout. The layout is the format of the iso file which was created by the fedora project for f24 desktop release. I am amazed at the lack of technical knowledge on the part of every respondent to this problem. Who

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday 05 Dec 2016 12:27:37 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/05/2016 12:14 PM, Andy Paterson wrote: > > Its tiresome reading this kind of "gui mindness" > > Who is talking about a gui? Everyone in this thread has been talking > about command line tools. There have been mentions of the gui tools and

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 12:14 PM, Andy Paterson wrote: Its tiresome reading this kind of "gui mindness" Who is talking about a gui? Everyone in this thread has been talking about command line tools. There have been mentions of the gui tools and those are certainly the best method if you're running a

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Andy Paterson
On Monday 05 Dec 2016 20:09:58 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 19:20:28 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > > Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to > > > /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up > > > the device to burn discs "magic

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 12:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:43 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/05/2016 10:13 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 04:18 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect i

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 12:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 11:09 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: The safe cmdline way for burning discs has been "cdrecord" for many years. It may be that "dd" could write to special preformatted discs and possibly with hardware and media that would work together by

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 11:43 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 12/05/2016 10:13 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 04:18 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect it work and it shouldn't work. I haven't, eith

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 12:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 19:20:28 -0700, jd1008 wrote: Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up the device to burn discs "magically". Michael, Mich

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread jd1008
On 12/05/2016 10:13 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 04:18 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect it work and it shouldn't work. I haven't, either. But I'd be inclined to think tha

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 11:09 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: The safe cmdline way for burning discs has been "cdrecord" for many years. It may be that "dd" could write to special preformatted discs and possibly with hardware and media that would work together by default. I don't think it has ever been a full

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 19:20:28 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to > > /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up > > the device to burn discs "magically". > Michael, Michael... > I have no idea what you mean

Re: dnf fails to properly install httpd and progresql

2016-12-05 Thread Emmett Culley
On 12/05/2016 10:46 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > I just did a fresh install of fedora 25 via the KDE live image. After > booting I installed apache (httpd) and postgreSQL via yumex-dnf. Neither > will start. Apache because no apache user or group were created, and for > postgreSQL not postgresq

dnf fails to properly install httpd and progresql

2016-12-05 Thread Emmett Culley
I just did a fresh install of fedora 25 via the KDE live image. After booting I installed apache (httpd) and postgreSQL via yumex-dnf. Neither will start. Apache because no apache user or group were created, and for postgreSQL not postgresql.service file was created. No porgres user or group

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/12/16 17:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/05/2016 04:18 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect it work and it shouldn't work. I haven't, either. But I'd be inclined to think that it wo

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:17:40 -0500 On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:12:57PM -0700, stan wrote: > keymapping. That's a show stopper for me, since I haven't used qwerty > in so long that it's hunt and peck for me now. It seems that more and > more, Fedora is following the open source dictum, 'Release

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/05/2016 04:18 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect it work and it shouldn't work. I haven't, either. But I'd be inclined to think that it would. If your ISO file is simply an ima

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:12:57PM -0700, stan wrote: > keymapping. That's a show stopper for me, since I haven't used qwerty > in so long that it's hunt and peck for me now. It seems that more and > more, Fedora is following the open source dictum, 'Release early, > release often', and getting t

Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech software. espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: setup for localhost web (PHP) development

2016-12-05 Thread Bryon Adams
On 12/5/2016 09:13, Gour wrote: Hello, I'm interested what would be recommended way to configure my desktop machine as localhost for web (PHP) development? I've few entries like: 127.0.0.1 foo.local bar.local in my /etc/hosts in order to be able to access development sites via aliases, e.g. h

setup for localhost web (PHP) development

2016-12-05 Thread Gour
Hello, I'm interested what would be recommended way to configure my desktop machine as localhost for web (PHP) development? I've few entries like: 127.0.0.1 foo.local bar.local in my /etc/hosts in order to be able to access development sites via aliases, e.g. http://foo.local/ Moreover, I'd li

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Richard Shaw
An alternative is cdrskin which is part of the libburnia project which uses libburn. I've had good success with it burning both DVD's and Bluray discs. It has a cdrecord like command line interface. http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html Thanks, Richard

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2016, Samuel Sieb sent: > I haven't tried using dd to write an optical disk. I would not expect > it work and it shouldn't work. I haven't, either. But I'd be inclined to think that it would. If your ISO file is simply an image of what is going to burnt to di

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-05 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 05/12/16 08:38, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/05/2016 09:12 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 11:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/05/2016 09:12 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 11:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and also it does not default to the last user

Re: Fedora25: SDDM not showing NIS accounts

2016-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/04/2016 11:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 05/12/16 06:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/04/2016 07:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: In F25 the SDDM no longer shows a list of users when NIS (ypbind) is enabled and also it does not default to the last user logged in. kdm appears to be the same (with