Temlakos wrote:
>Everyone:
>
>I'm trying to sort out the rumors I've heard. Among other things: that
>using a Live Spin CD on an existing Fedora system is not safe, and will
>
>destroy all data.
>
>Has that actually happened to anyone here?
Just running it no - updating always has a tiny risk.
> My question is only for know how to re-enable this basic function, or
> hear me say: "we have temporarily disabled it, in a future release
> return..."
It was removed intentionally, like a lot of the other stuff that was
useful. This is why things like cinammon exist - a lot of people who had
en
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:21:37 +0100
Dario Lesca wrote:
> Nautilus 3.6.x ...
>
> The [+] to the left of the folders in "view item as a list" mode is
> gone
>
> The total disk free space in bottom status bar, when click on blank
> zone, is gone
>
> The function menu is gone (to top left,
> I'm facing ALL the new changes you mentioned and, since I'm already
> feeling overwhelmed, I decided to skip the learning of some new stuff
> for later:
If you are trying to keep a system running to get work done without big
changes you want Centos rather than Fedora - definitely. That or
somet
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:03:48 +0200
Cristian Sava wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up.
> >
> > You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14
You can also upgrade using yum... which right now appears the only tested way
to do it.
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Lots of routers don't broadcast and whoever is installing it may not control
that. It's broken, just as not showing which disk is which is broken. Its a new
installer, crap happens, but pretending its not a bug isn't remotely useful.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:17:28 -0600
janeth lorena contreras paz wrote:
>
> The problem That I have is, I am use Fedora 17 and it works fine,download
> fedora 18 xfce 32 bit, from the website of fedora check withchecksum, and is
> all right.restart with the live CD and it works fine, but when in
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:58:31 -0300
Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Is there any FOSS bitmap editor with a command line, allowing me to
> experiment with, for instance, the circle drawing function and specify
> the circle´s position on screen, and size (radius)?.
>
> Suppose you need to take a given bit
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:29:05 -0800
Thomas Dineen wrote:
> Gentle People:
>
> My suggestion: Use Fedora 14 and immediately load all updates.
Which leaves you with a system that is dangerously insecure
If you want to run a long term Fedora like system from that era you want
to be running C
The MAC has to be *host* unique not port unique. Thus some old SPARC boxes have
one Mac for all the ports. Many Ethernet bridges also do the same trick.
There are examples of duplicate mac addresses on plug in cards but those are
errors and shouldn't occur.
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:16:06 -0500
"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote:
> I've installed "calibre" which I think can display an ebook file.
> Now it appears that I need an adobe application to actually download
> the book file however all I see is applications for PC, Mac, and
>
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0600 (CST)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote:
>
> > Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way.
>
> Actually, it's even easier.
> NICs come with built-in six-byte MAC adddresses
> that are supposed to be uniq
>
> 2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the
> boundaries of menu
> entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that
> has lost horizontal
> sync.
>
> 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point
> of being unre
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:12:43 +0900
Joel Rees wrote:
> Never mind.
>
> I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in
> a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there.
If you are trying to keep /usr separate the "where to go" answer I'm
afraid is most probably Mint
> Linux is the kernel, not the userland. So for "most" intents, yes,
> Android is linux.
There are some measurable differences, there is an ongoing attempt to
re-unify them.
> Additionally, ZDNET is the "fawks news" of the internet. Try to take
> anything they post with a few kilos of salt.
The
> > A block dump doesn't even guarantee you can restore the volume unless its
> > an atomic snapshot of everything involved, including journals if they are
> > on another device.
>
> Commercial tools promise this ability. How do they get the block-to-file
> mapping to do the restore? I was lookin
> So I should stop being lasy and start learning and configuring Amanda or
> Bacula if I want something more manageable than my homemade scripts? ;-)
Or turn your scripts into a product 8)
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> backups using dump, dd, and some LVM or ext utility? Maybe using
> inotify? Why no open source backup tool seems to be doing this?
Because it turns out to be a dumb way of trying to do it. It's also near
impossible to get a consistent image. Plus it's becoming clear that
"block device" as a con
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:37:17 +0900
nomnex wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:32:38 +0100
> > Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps you
> > refer to Secure Boot but didn't mention it in your post?
>
> Thanks to point out my mistake. I was referring to M$ implementation of
> the Secure Boot
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:59:28 +0100
Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have now migrated to Fedora 17 (clean install) and configured and
> installed most of what I need. Though I think everything looks very
> good my computer is considerably less responsive than under fedora 13.
> I haven't worked t
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:15:51 -0500
Jim wrote:
> I noticed that the new TV's are using HDMI and no longer VGA for Video in.
> Does the HDMI work ok in Fedora to HDTV.
On most video cards yes
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:00:14 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 12/03/2012 08:45 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:42:39 -0500
> > Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> >> I want to put an interenal 1TB SATA drive in a box that only has
> >> IDE interface.
> > If you have a spare pci
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:08:12 -0600
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Looks like Gnome is doing the same thing that Microsoft did after XP. I
> can no longer set nautilus so that when I double click on a directory,
> it opens up with the filesystem tree in the left pane, and the contents
> of my director
> You used a technical term incorrectly. How is it a waste of bandwidth
> to correct you and show you how it should be used? Or is it simply that
> you don't want to learn to use it correctly?
Well you please take your pointless arguing somewhere else. Especially if
you are going to start sent
> What is the native resolution of the HDTV? As far as I know, Xorg
> defaults to an extend display setup when booted with multiple displays
> connected. Also it doesn't do well with unequally sized displays. I'm
> thinking maybe the HDTV resolution is much larger than the two regular
> displays
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:34:59 -0700
JD wrote:
> which info retrieved by sdparam or hdparam would indicate
> that the drive is reaching it's EOL.
You want the smart health test man smartctl. I suspect --health is what
you are looking for ?
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> Fedora 17? The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat
> better than you report.
With a keyboard permanently attached ...
> I might as well stay with Android. I actually have to start working
> with it for my day job. I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my
> research is
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:36:41 -0500
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am debating getting a netbook to replace my ee701 as a sometime
> machine or a tablet. There are a number of options but basically it
> comes down to what this second device is for.
>
> What is the progress of Fedora on 'cheap' ta
> of disk to respond to host query to identify itself
> or to host
> query to report it's DMA status??
> Please have a look at the error messages I had posted at
> http://www.sendspace.com/file/761te2
The trace clearly shows its bust or the cables are or similar. It's not a
"write protect" its si
> > Because the syslog interface isn't secure.
>
> How come? Only root can read the logfile.
The logging interface is not secure, it provides a generic path for
anyone to log stuff.
> Well I can't predict the future. What does mcelog actually do to
> prevent hardware problems or to make the s
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:44 -0700
JD wrote:
> Is there a system util to use to issue
> a command to a hard drive to remove
> write protect?
> I had thought hdparm might do it, but
> the man page makes no mention of such
> feature in hdparm.
SATA or some kind of USB thing ?
If its SATA I'm not
> If the cardbus esata adapter were having HW problems, what sort
> of errors should I see in the system log regarding that card?
Hard to tell - really there is nothing there to identify the root cause.
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> And I still don't see what makes the light of the onboard SATA
> controllers flash all the time. Why is it flashing though nothing
> connected to the controllers is mounted? See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878042
Ask the hardware vendor - the LED is not software controlled.
-
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:09:38 -0700
JD wrote:
> I am getting lots of ata3 and ata4 errors in the system log.
> In spite of these errors, when I unmount the partitions of both drives
> and I fsck every partition, no errors are found.
> The out of dmesg with the errors is at
> http://www.sendspace.c
> Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a
> simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing.
>
> Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others.
The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of them certainly do care
or collate reports. The
> saturates the single lane at 480 MByte/sec. I'm assuming (perhaps
> incorrectly) that the controller is choking when it receives more data
> from the SATA than it can transmit on the PCIE.
The link has hardware flow control, whether the end result of saturating
the link is poorer performance th
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:43:29 -0800
"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote:
>
> Can someone familiar with how the AHCI driver works confirm that data
> overruns on a SATA link can cause the driver to down-shift the SATA
> speed 6->3->1.5 Gbits/sec. I don't see any kprintf's but I notice that
> a high spe
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:03:36 +
mike lan wrote:
> i give one example of a site made in drupal :
> drupalfr.org
>
> notice the fields login and password on the left side bar
It will depend on the exact fonts you have on each system. You should
size by font anyway because the user may have larg
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:55:28 -0400
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:37:56PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Fedora isn't aimed at "end users".
> > > Sure it is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
> > It may be written so but in
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:03:42 -0400
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 01:20:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Fedora isn't aimed at "end users".
>
> Sure it is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
It may be written so but in that case then the curr
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:55:28 +1100
Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm seeing that Fedora 18 has been delayed 5 times already, and this post
> from Michael isn't looking too good either:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxODk
>
>
> Distro like Ubuntu and Suse almos
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:45:21 +
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> My system already had one serial port, ttyS0 which is working.
>
> I've installed a Dynamode 2-port serial card and the kernel sees the two
> ports. This provides two ports is:
>
> PCI Spec Revision 2 compliant
> Compatible with 16C550
> So... Am I OK or an Deep S**t? Reallocated Sector Count is 0. Good?
You are fine. Ask the drive to be absolutely sure. But not by looking at
SMART numbers and pretending to understand them but by asking the drive
its health report
smartctl --health /dev/whatever
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> Beg to differ. Remember, drives have reserved storage to remap bad sectors
> *before* you ever see a bad sector at the interface. So, by the time you
> think you're seeing only 8 bad sectors, you've actually burned through
> the reserved sectors--many more have failed than you realize.
Complet
I do almost all my CAD work these days using OpenSCAD/ImplicitCAD etc.
However if you are not coming from a programming background they will I
suspect throw you completely.
It's possible to use blender for this kind of stuff, particularly visuals
but it's not really good for doing the actual desi
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:33:55 +0200
Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 27.10.2012 01:29, schrieb Steven Stern:
> > Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> > Smartctl tells me the problem is at LBA 2014551336 (this is a 2TB disk)
>
> sounds bad
>
> > Here's the question: If I just
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:14:36 -0300
Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > I don't know any serious games producer who considers Java anything but a
> > comedy item.
>
>
> Oh RLY? I expected that sort of prejudice
> In my humble opinion (humble but strong ;)... that´s what Java is for.
> :) to isolate app development from the underlying complexities of each
> system. With OpenJDK 7 on almost every distro, soon OpenJDK 8, and JavaFX
> -soon to be fully open source, see below- things will only get better.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:11:29 +1100
Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> Many people say that the biggest holdup in Linux gaming is graphics system.
> But if there are plethora of games for OS X (which is UNIX and uses Open GL)
> then why there just isn't enough games for Linux?
>
>
> Sound? Different DE?
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:13:32 -0600
JD wrote:
> # hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0
>
> /dev/sr0:
> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> So, could someone please advise how to enable DMA
> for the cd/d
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:05:36 +0200
Patrick Lists wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> [snip]
> > I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting.
> >
> > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland?
>
> I'm not a developer but my g
> You can turn on "BSD Process Accounting" (which is in the kernel for
> Fedora) in the system profile. This causes the kernel to dump a record
> for each process spawned into the system logs. You will want to install
> and use a tool to analyze the logs and keep them to a reasonable size.
BSD a
> Recent versions of bash can also be compiled with syslog support by
> defining SYSLOG_HISTORY but if your users are hooked on tcsh that
> probably won't help (I don't think it's enabled in the Fedora builds
> anyway).
And any remotely malicious intending user will simply go into vi, set the
vi s
> % grub2-install /dev/sda.(There is no grub-install)
>
> /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: this LDM has no Embedding
> Partition; embedding won't be possible.
>
> /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not
> possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using
> blocklis
> If I were to write a book, or paint a picture, or create a poster, or,
> by any other creative means, produce some product from my efforts it is
> my right to decide how, when, or if, I choose to distribute, transfer,
> or share said product.
Actually it's not. Even in the US. If you paint a
> I really don't think Linux or GNU or any FOSS could exist in a purely
> communistic society or even a plain old tyranny like Bobby Mugabe-land.
It manages to exist in the USSA ;)
If you look at Linux contributions they come from everywhere. The core of
the network routing code was written by Ru
> Well said!That being said I have a "stoopid" question: Will
> there ever be a time when vendors will sell "Fedora" equipped laptops /
> desktops / servers?.just curious is allas opposed to having to
> buy the hardware and then install Fedora yourself that is...
I would be surp
> Hw, if there is no incentive to do something, why bother to do it? That
> dirty rotten awful stinky evil capitalism provides the incentive. If I
> don't get something additional out of working hard, I don't work hard -
> indeed, why should I bother to work at all?
If nobody needs to work why bot
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:05:38 -0400
Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 10/02/2012 04:18 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> >> So final users would have had the best hardware running the best drivers
> >> (open source too).
> >> This is something which must no
Another factor is that the drivers may contain a lot of clever stuff. A
long time back one of the problems raised was that vendor A had the
better hardware but vendor B the better drivers. Vendor B's product won
all the benchmarks. If they open sourced it then vendor A would duly have
borrowed all
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400
"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote:
> Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my
> birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to
> install Fedora on the tablet?
That will depend if its unlocked, if there is a
> But it IS possible no?..providing one has the required information
> about how to do it?
Clearly because the firmware vendors do it but with access to all the
needed documentation and signing arrangements that may be present.
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:10:00 -0400
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:06:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On ARM systems the requirement is the reverse - it must not be possible
> > to disable it, so those devices will be locked to Windows if shipped that
> >
> So then basically there's no REAL way to get a "modern" PC / laptop WITHOUT
> this UEFI on it? Right? And the only way to be able to iunstall/boot
> another OS would be to turn the UEFI offbut without the proper
> keythat is impossible? Just trying to understand what this means when
> it'
> In that case, I feel that many people will start building open source
> bioses for a limited set of mobos. They will provide the software to
> burn the bios into the mobo's eeprom or will even sell mobo's which
> them modify and install their own bios prom on. I think nature abhors
> vaccum.
Th
> The question I have is, can the buyer simply choose NOT to
> use uefi (i.e. blow it off the system) and boot any OS of choice
> which will not insist on the presence of any UEFI?
No.
> I think the answer to this question is more important as it provides
> an "opt-out" choice to the consumer.
T
> The proper way to do this is to issue a unique key for each board
> that has the private signing key included for the users who wish to
> add personally signed software. Their key does not work on any other
> machine, of course. Distros could sign their material. And if the user
> wishes to recom
The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets
steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but
the update stuff not so.
A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions
on updating via yum. Follow all the steps listed in order. 1
> Re. your guess: Does it make sense to try downgrading something specific
> besides the kernel to F17-release?
Or possible upgrading. I forget when the second fix was put in. It may
also depend on the problem with the device.
It looks like it gives different answers to its size depending upon wh
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:42:40 +0900
nomnex wrote:
> Fedora 15 XFCE (the file manager is Thunar). I use an external USB HD
> (formatted Ext4, same as my system) to backup my system. The drive
> auto-mounts when I turn the notebook on.
>
> I violently pulled the USB cable by accident. Both the drive
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:57:08 +0200
Michael J Gruber wrote:
> F17 with current updates gets the sector count wrong (too large by 5)
> for my SSD (Jetflash USB), resulting in read errors (during boot, fdisk
> reading the disk etc.) for those sectors. While everything "seems to
> work" this is not O
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:57:48 +0200
Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> a general question: anybody knows whether it's possible to have access
> to the mail spool directory /var/spool/mail/ with thunderbird
> so I have a unique interface to read external and internal emails?
You can certainly ru
> I'v got a tablet as well I'd love to put linux on, but during my
> investigations into the subject there doesn't appear to any graphics drivers
> for a tablet screen, which is why the current ubuntu on android uses vnc to
> access it.
The tablet graphics devices are no different to any others
> No idea if newer Linux AVs are using other tricks for on-access file
> scanning
The kernel has the needed bits included nowdays. It turns out that
done right its useful for some other things too such as heirarchical
storage systems.
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:40:50 -0400
Doug wrote:
> On 08/31/2012 08:55 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4.
> > I find this works about 20% of the time.
Rather odd - alt-gr should be mapped to the right shift on a US keyboard
I belie
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:11:59 +0200
Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> trying to get addons in thunderbird (14.0, Fedora17) gives an error
> message:
Looks fine from here.. something funny your end or your ISP ?
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> work with the Program" and I was just speaking about what I heard and
> read about "delisenced kernel headers" in android.
Which is rubbish - beware of junk spouted by PR people involved in
lawsuits. The are paid to dissemble, deceived and damage.
> unfortunately I disagree with you, there migh
> Suggested naming convention was invented by pioneers of Free Software
> to show the role of GNU and free software philosophy in creation of a
> free community-based "Operating System". they want to show OS (not
> kernel) as a representer of Free Software.
Free software is a good thirty years old
> in my opinion Linux couldn't and still cannot exist without certain
> parts of gnu project including software and licenses, especially gcc,
> glibc, gpl and lgpl. and that's true for android too, unless it uses
> kernel header's without gpl licensing instead of glibc.
At the time Linux was creat
> However, the kernel was far less successful. Despite the claims
> of "superior architecture", Hurd has never caught on; almost every
> implementation you'll run into (I'd say 'every', but someone would come
> up with John Drutin's Distro as a counter-example) uses the Linux kernel
> and GNU libr
> What is the real difference between i386 and x86?
i386 is an Intel brand, x86 is a term folks use generically for those
32bit processors.
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> This is well known issue. The missing space is occupied by the page table
> index. When pages are 4k in size you need a lot of table entries to describe
> a full 4 gigabytes, like a million of them. Linux seems to have optimized
> this a little. Windows loses a bit more memory, if I recall correc
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:16:01 +0200
Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 16.07.2012 02:14, schrieb Martín Marqués:
> > I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one.
> > Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory.
> >
> > Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:03:38 +
"Errol Mangwiro " wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I started receiving bounces from mail purporting to having been sent
> from addresses in my domain. But the addresses don't exist. So I thought that
> someone was faking the sender header and sending spam. I added SP
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:27:34 -0500
Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Once, long ago--actually, on Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 02:54:11PM +0200--Reindl
> Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) said:
> > Micorsoft is NOT in teh position to close the x86 market only for
> > them because if the would try it history repeats and
> I've been using the Internet since when it was Arpanet.
Thats a long time not to have learned when to take stuff off list as a
matter of good manners.
Alan
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> Is this a problem with desktop, the kernel, or the udevd?
Maybe, maybe not. You don't include enough information even speculate
After the second mount look in dmesg, see if there are any USB errors
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:16:18 +0200
Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> If you, like me, spend long hours at night in front of the screen, please
> do yourself a favor and install the Redshift package immediately.
I've yet to see any data saying it has any medically measurable effect,
while taking a br
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:04:27 +0100
Ian Malone wrote:
> On 1 July 2012 15:20, Tim wrote:
>
> > On that note, I've often wondered how systems that look at a file's GMT
> > datestamp and tell you that time translated into your local time, cope
> > with datestamps from a long way away, when timezone
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
"Max Pyziur" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS in
> upgrading machines.
>
> I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot
> partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Cons
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:45:40 -0400
"Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I" wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew of a program, or command that give
> you a "scan" of your memory running on your system? Preferably, it
> should also give you stats as to what KIND of memory you have, the
>
> I would imagine that those 3.0 ports are backward compatible with USB-2
> devices.
Yes - although you find the odd device that at the hardware level refuses
to play. Pretty much all boards have a mix of USB-3 and USB-2 only ports
for this reason and for pricing reasons.
Alan
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> Judging only from that article, it looks as though Microsoft is trying
> to reinvent the Unity Desktop.
Unity is just a bad re-invention of Windowmaker anyway.
Windows 8 actually looks more like the Nintendo Wii than anything else
I've seen - with the "tiles" and the fact some tiles update the
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:27:25 -0400
Jim wrote:
> Is Fedora 17 compatible with USB-3.0 ?
The Fedora 17 kernel is new enough to do USB 3.0 (XHCI) properly.
Alan
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> I have been used to using XDMCP with *nix systems for years it seems a
> pity to remove the function that could/might be kept. I could ask the
> question the other way, how does removing XDMCP functionality further
> Fedora's cause?
It's not a Fedora thing, it's a Gnome thing. Fedora ships se
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:27:34 +0100
Ken Smith wrote:
> Hi, I in danger of making this a rant, but is XDMCP no longer something
> that Fedora supports?
It's not properly been supported in Fedora for years but it does work
most releases.
See
/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-upstream-settings
then go read
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:45:15 +0100
Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi, has anyone else seen this? Since installing F17 (probably the
> first clean fedora install I've done since single digits), I get a
> flickering mouse pointer when the system is busy. This might be
> related to the fact the mouse pointer h
> I have a different theory:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/gnome3-rant.html
I wouldn't mind if Gnome 3 was more like that, after all Unity is just a
very bad re-interpretation of Windowmaker.
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:25:44 -0700
Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 10:20 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Probably by arguing that 99.99% of users who don't actually care won't
> > be part of the noise. Which I think is a fair point.
>
> So, what you're saying is, G
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