Re: Fedora & Android

2015-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
aven't put much effort into finding the details. I'm more about works than ease of use and features. Both are desirable, but if I must choose I pass on debugging. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wic

Re: palimpsest - is there a replacement

2014-12-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default

palimpsest - is there a replacement

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
at most any two servers alike. They bought what IBM told them was the best buy, some have hardware RAID, some software RAID, some whatever dm sets up. There must be some visualization tool, right? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned

A first in bug reporting

2014-12-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
bug while reporting another before, and I go back to Redhat desktop 6 or so. Just a fun thing for me, trying fc21 on a weekend instead of having time off. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned numbers may be less than zero for suffie

Re: Fedora 21 64bit ram usage

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
0:02.61 mate-terminal In short, with a terminal and system monitor running, I see no excessive memory or CPU usage. If you are seeing a real symptom, something other than fc21 is involved. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

Re: Xfce and the windows key

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Why is an undocumented executable included in fc21 at all? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/15/2014 08:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I've always called systemd the world's fist computer fungus - it wants to grow over everything. Resistance is futile! Your functionality will be assimilated. Or in this case approximated. -- Bill Davidsen "We ha

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
good reason for systemd to grow its own. More bloat to fail, it may come as a shock, but there are computers running Linux and not network connected at all (as in no NIC devices). Bloat for no benefit. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-11-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: David A. De Graaf wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:19:55PM -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:01:30AM +0930, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Cables are often the source of weird problems. Specifically it&#

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-11-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
hat, I mention it. My sample size (one) is pretty small. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ache/yum, then offer to complete as part of the shutdown: yum -y upgrade && yum clean all Just a thought, I run the upgrade by hand, but the download once a day, or on boot, depending on the machine being up. Since the upgrade can end in a power off, the user need not wait until the p

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ll all of these a tie on CPU, I'm tempted to call memory a tie, too, if it's really tight the 32bit release will make some difference. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from S

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/28/14 11:37, jd1008 wrote: Oooops! I do not have your public key :) :) So, it all looks like greek to me Sent in error from my tablet courtesy of Mei-Mei.a cat. I have sent many things like that, and cats regularly contribute to my chat activities. -- Bill

Re: rc.local not start at the boot

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ed end" Then you have a trail in the system log which you can find: grep rc.local /var/log/messages You can still put errors from a command in a file of its own, if that provides documentation, but the note in the log remains you it failed. Hope this is going to help the original prob

Re: Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:10 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: 2 - is it as easy as removing firewalld and installing networkmanager with yum? They have nothing to do with one another as far as I know. Just copy your /etc/sysconfig/iptables (and ip6tables) from your old system

Re: Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:45:10AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a complex firewall setup running on an older version of Fedora, and I'd like to upgrade to RHEL7 or recent Fedora. Unfortunately, I can't really do what I need using firewalld, so two question

Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
urce route like BSD, I can't just set the source IP and have the packet go out the right interface, hoops must be jumped. Any experience to share? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned numbers may be less than zero for suffie

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
would not wish Ubuntu on anyone, and GNOME3 doesn't think the way I do, although the new interface is less bad. Mint rocks. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- user

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
model isn't done, I don't know). In any case, there would not be any such drivers if there is no 32bit kernel to build against, would there. Using a driver built against another kernel is too risky to contemplate someone deliberately making that a production case (I hope). -- Bill

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: bitlord wrote: This is about Fedora 21 which is still not released!!! Please read carefully. And it is only default on Workstation image (that is what I know) Thank you for the

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ion out another five years will let people skip systemd and go to the next big thing (possibly fatsock from CMU, however they do odd capitalization). Like many things it is a huge server solution fitted awkwardly to medium servers, introducing a high complexity to benefit ratio. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
guage, I learned some basics from reading/writing/listening, so, sorry for mistakes) [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135777 [3] - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1337 -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fro

Re: Convert MP4 video file to Image file

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
e digging out a backup copy some day. So dvdstyler will handle a reasonable amount of menu complexity, and will accept as input a number of file formats, I think including mp4, although I have none handy to check my memory. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: Convert MP4 video file to Image file

2014-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
-- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: F20 is fubar

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
typical mixed bag of a corporate environment. Glad to know everything is working now. Chris Murphy -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: 4 USB TTL uarts on a USB hub - keeping them straight

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
le in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-{something}.rules and that always gave the right names to the same devices. I saw this in action, but I didn't set it up, I'm still looking for an easy to understand doc on multiple monitor setup, because I do it at most once a year when I get paid

Re: systemd never starts ntpd.service even though it is enabled

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
failed Have to look and see how hard it is to go back to sysvinit, which is dumb but reliable within its limited capabilities. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing

Re: HD Video editing

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
keeping the sound and audio in sync, ffmpeg with async option comes right behind, and has some offset options which are sometimes helpful if the out of sync is a constant in the source material. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: HD Video editing

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
tch some finicky player like early video iPods. Alternately you can look at ffmpeg. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
e went down when working from home. The laptop was trying to mate with the phone. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: High CPU usage, load average and system temperature

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ou can feel as if you now know it not something running hidden in the background and doing something you don't see. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list us

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

2014-06-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
confused souls using skype? Ranjan Jitsi certainly supports SIP. ;) Sorry, poma: I don't know what SIP means. THis is you, but you have to be less cryptic for me to make sense!:-) Or you could broaden your understanding with Google or wikipedia... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
'm doing the install. Because of the write speed of USB sticks, I find that's a good way to do a portable install as well, create a drive image and install on that. When done, then you just copy to the USB stick. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incomp

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
to imagine me staring at you with a look of "really?" Because this much effort complaining yet no bug report? How exactly do you expect it to get better? I've been a user since fc3 or 4, and I have learned that complaints about design issues are treated as suggestions for future enhanc

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
to start services on the VM, dhcp, mail, nntp, dns, pop, etc. - can include dedicated user machine or app, network mounting other partitions as needed. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
, I have taken to install with a dummy user, then edit fstab to get the /home mount, then mounting, then adding the user(s) with the UID they need to have and using the existing home directory for each. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent tha

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
stall means a good default, and clear unambiguous ways to do complex configurations. Note, I don't suggest that "simple" or "easy" are requirements, but ways to see the raw hardware clearly and tell the OS how to utilize it seem to fit "unambiguous" perfe

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
the hub are "spokes" which are paths for various things like "Time & Date" and "Keyboard" and "Installation Destination". In English we would call that a "menu item" -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompe

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

2014-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
nts. Thanks for listening. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
admins do a lot of installs, at peak I doubt I did more than 30 a year, and almost all servers, so few will be install gurus. If Fedora is to be the icebreaker for RHEL, it has to be better. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: no default mta [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
AR superior to me having to plow through the logs to see if it ran correctly or not. In general I like logs, but that's me. That way I can go through and get what I want with perl, or grep, or sed, or whatever I need. Easier than making emails recombine for a moving overview. -- Bill Davids

Re: IPv6 mtu restriction

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ork due to firewall. See 'man route' mss section for some discussion. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: poweroff command reboots?

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
. I am unsure whats causing this or how to go about finding the cause, I am not sure if its something I have done when I installed fedora or not. Pressing the power button on the front of my cause also makes the system reboot and not shutdown as expected. Thanks Daniel. -- Bill Davidsen &qu

Re: Fedup Failure

2014-01-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
that makes every future upgrade or update faster, as any package I download is only pulled once. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: failed updates

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
o you never see the problem.My problem was that I do have IPv6, but got it by getting a cheap (ie. slow) connection from a 2nd ISP. So yum uses IPv6 at 1Mbit instead of IPv4 at 20Mbit. Really slow updates until I shut down IPv6 during upgrades. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
nes Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
in your .fonts directory -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
-- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKqYJkACgkQ404fl/0CV/RyVACgzzsXcWfi3efH9pd7kdj+G/Mq jOsAoLGutetMqZDlP6jH4qLbHkQVVMmX =fSMA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from th

Re: yum update

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
b, time usuall fixes the issue. Yes, I know, not in all cases... Stuff you may want to use more often: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ -> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/nx-libs http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/nx-libs -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Post upgrade woes

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
27;t find where to install or configure alternate boot animations. Can someone point me to the info, or even give me a search string which will find it in either google or fedora wiki? Q2: is there a way to make fedora-upgrade use an iso (I did a hack so I could specify). -- Bill Davidsen &qu

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
GNOME, or install from command line. And there should be a WARNING at install time if the video hardware is questionable, suggesting installing another DE first. Once you can see the screen you can take it from there, experience is needed otherwise. I still find about 40-60% of my machines us

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ounded as if we ere asking for more than warning the user if GNOME won't work. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
XFCE will install, that's all we need. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts. That's especially

Re: Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Suvayu Ali wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:05:17PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Is there a better way than fedup, and why is it so slow? The last few upgrades, I went by the yum method. Despite all the warnings on the wiki, this seems to be the smoothest of all upgrade methods I have tried

Re: Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
David wrote: On 11/22/2013 7:05 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: NOTE: an early draft of this question was sent somehow, ignore it I have has miserable luck with fedup, is there a better way, anything? I really don't want to leave this machine down for days, and the 18->19 on a test machine to

Re: WTF happened to ssh?

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
e you change or invalidate the key, not using a key for more than one computer? Can I suggest that, please? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
cfg file after each time a kernel is updated, to get it to work sensibly. Why in hell is there no "default" line saying what you want, or is there somewhere and I haven't stumbled on it because a kernel update doesn't set that? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ought, -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
which changes every time the machine gets shuffled a bit. Is there a better way than fedup, and why is it so slow? -- Bill Davidsen "'Nothing to hide' does not imply 'nothing to fear'" - me "AT&T could not seriously contend that a reasonable en

Better way to upgrade fc8->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
a better way? -- Bill Davidsen "'Nothing to hide' does not imply 'nothing to fear'" - me "AT&T could not seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal." -jud

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

2013-11-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
at change, reenabling the ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 curves, in fact fixes the problem, since my ECDSA key is actually a 521 bit key. Policy to use those, or are you in the "more secure" camp on curves vs. legacy public keys? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of th

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
ess anywhere in linux. Gnome 3 is working hard to catch up, but even it has a long way to go before reaching the depth that unity has sunk to. GNOME3 is a badly written video game, hard to play, little benefit to experience, and no treasure anywhere. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
styled release. which has *nothing* to do with "the darker side of the Internet" it's a matter of expierience and qualification There are a lot of people who don't want "experience and qualifications," they want to use the computer. I really find Mint is the idea

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
there are apps which are useful. Bless kvm. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
edup procedure is worthless on many machines.Posts saying things like "worked for me, be patient, finished in about 30 hours" confirm that. ...Jeff -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: 4in6 tunnel

2013-09-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
able to put it in rc.local -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jehan Procaccia wrote: Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortu

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
menu. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng, you certainly can do that. In particular, you probably don't want people logging in remotely and just rebooting the machine, students have been known to prank one another. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of t

Re: howto do test update

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
't like what you get you can just delete it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: howto do test update

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
/var/cache/yum for future use. I put just the update RPMs in a local repository, so I only download any package once. I can put the repository on a DVD and upgrade from it if I want, after installing a new machine with no (or slow) net access. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from t

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: ... skip spending time getting cdrtools 3.01 to build ... Don't know what issues you have building, it always built flawlessly for me, and i

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
image file... HOPEFULLY brasero will at least burn the image... The loop mount stuff is a good way to go, you can keep an image fresh and just burn it when you need a current copy. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: Fedora crash

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Would you expect a crash in this situation? I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to leave

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
ised that growisofs didn't work to burn the data once you put it in an image file, though. You might join the burning mailing list and discuss with the authors and maintainers. On occasion my problems have been user error, the documentation and examples of some features are NOT up

Re: Do I need avahi?

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
hem. In this case it is auto start being disabled, not the service. People who only use GUI expect the interface will prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot. I do like adding noauto and autorun, and prohibit and allow as synonyms and preferred usage. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Re: Do I need avahi?

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
em it really is. Also, you should be aware that the entry for mask in the man page for systemctl explains just how thorough it is, because whoever maintains it might feel that the existing warning is all that's needed. Lewis Carroll said it best, "When I use a word, it means just what

Re: Don't mount luks partition at boot but with gdm login.

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
e level of security you need, you might consider envfs. I thought I did this using "noauto" in fstab and allowing user mount, but at best that was a few releases ago. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: Fedora crash

2013-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
worked for me or friends, hardware and drivers differ enough for me to help any more. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don&#

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Junk wrote: On 24 Jul 2013, at 21:31, Bill Davidsen wrote: Junk wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 11:08 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on

Re: Video Transcoder & Screen Recorder

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
haven't looked at it again. Glad you get stuff working. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ll rules, which defines a bash function to do all the stuff, then a one liner with parameters to do the setup. You can even do some (very) crude load leveling by putting multiple machines on the DNAT rule. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
t in many cases sites run web servers, mail, DNS, DHCP,and other services on a VM. A bridge is not the only way to do that, but it is one approach. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slash

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ewalls based on "everything not explicitly allowed is forbidden." Oh, I drop all protocols except the ones I use like udp, tcp, and icmp. Amazing what my logs show. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machina

Re: WARNING: Your hard drive is failing

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
mount mine as well, but not using GNOME I can't say what "eject" does, I thought that was for media like CD. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing li

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
changes active until all changes have been entered. It's a user interface issue, for the moment I don't use it for tricky stuff, but it works well for typical cases. I'm not sure it's really easier to use than iptables rules, but choices are good. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Junk wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 11:08 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don't think this is

Re: OpenVPN disapeared

2013-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng. If you have a hardware issue I assume you would notice. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don't think this is still the case: I did F18->F19 on my laptop (encrypted /home

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
good idea, with /var/log/fedup.log attached. If any of my filesystems were left functional I would have, but that seems not to be the case. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- use

Re: unimpressive btrfs benchmark results

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
the number of possible combinations is already large for a small shop. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
l from DVD normally just works, what's triggering this issue? I realize that fedup isn't going to get fixed, I filed this as a bug against earlier releases, without getting a fix or workaround. Screenshot of the drop dead screen at http://public.tmr.com/~davidsen/NeedNetwork-1.jp

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
difference between functional, competent, and exceptional is one of talent. Great code not only works, but is readable and maintainable. "It works" is necessary but not sufficient. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
ly agree with him. :-) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: sssd for /boot?

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
NFS mounts if you use them, fast boot just isn't going to happen, but process start can be down in the ms range, which makes a very zippy system. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: i can't install Fedora 14

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
(sorry to say) use the vendor drivers from RPMfusion. I'm just happy they exist, no matter how much Linus dislikes the vendors, I do know about NDA on chips. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.

Re: USB Lan Adapter

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
I'm using let me know by email so I see it, and I'll have some breaks from 2-4PM GMT-4 tomorrow. I'm installing content on a new web server and will have lots of 2-3 minute breaks to fill.\ -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent tha

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
lee wrote: Bill Davidsen writes: lee wrote: Queue your posts before sending them. I tried that, and wound up not remembering to post afterword. It sounds better than it works, at least for me. It can happen --- since I got used to it, I don't forget it anymore. Even if I do, no

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