Re: F19 --> F18 feasible?

2013-10-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
# yum abracadabra *poof!* :-P On 10/20/2013 1:16 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: H? I wonder if there's a yum command that will change a i686 system to a x86_64 system of the same release. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: how to start scanner as mortal user

2013-10-17 Thread Chris Kloiber
Ranjan, I have no experience with this, but have you tried adding your user to the xsane group? It could be that simple... maybe. On 10/17/2013 9:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hello, I have an old HP PSC2410 scanner/fax/printer which I have managed to get started all right upon installing hpli

Re: Fedora 16 Beta - Google Account Integration

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Kloiber
have multiple Google accounts? I have my personal email on Google Apps, Another account for my Android phone (so I don't get tons of email on the phone), and a third @gmail.com for Google+ because Google can't get it's act together and allow Profiles on Google Apps accounts. --

Re: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 10/10/2011 10:57 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > - Original message - >> Actually, I have to believe this is a joke email if it is true, >> then all I can wonder is if Fedora naming is under the control of 13 >> year olds just learning about wink, wink, nudge, nudge. >> >> It is

Re: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 10/10/2011 10:41 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 10/10/2011 06:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> I agree >> >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:40:01 -0500 Chris Kloiber >>wrote: >> >>> Wow... >>> >>> That just sounds wrong on *SO* many l

Re: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Kloiber
Wow... That just sounds wrong on *SO* many levels. On 10/10/2011 09:05 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jared K. Smith > wrote: >> The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the >> results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made

Modern Firefox versions for F14?

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Kloiber
e and get fixed. Thanks. -- Chris Kloiber -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Kloiber
a "not going to lock up" manner. -- Chris Kloiber -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
rs. > That's part of the value of paying them. > > Rahul There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream, which no longer exists. -- Chris Kloiber -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Kloiber
You could try something like: # pdf2ps input.pdf postscript.ps # ps2ascii postscript.ps output.txt Good luck. On 08/12/2011 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use > Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
root, and "init 3 && init 5" to restart the desktop. Too bad I need to access some settings in that dialog... Can any one running F15 in the latest VirtualBox confirm this, if so I will bugzilla it. -- Chris Kloiber -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: So where are my workspaces??

2011-05-01 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 04/30/2011 01:17 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: > Chris Kloiber wrote: >> I run 8 workspaces, 4 across, 2 high. Email on screen 4 (upper right) >> personal stuff on 8 (lower right) and up to 6 different work tickets on >> the others. It's important for me to directly

Re: So where are my workspaces??

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Kloiber
at I have seen and heard so far, I'm screwed. Please prove me wrong. I can't dedicate hardware to try and find workarounds on my own, and Gnome 3 doesn't do Virtualization (yet) so I won't get very far with it. Chris Kloiber. -- users mailing list users@list

Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
rfer REJECT rather than drop, it causes less problems. Leave DROP for the bad guys you want to slow down with time-outs. I haven't tried this, so YMMV, and I might be all wet. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
more. Surely that cannot be true .. can it ? There is always kill -9 the gnome power manager daemon - I've done things like that before to "tweak" gnome before I was able to track down the obscure files in places like /etc/xinint (or whatever it is called) to turn them off up front

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 03/19/2011 10:30 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/19/2011 05:35 PM, JB wrote: So, I am wondering if Fedora takes into consideration providing GNOME 2 as well (in parallel) with F15 and for some time beyond ? Is there any official statement by Fedora with regard to that ? No plans to provide o

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
with the desktop cube from Compiz, I see no reason to waste screen real estate that way. Ditto! -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
er suspend/hibernate any more. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
en, or move items around to my liking. I may have to skip F15, which saddens me. Please Include all of the F14 version/branch of Gnome as the Fallback mode. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Firefox error

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Kloiber
ow if this has been fixed? This would appear to be SSL or OS related from the description, so Firefox and Mono or Moonlight wouldn't seem to be the correct locations for a bug report, and since it is a "known" hazard, the bug must have already been reported. So my question is

Re: Fedora 14 and Nvidia 460 Fermi

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Kloiber
orkunits With this card under Windows I get 860 gflops / second computation speed with double precision computing. Under Fedora the speed is cut in half and errors out all the Cuda workunits I really miss Fedora Michael -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: VirtualBox, USB, Droid & F12

2010-10-24 Thread Chris Kloiber
VirtualBox. IIRC your user has to be a member of the vboxusers group or something like that in order for you to access USB correctly. Worth a Google. BTW, I had successfully used RSDLite within my Win7 guest several times in VirtualBox to flash my DROID (before I discovered sbf_flash, that

Re: SELinux

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
All probably true, but I dread the day they decide to make SELinux mandatory, and take away the ability to disable it (in the name of security). On 08/29/2010 01:44 PM, mike cloaked wrote: With many selinux issues with a bit of effort and help from a few experts the issues can often be resolv

Re: VMWare and Fedora 13

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
Really? Last I knew it would not even run unless it found particular raid adapters, or a fiber san connection. Must look into it again... On 08/20/2010 11:58 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 21:24 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: On 08/20/2010 12:15 AM, Christopher A

Re: Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
That would be a pain for the one box at work, and 1 box at home. I am seeing errors when trying to pull data from either location when it tries some of the mirrors. (Yeah, I'll have to start a list) On 08/19/2010 10:58 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:53 -0400,

Re: VMWare and Fedora 13

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 08/20/2010 12:15 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: Otherwise, you need to just run a Type 1 hypervisor, which leaves you with VMware ESXi Free edition. It's limited in what it can do compared to the full version, but it definitely works, and works well. I haven't looked into that much, but

Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Kloiber
). Just wondering... -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: VMWare and Fedora 13

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Kloiber
Use the following repo, and get VirtualBox-3.2. Free as in beer. For me, it works well while VMWare does not support F13 (I could not even run the installer) # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo [virtualbox] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.o

Re: Fedora can't detect PCI devices

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Kloiber
was pulling what little hair I have left out until I tried it. Chris Kloiber On 08/18/2010 09:02 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: I just installed a new motherboard and memory in a machine that was previously working well. Unfortunately now the machine won't detect any of the PCI cards that

Re: Recovering a Ghost Image

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
something like that? TTFN Paul I thought Norton Ghost offers a bootable ISO for restoring? -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Howto script "sudo"?

2010-07-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 07/18/2010 08:51 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, Is it possible to pass "sudo" the root-password in some way (I would prefer plaintext)? The reason is I use an umts-connection utility which has to run as root, and I don't want to have my parents type a root-password every time they connec

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
I thought F13 has a new "minimal" install option that gives you ~120 or so packages installed. That feature seems to have made it into the RHEL6 beta, too! (Very Cool, IMNSHO) -- Chris Kloiber On 07/14/2010 05:51 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: Dear All, For some reasons I want to

Re: Converting DVD copy to AVI

2010-07-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 07/08/2010 03:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:01 -0700, jack craig wrote: On 07/08/2010 11:16 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:02 -0700, jack craig wrote: On 07/08/2010 10:21 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a DVD structure (VIDEO_T

Re: USB not working in VirtualBox F13

2010-07-06 Thread Chris Kloiber
xec chown us:us {} \; The Oracle VirtualBox creates a group 'vboxusers'. Add yourself to this group and USB works. For the kernel module thing, make sure you have the dkms package installed. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing lis

Re: Linux Games for Kids

2010-07-05 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 07/05/2010 05:12 AM, birger wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 05:53 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: On 07/02/2010 01:08 AM, birger wrote: Ok. Steering Wheel w/linux support? Do tell! Uhmm? Should that be a problem? Seriously, I am amazed at the amount of peripherals that just work with Fedora 13

Re: Connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Kloiber
or you. Someone else perhaps might. I tend not to use things like network manager. Just a guess, but that sounds like a "path" in the gconf database. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Linux Games for Kids

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 07/04/2010 07:04 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 05:53 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: Steering Wheel w/linux support? Do tell! I saw a brand-new wheel w/pedals (still in plastic) at a GoodWill the other day for about $8 (US$). But it had a joystick connector which I haven't seen on

Re: Linux Games for Kids

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Kloiber
Ok. Steering Wheel w/linux support? Do tell! I saw a brand-new wheel w/pedals (still in plastic) at a GoodWill the other day for about $8 (US$). But it had a joystick connector which I haven't seen on a PC in a decade or more. Think I last saw such a port on an ISA sound card. -- Chr

Re: Linux Games for Kids

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Kloiber
t' and 'Quit' in most new games he tries. He even knows to try the 'escape' key if he gets stuck before calling for help. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: evolution-data-server

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Kloiber
Yes, all working for me now. Thank you! -- Chris Kloiber On 06/29/2010 11:54 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:43:00 -0400 Chris Kloiber wrote: Why is evolution-data-server still broken after this much time, and is anything being done to correct it? I'm guessing al

evolution-data-server

2010-06-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Fedora 12/13 unexpected shut down Please help !!!

2010-06-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
2 years huh? Get some canned air, and blow the dust out of the heat-sinks. Kernel compiles can get toasty. -- Chris Kloiber On 06/29/2010 06:18 AM, Onkar Mahajan wrote: I am doing kernel compilation on fedora 13 like this $ make -j2 bzImage modules Strangely, FC12 & FC13 running on

Re: Anyone aware of an rdesktop *replacement*?

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Kloiber
r. So while it may not be completely useful yet, I will be watching this. -- Chris Kloiber On 06/22/2010 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 05:29 AM, Chris Kloiber wrote: Not looking for a wrapper to make it pretty. I need an rdesktop replacement with support for contacting Windows

Anyone aware of an rdesktop *replacement*?

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Kloiber
nd am seeing more and more systems that I have to use a Virtual Windows7 instance to manage. Conversely, if anyone knows of patches to do this with rdesktop, I'd like to grab those too (even if they are half-baked patches). -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: F13 new install: can't get ssh pubkey to work

2010-06-13 Thread Chris Kloiber
IIRC, you might be having an SELINUX issue. Check to see if SELINUX does not like the labeling on the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file. -- Chris Kloiber On 06/13/2010 01:06 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/12/2010 09:33 AM, sean darcy wrote: New install of F13. drwx--. 2 root root 4096 Jun 11

Re: Uninstalling real player (the "real" answer)

2010-06-13 Thread Chris Kloiber
ages. -- Chris Kloiber On 06/13/2010 01:20 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 13/06/10 00:10, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: now the error is: prerm called with unknown argument `0' error: %preun(realplay-11.0.2.1744-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Yeah, that is precisely what I got. I

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-31 Thread Chris Kloiber
ets me set my resolution and second monitor options. -- Chris Kloiber On 05/31/2010 04:40 AM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Hi there Did you do a clean install? Yes. Did a clean install from the DVD, entirely wiped out my old Fedora 12 install. If this does not work then try the akmod inst

Re: How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

2010-05-27 Thread Chris Kloiber
n all it's glorified ugliness. I do hope some developer can take pity on me and address this shortcoming. -- Chris Kloiber On 05/27/2010 04:41 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 05/26/2010 05:37 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: I run the proprietary, closed source nvidia driver in F12. Wh

Re: Would like to configure second local terminal.

2010-05-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
Mikkel, Bruno, and Dale. Thank you! I will look into this although it does look dated. -- Chris Kloiber On 05/18/2010 11:37 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Chris Kloiber <mailto:ckloi...@ckloiber.com>> wrote: > > I'm a tad short

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Kloiber
ork access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system). -- Chris Kloiber On 05/16/2010 04:43 PM, g wrote: BadMagic wrote: Basically, whichever entry goes first, doesn't get mounted. I can manually moun

Would like to configure second local terminal.

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Kloiber
emetuxracer and bzflag). Thanks. -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: Tell me proper URL for yum checking

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Kloiber
/sysconfig/rhn/sources If you don't have an RHN subscription, you can convert your RHEL4 to CentOS4 by replacing the redhat-release with centos-release (IIRC) then use the CentOS4 yum repositories. -- Chris Kloiber On 03/18/2010 04:09 AM, SHIMADA, MAKOTO wrote: Thanks Ed Greshko; Exactly

Re: dmidecode not working?

2010-03-12 Thread Chris Kloiber
On 03/11/2010 11:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On 11/03/10 01:06 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote: > >> Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue. >> >> I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am >> running F12 on them. The marke

dmidecode not working?

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
d fw-ohci device :06:07.0, OHCI version 1.10 firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID , S400 I suspect these are all related. Possibly a bad BIOS although both systems are fully updated in that respect. Anyone else have a similar issue? -- Chris Kloiber smime.p7s Des

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Kloiber
https://www.dropbox.com website. Free (as in beer) for up to 2 Gigs space. Not as good as getting into your system remotely, but oh well. -- Chris Kloiber On 03/09/2010 01:41 AM, Hiisi wrote: 2010/3/9 Rick Sewill: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 00:08 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:40 +0300,

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Kloiber
If that's true (they want to prevent you from running a server) then get a new ISP. -- Chris Kloiber On 03/09/2010 01:08 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:40 +0300, Hiisi wrote: 2010/3/9 Rick Sewill: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 00:49 +0300, Hiisi wrote: Dear list! I would li

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-03-07 Thread Chris Kloiber
e xinput stuff. The new x11 provides version 9 and the nvidia driver needs "<8" or something like that. In any event, the system dies. Not looking forward to F12 pushing the new x11 bits until Nvidia wakes up to the coming flames. -- Chris Kloiber On 03/06/2010 06:39 PM, Bruno W

Re: Fedora 12 does not work after replacing the motherboard

2010-03-07 Thread Chris Kloiber
es be preserved. -- Chris Kloiber On 03/06/2010 03:40 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello Tim, Saturday, March 6, 2010, 10:19:11 AM, you wrote: If you have the ability, you can try getting the computer to output a log to a serial port, and have another computer monitor it while you crash it. That&

Re: Hulu.com and 64-bit Problem?

2010-03-07 Thread Chris Kloiber
olume or mute it" tactic. Wonderful for working environments, even if it is your lunch hour^H^H^H^ 42 minutes you want to waste. Have you seen the new error message at Hulu blaming Adobe? It doesn't fly, especially considering the Desktop does work with the same damn plugin. Anyw

Re: Hulu.com and 64-bit Problem?

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Kloiber
Ah yes, but it's a bitc^H^H^H^H bit difficult to control/find your desired content, and I don't think it will scale to a tiny "always on top" window in the corner of your desktop so you can work while watching, similar to the popout feature. Buckets full of FAIL, IMHO. -