Re: chown ?

2015-02-02 Thread David Liguori
On 1/30/2015 5:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: chown -R kitty:kitty kitty Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... "I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay!' The dog almost had a heart attack." Whereas no kitty would fall for that. You'd be lucky if it ev

Re: How to get rid of the clock lock screen

2013-07-08 Thread David Liguori
On 7/8/2013 12:38 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:01:09 +0930 Tim wrote: I'm damn sick of some of the stupid things that have happened, in the way of alleged improvements, over the years. But at least my new Asus motherboard has an earth-shattering new improvement that actually

Re: schroedinger

2012-02-09 Thread David Liguori
On 2/7/2012 7:17 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:15 PM, david walcroft wrote: My "yum update" today updated this program,I cannot find any doc's, only "schroedinger's cat" on google. Anybody Know what this program does? Description : The Schrödinger project will imple

Re: Printing from WinXP machine to a F14 machine.

2011-03-11 Thread David Liguori
On 3/10/2011 4:52 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I am trying to print from an XP machine to a F14 but it is defeating me. > I am running the IIS system on XP which is supposed to support the ipp > protocol for accessing printers. It has a HP Deskjet on it as a local > printer. > > Cups on the F14 is

Re: fc8 upgrade

2011-03-01 Thread David Liguori
On 2/24/2011 5:13 AM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > Right, so I download the fc14 ISO and try to do a install over the old OS, > hoping to keep data. The installer does have an option to keep things, the > second to last option, before custom. > > It just notifies me that there are no places to install

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread David Liguori
On 12/21/2010 8:18 PM, Matt Smith wrote: > Can we please get c++ involved in the discussion, it runs circles > around C on all levels.. > > Not in terms of executable file size or speed of execution. I took a course in high performance scientific computing. An experiment we performed was to

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread David Liguori
On 12/16/2010 12:02 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > > If one has to start from the scratch, from the zeroth level to do the > programing, which programing language one should start with? In the > ocean of the languages, to start with is really very typical. Can one > justify it. Some say Pytho

Re: Security ?

2010-12-17 Thread David Liguori
On 12/15/2010 4:55 AM, JB wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27779 > > JB > > Nessun dorma > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdJmqLrsbo > > > Isn't a major argument for open-source that any "back-door" would in principle be visible for all to see--at least all who underst

Re: Wireless

2010-12-16 Thread David Liguori
On 12/16/2010 7:54 AM, cibertazzi2001 wrote: > My Fedora 14 can not find my wireless card Realtek 8187se, finally can > not get wireless on netbook. Anyone have any tips for how to make it work ? > Best Regards > Caio > Also search "ndiswrapper" There is a "how to" that got me up and running

Fedora 14, Wine 1.3.8, Corel WordPerfect Office 12, now a permanent stain

2010-12-09 Thread David Liguori
I hadn't tried Wine in a while so I gave this a go. After crashing it, searching around and finding some suggestions for a better installation, I tried to uninstall WPO and begin again. But, when I run the uninstaller, it only pretends to uninstall it--it's still there. The windows are in a

Re: Fedora and window Xp dual boot

2010-12-09 Thread David Liguori
On 12/9/2010 12:19 PM, Robert Myers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Shelby, James wrote: > >> When you install Fedora you choose where to install the boot loader. It was >> installed on the fedora drive instead of the windows drive. It would be >> less risky to add Fedora to the

Re: Fedora and window Xp dual boot

2010-12-09 Thread David Liguori
On 12/9/2010 12:06 PM, Shelby, James wrote: > > You should be able to modify the boot.ini on your Windows Drive and > add the Fedora bootloader. This wasn’t too difficult but I needed to > do a dd if=/dev/sdb of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1 > > Then copy that bin file over to my windows system. > >

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread David Liguori
On 11/4/2010 4:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Also, feel free to ask the devs *why* they made the switch, > they may just be willing to explain and give you arguments that would persuade > you it's the right thing to do. > I think that is what the OP is asking, judging from the thread title

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-10 Thread David Liguori
On 9/9/2010 2:03 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss > > Does this mean I can hope to see Fedora support for my (I believe Broadcom-based) Dell sometime? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread David Liguori
On 7/23/2010 10:13 AM, TNWestTex wrote: > > > Stephen Gallagher-2 wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: >> >>> I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load t

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread David Liguori
On 7/22/2010 9:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > With the new kernel video mode setting, the fonts in console > mode come from the console fonts in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/. > > The one it uses is determined by the font named in the > file /etc/sysconfig/i18n and (for me) usually seems to be > the sill

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread David Liguori
On 7/20/2010 3:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >>> What's a YAA? >>> >> YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) >> >> > But it's also a TLA > > Three letter acro

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-22 Thread David Liguori
On 7/20/2010 3:23 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 20/07/10 20:18, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 19:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >>> What's a YAA? >>> >> YAA stands for "Yet Another Acronym". ;-) >> >> > But it's also a TLA > > > Three Letter Ac

Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-22 Thread David Liguori
I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or not, as desired. To this end I set my default runlevel to 3 and delete the option "rhgb quiet" in grub.conf, as is well documented. In past releases the startup messages would change from 80 to 132 columns early on (no do

Re: Phone calls from laptop

2010-07-15 Thread David Liguori
On 7/15/2010 5:37 AM, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: > My laptop has a internal modem and RJ-11 connector. I want to connect > the phone line to the laptop and by using head phones I want to make > calls. How to do this? Is there any software available to do this? > > Kishore > Yes, it's called

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread David Liguori
On 5/25/2010 12:54 PM, Jud Craft wrote: > I'm sorry if I'm late to the party or this has been previously > explained, but I can't see anything related to it in Fedora-list, > -devel, -desktop, or -advisory. So here goes. > > What happened to the Get Fedora page? It was beautiful. Now it's a >

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread David Liguori
On 5/26/2010 2:56 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 May 2010 13:47:10 -0400 >> Máirín Duffy wrote: >> >> >>> Would have been nice to hear your feedback last october: >>> >>> Kind of reminds me of Hitch Hiker's Guide

Re: Root with GUI

2010-04-22 Thread David Liguori
bruce wrote: > two questions > > can you point to articles where a user as root was using an IRC client > and got zombified?? > > and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a > user to log in as the root user? > > thanks > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Tim w

Re: Breakin attempts

2010-04-22 Thread David Liguori
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > The core problem is to prevent someone from guessing users' passwords. > You aren't going to achieve real security by hiding this or that > attribute. If you don't want to worry about your users chosing bad > non-random passwords, don't let them. Force them to u