Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-27 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Oct 23, 2014 6:42 AM, "jd1008" wrote: > > Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, > in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her > windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable. > > So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinki

Re: [Fedora] Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-10 Thread Digvijay Patankar
I don't see anything better than LaTeX/TeX to write a book either for technical or popular writing. If you absolutely need the WYSIWYG thing > try lyx but as someone told this is just distracting you from the > content. > +1 . Latex/Tex is the best option from my perspective.

Re: passwordless sudo

2011-11-30 Thread Digvijay Patankar
Yes it does. It has something to do with proper format which is ensured by visudo but not vi. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Hiisi wrote: > On 30 November 2011 14:45, Digvijay Patankar wrote: > > > > Make sure you are using visudo to edit sudoers file. > > > > D

Re: passwordless sudo

2011-11-30 Thread Digvijay Patankar
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Re: running programs as root in KDE

2011-09-12 Thread Digvijay Patankar
th. > Have you tried + F2 > kdesu kwrite ? I think this will work for you. -- *Digvijay Patankar* Senior Research Fellow,* * Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012* * Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www

Re: Fedora 15 avi to DVD disc?

2011-07-18 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > After doing a "yum search avi" > still havn't found an app to convert an avi to standalone DVD player. > > Am running xfce so all suggestions welcome. > ffmpeg ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Accident, deleted .config

2011-05-16 Thread Digvijay Patankar
> >I managed to delete .config which takes out a large group of >directories. I can boot the computer but can't run X. > I am not sure about how deleting .config can affect X. I think it should not. I am about to re-install F-14 out of desperation unless someone >kn

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Digvijay Patankar
> >> I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not >> smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. >> >> Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success. Also >> tried some tutorials on the internet that not helped but not reached the >> smooth that I wante

Re: PDF manipulation software

2011-05-03 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Rich Mahn wrote: > I have dozens of PDF files containing a few thousand scanned images that I > need to organize. > I am looking for suggestions for PDF software that will: > - rotate pages, groups of pages, or entire PDF files > - re-order pages > - move/cop

Re: yum :: disable delta rpms

2011-02-16 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! How can i disable the usage of delta rpms? > Thanks, > Adrian > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guid

Re: Fedora 14's new name?

2010-11-13 Thread Digvijay Patankar
using a name has been > dropped please let me know and I will use another designation. Recently codename voting declared 'Lovelock' as its codename for Fedora 15. With regards, -- Digvijay Patankar Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012 P

Re: web server and IP address

2010-09-05 Thread Digvijay Patankar
> > everything works perfectly in local (directly under F13) but if i try to > access to my web page from another computer - my host OS for example - it > does not find the web page. > i can ping without problem my F13 (guest) from my Win7 (host). > it's like the web page is not accessible from out

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-22 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Brian Mury wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:37 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > > If it is not a kernel update then it will most likely not require > > a reboot. Everything else can be made functional through a service > > restart at most. > > Perhaps. However,

Re: Version Fedora 12.0

2010-08-15 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Srinivasan wrote: > 1. Can anybody tell us the solution for the following problem in > Fedora(64bit) 12.0 > > > > Monitor Display resolution could not be changed into 1024*768. The server > board is Inter S5000VSA. > > > > Thanks > > > > Srini > > Try $su -