Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Fred
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:28:50 -0600 home user via users wrote: > On 4/25/2025 7:47 PM, Fred wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 > > home user via users wrote: > > > >> The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The > >>

Re: securing this workstation.

2025-04-25 Thread Fred
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:38:24 -0600 home user via users wrote: > The workstation is connected to a modem via an ethernet cable. The > modem connects to the internet service provider (comcast) via common > co-ax(?) cable. > > I lost ***all*** my notes.  How do I determine this workstation's IP >

Re: 6.6.x kernels do not boot successfully

2023-12-14 Thread Fred Erickson
On 12/13/23 19:39, Toni Andjelkovic via users wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 04:48:16PM -, old sixpack13 wrote: I guess reinstalling the problematic kernel might help sudo dnf reinstall kernel-... I forgot to mention that I had already tried this with "dnf remove" and "dnf install", but to

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

2023-10-14 Thread Fred Erickson
torrent.fedoraproject.org/ They havae always worked well for me. Fred ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-U

Re: check dnf

2022-07-21 Thread Fred Erickson
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 10:25 Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I would like to check if a package in available for installation by using dnf Dnf provides 'name' May provide what you want.. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-15 Thread Fred
_ I installed my version of Fedora 36 as a fresh install from the live beta MATE iso. The resultant libreoffice programs were as listed below with none of the optional packages installed: [fred@acer-f36 ~]$ dnf group info libreoffice Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:14 ago on Sun 15 May 2022

[OT] LibreOffice Base?

2022-05-02 Thread Fred
sing Linux? Especially anything that could be kept in sync? Importing tables and queries is one thing but for using day to day?? Fred ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Fred Erickson
t; know if I could find it again (was uploaded to pypi at one time). > > Are any of these batch systems simple to install, use, and maintain? > I see batch was included with my f34 system and condor is provided in the updates repo. Fred __

Re: Help with dumb question

2021-12-15 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:29:15 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm at a convention in DC now, and I don't remember how to set my > laptop's timezone. > ___ man timedatectl ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedora

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-05 Thread Fred
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 23:44:59 +0200 Ranjan Maitra wrote: >   > Matthew, >   > And to you and everybody else on this list, I (and I am sure, > countless others) are very grateful! You answer even off-topic > questions if you can. Thanks again! > > Ranjan Plus One! >   > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 20

Re: Fn key -

2020-09-01 Thread Fred Smith
here, but it may be available on a panel in the "add to panel" section, or it should also appear on the menus somewhere (unless you're running Gnome, where they believe in hiding everything usefu

Re: Mouse right-click works intermittently

2020-08-22 Thread Fred Smith
ice will have that symptom when the switches wear. I've seen it myself. Since I like the feel of Logitech mice, I keep on buying them, keeping a spare or two that I buy whenever I find them on sale. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: Network printer

2020-08-16 Thread Fred Smith
ther drivers, not only does it print, but the scanner works too. Oh, all of them were connected via ethernet (even if the first started as USB, it wasn't long before I dragged a network cable over to it). Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

Re: Recover access to Windows Shares on home network

2020-08-10 Thread Fred Smith
IPC >     J$  Disk  Default share >     print$  Disk  Printer Drivers > SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available > > Windows has SMB2 AND 3 available. Don't see anything in smb.conf to > set a protocol excerpt from /

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 06:01:31PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-21 17:12, Fred Smith wrote: > >I have Centos-7 on a little acer netbook, with the brother drivers for > >our DCP-7065. Every once in a while it stops working (with no errors > >that I

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
essing that something that comes down in an update clobbers something that Brother's installer changed. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
ux. But it is a "bad thing"(TM) to disable selinux. selinux should be producing alerts, which you could use to fix or at least "solve" the problem without totally disabling it. Fred -- ---

Re: Where are the microcode updates for Crosstalk in F32 ?

2020-07-20 Thread Fred Erickson
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:27:44 -0300 "George N. White III" wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 18:59, Sreyan Chakravarty > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:06 AM George N. White III > > wrote: > > > >> In general, the earlier the mitigations are applied, the harder it > >> is to explo

Re: Create bootable disk with fedora - but not using live-CD

2020-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:31:18PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: >On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 16:24, Fred Smith ><[1]fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:48:43PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > I want to create a bootable US

Re: Create bootable disk with fedora - but not using live-CD

2020-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
the right device for the USB stick so I didn't wipe out the installed system on the computer. This was probably back around Fedoraaa 11-13 or thereabouts, and I h aven't kept up with Fedora for the last few years, but there is no reason THAT I KNOW OF why it wouldn't still work.

Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

2020-07-18 Thread Fred Smith
at forcing employees to paste >that legal scare blob on every pdf automagically puts the world+dog >into compliance of their imaginary restrictions. At the place I worked (til retirement a year and a half ago) it was inserted automagically by the mail system (Exchange) and us

Re: Migrqate from Legacy to EUFI?

2020-07-08 Thread Fred Smith
as > msdos because Fedora can't run off of that kind of filesystem. How > is the partition formatted now? I think he is referring to the partition table, not filesystems. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: Audacity: "Error opening recording device"

2020-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
reading some of the tutorials on the Audacity Wiki about how to I record from this device, or from that one. If you haven't gone there yet, I'd urge you to try it. And if that doesn't help, ask some questions on the Audacity forums. I got lots of help from those places. Fred --

Re: External usb drive -

2020-06-20 Thread Fred
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:23:58 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have an external 4TB drive with some files stored on it that I want > to keep. I would like to connect it to the port provided on an ASUS > router which will replace the one in service now. It appears that > accomplishing that requires tha

Re: Microphone trouble

2020-06-18 Thread Fred Smith
s the Mate sound tool (don' t use Gnome) as well as alsamixer. I found some articles at the audacity site that told how to configure it for specific kinds of recording that helped me immensely. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not e

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-07 Thread Fred Smith
> > correct and then I gave a simpler concept that was good enough. > > I knew what you meant.  :-) > > Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used when a > "folder" would seem better > in some c

Re: Fedora 32 MTA

2020-05-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:25:38PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 5/10/20 1:05 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:20:44 -0400 > >Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > >>On May 10, 2020, at 11:54, George N. White III > >>wrote: > >>> > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:00, Jonath

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-09 Thread Fred
On Fri, 8 May 2020 16:41:49 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:23:43PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 08:16:48PM -, Beartooth wrote: > > > On Thu, 07 May 2020 16:46:49 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > >

Re: Power Mgmt problem

2020-05-09 Thread Fred Smith
post came through or not? I just wanted to > check back in. I saw it, but don't have an answer for you. sorry! -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us /

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-08 Thread Fred Smith
I run Mate. I get > > > > $ rpm -q gnome-disks > > package gnome-disks is not installed > > Then 'dnf install gnome-disk-utility' to get it installed. > Mate also has a disks utility, named--odly enugh--"disks" On Ubuntu it is under

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
ort.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=dcp7065dn_all&os=127 which downloads the "driver install tool". You could download the individual bits and pieces you need from that page, too, but this one seems to do the whole job. There'

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Fred Smith
esg stopped > printing this error. The device that finally made it stop > was a USB 3 backup drive. I plugged it back in to the exact > same usb port, and the messages did not start back up. computers and their hardware being fickle, it may well start up again once you actually try using it

Re: linux -- ide question

2020-03-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:57:55PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:45:29PM -0400, bruce wrote: > >hey, > >for those who do linux dev/work, what's your goto IDE/editor? > >just curious. > Ba

Re: linux -- ide question

2020-03-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:45:29PM -0400, bruce wrote: >hey, >for those who do linux dev/work, what's your goto IDE/editor? >just curious. Bash and vi. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes o

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-14 Thread Fred Smith
they're really there (not like the poetic little man upon the > >stair). > > > yup, they're there ! > > watched it here: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiJb0Qm1SE what's the point of the horrible noises accompanying each of the screensavers? -- --

Re: Mouse controls for Fedora

2020-03-08 Thread Fred Smith
ntact cleaner into it, I suspect it's all sealed up. In that case, the proper fix is probably a new mouse. Sorry! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glori

Anybody need a ... ??

2020-01-25 Thread Fred Smith
to provide someone, "free to a good home", if anyone has, or knows of anyone who has, a use for a V90 modem. Original packaging (including the floppy-based "drivers" for windoze! :) ) and a printout of the modem manual. Anyone?? Thanks in advance! Fred -- ---

Re: VLC and Distortion

2020-01-12 Thread Fred Smith
> > It is around 30% > > Same on Firefox and Parole where there is no distortion I don't have youtube-dl, but I have the videodownloader plugin for Firefox. Downloaded it as mpeg-mp3 and it sounds fine to me. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.m

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Fred Smith
ith Linux but am not familiar with them. -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+'

Re: Keepassx export Import -

2019-12-30 Thread Fred Erickson
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:01:40 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2019-12-30 11:04, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > > I use Dropbox and can access the database from multiple computers, > > phones etc.  Some systems use keepassx others KeepPass.  Tending > > toward Keepass as ". > > . > > "keepa

Re: Any thoughts on the Vivaldi browser?

2019-12-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 06:31:49PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Any of you guys use the Vivaldi browser? Any thoughts > on it? I've used it a little. not my main browser, but to the extent I've used it it seems like a nice browser. YMMV :) --

Re: HP DL-5170DN Printer not working

2019-10-20 Thread Fred Smith
sed if the home network goes down, but a quick > power cycle sorts it out. > My first Brother printer (HL-2070N) was automatically recognized by my Centos sysstem (C4 or 5, I think)which, when the USB cable was plugged in said it had recognized a BrotherHL-2070N and asked if I wanted it autom

Re: HP DL-5170DN Printer not working

2019-10-19 Thread Fred Smith
Setting>Devices>Printers says :- >HL-5170DN >Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3 I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother printer. You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcsho

Re: open ssh

2019-10-04 Thread Fred Smith
f yours has that feature. Otherwise running bind or dnsmasq > somewhere on the local network would be the way to go. I set up DNS/Bind9 and NTP on a raspberry pi somewhat over a year ago. cheap, doesn't tie up a bigger machine someone has on desktop (like, e.g., me) and uses minimal electrici

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Fred Smith
on the mailing list side you'd think that > everyone would see the same issue. > FWIW, I find these headers in your posting on my system: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from bas

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-04 Thread Fred Smith
; > Very good point. And, yes, the default is still 512. > > For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will > be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface. > > poc I tend to use "bs=10M", which won't make

Re: Bluetooth mouse battery status

2019-08-28 Thread Fred Smith
(which means the battery is very low) it still says 70%. I take it that something is wrong at a deeper level, but have never felt like pursuing it. Fred > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-26 Thread Fred Smith
r near capacity. > > I also see top and ksysguard repeatedly freezing for several seconds. > > (Fred: dirty shutdown; top) > The system was not responding to any keystrokes or trackball clicks. > The only remaining options are hard reset and hard power off. there are often

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-25 Thread Fred Smith
ers mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing

Re: UDEV RULES

2019-07-02 Thread Fred Smith
amp (or something) when a > udev event occurs. I've done that by embedding echo commands into the script that will put debugging statements a debug file that you can look at after bootup. put one statement before anything else in the script and if you don't get any debugoutput

Re: here is a challenge

2019-06-28 Thread fred roller
Go-to local thrift store and get a wired keyboard for a Buck. Or, connect ssh if set up. On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 10:34 PM Jack Craig installing a wireless mouse, i disconnected my usb wireless keyboard. > without kybd how to reenable kybd? > > i can login tty... > > any good ideas? > __

Re: What to prune?

2019-06-09 Thread Fred
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:48:01 - (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:30:45 -0800, Fred wrote: > > > Don't know if you are a user of the Mate GUI for Dnf found in > > System > Administration > dnfdragora > Information > History. This > >

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 01:02:34PM -0600, home user via users wrote: > (Fred said) > > Open your document, then in the toolbar (probably wrong name, > > its the bar at the top of the evince window) where the 3 window > > controls are at the right, all the way to the left i

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:54:39 -0600 home user via users wrote: > (f29) > I need something, preferably from one of the usual repos (so I can > easily install it with dnf), that I can use to fill in a pdf form. I > can view the form just fine, but nothing seems to have functionality > for me to fi

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 07:45:32PM -0600, home user via users wrote: > (responding to Fred) > Thank-you, Fred. > > I tried "man evince". I got nothing like what's in your post. > > I could find nothing in the GUI for getting any kind of help. > > I search

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:17:01PM -0600, home user via users wrote: > (Fred Smith said) > > evince > > Thank-you, Fred. > > h > -- > -bash.3[~]: dnf install evince > Last metadata expiration check: 0:52:01 ago on Wed 05 Jun 2019 > 07:15:38 PM MD

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-05 Thread Fred Smith
ionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in > "dnfdragora". evince -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who

Re: What to prune?

2019-06-05 Thread Fred
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:11:29 - (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:06:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 05/06/2019 00:52, Beartooth wrote: > >>I run Mate under F30. I assume Mate calls a lot of Gnome > >> code (most or all of what Gnome3 didn't change). So I never worry >

Re: off list Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-24 Thread fred roller
Cdrescue was a good resource when I did recovery/cleaning. On Fri, May 24, 2019, 5:54 PM jdow On 20190524 14:43:17, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 5/24/19 11:11 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > >> Hi. This is Off Topic. > >> Is there a reliable usb or dvd distribution with tools to clean up > vir

Re: Anyone ever heard of just USB 3 dying?

2019-05-16 Thread Fred Smith
The motherboards I use (now all 3 or 4 years old) have separate chips for USB2 and USB3, so it's possible. curious to hear what happens if you plug one of those devices into a USB2 port? (assuming your system offers any). USB3 or 3.1 ports are blue (slightly different shades of blue betwe

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread fred roller
> > As mentioned, my solution has been to log into to their router, change to > bridged (usually had a simple pass through setting), then built my own > network. Should kill the WiFi at that point as well if memory serves me > right. ___ users mailing lis

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Fred Smith
y configuration? Presumably, their router is pre-configured to use dhcp, so when wiring your router to theirs, yours should be c onfigured to use dhcp on the WAN side. I've seen this done before and it works fine in those cases. As for disablinig the wifi on their router, if you can't lo

Re: Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

2019-04-03 Thread Fred Smith
does the necessary stuff. Mine has quit going to sleep, too, when the screen is closed, so I've just had to bite the bullet and learn to do Fn-F4 before closing the lid. Odd thing is, that waving a strong magnet around where the sensor is WILL cause it to

Re: Frequent temporary freezes on Dell XPS 13 laptop

2019-03-30 Thread Fred Smith
will cause this. > > # dnf install gsmartcontrol > > 2) run "top" to see if anyone is going CPU crazy > > 3) run off a Live USB. If the symptom persists, >there is something wrong with your hardware. > > Let us know, > -T Also, ar

Re: SMB permissions -

2019-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
restrict it on both the server and the clients, since earlier versions of SMB are rife with holes. for the uid= and gid= items you can also user the numerical value, from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I find this works fine with my NAS box, which I talk to via SMB. -- Fred Smith -- fre..

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-03 Thread Fred Smith
;m the only one using Linux, everybody else is in bed with Windoze). Couldn't be bothered to configure NFS. Looked at configuring iSCSI but it looked like a lot of work for little or no benefit, especially since we just use it so all of us can store stuff on it,

Re: Boot to RAM

2019-02-18 Thread fred roller
_Pi May be a good spring board? -- Fred ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https:/

Re: Remote Disencruftation

2019-02-17 Thread Fred Smith
:7" > HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"; > BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"; > > CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7" > CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7" > REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos" &

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-28 Thread fred roller
run photorec and see what it pulls. On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 7:32 PM Robert Nichols wrote: > On 1/28/19 8:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > >I wouldn't recommend just doing /dev/zero if the CIA, > > or even a moderately funded newspaper might specifically be after your > > data, > > I would be intereste

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-27 Thread fred roller
too bad it's not an old spnner... just leave it on your speaker magnet overnight. reformat in the morning. :P Fred On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 3:24 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 15:06 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 1/27/19 2:44 PM, Patrick O'C

Re: mount exfat -

2019-01-27 Thread fred roller
The errors you listed, aside from the unclean dismount, shows there is something existing inside the folder where you want to mount it. I have not seen anything you mentioned to dissuade this point. Check that you don't have anything at the mount point. Fixing an unclean disk is possible. Most

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-26 Thread Fred Smith
gt; List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of hea

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-26 Thread fred roller
adding status=progress to the dd command i believe will let you know how long it has so you can keep an eye on it in the terminal. On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:32 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/25/19 10:58 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'll give dd a try; but I don't see offhand why > > dd if

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-25 Thread fred roller
examples on the web. One pass is usually good for most ppl tbh. Though I did do a recovery once that rebuilt the last 3 OS installs on the server... but if you trust the person you are giving them too not to care then one pass should do. -- Fred On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:25 PM Gordon Messmer wrote

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:17:28PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/04/18 14:20, Rick Stevens wrote: > >I'm using Xfce as well with the LightDM display manager and there's > >no text associated with the icon, just the icon (which sort of looks > >like an abstract inkjet printer with a page going t

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
yone, but the Gnome-3 people seem to be on that bandwagon too. No offense meant to any particular person(s), its just that I don't see the value in oversimplification. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Ha

Re: App similar Winhex for Fedora

2018-11-09 Thread Fred Smith
s output to less: hexdump /dev/sda | less -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might

Re: f29 fonts shrunk?

2018-11-02 Thread fred roller
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:56 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > Everything in my newly installed fedora 29 partition has > smaller fonts, even though I'm using the same home directory > I had on fedora 28 and inheriting all my settings. > > Has something somewhere decided my 4K monitor has a completely > di

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:57:19AM +, Frau Silvia Sánchez wrote: >Hi Fred and all, >Well, I understand although disagree. If one doesn't want upgrades, >there are other systems like Debian stable. Besides upgrades aren't >mandatory, as ToddandMargo s

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Fred Smith
reboot. People with many computers can't spend time reinstalling and re-configuring all of them once or twice every year. And I don't want to do that with my home systems either. I want something I can use for 2 or 3 years, at least, before enduring the reinstall pain

Re: Ryzen APU best mainboard?

2018-10-24 Thread Fred Smith
os update because the CPU I had purchased was too new for the BIOS as shipped. Can you say "chicken-and-egg" ?? :)) Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-08 Thread fred roller
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:48 AM Tony Nelson wrote: > On 18-10-08 05:32:14, Patrick Dupre wrote: > ... > > Power mode is:ACTIVE or IDLE > ... > > == spinning. See `man hdparm` and "-C". > > -- > > TonyN.:'

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-06 Thread fred roller
I believe the OP didn't want to use network. In that case a crossover cable would still make rsync the best choice without a network. Uses the nicand you just set a compatible ip on both laptops. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread fred roller
Have you checked the phone setting to ensure it is not set for charge only or some such? On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 07:58 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure that I should post this message here. > Is there an Android mailing list? > > I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. >

Re: Forcing updates install on shutdown

2018-09-19 Thread fred roller
. Hope it helps, just a pointer for you to look into. regards, -- Fred On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:39 AM Rick Stevens wrote: > On 9/19/18 10:24 AM, Louis Garcia wrote: > > Is there a way to have fedora workstation to update on shutdown? When a > > user logs off or shutdown there b

Re: Fedora 28 "crash"

2018-09-15 Thread Fred Erickson
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 12:15:06 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:57:10 -0400 > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > So I am stuck and need some help troubleshooting. > > No real help, but > power failure, > computer acting funny, > leads me to wonder if your computer took a power surge that dama

Re: singing hard drive

2018-09-14 Thread fred roller
x27;s Stethoscope. -- Fred On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:33 PM ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 09/14/2018 09:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 09/14/2018 10:15 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Fedora 28 x64 > >> > >> I have a server at a cus

Re: OT: backing up a DVD

2018-09-11 Thread fred roller
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:41 AM fred roller wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 4:31 AM ToddAndMargo > wrote: > >> On 09/11/2018 03:04 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: >> > On 18-09-10 22:27:00, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> > ... >> >> "dd" does

Re: OT: backing up a DVD

2018-09-11 Thread fred roller
te the file, and progress for monitoring how much is done. Been doing this for awhile and you can easily watch the file on vlc. haven't tried other players so experiment. You cannot, however, copy onto a stock blank dvd (it's too small). Like the old days of ripping CD to preserve the ori

Re: Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread Fred Smith
is this computer a laptop, or a desktop? If a desktop, you could probably pull the drive from its enclosure, open the desktop and attach the drive (using an appropriate cable) to a SATA port in the desktop. then boot up, make sure it doesn't mount the "new" drive,

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread fred roller
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:26 PM Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:10:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Sep2018 19:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I have two drives mounted on a F28 system. Both are identical 4TB > >drives. The second one is empty. I am concerned

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Fred Smith
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Re: universal boot USB stick?

2018-09-06 Thread fred roller
eeded. Using other distro for job specific ofc helped, such as SystemRescueCD, for more aggressive rescue ops... -- Fred On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 08:12 Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 4:17 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 22:26:19 -0600 >> Chris Mu

Re: Tip: finally found a USB 3.1 card that works with 28

2018-09-05 Thread Fred Smith
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Re: Brother MFCL2710DW on Fedora?

2018-08-27 Thread Fred Smith
r me. go to their page for that printer and find the link for Linux drivers. should be a single download that is a tool that grabs the right driver files and installs them for you. good luck! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: Device defaults -OT maybe

2018-08-23 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:06:47 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > > -- > > Doing as you suggest, ping succeeds but Firefox still does not > connect with or without the :80. > > Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.16

Re: OT: trace/extract vector points from a picture

2018-08-12 Thread fred roller
Don't know what the image looks like but typically you could make a copy layered, that copy you tweak the colors until the part you want is heavily contrasted. Using the selection tool you should be able to select and cut the alligator/Crocidile from the layered copy. From here you should be able

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread Fred Smith
he customer reviews, the ones that include the word "linux". Many people said it works great with (unspecified) Linux. Some people said it doesn't work or has problems. One person said he couldn't get it going with Centos-7. So there's no way to tell for sure. I'd sugge

Re: Stitch photos?

2018-08-05 Thread fred roller
>> sudo apt-get install gimp >Really? As mentioned, brain fart on my part. Forgot the distro I was responding to: should be: dnf installl gimp Sorry for the confusion. -- Fred On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:47 AM fred roller wrote: > | Really? > > Brain fart. > > On Sun

Re: Stitch photos?

2018-08-05 Thread fred roller
| Really? Brain fart. On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:09 AM William Oliver wrote: > On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 12:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > [snip] > > > I believe you may want to try this package. I've not used it > > recently since the > > devices that I now use do the stitching while taking pano

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