Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
irectory tree you are backing up. Identical files between snapshots are hard linked so they do not take up additional space. I have used rsnapshot at home, but also I used it at work. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7

Re: LDAP login from console - solved

2014-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/24/2014 06:58 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 06/22/2014 04:57 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> I have a system that uses LDAP. Originally I set this up as a >> stand-alone until all my company's security issues were mitigated. The >> problem is that on the GDM login, it

Re: LDAP login from console

2014-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/22/2014 04:57 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I have a system that uses LDAP. Originally I set this up as a > stand-alone until all my company's security issues were mitigated. The > problem is that on the GDM login, it does not display the name. I have > this set up on our RHE

LDAP login from console

2014-06-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
o the servers. I can SU (or SUDO) to the LDAP user. I do have a local user set up with the same userid and group, but a separate home directory. I probably missed something somewhere. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF

Re: Coding Practice [was Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability]

2014-04-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
g the use of tools such as Valgrind and Rational Purify as a method of testing the code. These help the programmer locate potential latent bugs. Not sure about Valgrind, but Purify takes libraries into account. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E

Re: Coding Practice [was Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability]

2014-04-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
use it costs too much in performance. But, we are stuck with C for a while because that is what Linux and Unix are written. While Java is an excellent language I don't see it replacing C at the OS level, but it is almost there in Android. -- Jerry Feldman Boston

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
ogram was several times larger and slower than the bare code. You use tools like Purify to test your code, but not for production code. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description

Re: Coding Practice [was Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability]

2014-04-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
does not contain some of the more powerful features that C has. So, for a pur math or physics problem I would definitely want the program written in FORTRAN.. But, C was designed for writing operating systems. And while C++ has evolved into a separate language, it retains some of the elements o

Re: Can Fedora run on Lenovo ThinkPad T430?

2014-04-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
cker > Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com> > Be always grateful, but never satisfied. > > -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-03-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
g the mouse to work tomorrow where I run Fedora 20 as my primary desktop system. On 02/05/2014 09:52 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > It is the older trackball with the ball on the left. I have one at work > with the ball in the center. > In any case, the latest update seemed to have alleviat

Re: CentOS on home machine HD

2014-02-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
avoid that problem (there's a signal transformer > between inputs and outputs, with only a magnetic coupling between each > side of the transformer, and they're rated to handle significant > undesired interferring signal voltages without dying). > > One issue might be the sharing o

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
It is the older trackball with the ball on the left. I have one at work with the ball in the center. In any case, the latest update seemed to have alleviated the problem. Not sure what the issue was.. On 02/04/2014 05:45 PM, g wrote: > > hello jerry, > > On 02/04/2014 11:45 AM, J

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
he wacky mouse behavior. > > get a thumb marble and you can forget about having cord problems. > > you can forget about keeping a "mouse arena" cleared also. which > is one of many reason i got a thumb marble. > It is a Logitech Marble Mouse (eg. track ball).

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/01/2014 06:57 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 02/01/2014 03:14 PM, g wrote: >> >> On 02/01/2014 09:02 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> <> >> >>> While it is very prevalent in Thunderbird, >>> I also had the problem In Firefox and in gnome terminal

Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
d the background panel came up, so it seems that it is not restricted to an application or rendering engine. At this point I am wondering if anyone else had a similar problem. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC

Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
ary, Well, there was nothing wrong with utmp. Thanks to a bit of research and help of a colleage in the standards group we focused on a bug in the standard test where the time went negative. The author of the standard suite agreed and we were able to get a waiver and also a fix to the standards suite. I

Re: backup thoughts..

2014-01-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
27;s getting backed up. >> >> The downside of this, we don't want to backup all of the OS tree, but >> at the same time, if a dev has created apps that toss stuff into the >> "OS" tree, it might not get backed up, unless specified... >> >> Thoughts

Re: Fedora's Equivallent to Wubi?

2014-01-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
and I don't really want to fiddle with > > partitioning yet. > > Thanks, > > Hunter > I have an ASUS Aspire One netbook with an Intel Atom processor and 1GB running Fedora 18 with both ubuntu and Windows XP running in virtual machines (VirtualBox). I was surprised that the G

Re: Smooth Upgrade

2013-12-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
th --nogpgcheck and it ran to completion and rebooted successfully). The only issue I have is that not all my Gnome 3 extensions could be reloaded, but that is a Gnome 3 issue and not Fedora per se. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-06-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
? I've done this with older versions of Fedora. I currently use VBox only because there a a few things I could not do with KVM when launched from Gnome. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 05/24/2011 04:44 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 17:40, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> The bottom line here is you can't make a blanket statement >> that 64-bit code is slower. And if you have a decent optimizing >> compiler, your performance could i

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
ct that most 64-bit apps will be faster or not suffer any performance degradation. The bottom line here is you can't make a blanket statement that 64-bit code is slower. And if you have a decent optimizing compiler, your performance could improve. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
able for the completely clueless will. Including Fedora 15/Gnome 3. We have over 30 WLANs here in our office complex. Just a quick look and I can see 5 WLANS, 2 are "". -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 46

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
s a few years ago. By broadcasting the SSID, it cleared some some intermittent connection problems I used to have both with my Smartphones, but also with my laptops. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signa

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
s is technology that MSFT can use for its Lync products as well as the subscriber lists. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mai

Re: complex

2011-05-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
nd look at some underlying header files as well as feature codes. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: When an Application is installed using "yum install", How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
that application is normally installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib (or lib64). Normally if you use Yum or RPM, then /usr/bin is the normal place. Additionally, if you want to find out where an executable is, use the whereis(1) command as an example: [gaf@gaf ~]$ whereis firefox fire

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
ff such as /usr/lib64). If you build your reference system minimally the resultant .iso file should be manageable. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
that you can sync your apps. You certainly can use barry to back up and charge your Blackberry. While I preferred my blackberry to the Palm, I know have an Android. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C

Re: lp versus enscript

2011-03-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
t; > This does not seem to provide 2 sided. According to the man page it > looks like I need to add > > -DDuplex:true > > So in what way is enscript better than lp? What neato things do I gain > by using it? > > Over the years I have used a2ps(1), but enscript should also do

Re: execlp

2011-03-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
You can use the bash exec function to redirect input and/or output. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

[OT] Problems with Adobe Flash Player

2011-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
e closed source, they are not available in Fedora or RPM Fusion so I'm marking this as OT. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- user

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
that it had been deprecated by FC3 (RHEL4). Sorry for the spotty > history, we don't have one or more of everything that has ever run > here in rural north Texas :) > > regards/va...@texoma.net One solution (that sucks) is to write a wrapper that provides the same functionality as ns

Re: dm service

2011-02-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/22/2011 04:22 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:07 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 02/22/2011 03:26 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> Hi! Where is the desktop manager service in fedora? >>> /etc/init.d doesn't contain something related to this

Re: dm service

2011-02-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
14 is (as root) simply to tel init to switch to run level 3. /sbin/init 3 -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
en I taught at Northeastern University. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that >> I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8). > Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
the rpm API and they install packages exactly the same > way. I certainly agree with you. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mai

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: >> I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall >> oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My >> coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) bec

yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
using yum(8) over rpm(8). -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Ultimate inkjet printer for Fedora?

2011-01-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
rd party toners work very well. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Ultimate inkjet printer for Fedora?

2011-01-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
h, but with a laser printer you will get thousands of pages per toner cartridge. From my experience, HP, Epson, and Brother are the best supported printers for Linux. Canon and Lexmark are usually not very well supported. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PG

Re: recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
erly hardlinked because of a previous failure. Fdupes does a good job in identifying true dups, but I would like it to go 1 step further. I could possibly just write a script. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/22/2010 06:06 AM, les wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:49 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 12/22/2010 01:40 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:09 PM, les >> <mailto:hlhow...@pacbell.net>> wrote: >>> >>> Since

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/22/2010 01:52 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Jerry Feldman <mailto:g...@blu.org>> wrote: > > A properly optimized simple C++ program should be able to perform > as well > as C. > > -- > Jerry Feldm

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
ver 1,000,000 lines of code, and I would hate to have to maintain it as a C system. (I'm glad I don't have to maintain it in the first place). -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signa

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
and AMD chips with a Microsoft Hyper V. I did spend a bit of time working on Intel's IA64 systems. But, try to read the object code without having a nervous breakdown. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
but it is a large, complex book. The equivalent C language book is "C How to Program". At Northeastern we used the Deitel book to teach C++ but we used "C Programming: A Modern Approach" by King as it was a simpler book. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
o way to get user input, but then they put it in there :(, It > supposed runs on more platforms than the others(C++, C, pascal, basic, cobol, > fortran, ..., etc) > Java has the equivalent buried in packages. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key finger

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
rrectness. Once the code is working, I can run a performance analysis to see the places in the code things are slowing down. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
ANSI C standard or any other standard unless you are very experienced. Language standards are written by language experts and compiler professionals. Books like K&R second edition are written in a more understandable format. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/21/2010 03:48 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jerry Feldman <mailto:g...@blu.org>> wrote: > > I learned C from K&R, from the tutorial that was included with > Unix, and > the fact that I was told I had to maintain the Un

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
ell written and structured. In contrast I have been involved with some C++ that was essentially C with a few C++ isms. I like C++, but not as a person's first computer language. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 460

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
t part of the code based upon a true or false condition. To really understand computer logic, an interesting approach is to build a computer using plugboard parts. Remember, everything in a computer is binary not decimal, not octal (3 bit representation of binary), not hexadecimal (4 bit represe

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
inventing the wheel. But the initial thing is to learn and understand the basic building blocks, such as what is a variable, what is a constant. But, without taking a formal programming course, you should be able to get this in most online tutorials. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
you want to use the skills you learn. If you learn Python, but want to write code for the Android, then maybe Java might be the way to go. But, simply to learn a programming language^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures_%3D_Programs#cite_note-0> , Python is relatively

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
imates, pointers is an advanced topic and requires a lot of understanding, and is not a good concept to start on. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Messages disappeared from Thunderbird

2010-12-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/18/2010 03:04 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 12/18/2010 11:16 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 12/17/2010 02:40 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >>> ..right in front of my eyes, as my fingers were resting on the keyboard! >>> >>> I selected several messages i

Re: partition table

2010-12-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/18/2010 02:44 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > How can I display the partition table with lvm partitions. > fdisk only give the lvm partition, not the details. > > Thank. > System/Administration/Logical Volume Management or system-config-lvm. -- Jerry Feldman

Re: Messages disappeared from Thunderbird

2010-12-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
rd. If you have not compacted in a while it might be useful to do this. WRT: IMAP/POP3. With POP3, when you retrieve your email from the server it is physically downloaded to your system and deleted from the server, but with IMAP, your email will remain on the server until you either delete it

Re: Build custom Xen Kernel

2010-12-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
hing i was wondering if there is > somewhere a step by step guide with > instructions on how to install and run a virtual machine under Xen > instead of QEMU . Just my opinion, but try VirtualBox. It installs nicely in Fedora 14. The latest version is 3.2.12. -- Jerry Feldman Boston L

Re:

2010-11-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/29/2010 10:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 07:49 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: >>>> http://la-felce.it/index80

Re:

2010-11-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/29/2010 08:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 12:49:27 Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: >>>> http://la-felce.it/index808.php

Re:

2010-11-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
yahoo password has been hacked. I have seen this exact same thing with other yahoo, gmail and aol addresses. The user needs to change his/her yahoo password to clear this up. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 53

Re: errors from mcelog.cron Fedora 14

2010-11-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/16/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:40 -0500 > Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> I'm receiving errors from the mcelog.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly: >> >> /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron: >> >> read: No such device > Yea, I g

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
I installed F13 from DVD, I specifically allocated a larger /boot for this specific reason. My /boot is 485MB. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

errors from mcelog.cron Fedora 14

2010-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
th RHEL 5.2. This message does not occur every hour. When I run the mcelog command by hand I do not get this message: /usr/sbin/mcelog --ignorenodev --filter -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 -- us

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
ly identical rack-mounted systems. (4 have 64GB memory, and 1 had 16). Installing RHEL 5.2 works fine on 4 of the systems including the 16GB, but 1 system always hangs on udev until I manually blacklist the edac modules. I've had similar issues during the installfest where 1 media failed to inst

Unable to use USB microphone on Google Chat or Audacity Fedora 14

2010-11-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a Sound Blaster USB headset/mic. When I check Sound preferences the microphone works fine. Previously on Fedora 13, this did not work either, but the headsets and Google chat work fine on my netbook running Ubuntu 10.10. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: System time running fast

2010-09-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
ion/Date and Time from the menu. Windows always uses local time. Unix was designed to use UTC, but Linux can be either because it is frequently dual booted. You can also set up NTP, by going to the same screen under the date and time tab, and syncronize date and time over Internet. It

Re: virtualbox and 64bit guests

2010-09-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
>>> >>> >> AFAIK, VirtualBox support 64bit guest only if Hardware Virtualization >> (AMD-V, Intel VT-x) is activated. >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests > If you cannot enable it in the BIOS, then you simply can'

Re: Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.

2010-09-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
t on /dev/sdb (NOT /dev/sdb1). > > If your BIOS does not support a boot disk selector, then > install grub on /dev/sda (the windows disk). > > Grub will add an entry in grub.conf to let you boot > windows, from the grub menu. > > > Do not mkdir /dev/ /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

Re: Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.

2010-09-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
the Fedora Live CD, but I'm not sure. Also note that Anaconda (Fedora installer) should tell you what drive Windows is installed on. You should be able to easily dual boot Windows and Fedora once Fedora is installed on the second drive. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537

Re: VirtualBox & Multiprocessors

2010-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
. Virtualbox will work with or without VT support, but you cannot run a 64-bit GuestOS under Virtualbox without VT enabled. Additionally, Virtualbox allows you to assign 1 or more CPUs to a virtual machine. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint:

Re: Can't connect DD-WRT Router to Comcast

2010-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
you change the physical device connected to it. While Comcast may not authenticate on your MAC address any longer, the cable modem itself may store the MAC address. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 5

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
Linux based? >> > >From wikipedia: > > Android is developed by Google and is based upon the Linux kernel and GNU > software. It was initially developed by Android Inc. (a firm purchased by > Google) and later positioned in the Open Handset Alliance. > > My An

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
compile we must use the -I parameter. In our case we do not use any header file or library installed on the system except for those that are absolutely necessary, such as libc. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319

Re: gmail Video chat for fedora?

2010-09-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
amp;hl=en -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
r the kernel bug. > This is not entirely true. Red Hat has a team of kernel people, and they will fig bugs in the red Hat kernels, and submit their fixes upstream. Many times the major distros get bug fixes before they get into the mainline kernel. This is one of the nice things about Open Sourc

Re: bind() to /dev/log failed

2010-07-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
;. In any case, the sequence of calls should be: socket(2), bind(2), listen(2), accept(2), recv(2). The connect(2) function is used on the sending side. You can use the lsof(8) command to see if that socket is already in use. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: My laptop Speakers Doesn't Mute then i connect the headphones on FC13

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
Pusing in > the headset causes a disconnect in the loop that feeds > the speakers. > I happen to have USB headphones. While Fedora does not automatically switch, I have to go to Preferences/Sound and select the output and input devices. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
VirtualBox is probably the better solution. Our company uses VMWare Workstation. VirtualBox does not support 64-bit guest OS's when hardware virtualization is not enabled. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 5

Re: How to corrdinate linux-ntfs, samba, and windoes domains?

2010-07-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
to export directories to Windows, why are you using ntfs rather than a native Linux file system. If you are dual booting, it certainly makes sense, but if you are simply using Samba to provide shares to Linux, it is Samba that manages the permissions and access rights. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tip

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
e restriction is that a 64-bit Virtualbox Host OS that does not have VMX (AMD:SVM) enabled cannot run 64-bit guest OS. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

Re: Speech to text

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
I posted is from a Boston Linux meeting in April. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: boot messages : say it ain't so

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
left from previous versions that were using methods > since deprecated. > > From the fedora Development list, this is a known issue. There are also a number of bugzillas posted on this such as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587637 (This is closed as a duplicate, but you can start

Re: boot messages : say it ain't so

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
o see a fix Real Soon Now (tm)... >> > Can we assume you're seeing these messages on systems that have been > upgraded through several versions of Fedora? If so, it may be time to > consider a clean install of the current release to clean out the cruft > (like the above) left

Re: Fedora Logs out straight after Log in is complete

2010-07-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
is cumulative. It can contain a lot of data. Most likely it will contain a clue that can help you solve your problem. I don't know what you mean about the "x" file. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB

Re: more on identifying the system a program is running on...

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
ls. (2) I'm not exactly sure how to get at the physical kernel file without first doing a uname, then matching that information with /boot/vmlinux-. /proc/versions can tell you more information, but not exactly the file name. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C584

Re: Getting on Internet with 13

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/30/2010 11:08 PM, John Clark wrote: > On 6/30/2010 2:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> On 06/29/2010 07:50 PM, John Clark wrote: >> >>>I can't seem to get my browser/email to connect to Internet. In >>> terminal I can ping www.go

Re: Getting on Internet with 13

2010-06-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
derbird issues and I should have known better). Again, use telnet (as said previously) to make sure your firewall is not blocking outbound ports 80 or 25. [...@rosetta ~]$ telnet www.google.com 80 Trying 72.14.204.99... Connected to www.google.com (72.14.204.99). Escape character is '^]'

Re: evolution-data-server

2010-06-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
ens again. > > Agreed. I just performed a yum update, and all installed successfully. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users maili

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/27/2010 11:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/27/2010 10:59 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >>> maybe you should have a look at; >>> >>>http://enigmail.mozdev.org/news/index.php >>> >>> >> I was just curious to see if I could get T-Bir

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/26/2010 12:00 PM, g wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > >> I'm running 64-bit 3.1 with enigmail 1.01 with no problem. > interesting. [note link below] > > 1.01? or do you mean 1.0.1? > > makes me wonder why enigmail folks came out with enigmail 1.1.1 and

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/25/2010 02:05 PM, g wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > >> This weekend I plan on installing the 32-bit version initially with no >> extensions after further checking. > much luck. may your weekend be productive, joy full, and time spent with > more pleasurable t

Re: Thunderbird 3.1 and enigmail

2010-06-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
ing 64-bit 3.1 with enigmail 1.01 with no problem. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
account, the BLU server applies its SPAM and SPF filters. I think I received about 10 SPAM messages this morning. When I see some with similar patterns, I go to gmail and report them as SPAM. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377

Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

2010-06-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
v/disk/by-uuid/ I just want to add that the Gparted stand-alone boot CD, http://gparted.sourceforge.net/, is a much quicker solution than using a distro LiveCD simply to change the size of partitions. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/24/2010 05:21 PM, g wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > >> My plan over the next few days is to run 64-bit 3.1 from Rawhide with no >> extensions with ntpd and possibly some other daemons disabled. > this will help. there are several daemons that can hog system fo

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
directory, but when initially configuring your new release, create the fake directories, and copy your relevant configs, such as ~/.gnome2 in these fake directories. As I said it is a real PIA, but it is workable, and allows you to boot into whatever system you want. Personally, today I prefer to

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