Re: Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.

2012-02-26 Thread Julius Smith
le Fedora16 >        root (hd0,0) >        kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686 > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 >        initrd /initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686.img > > > On 26 Feb 2012 at 17:03, Julius Smith wrote: > > Date sent:              Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:03:19 -0800 &

Re: Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.

2012-02-26 Thread Julius Smith
I just did a preupgrade from F15 to F16 and fell into this trap, or something similar. From a rescue disk boot (F12 is the latest I had lying around), I can see both grub and grub2 directories in /boot. The grub2 dir looks set up, but when booting grub/grub.conf is accessed, and it points to the

Fedora iso checksums

2012-01-01 Thread Julius Smith
Why is it so hard to find the iso checksums for Fedora releases? It is easy to find the .iso downloads themselves, and we're asked to verify them, but it is very hard to find the checksums! I ultimately had to search the Web for the checksum itself! -- "Anybody who knows all about nothing knows

Re: No, I don't want to maximize my window

2011-10-10 Thread Julius Smith
You can turn off window tiling using gconf-editor (desktop->gnome->shell->windows) - jos On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > ... >> >> So, naturally, Gnome must ape Windows, and imitate every stupid thing that >> Windows does. >> >> Sigh. > > Exac

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-09-01 Thread Julius Smith
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: > On 08/31/2011 09:02 PM, Tim wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: >>> using the mouse is slow, so we need to be able to define a shortcut >>> for everything. >> And how are yo

Re: 9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

2011-08-30 Thread Julius Smith
If you are referring to my general comments re. GNOME 3, then yes, that's on Fedora 15. - jos 2011/8/30 Jorge Rivera > I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 > > ** ** > > *Jorge J.Rivera* > > Tech Support Analyst > > T. + 52 55 21229114 > M. +52 5514526200 >

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Julius Smith
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: > I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, > different graphics hardware. As installed, all three were kinda OK. > After recent updates all three now take about 5 seconds to change > windows. A warning box poppi

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Julius Smith
I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, etc., to recover lost functionality. In my opinion, Fedora should be aimed at "power users" not

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Julius Smith
Some points: * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear * Top posting makes it easier to respond to only one point of many * For the blind listening to text-to-speech reading of the page, top-posting is the only way to go * I vote for top-posting, including quoted snippets