Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Peter A
On 06/02/2012 11:17 PM, William Brown wrote: Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which als

Re: F17 luks weirdness

2012-05-23 Thread Peter A
=a417a2f6-988b-49bf-be2e-e2cf34dcc160 none The first line is my swap, the 2nd entry is the data partition, the 3rd root. It all seems to be correct to me. Thanks, Peter. On 05/23/2012 02:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 14:09:59 -0400, Peter A wrote: All, I'm havi

F17 luks weirdness

2012-05-23 Thread Peter A
All, I'm having an issue with encrypted disk setup on my Dell M6600 laptop. During boot of Fedora 17 (originally installed from alpha, yum updated current ever since), I get prompted for the password but the device shown in the prompt changes. If it ends up picking md127p1 the boot device is

Re: kmail2 on F16 loses filters when logout

2011-11-13 Thread Peter A
On 11/14/11 00:58, Zhangsan wrote: > I am a kmail user for years. I've just upgrade to F16 and new kmail2 make > me uncomfortable. I configured a number of filter rules which move mails > to different folders. They worked well in F15, but now in F16, all the filters > lose once I logout KDE. I fil

Re: Fedora 15 + scsi tape drive

2011-10-14 Thread Peter A
On Friday, October 14, 2011 09:59:38 PM Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/14/2011 11:51 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Bill Perry said: > >> It almost looks like the device changed from /dev/st4 to /dev/st0. Is > >> that possible? > > > > Yeah, I don't know why it would ever have been st4

Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Peter A
On Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:50:40 AM Digimer wrote: > On 10/13/2011 10:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 10/13/2011 07:44 PM, Leonardo wrote: > >> where do we vote for this name for the next release? > > > > Fedora 17 name has already been voted upon. Fedora 18 codename > > suggestions will

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Peter A
On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 09:40:57 PM Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 17:43 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > To this day, as far as I know, Oracle doesn't certify their database on > > any virtualization platform other than theirs. That said, I know many > > people run O

Re: Cant format 1TB USB drive ?

2010-10-03 Thread Peter A
On Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:17:42 am Linuxguy123 wrote: > I re partitioned it with one less cylinder as follows. You still have the old partition table on the drive when you do that. Try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 That will zero out the partition table completely, then run fd

KDE/Flash too fast weirdness

2010-06-16 Thread Peter A
Hi, so this one has me completely stomped... After upgrading to F13 (though yum but I also tested with a clean F13 install, same behavior) every flash video (e.g. youtube) plays significantly faster than it should... A 45 second video plays in about 12 seconds without any sound at all. The we

Re: load and power management

2010-04-14 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:34:08 Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Peter A wrote: > > Am I doing something wrong? My view is pretty simple but the few tests I > > did seemed to all indicate the same thing... > > > > How valuable is reporting the

load and power management

2010-04-13 Thread Peter A
Hi, I'm a bit confused on how power management and cpu load (should) work together... I'm not talking about a busy cpu clocking higher and so on but about how system usage is reported when the cpu frequency changes. I run KDE and the CPU meter (systemloadviewer plasmoid) behaves very erratica

Re: Pidgin problems with AIM?

2010-01-13 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 19:38:24 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Anyone else getting the following error when trying to sign in to AIM, > today: > > "Received unexpected response from > http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession"; > Yes - current workaround: Edit your AIM settings and disable