Re: How to turn off the touchpad?

2016-07-28 Thread Rolf Turner
h, off the beam. HTH, but. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/ad

Re: WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

2016-01-17 Thread Rolf Turner
On 18/01/16 01:45, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 16.01.2016, Rolf Turner wrote: sudo yum install texinfo Package texinfo-4.13a-16.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do Try with the associated texinfo-devel package. At first I thought "Duh!!! Of course!!!&quo

Previous message sent in error.

2016-01-16 Thread Rolf Turner
y intended. My apologies for the inadvertent cross-posting. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

WARNING you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals

2016-01-16 Thread Rolf Turner
why I must build R from source. It all works fine, except for that warning.) cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [FORGED] thunderbird-38.4.0-1.fc22.x86_64

2016-01-12 Thread Rolf Turner
;). I just deleted your message, then clicked on Edit -> Undo and the message was restored with consummate gracefulness. No problema. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing l

Re: [FORGED] Re: Using Fedup

2015-06-19 Thread Rolf Turner
On 20/06/15 08:41, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/19/2015 01:33 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: I kind of surmised that that might be your point, but it was very hard to tell. There seems to be an overwhelming penchant on this list for being mind-bogglingly cryptic, which is very counter-productive and very

Re: [FORGED] Re: Using Fedup

2015-06-19 Thread Rolf Turner
being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. --- Quintilian cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: um ... why are my wiki pages suddenly rendering "fi" in olde english?

2015-06-18 Thread Rolf Turner
e. so ... carry on. When in doubt, reboot. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Biting the bullet?

2015-05-10 Thread Rolf Turner
may well not want to) can someone point me at such a set of instructions somewhere on the web? Again, they would have to be expressed in a very simple-minded way. ("Upgrading Fedora for Dummies".) Everlastingly grateful for any help that anyone can extend. cheers, Rolf Turner - Techni

Re: Congrats on F21. fedup worked great!

2014-12-22 Thread Rolf Turner
w to answer, and the whole thing was riddled with incomprehensible geek-speak. I gave up and have not been back since. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Disabling a specific key

2014-12-19 Thread Rolf Turner
On 20/12/14 06:18, jd1008 wrote: On 12/19/2014 03:27 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 13:56, jd1008 wrote: On 12/18/2014 05:29 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 11:55, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote: If

Re: Disabling a specific key

2014-12-19 Thread Rolf Turner
On 19/12/14 13:56, jd1008 wrote: On 12/18/2014 05:29 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 11:55, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote: If you do not know the KeyCode, run the program: showkey and press the key in

Re: Disabling a specific key

2014-12-18 Thread Rolf Turner
On 19/12/14 11:55, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:34:54 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: On 19/12/14 08:27, jd1008 wrote: If you do not know the KeyCode, run the program: showkey and press the key in question and it's code will be displayed. You must wait 10 seconds of idl

Re: Disabling a specific key

2014-12-18 Thread Rolf Turner
or referring to the console And that's it. Anything I can do about this? (Please note: I am running Fedora 17 --- yes, I know --- and using a Mate desktop; Mate 1.6.1 .) Thanks for any advice. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailing list users@

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/12/14 18:20, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: I saw stuff about "the compose key" bizzo while googling around, but I couldn't figure out how to "create" a compose key. I tried to follow some instructions that I found, but c

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/12/14 17:22, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 14 December 2014, Rolf Turner sent: Struggling with this and don't know who else to ask I have just found out how to produce accented characters when typing, e.g., an email, via u where "" is the unicode hex number fo

Re: OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
w). In the Gnome terminal there is a "Search" item on the menu bar and that indicates that f is a "short-cut" for "Find". Thanks for any insights. cheers, Rolf Turner Hi Rolf, This might work for you: In your terminal go to Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts... A

OT: disabling f produces a "find" menu.

2014-12-13 Thread Rolf Turner
e is a "Search" item on the menu bar and that indicates that f is a "short-cut" for "Find". Thanks for any insights. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: PATH

2014-10-24 Thread Rolf Turner
latex to descend the directory tree when looking for appropriate input (e.g. *.sty) files, you need that trailing slash. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Rolf Turner
On 21/10/14 03:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:16:42 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 08:31 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: On 20/10/14 01:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 01:10 +, Bill Oliver wrote: Here's the prob

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-19 Thread Rolf Turner
underlying PDF. I assume you mean Probability Distribution Function, not Portable Document Format. That might not be clear to everyone, particularly on a list such as this one. Probability *density* function, actually. :-) (All *good* people would understand this! :-) ) cheers, Rolf Turner

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Rolf Turner
ly any distribution for which a probability density function can be written. Goodness of fit testing is more problematic, but then as I said that is a problematic topic. Superimposing fitted pdf-s on a histogram of the data for "visual comparison" is straightforward. cheers, Rolf

Re: Regular font for human beings to learn to write

2014-10-05 Thread Rolf Turner
Surely this thread is ***TOTALLY*** off-topic for this list. cheers, Rolf Turner On 05/10/14 18:27, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 05 October 2014, Ian Malone sent: What I was trying to demonstrate was that sound of a capital letter *is* exactly the same as a lower case letter. Hence

Re: Radio silence?

2014-08-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/08/14 10:53, Michael Hannon wrote: Hi, Rolf. I noticed the dearth of message, but I just got yours. Yep. Mine got through to me too, as did your message just now. I guess there's just a lull in people's propensity to fulminate. :-) cheers, Rolf -- Rolf Turner Techni

Radio silence?

2014-08-13 Thread Rolf Turner
This is really a test message. I have received nothing today from the Fedora list. Has the list gone down? cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
s and am thus not under their complete control. Also they are Windoze oriented, with Ubuntu insisted upon if one insists on running Linux. Fedora is a no-no. cheers, Rolf Turner Théâtre de l'Absurde. Indeed. BTW I see you've solved it with the TBird upgrade, however man, do not st

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 13/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/13/14 07:35, Rolf Turner wrote: Yes, I had to muck around a bit to get Adobe Reader installed; yum didn't "directly" work (probably because my Fedora 17 is EOL). According to notes that I kept, the recipe (found somewhere on the web)

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
s and got sick of it.) So I don't feel like mucking about with Evolution or Mutt or I would waste endless time --- it takes me forever to figure things out --- even if I didn't perpetrate a disaster. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 17:41, poma wrote: On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: ... ***Is*** there anything that can be done about it? If so, what? Please keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind. I need a *recipe* --- "Do this, and then this, and then this " I understand

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 17:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/14 12:51, Rolf Turner wrote: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Couldn't load XPCOM. Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can be

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
ollow. For the moment I have put the old version 17.0.7 thunderbird directory (of which I had very cleverly --- :-) --- kept a copy) back in place, and that version of thunderbird runs with no more problems than it ever had. Thanks for any tips. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list user

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:20, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Has anyone any insight into why this unsubscription phenomenon should occur and how one might prevent it from occurring? That's a good question. Have you tried asking here: https://support.mozilla.org/

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/14 07:54, Rolf Turner wrote: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive, cranky, cryptic

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 12:04, Rick Stevens wrote: On 07/11/2014 04:54 PM, Rolf Turner issued this missive: This is of course not a Fedora issue as such, but I have tried hard and without success to find answers elsewhere. And since this list has so many contributors who are *so* knowledgeable (abrasive

OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-11 Thread Rolf Turner
way to mask them is to unsubscribe. But then I need to *subscribe* to all of the stuff that I *do* want to see. Grateful for any insight or advice. cheers, Rolf Turner P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance. R. T. Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS -- users mailin

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Rolf Turner
lav is polite and you are abusive. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelin

Re: Install Problem with Fedora 20 (No Local Standard Disks)

2014-06-27 Thread Rolf Turner
" or "Rolph" or "Rolphe" or "Ross" or ..., far more often than I get called "Rolf". (Roughly 95% --- 5%). I have learned to live with it. (Ah, the *mellowness* that comes with advancing years!) cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@l

Re: reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20

2014-04-24 Thread Rolf Turner
sed to using Adobe Reader for marking up, but it might be off-putting to those who are into the Adobe Reader way of doing things. BTW I could never get Okular to work worth a damn. This may be because (a) I am still using Fedora 17, and (b) I am using the Mate Desktop r.t. KDE or even Gnome.

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
ill. Although I am not British, I thought I was reasonably well-informed about British colloquialisms, and I am unaware of "sad" being used as an insult. I guess that to call someone a "sad case" is an insult, but "sad" on its own is different. Are you sure you di

Re: fedora colors

2014-03-24 Thread Rolf Turner
t "innuendo" is Italian for suppository? cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines:

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

2014-03-17 Thread Rolf Turner
On 18/03/14 19:37, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 14:08, Rolf Turner wrote: Since I don't use the KDE desktop (I use Mate) I would presume that the forgoing is of no relevance to me. (Unless I were to switch over to KDE, which I am not inclined to do on the basis of "Better the devi

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

2014-03-17 Thread Rolf Turner
On 18/03/14 15:34, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 10:14, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO,

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

2014-03-17 Thread Rolf Turner
On 18/03/14 15:14, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simpler and easily re

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-17 Thread Rolf Turner
Just giving the recipe for what I did in what I *think* were similar circumstances. My apologies if this advice is incorrect or misleading or if it completely misses the point. Good luck. cheers, Rolf Turner P. S. I was/am running Fedora 17; I forget what version you are using (or if you

Re: Camera on a Toshiba L850 Satellite laptop, Fedora 17.

2014-03-06 Thread Rolf Turner
On 07/03/14 11:58, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/06/2014 01:54 PM, Rolf Turner issued this missive: I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 laptop. Recently I attempted to make use of "Google Hangouts" for communicating with some colleagues. When I attempted to start a "video hangout&

Camera on a Toshiba L850 Satellite laptop, Fedora 17.

2014-03-06 Thread Rolf Turner
ed "drivers" installed? If so, do there exist drivers that will work under Linux, specifically under Fedora 17? Please try not to be *too* cryptic in your responses! There are many lacunae in my knowledge and many acronyms and pieces of jargon bewilder me! Thanks

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 11:16, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: WTF do I have to do? 1. Download the latest Flash plugin 2. Copy "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.mozilla/plugins 3. Restart Firefox You're done. And later added: 1. Download the latest Flash plugin http://g

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote: I had to do this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins when i ran into this problem. Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link is already in place. cheers,

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
tediluvian Fedora 17 (not having worked up the nerve to upgrade ...). Could that be the problem? Do I need to upgrade (to Fedora 18? 19? 20?) before flash will work? Why? cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: [Looking for Flash Player] Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice. Googling didn't turn this up? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash Well, not as such. Googling turns up (as always) se

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-24 Thread Rolf Turner
On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (

Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-24 Thread Rolf Turner
t want to get into an incomprehensible upgrade hassle unless I absolutely have to.) Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Rolf Turner
s running very satisfactorily (except for the font problem that I am having) and I strongly adhere to the principle "If it ain't broke don't fix it." cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Default browser

2013-12-04 Thread Rolf Turner
te I would hesitate to write him off as a "troll" or to ignore his posts completely. Just treat most of his posts with a shrug and delete them. There will be (probably) be the occasional useful gem. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Rolf Turner
On 11/24/13 09:30, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29:19AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: But wrong nevertheless. It conflates two quite distinct ideas, blurs the meaning and diminishes the language. Another English major heard from. Actually not true

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Rolf Turner
On 11/24/13 09:52, Dan Thurman wrote: On 11/22/2013 12:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Psigh! What hope for humanity? :-) Well... what is `Psigh' in English please? :P The "p" is silent; as in phthisis. Or as in swimming. :-) cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mai

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-22 Thread Rolf Turner
On 11/23/13 10:17, inode0 wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Just read some stuff on this list about "spins", a concept which had not previously impinged itself upon my consciousness. So I went and had a look at the spins.fedoraproject.org page. It star

Writing English.

2013-11-22 Thread Rolf Turner
uld think would get it right!) about Pope Francis, in which it was said "Despite winning pundits for his graceful-but-radical abdication, Benedict fell victim to ...". Uh, I think the writer meant *plaudits*, don't you? Psigh! What hope for humanity? :-) cheers, R

Re: R?

2013-10-15 Thread Rolf Turner
On 10/16/13 09:20, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/15/2013 01:07 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Please, people: When you give advice, make sure you get the little details right. Knowledgeable types and gurus can readily spot and fix minor infelicities. But to us bunnies a minor infelicity can be completely

Re: R?

2013-10-15 Thread Rolf Turner
anaged. Please, people: When you give advice, make sure you get the little details right. Knowledgeable types and gurus can readily spot and fix minor infelicities. But to us bunnies a minor infelicity can be completely bewildering. Test your code before sending! cheers,

Re: Bill Oliver's essay on "just follow instructions".

2013-10-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 10/13/13 03:40, Steven Stern wrote: Rolf: Thanks for pointing out Bill's message. It's something everyone should read. As a graduate student, I was required to teach. It took a number of years to figure it out, but I did figure out why I was a lousy teacher. Everything I did in clas

Bill Oliver's essay on "just follow instructions".

2013-10-11 Thread Rolf Turner
is a brilliant guy and provides a great service to the Fedora community. But he would be even more useful to the community if he absorbed Bill Oliver's advice. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: grub2 how to get into command-line-interface?

2013-10-09 Thread Rolf Turner
you look illiterate and uninformed. Please use proper English on this list because there are people on this list who will simply ignore you if you don't. A bit unnecessarily grumpy, but basically I agree. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Rolf Turner
On 10/06/13 06:58, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: ...snip... P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm thinking of taking over and

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Rolf Turner
Fi to work on my new-ish Toshiba Satellite L850. Service was prompt, friendly and helpful, and their communications were lucid and basically bullshit-free. cheers, Rolf Turner P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! R. T. -- users mailing

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.

2013-07-31 Thread Rolf Turner
ey ***were*** lost when I had wireless connections! I no longer have any such.) Thanks for giving this some thought. I really do appreciate your effort. But I'm afraid that my only recourse will be to sell this Toshiba and buy another brand which has a WiFi device compatible with Linu

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.

2013-07-30 Thread Rolf Turner
On 30/07/13 19:07, poma wrote: On 30.07.2013 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: On 30/07/13 14:45, poma wrote: On 30.07.2013 00:03, Rolf Turner wrote: Thanks "poma" (???) and Harald. It sounds like you may have solved my problem but I'm afraid that your advice is too cryptic for

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used --- systemctl?

2013-07-29 Thread Rolf Turner
On 30/07/13 14:45, poma wrote: On 30.07.2013 00:03, Rolf Turner wrote: Thanks "poma" (???) and Harald. It sounds like you may have solved my problem but I'm afraid that your advice is too cryptic for my poor feeble brain. Can either of you (or someone else) spell out in

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used --- systemctl?

2013-07-29 Thread Rolf Turner
d almost none of the discourse but it seems to indicate that upgrading is essentially impossible unless you *really* know what you are doing. And I don't. Is there a simple (hah!) recipe by means of which I could upgrade? E.g. could I just type sudo fedup at the command line? Or perh

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used --- systemctl?

2013-07-28 Thread Rolf Turner
a way that systemctl will understand what I'm talking about? cheers, Rolf Turner On 28/07/13 08:42, Rolf Turner wrote: I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 Laptop for which the WiFi card appears to be incompatible with any drivers available for Linux. To try to get around this prob

Re: Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.

2013-07-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/07/13 16:15, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/27/2013 01:42 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Is there any way to "disable" the (non-functional) built-in WiFi card so that the laptop will *not* try to use it but will rather go straight to the (functional) USB device? I Googled around a bit and

Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.

2013-07-27 Thread Rolf Turner
there are huge lacunae in my knowledge. I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname -a" is: Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks for any help that anyone can give me. cheers, Rolf Turner --

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-18 Thread Rolf Turner
Like Eric, I find all this whinging about Harald's (supposed) rudeness far more annoying than the (supposed) rudeness. Please lay off and get on with talking about substantive Fedora issues. cheers, Rolf Turner On 19/07/13 09:35, Eric Viseur wrote: As a recent newcom

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-16 Thread Rolf Turner
package. Does this not do what you need? cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Halo Scanner Mouse used on Fedora

2013-05-16 Thread Rolf Turner
phy's Law? :-) cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 11:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43:50PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: I don't, didn't, never have, and never will use hypdestopt!!! Do you see any reference to hypdestopt in the "demo" code? I figured that it had to

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
;t notice that the To field was the list until after I sent it. (So Thunderbird messes around too; it's not just LaTeX! :-) ) Apologies. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/13/2013 05:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/12/2013 03:32 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. Brain fart. Don't worry about it. Tish happens. If you wa

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Please see inline below. On 04/12/2013 10:29 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hello Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:37:43PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex". I did "latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
problem is "solved". I still don't understand why the error that I originally got, relating to "hypdestopt" went away. I really didn't change ***ANYTHING*** in the interim. I did not reboot; I didn't even log out and log back in. It is utterly mystifying. ch

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
exit code 1 So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really means ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that? cheers, Rolf Turner On 04/12/2013 09:23 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Ed, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:4

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
ed to do to get things to work? (Panic is starting to set in.) Thanks for any insight. cheers, Rolf Turner \documentclass[ size=12pt, paper=screen, mode=present, display=slides, style=fyma, fleqn ]{powerdot} % \title{A Load of Dingos' Kidneys} \author{Rolf Turner\\ School of Ha

Testing.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
Apologies for the noise. My previous message to this list seems not to have gone through; wanted to check/test. cheers, Rolf Turner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex are empty. (There are exceptions, e.g. amsmath.) Is there some incantation that I can invoke, via yum, to get these directories filled up? Thanks. cheers, Rolf Turner On 04/11/2013 09:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/11/13 17:03, Rolf Turner wrote:

Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
not tried to provide any. If some Good Samaritan would like more information about my set-up, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to supply it. I am fairly computer/Linux/LaTeX literate, but there are gaping lacunae in my knowledge, so please be patient with me. cheers, R