Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-30 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/30/2015 06:04 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 06/30/2015 05:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Actually, another option is to put the legacy OS into a VM where it can then inherit some of the features of Linux, including LVM support. Then you can LVM this external drive instead of partitioning it, and then

Re: Replacing cpu

2015-06-28 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/28/2015 11:03 AM, jd1008 wrote: ice = 32.0 °F | 00.00 °C. water boiling point = 211.9 °F | 99.97 °C Thanx G. I have an electronic digital thermometer, the tip of which is inserted into the boiling water. At my location, it reported that boiling water is at 204 °F We are only at about 4250

Re: Thunderbird blinking browser notice -

2015-06-28 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/28/2015 09:27 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 28/06/15 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote: Then you have services such ashttp://postimage.org/ Plenty others, I am sure. . No doubt but I haven't found one. It's small video clip, best way to demonstrate the problem. I may be able t

Re: secure erase drive errors

2015-06-24 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/24/2015 11:51 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:46:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote: On 06/23/2015 11:46 PM, Tim wrote: jd1008: I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :) Joe Zeff: Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job. What about, hard

Re: [OT] HP Officejet Pro 8620

2015-06-23 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/23/2015 12:12 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 23/06/15 12:44, Rick Stevens wrote: I use KeePassX and carry its db file around on a USB thumb drive on my keychain. I also have it on my Android phone, just in case and there's versions of it around for danged near any OS/ph

Re: Where is the menu function "copy", "cut" and "paste" in gnome nautilus/file 3.16.2

2015-06-12 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/12/2015 08:51 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:41 PM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 10:44 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: The inability to paste an object into a folder using only the mouse is a problem only in list mode, and then only when the list display is larger than the

Re: Where is the menu function "copy", "cut" and "paste" in gnome nautilus/file 3.16.2

2015-06-12 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/12/2015 08:41 PM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 10:44 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: The inability to paste an object into a folder using only the mouse is a problem only in list mode, and then only when the list display is larger than the active window. In icon mode there is always

Re: Where is the menu function "copy", "cut" and "paste" in gnome nautilus/file 3.16.2

2015-06-12 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/12/2015 11:17 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno ven, 12/06/2015 alle 10.44 -0600, Ronal B Morse ha scritto: One work-around, Workaround, workaround, workaround ... why I must use a work around when the solution in this case is very simple: do not remove paste function from that menu (and

Re: Where is the menu function "copy", "cut" and "paste" in gnome nautilus/file 3.16.2

2015-06-12 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 06/12/2015 10:11 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno ven, 12/06/2015 alle 14.55 +0800, Ed Greshko ha scritto: I just looked back at F21 and even there a "classic menu" with copy/paste doesn't exist. And, besides, a place where you can click copy/paste is just a GUI doing CTRL-C/CTRL-V. So, I d

Re: Getting Fedora to recognize my Kindle

2015-05-29 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/29/2015 09:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 10:54 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: This is probably basic stuff. It's just been a very long time since I have had to do it. Simply put, if I plug my Kindle into a USB port, Fedora fails to recognize and mount it as an MT

Re: nautilus

2015-05-27 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/27/2015 10:04 PM, Rene Harder Olsen wrote: Den 27-05-2015 kl. 21:09 skrev Lawrence E Graves: And it cannot also hold the selected size of the icons from session to session. Use dconf-editor to make a permanent changes. install dconf-editor (if necessary) In dconf-editor navigate to: org

Re: Replacing laptop cpu

2015-05-24 Thread Ronal B Morse
I still like my guess better, but it's your machine and your money. Keep us posted. RBM On 05/24/2015 01:51 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 05/24/2015 12:49 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote: On 05/23/2015 11:03 AM, jd1008 wrote: I have an HP laptop with AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GH

Re: Replacing laptop cpu

2015-05-24 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/23/2015 11:03 AM, jd1008 wrote: I have an HP laptop with AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GHz CPU, Socket S1. It is now causing blue screens in windows and freezes linux (pclinuxos, knoppix, fedora live). I have run the x86 mem test for more than a day, and found no problems w

Re: UUID label format -

2015-05-22 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/22/2015 12:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/22/2015 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 22/05/15 14:06, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/22/2015 10:55 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I am instructed to change the /boot UUID: Who/what is telling you this, and why? .

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/16/2015 12:41 PM, g wrote: On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed with

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-12 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/12/2015 11:53 AM, jd1008 wrote: It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user decides (for some reason) to return to the previous release. This would completely obviate the need to

Re: F21: why Fedora still has not alternative init?

2015-05-04 Thread Ronal B Morse
Forget it, Dan. It's Chinatown. RBM On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 08:07 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: > I find the attitude of many of the senior fedora people quite > disappointing. There is no freedom, there is ZERO choice on this > issue. It's a dictatorship. > > > My observations are that the systemd peop

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-03 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 14:24 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 03:13:58PM +0200, bitlord wrote: > > I don't know, but if I understand you, you are in fullscreen mode? I'm > > not using thunderbird, but firefox, probably is the same (they share a > > lot of "technology"), F11 wor

Re: question about burning and then reading (dd) to confirm sha256sum

2015-04-03 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 18:20 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 11:11 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > made by Sony, which I thought paid better attention to the quality of > > production > > I seem to recall that Sony doesn't actually make their own. But > regardless of how well media may be regar

Re: Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

2015-03-25 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400 > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it > > won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times... > > I have to go in & comment out all entrie

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-06 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 19:18 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > I have an optiarch CD/DVD/RW drive and Sony RW media. > > I tried to blank the media: > [snip] > Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 8 in real BLANK mode for single > session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation s

Re: Restoring the usual graphical boot panel

2015-02-25 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 08:16 +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> > >> After having installed the NVidia proprietary drivers, the usual boot > >> panel with a ball with an "F" in the middle does not show up anymore; > >> now, I get a bar at the bottom of

Re: F21 on UEFI

2015-02-15 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 15:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 15.02.2015, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > > > 1. Power on the system, press F2 as soon as the logo screen appears > > Thanks a lot, will do! > I have an ASUS Z97Pro. Press when you see the BIOS splash screen to enter the BIOS se