Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 9, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > would suggest that the misunderstanding is on your part instead as noted in > another reply. However even if it weren't true, we all get bug reports > closed from time to time with a resolution different from what we want. The > right app

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Russell Miller
Poma said: >OK that's it! >I sincerely recommend the moderators to close this shameful thread where certain creatures are capable of spitting on >the systemd and its developers without any remorse! I think Greg had the right idea. *plonk*. To be frank, as I mentioned on another thread on anothe

Re: SImple amp for F20

2014-07-06 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Doug wrote: > Just because you have a hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail. > You should always select the proper tool for the job, and this time, it's > not the computer. I agree. I'm a musician myself, and I invested in the right tools for the job. Audiobox

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 6, 2014, at 5:33 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Rolf Turner writes: >> >> The difference is that Olav is polite and you are abusive. > > If you regard what I say as abusive, then you should, perhaps, be challenging > this entire thread, which impugns the motivations, not only of Mr. > Poe

Re: background - "stopped" how to kill!

2014-06-06 Thread Russell Miller
On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:44 AM, bruce wrote: > > My question, is how the heck can I implement something within the test > foo.php to have it die/be removed from the procTBL when it dies.. If it's "stopped" that means it's not running, it's probably got an fd to the tty open and is listening for i

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> You could learn to love the default udev nomenclature > > Of course the major problem with the new "consistent" names > is they keep changing the software and making the names > consistently different :-). > > The original biosdevname changed

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 5:33 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > > I want to run the same software on all of these machines and having > inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to impossible. > Using the new names means that my software has to learn all those > different names and can't eas

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-21 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 21, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 04/22/2014 07:00 AM, Russell Miller wrote: >> >> On Apr 21, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>> IMO, this is *the cause*, why Fedora has lost against its competitors. >>>

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-21 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 21, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > IMO, this is *the cause*, why Fedora has lost against its competitors. > I don't agree. Fedora doesn't have competitors. It fills a niche which I am not sure that any other distribution truly meets. Sure, some have bleeding edge forks,

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-19 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 19, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I am having a really terrible experience with Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i. > > I installed Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i, upgraded it to the latest and > system freezes at the login screen. System temperature goes over limit either > bu

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-19 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 19, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > > Fedora will work for servers but the upgrade cycle does cause problems. I > have seen enough of them in my job. > Well, yes. Any linux distribution will work for servers as long as it will run the binaries required. Even *shudder* Gentoo

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-19 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 19, 2014, at 6:21 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > I'm not currently running Fedora, either--it's just not in the mix for > the five frankenstations and the server that I use for home and business > right now. But I've been in the field since I got my degree in '76--that's > almost 40 years now

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-18 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 18, 2014, at 9:40 PM, David wrote: > > If you do not 'like Fedora' I would suggest that you find some other > distro of Linux that you do. And leave this list. And? Join the list(s) > of your latest Linux darling and sing your love there. > Thank you for your suggestion. > It seems a wa

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-18 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 18, 2014, at 9:15 PM, David wrote: > > > And yet you are still 'here'? > Not that it's any of your business, but the story behind that: I subscribed using my gmail a long time ago, and never forwarded my gmail, and filtered it to a special folder that I never saw. A few weeks ago

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-18 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 18, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > That is neither the charter of the project, nor my personal experience. > I use Fedora for my daily driver at home, I use it for dev work at work, > my 7 & 11 year old daughters use it for daily driving on their laptops > (https://fedorapro

Re: FC20 and (":No such file or directory)

2014-04-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Richard England wrote: > > Curious, since the -w command-line option is suppose to cause warning > messages to be displayed indicating questionable Perl code Yes, quite curious, and were it me I would not consider that a solution. I would run strace on it to fin

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:47:52 pm Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > > We are *not* irrelevant. I'm not, and neither is the OP, and the > > attitude > > that says we are is the *problem*. > > > #1 - mention

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:24:09 pm David wrote: > Perhaps you should search for a distribution that works for your needs > if you are so dissatisfied with Fedora? It's like capitalism. it's the worst distro out there, except for all the others. I didn't say I was dissatisfied with Fedora.

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote: > you are completely irrelevant... not that I have any ability to change > that and I surely respect your right, as a Fedora user to post on the > list. > > In the future, would you please mark your irrelevant rantings as OT (off > topic)?

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > In thread starting with > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-March/367987.html > > I stated a skewer of bugs. Geeks answered it was normal to have bugs > like, for at least 2 years now, "New Files" entering the clipboa

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-03-06 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 06 March 2010 05:59:14 pm Antonio Olivares wrote: > On another note, due to the inability of Fedora to release a 2.6.32 kernel, > I was on the impression that IT was going to be SKIPPED to make way for > 2.6.33 and its many IMPROVEMENTS. Like John I will compile the new kernel > as so

Re: Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

2010-03-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Monday 01 March 2010 08:33:20 pm Jeffrey Metcalf wrote: > > If you put the filesystem of interest on its own partition, then > > ISTM you can mount -o remount,ro that one file system, and it should > > remain static during the backup. All data will still be available, > > though unmodifiable. Cl

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-27 Thread Russell Miller
On Saturday 27 February 2010 09:12:06 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: > something like sed -ie s/(.*)/\1/ filename Not sure of the EXACT syntax but that should be close. (apologies if this gets sent twice, I sent the first from the wrong a