Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-27 Thread Stephen Perkins
+1 We have become throwers-away rather than fixers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJ-Wd9hGy8 On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 11:25, Roger Heflin wrote: > I think it is simple, in my experience your assertions are right on > the money. They can't be bothered to learn it and/or they aren't good > enoug

Re: Installing fonts

2020-10-21 Thread Stephen Perkins
+1 On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 17:20, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:02:49PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask. I don't have the > > files, I need to install them from rpms, and don't know how to get > > dnf to do that. If you know, tell

Re: Fedora 30 EOL

2020-05-30 Thread Stephen Perkins
Having started with RH 5.1, and now on Fedora 31, I find this thread enlightening, entertaining, and relevant. On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 17:19, Kevin Becker wrote: > > When is this thread scheduled for EOL? > > > On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 18:44 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 11:1

Re: Why do I have 4 kernels when the install limit is 3 ?

2020-05-11 Thread Stephen Perkins
Zen and the Art of Linux (Fedora version) requires patience. It is best to observe and learn. "The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so." -Shunryn Suzuki Roshi. On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 16:04, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > On 5/12/20 1:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > PackageKit uses dnf

Re: tip: upgrade to 32

2020-04-20 Thread Stephen Perkins
This horse is dead. Beating it will add nothing to Fedora users lives. I buy on Swanson using FF and have NO problems. On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 18:21, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 2020-04-20 12:50, stan via users wrote: > > It surprises me that your clients are concerned about google > >

Re: 24 hour time in Thunderbird -

2019-11-16 Thread Stephen Perkins
< Well that's another failed attempt at fixing my problem, I am not comfortable in French although it does work for me, it changes the theme in places to a blavk on white < display that I need a magnifier to read? I also need an English spell checker running, *am a lousy typist*. I'll just deal

Re: Need a statement on Fedora's purpose

2019-04-05 Thread Stephen Perkins
+1 (or more) /* begin rant: I seldom post to the list, but I read each and every post everyday. IMHO the signal is buried by the noise. I have used RedHat since 1998, ver. 5.2, switched to Fedora in 2003, and been here ever since. I run Fedora 29, both X86_64 and i686 on a workstation (X86_64)

Re: usb creator?

2019-03-14 Thread Stephen Perkins
> On 03/14/19 15:58, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> >> Do we have something like this >> >> https://pkgs.org/download/usb-creator-gtk >> >> kicking around under another name? > > Fedora Media Writer?dnf mediawriter >Isn't that particular to Fedora images? >Maybe livecd-iso-to-disk from the

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-20 Thread Stephen Perkins
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:56 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 10/21/18 5:42 AM, stan wrote: > > I'm wondering how the people who regularly use fedora-users mailing > > list feel about that. > > I would simply stop contributing. > And that is why I would be leaving. Your contributions have helped me,

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-20 Thread Stephen Perkins
>On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:01 PM stan wrote: >Would you willingly or > reluctantly migrate to the new platform? > Neither. If this list disappears, I will too. __ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.

2018-03-28 Thread Stephen Perkins
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > As I understand it, the problem is not that Gmail marks it as spam > (which you could recover from your spam folder) but that it simply > drops the message completely because of the DMARC indicator. > > poc > ___

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Stephen Perkins
I had the same problem with FF 57 on Fedora 26; found solution on FF forum: go to about:config and set accessibility.force_disabled = 1 (it's 0 by default) worked for me. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 01/01/18 15:07, George N. White III wrote: > > On 1 January 2018

Re: iPad Photos -

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen Perkins
"The View From Chaos Manor," TRS-80's, PC-DOS, and "Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy." Sadly missed and remembered fondly. But he does live on: http://anewdomain.net/?s=jerry+pournelle On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/30/2017 02:25 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> I was

Re: iPad Photos -

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen Perkins
I don't have an iPad, but when I connect my Kindle, my iPods, or my Android phone, they are mounted automagically and a file manager opens to list its content. Photos are usually in a folder named Dcim on all the devices I use. I just move the photos to my hard drive and open them with Image View

Re: installing updates not in the background on F26? reboot giving me a 15 min delay...

2017-09-11 Thread Stephen Perkins
I would like to interject for what it's worth: I became frustrated with Gnome 3's implementation. I ran Bodhi Linux for while, but it was too light weight. I returned to Fedora (I've been running Linux since Red Hat 5.1 in 1999, with a few detours to other distros, but not many; I continually ret