Re: Can not reach some web sites

2014-09-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:13pm on Friday, September 19, 2014 (UK time), A.J. Bonnema wrote: > Hallo, > > I have been experiencing a problem with reaching some websites. Example: > I can not reach http://en.wikipedia.org. This won't fix it, but might help with the diagnosis. en.wikipedia.org resolves to 91.198

Re: Need advice

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:53pm on Thursday, April 17, 2014 (UK time), Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Roger sent: > > What would one have to look out for if one does keep an EOL Fedora for > > a number of years? > > You wouldn't be able to install new applications on it. e.g. If, years > lat

OT meaning of sad [was: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability]

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:36pm on Friday, April 11, 2014 (UK time), Rolf Turner wrote: > 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" o

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:47pm on Thursday, April 10, 2014 (UK time), Arthur Dent wrote: > OK - So if just do "yum install sendmail" will everything work as > before? Or will I have to spend a fortune on coffee and pizzas as I sit > up night after night trying to configure it? Not a fortune, but you need to tink

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:24pm on Thursday, April 10, 2014 (UK time), Arthur Dent wrote: > 2) now that Fedora have removed the MTA as default, does it even > generate system messages and cron output messages anymore? Yes it does. I install and configure sendmail on both my Fedora workstations and do receive all

Re: No OK message when re-starting service

2014-03-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:59pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014 (UK time), Timothy Murphy wrote: > I notice that when I run > # systemctl restart sendmail.service > I get no OK message on my Fedora-20 laptop, Is sendmail installed? It isn't installed as a default option any more. Steve -- Website: www.steves

Re: Gnome is sometimes blurred

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:16pm on Wednesday, March 05, 2014 (UK time), antonio wrote: > Sometimes when I start my laptop (with Intel card) Gnome doesn't start > as it should, icons are in the wrong position (I mean that the top panel > is sitting on the right and I get the wheel on the bottom left angle of > t

Re: dnf-0.4.12

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:06pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 (UK time), poma wrote: > On 21.01.2014 15:57, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > Whether agreed with or not Fedora is a Dev let distro, > > and in the main Devs will get all the support they need. > > Fedora.next Primary audience for Fedora will be: > > 1: Devs

Re: What is Gnome Screensaver?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:29am on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 (UK time), Tim wrote: > Even as far back as, at least, Fedora 17, Gnome's screensaver will only > blank the screen. I miss the picture slide show screensaver, and > installing the old X screensaver was a seriously broken attempt at > getting that feat

Re: what's the point of filing bugs against Fedora?

2014-01-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:24pm on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (UK time), pgaltieri . wrote: > ask Linus I'm sure he can help you" ? I guarantee you not very long. It > was my responsibility to work with whoever I needed to to fix the > customer's problem, but the customer dealt with me until the problem was > fix

Changed behavior when middle clicking URL in mutt

2014-01-14 Thread Steve Searle
I used to middle click a URL in a mutt email, and it would open in my web browser (Firefox). Now when I do so it prints it, including all headers. If I change my mutt config to include print="ask-yes", it displays a "key is not bound message". Right clicking on the link displays a (GUI) menu with v

Re: since F20 update, cron has stopped sending mail

2014-01-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:13pm on Friday, January 03, 2014 (UK time), Steven Stern wrote: > Any idea what I need to do to get my cron email restored? Check if you have sendmail installed - it is no longer installed by default on Fedora 20 and the default installation will no longer handle local mail. There is a

Re: Different actions on different passwords?

2014-01-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:12pm on Thursday, January 02, 2014 (UK time), Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > > Not on Fedora 20 at least, and I think since even Fedora 19, if you use > "single" boot param you startup to rescue.target. It asks for

Re: Different actions on different passwords?

2014-01-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:43am on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Conclusion: better look for some other way to cover your tracks, and note > that a forensic investigation can be carried out without having you log in > at all. Just to emphasise what Patrick says, if you boot L

Re: f20 - gnome-tweak-tools?

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:26am on Friday, December 20, 2013 (UK time), Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Doesn't work for me; and I tried using the public mirrors, not my local > repo. Further on: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/20/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/g/ > and > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/relea

Re: Getting top to show usage in human readable format

2013-11-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:06pm on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (UK time), Steven Stern scrawled: > On CentOS, top shows per process memory using in kb or mb. On Fedora > 19, top shows per process memory usage by the byte. Is there an option > or setting to make Fedora's top (from procps-ng) work like CentOS' (fro

Re: Annoying KDEWallet

2013-11-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:47am on Saturday, November 02, 2013 (UK time), Oliver Ruebenacker scrawled: > But then KDEWallet appeared out of nowhere, and every time I wanted to > connect to a wireless network, the KDEWallet came up and asked me to enter > a password. > > Now I have a new system and want to ne

Re: BASH and wildcard expansion

2013-08-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:56pm on Monday, August 19, 2013 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: > I've hit a problem I can't quite figure out which a bash script I'm > writing. I'm trying to copy backup files in the format > 2013-August-18--1123.zip to an NFS share. I want to have the script copy > the file with just

Re: f19 scientific and boolean calculator

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:38pm on Sunday, August 18, 2013 (UK time), Les Howell scrawled: > Does anyone know what happened to the calculator? I upgraded to F19 and > now the calculator shows up like a 2.00 simple calculator. I need the > boolean and scientific functions. Perhaps try qalculate-kde or galculator

Re: encrypting disks

2013-07-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:41pm on Sunday, July 14, 2013 (UK time), Ranjan Maitra scrawled: > partitioning stage to encrypt the disk ("Encrypt my data"). I have never > used it but wanted to try it. So, what does this give me? In other > words, is it still possible to 1. Hibernate and come back (with > password, p

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: > I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios > but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. > > ls *flv > > returns this: > > Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv > > But in

Re: Working twitter client

2013-06-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:34pm on Saturday, June 22, 2013 (UK time), Steve Searle scrawled: > Around 03:37pm on Saturday, June 22, 2013 (UK time), Colin J Thomson scrawled: > > > > I am currently running Choqok from there dev branch and it is working well. > > > I followed your advic

Re: Working twitter client

2013-06-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:37pm on Saturday, June 22, 2013 (UK time), Colin J Thomson scrawled: > I am currently running Choqok from there dev branch and it is working well. I followed your advice, downloaded the source and after a bit of fiddling around managed to build it and it is working again. I am blogging

Working twitter client

2013-06-22 Thread Steve Searle
My preferred twitter client choqok doesn't work at the moment because it has not been updated to support the new authentication method that twitter now insists upon. I have tried the others listed by a "yum search twitter" command and can't get any of them to authenticate either. Is anyone current

Re: Ok, so where do mysql bugs go, these days?

2013-05-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:48am on Monday, May 20, 2013 (UK time), Sam Varshavchik scrawled: > I have a challenge for you: > > Start with any links you can find in the mysql packages' documentation. Or, > just start with the home page, mysql.com, and tell me how you can find > bugs.mysql.com, just by following

Re: Extraordinary delay in accessing web-site

2013-05-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:23am on Friday, May 03, 2013 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: > poma wrote: > > >> I have a Linksys WVC54GCA camera in a remote site, > >> which I access at http://xyz.com:8080 on one of my Fedora-18 laptops. > >> > >> For some reason there is now a delay of an hour or so > >> in ge

Re: "hackers"

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:40pm on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (UK time), richard.vicker...@gmail.com scrawled: > Richard, you appear to keep sending emails to the list with the text portion containing no content. I appreciate that this may be done to please those who are fed up with what you do write, but perhaps y

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:12pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013 (UK time), Richard Vickery scrawled: > Because I, like many other general, non-tech users out here on the > internet who don't understand the lists, am ignorant. This is why I > continue asking on the wrong list. If you want to be more helpful, it might >

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:09am on Friday, April 12, 2013 (UK time), Mike Dwiggins scrawled: > My problem is that I am trying to sell my Boss on Fedora! He refuses to > let us use CentOS or to pay for RHEL ( Yes cheapskate). But if I can > show some comparison to RHEL I can sell him on Fedora. > > My whole sho

Re: /var/log/messages ful of rpc.statd select: Bad file descriptor lines

2013-04-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:11pm on Friday, April 05, 2013 (UK time), Rick Stevens scrawled: > Make sure your mountd daemon has been updated. Also, if that machine > isn't an NFS server, disable mountd: > > systemctl stop nfs-mountd.service > systemctl disable nfs-mountd.service Thanks. This isn't a n

/var/log/messages ful of rpc.statd select: Bad file descriptor lines

2013-04-05 Thread Steve Searle
On three or four occasions now on one of my Fedora 18 machines warns that I am running out of space on /var (it has its own partition). This is due to /var/log/messages being full of rpc.statd[1282]: my_svc_run() - select: Bad file descriptor messages - these are repeated many times a second. Dele

Re: how to install gst/gst.h on linux system

2012-07-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:04am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 (UK time), nathhuan scrawled: > I am trying using gstreamer for development recently. I am trying C > language, but it has no head files, gst/gst.h and glib.h . who can tell > me the solutions. # yum provides */gst.h Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, re

Re: Amarok not playing m4a

2012-07-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:24pm on Monday, July 09, 2012 (UK time), Joe Zeff scrawled: > everything from you twice, through the list. Does anybody else see this? Yes. -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html 21:40:21 up 25 days, 10:44,

Re: [OT] Custom 'wrote' lines

2012-06-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:26pm on Friday, June 29, 2012 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: > Okay, I gotta ask. Where on earth do you get the customized lines like > this: > > Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > said: You need to configue your mail client, as long as it supports it. I don't k

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:45pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 (UK time), Joe Zeff scrawled: > On 06/27/2012 02:34 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local > > That's on a non-routable subnet. Considering that nslookup is a program > to query Internet domain name servers, there's no way i

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:05pm on Monday, June 11, 2012 (UK time), Wolfgang S. Rupprecht scrawled: > Sadly, before Fedora Smolt went down, it still showed more 32-bit than > 64-bit installs. Fedora doesn't do enough to encourage everyone that I don't think its down: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/

Re: How do I turn off graphical boot

2012-04-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:32am on Monday, April 30, 2012 (UK time), Frank Murphy scrawled: > On 30/04/12 05:03, Fedora User wrote: > > > >That was my first thought. The problem is that grub.cfg is produced by > >a template via grub2-mkconfig. And, of course, there is no manual page > >for grub2-mkconfig. > > It

Re: OT: moonlight and Sky Go player Firefox or Chromium?

2012-04-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:42am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 (UK time), Frank Murphy scrawled: > Anyone have sucess running the Sky Go player on Fedora 16, > Using either Firefox, or Spot's Chromium stable rpm. No, I tried a few weeks ago and failed. Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishS

Re: mount to NFS server 'julie' failed: No route to host

2012-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:37pm on Thursday, April 12, 2012 (UK time), don fisher scrawled: > When I disabled iptables.service on julie I was able to mount it. I I > run system-config-firewall, nfs is enabled. What else do I need to enable? These instructions explain how to open the firewall. http://www.stevese

Re: How to open fedora without user password

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:54pm on Friday, March 02, 2012 (UK time), Biraj Karmakar scrawled: > after changing the root password how to change user password on the commaned line type: passwd where is the username whose password is to be reset. Then set a new password when prompted. Steve -- Website: ww

Re: Microphone does not work with Skype

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:26pm on Friday, March 02, 2012 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: > I have just installed Skype on F16 x64, which is working fine except > the microphone -- I can view and hear the other call party, but she > cannot hear. Is there some way to repair this? Check your main sound settings. Is

Re: F16 changes

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:35am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > >> The new lower limit of 1000 for normal user and group IDs is another > >> issue. The current user has IDs 500 and has rather > >> a lot of files that I want to keep. > >> Fedora's docu

Re: [Bulk] Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:17pm on Thursday, January 05, 2012 (UK time), William Case scrawled: > Now, how do you download and install a new extension from here? > Anything I have read is out of the dark ages involving torture and > incantations with 'git' and 'make'. There has to be a more modern and > sophistic

Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:16pm on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 (UK time), Robert Moskowitz scrawled: > On 01/04/2012 04:04 PM, William Case wrote: > >How do I get rid of the Universal Access icon in the upper right hand > >corner/panel? Googled but seems every distribution has a different > >answer. How do I ge

Re: dumb question

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:17am on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 (UK time), Paul Allen Newell scrawled: > On 1/4/2012 12:11 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >FWIW, I never use extensions. > Ed: > > Though I can't stand the MS world of extensions meaning something, I > can't imagine not using extensions to help understand

Re: grub2

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:32pm on Monday, December 26, 2011 (UK time), Patrick Dupre scrawled: > I understand that I have to a rebuild a grub.cfg file, but how? > grub2-mkconfig can do it, but how do I modify the boot options? > For example I which to remove the quiet and rhgb options from the > boot command (not

Re: Gnome-Shell

2011-12-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:40pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled: > I will bite, what is a binary blob? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishShift Facebook: www.facebook.com/steve.searle 14:43:16 up 7 days, 20:14,

Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-23 Thread Steve Searle
After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver for it. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer that works well with Fedora 16 x64? Let me know what you have if it works wel

Re: selinux is a pain

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:14pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 (UK time), Martín Marqués scrawled: > My question is, how many people are using selinux? Not sure how scientific this is, but I use it. Although my servers run CentOS (with SELinux). I would have thought it would be better to learn how to solve probl

Re: NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

2011-08-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:51pm on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 (UK time), Tom H scrawled: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > > > > I know. If you read my website it says that the firewall can cause a > > file to be read-only. > > Which firewall settings cause NFS e

Re: NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

2011-08-01 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:47pm on Monday, August 01, 2011 (UK time), Jatin K scrawled: > On Monday 01 August 2011 02:18 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 09:23am on Monday, August 01, 2011 (UK time), Jatin K scrawled: > > > >> what should be the permission of NFS shared directory on

Re: NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

2011-08-01 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:23am on Monday, August 01, 2011 (UK time), Jatin K scrawled: > what should be the permission of NFS shared directory on RHEL6 ??? > > I've shared a directory on rhel 6 ...following are the configuration done You might need to change the firewall configuration on the NFS server. There

Primary and secondary sendmail servers

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Searle
When configuring a primary and secondary sendmail server, how does the secondary mail server know it should relay anythign to the primary one? Is it just by the mailserver examining the DNS mx records, or is there something else in either of the sendmail configurations? Steve -- Website: www

Re: F15: firefox reload button - grey or green?

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:10am on Thursday, July 28, 2011 (UK time), John Horne scrawled: > In firefox the reload button is a green colour at work, but grey at > home. Not 'greyed-out' as the 'stop' button is, but just a grey in > colour. I assumed this was just some sort of theme difference, but > looking throug

Re: Running httpd as a user

2011-07-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:49am on Saturday, July 02, 2011 (UK time), Jonathan Gardner scrawled: > I build websites for a living. I'd like to get /usr/sbin/httpd running > as a regular user. I've setup a directory with a simple httpd.conf on > my F15 install. When it starts up, I get a single message in the error

Re: problem in installation of software fedora 15

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:28am on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 (UK time), Reindl Harald scrawled: > sorry i can not resist, but i have never heard such a foolish statement > like "i want to break my package-managment" You haven't been exposed to many foolish statements then. For what its worth, there are a couple of

Re: f15: cannot boot from boot.iso write on USB key

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:27pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 (UK time), Dario Lesca scrawled: > Il giorno mar, 21/06/2011 alle 00.01 +0200, Dario Lesca ha scritto: > > Someone have some suggest for help me to boot my netbook without > > CD/DVD/PXE ? > Someone can help me to generate a bootable usb stick via boot.i

Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:47am on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 (UK time), Mark Eggers scrawled: > My only issue with alt-tab is when I have more than one window open > for a particular program. I then have to use the arrow keys to select > the right window. If you install gnome-shell-extentions-alternate-tab this will

Re: sudoku-savant

2011-06-13 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:13pm on Monday, June 13, 2011 (UK time), Andrew Gray scrawled: > Hi > > sudoku-savant is far too small 9x9 on 1600x1200 screen it needs ability > to resize the gui please Use bugzilla to request feature changes - the developers are unlikely to see your email on this list. Steve --

Re: Upgraded F14 -> F15, now how do I use this?

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:48pm on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 (UK time), Marko Vojinovic scrawled: > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 20:12:25 Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 06:57pm on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 (UK time), Oliver Ruebenacker > scrawled: > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Steven

Re: Upgraded F14 -> F15, now how do I use this?

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:57pm on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 (UK time), Oliver Ruebenacker scrawled: >      Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Steven Stern > anything efficiently. I want some way to see which windows are open, Press the "Windows" key. > and a faster way to start new applications than I

rc.sysinit not being started

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Searle
On my Fedora 15 installation I used yum to install initiscripts-legacy because I wanted an /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. However this does not appear to be run when the machine is booted up. Can anyone advise why this should be, and what I should do to get it to be run. Or what I should be doing instead of

Re: Gnome 3 mail notification

2011-05-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:56pm on Sunday, May 29, 2011 (UK time), Genes MailLists scrawled: > On 05/29/2011 08:17 AM, sguazt wrote: > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, sguazt wrote: > >> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Steve Searle > >> wrote: > >>> Is there a way of

Gnome 3 mail notification

2011-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Is there a way of getting GNOME 3 to notify me if I have email available for my imap based account? Thanks Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishShift Facebook: www.facebook.com/steve.searle 15:29:09 up 2 days, 6:28, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 pgp5uW9AfuU

Positive tips and help for GNOME 3 please

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Searle
I'd like to start a thread to help me, and hopefully others use GNOME 3 more effectively. I've used it for a day now, its very different and will take me a while to get used to it. However past experience with other new things (e.g. selinux) has shown me that both they, and I improve and I do want

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:16pm on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 (UK time), JD scrawled: > Right. Also, it is not necessarily "neighbours" that are adjacent > you your house or a few houses down. Someone can park a car > not far from your house, and using the type of home-made antenna > James mentioned, they can hack your

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:34am on Monday, April 25, 2011 (UK time), Gregory Hosler scrawled: > putting the passphrase into /etc/crypttab does make it readily available > (which > reduces the effectiveness of encrypting to begin with). > > However ... crypttab has allowance of putting the passphrase into a file.

Re: 2 questions

2011-04-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:24am on Monday, April 18, 2011 (UK time), mattias scrawled: > Exist gtkpod for fedora or must i compile? It exists. $ yum search gtkpod ... gtkpod.x86_64 : Graphical song management program for Apple's iPod ... Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishShift Faceboo

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:35pm on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 (UK time), Tim scrawled: > I don't think that the few dogmatic users of computers outnumber the > great masses of ordinary, less computer literate, users who expect that > FILENAME=filename. Partly because that's what they're used to, and > partly becau

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:36pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (UK time), Parshwa Murdia scrawled: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, nathan forbes wrote: > > > True, this is bound to turn into a flame-war... > > It's all just personal preference anyway.  If you wanna know about a DE or > > WM, just try it out, an

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:47am on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > > then GNOME desktop? > > As far as I'm concerned they are both intensely user-hos

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:53am on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 (UK time), S Mathias scrawled: > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to use ssl on my domain? You can use

Re: calendar appeared out of nowhere, how to get rid of it?

2010-12-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:13pm on Friday, December 10, 2010 (UK time), jackson byers scrawled: > a calendar popped up on all of my 6 workspaces in top right corner. > I cant move it or get rid of it. > This happened as I was groping around with the mouse > trying to find the pointer. > > exactly how can I get r

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:31pm on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 (UK time), Hiisi scrawled: > Well, if I have wine installed (and my system is opened for windoze > viruses) what should I use to open that flash.exe file? Firefox and > flash-player for windoze? I assume that it is a (Windows) executable file and you d

Re: Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:29pm on Thursday, November 11, 2010 (UK time), Michael Miles scrawled: > That is what I am asking. Do I need a double firewall or would the > router be enough.? The benefit that I can see would be the computer not > having to actually do firewall duties and being a little bit quicker

Re: Banshee install fails on Fedora 14

2010-11-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:42pm on Saturday, November 06, 2010 (UK time), valent.turko...@gmail.com scrawled: > Looks there is some issue with mono-addins version. > > I get this error: > # pkcon install banshee > Simulating install[=] > Starting [

Re: Banshee install fails on Fedora 14

2010-11-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:15pm on Saturday, November 06, 2010 (UK time), valent.turko...@gmail.com scrawled: > Can you install and use Banshee or is it just my system screwed somehow? It works fine for me, installed by yum. What specific problems/errors are you getting? Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.

Re: lost gpg key

2010-10-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:04pm on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 (UK time), Dj YB scrawled: > However I don't know where I put the private key, is there a default location > it is located at? ~/.gnupg/ Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishShift Facebook: www.facebook.com/steve.searle 22:29

Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:54pm on Friday, October 01, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie scrawled: > Fedora is used as an test platform for the various RedHat technology > releases and Red Hat Linux has stated this from the first release of > the program. Can you give any cites for Red Hat stating this? Steve --

Accessing a DNS server fails on an alternate IP address

2010-08-12 Thread Steve Searle
I have a DNS server running on a physical server 192.168.126.1. However I like to split all my services onto their own IP addresses for ease of migration, so I logically assign 192.168.126.154 to this server using the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.126.154 route

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:57pm on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > Could be. You are aware of course that all the 'modern' distro's are > similar to Fedora in development? Kernels, Xorg, and such. Stable would > be like Debian, CentOS, and the like. And IMO stable=stale. :-) Yes, I was thinkin

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:33pm on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > So that's one example which you 'documented' well. My complaint(s) are > with the vague claims that some make but then never show any proof. > Which I am seeing more and more of these days. Ouch, presumably that is aimed at me f

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:44am on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > On 7/29/2010 5:00 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 09:54pm on Thursday, July 29, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie > > scrawled: > > > >> And the comment on "Linux on the Desktop".

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:54pm on Thursday, July 29, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie scrawled: > And the comment on "Linux on the Desktop". Not ready yet. We need it so > that users don't have to go through hoops to use what they need. All > distributions suffer from this, even the more friendly ones. I've s

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: > I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want > to keep safe from hacking > ( specially from network admin. !!) > Is a default fedora 12 install secure enough ? > or do i still take some measu

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:26pm on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (UK time), Christofer C. Bell scrawled: > Come to think of it, I doubt the folks who missed it the first go > around are going to get it this time, either. To speak plainly: I am glad, because I didn't get your point until you wrote this third email.

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:35am on Friday, July 16, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux scrawled: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Rishi Patel wrote: > > We all have it upon us to moderate this forum; in our own posts perhaps. > > > I agree, but what happens when it's not done? I had 9 replies in this thread > and

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:48pm on Thursday, July 15, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux scrawled: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 17:49 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > I only install Fedora's available downloads. I figure there might be > > > problems using the lat

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:44pm on Thursday, July 15, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux scrawled: > Anybody knows what's this, why the system automatically downloads 0 byte > bind files? What are bind files? Do you mean the suffix is .bind? Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at:

Re: [OT] vi question

2010-07-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:26pm on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: > I'm using Zend_Framework to generate some html which it unfortunately > does as one giant line. I'm pretty sure it has an error but can't find > the missing/extra tag without formatting the html with line feeds. Not

Re: evolution-data-server

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:43am on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 (UK time), Chris Kloiber scrawled: > So far I get the best results adding to the yum.conf: > > exclude=evolution* > > and occasionally un-commenting it to see if it's fixed. I suggest a more elegant solution is to run "yum --skip-broken". This will ignor

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:48am on Saturday, June 26, 2010 (UK time), JD scrawled: > Did not google's founder expose a Chinese dissident's > identity to China's government and the executed him? I honestly don't think Google have executed anyone. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:50pm on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux scrawled: > Once again, and this is bound to be the last answer I give. (Michael And then 3 minutes later Around 11:53pm on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux scrawled: > Reinstalling to install a driver? Are you s

Re: NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution [solved]

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:14pm on Sunday, June 20, 2010 (UK time), Karl-Olov Serrander scrawled: > I would guess that the network interface is not up yet. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595386 might help. Good call. Making the NETWORKWAIT=yes fix sugested there fixed it, and is much better than

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:01pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 (UK time), JD scrawled: > I have been using the HP LaserJet 4L for many > years and it has been totally trouble free. > Recently, after an automatic update, the printer > prints garbage. Does it print short, fat horizontal lines? -- (o< www.steves

Re: NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:41pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 (UK time), Bill Davidsen scrawled: > One possibility is that DHCP hasn't run yet, and "albacore" didn't map to > "albacore.your.domain" because /etc/resolv.conf didn't have the search path > set. > Try using the FQDN instead of just the node name and se

Re: NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution [solved]

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:30pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:03:44 +0100 > Steve Searle wrote: > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Does this machine also run bind as a local nameserver? > I found that the first lookups I do duri

NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Searle
I have installed Fedora 13 on two machines now, and am getting the same problem when mounting nfs shares at boot time on both machines. The problem happens most of the time when I boot, but not always. I have four nfs mounts and when the problem occurs the following message is displayed four times

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:41am on Friday, June 18, 2010 (UK time), Sam Varshavchik scrawled: > From a user perspective, the major difference is that there is no > practical Flash plugin for 64 bit. If you need to watch Youboob, > you'll have to stick to i386. At least until Youboob migrates to HTML > 5. However,

Re: Installing Flash

2010-06-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:31pm on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 (UK time), Robert Posey scrawled: > Hello: > > I have just installed Fedora 13 and like it. However, there is one > program that I would like to install but as yet have not discovered a > way to do so. I would like to install the Flash player on my mac

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