Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-03 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:29:22 -0400 "Darr" wrote: > On Monday, 02 August, 2010 @12:46 zulu, Paul Cartwright scribed: > > > not a matter of getting RID of it, it's GONE, since I redid my > > partitions.. reclaimed space :) > > wonder what happens if I press that button NOW..."NO, DON'T DO IT > > :-

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-31 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:57:24 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:16:10 +0200, Timothy wrote: > > > But what puzzles me - and none of the gurus in this thread > > seem to have answered my question - > > But of course! There was only one question mark in your message, > and the

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:51:50 +0530 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > thanks a lot for the suggestions and the simple purpose why did i ask > is that fedora is not as common as was windows but is slowly now > replacing it. i would have to see one book for this. Hi, Parshwa; I've been following this t

Re: Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:19:38 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi list admins, > > Could this person (Teo En Ming) be blocked? I think his email address > has been compromised and I have seen spam from this address on various > other lists too, Scientific Linux and GCC to mention a few. > He hit the

Re: F14 wallpapers, request for feedback and submissions

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:40:42 -0400 Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 23:30 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > > > I've really enjoyed all of the default desktops from Fedora Core 1 > > > through Fedora 13, > > > > IMHO, the best Fedora wallpaper was "Fedora 7" flying high. Fedora Core >

Re: KPackageKit update failure [SOLVED - sort of]

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:38:03 -0700 JD wrote: > On 07/14/2010 07:44 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 07/15/2010 10:32 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > >>> Hi Folks; > >>> > >>> Every

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:32:53 + g wrote: > Thomas Taylor wrote: > > > > Hi G; > >> *yumex* is seeing the network connection as disabled because it is > >> checking for connection thru 'gui'. > > > > I'm not using a gui network

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:46 + (UTC) JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Thomas Taylor comcast.net> writes: > > > > > > > > For some reason Yumex returns an error message saying "Not connected to an > > > network. Do

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:26 -0400 "Darr" wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 @01:56 zulu Thomas Taylor scribed: > > > Where else should I look? > > Did you try > # yum update yumex > ? > > FWIW, I do not recall ever seeing that message from yumex, &

Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Taylor
For some reason Yumex returns an error message saying "Not connected to an network. Do you want to continue". However Yum works as expected running updates. I'm just re-learning Fedora after about five years in other distros and haven't been able to find the source of this error. ~/.yumex.conf

KPackageKit update failure

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Taylor
Hi Folks; Every time I try to run KPackageKit to download a program it fails during the download operation. I am able to download files (large ISOs) from other programs but even relative small downloads in KPK fail. I have no network problem otherwise. I've tried downloading Kate (my favorite

Where to find documentation for KPackageKit

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Taylor
Hi folks: In KPackageKit there is a help button in the lower left corner but it's greyed out and doesn't respond to mouse clicks. Where else can I obtain help with this program? I've searched in Start > Help and on KDE site but haven't found anything. I want some documentation about using KPack

Re: Problems when creating Live-boot usb stick

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0900 Abu Attar Musharih wrote: > It seems OK up to this point. The 8G is there. However, partitioning > with /sbin/fdisk and reformatting with mke2fs did not gave 8G. > > mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 -L 8G-USB' > The browser shows only 6.8 G free. I should probably format wi

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:55:49 -0400 Chris Tyler wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 09:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:57:48 -0400 > > Chris Tyler wrote: > > > > > a process that takes a few seconds > > > > I understand the need to subscribe, but the process does > > not take

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:36:49 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 07/07/2010 10:01 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based > > PDF reader. They all seem to lock up. > > > > http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/engineering_services/emaps/bic

Re: Notabug Mail Policy was:Re: Bug in mailing lists

2010-07-05 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:05:54 +0100 Frank Murphy wrote: > On 05/07/10 12:57, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > Public mailing lists should receive mail from *anybody*; if the poster > > is not subscribed, then the message should go through moderation. This > > is the truly open way. > > > > No thank

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:24:08 -0400 Tom H wrote: > > This way when a non-subscriber posts something, he doesn't have to add > > the "Please CC me as I'm not in the mailing list"; it will happen > > automatically. > > I couldn't disagree more. > > Posting to the list: If someone wants to benefit

Re: A virus scanner on linux for windows partition

2010-07-04 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:49:52 -0700 JD wrote: > I came across an article that mentioned some viruses > that can hide and move around on a booted windows > machine, and can evade virus scanner. > So, I thought that is the windows partition can be scanned > by another booted OS like linux it would

Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13 [SOLVED]

2010-06-29 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:32:57 -0700 JD wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 06/24/2010 06:24 PM, Thomas Taylor was caught red-handed while writing:: > >>> Hi all; > >>> > >>> Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I'

Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-26 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:10:56 -0700 JD wrote: > > > On 06/24/2010 06:24 PM, Thomas Taylor was caught red-handed while writing:: > > Hi all; > > > > Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I've managed > > to solve most by lots of rea

Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-24 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:24:31 -0700 Thomas Taylor wrote: > Hi all; > > Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I've managed to > solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being > frustated with wireless not working in KDE. It

Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-24 Thread Thomas Taylor
Hi all; Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I've managed to solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being frustated with wireless not working in KDE. It's working fine in Gnome but I prefer KDE. I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditiona