On Fri, 2025-01-17 at 16:39 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I have a USB flash drive I have installed Fedroa 41 on.
> I somehow goofed my EUFI boot. Yes it was definitely
> my doing.
Do you mean you've installed Fedora so it can run from the drive
(liveboot) if it can find it? Or do you m
On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 22:59 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> flatpak is a dependency of gnome software, so you can't completely
> remove it.
And if you don't use Gnome?
I have Mate, might explain why I don't appear to have any flatpak junk.
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uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SM
Hi Michael,
https://www.google.com/search?q=erasing+flatpak+cache
turned up this, at the top:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=387079
I wonder if the commands are the same in Fedora? (I have no flatpaks
to play with, and don't want any.)
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uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.e
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade,
> /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition.
> sudo dnf clean all did not help.
> Previously when my /var ran low,
> the problem was a directory named cache that I could just remove.
https://www.google.com/s
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 14:45 +, Paul Smith wrote:
> Surprisingly, by connecting the web-camera to a different usb port,
> the issue has been fixed.
That could be inadequate power available to that port (bunches of
USB sockets are grouped together, and they have a cumulative total that
they can
On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 20:56 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> The problem is that it does not matter how much better
> or easier to use Fedora is, users will not move to Fedora
> until the popular apps they like support Fedora directly.
> They do not want substitute apps the have to relearn.
On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 23:45 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> They make you pay a penalty for being stubborn and having to keep
> releasing win10 security fixes three more years.
>
> Not very different from Java vendors charging for support to those
> who insist on still running Java 8 instead of m
On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 15:01 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> It costs USD $28/EUR25 per machine per year, which is less costly
> than the Microsoft Extended support (ESU) which has a price of $61
> the first year, $122 the second and $244 for the third year and
> that's it.
!?>!?!
They release s
Tim via users wrote:
> > I quite like the (old) Gnome menus.
ToddAndMargo:
> Take a look at MATE
> https://fedoraproject.org/spins/mate
>
> Just simple. And gets the job done
Yes, it's what I've been using for many years. It's so close to being
the old Gn
Tim:
> > The common retort "you have to learn a new way of doing things" if you
> > leave Windows to use Linux gets me. Windows constantly makes people
> > have to learn a new way of doing things, and people pay for that with
> > time and effort, and real money.
ToddAndMargo:
> Ya, no fooling.
On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 14:11 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> The work I do on my Linux customers is mainly
> installing, configuring, and teaching. It
> is quite enjoyable.
>
> The work I do on my Windows customers is
> endless system issues. I am good at it, but
> it is no fun at all.
>
On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> If you are asking about RHEL Workstation as a Windows Desktop
> replacement, I don’t believe that’s part of Red Hat’s strategic
> objective. Maybe for large engineering or animation workshops but not
> as a general computing devices.
>
On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 20:08 +0100, Luna Jernberg wrote:
> BugZilla is an Open Source project: https://www.bugzilla.org/
>
> but yeah there has some been discussion that Fedora will change to
> Gitlab or Forgejo instead, but not sure if anything was/is decided yet
I don't ever recall seeing any gi
On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 08:55 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I've attached the contents of all my repos. As a result of doing that
> I've noticed that I have a fedora-rawhide.repo, which I am not aware
> of having been created, and I have no need of packages from there.
I can see it's not enabled, s
On Thu, 2025-01-09 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> so I changed the option to send the mail as html and text, which is
> the mail client will select which on to use.
> I didn't want to have to flip flop between sending options depending
> on where I was sending the mail to.
The reason you'
On Tue, 2025-01-07 at 09:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Here is chatgpt's advice:
> https://chatgpt.com/share/677d410b-e350-8010-82af-360a5a99cbf3
Blank page. Hah!
I have no regard for AI (artificial idiots). They're the modern
version of the Eliza program, with a "they say" database.
--
u
On Mon, 2025-01-06 at 10:43 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Keep in mind if you want the microphone to work you need to pick a
> profile "headset head unit", which will give you mono (not stereo).
That's very narrow-minded of them. I'd hazard a guess that, these
days, all telephone earbuds with a mik
On Mon, 2025-01-06 at 14:07 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> OK, I installed a new browser (MS Edge) and logged in, accepting all
> cookies. Now the videos work.
>
> I can probably get the same effect by completely wiping my Firefox
> config (not just cookies), though I'm reluctant to do that.
On Sun, 2025-01-05 at 10:55 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> The only thing that has worked so far is creating a new Linux user,
> logging into the desktop and then opening Quora. That would indicate
> something suspicious in my cache, but doesn't directly explain why I
> get the issue on the An
Walter Cazzola:
> > Have you tried to clean the whole cache after log out from quora and before
> > login again?
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I've logged out and cleared the cache entries corresponding to Quora,
> but that doesn't help.
>
The problem may not directly be Quora, and probably isn't. Th
On Fri, 2025-01-03 at 22:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> There are several here:
>
> https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Johnston-39/Music-du-Jour-163-Victor-Borge-Sometimes-a-musician-is-just-fun-Victor-Borge-1909-2000-I-m-not-entirely-sure?ch=10&oid=204260273&share=1532059d&srid=uMi1o&targ
On Tue, 2024-12-31 at 15:14 +0100, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> But still another printer is used as default printer
Some applications have their own ideas about the default printer and
their default needs to be configured in those applications.
At least that's been my experience over the yea
Samuel Sieb:
>> What does the "file" command say the file is?
Stephen Morris:
> I'll need to check this out, I didn't actually extract the file from
> the email, I "played" it directly from the mail.
Considering its origins, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised that
it's abnormal data, and
On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 23:19 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> First I looked at
> https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnf5.conf.5.html#main-options-colors
> and then tried:
> color_list_installed_older=white,blue
> color_list_installed_newer=white,blue
> color_list_installed_reinstall=white,blue
> colo
On Mon, 2024-12-30 at 00:18 +, Will McDonald wrote:
> ... is honoured which implies you can disable color per sub-command. So the
> following in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf should do the trick:
>
> color_list_installed_older=black
> color_list_installed_newer=black
> color_list_installed_reinstall=bla
On Mon, 2024-12-30 at 08:25 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Having selected "Videos" for the file which loaded the file into
> Totem, Totem runs fine but has an issue trying to play the file.
> Under X11, when Totem is trying to play the file it produces a
> dialogue that says the required text/html
On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 13:50 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> ...annoys me greatly. There's simply not enough contrast for the comfort I
> expect
> from vtty use. e.g., dnf5 command output. In general, I'd like to limit vttys
> to 4
> colors: FG & BG as specified in .bashrc by setterm, plus red for err
On Thu, 2024-12-26 at 22:56 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote:
> Should we abandon rpm and adapt snap or flatpak for Fedora?
> Realy?
Hell, no...
Generic packages don't quite fit into specific ecosystems. They don't
have the optimisations. Sometimes they're only partially compatible (I
can't pr
On Wed, 2024-12-25 at 14:35 +0100, Peter Boy Uni wrote:
> Better(thunder)bird
> https://www.betterbird.eu
But are what are they going to call the next one? EvenBetterBird? ;-)
... My software's better than your software, mine's better than yours
It's got more features, and it can crash
On Mon, 2024-12-23 at 22:08 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You don't need the 'sudo' unless you're installing or removing
> something.
While that's true. If you are going to install something, then the
metadata is already there. It doesn't have to fetch it again before
the install can star
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I have stopped using the email address provided as part of my
> subscription because the company that bought my isp out has moved
> email support to an external company that charges for the service,
> and even though the isp paid for the fi
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:22 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I'm seeing replies to mails sent to the list now (this wasn't the
> case when I first started the subscription) irrespective of whether
> I'm in the CC list or not, but atm I'm not seeing any mails I've
> created from scratch.
Where are yo
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:07 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Does --allowerasing only remove the offending package or does it also
> remove everything that has a dependency on that package as well? I've
> had similar sorts of conflicts with "freeworld" packages, so I've
> manually removed the freewor
On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 10:45 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> DeVeDe produces a good .iso file and then offers to burn it with brasero.
> Brasero will burn it, but the result is "incompatible" with my DVD player,
> Trying to burn it directly with brasero produces "unknown disc image type".
> Burning
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 10:23 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> The advantage of setting these in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json
> is that they automatically take effect for all new users and profiles
Until such time that they change the names of the variables...
Any time programmers do annoying anti-
On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 18:31 -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> problem: Firefox quietly turned on ad tracking (see bug report from
> Alan Cox
I notice that the two options in "Firefox Data Collection and Use" of "
"Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Firefox to ins
On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 09:37 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Why does dnf show the download, install and cleanup timings starting
> as negative values?
Is it a countdown to estimated time of completion?
I can see some logic in doing things that way. Although such things
are rarely correct, it coul
Tim:
>> Usually I'd say the worse browser was MSIE (pronounce "misery").
ToddAndMargo:
> The "ActiveX" that went with misery was responsible for a lot of
> virus infections.
I'm not in the least surprised. The concept of "don't trust random
things" just isn't in their head (the programmers and t
Tim:
> > Usually man pages are wrapped and "justified" so that each line of text
> > is the same length (just under the current width of the viewing
> > window). It does the justifying by adding extra spaces between some
> > words, and hyphenating others.
> >
> > Does that describe what you're se
Just for the sake of clarity...
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 13:32 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> e.g. stick into one of them an
>
> alias grr='echo grr'
>
> And something different into the other one. You'll either get a
> command not found error, or it'll growl
Greg:
> > This is by no means an issue.
> > The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man,
> > formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn.
> > Part of the formatting is making intervals between the words on a line
> > more or less equal by adding/removing blan
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 02:58 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> The worst browser I have come across is Midori
With noscript running, all I see of their own website was a white page
with a spinning wait while we load graphic... Once I allowed
scripting, I saw a basic pretty useless website. H
Tim:
> > I've yet to find a site that doesn't work on Firefox
ToddAndMargo:
> It is medical sites were patients look up their medical
> records and Recreational Vehicles campgrounds. And a few
> government sites.
I'm sure there are sites that fail in some browsers, I've seen plenty
that do in va
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 09:27 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Just relative to this, with konsole, which is a bash shell
> apparently, are you saying that when you create a new tab that
> .bashrc is run in the new tab, but .bash_profile is not and is only
> run at the initial console startup?
You can
Ranjan Maitra:
> > Thanks! I use systemctl hibernate from the commandline though after
> > it becomes stable, my plan is to bind a key doing this.
Joe Zeff:
> You might want to think that over because all it takes is one typo and
> you'll probably lose your train of thought before it comes back f
On Sun, 2024-12-08 at 19:57 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> I have not installed Fedora on a laptop for a while, and I am pretty
> confused with how to partition the disk: I do custom partition
> because I want a very big /home, and a reasonable /
It's been a while since I did it, but I th
On Fri, 2024-12-06 at 14:44 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> AI-fueled clickbait sites often dominate search results and multiply
> the same AI halucinations
I only see this getting worse. In the past, anything you searched for
you always had to think about what you read, and could look for
c
Samuel Sieb:
> > Right. That's an example of what I meant by an application storing
> > text data in a symlink. Even if they were rpm installed, the lock
> > files most likely won't be owned by the rpm.
I expect installed files to be owned by the RPM, but not files created
by the program later
On Fri, 2024-12-06 at 08:58 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> It is my understanding, which could be completely wrong, that a
> symlink is not a physical file as such and doesn't contain any data
> as such, it just links to somewhere that does contain the data (be it
> a file or folder). If the target
On Wed, 2024-12-04 at 11:04 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote:
> Doesn't Claws Mail satisfy all this criteria? To me, undoubtedly.
I did look at it, ages ago. And I do mean a very long time ago (this
will be in the pre-Fedora era of Red Hat Linux). I didn't like it at
the time, for reasons I've
On Wed, 2024-12-04 at 08:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I'm not sure how to enter an about:config as there is no command line
> to enter that into to find out if there is an internal option.
No, I couldn't figure out the trick, either. It used to be doable
without too much tearing out your hai
Stephen Morris:
> I'm not sure how Evolution does its thing as I've never used it. If I
> had the time to invest in setting up a mail system I would still be
> using Lotus Notes.
Over the years I've used Amiga, Windows, Linux, Mac, and mainframes
before the public internet (still have a few Data G
On Tue, 2024-12-03 at 09:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> That's interesting. In Thunderbird I'm seeing things differently,
> depending on who is reply to threads I'm seeing the entire quote with
> a black line down the side and text in black, for other people I see
> a coloured stripe and the tex
On Tue, 2024-12-03 at 09:19 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I didn't remember ever seeing an option in Thunderbird to suppress
> those messages but that was a reasonable check to do.
Apparently, at some stage Thunderbird had an option for that (it called
it QuoteCollapse), and I saw a comment that
On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 18:52 +, Joe Wulf via users wrote:
> For what it is worth, locally changing things like PS1 and
> environment variable assignments should be made in .bashrc, not
> .bash_profile.
Long ago I remember trying to figure out where to put PS1, since it did
work in either one, b
On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 16:03 +, Bob Marčan via users wrote:
> Try any recipe in kulinarika.net.
> For each recipe I get "Gah. Your Tab Just Crashed."
> Firefox.
> Validator? Disaster.
> It would be interesting to find out which "tool" they use.
HTML + JavaScript fed through a blender and fun
On Mon, 2024-12-02 at 08:54 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Sorry, this is my fault. I'm used to working with html mails where
> the response is black text and the quotes are colour coded for quotes
> from different responders, and I keep forgetting that environments
> that insist on using text only
Tim:
> > Again, look through your preferences, and see if there are options
> > about hiding/muting/suppressing quoted text. Various mail programs
> > have that option.
Stephen Morris:
> I have Thunderbird configured to automatically quote the original
> message being replied to.
Since you
Tim:
> > In the olden days, it was often the people that insisted on installing
> > absolutely every package, and would install mutually exclusive things,
> > and half-baked programs that were far from ready for general use.
Stephen Morris:
> That was probably me, there used to be installation me
Tim:
> > Also, leave a blank line between quotes and your replies. It is very
> > hard to read mail when everything is just one huge block.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> This. Drives me crazy. How hard is it to hit a single Return before
> starting to type?
Twice is even better...
Quite apart from mak
On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 10:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> The issue with this is what you have shown is what Thunderbird used
> to always show to identify who said what which I find extremely
> useful to understand response history and the context of replies.
Again, look through your preferences
On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 16:29 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I can not get this web site to render properly
> on my Fedora 41 host computer on any of the five
> web browsers I tried (cache was cleared).
>
> https://www.tiyproducts.com/products/basic-tiy-water
>
Look at the source code. Ma
On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 10:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> With reference to the Fedora environment, if a package is required to
> be installed, would you recommend installing the repository version
> or download it with pip?
The recommendation always was use your distro's packaging system if you
On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 10:09 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I've checked the fedora updates repo and the source repo is indeed
> not enable, so it wasn't that.
> I thought I might have had it enabled as in the past I've been in a
> situation where having the kernel headers installed was not good
> e
Tim:
> > Dunno. I could guess that those servers are under continual heavy load
> > and things might hiccup more noticeably.
Stephen Morris:
> I ran another dnf upgrade this morning and got the same issue with
> the google-chrome repository, but also the docker and Fedora updates
> repositories,
On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 11:40 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> What I was looking for as a signature was something like I specify at
> the bottom of my mails, which seems to be missing from a lot of other
> people's mails.
Ah! PGP... Few do that (that I see).
For the most part, it's a waste of time
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I assumed it was because was refreshing the updates repository and
> the updates source repository and both of them had the same display
> name.
The source repo is usually not enabled. And therefore completely
ignored during general updat
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:13 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I have the number of parallel downloads set to 8 is obvious when the
> packages are being downloaded, hence if parallelism is at play here,
> why consistently those two rather than others as well?
Dunno. I could guess that those servers a
On Fri, 2024-11-29 at 09:31 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> When I run IOTOP, the first column is TID, what is TID? This display
> is showing in excess of 50 entries for Thunderbird where all of them
> have a unique TID value, is Thunderbird really starting that many
> threads?
Very likely. Thund
Stephen Morris wrote:
> > Just an off topic question, I've noticed recently that when I preview
> > a mail from this list I no longer get any indication of who the email
> > came from in the body of the mail, and if there is no signature, with
> > the from being "Community support for Fedora users"
Stephen Morris:
> > Looking at /var/cache/dnf begs the question of where is it specified for
> > each repository how many cached copies dnf is going to keep. For the
> > Fedora, Updates, Fedora Cisco, Rpmfusion-Free and Rpmfusion-Nonfree it
> > seems to be keeping 5 copies, but for non-Fedora re
On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 09:19 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I forced a refresh and below is the info requested. I've also just
> noticed that the refresh and load is also being done twice for the
> Fedora 41 repository as well. I've also listed the contents of the
> google-chrome.repo.
>
> sudo dnf
On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 08:57 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Just an off topic question, I've noticed recently that when I preview
> a mail from this list I no longer get any indication of who the email
> came from in the body of the mail, and if there is no signature, with
> the from being "Communit
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:38 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Which then begs the question, if I issue the command "sudo dnf clean
> all" which cleans out the system state, does it also clean out the
> current user's data if it exists as well, or do you have to issue the
> command not under sudo as we
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 09:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> When I issue the command "sudo dnf upgrade", and it decides it needs
> to update and refresh all repositories, with the command I've just
> issued I noticed that it refreshed the google-chrome repository
> twice. Why is DNF doing that when
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 16:34 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I want to read a code that comes to me via web page.
> My usual browser is firefox.
I'm kind of curious what websites give you a QR code to scan, but don't
give you any link to click on. Have you seen if the QR image is a
normal link, t
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:46 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> This is true, and I know this can be done under DNF, but I'm using
> that to decide whether it is worth doing the upgrade in terms of the
> volume of updates that will be put on. If there are only 3 updates to
> put on then its not necessar
On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:30 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> My main concern was, if I use dnf to install a local rpm and
> afterwards I issue sudo dnf clean all to reclaim space (not that at
> the moment I have a need to be concerned about disk space) does that
> remove knowledge of the rpm having b
Tim:
> > It's important to note that a router has a finite number of connections
> > it can manage, and processing power available for its tiny operating
> > system. If you have some software that's gone mad making hundreds of
> > connections, and not dropping them, the router can stop working.
On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the
> standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't
> know it was caching the data elsewhere.
If you haven't given the magic password, no command is goi
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 22:47 +, Will McDonald wrote:
> What's been updated *on a local system,* is separate, distinct. I
> would guess that the source of truth here would be the rpmdb, maybe
> with a scattering of DNF data sources for speed, I've not looked into
> it in any detail.
I was under
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 08:21 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> If you have not tried Brave Browser, you
> should. It uses the "Blink" rendering engine
> (same as Chrome), has automatic ad blocking,
> does not spy on you, has a private windows
> with TOR, and is considered grandparent safe.
>
>
On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 17:04 -0500, Frank Bures wrote:
> The above sequence is:
>
> --> Firefox -> File -> eMail link
>
> Cheers
> Frank
Aha! You're not clicking on an email mailto: address in a page, like I
thought you were doing. You're emailing someone a link to the page
you're browsing (som
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading
> repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them
> which means that it didn't do anything? This functionality is
> independent of whether the command is
Tim:
> > Yes. I have had to force it to quit sometimes. It doesn't always
> > handle things gracefully if it can't access one of the mail servers.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Try taking it offline and on again (connection icon in the lower left
> corner).
Tried that, too. But when it gets in a bad
On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 10:55 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> FWIW: Evolution has multiple parts (try 'pgrep evolution' to see them).
> Simply quitting the GUI will not shut it down. I'm sure you know this,
> but if you really want to to stop it you should use 'evolution --force-
> shutdown' from
On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 19:35 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> The exact steps on how to reproduce it are missing. Simply installing
> thunderbird, then configuring GNOME Shell default apps to let thunderbird
> handle email doesn't suffice. The firefox menu opens a thunderbird
> compose window each t
On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 10:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> In the past when I have lost internet access because my wifi
> disconnected from the router and reconnected, I get a popup message
> from Fedora that the wifi disconnected followed immediately by a
> popup message saying it had reconnected.
On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 01:39 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Folks should be using YubiKeys or other FIDO compliant gadgets
> nowadays. They provide the following security properties:
>
>* high entropy
>* phishing resistant
>* replay resistant
>
> Each origin (domain) uses a different a
Jonathan Billings:
>> But seriously, was there something about these errors or other
>> effects that made you think it was something other than DNS being
>> broken?
Stephen Morris:
> I would have thought that if my wifi connection had been temporarily
> disconnected, hence the data couldn't be ret
On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse,
> where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a
> package from it repository (Google Chrome), selected properties and
> tried to check the "Launch Feedba
Tim:
> > Next biggest issue is logons. Which password for which service? No,
> > don't use the same one everywhere. You've suffered the consequences of
> > doing that before, why haven't you learnt? Choose something that you
> > can actually type correct, but nobody else will guess. Don't give
Tim:
> > Don't give XYZ your Gmail password when it asks you to log-on with
> > an email address and password. Argh.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Very easy to misunderstand. The site should be clear that they want
> *their* password, not your Gmail (or MS, or Facebook, or Apple, ...)
> password. Un
Tim:
> > Person comes along with my THIS won't do THAT. You spend some time
> > diagnosing, then downloading a few months worth of updates that they
> > never did (which is always a slow thing, no matter how fast your
> > internet is). Reboot. More downloads... Reboot. It's often all that
> >
On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 09:27 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Just further to this, on my system if ~/Desktop has a .desktop file
> in it that is a link to a /usr/share sub-folder, the permissions tab
> in properties correctly says I don't have access to the file being
> linked to, but if I change any
Stephen Morris wrote:
> > > 40 years ago mainframe storage controllers provided functionality to
> > > control what files were loaded into the storage cache and how much of
> > > the file was loaded, I just thought hard disks had advanced enough to
> > > now provide similar functionality.
Tim:
> >
On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:22 -0500, Frank Bures wrote:
> The problem only occurs when the desktop icon is created as a link.
Yes, you had the reason why a link is doing that in a prior message in
this thread.
> How to reproduce - plasma desktop:
>
> 1. Click on Fedora symbol on the task bar.
> 2.
On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 19:52 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I should have been more clear:
> The several hours was a lot more than
> the several minutes he was expecting.
I get that whenever I'm fixing something for someone, even though it's
nothing like that level (reprogramming) of repair.
Per
On Tue, 2024-11-19 at 08:39 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> 40 years ago mainframe storage controllers provided functionality to
> control what files were loaded into the storage cache and how much of
> the file was loaded, I just thought hard disks had advanced enough to
> now provide similar funct
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 07:37 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote:
> The usb wifi adaptors typically have worse driver and reliability
> issues that the original crappy internal ones.
Not to mention that having a USB dongle sticking out on a laptop is
prone to damage or getting lost. I'd say it's worth the e
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