Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-22 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 10/22/2014 09:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which, > > in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her > > windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusabl

Re: input devices

2014-05-24 Thread ny6p01
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 06:18:58PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > what would be the device for a Kensington Slimblade which is connected > to a PS/2 port with an USB-->PS/2 adapter? The device doesn`t seem to > appear anywhere when connected like that. > > > And what are virtual keyboards for, and

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:03:24PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, fred smith > wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook. > >> Sometimes when I

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:01:53AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:48 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > Do you see that happen a lot? > > > > Do you mean the error, or the sharing of scripts? > > The error: it's

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:20:53PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/30/2012 06:16 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > In this case a suggestion that for whatever reason the kernel hasn't > > properly dealt with the removal of the device that had been assigned to > > sdd (it presumably existed at some poi

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself > > properly after the suspend. This is very common. In fact, I wrote a script > > (in Gentoo) to unm

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-29 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 09:59:56AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have an external 1 TB harddisk e-sata attached used for backups. > The problem is that I have few times lost connection to it. I have > taken up the habit of suspending (to RAM) when I leave the machine > for a while and the proble

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

2012-07-11 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:31:27AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > > > > > > I let the system sit powered off for a while and then booted the F16 > > > DVD and it booted fi

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

2012-07-10 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 06:39:33PM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > Paolo, > > > > We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow > > damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, you are right. > > > > Boris. > > >

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

2012-07-10 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:20:01PM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > Wow, this is weird... > > > > Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the > > problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. >

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 06:27:25PM -0400, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > On 07/08/2012 04:37 PM, Edward M wrote: > >On 07/08/2012 01:27 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > >>If I may?...exactly what IS "mutt"?is it something I should > >>concern myself with? > > > >mutt is a text based email

Re: Manually installing Firefox 13

2012-06-05 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:26:38AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > What's the right procedure to manually install Firefox 13 on top of F17?. > > It's been so long that I had forgotten it's simple a tar file. Where > do I unpack it?. > > Apparently in F17 firefox is spread between /usr/bin/firefox

Re: What steps to have sound working.(solved)

2012-05-11 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:38:36PM -0300, Luc?lio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > Em 11-05-2012 11:35, ny6...@gmail.com escreveu: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:06:01AM -0300, Luc??lio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > >> Em 10-05-2012 19:10, JD escreveu: > >>> On 05/10/2012 06:09 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > O

Re: What steps to have sound working.

2012-05-11 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:06:01AM -0300, Luc??lio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > Em 10-05-2012 19:10, JD escreveu: > > On 05/10/2012 06:09 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > >> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 14:00 -0300, Luc??lio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > >>> Today I have image but no sound? Any help? How to test it, t

Re: volume levels

2012-05-10 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:53:20PM -0600, patrick korsnick wrote: > On the Desktop (Gnome) spin the volume control allows setting values higher > than 100%. The KDE and Xfce spins don't allow this. I have a laptop that is > very hard to hear audio on unless using the Gnome spin and having the vol >

Re: What steps to have sound working.

2012-05-09 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:00:32PM -0300, Luc?lio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody could give the steps to have sound working on KDE Fedora? > $ uname -r > 3.3.4-3.fc16.x86_64 > Installed > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 > > Today I have image but no sound? Any help? H

Re: bash history

2012-04-30 Thread ny6p01
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 03:38:41PM -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > I read about a shell variable called HISTIGNORE that is supposed to prevent > duplicate > commands from occurring in .bash_history. > > I put the following line into ~/.bash_profile: > > export HISTIGNORE="&" > > It's not working

Re: Does the US Constitution need to be revised?

2012-04-19 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:55:12AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/19/2012 08:57 AM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is the OP calling for a Constitutional convention? > > No. The OP is a troll who's only trying to disrupt this group by > getting us arguing about politics. Need to tune up my troll-o

Re: Does the US Constitution need to be revised?

2012-04-19 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 08:26:44PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 04/18/2012 08:14 PM, Hal wrote: > > > > Just a question and request for reasoned comment... > > > > > > Yes but if we did we would, quite probably, only make it worse. > > -- > _ Is the OP calling for a Constitutional conv

Re: iphone won't mount as a file storage system ?

2012-04-15 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:33:59PM -0430, Dokuro wrote: > is your phone really up to date, cos my unupdated phone mounts from install. > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:23 AM, linux guy wrote: > > > I am trying to mount my wife's iphone to download images and videos > > onto a local hard drive. I

Re: ~/.mc/ini

2012-04-12 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:50:09PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 12:43 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > For the life of me I can't seem to find where the Midnight Commander > > config is stored... > > .mc is not there anymore under /home/username ?? > > Can't find something? Use the

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-04-10 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:50:06AM +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: > > Hi Frantisek, > > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 15:15, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > >> > >> Now occurred to me that i can watch several (mainly roots) history files > >> by incrond and start some script which l

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-28 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:29:25PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 28.03.2012 17:22, schrieb Frank Murphy: > > On 28/03/12 14:18, Mark Haney wrote: > > > >> > >> ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere > >> root ALL=(ALL) ALL > >> markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > > > try removing the s

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-28 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:18:50AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > I'm kinda confused by the sudo problem I'm having. I've edited the main > file with visudo to include: > > ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere > rootALL=(ALL) ALL > markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL I have this,

Re: Password request after resuming from suspend/hibernation

2012-03-01 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:26:58AM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > If I resume from suspend on my desktop box I'm asked for the login > password. But after resuming from hibernation, no password is requested. > > Questions: > > 1. why this difference? > 2. is it possible to adapt these tw

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:04:01AM -0700, stan wrote: > I'm looking at alternative window managers to Gnome fallback, the only > Gnome my old hardware and work preference will support. The more I > investigate fvwm, the more it seems like a nice stable, > extremely configurable solution to my prob

Re: Scan does not work on either F-16 box -

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:07:02PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 24/02/12 17:44, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 05:33:44AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> On 24/02/12 02:25, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>> yum -y install sane-backends-drivers-scanners > >> Did that, stil

Re: Scan does not work on either F-16 box -

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 05:33:44AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 24/02/12 02:25, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > yum -y install sane-backends-drivers-scanners > > Did that, still no device found! > > However for the first time ever I ignored the warning not to run > as root a

Re: Ogg to mp3, anyone?

2012-02-20 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:19:46AM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Also, isn't it possible to install an ogg codec into Android somehow? > > > > Most vaguely modern Android devices support ogg playback (not record) as a > > standard

Re: [SOLVED:] Re: xsane problem - also hp-setup w/ hp7510

2012-02-20 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:30:28PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Gabriel: > > You provided the necessary piece of info that I overlooked (as we would > say in the States .. "Bingo!"). > > I had all the rpms, but what happened was I got fooled by the > "system-config-print cups hpijs" setup

Re: xsane problem -

2012-02-18 Thread ny6p01
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:51:14PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 2/18/2012 6:43 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:48:08PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > >> On 2/17/2012 7:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >>> > >>> Try installing the 'hplip' and 'hplip-gui' packa

Re: xsane problem -

2012-02-18 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:48:08PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 2/17/2012 7:18 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > > > > Try installing the 'hplip' and 'hplip-gui' packages, then run the > > `hp-setup` utility. > > > > I recently set up an HP combination scanner/printer, and while CUPS >

Re: xsane problem -

2012-02-17 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:28:27PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > This is a new install F-16/64 recently updated. Xsane is unable to > detect the HP Scanjet 5370c scanner. Reports "no devices available." > > It appears to be detected as a USB device: > > [bobg@box6 ~]$ lsusb >