Re: KMail

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Kempter
> On 02/25/2010 07:15 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:15:48 Kevin Kempter wrote: > >> I never (ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever...) run any updates > >> (no matter how insignificant they seem) without first running an rsync > >> of my system to a backup direc

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/24/2010 08:18 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow Fedora users& list members, > > On the kmail thread, sarcasm included :), I noticed the references to rsync > and partimage respectively. Both are recommended to make backups in order to > prevent from BAD UPDATES to render your mach

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-24 Thread Mikkel
On 02/24/2010 08:43 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 02/24/2010 08:33 PM, Craig White wrote: > That's what I see from my Linux systems. > >> something is blocking it. > > I agree. But what? > Dumb question - did you check the firewall settings on the Windows machines? I am not sure why, but ev

F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-24 Thread Don Levey
I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since F12 came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the previously offered solutions seem to have helped). First, the vitals: Dell Dimension E521 Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Running KDE 4.3.5 Running F12 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem (more info)

2010-02-24 Thread Don Levey
On 02/24/2010 11:07 PM, Don Levey wrote: > I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since F12 > came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the > previously offered solutions seem to have helped). > Two more things: * The "30 seconds" appears to be consisten

remote install process/practice

2010-02-24 Thread bruce
Hi. Got a question that nees clarification. Viewed a few sites and have come across different approaches. So figured I'd ask here... I've got a situation where I have a number of remote servers, that need to be setup to install either Centos/Fedora or RHEL. All the systems have an older version

OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-24 Thread Marcel Rieux
I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used for Web servers and that, for routing and firewalling, nobody escaped companies Cisco and Juniper

Re: remote install process/practice

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/24/2010 11:26 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > Got a question that nees clarification. Viewed a few sites and have > come across different approaches. So figured I'd ask here... > > I've got a situation where I have a number of remote servers, that > need to be setup to install either Centos/Fedo

Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Marcel Rieux
I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories to a DVD. But K3B asks if i want to save hidden files. If I answer no, the .thunderbird and .evolution directories aren't saved and there's some important data in t

F12 won't boot after image restored

2010-02-24 Thread barry yu
I made an image of F12 32bit / with partimage a week ago and I used it to restore the partition, partimage reported restoration successful, when I reboot and to start the Fedora 12, here is what displayed and stuck there; [drm:drm_rmfb]*tried to remove a fb that we didn't own boot has fa

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make the picture clearer? Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in the USA. They teach you to use Cisco, and only Cisco, for all your networking needs.

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Smart
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > One way around this is to copy those 2 directories and then rename > them without the beginning ".". This way you miss a few files or > directories if you don't also rename them -- such as .#evolution.sbd > and .parentlock -- which... might no

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/24/2010 10:42 PM, Mikkel wrote: > On 02/24/2010 08:43 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> On 02/24/2010 08:33 PM, Craig White wrote: >> That's what I see from my Linux systems. >> >>> something is blocking it. >> >> I agree. But what? >> > Dumb question - did you check the firewall settings on t

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/25/2010 12:46 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make >> the picture clearer? >> > > Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in > the USA. They teach you

Re: KMail

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Aldrich wrote: > Who's brilliant idea was it to push out a broken update anyway??? It works just fine for most people. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what exactly is going wrong for you without further information. Kevin Kofler -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Weird DNS issue with a specific web site with Fedora 12 (Temporary failure in name resolution?)

2010-02-24 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, Digging around I think the issue is a bug in Fedora 12. I wrote some C code that performs the DNS lookup by two different system calls: gethostbyname2 and getaddrinfo. the later system call always returns the error message 'Temporary failure in name resolution'. Running the code on my co

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-24 23:07:41, Don Levey wrote: > I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since > F12 > > came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the > previously offered solutions seem to have helped). ... You don't mention: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:flat-volumes

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most > simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories > to a DVD. But K3B asks if i want to save hidden files. If I answer no, > the .thunderbird and .evolution directories aren't saved and ther

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: > Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most >> simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories >> to a DVD. But K3B asks if i want to save hidden files. If I answer no, >> the .thunderbird and .evolution dire

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/25/2010 07:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories to a DVD. But K3B asks if i want to save hidden files. If I answer no, the .thunderbird and .evolut

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Joachim Backes wrote: > On 02/25/2010 07:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Marcel Rieux wrote: >>> I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most >>> simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories >>> to a DVD. But K3B asks if i want to save hidden files. If I ans

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: > Joachim Backes wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 07:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Marcel Rieux wrote: >>> I don't have much important data and I do my back-ups in the most simple way by saving my /home directory except for a few directories to a DVD. But

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