Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Robatino
I just back up everything including hidden files/directories. The hidden files/directories generally don't take up a lot of space and it ensures that I don't miss anything. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

GOOD WORK!! (kde 4.4)

2010-02-25 Thread A. Boggiano
Hi all, only a brief note to thank everyone of the Fedora team! My usual "yum update", today, gave me kde 4.4... it's a gift!!! I love Fedora, day by day! ;) Thanks a lot! Alessandro -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

FC12 udev rules

2010-02-25 Thread T. Horsnell
Hi all, I need to set up a custom rule to give me mode 666 on a custom USB device (or on all the otherwise un-handled USB devices). I used to do this (in FC9) by modifying ruleset 50-udev-default.rules at the libusb entry (I know this was not the 'correct' way, but I could never understand udev eno

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > AFAICT, SMB is no longer involved with my printing services. XP can > access them directly, and I configure them as an "internet" printer > via a URL like: > > http://server:631/printers/printerName Correct, you're accessing

Re: GOOD WORK!! (kde 4.4)

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
A. Boggiano wrote: > only a brief note to thank everyone of the Fedora team! > My usual "yum update", today, gave me kde 4.4... it's a gift!!! > > I love Fedora, day by day! ;) > > Thanks a lot! You're welcome! The Fedora KDE Special Interest Group (KDE SIG), of which I'm part, worked hard on

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > I'm sure there's a more accurate historical reason, but all of your > application's configuration settings and data are stored that way to > avoid you deleting things accidentally and keep your home directory > clutter free. Under Windows thin

Re: Recursive comparing of files

2010-02-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 01:31:00 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I have the following task: there are two directories on the disk, say a/ > and b/, with various subdirectories and files inside. I need to find and > erase all *duplicate* files, and after that all empty directories. Folks, thanks f

Re: KMail

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting 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. > > interesting. All I know is that Akon

mpack gcc 4.4.1 3.4.6

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to compile mpack 0.6.4 and I get an error message which seems to be due to a problem of compatibility between gcc 4.4.1 and gcc 3.4.6 probably required to mblas and/or mlapack (fortran compatibility). In fact I only have the 3.4 compatibility installed. Any idea ? Linux teuc

PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Feb 25 09:22:15 Updated: ppp-2.4.5-2.fc12.x86_64 I updated to ppp 2.4.5 on the 25 February and it has broken PPTP VPN working Plugin /usr/lib64/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5 Checking rpm -qa I see I have :- NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.996-4.git2009

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-25 Thread Don Levey
On 02/25/2010 01:41 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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). >>

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + Andrew Gray wrote: > Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN As a work around you can manually connect by invoking pppd as root from command line, something like: pppd call updetach Probably need to setup some route commands and maybe adjus

Re: remote install process/practice

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:46:30 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Some people have claimed that there is a way to do this via VNC. I've > not tried this. I've used VNC before, but that just gets things installed. I've never figured out how you can still use VNC to get through the necessary con

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:37:05 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: > If you want multiple backup levels you have to have storage for > several complete mirrors. Depends on how picky you are about the structure of said backups. I use the delete option to move the changed files to a deleted directory rather

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 25.02.2010 12:28, schrieb Andrew Gray: > I updated to ppp 2.4.5 on the 25 February and it has broken PPTP VPN > working > > Plugin /usr/lib64/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version > 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5 An updated version of the pptp plugin has been pushed today: http://admin.fe

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 07:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + > Andrew Gray wrote: > > > Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN > > As a work around you can manually connect by invoking > pppd as root from command line, something like: > > pppd c

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:20 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > > I'm sure there's a more accurate historical reason, but all of your > > application's configuration settings and data are stored that way to > > avoid you deleting things accidentally and keep

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Robert Nichols wrote: > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time > only. If you want multiple backup levels you have to have

KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my KMail. Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Konsole, but "akonadictl start" ju

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > > Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: > I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Kon

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:25 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: > > rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you > > aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and > > inode numbers. The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:26 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > [...] > Anyone here got any clue what's going on and why it's not working? > Kmail

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter : > > Do you happen to have a locally-installed mysql in /opt/mysql? If so, it's > possible it is what is causing this. > Rex, I appreciate your suggestion. Unfortunately I do not have anything in /opt/mysql. The only thing in /opt is /opt/Adobe (Adobe Reader.) Nice suggest

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said: > 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 firewallin

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 8:26:31 am John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > > Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: > I tried sta

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan : > > Again, you're likely to get more of a response if you post this on the > Fedora-KDE list. > Ok. I'll see what I can do... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Andre Goree : > > I had to deal with this with Mandriva when I first moved to KDE4.4. This > usually means Akonadi can't find the mysql server. I ended up creating a > database for it on a remote mysql server, but you can also do this locally. > > I believe mysql should've been installed

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Andre Goree wrote: > I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start > Akonadi again. $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql mysql-server qt4-mysql (ie, it should already be there). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:24:27 am John Aldrich wrote: > > [j...@slave1 akonadi]$ sudo service mysql start > [sudo] password for john: > mysql: unrecognized service > > I have also verified that, in fact, mysql *is* started. Oops, I meant to say 'service msqyld start'. Notice the "mysqld

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter : > Andre Goree wrote: > >> I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start >> Akonadi again. > > $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql > mysql-server > qt4-mysql > > (ie, it should already be there). > Yep. Got 'em. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:38:03 am Rex Dieter wrote: > Andre Goree wrote: > > I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start > > Akonadi again. > > $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql > mysql-server > qt4-mysql > > (ie, it should already be there). > > -- Rex I

Re: Recursive comparing of files

2010-02-25 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
I do understand that this isn't what you need, but I understand that there are some tools available for Windows, that can go through collections of JPEG photographs, and eliminate the duplicates based not on the precise data, but on the appearance of the scene in the image. That is, if you had two

Re: FC12 udev rules

2010-02-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:42:15AM +, T. Horsnell wrote: > Hi all, > I need to set up a custom rule to give me mode 666 on a custom USB device > (or on all the otherwise un-handled USB devices). > I used to do this (in FC9) by modifying ruleset 50-udev-default.rules at > the libusb entry (I kno

F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Barry Yu
I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap, last night I restore it and partimage indicated successful, then reboot it, got stuck and displayed message: [drm:drm_rmfb] * tried to rmove a fb that we didn't own boot has failed, sleep forever what happened and how to fi

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Andre Goree : > On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:24:27 am John Aldrich wrote: > >> >> [j...@slave1 akonadi]$ sudo service mysql start >> [sudo] password for john: >> mysql: unrecognized service >> >> I have also verified that, in fact, mysql *is* started. > > > Oops, I meant to say 'service

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Haley
On 02/25/2010 05:06 AM, 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 directori

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I'm not sure what the problem was, but after reading some suggestiosn on the KDE forum, I tried renaming ~/local/share/akonadi to akonadi-old and tried starting KMail again and it miraculously started normally. I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this should

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 to use Cisco, and only Ci

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 10:15:09 am John Aldrich wrote: > Well, I'm not sure what the problem was, but after reading some suggestiosn > on the KDE forum, I tried renaming ~/local/share/akonadi to akonadi-old and > tried starting KMail again and it miraculously started normally. > > I would su

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Michal
On 25/02/2010 14:00, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said: >> 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 We

[389-users] Directory Server help

2010-02-25 Thread Natr Brazell
All, I'm new to the community and apologize if posting to the wrong area. I'm looking for "_current_" information relating to a forum or documentation on RHEL Directory Server wrt to application integration. I'm making the assumption that the FDS is a parallel effort. I've used RHDS for basic u

Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Ok, after the problems I had yesterday with Akonadi and KMail, and reading some other postings about how so many programs are integrated into one humongous RPM, it got me to thinking. Why do we *need* to have one ginormous RPM for a bunch of different apps? Why can't we just have one RPM per ap

Re: [389-users] Directory Server help

2010-02-25 Thread Edward Capriolo
2010/2/25 Natr Brazell : > All, > I'm new to the community and apologize if posting to the wrong area.  I'm > looking for "_current_" information relating to a forum or documentation on > RHEL Directory Server wrt to application integration.  I'm making the > assumption that the FDS is a parallel e

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess [resolved]

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Andre Goree wrote: > > Great to see you got it working :) > You and me both! I suspect the problem occurred because I was reading email while updating Fedora. I had no idea it would be a problem as it's never been a problem before. Perhaps some developer should loo

Re: F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/25/2010 03:56 PM, Barry Yu wrote: I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap, last night I restore it and partimage indicated successful, then reboot it, got stuck and displayed message: [drm:drm_rmfb] * tried to rmove a fb that we didn't own boot has failed, s

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Remember > that staff are paid, and someone looking at a router issue is not doing > something else. fact of life, when you get larger than "mom and pop" ISP > operations Cisco or similar is cheaper than Linux. That's the whole reason that R

Re: Canon CAPT, LBP3010, F12 x86_64

2010-02-25 Thread Serj Burcev
25.02.2010 01:11, Serj Burcev wrote: > Canon I-SENSYS LBP3010, CAPT drivers 1.90E, Fedora 12 x86_64. > How to get it work? Thank you. So, i followed http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=240307 that way, and it works just fine now. :) Also you need to launch `captstatusui -P ` or it won't

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
If you really care enough about security to be using a VPN connection in the first place, you really don't want to use PPTP. It is riddled with security flaws (that have been very well known for more than a decade) to the point where it is only slightly better than sending data in the clear: http:

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am 25.02.2010 16:32, schrieb John Aldrich: > I think we ought to think about how we package apps. Let's just have a > "base" app that includes the required subsystems for everything to work, > and then make other RPMs available for apps that "hook into" that sub- > system. > > I really would lik

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:00 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > If you really care enough about security to be using a VPN connection in > the first place, you really don't want to use PPTP. Most of us users don't care one particle about using it, it just happens to be mandated by the IT department who ar

Re: firefox lockups after update

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent Onelli
> From: Sam Varshavchik > Subject: Re: firefox lockups after update > Vincent Onelli writes: > > > I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, > > the "starting firefox ..." appears at the bottom of screen for few > > seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: > > The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to > do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* > subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for KDE apps, but that's > simply not possible for t

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am 25.02.2010 17:34, schrieb John Aldrich: > On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: >> >> The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to >> do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* >> subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Tom H
> Servers don't really make good routers.  When you are talking about > traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never > been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those > directly to Linux systems for routing that could compete with a basic > Junipe

Re: [SOLVED]Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

2010-02-25 Thread Jake Peavy
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Germán A. Racca wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Germán A. Racca wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > How to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal from command > line? > > > > > >

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Jake Peavy
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Servers don't really make good routers. When you are talking about > > traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never > > been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those > > directly to Linux sys

gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to have gsl with long double precision, but I cannot find the files: gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... I have gsl and gsl-devel installed and cannot find any package including such files. thank. -- --- == Patrick D

Re: F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Thursday 25 February 2010 10:56:04 Barry Yu wrote: > I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap I don't know about your particular error but I know partimage doesn't support ext4. Is your root file system using ext4? HTH, Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: Bill Davidsen > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 11:17:55 AM > Subject: Setting custom screen resolution > > I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for > video > drivers. I would like to get so

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:55:52 + (GMT), Patrick wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to have gsl with long double precision, but I cannot > find the files: > > gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... > > I have gsl and gsl-devel installed and cannot find any package > including such files. Your message is strange.

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-25 12:45:57, Don Levey wrote: ... > Would you suggest I file the bug with Fedora, or with PulseAudio? Fedora, I think. -- TonyN.:' '

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank for your email. When I was looking for long double with gsl, I found this: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Support-for-different-numeric-types.html So it looks like that I need some extra files likes: gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... Now, I think that the documentation is wrong. Wha

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Mohamed ELMORABITY
2010/2/25 Patrick Dupre > Thank for your email. > > When I was looking for long double with gsl, I found this: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Support-for-different-numeric-types.html > > So it looks like that I need some extra files likes: > > gsl/gsl_foo.h > etc... > > Now,

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > it just happens to be mandated by the IT department I figured it was something like that, but I thought it was still important to point out the known weaknesses of PPTP so that someone else who happens on this thread doesn't decide that set

question about program execution

2010-02-25 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have a strange problem that I'm not quite sure what the issue is or how to fix it. I have a USB drive with a jar file and 2 text files on it. If I have the drive mounted as /media/USB and I do the following: cd /media/USB java -jar myfile.jar The program runs fine, and when I enter the name o

Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-25 Thread A. Racca
Hi there: I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to install a program, I go to System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software, then I select the package, and finally it asks me for the root password. But in my notebook, with Fedora 12 i686 and Gnome desktop, the sam

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Serj Burcev
25.02.2010 21:55, Patrick Dupre пишет: > Hello, > > I am trying to have gsl with long double precision, but I cannot > find the files: > > gsl/gsl_foo.h etc... > > I have gsl and gsl-devel installed and cannot find any package > including such files. > > thank. > yum provides \*/gsl\*.h 8:arts-de

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:17 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for > video > drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: > 768x12426 > 900x14562 >1024x16568 >1920x1186 >1280x791 >1024x632 Just curio

Re: question about program execution

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have a strange problem that I'm not quite sure what the issue is or how to > fix it. It doesn't seem to need fixing. [...] > Note I have setup nautilus so that when I open a jar file it runs java -jar > on that file. This works and the program does execute. However, r

Re: [SOLVED]Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

2010-02-25 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:44 -0500, Jake Peavy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Germán A. Racca > wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Germán A. Racca > wrote: > > > Hi all: >

Re: gsl_foo

2010-02-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:56:57 +0100, Mohamed wrote: > 2010/2/25 Patrick Dupre > > > When I was looking for long double with gsl, I found this: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Support-for-different-numeric-types.html > > > > So it looks like that I need some extra files lik

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tom H said: > How about Vyatta? They are Linux-based and claim to have the same > performance as Cisco routers. They started out as software-only but > seem to be pushing "appliances" more and more, like > http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/datasheets/vyatta_3500_datasheet.pdf If I

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steven I Usdansky wrote: > > > > - Original Message >> From: Bill Davidsen >> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 11:17:55 AM >> Subject: Setting custom screen resolution >> >> I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for >> vi

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Tyler wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:17 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for >> video >> drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: >> 768x12426 >> 900x14562 >>1024x16568 >>1920x1186 >>1280x

KDE 4 Changing changing Icons to Pictures

2010-02-25 Thread Jim
FC12/KDE4.4 In Konqueror or Dolphin, When opening the Pictures Folder, how do I get all pictures to be displayed seeing pictures, instead of seeing Camera Icons ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-25 Thread bruce
if you're root... perhaps it has something to do with your selinux/permissions access?? don't quote me on this.. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Germán A. Racca wrote: > Hi there: > > I have a PC with Fedora 12 x86_64 and Gnome desktop, and when I want to > install a program, I go to System

Can't log into X after newest f12 update!

2010-02-25 Thread cliff here
So after updating, (and eventually reinstalling and updating again) .. I've having this issue were I cannot log into X therefor no gui.. but I can log in via a virtual tty (ie. ALT + F2) So i'm looking through what's been installed trying to figure out what in the update broke my login, This is a

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom H wrote: >> Servers don't really make good routers.  When you are talking about >> traditional low- to mid-speed telco circuits (T1, T3), there have never >> been good, well-supported, cost-effective solutions for connecting those >> directly to Linux systems

Re: KDE 4 Changing changing Icons to Pictures

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:52 -0500, Jim wrote: > FC12/KDE4.4 > > In Konqueror or Dolphin, When opening the Pictures Folder, how do I get > all pictures to be displayed seeing pictures, instead of seeing Camera > Icons ? View->Preview poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux said: > Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR, 3 > Years > > Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR > Parts & Labor, 3 Years (ships with US Power Cord as standard) > (Typically ships in 15-17 business

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread birger
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:11 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > That's the whole reason that Red Hat actually does good business by > charging such a collossal price for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to my boss the license costs for my RHEL servers are less than the rounding errors in t

[389-users] TinyCA2 & 389-DS

2010-02-25 Thread Jeff Moody
I'm trying to set up two 389 Directory Services servers in a replication scenario. I can do this quite easily without any SSL/TLS setup. In an effort to improve the security of our environment, I would like to get TLS configured so that this replication (and all LDAP authentication attempts) ar

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-25 Thread Roger
> It's UNIX tradition, going back forever: config files are always > hidden. The idea is that when you say "ls", you shouldn't see > anything that you didn't put there yourself. It also makes it less > likely that they will be deleted or renamed. > > Andrew. > I have found over the years tha

Re: [389-users] TinyCA2 & 389-DS

2010-02-25 Thread Rich Megginson
Jeff Moody wrote: > I'm trying to set up two 389 Directory Services servers in a replication > scenario. I can do this quite easily without any SSL/TLS setup. > > In an effort to improve the security of our environment, I would like to get > TLS configured so that this replication (and all LDAP a

F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates forever and requires a forced kill. Anyone see this problem? I am of course using NetworkManager, and wonder if I should use the old-network connectivity

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite > badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum > keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates > forever and requires a forced kill. > Ahhh If you are getting network disconnects then any application yum, firefox,

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite >> badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum >> keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates >> forever and requires a forced kill. >> >> > Ahhh If you are

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite >>> badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum >>> keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates >>> forever and requires a f

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>> Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum keeps spinnin

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> OK, I believe I understand your question a bit better. >> >> Since you are able to use firefox, for example, without problem it >> doesn't appear you have a true network issue. Or, at least, it isn't >> local to you. If firefox were also giving you grief it would be

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite > badly. I often get ne

What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???

2010-02-25 Thread reg
Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics has been of zero length, but I see no other c

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Thursday 25 February 2010 18:17:55 Bill Davidsen wrote: > I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for > video drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: > 768x12426 > 900x14562 >1024x16568 >1920x1186 >1280x791 >1024x632 > > Does an

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> >>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Seems to me, that Yum is per

Re: What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
r...@dwf.com wrote: > Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru > sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being > kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. > > Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics > has been of ze

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> >> Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to >> me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, >> DNS, etc.. a LOT of services and I am not seeing any problems.

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/25/2010 07:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to >>> me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, >>> DNS, etc.. a

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Steven Stern wrote: > On 02/25/2010 07:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> >> You could try removing /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and then enabling >> fastestmirror again. I did that when I was troubleshooting when I found >> the problem with Singapore. FWIW, Singapore had been working just >> fine.

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to >>> me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, >>> DNS,

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>> Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, b

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