Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread David Liguori
On 7/23/2010 10:13 AM, TNWestTex wrote: > > > Stephen Gallagher-2 wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: >> >>> I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or >>> not, as desired. To this

Re: F13: Missing software update notifications

2010-07-23 Thread JB
Fennix gmail.com> writes: > >  I think that you must have turned off notifications.Fennix > Well, I have set preferences to hourly as usually (System-Preferences-Software Updates). I checked that the gpk-update-icon is checked-off in System-Preferences-Startup Applications. But the software up

Re: F13: Missing software update notifications

2010-07-23 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 07/23/2010 05:00 PM, JB wrote: > Fennix gmail.com> writes: > > >>I think that you must have turned off notifications.Fennix >> >> > Well, > I have set preferences to hourly as usually (System-Preferences-Software > Updates). > I checked that the gpk-update-icon is checked-off in

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:58:35 -0400 David Liguori wrote: > Maybe the solution is to buy a bigger monitor. Nah, I use a 46 inch HDTV as a monitor and the fonts are too small for me there as well. The problem is they are pixel sized fonts, and none of the pixel sizes are very big. You need a crappy

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:23 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 07/23/2010 12:59 AM, JD wrote: > > > > Can you describe the hardware of the private cloud > > and the hardware of the non-cloud machine in the > > location where you were involved in the installation > > or configuration? > > I would like to

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

2010-07-23 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday, July 23, 2010 16:44:56 Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> In all honesty, for normal desktop use, the only "hoop" Parshwa should >> need to jump through is to setup RPM Fusion on the system[1]. > > And install flash plugin in firefox.

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

2010-07-23 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Really, in order to provide equivalent functionality of a typical Windows > desktop, Fedora requires more than one hoop to jump through. A novice user is > maybe better off installing Omega instead, if he doesn't want to bother with > th

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

2010-07-23 Thread David
On 7/23/2010 6:20 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >> Really, in order to provide equivalent functionality of a typical Windows >> desktop, Fedora requires more than one hoop to jump through. A novice user is >> maybe better off installing

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

2010-07-23 Thread Michael Miles
On 07/23/2010 03:20 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> Really, in order to provide equivalent functionality of a typical Windows >> desktop, Fedora requires more than one hoop to jump through. A novice user is >> maybe better off insta

Re: [F13] thunderbird-3.1.1-1 won't restart

2010-07-23 Thread Ed Greshko
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Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-23 Thread Hugh Caley
Can I just point out quickly here that Fedora is probably not a proper distribution for home use? It's meant to be a test bed for the latest in Linux and open source software; it has a very short version cycle time, it's always on the cutting edge, it isn't documented well, etc. I love it, p

Re: quicktime video work for you?

2010-07-23 Thread Neal Becker
Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 23 July 2010 09:29 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Have you uninstalled Totem? It can cause conflicts with other installed >> media players. >> > > Its not totem that conflicts, its the browser plugin for totem he should > be removing. > > # yum remove totem-mozplugin

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

2010-07-23 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 23 July 2010 04:36 PM, Hugh Caley wrote: > RHEL (not free), CentOS (free) or Ubuntu (free), all of which are meant > to be more stable and better documented than Fedora. Why do you say that? I find the official Fedora documentation @ docs.fedoraproject.org much more reliable than searc

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

2010-07-23 Thread Roger
> Fedora releases every 6 months, and supports a release for 1 month > past the release of n+1[1]. This means that Fedora 13, which was > released May 25 will be supported until, roughly, June of 2011(*). > This is 13 months and a far cry short of 36 months. Fedora 11 is > already unsupported[2]

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM, g wrote: > i am just now back from joining pogo.com and attempting to play chess. > > was hoping that i could configure to play, but it kept throwing up > a window about popup blocker, even after enabling popups for site. > > i do need to run out for a few. shoul

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > All things he'd have to do in Windows.  And Firefox will direct you to > the Flash installation download and instructions page at Adobe the > first time you encounter some Flash.  And by "do in Windows" I mean > "go to the website the

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > You know, this thread is pointless.  It's Parshwa saying "I don't know > anything!" over and over, g making things scarier than they are, and > folks like Marko here basically implying Fedora's a big PITA. Yes, If you are suddenly pu

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:56 AM, David wrote: > The BS here is overwhelming. Poor Parshwa asks for help and guidence and > the wolves circle with the 'we be more smarter than you' crap. So if you really don't need help, why did you join this listing? It means you are also poor. If not, you must

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Michael Miles wrote: > I have to differ. Its your wish. > The best thing that ever happened to my computer was Fedora. > It's double the speed of Windows 7, no registry is a big plus, no > defrag, no virus. This is correct. > What more can you ask for. M

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Roger wrote: > Not long ago someone wrote to me: > " If you have a working system and are happy with it then why change it" > For this reason I will stay with Fedora 11 until I have unavoidable > reason to upgrade. That's what I did and am doing. > Fedora 11 i

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Hugh Caley wrote: > Can I just point out quickly here that Fedora is probably not a proper > distribution for home use?  It's meant to be a test bed for the latest in > Linux and open source software; it has a very short version cycle time, it's > always on the cu

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

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I find the official Fedora documentation @ docs.fedoraproject.org much > more reliable than searching for solutions in Ubuntu forums. I also find > the documentation included with packages more complete in Fedora. Fedora is good overall. Reg

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Les
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:58 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > Look at the Cloud Harmony benchmarks for your favorite cloud provider here: > > > > http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/cloud-server-benchmarking-part-4-memory.html > > > > Consider that you can get (on paper) more throughput

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Nathan W
*snip* > I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be > arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it can be compromised by > those who have direct physical access, and it is not something I really > want or need. J

Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-23 Thread Nathan W
has anyone been able to get .jsp files/java applets to work in Fedora? i'm currently using openjdk and the openjdk browser plugin, and visiting http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml says that java is working fine, and indeed it seems to be, but the applet at http://www.gokgs.com/apple

[Totally OT] Build a $200 Linux PC

2010-07-23 Thread john wendel
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2366841,00.asp It was nice to see Windows being totally crushed in some benchmarks (apples vs oranges). Overall, very positive publicity for Linux. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: cant make display settings permanent

2010-07-23 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ariful Hossain wrote: > I am running fedora 13 with KDE desktop.  When i change my display > settings it works but i have to change it again when i relogin my > desktop returns to its previous settings. > Fre

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/23/2010 11:41 PM, Nathan W wrote: > has anyone been able to get .jsp files/java applets to work in Fedora? > ... > http://www.gokgs.com/applet.jsp seems to be just a grey box :( > Works fine using google-chrome + sun java 6.0.21 - perhaps someone else can confirm if sun java works if in f

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-23 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Nathan W wrote: > has anyone been able to get .jsp files/java applets to work in Fedora? > i'm currently using openjdk and the openjdk browser plugin, and visiting > http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml says that java is > working fine, and indeed it s

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

2010-07-23 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > I uninstalled the NoScript, which doesn't work with User Agent > Switcher in my PC, but still IE7 (via default user agent) is not > working and i am not able to play chess. 'user agent' and 'noscript' should not have any inner action to block other. at least it does not w

Re: [F13] thunderbird-3.1.1-1 won't restart

2010-07-23 Thread g
Ed Greshko wrote: > Thank you for proving my point. not really, as i was *not recommending* down grading. but, if you think so, that is fine with me. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a frien

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

2010-07-23 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > but how i use that user agent switcher? i restarted the pc and now in > Firefox -> Tools -> Default User Agent is coming but switiching to IE > and then playing is also not working? as mentioned in post dated just before this one, i do not believe you need to use 'agent s

Re: [F13] thunderbird-3.1.1-1 won't restart

2010-07-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/24/2010 12:19 PM, g wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Thank you for proving my point. > not really, as i was *not recommending* down grading. I did not suggest that was your recommendation. You've again proved my point. -- I just heard the SEVENTIES were over!! And I was just getting in to

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

2010-07-23 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: >> And after all, where did windows come from..Linux > > > This is also correct. if you are meaning 'windows', as in 'ms windows', bill gates stoled concept from 'apple computers'. plus there was a big stink about bg&c using exact same 'trash can' icon. linux was

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

2010-07-23 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Don't mind but it is always not good to suddenly switch to some other > OS if problems come. agreed. > If suppose after switching to Ubuntu, again some > problem comes, would it mean to again switch to CentOS? centos or scientific linux are rewrites of rhel, currently

Re: [F13] thunderbird-3.1.1-1 won't restart

2010-07-23 Thread g
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/24/2010 12:19 PM, g wrote: >> Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Thank you for proving my point. >> not really, as i was *not recommending* down grading. > I did not suggest that was your recommendation. You've again proved my > point. lol. then just what was *point* you were tryi

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 07/23/2010 09:16 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Nathan W wrote: > > >> has anyone been able to get .jsp files/java applets to work in Fedora? >> > >> i'm currently using openjdk and the openjdk browser plugin, and visiting >> http://www.java.com/en/do

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Eggers
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:17:49 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 07/23/2010 09:16 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Nathan W >> wrote: >> >> >>> has anyone been able to get .jsp files/java applets to work in Fedora? >>> >>> >>> i'm currently using openjdk and

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Roger
On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > *snip* > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that >> when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be >> arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it can be compromised by >> those who have direct physical acces

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

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