how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

Hi; how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format? I'm running Fedora 14 in two different instances and neither of them seem to allow me to modify the format of the time to be in 24-hour format rather than the am/pm type. Thanks in advance for the info. Ken Wolcott -- users mailing l

Re: how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

Hi; On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 00:05, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format? > > I'm running Fedora 14 in two different instances and neither of them > seem to allow me to modify the format of the time to be in 24-hour > format rather than the am/pm

Re: how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 00:19:53 -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 00:05, Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > Hi; > > > > how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format? > > > answer :-) > > http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=245177 If you want 24

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:33:32 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > > 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing > (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all It should work for wireless cards where there is freely redistributable firmw

Re: Merry Christmas

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 23:22:40 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Must of been a problem, cuz soon after I sent that email, the flood > gates opened and started getting previously sent emails. Guess > something was stuck/hung/whatever. > > Seems to be fixed now though. There was a problem. I

Re: Merry Christmas

su, 2010-12-26 kello 15:48 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: > > I sent my Christmas card in early, but I think people were probably > ignoring that (very long off-topic) thread. Here it is again: > > http://i55.tinypic.com/2whp10j.jpg Wow! Cool! Did you actually made it recently (a few days ago, when con

Re: Merry Christmas

Tim: >> I sent my Christmas card in early, but I think people were probably >> ignoring that (very long off-topic) thread. Here it is again: >> >> http://i55.tinypic.com/2whp10j.jpg Hiisi: > Wow! Cool! Did you actually made it recently (a few days ago, when > contributing to the longest thread

Re: how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 00:05 -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format? > > I'm running Fedora 14 in two different instances and neither of them > seem to allow me to modify the format of the time to be in 24-hour > format rather than the am/pm type.

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks > by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and > Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what you

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sunday 26 December 2010 01:47 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: >> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks >> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and >> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-

Re: how to configure Fedora 14 to be in 24-hour time format

On Sunday 26 December 2010 01:37 AM, Tim wrote: > If you mean elsewhere, it may be a locale option. Or, perhaps, an > environment variable. > Maybe LC_TIME? It is mentioned in `man 3 strftime' and `man locale'. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@

Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

On Saturday 25 December 2010 09:03 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > /usr/bin/xterm -display :0 -bg white \ > -e /usr/bin/mplayer --really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist > -stop-xscreensaver& PID=$!> /dev/null 2>&1 This is rather strange and unnecessary. mplayer is perfectly capable of playi

Re: Merry Christmas

On 26 Dec 2010 at 20:04, Tim wrote: Subject:Re: Merry Christmas From: Tim To: Community support for Fedora users Date sent: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:04:57 +1030 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users

Re: About programing, a general question

> > Back in the day, we used paper tape for our NC machinery. Lots of it. > > -- cmg > & how often did that either break or get snarled up, just coz the humidity had dropped We suggested that Field Engineers should inspect all the young lady operators for *nasty* nylon clothing & remove it.

4 questions Regarding Fedora 14

A few questions regarding Fedora: 1) Is there any method to customize a Fedora Install iso? i download from fedoraproject.org -> i do some "magic" to the iso -> custom iso done, installable i'm thinking about like this: htt

Re: Thoughts of a user

su, 2010-12-26 kello 02:14 -0800, Suvayu Ali kirjoitti: > The other day my (Mac using) supervisor went "Ooh wow" seeing my > "translucent on move" windows on XFCE. :) > > -- > Suvayu My (windoze 7 using) supervisor was astonished seeing my good old timeless twm running on scientific linux ;-) -

Re: 4 questions Regarding Fedora 14

2) is solved! :D [ yum install gconf-editor ] --- On Sun, 12/26/10, S Mathias wrote: > From: S Mathias > Subject: 4 questions Regarding Fedora 14 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 11:25 AM > A few questions regarding Fedora: > > #

Re: bluetooth mouse suddenly stopped working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 26/12/2010 02:24, Darr a écrit : > On Saturday, 25 December, 2010 @10:28 zulu, François Patte scribed: > >> Bonjour, >> >> I have a logitech V470 bluetooth mouse which did work fine up to >> day >> >> This morning, it no more works! Cells are O

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 11:36 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Thoughts of a user > > 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing > (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all > those things are built for functionality with Windo

Re: 4 questions Regarding Fedora 14

S Mathias yahoo.com> writes: > ... > 3) there is a file under ubuntu..: > > /etc/modules > > where i can type the modules what i want to load at boot. is there something > similar under fedora for it? /etc/modprobe.d/ > ... > 4) there aren't any "tofromdos" package under fedora? how can i co

Re: 4 questions Regarding Fedora 14

S Mathias yahoo.com> writes: > > A few questions regarding Fedora: > > > > 1) Is there any method to customize a Fedora Install iso? > i download from fedoraproject.org -> i do some "magic" to the iso -> custom iso done, ins

Re: Thoughts of a user

--- Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > > 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has > been surpassed in looks > > by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know > all, but Windoze and > > Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. > > You are jo

Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

On 12/26/2010 06:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > This is rather strange and unnecessary. mplayer is perfectly capable of > playing audio without an xterm. You can replace all the xterm stuff by just, Go back and read the OP's email. His speakers are built in to his flat panel display. What is happen

Re: Thoughts of a user

> You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what you mean by "lesser > graphic-cards," but I have a Toshiba laptop with Intel graphics and F 13 > that I use as a showpiece. I'm not joking. Yes, there are some look-perks that Linux has - like the cube and the wobbly windows - that are nice, a

Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Suvayu Ali wrote: > From: Suvayu Ali > Subject: Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 2:36 AM > On Saturday 25 December 2010 09:03 > PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > /usr/bin/xt

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On 12/25/10 9:23 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 12:51 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: >> Part of the trouble-shooting was making sure there weren't any cabling >> issues, so the client brought out an electrician. Not only weren't >> the colors on the cable standard, they were different at each end!

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/10 2:47 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: >> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks >> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and >> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. > You are

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:50:40AM -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Replace the ENTIRE run. NEVER splice, and I mean NEVER splice, LAN > cabling. You might have crossover problems and you might not notice the > loss in bandwidth until you hit 20MB+ connection speeds and then things > get very 'i

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On 12/26/10 8:58 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:50:40AM -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >> Replace the ENTIRE run. NEVER splice, and I mean NEVER splice, LAN >> cabling. You might have crossover problems and you might not notice the >> loss in bandwidth until you hit 20MB+ connec

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 14:33 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in > looks by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but > Windoze and Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards. Things like > true class-borders should

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

I think a few people missed where *I* said this happened to our *phone* lines. But, nonetheless: Dave Ihnat: >> I'll second that, with a caveat. If it's absolutely, positively >> impossible to pull a new run, you *can* terminate with an 8P8C >> ("RJ45") male on one end of the repair and female o

Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

On Sunday 26 December 2010 05:11 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Yes, that was not the problem:(, the problem was for the monitor to wake up > and play the music (monitor with built in speakers); still I like to have > xterm to change songs, or o q(quit) faster:) > Ah ok! Its a matter of convenie

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sunday 26 December 2010 08:11 AM, Tim wrote: > Transparency's all very well for shuffling windows about, trying to find > the one you want behind the currently front-most one. But it's > appalling to try and use a terminal or application when you're seeing > what's behind it through what you're

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:55:19 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: [] > Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux. Just > run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking > about. Some of the more famous games that were ported to Linux don't > work th

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On Sunday, December 26, 2010 11:22:47 am James McKenzie did opine: > On 12/25/10 9:23 PM, Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 12:51 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> Part of the trouble-shooting was making sure there weren't any > >> cabling issues, so the client brought out an electrician. Not only >

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:59:27 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after > switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've > re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks > Rahul). I've just released

Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

Are there any active project about it? like: http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/ for Debian. Why doesn't it have viability? Why does it have? What are the security issues regarding it? e.g.: No port forwarding is needed in p2p (no need for open ports [? fixme]): http://samy.pl/pwnat/ - these ki

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 04:44 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > Leaving my comments on hardware management and wifi (almost) unnoticed. Not unnoticed. Snipped because I didn't have a comment. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 07:55 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux. Just > run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking > about. Built in graphics card on a notebook. And, everything Just Works including the 3D graphics. --

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 09:02 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 3) Gnome folks lack good taste for eye-candy :-D . If you try out just the > default KDE spin, you'll find a much more interesting environment even by > default, not to mention turning on desktop effects and such. I use Gnome. The few times I tried

gweather

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, The gweather applet is not always working and I cannot figure out why and where I have to enquire when instead of sun/clouds/... and temperature, there is only: -- Of course, in that case, there are no information at all. What to do? Than

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

On 12/26/2010 11:40 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Automatic updates that leave the user out of the loop are known to be a Very > Bad Idea (tm) Automatic updates are part of the slavewear mentality: I know what your computer needs and you don't. Once you allow them you're effectively giving contr

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 11:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I'm aware of that, the reply-to is there for a purpose (deliberate e-mail > redundancy, don't ask...). As long as you know what's happening, it's no problem. Back when I did tech support for an ISP, I regularly got calls from customers who couldn

FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

Somewhere along the line I started getting these warnings at the beginning of the boot: Starting udev: udevd[455]: BUS= will be removed in a future udev version, please use SUBSYSTEM= to match the event device, or SUBSYSTEMS= to match a parent device, in /etc/udev/ru

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Beartooth wrote: >        There was a post in praise of it recently, I think on Novalug, as > a vehicle for current highest-tech eye candy, or so I understood it. Originally I based Kororaa off Gentoo, but the last release was in 2006. At the time, I created pre-b

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > Some of you might remember Kororaa from back in the day. Well after > switching to Fedora a year and a half or so ago (and loving it), I've > re-created Kororaa as a KDE Fedora Remix (inspired by Omega, so thanks > Rahul). I've just released an

Re: Thoughts of a user

On 12/26/2010 12:49 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > So I launched my lshw-gui (not knowing a better way). But if it > sees any video card, it calls it something else. How do I check what I've > got in any given machine? > Doesn't show much (anything?) on the pci bus ... lspci -v shows vide

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

On 12/26/2010 02:40 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > The only permanent solution to usability of p2p in general is IPv6, where all > addresses will be public and thus accessible from outside. And IPv6 would fix > other protocols broken by introduction of NAT, not just p2p stuff. > > But until then,

Re: gweather

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 20:34 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > The gweather applet is not always working and I cannot figure out why > and where I have to enquire when instead of sun/clouds/... and > temperature, there is only: -- >

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

On 12/26/2010 02:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > I need to read about ipv6 - but can I keep (1) with ipv6 ? i.e. > machines inside access to internet similar to what they have now via > firewall/nat ... but no way for those ipv6 addresses to be seen SYN'd > from outside. AIUI, there are IPv6 add

whats wrong with my internet connection checker script?

$ true && true || echo hi $ true && false || echo hi hi $ false && true || echo hi hi $ false && false || echo hi hi $ ping -W 1 -c 4 google.com >& /dev/null | grep -q "100% packet loss" && ping -W 1 -c 4 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/null | grep -q "100% packet loss" || echo "no internet connection" no

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

William Stock fuse.net> writes: > ... > Is this something that I have to worry about or will it be taken care of > by the developers? > ... The udev rules are maintained by Fedora devs. They should be let know about it. If you are comfortable with Fedora Bugzilla system, you can file a bug rep

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:55:19 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >        [] >> Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux.  Just >> run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking >> about.  Some of the mo

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

JB gmail.com> writes: > ... One needs to tell them which package the rules belong to: $ rpm -qf /etc/udev/rules.d/85-pcscd_egate.rules If there is no package with that rule, then it must be custom-made and should be fixed by the user (you or whoever implemented it), and that means not reported

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

On 12/26/2010 05:28 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/26/2010 02:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> I need to read about ipv6 - but can I keep (1) with ipv6 ? i.e. >> machines inside access to internet similar to what they have now via >> firewall/nat ... but no way for those ipv6 addresses to be seen SY

Re: gweather

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:21:37 -0600 "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 20:34 +0100, François Patte wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bonjour, > > > > The gweather applet is not always working and I cannot figure out > > why and where I h

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

theoretically there are Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) http://www.ripe.net/ipv6-address-types/ but i think when ipv6 will be widely used [don't know when:D we got about: 49 days? hmmm... - https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/ ] "they" want that, that every computer must have a public ipv6 address, so

Re: whats wrong with my internet connection checker script?

On Sunday 26 December 2010 02:30 PM, S Mathias wrote: > $ ping -W 1 -c 4 google.com>& /dev/null I am not sure about these redirects. As I understand it, with that you are sending all output to /dev/null so the first grep fails and it skips to the command after the || and echoes no internet conn

whats wrong with my internet connection checker script?

perfect! thank you Oliver Grawert! :) made my day :) it's working! : ping -W 1 -c 4 google.com >& /dev/null && ping -W 1 -c 4 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/null || echo "no internet connection" -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

noarch and repo's

I noticed today that the root-doc-xx-noarch.rpm is 650 Mb And I have a copy in each arch directory of my internal mirror. (1) Would it make sense to introduce a noarch directory ? updates 14 i386 x86_64 noarch ... etc

Re: noarch and repo's

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:10:38 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > > I noticed today that the root-doc-xx-noarch.rpm is 650 Mb > > And I have a copy in each arch directory of my internal mirror. > > (1) Would it make sense to introduce a noarch directory ? > >updates >14 >

Re: noarch and repo's

Hi Kevin, My question is OT, but just curious. On Sunday 26 December 2010 03:22 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Frankly the root-doc package is a bad idea, IMHO, but the maintainer > disagrees:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621812 > Why is it a bad idea? I thought the maintainer explained

Re: Thoughts of a user

I'm not joking. Yes, there are some look-perks that Linux has - like the > > cube and the wobbly windows - that are nice, and "Oh wow!" indeed. > But did > > you notice my mentioning of the true transparency? Even conky isn't truly > > transparent, but what about borders or panels? Why? ? Ubunt

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

I will give bugzilla a shot. It's time I learn how to use it. :-) (FYI, it's owned by ifd-egate-0.05-22.x86_64) On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 22:34 +, JB wrote: > William Stock fuse.net> writes: > > > ... > > Is this something that I have to worry about or will it be taken care of > > by the devel

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

William Stock fuse.net> writes: > > I will give bugzilla a shot. It's time I learn how to use it. > (FYI, it's owned by ifd-egate-0.05-22.x86_64) > ... Great. I give you an example of one udev bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622670 JB -- users mailing list user

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

William Stock fuse.net> writes: > > I will give bugzilla a shot. It's time I learn how to use it. > (FYI, it's owned by ifd-egate-0.05-22.x86_64) > ... Before you file a bug, please get familiar with: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567325 JB -- users mailing list users@l

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:45 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 24/12/10 11:46, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >>> I haven't used badblocks, but suspect that the hard disk drive >>> electronics is clever enough to hide damage and relocate bad sectors. >>> The S.M.A.R.T. electronics will still know they ar

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:48:31 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 12/23/10 10:34 PM, JB wrote: >> Juan R. de Silva gmail.com> writes: >> >>> ... >> Do you see the same SMART errors under your other distros ? >> >> Suggestions: >> 1. see if BIOS has harddisk self-test (read; read-write) 2. check you

Re: FC14 boot message - udev configuration warning

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 00:41 +, JB wrote: > William Stock fuse.net> writes: > > > > > I will give bugzilla a shot. It's time I learn how to use it. > > (FYI, it's owned by ifd-egate-0.05-22.x86_64) > > ... > > Before you file a bug, please get familiar with: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/s

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

Hi, there seem to be cable experts here so I beg your pardon for jumping in and would like to ask a question I'm considering for some time: Do I have a chance to successfully reuse an existing Cat 3 cable (8 wires, installed about 1980 for the inhouse telefon system) to bridge a gap of about 15

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On Sunday, 26 December, 2010 @16:36 zulu, Tim scribed: > Usually, it's just a galvanised iron guywire strung between > buildings, turnbuckles at each end, with the electric wires > strapped to it every couple of feet. For what it's worth, the support cable is called the "messenger." -- users ma

Re: Thoughts of a user

> 2) is solved! [ yum install gconf-editor ] Nope. It's perhaps in the process of being solved. But the things that I can edit, don't change a thing in the enabling of the wifi thing. In the nm-applet group, there's the key 'disable-wifi-create'. I have a feeling I need to change that.

Support

Hey, I was wondering why Fedora 14 does not have an automatic detection and setup for a BCM4321 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network adapter? If a can get concise instructions to setup wireless networking for a Macbook 4,1 1.0, 160GB, 2GHz, Daul core 2.4GHz running single boot Fedora 14, Kernal Linu

Re: Kororaa is back, as Fedora Remix (KDE)

On 12/27/2010 02:49 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > > Awww.. don't be so hard on poor ol' KDE ;-) I don't want to step on > anyone's toes and Rahul makes a GNOME remix version which might suit > (http://omega.dgplug.org/), or perhaps Fusion > (http://fusionlinux.org/)? We could probably combine efforts o

Re: Thoughts of a user

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Roger wrote: > The "Oh! Wow" effect, I would say could be from windows and mac users > whose mindset puts Linux  circa "days of dos 3". > Roger I think people misunderstood my anecdote. The "Oh wow!" wasn't because linux could do transparencies, but because it did

Re: Support

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:22:38 +1100 chris rawling wrote: > Hey, > > > I was wondering why Fedora 14 does not have an automatic detection and > setup for a BCM4321 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network adapter? Sadly, the free drivers don't support that chip I don't think, and broadcom is very uncoope

Re: Support

On Sunday 26 December 2010 10:03 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:22:38 +1100 > chris rawling wrote: > >> > Hey, >> > >> > >> > I was wondering why Fedora 14 does not have an automatic detection and >> > setup for a BCM4321 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network adapter? > Sadly, the fr

Yum file storage?

Good day, Using >> Fedora 14 x86_64 I am trying to locate the rpms that was downloaded when updating. These paths seems a blanks .. /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/fedora/packages /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/deltas /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/packages Maybe somewhere else? If the above

Re: Yum file storage?

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:09:05 +0200 Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Using >> Fedora 14 x86_64 > > I am trying to locate the rpms that was downloaded when updating. > > These paths seems a blanks .. > > /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/fedora/packages > > /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/delt

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 17:11 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > Why would anyone want all internal machines public anyway ? Not so much *made* public, but directly connected in a way that doesn't block access. Various internet activities require two-way communication, and NAT gets in the way. Eith

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 03:09 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > Do I have a chance to successfully reuse an existing Cat 3 cable (8 > wires, installed about 1980 for the inhouse telefon system) I'd be very careful about trying to re-use phone wiring, no matter what category wiring it is. Unless you know th

Re: Yum file storage?

On 12/27/2010 09:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:09:05 +0200 > Johan Scheepers wrote: > >> Good day, >> >> Using>> Fedora 14 x86_64 >> >> I am trying to locate the rpms that was downloaded when updating. >> >> These paths seems a blanks .. >> >> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/fedora