Re: slim (simple login manager)

2011-09-02 Thread John Schmitt
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:05:15PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/01/2011 02:58 PM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:49:59AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Pasha R
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 9/1/2011 11:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 09/02/2011 06:44 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >>> I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because >>> of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:32:07AM +, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > Why did the UI have to change to something that looks and feels > like a giant smart phone? > Integrated chat and messaging? Where did that come from? Maybe because in the not too distant future all "PCs" will become giant (or dwarf

Re: Gnome3: don't have anymore the language selection box and the keyboard selection box in gdm

2011-09-02 Thread Eric Doutreleau
Thanks for your answer unfortunately the fallback mode is not an issue teachers here want gnome3 i guess i will do without these boxes Eric Doutreleau Le 30/08/2011 20:47, stan a écrit : > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:47:57 +0200 > Eric Doutreleau wrote: > >> I have just installed fedora15 and theref

sometimes my F15 doesn't boot

2011-09-02 Thread Eric Doutreleau
Hi i m using F15 with the latest updates and from times to times my machine doesn't boot. it seems to hang just before starting X Fortunately i can ssh to it and i see the following thing systemctl list-units | grep dead getty@tty2.serviceloaded inactive dead start Getty on tty2

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:20:19 -0400 Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 14:34 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 09/01/2011 02:18 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > > gnome-shell-extension-righthotcorner-1.0-1.fc15.noarch > > > > > > > Why do you have to install an extension to make suc

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:04:18 -0400 "Mark W. Jeanmougin" wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 18:03, Rudolf Kastl wrote: > > 2011/9/1 Alan Cox : > >> If you really want everything to just get out of the way and don't need > >> the user niceness stuff you might also want to look at Enlightement > >> > >

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Rudolf Kastl
2011/9/2 Alan Cox : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:04:18 -0400 > "Mark W. Jeanmougin" wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 18:03, Rudolf Kastl wrote: >> > 2011/9/1 Alan Cox : >> >> If you really want everything to just get out of the way and don't need >> >> the user niceness stuff you might also want to

NetworkManager applet: force connection list refresh

2011-09-02 Thread Pedro Francisco
Is there anyway to force the NetworkManager applet to refresh its list? Everytime I plug-in my 3G dongle (k3805-z) I have to either go to nm-connection-editor and toggle the option "Connection available for every user" or restart gnome-shell (ALT+F2, r) so the connection for the 3G dongle appears..

Starting system logger: [FAILED]

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
To get more space in a file system, I've been playing with partitions. When I was done, it wouldn't boot into graphics mode. The filling icon never got quite full. Using function keys to get into a virtual console, I noticed lots of messages. Some indicated success and some ended with [FAILED]. Th

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 September 2011 21:15, Linda McLeod wrote: > > > I love this Fedora-14, and everything Red Hat, but Fedora-15 is a lot > like those vile Windows OS's.. Essentially, every time I see a post like this I stop reading as soon as it tries to argue that something is wrong because it's like Windows.

R: Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread antonio.montagn...@alice.it
>Messaggio originale >Da: ibmal...@gmail.com >Data: 2-set-2011 11.51 >A: "Community support for Fedora users" >Ogg: Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try... > >On 1 September 2011 21:15, Linda McLeod wrote:

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Terry Polzin
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 08:18 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On 09/02/2011 04:25 AM, Peter G. wrote: > > Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > > >> I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because > >> of gnome3. > > Boo hoo. > > > > He is not alone Definitely not alone. Even XFCE

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Łukasz Jagiełło
2011/9/2 Amadeus W.M. : > But it's a sin to take something good - granted, possibly not perfect - > and turn it into something unusable for so many people. Why did the UI > have to change to something that looks and feels like a giant smart > phone? Integrated chat and messaging? Where did that com

Version of packages in repository

2011-09-02 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, When I do a 'yum search', I find the packages available in repository but not their versions (unless I do a yum install). How to find the version of the packages without trying to install them ? BR -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: Version of packages in repository

2011-09-02 Thread birger
yum list ??? Sitat Luc MAIGNAN : > Hi, > > When I do a 'yum search', I find the packages available in repository > but not their versions (unless I do a yum install). > > How to find the version of the packages without trying to install them ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Version of packages in repository

2011-09-02 Thread Soham Chakraborty
yum list On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > When I do a 'yum search', I find the packages available in repository > but not their versions (unless I do a yum install). > > How to find the version of the packages without trying to install them ? > > BR > -- > users maili

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 01:32, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > > I can't find much information about the gnome3 developers, but they must > be generation Facebook - it's the "stay connected" philosophy that I see > in gnome3. There's more to computing than that. > > I wish someone from the old guard found th

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/02/2011 12:43 PM, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote: > 2011/9/2 Amadeus W.M. : >> But it's a sin to take something good - granted, possibly not perfect - >> and turn it into something unusable for so many people. Why did the UI >> have to change to something that looks and feels like a giant smart >> pho

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Digimer
On 09/01/2011 09:14 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because > of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could > security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released? > Hopefully by then gnome3 will be fully baked.

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On 09/02/2011 02:51 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Hum ... I find it a difficult proposition to ask users "to step up and > do it" when the march of progress indicates that it wasn't the users > that asked for this change. Change may be good, but I think alot of the > feedback on this forum has sho

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Marcano
On 09/01/2011 08:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because > of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could > security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released? > Hopefully by then gnome3 will be fully baked. >

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/02/2011 12:21 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hum ... I find it a difficult proposition to ask users "to step up and do it" when the march of progress indicates that it wasn't the users that asked for this change. That may well be the case and Fedora doesn't really have a choice in that mat

Re: Version of packages in repository

2011-09-02 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > yum list $ yum list [installed|available|all] # stars should be escaped -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 September 2011 21:29, Digimer wrote: > Also, Linux is all about choice. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html Richard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:29:59PM -0400, Digimer wrote: > When Red hat 8 (original) came out, I hated Gnome and wanted > Enlightenment back. > > When Windows 95 came out, I hated it's new UI and wanted 3.1 back. Great points. If we didn't have change and innovation we'd all still be using 80x25

Re: any way to control disk order?

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/01/2011 09:56 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > My poor old system died, and I resurrected it by moving the > disks to an older system. For who knows what reason, the > kernel has decided to call the external USB drive I use for > backups /dev/sda (the old system called it /dev/sdc). > > My internal s

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:43:42 +0100 Richard Hughes wrote: > On 1 September 2011 21:29, Digimer wrote: > > Also, Linux is all about choice. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html Yeah its a very naïve viewpoint. The problem starts here "Software is hard.

Gnome Shell updates?

2011-09-02 Thread Steven Stern
I've been reviewing bugzilla for reported bugs in Gnome 3.0 and it seems that there's no action taking place on them. Does anyone know what's going on upstream? Are bugs being researched? Addressed? Fixes tested? My bugs of interest are Pressing Alt-Tab crashes gnome shell: https://bugzilla.r

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/2, Alan Cox : > No easy answers but there is a free market, and weaker solutions go away > (amazingly fast some times - fvwm went from hero to zero in a few years > for example) I assume you meant "fvwm became stable" :-) Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:01:56 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > fvwm went from hero to zero in a few years Who says? I use it all the time because it doesn't obsessively change out from under me just because it can. Some faction of linux geeks seem to believe that if something isn't radically changed every f

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Stefan Held
Am Freitag, den 02.09.2011, 09:44 -0400 schrieb Darryl L. Pierce: > Great points. If we didn't have change and innovation we'd all still be > using 80x25 monochrome text mode terminals. It was only a change, no innovation . http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/76280/ -- Stefan Held

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:37:20 -0700 John Wendel wrote: > I also would like to see your custom config files. OK, my computer picked the middle of this thread to die, but I have done a brain transplant and have it back now (more or less). I've added a link in my de-gnomeing web page to a tarball wi

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 09/01/2011 04:24 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version 4.0, in > a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4 > is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE. I guess Gnome3 will > get back on its feet in the next co

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/02/2011 01:21 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > Ease of use. We've replaced option boxes with magic impenetrable > extensions and for the rest you have to code them yourself. No. Ease of coding for the devs and to hell with the users. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Good hardware compatibility info?

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
Since my computer died, I'm looking at building a brand new system, and I wonder about all the fancy new stuff available in the hardware and linux support (fedora in particular). Other than beating my head against google, is there a good resource for researching this stuff? I'm wondering about thi

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/02/2011 05:51 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I hope that the GNOME developers will make good > use of this feedback. > Since when has there been the slightest sign of the Gnome devs giving a rats ass about what mere users think? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?

2011-09-02 Thread Richard Shaw
I just wanted to let anyone who was following this thread that I finally made my purchase (Newegg had the card for $25 + $10 rebate from Asus). I ended up waiting until I installed F15 so I can't tell you if it would of worked with F15 kernels on F14... It sounds AWESOME and I no longer have any

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:41:10 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > Since when has there been the slightest sign of the Gnome devs giving a > rats ass about what mere users think? They care enormously about what the imaginary user they have created thinks. Real users, not so much. They can always imagine overw

[389-users] add inetuser objectclass on replication

2011-09-02 Thread Vasil Mikhalenya
Hi all, DS is replicated from AD, I want memberOf enabled for all users ( new users also ) but memberOf plugin requires inetuser objectclass. How can I add inetuser objectclass to any user on/after replication. There is any other way do it? Thank you. -- Best regards, Vasil Mikhalenya -- 389 u

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Wade Hampton
I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully. Cheers, -- Wade Hampton -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Gueckel
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I cannot upgrade to F15 because > of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora Why can't the "community" use KDE? No need to answer, just a thought. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/02/2011 06:17 PM, Wade Hampton wrote: > I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending > support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address > the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully. That doesn't make sense; extending support for F14 creates more work for developers with already b

Re: [389-users] add inetuser objectclass on replication

2011-09-02 Thread Rich Megginson
On 09/02/2011 10:55 AM, Vasil Mikhalenya wrote: > Hi all, > > DS is replicated from AD, I want memberOf enabled for all users ( new > users also ) but memberOf plugin requires inetuser objectclass. > > How can I add inetuser objectclass to any user on/after replication. > There is any other way do

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/02/2011 10:17 AM, Wade Hampton wrote: > I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending > support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address > the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully. Why are you assuming that Gnome 3 will still be a FPOS by the time F16 comes out? -- users maili

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/02/2011 05:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/02/2011 05:51 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> I hope that the GNOME developers will make good >> use of this feedback. > > Since when has there been the slightest sign of the Gnome devs giving a > rats ass about what mere users think? I take your point.

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/02/2011 11:03 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I take your point. However, I think they're human; if you prick them, > do they not bleed? Surely they must be a little bit hurt by all these > complaints from their users. Yes, they're human, just as Bill Gates and all of his minions are. However,

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:24:24 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > Yes, they're human, just as Bill Gates and all of his minions are. > However, when it comes to the Gnome devs, I've never seen the slightest > indication that they even pay attention to what the users want or need, > let alone their complaint

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes, they're human, just as Bill Gates and all of his minions are. > However, when it comes to the Gnome devs, I've never seen the slightest > indication that they even pay attention to what the users want or need, > let alone their complaints. This is one of the many reasons I don't use > G

Question on DNS setup change not working.

2011-09-02 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name. restart named and restarted squid, and squid picked up the change, and would bring up pages using the name. U

Re: Good hardware compatibility info?

2011-09-02 Thread Hiisi
On 2 September 2011 16:40, Tom Horsley wrote: > Since my computer died, I'm looking at building a brand > new system, and I wonder about all the fancy new stuff > available in the hardware and linux support (fedora > in particular). Other than beating my head against google, > is there a good reso

Re: Good hardware compatibility info?

2011-09-02 Thread Stefan Held
Am Freitag, den 02.09.2011, 12:40 -0400 schrieb Tom Horsley: > I'm wondering about things like USB 3.0, sata 3.0, > UEFI BIOS, Sandy Bridge, i7 processors, Intel HD 3000 > graphics, etc. I am writing you this at the keyboard of a Asus Crosshair Formula V Mainboard. It has all the fancy stuff like

Re: [389-users] add inetuser objectclass on replication

2011-09-02 Thread Vasil Mikhalenya
I want posixAccount and attributes will be added on replication. Do I have to write my own plugin? What is utilization/application of such AD replication ? thnx On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 09/02/2011 10:55 AM, Vasil Mikhalenya wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> DS is repli

Re: [389-users] add inetuser objectclass on replication

2011-09-02 Thread Rich Megginson
On 09/02/2011 01:36 PM, Vasil Mikhalenya wrote: > I want posixAccount and attributes will be added on replication. Do I > have to write my own plugin? Yes. Or use freeipa - it has a winsync plugin that does posix and kerberos. > What is utilization/application of such AD replication ? I don't unde

Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
Hi, I was playing with Fedora 16 Alpha and I've got a problem with Kernel 3.x and a camera in my laptop preventing me from installation [1]. The workaround seems to blacklist a uvcvideo kernel module, but because it's an installation process and can't just add module to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/02/2011 01:42 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 09/02/2011 06:17 PM, Wade Hampton wrote: >> I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending >> support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address >> the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully. > > That doesn't make sense; extending support

hdmi audio kernel bug?

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
I've just found and followed the magical instructions here: http://analogbit.com/fix_nvidia_edid to eradicate the nvidia driver HDMI audio support by convincing it the TV I'm using doesn't support HDMI audio. It works great, but I'm wondering why having the HDMI audio device exist prevented the on

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work > starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case it doesn't. I've always seen that spelled rdblacklist (no dot). -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-09-02 Thread stan
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:38:01 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > See: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/degnome.html > > The link in there points to: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/sample-fvwm.tar.bz2 Thank you Tom. -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Myers
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, stan wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:38:01 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> See: >> >> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/degnome.html >> >> The link in there points to: >> >> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/sample-fvwm.tar.bz2

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Pedro Francisco
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 09/01/2011 08:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because > > of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could > > security updates for F14 be provided until F17

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 > Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > >> I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work >> starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case it doesn't. > > I've always seen that spelled rdblac

Re: any way to control disk order?

2011-09-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 08:59 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/01/2011 09:56 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > My poor old system died, and I resurrected it by moving the > > disks to an older system. For who knows what reason, the > > kernel has decided to call the external USB drive I use for > > back

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:21:29 -0400 Robert Myers wrote: > Then they see how real nerds handle the problems and they think, > "U, maybe Windows isn't so bad, after all." I think of it as playing a complicated puzzle solving computer game :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: any way to control disk order?

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:31:38 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Wouldn't changing the entries in grub.conf also do the trick I don't know, but it has stopped doing it now for some reason. Maybe because the external USB drive usually spins itself down before I reboot and it is taking it longer to respon

Disable "import photos" automagically running whenever I plug a pen drive

2011-09-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
What is the official procedure to PERMANTLY DISABLING -without removing it- the autorun of this POS piece of software that automatically starts accesing my pen drive trying to index pictures? I want to stop this, forever. TIA FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/09/11 21:28, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 >> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: >> >>> I've read about rd.blacklist boot parameter [2] which should work >>> starting with Fedora 12 (as I understand it) [3], but in my case i

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could > security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released? Fedora is not a democracy. It is a meritocracy. The only changes that get made to Fedora are by people that work to make the changes. Votes are not cast

Re: Problem with blacklisting kernel modules with boot parameter

2011-09-02 Thread Marcin Zajączkowski
On 2011-09-02 23:12, John Pilkington wrote: -- http://solidsoft.wordpress.com/ - Working code is not enough > On 02/09/11 21:28, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: >> On 2011-09-02 22:06, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:43:53 +0200 >>> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: >>> I've read about rd.

Re: Question on DNS setup change not working.

2011-09-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Sep2011 04:56, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: | Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public | IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the | additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name. | restart named and restarted squid, and squid picked u

Re: Disable "import photos" automagically running whenever I plug a pen drive

2011-09-02 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 02/09/2011 23:04, Fernando Cassia a écrit : > What is the official procedure to PERMANTLY DISABLING -without removing > it- the autorun of this POS piece of software that automatically starts > accesing my pen drive trying to index pictures? > > I

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 9/2/2011 6:06 AM, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > On 09/02/2011 02:51 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> Hum ... I find it a difficult proposition to ask users "to step up and >> do it" when the march of progress indicates that it wasn't the users >> that asked for this change. Change may be good, but I t

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 9/2/2011 6:29 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/02/2011 12:21 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> >> Hum ... I find it a difficult proposition to ask users "to step up and >> do it" when the march of progress indicates that it wasn't the users >> that asked for this change. > > That may well be the

Re: Disable "import photos" automagically running whenever I plug a pen drive

2011-09-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 19:04, François Patte < francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: > > Previous tool was handy, that's why they have removed it... > > Be careful with gconf editor, in case of mistake you could waste a lot > of time to recover... Thanks Francois! Very much appreciated.

Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 9/2/2011 2:13 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could >> security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released? > Fedora is not a democracy. It is a meritocracy. > > The only changes that get made to Fedora are by p

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 13:43 +0200, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote: > Don't forget about people like me who really likes new gnome3. You > want change distribution only cause you doesn't like new gnome3. Did > you write all your problems at F-15 alpha stage or earlier stage when > everything was possible to

Re: Question on DNS setup change not working.

2011-09-02 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 3 Sep 2011 at 7:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: Date sent: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:47:02 +1000 From: Cameron Simpson To: Community support for Fedora users Subject:Re: Question on DNS setup change not working. Send reply to: C

Re: Question on DNS setup change not working.

2011-09-02 Thread Jatin K
On Saturday 03 September 2011 12:26 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public > IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the > additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name. > restart named and restarted squid, a