Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The irony is that once you > > learn a few basics, LaTeX is also easier and quicker for writing > > those 1-page memos! > > Only if you write them frequently enough to r

Re: [ds6] Stateless IPv6 Configuration

2011-12-11 Thread nullv
Thanks for clearing that up for me. One last question: I noticed that when left on autoconfig my windows 7 clients automatically add dns addresses fec0:0:0:::1 to 3. I'm assuming these are anycast addresses for auto dns config? So if I add the addresses to my servers I'm set? These (auto dns

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 December 2011 08:31, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> > The irony is that once you >> > learn a few basics, LaTeX is also easier and quicker for writing >> > those 1-pag

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Besides which, most WYSIWYG systems run a poor second to TeX/LaTeX when > it comes to the excellence of the final result, and if there's any > mathematical content there's no contest. There's a reason most > mathematicians and physicists

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Besides which, most WYSIWYG systems run a poor second to TeX/LaTeX when >> it comes to the excellence of the final result, and if there's any >> mathematical content there's no contest. There's a reason most >> mathematicians and physicists us

f16 - gthumb

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
More **issues** with f16! Or is it GFnome3? :) gthumb They have crippled it. It seems. In full screen it is only showing thumbprints! It will not go up to real "full screen" (image filling as much of screen as possible). And GIFs are not animated. Slideshow is gone. Image editting is go

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 10 December 2011 19:52:43 Joe Zeff wrote: > Good news: I borrowed my sister's (PS2) keyboard, put it on my desktop > and tried it. It worked. I booted directly into a CLI and posted my > xorg.conf at http://www.zeff.us/xorg.conf The xorg.conf seems ok, nothing wrong AFAICS. > and lo

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Alan Cox
> But now I will need to produce and edit PDFs. All diagrams MUST be in You can't meaningfully edit a PDF - its a print format. It's really output not input (except maybe to things like printers). Openoffice happily generates pdf documents, it's quite good at it in fact. > Visio format (IEEE re

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 23:18 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The irony is that once you > > learn a few basics, LaTeX is also easier and quicker for writing those > > 1-page memos! > > Only if you write them frequently enough to re

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 10:17 +, Ian Malone wrote: > On 11 December 2011 08:31, Jussi Lehtola > wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500 > > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >> > The irony is that once you > >> > learn

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 09:01 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> But now I will need to produce and edit PDFs. All diagrams MUST be in > You can't meaningfully edit a PDF - its a print format. It's really > output not input (except maybe to things like printers). Openoffice > happily generates pdf documents, it's qui

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2011 10:59 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > For example, the IEEE online PAR generator puts out the PAR as PDF, but > you always need to make some changes to it, so you have to edit that PDF > then upload the edited PDF to the document server. I'm not saying that it is the best solution...

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 09:01 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> But now I will need to produce and edit PDFs. All diagrams MUST be in > You can't meaningfully edit a PDF - its a print format. It's really > output not input (except maybe to things like printers). Openoffice > happily generates pdf documents, it's quite

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one? Yes it can import PDFs as long as you install the PDF Import Extension from Oracle. I've not tried to merge multiple PDFs. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design someth

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one? Forgot the link to the extension page http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport Note, there are limitations -- A common mistake that people make when trying to

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > What is Dia? yum info diayields Description : The Dia drawing program can be used to draw different types of diagrams, : and includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), : entity relationship mo

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Harish Pillay
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one? > > Yes it can import PDFs as long as you install the PDF Import Extension > from Oracle. > > I've not tried to merge multiple PDFs. Co

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/11/2011 11:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> What is Dia? > yum info diayields > > > Description : The Dia drawing program can be used to draw different > types of diagrams, > : and includes support for UML static structure diagrams

tmpwatch

2011-12-11 Thread Frank Murphy
What is the norma setting for tmpwatch in Fedora, couldn't find tmpwatch.conf, tmpwatch --help cheked cron.daily: not knowing script too well. It seem sto be set to clean every 30 days? How can I change it to every day, where something hasn't been used\touched for a day\24hr? where an update wo

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 10:17 +, Ian Malone wrote: > On 11 December 2011 08:31, Jussi Lehtola > wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500 > > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >> > The irony is that once you > >> > learn a

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 09:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I will check to see what format IEEE requires. What is Dia? Dia is the Gnome analog of Visio. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 23:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > WYSIWYG forces you to make decisions at every turn about what the > final result looks like. Markup systems such as LaTeX or the SGML > variants, espcially with good editor support, let you describe what > you're writing (this is a Cha

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 10:15 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:59 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> For example, the IEEE online PAR generator puts out the PAR as PDF, but >> you always need to make some changes to it, so you have to edit that PDF >> then upload the edited PDF to the document server. >

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 10:22 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one? > Yes it can import PDFs as long as you install the PDF Import Extension > from Oracle. Where is that? In one of the repos? > > I've not tried t

Re: f16 - gthumb

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > More **issues** with f16!  Or is it GFnome3?  :) > > gthumb > > They have crippled it.  It seems. > > In full screen it is only showing thumbprints!  It will not go up to > real "full screen" (image filling as much of screen as possible).

Re: Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 10:27 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one? > Forgot the link to the extension page > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport Having problems loading the page. It

Re: f16 - gthumb

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 11:36 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: >> More **issues** with f16! Or is it GFnome3? :) >> >> gthumb >> >> They have crippled it. It seems. >> >> In full screen it is only showing thumbprints! It will not go up to >> real "fu

libreoffice-draw cannot import password protected PDF files

2011-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, I try to import a password protected PDF file into LibreOffice-Draw: I'm prompted to enter the password, but the only thing after having entered the right password is a draw page containing the text: This PDF file is encrypted and can't be opened. Anybody sees this too? Kind regards --

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 03:00 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 23:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > WYSIWYG forces you to make decisions at every turn about what the > > final result looks like. Markup systems such as LaTeX or the SGML > > variants, espcially with good editor support,

could not start httpd on F16 (i386)

2011-12-11 Thread Danishka Navin
I was trying to up my local repo on Fedora 16 box. [root@hanthana html]# service httpd restart Restarting httpd (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. [FAILED] [root@hanthana html]# tail /var/log

yum snapshot btrfs /home partition

2011-12-11 Thread Dj YB
Hello, I have installed a fresh F15 (long story) system, and decided to try the btrfs. while doing a yum update\install\erase\... yum tries to snapshot both the root partition and the home partition (both are btrfs), but allways fail. output as follows: any help solving that issue is greatly app

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 10:17 +, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 11 December 2011 08:31, Jussi Lehtola >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:18:33 -0500 >> > Tom Horsley wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:39:57 -0430 >> >> Patrick O'

External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the NTFS partition: Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, o

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS > partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. > > When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the > NTFS partition: > > > Error erasing: helper exited

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 01:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS >> partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. >> >> When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the >> NTFS

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> use fdisk or gparted and create a new partition table > > So help me here a bit with fdisk. I have the following: > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 19

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/12/2011 19:25, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : > On 12/11/2011 01:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >>> I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS >>> partition then create one 1Tb E

Re: tmpwatch

2011-12-11 Thread JB
Frank Murphy gmail.com> writes: > > What is the norma setting for tmpwatch in Fedora, > couldn't find tmpwatch.conf, > tmpwatch --help > > cheked cron.daily: > not knowing script too well. > > It seem sto be set to clean every 30 days? > How can I change it to every day, > where something hasn

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 01:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.12.2011 19:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: use fdisk or gparted and create a new partition table So help me here a bit with fdisk. I have the following: fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/t

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:42, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands and that is why fdisk is showing them with "m" > but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that well, but there is nothing to change > 'm' for

VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I first installed f16, I tried out VNCViewer and it started up, but the address I was using was blocked from my VNCServer; no problem really So I move my new notebook to the proper VLAN and copied all the files from the old notebook, including .ssh, .subversion, and .vnc Now when I sta

Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Dear all, I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system runs under XP. Now I want to know why. On F16, my system will sometimes have the fans running at m

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start > dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things I > noticed rather fast was how much cooler my

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 11 December 2011 14:33:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > When I first installed f16, I tried out VNCViewer and it started up, but > the address I was using was blocked from my VNCServer; no problem really > > So I move my new notebook to the proper VLAN and copied all the files > from the

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread John Wendel
On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 pa

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: > On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the >> commands, but -l would probably provide a >> list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? >> >>

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 02:43 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 11 December 2011 14:33:42 Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> When I first installed f16, I tried out VNCViewer and it started up, but >> the address I was using was blocked from my VNCServer; no problem really >> >> So I move my new notebook to

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 03:09 PM, John Wendel wrote: On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? Anyway, thank

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 21:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days >> there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days >> of volumes with 1,2,4, and> 5 TB 5% is a large amount >> >> but well, it is a

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are >>> probably on to something with the X server and/or vid

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > $ vncviewer > > TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Nov 22 2011 14:21:13 > Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) > See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. > ^C > Sun Dec 11 15:07:3

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: >> On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the >>> commands, but -l would probably provide a >>> list of what was there, so I di

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 03:51 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > >> $ vncviewer >> >> TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Nov 22 2011 14:21:13 >> Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) >> See http://www.tigervnc.o

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12/11/2011 08:38 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk > > wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start > dualbooting Windows XP because of

SOLVED Re: tmpwatch

2011-12-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On 11/12/11 18:40, JB wrote: > > man tmpwatch > > The flags=-umc is explained in man page > ... >If the --atime, --ctime or --mtime options are used in combination > ... > > I you want to run your own tmpwatch cron job with your changes: > - create your version of /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

SELinux is preventing /bin/login...access on the file /bin/bash

2011-12-11 Thread jackson byers
A new thread, was "F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?" Symptoms still same: I have a working F14 [call it F14usb8] on sda8 on my external usb. I made a backup copy onto my 2nd scsi disk, seen as sdc7 [call it F14sdc7] This was preparation for using it for preupgrade to F16. Booting F14s

intel graphic card boot error

2011-12-11 Thread Shibi
Hi list I use a script to switch between my graphic cards on startup and shutdown. there are a atu Radeon HD 5650 and an intel integrated card, because of heating problems that made my gpu fan stuck, i always switch off that radeon card on start up, but due to some problems that other people report

Re: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?

2011-12-11 Thread Linda McLeod
Yo Joe.. Quoting: "I don't know what you're doing to make Fedora fail often..." I do.. I published that "I saw the three whites in the eyes of several politician candidates during the last national election, and that I don't want druggies running our nation and our lives".. Suddenly my phone

"RE: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?"

2011-12-11 Thread Linda McLeod
Yo Joe.. Quoting: "I don't know what you're doing to make Fedora fail often..." I do.. I published that "I saw the three whites in the eyes of several politician candidates during the last national election, and that I don't want druggies running our nation and our lives".. Suddenly my phone

Re: "RE: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?"

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 00:07, schrieb Linda McLeod: > Yo Joe.. > > Quoting: "I don't know what you're doing to make Fedora fail often..." > > I do.. I published that "I saw the three whites in the eyes of several > politician candidates during the last national election, and that I > don't want druggi

Re: Running three screens on one set of controls, in antique computers...

2011-12-11 Thread Linda McLeod
Fedora-14.. three-screens on desk, but not together yet... Middle screen is main computer.. never net-connected, to prevent any more unwarranted OS failures.. "Unplugging" is probably the only way to keep ones privates private, and away from the trough.. But there are always ways to "steal" what

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Roger
For some reason Fedora and Ubuntu use a lot more power than windows xp and win7. Both my daughters laptops suffer enormous battery drain and run quite hot running linux systems in comparison to windows. Puzzling! Roger Dear all, I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to s

Re: could not start httpd on F16 (i386)

2011-12-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 22:21 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > [root@hanthana html]# tail /var/log/messages > ... > Dec 12 10:16:52 hanthana httpd[30614]: httpd: Could not reliably > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using > fe80::3ed9:2bff:fe22:fa61 for ServerName Doesn't look good,

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid > default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space. That rather depends on what you're putting on the drive (e.g. whopping huge video editing files), and whether you do need to m

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my > system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent much shorter battery time) on a HP Pavilion g6-1273sl

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > >> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot > > I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/11/2011 08:38 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: <> >> I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start >> dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things >> I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system runs under XP. >> Now I want to know why. -=-

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12-12-11 05:21, g wrote: > On 12/11/2011 09:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> FWIW I have seen something similar on my workstation with up-to-date F16 >> x86_64 with GNOME3. The ATI HD57xx card heats up to more than 90C even >> when I was just typing an email in Thunderbird and nothing else loaded.

lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 11:16 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> >>> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >>> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot >> I

Re: lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/12/2011 12:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic > cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both > to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. > Hardware spec is one way ... or check the bi

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/12/2011 04:38 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: <> > Afaik it's 1920x1080 at 60Hz. -=- that will churn the gpu faster and produce more heat than a lower res. > I have no idea how to change the resolution nor how to monitor the temp > of the ATI videocard now that the Catalyst drivers are installed

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: <> > I must admit that I'd not done any detailed analysis. I will have to > try composing a message when the condition happens again. As well as > copy/paste to a different window outside of TB. > > In my case, since it only affects the Chinese character

fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
I have been following the "fedora causes laptop to overheat" as my HP dv6500 is showing signs of malfunctioning, potentially an overheating issue. Display flickers, part of it get dim, and then it goes black. Computer is still up and running as I can ssh into it. I've looked into the BIOS optio

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/12/2011 05:54 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: <> > Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the > equivalent of "a recovery disk" that I can create with k3b so, -=- not a 'recovery disk', but i will suggest getting 'parted magic'; http://partedmagic.com/doku.php wh

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/11/2011 10:18 PM, g wrote: > On 12/12/2011 05:54 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > <> > >> Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the >> equivalent of "a recovery disk" that I can create with k3b so, > -=- > > not a 'recovery disk', but i will suggest getting 'parted ma

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread g
*oops* On 12/12/2011 06:18 AM, g wrote: > On 12/12/2011 05:54 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > <> > >> Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the >> equivalent of "a recovery disk" that I can create with k3b so, > -=- > > not a 'recovery disk', but i will suggest getting

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread jarmo
sunnuntai, 11. joulukuuta 2011 21:54:28 Paul Allen Newell kirjoitti: > I have been following the "fedora causes laptop to overheat" as my HP > dv6500 is showing signs of malfunctioning, potentially an overheating I think, this is not Fedora issue. It is computer. I hve dv9000 series and it is comm

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/11/2011 10:24 PM, g wrote: > *oops* > Appreciate the catch on the typo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

2011-12-11 Thread Roger
On 12/12/11 15:38, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 12-12-11 05:21, g wrote: >> On 12/11/2011 09:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >>> FWIW I have seen something similar on my workstation with up-to-date F16 >>> x86_64 with GNOME3. The ATI HD57xx card heats up to more than 90C even >>> when I was just typing an

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/12/2011 06:27 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:24 PM, g wrote: >> *oops* >> > > Appreciate the catch on the typo lol. welcome. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/11/2011 10:25 PM, jarmo wrote: > sunnuntai, 11. joulukuuta 2011 21:54:28 Paul Allen Newell kirjoitti: >> I have been following the "fedora causes laptop to overheat" as my HP >> dv6500 is showing signs of malfunctioning, potentially an overheating > I think, this is not Fedora issue. It is co

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-11 Thread g
On 12/12/2011 06:25 AM, jarmo wrote: > sunnuntai, 11. joulukuuta 2011 21:54:28 Paul Allen Newell kirjoitti: >> I have been following the "fedora causes laptop to overheat" as my HP >> dv6500 is showing signs of malfunctioning, potentially an overheating > > I think, this is not Fedora issue. It is

Fedora 16 Dual Monitor

2011-12-11 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi, I just got a new monitor. I have GTX 470 card and one monitor is connected via HDMI and other via DVI. While Fedora detects the other monitor, but I can't manage the monitors from the display settings. Can you suggest which nvidia drivers should I install to get the nvidia settings? or is

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk ... additional question

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/11/2011 10:29 PM, g wrote: > On 12/12/2011 06:27 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> On 12/11/2011 10:24 PM, g wrote: >>> *oops* >>> >> Appreciate the catch on the typo > lol. > > welcome. > G: I went through the clonezilla page and liked what I saw until I hit: +++ Recovery Clonezilla live wi

Re: could not start httpd on F16 (i386)

2011-12-11 Thread Danishka Navin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 22:21 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > > [root@hanthana html]# tail /var/log/messages > > ... > > Dec 12 10:16:52 hanthana httpd[30614]: httpd: Could not reliably > > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using > > fe

Re: Fedora 16 Dual Monitor

2011-12-11 Thread Marc Blanc
Le Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:39:12 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya a écrit : >I just got a new monitor. I have GTX 470 card and one monitor is >connected via HDMI and other via DVI. While Fedora detects the other >monitor, but I can't manage the monitors from the display settings. Can >you suggest which nv