Re: OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19

On 04/23/2013 08:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Steven Stern > > wrote: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariad

Re: "hackers"

Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the outside world has of this term, one step at a time? Sorry, but it's a tad late to lock up the barn when the horse is already been rendered down into glue. As was discussed on ABC 774 with Raphael Epstein last week, the term

Re: "hackers"

On 04/24/2013 02:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/23/2013 07:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the outside world has of this term, one step at a time? Sorry, but it's a tad late to lock up the barn when the horse is already been rendere

cups-pdf not installed by default, why?

Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution. Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf'. So if cups-pdf is only 47 KB big, and has no other dependencies (other than cups, which is installed

Re: OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > And this also may be interesting in the context of MariaDB: > > http://www.zdnet.com/look-out-oracle-skysql-and-mariadb-join-forces-714411/ Basically the old founder of MySQL sold the company but now wants it back?. Gee, I wonder what w

Re: cups-pdf not installed by default, why?

Am 24.04.2013 09:50, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first > thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution. > Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf' why should it be installed as DEFAULT? Firefox:

Re: "hackers"

On 04/24/2013 03:42 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so I out not lose too much sleep over it. Actually the scientists (inc. prof. Higgs) are not so happy with

Re: cups-pdf not installed by default, why?

Hi On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > So, what is the official sanctioned, polite way to get things like > these accomplished in future Fedora releases? > In general, post to fedora devel list and file a RFE against comps component in bugzilla Rahul -- users mailing l

Re: OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19

Hi On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > > And this also may be interesting in the context of MariaDB: > > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/look-out-oracle-skysql-and-mariadb-join-forces-714411/ > > Basically the old found

Re: Eric4 segmentation fault

On Tuesday 23 Apr 2013 13:38:58 Rex Dieter wrote: > Martin Airs wrote: > > Good day all, > > > > I wonder if anyone else uses eric on here, and if someone has a > > fix/workaround to get this running? > > > > [martin@desktop ~]$ eric4 > > Segmentation fault > > confirmed with eric-4.4.19-4.fc18

Fax management sw for HP 4500 -G510n-z printer

Hi, I have HP 4500 -G510n-z printer what are fax management sw which are capable for sending/getting fax ? I saw on the web that efax is not so good and is limited to certain models. rgs, Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Hi, I am using Fedora-19-Alpha with nilfs2 on /. While everything worked great with Fedora 17, the updated version of yum also check for free inodes before executing the transaction: > Transaction check error: > installing package . needs 40 inodes on the / filesystem Which is just plain wo

Re: "hackers"

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 19:42 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the > outside world has of this term, one step at a time? You can start by signing all your mails as hacker with a white hat on. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-

Re: "hackers"

Hi, --- On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: | I tend to think the 'hacker' vs. 'cracker' distinction is lost to history in | the mainstream today. \-- Continuing to educate the masses is the only way that people will learn the real meaning. I usually refer them to the followin

Re: "Sticky keyboard" fault?

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I recently got a pop-up say "Sticky keyboard - disabled" and my keyboard > stopped > working. My first reaction was that the message was translated to English, > and > "stuck key" became "sticky keyboard." Can't think of a sensor for tha

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Hi again, I found out that the issue is within rpm, not yum. When installing rpm packages with the "--ignoresize" option, rpm installs fine while otherwise it complains about not enough available inodes. What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm automatically. Is this

key repeat problem

Hi folks I've got a dual boot PC at home with Win-XP and Fedora 18. (I did also have the problem when it used to run Fedora 10). When in WinXP everything works perfectly. However when in Fedora the key repeat doesn't work properly. Occassionally while typing I will get 2 or 3 of the same char

Re: "Sticky keyboard" fault?

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > It's a massive usability fail, masquerading as an accessibility feature. Yep. And there has been a depressing lack of willingness in the Fedora community to find out what's causing it. It spontaneously activates for me with no apparen

Re: key repeat problem

On 04/24/2013 06:37 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I've got a dual boot PC at home with Win-XP and Fedora 18. (I did also have > the problem when it used to run Fedora 10). > > When in WinXP everything works perfectly. However when in Fedora the key > repeat doesn't work properly. Oc

Re: "Sticky keyboard" fault?

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:14:52 +0100 Tethys wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > wrote: > > > It's a massive usability fail, masquerading as an accessibility feature. > > Yep. And there has been a depressing lack of willingness in the Fedora > community to find out wh

Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

Greetings, Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try. However, the system runs very slow (compared to F17 on the same notebook) - XOrg perform

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/13 21:58, Regina Anger wrote: > Greetings, > > Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption > enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start > installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try. > > However, the system runs very slow (co

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 04/24/2013 03:06 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi again, I found out that the issue is within rpm, not yum. When installing rpm packages with the "--ignoresize" option, rpm installs fine while otherwise it complains about not enough available inodes. What I am looking for is a way to make yum

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Hi Ralf, > I'd recommend you to file a bug against rpm and leave it to the > rpm-maintainer to respond. Well, I guess that would take its time ... but I would like to have a useable system now ;) > However, I'd guess the issue you are facing actually is an issue with some > fs-relates syscall un

RE: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

Hello Ed, > Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. > It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters. Thx a lot, works now like a charme :) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/2013 07:58 AM, Regina Anger wrote: Greetings, Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try. However, the system runs very slow (compa

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Am 24.04.2013 16:16, schrieb Clemens Eisserer: >> I'd recommend you to file a bug against rpm and leave it to the >> rpm-maintainer to respond. > > Well, I guess that would take its time ... but I would like to have a > useable system now ;) > >> However, I'd guess the issue you are facing actu

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Hi Harald, > are you sure it is a good idea to chosse a non-supported > filesystem for the ROOTFS at all? If I wouldn't be - I wouldn't have spent quite some time to get it working... Do you know a method to pass command-line arguments to RPM through yum? Regards, Clemens -- users mailing list

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: > > Hi again, > > I found out that the issue is within rpm, not yum. > When installing rpm packages with the "--ignoresize" option, rpm > installs fine while otherwise it complains about not enough available > inodes. > > What I am looking for is a way to ma

Re: I've stopped receiving mail from fedora users

On Sun, 21 Apr at 14:15:44, Kevin Fenzi > On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:09:06 -0700 (PDT) > Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > > > My ymail.com account is only 21 days old. Is the hack is an issue? > > No, but yahoo is. > > We (fedoraproject.org) consistently have issues with yahoo mail > servers. They freq

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 24.04.2013 16:58, David G. Miller wrote: > Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: […] >> What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm >> automatically. Is this possible somehow? >> >> Thank you in advance, Clemens >> >> 2013/4/24 Clemens Eisserer gmail.com>: > > As a wo

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 24.04.2013 16:36, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi Harald, > >> are you sure it is a good idea to chosse a non-supported >> filesystem for the ROOTFS at all? > > If I wouldn't be - I wouldn't have spent quite some time to get it working... > > Do you know a method to pass command-line arguments t

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 15:58 +0200, Regina Anger wrote: > Greetings, > > Because F17 and F18 installers have bugs when installing with encryption > enabled for "/" on my notebook (and the F18 respin does not start > installation at all) I decided to give F19-alpha a try. > > However, the system

Re: I've stopped receiving mail from fedora users

On 24.04.2013 17:56, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr at 14:15:44, Kevin Fenzi […] >> We (fedoraproject.org) consistently have issues with yahoo mail >> servers. They frequently block our mail, defer it or just don't deliver >> it. >> >> I would strongly advise you to choose another fre

Re: "Sticky keyboard" fault?

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:54:41 +0200 Bob Marcan wrote: > I got the same symptoms when using gdm + fvwm. > With lightdm + fvwm are gone. I've never had the problem, but I also haven't used GDM in years and years and I note the bugzilla pointed at earlier in this thread mentions GDM as the probable c

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: > Hello Ed, > >> Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. >> It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters. > > Thx a lot, works now like a charme :) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelDebugStrategy

Re: Fax management sw for HP 4500 -G510n-z printer

On 04/24/2013 07:04 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I have HP 4500 -G510n-z printer what are fax management sw which are capable for sending/getting fax ? I saw on the web that efax is not so good and is limited to certain models. rgs, Kevin Unless you send a lot of faxes, when I looked at it, it

Re: "Sticky keyboard" fault?

Bill Davidsen wrote: I recently got a pop-up say "Sticky keyboard - disabled" and my keyboard stopped working. My first reaction was that the message was translated to English, and "stuck key" became "sticky keyboard." Can't think of a sensor for that. Thanks to all who contributed ideas. I do s

Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)

staticsafe wrote: On 4/23/2013 18:31, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of Greenwich with no daylight time. The problem is that on a FAT or ISO-9660 filesystem, the date a

Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)

Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/23/2013 03:31 PM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive: I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of Greenwich with no daylight time. The problem is that on a FAT or ISO-9660 fi

Re: disk spindown

poma writes: > grep -w sdc /proc/diskstats >dstat.1st > sleep 60 > grep -w sdc /proc/diskstats >dstat.2nd > if cmp dstat.1st dstat.2nd >/dev/null 2>&1 > then > echo Stopping disk, spinning down… > sdparm -f -r -q -v -C stop /dev/sdc > exit 0 > else > echo Disk busy. > exit 1 >

Re: Who? Me?? Attacked???

Junk writes: > It also might be something much more mundane such as a bug in the > browser which occurs when you have 100+ tabs open and tries to write to > a misaddressed memory region. It may well be some malloc()-like routine returning 0, saying "no more memory for you buddy" and the code bli

Re: Fax management sw for HP 4500 -G510n-z printer

On 24.04.2013 13:04, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > I have HP 4500 -G510n-z printer > > what are fax management sw which are capable for > sending/getting fax ? > > I saw on the web that efax is not so good and is limited to certain models. > > rgs, > Kevin > Everything you need is here: http://f

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 04/24/2013 03:35 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I am using Fedora-19-Alpha with nilfs2 on /. While everything worked great with Fedora 17, the updated version of yum also check for free inodes before executing the transaction: Transaction check error: installing package . needs 40 in

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 04/24/2013 10:40 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 04/24/2013 03:35 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I am using Fedora-19-Alpha with nilfs2 on /. While everything worked great with Fedora 17, the updated version of yum also check for free inodes before executing the transaction: Transaction che

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

poma gmail.com> writes: > > On 24.04.2013 16:58, David G. Miller wrote: > > Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: > > […] > >> What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm > >> automatically. Is this possible somehow? > >> > >> Thank you in advance, Clemens > >> > >> 201

Re: "hackers"

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:20:05PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > | I tend to think the 'hacker' vs. 'cracker' distinction is lost to history in > | the mainstream today. > \-- > > Continuing to educate the masses is the only w

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: > On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: >> Hello Ed, >> >>> Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. >>> It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters. >> >> Thx a lot, works now like a charme :) > > https:

Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)

On 04/24/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive: Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/23/2013 03:31 PM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive: I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of Greenwich with n

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

Am 24.04.2013 23:21, schrieb Phil Dobbin: > On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: >>> Hello Ed, >>> Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel paramete

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/2013 10:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2013 23:21, schrieb Phil Dobbin: >> On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: >> >>> On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: Hello Ed, > Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. > It has been suggested

Re: "hackers"

Continuing to educate the masses is the only way that people will learn the real meaning. With respect, education of the masses revolves around dismembering the education system, endless boring cooking competition shows, talent shows, the CSI series, endless football and celeb gossip, news wh

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/2013 02:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: as any other kernel-param in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub while the latter is what will be used by grub2-mkconfig Checking, my /etc/default/grub contains SYSFONT=True and I'm wondering why I see the error message about the font True no

Re: "hackers"

On 04/24/2013 04:11 PM, Roger wrote: Continuing to educate the masses is the only way that people will learn the real meaning. As you can see here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer, the original meaning of the term Geezer, as still used in the UK, is significantly different from how it's u

Configuring emacs in F18

Hey, hi, I was trying to customize the theme color of emacs itself and I don't know why it doesn't work, I really mean it I don't have any idea of what is wrong My .emacs looked like in first place ;; .emacs > > (custom-set-variables > ;; uncomment to always end a file with a newline > '(requi

Re: Configuring emacs in F18

Oh by the way the output of emacs when it opens: Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/agda-mode-init.el > (source)... > Loading agda2...done > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/agda-mode-init.el > (source)...done > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/anthy-ini

Re: "hackers"

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:54:07 -0400, Digimer wrote: > On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the >> outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used >> the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23

Re: "hackers"

On Apr 24, 2013 8:05 PM, "Mark Eggers" wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:54:07 -0400, Digimer wrote: > > > On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the > >> outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just

Re: "hackers"

Richard Vickery wrote: > [blah, blah, "hacker" has an unfair negative connotation, blah blah] > ... we could call them idiots, just as bad as Fox Do you see what you just did there? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)

Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2013, Bill Davidsen sent: > No Windows involved, just some data logging machinery which writes > info in VFAT or ISO-9660 formats depending on the nmodel. But no > daylight changes on the big boxes, I just have to make the data be > local time for reports and compari

Re: "hackers"

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > Richard Vickery wrote: > > [blah, blah, "hacker" has an unfair negative connotation, blah blah] > > ... we could call them idiots, just as bad as Fox > > Do you see what you just did there? > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > Checking, my /etc/default/grub contains SYSFONT=True and I'm wondering > why I see the error message about the font True not being found. If > so, can I simply edit that out and rebuild /boot/grub2.grub.cfg? I've never seen the associated er

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 24.04.2013 23:21, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: >>> Hello Ed, >>> Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters.

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

On 04/24/2013 10:19 PM, Tim wrote: I've never seen the associated errors people have discussed regarding SYSFONT=True (i.e. stalled boots). I've not seen any problems either, on my desktop. My laptop, however, complains about it every time I boot. So far, it hasn't seemed to make a differen

Re: Configuring emacs in F18

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:54:05PM -0600, Wilbert Isaac Cortés González wrote: > Hey, hi, I was trying to customize the theme color of emacs itself and I [...chomp...chomp...chomp...] > > (defun color-theme-nice () > > (interactive) > > (color-theme-install > >'(color-theme-nice [...chom

Re: How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

On 24.04.2013 22:51, David G. Miller wrote: > poma gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 24.04.2013 16:58, David G. Miller wrote: >>> Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: >> >> […] What I am looking for is a way to make yum pass "--ignoresize" to rpm automatically. Is this possible somehow? >>>