Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 5/14/2013 9:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/samsung-Series%209-WQHD-Ultrabook-matte-display/ Is there any hope of this coming to the market? Probably when Intel releases "Haswell" core CPU's. since, I think WQHD displays will require a more powerful GP

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Frédéric Bron
> The nvidia card is a pain, which is why I recommend integrated graphics I agree that nvidia is a pain. I have a very unstable system because of proprietary driver: very often, the X server freezes at 100% of CPU and the only solution is just to turn off the computer. However the fedora driver (n

Re: dar is missing from EPEL 6

2013-05-15 Thread Susi Lehtola
On Tue, 14 May 2013 10:47:08 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:33:40 +0200 > MegaBrutal wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm a CentOS user. > > > > I see "dar" is not included in EPEL 6, while it is there in EPEL 5. > > I suppose it's left out of EPEL 6 by mistake. Please anyone wh

Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Roger
I am hoping someone can talk me through a postgresql problem on my Fedora 18 box. Have a Rails 4 app working with sqlite and mysql but need to have it in postgres so that I can use it with Heroku. Had postgres working in Fedora 16 several months ago for my first Heroku test application. Am now

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Roger wrote: I am hoping someone can talk me through a postgresql problem on my Fedora 18 box. Have a Rails 4 app working with sqlite and mysql but need to have it in postgres so that I can use it with Heroku. Had postgres working in Fedora 16 several months ago for my firs

Re: OpenJRE or Oracle Jre

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 13.05.2013 20:34, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > >>> do NOT install it if you are not really use it! > >> > >> I could be wrong, but I believe the curren

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/15/2013 06:49 AM, Roger wrote: > Why is psql attempting login as my Fedora username? The psql tool defaults to using the local user for authentication if none is specified. You should be aware that PostgreSQL is not like MySQL in regards to authentication. Throw out anything you know about

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:13:46AM -0400, Digimer wrote: > On 05/15/2013 12:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but > >hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? > > > >Btw, what is the highest vertical resolution I can get? I used to have >

home window can't be change size

2013-05-15 Thread Vinny Onelli
Hello, I am running F18 64 bit on HP envy dv7 laptop. I can't fine the way to change the home window size it is always full screen. Occasionally comes up to a standard half screen size, but then as soon as try to move it around change to full screen. Is there way to correct it? I will appreciate so

Re: combining files and testing results

2013-05-15 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:31:42PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If not, then "cat *.list|sort -u" is enough. Or even just sort -u *.list -- Spock (or Data) is fired from his high-ranking position for not being able to understand the most basic nuances of about one in three sentences

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.05.2013 15:59, schrieb Michael Cronenworth: > On 05/15/2013 06:49 AM, Roger wrote: >> Why is psql attempting login as my Fedora username? > > The psql tool defaults to using the local user for authentication if > none is specified. You should be aware that PostgreSQL is not like MySQL > in

F18 no support for NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card?

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Erickson
I have been trying to install F18 on an A7V8Z-x with a NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card. The same configuration is fine with F17, but with F18 after the install and first reboot, the grub screen comes up fine, but then the screen goes grey and in the middle of the screen is a rect

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/14/2013 09:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra issued this missive: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? I'm using a Dell Inspiron N7110 on F17. It's not exactly a lightweight, but it's pretty good. Intel Core i5, quad core, 8GB, 7

Image stitcher for panorama creation

2013-05-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have some sets of images which are similar to a normal panomama, but are created when the camera is still and the subject moving past the lens. Examples include capturing street art, labels on (rotating) cylinders, etc. In every case the camera is in video mode, and the video is broken into a

Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.

2013-05-15 Thread William Mattison
> Also, the line: > >   May 13 16:26:14 c-69-138-198-76 cupsd[625]: p11-kit: couldn't open > >   config file: /root/.pkcs11/pkcs11.conf: Permission denied > > from your lpstat output may not be causing a problem, but you should > address it anyway because until you do you won't know if it's part

Re: combining files and testing results

2013-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 16:02 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:31:42PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > If not, then "cat *.list|sort -u" is enough. > > Or even just > > sort -u *.list Indeed. Kernighan has a comment somewhere on the psychology of why people prefer

Re: Image stitcher for panorama creation

2013-05-15 Thread Tethys
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Any suggestions? The man page for hugin lists dozens of command line tools, > and I script netpbm commands, and have even written a few tools, but if > there's a "best practice" solution I can at least start looking in the right > place. yu

Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18.

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Martin
> D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Wrote 1 pages... > D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] PPD uses qualifier 'Gray.Plain.600dpi' > D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Calling > FindDeviceById(Xerox_WorkCentre_6015NI) > D [15/May/2013:12:28:38 -0400] [Job 19] Failed to send: > org.

Re: F18 no support for NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card?

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Martin
On 05/15/13 11:21, Paul Erickson wrote: > I have been trying to install F18 on an A7V8Z-x with a NV18GL [Quadro NVS > 280 SD] (rev c1) video card. The same configuration is > fine with F17, but with F18 after the install and first reboot, the grub > screen > comes up fine, but then the screen go

Re: Image stitcher for panorama creation

2013-05-15 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Tethys wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: yum install hugin. It's the best tool for the job.[snip] Ditto. Many years ago, I used a tool called Montage from Caltech. It had a significant learning curve and was picky about image formats, but

Re: Image stitcher for panorama creation

2013-05-15 Thread poma
On 15.05.2013 19:39, Tethys wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Any suggestions? The man page for hugin lists dozens of command line tools, >> and I script netpbm commands, and have even written a few tools, but if >> there's a "best practice" solution I can at lea

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Roger wrote: > > ps aux |grep psql shows > Home_user 5734 0.0 0.0 109180 872 pts/0S+ 21:10 0:00 grep > --color=auto psql > it seems to be finding the fedors user login. It's finding the grep command itself. A trick to avoid that is to put one of the characters of your search term

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 13:46 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Roger wrote: > > > > ps aux |grep psql shows > > Home_user 5734 0.0 0.0 109180 872 pts/0S+ 21:10 0:00 grep > > --color=auto psql > > it seems to be finding the fedors user login. > > It's finding the grep command itself.

Re: Image stitcher for panorama creation

2013-05-15 Thread Fred Roller
On 05/15/2013 12:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have some sets of images which are similar to a normal panomama, but are created when the camera is still and the subject moving past the lens. Examples include capturing street art, labels on (rotating) cylinders, etc. In every case the camera is

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Anthony
On 05/14/2013 11:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but > hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? I have had great experiences with System76. I've owned a few of their machines but, if I were to recommend one now, I'd say The Bonobo Extr

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 05/14/2013 09:05:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but > hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? > > Btw, what is the highest vertical resolution I can get? I used to > have > a Dell with 1200 some time ago, but can't seem to locate

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:48:59 -0500 Anthony wrote: > On 05/14/2013 11:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but > > hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? > > I have had great experiences with System76. I've owned a few of their > machi

Re: OpenJRE or Oracle Jre

2013-05-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/15/2013 08:53 AM, Joel Rees wrote: So, let's all do it right and use openBSD? Installing only what you need has really not much in common with switching to a entirely different operating system. But I find the conflicting directions in Fedora a bit perplexing, of late. Needs more

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:13:46AM -0400, Digimer wrote: On 05/15/2013 12:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? Btw, what is the highest vertical resoluti

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Darlene Wallach
This is Darlene Wallach On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but > hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? > > Btw, what is the highest vertical resolution I can get? I used to have > a Dell with 1200 some time a

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread bruce
umm... what's the price point? I've seen perfectly good systems on different Craigslist (depends on city, gotta verify them). I've also seen perfectly good systems on different auction systems, and purchased a number of systems from some of them over the years, although, never got anything from

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

2013-05-15 Thread Roger
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 13:46 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: Roger wrote: ps aux |grep psql shows Home_user 5734 0.0 0.0 109180 872 pts/0S+ 21:10 0:00 grep --color=auto psql it seems to be finding the fedors user login. It's finding the grep command itself. A trick to avoid that is

RE: f17 printing stalls

2013-05-15 Thread jackson byers
Joe Zeff wrote: >Try this: boot into the newer kernel, print a test page, then look at the most >recent entries in /var/log/cups/error_log. Try to print again and check again. >You might find something there that points in the right direction. see the lines below from error_log, they don't mean

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Under $1500, with the educational discount that universities sometimes get. Many thanks, Ranjan On Wed, 15 May 2013 19:21:58 -0400 bruce wrote: > umm... > > what's the price point? > > I've seen perfectly good systems on different Craigslist (depends on city, > gotta verify them). > > I've

[OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-15 Thread Ed Greshko
This was a bizarre coincidence but given the "lesson" I thought I'd offer it up. I had not updated this one system for a while so I ran "yum update". Noticed that the list of updates included a kernel update and x11-drivers. Upon rebooting the system stopped/hung at "Starting GNOME display man

Re: f17 printing stalls

2013-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2013 04:34 PM, jackson byers wrote: uname -r 3.8.12-100.fc17.i686.PAE this is a new update from 3.8.11-100, just today but printing problem still persists OK, the kernel probably isn't the issue. However, if you still have the last kernel installed from before this started, you mig

Re: [OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/15/2013 06:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: It took a bit of time, but I finally tracked down the problem to the DVI cable which had been chewed on by one of my cats. (Doing dental impressions now to find the culprit.) Replaced cable, all is well. Need to wrap my cables in chain mail. :-)

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/15/2013 04:48 PM, Anthony wrote: On 05/14/2013 11:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? I have had great experiences with System76. I've owned a few of their machines but, if I were to reco

Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Kevin Martin)

2013-05-15 Thread William Mattison
>Where did you say you got the PPD for this device? Are you running 64bit or >32bit Fedora?  Does libcups.so.2 exist on the system >anywhere? I do not know what a "PPD" is.  Whatever I got specifically for this device must have come from the Xerox device driver RPM for this device which I do

Re: [OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-15 Thread Len Philpot
On 05/15/2013 at 08:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >It took a bit of time, but I finally tracked down the problem to the DVI cable > which had been chewed on by one of my cats. (Doing dental impressions now to > find the culprit.) Replaced cable, all is well. Need to wrap my cables in > chain mai

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread bruce
Ranjan... I take it you're not in the US? I just saw an auction.. where 30 HP 2.8 AMD dual core/4G went for 2200 total.. now these had no drives.. but you can get drives for 40.. you could have had a nice cluster.. and sold the rest to make some cash!! On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Ranjan

Re: home window can't be change size

2013-05-15 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 05/15/2013 09:07 PM, Vinny Onelli wrote: > Hello, > I am running F18 64 bit on HP envy dv7 laptop. I can't fine the way to > change the home window size it is always full screen. Occasionally comes > up to a standard half screen size, but then as soon as try to move it > around change to full sc