Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/31/2016 11:51 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? (I know I can try to read the product name of the device from which boot was done, but in many cases this is not enough to know straight away whether it is SSD or not. Why not simply re

Installing Fedora 24 on Del Inspiron mini??

2016-09-01 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I'm now on my 4th attempt? Student had this little machine, and wanted to try linux on it. Seems to boot fine from the USB with the image, and runs the install fine, and reboots from installed system fine as well. After the first time, it seemed to have gone into Hibernation. When I rebooted, it

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:31:43 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: > On 20/08/16 09:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I > > experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the > > distance from the router is more than 25 feet. What

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Ian Chapman
On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? (I know I can try to read the product name of the device from which boot was done, but in many cases this is not enough to know straight away whether it is SSD or not. cat /sys/block/sdX/qu

Re: Installing Fedora 24 on Del Inspiron mini??

2016-09-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Michael, On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:57:22 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > I'm now on my 4th attempt? Student had this little machine, and wanted to try > linux on it. > Seems to boot fine from the USB with the image, and runs the install fine, > and reboots from installed system fine as w

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread fred roller
You could change the desktop for each system ;) low tech but effective in knowing which system you are on. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: > > Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? >> (I know I can try to rea

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Joseph Loo
On 09/01/2016 04:58 AM, fred roller wrote: > You could change the desktop for each system ;) low tech but effective > in knowing which system you are on. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Ian Chapman > wrote: > > On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: >

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I > experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the > distance from the router is more than 25 feet. I don't think the distance is that relevant. What matters is what walls etc come in b

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I > > experience many situations where the connection is dropped when the > > distance from the router is more than 25 feet. > > I don't think the

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread Richard Shaw
Just an FYI but the Unifi Controller software is available in a generic linux download but for some reason the link is no longer public: http://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/%{version}/UniFi.unix.zip I use the following link to get a versioned file: http://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/%{version}/UniFi.unix.zip#/UniFi-

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 01 September 2016, Timothy Murphy sent: > There seems to be very little concrete information on router strength. > Is there any standard way of measuring this, for comparison of > routers? Yes, but... If you want a standard way of measuring RF (radio frequency) signals you

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-09-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 31 August 2016, Christian Stadelmann sent: > 1. HTTPS Everywhere – force-redirects to HTTPS on a list (whitelist) > of known sites. Doesn't break much stuff. I think this is a must-have. Actually, this is one *kind* of thing that I hate, because it causes breakage all over t

rpmbuild for cmake project error :: Found 'build_dir' in installed files

2016-09-01 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! I have a head scratching problem with a project (clhep) that i try to package. It is cmake based and the spec file can be seen here: https://github.com/adriansev/SPECS/blob/master/clhep.spec the error that i get is : Found '/home/adrian/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/clhep-2.3.3.2-1.x86_64' in installed

Re: F24: waking up from hibernate no longer wakes nm-applet (however existing connection works fine)

2016-09-01 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 29 August 2016, Ranjan Maitra sent: > 1. In /etc/default/grub > > add --> resume=UUID="" <-- to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= I seem to recall that was only necessary if your swap was a file rather than a partition, or you had multiple swap partitions. Perhaps you can

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-09-01 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:21:18AM +0200, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:31:43 -0600 > Robin Laing wrote: > > > On 20/08/16 09:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > I have a linksys router model WRT160NL but the range is too short. I > > > experience many situations where the connection is d

Re: Installing Fedora 24 on Del Inspiron mini??

2016-09-01 Thread Fred
On Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:57:22 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > > At this point, have it installed, and it has now downloaded all the > updates, and is dogint the upgrade of 1169 items. Hopefully, it not > lock up on the reboot. Just wondering if there is something that I > might be missing.

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Tod Merley
I do use separate pictures in each desktop for ease of identification. It would probably be helpful to use partitian names. [note: uuid's scrambled for security] so here is a simple way to find the disk in use and it's unambiguous UUID tod@tod-1204:~$

Re: rpmbuild for cmake project error :: Found 'build_dir' in installed files

2016-09-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:33:08 +0300 Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! I have a head scratching problem with a project (clhep) that i > try to package. It is cmake based and the spec file can be seen here: > https://github.com/adriansev/SPECS/blob/master/clhep.spec > > the error that i get is : > Found

Re: Installing Fedora 24 on Del Inspiron mini??

2016-09-01 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
I've used Fedora in a 1GB RAM netbook but it was on Cinnamon and Mate desktops, not Gnome. Never tried Gnome in a small machine. Cheers, Sylvia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lis

Re: qemu + plan9(virtfs) and access(still) denied

2016-09-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:00:30PM -, pelj...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > hi everybody > > I wonder if you had a chance to use virtfs with passthrough in qemu? > I have a host that passes through a directory to a guest, in the guest I can > mount the tag successfully and list the content of the moun