Re: Q about swap size

2010-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
deciding that you like Fedora well enough to live with the issue. Sitting and observing top may give you an answer, or you might see false positives instead. Accounting can be turned on and off, so you can only try it when you think you have the problem. I run several VMs with less memory t

Re: Converting DVD copy to AVI

2010-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
ch would be handy if he was trying to do something else? Or is this an in joke referring to that British web comedy show where the guy is always giving directions to somewhere else? I have a friend sending me kinks, but I miss half the stuff because much of it uses Cockney slang. Q: can y

Re: [Fwd: I need a PDF reader that will open this...]

2010-07-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject: I need a PDF reader that will open this... > Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:01:41 -0600 > From: Linuxguy123 > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > > To: users@lists.fed

Re: DVD writing oddity

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
e to match the sector size. That goes into md5sum for the compare. * dwis - do what I say -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: SSH / permissions problem

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
nal? And can you be a little more specific than "I get errors" and show us exactly what errors? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: DVD writing oddity

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:01 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Recompiled them to use --dwis instead. > > Or you could use a script. > Scripts only help if you do the same thing over and over. You can define it, too: DWIS="--some-

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
n add dvdisaster software ECC to the image. hth -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: trying encrypted partition: a "doh!" question

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
the protected filesystem isn't needed to run (such as source or docs, contact info, etc). I attempted to "solve" this by using "noauto,user" so I could hand mount it, or putting it into automount, neither of which worked properly with fc11 where I tried it

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
kernel. > Or this solution is still in the "beginning part"? > > Thanks for any tips, link, suggestions. > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailin

Re: DVD writing oddity

2010-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:01 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> Recompiled them to use --dwis instead. >>> Or you could use a sc

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
john wendel wrote: > On 07/14/2010 08:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Jozsi Avadkan wrote: >>> Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses the >>> GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] >>> >> Other than internal

Re: RAID adventures

2010-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
failing: > EXT4-fs (md0): bad geometry: block count 146516768 exceeds size of > device (73258368 blocks) > > Here's the question, then: am I royally screwed or is my data still > there? How do I recover? May I suggest trying this on the linux-raid list? Not that's

Re: DVD writing oddity

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 22:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:

Re: Gotta love embedded developers...

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
I'm not saying this is good or bad, just that the old development is stable and virtually without cost. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: F12: Kernel 2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE problems with Radeon drivers

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ul 15 16:16:44 beam abrtd: Getting local universal unique identification > Jul 15 16:16:44 beam abrtd: Crash is in database already (dup of > /var/cache/abrt/kerneloops-1279205204-1) > > I'm going back to: 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686.PAE > > Cheers > > > Terry -- Bill Da

Re: Preupgrade F11 ---> F12 ?

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
4_{boot,root}_fc13 LVs on it. I can mount the fc6 LVs just fine, just can't boot. The moral of this story is that the O.P. really means "separate partitions" not some spare LVs you have. Very sad, I really wanted to run both, since I have some software which was not upgraded p

Re: Firefox Beta

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ost of my friends 64 bit systems have a lot of 32 bit because there's no 64 bit version, or the 64 bit version doesn't quite work right, etc. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from S

Re: Phone calls from laptop

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
p feature. I searched using something like "VOIP via SIP on Linux" or similar. A few pages in was a set of replies to a question with all details on getting sipphone account and client, etc. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than f

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
way out) - install the latest CentOS-5 release which has xen Just some thoughts, I like new CPU, CentOS/xen and VMware, in that order. Not my dime, tho, so free advice is worth what you paid. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the ma

Re: suspend to RAM and NFS /home

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ighly useful behavior. I would like to have the NIC come up, then any VPN connections, then the NFS mount. Which some hackery on scripts you can make this work if you automount the connections you need. I had that working, but not with /home or anything I was using at the time. -- Bill

Re: Gotta love embedded developers...

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ging out that information, although I have it here because I grabbed the FC{old} stuff I run there. The RH8 is just a disk image. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- us

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
dia hardware only a few years old is spotty at best. Good suggestion, though, he won't get any help here. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
accept the commands of the original and are incapable of correctly producing the desired result? Neither do I. But wodim can not claim that behavior, and so should be called by its own name (and only that name, although I've used a few other names, too, after wasting media). -- Bill Da

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-08 10:20:42, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>>> Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in >>>> Fedora unless you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take >>>> he respected cdrecor

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
ime for sure. As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which will not only suspend but includes resume. Suspend/Hibernate are pretty broken, for many people TOI works. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Propigation of bug fixes

2010-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
s bugzilla speak as it was sent to me. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Zen kernel, what are advantages if any?

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:02 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >>> As for TuxOnIce, you can hardly blame people for wanting software which >>> will not >>> only suspend but includes resume. Suspend/

Re: latest F12 quckly unusable after restart

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
the problem >> happens sooner. IOW I get longer uptimes between lockups if the virt machines >> are shutdown. I am not sure if that is relevant or not. >> >> FWIW I filed Bug 559791 but so far no one has provided any feedback. > > When I say 'hard freeze'

Re: Converting efax .efx files

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
(i686), but the windows installer doesn't finish. > Since I don't run that I can only ask, what is the file format (output of the file command)? If they are jbig (standard fax format) you can use the jbig toolkit or the jbig parts of the netpbm package. -- Bill Davidsen "We h

Re: Propigation of bug fixes

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:47:13 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> The question is one of policy, should a bug be marked CLOSED before the >> average >> user is FIXED? Meaning the fix is actually RELEASED. > > Depends on who bugzilla is for

Re: F12 on one machine bollixed, but BAD

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
ce an ATI video card? I know recent updates > certainly seemed to make my ATI card worse instead of better. I have been saying "updates" instead of "upgrades" with FC12, too. -- Bill Davidsen Fedora 12 is a teaching tool, to help people learn how to bring up their syste

Re: Converting efax .efx files

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
John Poelstra wrote: > Bill Davidsen said the following on 02/15/2010 12:47 PM Pacific Time: >> John Poelstra wrote: >>> Has anyone figured out a way to convert the files created by the free >>> faxing services from efax.com (efx format) to another format like PDF or

Re: [slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
gt;> to accomplish. I'm holding out hope they follow that plan. You're free >> to think Nokia won't change. > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- use

Re: Internetcameras -

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
P/Server 2003/Vista/7 > Power 12V > Temperature: 0°C ~ 45°C > Environment > Humidity: 10% ~ 90% non-condensing > Approvals CE/FCC class B > Communication > One RJ45 port; IEEE 802.3u compliant 10/100 Mbps Fast > Ethernet > Ethernet

Re: F12: Latest Three Kernels Won't Boot (was: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot)

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
e recent Fedora kernels lose the touchpad. I'm still waiting months later for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550719 to even be assigned, so don't have a lot of hope that a bug that don't hit developer's machines are going to get much attention unless it hits a lot

Re: recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
il. Tools intended to solve multi-user development are more complex than they need to be. CVS, git, yady, yada, yada. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing li

Re: Internetcameras -

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 18/02/10 12:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> I bought a Zonet ZVC7611W "IP Camera" Newegg had on sale with the >>> intention of watching an area I can't see from the window near my desk. >>&g

Re: change HDD without Re-installing Fedora 12 ..!!!!

2010-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
f you have a huge number of small files you might consider a filesystem other than ext4 default, either something else or some of the neat extended options which can make things faster. For "more of the same" there are a number of solutions, read the suggestions you have and choose.

Re: Reference for configuring GRUB in F12 x86-64...?

2010-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
gt; to use XP from time to time. > If you are doing a clean install the option to boot other programs will be offered. If you upgrade your current setup should be preserved (haven't upgraded since FC3=>FC4, I prefer a clean install). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fr

Re: change HDD without Re-installing Fedora 12 ..!!!!

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
complex process I described, a dd copy gets you no better than you had (slowly). By tuning the filesystem options to the intended use a significant improvement in performance can be obtained. > Good luck! > Stefan > > 2010/2/20, Bill Davidsen : >> Jatin K wrote: >>&g

KVM upgrades

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
o be fixed in more recent versions. No, the KVM list is not the place for a very specific question, I'm hoping for someone who really did it. If I wanted someone who thinks it will work I'd talk to mayself. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 02/24/2010 10:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> Is this correct? Are there more explanations you can provide to make >> the picture clearer? >> > > Cisco has been allowed into the classroom in many high schools here in > the USA. They teach you to use Cisco, and only Ci

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steven I Usdansky wrote: > > > > - Original Message ---- >> From: Bill Davidsen >> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 11:17:55 AM >> Subject: Setting custom screen resolution >> >> I remember there being a

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Tyler wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:17 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for >> video >> drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: >> 768x12426 >> 900x14562

Re: change HDD without Re-installing Fedora 12 ..!!!!

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
wer grub for gpt partition tables) > ## assumes your first partition has grub installed on it > grub > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > exit > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> stefan riemens wrote: >>> I use plain and simple dd from a

Re: Setting custom screen resolution

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Stefano Cavallari wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2010 18:17:55 Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for >> video drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions: >> 768x12426 >> 900x14562 >&

Re: Installing Fedora Core 12 on a system with a IT8212 SATA Controller

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
27;t let you set it then try 'pata_it821x.noraid=1' as a > boot option. > Thanks, that sounds like a good way to get one of these into JBOD mode when the BIOS is a POS (r). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: fedora 12 KVM virtulization question

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
s.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > > > -- > Regards, > mantra - Instrum

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-03-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
which doesn't lock my touchpad. Home built 2.6.33-rc6 worked, wouldn't resume. > --Russell -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

2010-03-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
= > The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are > sober. -- William Butler Yeats > === > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcgloba

Re: Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

2010-03-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
ome well-known site, such as www.google.com. > > Then, from your questionable host, which you believe has accomplished > the impossible feat of contacting a DHCP server on a different network > segment, the same exact stuff. The above may not necessarily be an > exclusive list, some

UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng the map_static option, but it is not recognized in exports, not are map_daemon or no_map_identity. (see: http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-nfs.exports.html) What do I miss, the doc says it's there, the software disagrees. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bu

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
first is easily solved with dyndns. The second not so much, I think the middle computer is the only solution. My firewall only forwards a (very) few SYN packets to real machines, the rest are either rejected or dropped. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the i

Re: sort question

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roberto Ragusa wrote: > jack craig wrote: >> On 03/09/2010 04:32 PM, adrian kok wrote: >>> I have file as below >>> >>> 192.168.0.4 switch >>> 192.168.0.47server >>> 192.168.0.43printer >>> 192.168.0.218 fax >>> 192.168.0.205 monitor >>> >>> How can I use sort to >>> >>> 192.168.0.

Best means of upgrade

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ich is not critical) Any relevant thoughts on doing the install so I can be sure I can continue to use the chain loader from the 32 bit production stuff? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashd

Re: Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot remotely correct for most cases. It would be worth adding code to download some small RPM from a number of sites and measure b/w for something real. However, disabling the feature works, too. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from t

Re: Fedora 13 feature list seems kind of thin ?

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
vers and 1 of 3 laptops for fc11. And the laptop more or less ran but lost video after suspend unless I switched to text console, suspended and came back to X after restore. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the mac

Re: F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
around the office (an old HP > of some sort) and wireless didn't work there either, in exactly the same way > as on my eeepc. I did a lsmod and saw some ipw2200 things there which I > think are the wireless driver modules, so it's not working at least on those > two different

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
us to somehow override > this setting. > Interaction between screen saver isn't new, I have it off in the host under most of my systems, and use SS in the VM. I'm running KVM, not libvirt stuff. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Bill Davidsen writes: >> I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with >> "wrong" UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly >> those installed from a "live" CD which created one or m

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Bill Davidsen writes: >>> I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with >>> "wrong" UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly >>> those installed from

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 18:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> The issue may be that nfs4 doesn't seem to be working, mount.nfs4 >> gives a failure, so perhaps job one will be to find out why the export >> isn't working. > > Are all the computers usin

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Tim wrote: >>> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 18:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> The issue may be that nfs4 doesn't seem to be working, mount.nfs4 >>>> gives a failure, so per

Re: Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

2010-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 16:52 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> The yum fastestmirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) claims to >>> evaluate the speed of a bunch of repo mirrors and use the fastest on

Re: Best means of upgrade

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sat, 3/13/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I have a server running a 32 bit >> release and some critical VMs, so I really >> don't want to mess it up. It also has an old 64 bit (FC6) >> release which I get to >> via chain

guest tech documentation

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
onth while I learn more than I ever wanted to know about all of these, so I can build my own presentation. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
n, in the first > place. > Let me say this politely, go learn something about compression and entropy. You're completely confused about how compression works. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
r compression on the RPMs. I wouldn't guess without testing. I share the impression that a huge window is the cause of both better better and slower compression. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&quo

Re: Snort alternative

2010-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
e that I have to paid > to get snort rules !!! > > What is the best tool to do both actions ? > > Thanks for any help -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
atically, or is > it coming from some place else? > Coming from whatever pops up when I hit "reply all." Someone posted that the address was a bitbucket now, so I stopped spending time hand editing the recipients. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: iptables config problem in Fedora 11

2010-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
e.d/. > > Is there any solution for it ? > The message is painfully clear. You need to move the configuration information in /etc/modprobe.conf to the correct file in /etc/modprobe.d. Oh, and it's a warning for the moment, at some point it will just stop working. -- Bill Da

Re: Mail Server

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
le. > I run sendmail and dovecot myself, if you wish to accept mail from off-machine edit sendmail.mc in /etc/mail and then run make. You definitely want spamassassin running, too. They all have man pages, although default is useful for many people. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: btrfs supported in Fedora 12?

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
otty at times. I think it's in the 2.6.32 kernel. Good for testing, a little bit from production. I'm not timid, but you should really try before you buy. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of

Re: Hibernate and OpenVPN

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
it works, but I haven't used it myself. Wouldn't help your VPN case, though. Tuxonice may well solve the network problem, if not tell Nigel, stuff there gets fixed. Wish there were an rc.resume file, users could fix stuff like this. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
art upgrades as a piece, rather than rolling, and even if an upgrade "works" (as in still functions), often there is a bunch of left over stuff not cleaned up, and suboptimal configurations for other things. I think the balance is pretty good, although clearly if had more input certain bugs

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
eported in about 1995 or so. Unlike the Linux kernel there's no easy way to put patches out, so fixing a bug becomes a lifetime job. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users

Re: Fedora 12 Modules

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ules directory. MOD_DIR=/lib/modules/$(uname -r) find $MOD_DIR -name usbcore.ko But if you plug it in you should be able to see if it was detected: tail -20 /var/log/messages will show it being configured if it was seen. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: find /etc -size -1G return only empty files

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
e unit happens to be the byte, which then requires "b" as the > suffix, not "G". > My man page indicates "c" and the unit for byte. "b" is for block, and "S" is for Stupid, which is my opinion of this implementation. In any case -100000c

Re: FC12 add/remove bug

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Hughes wrote: > On 24 March 2010 23:20, Michael Miles wrote: >> How to fix? > > Downgrade yum. The yum API changed. > What? That breaks everything which uses yum. Did Yellowdog change it, or is this a Fedora-ism to have an API different from other distributions

Re: upgrade FC5

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
how it runs on this hardware before installing anything, over half of the machine I have running FC12 took video tweaks to get any display. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: Realtek RTL8191SE

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andres Felipe Acosta Gil wrote: > Hey guys, i just want to know if there is a linux driver for RTL8191SE > and how to install. > Check on rpmfusion. They carry vendor drivers. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: Shared home directory and NIS

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
course unsharing your home may run counter to the intent of the policy, can't help you there. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Routing choice under user control per application instance?

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
no reason to change it. I have access to another ISP account at the moment, if I really wanted to go crazy with routing I could. > I can't do much more than give you the URL reference. > You will need to determine if this as a possible solution for you. > > -- Bill Davids

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
l manner of things, like blocking numbers with no caller id (or after bedtime), sending certain people to voice mail, giving different canned massages to different people. That's great fun, you can spend days building a tree which does everything. > Does SIPWitch handle voicemail ?

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
d without all the headaches. This is why some > will stick with Windows. Only needs to be re-installed every year. :) > And you have to pay for any upgrades. > Unless you really need something in Fedora, I would smile and run CentOS. Wait for RHEL6 and maybe a month after

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
the impression that there is a problem, and if you just fling files around as root without getting the ownership if attributes right there will be. If you work on non-root files with the proper owner you are unlikely to see an issue. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the b

Re: Firewall ( iptables ) enabled for ftp ( active mode & passive mode ) problem

2010-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
nt_add -j > ACCEPT > # ping ( ICMP ) > iptables -A INPUT -i $int -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -s $int_src > -d $int_add -j ACCEPT > > Problem of ftp client : > connection timenout > > Thanks ! > > Edward. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: Xen support

2010-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
working if you upgrade. I saw that in the xen list, if you write something for beginners it would be a good thing to mention. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot --

Re: Updating from F9 to F12

2010-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
and people who will insist that it's better to run in VESA mode rather than use a vendor driver. Others will insist you need a vendor driver so you can use 3D and wobbly windows. There's a lot of "anyone who doesn't do it my way is stupid, evil, or ill-informed" out there.

How do you get FC13 to export using NFS3?

2010-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
les in the firewall? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: cleaning /tmp directory

2010-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
that I only want to look at once are hard to find (such as pdf files > etc). > > Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755. > I don't think the OP wanted overkill once in a while, scalpel rather than hammer. I think cruft is the target, and without a reboot. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
are, virtualbox, or any of the others. Worked with FC10 and XP, don't have that setup any more. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
e wobbling windows a "kewl," go to it. It is not a requirement for normal operation. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
is a CUPS extension to IPP. Network printers do not support it. Firewall is open, sharing enabled, what "security enhancement" do I have to disable this time? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wick

Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm installing a new print server, and it's not serving. I've configured the > printer, it works locally, but even though I checked "share" the ipp packets > are > only sent locally. My existing servers are on FC6, and work fine (priv

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
kvm and have it start as a guest >>> the already isntalled win2k ? >>> >>> >> > I'm on F12, and I've tried to install kvm via yum, but yum says no > matching packages... Is this a F13 thing? > > "sudo yum install kvm" returns n

Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm installing a new print server, and it's not serving. I've configured the >> printer, it works locally, but even though I checked "share" the ipp packets >> are &g

Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm installing a new print server, and it's not serving. I've configured the >> printer, it works locally, but even though I checked "share" the ipp packets >> are &g

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
opy of Linux qemu-kvm -m 1000 -hda /dev/sda That "worked for me" in FC10 and XP. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
hing else, passing only what you want to pass, tracking things you want to record for future use, not subject to holes in applications. There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap machine. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent t

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