Re: possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

2012-08-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
sed on the right side of connection Paul -- 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://a

Re: Illegal question...

2012-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
e last time I looked the wiki was still talking about GNOME2 and appeared to be fc14 vintage. -- 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@l

Re: possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

2012-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dave Ihnat wrote: Once, long ago--actually, on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:27:51AM -0400--Bill Davidsen (david...@tmr.com) said: ... I believe most Windows things are done by closed source proprietary magic, involving a man in a loincloth with feathers in his hair dancing around a fire waving a

Re: Yum cache memory space -

2012-09-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
t;yum clean all" and restarting the upgrade, or even doing it in steps. 3 - you may have to bind mount a directory in a larger filesystem on /var/cache/yum to get by this. Yes it's a PITA. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Fedora 17 does not see Atheros AR8161L ethernet device on HP h8-1320t

2012-09-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
achine using MS Windows. Thanks for any suggestions. Stowe Davison http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison -- 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

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

2012-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
et around this and get a format which works in more places. -- 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 su

Re: LVM [WAS Re: Yum cache memory space -]

2012-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.09.2012 21:35, schrieb Steven Stern: On 09/06/2012 01:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/06/2012 11:23 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: For which I am deeply grateful. Most of the time LVM is fine, even preferred, but some times I really "want it my way" and now t

Re: Yum cache memory space -

2012-09-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
suspect that if I could it should happen without my help? why should it? if /etc/yum.conf contains "keepcache=1" it is supposed to keep -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
is not the case. It seems that UEFI is not required to recognize the token MS sold Linux, so some don't. If UEFI is active you can't run dmidecode, so the question may boil down to if anything shows when UEFI is present but not enabled, like SElinux in advicory mode. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: fedup ??

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
past this problem. Note that I don't suggest it will "work" because it hasn't for me, but at least you will get different and more entertaining problems after that. Take backups before using fedup!! Best descriptive name for a program ever. -- Bill Davidsen "We have

Re: Odd Question, Wifi

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
b in their print queue warning them. Of course, this was with Windows, and I really don't recommend it. That's clever. As you note, possibly dangerous in the legal sense. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: Odd Question, Wifi

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
d you do that ? The IP that shows is a 192.168.1.137 which is a local AP IP and not a world IP . Open a wifi connection to his router, set a route to whatismyip.com through his router, then connect to them. When you close the wifi connection the route will revert to default. -- Bill Dav

Dual booting fc18

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
from the fc17 boot cfg and adding them to grub2.cfg results in some boot failure mode? It seems that fc18 just won't coexist with other Linux versions, and the next machine I need to do has XP, fc4, fc9, and is currently on fc13. Pointer to some useful info? -- Bill Davidsen We are

Re: What does "mapping=identity" mean in /etc/exports?

2013-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
ve to build a config file and run idmapd. The documentation sucks, it isn't you, but "man idmapd" will get you started. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users ma

FC18 Installer is Garbage

2013-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
opying the ones from the fc17 boot cfg and adding them to grub2.cfg results in some boot failure mode? It seems that fc18 just won't coexist with other Linux versions, and the next machine I need to do has XP, fc4, fc9, and is currently on fc13. Pointer to some useful info? -- Bill David

Re: FC18 Installer is Garbage

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/20/2013 11:12 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 20 February 2013 17:28, Bill Davidsen wrote: After a month of asking how to get dual boot working, on this list, another support list, in chat rooms, I have not had ONE SINGLE PERSON tell me that they installed FC18 and it

Re: Installing Fedora 18 with prexisting fedora 17 partitions

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
ion on the left pane, and set the desired mount point. -- 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 o

Re: FC18 Installer is Garbage

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
inion that the installer should at least offer this as an option, but this at least offers a way to overcome the poor installer. -- 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: Odd Question, Wifi

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
set, and dedicated net facing firewall machines will need to be *much* smarter. -- 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 unsubscri

Re: YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) possible problem

2013-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
ically will download some metadata and present a list of what needs update, if anything. It's relatively fast, and will give you that "warm fuzzy feeling" that everything is ok, or tell you for certain that it's not. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bunglin

Re: Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso: lame question

2013-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
stall than fight with fedup first, then either reinstall anyway or spend more time getting back to a stable system than reinstall takes. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing

Re: con I use fedup with 3.6 kernel?

2013-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
o every driver upgrade is a thrill ride. -- 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: http

Re: LXDE/gnome switch

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
you hit enter for your password, make the choice.) Just that easy. I do that with XFCE, although I confess I haven't used GNOME in months. I am running MATE on an fc17 machine, that switches well, also. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent tha

optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
7;nofail' option would solve the problem, but that appears to be a very recent option, and not in RHEL running on this server. Any thoughts gratefully accepted, we try to keep vital infrastructure running on RHEL rather than Fedora, for obvious reasons of stability and avoiding having

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:37:29 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Defining the mount as "noauto" doesn't help, the boot still tries to do the fsck, and still fails. Moreover, I really want the unit mounted if present. The fsck is (I believe) controlled independently

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Timms wrote: On 24/02/13 06:24, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... Yes, that was an attempt to avoid the hang on boot, what I really need is more complex, and I may have to put it in rc.local to make it work, although I will test on Fedora using the nofail option. As I look at the RHEL world, I

Splash screen for fc1[78] boot

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Can someone point me to the proper documentation to use alternate splash screen during boot? I want to use the solar theme from fc10, rather than the boring default. My search seems to lead me to tidbits but not a "this is how it works" document. -- Bill Davidsen We are not

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: The time to recover typical issues in a journaled filesystem is minimal, if the f/s is really borked there will be an admin present during the boot anyway. What are the boxes set to do when power is restored after a failure? Stay

Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
used to labeling slots on servers. When I was a project leader for a server group at at&t we labeled the NIC, and as noted, I think most desktop users would be happy with eth0 rather than some random number based on the slot, bridge, and some unreliable guess if the NIC is built-in or on a car

Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
names have changed: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/biosdevname.html I think the bugzilla status might be WONTFIX rather than NOTABUG. Or perhaps CANTFIX no matter no many time it gets broken in another way. Loads of fun for everyone! -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fr

Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
em to have that, and the default of an unpredictable name in all cases justs adds one more thing to be overcome. -- 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: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
h adding or replacing nodes might be in some cases. -- 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 subscriptio

Re: mounting NFS directory with read write access

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
two machines. If you have root: configure /etc/idmapd.conf start the idmapd service As a user: man sshfs Many thanks, Ranjan -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users ma

Re: mounting NFS directory with read write access

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:40:49 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hello, I have tried mounting the following remote directory: sudo mount machine.name:/home/directory -w /mnt/directory I can mount fine, but I can not write as a mortal user in this directory

Re: mounting NFS directory with read write access

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
d sshd supports chroot as well, if you like that better. -- 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 subscriptio

Re: Multiboot question

2013-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
on sd3. Ignore all the rest completely. When you have your fc17 installed and booted, only then you make the rest bootable by asking grub2 to find it: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg That should find lots of stuff for you. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bunglin

Re: grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
rates a dubious boot file in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which contains both a SYSFONT= and KEYTABLE= options. Removing those will avoid the error messages but not make the update boot work. I'm still working on this as I type, so I may have more later. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: USB key

2013-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
I think it's done in udev. -- 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.fedor

Re: installation issue 2

2013-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Am I wrong? There's another thread with a very similar question, why don't you look 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@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Installing VNCSERVER on Linux machine

2013-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
administration effort for the whole, while forcing users to use password for security. -- 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

Re: nut

2013-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
le to tell you what's using it, if something really is. And there you have the total of my ideas, hope it helped. -- 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@l

Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
vi in the other. Is there? -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tool to help create an rpm from scratch, something more intuitive than the man p

Re: usbview

2013-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
seems to provide the same type of detail to a normal user? -- 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 chan

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.03.2013 17:52, schrieb Bill Davidsen: Bill Davidsen wrote: I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tool to help cre

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Cameron wrote: On 03/14/2013 02:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm fr

Re: XFce configuration

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
work, and (b) *often* doesn't get used by fedup, resulting in no video during the update process and after boot into fc18. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users

Re: Unable to boot live cd in both safe and regular graphics mode Fedora 18

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
menu comes up, select 'troubleshooting' and boot in basic graphics mode. If that works try hitting 'e' at the main boot prompt, add 'nomodeset' to the kernel command line and try that. The modeset bricks one of my video cards so that a power cycle is needed to

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15

Re: NFS Server share /var/cache/yum?

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
it. This may give you some ideas about local repo, I found it easier to keep a repo of my own rather than find a clever way to export /var/cache/yum -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: Preventing a removable disk of being mounted by udisk (Fedora18)

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
it matters. Anyway, a useful trip down memory lane, revealing the need to avoid accepting something with bright new features without careful attention to ugly new limitations. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the w

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Doug wrote: On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Doug wrote: On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-( http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;) Thanks, I'll take a look at that. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incomp

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jared K. Smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
human readable form so you could go through it quickly, I was looking for a similar tool, which I'm now willing to assume is no longer maintained. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slash

Interesting observation on fedup to fc18

2013-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
old versions of ifconfig which return a different information format. Hope this helps someone. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our des

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 21.03.2013 01:20, Bill Davidsen wrote: poma wrote: On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-( http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;) Thanks, I'll take a look at that. wget -c http:/

Issues in upgrade fc16->fc18

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
what I selected and reusing it seems not possible, or not documented. Any way to go back to the old installer, which was simple, intuitive and functional? -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite

Re: Poor quality watching Quicktime movies on F18 [SOLVED]

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
ync to vblank. Other performance problems which were also very noticeable on GNOME 3.6 (eg. moving windows around) are also gone. Not sure if this is a GNOME or a NVidia bug (or both), will dive deeper into it later. Regards, Andre THANK YOU!! -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fe

Re: Intel Atom detecting a second monitor that doesn't exist.

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
emember what the console driver was, other than 'working.' -- 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 subscr

Re: Upgrading Fedora 16 to 17 or 18 Problems.

2013-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
15903416.868091 -- 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.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Anyone that can Recommend a Laser Printer

2013-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
keeps the toner available for a long time. If you just want b/w the 1320 has been good to me. I have a lot of other HP stuff working with Linux, an old SCSI scanner (legal size, not letter), and one of their big 11x17 printers for large stuff. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: Anyone that can Recommend a Laser Printer

2013-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
n your printer in Linux and use SAMBA to make it available to Windows running in a VM. Read up on that, I found it while doing something else, no notes worth sharing. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&

Re: Xsane scans only 8.5 x 11 inches of 8.5 x 14 inch documents

2013-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
anner: FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300 Xsane version: 0.998 Sane version: 1.0.23 simple-scan version: 3.6.0 KDE: 4.10.1 Fedora-18 with all updates. Jim, have you tried iscan? If it has enough features to be useful it might behave better. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungl

Re: F17: How to set up VPN for Android?

2013-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
worth, I've had good results with openvpn, setup is to some extent manual, but it works, and doesn't seem to ask questions you can't answer. And you can set it up for road warrior operation from a linux machine, have not looked at what the VPN setup on Android phones does, so if

yum erase unused dependencies

2013-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method? -- Bill Davidsen We are not out o

Re: yum erase unused dependencies

2013-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my notes,

Re: undo rm -rf *

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
upload speed is far slower than the download speed, and you spend a lot of time backing up. Mentioned because people forget until they try to do something large and it takes forever. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: undo rm -rf *

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
delete anything. MyWk=joe-$$-$RANDOM mkdir ${MyWk} || exit 2 # do stuff rm -rf ${MyWk} I would qualify that as "less unsafe" rather than idiot proof, but using both the process id and a random number does avoid reusing a name. Note that if the mkdir fails the script bails out i

Re: undo rm -rf *

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
-maxdepth 1 -type f -iname .\* -exec rm "{}" \; which avoids directories because you (usually) didn't mean that. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing lis

Re: undo rm -rf *

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
ove I hate to say it, but I don't want to ever have to trust that the rm I'm getting is the one I expect and not some alias, function, thing earlier on a PATH, and that I'm on a recent system which protects me from being reckless. If I have to think that hard I'd rather just us

Re: difference between output of "yum ps" and "needs-restarting"?

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
g. yum ps - tells you what packages are associated with which processes. Can be used before the fact to determine if doing that update is a good idea. needs-restarting identifies (after update) processes using packages (typically libraries) which have been updated. Is that enough? -- Bil

Re: difference between output of "yum ps" and "needs-restarting"?

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Georg Wittig wrote: Hi, can anyone please explain the difference between the output of yum ps(from the RPM yum-plugin-ps) and needs-restarting (from the RPM yum-utils) I couldn't find many infos about those 2 commands. I'll ta

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
there a driver on the Fedora 15 DVD? I hope someone can help. From the top: 1 - FC15 is woefully old and a newer version might be helpful 2 - Do you by chance mean "can't install" FC15? 3 - If you have an install clarify "load" -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Re: Converting MKV videos to MP2 -4 ?

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
; a lot to get a file which will go on a DVD should I need it. -- 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: Converting MKV videos to MP2 -4 ?

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/01/13 07:55, Jim wrote: F18/Kde How can one convert MKV videos to MP2-4 ? What app will do it ? GUI or command line? Miro for GUI ffmpeg for command line I use /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $1 -acodec aac -ab 96k -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -f mp4

Re: Converting MKV videos to MP2 -4 ?

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 01.04.2013 18:49, schrieb Bill Davidsen: Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/01/13 07:55, Jim wrote: F18/Kde How can one convert MKV videos to MP2-4 ? What app will do it ? GUI or command line? Miro for GUI ffmpeg for command line I use /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $1 -acodec

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
se, and follow this thread now for amusement, watching sensible people not only beat a dead horse, but drag the carcass through the streets. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
, but lacks both tolerance and tact. He reminds me of me when I was younger. I have improved the tact a little, I try to say "Let me clarify that for you" instead of "You are too stupid to understand this." Note "try." -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: fedora18 stopped suspending on lid closed

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Don't you love it when people ask a question on a list but are too busy to read the list for an answer? And don't bother to CC themselves on the original post so "reply-all" would work? Neither do I. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 01.04.2013 20:06, schrieb Joe Zeff: On 04/01/2013 10:51 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: There are reasons for running old versions, but but only a few of us have a good one. there are NO REASONS for Fedora if you need LTS because you have reasons you use the wrong

Re: MKV file. how to convert.

2013-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
before the -i you can add something like "-threads 2" which will reduce the clock time to convert at the cost of bogging down your system a bit more. Larger numbers are allowed but the bog factor goes up faster than the real time gets smaller, so rarely worth using more than two. --

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
any useful system after running. I admit that I don't have a lot of systems with nothing but a Fedora install on it, and not all my systems use the default file layout, but an upgrade of any kind should use what's there. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungl

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
but I think I'll upgrade the machine in question using yum. It's a shame. I went from 12 sequentially through to 17 using preupgrade without a single hitch. Cheers, Phil... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinat

FC18 kernel command lines

2013-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
iming that the drivers are fixed because it works on their hardware. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010 -- u

Re: presto

2013-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
m list '*presto*' It's not missing, and even works. -- 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 unsubscri

Re: presto

2013-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
road-map for what is in FC20 please) and finger check? -- 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 opt

Re: getting back from a black screen

2013-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
ndor drivers, use your own judgement, this is history of my experience, not advice. -- 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 o

Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

2013-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
what you hope to accomplish, rather than how you are trying to do it? I'll try to help, and there are at least two people on this list who are better at boot issues than I am, so you can probably get a solution once we have an idea what you are trying to do. -- Bill Davidsen "We have

Re: How to restore MBR on a separate /boot partition?

2013-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ht consider doing things the more typical way. 5 - I would do grub2-mkconfig and put the result in a temp file, then look at it hard before proceding. I don't think you need all the mount stuff, since you will bind /dev to /chroot/dev anyway. 6 - good luck. -- Bill Davidsen "We have

Re: getting back from a black screen

2013-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim Evans wrote: On 04/08/2013 01:41 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tim Evans wrote: On 04/08/2013 11:24 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 08 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: In the case where you have sensitive information that you don't want people looking at it, or children deleti

Re: keeping USB disk awake

2013-04-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
; /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/host20/target20:0:0/20:0:0:0/block/sdd/power/control (was "auto") Other suggestions? Have you tried just disabling spindown? (hdparm -S0 drive) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of th

Re: keeping USB disk awake

2013-04-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Tue Apr 9, 2013, at 06:02:08, pomo wrote: On 09.04.2013 07:38, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: I have an external SATA disk in a USB-3 / eSATA docking station. When I connect using eSATA

Re: keeping USB disk awake (SOLVED--kind of)

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Tue Apr 9, 2013, at 06:02:08, pomo wrote: On 09.04.2013 07:38, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: I have an

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
soon, FC18 is quite stable, the new FC19, like any new release, will have rough spots which may be tricky to fix. Lacking a reason to run the latest, run the most stable with some support life. You have no reason to run an old release, either, unsupported is not a positive thing. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
t they use, minimal learning curve, file format compatible, etc. I have suggested using the seamonkey suite to most of them, some like having all their interfaces the same, like reading tweets as RSS feeds like mail, etc. About half have gone that way, they like it better than the Windows tools

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
And you can have the system do network backup without telling them, a big bonus. -- 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 cha

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
f-hand which measures disk performance on a per-process basis. thanks in advance Roger Off Topic...Does anyone know of a Rails dev who would be able to help and teach me building a small application? Not my thing to do for fun or money. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
with a single drive. -- 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

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