Re: f18...

2013-03-31 Thread Steven Stern
On 03/31/2013 02:05 PM, Marc Blanc wrote: > Le Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:43:01 -0500, > Steven Stern a écrit : > >> On 03/31/2013 12:16 PM, Marc Blanc wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> after new install of f18 i have some problems with the web. Only the some > web

Re: How do you keep contacts in Fedora/KDE?

2013-04-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/01/2013 09:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE >> keep your contacts? >> I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, >> KAddressBook and LDAP, >> but would li

Re: Can't Load Fedora 15

2013-04-01 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/01/2013 12:51 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I stopped caring after not getting a response, and follow this thread > now for amusement, watching sensible people not only beat a dead horse, > but drag the carcass through the streets. Couldn't resist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs -

mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Steven Stern
If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new email with "u...@domain.com" in the address field. If I click on the same link in Chrome, Thunderbird displays "mailto:u...@domain.com"; in the address field. Anyone have an idea where in Chrome I might fix this? -- -- Steve --

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/04/2013 06:19 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 04/04/2013 06:17 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new email >> with "u...@domain.com" in the address field. If I click on the same link >> in Chrome,

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/04/2013 07:29 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 04/04/2013 07:34 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 04/04/2013 06:19 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On 04/04/2013 06:17 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>>> If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/05/2013 08:42 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote: >>> It is. It's got to be something to do with Chrome, but I can't find any >>> setting there. >> >> There are no setting

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/05/2013 12:15 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 10:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> O >> It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting >> launched, but the word "mailto:"; appears in the email address if >> launc

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird [SOLVED]

2013-04-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/05/2013 03:41 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 05/04/13 17:59, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 04/05/2013 08:42 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >>> On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote: >>>>> It is. It's got to be s

OT: Linode doubling RAM

2013-04-16 Thread Steven Stern
FYI, if you're doing any hosting on Linode, they've announced a free doubling of RAM for all systems. If you have a system there, put it into the upgrade queue. http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/09/linode-nextgen-ram-upgrade/ -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
I've been using Tomboy for ages to keep track of all sorts of stuff, but now I need to have that same info available on other platforms (e.g., my Mac, iPad, iPhone), so I'm thinking that Evernote is the solution. Have you tried "nixnote"? What are your solutions for making your notes portable?

Re: cross-platform notes / tomboy / evernote

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/18/2013 11:09 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Steven Stern > wrote: >> Have you tried "nixnote"? > > I played with nixnote a while back. It worked. > Being Java based, it should work on OpenJDK in Linux and also Mac OS-X.

Re: Can't upgrade Fedora 17

2013-04-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/18/2013 03:41 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > I can't cleanly upgrade my Fedora installation (I use --skip-broken), > below is error reported by yum: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package febootstrap-supermin-helper.x86_64 0:3.20-1.fc17 will be > obsolet

Re: Who? Me?? Attacked???

2013-04-21 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/21/2013 03:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > Arora has just crashed. SELinux reports that I may be under > attack and should report. I'm guessing it's a lot more likely SELinux is > being needlessly paranoid. (I'm running F17, fully updated, and arora had > a probably excessive number of

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

2013-04-23 Thread Steven Stern
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ Wikipedia is converting to MariaDB. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproj

Re: I must be missing something basic

2013-04-23 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/23/2013 06:05 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I want to transfer a dvd image from my laptop (ubuntu 12.04.2) to my fedora > 18 box that has selinux disabled. Wired connection to my router allows F18 to > browse to U12 and see the file and right click copy, but trying to paste into > a folder in

Re: yum installed name only?

2013-05-04 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/04/2013 08:21 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > Trying to do a yum version of: > > rpm -qa --queryformat %10(NAME) > ~/var/tmp/box1.list > > yum list installed ? > yum list installed |awk '{print $1}' -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

2013-05-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/05/2013 11:12 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? > > Without yum-fastestmirror any yum install is excuciatingly slow, think > 256 Kbps or slower. > However if I enable yum-fastestmirror I download from the local mirror > in .AR

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/09/2013 04:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/09/2013 01:51 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> F17, XFCE as well. On my systems, an icon appears on the desktop when >> the media is inserted--but it is NOT mounted. > > Have you checked to see if you've set Removable Media to automount? If > so, it's

Re: fedora18 and ipods/iphones

2013-05-10 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/10/2013 08:44 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno gio, 09/05/2013 alle 21.52 +0930, Tim ha scritto: >> Allegedly, on or about 09 May 2013, Dario Lesca sent: >>> For iP*, cell phone and Cloud, try Richard Stallman's solution: >>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031411-richard-stallman.htm

Re: Howto convert DEB's to run in Fedora

2013-05-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/12/2013 10:09 AM, Jim wrote: > How can I convert a DEB to install in Fedora ? http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/alien-command-examples/ Get alien here: http://krege.fedorapeople.org/alien/ Next question: Is it a good idea or would you be better off compiling the program from source? --

Re: FC18 Installation: No X comes

2013-05-18 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/18/2013 01:25 PM, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: >> I hope that helps > > Great, Martin! It did help ! ;) > I installed over 600 packages and was able to run startx. > But after rebooting X doesn't start but again only CLI comes. :( > Probably you know where the frog is sitting, don't you? > >

Re: Password problem

2013-05-20 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/20/2013 08:02 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that > list, but this is more of a > general thing). > > I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled > it and installed > lightdm. > > Everything was work

Re: firefox frozes

2013-05-23 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/23/2013 10:24 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > With the new version of firefox (21, fedora 18), it frozes every time that > I load thesaurus.com! > Then I need to kill it. > It's OK on my system. Have you tried starting firefox with all extensions disabled? http://support.mozilla.org

losing WiFi Access - prompted for password

2013-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
F18... Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the network seems to be having problems. Potential changes on my system include May 07 21:39:32 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64 May 25 15:3

Re: losing WiFi Access - prompted for password

2013-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/30/2013 11:41 AM, staticsafe wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:35:00AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> F18... >> >> Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for >> my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device

Re: username is not in sudoers folder

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/11/2013 08:31 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent: >> To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin >> tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password. >> However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person wh

Re: username is not in sudoers folder

2013-06-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >> When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then >> return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as >> root. > > That's why

Terminal title doesn't change correctly

2013-06-12 Thread Steven Stern
Suggested by the sudo discussion. When I open a new XFCE terminal, the window title is "terminal". If I ssh to another computer via ssh mooch, the title changes to "sdstern@mooch:~" Typing "exit" to return to my desktop does not affect the window title. Starting clean, "ssh -p 12345 linode.ster

Re: Terminal title doesn't change correctly

2013-06-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/12/2013 01:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:52:09 -0500 > Steven Stern wrote: > >> Suggested by the sudo discussion. >> >> When I open a new XFCE terminal, the window title is "terminal". >> >> If I ssh to another compute

Re: Terminal title doesn't change correctly

2013-06-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/13/2013 12:00 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:12:28 -0500 > Steven Stern wrote: > >> On 06/12/2013 01:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:52:09 -0500 >>> Steven Stern wrote: >>> >>>> Suggested by

Re: Ask detail operate process about edit sudoers file by terminal

2013-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/13/2013 11:37 PM, LingxianGuo wrote: > As a beginner,I am using Fedora18 64bit.The Firefox needs the plugin of > the Adobe flash Player,I have downloaded the file of > install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz.By terminal, when I copied > the file of libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/

Re: Ask detail operate process about edit sudoers file by terminal

2013-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/14/2013 08:11 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> remove the comment before the 2nd line here so it looks like this: >> > ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands >> > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > This line *IS* uncommented by default. > Hmmm... Maybe it's been so long since I've h

Re: Ask detail operate process about edit sudoers file by terminal

2013-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/14/2013 01:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Doug wrote: >> ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands >> %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL This line *IS* uncommented by default. >>> Hmmm... Maybe it's been so long since I've had to d

Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

2013-06-21 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/21/2013 11:17 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Today, I am getting this message at boot time: > > "Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has > exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up > your data regularly. A parameter out of ra

Re: OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

2013-06-21 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/21/2013 11:24 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern > wrote: >>> Today, I am getting this message at boot time: >>> >>> "Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has >>> exceeded its no

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-24 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/21/2013 04:16 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? > > I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some > people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk > of at most 1 T. Are they correct? >

Re: fedup f18->f19 going OK?

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/02/2013 08:02 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm about to try fedup f18->f19. Any reports good/bad on this route? > Just finished the upgrade. Some of my XFCE settings aren't quite right, but the changes aren't anything I can't live with... or care about enough to change right away. There doesn

Re: fedup f18->f19 going OK?

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/02/2013 03:23 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 07/02/2013 08:02 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I'm about to try fedup f18->f19. Any reports good/bad on this route? >> > Just finished the upgrade. Some of my XFCE settings aren't quite right, > but the changes aren&

Re: fedup f18->f19 going OK?

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/02/2013 04:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/03/13 04:32, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 07/02/2013 03:23 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 07/02/2013 08:02 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> I'm about to try fedup f18->f19. Any reports good/bad on this route? >&g

Re: fedup f18->f19 going OK?

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/02/2013 06:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/03/13 06:13, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 07/02/2013 04:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 07/03/13 04:32, Steven Stern wrote: >>>> On 07/02/2013 03:23 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>>>> On 07/02/2013 08:02 AM, Nea

Re: F18 -> F19 using fedup

2013-07-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/03/2013 06:21 PM, Temlakos wrote: > Did somebody ask how fedup would work out in a straight upgrade from F18 > to F19? > > I just ran through it. > > For future reference: tell people how long it will take. > > About ten minutes to prepare... > > and then two and a half hours to run the u

WiFi Fails - F19

2013-07-04 Thread Steven Stern
This is something that happened during F18 and seems to have been fixed. Has there been a regression to the current F19 kernel? Description of problem: After some time in operation, the WiFi network is dropped. Network Manager attempts to connect, but reconnection is unsuccessful. Reboot is requ

Re: F-19, VirtualBox problem -

2013-07-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/05/2013 08:50 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > Can anyone explain what is going on here? Error message: > > "This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detects an i686 CPU." > > [bobg@box7 ~]$ uname -a > Linux box7 3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:24:23 UTC 2013

cron DELAY

2013-07-07 Thread Steven Stern
Since F19, the following have appeared in my daily logwatch: - Cron Begin **Unmatched Entries** INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 37% if used.) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 4% if used.) -- Cron End

Re: SQL Issue

2013-07-09 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/09/2013 07:38 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > I did a test install of Fedora 19 on a spare machine and discovered that > MySQL is no longer part of the Distro being replaced by MariaDB. > > Has anyone tried to run WordPress in conjunction with MariaDB and if so > any problems. > > Thanks > Mike

Re: SQL Issue

2013-07-09 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/09/2013 01:23 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 09/07/13 20:11, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> And no, I won't engage in a flame war, so I'll stop this here. > > No you won't you just start it. > But, to get back to the OP's question -- which didn't seem to get much on-topic love -- no, there's no p

FedUp leftovers

2013-07-10 Thread Steven Stern
According to the docs, "Files are downloaded to /var/lib/fedora-upgrade and will be automatically cleaned up after the upgrade process is finished." I have 1643 .rpm files in /var/lib/fedora-upgrade Is it OK to delete them? -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/12/2013 02:45 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released? What > are the main reasons? > Assuming you're on a version that still gets support, patches, and updates: 1. If you've chosen Fedora, it's because you like living near t

Re: Cannot login into home directory

2013-07-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/12/2013 05:27 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > When I login, I get the following problem: > > -- psmith: /home/psmith: change directory failed: Permission denied > > I have the following: > > drwx--. 191 psmith psmith 12288 Jul 12 23:13 psmith > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advan

Re: Schr?dinger?s Cat

2013-07-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/13/2013 07:49 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Is there any way to tell grub2 to display this somewhat nicer in the > menu, like in /etc/fedora-release: Schrödinger’s Cat. > > Thanks I also find this annonying. Apparently the default font isn't unicode, but the OS name is coded that way.

Re: Schr?dinger?s Cat

2013-07-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/13/2013 02:05 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:39 AM, lee wrote: >> There's something about fonts in grub.cfg: > > When do we get rid of grub and grub2 and design a BM4H? > (Boot Manager for Humans) > > FC > I added this to the kernel line in grub.conf and it made t

Chrome showing no text

2023-05-05 Thread steven stern
Something in one of the updates I installed today (but not Chrome) has broken chrome.  It's now showing any text.  Ideas? https://i.imgur.com/5DsPMMe.png (No, not using Chrome isn't really an option.) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject

Thunderbird 115 FC 38

2023-09-23 Thread steven stern
I see that Thunderbird 115.2 is in koji, but it looks like it has not been build for Fedora 38. Is that coming? https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=39 https://i.imgur.com/bKEMxjt.png ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

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