Re: RAM shows less

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jatin K wrote: > On Monday 10 May 2010 08:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Jatin K wrote: >> >>> Dear All >>> >>> I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3 >>> RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames? [SOLVED]

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
arguments to cd, so you should pass all args, not just the > first). So: > > cd () > { >builtin cd "$@" || return >[[ -f ./.autorun ]] && . ./.autorun > } > You still need to quote or escape the directory name, though. This should work e

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
om being evaluated, although single quotes and backslash do. In other words you have two separate issues here, the last one is no surprise. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot --

Re: RAM shows less

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
rite this in a VM on a 32 bit machine using all 8GB of memory. -- 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 sub

Re: RAM shows less

2010-05-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
he output[1] on "cat /var/log/dmesg" > > [1] http://cl1p.net/jk/ > The log seems to be missing all of the memory stuff at the beginning, lines with terms like 820e and MTRR in them. But I'm buying that it's possible to be related to the built in graphics. Does the BIOS

Re: RAM shows less

2010-05-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jatin K wrote: > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 04:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Jatin K wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 05:27 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> >>>> Jatin K wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dear

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
7.0.0.X, which seemed to allow a unique entry in known_hosts on the originating machine. Since all of 127/8 is used for loopback, I decided to use another address for the made up machine name. You still have to edit /etc/hosts for each new machine, but once and only once per machine. -- Bill Da

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
es_install and install with the -n option (if you wish) to inspect what they will do, or just "su -c "make modules_install modules" after the build is done. You didn't ask: I run my build in a script command, so I have the details of any error messages

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
You building and installing on the same machine is a special case, but in general the built kernel is portable and the mkinitrd is part of the install and must match the final machine on which the kernel boots. And install must be done as root... -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
firewall, and add blocking rules for individual sites, and the linear rule traverse soon made new connections slow down. That was with only about 1300 blocked sites. I changed the way I was doing things and avoided the problem, but it is possible to bog a system down with a small number of ru

Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
eer. A netbook with mobile broadband would be plan B if you really have the need, it has it's own UPS, can connect and start a VPN if it detects the server is down, etc. For a long outage you might want a model which can wake on timer, has SSD, and otherwise can be useful for days without powe

Re: F13 upgrades post here, please.

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Hopefully 2.6.35 will happen during the life of the release, and that should provide better battery life for laptops and less heat for desktop. It's really a great release, I'm sorry I can't use it unless I fall back to the old kernel with some security issues. -- Bill Davi

Re: Linux for T1 bonding ???

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ime won't change. And you want to advertise larger TCP window sizes so that you will back up some packets and actually use the bonding. Some bonding methods don't put packets for a given connection on the "other" wire until they have a few packets waiting. -- Bill Dav

Re: Why are the torrents so slow?

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot;something isn't right." Possibly the client setup. I usually set for 200kB seed, and usually only see 20kB average, maybe 100kB in a few 10 sec slices. Maybe someone can provide a hint as to what needs to be tuned. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

FC13 infofeed RSS coming?

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
I normally follow updates to official releases on the infofeed RSS, since it tells me not only what was changed but for new apps, what the app does. Hopefully now there will be one for FC13 as well. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than fro

Re: Why are the torrents so slow?

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I have often wondered why there is so little traffic when I'm seeding, >> so the answer may be "something isn't right." Possibly the client >> setup. I usually set for 200kB seed, an

Re: F12->F13 Upgrade: WOW! That went well.

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
d to > reinstall grub to get my system booting again, but that was definitely > annoying. > And did the upgrade finish? Sounds like one of those "out of space in /boot" things, which might be in the log. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of th

Re: FC13 and (k)qemu

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ix? I have been pretty happy with KVM so far, running a number of OS under 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.or

Re: How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
g your driver from CLI. The kernel driver isn't bad for modern hardware, and there are some test versions (or were last time I looked) before you go closed source. Support for old ATI hardware seems to have deteriorated, you don't have that problem. -- Bill Davidsen "We have m

OpenVPN server setup

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
dle getting it translated? I'm doing this as a favor, and minimum pain would be nice. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: qemu nic missing after F13 upgrade

2010-05-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ript, perhaps) it doesn't get a DHCP response. The bug report is old, I did verify that previous qemu-kvm did work with "-net nic" on the command line, but that seems changed. Other than having to decide if a VM was to be a client using host IP or server using the tap, it all

Re: F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

2010-05-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot; choice the menu offers. You have to edit/delete udev rules to make it work right. That also fixes some CD burning issues when udev "peeks" at the media in the middle of a burn. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the ma

Re: K3b won't accept converted Wav files from MP3

2010-05-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
like a Microsoft DRM thing that K3B is doing. Have you verified that the wav files are valid? Try to listen with 'play' (from the sox package). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked."

Re: F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/27/2010 02:50 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Greg Woods wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:12 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote: >>>> a CD or DVD gets automatically mounted >>>> when inserted into the cd/DVD drive. >>

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
>> Cheers! > > No comments? Does it suck so bad? No, you just overestimate the ping time taken by post->read->act->comment. If it sucked you would get 20 posts by now telling you so. :-( -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompete

Re: F13 - VLC does not start

2010-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
irection ? > Happy to say I don't have the problem, mine starts fine, runs fine. I does tend to hang at the end, taking 4-6 sec before it quits, with the last frame displayed. May be due to bad support for my Intel graphics in FC13. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
cdrecord installed, they ship a look-alike which is really named tokem, or hokem, or something like that, which doesn't work well on some burners. Unfortunately you have to build your own from source, but it's worth doing in my opinion. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: Omega live -

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/29/2010 12:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Is there an Omega Live version of F-13 [for USB flash drive] to be >> available and if so when? >> > > I am hoping to do a initial release before next week. > I look forward to it.

Re: RSS for F13 updates

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: > What's the appropriate contact to request new feeds at: > http://planet.fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ > > Should I file an RFE in bugzilla? I posted this question recently and got no answer. <4bfc46fd.4020...@tmr.com> -- Bill Davidsen "W

Re: How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
a number of religious (or maybe political) reasons, but for many people they work where the included drivers don't. The new drivers are much improved for 3D and special effects, not so much for 2D non-game work. You may also be able to run in vesa mode, using the video=vesafb:spec boot l

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
> > Hopefully, this is enough of a pointer to be of some help. > This is an excellent introduction. Alternatively you can set up a bridge of your own, and use "-net nic -net tap" to get a unique IP for the VM. I combine this with setting the MAC address so my DHCP server assig

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
either 3 - possible solution below find . -name "*'*.wav" | while read item; do dir=${item%/*} oldname=${item##*/} newname=${oldname//\'/} mv "$dir/$oldname" "$dir/$newname" done Beware typos, I just typed that in... -- Bill Davidsen &q

Re: encrypted disk/partition

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
ypt' checkbox for each new partition you create. -- 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 ch

Re: F13 Live CD - No Video

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
u need "nomodeset" as well, and may want to use a vga initializer. I have used combinations like "nomodeset vga=0x318 video=vesafb" and there are optional additional options to video= you might find useful. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling o

Re: encrypted disk/partition

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
fred smith wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:29:10PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> fred smith wrote: >>> in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM. >>> If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can >>&g

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster > > One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as > an already existing file. > Here there be tigers ;-) I did pull out the dire

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
many!" And for some things webkit and Gecko are not /quite/ the same. -- 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: Bash History How to?

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
o have > /tmp/.bash_history > which may not be good :( > You can add "[ -f $HISTFILE ] && rm $HISTFILE" to your .bashrc. Or just the rm command if you're more trusting than I... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompete

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
dn't use xargs in the script I offered earlier. But since I wanted to avoid doing the requested name changes to the directory names, I read it and used bash editing capabilities. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of th

Re: Network Speed issues on Fedora 12

2010-06-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
lem. > Windows Server 2008 runs fine on the same VMWare server. > > Any ideas here? This has been driving me mad and I have seen nothing > useful on this issue in my various Google searches. > > Thanks! > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling o

pdf paper format

2010-06-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
pdf=>postscript and postscript=>graphic_image conversions and print scaled, but if there's a tool which saves the time and effort I'd rather use it. Any ideas? -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creati

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
needs for features like restoring individual files, encryption, software error correction, etc, will result in better suggestions. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slas

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-06-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
risk. I just tune the MAC address of each VM so my DHCP puts the right IP on it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot kvm-start.sh Description: Bourne shell script -- users mailing

Re: Goodbye Fedora XDMCP and VNC

2010-06-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
new drivers providing 3D rendered cavorting windows on a small subset of video hardware, and 800x600 VESA mode on formerly useful hardware. I have a working laptop and use it as a display for servers... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: I did gOCR with screenshots, if helpful

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
sfy various "management shall have copies of all passwords" directives. -- 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: FlashPlayer-10.1.X86_64 RPM ?

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
r me. And it was a tar, not an rpm. -- 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

Re: system-monitor applet does'nt show disk usage info

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
agree doesn't reflect what's happening and may miss 99% of what iostat shows, your text says "network" which is unlikely to show disk activity. In the case of network, mine works, in the case of disk, only shows some activity, looks like it may be monitoring things at the filesy

Re: Strange message from yum.

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
> 531364629360 71% / > tmpfs1014200 27084 > 987116 987116 3% /dev/shm > /dev/sda11929068 115376 > 1715700 1813692 7% /boot > /dev/sda5

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
dded "acpi=off" to the > install kernel and still have problems. Any advice? > When you post a question, provide enough information to let people help you. "installer failing" gives no one a clue, you didn't say what the VM looked like, 32 or 64 bit, etc, etc.

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
u have to upgrade in three steps, because some important things changed with several releases, such as RPM format and some things in /lib and /etc which are layed out a little differently. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
o save. Sample attached. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot pg-grep.pl Description: Perl program -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
he maintainers?" Or "It would save me some effort if someone else would do this?" -- 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 T

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
the last two doing production things. Don't recall doing anything special, however, I am running all VMs from qemu-kvm command line, not adding a a hypervisor to the problem. All work pretty well, do add "-usbdevice tablet" to the command line, makes it smoother for a reason

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
> network on it. Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for me unless > I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back > to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. > I find that using an ssh tunnel to the host VNC connection worked in a

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ust to prevent problems which are unlikely to be an issue. >>> Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? >>> > > Have you run an SSD ? Is longevity really an issue or is it folklore ? > I guess longevity is more an optimization than a issue th

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
andom reads > > I'd love to see benches on this; not butt-dyno opinion blog pages. Please post when you do them, I'm going to assume there's no conspiracy and the consensus opinion is right. I would expect disk buffer usage to be slightly smaller under some io loads, but i

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ugging an SSD > disk? >(What controls the mount? hal, udev, XFCE, Gnome, kde, ...) > I am using kdm, XFCE and probably bits of gnome > I would look at udev rules, that's not an answer just some advice. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the inc

Re: F13: Goes to sleep unwanted.

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
er, I can assure you my servers don't do that and my laptops usually do, so that would be my first thought. I'm sure you can prevent users from selecting that option, but how doesn't jump out at me. Let us know if that's the issue. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mor

Re: Mounting KVM image

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
or document. Use libguestfs! > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374992.html > He mentioned that his system lacks kvm capability, will guestfish run on such hardware? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than fro

Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
That isn't going to make people very happy. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe-Temporarily-Kills-64-Bit-Flash-For-Linux -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein --

Support for audio on webcams

2010-06-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
This may be related to x86_64 install, but I'm told there's an issue in 32 bit as well. I have a webcam, Logitech laptop model, and I'm trying to capture to sound and audio. This is a log when connected: Jun 12 14:24:23 posidon kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and addr

Re: Support for audio on webcams

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/14/2010 08:19 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> This may be related to x86_64 install, but I'm told there's an issue in >> 32 bit as well. >> >> I have a webcam, Logitech laptop model, and I'm trying to capture to >

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
rts anymore? >> > > Userland apps can only trigger kernel oops if there is a kernel/driver > bug ... > Just so, any kernel oops (or other misbehavior) is a kernel bug. Period. A stable kernel assumes evil intent in all processes and behaves appropriately. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
can make a qcow2 copy on write image of a machine, do my browsing in that with appropriate network control (not allowed to see anything inside the firewall) and then just 'shred' the image after use. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
onsumer, if there's penny to be made it will be made, and if product lockdown and legal intimidation can get every last penny the hell with choice. Choice is only good when you can choose us over them, once you're locked into us it should be a trap door, no return possible. When it com

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
e movie off the TV on a single standard play cassette, or on extended > play, a whole evening of TV, 6 hours. Beta couldn't. > > Also, IIRC, VHS machines were cheaper than Beta ones. Cheaper. Longer > playing. Sold! Consumers have spoken. ;-) > Any vendor could make VHS b

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
I do just such a backup nightly between machines, and no lockups on machines from fc9 to fc13. Something in you hardware is possibly tickling the problem. Possible solution, add a remote syslog line to syslog.conf and keep a copy of your logs elsewhere. If the hang is in network won't work,

Re: NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution

2010-06-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
map to "albacore.your.domain" because /etc/resolv.conf didn't have the search path set. Try using the FQDN instead of just the node name and see if the problem goes away. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinati

Re: Support for audio on webcams PING! someone must use this

2010-06-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Does no one use USB audio? Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/14/2010 08:19 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> This may be related to x86_64 install, but I'm told there's an issue in >> 32 bit as well. >> >> I have a webcam, Logitech laptop model, and I'

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
a secure connect, unless you want to share with everyone there. I despise NM, but the CLI seems to change just a little with upgrades, public WiFi frequently has its own ideas of connect protocols, and life is short. Draw what conclusions you will from that, but be aware that CLI is a lo

Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
ould it be installed by default? Very few people have the hardware, and the installer can put stuff like that in only if needed. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mail

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ing scheme, that is visible as well, unfortunately. Using ssh and port tunneling should be secure, as well. -- 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.fedorapro

Re: Bugzilla 513386 - Removing large file kills JFS

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ou need to load the jfs module before mount. I assume the way you will do that is by the proper entry in /etc/modprobe.d directory. Maintainers: why doesn't the module get loaded on demand like other f/s types? Because he "moved to FC12" (I assume an upgrade) rather than a default in

Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
t memory is full of ripped data not yet written to the disk. The fact that the first ten tracks went fast suggests that either the disk is the bottleneck, or the typical thin optical drive in the laptop isn't as good at reading as your desktop, and is getting errors near the end of the medi

Re: Firefox 3.6.4 and SElinux (F12)

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
> installed) > > Any advice? > Relabel /usr/local if /usr/bin/firefox works. Sounds like you pulled this version from some other repo. The labeling may be wrong on the directory. Perhaps whoever supplied this version can help you, the one from the Fedora repo (firefox-3.6.4-1.fc13.x86_

Getting FC13 to use VESA mode for Intel video

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
oll the o/s back. By edict hardware will not change for 53 weeks, change of video is not happening and dammit shouldn't be needed. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein -- users mailing list

Re: Save video stream?

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Firefox does > provide a usable image too. > > How can I save a short clip to a file, preferably using software > provided with F-13? > I suspect ffmpeg will let you save it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the mac

Re: Multimedia video on netbook

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ope some fedoral developer sees this :) > > So, select the second screensaver entry and that will bring up a > gui for you to set what to do when idle. > You can uncheck the box and it will not blank the screen. > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: yum 'shortcomings'?

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
n't know about it. I have used the "leaves" plugin, and like many things in Linux it may do what you tell it and not what you meant. However, in general that does what you want, and is easier to use but less selective than history. Particularly if history has rolled on sinc

Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
h different implied options and side effects. Even people who has used the tool for years had to look up the nuances. There was a mnemonic to help remember, but it was amazingly obscene and not something you could give people as a usage aid, and the socially correct one was hard to remembe

Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:14 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam >> wrote: [__stuff__] > I think we are all saying the same thing. > In such a way that it sounds as though we disagree... :

Re: preupgrade isn't efficient

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
dled. As opposed to handled badly, which you really don't want. -- 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 c

Re: qemu-kvm Trying to "Write" to a cdrom/sr0 ?? , Why?

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Not so much, after using qemu-img to create a vdisk, something like: qemu-kvm -m 500 -hda MyXP.img -cdrom XPimageCD.iso Depending on your install your may want "-vga std" but the initial boot will notice no bootable image on the vdisk, you probably will be fine without specifying soun

Re: Ideas for integrating a SIP account, N900, Magic Jack, Linux, etc...

2010-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
with the N900 and maybe > the iPhone and then make (cheap) calls anywhere. > > Can one share a Magic Jack connection as a SIP service ? > > How can I use Linux to do some of this stuff without resort to a full > blown asterisk installation ? > > Thanks ! > -- Bill Davidsen

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot) should copy everything. Instead of the cp you could use rsync: rsync -a /old_disk/ /new_disk/ # type as shown, trailing / needed Then chroot to the new disk root and install grub. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinat

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
d it be sdb? Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds. >> >> > Are you sure /dev/sdb exists? > Could it be /dev/sdc or sdd? > Do ls -l /dev/sdb > Also, sudo grep 'sd\.' /var/log/messages > to see how many drives were "probed" and att

Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
bad video. It may not be as good as the rest, but you can make it better, then produce a complete video without a gap. Yes, the first time will be a learning curve, but you can do better than you have. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

Re: Fedora 13 live-cd doesn't boot on HP 6930p

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
are, try to mount the non-booting CD and see if it mounts as a filesystem with one big file in it. You also might want to install the real cdrecord program, actively maintained by the original author. Works far better for me, but you have to compile yourself. -- Bill Davidsen "We have

Re: HD Home move editor

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ossless > hufyuv avi file with mencoder, then use avidemux on > it and encode the edited result in any of the formats > avidemux supports. What is hufyuv? Is that another name for yuv422p? Or another format completely? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the i

Re: HD Home move editor

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:07:27 -0400 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> What is hufyuv? Is that another name for yuv422p? Or another format >> completely? > > Well, I have no idea what yuv422p is, so I couldn't say :-). > > Hufyuv is what I ca

Re: Compiling a kernel problems

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
working system is here: > > http://pastebin.com/0AnVBV7s > > The kernel config for the attempt is here: > > http://pastebin.com/gi9ybDwS > > Thanks for any ideas. > Best regards, > Alex -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: Flash videos not playing in Fedora 11 firefox browser

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
er of isolation. At the cost of being a PITA if you don't have a base up-to-date 32 bit VM laying around to clone with qemu-img. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- user

Re: Ext4 errror?

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
as had issues with SMP in the past, and LVM is really not needed unless things are likely to change (and adds overhead, and possibly has issues with barriers). I have the feeling that you have an overly high ratio of solution to problem on the complexity scale. -- Bill Davidsen "We ha

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
have to hand mung things from any machine here other than my desktop, but which anyone reading the list can do, subscribed or not. Okay, mail on this list is not perfect, now unless someone has a fix which can go at the server level, could we close the topic? I didn't repl

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
m gets far worse. >> Again, other lists manage just fine. Speculation. > > Are you volunteering to do the work to make that happen? Having run mailing lists and ISP size (6M users) news servers, I can suggest that the practice of hand moderation of non-subscribers and new subscribers r

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
t mute. Everyone has their favorite misuse to annoy them. > This is a community not a helpline, we're not all here just to solve the > problems of hit-and-run question askers. We expect participation. > That's the price that you pay for asking for help. > Or giving help, but you

Re: no sound on F11, F12 and now F13 but sound on Omega 12 live??? wtf??

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
applications for sound here} A lot of people have functional old hardware they can't replace, for financial or technical reasons. That's why there is oss support, to support the hardware which needs it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompet

Re: no sound on F11, F12 and now F13 but sound on Omega 12 live??? wtf??

2010-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dave Stevens wrote: > On Tuesday, July 06, 2010 08:38:38 am Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Rick Sewill wrote: >>> On 07/05/2010 10:23 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >> . >> >>> I am wondering if OSS is enabled on your system. >>> >>> Please look for thin

Re: no sound on F11, F12 and now F13 but sound on Omega 12 live??? wtf??

2010-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Sewill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/06/2010 10:38 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Rick Sewill wrote: >>> On 07/05/2010 10:23 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >> . >>> I am wondering if OSS is enabled on your system. >&g

Re: Install Fedora 13 from Hard Drive

2010-07-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
ust do the same stuff you did for the 64bit install. And if you're trying to do something totally different, please restate where you have the ISO image, where you want to have the install, and any other useful details about what you are really trying to do. -- Bill Davidsen &quo

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