Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ake lots of stuff work. Note: it may confuse something as well, although I haven't had a problem yet. -- 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.fedora

Re: SELinux

2010-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
r so down the error report you see with sealert there will be a line saying something like "to allow this run {cmd}" and all you have to do is drag the {cmd} it gives you and drop it in a console. This is not always true, but often enough to be worth looking. You need to relabel /usr/

Re: HTML editor under gnome

2010-09-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
so it has a browser, email > client, compozer and IRC client. I am actually typing this email on > seamonkey. Not to mention that the "mail" part also does NNTP (aka news) and RSS feeds. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent t

Re: Kernel 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64 breaks my BCM3412 WiFi card!

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
erminates, resulting in qemu-kvm 100% CPU use. -- 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 subscrip

Re: Print multiple emails to one file

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ow. It was > right around Linux v1.0, actually. I believe the program was called > "pretty print" or something. Oh well, better get started. > If they were in individual files you could use mpage, if that helps. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bu

Re: How to pass two routers

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
which pass all this traffic to site B, using gateway router-B > The least complicated would be to set up a VPN between the routers, after that proxy server setup. Both are in various wiki and magazine articles, a search will give information to make a decision. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: Adobe Flash Player 10

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
). This older version will work, but has some significant security issues, addressed in 32 bit by 10.1.82.76 the latest 32 bit available. Note that 10.1.x.x has a problem of its own, some sites are sniffing for "10.0" and tell you to upgrade to Flash10 to view their content. CSCCSS[1

Re: Adobe Flash Player 10

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Just go to Adobe site and download the flash player for linux. Choose > the rpm version - and the rest done by fedora installer. > Linux x86_64 is no longer supported. I think the O.P. is running 64bit. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the b

Re: No Sound

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ll, related to KVM, not sound. -- 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.fedo

Re: Problems installing with multiple drives

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
d by having the RAID members as whole drives rather than partitions, I saw speculation on that a year ago or so. Let us know if any of this is useful. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slash

Working ATI driver?

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
himself, but having an expensive new system which I have to run in text mode is a bit over the top. Currently running kernel 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 getting little use of the system. I tried two other boards, different boards, similar results. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today

Re: Working ATI driver?

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
suvayu ali wrote: > On 24 September 2010 15:18, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I have a new ATI Radeon card in a new system, PCI says: >> >>03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD >> 4350] >>03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologi

Re: Need advice for which photo printer to buy!

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ript itself. I do very little color, so that's an issue for me. It also does double sided printing, something I find useful for keeping my paper thin, rather than anything I use for presentation, where pretty is more important. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: Openoffice converting to The Word Format.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
in general it works well. When I was writing for Sysadmin and other magazines regularly I got no complaints, and I assume that the non-computer ones are using Word. There are several variants, I used Word97 for stuff. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: Video in a small window -

2010-09-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Can anyone suggest a means of doing that? > I just drop the vlc to 1/4 size with the drop down menu (there's a shortcut, don't remember it offhand) and then drag and drop the window. I'm probably missing something, that's the way I watch TV (HDhomerun capture). -- Bill

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
a few TB between systems each week, once a week, so I've played with this a bit. [1] simple pipe test: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1k count=2M cat /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/null bs=1k count=2M look at the transfer rates reported and the system time. -- Bill Davidsen &quo

Re: (Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x constantly crashing

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
e time on unmaintained packages. Hopefully there will be a better package for RHEL-6.0 and packages for form-fill and lightning which are pretty desirable for business or home office use. At one point any lib which Fedora provided was more solid than what came with, but that'

Re: How to get f 12 -- *t*w*e*l*v*e*, twelve???

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
neral a reinstall is better, and setting up to allow that during initial install makes that fairly painless. -- 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

Re: OT: dynamic -> static lib

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
similar. Note that the executable if *HUGE* after, but it works. Got tired of fighting with new versions of gcc and libc. -- 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

Re: (Fedora 13) Seamonkey 2.0.x - bundling external libraries

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
on_of_system_libraries > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries -- 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: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 7 Oct 2010 at 17:36, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > From: Bill Davidsen > Subject: Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? > Date sent:Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:

Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Like anything good it will be slow. If you mean make unreadable to people who aren't known by three letter acronyms, and normal data, probably a few passes with dd or wipe are enough, but if you have state secrets or something illegal, go dban. www.dban.org. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: ffmpeg problem

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
> > >> > > > >> > > > >> ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg > > > > one more thing I found using ffmpeg to create a slideshow. > > > > > http://www.raiden.net/articles/using_ffmpeg_to_create_a_vide

Re: Fedora SMP and 12 core cpu's

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
hared memory will go a lot faster if the memory is in L1 cache than if it's off on another core. Happy reading. -- 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

Re: Installing F14 Beta

2010-10-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
ead > "X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!" Yes, there are many new users who don't understand the principle of asking the question in the place where the people who know the answers might be found. Technical questions are like fishing, if you don't go w

Re: Connection wizard

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Noel Edyvane wrote: >Fedora 13 did not have a connection wizard. > > Will the connection wizard to added to Fedora 14? > - What is a connection wizard - how does it differ from NetworkManager? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompet

Re: Using hdparm to enable diabled features of a hard drive

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
ecific) > > So, my questions are: > > a. how can I use hdparm to enable write/read verify? That's what I am > interested in. >Man page does not mention this. I don't think hdparm is the tool to install new firmware with more features. There are FOSS programs

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
the solution to run chroot sftp: http://goo.gl/KuKl Linux sftp, Win putty, and Mac (sftp?) work with keys. I think this is probably the safest way to go, dropping the user chroot into public_html. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
by itself, so win-win. If you want presentation quality, start learning troff. I wrote hundreds of pages in troff, "back when," and it is great at text to beautiful. Not a skill in high demand, and there are other things. Knuth would tell you that TeX is the one to use. -- Bill Da

Re: Suspend/sleep

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
pers don't pay attention to them. I > can testify that my recent eperience (a suspend problem, no less) > contradicts that. They are, in fact, very attentive. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 8 Oct 2010 at 16:21, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > From: Bill Davidsen > Subject: Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? > Date sent:Fri, 08 Oct 2

Re: Fedora 14 livecd fails when converted to liveusb ?!?

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
orgot that there > is a testing mailing list specially for that. Sorry, my mistake. > This isn't an FC14 issue, it's a livecd issue, and perfectly on topic here. JD not only posts off-topic stuff of his own here, he is giving you bad advice about your post, which is fi

Re: Suggestions about podcast apps (rhythmbox and vlc)

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
RECORD button? The default save format is "same as source" and the file name will start with vlc, but you should get a recording. Any more info to add? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wi

Re: wodim and speed setting

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
9:1.1.10-1 > Dummy transition package for wodim > As I've said before, if Fedora doesn't like the license which comes with cdrecord, they should leave it out and not put in a different package with the same name. The morality of putting out an ersatz product who's

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
I do for some accounts) I will stick to alpine. Allows piping messages into processes, multiple select criteria for a group of messages, and generally access to low level tools. And also it allows display of the full message headers and content should that be needed. Like the Seamonkey ^U shortcut.

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ust run Microsoft Word on that OS," which I saw in a bid. I lost a bid because my servers "weren't esthetically pleasing," so requiring AutoCad certainly makes the choice clear. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompeten

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ing is hard to beat > and without it I don't know how I would keep up with several large > volume mailing lists. > Seamonkey mail is great,and you can integrate news (NNTP) and POP/IMAP accounts, handle RSS (even Twitter feeds), etc. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
fair number of tweaks and I'd rather not. Any thoughts? -- 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 subsc

Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important parts returning "not implemented" status. Can someone point me to a source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX? The lack of functionality is becoming a real time-waster! -- Bill Davidsen

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important > parts returning "not implemented" status. Can someone point me to a > source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX? > The lack of functionality is becom

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
or all of your groups. But more > clients are around that handle multiple news servers, and quite well. > > In general, I have preferred news to mailing lists, though it's been a > long while since I bothered. > I actually ran my own server for a long time, and a mail to news ga

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ent as well as workers. I would really not like to fight this battle, I was hoping someone would answer the question I asked instead of assuming that I meant "what can I use instead of nslookup" which is not the problem. The issues are money, time, and office politics, and I ran "

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> You didn't mention bandwidth saving: You download a list of headers, >>> of what's become available since your last look, but you only >>> download the actual body of message when you go to read it. > > Bill Davidsen: >

Re: why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
reasonable number. I use "MaxJobs 100" -- unlikely I'll ever want to see > more job history than that. > Thanks, that's one of the better ideas I seen on the subject. I confess I would like to have an easy way to scale that to keep 2-3 days of history regardless of cou

Re: setup nfs w/o synchronizing uids?

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
would like to have a better fix than a series of one time hacks. On the other hand, I have a bunch of other machines which have uid match and take most of my time, so uid fixing has dropped to my "would be nice" list. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
it. > I think there is something funny there, but you need to find a way to show the problem every time, then refile a bug. If the maintainer can't see it s/he can't fix it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the m

Re: [Bulk] Re: gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
right click, and use menu copy and paste, which seems to work well but pastes at the text insert location vs. the cursor pointer location for many apps. Whatever works... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicke

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:03 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >> I would really not like to fight this battle, I was hoping someone >> would answer >> the question I asked instead of assuming that I meant "what can I use >> instead of >

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
the money. > Has AIX never deprecated a command before? > I have no idea, not to hear the AIX fanboys tell 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 li

Video editor

2011-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
"instant replay" and such. I have ugly and slow methods involving ffmpeg, vlc, and swearing, there must be a nice GUI to do stuff like this. If it could do things like adjust brightness and such as well, that would be nice, and faster than the scripts I use now. -- Bill Davidsen

Shared encrypted filesystem

2011-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
red" at various locations, but it would work if only one client at a time could access it, writes are rare, even needing access is unusual, but it does happen. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: Video editor

2011-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 02/22/2011 01:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Is there a video editor which can easily snip bits from several files and >> write >> them to another? We have video of a kids football game taken with multiple >> cameras, and would like to quic

Re: Shared encrypted filesystem

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Bill Davidsen > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:38 PM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject

Re: USB 3.0 support, and results.

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
ending on your drive, you may be able to improve that a bit by setting the max_sectors for the device higher. /sys/blockdev/sdX/device/max_sectors (from memory). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&quo

Re: Shared encrypted filesystem

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 02/22/2011 11:37 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Any thoughts on remote mounting a filesystem securely? Clearly I could just >> export it and count on the encryption in the WiFi and the VPN to protect the >> data, but that leaves it mounted in clear on

Re: Shared encrypted filesystem

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > On 02/23/2011 05:04 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> You have the right idea, I want to decrypt on the client, rather than mount >> on >> the server, thus the data on the server is just a file full of encrypted >> data, >> and not available as

Re: fc8 upgrade

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
run KVM virtualization, I would almost think that the easiest way out is to add a drive with FC14, and run the old system in a VM just to support the toolchain. Full disclosure: I have a RH8 (no, not FC8) in a VM, because I have an app which won't compile on recent g

FC15 and GNOME3

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
be a total show stopper. It's desirable in many cases to turn off the display and lock, but in business use the computer is likely to be doing something useful the users needs to continue. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
:-( I'm wondering how long it would take to write nslookup in perl. No, I'm not joking. -- 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: FC15 and GNOME3

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >> I read in a non-Fedora list that GNOME3 has dropped the ability to do power >> management, and that all laptops will suspend when the cover is closed, like >> it >> or not. Hopefully tha

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup >> between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to "look harder" for the >> fully >> functional source. :-( >

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
.com/2008/04/using-gnulinux-tools-to-recover-dvd.html > Unfortunately, I doubt he put the dvdisaster recovery data on the media. Remarkable program, but requires foresight. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wi

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/27/2011 08:30 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> These people not only don't pay for good advice, they won't even take it for >> free in many cases. >> > Good luck to you. No matter what direction you take, the chances are > sometime in

Re: FEDORA and RHEL

2011-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ve included the tried and true, and very stable > mods made in the fedora releases/updates. > > To wait from FC6 until FC12/13 to produce RHEL6 > is an awfully long time :( > So, I guess I will not be installing RHEL6. > If you want cutting edge go Fedora, if you want stable go

Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
s if I must, but I'd rather not roll my own if there's a solution of the "why didn't you just use..." type. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users maili

Re: Sorting by date

2011-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
6.25.avi > > How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? > Don't suppose these are in a directory and modification date has been preserved, are they? Because "ls -t" is your friend. Otherwise run ls output through a tiny perl program and convert to

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
g wrote: > On 03/04/2011 10:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm looking for a tool to validate email addresses, not just as deliverable >> but actually valid. > > if you have thunderbird available, you can use; > >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ad

Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

2011-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
wifi, I think some of the problems is addresses, there should be a session key so nothing should be "in the clear." Forcing VPN takes that a step farther, only accept packets from known MACs will eliminate some attacks, but wireless in general isn't secure without VPN. -- Bil

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
'fastboot' option on the kernel command line? Finally, how often do you boot? How long does your boot take now? How much effort is justified in making that faster? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of

Re: trap in shell programming

2011-03-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
gt; -- >> Cameron Simpson DoD#743 >> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ >> >> More computing sins have been committed in the name of performance, >> without necessariliy achieving it, than for all other reasons >> combined. - Wulf &g

Re: Speeding up boot time?

2011-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> What are you doing which is taking time? You can put a tool like btime in >> rc.local to show what the system did during boot, in terms of cpu use and >> iowait. > > I don't know about

qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
urday). -- 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/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > I just installed the recent qemu update on my KVM server which hosts my VMs > for > local services. I stopped all VMs, did the upgrade, and reboot. Now none of > the > VMs respond to mouse or have sound. > > Any thoughts? x86_64, all stock Fedora st

Re: Memtest mystery

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
;measurable but not noticeable" bit. Unusual, but I don't doubt you, some vendor may have cut the odd corner. -- 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 use

Re: JFS support in Fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
as just my thought. If the kernel needs updating, hopefully we would see it in 2.6.39, I think that's still in play, or 2.6.40 later this year. I don't see any inherent reason why JFS would need SElinux off, so someone might fix that in the future, were they so inclined. -- Bi

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
rules. iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp ! --dport 80 -j REJECT Would at least block only tcp, although I bet you will find that you want to do mail and such. You are rapidly entering deep waters, I fear, but it's your machine. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: (unknown)

2011-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ough to get it started if it is in fact a BSD VM pseudo 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 subsc

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
compdoc wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I just installed the recent qemu update on my KVM server which hosts my > VMs for >> local services. I stopped all VMs, did the upgrade, and reboot. Now none > of the >> VMs respond to mouse or have sound. > > Does the k

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
device tablet > Have not previously used the "tablet" option for console, only for VNC operation. So if that solves the problem it will be new behavior (I'll take it as workaround if it works, though). I'll report after I try it, been a long day. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: > On 03/19/2011 02:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> erikmccaskey64 wrote: >>> it's a normal desktop machines iptables firewall: >>> >>> If i want to block udp on dport 80 on the output chain, then is this >>> enough? i want to only allow t

Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

2011-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
see each other's packets and run the sniffer on the client. The way to avoid that is to encrypt all packets. Handing out a 2 bit subnet from dhcp only helps if the bad guys use it. They generally sniff every packet they can see, or at least that has the AP IP address as source of dest.

Re: qemu update for fc13 broken?

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > compdoc wrote: >>> Keyboard works, mouse doesn't. >>> Does that give you any clues? >> >> >> I'm using qemu-kvm 0.14.0, and I have to run the command like this or >> neither the mouse or keyboard works: >> >

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
depends on what you're familiar with. I personally thought W7 > looked very polished. I suspect it could probably be tweaked to work > like Gnome, but why bother. > I assume you mean GNOME-2, hopefully someone will release a GNOME-2 spin for FC15 when it comes out. If it can happen

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
de. > Amen. The vertical pattern of FC15 suggest bars, to remind you that the object is now to keep you in, lest you hurt yourself. GNOME-3 suck rocks off the bottom of the ocean IMHO. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the mach

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
d trash Linux. Never mind they > brought this upon themselves, Linux sucks and that is their mantra. > Yes, those of us that know better will have to suffer. > Yes, Linux wouldn't be safe if you let people just click on things to see what they did. It would be like Android. Wait

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
have a different vision than the users. I use Linux because it's my computer and I want the OS to help me use it, not tell me everything too dangerous. I've gone from S100 to latest chips running VMs without protection, thanks I'll pass on GNOME-3. -- Bill Davidsen "We

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
e GNOME wallpaper by default instead of the Fedora theme, does that tell you anything? It's not "official" but sure a warning sign. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Sla

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
who either don't > frequent their forum or do so incognito. Attitude matters. The people who ran the Prodigy (remember Prodigy vs. AOL?) help chat still have a help chat room, even though Prodigy is dead a decade. Some people enjoy helping troubled users. Obviously we help with Window

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
my system spun up all the time in case I want to > connect remotely. There doesn't even seem to be an option to never spin > down or never suspend/hibernate any more. > You have forgotten to power down your system... we will do it for you... We are GNOME of Borg, you will be app

yum doesn't work as expected with "clean"

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
The "yum clean packages" command removes all cached rpms as desired, but leaves all the drpm files. I wondered why my disk space was getting tight on a small server, and that was the issue. Is that intended behavior? I'll be happy to file a bug if not. -- Bill Davidsen &

Re: Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
- "asks the question" and "begs the question" are not the same thing at all But you sure made someone look like an idiot, by golly. BTW: wikipedia will tell you what "begs the question" means. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the i

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
It's been a good ride, but unless a better WM comes along fc14 is the final destination. -- 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: yum doesn't work as expected with "clean"

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
William Hooper wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> The "yum clean packages" command removes all cached rpms as desired, but >> leaves >> all the drpm files. I wondered why my disk space was getting tight on a small >> server, and

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
cy GUI, remind may serve, it can do multiple formats of output including HTML. -- 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: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
because it is designed from the bottom up with the top priority being keeping dumb users from hurting themselves rather than letting competent users be productive. What a shame, after making GNOME2 so good, instead of make GNOME3 more powerful, they decided to make it "child safe" instead

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
earlier and try to find and > report bugs much earlier. We were told that GNOME3 was NOTABUG, so what to do now? -- 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: Simple Question

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
omputer? > You get a choice of where the MBR gets modified, you can put it on the first hard drive or on the USB (or both). Your BIOS may offer a bot selector (F10?). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&

Re: What filesystem for ssd? (f15)

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lots of tricks possible for SSD, I once put the journal for a 5TB RAID on an SSD and mounted with data=journal to speed my writes. These are just a thought, not a recommendation or anything. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Oracle Gives OpenOffice back

2011-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
behind the arrowhead. -- 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.

Re: Unity on Fedora ?

2011-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
ar that's much the same as the Ubuntu beta. Unity will probably be ported, but at the moment it sounds a bit unstable rather than cutting edge. My opinion only, I did try it in a VM briefly. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

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