Re: QR code login through GDM?

2011-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
would send NFC to or from a vendor for mail order, so I think the niche is quick pay like the Mobil swipe key fob. We might see QR replacing bar codes, but I'm not sure there's really an advantage there, either. For login, they are pretty easy to copy, so might be less secur

Re: recording from a webcam, cheese, vlc

2011-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Guohua Tang wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe you can try FFmmpeg, see here > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1392026>. > Thank you, even though I've done screen and webcam capture before, that's a nice document to have to use as a refresher or to give people wi

Re: rsync from mirror - problem

2011-04-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
ble that what you are copying is actually getting a "touch" due to a script error at the source. Not the most likely thing, but I mention it because I mirror a site which does a copy of a tree without preserving mtime, and it behaves as if every file changes between 2-3am local

Recent fc13 libburn update

2011-05-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
gests this should happen, but I'm happy. Same hardware and batch of DVD media, used to have a 20% reject rate. -- 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@lis

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-05-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
t; (from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log) > > | Greg Hosler ghos...@redhat.com| > +-+ > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment:

Re: Recent fc13 libburn update

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 19:59:39 -0400 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> I see nothing in the documentation which suggests this should happen, >> but I'm happy. >> >> Same hardware and batch of DVD media, used to have a 20% reject rate. > > Ma

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
James McKenzie wrote: > On 5/1/11 5:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Gregory Hosler wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 04/25/2011 09:48 AM, Digimer wrote: >>>> On 04/24/2011 09:46 PM, ssc1478 wrote: >&g

Re: migrating volumes -- Recipes? Critiques?

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
w partition and just > expand /var, but I suspect this has to do with selinux, which I've > been avoiding learning how to do right. > I'd be tempted to use rsync with the -a option myself, jus a thought. You might want to relabel the directory for selinux, I don't recall

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng called Plasma-Active. I recommend Googling it. > Yes, now that GNOME is adopting a "you will do it the way we like it" attitude I'm looking at other WM options. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: anyone running android sdk to talk to a real phone on fedora 14?

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
t; >> If there was some way to just make it talk USB without also insisting >> on trying to charge the battery when plugged in, it might be OK :-). > > Take out the battery? > My thought would be to be sure the battery was fully charged, so you provide only run power.

Re: Wallet mysteries

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
ask you once and only once, and which has a built-in password and forms management system. Handles mail, NNTP, RSS, etc. Will even track twitter feeds if you want. Yes, that's a plug, I love the browser, mail, HTML editor and chat all in one place. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: fed 15 beta + gnome 3 works nice, but ...

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
I choose, etc. I don't object to defaults being what someone else likes, but Linux is about choice. If there is support for KDE, and other WMs, maybe GNOME2 with attract a group. What did I use to use "back when?" Maybe fvwm or such? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fe

Re: 2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
tion? Or something else? My first thought has to be "did you tell it to look?" If so, more details, please. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- user

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-05-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
James McKenzie wrote: > On 5/7/11 12:54 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> James McKenzie wrote: >>> On 5/1/11 5:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> Gregory Hosler wrote: >>>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>&

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
cks up in 64 bit, for example). Don't expect to see a big difference whichever way you go, it depends on your desire for 3rd party apps to some extent. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - fro

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ase by case decisions. Neither is such a major benefit to indicate everyone should make the same choice. -- 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.fedo

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
[Also of course means you can have several guests some using tunnels if > you are paranoid about the black helicopters ;)] > You mean booting an encrypted disk with LUKS from an encrypted device created in qemu-img? I do have some interesting clients... And I do run my desktop in a

Re: local IMAP server

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
nt you may want to consider your backup options. I won't discuss those options unless you ask another question. ;-) > TIA, > Lew. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- us

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
e serious networking limitations for what I want to do. -- 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: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ed. If you report a bug you often get asked if you read the release notes, I think that implies they should cover stuff known a month in advance. In any case, you have your answer. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
't flip, and if you want to bitch about something the users didn't need or want, start with GNOME3! -- Bill Davidsen The Rapture actually did occur as scheduled, only you didn't get picked. You are now doomed to a summer of unspeakable torment, tornadoes, earthquakes, volca

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
king DVD > drive after restarting system so fast, it was "mission impossible" to > open a tray and to remove the CD. Since I could not figure out how to > restart the system, I had to shut it down, then reached BIOS, disabled CD > boot and only then I was able to remove that damn

Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ult is with the other. My fc13 machines are moving to RHEL6.0 or a similar distribution, I'll be able to keep them secure for a while and see which way the wind blows. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wick

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
y have to learn first. Learning new things is good, having to learn a new way to do the old things, not so much. -- 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: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:12 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I was looking at gnome3.org today, and their FAQ says that "The traditional >> GNOME 2 desktop will not disappear overnight, however: releases of GNOME 2 >> will >> cont

Re: Was inn tested for F15

2011-05-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
ast not in Fedora <15, haven't looked to see if a reboot loses all work in progress 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.fedoraproje

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Peter Boy wrote: > Am Samstag, den 28.05.2011, 17:27 -0400 schrieb Bill Davidsen: >> Learning new things is good, having to learn a new way to do the old >> things, not so much. > > That is exactly my problem as well. Unfortunately I couldn't spent the > time over t

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:27:36 -0400 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > ...snip... > >> I am not too surprised about GNOME3, but I thought the Fedora >> decision making group were better people than that and would offer >> GNOME2 for some length of ti

Re: Was inn tested for F15

2011-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/29/2011 07:49 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> There is a benefit to cleaning out the lock files, but there is a definite >> problem to cleaning out everything, since the directory structure is needed >> to >> support the lockfiles. Having the p

Re: libreoffice and NFS

2011-06-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ILE_LOCKING=0 > > > It does not help. There seems to be something else going on with > Libreoffice. This is F-15 32 on a 64 bit computer if that matters > other than that I am dealing with > "./usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice." > Lack of NFS ca

Re: tcp_syncookie question

2011-06-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ce goes up and speed goes up, the penalty for small window size goes up as well. Pulling a TB/day or so from NY to CA I used large window sizes to make it possible. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

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

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
t; > Is anyone aware of any potential issue when using Mozilla's private > libcairo on Fedora 13? > I suggest you D/L the Mozilla version, unpack it (generates "seamonkey" dir), and move the directory to a reasonable place (/usr/local for me) and generate a custom icon for

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
will do both, but haven't found a viewing/recording application to control and use the tuner. And mythtv is way too heavy weight for casual use, what I want is the old xawtv or similar which knows about both analog and digital. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bu

Re: VLC Video Recording

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
t they don't show how using > vlc-1.1.4. If you don't have one big red button you have done something odd in your vlc config. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- u

Re: homebrew channel bonding??

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
.gl/5vIk should pretty much get you going, and http://goo.gl/XBqD is a more detailed way of looking at it. You will probably have to load the bonding driver by hand, debug, and automate after you get it working. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

X won't start after upgrade last night

2010-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
/SJhX3LWZ6 -- 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 unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Block size

2010-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ks in use, and then df with the -i option to see how many inodes are being used. But what you really want may not be the simple division, as JD noted, you need another value (don't think it's the mean, either). Using a too-small block size may require using multi-level inodes and slow acces

Re: X won't start after upgrade last night

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/24/2010 10:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I did an upgrade last night (fc13, x86) to get the security updates, and >> on the reboot X doesn't come up. I think I've seen this before, but can >> someone jog my memory what it messed up?

Re: X won't start after upgrade last night

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Piscium wrote: > On 24 October 2010 18:29, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I did an upgrade last night (fc13, x86) to get the security updates, and >> on the reboot X doesn't come up. I think I've seen this before, but can >> someone jog my memory what it messed up?

Re: X won't start (SOLVED)

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > I did an upgrade last night (fc13, x86) to get the security updates, and > on the reboot X doesn't come up. I think I've seen this before, but can > someone jog my memory what it messed up? And thoughts as to why would be > appreciated as well, of cours

Re: Flash-Plugin SOLVED

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
yet. > Are you aware of Seamonkey (also from Mozilla)? It combines a browser, news/mail/rss reader, HTML composer, and chat program in a single suite. Depending on how you like to use your computer it's either "wonderfully integrated" or "ridiculously bloated." ;-)

Re: PAE - actually address question by now

2010-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
" folder, and I sent it to the correct address (and no other), but when I got it back it had both old and new addresses in the Reply-To field. That suggests that something in the posting path still adds the old address to the reply-to. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: Steren Webcam

2010-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
tell if it works in Windows after > installing the driver > or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux > does not > recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well... > KVM (qemu-kvm) has an option to pass USB devices directly back into

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
> end. Might be the end of December if the number of reported problems is high. > Yes, I'm getting WONTFIX on the problem I reported in old versions and updated to 12, I will report it again against 14 so it can be ignored for another year. I'm told Ubuntu and SuSE have working

Re: corrupted x32 Fedora 14 DVD

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
oad of choice, it has lots of error checking, so what you get is going to be good unless you have a harware issue. And that's possible, you are having a lot of trouble. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of t

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ou find a use for it, the article was in several digests, so I assume you can look it up. I didn't. -- 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.fedo

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:56:33 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Yes, I'm getting WONTFIX on the problem I reported in old versions >> and updated to 12, I will report it again against 14 so it can be >> ignored for another year. > > The

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
pect no one even tried. They just see suspend and write it off. We tried at a user group meeting and it failed on seven systems (100%). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- u

Re: corrupted x32 Fedora 14 DVD

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andre Robatino wrote: > Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: > >> >> perfectday mail.ru wrote: >>> Hello, thank you for support :) thats a problem - i've try to verify iso. > For the first time i tried to install >> fedora from DVD-RW, then when installati

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:41:31 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> It is a general Fedora problem, not hardware related. If you have a >> laptop connected with WiFi and mount an NFS volume, on resume it >> tries to use NFS before the network is up. The

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
ly anyway. Then chuck it all and start anew with a > new set of problems? No thanks. > I went from 6->13 on one machine, had some drivers for custom hardware which new driver models didn't support. Finally the USB passthru in KVM got good enough to run in a VM, and I do. -- Bil

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
ill probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7 comes out. RHEL6 is dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build for firewall or similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen will be back in mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they wan

Re: Fedora-Ambassador Project

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
tionship as developer or maintainer, rather than administrators and power users. There's a contact link on the wiki page, you can certainly ask. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: Emacs dumps core on FC14

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
s, they are all fc14 (and hopefully will continue to be so to avoid confusion with other projects). -- 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.fedorap

FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
iller machine, not a dog. I will be doing some testing to see if the newer KVM is any better in a measurable way, but when VNC to a machine with fast video is better than console, there is room for improvement. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
ks > fine on 4 of the systems including the 16GB, but 1 system always hangs > on udev until I manually blacklist the edac modules. I've had similar > issues during the installfest where 1 media failed to install on one > system, but did install on a second system. We've been d

Re: Init fails on FC14

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
r whatever. > > Does anybody here encounter the same, and know a solution? > The next time I'm booted on 14 I'll try that. I did try it in a VM and it worked back and forth between 5 and 3 multiple times. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been >> far >> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and >> often don't wor

Re: Emacs dumps core on FC14

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
" So your comment/correction about it not being Fedora Core is unrelated to anything he said, and his use if fc14 in the subject was correct. Corrections are best done after someone makes a mistake. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: Online source code browser

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
7;m going to use it (with attribution) the next time someone hits me with "how do I..." on building from source. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -

Re: thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
perly (you could look in updates-testing, though). Better to leave mail working with a bug than secure and unusable! -- 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: FC14 install memory requirements

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:23:00 -0800, >Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> If all this fails, you may try creating your own "spin" of F14 using revisor. > > Write not there is an issue with revisor, so you'd want to use pungi. s/w

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
> I used the above with an else in case $LOGLEVEL wasn't defined. I > assume that is the reason it was dropped, but if it still exists, I'll > use it. > > #Fix console loglevel > if [ -# n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then >/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL > el

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
stan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> stan wrote: > >>> #Fix console loglevel >>> if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then >>> /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL >>> else >>> /bin/dmesg -n 3 &

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 08:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Now I can select enhanced effects for video, and they work fine (for values >> of >> fine considering I wanted to see if they work, not that I want them on). >> However, the display is still dog s

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 08:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Now I can select enhanced effects for video, and they work fine (for values >> of >> fine considering I wanted to see if they work, not that I want them on). >> However, the display is still dog s

Re: kickstart user and the --gecos option

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ere always optional, I guess the blanks are at fault, the quotes don't seem to work as delimiters, do they? -- 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: Wireless

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
n the icon will give you some status. It may give you a list of available access points, in which case look for yours and click it on the menu. With luck you will connect and can come back to ask about making that automatic. Note that you may need to provide a password if you h

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>> That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is >> installed and will be supported for those 5 years or >> so.

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've >> only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12. I >> think it wasteful of time and energy

Re: Yum - Different OS version and Arch

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
e listed under a different head in the > default listing [like --Different Architecture--]. Different release isn't different architecture, i686 is a subset of x86_64, i386 a subset of i686, etc. If this really bothers you, write a {perl,awk,bash,python,sed} script to produce the list

/var/cache/yum format

2010-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
? And should my local repository have to look different to update each setup? Pointers to a document would be useful, my local repo would save a lot of time. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstei

Flash issues with FC14, rawhide kernel

2010-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
P4 desktop, Celeron laptop, and VM on i7-950 (KVM). just in case this is useful to someone, I don't think BZ wants a bug in non-Fedora application software since other Flash bugs are marked WONTFIX. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent tha

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen >> wrote: >>> >>>> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>>>> [snip] >>>>> >>>>&g

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 OS: KRUD - based on FC3 No cheat, UPS and standby generator at home. -- 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: FC14 good/bad news

2010-11-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On 11/17/2010 08:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> >>>> Now I can select enhanced effects for video, and they work fine (for >>>> values of >>>> fine considering I wanted to see if they work, not that I want

Re: Installing Openshot video editor

2010-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
gt; Avidemux: > http://www.mediafire.com/?uzvn29x1qvl02 > Necessary files: > avidemux (of course) > avidemux-cli > avidemux-plugins > avidemux-qt > avidemux-libs > > I hope this works for you! > > Richard -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: Wireless

2010-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
not found' invalid: 1 > > > This line worries me: > Nov 27 11:13:58 quadcore nm-dispatcher.action: nm_dispatcher_action: Invalid > connection: '(null)' / 'connection setting not found' invalid: 1 > also found above > > I checked wpa_supplicant and I

Re: FC14 good/bad news

2010-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Myers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I installed FC14 in a VM, on a 7.7GB disk image. After that was installed and >> tested to some extent, I copied the image to an 8GB SD memory and booted off >> it. >> Worked with the mic

Re: Sound doesn't work after upgrade from F13 to F14.

2010-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
d_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > Any ideas? I'm flummoxed. Like I said, booting into an F13 kernel and > everything works fine! > > Thanks for any suggestions. > -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wic

Re: Final release of RHEL 6

2010-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd there, some troubleshooting, and > reporting bugs. Pretty amazing, when I think about it. I'm hoping to use it for servers, don't need the latest, just the security upgrades. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the mac

Re: Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 08/12/10 16:57, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > Rename your own local.repo to _local.repo (the name will get it checked > first). > > Dump the priorities. I just set priority=1 for the local, WFM -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the b

Re: HardLink ?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
nt physical partitions on > same or different disks. > > JB > > > -- 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 unsubscrib

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
dd C and javascript. Read some FORTRAN and COBOL programs to see how they work, you don't need to write for them. I never found Ada to be the best tool for anything, although I wrote about 5k lines of it one year because a contract required it. Who better than a political science major with

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
24 hours" books, they expect an hour a day for 24 days, not read until your head explodes. -- 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: About programing, a general question

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
I still like perl for a teaching language, because it can do math, strings, and networking. It's forgiving, just about anything you write will do {something}, often rewarding muddy thinking. I like C for systems work, although I use a lot more bash than I used to. --

Re: Let's talk about yum and p2p in Fedora

2010-12-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
is that > protocols > that were broken by NAT will not be broken anymore, in addition to the larger > address space. > > Of course, some people will remain dense forever and keep implementing NAT > even in IPv6, with an illusion that it will improve their security. Those > pe

Re: Thoughts of a user

2010-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
minimum possible feature set by default, and make it easy for users who want that stuff to turn it on. Perhaps a few "feature sets" of effects could be put on a radio button GUI so if people find they like a set of features they can select it easily. But making minimal demands on vi

Re: Fedora mailing list migration complete!

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
re forwarded, as the inbound mailer tells me I'm not subscribed, but sends me digests anyway. I'll try to reply direct to the people I was answering. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: Problem with ssh identies

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
H. Willstrand wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I am using the "command=" feature heavily as part of a backup system, which >> allows me to run commands on a remote server without allowing general >> function. I give the public key fo

Re: Fedora 12 - how to mount a CDROM to use on a remote desktop?

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
7;t > have any luck trying to specify the file system type etc in the mount > command. > I think that's a symptom, mount as root should work no matter where you log in, so something's preventing. I assume you use read-only mount and looked at the messages to see if somethin

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
t with great success. > I have "HDhomerun" which handles clear QAM channels in HD just fine. Unfortunately I have a cable co who delivers local HD in clear, 70 channels in NTSC (analog) clear, and the rest in encoded digital. The HDhomerun seems not to handle the NTSC channels, alt

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
tabase..." and I have not found anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people aren't about to do. Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect

Re: mailing list losing mail?

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
der rather than the origin is probably highly desirable, and less likely to need a change. I do get lists which don't provide such a header, but fortunately not from Redhat in ary guise. I guess that's a hint if people are changing their filters anyway. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: mailing list losing mail?

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> j.halifax . wrote: >>> May be something is really missing. I sent an e-mail about not activating >>> LAN Cards after reboots, but only one response has come. I guess that it is >>> not so complicated issue that none

Re: initializing a blank DVD+R disk?

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
e until I can figure > out all the techy details? Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of the sessions. My feeling is that writing an empty filesystem on a media buys nothing and that's why there's no neat command to do it. If you don't w

Re: [Bulk] Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
William Case wrote: > Hi Bill; > > On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:02 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> William Case >> wrote: >>> Hi Tim; > >>> I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable. It's >>> great. I prefer it to having

Re: Bluetooth browse fail :(

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
mobile phone? > I have it working with a USB nub and headset, but none of my BT enabled laptops work, lspci can't even see a BT adaptor, although XT worked on all three when I bought them. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: is suspend broken?

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd suspending from there will work to resume and to change back to X later. Someone showed me that as the only way their laptop worked right. And if you are happy with nomodeset you don't care, do you? ;-) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: F12 updates broken today?

2010-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
t;>File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in > > Just do (as root): > > yum update -y yum rpm PackageKit gnome-packagekit > > then reboot, and all will be right with the world. > And this will work, even though when you do as you suggest you get &

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