Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steve wrote: On 11/11/2012 09:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways, including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on such

Re: Fedora support for laplets

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steve wrote: On 11/11/2012 09:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways, including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on such

Re: Multiple default routes, same subnet

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
uld have two default gateways on the same subnet. I can't find how to change the iproute2 samples setup so the gateways can be on the same subnet and everything works. I allways end up having all traffic going though one link and when it fails I loose internet connectivity. []s, Fernando

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
ecades and a leader who can come in on time, on budget, and working[1] is worth more than gold. [1] as specified, not necessarily as the user would like. We're talking MSFT here, they *wanted* it to work like that. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the i

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
thing I've seen, it make 1984 look respectful by comparison. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Re: netbook vs tablet

2012-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
so I can put my bind mounts in rc.local along with some error checking and correcting code. As for /home, there is very little writing to /home. It is better to manage all frequent data on a USB drive. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd is more like a history book than a useful user guide by now. Good holidays to all. -- 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 u

Re: Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
y to have a few custom packages without losing support for the rest. Thanks Luiz -- 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

Re: Burn a Youtube.webm video

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
you can't get on to web searching and get the correct info on running a command. So much of the web content is old and not done that way in latest change of a program. it's very frustrating . -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompeten

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/16/2012 10:20 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: At least Android apps usually have a free (with ads) and paid (no ad) version to choose. I have a Nook Tablet. None of the apps that I've installed have ads, and AFAIK, B&N doesn't allow that. Yes, NOOK is limited t

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.12.2012 18:05, schrieb Bill Davidsen: I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. Something like audacity for video. I am loading avidemux as I type, but the avi format seems to have limitations which are much more restrictive

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> wrote: I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. I usually convert the source file(s) to MPEG2, edit as necessary on MPEG2, and then encode to the

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
no happy to just use what they find. But at least I have a tool chain which gets my job done, so I am not complaining. -- 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: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
of things and fix them after the fact, for which I am grateful. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
which no action is taken, personal exchanges, etc. -- 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 optio

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. Something like audacity for video. I am loading avidemux as I type, but the avi format seems to have limitations which are much more

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd is much more stable. I'm happy to say I went to the qt immediately, for no better reason other than it was the first thing I saw. I've heard of pitivi, will put that on my "investigate" list along with several other fine suggestions. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
tool such as xz? -- 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/

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ol finding and learning in the long run. Hope this helps, Phil -- 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

Re: [OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/24/2012 09:38 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yes, NOOK is limited to B&N approved apps and stuff, and is not a standard Android tablet unless you jailbreak it and install Cyanogenmod Android or similar. Then you can have the NOOK and Kindle readers and buy books as you

Re: tune2fs -E hash_alg=half_md4: safe for existing filesystems?

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ffy just before midnight. No, I'm not going to rewrite it to work differently, I would have to do that for each update. Yes, it's already on SSD. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: iptables is like alchemy

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
s if that is the isue, but tcpdump on the external side will tell you what's happening if neither of those things change the problem. HTH, Jorge -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from S

FC16 or 17 Live USB not working on laptop

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ut that's hardly a solution, just a data point. 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 subscriptio

Re: tune2fs -E hash_alg=half_md4: safe for existing filesystems?

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 01/09/2013 06:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I would try this on something you can afford to lose... I just don't see any more info on this than you did before asking. I am curious, since I Changing hash_alg on an existing file system sets the default hash algorith

Re: Install fails with Xorg segfault on fc17

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
t animation looks fine, then GNOME3 can't bring up a shell and doesn't drop to basic mode, or something like that. Ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: Install fails with Xorg segfault on fc17

2013-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
server starts, so it basically fails before I have networking installed. Second, VNC will only give me a remote view of what's currently on the desktop, so I don't understand how that's going to help. Unless you mean set my display to be my local PC? Thanks again, Alex -- Bill

Re: Install fails with Xorg segfault on fc17

2013-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
tion. I tried swearing at it. I think I can safely say that neither fc16 nor fc17 are going to ever install on this machine, fc11 with selected security upgrade forever. Glad your worked for you! -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the ma

Re: FC16 or 17 video noy working

2013-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
The live and install CD don't seem to work in VESA video. Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm ready to update a laptop from fc11 to something current (kernel and some apps are upgraded by hand). I want to boot from Live-CD just to be sure the hardware like me, and sure enough it doesn't.

Re: F-18/64 Install Methods -

2013-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
his one is in the ballpark. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Yum update after f17 -> f18 fedup via iso

2013-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
ers." I'm sure if the problem continues there will be other reports, bugs filed, and fixes applied. -- 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

Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
could run FC18 under KVM, but that doesn't provide the newer security features, just the newer apps, which is not the issue. Suggestions? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot --

Re: F18 Splash screen is not shown

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
vm.lv <http://rd.lvm.lv>=vg_acer5720/lv_root LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 rd.md <http://rd.md>=0 rd.dm <http://rd.dm>=0 SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv <http://rd.lvm.lv>=vg_acer5720/lv_swap KEYTABLE=it rhgb quiet echo 'Caricamento ramdisk iniziale...' initrd /

Re: Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
r the help. Ranjan On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:01:33 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option, because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. It seems that the obvious solutions are not practical, since both the Live-CD and Install kern

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
nc -> ../dm-3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 16 19:33 luks-0fc2a8e0-9d71-4af7-853e-afb3c89794e2 -> ../dm-1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 16 19:33 luks-9800d5dd-f281-4750-b0cf-42282401ace0 -> ../dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 16 19:33 luks-dc5

Re: Do people still install from CDs ?

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
x months, and I never used those burned CDs more than once. See above, same image, just write it to the USB. -- 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.fedor

Re: Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:56:08 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Ranjan Maitra wrote: Are you able to follow these instructions? https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/428974.html I wondered if the problem is that the RPMfusion broadcom-wl is not up to

Re: Install FC18 on laptop? Wifi woes

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
David G. Miller wrote: Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes: I'm trying to update a laptop to FC18, but that does not seem to be an option, because the Broadcom WiFi is still not supported. SNIP Suggestions? I just did a "modprobe b43" and the b43 module loaded without requir

Re: Use existing Partition without formatting when installing F18 ?

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
ay to save stuff other than install without it and hack fstab after you get up, I haven't seen it. Be of good cheer, someone will find a way, or release an install disk with a sane partition manager, or something. Read some of the resent threads, lots of us have this problem. -- Bill David

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roger wrote: On 01/19/2013 09:13 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:26:36PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: David A. De Graaf wrote: Fedora 18. What a disaster! What were they thinking when they threw away a perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
erting an enhancement feels like an improvement. -- 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: htt

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what they're talking about. If my points are so weak that I have to resort to calling names, I avoid making them. That's why I actually checked to see if there was any difference. -- Bill Davidsen "We hav

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
to use the less likely you are to make a mistake. While there are unusual use cases in which btrfs is significantly faster than ext4, and btrfs provides some capabilities not in ext4, most users will see little benefit from it. The problems btrfs was created to address are not common. -

Re: which repos for fedora 18

2013-01-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
s there may not be a right thing 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 subscription options: https://a

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
f, so I can't give you any more info that that. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: fedora 16, ext4 corruption

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
. I have played with putting journal on a faster device, 10k rpm drive, SSD, or memory (yes, just for testing, I know it's unsafe). Faster journal makes things faster with many small files. Lots of thoughts for you to check against your particular problems. -- Bill Davidsen &qu

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
oing guru level tuning, don't worry about it. Enjoy your SSD! -- 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: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
nto office and write pdf from that. Haven't found anything I like for OCR, unfortunately, so things can be edited properly. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot --

Re: How to set up a hotspot with networkmanager in F18

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ut realhotspot on my reading list. -- 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: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ut I can't seem to get to it. Any suggestions, please? Best wishes, Ranjan -- 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

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Changing the elevator=deadline option on the kernel command line will change it for all drives, not just the SSD. That may really not what you want for performance on non-RAID drives. The techniques are good to know, but I hope people do understand the side effects of some of these th

Re: potential sshd gotcha

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
be badly broken, it seems. The more I learn about fc18, the more I'm convinced that the whole install or upgrade area did not get proper attention. and testing. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of th

Install / upgrade fc17 -> fc18 better than I expected

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ue. Hope this helps someone. Hypervisor gurus can do this cleverly, I went manual so it would work for me. -- 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.fedoraproj

Re: disable IPv6?

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
(this is with good old network, not NetworkManager). Doubt it makes a difference, don't see one with my dhcp up or not. Try jt unless someone has a good reason why it should be up -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

FC18 install - doesn't offer other OS on the drive

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
I'll see if a different subject, devoid of anything but the question, brings a response. When I installed FC18 on a drive with FC17 and XP the installer didn't offer an option to boot those OS as alternatives. Is this a bug or by design. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more t

FC18 - host name not set from DHCP?

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
else seen this issue? 2 - is it a bug? 3 - if not a bug, how do I fix it. Note: this works in my fc16 and fc17 machines on the same network. It worked fine on this machine under fc17, so I'm fairly sure the server and config are what worked. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more t

Re: FC18 - host name not set from DHCP?

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.01.2013 19:50, schrieb Bill Davidsen: When I boot my test machine, it goes to DHCP and gets a name and IP. The IP is correctly assigned, but the name is still localhost.localdomain. Now I could change that in hostname, but that means I have to do the job of dhcp

Re: FC18 - host name not set from DHCP?

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:26:24 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Well, it used to get a new name, something odd here, that localhost name just doen's want to go away. A fact which may or may not have anything to do with it: The local hostname info used to be stashed in

Re: FC18 install - doesn't offer other OS on the drive

2013-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! 2013/1/25 Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> I'll see if a different subject, devoid of anything but the question, brings a response. When I installed FC18 on a drive with FC17 and XP the installer didn't offer an option to

Re: FC18 install - doesn't offer other OS on the drive

2013-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2013 18:26, schrieb Bill Davidsen: I avoid editing the grub.cfg file for three reasons: 1 - I don't know what I'm doing, if magic is needed the install/upgrade should be the magician. The average users knows way less than I do about sy

Re: FC18 install - doesn't offer other OS on the drive

2013-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:15:07 + Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! 2013/1/25 Bill Davidsen I'll see if a different subject, devoid of anything but the question, brings a response. When I installed FC18 on a drive with FC17 and XP the installer didn't offer

Re: F17 fedora xfce spin: what display manager?

2013-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
also iirc Yeah, f18 has switched to lightdm, but the default in f17 was still gdm. You can of course switch yourself to lightdm just fine in f17. (or f16 for that matter). I am happy with XFCE in fc18, haven't dug too deep into the stuff involved because it "just worked." -

XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
that fc17 had libgweather installed, so I added it in case the dependency was missed. No change. So either the applet is broken or they are using a much smaller list, or it's broken. Before I submit a bug, I'll ask here if I'm just doing it wrong. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, whi

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, whi

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, whi

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
k with Fedora is that they have made the effort to make selinux work on the system, something I feel adds a layer of security worth a few seconds at boot. That's my priority, it may not be yours. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 05:54 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: poma wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
s where I got the correct address. Relatively new problem. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

2013-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/28/2013 10:20 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I actually copied the fc17 config, called weather-17.rc, to the fc18 config, called weather-11.rc, and that resulted in a functional weather applet. I take that back, an applet which gives me what I want. Another user entering Boston

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
your post was trying to correct you, but was overly subtl. 2013/1/27 Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> Junk wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 10:32, carachi diego mailto:carach...@gmail.com> <mailto:carach...@gmail.com <mailto:carach...@gmail.com>>&g

Re: HelluvaProblem

2013-01-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
de and new timing offend your memory, but I have seen it, and have no better thought. I could say WFM, but that's doesn't really help. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashd

Re: Lack of things in Gimp

2013-01-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
for the bits needed to install would sure make life easier. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: F18: ~/.vnc/xstartup example

2013-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
sentence with the explitive/noun "gnome3." -- 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

Uptime in FC18 XFCE panel

2013-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
. I did some searching, but haven't found the right info, how do I set thisd? -- 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 unsubs

Re: WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel [SOLVED]

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
dora purity test. By blocking the unclean adaptor completely you can plug in a USB model which will work well enough to download the drivers which work and install them. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: Need Help - .CD/DVD ROM Drive Not Seen By OS.....

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
rnal / modular CD-ROM drive This is silly, without the distro name we would be guessing. And if their support list is exclusionary to that extent, is this really a direction you want to go? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the ma

Re: Writing Music to a DVD instead of CD

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
umber of Linux programs to play a DVD in that format (or Blue-Ray, I have a burner), most of which will fail the Fedora purity of license and algorithm test and are not included in Fedora. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinati

Re: Need Help - .CD/DVD ROM Drive Not Seen By OS.....

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
but its totally differentI guess if the only way to get it to work is to sign up for the RHN support I might have to just let it go On Feb 1, 2013 2:05 PM, "Bill Davidsen" mailto:david...@tmr.com>> wrote: [...snip...] This is silly, without the distro name we would be gue

Re: WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel [SOLVED]

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 13:43:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Don't be dismayed, that's why it's useful. It really keeps the driver from being loaded, and that's a good thing. Why do you want this? Because Fedora doesn't work as shipped with

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
phpincludes type none (rw,bind) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) vmware-vmblock on /run/vmblock-fuse type fuse.vmware-vmblock (rw,nosuid,nodev,default_permissions,allow_other) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from t

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
is my impression, it may or may not reflect the actual coding process. Apparently, /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs has something to do with the implementation of nfs but just enabling an nfs export and starting the service doesn't cause the problem. I'll have to try rebooting the box with nfs server

Re: FC18 install - doesn't offer other OS on the drive

2013-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:15:07 + Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! 2013/1/25 Bill Davidsen I'll see if a different subject, devoid of anything but the question, brings a response. When I installed FC18 on a drive with FC17 and XP the inst

hopefully simple xfce4 config question

2013-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
show it? I've poked around in docs and config files, and not found any joy? Pointer to config or just doc is fine, explanation of why this less useful display was made default would be a bonus. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have take

Re: Cannot unlock screen from the lock

2013-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
ere things are stuck you may be able to switch to a virtual terminal, log in, and debug from there. Regards, Bryn. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mai

Re: [OT?] question about external hd

2013-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
atter, do you want everyone to be able to read this? A little study of the chmod man page is a good thing, and taking the "I'm the only user" approach to security is a good way to form bad habits. My opinion, I can control how much time security takes, not the time cost of secur

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
separate package group for a release, so that if there are any issues (including user training, if the UI is different) the time to incur that blip can be chosen. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - fro

Re: Fedora 18 - Disastrous experience

2013-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
B stick, and keeping the /home partition from F-17. Did you run restorecon? I've seen many problems with Linux in general, with both vpn and nfs mounts, when you hibernate information is not saved to restore them. I have never seen this work, so can't say it's a new issue. -- Bi

Re: F18: What happened to vi and bash auto-complete?

2013-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
t, it certainly tries to talk to the network even if you didn't configure the network during the install. I have only done a few fc18 installs, but I think I remember an option for that. I always install ntp, but I think I got through the firstboot without it and then something else broke.

Re: F18: What happened to vi and bash auto-complete?

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
been true https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-datetime.html Good catch! -- 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: ERROR: installing '/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/True.*'

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
7;font.*test' /etc/prelink.cache /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch /etc/mateconf/schemas/pluma.schemas /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd fc17-64:root> fc18-64:root> find /etc -type f | xargs grep -li 'font.*test' /etc/prelink.cache /etc/ld.so.cache /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch /etc/udev/hwdb.bin fc18-64:

FC18 - XFCE "uptime" panel item

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Fedora 18 - Disastrous experience

2013-02-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
/root pair with shared swap and home.boot/root, even though fc18 is installed. Means we can't use it on laptops. -- 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: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
e room and fire his statements Well my reader has "delete subthread" so I can at least take a whack at 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

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
y has watched threads, ignore either thread or subthreads,and has message filters of many capabilities. Mind you, the filters do benefit from a bit of talent in programming or they will eat your cpu on a busy machine, but it's a great MUA. I'm writing on it now. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
of why what I was doing is the only acceptable solution. I realize I don't always have all the context, so being a bit polite rather than assuming that (a) I have the only solution, and (b) I have the right to ignore their question and provide an alternate solution instead of providing the

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
lee wrote: Bill Davidsen writes: lee wrote: Queue your posts before sending them. I tried that, and wound up not remembering to post afterword. It sounds better than it works, at least for me. It can happen --- since I got used to it, I don't forget it anymore. Even if I do, no

Re: USB Lan Adapter

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
I'm using let me know by email so I see it, and I'll have some breaks from 2-4PM GMT-4 tomorrow. I'm installing content on a new web server and will have lots of 2-3 minute breaks to fill.\ -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent tha

Re: i can't install Fedora 14

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
(sorry to say) use the vendor drivers from RPMfusion. I'm just happy they exist, no matter how much Linus dislikes the vendors, I do know about NDA on chips. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.

Re: sssd for /boot?

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
NFS mounts if you use them, fast boot just isn't going to happen, but process start can be down in the ms range, which makes a very zippy system. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
ly agree with him. :-) -- 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.fedorap

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