Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
confused souls using skype? Ranjan Jitsi certainly supports SIP. ;) Sorry, poma: I don't know what SIP means. THis is you, but you have to be less cryptic for me to make sense!:-) Or you could broaden your understanding with Google or wikipedia... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: High CPU usage, load average and system temperature

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ou can feel as if you now know it not something running hidden in the background and doing something you don't see. -- 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 us

Re: WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
e went down when working from home. The laptop was trying to mate with the phone. -- 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 unsubscr

Re: HD Video editing

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
tch some finicky player like early video iPods. Alternately you can look at ffmpeg. -- 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 unsu

Re: HD Video editing

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
keeping the sound and audio in sync, ffmpeg with async option comes right behind, and has some offset options which are sometimes helpful if the out of sync is a constant in the source material. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: systemd never starts ntpd.service even though it is enabled

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
failed Have to look and see how hard it is to go back to sysvinit, which is dumb but reliable within its limited capabilities. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing

Re: 4 USB TTL uarts on a USB hub - keeping them straight

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
le in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-{something}.rules and that always gave the right names to the same devices. I saw this in action, but I didn't set it up, I'm still looking for an easy to understand doc on multiple monitor setup, because I do it at most once a year when I get paid

Re: F20 is fubar

2014-08-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
typical mixed bag of a corporate environment. Glad to know everything is working now. Chris Murphy -- 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: Convert MP4 video file to Image file

2014-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
-- 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/us

Re: Convert MP4 video file to Image file

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
e digging out a backup copy some day. So dvdstyler will handle a reasonable amount of menu complexity, and will accept as input a number of file formats, I think including mp4, although I have none handy to check my memory. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
guage, I learned some basics from reading/writing/listening, so, sorry for mistakes) [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135777 [3] - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1337 -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fro

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ion out another five years will let people skip systemd and go to the next big thing (possibly fatsock from CMU, however they do odd capitalization). Like many things it is a huge server solution fitted awkwardly to medium servers, introducing a high complexity to benefit ratio. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: bitlord wrote: This is about Fedora 21 which is still not released!!! Please read carefully. And it is only default on Workstation image (that is what I know) Thank you for the

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
model isn't done, I don't know). In any case, there would not be any such drivers if there is no 32bit kernel to build against, would there. Using a driver built against another kernel is too risky to contemplate someone deliberately making that a production case (I hope). -- Bill

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
would not wish Ubuntu on anyone, and GNOME3 doesn't think the way I do, although the new interface is less bad. Mint rocks. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- user

Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
urce route like BSD, I can't just set the source IP and have the packet go out the right interface, hoops must be jumped. Any experience to share? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned numbers may be less than zero for suffie

Re: Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:45:10AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a complex firewall setup running on an older version of Fedora, and I'd like to upgrade to RHEL7 or recent Fedora. Unfortunately, I can't really do what I need using firewalld, so two question

Re: Running Fedora or RHEL7 with NetworkManager

2014-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:10 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: 2 - is it as easy as removing firewalld and installing networkmanager with yum? They have nothing to do with one another as far as I know. Just copy your /etc/sysconfig/iptables (and ip6tables) from your old system

Re: rc.local not start at the boot

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ed end" Then you have a trail in the system log which you can find: grep rc.local /var/log/messages You can still put errors from a command in a file of its own, if that provides documentation, but the note in the log remains you it failed. Hope this is going to help the original prob

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/28/14 11:37, jd1008 wrote: Oooops! I do not have your public key :) :) So, it all looks like greek to me Sent in error from my tablet courtesy of Mei-Mei.a cat. I have sent many things like that, and cats regularly contribute to my chat activities. -- Bill

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ll all of these a tie on CPU, I'm tempted to call memory a tie, too, if it's really tight the 32bit release will make some difference. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from S

Re: A Linux for the totally maintenance free

2014-11-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ache/yum, then offer to complete as part of the shutdown: yum -y upgrade && yum clean all Just a thought, I run the upgrade by hand, but the download once a day, or on boot, depending on the machine being up. Since the upgrade can end in a power off, the user need not wait until the p

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-11-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
hat, I mention it. My sample size (one) is pretty small. -- 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 subscripti

Re: SATA II causes system freeze

2014-11-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: David A. De Graaf wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:19:55PM -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:01:30AM +0930, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 02 October 2014, Chris Murphy sent: Cables are often the source of weird problems. Specifically it&#

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
good reason for systemd to grow its own. More bloat to fail, it may come as a shock, but there are computers running Linux and not network connected at all (as in no NIC devices). Bloat for no benefit. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Latest systemd news

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/15/2014 08:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I've always called systemd the world's fist computer fungus - it wants to grow over everything. Resistance is futile! Your functionality will be assimilated. Or in this case approximated. -- Bill Davidsen "We ha

Re: Xfce and the windows key

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Why is an undocumented executable included in fc21 at 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 unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: Fedora 21 64bit ram usage

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
0:02.61 mate-terminal In short, with a terminal and system monitor running, I see no excessive memory or CPU usage. If you are seeing a real symptom, something other than fc21 is involved. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

A first in bug reporting

2014-12-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
bug while reporting another before, and I go back to Redhat desktop 6 or so. Just a fun thing for me, trying fc21 on a weekend instead of having time off. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned numbers may be less than zero for suffie

palimpsest - is there a replacement

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
at most any two servers alike. They bought what IBM told them was the best buy, some have hardware RAID, some software RAID, some whatever dm sets up. There must be some visualization tool, right? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned

Re: palimpsest - is there a replacement

2014-12-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:13:57 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Until quite recently there was a package, palimpsest The hopelessly opaque name palimpset was renamed to the moderately sensible gnome-disks (though it would be nice if a gnome-discs link were installed by default

Re: Fedora & Android

2015-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
aven't put much effort into finding the details. I'm more about works than ease of use and features. Both are desirable, but if I must choose I pass on debugging. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wic

Run SCO OpenServer in a VM?

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
card? Or even not so new, I have a case of unused "HUB6" cards and would be glad to find a home for one, since modem pools are not a big thing anymore. I last did SCO admin for a living in 1993, and have done little but Linux since, so I'm not right on top of this OS any mor

Re: Fedora 15 +scsi Solved

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
ards walk out > of the motherboard, or hairline fractures occur), and to static shocks. > Dust. You disturb the dust. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailin

Re: Run SCO OpenServer in a VM?

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I have a friend who is running his business on an old OpenServer machine, and >> would love to be able to just run a copy in a VM. The issue

Reading an OpenServer hard drive with Fedora

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
implementation or so, since the extra cost networking stuff wasn't bought when the system was built. A local business depends on this, and I'm trying to help them recover. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Re: Run SCO OpenServer in a VM?

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I have a friend who is running his business on an old OpenServer machine, and >> would love to be able to just run a copy in a VM. The issue

Re: more attempts to resolve NSF issues

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
behavior I notice, root can read if public read is set, but can't write a 644 file. -- 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: NFS issues

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
d=692008 >> >> Try mounting manually. If that works, then you're experiencing the > bug. > > Is this the right mount command? > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/Music /home/magnusg/Music > > I get this error message: > mount.nfs: Connection

Re: Run SCO OpenServer in a VM?

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 22:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> I have a friend

Re: Reading an OpenServer hard drive with Fedora

2011-11-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
) is the issue. Given that I could do that the whole problem is solvable, if ugly. I don't really see what would let me get at the slice level. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from

GNOME2 support revisited

2011-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
application (re)development costs, people complain that switching between GUI hurts productivity, creates typos, etc, etc. People spend time whining about it, that definitely hurts productivity. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than fro

Re: GNOME2 support revisited

2011-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Now that MINT has both a GNOME2 port and ax extension (plugin, whatever) for >> GNOME3 to make it usable without user retraining, will these features be >> available in Fedora17, or has th

Re: GNOME2 support revisited

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:49:30PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Now that MINT has both a GNOME2 port and ax extension (plugin, whatever) for >> GNOME3 to make it usable without user retraining, will these features be >> available in Fedora17, or has th

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
ard feel and CPU power than I expect, but for a few days on the road it serves just fine. I think the car paradigm works, the specialized units are so much better than the general purpose units that there is a market for all of them, big, little, cheap, expen$ive, sexy, etc.Sports cars and Fia

Re: KVM virtual machine transfer query

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
> generated on one OS & running on the another? And what if hardware of > the machines is different? > > With best regards. > Sanjay. > Very belatedly, yes you can, at least for Linux and my one attempt to move an XP VM for testing. Works. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more t

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
dead save for any reasonable efforts to fork it (which I doubt will ever occur). Before you claim that I take that sentence out of context, it was part of a paragraph about flame-bait, and was out of context already. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
e way the users want it to work, not the other way around. And scrapping all your old computers because they don't have magic video cards for visual cruft is not in the cards. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
re for Gnome 3 seemed logical. > I'm not sure how that follows, KDE is more like GNOME2 than is GNOME3. The GNOME releases are similar only at the acronym level. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinatio

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
rossover instead of coining a new name for their AWD station wagon. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ility vs. display size thing, and as people hit 40 they realize that fonts they *can* read are no longer ones they *want to* read. -- 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: NFS mount fails CentOS5 on FC16 host

2012-05-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: On 10.5.2012 0.40, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I get a message "rpc.idmapd appears not to be running" when it is running, and I'm mount is "rw,soft,intr -t nfs4" and the idmap proce

Re: KDE 4.9

2012-05-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
yourself I'd be tempted to suggest a VM first. -- 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: h

Re: evil calibre?

2012-05-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
thing. Unfortunately that sounds like a fairly major change to the existing behavior, so it may not be practical. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
penetration test? Or are you checking response time or ??? If you want to know if they're usable on dialup to a large extent that's a human judgement, and little trick to make a site feel faster make a huge difference. People can give you better answers if you ask a better question. :-

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
on't take that long to can GNOME and run something else... -- 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: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: Sam Varshavchik: /facepalm The good news here, I think is that these kinds of situations tend to solve themselves, eventually, one way or the other. It's only a matter of time. I just need a free weekend. Bill Davidsen: It won't take that long to can GNOME and run some

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
needs one vision to keep it coherent, and an RFC committee to keep it sane. -- 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: (unknown)

2012-05-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
want by installing a better KVM. As JD points out, you may be able to force things with xrandr. Really like the projection trick in that one. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdo

Re: Connecting to a Zeroconfig/Avahi printer

2012-05-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
dp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 state NEW udp dpt:mdns -- 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: F16 Mount Issue

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
ill help, as the mounts to old releases need a network, too, and they work. And you didn't ask, but I'll mention that putting IP addresses in fstab is an opportunity for simple changes to break things. I have seen people learn this the hard way, although I didn't. -- Bill Dav

Re: how to clean /tmp at shutdown?

2012-05-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
do smarter cleaning. -- 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/mai

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
d for a network connection and wouldn't install without it. Since I lack a huge supply of systems to play I can only say it happened on three (different) small systems. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: wifi bit rate

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
sive retries:0 Invalid misc:15 Missed beacon:0 802.11n uses 2.462Mb band and/or 5.xxx Mb band, the high band being less noisy in many cases and possibly giving a cleaner connection. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinati

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
by default. And there is a buffering option in syslogd, I just don't recall where I used to set it. I believe by default it's line buffered, output at newline. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the w

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
g.conf, which I did not get on first reading (and it didn't feel like where I should be looking to begin with). Can you point me to a link? /etc/rsyslog.conf and it's man page. Define a debug.log and have debug stuff go there, by setting the level to debug. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
BE -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix PROBE: iptables -A PROBE -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable -- 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

FC16 date rollback in VM

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ows that there was a massive clock botch. http://webster.tmr.com/~davidsen/Date_error_in_VM.png I'm trying something now, it's been up for 2 days 16 hr, but if this doesn't fix I'll have to seriously debug and would like to know if it's a unique problem or known. -- Bi

Re: create liveCD with fedora-livecd-desktop.ks

2012-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:14 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:32 -0700, Edward M wrote: Hi, Iḿ currently trying creating a custom Fedora 16 LiveCD. from Fedoraś wiki howto called " How to create and use a LiveCD.¨ As order i

Re: dracut in kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686 and kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686 fails to mount root

2012-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
x27;s you, although it doesn't seem to be universal. Some hardware seems to trigger a different output from the blkid calc, while most work. That's only based on three upgrades, two worked fine, one did as you say, haven't gotten to building a 3.4 kernel yet, on my to-do list for the

Re: Using f17 beta and status

2012-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
a full new install, which generally has no functional difference, just a "debris field" of stuff not quite cleaned up. I see no reason not to go if you can wait, or want to test drive over the holiday. If you want a test drive, install in a VM. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Re: what name does com1 rs232 get in F16+ ?

2012-05-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
nection). I assume ttyS0 is COM1, always was in the past. -- 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: [UPDATED:] Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

2012-05-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
nk he wants the "single, known interface" to have a single known name, and not some random characters determined by the whichness of what. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- user

Re: Yum messing up again

2012-06-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
s later" happens, it's not a bug, it's a choice. Doing it really right is more overhead and since the fail is clean due to yum checking stuff, there's little reason to change. Note: this is _probably_ what happened, see what bugzilla says. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: ping problem

2012-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
tead of looking at permissions, attributes, and capabilities directly. Not only do you have to remember one more presentation to meaning layer, but many displays do a poor job of presenting pastel colors on white, so even the names are hard to read. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: An apology is required from me.

2012-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ilar enough to Windows to avoid "different=hard to use" reactions is a bad thing, and GNOME2 doesn't seem to scare people, at least in my experience. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&q

Re: An apology is required from me.

2012-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
becoming extremely tiresome. It is not GNOME bashing, it is GNOME3 bashing. And as much as you might wish everyone agreed with the apologists for it, if the complaints are tiresome fix the interface instead of telling people to shut up. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungli

Re: heisenpointer (Fedora 17 flickering mouse pointer)

2012-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
on a live fc16 install, using totally different video hardware, it's unlikely to be just poorly supported hardware. The OP might try using VNC for access, to see if that provides any useful info. I do believe the WM is making the cursor vanish when not moving. -- Bill Davidsen "We h

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
o recall that going unbuffered caused a large increase in CPU use. You should be able to find the info in man pages, I have no link for predigested summaries. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - fr

Re: F16 wireshark install

2012-06-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
just grab packets off an interface or anything, and while I don't see the average user having a use for it, I've been wrong about that before, with legitimate useful stuff being done by people I would not have suspected would understand the capability, much less make use of it. -- Bil

Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ISP for IPv6 was for testing, and is only 768kb right now. It looks as if yum chooses IPv6 sources when available, over IPv4. Who knew? Yes, I confirmed with wireshark, really was using v6 for everything but rpmfusion updates. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
dress, then you won't try IPv6, so it won't cause any delay. It seems to use IPv6 instead of the fastest link table, which is how I noticed this, my standard IPv4 link is 10Mbit, my IPv6 test link is only 768k. However, now that I understand it, I will either stop IPv6 before upgrade, o

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
rity. If it can't be used it can't be misused. -- 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: F17: iptables logging "--log-prefix" in dmesg?

2012-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
TO=TCP SPT=39903 DPT=19 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 is this more likely a kernel-bug or rsyslog? Don't see it here unless I make a mistake and type "--log-prefix" twice on the command line. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

2012-07-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
ses?) issue, the edit works fine. grub-2.00-rc1 is in the GNU repo, and it fixes most of the problems. robatino is tracking the development and I hope the rc1 gomes in an update soon. After yumming in the beta6 rpm, don't forget to grub2-install /dev/sd to actually replace the grub2 code on

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
n't have a VM capable CPU, or the root could be tiny and the app could run in a throwaway VM, recreated at boot time. See: qemu-img create -b real.img -f qcow2 single-use.img Booting off the copy will put changes in an image which can be discarded, or you can run multiple VMs off a single i

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
hout the problem of have to remeber remount rw before updates with "yum-plugin-security" and "yum update --security" you can even on Fedora minimize updates most of the time if you really want while you can update packages selective from the normal repos if a update fixes a bug which

Re: F17: iptables logging "--log-prefix" in dmesg?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:42:28 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: what is this in dmesg? why is "--log-prefix" here loggd instead the --log-prefix from whatever rule it was? --log-prefixIN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:50:8d:b5:cc:de:00:01:5c:24:68:01:

Re: powerdown restarts

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
system issue or a user inteerface issue, but hopefully that tip will give people a way to really power the damn thing off. Oddly, hibernate does power down on all those systems, although as usual they don't reboot cleanly. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: powerdown restarts

2012-07-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Vickery wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: On 07/02/2012 11:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have several systems which either reboot or drop to some zombie mode on shutdown from the WM (GNOME3, XFCE, Cinnamon) and on

Re: Optical media drive emulation in linux kernel

2012-07-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
the accuracy of emulation is dubious. -- 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

Re: powerdown restarts

2012-07-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
at's the important thing, have the system do the best thing for your own needs. -- 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: ipv6 problem

2012-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
kets, then look for them at the next place you expect them to be, until you find the problem. I presume you have a firewall of some kind for IPv6, that's where you set the INPUT first rule to DROP. That's a pretty good off switch. If you're throwing all your systems directly on the

Re: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

2012-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
nd you are hearing "we don't care." Anyway thanks for being who you used to be, but you don't seem to be any more. -- 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: Support for HUAWEI E1820 HSDPA 3G / 4G USB Modem

2012-07-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: Hi All, I was planning to purchase one of these. Is it supported in Fedora? Got a spec telling what chipset it uses? I admit that some of the stuff I use does require a vendor driver, although the kernel stuff is getting better. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fro

Re: Support for HUAWEI E1820 HSDPA 3G / 4G USB Modem

2012-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Antonio M wrote: 2012/7/5 Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> JD wrote: Hi All, I was planning to purchase one of these. Is it supported in Fedora? Got a spec telling what chipset it uses? I admit that some of the stuff I use does require a

gnome-terminal size incorrect in fc17

2012-07-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
my test. -- 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/mail

Re: XFCE Panel config

2012-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
't do that. Some expert might have a way to do what you want via an applet on the workspace, but the behavior seems shared. You will have to share the behavior, I believe. I did learn a little by poking around, so time well spent! -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the

Re: Make external hard drive accessible to all users

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
tter where I plug them in, I suspect the ugly string is a label of some kind, and you could use that, perhaps even change it to something you like better. Once you get it mounted in the same place every time, you can use symlinks if you don't like the name. -- Bill Davidsen &

Re: Make external hard drive accessible to all users

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
#x27;s n cache, it goes on happily, and only when no process knows, or thinks it knows, about the umounted f/s it won't truly go away. In either case, the name of the big hammer is lsof, assuming you really want to umount and are willing to accept collateral damage. -- Bill Davidsen &

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