Re: Problem browsing at some hotspots

2018-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:09:08 -0700, JD wrote: So, I would like to know if there are members on this list who know how to get around such blocking by these hotspots? Are there FF add-ons that can do it? I use wireguard to tunnel back to my home network and all traffic except the wrappe

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 13:40:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: True, but old DNS uses UDP and thus the responses aren't "related" to a given query (a stateful firewall couldn't necessarily determine that an incoming DNS UDP reply was solicited or not). I think related is fudged for UDP by noting

"Be excellent to each other" / Call people out for doin a good job

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people are going to notice the slip and grumble about that and forget about the ha

Re: Removing shutdown menu item

2010-05-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 22:37:42 +, Troels Arvin wrote: > Hello, > > On a desktop system which should always be running (it's acting as print > server on the home network), I would like to prevent kids from shutting > down the system. They shouldn't be able to suspend or hibernate the >

Re: fc12 encrypted file system

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:42:02 -0400, Ralph Blach wrote: > What encryption algorithm does Fedora use for encrypted file system? > > Can this be changed? If you are talking about luks stuff, then you can set some things when the device is created (using the luksFormat cryptsetup command). Unl

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 13:44:22 +1000, Nermin Celik wrote: > > At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat from > FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not > Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and this is too >

Re: Fedora encrypted file system

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:52:03 -0400, Ralph Blach wrote: > What encryption scheme does Fedora use for it encrypted file system. I think the following are the defaults: Cipher name:aes Cipher mode:cbc-essiv:sha256 Hash spec: sha1 I initialized that device a while ago so it's poss

Re: Connecting a second monitor

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 16:43:51 -0700, jd wrote: > > I clicked System -> Administration -> Display > > I do not see anywhere how I can configure an external monitor > connected to the same graphics card (i.e. NOT dual head), > but with different resolution settings. > Interestingly, the secon

Re: Removing shutdown menu item

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 23:06:44 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 09:59 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > You can also prohibit it using policy. That's probably a better way to do > > it. > > My question is a little off topic here but still,

Re: Fedora encrypted file system

2010-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 20:44:28 -0400, Ralph Blach wrote: > Bruno, > > Where did you find this. All the setup does is ask if the user wants an > encrypted file system. I did a luksDump of one of my encrypted devices. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:12:49 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote: > I have many programs which g++ has produced and I own. These could > be the target of a virus. It would be easy for me to wipe all of my > executables and re-make them but I just realized that unlike many > LINUX folk, I am some

Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:45:24 -0700, jdow wrote: > Apply the thought process to anti-malware. If your machine and your work > is not valuable to you then forget anti-malware and plan to reinstall > someday, practice safe browsing, play footsie with Nigerian spammers, > and so forth. It's your

Re: Would like to configure second local terminal.

2010-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:22:18 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Well, I do not KNOW how to do it, but because of the lack of > response, I will try to give you some pointers. In your xorg.conf In a similar vein, I'll say they was an attempt to provide this as a feature over a year ago, but it was never

Re: F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

2010-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 17:30:15 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote: > > New Ubuntu 10.04 LiveCD has OpenOffice. > Can't understand why Fedora LiveCD can't have it too. You can make your own custom spins that have it. It isn't that hard to do. Probably for F14 they'll be a 1GB USB drive targetted spin

Re: Disc failure on a software RAID system has killed everything

2010-05-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 14:32:40 +0200, birger wrote: > > If this is your case (striping over slave and master on the same chain) > I would try with a physically sound disk to replace the failed drive so > the slave should work again, and check that only the slave has an > active, bootable part

Re: Question about this user list

2010-05-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 13:45:37 -0500, "David A. Paredes Rios" wrote: > Hello guys, > Please anyone can tell me if this list is just for users of FEDORA12 or the > user that already have FEDORA13 can post questions here too? Well technically F13 hasn't been released yet and questions specific

Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
After three Fedora Community Gaming sessions have consistently had enough people to play, but just barely, I want to see if there is a way I can boost attendance a bit. We can't handle everyone who has Fedora installed showing up to play. (At least not without a lot of work.) But I'd like to see u

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 05:46:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/23/2010 05:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > Are we playing the wrong games? (So far we have played bzflag, wesnoth and > > armacycles and will be playing hedgewars next Saturday. Suggestions are >

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:25:33 +0930, Tim wrote: > Beyond that, I think you're going to suffer from one major problem; the > timing of events. Chances are that I wouldn't be able to join in at the > time you advertise a session (likewise for other people), either we're > not free, awake, or n

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:50:48 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I'd like to play, it's just a crap shoot for me if I have time. I stay > pretty busy on the weekends with the wife and 3 kids. I already > installed hedgewars and tried it out. Looks promising, but I still > need to a lot of practi

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:16:21 -0400, Dennis Mattingly wrote: > My gaming has been slowing down, since my job is terrible right now. > > I usually play Quake Wars or ZSNES on my machine. > But I would gladly try other games if it promotes Linux. > > The biggest headache for joining is that I

Re: Linux for T1 bonding ???

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:31:35 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > Any open source references to recommend? I have not been finding a lot > of options... When I was looking at getting a T1, bonded T1s sold by the provider were fairly common. Unless you are looking at doing something cheaper, that

Re: Linux for T1 bonding ???

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:49:01 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > the boss first said check into comcast cable (static ip's available), > but then he was assuming it was a t1 serve that could be bonded > with our current t1. You don't get static IPs with your T1? Or do you just need more? I modem

Re: Fedora 12, Xorg, and Apex Outlook KVM, - can't nail resolution

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:58:07 -0500, "Styma, Robert E (Robert)" wrote: > > Since the video card is correctly identified, if it cannot figure > out what the monitor is, it should let you use what the video > card can handle instead of locking you in to 800x600. > Except that usi

Re: How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:57:52 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I run the proprietary, closed source nvidia driver in F12. What happens > when I upgrade to F13 ? If you use the rpmfusion package for this, check that the kmod is there for the f13 kernel. If not, then you most likely want to wait t

Re: Fedora 12, Xorg, and Apex Outlook KVM, - can't nail resolution

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:12:09 -0500, "Styma, Robert E (Robert)" wrote: > > It appears that Xorg has gotten so good at protecting me from myself that > when it comes up with the wrong answer, I am just stuck. Maybe a different > 8 port KVM might produce better results, but I am not ready to

Re: Fedora 12, Xorg, and Apex Outlook KVM, - can't nail resolution

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 16:07:22 -0500, "Styma, Robert E (Robert)" wrote: > > My desire now is to find the detected EDID and hardcode it as a kernel > parameter as was suggested when the thread first started. A hex version of the EDID should be recorded in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when you boot wi

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 17:24:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > >I do think it would be hard to argue announcing and actively discussing > >the design on three separate Fedora mailing lists was not sufficient > >enough mailing list exposure! > >

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:15:08 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So far, no other 'tone' has gotten anyones attention. The website is a > disaster Rahul, you should admit it, and take steps to get it fixed if you > have that level of power. I think that is an incorrect conclusion. If people

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:02:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Then I guess I am a rude person Bruno. I am not a developer, I'm 50 years > too late for that, I wrote my ground breaking SW 15 to 30+ years ago. There are lots of things you can do on Fedora without being a developer. > When the

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100, Mike Martin wrote: > Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with > the F13 live image I accidentally did the following > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 > > which returned nearly immediately and now I have no data on

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:31:11 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I want to juggle these partitions around. It's not clear to me if > parted will handle RAID partitions. I think I should resize each > partition on each drive identically, and parted should end up > producing identical contents

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: > OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way > to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. > > Doh! > > I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving > on might b

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:54:25 -0700, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: > > Are floppies still used by most people? I can't recall the last time I > tried to use one. If the floppy hardware is really so broken that it > causes hangs, wouldn't it be better to just not probe for them ever > unle

Re: Installing F13

2010-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:38:33 +0100, N James Bridge wrote: > > nouveau does not support compiz, so no desktop effects, but you can live > without them. On the plus side, dvds play perfectly in totem (but you You can try installing mesa-dri-drivers-experimental which will turn on 3d support

Community Gaming session 5 - bzflag

2010-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing bzflag which is a light tank shoot em up. We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday June 5, 2010 EDT: 1pm Saturday June 5, 2010 This game easily handles drop ins and drop outs. We'll meet pregame in the #fed

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:52:02 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > *sigh* > I suppose I'll have to. > It's always a pain. > I prefer to climb one hill at a time. The Radeon driver and related stuff has been changing a lot over the last couple of years. F13 will probably work much better than

Re: DVD Installer on USB...? (Solved)

2010-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 15:57:08 -0600, "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > > dd if=/Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc1 > > This does not work. I wouldn't expect it to. You would need to copy it to /dev/sdc so that the MBR and partition table get overwritten. I don't know that that will mak

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 19:20:45 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > Now, does anyone know if/how I can enable encryption on my disk partitions > without havinig to use LVM? Yes you can do that at install time. If you use a custom install you can choose which file systems (and other kinds of block de

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 00:46:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > After tremendous pain, I finally managed to install F13. > I'm still getting software rendering. > I hate this. > Has anyone *ever* used a Radeon HD 3650 AGP with linux? > If I want hardware acceleration, do I have to get yet a

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:30:10 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I might have screamed too soon. > After using Xorg -configure, > I replaced the old xorg.conf with the generated version. > Does this mean I have hardware acceleration at last? > > [r...@localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep -e ender -e

Re: Failed attempt installing AdobeReader_enu.i486 (WORKAROUND)

2010-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:34:02 -0400, Jim wrote: > > I did a rpm -e --nodeps nss-softokn-freebl and I was going to reinstall , > BUT!! now I can't do a SU > to reinstall no matter which way I go, I tryed to restart and go in as SINGLE > user to reinstall, that didn't work, now I can't get b

Re: Traffic Shaping / Bandwidth Throttling

2010-06-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 07:23:19 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a good suggestion that will handle this? > > > > It's rather cryptic but you're looking for /sbin/tc. I believe it has > everything you want and then some. There are also scripts out there in > the wild

Re: preupgrade 12 to 13 error

2010-06-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 16:22:49 +0300, Doron Bar Zeev wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 16:14, Alan J. Gagne wrote: > > > > > > > This machine is a fully updated fresh install of F12 with a 300mb /boot on > > mdraid. > > > > > > > I think that /boot must not be on a raid, which may be the probl

Re: [F13, Nvidia] Nvidia drivers for Nvidia GF FX5200

2010-06-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 22:25:05 +0200, Boris Glawe wrote: > > Do you have any hints/links about how to speed up nouveau? Maybe any Options > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that enable some hardware accelarations? Btw. I'm not > talking about 3D accelaration but 2D. You might still see some improveme

Re: Extract file from tar home/

2010-06-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 15:55:25 -0500, "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: > Me, too! > > How about the j option? When extracting tar figures out whether or not compression is used and what type of compression. So you don't need to use the z or j options when extracting. When creating an archive, you do

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:30:10 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:41:24 -0700 > stan wrote: > > > yum-complete-transaction > > That was the one I probably wanted to try. I suppose it's too late now, I've > run yum update and yum clean all. It's not too late. It may be moot th

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:38:16 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > Ran for ten or twenty minutes and finished with no output. > > No news is good news in this case? Or bad? That is correct, it's good news. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +, vijay bhide wrote: > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing > Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached > a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove complet

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 00:30:40 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Why do you say this ? Because there were some significant rpm related changes along the way and for at least one point an upgrade needed an up to date version of that release to go to the next release. Skipping over that jump would

Re: HCL

2010-06-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:18:20 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > to "works flawlessly"). Anyone have a Google spell or a URL for this > project? I'm considering purchasing a new, low-end laptop for this I believe you are thinking of "smolt". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 19:13:59 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > So, the oldest kmod-nvidia is removed with the oldest kernel and it will > still be possible to boot with the present kernel. .. but not with the new > kernel because the new kmod-nvidia is not installed. Which means newbies > will

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 23:03:13 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > Are you really sure that the maintainers of a repository that doesn't belong > to Fedora could stop a Fedora kernel upgrade? No I am not. Fedora can't do anything about it under the current policies. It essentially has no knowledg

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 00:02:33 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > This rhetoric makes sense only if you think that going the Sun way is not > the way to go for Red Hat. And if you want newbies to join the Red Hat's > ecosystem, telling them to RTFM just won't work. Things are going to have to > wor

Re: how to set screen resolution for HP6710b on Fedora 13

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 14:07:35 +1000, L wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Fedora 13 on HP 6710B. It looks all good, but the > screen resolution is set to 1024X800. I can set it to it max ( > 1650x1024?) I found some information claiming that the native resolution of the screen on that laptop

Re: [OT] posting to fedoraproject lists that I am not subscribed to

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 22:50:28 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to post to any of the lists I am not subscribed to? I am > asking this because there is one thread on the fedora virt list that is > of interest to me, but I don't want to subscribe to another mailing list > j

Re: how to set screen resolution for HP6710b on Fedora 13

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 20:35:57 +1000, L wrote: > > thanks > the hardware is capable for 1680x1050, the current max and default is > 1024x800. The system-config-display is limited to get more options. That seems like a bug then. Something is not being detected properly or something is returni

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 13:20:28 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a way for yum/packagekit to understand the > interdependencies when kmod packages are installed such that a new > kernel update is *not* offered if the corresponding kmod package that > uses it is not availabl

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:25:38 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > Another thing that would be nice is an howto on disinstalling nvidia drivers > made available on Fedora's or rpmfusion's site. Last time I looked there > were none, if I remember well. This page has some of what you want: http://r

Re: xorg.conf for HP 6710B on Fedora 13

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:02:22 +1000, L wrote: > Hi, > > I have difficulty to set screen resolution of this laptop above > 1280X800 (default max). my lazy approach, if you have fedora on this > laptop and have resolution higher than 1280X800, could you share this > file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) w

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 19:03:41 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > How can rpmfusion provide the module for a kernel it's not expecting because > the one in testing -- posted yesterday -- is an earlier kernel? This > seems to me like an important post and everybody ignores it. Accidentally pu

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 18:22:21 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > approved and included" packages) and there should be an effort made to > make sure that the tool is smart enough to handle the dependencies > system-wide. If not, then take Apples approach and close the door on The tool does do that

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 20:38:56 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > 3iso_size = math.ceil(file_size/(2*1024))*2*1024 With loose typing the about might be doing the division as integer division. One possible fix would be: iso_size = ((file_size + ((2*1024)-1))/(2*1024))*(2*1024) -- users mail

Re: Amazing problem of /boot AND how to download videos

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 23:19:19 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > I think I would also make the point that it isn't a good idea to > > starting adding additional questions/issues into an existing thread. > > I feel it would have been better to start a

Re: Control-Alt-Delete Issue in FC11

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 21:33:28 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Fedora11#How_to_disable_Ctrl.2BAlt.2BDel_from_restarting_computer_in_Console_mode > > says something wrong, becoz the line: > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > does

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:52:49 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > Isn't RPMfusion preparing its upcoming module according to the kernel > version that is in Testing? I would think that RPMfusion has a nice working > module for kernel 2.6.32.10-92.fc12. Since Fedora decided instead to update > wit

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 18:24:05 -0700, Joe Conway wrote: > > But if I do nothing, my choices are: > 1) hope to get lucky on some future kernel update > 2) buy new hardware > 3) live with not using scp or rsync over ssh > > Maybe it's time for a hardware upgrade Maybe borrow a network car

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 14:10:47 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > I wrote to a certain Dan at rpmfusion, but I dougt I'll get an answer. I'm > sure rpmfusion is fully aware that they don't offer teh nvidia module for > the present kernel. and I would make a bet that people at Fedora are well > aw

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 22:02:49 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > As I said, I don't believe rpmfusion, a repository not supported by Red > Hat/Fedora, could block a kernel update. They can using 'conflicts' in the spec file. If the kmod is installed first, this can block updated kernels from b

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:22:59 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > On Friday 18 June 2010 09:16 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > You can also set your system so that the default boot kernel doesn't change > > when there is a kernel update. This protec

Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop

2010-06-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:35:58 -0400, "John W. Linville" wrote: > > yum install iwl6050-firmware Was this needed because iwl6050-firmware is such a new package? Would it be expected to be installed by default on F14+ ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:43:19 -0700, JD wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 500GB hd which smarts daemon says has 1 re-mapped sector, > and 129 bad sectors. > How is it possible to have 129 bad sectors, but only 1 re-mapped sector? > Did the HD have only 1 spare sector when I purchased it? > Is th

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 17:02:58 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 22:02:49 -0400, > > Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > > > > As I said, I don't believe rpmfusion, a reposit

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:52:00 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > > I have never had it work to dd a CD image to a USB stick/drive. I > believe the problem is that the computer looks for the boot loader > in a different place on a CD then on a USB drive. Now, if you can > tell the computer that the USB d

Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop

2010-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22:32 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:35:58 -0400, > > "John W. Linville" wrote: > >> yum install iwl6050-firmware > > > > Was this needed because iwl6050-firmware i

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 15:17:14 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > (Snip) So, finally, 4 days after the kernel update, a corresponding nvidia > kernel module was provided. Not a word anywhere as to why the module wasn't > provided with the kernel as usual. Did you ask on the RPMFusion lists? -- use

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 23:30:24 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 15:17:14 -0400, > > Marcel Rieux wrote: > > > (Snip) So, finally, 4 days after the kernel update, a correspond

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 15:55:32 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > And RPMfusion provides instructions on how to get Nouveau out of the way to > do a clean install. Why, as I was explaining to Dennis Gilmore, shouldn't > the Nouveau developers provide instructions to do the opposite? No I don't

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 13:23:06 -0700, JD wrote: > > Right! That's why I said even if you choose WPA2 > along with TKIP, you're toast! > Choose WPA2 with AES (aka CCMP), and you're safe > (until someone comes along and exposes to the world > that it is breakable). That depends on your threat

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 18:34:05 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > As a simple user, I'm not in a position to fight RPMFusion. So, if the > Nouveau developers don't want to provide instructions on how to install > Nouveau when NVIDIA is installed, people like Dennis Gilmore will find the > hard w

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 23:39:16 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > The day you provide instructions on a page belonging to Fedora/Nouveau > on how to install Nouveau the same way RPMFusion does for the NVIDIA module, > I'll give some thought to Nouveau. For now, I must say that I'm quite > discour

Re: Mutt auto view for html failing

2010-06-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:54:31 -0400, B Wooster wrote: > > So, the fix for Fedora is to manually create a ~/.mailcap, and put in it: > text/html; /usr/bin/links -dump %s ; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput > (if using links, change for w3m as appropriate, etc). > > Would be nice if this au

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:55:40 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:51 -0700, JD wrote: > > Found a large list of user agents strings. > > wget -c -ndH > > http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml > > and import it into the userAgent > > What?! There's no Commodo

Re: Top posting

2010-06-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:50:47 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Like I said in my post, that requires me to create a filter for every > such case. You could probably detect them using pattern matching. If you keep your email locally, you could check the messages on delivery and drop ones that a

Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

2010-06-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 20:59:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I'm running F12 on 2 systems. The first is a desktop system the other a > laptop. When I try to rip a music CD using grip on the laptop the first > 10 tracks rip very quickly, but when it gets to track 11 the ripping > process

Re: F13 udev rule boot warning messages

2010-06-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 15:55:47 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm getting this in my otherwise clean boot log. What, if anything, do > I need to do about them ? You can file a bug against the package providing the rules file. I did this for some rules files in the past, but haven't systematica

Re: more on identifying the system a program is running on...

2010-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > Can anyone suggest some resource that a PROGRAM (compiled C program) can > examine while running to find out what platform it is runninng on ? You could look at the source for uname and see what it does. > can anyone suggest any ot

Re: Linux Games for Kids

2010-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:05:06 -0400, Jim wrote: > Can anyone give me some advice for game for kids ages 4-8 ? > I have to build up a computer for kids to use at. 4-8. What is on the > Fedora Repo's. There are a lot of games, some of which work better than others. The ones flagged for kids i

Re: ati catalyst workaround for fedora13

2010-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 12:19:52 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > > So the best you can do is to write an email to AMD. > > > > > All those Linux fan boys out there shilling for AMD and it can't even take > care of them? AMD is taking ca

Re: ati catalyst workaround for fedora13

2010-07-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 20:57:15 -0400, Andrew Jamison wrote: > > > AMD is taking care of the people who really care. They publish data on how > > to make their stuff work. > And that is assuming everyone that uses Linux has the aptitude to code for > Linux even for the OpenGL drivers? There

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-07-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 17:34:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > AFAIK, SPF records are queried by the receiving based on the domainname > in the "From" address. So, if a spammer is pretending to be sending > from u...@hotmail.com the receiving end will make a DNS request for the > TXT records of

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-07-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 16:36:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > Deliberately leak trap addresses in places I tend to use my real > addresses, auto-blacklist anything that hits the trap addresses. That approach has a problem. One significant source of spam is compromised accounts. If you go that

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

2010-07-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 15:29:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > It is much less problematic for "reply" to reply to the list, > especially if changing that behavior is solely meant to help those who > don't want to subscribe to it... Typically accidentally sending a message intended for a single pers

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

2010-07-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 14:57:33 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Public mailing lists should receive mail from *anybody*; if the poster > is not subscribed, then the message should go through moderation. This > is the truly open way. There are costs in doing that. Either in increased spam o

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

2010-07-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 20:44:59 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Todd Zullinger pobox.com> writes: > > > Prior to today the list was set to discard posts from non-members. > > This setting was made before any of the current list admins were > > present AFAIK. I believe that sending a rejectio

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

2010-07-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:05:33 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > So if anything, Reply-To munging would cause more private mail go to > the mailing list (i.e. I typed 'r' in mutt, not 'g', but the mail went > to the ml!) That's pretty much what I said. But it has to be balanced against agai

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

2010-07-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:47:52 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > No, the spam filter will be *in addition* to whatever is there > already. If the list remains subscription-only, there's still spam > that goes through, the spam filter will help. And if the lists is > moderated, the spam filte

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

2010-07-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 13:02:37 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Who are those mythical creatures that don't know about "reply to all"? > I keep hearing about them, but as far as I know everybody that knows > how to send email knows to send mail to more than one recipient, which > requires k

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

2010-07-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 15:44:24 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > Including plenty of people who explicitly ask not to be personally CCed, > > yea, even to the point of putting such a request at the top of _every_ > > post they make. > > *Some* nut-jobs might not like to be Cc'ed. You stil

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

2010-07-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:16:41 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > However, were you strict in saying "no, deal with 'reply to all'"? If > so, did your users managed? Yes, my lists, my rules. I think there are mistakes from time to time, but the lists are pretty low traffic in the first place

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