Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I have in the past, complained of hanging yum updates and over time, I finally realized that there are such things as bad mirrors, and for some reason or another, causes yum to hang indefinately. One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, but

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:16:11 -0700 > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> but then again, >> why isn't it that these bad mirrors are being removed >> for misbehaving? >> > Often it isn't actually the

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/02/2010 03:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman writes: > >> One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and >> move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, >> but this is not the case, or so I am led to believe... > > It's been

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/04/2010 07:53 PM, Jon Stanley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> For those who do manage mirror lists, the specific mirror >> in question is: "web-ster.com" >> > I can't see anything wrong with this

Installing and configuring USB Wireless for rt2870?

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems that there are fragmented sources of information on the Internet on how some people were seemingly able to get the rt2870 USB Wireless to work on Fedora and I am trying to do the same, but without much success. Can anyone point me to a definitive site that can explain how this could be done

Re: Installing and configuring USB Wireless for rt2870?

2010-06-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/05/2010 02:49 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Seems that there are fragmented sources of information > on the Internet on how some people were seemingly able > to get the rt2870 USB Wireless to work on Fedora and I > am trying to do the same, but without much success. >

Re: Installing and configuring USB Wireless for rt2870? [SOLVED]

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/05/2010 04:26 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 06/05/2010 02:49 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> Seems that there are fragmented sources of information >> on the Internet on how some people were seemingly able >> to get the rt2870 USB Wireless to work on Fedo

F12: Palmiquist

2010-06-14 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Is there any way that I can use palmiquist (hard disk check) to automatically check and report any hard-disk failures? On F11, it was bubble-reported whenever there was a failing HD, but on F12 this does not seem to be the case? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F12: Palmiquist

2010-06-14 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/14/2010 03:37 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Is there any way that I can use palmiquist (hard disk check) > to automatically check and report any hard-disk failures? > On F11, it was bubble-reported whenever there was a > failing HD, but on F12 this does not seem to be the cas

Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers of the offending email spammmers and add these respective IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be easily spoofed with bogus entries, right? I am really getting tired o

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 03:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:54:27 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> I wonder how Google does it. only .01% of my google email is spam. >> The spam folder contains tons of spam, and it is automatically purged >> by google. >> Probably they pay their workers to

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 02:56 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:46 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers >> of the offending email spammmers and add these respective >> IP address and/or host names to t

Re: Gnash cannot play YouTube movies

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 03:31 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 25/06/10 11:02, Paul Smith wrote: > >> I have just installed Gnash on F13 x86_64, but I cannot play YouTube >> movies on Firefox. Any advice? >> > Use Adobe Flash, gnash hasn't kept pace iirc. > Yeah, I removed gnash and swfdec (I thin

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 02:57 PM, jack craig wrote: On 06/25/2010 02:46 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers of the offending email spammmers and add these respective IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, but I am beginning to suspect

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 02:57 PM, jack craig wrote: On 06/25/2010 02:46 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers of the offending email spammmers and add these respective IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, but I am beginning to suspect

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 04:11 PM, jack craig wrote: On 06/25/2010 03:56 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 06/25/2010 02:57 PM, jack craig wrote: On 06/25/2010 02:46 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers of the offending email spammmers and add these

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/25/2010 06:26 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/25/2010 05:56 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > > Historical thoughts on RBL: > >You've had several suggestions so just a couple of comments. The > MAPS list (aka rbl) was an/the original DNSBL - if I remember right it > went weird a long back and

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> THANKS! I have implemented the above recommendations >> as well as a few other advices in this posting. >> >> Thanks to all who participated - all very

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 10:06 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:45 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 06/27/2010 07:56 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>> On 06/26/2010 07:57 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that >> are recommending greylisting... but have not said anything >> about how this is implemented i

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >> On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >> >>> I wanted to mention that there are some in this posting that >>> ar

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/27/2010 01:23 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 06/27/2010 12:27 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/27/2010 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>

F12: gdm, avahi-daemon, HAL, & ntpd fails

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Geez... everything was working find when I installed F12 but perhaps the latest update blew everything out of the water! My gdm fails to bring up X11 and falls out. I am however able to get into F2 and log in as root. Also, I noticed during boot up, the following also fails to start: avahi dae

Re: F12: gdm, avahi-daemon, HAL, & ntpd fails

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/16/2010 08:46 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Geez... everything was working find when I installed F12 but > perhaps the latest update blew everything out of the water! > > My gdm fails to bring up X11 and falls out. > I am however able to get into F2 and log in as root. >

F12: New kernel (2.6.32.16-141) are missing modules for rt2870?

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am looking for the modules for rt2870, anyone know where I can find it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: F12: New kernel (2.6.32.16-141) are missing modules for rt2870?

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/16/2010 11:39 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I am looking for the modules for rt2870, anyone > know where I can find it? > Drat... I guess they are already installed But what I am trying to do is to understand why the kernel cannot seem to be able to load the rt2x00 when

Re: F12: New kernel (2.6.32.16-141) are missing modules for rt2870?

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/16/2010 12:37 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 07/16/2010 02:48 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 07/16/2010 11:39 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>> I am looking for the modules for rt2870, anyone >>> know where I can find it? >>&g

Re: F12: New kernel (2.6.32.16-141) are missing modules for rt2870?

2010-07-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/16/2010 06:00 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: < BIG SNIP! > I finally figured it out. I was missing the kmod for rt2870, and once I got this from RPMFusion, it all came back... and all because of a new kernel update so I was left with half of the whole picture... Well, now I know..

How to corrdinate linux-ntfs, samba, and windoes domains?

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
It seems to me when one sets up new ntfs partitions under linux, the users/permissions are set to Everybody (full permissions), root, and perhaps other users initially. What I haven't been able to figure out here, is how one can manage the ntfs ACLs on linux, and I am not even sure if, on the sam

rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 is missing rt2870sta.ko?

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems to me, yum does not find: rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 kmod-rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 from RPMFusion site, and yet these modules are in the repository according to this link: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/12/i386/repoview/kmod-rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.htm

Re: rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 is missing rt2870sta.ko?

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/17/2010 06:22 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Seems to me, yum does not find: > > rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 > kmod-rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 > > from RPMFusion site, and yet these modules are in > the repository according to this link: > > http://download

Re: rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 is missing rt2870sta.ko?

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/17/2010 07:39 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 07/17/2010 06:22 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Seems to me, yum does not find: >> >> rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 >> kmod-rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 >> >> from RPMFusion site, and

Re: rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 is missing rt2870sta.ko?

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/17/2010 08:10 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> From: Daniel B. Thurman >> Subject: Re: rt2870-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686 is missing rt2870sta.ko? >> To: "Community support for Fedora users" >>

F12: tail -f inside .gvfs filesystem fails?

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I cannot get a tail -f inside of .gvfs with a remote mounted ntfs filesystem as done via Nautilus->Places->Network - this has worked prior to F12. Has anyone tried this on F12/13 and got it to work? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

/etc/pki certificate questions

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I wondered where I can find fedora information regarding the cert files placed in: /etc/pki directory. Apparently, there is tls/certs/localhost.pem and tls/private/localhost.key; are these two files required? I also noticed that installing certain servers such as sendmail, spamd, imap, ... creat

F12: Missing clamd-wrapper & clamav-milter in /etc/init.d?

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems that I am not getting the init scripts for clamd/clamav-milters. Here is what I have installed: # rpm -qa| grep clam clamav-0.95.3-1200.fc12.i686 clamav-data-0.95.3-1200.fc12.noarch exim-clamav-4.69-17.fc12.i686 clamav-milter-upstart-0.95.3-1200.fc12.noarch clamav-update-0.95.3-1200.fc12.i

F12: Yum/Software Update hangs

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems to me, that Yum/Software Update programs hangs from time to time. With Yum, a remote connection would sometimes hang but then timeout and retry again. Seems this is not happening. For Software Update, sometimes hangs occuring during downloads, and other times in cleanups. The spinner sta

F12: Sendmail/Thunderbird send email problem?

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
For some reason, I am unable to get sendmail to send email message using TLS/SSL using Thunderbird. What is odd, is that I am constantly asked to provide the password, and I did that, over and over only to be forced to cancel the send request. I am not having any issues with F9 & F11 - it works,

Re: F12: Yum/Software Update hangs

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/20/2010 08:44 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > >> Seems to me, that Yum/Software Update programs >> hangs from time to time. >> >> With Yum, a remote connection would sometimes hang >> but then time

DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am trying to get a handle on how to properly assign DNS PTR records, given these conditions: 1) Single machine containing: a) DNS Server b) Sendmail Server Forward zone contains: == $TTL 172800 @IN SOA ns1.domain.com. admin.domain.com. ( 381

Current update destroys clamav-milter?

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Is there a problem with clamav-milter? On reboot, clamav-milter says OK when it starts however, I find this: Feb 24 10:41:27 gold clamav-milter[7399]: +++ Started at Wed Feb 24 10:41:27 2010 Feb 24 10:41:27 gold clamav-milter[7400]: No ClamdSocket specified Feb 24 10:41:27 gold clamav-milter[740

F12: Sendmail, clamav-milter & spamass-milter

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I have spent weeks trying to resolve the following issues: I have F9/10/11 working just fine. 1) SendMail - I can get SM to run, but I am unable to send outgoing email messages. Why? Because of some sort of authentication issue refuses to accept the password. Using authenticat

Re: DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/24/2010 01:19 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> I am trying to get a handle on how to properly >> assign DNS PTR records, given these conditions: >> >> 1) Single machine containing: >> a) DNS Server >> b) Sendmail Server

F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates forever and requires a forced kill. Anyone see this problem? I am of course using NetworkManager, and wonder if I should use the old-network connectivity

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite >> badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum >> keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates >> forever and requires a forced kill.

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Seems to me, that Yum is performi

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 02/25/2010 03:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Daniel B. Thu

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> >>> Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to >>> me it is a yum problem, but I am specul

F12: LiveCD & gparted

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I thought I'd make a note of this here. When booting from F12 LiveCD, yum install gparted downloads fine, but then when one wants to reformat a [ext4] partition, it barfs quite badly - something about using one of gparted libraries. It corrupts the tables. Interestingly, doing an fsck on that p

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > >> On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >> ... >> >> >>> I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol >>> would interact to "smack" an imap connection. >>> >>> To me, based on your observations, I

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/26/2010 03:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Tony Nelson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrot

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-27 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 02/26/2010 03:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 02/25/2010 09:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: ... I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol would int

F11: Latest Sagator update blew up.

2010-02-28 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
FWIW, here is the sagator update problem: Running Transaction Installing : sagator-core-1.2.0-1.fc11.noarch 1/4 Error unpacking rpm package sagator-core-1.2.0-1.fc11.noarch error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/sagator: cpio: lsetfilecon Installing

F12: .gvfs is no longer dynamic?

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I have once was able to have a fully active remote network connection to a .gvfs mounted filesystem from which I could do a 'tail -f /file.log, but now, it does not work. It works on F9, 10, and I am not sure about F11, but definitely sure that F12 does not. Has this been reported before, is thi

F12: Kernel dump.

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
ABRT has reported several kernel dumps and I was not able to get the report sent, so I deleted the report entries and moved on. However, I was perusing the /var/log/message log file and found the following but do not know what to make of it, perhaps you might know? Mar 4 15:05:22 kernel: -

Re: F12: Kernel dump.

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 03/05/2010 08:43 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:35 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> ABRT has reported several kernel dumps and >> I was not able to get the report sent, so I deleted >> the report entries and moved on. >> >>

Re: F12: .gvfs is no longer dynamic?

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 03/02/2010 01:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I have once was able to have a fully active remote > network connection to a .gvfs mounted filesystem from > which I could do a 'tail -f/file.log, but > now, it does not work. It works on F9, 10, and I am not > sure about F11,

F12: gparted & mtab

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Has anyone seen the following entries in /etc/mtab: /etc/pki/dnssec-keys /var/named/chroot/etc/pki/dnssec-keys none rw,bind 0 0 /etc/rndc.key /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key none rw,bind 0 0 /usr/lib/bind /var/named/chroot/usr/lib/bind none rw,bind 0 0 These entries was discovered when I was usin

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 03/13/2010 11:22 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > Even though the local storage is in mbox format which I dislike (I far > prefer maildir), I don't need it since I run a local dovecot imap > server on each machine and run filters to copy mail to the local imap > store which then also has the advantage

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 03/13/2010 12:25 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 03/13/2010 11:22 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > >> Even though the local storage is in mbox format which I dislike (I far >> prefer maildir), I don't need it since I run a local dovecot imap >> server on each machine

F12: /var/run/utmp: what is it for?

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Is /var/run/utmp supposed to contain anything? I note that for some reason or another selinux attempts to read or write in this area and I fail to understand what it is used for. This directory contains nothing in it. Yes, I posted the specific avc denial in selinux group and could setup a poli

Re: F12: /var/run/utmp: what is it for?

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 03/30/2010 09:00 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 03/30/2010 11:43 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Is /var/run/utmp supposed to contain anything? >> >> I note that for some reason or another selinux attempts >> to read or write in this area and I fail to understand wh

Re: Amarok 2.3: how to change playlist order

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 04/06/2010 06:21 AM, Andrea wrote: > On 02/04/10 15:40, Andrea wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In Amarok 2.3 Fedora 11 I don't seem to be able to rearrange the order of >> songs in the playlist. >> >> On the right side of the screen there is the playlist of songs currently >> played. >> When I try to

F12: Cannot drag/drop Firefox URL to desktop as a link

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I used to drag and drop FF URL onto the desktop but as it is, it creates the index.php file. Is this a known problem? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: F12: Cannot drag/drop Firefox URL to desktop as a link

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 04/17/2010 09:26 PM, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/4/17 Daniel B. Thurman : > >> I used to drag and drop FF URL onto the desktop but >> as it is, it creates the index.php file. >> >> Is this a known problem? >> > Which page? Give as the URL. On my F12 it w

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > >> I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really >> do not know enough about this OS >> > Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is "why do yo

Re: frozen gnome 3 desktop

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 06/24/2011 11:18 AM, L wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak > wrote: > After upgraded to fedora 15, most are working well. The gnome 3 > desktop are weired. It frequently freeze, not responding to mouse or > keyboard. I have to login a virtual term (alt

Bash: (foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 valid?

2011-07-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I seem to forget my shell programming but is the following statement valid? ($foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 I thought it was called the tristate conditional operator but in any case I could not find it in google. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Bash: (foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 valid?

2011-07-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/02/2011 11:30 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 07/02/2011 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> I seem to forget my shell programming >> but is the following statement valid? >> >> ($foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 >> >> I thought it was called the tristate conditio

Re: Bash: (foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 valid?

2011-07-02 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/02/2011 02:15 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 07/02/2011 02:11 PM, inode0 wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> I used: (((foo==0)?foo=1:0)) and it works in a bash script! >> I don't think that is quite the same as what I'm

Gnome Q: Application window save-data for restore when reopened?

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am sorry if this question was asked before, but I was wondering why is it, that most app- lication's main window do not restore it's last save-data the next time it is opened? What I am talking about is window position and size data, but not limited to these only. How many times does an applica

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/16/2011 11:34 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2011-08-16 19:57, Vinny Onelli skrev: >> Hello, >> I installed vmware and now I would like to install windows Me. The >> windows me CD it is not bootable it came with bootable diskette, vmware >> to install windows need the operating system which is on t

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/16/2011 11:50 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 8/16/2011 7:52 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy >>> >>> See URL: >>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-13-mounting-floppy-813466/ >>

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2011 09:41 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/16/2011 11:50 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> On 8/16/2011 7:52 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>>> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy >>>> >>>> See URL: >>>> http://www.linuxqu

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2011 10:01 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Added info: On reboot, one has to modprobe all over >> again (F13, 14). Auto-detection of floppy device no longer >> works, or so it seems. > Just run:

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/29/2011 09:23 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.08.2011, Dave Cross wrote: > >> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. > Seems nobody likes it (me included). Frankly, Gnome3 is broken by design and > a f*cking piece of cr*p :-) > All the students at my college

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 05:30 AM, gpe wrote: > On 08/29/2011 05:23 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. > I still remember the times when KDE4 was born. It was terrible comparing > to 3.5. After a while it was started to evolved, it became more

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2011 11:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: >> I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, >> etc., to recover lost functionality. > Right now, I'm running XFCE 4.6 on my desktop, but I've used a > third-party repo to upgrade my lapto

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> XFCE: >> 1) Does XFCE allow creation of new panels, left/right/top(or bottom) >> with features such as hiding panels which appears only when the >> mouse is moved i

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, stan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 > Dave Cross wrote: > >> Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the >> F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? >> >> Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNO

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2011 01:33 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, stan wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 >> Dave Cross wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the >>> F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/01/2011 02:18 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 16:01 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> 2. Who thought it was a good idea to make someone put their cursor to >> the upper left corner in order to switch desktops that are all the way >> on the right? How is that ergonomic? I act

F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted Diginotar CA certificate? Instructions given by Mozilla does not remove this certificate. If the root CA's cannot be manually removed, Is there a FF rpm that has the fix? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted >> Diginotar CA certificate? Instructions given by Mozilla >> does not remove this certificate. >> >> If the roo

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/06/2011 08:24 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:18, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Now... I need to figure out how to do a backport of ca-certificates >> pkg so if anyone has any idea how this can be done, I am all ears... > Well, Wikileaks has proved

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/06/2011 08:49 AM, Pasha R wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>>> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted

Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/06/2011 08:52 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:18:34 -0700 > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Now... I need to figure out how to do a backport of ca-certificates >> pkg so if anyone has any idea how this can be done, I am all ears... > My approach would b

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/17/2011 01:28 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> I personally think that you GNOME 3 devs are incompetent (I know that there >> are some who are not happy about the state of it and perhaps will get an >> upper >> hand in due time - the sooner the better). > That seems uncalled for. Trying to build a new

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/17/2011 03:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/17/2011 03:12 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Has anyone taken a poll from the Fedora Community >> as to what new directions Gnome-X should be taking >> BEFORE making such a paradigm shift? > Why just the Fedora Community?

Re: Need KVM switch

2011-09-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/18/2011 10:59 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > On Sat September 17 2011, Robert Myers wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM, John Aldrich > wrote: >>> I've got two computers -- a Windows XP machine and a Fedora 15 box. I >>> am sending back the new KVM I bought since it doesn't work at all for

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/19/2011 10:06 AM, JB wrote: > Alan Cox lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > >> ... >> I do think there is a problem with the Gnome development model and its >> unwillingness of many of its developers to accept external input as >> anything but criticism of them personally. The foundation-list is >

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/24/2011 07:26 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 09/24/2011 07:46 AM, Craig White wrote: > >> Whether people are programmers or not is decidedly not the point here. >> The GNOME developers have made a decision to revamp the UI to account >> for the fact that computers are extending beyond the mo

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 09/24/2011 10:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 10:02 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> +1 > Did you read the part about trimming posts or is this some strange > postmodern joke? > > poc yes. ;) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: F12: tail -f inside .gvfs filesystem fails?

2010-07-29 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/20/2010 06:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I cannot get a tail -f inside of .gvfs with > a remote mounted ntfs filesystem as done via > Nautilus->Places->Network - this has worked prior > to F12. > > Has anyone tried this on F12/13 and got it to work? > >

F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to ask if there is a workaround to this problem. I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed during a reboot, httpd complained that it could not find the host's domain, so it chose 127.0.0.1, and secondly named responded only to local

Re: F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to > ask if there is a workaround to this problem. > > I finally got rt2870 to work on F9, however, I noticed > during a reboot, httpd complained that it could not find > the host's domain, so

Re: F9: [unsupported] rt2870 now works, but requires restarting named & httpd after (re)boot?

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/30/2010 08:32 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>> First, I know F9 is no longer supported, but wanted to >>> ask if there is a workaround to this problem. >>> >>> I finally got

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 03:21 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Can grub boot from a logical partition? > > It seems from my reading that it cannot. > > But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 > if I used grub interactively, starting with > root (hd0,4) > then using tab to look for kernel and initrd

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 06:37 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Can grub boot from a logical partition? >> >> It seems from my reading that it cannot. >> >> But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 >> if I used grub interactively, starting with >>root (hd0,4) >> the

Re: Grub and logical partitions

2010-07-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 07/30/2010 06:51 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> Can grub boot from a logical partition? >>> >>> It seems from my reading that it cannot. >>> >>> But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 >>> if I used grub interactivel

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