Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/28/2013 04:29 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/28/2013 06:06 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/28/2013 02:35 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: I wonder what Google's secret is? Most likely, a heavily customized version of SpamAssassin. Or if not specifically SA, some other Baysean filter. Which, incidentally, wouldn't be amiss

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote: In the past, I've emailed friends, and my first or second posting has gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything about it. I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my email. Why? Because

Old Info?.....

Hello all, I don't wanna go into a long song and dance so I'll make this short and simple: Running F-29 on  Lenovo ThinkPad T420 I've updated and everything is running smoothly But When its first starting up?...and it shows the kernels that are available (along with the rescue option) they'

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 3:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: kernel 4.14 is quite old now and probably is from F27.  What does "rpm -q kernel" show? Hey Samuel!...thanks for the reply!typing "rpm -q kernel" gives me: kernel-4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.19.2-301.fc29.x86_64 kernel-4.19.3-300.fc29.x86_64

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 3:17 AM, dsavage--- via users wrote: Eddie, Easy. At a CLI prompt type: ls -l /boot | grep vmlinuz You should see a "vmlinuz-0" rescue kernel followed by the three latest installed kernels. For the most recently updated F29 these will be 4.19.2-300, 4.19.2-301, and 4.19.3-30

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 5:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: There is some disagreement on what you are actually asking here so you are getting different answers.  I assumed that you didn't have entries for the F29 kernels, in which case you need to recreate the grub.cfg as I described.  Others have understood you

Re: tablets?

I had once seen a YouTube video of someone running Fedora using the GNome interface, but that was a while ago, I don't know if anyone's tried getting it on there recently. EGO II On 1/22/19 10:54 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Any sign of Fedora on a tablet? -T _

Re: Stuck Kernel Version.....

Well, seems I don't have to sweat this anymore, as my 1 yr old niece through her "overly active" curiosity, ensured that I will be needing to buy a new SSD and having the insides of my T-420 "blow dried"! LoL!..Thanks to all for the advice. And thank goodness for 2TB USB drives and my rigor

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the profile that was created when I first installed and configured itand transfer it to

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

I'm just going to stop using it until this blows over. Thank goodness for the Open Source community! They've got more browsers available than any other platform! I think I'll give Epiphany (GNome Web) another go, I'm not big on multi-media stuff, so I'm not in desperate need of codecs and what

Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

Hello all, There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have been removed / stopped / taken away? So how do I gain the ability to work on fi

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

es my woes!) Thanks! EGO II On 7/13/19 3:20 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/12/19 6:57 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 19-07-12 15:47:58, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to o

Re: fedora on amd ryzen 7

I too was wondering about this, as I am in the process of building a PC for both my son and I...he wants an AMD Ryzen 7 "5xxx" seriesI was going to go with the Ryzen 5 "5xxx" series. Nice to know it works with no issues. Now if only I can get some decent GPU's without having to pay "NASA" p

Re: despirate help needed - Samba and security = share

On 01/26/2015 04:49 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Friday 23 January 2015 21:17:55 Pete Travis wrote: No, please don't do this. Be honest with yourself about how frequently you are willing to upgrade this server, and compare that to Fedora's release cycle. It doesn't match up. I'm all for using

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 08:47 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? Krishna Prajapati On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun,

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 09:18 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was always teased in school for being &

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:27 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: ..the simple trick is to "push" each letter over by one! That's it! ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: imagine if the "word" ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.ANY dictionary.would that qualify it as being a bit more secure? Here's the "math" behi

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 11:09 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was always teased in school for being "weird&quo

Re: pidgin video chat

On 03/09/2015 12:55 AM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all a

Re: I broke Yum (by messing with Python libs)

On 03/22/2015 09:37 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: Then there's no need of further work. Anyway, I think yum is going to be dropped. I don't remember right now the name of its substitute tough. Sorry, my memory is terrible. Cheers! I didn't know yum was "breakable"! LoL! I have yet to mess with anyt

Re: mandb errors

Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/isdnctrl_conf.8.gz: whatis parse for isdnctrl_conf(8) failedmandb: can't resolve */usr/share/man/man8/btrfs-check.8.gz*: _Too many levels of symbolic links _I'm not sure, but I would think this part

Re: mandb errors

On 06/29/2014 05:04 PM, JD wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/isdnctrl_conf.8.gz: whatis parse for

Re: Some newbie questions

On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote: After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would share what I have found: Hardware setup: AMD Semperon 300+ (old) 64MB AGP graphics card 1GB DDR400 RAM 160GB HD configured as follows. 500MB boot partition 10GB swap partition

Cannot Upgrade From F20 To F21 Using Fedup.....

Hey all, Happy Veteran's Day! I've been trying to upgrade from F20 to F21 using fedup but keep receiving the following error. I don't know if its an SELinux thing, or if there's something I need to either disable or change in order for this to work. It does "go through the motions" setting up r

Re: Cannot Upgrade From F20 To F21 Using Fedup.....

Thanks! EGO II On 11/11/2014 05:17 AM, poma wrote: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest under KVM

On 01/10/2015 02:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest using KVM. I'd like to use virtio for network and disk, but I can't seem to find virtio drivers that windows 8.1 actually recognizes. Under RHEL 7, it would be t

Re: Time tracking app

On 01/10/2015 03:45 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/07/15 22:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am looking for a time tracking application now that I am a consultant. Emacs org-mode has capabilities for that. See and

Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

Ok so FINALLY I've gone ahead and gotten my laptop upgraded to Fedora 17! But I now am trying to play .mp4 / .flv/ .avi movies on it and getting an error message telling me that there are plugins missing. I also get error messages when I try to play mp3's. Even though I get system sounds. Is th

Re: Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

Ok so FINALLY I've gone ahead and gotten my laptop upgraded to Fedora 17! But I now am trying to play .mp4 / .flv/ .avi movies on it and getting an error message telling me that there are plugins missing. I also get error messages when I try to play mp3's. snip Eddie: Go here: http://www.mjm

Re: Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

On 08/05/2012 01:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/05/2012 12:38 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Error From Video Player: Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file The following plugins are required: MPEG-4 AAC decoder

Re: Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

On 08/05/2012 04:03 AM, Maurizio Marini wrote: the topic is not related to this issue, u should use another post so next guy asking here the same thing can retrieve it using google, like this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=installing+mp3+plugin+fedora reading here and there, i got that mp3 is not a free

Searching For.....

Just another "not-quite-so-stupid" question: If I wanted Fedora "Swag"...(t-shirts, coffee mug, baseball cap etc.) where would I go? I've checked the homepage but found nothingjust curious EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

On 08/05/2012 04:49 PM, David wrote: On 8/5/2012 4:02 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: Has anyone been able to get the Moonlight addition for Linux Firefox to work? Moonlight is dead. It also never supported DRM which was about the only useful us

Re: Searching For.....

On 08/05/2012 06:54 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 08/05/2012 03:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Just another "not-quite-so-stupid" question: If I wanted Fedora "Swag"...(t-shirts, coffee mug, baseball cap etc.) where would I go? I've checked the homepage but

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

On 08/05/2012 07:02 PM, David wrote: On 8/5/2012 5:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/05/2012 04:49 PM, David wrote: On 8/5/2012 4:02 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: Has anyone been able to get the Moonlight addition for Linux Fi

Re: failed f16 preupgrade, now stuck in grub2 rescue, can't exit

On 08/05/2012 08:48 PM, jackson byers wrote: [additional info from OP: I want to emphasize what I didn't explicitly say in my post: I can of course hit the power button, but when powering back up I only get back to the original fail message: GRUB loading Welcome to GRUB! error: no

Re: Searching For.....

On 08/05/2012 08:21 PM, inode0 wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/05/2012 06:54 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 08/05/2012 03:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Just another "not-quite-so-stupid" question: If I wanted Fedora "Swag

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

On 08/05/2012 09:46 PM, David wrote: On 8/5/2012 8:14 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/05/2012 07:02 PM, David wrote: On 8/5/2012 5:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Silverlight has always been been a Microsoft product. And no I seriously doubt that Microsoft will use the

Re: Searching For.....

On 08/06/2012 08:20 PM, Lailah wrote: Usually are the Fedora Ambassadors who have this kind of things like t-shirts and mugs. Where do you live? */Lailah/* El dom, 05-08-2012 a las 16:50 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: Just another "not-quite-so-stupid" question: If

Re: Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

On 08/07/2012 02:32 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 07:13 -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote: I Will overlook any perceived shortcomings from now on I wouldn't go that far, just have a look into why it doesn't do something you thought it ought to. Perhaps it's a legal reason. Perhaps it conf

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/07/2012 07:34 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday, 7. August 2012. 14.44.32 Tim wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 00:48 -0400, Doug wrote: Well, here's my 2¢: I think naming is dumb, *because* there is no logical sequence to it--the reader does not know whether the named version is current,

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

On 08/07/2012 08:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:14:27 +0200 Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: IPv6 is the future but as someone has already written in lot of cases it's not supported by routers and ISP's so having it enabled in your OS is pointless. I'll revers your argumentation -

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

On 08/07/2012 12:12 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: Στις 2/8/2012 14:28, ο/η Heinz Diehl έγραψε: On 02.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: So, this is a processor bug? I would expect that Linux should detect these automatically... If I remember all correctly, there were two mainly independend issue

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

On 08/10/2012 09:25 AM, Mike Flannigan wrote: FYI, my 3rd attempt to go to Linux failed. Ubuntu didn't get anywhere - the startup install screen would not show, just a blank screen. Tried 32 bit and 64 bit - same failure. Fedora 17 64 bit installed just fine. After updates I got the "GPU-loc

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

On 08/11/2012 06:22 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 23:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: You've done an awful lot of typing for an OP that isn't likely going to engage. Caught me during a moment of waiting for something to happen. Besides, my casual typing speed's somewhere around 50 wpm, so it

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/11/2012 04:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 12:41 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As far as I can see, there's no imminent harm to giving a new release of an OS a name, if anything it gives it an identity, something to associate it with, such as when two developers are t

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

On 08/11/2012 07:41 PM, David wrote: On 8/11/2012 6:58 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/11/2012 06:22 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 23:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: You've done an awful lot of typing for an OP that isn't likely going to engage. Caught me during a mo

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/11/2012 07:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 04:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: No worries Joe! I feel that we can *all *contribute something to this great project known as Fedora, so even YOUR opinion counts!...As for myselfI'd like to see the names go in a more &

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/11/2012 07:47 PM, David wrote: On 8/11/2012 7:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/11/2012 04:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 12:41 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As far as I can see, there's no imminent harm to giving a new release of an OS a name, if anyth

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/11/2012 09:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:48:34 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 04:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: No worries Joe! I feel that we can *all *contribute something to this great project known as Fedora, so even YOUR opinion counts!...A

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/11/2012 09:09 PM, David wrote: On 8/11/2012 8:27 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:47:47 -0400 David wrote: On 8/11/2012 7:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/11/2012 04:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 12:41 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As fa

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

On 08/11/2012 11:36 PM, David wrote: On 8/11/2012 11:22 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 18:58 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: why is it when someone complains about Windows in any respect it is said they're "slamming" it? Windows worked very hard to earn its d

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

On 08/12/2012 12:36 AM, David wrote: On 8/12/2012 12:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2012 09:11 PM, David wrote: On 8/11/2012 11:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Penguins don't have to be able to fly. They are cool as they are. Either you never saw Madagascar II, or you've forgotten it. Hmm... I had s

Re: Accessing NTFS on an IDE drive through a USB external caddy

On 08/14/2012 07:07 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: On 08/14/2012 06:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks. 've got a WinXP system that's got stuffed by a virus. I've put a new HDD in and started a clean install and now I'm trying to use my (F17) Linux laptop to copy the files off the old HDD and scan

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/14/2012 04:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:30 PM, Lailah wrote: Oh, I would love this name! Vote for it! Aside of this... I didn't knew that about Fedora and Sara Bernhardt. I always wondered for the very origin of the word "Fedora"? So did I, so I looked it up in Wikipedia in

Re: Best variant of Fedora for a Virtual Machine...?

On 08/14/2012 05:03 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday, 14. August 2012. 13.17.58 And Kemp wrote: To practice prior to my exam I would like to be able to enter commands at the command line: obtaining (separate) terminal windows using KDE comes across as clunky (I usually use Ubuntu - sorry!).

Re: Best variant of Fedora for a Virtual Machine...?

On 08/14/2012 05:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/14/2012 02:03 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I hope that you are aware that "icons on a desktop" is considered to be a Bad Idea (tm) that comes from the Windows world and eventually clutters an otherwise useful desktop space. I beg to differ. Icons o

Re: Accessing NTFS on an IDE drive through a USB external caddy

On 08/14/2012 07:55 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/15/2012 07:46 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: any takers?LoL! And thanks in advance! Don't mix your problem with another person's problem. It is almost as bad as hijacking a thread. Start your own thread since the solutio

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/14/2012 09:20 PM, David wrote: On 8/14/2012 9:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/14/2012 04:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:30 PM, Lailah wrote: Oh, I would love this name! Vote for it! Aside of this... I didn't knew that about Fedora and Sara Bernhardt.

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 08/16/2012 11:38 AM, Lailah wrote: El mar, 14-08-2012 a las 21:11 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: So then?...are we all agreed?...that when time comes...we'll all vote for "Bernhardt" as a pert of...or the entire name of the next official release of Fedora?..

Another Question....

Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's running my Fedora 17 just fine, I recently noticed my BIOS for this laptop was OLD...(1998! I think!) and I was wondering how do I go about installing the BIOS update

Re: Another Question....

On 08/20/2012 11:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321 laptop and it's running my Fedora 17 just fine, I recently noticed my BIOS for

Re: Another Question....

On 08/21/2012 12:21 AM, nomnex wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:28:14 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: On 08/20/2012 11:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

On 08/21/2012 04:03 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: Does any body use Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop? Last I see it was still being worked on. Unity required all kinds of patches, but seems the most invasive ones (gtk+) are now optional. Sug

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/21/2012 10:48 AM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:16 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Keep in mind that you should backup your home folder even if you don't intend to restore it. Otherwise, there lies madness. This is why I prefer desktop computers with more than one drive. You put the o

Just A Question....

I'm trying to "open" some files that have been mysteriously "locked" by a WD Hard Drive. It was created and formatted by Windows, but I'm trying to use Fedora to open them, can anyone give me some pointers on this? I've tried the partitioning this drive and nothing on this system works for it.

Re: Just A Question....

of luck to you! ---- *From:* Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. *To:* Users@Lists.FedoraProject.org *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:01 PM *Subject:* Just A Question I'm trying to "open" som

Re: Just A Question....

On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: This could be a simple permissions issue. Have you tried logging in as root and using your file manager to change ownership of the files? On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:01:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I'm trying to "open" some

Re: Just A Question....

On 08/22/2012 10:08 PM, Troy wrote: Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: This could be a simple permissions

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/22/2012 08:38 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu.

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/22/2012 09:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/22/2012 11:43 AM, Doug wrote: On 08/22/2012 08:38 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... /snip/ Or there are rolling-update distros,

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/22/2012 01:36 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:08 +0930, Tim wrote: There's CentOS ... Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). So, if you don't want to learn knew tricks, it's the easier ch

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/22/2012 10:46 PM, Fedora User wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:38 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Yet ANOTHER distro I'm going to have to check out!..How do people decide WHICH one of these things to PICK!?...I just stumbled upon Fedora, and since it was my first enco

Re: Just A Question....

On 08/22/2012 10:54 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/22 19:12, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 10:08 PM, Troy wrote: Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O&#

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/23/2012 06:09 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 23 August 2012 03:22, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu. Where you install a particul

Natural Selection.....

Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with: PeppermintOS - laptop Ubuntu LTS - desktop Fedora laptop Linux Mint desktop PC-BSD desktop Will have to figure out which o

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

On 08/23/2012 12:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/24/2012 12:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/2012 03:31 AM, Lailah wrote: How can Unity be installed in Fedora? Works fine? See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana There are pros and cons. I for one, will not be testing. Or may

Re: Natural Selection.....

On 08/25/2012 03:29 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: You intend to use them all at once? Why? For a server box, you might want to consider CentOS. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ok so after scouring this

Re: Natural Selection.....

to use them all at once? Why? For a server box, you might want to consider CentOS. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a MILLION different versions

Re: Natural Selection.....

On 08/27/2012 11:38 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: Will have to figure out which one will be a server...a storage machineetc. Linux is linux you will learn that after fi

Re: Natural Selection.....

On 08/27/2012 11:39 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Fernando Cassia > wrote: arribe quicker 2. it´s as close to ´bleding edge´ arrive, bleeding edge... sorry for the typos... I should never compose emails while in bed... FC

Web Cam......

I'm currently using a Gateway T-6321 Laptop with a web-cam built into it's lid / screen area. I have Cheese installed.along with Pidgin. I am wondering what I need to do or install or enable in order to get my web-cam to actually work with my Pidgin? Or are they just separate entities?...I

Re: Web Cam......

On 08/28/2012 10:15 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/29/2012 09:38 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I'm currently using a Gateway T-6321 Laptop with a web-cam built into it's lid / screen area. I have Cheese installed.along with Pidgin. I am wondering what I need to do or instal

Re: Web Cam......

On 08/29/2012 02:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 08/28/2012 08:28 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. uttered this comment: On 08/28/2012 10:15 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/29/2012 09:38 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I'm currently using a Gateway T-6321 Laptop with a web-cam buil

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

On 08/30/2012 02:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 11:29 AM, Don Levey wrote: On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote: Hi, So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks Provider 1.8.5 add on. There isn't a newer version of the add-on available. Wouldn't it be nic

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

On 08/30/2012 03:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 12:01 PM, Don Levey wrote: Because they do it*after* installation. Why not do it before installation instead? I'm not talking about random extensions that are created off in some backwater corner of the internet. I'm talking about extensio

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

On 08/30/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:19:11PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, 30. August 2012. 14.27.48 Mark Haney wrote: On 08/30/2012 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/30/2012 10:39 AM, Mark Haney wrote: I may be a bit thick here, but I see no referen

Re: update my fedora computers from my own server.

On 08/31/2012 06:15 AM, Edward M wrote: On 08/31/2012 02:47 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: I update all my Fedora boxes from the one location. No server as such. Just a shared /var/cache/yum on an NAS. I also use keepcache=1,, and tidy-cache. So I can "yum downgrade if necessary" Hello Frank,

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 09/01/2012 08:17 AM, Lailah wrote: El dom, 19-08-2012 a las 12:42 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: I would love just "Bernhardt", as in "Verne". Just the name, without any other word. /Cheers/ */Lailah/* I think that's a great idea! "Bernhard

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

On 09/01/2012 03:55 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs. Thanks for the help and suggestion. I´m sure I´ll end up fixing this on Monday when I return and have access to the drive from my F17 Linux machine.

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

On 09/01/2012 10:41 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John Wendel wrote: Actually, '?' is not "an invalid character" in a Linux filename. Only "/" and the NULL character (0) are invalid in filenames. Regards, John Well, it´d be akin to writing FAT with filenames that

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

On 09/02/2012 10:59 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 11:03 -0500, inode0 wrote: Since this entire conversation is about if and how to change the process beginning with Fedora 19 there is no answer to your question until a new process is agreed to or the effort is abandoned, neither of which

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 09/03/2012 12:35 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/09/02 20:25, JD wrote: On 09/02/2012 08:56 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 09:46 -0700, jdow wrote: My take away from this is that absolutely nothing except a totally disconnected machine in an impenetrable safe is uncrackable, even Fedora mach

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

On 09/08/2012 09:24 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 08:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 20:19:42 -0400, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: So how would someone who's still a greenhorn to Linux protect their machine?...I refuse to install anything that&#x

Re: Clams.....

So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/freshclam.conf Is there something I'm miss

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:01 PM, Larry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/08/2012 08:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions f

Re: Clams.....

On 09/08/2012 10:07 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here, but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions files... ERROR: Please edit the example c

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