Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
r/clamav ===8<--- This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal parts of the operating system. {^_^} On 2012/09/08 18:49, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So I've gone ahead and taken some recommend

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/08/2012 11:06 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is ru

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/08/2012 11:06 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:45 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:14 PM, jdow wrote: Um, yes, edit the configuration file. I generally speaking took the default example configuration. These are the first few lines for MY machine which is ru

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file Exit gedit and in the terminal type sudo freshclam and it will go and get the virus files. Roger Interestingly en

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating system. Well, yes and no. Rather it demands sufficient knowledge to work on problems as they occur. T

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-08 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 12:20 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/08/2012 08:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: And I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to absorb I have a friend who's (among other things) a co

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:07 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating s

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:11 AM, Roger wrote: On 09/09/2012 01:59 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:40 PM, Roger wrote: This demonstrates one of the problems Linux generically suffers in the Desktop world. It demands too much knowledge of the internal part of the operating s

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 01:49 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/08/2012 10:11 PM, Roger wrote: Wow! You understand the indecipherable -- Regedit, wow, Linux is easy after that! Back when I was doing tech support for an ISP, I kept a shortcut to Regedit on my desktop. Of course, after a few months, I almost n

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:32 AM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:59 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I guess THIS is the reason a lot of people won't live Windowsbecause there's just TOO much information to absorbat times I almost feel like crawling back into my "Rege

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:50 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: sudo /etc/freshclam.conf Thanks for this.after all o it...it STILL won't show me that the vidurs definition files are up to date..hmm.wonder if an un-install - re-install would help?.or else I'll just look at some of the othe

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he top of the file, then to save the file

Another Issue.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
After reading another person's problem with fonts.I tried to enter the commands for the font-manager myself...and I got the following error. So my question is, is there something wrong with my repo? Or is this link pointing to a different place than it should be? (Maybe this is the reason w

Re: Clams

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 11:05 AM, DB wrote: On 09/09/2012 02:00 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Sound advice indeedand slowly but surely I'm getting the hang of itbut like..what you just described would have been for me?.a TOTAL re-installation of EVERYTHING!..I wonder

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 02:54 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/08/2012 05:19 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me for their product(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if I'm going to use "Free Open Source Sof

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 04:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 12:19 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 05:07 PM, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the word Example, a few lies fromt he t

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 07:20 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/10/2012 07:07 AM, Doug wrote: On 09/09/2012 10:03 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 23:39 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/08/2012 11:11 PM, Roger wrote: Try gedit. sudo gedit /etc/mfreshclam.conf put a # in front of the

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI editor. So if you want to use gedit, or Kate, you'd have to go to a terminal, and become root, either by

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/09/2012 09:02 PM, Roger wrote: On 09/10/2012 10:29 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/09/2012 08:26 PM, Doug wrote: Just become root (su -) and edit the file. Several folks have answered this: you have to access the editor from the command line. Even if it's a GUI

Re: Clams.....

2012-09-10 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
It sometimes boggles the mind how much the "Average User" DOESN'T know about the system they're using! (I myself am guilty of this very crime!) EGO II On 09/10/2012 04:38 AM, Roger wrote: Actually with Windows 7 (and apparently Vista, too) it is more like you are logged in to an account th

Corrupted Repo?.....

2012-09-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Hello all, I have been having a problem recently with getting any kind of package or application using yum here's what I get whenever I try to "get" something from the internet using yum: / //orion@ORION-2015 ~$ sudo yum list all// //[sudo] password for orion: // //Loaded plugins: langpacks, pre

Re: Corrupted Repo?.....

2012-09-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/12/2012 11:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/13/2012 10:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: That URL for a google repository doesn't look right Where did you get it? The ones I have for Chrome and Google-Earth are http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml and htt

Re: Corrupted Repo?.....

2012-09-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/13/2012 01:07 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/13/2012 01:06 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 09/12/2012 11:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/13/2012 10:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: That URL for a google repository doesn't look right Where did you get it? The ones I have for

Re: Corrupted Repo?.....

2012-09-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/13/2012 03:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/13/2012 03:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/13/2012 03:00 PM, Tony Molloy wrote: [google] name=Google - $basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.p

SELinux is preventing......

2013-02-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I kep receiving messages like this every now and thenI'm just wondering.should I be concerned? Is there something I need to do to get these alerts and warnings to cease? Any help would be appreciated! Thanx! EGO II SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed from open

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

2013-02-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/18/2013 03:34 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 18:05 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Am going to look into thisas I want to "build" a server at home, and see what I can do with it.maybe some form of central information repository?..I'll think of

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

2013-02-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/18/2013 06:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:22 +1030 Tim wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 15:22 -0500, jonc wrote: Still, FOSS has no reliable way to measure who likes what, or who uses what... Or who despises something, but still carries on using it, anyway. Nor can you

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

2013-02-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/18/2013 08:15 AM, jonc wrote: On 02/18/2013 03:34 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 18:05 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Am going to look into thisas I want to "build" a server at home, and see what I can do with it.maybe some form of central informa

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/24/2013 07:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.02.2013 09:27, schrieb Fernando Cassia: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: simple: nobody needs java applets anybody who requries java applets on his website is an idiot this was 10 years ago teh same as now and in the futu

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/24/2013 09:04 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: In 17 there was an easy way to scale a photo for a background to the screen. In Fedora 18 this ease is gone. Is there a way to scale a photo to fit the screen without the ease of a button that I can do on my own? Thanks, Richard I have been de

Re: Scaling

2013-02-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/24/2013 10:30 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: Are you talking about the desktop background image? I think that's a function of which desktop you are using. I use KDE, and nothing has changed -- you just right click on the background, choose "Default Desktop Settings" then choose (or open) the

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/25/2013 02:37 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 25.02.2013, Jim wrote: A lot of Federal and State Gov. websites require Java to access their websites in the U.S. And without java, you won't get access to your internet banking here in Norway.. Wow! I never knew Java was as prevalent as that!...

Kernel Specific Bug?.....

2013-02-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
After upgrading my laptop to the latest kernel I now get a system error stating that there's a problem with the "upgrade"...supposedly there's a request for packages to be upgraded but there's nothing to be upgraded? I'm not sure about the error and I will try to get more info on it,...just wan

System Error After Upgrade to latest Kernel.....3.7.9-201.fc18.i686

2013-02-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Sorry for the delayed response, but the error I get is shown by the SELinux "Exclamation Point" in an orange star shaped icon and it's described below: "An offline update was requested but no packages required updating." And in my "Gnome Menu" in the right hand top corner there's an entry th

System Error After Upgrade to latest Kernel.....3.7.9-201.fc18.i686

2013-02-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I think I may have figured out the problem. After trying to repeatedly get the update to go from clicking on the entry in the Gnome Menu, I decided to just run "yum update --skip-broken"...and immediately the entry disappeared, and I was "allowed" do download and install all 11 updates. Gotta l

Re: F18 Installation problem

2013-03-03 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/03/2013 09:58 AM, Vinny Onelli wrote: Hello, I am try to install F18 on Dell Dimension 8300 containing 2 HD 120 GB for windows XP and 350 GB containing F17. I first tried to install F18 from a downloaded iso file, it shows an error when select the 350 GB HD apparently it thing that there is

Re: Status of Fedup'ng F17->F18; when in doubt, yum upgrade ...

2013-03-10 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/10/2013 03:36 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Because using an updates-testing version of fedup left my F17->F18 upgrade on a dual-core desktop in a mixed state (lots of F18 rpms interlaced w/ F17 ones). For a while the machine would boot in an F17 kernel; while went through a proce

Re: F-18 startx -

2013-03-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/12/2013 05:24 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 12/03/13 16:10, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: About a week ago while googling for a solution to my display resolution problem I happened across a simple command line entry that changed this computer such that it now

Re: previous emails

2013-03-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/12/2013 06:44 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/12/2013 06:30 PM, poma wrote: On 03/11/13 16:43, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, How can I access to the previous mails that I submitted to the list? They are lost in infinity. poma If they were actually published to the list and shown to the world,

Re: About that installer...

2013-03-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/12/2013 06:53 PM, Dan Irwin wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Tim wrote: I think you should say *exactly* what you did with fdisk, each step. Because it still sounds like what you think is "creating free space," probably isn't the same as what we might have done. What i did exact

Re: About that installer...

2013-03-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/12/2013 07:17 PM, Dan Irwin wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Only because you have data on there is why you're trying it this way? My sister had a similar problem, but the solution was so left-of-center that I just had to have her do it

Settings.....

2013-03-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was on its last legs, so I assisted them in installing F18, but the feature for handling the desktop background is

How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again: I seem to recall someone posting the procedure to "restoring" the Options for setting a desktop background (Center-Scale-Zoom-Tiles-etc) I have a friend who's Dell Inspirion laptop was o

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the original inquiry again:

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
13 10:00 AM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> >> On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>>

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Mar 16, 2013 9:09 PM, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Figured I'd have

Re: Kernel Upgrade Display Issues....

2013-03-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/19/2013 02:19 PM, Anthony Messina wrote: On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 01:19:06 PM Eddie O'Connor wrote: After recently upgrading to the latest kernel, my display has gone berserk! It logs in with the 1024x768 resolution, and I have to reset it for 1200x1600. After I reset it, after a minute

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/19/2013 04:05 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 03/19/2013 02:03 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 03/18/2013 09:25 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 03/17/2013 04:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 03/18/2013 04:00 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 03/17/2013 11:10 AM, Richard Vic

Re: How To Adjust Image Options When Setting Desktop Background...

2013-03-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/25/2013 05:54 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno lun, 25/03/2013 alle 22.50 +0100, Dario Lesca ha scritto: Il giorno dom, 17/03/2013 alle 00.09 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. ha scritto: Figured I'd have to re-name the subject line in order to get a response? Here's the o

Re: yum upgrade

2013-03-28 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/28/2013 12:09 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: Sorry for the double-posting: I've been to the fedora-upgrade (wiki) sites and got confused. Can someone give me a shortened, simplistic version for stupid people (ie: myself) of how to use the yum-upgrade command? Sincerely, Richard If you

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 04/24/2013 03:46 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: On 04/24/2013 02:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/23/2013 07:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the outside world has of this term, one step at a time? Sorry, but it's a tad late to lock up

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-30 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
n all honesty Mr. Dineen: Absolutely Nothing! But it was fun while it lasted, as I'm sure they'll now "shut down" the topic and move on to bigger and better things! LoL! EGO II On 04/26/2013 01:12 PM, Thomas Dineen wrote: Gents: I have been quietly listening in to this discussion for s

Re: "hackers"

2013-05-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 04/30/2013 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: n all honesty Mr. Dineen: Absolutely Nothing! But it was fun while it lasted, as I'm sure they'll now "shut down&quo

Re: "hackers"

2013-05-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 04/30/2013 03:23 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/30/2013 12:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: The line "I've been hacked" sounds like the author either doesn't know how to speak or ought to get out of computers because said person doesn't know how to code. Language changes. Either keep up, or find y

Re: "hackers"

2013-05-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/01/2013 11:55 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 01.05.2013 06:43, schrieb Richard Vickery: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Timmailto:ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>> wrote: Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2013, Ri

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/15/2013 04:48 PM, Anthony wrote: On 05/14/2013 11:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? I have had great experiences with System76. I've owned a few of their machines but, if I were to reco

Re: [OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/16/2013 07:27 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: It took a bit of time, but I finally tracked down the problem to the DVI cable which had been chewed on by one of my cats. (Doing dental impressions now to find the culprit.) Replaced cable, all is well. Ne

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/16/2013 07:35 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 22:16 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I imagine anything that has a sub-woofer in it is pretty weighty? And would have to be pretty big. I don't believe what they call a sub-woofer will actually be one - something that

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/17/2013 01:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:13:46 -0400 Digimer wrote: On 05/15/2013 12:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? Btw, what is the highest vertical resoluti

Re: F18 - yum update broken?

2013-06-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/14/2013 07:55 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: On 06/14/2013 03:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:47:36 -0700 Paul Erickson wrote: Has yum update broken? For some reason when I went to update today, if got the following message: ...snip... I have never encountered this before.

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/15/2013 07:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like to print anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. Thats the procedure I normally use...makes it easy to get a padf configured and printed in a jiffy with very few problems!. EGO II -- users m

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 07:21 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent: Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a linux box. I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much mor

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 10:23 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than configuring Windows to .... Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I have never used SAMBAbut I've always been told (by Windows admins no less!...LOL!) that it was the

Re: install the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 11:29 PM, poma wrote: On 10.06.2013 06:28, Lingxian Guo wrote: Just but unfamiliar,I am using Fedora 18 64bit .The plugin of the Adobe Flash Player should be installed to Firefox,I do not know how to do? http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ poma You could just always install it f

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/17/2013 10:13 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: why is SAMBA still around?,,,I always thought the Open Source Universe was about finding and using software that "Just Worked"? When it comes to interfacing your open source, op

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/18/2013 12:41 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/17/2013 07:21 PM, lee wrote: Joe Zeff writes: On 06/16/2013 07:09 PM, lee wrote: Just think it through and then explain to me how it would make sense to dedicate (a part of the limited) resources to have mcelog constantly running. I take it, t

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/18/2013 12:53 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I guess I'll have to ditch my SAMBA 3 whitepapers and look into the NFS thingie some more! Always explore the options. And I assume the NFS has "workable" access and file p

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Wow! well this is great news for me, as I was holding off upgrading for fear of something going wrong. And bear in mind I have a full backup of my system, it's just that I have scarce time to babysit a full restore...but I guess I'll give it an attempt this coming weekend over a cup of Earl Grey!

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 01:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 7/9/2013 10:19 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: >> >> I agree completely. Harald's posts are among the best on this list >> in terms of >> their technical content. It's more disruptive that they're out of >> sequence due >> to moderation than that h

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:17 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >> I've used fedup on 4 very different machines, >> and it has worked faultlessly. > Thanks for reporting. I was afraid of upgrading (F18->F19) and would > have waited months. After your message, I did it and it worked > perfectly well: > 1. I downloaded

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:27 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi, > >> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 10:58 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: >>> Once in a while I see people suggesting the disabling of IPv6 to cope >>> with some issue. >>> >>> My I _kindly_ ask not to do that anymore? >>> Even though such trick migh

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:45 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >> So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different >> session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like >> XFCE?...or MATE?... > no, it's just the first time. Then it remembers your choice. > Frédéric Oh!ok...c

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:46 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >> What I want to know is, what does fedup do if, as in my case, Gnome isn't >> installed? > Don't know that. Sorry. > Frédéric Doesn't it kind of "put" it there?...as a default?...or will it configure some sort of interface so that you can install it? O

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >>> So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a >>> different >>> session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like >>> XFCE?...or MATE?... >> >> no, it's just the first time. Th

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 03:08 PM, Temlakos wrote: > On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of "yum" killed in bike accident

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 04:29 PM, staticsafe wrote: > http://durham.io/2013/07/09/seth-vidal-creator-of-yum-open-source-software-killed-in-bike-accident-off-hillandale-rd/ > > May he rest in peace. Deepest condolences to his family! God bless them all! EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 05:06 PM, Temlakos wrote: > On 07/09/2013 05:04 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> On 07/09/2013 03:08 PM, Temlakos wrote: >>> On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>>> On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >>>>>> So

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 05:27 PM, staticsafe wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:16:58PM -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> Oh! ok.that explains it! So then theoretically I should be able to >> use the fedup-cli command and upgrade my system, without having anything >> cha

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of "yum" killed in bike accident

2013-07-11 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/11/2013 08:41 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 11:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Or if he would have been uncomfortable with this (I did not know him), perhaps name it after his passions: yum and biking (from what I read here) in some creative way "yummy cycles"? Even has a gener

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. I've had an updat

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/12/2013 09:10 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: See?...it's stuff like the stories above that make me hesitant to go from 18 to 19 Why? Something went wrong. Once. I spent several days, off and on, cleaning up cruft and duplicate pac

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:45 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released? What are the main reasons? Thanks in advance, Paul As far as it was explained to me: you're not REALLY required to upgrade, if the version you're using suits your purposes. Th

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Hi, imagine you have the following: package A, depends on C, installed package B, depends on C, not installed package C, installed All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, and in the meantime, package B has been updated to vers

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 09:44 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: ALL!).And now for.."fedup-cli --network 19"...and I'll keep my fingers crossedbut what's the time frame?like an hour?2?...2+1/2? About an hour or two --- it d

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and version 2 from Fedora 18. Imagine

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, lee wrote: Besides all the reasons already mentioned: It can be much more manageable to adjust one or two things when upgrading from one release to the next than it may be having to suddenly adjust five or ten after skipping s

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of "yum" killed in bike accident

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/11/2013 09:16 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Isaac Cortés González wrote: I support the idea, it should be done at least something like when Verne was released and Dennis Ritchie, not only the Fedora Community has lost a great developer; but also CentOS and RH

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: Matthew Miller writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:34:18PM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more recent versions. Maybe this

Re: Schr?dinger?s Cat

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 07:36 PM, Roger wrote: On 07/14/2013 05:17 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 7/13/2013 12:05 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: When do we get rid of grub and grub2 and design a BM4H? (Boot Manager for Humans) Once the fundamental Transhumanism technologies are fully operational.

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 07:42 PM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/14/2013 03:54 AM, lee wrote: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." writes: On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: It's not simply about knowing which packages have been or are to be updated --- that I can see when running 'yum update'. It's about information what has

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/14/2013 08:35 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51:05AM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more recent versions. Maybe this could be done i

Re: Fedora Laptop?

2022-03-10 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I believe Lenovo does ? (did?) And then  there's Slimbook from Spain...didn't KDE also make a laptop...with Fedora as an offering?  at least IIRC EGO II On 3/11/22 00:10, Todd Chester via users wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of someone selling laptops with Fedora preinstalled? Many thanks,

New Text Editor - A Question.....

2022-04-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Just wondering ladies and gentlemen. Is there any way to get the new text editor to use  a "dark" theme? I love its simple interface and the fact that the text can be BOLDED again! But this bright white?..is KILLING my eyes! Just wondering is all! Thanks! WEGO II _

Re: New Text Editor - A Question.....

2022-04-02 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Ok I checked it out?...and its called "Gnome Text Editor"...its not bad...pretty basic, but sometimes that's JUST what you need...not "Vim" with mysterious button combinations or any of it's derivatives, not a full blown Geany or VS Code...just a nice and simple text editor. I mean don't get me

Re: Strange thing...a hidden kernel, a stealth kernel!!! running on my Fedora 25.

2017-03-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/01/2017 07:50 PM, renaud.l...@gmail.com wrote: I run Fedora 25 on my laptop,on a dedicated partition,other OSs on other partitions,and a strange thing happens: On my Fedora 25 /boot/ directory I only have kernels 4.2.3 and 4.9.12 the most recent(and a rescue kernel not numbered).However

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

2017-03-06 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/06/2017 12:37 PM, linux guy wrote: I have a non booting installation that I need to get running. I would like to know how to change the run target to the command line and disable several services that are causing issues during the boot process. How does one manually change the run tar

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

2019-10-06 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox, this behavior also has hit my OpenSuSE and my CEntOS laptopssomething is eating up the RAM on them when Firefox is running...and it seems to go back to being snappy and fast o

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

2019-10-06 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
'll make the move backbut for now I'm good. Thanks for the suggestion!! Cheers! EGO II On 10/6/19 9:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/6/19 6:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its Fedo

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