firewall-applet

2013-01-14 Thread Gene Czarcinski
This is a little early since Fedora 18 will not be officially out until tomorrow. Did anyone test firewall-applet on a gnome desktop? On a kde desktop? I also tried xfce and there is got an applet on the panel. I am sure this is something about gnome shell or kde it it sure is not obvious

Re: Tor and Tor Browser repository for Fedora 17 and 18

2013-01-17 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 01/17/2013 12:21 PM, Jamie Nguyen wrote: Hi, I'm the maintainer for Tor package on Fedora EPEL. I've set-up a (GPG signed) repository for Fedora 17 and 18 with Tor Browser RPM packages. It optionally includes SELinux protection for the Tor Browser. (Tor client/server already has SELinux prote

Fedora 19, Gnome 3, and Session Management

2013-09-11 Thread Gene Czarcinski
When I first updated to Fedora 19 I got a bit of a surprise. I have used a number of different desktops of the years but have settled on gnome. This included changing over to Gnome 3 and the gnome-shell when it became available. In previous years I had used session management and the capabil

connecting to Kindle Fire HD

2013-09-15 Thread Gene Czarcinski
I had a difficult time connecting to my kindle fire HD and really could not find much information on how to do it so when I did figure it out (or, rather when the magic did happen), I thought I would put something out and save others some time. 1. Update to Fedora 19 ... you need libmtp and g

Re: Installing bootloader to sba1

2013-09-27 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 09/08/2013 08:30 AM, Doctor Who wrote: I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where' other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi boot, so I would like the boot loader to b

/var/lib/libvirt/images on BTRFS (it works!)

2013-11-17 Thread Gene Czarcinski
Some of you may be interested in running your qemu-kvm (or other) disk image files on BTRFS. After some fumbling around, I have found out how to do it so it works and works very well (especially if it is on an SSD). Anyone investigating running on BTRFS immediately finds out that there is a f