thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
hello, i have thunderbird and when i click on url, it is dead. it wont connect to my default browser, firefox. I have done web searching for this and have found nothing that works. i have to copy the link and paste it in firefox. anyone have an idea? Jim ___

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: What does xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http and xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https return Firefox.Desktop ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: What does xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http and xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https return Firefox.Desktop I wonder if this is case

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 09:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:25, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: What does xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http and xdg-settings get default-url

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 10:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:57, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 09:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:25, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 09:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 10:19, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 07:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: What does xdg-settings

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 10:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 11:12, James wrote: I don't this very often so I keep forgetting how things work, or don't work. I rediscovered that one cannot separately set the  default-url-scheme-handler. Setting the default-web-browser will alter those.

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org no error(s) and it opens the url ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 11:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 11:52, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org no error(s) and it opens the url OK Could you bring up T-bird.  Then find out the PID of /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird process

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 11:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 11:52, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org no error(s) and it opens the url OK Could you bring up T-bird.  Then find out the PID of /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird process

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/13/2018 11:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 12:29, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 11:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 11:52, James wrote: On 02/13/2018 10:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-openhttp://fedoraproject.org no error(s) and it opens the url OK Could you bring up T

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/14/2018 12:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: cat .config/mimeapps.list $ cat .config/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] application/rss+xml=thunderbird.desktop; application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop;userapp-Nightly-FCZ06Y.desktop;mozilla-thunderbird.desktop; application/x-extension-html=fire

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/14/2018 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 13:06, James wrote: $ cat .config/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] You have x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;mozilla-thunderbird.desktop;userapp-Nightly-FCZ06Y.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;userapp-Nightly

Re: thunderbird not linking urls

2018-02-13 Thread James
On 02/14/2018 01:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 13:56, James wrote: On 02/14/2018 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/14/18 13:06, James wrote: $ cat .config/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] You have x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;mozilla-thunderbird.desktop;userapp

remote desktop to Fedora 20 with xrdp

2014-02-19 Thread James
de. how to know the service on linux is running? The "service --status-all" cannot give me useful information. Any configuration I should do to make xrdp works for me? thanks, James-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Fedora 20 xrdp: error - problem connecting

2014-02-20 Thread James
- problem connecting I am using MATE desktop environment. Anybody can help me with this? Thanks, James-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Fedora 20 how to switch desktop environment?

2014-02-20 Thread James
I use MATE originally. I installed GNOME, XFCE and KDE. I want to switch one from another to see their difference. How can I do this? thanks, James -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Fedora 20 how to switch desktop environment?

2014-02-20 Thread James
I cannot find the Session option. Do you know the command to switch for next reboot? Thanks, James On Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:47 PM, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2014 12:23 PM, James wrote: > I use MATE originally. I installed GN

Re: Fedora 20 how to switch desktop environment?

2014-02-21 Thread James
one will affect the display on Windows machine, display manager or current display environment? Thanks, James On Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >If you want to switch the Display Manager, say fr

vmware not working under vmware_t

2018-02-02 Thread James Maugans
anything. I will greatly appreciatte any help or advice in this matter. Best Regards. James. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora27: Cannot set the default network route

2018-02-06 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 February 2018 at 22:20, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 02/02/18 16:40, Bill Shirley wrote: > > You didn't post the command or its output. How can anyone help you? > > What's the output of these two commands? > ip -o -4 addr > ip -o -4 route > > Bill > > ip -o -4 addr > 1: loinet 127.0.0.1/8 s

Re: Marble problem: libicui18n.so.69

2024-03-10 Thread Jerry James
nst the previous version of libicu. > > > > However, with some investigation, the 69 version was in F37 at the > > latest, so something is strange on your system and is from a previous > > release. I'm surprised other things aren't breaking. > > I am at a los

Re: Fedora 39 python3-pygame Module Issue

2024-03-19 Thread Jerry James
. Fedora supports pre-AVX2 CPUs. If upstream can be convinced to do runtime detection of AVX2, that would be great. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: libvirtd.service start

2024-03-20 Thread Jerry James
t should run automatically when needed. Does something not work if you don't start it manually? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: libvirtd.service start

2024-03-21 Thread Jerry James
onnect" item selected? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-

Re: alternatives is forgetful?

2024-06-28 Thread Jerry James
: I think that preuninstall scriptlet should instead be: if [ $1 = 0 ]; then /usr/sbin/alternatives --remove emacs /usr/bin/emacs-29.4 || : fi See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Scriptlets/#_syntax. If that sounds right, a bug report is in order. -- Jerry James http:

Re: brlaser fails to build

2024-06-28 Thread Jerry James
T _cupsRasterReadPixels > 00039390 T cupsRasterReadPixels That suggests that "-lcups" is either too early on the link line (before the object that refers to these functions) or missing from the link line altogether. Can you show the compiler or linker invocation that issues th

Re: alternatives is forgetful?

2024-06-30 Thread Jerry James
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM Michael Schwendt wrote: > You may want to add that to: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2277689 I opened https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/emacs/pull-request/41 and mentioned it in that bug. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezo

Re: scroll lock shortcut in emacs

2024-07-31 Thread Jerry James
bination for , involving a combination of Ctrl, Alt, or > perhaps Meta keypresses. I don't know how to look up all key binding in > emacs, anyone know how? Click on the Help menu, then choose Describe, then List Key Bindings, or press C-h b. -- Jerry James

Re: Why old Pan?

2024-08-12 Thread Jerry James
a package from https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/. In this case, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pan says "Package is currently unmaintained". If you use it, consider taking over as maintainer. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ --

Re: Why old Pan?

2024-08-13 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 9:16 AM Beartooth via users wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:35:44 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > > You can often get a clue about the state of a package from > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/. In this case, > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread James Wellnitz
Something like this will basically do the "increment target link" part (making some big assumptions, doing no error checking, not handling wrap-around, etc.): cur_link=$(readlink target | sed -e "s#./##") cur_number=${cur_link%% *} cur_number=${cur_number#0} let new_number=cur_number+1 new_number=

Re: iPod touch and F13?

2010-06-15 Thread James Wellnitz
I had my iPod Touch working with gtkpod fairly reliably on F12. The F13 support seems to be there (rhythmbox and gtkpod see the device without any special configuration) but it looks like the iPod is effectively mounted in a directory owned by root as my normal user can't write to it. I ran gtkpo

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-27 Thread James Matthews
Using open source tools is one thing. Google uses a combination of open and closed source anti spam tools. Since Gmail is so popular google is able to sample spam and learn to protect it from the get go On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/28/2010 11:56 AM, Tim wrote: >

[389-users] Directory Sync rename

2010-02-08 Thread James Roman
We have what appears to be a single replication operation holding up all subsequent replication changes. We had a user who was added to our Active Directory with an incorrect name. The record was then synced down to our 389 DS server/FreeIPA. When the problem was discovered, it appears that som

Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

2010-02-23 Thread James Wilkinson
’t unset those, either, so you could get a user starting up am xterm, thinking “Yuck!”¹ and using that xterm solely to run gnome-terminal… And then you’re going to get someone using Konsole. What are you trying to do? James. ¹There’s no accounting for taste… -- E-mail: james@ | I mus

Re: how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

2010-02-23 Thread James Wilkinson
eed to know the difference. Good luck! James. -- E-mail: james@ | Reminds me of a friend's young son who watched a small aprilcottage.co.uk | tortoise ambling very slowly across the patio, and then | asked us adults if it would go faster with a fresh set of

Re: DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread James Wilkinson
such as some programs do a reverse IP check to reduce > phishing/spamming? Alternate idea: have both mx1 and ns1 as CNAMEs to the “real” host name, and put that “real” host name in the reverse DNS. Don’t forget that you have to have your MX records pointing to that A record: MX pointing to CN

Re: flash on www.nbc.com

2010-03-09 Thread James Matthews
Try the 32bit one. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 03/08/2010 02:31 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Is there some trick to getting flash to work through firefox? > > When I click on a Chuck episode, > > the peacock shows up and wiggles its tail, but that is all that hap

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
be a real great release package. If I want Gnome 3, I'll look for it and get it. James McKenzie -- 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: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 10:52 AM, JB wrote: > James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > >> On 6/5/11, david grant david-grant.com> wrote: >> >>> F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size >>> ... >> You realistically should be asking these questions AS WELL AS EVERYONE >

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
ing in your grub.conf? What model and manufacturer of the Video Card you are using? Please bottom post here, that is the way we do things. Questions? Read the mailing list guidelines. James McKenzie -- 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: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 11:19 AM, JB wrote: > James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >>> Well, it looks like you are firmly in the non-GNOME 3 camp >> I'm firmly in the 'If you want a GUI, go and get it' camp. If I wanted >> Windows, I would buy it.

Re: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
g that, then I would go with CentOS. James McKenzie -- 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: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
.6 at my workplace and we are looking to move to 6.x as soon as it is approved. James McKenzie -- 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

What is causing the unlocking of Widgets in and up to KDE-4.6

2011-06-06 Thread james tate
The Unlocking of Widgets and Screwing up the the whole Desktop and Panel in and upto KDE-4.6, WHAT IS GOINGON I have every day a new Linux User calling me up and saying My Panel or Desktop is messed up again. telling them be sure the Widgets are Locked , this is getting old, when I know

Re: What is causing the unlocking of Widgets in and up to KDE-4.6

2011-06-06 Thread james tate
On 06/06/2011 06:15 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/07/2011 05:47 AM, james tate wrote: >> The Unlocking of Widgets and Screwing up the the whole Desktop and Panel >> in and upto KDE-4.6, WHAT IS GOINGON >> >> I have every day a new Linux User calling me up and sa

Re: test message ...

2011-06-06 Thread James McKenzie
BTW, these types of messages are discouraged... James McKenzie -- 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: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-09 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/9/11, Hiisi wrote: > Hi, list! > Sorry for off-topic. I want to give certain users to execute some > commands to configure web-server. Here's what I have in /etc/sudoers > for user 'hospes': > Cmnd_Alias HOSPES = /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig, > /usr/sbin/setsebool, /sbin/restorecon, /usr/sb

slow image rendering in F15 for firefox and image viewer

2011-06-11 Thread James Bridge
eems to perform normally. Firefox also slows down badly if a page with images is zoomed, unless I select the option to zoom only the text. Chrome doesn't have a problem I'm guessing here - is this something to do with the way with firefox and image viewer use nouveau? Is it a bug o

Converting a avi to mpeg2 using Brasero ?

2011-06-11 Thread james tate
FEDORA 15 When Brasero is converting a AVI to Mpeg2 it gets upto 17mib of 2049 Mib , it just continues to run , but conversion just stops at 17MiB. What could the problem be ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: Converting a avi to mpeg2 using Brasero ?

2011-06-11 Thread james tate
On 06/11/2011 03:22 PM, james tate wrote: > FEDORA 15 > > When Brasero is converting a AVI to Mpeg2 it gets upto 17mib of 2049 > Mib , it just continues to run , but conversion just stops at 17MiB. > What could the problem be ? > > I got this error running from comm

Re: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/9/11 10:58 AM, Hiisi wrote: > On 9 June 2011 19:45, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 6/9/11, Hiisi wrote: > <--SNIP--> >> What group owns the log file. It may be as simple as adding the group >> to the sudoers file with the /var/log directory. > Thanks, Jame

Re: git patch comments

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
e to inform the git folks in their forum/bug reporting system. James -- 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: Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system.

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
t this. There's though no obvious impact on the performance. > > Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Google didn't help that much. You can't. The filesystem is marked as RO. Is this a CD/DVD media? If it is NOT, you have to mount the media as Read-Write so that the label

Re: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/11/11 11:37 PM, Hiisi wrote: > On 12 June 2011 04:14, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 6/9/11 10:58 AM, Hiisi wrote: > <--SNIP--> >>> Any other suggestions? >> You could always make the file world-read. That means EVERYONE can read >> the file. You just do

Re: Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system.

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 2:12 AM, Joshua C. wrote: > 2011/6/12 James McKenzie: > >> You can't. The filesystem is marked as RO. Is this a CD/DVD media? If >> it is NOT, you have to mount the media as Read-Write so that the label >> can be updated. >> >> James. > N

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
of the default > browser, Chrome. Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:/

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 9:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>>F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I >>>installed Google Chrome to try it. >>> >>&

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
ot abandoned the SOHO environment, I would still be using it today. Could not and still cannot find anything as bullet proof. I ran a BBS on it that had an uptime messured in YEARS. Cannot say that for Linux/UNIX/MacOSX. However, I have found the desktop wars amusing to say the least. James M

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
o do not have the skills we do. We can choose to use other desktop/windowing systems and be happy. All of the grumbling I've read did not and cannot stop RedHat from adopting Gnome 3 or KDE 4 as the primary desktop for Fedora and RHEL. That is and will remain a fact of life.

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
work around legal requirements that we don't have to deal with. One day, I will install CentOS 6 on one of the Macs that I have here and then continue computing, which is what I like doing. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: > On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 >> James McKenzie wrote: >> >>> We need >>> to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out >>> t

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 6:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/13/2011 08:48 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 >> James McKenzie wrote: >> >>> We need >>> to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out >>> t

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:08 PM, nomnex wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:07:10 -0700 > James McKenzie wrote: > > > > The last comment comes from a OSX Mac user. if I recall, you can only > re-size the windows using the bottom left side on Mac, not to confuse > the user-base=>BIG

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:17 PM, David wrote: > On 6/12/2011 10:06 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: >>> On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 >>>> James McKenzie wrote: >>>> >>&

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
ort over many years, are you sure that > it is actively > supported and new bugs fixed in this release version you have chosen? > > Squeeze (Debian six) was just recently released and they still support Debian four. Much like RedHat has a ten year policy that they will support. RedHat

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
e by the Victory Trap company. Why? Because the damn thing works. And that is what a majority of the Desktop users want. They don't care if they have to hit the 'Big Red Button' two or three times a day. When the thing starts, they want to use it. Not play with it al

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:37 PM, David wrote: > On 6/12/2011 10:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote: >> On Sun June 12 2011, David wrote: >>> On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 >>>> >>>> James McKenzie wrote: >>&

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:42 PM, David wrote: > On 6/12/2011 10:31 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 6/12/11 7:17 PM, David wrote: >>> On 6/12/2011 10:06 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >>>> On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: >>>>> On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wro

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 8:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/12/2011 10:26 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > >> Marketing is what is it is all about. You could make the best gizmo in >> the business, but if you cannot get folks to use it, you just wasted >> your time and alot of some

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread James McKenzie
e way the Linux works. >> >> As for "the folks in Redmond"? I doubt that they will loose a minute of >> sleep over your efforts unless you really, really put forth major >> efforts in this respect. >> >> Have a good day. > > James, > > No poi

Burning Video DVD Howto

2011-06-13 Thread james tate
Fedora 15/Kde4 . I have tried to burn burn a one hour videos using K3B File > New Project > New Video Dvd Project , It creates a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS , but if I select a AVI or mp4 video to the Project, I get the following Error; Could not determine size of resulting image file. Is there a

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread James McKenzie
duct=U3 Cruzer Micro On my XP installation this is EXACTLY what shows up when I plug in my USB drive. No other labels but what the device is. Some folks would love to see "Mikey's USB Thingie" but that is not what is written in hardware at the first glance and is only picked up

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/14/11 10:20 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2011-06-13 04:26, James McKenzie skrev: > And before MacOX, there was Lisa and before Lisa was Star ;-) > > But that was lng ago! > Lisa bombed, it was the first major failure for Apple. Never heard of Star (and if it was anything lik

Saving Youtube Videos in Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread james tate
At one time Youtube videos were being temp. downloaded while playing to the /tmp directory where you could save from, but now it seems that is no longer the case. Where are they being temp. downloaded to in Fedora now ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: sound problem

2011-06-19 Thread James McKenzie
problem with Dell E6400s (I had one do the same thing with WindowsVista 64 bit.) James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedo

Re: Firefox 5.0

2011-06-22 Thread James McKenzie
o go FF5. I > was just reading that FF5 is considered the security update of FF4, so ... > Just to note, there was only one update for FF4, 4.0.1. Something like what happened with MS-DOS (for those who remember, DOS 4.0 bombed a bunch of hard drives, actually destroyed a bunch of data.) BTW, FF5

Re: where is gnomebreakpad

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
lish to have a 'did to, did not' kind of fight and it diminishes your value to others (and both of you are very valuable to the project and you both have brought in a great deal of good information, now folks may question it.) Very respectfully, James McKenzie -- users mailin

Re: cannot boot to F14

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
ese options will help. Again, this is NOT a Fedora issue. Some BIOS's are old enough that they cannot boot from newer media. And this is not the first time this has happened in the history of PC configurations (I remember the old 32MB boot issue...) James McKenzie -- 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: where is gnomebreakpad

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/26/11 4:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/26/2011 10:16 AM, James McKenzie wrote: >> (and both of you are very valuable to the project and you both >> have brought in a great deal of good information, now folks may question >> it.) > And, because of the way I'v

Re: cannot boot to F14

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
these options will help. Again, this is NOT a Fedora > issue. Some BIOS's are old >appened in the history of PC > configurations (I remember the old 32MB boot issue...) > > >James McKenzie > > James, > You came in late to this thread. > > In fact his problem

Re: [OT] Spelling... [was: Re: where is gnomebreakpad]

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
try to embed Cyrillic into a Latin document just to see what would happen. BTW, someone decided that French was the language to use, and we are an English only shop. Led to interesting spelling 'errors' which were not. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
, e: > continue > found_match = False > for fn in get_open_files(pid): > > Works fine as root. Usually ordinary users are prohibited from accessing /proc/ from what I remember. That is why root works and joe-blow does not. James McKenzie -- users mai

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/28/11 8:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/29/2011 10:51 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 06/28/2011 10:13 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >>> On 6/28/11 6:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>>> Works fine as root. >>> Usually ordinary users are prohibited from ac

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/28/11 8:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/29/2011 11:18 AM, James McKenzie wrote: >> I was referring to /proc/ when that user did not 'own' the >> process. I'm under the impression that this is/was part of the security >> 'features' of Fedor

chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread james tate
On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom . Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the directo

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread James McKenzie
esign/build/code/etc. then they should be looking and asking one of the three categories above if they can or should assist. Big mistake is diving in without asking first. Been there, done that. Do not make the assumption, as corrected above, that everything in Fedora is under Fedora's c

Re: f15 sync slow after couple of days

2011-07-02 Thread James McKenzie
27;top' or a similar program to see who is using memory and how much. James -- 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: Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

2011-07-02 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/1/11 9:14 PM, JD wrote: > > Common people! JAVASCRIPT being executed by your > browser on your system is a HUGE WIDE OPEN SECURITY HOLE!!! > You do have the option of turning it off, you know. That is one thing every security expert knows about and disables in a major

Re: Need Support For Hardware & Live Usb Issue + Bugs version 0.1

2011-07-10 Thread James McKenzie
_info] *ERROR* MUX INFO CALL > FAILED > [ 2.563680] [drm:intel_drm_platform_mux_info] *ERROR* MUX INFO CALL > FAILED What kind and model of video card is installed in the system you are creating the boot USB from and what is in the Dell? Looks like a video mismatch AND a video card NOT supported by the open source ATI video driver. James McKenzie -- 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: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-13 Thread James McKenzie
, let's close the subject and let this thing die. (I know, eat your own words, but that is a summation of the previous discusssion.) James -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
ts to be continued for us older 'power users' and new desktops to be introduced for those who need/desire those features. I did not like what happened when Windows95 introduced the 'Start' button feature. Over the years, I grew used to this. I still think that the idea i

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 12:53 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik >> wrote: >> > Tim wrote: >> >> I don't...  They all (Linux too) seem to be headin

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/14/11 3:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 07/14/2011 09:53 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik >> wrote: >>> Tim wrote: >> Now, back to what I said earlier. YOU, the Linux user, have a CHOICE >> of desktop/

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
E3 and KDE4 are out of the question if I want any sort of functionality with the system. James -- 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: [SOVLED by '!' ]how to specify IP not equal to in iptables rules ????

2011-07-15 Thread James Hogarth
> > '!' Solved my problem > Really? Because what you have there is the opposite of that which you stated you were trying to accomplish in your first post. Now that IP is the only IP that can access your FTP server and all others get dropped. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: kernel bug

2011-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
truly is a Kernel bug, should it not be reported to the Kernel folks? If it is a bug with one of the kernels built by the project, yep it should be reported to the Fedora bugzilla. James -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: kernel bug

2011-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.07.2011 15:53, schrieb James McKenzie: >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:24 +0200, admin lewis wrote: >>>> Hi, >>&

Getting Thunderbird to open Links in Email

2011-07-15 Thread james tate
FC15 How do I get thunderbird to select Firefox when opening links in Emails. When clicking on Links in Emails nothing is happening. I can't find in Thunderbird Preferences a way to select Firefox. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Can't send email

2011-07-15 Thread james tate
On 07/13/2011 07:35 PM, Vincent Onelli wrote: Hello, I am having problem sending email, receiving is OK but sending keeping at asking for password because can't authenticate. The set up is identical to my laptop which work OK, I rechecked several times, I also redone the set up few times. The O

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