Re: HOWTO update F17 machine with no internet access

Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Pick your favorite mirror, and rsync its updates directly, to a flash drive, > or something similar. Set enabled=0 in everything in /etc/yum.conf.d, then > just copy one of the configs and point it to the mount point of the flash > drive. Aaron Konstam asked: > What

Re: Gnome 3 Copy Progress Bar

Tim wrote: > Having said all that, I much prefer how another OS I used to work, > worked. Writes to drives were completely completed (file written to the > disc, plus the directory data updated) in one go, and you could pull a > disc out moments later. There was no mounting or unmounting. And >

Re: Firefox install-problem

Heinz Diehl wrote: > Firefox, built from .srpm from F17-updates repository, fails to install: > This is the error-message which shows up: > > "Unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox;501bceec: > cpio: Digest mismatch" > > The package is original Fedora and not altered in a

Re: Proxy/network configuration prevents yum and firefox but not konqueror (FC17)

Don Levey wrote: > I have one machine on my home network that I protect via a squid proxy - > my kids' machine. Somehow, something I (or they) did created a > situation where I cannot connect externally via Firefox, and cannot > connect to any repository via yum. However, Konqueror doesn't seem t

Re: SPAM filtering where From == To

Tim wrote: > And that leads to one of my pet hates about "junk > mail" buttons on ordinary mail clients used by clueless people. They'll > hit the junk button on mail they don't want to see, but isn't actually > junk (such as a message list that they've subscribed to, but can't arsed > to unsub th

Re: Failed Migration to Linux

David wrote: > Win 2000 was not meant for home use. It was a business release and was > very expensive. He either has a used machine that he bought at a swap > meet or a Pirated copy. FWIW, I have a legitimate personal copy of Windows 2000. The upgrade cost about the same as a Windows 9x upgrade.

Re: No suspend on lid close

Artifex Maximus wrote: > Is there any good tutorial on how to lower the power consumption of my > netbook? I mean sysctl, proc, etc. settings. There is a tool called powertop in the standard Fedora repos: run it from a terminal as root. There is a tab (you get to it with the right arrow) called tu

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