Re: Security Chip

2014-02-21 Thread Justin Brown
There's no need to be concerned. You're conflating a few different issues. The security chip is a TPM, and they have been fairly common for several years. It just allows secure key storage for software that might need it. A TPM won't get in your way. The other issue is UEFI Secure Boot. There's l

Re: DNF vs. YUM

2014-03-13 Thread Justin Brown
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jan Zelený writes: > >> On 13. 3. 2014 at 13:41:48, Tethys wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Mark Haney >> wrote: >> > > So, let me get this straight, DNF doesn't check the (online?) repo >> > > metadata when I call 'sudo dnf up

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
> IMHO using a tmpfs for /tmp is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. How it got > by the vetting process is beyond me. There shouldn't be anything that uses anything beyond a negligible amount of storage. Remember that there is no guarantee that /tmp data is preserved between invocations. Why wou

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
lt which can be controlled via mount option (or /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount Options=size=... with systemd). I think you should do some investigation on how tmpfs works, and the benefits of this configuration before jumping to incorrect conclusions. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:51 PM, wrot

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
end, we're probably talking about 1MiB combined between the 4 tmpfs file systems on Fedora. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:47 PM, wrote: > Justin Brown writes: > >> 50% >> is just the absolute maximum that can be used, and it's a default >> which can be controlled

SNA Acceleration for Intel Graphics

2014-05-16 Thread Justin Brown
I'm trying to test Intel's SNA acceleration on Haswell, but Xorg is not loading my settings. All of the documentation on enabling SNA is basically the same. Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf containing Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Justin Brown
I've been using DNF for a year or so primarily. The one gripe that I have is that DNF tends to avoid giving useful information with broken packages. A required package version isn't available? Yum will print out tons of information on which package failed, what version is installed, and what versio

Re: Wifi losing connectivity after 1-2 minutes on F22

2016-06-03 Thread Justin Brown
> It has to be an older one -- not a brand new one or you run into the same > problem of having a too-new adapter. That's not true. It varies device by device. Some new devices have excellent drivers. Always check http://linuxwireless.org/. === Gavin, Many drivers have debug mode, which will