Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, > English is not my native language :) In a local restaurant, there is an old advertisement poster for men's boxer shorts, and in quotes the word 'coolness.' My o

Re: backup copy of F14 boots, but can't login

2011-06-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, June 27, 2011 04:41:43 PM jackson byers wrote: > My backup copy of F14 boots, all looks normal, > boot messages all "OK" > > but then I can't login: after entering my password > the screen recycles to the login screen, > and continues to do this if I keep trying. Home directories req

Re: backup copy of F14 boots, but can't login

2011-06-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 07:44:32 AM Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Either backup with an SELinux context preserving tool (such as star or dump > > or a disk clone) or run fixfiles ('fixfiles relabel' or 'touch > > /.autorelabel' and reboot)). > Easier is to just run > > restorecon -R -v /home If o

Re: kde desktop

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: was the KDE desktop removed in F15?? No. KDE Software Compilation I don't find the corresponding group Yes, you did. The KDE Software Compilation is the current upstream name. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature --

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:19:33 pm M. Fioretti wrote: > besides hard drive and DVD burner there are only Logitech webcam, > wheelmouse and earphone microphone, but everything is plugged in the > back which is not really accessible without moving furniture. I'll do > that if needed, but isn'

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 02:15:02 pm Rick Sewill wrote: > Someone help us...I know there is a command to show open files, lsof. > Does that command include a way to find out disk activity per file or > is there another command that can find out disk activity per file? > I'm hoping, if we iden

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 02:42:25 pm Rick Sewill wrote: > I am curious about the Rescheduling interrupts. > I do not have a dual core system so I have no rescheduling interrupts. I do; here's my /proc/interrupts and uptime: lowen@localhost:~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 04:11:22 pm Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have noi Disk Utility under System->Administration. What is its real > name? palimpsest, which is provided by the gnome-disk-utility package. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: "why is my Linux so damn slow?"

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 04:48:46 pm compdoc wrote: > >> 7.024044] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x600 > > AMD's Socket A. Pretty old, slow system. It's possible it doesn't implement > APIC and ACPI correctly. Someone suggested a bios update - if there is one, > that would be a good id

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: and a loud majority which feels that Linux is a toy OS because it's not "real UNIX" based. That's management as well as workers. Well, you could always ask them why IBM chose Linux for their Watson supercomputer system. smime.p7s Descr

USB 3.0 support, and results.

2011-02-19 Thread Lamar Owen
For future information searches. Bought a USB 3.0 external 2.5 inch hard drive the other day (WD 500GB 'My Passport Essential'), and bought a Goe (Generic off-eBay) ExpressCard USB 3.0 controller (generic NEC xHCI), and have now had opportunity to set up and test. The first thing, of course

Re: USB 3.0 support, and results.

2011-02-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:13:08 pm Chris Smart wrote: > So that ran at about 35MB/sec, which is probably what I'd expect on a > USB2.0 drive anyway. > What would be interesting, is if you repeated the test after taking > the drive out of the USB 3.0 enclosure and putting it into a USB 2.0

Old RH in production (Re: fc8 upgrade)

2011-03-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, February 27, 2011 06:50:28 am Roberto Ragusa wrote: > I see your RH8 in a VM and raise a RH7.2 in a VM. :-) > For an Internet facing service, nonetheless! And I'll raise you an RH5.2, still running after nearly thirteen years. On physical hardware. It's just about to be decommissione

Re: SD card not seen by system after unmounting

2011-03-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, March 06, 2011 01:49:20 pm Gordon Charrick wrote: > This is wierd. I've got a multicard reader installed on my Fedora 14 > system. If I insert an SD card, it gets recognized and mounted right > away. If I unmount the card, remove it, and reinsert it, the system does > nothing. No entr

Re: SD card not seen by system after unmounting

2011-03-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, March 07, 2011 06:01:10 am Lamar Owen wrote: > Here's the relevant /var/log/messages sections (which, since it spanned 5AM, > spanned two files, /var/log/messages, and /var/log/messages-20110307) for my > SD card swap a few minutes ago: > ++ > Mar 7 04:56

Re: fc14 upgrade fails, system now in partially-upgraded state...

2011-03-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, March 07, 2011 02:03:20 pm Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I started an upgrade from fc13 x86_64 to fc14 x86_64, and the computer > locked up during the install. I thought the problem with the PC was > that it was locking up due to insufficient memory. I've added more > memory, but now the upgrad

Re: rename flash drive auto mount point

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 25, 2011 09:56:19 pm Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > But, the version of mlabel that Fedora provides does *not* support the > -i flag that the posted solution says to use. Perhaps the -i flag is an > Ubuntu only extension to their version of mlabel? > > So Aaron is right, the posted s

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, March 26, 2011 01:04:31 am JD wrote: > That said, I do not know of any way that will let you > connect your drive to any (Linux?) system and expect it to be automounted > onto some specific mount point (assuming the mount point exists). F14 at least will take an ext4 formatted disk an

Re: Logging system usage -

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:31:31 pm Bob Goodwin wrote: > Is there an application to log system usage that will enable me > to keep track of usage by individual computers on our LAN? [snip] > So I am looking for a scheme for tracking usage by mac or device > addr

Re: Logging system usage -

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 02:40:16 pm Bob Goodwin wrote: > Netflow says their application is not intended for home use? > It's not clear to me if that has to be installed in a > computer/router or if it's something I can install here in this > computer or if it mi

Re: Logging system usage -

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 02:52:04 pm Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Maybe start by seeing what you can do with ddwrt to see if that approach is > practical for you at all. Writing scripts to pull counter data periodically > shouldn't be too bad. If the device has any SNMP functionality, the Fedora

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-04-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:37:46 pm r...@dwf.com wrote: > Seems networking should just 'come up' on a new install. > Let the user decide how to tighten up his security, Fedora seems to be > taking the opposite approach. Well, if this were a Fedora-wide issue you'd see lots and lots of threads

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, April 03, 2011 05:17:54 AM Alan Cox wrote: > Still lots of Z80 based ones around in the UK too where the protocol work > is done on a magic box on a serial port - never seen anything running > CP/M however, the stuff I've seen all runs raw on the hardware. Lots of DVD drives use the Z80

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 02:29:04 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:06:03 -0400 > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips > That must explain why it takes 'em 10 minutes to figure > out what kind of disk you just put

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:20:40 PM compdoc wrote: > So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio 1010 is working the ps/2 stuff > fails, and when the M-Audio 1010 has stopped working due to > suspend/hibernate the PS/2 stuff works fine. Coincidence? > > I find it odd that anything would interfe

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 06:21:25 PM John Mellor wrote: > Interesting. I have the opposite problem on my abit motherboard. The > PS2 mouse happens to work and my preferred USB mouse just locks up about > 5 times per day. > > Is this a known problem with a simple fix? Don't know; I have a cl

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 07:21:43 AM Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Yet again a problem! > > Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? FWIW, and for the archives, the nvidia kmod driver doesn't show the 'acorn

Re: Problems reading files after writing them to DVD

2011-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:46:24 AM Burkhard Plache wrote: > I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), > and blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm. I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how to use k3b, which works fine. Doesn't help determine why brasero is doi

Re: Problems reading files after writing them to DVD

2011-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:24:18 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:12:14 -0400 Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how to use k3b, which > > works fine. > And if you want to avoid installing lots of KDE stuff, you could j

Re: Guidelines for a noob

2011-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 03:22:20 PM Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Yesterday was boring to wait hours for the needed upgrade and for install > few packages, perhaps a repository nearer will make this easier. There are a couple of yum plugins that can help you. The first, fastest-mi

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:21:03 PM Chris Smart wrote: > It will show [the acron thingy], if they pass a vga option though.. Which option is that? Would be cool to get the real splash screen on boot instead of the text bars. > In fact, one should install akmod, instead of kmod, so that

Re: Fedora weather station software? -

2011-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 01:23:21 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > Has anyone been able to interface F-14 with a weather station > such as the Oregon Scientific stuff, e.g. the WMR100CA? The excellent Weather Display software is available in a Linux version; www.weather-display.com It

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 07:49:12 AM Alan Cox wrote: > It's not really down to "FOSS alternatives". There are *standards* for > voice over IP. And thanks to NAT-hatred in the standards process, most of those require finagling firewall forwarding fritters..er... rules; H.323 for instance seems

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:03:56 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/11/2011 08:32 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > > There iS No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TSNTAAFL). > > And that is Yet Another Way to mangle a perfectly good acronym: There > *Ain't* No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL). Bob Heinlei

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:36:50 PM James McKenzie wrote: > I'll try to make this simple for JD. > 1. Hidden SSID. Standard practice. [snip] > 7. Changing the channel. Standard practice and it prevents interference. 8. Turn off the router and the connection when (if) you're not using it. My

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 02:10:21 PM Tim wrote: > Password length and wierdness increases security. You're less likely > to be hacked by lucky guesses if you don't have plain words in there. > Certainly don't use real names, phone numbers, birthdates, or anything > else that's easy for someone e

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 02:35:09 PM Michael Cronenworth wrote: > SSID hiding is *not* secure. It is *not* a deterrent. Security through > obscurity is *not* security. SSID hiding isn't about security. It's about being able to show that someone who hacked into your network intended to do so, it

Re: bios update

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:24:42 PM Doron wrote: > On 05/18/2011 04:55 PM, Sebastian wrote: > > I have a single boot FC14 system on a Dell precision M6500 precision > > notebook and wish to update the BIOS. > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2009-December/msg01603.html I have a Precis

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, May 19, 2011 02:45:38 PM Genes MailLists wrote: > Still a bad idea - some things may, for anything that violates the > 802.11 standards - such as non-broadcast of SSID, choose not to connect > to your router. That means some of your client devices may no longer > work ... That's fin

Yum in 'diff' mode (was:Re: Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason)

2011-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, May 13, 2011 09:01:57 AM Joel Rees wrote: > If I have, say, 90M of updated packages, are you saying that having > the old packages in my cache somehow saves bandwidth? Has yum been > upgraded to run in diff mode, then? That would be good news, indeed, > although I haven't seen such evid

Re: bios update

2011-05-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:25:30 PM Matt Domsch wrote: > http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware > > describes how to do this for many (but not all) Dell systems. The > firmware repository on linux.dell.com carries firmware payloads for > >300 different system types. firmware-

Re: Happy birthday Fedora....

2010-11-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, November 12, 2010 01:23:34 pm Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > In a little delay, but currently 7 years before on 6th of november > Fedora Core 1 has been released. So happy 7th birthday Fedora! Reaching way back in the sands of time... that would be Severn years ago, then? -- users mailing list

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, November 12, 2010 01:34:09 pm Michael Miles wrote: > Agreed, I am just really surprised that Fedora would adopt this method > of storage as it slows down the drive by a huge margin. > That reason alone would say to me' No, don't want this" I'm curious as to what sort of performance iss

Kudos (for a change) for some nice features.

2010-11-12 Thread Lamar Owen
I'm currently using (on my second F14 box) what I consider to be the nicest new feature of preupgrade: vnc remote install preloading. Perfect for semi-unattended upgrades. My initial impressions of F14 on my laptop, installed as a fresh install with a separate /home that was left from the F13

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, November 12, 2010 07:12:23 pm Peter Larsen wrote: > So create a partition, test it without lvm. Then add it as a pv, and do > the same test on the lvm on the same implementation. I'm running a benchmark now, using two 48GB partitions on a 100+GB drive; one LVM+ext3, one straight ext3.

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, November 12, 2010 07:12:23 pm Peter Larsen wrote: > So create a partition, test it without lvm. Then add it as a pv, and do > the same test on the lvm on the same implementation. Ok, the first set of two results are in. And I am surprised by one data point in one of them. Surprised e

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 01:08:12 pm Michael Miles wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > [r...@migration ~]# ./seeker /dev/sdb3 > > Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, > > http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html > > Benchmarking /dev/sdb3 [70

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 08:59:48 pm Dean S. Messing wrote: > Regarding your disk speed tests with hdparm, > you may want to look at the "--direct" switch. Oh, I like those numbers: [r...@migration ~]# hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdb3: Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 2054 MB in 3.02 se

Re: Yum - Different OS version and Arch

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, November 14, 2010 06:29:21 am Sawrub wrote: > On 11/14/2010 04:07 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:51:44 +0530, Sawrub wrote: > >> all i wanted was to know that why are they included in the > >> results for a different version of OS. > > Because [hopefully] they c

Little niggle with a preupgraded F13->F14 (was:Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 06:40:03 pm Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I almost never have issues on os upgrades anymore. The last 2 machines > here I upgraded from 13->14 just worked. I didn't have to change > anything at all. I had my first issue with such this cycle; F12->F13 on this box went well, b

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 06:26:09 pm Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've never demeaned Fedora. There are things I don't like to be sure, but > that can be said of all things. I've been using it since FC3 after trying a > dozen or so other distros before settling on it as my primary desktop OS.

Re: Impossible Internet connection.Strange thing.

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 06:13:57 pm Luis Suzuki wrote: > > I did: > ping 18.7.22.69 and I have got : Network Unreachable. Ok, what is the output of the following two commands: ifconfig ip route > The strange thing is: everything points that the Internet connection should > be OK(the Gn

Re: Kernel-PAE no longer 32 bit default?

2010-11-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 13, 2010 07:51:17 pm Tom Horsley wrote: > I was finally getting around to tweaking my 32 bit fedora 14 > partition when I noticed that I was running kernel, > not kernel-PAE. For what it's worth, my pre-upgraded F14 box pulled in the PAE kernel, but that was an upgrade, not

Re: Streaming audio out to an internet destination

2010-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:49:13 pm JD wrote: > I use skype quiet a bit. > What I was interested in doing is this: > While talking to someone on skype, I would > like to be able to stream an audio track to > the same destination that I am speaking with > via skype. Set up things to use JACK

Re: Final release of RHEL 6

2010-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 02, 2010 09:28:55 am Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 18:33 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > > may be it means Centos 6 will be released soon ... is it ? > If I had to guess when CentOS 6 might be released, I'd say mid- to > late-January 2011. Watch their web sit

Re: the console

2010-12-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 04, 2010 06:53:20 am xinyou yan wrote: > hello everyone > > I am new to fedora , After i set fedora start in level 3 > The char is so small . How i set /etc/??? to make it more big > > my display mode is 1440*900 > > Is display resolution 's probl

Re: printer question

2010-12-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 03, 2010 01:36:57 pm ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I would like to ask linux can do the networking printer as window > > Share it to office environment One client I set up with Fedora (he's on 13, but the same works otherwise) I set up to share his printers; you need to enable

Re: Reinstall -- Kernel panic

2010-12-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 03, 2010 12:21:58 pm Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unalble to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > What is the problem and how do I fix it? Will a 'simple' rebuild of the > partition table by removing all the partitions then reconfiging th

Re: Samsung Laser Printers - propietary Page Description Language? (ML-1665)

2010-12-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:22:50 am Fernando Cassia wrote: > Samsung provides propietary, binary-only drivers for Linux at this location > http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201001/20100121132724343/UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz > > However, they only mention Ubuntu, no word about

Re: F14: can't get java running (problem solved)

2010-12-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 06, 2010 04:46:01 pm Tony Camuso wrote: > Setting SELinux to permissive fixed the problem. That's a workaround, not a fix. A fix would have the right file contexts labeled. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: 5 Beginner questions regarding Fedora 14

2010-12-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 07:21:02 am Alan Cox wrote: > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encrypt-web-https-everywhere-firefox-extension > may be what he is thinking of ? I'm using that one, and it works rather well on the sites I frequent. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: VirtualBox on Fedora 14

2010-12-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 02:30:19 pm S Mathias wrote: > !! -> so the "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE" is MISSING! > > Where can i download it? yum install kernel-PAE-devel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:11:03 am Temlakos wrote: > This isn't totally academic. I also administer a Web server, and I find > that a command-line interface is the only way that I can do any kind of > installation or upgrade. (I have to connect using secure-shell.) Might > as well learn

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 17, 2010 06:14:31 pm Terry Barnaby wrote: > The two main RAID1 disks are WD10EARS (Green). I have seen reported some > issues with the performance of these but in my case they appear to work > fine when the system is running ok. [snip] > Anyone seen this sort of behaviour befor

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 03:08:45 am Terry Barnaby wrote: > It is strange, however, how the system can run perfectly fine with good > fast disk IO for a while and then go into this slow mode. In the slow > mode a command can take 30seconds or more to run on an unloaded system. > It smacks of

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 02:21:37 pm Jim wrote: > It does not make any difference what Website your on it's just pops up > and starts At least it doesn't infect your PC with the 'fake Windows AntiVirus' virus. I've seen these a time or two, from seemingly random websites; one of them was

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 02:21:37 pm Jim wrote: > It does not make any difference what Website your on it's just pops up > and starts More information about these 'surf-by' infection agents: http://blog.webroot.com/2009/11/25/fakealerts-building-a-better-mousetrap/ -- users mailing list us

Re: Error - Running Acroread

2011-01-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, January 03, 2011 06:38:08 pm Jim wrote: > F14 , fresh install > > $ acroread > /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading > shared > libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as > shared object > requires: Permission denied Please see

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:52:42 pm Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You have the exact same situation if you use IPv4 and NAT. The outside system > has the IPv4 of your router, and can use that IP to scan for any open port on > your inside machine. Namely, once your NAT-ed machine initiates the >

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 07:51:19 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:26 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I refer in particular to Cisco IOS NAT, IOS 12.4(23) mainline on a > > 7206/NPE-G1, using NAT pools and overloading. Incoming packets > > add

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 01:30:45 pm Lamar Owen wrote: > That is, given the NAT translation table snippet: > > tcp 10.10.10.10:52650 192.168.1.118:52650 74.125.67.99:8074.125.67.99:80 > tcp 10.10.10.10:1769 192.168.1.166:1769 74.125.67.99:8074.125.67.99:80 > > And

Re: Kororaa Lite beta released

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 04:19:08 pm Beartooth wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:22:16 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > > > Haha, well at least you gave it a shot!! :-) > > I'll do a bunch more, once I hear it has Gnome. Now why would a KDE-based respin want to include GNOME? :-) There is

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 06:22:06 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote: > You're just talking nameology here with this. Call it what you want, > there is still a state engine at the heart of the NAT driving the NAT > mappings. Sent a reply off-list, as this type of discussion is really off-topic f

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, January 02, 2011 05:40:00 pm Genes MailLists wrote: >How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? Somehow I missed this message that started the whole thread... Shame on me. There a

Re: Printing directly on DVD

2011-01-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 07, 2011 08:04:30 pm Tom Horsley wrote: > I make no guarantees, I've only tried it on my C5580, but it has > worked OK through several updates of hplip now, so things may have > stabilized. This is nice. Now to try something like that with my Epson StylusPhoto R260. Then I ca

Re: mp3 libraries for f14

2011-01-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 02:45:25 am Kam Leo wrote: > If you need the mp3 plugin for gstreamer get it from here: > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ Let me second this. Fluendo has produced 'legal in the US' decoders for a number of codecs, including MP3, that have bee

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
[Note that there is quite a list of things below to look at, but do look at the bugzilla entry at the very bottom and try that, possibly even first.] On Monday, January 24, 2011 02:09:52 pm Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > What I don't get is how this dies with FC14 but not with CentOS 5 > ... d

Re: [Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

2011-01-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 06:43:27 pm JB wrote: > Thirdly, stick around the thread for many days (even weeks) - there is > a good chance somebody will have time (like Lamar next week) and come up > with a good idea. Given what I've seen of Ashley's symptoms, it may be more BIOS related than ch

Re: Finding programs

2011-01-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:46:54 pm Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > The fact is that not only is the evince name non-decriptive, but the man > -k short description likewise has no mention of "pdf" so it won't be > found as a pdf viewer either. And that is a fault of upstream GNOME, not Fedor

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-09-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:00 PM, linux guy wrote: As for the automount gpt issue, as far as I can tell, kernel support for gpt is fairly new. I'm sure this issue will be address shortly, if it hasn't been already. I've been using a GPT disk in my laptop for quite a while, F12 at least, dual

Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

2011-11-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote: I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade. The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory. Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated. It is a hardware limitation in th

Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

2011-11-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 3, 2011, at 12:13 PM, George R Goffe wrote: grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009f000 (usable) 0009F000=636K; this is to the bottom of the UMB. ("640K should be enough for anyone") [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009f000

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-11-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, October 17, 2011 11:39:29 PM Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Monday, October 17, 2011 16:57:42 jdow wrote: > > There is something wrong with ethp2p3? What KIND of device is easier > > to fathom if it is part of the name, ya know. > > Tell Sun, er, Oracle that. What are hme0, qfe0, and er

Re: How to run preupgrade?

2011-11-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 06:57:54 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I have F14 installed on my Macbook Air, and I want to upgrade to F16. > Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button to > re-boot as instructed, but my F14 system just re-booted as normal. How > do I actually

Re: Fedora 16 on MacPro

2011-11-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 07:33:07 AM Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > There is a 32-bit UEFI boot loader that may work for you, that would > not require either Bootcamp or rEFIt. I looked into it a couple years > ago, but it was not then considered mature enough for production use. > Possi

Re: How to run preupgrade?

2011-11-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:41:48 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > "suvayu" == suvayu ali writes: > suvayu> I think you misunderstood the bug. Your machine has already > suvayu> been upgraded to F16. It just boots the wrong kernel. To > suvayu> verify this, you can check with

Re: How to run preupgrade?

2011-11-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 09:31:31 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote: > The bug says a new preupgrade will be released shortly. I think I should > wait for that, although I don't know how to find out when it is > available (I added myself to the CC list, so that should do the trick, i > hope). This

Re: How to run preupgrade?

2011-11-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 08:52:43 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I've not tried re-booting again yet (I have to look up to find out how > to break out to the grub menu), but just looking, I can see that it is > the first entry in grub.conf, but NOT in menu.lst. menu.lst is supposed to be a s

Re: Does Fedora repair itself..? What can't/doesn't Fedora repair in itself..?

2011-11-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: Is there a Fedora package that can send an active front-lines point, crawling through the whole OS, determining and repairing any new damage.. to fix it with an always clean secondary read only image, after custom configs done and locked-in th

Re: Can't start portgresql after F15 -> F16 upgrade

2011-11-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Digimer wrote: 1. This should have generated a more useful error, like "data is from an old version and is not compatible." 2. Once the data directory was moved, I had to manually (re)initialize the database. There should be a mechanism for 'start' to realize the

Re: Can't start portgresql after F15 -> F16 upgrade

2011-11-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: PostgreSQL version upgrades have always had to be handled by data dumps and data imports. With PostgreSQL 9.0 an upgrade utility was created, but it is not run by default as it is not considered stable. It works fine for me though. Perform

Re: Partition Management

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 01, 2011 09:31:25 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 02.12.2011 02:55, schrieb Mike Dwiggins: > > My wife's machine is a full up FC14 x86_64 and I now have the joy of > > trying to put windows XP on due to constraints at her work. > why dual boot this days? 'Constraints at work'

Re: Partition Management SOLVED I Think

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 03:41:50 AM Mike Dwiggins wrote: > Scary as it sounds [the i686 32-bit version] > recognized the built-in wireless equipment and That IS compatable > with her work environment. Ah, a wireless network requirement. That's another one to add to the list of things tha

Re: Using Draftsight on a 64 bit system

2011-12-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:03:41 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > I tried DraftSight many months ago while I was still running Fedora 14 > x86_64 but never got it to run. I'm running Draftsight on F14 x86_64 now; it seems to work fine. I don't recall having to do anything particularly special, but

Re: Using Draftsight on a 64 bit system

2011-12-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 03:15:14 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I didn't spend too much time trying to get it to work, it was probably > some 32-bit library I was missing. I decided that using an open source > program like FreeCAD which includes solid modeling If solid modeling isn't important, t