F13 upgrades post here, please.

2010-05-25 Thread Linuxguy123
Hi people. I'd love to hear about F13 upgrade experiences. Once the issues are worked out I'll be upgrading from F12. Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: OT:smartphone

2010-05-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:29 +0300, madunix wrote: > after reviewing http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ and > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nokia-n900-first-look few days > ago, I have decided to get nokia N900 over a blackberry, iphone and > droid... since i wanted linux portable box. I need to kn

Re: OT:smartphone

2010-05-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:40 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Linuxguy123 kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 25. > toukokuuta 2010): > > I came to the same conclusion but haven't purchased the N900 > > due to the lack of an update to Maemo 5 and Meego not shipping &g

How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

2010-05-26 Thread Linuxguy123
I run the proprietary, closed source nvidia driver in F12. What happens when I upgrade to F13 ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: How does F13 work with nvidia hardware ?

2010-05-27 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 05:15 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > I tried out nouveau recently as I was experiencing "tearing" of the > portions of the screen when scrolling firefox with a window partially > on > top of firefox and was hoping it was the driver. Unfortunately > nouveau > has the same pro

Re: F13 and Sipwitch - Anyone got this working

2010-06-09 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:41 +0100, agraham wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I'd give Sip Witch a go but I'm have problems making any > calls, my set up is as follows: > > Single segment LAN, with no firewalls, the main host runs sipw in the > foreground so I can see the messages as follows:- > >

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +, > vijay bhide wrote: > > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my > > existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start > > upgrade.I reached a stag

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better fi

Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under Linux ? I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem for SSDs ? Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:08 -0700, jack craig wrote: > On 06/10/2010 02:55 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > >>> I'm thinking of gett

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 17:10 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > There's a few "SSD specific" file systems, but you won't gain much in >

How is (k)networkmanager supposed to work these days ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I set up networking with network manager on my laptop back in F11. Or was it F10 ? Not sure. Everything has worked fine since then. I had an icon in my system tray that showed me signal strength and I could click to select various APs, connect, etc. I accomplished this using the NetworkManager

Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower panel on my KDE desktop. One day after doing an update my Dolphin icon disappeared. When I went searching for the Dolphin application in the application launcher I couldn't find the Dolphin app in Utilities anymore. But I d

Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its the hard drive or a kernel problem. I just upgraded to F13. I've been running F12 since it came out. Back in January, 2010 I began experiencing boot problems. When I boot, grub will always run reliably but about 2/3rds of the

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its > > the hard drive or a kernel problem. > > > > I just upgrad

Re: Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:10 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower > > panel on my KDE desktop. > > > > One day after doing an update my

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-11 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 03:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O&#x

Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-13 Thread Linuxguy123
I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive just fine. What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD sized chunks and write it to a DVD ? It would be nice if it didn't put half

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-14 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:54 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > Linux ? > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? > > Is there anything that I should

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 02:25 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so > > that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive > > jus

Lots of instabilities in F13 ?

2010-06-14 Thread Linuxguy123
Is it me or are there lots of little instabilities in F13 ? Firefox, Evolution, etc ? Thanks -- 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/Mai

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-15 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:47 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:09 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> wrote: > >> > On

Re: Lots of instabilities in F13 ?

2010-06-15 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:19 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 09:25 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Is it me or are there lots of little instabilities in F13 ? > > > > Firefox, Evolution, etc ? > > > > Thanks > > > > I am not

Enabling debuginfo for Evolution.

2010-06-17 Thread Linuxguy123
My F13 system has mostly stabilized with the exception of Evolution, which seems to crash regularly. I'm trying to submit a bugzilla bug report via the F13 built in bug reporting tool. (Cool and useful, btw.) However, it won't let me submit the bug without debug info and... # debuginfo-install

SIPWitch: what exactly does it do ?

2010-06-22 Thread Linuxguy123
What exactly does SIPWitch do ? Its a SIP server. OK. I thought my VOIP service provider was a SIP server. Wait, they are. So SIPWitch is a server that will go between my SIP devices and my VOIP service provider ? I'm confused. Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Ideas for integrating a SIP account, N900, Magic Jack, Linux, etc...

2010-06-23 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm looking for some ideas on overhauling/revamping our telephone system. We are two busy working professionals. We spend half our weekends away from home. My wife still has an iPhone. I'm getting an N900. We have a landline with (terrible) voice mail service. I want to tie it all together,

Re: Ideas for integrating a SIP account, N900, Magic Jack, Linux, etc...

2010-06-23 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:29 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I don't have much experience with "consumer-aimed" VOIP systems, but > here's my two cents worth: Very informative post. Thanks for sharing. I'll comment once I digest everything that was in there. Running asterisk on a WRT is uber

Re: Ideas for integrating a SIP account, N900, Magic Jack, Linux, etc...

2010-06-23 Thread Linuxguy123
People are using PAP2 devices to connect to Magic Jack accounts, thus removing the need to use the Magic Jack USB dongle. Where does Google Voice fit into this ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. Both drives are 160 GB in size. I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is because preupgrade now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger an

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. > > > > Both drives are 160 GB in size. > > > > > I have tried a co

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:33 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4 > > and use gparted. It has a function to copy a partition from the source > > drive to

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:12 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > In Linux, "everything's a file." ;-) Sure. > No, dd won't "resize" a partition, but you can use it to copy the > filesystem from one partition to another of the same size or larger, > then just resize the filesystem using an appropria

Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array > but Fedora doesn't know that) > > I want to resize my partitions bigger. > Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it > on another box. >

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:10 -0700, JD wrote: > If you dd partition A on drive 1 to partition B from drive 2, and the > size of partition B is > LARGER that partition A, then the size of the FILESYSTEM on partition B > will be identical to size of partition A. In other words, the filesystem > s

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
bios memory check and it comes back fine too. The boot problem also occurred when I booted the ubuntu 10.4 live CD. Any ideas ? Thanks On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:14 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart->Shutdown means, it can > take up to 4 re

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 18:53 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Update > > > > I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD. The > > booting problem is even worse now. It used to take 2-6 tries t

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
>>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Linuxguy123 > >>> wrote: > >>> None of my code ended up in the rewrite but the --test and --disk-start > >>> options were my ideas. > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if I did something wrong but when I t

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
Update I cloned my old conventional 160 GB hard drive onto a new Intel X25-M SSD using gparted. In doing so, the new partitions ended up being ext3 instead of ext4. The performance improvement is dramatic. It boots super fast. Even Evolution, which became a lethargic dog with the upgrade to

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so > that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive > just fine. > > What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD

Thunderbird and other email clients versus Evolution...

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
I've been using evolution forever. It works. Its very unstable in F13 and its generally been a bit of a hit and miss application for me. I have half a dozen email accounts and I am subscribed to about 20 mail lists. I have evolution sorting everything into about a dozen folders. How would Thu

Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 09:22 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > >> I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array > >> but Fedora doe

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:57 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > > > wrote: > > >> &

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 12:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Linuxguy123 > wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:57 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> > Let me know if you ha

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:33 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > Note that AFAIK only ext4 supports the "discard" mount option > > btrfs also supports it. Is there a way to change a partition's type after its created ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

F13 udev rule boot warning messages

2010-06-25 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm getting this in my otherwise clean boot log. What, if anything, do I need to do about them ? Thanks Starting udev: udevd[491]: BUS= will be removed in a future udev version, please use SUBSYSTEM= to match the event device, or SUBSYSTEMS= to match a parent device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/85-pcs

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-07-04 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:00 -0700, JD wrote: > I think you are having some real HARDWARE problems. > Do you have a standalone CD that does a comprehensive > test of all hardware components present? This problem appears to be resolved. It appears to have been a kernel/software issue. My laptop n

F13 has reached "it rocks" status !

2010-07-06 Thread Linuxguy123
Just a quick note to say that F13 now rocks ! It works really, really well. Very fast, solid and slick. I had problems with Evolution and Firefox when I first installed. Crashing like crazy. Updates fixed both of those problems. I was having problems booting. That too appears to be fixed.

Re: F13 has reached "it rocks" status !

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 20:48 -0400, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Linuxguy123 > wrote: > Just a quick note to say that F13 now rocks ! It works > really, really > well. Very fast, solid and slick. > >

I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based PDF reader. They all seem to lock up. http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/engineering_services/emaps/bicycle_pathways_map.pdf Can anyone else ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 07 July 2010, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > >On 07/07/2010 01:01 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based > >> PDF reader. They all

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 19:25 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 07/07/10 19:01, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based > > PDF reader. They all seem to lock up. > > > > http://www.calgary.ca/do

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 19:28 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > I tested evince, it's really slow, but acroread will open it very > fast! Try scaling to 200% or more to see some detail. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 20:03 +0300, Alan Holt wrote: > Just try Adobe Reader for Linux if you have some problems with Linux > based PDF reader I did. $ yum list \*AdobeReader\* Installed Packages AdobeReader_enu.i486 9.3.2-1 @adobe-linux-i386 -- users

Re: F13 has reached "it rocks" status !

2010-07-15 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:12 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > Related to that I should mention the many useful > developments in the Qt cross platform development kit are also > pleasing > to this C++ geek. Please tell us more. I too am interested in C cross platform development using Qt. --

Re: knetworkmanager doesn't work; Evolution and Firefox start offline ?

2010-07-19 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 14:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 12:53 -0600, linux guy wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > > Fix number 3 and the other two will go away. Or use nm-applet > >

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 18:08 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 02/05/2010 04:33 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > This has me scratching my head. > > > > My access to www.rv.net is extremely slow. With both Konqueror and > > Firefox. And yet others say they have good acces

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:38 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > On 02/05/2010 06:33 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > This has me scratching my head. > > > > My access to www.rv.net is extremely slow. With both Konqueror and > > Firefox. And yet others say they have good access

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:58 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 02/08/2010 03:41 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Hate to burst your bubble, but this looks like a Linux problem. > > I get the same speed you do loading rv.net. But it loads instantly on > > my wife's laptop wit

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 00:04 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 8 February 2010 23:41, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:38 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > >> On 02/05/2010 06:33 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > This has me scratching my head. > >> > &

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 19:08 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:58:39 -0800 > Konstantin Svist wrote: > > > Confirmed > > Very interesting problem, indeed > > An awful lot of web sites check the user agent and load > completely different content and/or redirect to different > serve

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 19:08 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:58:39 -0800 > Konstantin Svist wrote: > > > Confirmed > > Very interesting problem, indeed > > An awful lot of web sites check the user agent and load > completely different content and/or redirect to different > serve

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > That is starting to stir the synapse > > The problem is related to what is in the "syn, ack" packet coming from > 12.17.249.39. In the TCP Options it is sending "Window scale: 0 > (multiply by 1)". I think this is causing problems since

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > You can "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling" to see it is > > set to "1" by default. > > > Yes...I know you said that already. Sorry to repeatmy head still > hurts :-( No problem. Thanks for your

Re: Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

2010-02-08 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > >> That is starting to stir the synapse > >> > >> The problem is related to what is in the "sy

How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-21 Thread Linuxguy123
Another OO update and even more stupid, silly auto numbering. How do I turn it right off, FOREVER ? [rant] I don't know who controls the design of the OO suite, but some of us DO NOT WANT auto paragraph numbering every time we start a paragraph with a number, hyphen or bullet point.Yeah, I'm

Re: How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-21 Thread Linuxguy123
I think I figured out how to turn off autonumbering. First of all, the help system on OO Writer version 3.3.1 Build 9420 is wrong. To turn it on, it says: "OpenOffice.org can automatically apply numbering or bullets as you type. To Enable Automatic Numbering and Bulleting 1. Choose Tools

Fedora 13 feature list seems kind of thin ?

2010-03-11 Thread Linuxguy123
Is it me or does the Fedora 13 feature list seem kind of thin for regular desktop users ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList SIPWitch looks interesting. We already have KDE4.4, though I am anxiously awaiting 4.4.1... We finally got a 2.6.32 kernel in F12 the other day. Wil

Re: very odd screen goes dim bug in f12

2010-03-15 Thread Linuxguy123
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 20:21 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: > I just installed a fresh f12 - fully updated - lenovo T61p laptop - > using nouveau. > > If i go to a virtual terminal - or if I set the run level to 3 (no > graphics). > > After some period the screen goes dark - fine - however when I awa

SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-16 Thread Linuxguy123
Could someone explain to me in plain english what SIP Witch does wrt to Skype ? If I am running SIP Witch and I have a VOIP connection between the server and the phone system, is there a way I could make a call anywhere with my cellphone via my VOIP connection ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feat

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-16 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:30 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:19 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Could someone explain to me in plain english what SIP Witch does wrt > > to Skype ? > > Skype doesn't use SIP as it has its own proprietary pr

Replying to Yahoo emails in Evolution...

2010-03-16 Thread Linuxguy123
I use Evolution as my email client. I use gmail accounts to group my various interests via different email addresses and receive my emails via their SMTP server services. Everything works great except that when I get an email from a sender using a Yahoo account, the content is in some sort of te

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-17 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 19:37 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 13:46 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:30 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:19 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > Coul

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-17 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:15 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > [...] > > So SIP Witch is a SIP server, meaning that I could get a SIP capable > > phone, set up SIP Witch with a POTS connection and connect my phone &

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-17 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:54 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:50:15 -0430, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:15 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > [...] > > > So SIP Witch is a SIP server, meaning that I could get a SIP

How do I turn down the volume on a system beep ?

2010-03-22 Thread Linuxguy123
F12 fully up to date. KDE sessions. System beeps, ie Evolution receiving a new email are very loud. How do I turn them down ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidel

Re: How do I turn down the volume on a system beep ?

2010-03-22 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:30 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote: > >> System beeps, ie Evolution receiving a new email are very loud. How do > >> I turn them down ? > > > > I want to keep the volume I have for media listening, I want to keep the > > system warnings but just at a lower volume. > > > $ xset -

Re: How do I turn down the volume on a system beep ?

2010-03-22 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 19:16 +, Charlie Brej wrote: > On 03/22/2010 05:36 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:30 +0100, Henrik Frisk wrote: > >>>> System beeps, ie Evolution receiving a new email are very loud. How do > >>>> I turn the

Re: [OT] Deafening silence (Evolution comments)

2010-04-22 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:22 -0700, Wayne Feick wrote: > I've finally given up on Evolution and moved back to Thunderbird. > > I really wanted Evolution to be a good mail and calendar client, but for > the last 5 years or so it's always been *almost* there. It was > calendaring and Palm sync that

No sound from Amarok (phonon/ pulseaudio)

2010-05-05 Thread Linuxguy123
F12 /x86, fully up to date, except I can't boot the most recent kernel. $uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar 23 10:04:28 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Sound works for everything except Amarok. Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> Sound Sys

Re: No sound from Amarok (phonon/ pulseaudio)

2010-05-05 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:54 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > F12 /x86, fully up to date, except I can't boot the most recent kernel. > > > > $uname -a > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar 23 > > 1

This page crashes konqueror ?

2010-05-06 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm finding that this page crashes konqueror. http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/05/pandora-radio-on-n900-pypianobar.html Can anyone confirm this ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Konqueror bookmark list VERY hard to navigate.

2010-05-10 Thread Linuxguy123
This has been bothering me for a while. I think its time to discuss it. I use Konqueror as my primary web browser. I probably have 1000 or so bookmarks in Konqueror, arranged into about 50 folders and sub folders. I find it very hard to be able to open the bookmark folder I want without openin

Massively parallel (8 to 10 stream) music server/generator ?

2011-06-03 Thread Linuxguy123
We are considering the purchase of a house. It has about 8 "zones" ie kitchen, living room, bedroom, patio, library, etc. Each zone has 2 to 4 speakers in it, all of which are wired such that they terminate in the utility room. The builder of the house did not provide any wiring for an A/V co

Re: Massively parallel (8 to 10 stream) music server/generator ?

2011-06-05 Thread Linuxguy123
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 07:57 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Check out LinuxMCE. It'll do a lot more than just pump music out to > your various zones. That's what I'm going to deploy. > > I'd offer more details here, but I think you'd be better off reading the > site and trolling the forums.

Re: fc14->fc15 via preupgrade hangs during first boot

2011-06-06 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 15:12 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 13:24 -0700, Monty Clift wrote: > > the screen is stuck for more than an hour and the last line written > > was: > > > > > > Started LSB: Start up the OpenSSH server daemon > > and there is a blinking cursor > > There

Novel Moonlight on Firefox 4.0 ???

2011-06-07 Thread Linuxguy123
I need to view a website that requires Microsoft's Silverlight to access. I have installed Novell's Moonlight 3.99.03 on Firefox 4.0.1. It tries to start, but there are several error messages and then it does nothing. Has anyone been able to get Moonlight working in Firefox ? Do I need to do a

Re: Novel Moonlight on Firefox 4.0 ???

2011-06-07 Thread Linuxguy123
> Can you provide a URL I can use to see if mine is working? I can't > seem to find a test site I replied with a site privately. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

Re: Novel Moonlight on Firefox 4.0 ???

2011-06-07 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:58 -0400, Gary Waters wrote: > On 06/07/2011 01:25 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > >>Can you provide a URL I can use to see if mine is working? I can't > >> seem to find a test site > > > > I replied with a site privately. &

So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123
How is F15-KDE, overall ? I'm still running F14, due to problems rebooting during the pre-upgrade process. Is it worth my time to troubleshoot and fix this issue or should I just keep running F14 ? Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Status of ESATA in F13 ?

2010-07-22 Thread Linuxguy123
I am wondering how ESATA devices are supposed to work in F13 these days. Does F13 support hot plugging of ESATA devices ? Are they only recognized at boot time ? Are they supported at all ? Thanks $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 09:42:24 UTC 20

Urgent: KDE printing custom paper sizes ?

2010-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm trying to print 6.5x10 cardstock from KDE in F13 on a Dell 1720 networked printer. No matter what I do I cannot get the printing to align with the paper. It works just fine on 8.5x11. Any ideas on how to make this work ? Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Urgent: how do I setup/run gnome in F13 ?

2010-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm a long time KDE user. I'm having printer problems in KDE tonight and I desperately need to get something printed. I would like to log into a Gnome session and try printing from there. (different infrastructure ?) However, when I log out of my KDE session, there is no option to boot Gnome.

Re: Urgent: how do I setup/run gnome in F13 ?

2010-08-18 Thread Linuxguy123
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 22:10 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:48:23 -0600 > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > I'm a long time KDE user. I'm having printer problems in KDE tonight > > and I desperately need to get something printed. > > > > I

Re: Urgent: KDE printing custom paper sizes ?

2010-08-19 Thread Linuxguy123
I found a work around. I generated my 6.5 x 10 image. I then created an 8.5x11 image and placed the 6.5x10 within it. Then I printed the 8.5x11 image. Its not a nice way to do it, but it works. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
Hi people. I need to vent... I'm getting frustrated with Linux. Well, not Linux per se, and not Fedora, but the whole experience part of things. I desperately need to do something about the audio system in my car. Its got a head unit that doesn't have an aux in, nor does it support mp3s, etc.

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:26 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > Anyway... Apple locks down the iPad pretty tight, which makes for a > robust but very inflexible system. Beware. If you like the freedom of > Linux, you may chafe at the restrictions in the iPad. That is basically what is k

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:39 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > Solve that with an FM tuner for $20.00-$30.00 US. Where from ? I need AM and FM. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-09 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:03 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss > That is a huge, supreme acknowledgment of the influence that Linux is having on the market place. Windows is dying. Totally left out of the mobile computing device market. Apple and Linux (Android, Meeg

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-09 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:03 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss > Next up: nVidia ? Maybe not, but they sure seem to have improved their proprietary Linux driver a lot recently. I know, I know... it still isn't what we need and it should be open. But lets at least ap

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