Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been trying to use fatlabel to rename a Western Digital 2TB USB/external drive. However, the results have been with no success either with the drive mounted or not. Much thanks for any advice on how to proceed. (Related output is appended below), Max Pyziur p...@bram

Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Frédéric wrote: I've been trying to use fatlabel to rename a Western Digital 2TB USB/external drive. However, the results have been with no success either with the drive mounted or not. Much thanks for any advice on how to proceed. I use KDE partition manager for that. I

Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Bill Shirley wrote: What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb root@pegasus ~> fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000365289472 bytes, 3906963456 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (mi

Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 05.02.2018 19:43, Max Pyziur wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Bill Shirley wrote: What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb Device Start    End    Sectors  Size Type /dev/sdb1   2048 3906961407 3906959360  1.8T Microsoft basic data We are

Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:38:32 -0500, Bill Shirley wrote: What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb Bill Note that fdisk would only show the partition type value, not the actual fs. "parted /dev/sdb p" tries to detect the fs type. root@pegasus ~> par

[SOLVED] Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives

2018-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 07:11:30PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:38:32 -0500, Bill Shirley wrote: What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb Bill Note that fdisk would only show the part

R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? I d

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages).

[Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: [...] # Non-R packages: fonts-KOI8-R.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? perl-Tree-R.noarch There's an R SIG for Fedora, which looks like it's been quie

configuring shortcut key in xFce

2018-03-07 Thread Max Pyziur
uch thanks for any advice. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

F27: Grub2 hosed; request rescue help

2018-03-14 Thread Max Pyziur
n F27 workstation install DVD and a SuperGrub2 Disk. Along with having no Google-fu today, nothing seems to be enabling me to have much progress in rescuing this machine. It's a Dell Latitude E6220; 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM. Any suggestions and advice on links etc would be appreciated. Much thanks,

[SOLVED] Re: F27: Grub2 hosed; request rescue help

2018-03-14 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, While doing an upgrade on a non-critical laptop, including a kernel upgrade, the machine froze. Rebooting brought information to the effect that no boot image was available. I've been trying to find, and also using different CDs to r

file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Twenty minutes of googling and still no answers. When I do a directory listing using 'ls -l' and I see -rw-rw-r-- -rw-r--r--. What's the final period indicate. I realize that this is a newbie question, but I'm stumped at finding an answer. Much thanks. Max __

Re: file permissions

2018-07-16 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On 07/16/2018 12:05 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Twenty minutes of googling and still no answers. When I do a directory listing using 'ls -l' and I see -rw-rw-r-- -rw-r--r--. What's the final period indicate. I realize that t

HP & Ghostscript - possible problems

2018-09-14 Thread Max Pyziur
else encountered something similar? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/

Re: HP & Ghostscript - possible problems

2018-09-16 Thread Max Pyziur
the command-line: lpadmin -p YourPrinterName -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops That seemed to work for me. ymmv & fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Until recently, printing with our HP 3015 was a cinch: all jobs

USB/Flash Drive backup strategies

2018-09-27 Thread Max Pyziur
o the dedicated machine; has anyone devised a method to do something like this? Thanks in advance, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
output. Thank you. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Gu

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 9:04 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm troubleshooting the video output on my F28 desktop. It's a prosaic system (Shuttle shoebox type of computer), basic video, not a gamer. I've had several of those. On today

Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Problem #2, I have a Toshiba external USB DVD/CD drive. When plugged into my laptop, it lights up, and I can pop open the drive by pressing the external button. However working in Brasero or the command line, I can't find anyway to burn the iso image that I downloaded. Much tha

Re: Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 10:16 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Problem #2, I have a Toshiba external USB DVD/CD drive. When plugged into my laptop, it lights up, and I can pop open the drive by pressing the external button. However working in Brasero or the

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/19/18 10:17 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: If it doesn't work, try getting a cheap video card and try that. I wouldn't go crazy on the video...some nVidia-based cards are cheap at $50USD or so and would probably be as good as the one built-in to the mobo.

Re: Troubleshooting video on Fedora 28

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/19/18 9:04 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: I can ssh into the desktop and use it that way. Since the system is running, it would be interesting to see what the kernel is finding. What is the output of "lspci | grep -i vga"? If you run "s

Re: Using external USB DVD/CD drive to burn disk

2018-10-19 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/19/18 10:48 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: [deleted for the sake of brevity ] You said an external DVD/CD drive. Are you certain it has burn capacity (is it a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive)? If you can post the model

Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40

2024-06-26 Thread Max Pyziur
Thank you, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- ___ 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-US/project/code-of-conduct/

Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40

2024-06-26 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed Jun26'24 05:52:48PM, Max Pyziur wrote: From: Max Pyziur Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40 Greetings, Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop

Signal-Desktop & nodejs-electron GPG key problem

2024-08-07 Thread Max Pyziur
as: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_40/repodata/repomd.xml.key Any guidance here would be appreciated. Thank you, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Signal-Desktop & nodejs-electron GPG key problem

2024-08-07 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, Todd Zullinger wrote: I wrote: Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, GPG Keys are configured as: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_40/repodata/repomd.xml.key Any guidance here would be appreciated. [...] Another possibility is that the

Verizon and Comcast email challenges

2010-07-20 Thread Max Pyziur
finding an answer at the following website: Sender Policy Framework http://www.openspf.org/ I recognize that I need to learn more to fully understand this matter. Would anyone have any recommendations on where to research this further and why these policies are being implemented. Much thanks in adv

firefox / rhythmbox sound issues

2010-02-28 Thread Max Pyziur
used at least alternately, if not concurrently? Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com p.s. Select output from lshw description: Motherboard product: DG965SS vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 version: AAD41678-306 serial: BQSS715001N5 s

F14->F15 Laptop Upgrade: Gnome 3 questions/confusions and other issues

2011-06-21 Thread Max Pyziur
ime. 8-\ A little confused but still managing to function; much thanks for your comments and suggestions in advance, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Running xfce on F14, wasRe: xfce and x86_64

2011-06-26 Thread Max Pyziur
n yum groupinstall xfce i obtain : I installed by running the above command and per this web page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce However, I don't xfce as a choice in the "Session" section of the login menu. Any advice? Much thanks. Max Pyziu

Rsync + Windows 7 - backing up to linux server

2010-08-22 Thread Max Pyziur
r in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.7-1/src/rsync-3.0.7/io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7] However, there is a rsyncd.conf file at the both the client and the server end. Any help would be appreciated greatly. Much thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users maili

Re: Rsync + Windows 7 - backing up to linux server

2010-08-22 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Larry Brower wrote: > Max Pyziur wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I have successfully been using rsync to backup my Linux desktop and laptop >> for several years. >> >> My current goal is to automatically backup a Windows 7 desktop to a

Suggestions on Linux Manuals

2010-11-02 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, In 2002, Gerhard Mourani's Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution was the single paper resource that met many of needs and was tied to my skill level. Would anyone have recommendations on what the 2010-going-into-2011 update to this weighty tome be? Tha

Fedora 13 -> Fedora 14 stalled and failed on 64 bit upgrade

2011-01-15 Thread Max Pyziur
on so that the FC13->FC14 upgrade is correctly completed? Much thanks to all for your help. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedor

Printing in 64-Bit Google-Chrome fails

2011-02-01 Thread Max Pyziur
desktop (it prints multiple pages of occasional gibberish). Any suggestions? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Printing in 64-Bit Google-Chrome fails

2011-02-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> I am now favoring Google Chrome over Firefox and Galeon; I use both on my >> i386 Dell Laptop and 64Bit Desktop. From either Galeon

Creative Zen:M - Data Transfers

2010-01-23 Thread Max Pyziur
n the Zen:M is visible in gnome, there is no way of seeing the device in xterm when issuing a df -k. Is there something available that can offer some information as to how the device is communicating with the system and is there a way of viewing the Creative Zen:M from an xterm session? Thanks

Re: Gnome bottom panel keeps dying

2010-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
is, in both cases, I open a terminal window, then > ps waux | grep gnome-panel > kill It's a bit heavyhanded, but short of doing a reboot until I get the panel, this seems to restore my bottom panels; however, the weather applets won't work w/o a complete logout/reboot. Thanks.

Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
(hence no text) or odd formating. In those cases the conversion results are weak. My interest would be in bypassing Amazon's service. Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: As a followup, are there tools that can convert pdfs to mobi format? Amazon, as part of its Kindle service, does provide a pdf to azw (Amazon's version of mobi) conversion service: -

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:09 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: However, I just tested converting the same document (pdf->mobi) using both calibre and Amazon's Kindle service. The results are far better from Amazon. Calibre's ebook-c

Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-03 Thread Max Pyziur
ke to upgrade it to C6) that I use for backup purposes. I installed it about 6 months ago. No problems. The Seagate replaced a Toshiba 2TB that had begun to fail. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Database -> web-based dynamic pivot table - does it exist?

2014-02-28 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been trying to find a mechanism to directly connect a database to a dynamic web-based pivot table. The functionality exists for MS Excel (connections can be made from either SQL server or Access to Excel). Any suggestions on where to look? Thanks. Max Pyz

python-PyXML-examples is there a version for Fedora?

2014-03-06 Thread Max Pyziur
python-PyXML-examples is there a version for Fedora? Thanks! Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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://fedoraproject.org

Re: Mobile Broadand

2015-08-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After I updated from fedora 20 to 22, I lost the Mobile Broadband and Wifi connections. I tried several things like systemctl start ModemManager systemctl enable ModemManager but it does not help. Id does not show up in mmcli -m 0 while it does

Re: Fedora 20: dropping wifi

2015-08-12 Thread Max Pyziur
38:51:bc (try 3/3) Aug 12 10:58:14 mercury kernel: wlan0: direct probe to 00:0f:b5:38:51:bc (try 3/3) Aug 12 10:58:15 mercury kernel: [ 3837.479209] wlan0: authentication with 00:0f:b5:38:51:bc timed out Aug 12 10:58:15 mercury kernel: wlan0: authentication with 00:0f:b5:38:51:bc timed out Apolog

Re: Fedora 20: dropping wifi

2015-08-12 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, jd1008 wrote: On 08/12/2015 09:27 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: [...] System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Screen Saver From that gui, click on Power Management Be sure to check all 4 tabs of the Power Management Gui. R U running on battery most of the time?

what replaced metamail/mmencode ...

2015-09-11 Thread Max Pyziur
... if anything? Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http

Fedora 23, 22, 21

2015-10-13 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I'm seeing a lot of announcements for different Fedora 23 packages. Has F23 been released, or is it still in Beta? And when would/will F21 be EOL'd? Thanks. M -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

F21 Mouse/Touchpad/Keyboard weirdness on Dell D630 Laptop

2015-10-25 Thread Max Pyziur
event this isn't a buggy kernel issue. Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Multi-OS setup: dual/multi-boot vs virtualbox

2015-10-25 Thread Max Pyziur
gun a few multi-boot installations using Fedora, to see what some of direct challenges are (the first steps to shrink an existing partition, in order to create room for a Fedora installation). But have never completed an installation. Advice, thoughts? Suggested links? Much thanks, Max Pyz

Disaster recovery recommendations

2015-10-30 Thread Max Pyziur
rvice that can hopefully recover the data. Much thanks for any and all suggestions, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Con

Re: Disaster recovery recommendations

2015-10-30 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Digimer wrote: On 30/10/15 03:48 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I have three drives; they are all SATA Seagate Barracudas; two are 500GB; the third is a 2TB. I don't have a clear reason why they have failed (possibly due to a deep, off-brand, flakey mobo; but

Configuring/setup of WiFi card on Dell E6220 Laptop

2015-10-31 Thread Max Pyziur
e that there are probably other modules (and configuration settings) required to make this WiFi card operable. Per suggestions, I have installed kmod-wl, akmod-wl, but I suspect that there is something else that needs to be done. Much thanks for any advice on this topic. Max Pyziur p...@brama.

Re: Configuring/setup of WiFi card on Dell E6220 Laptop

2015-11-02 Thread Max Pyziur
ld Dell XPS laptop with a similar Broadcom card.. never got it to work. what you need is the IPW2200 driver.. you might try uninstalling NetworkManager & installing wicd. On 10/31/2015 06:47 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: I've just installed F22 on a Dell E6220 lapto

Re: Thanks for a GREAT update to 23!

2015-11-10 Thread Max Pyziur
Just to join in the fun and dancing: Three machines: one home-assembled desktop (i5, 8GG RAM, etc); two Dell laptops: D630 (Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB RAM; E6220 - i5 CPU, 8GB RAM). Started w/ the Desktop and made three efforts; on the first, it ended challenging me to remove a perl-DBD-Pg-Test-FC

F23: Bootup error message - systemd-modules-load

2015-11-17 Thread Max Pyziur
ernel Modules. This happens on all three machines running F23. They function correctly. So, what if anything, should be done here? Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Video Capture software

2016-02-07 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I saw these video capture devices advertised for converting old VHS tapes; one end plugs into a vcr; the other into the computer via USB. A long time ago, xawtv was one of the software packages to use. Is this still the case, or has something else come along? Thank you. Max

Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Max Pyziur
don't go above ...), etc? Much thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-

Re: Fedora 25 released!

2016-11-22 Thread Max Pyziur
esides the Fedora dnf upgrade process. (I have notes/scripts, etc., that I would be happy to share). Since this is ad-hoc, there can be errors and problems. Are there any similar caveats in going from F24 to F25? Thanks Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ use

Re: upgrading nodejs fails

2016-11-23 Thread Max Pyziur
nodejs. That worked each time. fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: upgrading nodejs fails

2016-11-23 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, arnaud gaboury wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:16 PM Max Pyziur wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, arnaud gaboury wrote: > I am upgrading my box to F25 from F24. > > First I ran # dnf upgrade --refresh , but some packages did not upgarde.

Re: PostgreSQL broken by upgrade to F24

2016-11-29 Thread Max Pyziur
to get you through this. In my case, I have three, and generally use the least used one to do the first upgrade. I have some notes and scripts ( my own hacks); perhaps they can be useful for you. I'm appending them below. fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com General outline of steps: ###

Converting XML files to Libreoffice Calc

2016-12-01 Thread Max Pyziur
uot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> 2016-12-01T15:08:55Z 1 It imports seamlessly into MS Excel. I'm flummoxed as to how to do the same in Libreoffice. I've searched for LibreOffice XML filters, but I haven't come across anything yet.

Re: Upgrade from f24 to f25 fails

2016-12-01 Thread Max Pyziur
de (I think) and rm'd the google-earth package that was sitting there. From memory, that's what worked for me (but YMMV) Once the upgrade completed, and everything seemed to be functioning correctly, I then did a dnf install package that I downloaded from the Google Earth page.

[Solved - sort of] Re: Converting XML files to Libreoffice Calc

2016-12-02 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, stan wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:48:57 -0500 (EST) Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, A data site provides downloadable data in xml format; the header reads: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> 2016-12-01T15:08:55Z 1 It imports seamlessly into MS Excel. I

XFCE - mounting/renaming flash drives from CLI

2016-12-04 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, In Xfce, can flash drives be mounted from the command line w/o superuser privileges? So far, I've only mounted them from the Desktop or file manager. Also, can they be (re)named from the command line? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@bram

Re: XFCE - mounting/renaming flash drives from CLI

2016-12-04 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 4 December 2016 at 20:06, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, In Xfce, can flash drives be mounted from the command line w/o superuser privileges? Yes, for removable drives; you can use udisks (which is what most file manager use IIUC): $ udisksctl

Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech software. espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing lis

Unintended consequences F24->F25: vim, you used to be my friend ...

2016-12-11 Thread Max Pyziur
documentation that describes these specific changes, and how to change preferences? Much thanks! Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Unintended consequences F24->F25: vim, you used to be my friend ...

2016-12-12 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno dom, 11/12/2016 alle 19.12 -0500, Max Pyziur ha scritto: With that came new (unexpected) features See that Thread in this ML: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/HZJVN3LVFS2YC3H7EZRPJEYEPAGKEVH2

Re: vi

2017-01-08 Thread Max Pyziur
owing way: vi -C (see vi --help for the explanations) or if I have already started using vi with a particular file, I issue the following command: :set mouse= I seem to have more success w/ the former than the latter (YMMV). Max Pyziur p...@brama.com Thank for your

Dell Latitude D630 Laptop - Fedora friendly?

2013-01-09 Thread Max Pyziur
... per the subject line, any complaints? Any compliments? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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

Syncing Android phones w/ Fedora & Evolution

2013-01-09 Thread Max Pyziur
PalmNote). But that still doesn't solve the sync problem. There is Evernote, a current rage in note-taking apps, highly multimedia-oriented, and cloud-based. However, I would prefer avoiding using this. Much thanks for all advice, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@l

Re: fedora on Android phones?

2013-01-11 Thread Max Pyziur
there any plans for Fedora to follow Ubuntu >> in developing an alternative OS for Android phones? >> >> >> -- [...] > -- > Best, > > Christopher Svanefalk > mob: +46762628251 > skype: csvanefalk Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Max Pyziur
d RPM packages), and then did a fresh install, increasing the /boot partition to something like 1GB. Once at that size, then the installation went very smoothly. Thanks, Dave... Max PYziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Dave Cross wrote: On 20 January 2013 20:55, Max Pyziur wrote: [ snip ] This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot partition. I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 to F17) on my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB

F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues

2013-01-23 Thread Max Pyziur
BEGIN psql:/usr/share/pgsql/contrib/postgis-64-2.sql:59: ERROR: incompatible library "/usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so": version mismatch DETAIL: Server is version 9.2, library is version 9.1. Now, I'm stumped. F18 ships w/ postgresql-9.2.2-1.fc18.x86_64 and postgis-1.5.3-4.fc1

Anki 2.0 - when will it be released from testing?

2013-01-23 Thread Max Pyziur
Having read Buzilla reports, the packager indicated that Anki 2.0 is ready for prime time on F18 and F17 on 1/13/2013. Given that it is 1/23/2013, I'm just curious as to what else needs to be done. Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues (fwd)

2013-01-24 Thread Max Pyziur
fyi, Max Pyziur p...@bama.com -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:32:52 -0800 From: dustymugs Reply-To: PostGIS Users Discussion To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues The combination of PostgreSQL

Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues (fwd)

2013-01-24 Thread Max Pyziur
fyi too, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:05:55 +0200 From: Devrim Gündüz To: PostGIS Users Discussion , Max Pyziur Subject: Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues Hi, This is a known issue, and there is

Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues

2013-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
and projects are current across the three machines. Jeff Lake MichiganWxSystem AllisonHouse GRLevelXStuff Max Pyziur p...@brama.com On 1/26/2013 10:12, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:4

Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues

2013-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2013 17:28, schrieb Max Pyziur: On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Jeff Lake wrote: They probably have been packaged as RPM's yet if that is the case, You will need to compile from source Sorry, but that isn't what the message says. They

Re: [postgis-users] F18: Postgresql 9.2.x/PostGIS 1.5.x issues

2013-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:42 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: This is a known issue, and there is already a bugzilla entry about this. I hope to fix it in a few days, by updating GeOS to 3.3.7 and PostGIS to 2.0.2. I'm sure that there are for

Syncevolution: will not sync local contact data with could

2013-01-27 Thread Max Pyziur
ch thanks in advance for all advice and suggestions, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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: Holding down the power button when the systems freezes

2013-01-29 Thread Max Pyziur
reboot the box (usually, su to root, type "reboot," and politely tap ). Paul fyi, Max PYziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

F18-x86_64: Google Earth fails to install

2013-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
Guidance? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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 Have a question? Ask away

Package groups: yum vs. rpm

2013-02-05 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, When you run the command "rpm -qi " there is a "Group: " line. That group name doesn't coincide with the groups that are listed when running "yum groups list" Are these two bits of metadata related? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@bram

FedUp experiences; moving to an F18 life.

2013-02-16 Thread Max Pyziur
g koji for project status, I see: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=381043 Any further guidence from other users? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Status of Postgis-related rpms

2013-07-22 Thread Max Pyziur
Fedora 19 ships with PostGIS 2.0.3 and PostgreSQL 9.2.4. Do these packages work together correctly, or are there still issues? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com On Mon, 13 May 2013, Max Pyziur wrote: Or should we wait for Fedora 19? Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list

Re: [postgis-users] Status of Postgis-related rpms

2013-07-23 Thread Max Pyziur
month after the release of Fedora 20; it would be nice to have these F18 packages available (PostGIS 2.0 and other related packages such as gdal, etc.) -bborie Max Pyziur p...@brama.com On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, With the release of

Preferred method - F18 -> F19: fedup or yum upgrade ?

2013-07-25 Thread Max Pyziur
Per the subject line, what are the views of this community? Thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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

WordPress permissions

2013-07-30 Thread Max Pyziur
Any advice on how to change this to more secure directory permissions? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-04 Thread Max Pyziur
. I have a Dell Latitude D630, an upgrade to my Dell Inspiron 600m. I bought it off-lease with a clean hard drive (no OS installed) from this outfit: http://www.systime.com/ Generally, very pleased. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

UTF-8 enabled enscript? - looking for a way to print UTF-8 text from CLI

2013-11-27 Thread Max Pyziur
ickly: rotate orientation; control fontsize; add or eliminate banners; etc. Advice? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Upgrading to Verizon FIOS from Verizon DSL - Linux machine as router/Gateway/LAN server

2012-04-16 Thread Max Pyziur
. For a new server, I'm considering setting up a CentOS machine, while still using Fedora on my desktop and laptop. Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Problem AdobeReader after upgrade F28 to F29.

2018-11-04 Thread Max Pyziur
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 19:17:27 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: Ger Van Dijck, Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:32:43 +0100: The Acrobat Reader does not funktionate anymore : So I tried to reinstall it with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm . I get the message "build

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