Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 1 May 2012, stan wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:36:25 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: If, as you say, "the defense against the attack was 10 to 20 years out there" then by Boolean logic Fedora *cannot* be "already immune". I think you should continue to worry. :-) :-) Thanks. :-) I'll

Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/03/2012 11:24 AM, Jeoe Zeff wrote: On 05/02/2012 07:47 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: Does anyone know of another mechanism for this? Just out of curiosity, why don't you want files to be removed from /tmp? When someone on this list asks for help in

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a graphics card. I'll try that next, though the problem seems to be that a power that be seems to th

Re: fedora 32 live DVD crashes

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote: Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a graphics card. I have now. No go. I had a look at the dmesg log on an old system with Nvidia car

Re: USB drive -

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Bob Goodwin wrote: /I have an USB WD Mybook with data stored on it but it is at /run/media/bobg/bbdb9a5e-5003-4d4e-a18c-fb30a2488d98 /media/mybk I would like to change that long name to something shorter like 'mybk" but I don't know how and I don't want to make a mistake a

Re: scilab

2020-06-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, stan via users wrote: software well enough to check it, though. Should also work on F32. I think the issue is related to the degeneration of the Java stack in Fedora. If I had to guess, I would say that is happening because java is more popular in enterprises than with indi

Re: second call for enlightenment...

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Todd Zullinger wrote: Jack Craig wrote: PS: does the list still have a preference for top or bottom posting replies? Thanks for asking! Top posting is (still) strongly discouraged. The preference is to reply below the text to which you are replying, while avoiding quoti

Re: second call for enlightenment...

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Jack Craig wrote: And yet you didn't ... sorry, i'll continue to work on it.. Also, do not quote the boilerplate: ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fe

Re: OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Geoffrey Leach wrote: The problem was a bad ssector on /home. Fsck solved it. Question: how to fsck on / which is mounted and busy in emergency mode? I think the answer is you don't. Boot from a floppy or something and run fsck from there. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.nd

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Bob Goodwin wrote: So now I did: [root@WS1 bobg]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso of=/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824  bs=4M dd: error writing '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824': No space left on device I do not know why you expected this to be useful. You've to

install to removable drive?

2020-10-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
Can F32 be installed to a removable drive, e.g. an SD card in a USB SD card reader? If so, any traps or tricks I should know about? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of

Re: install to removable drive?

2020-10-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/27/20 12:53 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Can F32 be installed to a removable drive, e.g. an SD card in a USB SD card reader? If so, any traps or tricks I should know about? Yes, it can. If you're doing it on an EFI system, be aware that it

Re: X Org Server is abandonware

2020-10-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Kevin Becker wrote: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/304/old.jpg You had to quote an entire post, including the boilerplate? To the quoteds: Please do not quote the boilerplate. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password mus

Re: Deprecating SCP

2020-11-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've not used sftp at all. I've only used scp when I had control at both ends. On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, George N. White III wrote: This is due to a fundamental insecurity in the old-style SCP protocol: the client sends the wildcard string (*.c) to the server, and the server sends back a sequence of

Re: Deprecating SCP

2020-11-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 11:39, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: In this particular case, I'd think the client could tell that a .BAT file was not a .c file. Downloading 1000's of files resulti

squishy bell

2020-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
F33 or gnome is giving me lost of squishy bells. In particular I'm getting them from gvim, gedit and sometimes from a terminal. How do I make the squishy bells go away? I found this, but it did not help: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2018-June/169131.html -- Michael henne...@web.cs

Re: Unable to remove grub menuentry for kernel 5.9

2020-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Chris Murphy wrote: As mad as this all sounds, and is, because of this work we're very close to being able to support dual boot Fedoras. Right now we only explicitly support Windows or macOS plus one Fedora. Two Fedoras, is a nope. You're right: It's mad. -- Michael henn

Re: squishy bell

2020-12-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/1/20 1:14 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: F33 or gnome is giving me lost of squishy bells. On Gnome, go to the Sound settings and turn off the System Sounds volume level. Thanks. It worked. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorr

F33 no longer notices SD card on iogear hub

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
After going from Centos 7 to F33, I can no longer use the SD card port on my iogear multi-thing hub. GUH287. What gives? How do I fix it? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the bl

Re: F33 no longer notices SD card on iogear hub

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: After going from Centos 7 to F33, I can no longer use the SD card port on my iogear multi-thing hub. GUH287. What gives? How do I fix it? In case I was not clear: The SD card seems invisible. No entry under /dev or a subdirectory. Manual mounting

Re: F33 no longer notices SD card on iogear hub

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: After going from Centos 7 to F33, I can no longer use the SD card port on my iogear multi-thing hub. GUH287. What gives? How do I fix it? My observation over decades of computer use is

Re: F33 no longer notices SD card on iogear hub

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: After going from Centos 7 to F33, I can no longer use the SD card port on my iogear multi-thing hub. GUH287. What gives? How do I fix it? Try every possible combination of different stuff

Re: F33 no longer notices SD card on iogear hub

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:48:11 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry wrote: After going from Centos 7 to F33, I can no longer use the SD card port on my iogear multi-thing hub. GUH287. What gives? How do I fix it

which symbols came from which library?

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
Using gcc 10.2.1 -g -O, I compiled and linkeds a program using multiple libraries. Some symbols are defined by more than one library. I would like to discover which symbols came from which library. What, if anything, is the incantation to do that? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorr

Re: which symbols came from which library?

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/10/20 7:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Using gcc 10.2.1 -g -O, I compiled and linkeds a program using multiple libraries. Some symbols are defined by more than one library. That sounds like a really bad situation. One library is supposed to be

Re: which symbols came from which library?

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/10/20 7:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Using gcc 10.2.1 -g -O, I compiled and linkeds a program using multiple libraries. Some symbols are defined by more than one library. That sounds like a really

Re: which symbols came from which library?

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: Using gcc 10.2.1 -g -O, I compiled and linkeds a program using multiple libraries. Some symbols are defined by more than one library. I would like to discover which symbols came from which library. What, if anything, is the incantation to do that

Re: Create Fedora Live Image with all your custom settings

2020-12-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: The possibly easier method is to just do an install directly to the flash drive. Then it's a normal Fedora install that you can customize as you want. You could do updates and even full version upgrades on it. I've got an SD card in an SD card reader.

Re: Create Fedora Live Image with all your custom settings

2020-12-21 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 9:09 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: I've got an SD card in an SD card reader. I never could get persistent overlays to work. I could do a normal install and boot from it. livecd-tools

F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. None of the default options for Brother printers came close. The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the right things: Idle, accepting jobs, two completed jobs. Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page. The

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
lpadmin -p charcoal -o usb-unidir-default=true produces nothing. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/28/20 12:41 AM, David wrote: Buy the cheapest Chromebook you can find. Throwing somebody else's money at the problem should never, ever be the answer. There have been times in my life that even the cheapest computer Doesn't matter: It worked unde

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Ed Greshko wrote: On 28/12/2020 12:57, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install. I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run. The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it. N

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote: It's close. The instructions had the wrong script name. The file I downloaded had two scripts, neither of which was named in the instructions. For some reason I used ash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1 HL-L2360DW Actualy, bash, not ash.

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Doug H. wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 7:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried deleting both printers (I wanted charcoal) and running linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 . I got a lot of error messages about things already existing and eventually an offer to print a test

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:37 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation of Fedora? How can I have a Fedora usb that I can use on different pcs? Where I have additional software installed? A

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: Thankfully I found the solution here: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser That worked like a charm! After your perform "make install" it will copy just two files to: /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertobrlaser /usr/share/cups/drv/brlaser.drv Once you do t

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2020-12-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 12/30/20 1:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've cloned the repository, but I'm unclear on a couple things Hi, On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf ins

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser cd brlaser cmake . make make install dnf history un

Re: usb stick problem

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Matthew Miller wrote: Well, it boils down to the errors saying the device isn't responding properly. Are the contents of the stick important? I'd toss it into the e-waste and get another. I think I have one USB stick that came with some hardware. Mostly I have SD cards that

Re: F33 just pretends to print

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On a F33 fresh install I only had to to this as root: dnf update (important; needed so that last step works properly) dnf install gcc-c++ cmake cups-devel git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser cd

midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
Whenever I mistype a URL, it gets turned into food for Midcontinent's search engine. What is really annoying is that the back button does not take me back to what I typed. Also, the search results rarely includes the site I wanted. My suspicion is that this is done at least partly through DNS cor

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Joe Zeff wrote: Checking, you can set both IPV4 and IPV6 to use DHCP only for your IP address and set your DNS servers manually. Thanks folks, not just JZ. I expect doing that is not a new thing and directions for it already exist somewhere. Would someone be kind enough t

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Did the survey distinguish between Fedora core (or whatever the term is not) and RHEL? Oops: whatever the term is now -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessa

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Tim via users wrote: Researching do companies use Fedora? (I should have searched for do *big* companies...) "We have data on 23,511 companies that use Fedora. The companies using Fedora are most often found in United States and in the Information Technology and Services ind

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-10-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Tim via users wrote: When you post to this group crop out all the quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes quotes of quotes of It makes it damn near impossible to re

Re: stop posting replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies of replies...

2024-11-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
When a top post quotes boilerplate, one case be certain that it's a case of don't care or TH;DDI. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John

OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
When I try to login to github from my usual computer (FC40) using my usual account on said computer, I do not get asked for my user name and password, instead I get 404 not found oginx The second line might be off. Switching accounts on my computer allows me to login to github. How do I

Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

2024-11-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: I recently got a 16TB USB disk and was trying to mount it on Fedora 40 using spacefm. I get the following: Mount /dev/sdb: I think that you need a number after sdb . Do you have it formatted as one massive filesystem? My first instinct was

QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- __

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:48:24 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Alt

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:39 -0600 "Michael Hennebry" wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW, which is not in distribution. Which is actua

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, Stephen Morris wrote:     Just my 2 cents worth. I develop at work in a language called SAS, which is interpretive like Python is. I see the sort of precision issues you are highlighting all the time, and the software vendor has written papers (which I can't lay my hands o

Re: OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/13/24 2:28 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I tried reloading a number of ways. They all seem to have "worked". Noe were effective. I tried both reloading the page I clicked on and the page I got to. No go. Firefox does not seem to offer the

Re: OT: 404 not found from github

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
As noted in another post, starting over from github.com did the trick. On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: In Firefox's setting, go into the privacy & security section, there's a cookies and site data sub-section with a clear button. That "clear" button pops up a window with options, rat

Re: gcc/gsl

2024-11-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 4:25?PM Patrick Dupre wrote: How different are the values? How many significant figures match? 0? 5? relatve difference: 2.7e-8 "noise" ~ 1e-35 values < 2e-23 What significant figure is it of the result? Heavy calc

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote: Person comes along with my THIS won't do THAT. You spend some time diagnosing, then downloading a few months worth of updates that they never did (which is always a slow thing, no matter how fast your internet is). Reboot. More downloads... Reboot.

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 May 2015, Rolf Turner wrote: I am currently running Fedora 17. Which is of course antediluvian. But The last version I succesfully installed was F17. everything I have seen on this list with respect to upgrading terrifies me. Disasters seem to lurk everywhere and I haven't the s

RE: I'm shocked, shocked!

2015-06-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 1 Jun 2015, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: zondag 31 mei 2015 15:23 To: Fedora Users Subject: Re: I'm shocked, shocked! On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-06-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
If I understand it correctly, the hard part is converting a paragraph into a string and back again. Here is a suggestion: To each sequence of vertical strokes add one more. Change each newline into a vertical stroke. Sort the strings. Change them back into paragraphs. Not sure how to do any of t

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-06-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote: Personally I tend to use a nontexty character for this kind of placeholder, such as ^G. Less risk of excountering that in the input text, and therefore less risk of accidentally mangling it. Eliminate risk. Replace all strings of e's with another string of e

Re: Awk and sort (of text files)

2015-07-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, jd1008 wrote: You misquote. I did not make the comment you attribute to me. I think that I accidentally deleted a line. What I should have written: On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote: On 06/30/2015 04:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Personally I tend to use a nontexty char

Re: 4K monitors?

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Tom Horsley wrote: On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all the same info you used to be able to put in xorg.conf, but now it comes in

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm an old Unix hand so for me the man page *is* the reference in most cases, though for something as large and complex as systemd I have no issue with there being supplementary material as long as I don't need to access it just to remember a basic

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, lee wrote: Joe Zeff writes: On 07/06/2014 12:43 AM, lee wrote: Not even the configuration files are where they belong. Actually, they're exactly where they belong. They just aren't where you expect them to be. They belong under /etc, not hidden somewhere in /var. C

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 13:25:42 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, lee wrote: Joe Zeff writes: On 07/06/2014 12:43 AM, lee wrote: Not even the configuration files are where they belong. Actually, they're exactly where

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Doug wrote: On 08/07/2014 02:34 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that Antonio's last comment becomes moot? You should

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/07/2014 01:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It was fdisk that was complaining. Those messages aren't complaints, they're just informing you. (I'm not sure any more, but I think that at one time the space between the end of the partition and the cylin

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, JD wrote: You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv etc because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like cdrecord. As mentioned, I've done it. Surprised me that it worked. That said, it does not work any more. 'Tis been a few years since I've done it. -- Mi

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail -f /var/log/messages, and any clutter of text simply di

Re: switchdesk

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
Selecting a desktop is not hard. Remembering to do it every time is hard. Logging out and logging in again can be annoying. Being able to set one's default desktop is useful. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necess

Firefox fonts

2014-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
I recently installed some courier fonts. I cannot tell which, if any, of them Firefox is using. They are in the font chooser. How do I discover what font Firefox actually uses for something? I've found Inspect Element, but I'm pretty sure Firefox is substituting. How do I discover what was substi

Re: Firefox fonts

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: Usually Firefox uses anything configured in your desktop. You should take a look to the fonts settings part in your desktop settings. I can find lists of fonts, both from firefox and from fc-list. gnome->system->preferences->appearence->fonts gives me

Re: Firefox fonts

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: And if you change those fonts in Gnome settings what happens? Do you see the changes reflected in Firefox? I'm not sure what you are suggesting I do. I did eventually find /etc/fonts and man fonts-conf , but it's not really helping. I suppose if

Re: Firefox fonts

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: You have a setting under Fonts in Gnome preferences, right? If you change that setting, let's say picking Chancery font instead of Sans font, what happens? Do you see that change in Firefox? Or Firefox is still using its own fonts settings? I see chan

Re: Firefox fonts

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Michael Hennebry wrote: In case i wasn't clear before: Firefox is set to let a web page choose its fonts. Sometimes Firefox does not have the requested font. The relationship between the requested font, the available fonts and the font chosen is not trivial. I'

wither pnmtops and pnmcrop

2011-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Unable to figure out how to do what I wanted in gimp, I went looking for pnmcrop. I had gimp out because I hadn't been able to find pnmtops. Cropping stumped me, so I went looking again. Eventually I figured out that I didn't have the right package installed. yum provides told me netpbm. yum instal

Re: wither pnmtops and pnmcrop

2011-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 25Nov2011 20:28, Michael Hennebry wrote: > | Unable to figure out how to do what I wanted in gimp, > | I went looking for pnmcrop. > | I had gimp out because I hadn't been able to find pnmtops. > | Cropping stumped me, so

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, g wrote: > but i believe you and some others have lost sight of fact that op, paul > does not indicate that he has an external hdd and that he desires > ability to burn a clone/backup of system to dvd's and it will take > several. Don't know about ddrescue. I'm pretty sure th

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, g wrote: i am familiar with the dd options of -skip and -seek. just not familiar with proper way to use dd with cdrecord. can someone elaborate? cdrecord can read from a pipe. The data does not have to be a *.iso file. dd can get the data back by reading the raw device.

Re: [ABANDONING:] Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Yes, I have a backup that I'll only know is good when I need it. That's a "the check is in the mail" proposition as far as I am concerned Given the problem, my first thought would be to cp or dd from one raw drive to another. To check correctness,

Re: [ABANDONING:] Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, g wrote: making images is a very un-assuring way of making backups because there is no _easy way_ of verifying. If the image fits into a single device, each partition can be mounted without special tools. Correctness can be verified with diff --recursive . -- Michael he

fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
The only thing that seems to have gone right is the install. I managed to do an install without media, even though at the time I didn't have grub2 and the instructions assumed that one did. I went by the F14 instructions. The first thing I noticed is that grub.cfg is 477 lines long. There is a he

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: It printed, but only gibberish, including the test page. That seemed a familiar problem, but I did not remember how to handle it. Eventually, I remembered hplip and told yum to install it. Still no go. When I tell the GUI I have an HPLIP printer

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: It printed, but only gibberish, including the test page. That seemed a familiar problem, but I did not remember how to handle it. Eventually, I remembered hplip and told yum to install it. Still no go

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Edward M wrote: On 06/10/2012 02:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: The Windoze actually boots and runs. My old Fedora 14 does not. It seems to boot. It fills in the ice cream cone with the finfinity symbol. The it stops. No mouse or any offer to let my log in. I can&#

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/11/2012 12:02 PM, Fedora User wrote: I had also discovered some difficulty with mplayer. That, too, is resolved with the correct driver. I'll wager that there are a number of people who have the wrong driver installed and don't even know it - yet.

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: Of more concern to me right now is that my keyboard no longer works on my Xfce desktop on Fedora 17. I cannot type into a terminal or into a firefox form. I am on another console. It does not play nice with the system I am using for mail. After

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/11/2012 12:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/11/2012 12:02 PM, Fedora User wrote: I had also discovered some difficulty with mplayer. That, too, is resolved with the correct driver. I'll wager that

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: Of more concern to me right now is that my keyboard no longer works on my Xfce desktop on Fedora 17. I cannot type into a terminal or into a firefox form. I am on another console. It does not play nice

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: terminal doesn't like me again. It won't take a keyboard focus, even on startup. Also I can't reorder windows. Clicking on a window does not move it to the top. I can type in firefox forms. I don't see anything obviously wron

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Steve Dowe wrote: On 11/06/12 05:11, Michael Hennebry wrote: > 40.0GB Seagate Ultra ATA 5400 rmp (snip) > There is also a 400GB internal disk drive added post-purchase. > It is now the boot disk. How much RAM? <1GB? Please see: 4GB It kinda sounds like a la

unboot vs my DVD burner

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Hennebry
I tried to burn a F17 install DVD and thought that I had failed. The result would not mount and if I asked right I was told no medium in drive. Forgetting it was there, I did a reboot. The BIOS found it with apparently no trouble. Anaconda started, I pushed the eject button and then the reset but

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote: After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics: the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared. On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but one that had the entire contents of /boot. Copied eve

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right. It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tel

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Terry Polzin wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F1

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, fred smith wrote: did I really type "PAT"?? man, I gotta go back and read these things before I send 'em out. I mean "PAE"! :( pae is also in my flags list. My F14 kernel is a PAE kernel. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my ki

Re: OT: need python help please

2012-07-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Roger wrote: My daughter wants to teach her students tkinter interface with python. She cannot get an entry into the field entry1=Entry(fishDisplay, width=35).grid(row=0, column=1) to display and this is out of my expertise. Can someone point us to a suitable tutorial o

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