Re: "Be excellent to each other" / Call people out for doin a good job

2010-05-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight > when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of > hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people > are going

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Tim, > > I have been looking for replies but found none, that is why I re-posted. In > looking at the archive I see that some have not arrived in my inbox. Sigh. I > have been having troubles with yahoo classic for the past few months, > s

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! > > But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything. > USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable. > My ideal scenario would

Re: Chromium by default?

2010-06-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Valent Turkovic > wrote: >> In the latest release [1] of Community Fedora Remix (yes, we are >> looking for a new name [2]) some flack we got was due to having >> duplicate apps; two browsers and two email clien

Re: FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

2010-06-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Jim wrote: >> FC13/KDE >> >> How do I install 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box ? >> >> I have SDL installed. >> >> This would be a good addition to Yum. >> > > It would be much easier to discover why you might need some 32 bit

Re: FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

2010-06-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Phil Meyer wrote: >> If someone wants to run a nightly version of Thunderbird (say >> 3.1.1pre) in 64 bit F13 where the nightly builds are only for 32 bit - >> then it is not so easy! >> >> If you can give a one line command to pull in all the correct 32 bit >> li

A question on OCR for bad old document?

2010-06-06 Thread mike cloaked
I have a scanned pdf of a very old document which was typewritten about half a century ago. The scanned copy is noisy and the letters are far from clear. The text can be made out (mostly) by eye, but it is 19 pages long and I would like to OCR it to get a digitised text to save the eye strain and l

Re: A question on OCR for bad old document?

2010-06-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > Have you tried Tesseract? I suppose that Tesseract can work from > inside gscan2pdf. Yes I tried tesseract and it does not seem to fair much better than the other options - (it is a tough document to OCR though) > > (http://code.google.com/

Re: A question on OCR for bad old document?

2010-06-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. > Hah - well true but I had hoped after seeing the wonderful computing facilities on CSI TV programmes (only joking!) > If you are having difficulty reading the scan yourself, then you're > prob

Re: I did gOCR with screenshots, if helpful

2010-06-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well I had a somehow bad experience. Tried saving my firefox passwords, > but Firefox doesnt' have any stored passwords exporting form > (edit/configuration/security/stored passwords, if anyone knows how to > export them, please.)

Re: Wireless T61 Problem

2010-06-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Ray Curtis wrote: > On 06/07/2010 08:28 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 06/07/2010 12:37 PM, Ray Curtis wrote: >>> I am having a problem configuring my wireless [Intel 4965AGN] on a >>> Lenovo T61 laptop, Fedora 13. >>> Thus far I have this config: >>> >> >> >>    

Re: Chrome has a memory leak it appears....

2010-06-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ > COMMAND > 15445 kevinm    20   0 1175m 1.0g  11m R 95.4 35.3  50:55.12 > chrome > 15450 kevinm    20   0  157m  66m  10m S  5.3  2.2 106:19.06 > chrome > 16952 kevinm    20   0  49

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 13:20:28 -0500, >  Kevin Martin wrote: >> >> >> Shouldn't there be a way for yum/packagekit to understand the >> interdependencies when kmod packages are installed such that a new >> kernel update is *not* offered

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/19/2010 07:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> I see that Thunderbird 3.1 RC2 is in the rawhide repository.  When >> Thunderbird 3.1 is release, will it become part of Fedora 13 or will it >> be held until Fedora 14? >> >> It appears that 3.

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 06/19/2010 07:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> I see that Thunderbird 3.1 RC2 is in the rawhide repository.  When >>> Thunderbird 3.1 is release, will it

Re: fedora 13 so many bugs

2010-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > On 07/06/2010 04:08 PM, solarflow99 wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Gallagher   >> wrote: >> some of the problems I had are known (repo problems, etc.) but at >> other times, anaconda would abort at different poin

Re: Fedora 13 boot.iso not working with "askmethod"

2010-07-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:04 PM, H. S. wrote: > On 07/11/2010 01:45 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> >> I have installed Fedora 13 now, the first login and updates are next. > > When I wrote that, I was not thinking properly. The beauty of net > install is that the packages are downloaded from the repository

Re: Install Fedora 13 from Hard Drive

2010-07-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote: > Need link or instructions on how to install from HDD. > > Currently have F13 86x64 but want to install 32 bit instead > Copy the DVD iso onto a non-root partition on your machine, as an iso file. eg if you have a / and a /home partition then p

App Inventor for Android and Fedora (not) ! (partly off topic)

2010-07-12 Thread mike cloaked
I was quite excited when I had an email from my brother pointing me to the new Android "App Inventor" that Google has released as a beta allowing easy development of apps for android phones - that is until I discovered that they appear only to have made provision for linux if .deb packages can be i

Re: Install Fedora 13 from Hard Drive

2010-07-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:24 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote: >> Need link or instructions on how to install from HDD. >> >> Currently have F13 86x64 but want to install 32 bit instead >> > > Copy the DVD iso onto a n

Re: App Inventor for Android and Fedora (not) ! (partly off topic)

2010-07-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:59:31 +0100 > mike cloaked wrote: > >> Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Is there a way to get this >> stuff running in an up to date Fedora system? > > If you want to try, google for &q

Re: F13 on Samsung N220?

2010-07-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting Kwan Lowe : > >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: >>> Does anyone have experience or a pointer to installing F13 on a >>> Samsung N220? Nice little computer, Atom cpu, 1 gig, 250 HD, realtek >>> wifi. >>> >> I ins

Re: yum update failure

2010-07-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Dear List, > > I noticed a problem with an update of evolution  on my laptop with > 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE.   I thought the problem was with evolution > and made an entry on this list.  Kevin Fenzi aptly pointed me in the > right direc

Re: New Update has no kmod for new kernel and new nvidia driver

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Michael Miles wrote: > On 07/13/2010 06:06 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michael Miles  wrote: >> >> >>> Fedora 12 x86_64 >>> >>> I did look this time and it seems the gods that have >>> control did not >>> give a kmod for the new Nvidia driver

Re: New Update has no kmod for new kernel and new nvidia driver

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On my system I use "akmods" & "akmods-nvidia"  The way it works for me is that > if necessary "akmods" rebuilds the nVidia kernel module when I reboot into a > new > kernel.  Some people have no luck with the "akmods" method.  For me, i

Re: yum update failure

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion!!! > > I thought perhaps it was a bad mirror as well.  To test this I removed > the comment marker from baseurl and then commented out the mirrorlist. > After doing a yum clean all, this change did not result in

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy wrote: >> My /var/log/messages >> >> seems to have started hording info. >> It is now 112mb in size. >> Covers 3-4 days of info. > > Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say >

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> I just checked my own after seeing this posting - and find that >> several of the recent messages files are large: >> -rw---. 1 root root 264K 2010-07-14 21:39 /va

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:27 AM, john wendel wrote: > Agreed that an OS kernel hasn't much use for a GPU. But it should be > easy to add a small general purpose CPU (ARM or Intel Atom) and a couple > of usb ports to the card and move X completely to the video card. Just > like a remote X server o

Touchpad tap to click in F13?

2010-07-17 Thread mike cloaked
I have a question on making touchpad tap to click work before login. Certainly once logged in to Gnome you can easily switch on tap to click for synaptics touchpads by going into the preferences menus. I usually like to have tap to click working at the login greeter stage and I read that the way

Re: Touchpad tap to click in F13?

2010-07-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:37 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> I have a question on making touchpad tap to click work before login. >> >> Certainly once logged in to Gnome you can easily switch on tap to >> click

Re: Touchpad tap to click in F13?

2010-07-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I'd suggest taking a look at: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration > > So, yes, thats the way in F13+ > > kevin Thank you Kevin - I was unaware of that page - and very useful too -- mike c -- users mailing list

Re: Packages to be removed for Fedora 13

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
Fernando Henrique wrote: > > I use gnome-applet-netspeed > > If this package is no longer to be available in F13 is there an alternate package/widget/applet that can be used to monitor download speed? I have always found this really useful all the time -- View this message in context:

F11 update issue

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
In today's updates there is a message during yum update for dnssec-conf: Cleanup: dnssec-conf-1.21-2.fc11.noarch 11/15 sed: can't read /etc/pki/dnssec-keys/named.dnssec.keys: No such file or directory Then when restarting the named service there is an error th

Re: F11 update issue

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
Andy Blanchard wrote: > > > Check to see whether the file exists and if so whether it is > accessible by the user or group "named" since your BIND will > presumably be dropping priviledges once loaded. If you are chrooted > as well, you may need to check both the chroot and non-chroot config >

Oddity in bodhi?

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
There is something I don't understand about a particular package and its comments in bodhi. Not too long ago there was a 2.6.32 kernel package available for testing for f12. I tested it and commented on it in bodhi. Now it appears to have disappeared from bodhi altogether - I can't find it by s

Re: Oddity in bodhi?

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > They seem to work for me. I am using them on an i686 and an x86_64 machine > with > F12 on them. > > That is great that the .32 kernels out of koji work - (me too) but can you see anything about them on bodhi? -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.c

Re: Oddity in bodhi?

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > When I search for kernel, I get 22 items return, none of which are 2.6.32 > kernels. > > Exactly! That was why I posted about it originally... -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Oddity-in-bodhi-tp198945p199158.html Sent from the Fedora Users

Re: [Fwd: Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12]

2010-02-12 Thread Mike Cloaked
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht-11 wrote: > > > It isn't that serious of a situation. One can just comment out the > offending line in /etc/named.conf and named will startup. The file > /var/log/messages will have the pathname of the include that is no > longer there and a quick scan of /etc/named.conf

Re: stopping named just hangs.

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Reg Clemens [via Fedora Users] wrote: > This is not a serious problem, but it is a pain in the neck. > Up until today I ran named in a chroot jail, and when I did a > >         /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop > > Or when I tried to reboot the system, things hung when

Re: Latest google-chrome won't load

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Mail Llists [via Fedora Users] wrote: > On 02/13/2010 01:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> (Note: chrome, not chromium). I just updated this morning and get this: >> >> >> >> i.e. lots of "not found"s which weren't there before. This is 32-bit >> Chrome on F12

Re: weird F12 printing problem

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Cloaked
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 22:49 -0500, fred smith wrote: >> going thru the configuration on the one that fails, when I enter the IP >> address and the queue name then click the verify button it immediately >> reports "this print share is accessible", yet after completing the >>

Re: weird F12 printing problem

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Cloaked
fred smith wrote: > > > It's NOT a shared printer. it is attached to the LAN with its own IP > address. > > I ran the troubleshooter and it did not turn up anything helpful. > > every computer in the house as well as a couple of laptops all print to it > as an IPP printer, successfully (from

Re: weird F12 printing problem

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Cloaked
fred smith wrote: > > > It's NOT a shared printer. it is attached to the LAN with its own IP > address. > > I ran the troubleshooter and it did not turn up anything helpful. > > every computer in the house as well as a couple of laptops all print to it > as an IPP printer, successfully (from

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Roberto Ragusa [via Fedora Users] wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you >> aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and >> inode numbers.  The drawback is that a mirror is f

firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
I discovered that when I used the firefox plugin checker at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ I noticed that despite having updated the flash-plugin via yum and that the rpm -q flash-plugin command showed I had the latest version, the web page showed that I did not have the latest version!

Re: firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
Actually I found the answer by fiddling around - after updating the flash-plugin it is important, if not vital, to then go to the firefox profile and delete the pluginreg.dat file with firefox closed down, and then next time you restart firefox the plugin data is correct and does show the up to da

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:01 AM, John Aldrich-2 [via Fedora Users] wrote: > Quoting Mail Lists <[hidden email]>: >> >>    On the last remaining computer I am aware of/maintain with kmail >> still being used - akonadi was running, mysqld was running, and >> nepemonkey was running all with user pri

Re: firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
tim-9-3 wrote: > > > Obvious question: Had you shutdown and restarted Firefox after updating > the plugin? > > Indeed I had - many many times! -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/firefox-flash-plugin-duplicates-tp419306p420255.html Sent from the Fedora Users mailing list

Re: firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
tim-9-3 wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 08:03 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: >> >> Actually I found the answer by fiddling around - after updating the >> flash-plugin it is important, if not vital, to then go to the firefox >> profile and delete the pluginreg.dat

Re: firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > By the way if you update your flash-plugin via yum using the adobe repo it > is easy to see if you have the same issue as I had by simply going to > about:plugins and seeing whether you have more than one entry for the > flash plugin? I would be int

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
Dave Stevens-2 wrote: > > > I am absolutely on Mike's side on this one. I use Kmail exclusively > and only after extensive testing, it has the features I want and use > and has always been solid. But it HAS TO WORK. Full time, all the > time, I live by my mail. I have been able to use the

Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Mike Cloaked
If one wanted to install a rawhide kernel in a running f12 machine I guess you could do something like yum --enablerepo development install kernel kernel-devel etc However there are now rpms in the development directories both for 13/ and for rawhide/ (and i386 and x86_64) - is there a way to ins

Re: Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Mike Cloaked
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > I think at this point in time, you would also be committed to pulling in > updates related to graphics driver support (mesa, xorg-x11, libdrm). > >> However there are now rpms in the development directories both for 13/ >> and >> for rawhide/ (and i386 and x86_64)

Re: Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Mike Cloaked
M A Young wrote: > > > If you want to update everything to fedora 13 using yum (though of course > the recommended way is to boot off a f13 iso image) then it should be > enough to download and install (by hand) the fedora-release package from > the f13 tree, and then run yum. If you want to

Re: Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Mike Cloaked
M A Young wrote: > > > That is probably relative safe to do (provided you make sure you keep a > Fedora 12 kernel installed to go back to just in case) because kernels > have few dependencies. Possible difficulties include too-old kernel > install tools like dracut, and incompatible selinux

Re: Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > >  I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent of our > install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ? > Perhaps you can do a survey like the one Adam W did on devel recently and get a straw poll of a sample of F

Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
I wonder if anyone might offer advice about the way forward with mail client choice to satisfy a set of needs? I currently use Thunderbird as my mail client of choice for the following reasons: 1) It has both email support with a good address book facility, as well as caldav calendar support via t

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:04 PM, David wrote: >> Anyone able to offer considered advice? > > > Where did you get this rumor about Enigmail? http://www.mail-archive.com/enigm...@mozdev.org/msg09789.html says: Officially, Patrick will not be supporting any Thunderbird Build beyond 3.1.x Lanikai;

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 03/13/2010 11:22 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> Even though the local storage is in mbox format which I dislike (I far >> prefer maildir), I don't need it since I run a local dovecot imap >> server on each machi

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:24 PM, David wrote: > Thanks for the link. But it leaves the question...  Enigmail has never, > to my knowledge, 'officially' supported alpha or beta builds of > Thunderbird. I have always had to use one of the 'nightly' builds with > them along with the Nightly Tester T

Re: Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates

2010-03-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > FWIW, I am happily running the last kde-4 stuff you shipped to F10.  Other > than I can crash kmail by standing on the + key for a while, it hasn't > dirtied its playground ever.  However, one of the more recent updates managed > to kill OOo-

Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-21 Thread mike cloaked
I have a problem with Evolution email signing on send that I can't solve. GPG signature on receive seems fine from mail that I have sent from a Thunderbird client, and it has a GPG line with "Valid signature". For a long time now I have been using Thunderbird with the enigmail extension to send an

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:34 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have a problem with Evolution email signing on send that I can't > solve. GPG signature on receive seems fine from mail that I have sent I should have also said that this is on a current and up to date F12 machine running evolu

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Michael Miles wrote: > This is how I solved my Evolution problem... Use Thunderbird > Well I do use Thunderbird - but it also has its own deficiencies - like it does not have the facility to make "local" storage use maildir format - only mbox. That is why I w

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I prefer claws-mail: would that work for you? > > Ranjan I understand that Claws mail will not send html mail - and I want to be able to do so - I know there are some users who will go into apoplexy at the mere mention of sending HTML mail b

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Michael Miles wrote: > On 03/21/2010 11:12 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Michael Miles  wrote: >> >> >>> This is how I solved my Evolution problem... Use Thunderbird >>> >>> >&g

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Be careful on suggesting people disable SELinux.  Better to put the > machine into permissive mode if you suspect that SELinux is blocking the > access.  Also much better to check the audit.log to see if SELinux is > complaining. This is n

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 03/22/2010 01:20 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> This is not an selinux issue - the summary is as follows: >> Thunderbird sends signed mail to Thunderbird - all is fine >> Thunderbird sends signed mail to Evolution - all

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:44 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> If anyone else uses signed mail and can confirm this behaviour it >>> would be useful - I would report this against bugzilla but I need to >>> know which component is the underlying problem. >>> >&

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> does it make a difference if you are sending inline or PGP/MIME. >> Maybe that last point is the important one - in Thunderbird I have the option of sending PGP/mime - but I can't see how to do this in Evolution? Is

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:05 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > >>>> does it make a difference if you are sending inline or PGP/MIME. >>> > > Maybe that last point is the important one - in Thunderbird I have the >

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Maybe that last point is the important one - in Thunderbird I have the >> option of sending PGP/mime - but I can't see how to do this in >> Evolution?  Is there a switch I am missing because I did not look deep >> enough or is it that

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I just sent myself a plain text signed message from Evo and verified the > signature using TBird. Looking at the raw file, it does indeed have > a .asc attachment containing the signature, as per spec. I haven't tried > it in HTML as

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:12 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> I do now know that if sending a plaintext mail from Evo to TB then the >> signature verifies just fine, but changing to sending HTML but >> otherwi

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:54 +1030, Tim wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:27 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > possibly somewhere along the line the HTML is being reflowed or in >> > some way modified, which would destroy the signa

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:39 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Well guys, the mystery has resolved itself with the only action by me > being an update at the TB end - before doing the tests that were > suggested I updated my version of TB - to Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux > i686; en-US; r

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 18:39 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> Well guys, the mystery has resolved itself with the only action by me >> being an update at the TB end > > Ahh, the old "not using the lates

Re: [Solved... but I still wonder what happened] DVD doesn't play

2010-03-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > Since nobody seemed to report a problem playing DVDs, I decided to check my > settings. > > Smplayer and Gmplayer were both set to play DVDs from /dev/dvd > > I checked and there was no /dev/dvd. So, I did: > > ls -l /dev/dvd* > lrwxrwxrwx. 1

Re: Evolution and GPG signing?

2010-03-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 16:25 +1030, Tim wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 18:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > Ahh, the old "not using the latest version" trick. >> >> Is that said with a Maxwell Smart or Inspector Clouseau voice?

Re: How to remove linux partition

2010-03-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/27/2010 11:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote: >> >>> 2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe : >>> On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: > I have installed Windows XP in o

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Margaret Doll wrote: > We are trying to attach a Dell E2210H monitor to a Dell X260 Optiplex > which is running 2.6.10-1.771_FC2. > > I have found the drivers for Windows but not for Fedora.  Where can I > access monitor drivers for Fedora? With respect FC2 is ver

Re: chromium install problem

2010-03-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 03/30/2010 02:15 PM, Jim wrote: >> Trying to install the latest >> chromium-5.0.360.0-0.1.20100322svn42211.fc12.x86_64.rpm I'm getting a >> dependency requirement of about 60 Lib files that needs to also be >> installed. >> >> Is there a easi

Fedora and long threads - positive rather than negative!

2010-04-02 Thread mike cloaked
Occasionally there are long threads in the Fedora forums which start with flame baiting by one or other poster and quite often run for ages without reaching a sensible conclusion but generate bad feeling and not much else. As a long standing fedora user and tester (since FC1) I have to say that I

Re: Chrome

2010-04-02 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Michael Miles wrote: > Well, I could never play youtube or fox news videos with firefox and > shockwave. > So I installed Chrome and youtube yes fox news no > > I disabled wrapper and still no go > > Any thoughts I don't know what/how you have installed but I run

Re: Scanning broken in Fedora ?

2010-04-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jim wrote: > On 04/14/2010 01:46 AM, Hiisi wrote: >> On 04/12/2010 11:16 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556218 >>> >>> Is scanning working for you? Looks like it's broken. Any news of a fix >>> anytime soon? snip > Mos

Re: SSH tunnel for ssh traffic

2010-04-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:12:20PM +0200, Christoph H?ger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to ssh to some remote VM that sit in a private LAN. For any other >> service (e.g. RDP) I'd use ssh tunneling just normal. >> But what do I do for ssh traffic?

Packagekit bug icon not disappearing in F11!

2010-04-21 Thread mike cloaked
I have machines running both F11 and F12 - in F12 if there are updates available then the PackageKit icon pops onto the (gnome) taskbar, and if I then use yum on the CLI to update the system the icon on the taskbar goes away once the updates are complete. Presumably if I allowed PackageKit to run t

Re: Packagekit bug icon not disappearing in F11!

2010-04-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Kelly Dunlop wrote: > I'm running F11 and Gnome and sometimes I use yum or if I'm feeling lazy I > just click on the PackageKit icon and let it do the updates.  Either way > the icon goes away afterwards.  Sometimes it may take a few minutes because > PackageKit o

Re: Packagekit bug icon not disappearing in F11!

2010-04-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Kelly Dunlop wrote: >> >> Well interestingly I set the preferences to never check for updates or >> major upgrades and to never install and yet it still does pop up so it >> must still actually check for updates - I know that I could uninstall >> gnome packagekit

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-04-21 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, 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 kep

Re: OOo 3.2 for F12?

2010-04-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 08:24 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: >> After googling around, it seems that OpenOffice 3.2 won't be >> officially packaged for Fedora 12. I really would like to upgrade to >> it because 3.2 now handles OpenType fonts.

usb3?

2010-05-02 Thread mike cloaked
There are now devices becoming available for usb3 - eg http://www.patriotmemory.com/products/detailp.jsp?prodline=6&catid=74&prodgroupid=172&id=942&type=23 Would such a device work with Fedora F12 ( or F13)? If so, are there any usb devices available that would be able to take advantage of the e

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > Does anyone know why the directives in /etc/sysconfig/desktop don't work in > F-15 anymore? > > DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm > PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde > > This is how it was explained in the wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Fedora Did

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > its definitely installed, I wouldn't have forgot that. > OK - I guess you already tried to check if you could login using DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm instead - and get a working desktop. The other directive was for new users to get lxde aas t

Re: F15 live won't boot?

2011-06-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and >>> made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. >> >> I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed,

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > Yup, "man" pages aren't very friendly for newbs.  But they aren't really > intended for that audience. >  They're intended as handy reference documents, rather than tutorials. > Some of them are better >  written than others.  Unfortunatel

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Why?  There are many people out there that play games, and for gaming no OS > out there, no Crossover, wine, ..., Virtual machines out there beat windows.   > Most of the games are for windows and till linux > creates games that are on

fedora-release for f15 from f14 - is this a bug?

2011-06-17 Thread mike cloaked
I was starting to run through a yum upgrade from f14 to f15. So, as I have done previously for other upgrades for versions up to f14, I downloaded the f15 fedora-release-f15 rpm, and tried to install it before yum upgrading. The terminal session went like this once I was root and in the directory

Re: fedora-release for f15 from f14 - is this a bug?

2011-06-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > mike cloaked writes: > >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution >> Error: Package: fedora-release-15-1.noarch (/fedora-release-15-1.noarch) >>           Requires: fedora-release-rawhide = 15-1 >>           Ava

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