suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi there: I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when folding the computer up. Just curious - hibernate doesn't have a man page. Thanks -- Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/02/14 06:09, Richard Vickery wrote: > > I just called up the gnome-tweak-tool: what's the difference between > suspend and hibernate? It gives these, among other sleeping actions when > folding the computer up.

Re: Fedora on a Dell XPS 15?

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, CS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a replacement for my 15" macbook pro retina, I tried to > switch to mac but Linux is just too good. > > Thinking of buying a Dell XPS 15 (specs below), anyone have any thoughts > on if Fedora will run on this machine? >

Re: suspend or hibernate

2014-01-03 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 01 January 2014, Richard Vickery sent: > > I might find "hibernate" on my own: why would a user use this command > > rather than saving and booting up? and How does it know that to > > look for the

Re: fedup experience for upgrading fedora 19 to fedora 20

2014-01-04 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Rafnews wrote: > On 04.01.2014 18:34, Fred Smith wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 05:42:37PM +0100, Rafnews wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> after several days of testing upgrading Fedora 19 to fedora 20, i >>> face >>> the same issue. >>> whatever Virtual

Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect? Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Harish Pillay wrote: > Richard - > > > I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the > > modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone > > have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect? > > Are you

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Harish Pillay wrote: > >> > I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get > >> > the > >> > modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does > anyone > >> > have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect? > >> > >

Re: FYI: Centos joins RedHat

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:26:03PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > > From the CENTOS user mailing list > > With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red > > Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joi

Re: lyx in fedora 20

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > when I lauch lyx, I just get: > lyx: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_regex-mt.so.1.53.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > I need it urgently!! > > Thank. > > =

Policies

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Vickery
Is there a policy in these groups regarding including outsiders in a conversation by merely adding the person's address to the email? We - he and I -installed Fedora on his machine, and he is eager to come aboard, but he has yet to join an email group. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: dnf-0.4.11

2014-01-10 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 10 13:31, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > On 01/10/2014 10:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >On Jan 9 15:43, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > >>Hello, > > >> > > >>New DNF release is out. See the blog [1], the release notes [2

Re: OCR

2014-01-10 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/10/2014 05:14 AM, poma wrote: > >> On 10.01.2014 04:56, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> For f20, is there an OCR program for extracting the text out of a pdf >>> scan? >>> >>> I have an old document of 'Assembly Instructions'. Some

Re: install java in f20

2014-01-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:14 PM, William Biggs wrote: > I new to linux I need to know how to install java and java xdk > > -- Google might be your best, and fastest, bet? I would need to ask some questions like are you on a 32 or 64 bit system. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: install java in f20

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote: > On 01/12/2014 05:11 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:14 PM, William Biggs >> > williambigg...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I new to linux I

off topic - switching email

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, I want to change the email address to the lists that I am on; I could just add the new email to the list, but conceivably I want to rid the list of this address in favour of my institutional / university address. Is there a method to accomplishing this without asking someone from the comp

Re: Fedora - Windows 8/8.1 dual boot

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Vickery
- Original Message - From: "Quicksort" To: "Fedora users list support for Fedora users" Sent: Wednesday, 15 January, 2014 16:40:11 Subject: Fedora - Windows 8/8.1 dual boot Has anyone successfully installed Fedora 18, 19 or 20 in dual boot with Windows 8/8.1 ? How does the installa

Re: F20 USB install broken?

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Vickery
- Original Message - From: "Dan Irwin" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Sent: Wednesday, 15 January, 2014 19:16:13 Subject: F20 USB install broken? Hi, I was trying to install Fedora 20 on a Dell Latitute e6530 using a USB stick. It doesn't work. Various errors occur. From "

Re: mock fail under F20

2014-01-17 Thread Richard Vickery
- Original Message - From: "Frank Murphy" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, 17 January, 2014 10:07:01 Subject: Re: mock fail under F20 On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:55:22 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/17/2014 06:01 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Appears to be complaining abou

Re: email failure (was: mock fail under F20)

2014-01-17 Thread Richard Vickery
li" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, 17 January, 2014 13:48:21 Subject: Re: mock fail under F20 Hi Richard, Two comments: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:28:25AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: -- ^^ Lately all your posts seemed like accidental sends before completely composing

Re: email failure

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Vickery
ginal Message - From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Sent: Saturday, 18 January, 2014 04:09:31 Subject: Re: email failure On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:38 AM, g < gel...@bellsouth.net > wrote: On 01/17/2014 08:13 PM, Richard

Re: email failure (was: mock fail under F20)

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Vickery
14PM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: > > This is originally how this server has set the return mail as; I can > possibly talk to the university computer people about fixing the > program so that I can have the option of bottom-post correctly, such > that it is readable. I switched from G

Re: email failure

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Vickery
, 2014 15:26:16 Subject: Re: email failure Hi Richard, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:17:06AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: The problem with bottom-posting on this server is that when I send, it is hard for some, perhaps everyone, to know where the quoted message stops and my contribution begin

Re: email failure

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Vickery
- Original Message - | From: "Suvayu Ali" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Saturday, 18 January, 2014 15:26:16 | Subject: Re: email failure | | Hi Richard, | | On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:17:06AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: | > | > The problem with bottom

Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Robert Moskowitz" | To: "Community support for Fedora users" | Sent: Saturday, 18 January, 2014 20:13:26 | Subject: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros | | As I have mentioned, my x86_64 install on my Lenovo is a bit of a | hack. | Hopefully things will be better for f21, b

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Tim" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 01:13:38 | Subject: Re: email failure | | Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2014, Richard Vickery sent: | > I recently quit Gmail because I got sick of that they read your | > email | > AND

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "David" | | When I was young as you appear to be I too was a libertarian. Then I | graduated, grew up, and realized just how the real world really | works. | | | -- | | David I'm sorry David, that you have neither heard of either courts, or mass demonstrations. If you want to conti

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "David" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 13:55:38 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 1/19/2014 4:30 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > | From: "David" | > | | > | When I was young as you appear to be I too was a libertarian.

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "David" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 18:05:03 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 1/19/2014 8:36 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > | From: "David" | > | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | > | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 20

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
Richard - Original Message - | From: "Richard Vickery" | To: "Community support for Fedora users" | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 18:14:39 | Subject: Re: email failure | | | From: "David" | | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | | Sent: Sunday, 19 Janu

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "David" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 19:25:59 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 1/19/2014 10:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: | > On 01/19/2014 06:05 PM, David wrote: | >> Last comment and I am gone Punk. I was involved at Kent State when | >> the | >> trou

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
From: "Joe Zeff" | To: "Community support for Fedora users" | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 20:55:23 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 01/19/2014 07:25 PM, David wrote: | > My point? I supported the troupes. | | And my 'Nam vet friends and I both thank you; most of the anti-war | movement d

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Joe Zeff" | To: "Community support for Fedora users" | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 21:27:38 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 01/19/2014 09:03 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > This doesn't do much to address his abuse of my projects | | Which is

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Joe Zeff" | To: "Community support for Fedora users" | Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 21:42:41 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 01/19/2014 09:35 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > | From: "Joe Zeff" | > | To: "Community support for Fedora use

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
| I think you've gone way off tangent with the civil rights response. | I | was just talking about free email services, which aren't offices of | government, but business enterprises. I'm not saying it's a good | thing, | that *you* are the product, I'm just pointing out the circumstances. | It's

Fwd: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
| |-- |[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp |Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Tim: "Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains" Locke 1768(?) You are not slave to the Government unless you choose to be. You, and everyone in the state (in the global sen

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Paul W. Frields" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Monday, 20 January, 2014 11:28:44 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:33:00AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: | > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:08:48PM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: | > >

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Monday, 20 January, 2014 13:13:58 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 01/20/2014 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > Paul: | > | > This is the second or third person to abuse me because of my | >

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
| From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Sent: Monday, 20 January, 2014 13:13:58 | Subject: Re: email failure | | On 01/20/2014 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: | > Paul: | > | > This is the second or third person to abuse me because of my | > exp

Re: crash

2013-01-25 Thread Richard Vickery
to me what this command is? Thanks, Richard On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: > Hi! > > > 2013/1/25 Richard Vickery > >> Hi gang, >> >> I just suffered a Dracut crash. After entering the the command it said >> to, I got a bunc

gnash?

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi there, I don't quite know how to say this technically, but here goes: having installed f18 x64, I thought I installed gnash in order to see streaming-video. Is there something I am missing besides this? When going to watch a video, the video says that it "couldn't find the plugin". Any hints o

Re: gnash?

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 11:25 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I don't quite know how to say this technically, but here goes: having > > installed f18 x64, I thought I installe

Re: gnash?

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 14:14 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 11:25 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: &

Re: gnash?

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 14:14 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> > wro

Re: Cannot unlock screen from the lock

2013-02-06 Thread Richard Vickery
I think I figured the screen-lock out quite by accident: perhaps the solution that you are looking for is "space-bar then the Enter key" hope this helps, Richard On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 02/06/2013 11:04 AM, Jean Jacques wrote: > >> >> Has any one encountered

Re: partitioning (was: Re: [GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora)

2013-07-16 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" wrote: > > Richard Vickery writes: > > > the installation program gives you everything you need to have an > > operational system; after you have it installed: > > > > fdisk > > > > is the command to create you

Re: partitioning (was: Re: [GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora)

2013-07-16 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 15, 2013 9:56 PM, "Richard Vickery" wrote: > > > On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" wrote: > > > > Richard Vickery writes: > > > > > the installation program gives you everything you need to have an > > > operational system;

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> >> It may be an artifact of people who have trouble being more likely to >> write to the list, but it seems that people who have Fedup problems seem to >> outnumber those who have succe

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:52:05PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver. >> It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier. >> It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19. >> Not much to be

*exe files

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Vickery
Is there any way of installing these - or Apple-based - files? I need a couple apps, namely Starbucks and Buzztime, on my Blackberry and the Android Starbucks app is pathetic on BB10. The executable files are for testing. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Fred Smith > > | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) > | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... > > I think so. > > I used fedup to go from F18->19. > The printer didn't work.

Re: WARNING: Your hard drive is failing

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 24, 2013 4:13 PM, "Bill Davidsen" wrote: > > Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 07/24/2013 11:57 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: >>> >>> I saw this once, with a portable hard drive. It happened when I had the >>> drive plugged in while booting, and unplugged it later. It didn't realize >>> that it was okay

Re: *exe files

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: >> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 on Virtualbox in linux, but I >> haven't tried it myself > > I also have a Win8 VM and it's OK. There's an issue where the screen > doesn't get refreshed pr

Re: *exe files

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/25/2013 09:42 PM, Richard Vickery issued this missive: > >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern >> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: >>>> >>>&

Re: *exe files

2013-07-27 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern >> wrote: >>> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: >>>> I've heard there were issues with Win 8 o

Re: *exe files

2013-07-27 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Steven Stern > wrote: >> On 07/25/2013 11:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern >>> wrote: >>>> On 07/25/2013 01:34 PM,

HTML5

2013-07-27 Thread Richard Vickery
Are there Linux testing tools for HTML5 code? Blackberry offers tools that developers can open in Windows or Mac, and offer nothing for Linux. I suppose I am answering my own question when I suggest the supposition that I can open files in a web-browser. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: *exe files

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 07/27/2013 05:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/27/13 09:08, Richard Vickery wrote: >>> Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) >>> Component: Machine >>> Interface: IMachine {22781af3-1c96-4126-9edf-

Re: When booting F19 x64 Gnome often hangs...

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Roger wrote: > Have you noticed that Fedora 19 also hangs if there are several windows and > terminals open. > > I often have Nautilus, at least 2 terminals, geany and chrome and sometimes > firefox open and intermittently everything except mouse stops. > top still

Re: HTML5

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > On Saturday 27 July 2013 17.32.55 James Hogarth wrote: >> On 27 July 2013 05:33, Richard Vickery wrote: >> > Are there Linux testing tools for HTML5 code? Blackberry offers tools >> > that developers can

cups

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Vickery
I have to take a moment and shout out KUDOS to whomever it was / is that is working on cups! Although, by necessity, I and others who have been around a while know how to work with the commands, having the machine do it for the user makes it so much more convenient, especially if / when the North A

Re: Cannot install boost-static...

2013-08-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Georgios Petasis wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install boost-static, but I am getting an error: > >> yum install boost-static.i686 > > Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check

Re: F19 install wonked

2013-08-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Les Howell wrote: > HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, > installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get > Grubby!! > > Tried using the firmwire boot option to select the disk, no go. So, > what

Re: Set default video application -

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > This is F-19/64 XFCE. > > How do I change the default video application to VLC. No matter what I have > done it insists on HandBrake. I want to change that ... > > Bob > > -- > > http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD > Would the

AMD

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, In considering a new computer, one of those under consideration is an AMD chip with Windoze; the salesman suggested that other customers have said that Linux has issues with AMD. Do we have issues with this chip? Since I haven't read anything at least in a long time I have the opinion tha

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-27 Thread Richard Vickery
On Aug 27, 2013 5:08 AM, "Mark Haney" wrote: > > Hi all, I've had this problem with Fedora since I got this netbook, and have been able to fix it until F19 came along. Here's my problem, for whatever reason the system can see the HDD and install just fine on my Gateway (Samsung) netbook but won't

Re: F19 : gnome-user-share

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Aug 30, 2013 5:27 AM, "antonio" wrote: > > when I click on a public-shared-folder I get : > > Impossible to get the position > Internal error server http > > may translation is not correct. > > What does it mean?? The computer probably loses the internet connection. My 2¢, Richard -- users

upgrading R

2013-09-03 Thread Richard Vickery
I used to do this by scrolling up through the commands, but it's no longer there: I don't know if I remember it correctly: sudo yum upgrade updates.testing R Do I have this correct, or am I missing something? I don't want to forge ahead fearing that I might screw something up. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: convert wmv files

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM, g wrote: > > greets, > > what is needed to convert .wmv file to mp4 or what ever? > > > tia. > > -- > > peace out. > > in a world with out fences, who needs gates. > > sl6.3 linux > > tc.hago. > > g > . > A very convenient command called sox does the trick for me

Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora experts, > I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but > it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and > x32 version without any luck. > > My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2

Re: blackened screen 2

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 09/09/13 13:31, Richard Vickery wrote: >> Hi gang: >> >> I'm on F20. The only way I get a screen that anyone can see is not by >> using the portable computer's screen, but plugging it into another >

blackened screen 2

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang: I'm on F20. The only way I get a screen that anyone can see is not by using the portable computer's screen, but plugging it into another screen. I tried going into the "Power" control but it's already on maximum brightness. Any Ideas on how else I might try to fix it? Thanks, Richard --

Re: blackened screen 2

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> On 09/09/13 13:31, Richard Vickery wrote: >>> Hi gang: >>> >>> I'm on F20. The only way I get a screen that anyone can see is not by >

Re: blackened screen 2

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Richard Vickery > wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >>> On 09/09/13 13:31, Richard Vickery wrote: >>>> Hi gang: >>>> >>>

Re: blackened screen 2

2013-09-10 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 9, 2013 5:58 PM, "g" wrote: > > > > On 09/09/2013 02:42 PM, g wrote: >> >> >> On 09/09/2013 01:31 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> <> >> >> > Any Ideas on how else I might try to fix it? >> >> tho it maybe a ba

X style in text

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: Is it possible to open a readable *odt in a text environment, since I'm stuck in such, at least for a few days? Regards, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedo

Odt to txt

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi group, Since I've lost X and my screen - only being able to see it by plugging about external screen into it - I have a document that I saved as *odt; is it possible to change the encoding through a command since I can't call up open office in a text environment? Thanks, Richard -- users mail

Re: WHY !!! ?

2013-09-15 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 14, 2013 4:46 PM, "Jim" wrote: > > The flash-drives that are Partition and formatted fat32 are being changed to Read-Only file system , moving back and forth in Fedora 18 PC and Laptop. > > So the only way I can get around the problem is to format two different Flash Drives to ext4. > > Any

Re: odd issue booting F19 with LUKS partition

2013-09-16 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 18, 2013 12:25 PM, "Patrick Lists" wrote: > > Hi Fred, > > > On 07/18/2013 08:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> >> hi gang! >> >> I've put F19 on my Acer Aspire One (dual-core Atom) where it mostly runs >> just fine. >> >> but I've noticed one oddity (by no means a show-stopper) during boot: >> w

Accessing usb in text

2013-09-22 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang, I'm stuck in a text environment. I want to save stuff in /home to a USB drive but I forget how it is mapped / how the GUI accesses it; I know that it is under /run, and after this I am lost. Thanks for any help, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Accessing usb in text

2013-09-24 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 22, 2013 5:59 PM, "Tim" wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 22 September 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > > It will be in /run/media/$USER/$DEVICE where $DEVICE is the drive's > > label if you set it, or whatever the OEM set up if you haven't. BTW, > > /run/media itself only exists when there's need f

Re: Accessing usb in text

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 24, 2013 11:27 AM, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > > On 09/23/2013 04:50 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> Automount works well on this machine in text, but then, why would it not >> work in text and work in GUI? What's the difference? > > > If the DE i

Re: Accessing usb in text

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 25, 2013 2:44 PM, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > > On 09/24/2013 09:32 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> I believe that I would need access to the computer's OS tomove to a CLI >> > > At boot, edit the kernel line in Grub, adding a 3 to the end. This will

Re: Accessing usb in text

2013-10-01 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 26, 2013 9:38 PM, "Tim" wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 25 September 2013, Richard Vickery sent: > > I forget how to edit Grub: I thought editing was in /boot/grub and > > tried to vi grub.cfg finding an empty page... > > That was the old version. Now,

R?

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Vickery
What happened to R? I can install neither JGR not deducer anymore? Is it just me, or does this happen to everyone? I guess I really don't need these tools, but the idiot professor in the political science class I took instructed the students to be stupid and in need of these tools, so I forgot how

new acer, no mouse?

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, The new computer just arrived (FINALLY after about 4 weeks) installed Linpus, without X, or X didn't boot up straight away - instead it booted root. I rewrote the hard drive with our software and when getting up with the recognisable Fedora 9 GUI I find that the mouse-pad doesn't work

Re: R?

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Vickery
ge 'iplots' had non-zero exit status 3: In install.packages() : installation of package 'JGR' had non-zero exit status 4: In install.packages() : installation of package 'Deducer' had non-zero exit status What did/am I do/ing wrong? On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM,

Dracut

2013-10-16 Thread Richard Vickery
I shoved an sd card into the computer to save something to it, and failed as it was write-protected; I decided to email the file to the device I wanted it on. As this was taking place, the computer was going through an upgrade and needed rebooting. At the encryption password I decided that I couldn

Re: R?

2013-10-16 Thread Richard Vickery
; to use a package is? Monkey-see-monkey-do is all one will get.throw > in a non-standard scenario and what will the students (or the professor > himself) do? > > Nevertheless, HTH! > > Ranjan > > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:27:19 -0700 Richard Vickery > wrote: &

fedup

2013-10-18 Thread Richard Vickery
I'm doing another install because I lost access to the computer while attempting to find the mouse touchpad - another issue that I want to solve - and find that F19 doesn't ship with fedup; why not? It's so useful. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

mouse track-pad

2013-10-26 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: The mouse doesn't work work on new Acer; any ideas on how I can find it? Apparently Fedora knows that the pad exists, but it is rendered useless right now. Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: mouse track-pad

2013-10-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, mark wrote: > On 10/25/13 13:47, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> Hi Gang: >> >> The mouse doesn't work work on new Acer; any ideas on how I can find it? >> Apparently Fedora knows that the pad exists, but it is rendered useless &

system question

2013-10-28 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I called journalctl and got two lines that sparked a question: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/input.conf failed: No such file or directory Oct 17 15:17:36 localhost.localdomain bluetoothd[502]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/serial.conf failed: No such file or directory Should I be creating a bluetoo

Re: twm: icons size

2013-11-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Oct 31, 2013 6:37 AM, "Hiisi" wrote: > > Dear list! > I'm using twm on Fedora 19. Everything is perfect except that I don't like the size of icons on desktop. I.e. when application is minimized a tab appeared on the screen. And for most applications it look awful: > http://img19.imageshack.us/i

Re: memory stick not recognized

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not > recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's > writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk > Device" > > Any thoughts on h

unaccessability

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
Is / was a rather political decision to make BitchX unavailable through this app-market / Software GUI thing? Since having to yum install it, I am beginning to have a negative feeling toward the app market idea; the thought being: what else is being left out? Regards, Richard -- users mailing lis

Re: good bye -> Fwd: list-moderation -> Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> >> >> To you it's rude, to me blunt. This will never be resolved as it's a >> matter of individual taste, enviroment, upbringing, etc. You seem to >> have a thinner skin th

touchpad

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad? Best, Richard -- 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:

Re: Wish List.....

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
It *is* possible to buy one and install it on Fedora on it. I remember that when I had an earlier Blackberry it was possible to install another platform. It's likely possible to to do it on this device as well - just plug a USB cord in it. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:48 PM, EGO.II-1 wrote: > Wou

Re: Wish List.....

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > It *is* possible to buy one and install it on Fedora on it. I remember > that when I had an earlier Blackberry it was possible to install another > platform. It's likely possible to to do

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