how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the domicile to play them, but regardless of how i decide to eventually play these CDs, i'm looking for recommendations for how to rip them to hard drive before i deci

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred > > music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the > > domic

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: ... snip ... > What makes sense to me is to first select a few individual tracks > with different types of music. For example, if you have classical, > pick a few with quiet movements with only strings, those with lots > of highs, etc. Then record and liste

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
... snip ... On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > On 02/03/2018 05:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for now, i was thinking of ripping just to .flac since that's > > lossless and i can always decide later what further format to rip > > to in order to save spac

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, jdow wrote: > On 20180204 06:57, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 02/04/18 22:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>i just did a quick test with abcde, ripping a CD to flac both with > >> and without the "-1" option (diff being ripping to a single

"canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
de whether they want to install it to play with it further? thanks muchly. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i want to put together a wiki page for my students with links to > all of the interesting git-related packages they might want to > peruse after an upcoming course, and i'm looking for what would be > the authoritative web page doc

Re: "canonical" link to info about a fedora package?

2018-02-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:35:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there a generic link i can use for a given fedora package that > > will keep up with new versions and just allows students to zip over > > there, read u

does "isovfy" actually *do* anything?

2018-02-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nything*? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/

can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the "more" and "less" commands can be used interchangeably. i don't recall that *ever* being the case, given that more is part of util-linux, and less is a separate package, a

Re: can "more" and "less" be used effectively interchangeably?

2018-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/18/2018 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >currently perusing some linux courseware i'll be delivering > > later this month, and i'm fascinated by the early claim that the > > "more"

is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

2018-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
igured for it in some way that i've never been aware of? i suspect the term "user profile" here was simply badly chosen, but i want to make sure i'm not misunderstanding something. thanks. rday -- ================

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

2018-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: > > it all looks reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group > > administration chapter called "configure user profiles." > > Is it referring more to adminis

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

2018-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote: > You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also > you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I doubt they mean that. > > I think a standard "profile" would be a great idea but it would need > buy in from everyone. i would love to cut a

Re: is there such a thing as a linux "user profile"?

2018-02-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > On 02/20/2018 09:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, chicago wrote: > > > >> You can configure multiple ssh keys but that's an ssh profile. Also > >> you can have separate Firefox prprofiles but I d

why does virtualbox keep all my old /lib/modules directories around?

2018-02-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not sure why i never noticed this before, but even though updating my fedora box keeps only the last three versions of the kernel, i have a couple dozen /lib/modules directories each representing an older version of the kernel going back to 4.11.12, and when i examine all those old directories,

Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/24/18 22:03, bruce wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: > > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat > > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat > > etc.. > > > > I'd like to simply remove the 1st par

Re: why does virtualbox keep all my old /lib/modules directories around?

2018-02-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 02/24/18 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> not sure why i never noticed this before, but even though > >> updating my fedora box keeps only the last three versions of the > >> kernel

does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

2018-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
was reading "man bash" and ran across this: "When an interactive login shell exits, or a non-interactive login shell executes the exit builtin command, bash reads and executes commands from the files ~/.bash_logout and /etc/bash.bash_logout, if the files exists." i was totally unaware of the

Re: does fedora version of bash recognize SYS_BASH_LOGOUT?

2018-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/05/18 19:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so if red hat builds bash based on the source as it is, then that > > variable is still commented out and the man page is misleading. > > thoughts? > > > Both ~/.bash_logout

is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

2018-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's safe to say, it's not there now and probably won't be any time in the near future. and even though it doesn't *hurt* to have extraneous directory name

Re: is there any value to pruning /udev in /etc/updatedb.conf?

2018-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 04:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just noticed in /etc/updatedb.conf in F27, the snippet: > > > > PRUNEPATHS = "... /udev ..." > > > > not sure if /udev ever existed in fedora, but i think it's

RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks and others with hardlinks. trivial example in /usr/bin on my fedora 27 system: -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root52984 Aug 2 2017 at lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/06/18 20:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > > and others with hardlinks. > > I may

should /etc/issue.net be installed without telnet-server?

2018-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(another of those "dang, i never noticed that before" questions inspired by teaching last week.) currently, my fedora 27 system has the file /etc/issue.net, which i casually explained last week was what was printed when you tried to connect to the system over the network (as opposed to /etc/i

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 03/06/2018 06:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > > and others with hardlink

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: ... snip ... > The git package uses hardlinks and includes some duplication of > binaries precisely to avoid cross-directory hardlinks. That allows > /usr/bin and /usr/libexec to be mounted on different file systems. i was about to point out that, in f

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 6 March 2018 at 14:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some > > command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks > > and others with hardlin

superfluous consultation of /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
pedantic nitpickery ... just noticed in the man page for "rpm" the default path for configuration files: --rcfile FILELIST Replace the list of configuration files to be read. Each of the files in the colon separated FILELIST is read sequentially by rpm for configuration information. O

can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how to do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of commands like "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of architectures. example: $ dnf search ftp ftp.x86_64 : The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) c

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 05:45:12 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > ideally, i'd like to restrict package arches for these queries to > > x86_64 or noarch, and "man dnf" suggests the "--arch" o

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how > > to do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of > > commands like "dnf search"

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/08/18 20:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out

why would "rpm -V setup" show /etc/fstab with changed mode?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
another question based on something that tripped me up last week teaching, when i tried a simple demo and was confused by the result. was demonstrating how "rpm -V" could verify an installed package, and randomly chose the "setup" package since it consists of numerous fundamental system files

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 03/08/2018 12:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 9/3/18 6:13 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> ... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks > >>> with symlinks will

Re: why would "rpm -V setup" show /etc/fstab with changed mode?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > another question based on something that tripped me up last week > teaching, when i tried a simple demo and was confused by the result. > > was demonstrating how "rpm -V" could verify an installed package, > and randomly

given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable /usr/bin/rpm2cpio? rday ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fed

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/09/2018 11:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file > > /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing binary executable > > /usr/bin/rpm2cpio? > > I believe /

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >> subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file > >> /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh given the existing bina

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/10/18 05:39, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> subject says it all ... what is the purpose of the file > >>> /usr/lib

Re: given /usr/bin/rpm2cpio, why exists /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh?

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> On 03/10/18 03:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>>> >

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 10 Mar 2018, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 9/3/18 9:11 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 07:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > >> It is my understanding that currently when a file copied to any > >> location, a physical copy is not produced, the copy is a hardlink > >> t

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 03/10/2018 05:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I can't find the documentation any more, but I have found > > documentation on how to use copy the create the target as a hard > > link or as a soft link. It is possible I have incorrectly > > remembered

current docker instructions for installing on fedora up to date?

2018-03-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i realize there's been some refactoring of docker packages for fedora, so before i get buried in this, are the docker instructions for fedora here: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/fedora/ up to date? they look reasonable, just want to verify before i dive into this. thank you

Re: current docker instructions for installing on fedora up to date?

2018-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Daniel Walsh wrote: > On 03/19/2018 04:48 PM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > > On 19.3.2018 21:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >>    i realize there's been some refactoring of docker packages for > >> fedora, so before i get buried

what package would one bugzilla package group issues against?

2018-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
seems to me that some of the current dnf packages related to virtualization and containers could be adjusted and cleaned up, but i'm not sure against which component one would file a BZ issue against. first, the Virtualization group: $ dnf group info virtualization Last metadata expiration c

can i define my own dnf package groups?

2018-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
related to my earlier query (and i'll have a couple more about package groups and virtualization before i'm done), is there any way to define my own package groups for personal use, other than manually hacking the groups.xml file? i've scanned the dnf man page, and i don't see any indication

using "dnf group remove" to *totally* remove all virtualization?

2018-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a couple more dnf/virtualization questions and that should be it. first, is there any option, when removing a package group with "dnf group remove", to remove even those packages that were installed manually? last time i looked (and i believe i just reconfirmed that), dnf keeps track of which pa

Re: can i define my own dnf package groups?

2018-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/06/18 17:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > related to my earlier query (and i'll have a couple more about > > package groups and virtualization before i'm done), is there any way > > to define my own package grou

gthumb: ... Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found

2018-04-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
out of nowhere just now, gthumb has suddenly stopped being able to display simple graphics files, with the diagnostic: ** (gthumb:6069): CRITICAL **: 13:15:22.317: Failed to parse arguments: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. this is an ASUS gaming laptop,

any upcoming resolution on rubygem-prawn-templates install issue?

2018-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
mplates-0.0.4-4.fc28.noarch" and no one seems to be working on this. anyone know of any plans to resolve this issue? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > ask here: > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? on m

dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
uot;tagged" package would later be installed explicitly, and so on.) rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter:

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/14/18 19:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > > ask here: > > > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > > install

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Rex Dieter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > > ask here: > > > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > > install so i

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

2018-07-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Bev in TX wrote: > On Jul 14, 2018, at 6:11 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ... > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? ... > > > > i guess i'

[OT] if you've ever wanted to dabble in kernel programming, here's your chance

2010-06-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
any questions, drop me a note. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

current recipe for building new fedora kernel? and self-promotion.

2010-07-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g. just make the case that it's in my best interests to give you a free subscription, and i'll take it from there. :-) p.p.s. i'm at ottawa linux symposium this week but probably not right to the very end so if you want to hook and chat over a beer or somethi

installing and running memcache under fedora 12?

2010-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s it not listed as a dependency for memcached? what if i *don't* install it? how does memcached work *then*? just curious about that lack of dependency. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontar

Re: installing and running memcache under fedora 12?

2010-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 9 February 2010 22:17, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > "Finally we need to get the Memcached extension for PHP installed. > > Again using yum: > > yum install php-pecl-memcache" > > > >  we *need* to get that

setting up the android SDK on fedora

2010-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nd you can email me any other cool things that would be useful there as i work on the later topics. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training

Re: setting up the android SDK on fedora

2010-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Robert, > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > >  i mentioned this before, but i plan on documenting how to get the > > android SDK up and running on fedora, and i've started doc

pear vs pecl?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nce? i'm sure i'm just missing the obvious. thanks. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: pear vs pecl?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i just got immersed in PHP and i've run across the PEAR repos for > adding PHP extensions, but i'm kinda confused about the difference > between the "pear" and "pecl" commands since they really seem to be &

recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eeper i'm just curious if there's a strategy that's clearly superior to the rest, or if this sort of thing is even worth it. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Re: recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

2010-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:06 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > On 02/18/2010 03:55 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >i'm about to install f12 fresh on a new laptop and i thought > > > it would be fun to version

installing PECL extensions via "pecl" versus fedora packages

2010-02-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there some reason someone decided to pre-package just those? just curious. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://cr

how to crank the cooling fan to max on f12?

2010-02-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.

building and running chromium on f13 alpha?

2010-03-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t that online. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http:

Re: building and running chromium on f13 alpha?

2010-03-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 08:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for no reason other than that i need more pain in my life, i'd > > like to download the source for chromium os, build it on a fresh > > install of

Acer Aspire AS7540-1408 a decent fedora (13) laptop?

2010-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s? thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.c

Re: Acer Aspire AS7540-1408 a decent fedora (13) laptop?

2010-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN" i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that, that would be just ducky. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo,

on updated f12 system, wireless suddenly vanishes

2010-04-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nknown error 132 # time to start googling, of course, but all of this came on suddenly and for no apparent reason. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Li

how would this work as a fedora laptop?

2010-04-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently in the market for a new laptop, popped over to a local online store that's been good for me so far, and looked at this: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6017035&CatId=4938 after asking my local LUG, my main concern is fedora (13) support for

[RHEL question] why is beta 2 so much smaller?

2010-08-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
might have expected. -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

can i run a fully and exclusively NFSv4 network?

2010-09-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
easible to run the entire network using only NFSv4? thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses

Re: kernel module

2010-01-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm pretty sure that you can only use that "mymodule.param" notation on the kernel command line for modules that have been *compiled into* the kernel, no? that won't work for loadable modules, but i'm willing to be corrected. rday -- ===

Re: kernel module

2010-01-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be built into the > kernel > > Thank you, >  Luca > > can you be more specific? what *exactly* did you use to set that module parameter? what did you use for the "module" string, and how did that relate to the module you compiled

yum update, broken dependency: "libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed"

2010-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ates) rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

Re: yum update, broken dependency: "libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed"

2010-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Antonio M wrote: > 2010/1/19 Robert P. J. Day : > > > >  i'm assuming this is temporary: > > > > # yum update > > ... > > mesa-libGL-7.7-2.fc12.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems > >  --> Missing Dependency: libdr

Re: yum update, broken dependency: "libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed"

2010-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
over there and i noticed that someone else has already reported this dep problem. i grabbed the libdrm packages from koji and that seems to have solved the update issue. does one then leave a comment stating that the koji package solved the problem? rday -- ==

Re: yum update, broken dependency: "libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed"

2010-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:49:13 -0500, > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Antonio M wrote: > > > > thanks. based on the last time i looked, there's no koji repo > > file for yum

Re: yum update, broken dependency: "libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed"

2010-01-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:05:06 -0500, > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > i know. what i was wondering about is setting up a koji yum > > repo file, leaving it disabled, then explicitly having to enable >

anyone have working android SDK on f12 x86_64?

2010-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
x27;s benefit. first issue: AFAIK, you can't create a fully 64-bit install of that -- you'll need to install a number of 32-bit packages. but feel free to convince me otherwise. rday -- ============ R

android on fedora

2010-01-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
r to run: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Running_the_Android_emulator_on_64-bit_Fedora_12 much more to come, of course. feel free to play along. feel free to help, too. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day

difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e is *no* H/W virt support. i'm confused. am i just misreading something? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/2/4 Robert P. J. Day : > > > >  undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > > > model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-6

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
> > i'm confused. am i just misreading something? > > You've probably got the cpuspeed daemon running and it's throttling > the CPU since there's not enough load on the system to need the > additional clock cycles. gh. of course, that was it. thanks. n

is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, including cronie itself. why is that? what command do i run to see that obvious dependency? thanks. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http:

related question -- how do i interpret the cronie "dailyjobs" dependency?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
entry? there's no such package and if i list verbosely, i get: # rpm -qRv cronie ... snip ... manual: dailyjobs ... snip ... # so what does that entry represent and where is it defined? thanks. rday -- =============

Re: is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:25:33 -0500, > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy. > >however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-anacr

Re: related question -- how do i interpret the cronie "dailyjobs" dependency?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:33:45 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > also, what is that "dailyjobs" entry? there's no such package and if > > i list verbosely, i get: > > Guessing here?

Re: Different actions on different passwords?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
unt manually. 2) any forensic analyst that would be fooled by something like that would be a total incompetent. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

"liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
would this also work similarly for centos 6.5?) thanks. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedI

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > background: i'm teaching a linux admin class next week and i will be > > supplied with laptops for the students that i've been asked *not* to > > overwrite, so my plan is to create

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Mark Haney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/13/2014 1:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > I've found livecd-iso-to-disk very good. It enabled me to put > > CentOS,

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > i'm going to be getting the laptops on very short notice so i want > > to create a number of bootable, writable USB drives. has anyone else > > done this?

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
andle that? if so, i'll go with that. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Mark Haney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/13/2014 2:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Mark Haney > >> wro

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, g wrote: > > to all who have replied. > > On 01/13/2014 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > <> > > just what makes you think that with all the students that will be > using the laptops, that there will not be one or two, or more, > that have e

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