unusual networking question - have DHCP assign the same IP to a computer, regardless of which ethernet port is used

2018-01-31 Thread Tim
connect both ports at the same time. But there's only one ethernet cable, so that can't happen. And I really don't want to physically block the slower motherboard ethernet port, to prevent it being used accidentally. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26

Re: unusual networking question - have DHCP assign the same IP to a computer, regardless of which ethernet port is used

2018-01-31 Thread Tim
d close together). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing li

Re: how to audit chmod syscall system wide? a wired problem of home directory group write permission got set

2018-02-01 Thread Tim
an't do anything more to prove it's a real message. Gmail's anti-spam technique is fucked. The *only* thing I could do is change email addresses. But, then, the next time Gmail does some new stupidly designed anti-spam technique, you're back to square one. -- [tim@localho

Re: Riddle me this: grep / regx experts

2018-02-02 Thread Tim
atens up HTML. dnf install tidy -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the

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

2018-02-03 Thread Tim
ty to do gapless playback of albums. That can depend on the format *and* the player. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately emai

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

2018-02-04 Thread Tim
d-in and lead-out time, and the encoded file is missing that (screwing up audio comprised of multiple files). Sometimes to the point where it's actually slightly cutting off the start of the audio. Whatever Audacity was doing behind the scenes tended to do that a lot. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ una

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

2018-02-05 Thread Tim
Tim: >> However, I find most people encode MP3s to a much lower bitrate, >> where I can hear burbles, squeaks and squealies, and the quieter >> nuances of some music disappears completely. Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > If you look at the files you seem to have encoded with the on

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
ode the wrong answer for the cloud's domain name), or if you have a customisable firewall (block its IP address). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is n

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
/2017/Mar/23 https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-03-08-camera-goahead-0day.html The problem is created by a stupid implementation of a simplistic webserver in the cameras. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mai

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
inks had a huge list of unsafe equipment. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages pos

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
tarised zone (DMZ). The router will forward specific traffic to it, and not allow it (your camera) to interact with your LAN. This does require that your cameras are connected directly to the router, not sharing a switch with your LAN. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64

Re: Unusual CPU heat when charging on a hybrid laptop

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
me time) CPU temp gets as high as 60-70 degrees and it > eventually causes a crash which forces me to restart. It it simply inadequate cooling? (Warm battery plus warm CPU becomes too warm, together.) Check that cooling fans are running properly, that ventilation isn't blocked (includ

Re: Importing FF bookmarks from another profile

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
ious thing I'd ask would be: Was Firefox running when you copied the file? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
outdoors), with no passwords set at all (it was pointless). Of course, if you set up a camera like that because you wanted to watch animals in the wild, chances are that someone else may have rotated the camera in the wrong direction after they found it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: Internet camera connection -

2018-02-07 Thread Tim
laws in the commonly used firmware/software with many cameras. Hackers could write into the webserver, and create commands. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.14-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:27:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.

Re: fed/centos - recovery app/process???

2018-02-14 Thread Tim
g their never-finished products and expecting you to just buy a new one, etc). And there'd be other (probable) hardware faults. But mains power failure and glitches are often the most common source of stuff-ups, and a UPS is good insurance. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Tim
I have mixed feelings about that. I see the confusion it causes, but when dealing with other repos, you want to be able to see that you've got the right one. If /other/ repo sites named their "for Fedora" repos actually including the words "for-fedora," it would allevi

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-17 Thread Tim
efox, Thunderbird, etc). And how are you connecting them? DVI or HDMI ought to be sharp and clear, with a 1:1 matching of generated graphics to display pixels. VGA has analogue signal which will often smear, as the pixel clock in the graphics card is not the same as pixel clocking in the monitor.

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
e you to be root, but it writes them. I've often found the boot.log to be empty, for many years now. I think *everything* is dumped elsewhere, not. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mai

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

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
n't recall that > *ever* being the case Me neither. They're different commands, and behave differently, here. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. Th

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
n try and artificially crispen it up. You get nasty artefacts with artificial detail enhancement. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to p

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

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
ust plain text. It can show you the text inside a compressed archive (e.g. download some text-file.xml.gz and it'll show you the xml file). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is au

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
k from the modern binary journal that's supposed to replace it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:34:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only g

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-20 Thread Tim
ood as each other, though you'd use the bigger screens further away from you. So-called high definition (1920 by 1080) isn't particularly *high* definition, and doesn't stand too much close scrutiny. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-20 Thread Tim
ay hardware (which you'll probably never know), it stands a good chance of going through a conversion. The input rates listed in specs will only be whatever the processing accepts. I considered myself lucky that my tv set did a good job of displaying the computer, when I tried it. I w

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

2018-02-20 Thread Tim
sions, etc)? It it simply referring to data about users (account names, real names, that kind of thing)? You'd need to provide some more insight into what that manual talks about to get a good answer to your question. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP We

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-20 Thread Tim
be used by the debugging team. But, if after that, the fault goes away, it points rather firmly at your binary blob being the cause of the problem. And since nobody here can debug closed source software, you're stuck. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-20 Thread Tim
── xnu_uuid_test.mod ├── xnu_uuid_test.module ├── xzio.mod ├── xzio.module ├── zfscrypt.mod ├── zfscrypt.module ├── zfsinfo.mod ├── zfsinfo.module ├── zfs.mod └── zfs.module -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.14.16-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 31 19:3

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-02 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 15:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Secondly, it appears to be a reply to a message which is not on the > mailing list. I saw the original message come through the list. For what it's worth, I don't let my mail host do any spam filtering. I just have it auto-delete ev

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-02 Thread Tim
scribe, access the archives, etc., like the messages used to have). -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately em

Re: Claws-Mail filters -

2018-03-05 Thread Tim
r while it does so. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted t

Re: dnf crash

2018-03-05 Thread Tim
our command, and similar permutations of slashes and asterisks, I get this error: *** Error in `/usr/libexec/system-python': corrupted double-linked list: 0x55d4fedce800 *** with about 30 or so lib64 backtraces, then a few pages full of memory map lines -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

2018-03-05 Thread Tim
ack on an old Fedora 25 installation on my ancient laptop. Not to mention that my LAN file & printer server is completely ancient, and still on Fedora Core 4. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-03-05 Thread Tim
noscript." Sometimes, if you get a failure to download, simply repeating the command (without changing anything) will make it work. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automaticall

Re: The Fedora Wiki page, "Mailing list guidelines" needs to update!

2018-03-05 Thread Tim
AQs, links to archives, links to managing your subscription, etc. Why is that so hard to do? Why is that so hard to understand? -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically delet

Re: change user id

2018-03-07 Thread Tim
t have any way of setting UID or GID, nor did it even display them. I *had* to go into the command line to get NFS to work. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, the

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-09 Thread Tim
; is created as a hard link to the original file, for storage > efficiency, and then when one of the files is updated the hardlink is > broken and both files become physical. Considering all the grinding noises my hard drive makes if I copy a file, I wouldn't have said it works in th

Re: cups sucks!!! Epilogue

2018-03-11 Thread Tim
resolutions it offers. I distinctly hate having to deal with printers. Firstly you have to get it working, which can be a nightmare, even on their supported OSs. A year or two after getting one you may find it impossible to get ink or toner, or it's become ridiculously expensive. Or th

Re: Is there a way to get something into a Fedora How To list?

2018-03-14 Thread Tim
;t sane (and/or pdf studio) do that when they're installed? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to se

/etc/nsswitch.conf

2018-03-14 Thread Tim
hing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:1

Re: Starting programs when no internet connection is available

2018-03-14 Thread Tim
it checks. Your external mail service could be totally inaccessible while you could still be able to surf the web. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no po

Re: [Trust] I spent a lot of time driving today

2018-03-14 Thread Tim
that a few messages later my reply would be pointless, I can just delete it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email

Re: F19 RAID1 drive died - what if it was sda that died?

2018-03-15 Thread Tim
tion... Seems to me that the idea of mirrored drives is to give an easy way of dealing with drive failures, surely it shouldn't impose complex routines to get past the first drive going bad. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2

Re: system-module-load fails to load but.... nevertheless loads!

2018-03-18 Thread Tim
quent one succeeds? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Comp

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-19 Thread Tim
3 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ...[snip].... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to priv

Re: Restart Xorg server and Noveau driver

2018-03-19 Thread Tim
ing it. I used to do something like switch to runlevel 3 (command line only), wait for that to complete, then switch back to runlevel 5 (GUI). There's probably other ways, too. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate:

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-20 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 20 March 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > If you look further up the thread past what was quoted, Tim > mentioned that it might be an MTU problem. Correct, as a thing worth checking with some of the problems described. Although, his comments about other things working may s

Re: Kernel installed in wrong location

2018-03-20 Thread Tim
get erased once the kernel has been installed? Is there any point to them being there. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately e

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-21 Thread Tim
ding a big picture from google images, it got up to > almost 4 MB/s. My ISP (comcast) provides peak download speed of > 60Mbps. 4 megabytes per second should be 32 megabits per second. Can you try a speed test from something hosted by your ISP? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.

Re: Where do I find this srpm?

2018-03-21 Thread Tim
y easy to do properly. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing li

Re: OT: vlookup/hlookup/countif help for a spreadsheet

2018-03-22 Thread Tim
ge that they can view in their preferred web browser. It is possible to put a Linux shell on a Windows PC (e.g. a port of BASH), so they could run your program. Though, unless you need other people to be able to enter data, than yourself, my first suggestion seems simpler to manage. -- [tim@loca

Re: alternative to skype

2018-03-25 Thread Tim
ing is technically hard to do, is to paraphrase the questions you're responding to in your reply. As you would have done in traditional mail. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is

Re: How do I check a process' memory usage?

2018-03-25 Thread Tim
the cursor keys, instead of F1 for htop help, and F10 to quit htop). So, to quit htop, I had to close the terminal window. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. Th

Re: How do I check a process' memory usage?

2018-03-26 Thread Tim
Tim: >> So, to quit htop, I had to close the terminal window. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Or just type 'q' ... /me smacks head, "doh!" -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All m

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-26 Thread Tim
ft it to another folder. But it is handy feature to just see the most recent mail, by default, and still be able to find last weeks prior message without a huge hunt. If you want to force Evolution to quit, there are command line options to make it do so (which could be put into a "quit, d

Re: The IPA Server hostname must not resolve to localhost (127.0.0.1). A routable IP address must be used.

2018-03-27 Thread Tim
.168.0.1 mycomputer mycomputer.example.com -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the maili

Re: static ip in f11, f12 using networkmanager

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:04 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > I also don't understand what is the use of NM_CONTROLLED=no For when someone is running NetworkManager, and they won't that interface left alone. It is, or was, possible to use both NetworkManager and the network services at once, so long

Re: Warning during installation of ns-2.34 on fedora-11

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:54 +, g wrote: > i was filtering out *base 64* posters, but there are several of them > who do appear to be rather versed in their knowledge. tho i do wish > they would show more of their knowledge by posting *text/plain*. You might acquire a bit of knowledge, and lear

Re: Warning during installation of ns-2.34 on fedora-11

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
Tim: >> base 64 and HTML are two completely different things. There are some >> languages which just aren't going to post in text/plain. Ed Greshko: > I think you may have mis-typed or I'm misreading. > > The only RFC defined text MIME types that I'm a

Re: Converting MKV to AVI [SOLVED?]

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 15:16 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > 24FPS was the minimum frame rate where you didn't notice the "flicker" > of movies, but has no relationship to power line frequencies used for > a lot of video stuff Of course not, since you don't watch films with the lights on (usually, you

Re: Converting MKV to AVI [SOLVED?]

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:42 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Now if we could only solve the ultimate mystery: Why the folks > designing video standards selected audio and video frame rates with no > common divisors :-). Well, I'll blame computer geeks who don't think things through like engineers, for

Re: X11 forward in F12

2010-05-11 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:43 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > May I suggest using -Y instead of -X. Its supposed to be more secure. That's not clear from the man file: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file.

Re: logwatch schedule control

2010-05-12 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:03 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Anacron just runs things at some random time when it happens to think > of it Do you not have a /etc/cron.d/anacron file that sets when anacron is supposed to be fired up? # Run anacron once a day, after regular cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} j

Re: esata drive question

2010-05-12 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:47 -0700, john wendel wrote: > I got a bracket with 2 eSATA connectors, on the inside are just 2 sata > cables that connect to the motherboard sata ports. Works fine with F11 > and 2 Western Digital external hard drives. No PCI card required, > unless you need some addition

Re: Removing shutdown menu item

2010-05-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 06:21 +, Troels Arvin wrote: > In the "general" area, I've un-checked can_hibernate and can_suspend. > And in the "ui" area, I've un-checked "show_actions_in_menu". I > changes nothing, however: I still get a working shutdown panel menu > item. Have you logged out and bac

Re: Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 12:08 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote: > The main thing I want from a live CD is answering the question: Will > fedora work? Graphics and internet has a history of problems and > the live CD answers this in a fast and easy fashion. Only a partial answer, though. I've seen sys

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:58 -0400, David Boles wrote: > I just have to ask. Why would running Openoffice on Linux impress a > Windows user enough to convince them to switch to Linux? Openoffice is > available for Windows. And at the same price too! :-) I don't think it would, by itself. But it s

Re: Sound recorder - dictation equipment

2010-05-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 13:24 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Would you recommend a low impedance or high impedance mic? As said, that would depend on your sound card. But do you really have a choice of computer microphones with different impedances? Most sound cards are built to connect an elect

Re: fc12 encrypted file system

2010-05-14 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:42 -0400, Ralph Blach wrote: > What encryp... [message deleted] Start a new message when you're not actually writing a reply to someone else's message (something is actually in response to it). That means use the create *NEW* message feature of your mail client, do not r

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-14 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged > in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and > company Servers / Mail Gateway etc. And the million dollar question for all these people running

Re: Why is ntp connecting with my wireless router?

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 03:58 -0500, Scott Sibley wrote: > I'm having terrible internet lag at the moment, and I set out to try > and figure out what's causing it. > I just decided to check netstat, and noticed ntp connected to my > router. Any reason for this? If your router advertises a NTP serv

Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:12 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote: > Worms, Trojan horses, phishing ... are possible. We should not hide > behind a Superiority complex until some strange anti social kid nails > us. We already have a lot of safeguards in place. But it seems that > we are a trusting commun

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 09:22 -0600, r...@dwf.com wrote: > I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. > How do I 'rip it apart' ?? > Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but > I have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. Doing an "rpm -qlp" on the packag

Re: fc12 encrypted file system

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:22 -0700, jdow wrote: > Stop hijacking threads so you can whinge about hijacking threads You idiot! I was NOT hijacking a thread, I was directly responding to a message, directly about *it*. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private r

Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:52 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > this is not windows, we can be safer and we can rest assured that we > will be careful not to shoot ourselves in the foot :) The philosophy behind Linux, generally, makes things a lot better for us. With Linux, when a fault is found, it

Re: fc12 encrypted file system

2010-05-15 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:05 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > Strictly speaking you were not ... you were making a meta comment > about hijacking - not the topic itself. Strictly speaking, I was. I was replying directly to a post, about that post. About *what* that post was. And in response to i

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-16 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:05 +1000, BadMagic wrote: > Basically, whichever entry goes first, doesn't get mounted. Are the clients connecting to the network using network manager? Perhaps the network isn't up at the time the first mount is attempted, but is by the time the next two are. -- [...@lo

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 02:08 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > In this case you might even want to add _netdev. > > _netdev > The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access > (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these > filesystems until the net

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 00:46 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network > > reboot > > I'm not sure why networkwait isn't the default. Running without it > causes quite a bit of the stuff that relies on the network to fail. Yes, all the fun of watch

Re: Can Windows and Linux co-exist?

2010-05-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I just use openLDAP for keeping an address book. > I'd like to have an address book on my Linux (CentOS) server > that I can use in kmail and Windows Outlook. Can they all write to the address book, or only read from it? One of the things

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Tim
Rick Stevens: >> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user >> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing >> ANYTHING that's global. Gene Heskett: > Repeat after me Rick: "I am the only user of this machine". And that > will likely continue until

Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver

2010-05-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 18:08 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > I see zero response from ping 206.13.20.12, > while ping 206.13.31.12 , 68.94.156.1 both look ok Same here. > Is this normal? Yes. Many things on the internet completely ignore pings. And many things change their configurations. i.e.

Re: How to find out which RPM's have been additionally installed?

2010-05-18 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 10:20 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > by using the output of this cmd, I have no information about the > endtime of the OS installation and the beginning of updates or > installation of other rpm's. So how to find out the position of that > (virtual) separation line (imagine,

Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver

2010-05-18 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 15:24 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > I still left ifcfg-etho with DOMAIN=pacbell.net; (possibly also set > in my router config? It has been years since I had to fuss with that). > I might want to get into the router and change pacbell.net to > sbcglobal.net, but it seems there

Re: resolv.conf, NetworkManager, no ping response on one nameserver

2010-05-19 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:53 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > i get response from "shieldsup": > > "Your Internet connection's IP address is uniquely associated with the > following "machine name": > > ppp-71-xxx-xx-xxx.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net > That fully qualified domain name ("FQD

Re: Burning DVD Videos

2010-05-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Besides, many .avi files are already highly compressed and have lower > video and audio quality than the originals (while still being > acceptable to the average viewer). Converting them to MPEG doesn't > change the quality, just the s

Re: New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

2010-05-21 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:20 -0700, Mercury Rising wrote: > it give me an error saying my BIOS was 1997 and I needed a a 2000 BIOS > or better. The machine has a Pentium 3 with 550 MHz CPU with over 700 > Megs memory but a small hard drive of just 10 Gigs To be honest, I think the CPU slowness, pe

Re: Question about this user list

2010-05-21 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 14:18 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > fedora 13 release is in 4 days so the questions are going to be valid > here :D Quite probably, and certainly in a few days time. ;-) > im must asking because i wrote aquestion here but nothings answer > me :(.. I saw a question

Re: SELinux blocks access to device files when booting 2.6.32.* kernels (fc12)

2010-05-21 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 17:19 -0700, Karl-Michael Schneider wrote: > # kernel-2.6.32.12-115.fc12 in single user mode > $ ls -lZ /dev > crw---. root root system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 agpgart > drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 block > drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 18:48 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > For the rest of you why aren't you dropping by? Since you ask... I'm not really into games, very much, and nobody has a version of battleships that can play the variation of the game that we used to play when we were young: To make thin

Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-24 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 18:42 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I did poke around the plugin -- it is indeed sending the oopses > to kerneloops. It's a bit misleading, since the fields I get to fill > in, before submitting the report, are Bugzilla fields, leading me to > believe that's where the oops

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Tim
#x27;s mail, drag and drop it between folders), and Thunderbird (eventually fails part way through, even in chunks, with no clue as to how far along it got). So I'd like to find a good tool for doing this, too. -rw--- 1 tim tim 663987436 2010-03-05 18:21 /home/tim/mail/lists/Fedora Thanks

Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-24 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Whether or not my battery is charging depends on whether it's getting > AC power. If it's on AC power, it charges. When the battery is full it > stops charging, and from that point it runs on AC power, without > taking the juice from the

Re: gnome/and gconf-sharp2

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:24 +1000, Lyndon Lu wrote: > I try to install > ifolder client in Fedora 12 and always got the error messages: > > [r...@cook i586]# rpm -ivh ifolder3-3.8.0.9328.1-3.1. > i586.rpm > warning: ifolder3-3.8.0.9328.1-3.1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: > NOKEY, > key I

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:49 -0700, Nataraj wrote: > If it's your own mail server and your running an imap server like > dovecot which uses maildir format, then just use the dovecot script to > convert your mbox file directly into the file space of the imap > server. I am, though don't know the sc

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:06 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > so it's more a year of Fedora mails, in a file, Most definitely. There's a few other big ones, but none are nearly as big as that one. > I has the same problem tens of thousands emails, I evaluate mbox, vs > maildir, decided keep with m

Re: Can't establish connection -

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 05:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have two f12 computers, box9 will ping box6 but box6 to box9 > reports 100% loss. When we had Firestarter there was a log that > usually indicated where the firewall was blocking data. > > It seems to me there should be a way to determine th

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I took the liberty of asking our mail admin about this, since I know > we've done it in the past. This is his answer: > > I wrote a very Cyrus-specific Perl script (which runs on > the mailstore server) that parsed an

Re: mirror, mirror

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 11:36 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > "Hammered" is the right word. The Fedora world is now and will remain > in a feeding frenzy for a few days following the official release. That's one reason why I get such things from my ISP's local mirror. Quite a few ISPs have fi

Re: A question about yum

2010-05-26 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 00:07 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > I'm trying to reduce the disk space that yum uses by running "yum > clean all". I have seen a listing of files removed by this command but > now I'm seeing 0 files. > > Am I doing something wrong by any chance? If you've removed the file

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