Allegedly, on or about 27 March 2018, Todd Zullinger sent:
> All that said, the best solution would be to stop using
> @yahoo.com as a mail provider -- at least for mailing lists.
> They have repeatedly caused grief to the folks that manage
> the Fedora Project mail systems.
And that'll only work
Hi,
If I use the GUI switch user feature, so that two users are currently
logged into the same PC, graphically (and you can switch between them
using CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F2), I frequently find that whenever I
plug in a USB drive, or SD card, that nothing pops up on the login that
I'm using.
Allegedly, on or about 29 March 2018, home user via users sent:
> Earlier this afternoon, from Thunderbird running on a windows-7 box,
> I sent 2 messages from yahoo account #1 to yahoo account #2, each
> with different few-megabyte (not mega-pixel) picture attached. I
> also sent 1 message from y
Allegedly, on or about 2 April 2018, Cameron Simpson sent:
> I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source
> format for human written content. It is massively hostile to
> authoring by hand.
As I recall, it's meant to be human understandable (and editable with a
plain text edito
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> Careful with the quoting. Maybe it's related to the html format of
> the email, but your text appears as part of what you quoted
There's a bunch of mail clients that stupidly extend the quote symbols
beyond the quoted text (Evolution includ
Bob Goodwin:
> Yes, and Thunderbird is set to send plain text to this list, it
> never seems to work, so to be sure I change it in "Options," except
> when I forget.
You have the list address in your address book, set to only receive
plain text?
Considering that you're using HTML colouring to mak
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Rick Stevens sent:
> The final thing I'd validate is that if you have an
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename or move it and let the system sort
> things out without the help of that file.
Also check for video setting files in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
I forgot abo
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Go Canes sent:
> The first is overscan - the NUC is used as a media PC, and is hooked
> up via an A/V receiver to a HDTV using HDMI. Unfortunately there
> doesn't seem to be a way to tell the TV to turn off the overscan.
Are you able to rename the input socket
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Sam Varshavchik sent:
> I find Docbook XML to be irreplacable, when it comes to writing
> technical documentation that serves as a single source of both manual
> pages and publishable HTML.
I'm pretty sure I've looked at Docbook, though could have been anothe
Allegedly, on or about 5 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> Yes, as I suspected, Evolution just grabs the whole message instead
> of asking the server about the different parts. I think that means
> that Thunderbird would be able to show the message without
> downloading any large attachments, but Ev
Allegedly, on or about 5 April 2018, Sam Varshavchik sent:
> This is not Docbook XML.
I know that. I was using an example of something in HTML (forgetting
to mention that), that's simple to read, but often gets mangled when
translating between different mark-up languages. Convert back and
forth,
Allegedly, on or about 12 April 2018, home user via users sent:
> Ad-blockers are not sufficient. So let's please get back to the
> original question. There are several coin-mining blockers available
> for Firefox. Based on your experience, which is most effective?
I would hazard a guess that
Allegedly, on or about 12 April 2018, sixpack13 sent:
> do you got a setting "calibrate battery" or simular named in your
> BIOS (seen in samsung's) ?
> maybe, try it before buying a new battery.
On one device, that was the end of my battery. It immediately went
from being not too good, to just
Allegedly, on or about 16 April 2018, Go Canes sent:
> why would a power-cycle clear it, while a reboot doesn't?
Badly implemented power saving routines in the hardware (graphics
chipset in your computer, or the monitor)? Or bad detection of a link
between equipment.
It reminds me of the number
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2018, Bob Goodwin sent:
> So I guess it boils down to how do I tell NFS to store data in /home
> instead of "/"? I've been looking at this and can't see what to
> change, or maybe it can';t be fixed that way?
I'm not sure of which side of the equation you're approa
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2018, Bob Goodwin sent:
> From the client /etc/fstab:
> 192.168.1.86:/exports/home//mnt/test/nfs4defaults0 0
Okay, looks normal. The server has /exports/home making it available
to your LAN.
When your client saves into its /mnt/test/, file
Allegedly, on or about 18 April 2018, Jeremy Eder sent:
> I'm constantly drawing workflows/diagrams on a notepad...I like the
> freedom of ink and paper. I then manually convert the useful ones to
> google draw/lucidcharts. I stumbled on this https://www.wacom.com/en
> -us/products/smartpads/bamb
Allegedly, on or about 19 April 2018, Neal Becker sent:
> Perhaps the messages are not related to the suspend issue. But the
> symptoms are very strange. The laptop appears to suspend (power
> light changes from on to flashing), but at a random time later
> (seconds to minutes later), it wakes it
Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2018, JD sent:
> I had no idea tha Caja would be doing this, and what's
> more is that all it's i/o was to/from the boot disk.
>
> About 30 minutes after I sent the email, it's i/o load
> wen down back to near zero.
Perhaps a thumbnailer plug-in trawling through l
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Rick Stevens sent:
> You'd run into the exact same thing if you updated, say Mozilla, from
> one version to one that's incompatible with the old one. You'd need
> to blow all the users' ".mozilla" directories away in that case. Why
> go through all this? If a give
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Temlakos sent:
> One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent
> method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going
> above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation
> Guide, that amounts to erasing the /root d
Allegedly, on or about 9 May 2018, Doug sent:
> (I have a number of computers, as well as two printers, at present,
> and it drives me crazy that dynamic ip assignment by the router uses
> the same address for more than one device!)
It could be that your router only is able to assign a small numbe
Allegedly, on or about 10 May 2018, stan sent:
> This turned out to be a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that had a path set
> to /usr/local/lib/firefox. When I removed that file and ran
> ldconfig, qutebrowser started just fine. And it had no effect on
> running nightly (firefox), which is installed i
Allegedly, on or about 10 May 2018, Alex sent:
> I've done a bit of searching, and it appears apache thinks the cgi
> files are scripts and not executables. How can I configure apache to
> interpret these files properly?
On my system, CGI scripts have filenames that give away the content
type (e.g
Allegedly, on or about 11 May 2018, Łukasz Posadowski sent:
> I have mouse sensitivity at middle, but I indeed changed
> keyboard repeat rate in dconf. Default setting is way too slow for
> me.
Just out of curiosity, what do people use keyboard repeat for?
I can't see any point in being able to r
Tim:
>> Just out of curiosity, what do people use keyboard repeat for?
>>
>> I can't see any point in being able to repeatedly type a string of
>> letters, but it's useful in cursoring around. Maybe it's time that
>> keyboard repeating was made more intelligent, and only repeats some
>> (user) sel
Allegedly, on or about 15 May 2018, Ed Greshko sent:
> Are both related to Intel 945GM and neither one ever being
> addressed/resolved.
>
> Since Intel 945GM is old one would have to question if it is capable
> of supporting wayland efficiently. Based on those BZ and other
> searches, if it were
Allegedly, on or about 15 May 2018, Bob Goodwin sent:
> I have a bunch of iPhone videos to view.
>
> I have spent the last hour googling without success:
>
> How to make the default video player "VLC" and remove the "Videos"
> item offered whenever I go to view one. I haven't even been able to
>
Tim wrote:
>> I bought a recent motherboard, that uses some intel HD Graphics 630
>> (rev 04) chipset, yet X seems to be using i915 drivers as a basic
>> way of using the chipset.
Samuel Sieb:
> Isn't that the right driver?
Don't know, can't tell. There doesn't appear to be any related
documenta
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, stan sent:
> Yeah, it's exactly the opposite of business communications, where
> everyone just puts their response at the top, and the whole chain is
> in the message below. There, everyone is in the loop, so it makes
> more sense to just put the response at the
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, John Morris sent:
> Dunno about the other problems but those two behaviors are normal.
> ~/Desktop is a standardized location so both desktop environments
> will see a .desktop file dropped there.
Well some window managers will use that for any file that's visib
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent:
> I gave up on trying to get direct access as a different
> user to the display, sometimes it would work, sometimes
> it wouldn't work, and I could never track down why.
Firefox had a habit of always trying to use the local browser window.
I s
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Beartooth sent:
>
> Under F27, they kept filling up with some sort of cruft, to the
> point of refusing dnf upgrade; but when I found any of the cruft, it
> was in places where I dared not lay about me with a cyber-battleaxe.
> I jumped to F28 the day of r
Tim:
>> There are programs that just don't terminate every time when I log
>> out. Various system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find that after
> updating (using dnf with the tracer plugin) I'm advised to restart
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Ed Greshko sent:
> FWIW, if you investigate a little I think you'd find that for every
> user that logs-in for a GUI session there will be about 9+ processes
> that are left running and remain running. It seems these processes
> are then reused on subsequent log
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent:
> Of course I'll still need my reboot script to umount -l nfs
> filesystems to keep systemd from spending 5 hours timing out trying
> to talk to systems that have gone down :-).
That's why I went with autofs, rather than fstab entries. They're
Allegedly, on or about 26 May 2018, Gary Hodder sent:
> currently I am using a rp-pppoe with a router/modem in bridge mode on
> adsl and all is working fine.
> We are being forced to move to nbn, in our case fibre to the node.
> The provider I am looking at uses vdsl, Protocol: IPoE (DHCP /
> Autom
Hi,
I saw an intriguing sounding package in the updates mail, memaker.
Though it fails to launch.
If I try it from the command line, I get this unfamiliar set of
messages in return:
INFO:root:python-launchpadlib not found!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/memaker", line 55,
Tim:
>> If I try it from the command line, I get this unfamiliar set of
>> messages in return:
>>
>>
>> INFO:root:python-launchpadlib not found!
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>File "/usr/bin/memaker", line 55, in
>> from MeMaker.app import MeMakerApp
>>File "/usr/lib/python2.
Allegedly, on or about 28 May 2018, Angelo Moreschini sent:
> I got the eclipse plugin
> "WB_v1.8.0_UpdateSite_for_Eclipse4.5.zip.md5" (plugin windowbuilder).
> The suffix md5 is for checking the integrity of the file...
>
> But I cannot use this file (I cannot to install it on eclipse..)
> Nautil
Allegedly, on or about 29 May 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent:
> The logs here are interesting anyways, and I'm still wondering where
> the system actually saved the image: in /tmp, or swap partition?
The usual method of hibernating is to dump the memory into the swap
partition. I do not know what w
Allegedly, on or about 30 May 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> However, it seems the problem is with Chrome. I know with Firefox
> you can set whether to just save or else open an application with a
> downloaded file, but I don't know where that would be set with
> Chrome.
One thing to check is whether
Allegedly, on or about 31 May 2018, sent:
>> The usual method of hibernating is to dump the memory into the swap
>> partition. I do not know what will happen if your swap partition
>> is smaller than your RAM, though.
Wolfgang Pfeiffer:
> 32 GB of RAM here, swap space is just ~16 GB: my guess is
Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Ed Greshko sent:
> Oh, and let's not forget the times (twice in recent memory) where
> updates to KDE Plasma resulted in not being able to logout or even
> reboot from the menus. In that case one needed to know about "init
> 6". :-) :-)
While some will argue t
Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem.
Only if you mount it with the right options.
If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a
/tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem.
--
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Tim:
>> Only if you mount it with the right options.
>> If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have
>> a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem.
Samuel Sieb:
> Ok, I didn't think I needed to spell it out. By default, Fedora
> configures /tmp as a tmpfs filesys
Allegedly, on or about 4 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent:
> Normally if someone sending from a domain with strict DMARC
> rules configured their From field as 'Name '
> the list DMARC mitigation would take the 'Name' part, add
> 'via users' and send it from the list address.
>
> Thunderbird showing
Allegedly, on or about 7 June 2018, antonio.montagnani sent:
> i can't connect by telnet as you suggest. I can print to my remote
> printer anyway. It seems that i cannot connect to my local cups
> service, and on this machine i have no loal printer conected. I am
> lost but now here it is sleeping
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Only if it has something to do with Fedora of course.
Does the narrow end go to the front?
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no
Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Ger van Dijck sent:
> So next question is How can I check if cups is running and if not how
> get it running ?
As well as the other suggestions, if you have a browser running, you
can see what you find at http://localhost:631/ (that's the CUPS web
interface).
Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent:
> To be fair, I don't think the rpm man page documents its
> wildcard support. If it does, I'm looking past it.
I've always successfully done things like this:
rpm -qa \*pulse\*
More through force of habit, than any hard knowledge.
--
Tim:
>> Does the narrow end go to the front?
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Preferably when tilted over the eyes and accompanied by a loosely
> hanging cigarette and a drawl.
It was one of those nights, and the server wasn't booting. I was
convinced there was foul play involved, and went down to the bas
Allegedly, on or about 16 June 2018, stan sent:
> anaconda is the Fedora installer, so those are probably leftovers
> from the install of F27.
I've always wondered *why* anaconda gets installed on a new system, and
why it receives updates.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Beartooth sent:
> But now it just keeps giving me a login screen, letting me type, and
> (after Enter) going back to the login screen.
I remember things like that, in the past, being associated with the
wrong permissions for the /tmp directory. The graphics sy
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent:
> Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores
> is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts
> (overheating).
> Fans are at full speed all the time, as I can hear them :) :)
Sounds like you have inadequate cooling
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> Note that you now have to explicitly enable rc.local to make it run
> at boot time:
>
> # systemctl enable rc-local.service
I just did that, and nothing more (I hadn't, yet, got around to making
a rc.local file and putting anything
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent:
> I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting the
> system in it.
I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many years
ago. Though I can't recall what their success was like.
I'd be concerned about moisture/cond
Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2018, Howard Howell sent:
> This typically requires more than just vacuuming the outside.
> Typically you have to remove the heatsink and fan, and use a brush or
> q-tips to ferret out the various dustbunnies in the nooks and
> crannies that are near the CPU.
Ah ye
Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> You asked this same question earlier today and received an answer.
> Why are you asking again?
My guess would be that they're probably not seeing the replies. Either
not waiting long enough, or they need to check their spam filters for
fal
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2018, Rick Stevens sent:
> It's the way the text is rendered that affects how selection is done
> and this is what complicates things. I'm not saying it's impossible,
> but pretty danged complex to try to sort out what the _expected_
> behavior is supposed to be.
Whi
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2018, Rick Stevens sent:
> Almost no-one running a commercial venture runs Fedora because of
> potential stability issues AND the fact that updates are only
> available for Fedora for "current release less one" (updates stopped
> for F26 one month after F28 came out).
Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Robert Moskowitz sent:
> I have seen this for some time (perhaps since install) on F28. I
> suspend to ram and the system seems to suspend then immediately
> restarts by itself. I unlock and suspend again and this 2nd attempt
> 'takes'.
Are any BIOS "wake up
Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Alex sent:
> I believe the open source support for NVIDIA is better than for AMD
> these days, correct?
I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from
NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've
made an open-source
Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago), things
>> like Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email
>> systems did not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again?
>> If we needed complete control of things or our email requirements..
Allegedly, on or about 21 July 2018, Sudhir Khanger sent:
> None of them can suspend on battery. When connected to power suspend
> works just fine.
Does the system check whether your battery is sufficient to stay on
suspend, first?
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64
Allegedly, on or about 1 August 2018, Gianluca Cecchi sent:
> while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable)
> in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem:
> - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names
> - if I have to paste a file/d
Allegedly, on or about 4 August 2018, ToddAndMargo sent:
> Is there a way to stitch four photos together? Well, other
> than just eyeballing them.
Search for "panarama" as well.
There's a plugin for GIMP:
http://stitchpanorama.sourceforge.net/
It may be prepackaged in a repo.
--
[tim@localhos
Allegedly, on or about 7 August 2018, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent:
> I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy
> feature that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of
> search for that filename. Very, very slowly.
I'm using an older release, with the Mate desktop
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, None via users sent:
> I took a picture of alligator/crockodile? boots that have a nice
> stitched drawing. I would like if any drawing/picture expert can
> help me get just the part of the gator/crock from the drawing?
You can use programs like GIMP to trac
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, Samuel Sieb sent:
> Or skip GIMP completely, load the original bitmap in inkscape and
> manually (or maybe automatically) trace what you want. I have done
> something like that before. It's a lot easier if you have a graphic
> tablet or screen pen of cour
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent:
> Was hoping someone had already tried with the laptop, the motherboard
> and graphics sre the same across all the latest XPS 15s, so if it's
> been done on one it should be done on them all.
Are you sure? Manufacturers change component
Allegedly, on or about 12 August 2018, Tony Nelson sent:
> The Banshee music player banshee-2.6.2-30.fc28.x86_64 has numerous
> problems beyond becoming unresponsive at startup 2 out of 3 attempts.
> It often (I think not always) only pretends to set the id3 tags in a
> music file. It remembers th
Allegedly, on or about 17 August 2018, Tom Horsley sent:
> This is the sort of thing that always makes me want to
> run memtest for a few hours to see if memory corruption
> is happening (in, for instance, the in memory copies of
> pages from shared libs the tools might have been using).
>
> http:
Allegedly, on or about 15 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent:
> I tried with LightDM, which gave the same black screen, with the
> following in /var/log/messages, not sure why it's trying to talk to
> PulseAudio?
I'm not sure what stage you're up to by then: Just getting the logon
screen, or have
Allegedly, on or about 17 August 2018, Jonathan Ryshpan sent:
> What is the device android-a81a750feb8c4486? There are only two
> devices connected to the router by wires. Very odd.
A phone or tablet. Or is your weather doodah android based?
> The router has a DNS server in it. The server doe
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Ed Greshko sent:
> my DHCP server doesn't supply Domain Name
Not unusual. All sorts of different things may happen.
Clients can use their own (ignoring the fact that it mightn't work with
anything else in the network). They may or may not inform the DHCP
s
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent:
> Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something
> stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total
> failure.
Is it using an unsupported (by your monitor) screen mode, and the
monitor is simply blanking ou
Allegedly, on or about 29 August 2018, Danny Horne via users sent:
> I've tried Brasero and Wodim, neither recognises my USB drive (even
> though it's mounted)
I thought it needed to be unmounted to directly write to it, rather
than copy files to it.
> and both say the ISO is too large to burn on
On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 23:18 +, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 95% of the time "dnf --refresh -y upgrade" won't cause issues, but
> it's that 5% of the time where it DOES screw up that will drive you
> barking mad. Microsoft has had some absolutely horrific problems
> doing this "upgrade on shutdown" beh
ToddAndMargo:
>> When I press "Submit" on a new bug, I get:
>>
>> Internal Server Error
>>
>> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to
>> complete your request.
>> Error 500
stan:
> I don't know what error 500 is, but I think you should try creating
> a new bugzil
Allegedly, on or about 2 October 2018, Ed Greshko sent:
> Could it be your ISP has a transparent proxy causing issues?
I had wondered that, too. But a HTTPS connection ought to put a stop
to that kind of ISP shenanigans.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue
Allegedly, on or about 2 October 2018, ToddAndMargo sent:
> The error with Brave:
>
> This site can’t be reached
> The webpage at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/post_bug.cgi might be
> temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web
> address.
> ERR_ACCESS_DENIED
I see, in Firefox:
Allegedly, on or about 7 October 2018, Ralf Corsepius sent:
> HW-wise you should check if your drive-hardware is suiteable to be
> frequently "put to sleep/woken up". Most NAS- or server-class HDDs
> are not, most desktop/notbook drives are.
All the domestic NASs, that I've seen, put their drives
Allegedly, on or about 8 October 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent:
> Except "-y" will not mean "sleeping" mode (i.e. complete shutdown,
> which can be done with the "-Y" switch) but standby mode, which
> simply seems to just spin down the disk.
I can't imagine there being much difference power-usage-w
Allegedly, on or about 15 October 2018, Bob Goodwin-Fastmail sent:
> [bobg@box83 ~]$ vlc /mnt/box48/2018-06-Jun-15-LUKE-SHEARING-Clippers/
> VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332)
> [55b0c3eb9670] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default
> interface.
> Use 'cvlc' to us
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, bruce sent:
> I'm simply trying to get the two(2) sites to be accessed via two(2)
> different urls..
> http://104.248.125.83/foo
> http://104.248.125.83/oxwall
>
> I do not have an actual FQDN, the two(2) sites are tests on the box.
> The "/foo" and "oxwall"
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, bruce sent:
> Sorry to return... I'm still really screwing up things/something
> with my test for displaying two(2) apps..
Apps? That may have its own set of problems, as opposed to serving two
sites.
Have you tried running Apache on your own machine, to
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, Mike Wright sent:
> I have a set of dns zone text files in "bind" format. On the fourth
> line there is a 10 digit timestamp (ignoring white space, the first
> field). There is no way to predetermine the value so search and
> replace by value is a no go a
On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 14:42 -0700, stan wrote:
> There's a big mail thread on fedora-devel about using a web forum
> software called Discourse instead of mailing lists.
I won't use them, at all. I don't participate in any of them. I've
looked at some when googling for answers, hated every one of
Allegedly, on or about 22 October 2018, Federico Bruni sent:
> Given the replies so far, my opinion is that this list should not
> switch to Discourse.
Likewise.
I imagine some confusion with *some* people not understanding why we
would want to keep a mailing list is probably with those people wh
On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 18:56 -0700, stan wrote:
> I wasn't clear. The link isn't to any potential replacement for the
> users list.
Oh really? What's the subject line for this thread say? And the
content of the first message. This thread that you started...
Who are you, the Iraqi minister for
Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the
MATE desktop. Is it possible to get it to show the user face pictures,
without having to make user directories world executable?
Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some
outside directory (not ~/userna
Tim:
>> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the
>> MATE desktop. Is it possible to get it to show the user face
>> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable?
>>
>> Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some
>> outside di
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +, Barry wrote:
> The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
> these days.
I flatly refuse to use webforums. They're extremely inconvenient.
Email comes to me, I can go through it in my spare time as I see fit.
Websites waste my tim
Thomas Cameron:
>> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
>> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
> Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
> them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of T
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> However, realize that you spend a long time setting all that up.
> The subscriptions, filtering, how things look in your email client, etc.
> For someone new or just wanting to ask a question or two, lists are
> horrible.
I say forums aren't
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
> why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
> when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a message"
message, no details on what the messag
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with
> Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing
> list, so a bunch of us set up a new list
> (evolution-us...@lists.osuosl.org) where we cont
On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 09:00 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> But I will never buy another HP again. They screw you on the ink, and
> they are apparently using DRM so you can't use third party ink. Screw
> that. Never again.
It's a shame we can't override such shenanigans with custom drivers.
That
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 11:45 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> You will almost certainly not be able to connect between devices on a
> commercial wifi network. They don't want folks to attack other machines
> on the network. It would be a huge scandal if a hotel allowed a guest to
> connect to other
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