Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO (finished)

2009-02-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/02/09 01:33, Kirk wrote: >> On 15/02/09 22:47, Kirk wrote: >> [snip] anything. Is there a way to make a sudo password? I'm lost...as you can tell. >> Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is >> selfexplanatory. >> > I'm still too much of a rookie, about 6 weeks, to

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Dom 15 Fev 2009, Craig White escreveu: > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:40 -0500, Jim wrote: > > Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in > > ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. > > > it never was... > it has always been and will always be in > ~/.mozilla/firefox/$some

NetworkManager + OpenDNS

2009-02-15 Thread Nikolas Slivka
Greetings! I need help to configure and use OpenDNS with NetworkManager on my Fedora 10 system. On NetworkManager i cant edit settings, its read-only... Nikolas Slivka -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelin

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Vijay Gill
2009/2/16 Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:45 +, Vijay Gill wrote: >> > That could be because you're using XFS. >> > >> > poc > [...] >> Thanks but how does that statement explain the behaviour I am seeing? > > I'm reaching here, but since XFS uses allocation strategies differe

Re: qemu-kvm: qns regarding network and usb keyboard setup

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
suvayu ali wrote: > Neither can I go to a virtual terminal using Ctrl+Alt+. everytime > I press Ctrl+Alt it releases the keyboard input and I am back in the host. Even if the grab wasn't released by Ctrl+Alt, the key would still be intercepted by the host. This happens at X11 level, so the key doe

Re: conflicts in kde updates

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
charles zeitler wrote: > i didn't know that 'transaction depencies' do not parallel 'package > dependencies' ! Unfortunately, file conflicts can only be detected during transactions or test transactions, not when the dependencies are resolved. We would have to add explicit versioned Conflicts: tag

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Craig White wrote: > well I haven't gotten there yet but 'they' do read... > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Deployment_issues Well, none of the issues with NFS are unsurmountable: > Multiple access: Should multiple Akonadi instances' mysqlds access a > single set of data files th

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO (finished)

2009-02-15 Thread Kirk
> >> Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is > >> selfexplanatory. > >> > > I'm still too much of a rookie, about 6 weeks, to understand what I > > need to do. The sudoers file had commands while the sudoer is > > blank. I'll keep this and come back to it when I have more > > know

qemu-kvm: qns regarding network and usb keyboard setup

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
Hi all, Recently I started experimenting with kvm with F10 as the host, and I have been having some problems. I need to login to my virtual machine from the shell from the host itself and/or from another machine remotely over the internet. I went through the man pages but couldn't make anything o

Re: conflicts in kde updates

2009-02-15 Thread charles zeitler
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > charles zeitler wrote: > > when trying to update kdebase, i get the following conflicts. > > You have to update all the KDE stuff, not just kdebase. > >Kevin Kofler > > Duh! Thanks. i didn't know that 'transaction depencies' do not

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread g
Jim wrote: > Well absorb this. > I put a totally different bookmarks.html (from Fedora 8) in > ~/.mozilla/Firefox/default and restart Firefox and the new Bookmarks > don't show up, the orignal bookmarks show up , that I removed. absorb this: from you wording, it sounds like you may have moved

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 17:15 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > and apparently a real problem for people like me who use NFS for home > > directories > > "apparently" how? Are there verifiable/concrete problems here? well I haven't gotten there yet but 'they' do read... htt

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
2009/2/15 Mikkel L. Ellertson : > It also wirks for things like vipw and vigr. > cool didn't know that! -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http:

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/2/15 Erik P. Olsen : >> Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is selfexplanatory. > > But the way to edit the file safely is not. Type visudo in terminal to > do that. It launches vi editor and prevents simultaneous edits of the > file. > If you set EDITOR,

Black vs. blue panel (was: Re: First thoughts on KDE4.2...)

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I don't think it looks as nice as KDE 4.1.x did. I liked the black > background on the panel better than the current panel color scheme. That > is probably being picky, but it is what I think. Maybe the panel > background color could be set in the future ? Try the Nitro them

RE: Join with windows Domain

2009-02-15 Thread Adeel Akbar
Sir I am unable to open link which you provided. When I use following command it shows me error message; root#net ads join -U administrator Feb 15 07:47:24 sbukhari01 net: [2009/02/15 07:47:24, 0] utils/net_rpc_join.c:net_rpc_join_newstyle(396) Feb 15 07:47:24 sbukhari01 net: Error in domain jo

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:45 +, Vijay Gill wrote: > > That could be because you're using XFS. > > > > poc [...] > Thanks but how does that statement explain the behaviour I am seeing? I'm reaching here, but since XFS uses allocation strategies different from the more familiar ext3 system, I wo

Re: conflicts in kde updates

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
charles zeitler wrote: > when trying to update kdebase, i get the following conflicts. You have to update all the KDE stuff, not just kdebase. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Join with windows Domain

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:36 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 06:14 +0500, Adeel Akbar wrote: > > I installed Fedora 10 and were not able to joined with windows 20003 domain. > > Please suggest me how we join with windows domain. Thank you > > 1 - Please do not ask new questio

Re: Join with windows Domain

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 06:14 +0500, Adeel Akbar wrote: > I installed Fedora 10 and were not able to joined with windows 20003 domain. > Please suggest me how we join with windows domain. Thank you 1 - Please do not ask new questions on other people's threads by clicking 'Reply'. See http://fed

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO (Closed)

2009-02-15 Thread Kirk
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:43:57 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: > > But the way to edit the file safely is not. Type visudo in terminal > > to do that. It launches vi editor and prevents simultaneous edits > > of the file. > > But in practice you'll get away w

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
2009/2/15 Kevin Kofler : > suvayu ali wrote: >> But the way to edit the file safely is not. Type visudo in terminal to >> do that. It launches vi editor and prevents simultaneous edits of the >> file. > > But in practice you'll get away with kdesu kwrite /etc/sudoers just fine. > That is true unles

Join with windows Domain

2009-02-15 Thread Adeel Akbar
I installed Fedora 10 and were not able to joined with windows 20003 domain. Please suggest me how we join with windows domain. Thank you Adeel Akbar -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedorap

sata raid controller

2009-02-15 Thread Amadeus W.M.
Could someone recommend a PCI-X sata raid controller that 1) works out of the box with F10 2) is 100% hardware Thanks! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/Ma

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO (finished)

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
2009/2/15 Kirk : > >> On 15/02/09 22:47, Kirk wrote: >> [snip] >> >> anything. Is there a way to make a sudo password? I'm lost...as >> >> you can tell. >> >> Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is >> selfexplanatory. >> > I'm still too much of a rookie, about 6 weeks, to understan

conflicts in kde updates

2009-02-15 Thread charles zeitler
when trying to update kdebase, i get the following conflicts. Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/libakonadi-kabc.so.4 from install of kdepimlibs-4.2.0-1.fc10.i386 conflicts with file from package kdepim-libs-6:4.1.4-1.fc10.i386 file /usr/include/kde4/plasma/abstractrunner.h from install of

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO (finished)

2009-02-15 Thread Kirk
> On 15/02/09 22:47, Kirk wrote: > [snip] > >> anything. Is there a way to make a sudo password? I'm lost...as > >> you can tell. > > Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is > selfexplanatory. > I'm still too much of a rookie, about 6 weeks, to understand what I need to do. Th

Re: Friendly backup utility

2009-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Steven Stern wrote: I just got a 1TB WD MyBook and am looking for an easy way to use it to back up my desktop machine. I'm currently backing /home to another machine on the network using rsync scripts, but for a full system backup, I'd like something a bit more graphical. I've seen reference to

No Audio playing .wmv files in Xine

2009-02-15 Thread Jim
FC8 / KDE Intel 82801ba/bam audio chipset. I can play flashplayer video/audio no problems. Xine playing .wmv files, will play video, but no sound. This just started about one week ago of having no sound in Xine. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.r

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
suvayu ali wrote: > But the way to edit the file safely is not. Type visudo in terminal to > do that. It launches vi editor and prevents simultaneous edits of the > file. But in practice you'll get away with kdesu kwrite /etc/sudoers just fine. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list f

Removing nppdf plugin from nspluginwrapper

2009-02-15 Thread RDB
Hello, I have a machine with F8 64-bit installed, that has nspluginwrapper for Flash, and apparently, Adobe Acrobat reader (acroread) to be in-browser acrobat reader. I don't want to use acroread because I actually like KPdf as an external reader (not inside Firefox). So I am trying to remove th

Re: Can't print Legal size paper OO-3

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:37:00 -0500 > Jim wrote: > > > What is Wrong ?? > > My theory is that OO printing is simply hosed. I've defined > a custom page size, and it has apparently ignored it. I looked > on the OO forums and saw lots of compla

Re: Friendly backup utility

2009-02-15 Thread RDB
On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:23:17 Steven Stern wrote: > I just got a 1TB WD MyBook and am looking for an easy way to use it to > back up my desktop machine. I'm currently backing /home to another > machine on the network using rsync scripts, but for a full system > backup, I'd like something a

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
2009/2/15 Jim : > Craig White wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:40 -0500, Jim wrote: >> >>> >>> Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in >>> ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. > > Well absorb this. > I put a totally different bookmarks.html (from Fedora 8) in > ~/

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:07 -0500, Jim wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:40 -0500, Jim wrote: > > > >> Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in > >> ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. > >> > > > > it never was... > > it has always be

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread suvayu ali
2009/2/15 Erik P. Olsen : > Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is selfexplanatory. But the way to edit the file safely is not. Type visudo in terminal to do that. It launches vi editor and prevents simultaneous edits of the file. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kirk wrote: > Thanks for the response Kevin. The problem is that the setup.py pops > up a windows (GUI?) type installer dialog vs. the Terminal. Its a > window that's asking for a sudo password. It also has a button to > go to the Terminal, tried su -c in the terminal but didn't do > anything. I

Re: kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

2009-02-15 Thread JohnMinson
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:04 -0500, JohnMinson wrote: Well lets try and not eradicate it . So currently I have all of pulse installed (as best I can tell) . I removed all of kde and pulse , my '.kde' directory and all the '.pulse' files / directories in my home directory

Re: OT : another language item

2009-02-15 Thread Ed Greshko
Simon Slater wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 17:47 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >> I haven't heard it for a very long time though. >> > Watch more Jamie Oliver. > Yu. Now I'm getting hungry -- The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. (Hogfather) mei-m

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Vijay Gill
2009/2/15 Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:11 +, Vijay Gill wrote: >> 2009/2/15 Rick : >> > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895...@mail.gmail.com>, >> > Vijay Gill wrote: >> > >> >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that >> >>the

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:11 +, Vijay Gill wrote: > 2009/2/15 Rick : > > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895...@mail.gmail.com>, > > Vijay Gill wrote: > > > >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that > >>the file is a lot smaller. > > > > Apples an

Re: Can't print Legal size paper OO-3

2009-02-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:37:00 -0500 Jim wrote: > What is Wrong ?? My theory is that OO printing is simply hosed. I've defined a custom page size, and it has apparently ignored it. I looked on the OO forums and saw lots of complaints there as well about things like custom envelope printing not work

Re: Re:Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:47 -0400, Felipe Nunez wrote: > > > >Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that > > > the file is a lot smaller. Also I am sure the the cluster size is > not > > >512M (or am I wrong there?). > > In order to explain this behavior I did follo

Friendly backup utility

2009-02-15 Thread Steven Stern
I just got a 1TB WD MyBook and am looking for an easy way to use it to back up my desktop machine. I'm currently backing /home to another machine on the network using rsync scripts, but for a full system backup, I'd like something a bit more graphical. I've seen reference to TimeVault, but there

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Vijay Gill
2009/2/15 Vijay Gill : > 2009/2/15 Rick : >> In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895...@mail.gmail.com>, >> Vijay Gill wrote: >> >>>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that >>>the file is a lot smaller. >> >> Apples and oranges. You get the file *size* wi

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Craig White wrote: > and apparently a real problem for people like me who use NFS for home > directories "apparently" how? Are there verifiable/concrete problems here? -- Rex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-li

How to allow local popups in Firefox

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Feustel
Does anyone know how to enable popups in local files run via Firefox (with noscript)? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: system-config-network problem (fixed)

2009-02-15 Thread Gerhard Magnus
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet) except on the machine o

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Guillermo Garron
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 15/02/09 22:47, Kirk wrote: > [snip] >>> anything. Is there a way to make a sudo password? I'm lost...as you >>> can tell. > > Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is selfexplanatory. Or you can read here: http://www.go2l

Re: Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Vijay Gill
2009/2/15 Rick : > In article <60fdb1ad0902151205v6ef67c07v128f0c88f5895...@mail.gmail.com>, > Vijay Gill wrote: > >>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that >>the file is a lot smaller. > > Apples and oranges. You get the file *size* with ls and the disk usage > with

Re:Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Felipe Nunez
>Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but ls -l tells that > the file is a lot smaller. Also I am sure the the cluster size is not >512M (or am I wrong there?). In order to explain this behavior I did following test: $ echo "hello" > hi.txt $ ls -l hi.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user grou

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread Jim
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:40 -0500, Jim wrote: Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. it never was... it has always been and will always be in ~/.mozilla/firefox/$some_random_hash.default/bookmarks.

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 15/02/09 22:47, Kirk wrote: [snip] >> anything. Is there a way to make a sudo password? I'm lost...as you >> can tell. Make the necessary changes to /etc/sudoer. The file is selfexplanatory. -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Please don't post HTML to this list. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGui

Re: system-config-network problem

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 14:26 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > >> I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are > >> ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and a

Can't print Legal size paper OO-3

2009-02-15 Thread Jim
In FC8 or FC10 OO-spreadsheet or Writer, even if you do settings in OO at Format > Page > Page and set format to 81/2X14, port or lanscape, then do a print in Cups > Properties , it still has no selection for Legal or 81/2X14 settings and you can't print 81/2X11 pages. Printer is a Epson Sty

Re: mplayer

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:34:05PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:49, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:36, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > > Is mplayer available for F9? > > > > > > > > If n

Re: system-config-network problem

2009-02-15 Thread Gerhard Magnus
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. Everything is working normally (access across the LAN

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:11 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > > Is there an easy way around it? An end-user desktop environment > > requires a full-blown local database to be setup and run. Wow, I > > didn't know that so many users are professional database admins > > and k

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread solarflow99
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:55 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > > > McGuffey, David C. wrote: > >> Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those > >> occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools > >> provides the bes

Re: system-config-network problem

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are > ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. > Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet) > except on the

Re: Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 16:40 -0500, Jim wrote: > Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in > ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. it never was... it has always been and will always be in ~/.mozilla/firefox/$some_random_hash.default/bookmarks.html > And I can't ge

Re: system-config-network problem

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 21:43:14 Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are > ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. > Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet) > except on the ma

Re: Advice on changing to 64 bits

2009-02-15 Thread solarflow99
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: > Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > >> Up to last week, I had Fedora running in subsequent versions 2 or so to 10 >> on my old Pentium 4 system. >> >> Now I have a rather recent new desktop computer with much of the latest >> and greatest hardware:

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Kirk
> Message: 14 > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:18:43 +0100 > From: Kevin Kofler > Subject: Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Kirk wrote: > > I'm trying to install Qemulator. I launch setup.py and answe

system-config-network problem

2009-02-15 Thread Gerhard Magnus
I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet) except on the machine on which I have just installed FC10. Something keeps rep

Whereis Firfoxe-3.0.6 Bookmarks ??

2009-02-15 Thread Jim
Where is the Bookmarks.html file for Firefox-3.0.6, It's not in ~/user/.mozilla/firefox/default anymore. And I can't get Firefox-3.0.6 to import Bookmarks.html that is in /home/user -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Is there an easy way around it? An end-user desktop environment > requires a full-blown local database to be setup and run. Wow, I > didn't know that so many users are professional database admins > and know what to do. No KDE without MySQL. You don't have to configur

Re: Custom Keyboard layout in KDE 4.2

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > I'm using a customized version of the German Dvorak layout and I would > like KDE4 to use that. It used to work in KDE3 where I would just copy > my customized xkb_symbols into the de symbols file and edit a lst file > in xkb/rules.. (I've used > http://hektor.umcs.lub

Re: Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native (was Re: Firefox Running Slow in Linux)

2009-02-15 Thread Nataraj
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 10:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:32 -0800, Nataraj wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:08 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Nataraj > > > wrote: > > > > Does anyone else see unreasonable usage of CPU resources

Re: OT : another language item

2009-02-15 Thread Simon Slater
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 17:47 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I haven't heard it for a very long time though. Watch more Jamie Oliver. -- Hooroo, Simon Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://

Re: Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kirk wrote: > I'm trying to install Qemulator. I launch setup.py and answer the > questions about the installation. If finally requires a SUDO password > and won't accept my SU password. Sudo is not set up by default in Fedora, try su -c instead of sudo. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list ma

Re: Where is my desktop?

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > You can add a "folder view" widget to the workplace. Per default it > shows the contents of ~/Desktop. In 4.2 you can also set your entire desktop to be a folder view. You can still add other widgets such as the trashcan on top of it. Kevin Kofler -- fedora

Re: xorg crashes during updates

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 20:15:55 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > If you report it as a bug, it'll be ignored. > > Dear Freedom Zealot, > > This thread ended 2 days ago when I replied announcing to ignore it. Why > are we talking about this? Carry on insulting people and y

Re: Evolution versus Kmail. Was: First thoughts on KDE4.2...

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:55:38 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > What I was objecting to was that one day, after an update, I suddenly > > found that I was sending html mail. The default now appears to be to > > have html enabled for sending. I consider that very bad practice. To

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Craig White wrote: > It does seem curious to me that they would have chosen MySQL instead of > SQLite http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Why_not_use_sqlite.3F Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinf

Re: Advice on changing to 64 bits

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > I'll give Fedora i86_64 a try. I want to run a Linux host (with a guest > from the dark side of the moon), and hopefully, even wine could be > installed on a 64 bit system if the docs on winehq.org tell the truth. Yes, you can run 32-bit WINE on a 64-bit OS. (It has to

Re: xdg-screensaver not working

2009-02-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrea wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to use xdg-screensaver many times with KDE 4 but it has never > worked. I am on Fedora 9. > > This is the output > > [and...@thinkpad ~]$ xdg-screensaver status > call failed > ERROR: kdesktop KScreensaverIface isEnabled returned '' Nod, xdg-screensaver does

Re: kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

2009-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:04 -0500, JohnMinson wrote: > Well lets try and not eradicate it . > So currently I have all of pulse installed (as best I can tell) . I > removed all of kde and pulse , my '.kde' directory and all the '.pulse' > files / directories in my home directory . Then reinstalle

Re: xorg crashes during updates

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Kevin Kofler wrote: Well, Xorg crashing doesn't sound like a KDE bug at all. It might be an Xorg bug, but seeing how it happens with the proprietary driver and how I haven't seen any such report without that driver it's most likely a driver bug. Sorry to spoil your beans, but I am not using

Re: xorg crashes during updates

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard Hughes wrote: If you report it as a bug, it'll be ignored. Dear Freedom Zealot, This thread ended 2 days ago when I replied announcing to ignore it. Why are we talking about this? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

2009-02-15 Thread Vijay Gill
Hi I just came across this issue on my server at home which complained about the lack of space which I knew was wrong. It was supposed to have atleast 3.5 gig free. On investigating I found that there a few lines showing the following behaviour. Running du -h tells that the file occupies 512M but

Re: Evolution versus Kmail. Was: First thoughts on KDE4.2...

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Anne Wilson wrote: > What I was objecting to was that one day, after an update, I suddenly > found that I was sending html mail. The default now appears to be to have > html enabled for sending. I consider that very bad practice. To have the > capability so that people can switch it on if they d

kde 4.2 pulse eradicate

2009-02-15 Thread JohnMinson
Well lets try and not eradicate it . So currently I have all of pulse installed (as best I can tell) . I removed all of kde and pulse , my '.kde' directory and all the '.pulse' files / directories in my home directory . Then reinstalled kde and pulse with all updates . After re-installing puls

Re: xorg crashes during updates

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Anne Wilson wrote: > Doesn't that rather depend on whether it's a KDE bug or a NVidia bug? Well, Xorg crashing doesn't sound like a KDE bug at all. It might be an Xorg bug, but seeing how it happens with the proprietary driver and how I haven't seen any such report without that driver it's most li

Re: Evolution versus Kmail. Was: First thoughts on KDE4.2...

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tim wrote: > I'd far rather get the occasional HTML mail, when it's warranted, than > have someone attach some word processor document. I get unending grief > from them, but I can usually get something sensible out of HTML. I like those companies which bounce all mails with .doc files attached. :

Re: Trivial question on menu item

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 14:35:05 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have created an item in my Favorites menu > to connect me to a remote computer, "alfred". > I created it with the Menu Editor > (accessed by right-clicking on the f-icon). > > The command reads, "/usr/bin/ssh -Y alfred". > I have set it

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Beartooth wrote: > Dumb question on a small point of purism, btw. IF (big if) I > understand correctly, some if not all of these virtualizers actually > contain (in some sense of "contain") a full install of XP or whatever, > wrapped in linux like a mystery inside an enigma -- or a cyst inside an

Re: Where is my desktop?

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:14:01 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > >> >> Since going over to KDE-4.2 (via standard yum upgrade) > >> >> my desktop seems completely empty, eg no trash-can, etc. > >> >> Where have my lost icons gone? > >> > > >> > You can add a "folder view" wi

Re: [ot] end 'community ass'

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 16:56:35 steve wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I understand that there has been a discussion about the matter on this > >> mailing list, however, i am wondering whether the fact that these > >> headers would contribute to the way google sees the archive was > >> consider

Re: [ot] end 'community ass'

2009-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:47:17 David wrote: > But explain something. Why would you want the 'Recipient' in the line > anyway? Curious minds want to know.  another>>  :-) Actually, I like it. I sometimes get message to the list or to me personally with the same subject. Just occasionally it

Re: mplayer

2009-02-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:49, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:36, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > Is mplayer available for F9? > > > > > > If not, what mpg player is used instead? > > > > > > Do any players work with

Problem Installing program with SUDO

2009-02-15 Thread Kirk
I'm trying to install Qemulator. I launch setup.py and answer the questions about the installation. If finally requires a SUDO password and won't accept my SU password. I've searched the Forums and can't find a remedy. What do I need to do? Thanks, Kirk Ziegler -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:55 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > McGuffey, David C. wrote: >> Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those >> occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools >> provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on >> F10? Wh

Re: mplayer

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:36, Dave Feustel wrote: > > Is mplayer available for F9? > > > > If not, what mpg player is used instead? > > > > Do any players work without KDE? > > > > Thanks. > > Hi Dave. > > I havn't got F9 booted u

Re: Advice on changing to 64 bits

2009-02-15 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kevin Kofler schrieb: Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: 1. Changing to 64 bits is a must for you. 2. You will benefit from it. 3. Keep your hands off, stay with 64 bits. 4. ... At least 2. if not 1. It makes no sense to go with 32-bits on a 64-bit CPU. I should mention that I want to use virtualiza

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Peter Arremann wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:50:48 am john wendel wrote: a 1600x1200 monitor With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems. Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Sorry for the big edit but I cut out everything that wasn't 100% on topic ;) Anyway -

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Gordon Messmer wrote: john wendel wrote: Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Resizing or moving a window is a nightmare, the screen redraw is too slow to keep up with the cursor, and I see lots of screen glitches. When I open an app like Firefox with a complicated scree

Re: [RANT] Installed F10 - X performance went into the crapper

2009-02-15 Thread john wendel
Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:50 -0800, john wendel wrote: With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems. I could drag and resize windows without glitches, scrolling was slow but basically usable, and Vim in a console (where I spend most of my time) was pleasant to use. --

Re: [ot] end 'community ass'

2009-02-15 Thread David
Ed Greshko wrote: > Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 20:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> I guess I only have one question >>> This was discussed and decided upon in August 2008 in the thread with >>> the title "The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list" and no objections >>> were raised at tha

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