Re: New user introduction

2009-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2009 11:43 AM, Jan te Beest (jteb) wrote: > Hey all, > > Just want to introduce myself as a new member. > > Love the work that's going on in Fedora and I'd like to participate in the > community. > > I'm a system architect/programmer at http://dutchsoftware.com [1] and mainly > worki

Re: New user introduction

2009-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2009 11:43 AM, Jan te Beest (jteb) wrote: > Hey all, > > Just want to introduce myself as a new member. > > Love the work that's going on in Fedora and I'd like to participate in the > community. > > I'm a system architect/programmer at http://dutchsoftware.com [1] and mainly > worki

New user introduction

2009-05-28 Thread jteb
Hey all, Just want to introduce myself as a new member. Love the work that's going on in Fedora and I'd like to participate in the community. I'm a system architect/programmer at http://dutchsoftware.com [1] and mainly working on http://elvisready.com. [2] We're using lots of opensource soft

Re: ati radeon drivers 4670 hd, and fedora 11

2009-05-28 Thread deathnote6
I downloaded the file and ran the sudo yum install kmod-fglrx, it says no package available might be wrong package. my specs are Specs Release 11 (Leonidas) Kernel Linux 2.6.29.3-155.fc11.86_64 GNOME 2.261 -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:08:37AM -0700, john wendel wrote: >> Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >Steve Underwood wrote: >> >>I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. >> > >> >Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAud

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >On 05/28/2009 06:32 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:17:51 -0300 >> >> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: >>> but maybe >>> some folk just did not realize that yet >> >> And just how would they realize how simple all that gibberish >> actually is

Re: Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

2009-05-28 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs. Is there an open source application server that works more or less the same and

RE: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Stuart Munro
Bob I have used this utility before with good success http://www.soft32.com/download_191651.html I have used this one with greater success http://www.killdisk.com/?gclid=CKatoNLX4JoCFQENDQodO0xTAQ both are free utilities -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: >I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most >dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or >some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? > >Is there free software that can write

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Clint Dilks
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Robert L Cochran writes: I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? Is there free software that can write

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most > dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or > some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? > > Is there free software t

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert L Cochran writes: I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of

Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

2009-05-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs. Is there an open source application server that works more or less the same and will run on either Fedora

OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to every storage

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Meyer
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install dvd). I get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but then it fails. The problem appears to be related to my updates repo. I've tried it with both baseurl and mirrors, without success. Errors I've seen inc

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread giuseppe . fuggiano
2009/5/28 Anne Wilson : Thanks for trying to help.  I can reach the Internet on other sites.  I can use konqueror to reach a mirror site and download packages manually. This box has been upgraded rather than a clean install.  I suspect that $releasever is not being correctly passed, but I don't

Re: f10 install, still no X [success with xdriver=vesa vga=792]

2009-05-28 Thread jackson byers
David, thanks for your suggestions re the xorg wiki I had already tried Xorg -configure to generate an xorg.conf, but that by itself not enough to boot to X I have since found that I _can_ boot to X _if_ I use as kernel parameters xdriver=vesa vga=792 I had been using these for a couple of day

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/5/28 Jim : > On 05/28/2009 12:02 PM, Les wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: >> >>> >>> Jim wrote: >>> On 05/26/2009 09:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > grammar. ;-) > Sorry about my grammar , but i never got past the Third Gr

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Jim
On 05/28/2009 12:36 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Max Pyziur wrote: Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com "All the netbooks I tried had compatibility p

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Jim
On 05/28/2009 12:02 PM, Les wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Jim wrote: On 05/26/2009 09:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: grammar. ;-) Sorry about my grammar , but i never got past the Third Grade, my family was poor and I had to take up Ban

Re: networking question

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:44 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > The WAN information includes an "IP > address" and a "Gateway" which differ only in their last two sections > (i.e. IP address xxx.xxx.181.193 and Gateway xxx.xxx.180.1) Why are > these two addresses needed? It's important to understand th

Re: No sound from Flash (YouTube)

2009-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Ian Pilcher writes: > This is 64-bit Fedora 10 with flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386. At this point you should probably be using the 64-bit flash on 64-bit systems. Here are my notes from when I did it. Caution the pathnames on adobe's site may have changed a bit. # alpha release of

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:38:56 Craig White wrote: > silly me, I'm using F11-preview with KDE and I don't notice it slow at > all - at least as long as I'm in performance mode. On battery, well, > that is a bit slower but this isn't a device that I'm choosing for high > performance anyway. But th

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 28 May 2009 13:38:56 -0700, Craig White wrote: [] >> I believe it would be - it was certainly better than the xandros on the >> eeepc 701. > > well, xandros is a spin off debian so I wouldn't bag on it for that. The > only challenge is for netbook manufacturers to produce a

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:38 +0200, Christof Damian wrote: > I am using F10 on the EeePC which works ok, I just have problems with > wakeup after suspend sometimes. You might also need to install some > stuff from rpmfusion to get wireless working. I also had problems with Resume not reconnecting t

Re: preupgrade F10 --> Rawhide [SOLVED]

2009-05-28 Thread Germán Racca
Well, I have checked the grub.conf and I realized that the line "default=1" was wrong, and I put "default=0" and now booted correctly. Thanks Konstantino, I think in that link must be a similar solution. Thanks again, German. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Germán Rac

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:27:37 Andras Simon wrote: > On 5/28/09, Konstantin Svist wrote: > > Another example from my experience: I bought a Creative webcam on > > impulse (it was very cheap, found it on Slickdeals). Plug it in - no > > dice. Search for the drivers - nothing. Some similar models

pulseaudio capability question

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
In the quest to find something useful pulseaudio can do for me, I'm wondering if it can do more than just volume when it is mixing several audio sources? I would love to learn I can insert an output filter to use ffmpeg to do on the fly conversion of all my audio to something that can be sent to t

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:16:32 Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > wget: unable to resolve host address `download.fedoraproject.org' - > > strange! > > To reach that mirror you have to assure that: > > 1. You can resolve hostnames > Look in /etc/resolv.conf for a valid nameserv

Re: networking question

2009-05-28 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Gerhard Magnus wrote: One thing I've always liked about computers is that it's possible for one to do so much more than one understands; a little knowledge turns out to have a great deal of leverage. But now I'd like to backtrack a bit and learn something about the LAN I've already cobbled togeth

networking question

2009-05-28 Thread Gerhard Magnus
One thing I've always liked about computers is that it's possible for one to do so much more than one understands; a little knowledge turns out to have a great deal of leverage. But now I'd like to backtrack a bit and learn something about the LAN I've already cobbled together. My interface with t

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:58:18 Craig White wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >>> Mine came with Lupus (I think) Linux. I removed it almost from day one >>> and installed Fedora 10. >>> >> My understanding is that it is called

RE: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
> From: Simon Wesp > The problem is (for me) that it is definitly pornographic, because it > helps you to get this stuff. You know that a instigator for a > murder is > guilty like the murderer himself! so this is for me forbidden and > should not be allowed in fedora. Say what? ::jaw drops

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:58:18 Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 May 2009 18:43:33 Craig White wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > > > > > Litt

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread giuseppe . fuggiano
2009/5/27 Anne Wilson : wget: unable to resolve host address `download.fedoraproject.org' - strange! Also, are you behind a firewall? Are you behind a proxy? -- Giuseppe Fuggiano Linux user #483710 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-lis

Re: preupgrade F10 --> Rawhide

2009-05-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Germán Racca wrote: > Hello everybody: > > I have recently run "preupgrade" in my Fedora 10, and I choosed > to upgrade to Rawhide. The "preupgrade" program made all the > necessary tasks (downloaded fc11 packages, etc.) and when finished > it asked to reboot. I rebooted and I got a black screen sa

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Robin Laing
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:52:23 +0200 Simon Wesp wrote: The problem is (for me) that it is definitly pornographic, because it helps you to get this stuff. You know that a instigator for a murder is guilty like the murderer himself! so this is for me forbidden and should not be a

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:58:18 Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 28 May 2009 18:43:33 Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > > > > Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues > > > > http://o

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/28/09, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Another example from my experience: I bought a Creative webcam on > impulse (it was very cheap, found it on Slickdeals). Plug it in - no > dice. Search for the drivers - nothing. Some similar models are > supported, but not this one (different chipset, I thin

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > wget: unable to resolve host address `download.fedoraproject.org' - strange! To reach that mirror you have to assure that: 1. You can resolve hostnames Look in /etc/resolv.conf for a valid nameserver; 2. You should verify

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Burger
> On Thursday 28 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>Steve Underwood wrote: >>> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. >> >>Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio >> is >>evil. >> >>> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little >

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Steve Underwood wrote: >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. > >Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is >evil. > >> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little output >> to h

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Damián Rodrí­guez Sánchez
that's because it's a lot more common for mac drivers to come available with the hardware you buy for your computer. have you ever seen a keyborad, video card, printer or whatever come with a linux driver in the accompanying cd? Arthur Pemberton escreveu: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:50 AM,

Re: No sound from Flash (YouTube)

2009-05-28 Thread Ian Pilcher
RS wrote: > > Have you tried the 64-bit flash plugin at > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz > > > I know it's Alpha - but atleast it works well enough with all the > youtube and CBS streaming vids..and it avoids a whole lotta

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 28 May 2009 10:43:33 -0700 Craig White wrote: > What the author doesn't say is that he has learned to put up with > Windows problems and writes as if those problems are unique to Linux. > They are not. Yep. In fact the very first time I ever had a "plug & play" scanner actually function b

Re: No sound from Flash (YouTube)

2009-05-28 Thread RS
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:25 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I'm not sure when this broke; it was working at some point. > > Other sounds work, but Flash gives me nothing but silence. > > This is 64-bit Fedora 10 with flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386. > > Suggestions appreciated. Thanks! > > --

No sound from Flash (YouTube)

2009-05-28 Thread Ian Pilcher
I'm not sure when this broke; it was working at some point. Other sounds work, but Flash gives me nothing but silence. This is 64-bit Fedora 10 with flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386. Suggestions appreciated. Thanks! -- ==

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:53 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:41:12 Konstantin Svist wrote: > > True, except for one major difference: when your printer doesn't work > > under Windows, it's usually because you didn't install the driver yet > > (or installed the wrong one). Unle

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 May 2009 18:43:33 Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > > > Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:41:12 Konstantin Svist wrote: > True, except for one major difference: when your printer doesn't work > under Windows, it's usually because you didn't install the driver yet > (or installed the wrong one). Unless the printer is at least a few years > old, there are always

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Craig White wrote: > What the author doesn't say is that he has learned to put up with > Windows problems and writes as if those problems are unique to Linux. > They are not. > True, except for one major difference: when your printer doesn't work under Windows, it's usually because you didn't i

preupgrade F10 --> Rawhide

2009-05-28 Thread Germán Racca
Hello everybody: I have recently run "preupgrade" in my Fedora 10, and I choosed to upgrade to Rawhide. The "preupgrade" program made all the necessary tasks (downloaded fc11 packages, etc.) and when finished it asked to reboot. I rebooted and I got a black screen saying "GRUB _" (the _ is blinkin

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 May 2009 18:43:33 Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_per > >sonal_journal > > > > fyi, > > > I suppose inheren

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
Les wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Jim wrote: On 05/26/2009 09:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: grammar. ;-) Sorry about my grammar , but i never got past the Third Grade, my family was poor and I had to take up Bank Robbery, it pays better than having a College Ed-

Re: Can't get updates

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 15:45:45 Antonio M wrote: > 2009/5/27 Anne Wilson : > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 15:09:03 François Patte wrote: > >> Anne Wilson a écrit : > >> > I'm having great problem after upgrading F9 to F10 (using an install > >> > dvd).  I get huge numbers of updates downloaded, but

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Alan Cox
> > Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic > > windows driver layer in linux that provides all the interfaces > > of windows drivers to the kernel so you could use any > > windows driver for linux :-). > > > No one ever seems to expect their Mac to use Windows drivers

F11 release moved to 2009-06-09

2009-05-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
Release date has slipped to June 9: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - htt

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal > > fyi, I suppose inherent is the assumption that the problems don't happen with Windows and tha

Re: Streaming media server

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 07:42 -0600, Wendell Nichols wrote: > I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a server > on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and playing the > files in amarok. However if any disruption to the wireless network > occurs, I lose the

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:36:46 -0700 > Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> Is there a driver wrapper for printers out there (similar to >> ndiswrapper)? If not, there should be :P > > Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic >

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:36:46 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: > Is there a driver wrapper for printers out there (similar to > ndiswrapper)? If not, there should be :P Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic windows driver layer in linux that provides all the interfaces of

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Konstantin Svist
Max Pyziur wrote: > > Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal > > > fyi, > > Max Pyziur > p...@brama.com > "All the netbooks I tried had compatibility problems with other external devices. The netbo

WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-28 Thread Max Pyziur
Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal fyi, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guide

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Les
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > Jim wrote: > > On 05/26/2009 09:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> grammar. ;-) > > Sorry about my grammar , but i never got past the Third Grade, > > my family was poor and I had to take up Bank Robbery, it pays better > > than having a Colle

Re: Kernel update nuked my machine

2009-05-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:29:23AM -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > Thanks. > > Is there a separate Rescue CD for FC10 or does the live CD serve that > purpose. I haven't found a link to a Rescue CD for 10. You can use the "boot.iso" found in the images/ folder of any distribution site: http://downl

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Delaunay Christophe < christophe.delau...@thomson.net> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Many thanks for your interest to my problem. Sorry, I may not have > replied as soon as you'd expect. This is because, after reading your > response and others, I tried several things wh

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Christof Damian
I am using F10 on the EeePC which works ok, I just have problems with wakeup after suspend sometimes. You might also need to install some stuff from rpmfusion to get wireless working. Another distribution to try would be: http://moblin.org/ . It is a bit like Xandros but nicer and is a Fedora fork

RE: Kernel update nuked my machine

2009-05-28 Thread Smith, Herb
Thanks. Is there a separate Rescue CD for FC10 or does the live CD serve that purpose. I haven't found a link to a Rescue CD for 10. Herb -Original Message- From: Patrick O'Callaghan [mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:51 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, > and am thinking of installing a different OS. This came up just a short time ago. To answer your question directly, I've found F10 to be a very good fit on my EeePC. I put a LiveC

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, > and am thinking of installing a different OS. > > I would like to install Fedora, > as I am running Fedora or CentOS on all my other machines, > but I'm attracted by the fact that

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:00 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, > and am thinking of installing a different OS. > > I would like to install Fedora, > as I am running Fedora or CentOS on all my other machines, > but I'm attracted by the fact that

Re: Kernel update nuked my machine

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:47 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > Tuesday evening the automatic updater downloaded a kernel update. After > rebooting all I get is a totally black screen with "GRUB_" in the upper > left corner of the screen. It responds to nothing on the keyboard. > > This is a dual boot D

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Jim
On 05/28/2009 10:26 AM, David wrote: On 5/28/2009 8:00 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, and am thinking of installing a different OS. I would like to install Fedora, as I am running Fedora or CentOS on all my other machines, but I'm attracte

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread David
On 5/28/2009 8:00 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, > and am thinking of installing a different OS. > > I would like to install Fedora, > as I am running Fedora or CentOS on all my other machines, > but I'm attracted by the fact that there is > a

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Simon Wesp wrote: This problem is like the duplicated zlib problematic for rsync and zsync. No, it isn't. Is a modified zlib a duplicate of zlib? Or is it is own fork? The latter. Or whatever? It's bad design. A package which hacks around into commonly accepted and widely used system lib

RE: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Delaunay Christophe
Hi Kevin, Many thanks for your interest to my problem. Sorry, I may not have replied as soon as you'd expect. This is because, after reading your response and others, I tried several things which were suggested to me. But, first, here's my problem: My PC is quite old. It's a Compaq desktop 5100

Re: Streaming media server

2009-05-28 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Wendell Nichols wrote: > I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a server on > my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and playing the files in > amarok. However if any disruption to the wireless network occurs, I lose > the mo

Kernel update nuked my machine

2009-05-28 Thread Smith, Herb
Tuesday evening the automatic updater downloaded a kernel update. After rebooting all I get is a totally black screen with "GRUB_" in the upper left corner of the screen. It responds to nothing on the keyboard. This is a dual boot Dell machine with FC10 and Windows XP. Any suggestions? Is ther

Re: Fedora and jabber MSN gateway

2009-05-28 Thread wwp
Hello Michael, On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:30:07 +1000 Michael Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:52:08 +0200 > wwp wrote: > > > Hello there, > > > > > > does anybody here has ever set up a jabber daemon with a full-featured > > MSN gateway on a Fedora? Are there helpful howto's online for

Re: Streaming media server

2009-05-28 Thread Seann Clark
Wendell Nichols wrote: I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a server on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and playing the files in amarok. However if any disruption to the wireless network occurs, I lose the mount and, as you know, its hell to recov

Streaming media server

2009-05-28 Thread Wendell Nichols
I currently play my music (which is stored in a file system on a server on my home network) by mounting the filesystem via nfs and playing the files in amarok. However if any disruption to the wireless network occurs, I lose the mount and, as you know, its hell to recover an nfs mount if the n

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/28/2009 06:32 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:17:51 -0300 > Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > >> but maybe >> some folk just did not realize that yet > > And just how would they realize how simple all that gibberish > actually is? It just comes to them in a flash of insight perhaps?

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:17:51 -0300 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > but maybe > some folk just did not realize that yet And just how would they realize how simple all that gibberish actually is? It just comes to them in a flash of insight perhaps? Or maybe the zero documentation has something to do with

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: > Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > >> Andras Simon wrote: >> >>> On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> > Steve Underwood wrote: >>> >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. >>> > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth

Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Alessandro Boggiano
Timothy Murphy ha scritto: I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, and am thinking of installing a different OS. I would like to install Fedora, Does anyone have an argument for installing Fedora on this very small machine? Hello Timothy, I started with an Ubuntu 9.04 on my

EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

2009-05-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've got rather annoyed with the Xandros on my EeePC-4G, and am thinking of installing a different OS. I would like to install Fedora, as I am running Fedora or CentOS on all my other machines, but I'm attracted by the fact that there is a version of Ubuntu (eeebuntu) apparently specifically for

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Alan Cox
> This package comes without pornographic content, but it help you to > get this content. So its no different to the origins of pan ;) which we do ship. > The problem is (for me) that it is definitly pornographic, because it > helps you to get this stuff. You know that a instigator for a murder i

Re: A wallet mystery

2009-05-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Kevin Kofler wrote: >> It seems that each account in KMail must have an identification no, >> but where it can be found escapes me. > > In the config files in ~/.kde/share/config. Thanks. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School o

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Andras Simon wrote: On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Steve Underwood wrote: >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is > evil. This is not true (and is an insult, I'd think). [

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Wesp
Tom Horsley wrotes: TH> Shouldn't you remove all bittorrent clients then :-). mh I know my arumentation has a big gap :-) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem schönen Hainzell Simon Wesp The G in GNU stands for GNU http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SimonWesp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:52:23 +0200 Simon Wesp wrote: > The problem is (for me) that it is definitly pornographic, because it > helps you to get this stuff. You know that a instigator for a murder is > guilty like the murderer himself! so this is for me forbidden and > should not be allowed in fedo

Re: Fedora and jabber MSN gateway

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Fleming
On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:52:08 +0200 wwp wrote: > Hello there, > > > does anybody here has ever set up a jabber daemon with a full-featured > MSN gateway on a Fedora? Are there helpful howto's online for that? Yes, I have one running the MSN Python Transport - It's no different than installing o

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2009/5/28 Andras Simon : > On 5/28/09, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: >> Andras Simon wrote: >>> On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> > Steve Underwood wrote: >>> >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. >>> > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that >>> PulseAudio is >

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Wesp
Jens Kaddelbach wrotes: JK> sounds good! thank you. Can I have a link for that review? mh, well The problem is for me, that the guidelines says: "Content must not be pornographic, or contain nudity, whether animated, simulated, or photographed. There are better places on the Internet to get

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/28/2009 04:09 PM, Jens Kaddelbach wrote: > sounds good! thank you. Can I have a link for that review? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503013 Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Jens Kaddelbach
sounds good! thank you. Can I have a link for that review? 2009/5/28 Simon Wesp > Simon Wesp wrotes: > SW> very interessting... I saw this 2 days ago on gnomefiles.org > SW> There is a gap in the guidelines, for a case like that! > SW> mh, I will take a look in it. > > @ Jens, > I created a rev

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/28/09, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > Steve Underwood wrote: >> >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. >> > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that >> PulseAudio is >> > evil. >> >> This is not true

Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Wesp
Simon Wesp wrotes: SW> very interessting... I saw this 2 days ago on gnomefiles.org SW> There is a gap in the guidelines, for a case like that! SW> mh, I will take a look in it. @ Jens, I created a review a few minutes ago. I don't know if it is allowed in Fedora, because i didn't find a hint in

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Andrew Kelly
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > Jim wrote: > > On 05/26/2009 09:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> grammar. ;-) > > Sorry about my grammar , but i never got past the Third Grade, > > my family was poor and I had to take up Bank Robbery, it pays better > > than having a Colle

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

2009-05-28 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
Andras Simon wrote: On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Steve Underwood wrote: >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is > evil. This is not true (and is an insult, I'd think). [...] > So PulseAudio

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