Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:34:59 -0700, "Daniel B. Thurman" wrote: > On 10/09/2009 12:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > If you have residential cable or dsl from the local duopoly they > > are quite likely to be messing with you. They may provide DNS with bogus > > TTLs, send RST packets inte

root mail

2009-10-11 Thread Konstantin Svist
Hi all, I have a problem with unix mail Whenever there's a cron failure, etc. mail gets sent to root on localhost. It seems that it tries to use sendmail, except I have ssmtp set up in the alternatives. From reading the docs, it looks like ssmtp doesn't support unix mail. I don't want the lo

Re: F11 and super user

2009-10-11 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 18:03 + schrieb Croombe F. Pensom: > Ever since I upgraded to F11, I can no longer log in as root. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_Root_User_For_GNOME_Display_Manager Regards, Christoph -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: ht

Re: xmessage alternative?

2009-10-11 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 21:25 -0400 schrieb Steve Blackwell: > I'm using xmessage from /etc/profile to put up a message whenever > anyone logs in. It works fine but it is butt ugly! Does anyone know of > an alternative? Perhaps something that uses a GNOME theme? yum install gxmessage Regar

Re: F11: Problem with Glade Interface Designver (v3): TreeView?

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 10/11/2009 03:03 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Apologies if this is not the proper place to > post this question. > > There are two versions of "Glade Interface Designer" > programs, v2.12.2 and v3.6.1, provided with F11 and I > seem to be having a problem with GID v3.6.1. > > There seems to be

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread David
On 10/11/2009 6:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 10:57 -0400, David wrote: >> So your point is that Fedora is a a GNOME *based* distribution taken >> from the Docs? I would imagine that the 'GNOME thing' you see is a >> result of the Doc author being familiar with GNOME and

Re: intel integrated graphics

2009-10-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:30:21PM +0100, jenny chapman wrote: > > Hi I have an intel chipset G31/946Z with graphics (GMA 3100). I have > just installed fedora 11 but am not able to change the screen resolution > so assume I may need additional drivers. New to linux. Advice much > appreciated.

Re: Converting GPT to MBR

2009-10-11 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:20:07AM -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > Subject: Converting GPT to MBR > > > Second try to find an answer... > Hi all, > I purchased a 1.5 TB HD, and I used gparted to create 4 partitions (GPT), > without knowing that winx XP (32) cannot access GPT. Among the > is a v

Re: intel integrated graphics

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, jenny chapman wrote: > Hi I have an intel chipset G31/946Z with graphics (GMA 3100). I have > just installed fedora 11 but am not able to change the screen resolution > so assume I may need additional drivers. New to linux. Advice much > appreciated. > > This has been

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 10:57 -0400, David wrote: > So your point is that Fedora is a a GNOME *based* distribution taken > from the Docs? I would imagine that the 'GNOME thing' you see is a > result of the Doc author being familiar with GNOME and not KDE. On the > help list I often see someone ask fo

F11: Problem with Glade Interface Designver (v3): TreeView?

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Apologies if this is not the proper place to post this question. There are two versions of "Glade Interface Designer" programs, v2.12.2 and v3.6.1, provided with F11 and I seem to be having a problem with GID v3.6.1. There seems to be some widgets that are not supported, hence some widgets being

intel integrated graphics

2009-10-11 Thread jenny chapman
Hi I have an intel chipset G31/946Z with graphics (GMA 3100). I have just installed fedora 11 but am not able to change the screen resolution so assume I may need additional drivers. New to linux. Advice much appreciated. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: privoxy conundrum [solved]

2009-10-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Frank Cox wrote: > customizegoogle is available through mozilla Thanks for the correction :-0 I will keep it in mind, in case I need further protection. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fe

Swing applications' menu have no border

2009-10-11 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
Hello all, Swing applications' menus have no border when Clearlook theme is selected in both fedora 10 and f11, however when nodoka theme is selected, the menus are well displayed. currently i have fedora 11 with the last updates which include: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-29.b16.fc11 gtk2-engine

F11: Last update, brought back daily system lockouts

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Yeah, every morning, I cannot log in, from the keyboard nor from another system. I am forced to hit the reset button. My system is an Intel Core 2 Duo. When is this annoying problem going to get fixed or has this been reported as a bug somewhere? Here is what I see in /var/log/message file: ==

Re: Errors from Firefox

2009-10-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Julian Aloofi < julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 11.10.2009, 11:39 -0700 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: > > I'm getting a lot (>42000) of the following message showing up in > > my .xsession-errors file > > > > (firefox:15823): Gdk-WARNING **:

Re: Errors from Firefox

2009-10-11 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am Sonntag, den 11.10.2009, 11:39 -0700 schrieb Paolo Galtieri: > I'm getting a lot (>42000) of the following message showing up in > my .xsession-errors file > > (firefox:15823): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead > > pid 15823 is /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.3/firefox > > I also see the fo

why do youtubes play at double speed?

2009-10-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've been fighting with this for a while -- any attempt to play youtube videos plays them at what appears to be double speed, no audio, and fairly erratically. i have a fully-updated f11 system, and i have no idea what the problem is -- flash had been working fine for the longest time. any tho

Errors from Firefox

2009-10-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I'm getting a lot (>42000) of the following message showing up in my .xsession-errors file (firefox:15823): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead pid 15823 is /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.3/firefox I also see the following errors: (firefox:5767): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x3f02525 unexpectedl

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 10/09/2009 12:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 14:12:32 -0400, > "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" wrote: > >> Anyway, it is unlikely that your ISP is messing with you (has such a >> case ever been reported?), but it is technically possible. >> > I think what you mean

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/11/2009 11:13 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Put in this way, it appears that KDE and PPC are > just "supported because there are a few weird > people and weird machines around". Seems people try hard to find fault. However the design is changing for Fedora 12 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/W

Re: strange issue with XFCE spin LiveCD

2009-10-11 Thread Globe Trotter
--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > From: Kevin Fenzi > Subject: Re: strange issue with XFCE spin LiveCD > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 2:33 PM > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:31:29 -0700 > (PDT) > Globe Trotter > wrote: > > ...snip... > > > None of the suggesti

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 10/11/2009 07:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Nevertheless, it remains true that Fedora is a Gnome-based distro! Why? >> Because it's all over the documentation. I doubt you'll find the phrase >> "Fedora is a Gnome-based distro" anywhere in the docs, but the fact

Re: privoxy conundrum [solved]

2009-10-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:47:19 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I had a look at customizegoogle, but I pass. Thanks for > the suggestion, but I prefer to avoid installing > scripts and firefox addons, etc., that do not originate > from reputable sources like fedora, mozilla, etc. customizegoo

Re: Strange happenings in Thunderbird-3.0-2.7.b4.fc11

2009-10-11 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2009 11:42 AM, Jim wrote: > Thunderbird 3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 has strange problems going on. > My friends are calling me and telling me that Mouse won't work , can't > send email > on SMTP server, loosing delete Icons etc. > > On the first two I h

Re: privoxy conundrum [solved]

2009-10-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Frank Cox wrote: > [google-analytics.com is] included in my user.action file. and it hasn't caused any problems yet > that I'm aware of. I have removed ssl.google-analytics.com from the sites that bypass privoxy, but to be safe, I did make an entry to refuse cookies. I checked your user.actio

Strange happenings in Thunderbird-3.0-2.7.b4.fc11

2009-10-11 Thread Jim
Thunderbird 3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 has strange problems going on. My friends are calling me and telling me that Mouse won't work , can't send email on SMTP server, loosing delete Icons etc. On the first two I had them move .thunderbird into /Download, temp, and uninstall Thunderbird and reinstall an

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread David
On 10/11/2009 10:18 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:01 -0400, David wrote: >> The applications have to be written in 'something'. These happen to be >> written in GTK. And my point was that that does not make Fedora a >> GNOME distribution. It appears to me that Fedora *ch

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/11/2009 07:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Nevertheless, it remains true that Fedora is a Gnome-based distro! Why? > Because it's all over the documentation. I doubt you'll find the phrase > "Fedora is a Gnome-based distro" anywhere in the docs, but the fact > remains that at every junct

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:01 -0400, David wrote: > The applications have to be written in 'something'. These happen to be > written in GTK. And my point was that that does not make Fedora a > GNOME distribution. It appears to me that Fedora *chooses* to be a > GNOME Desktop default distro. Well, th

Re: Restoring Network Manager Applet

2009-10-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 12:04 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > but I am using XFCE Stick that detail in the subject line. It's more likely to get the attention of someone with an answer, that way. I haven't tried XFCE for a couple of years. That, or try a Google search. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: Restoring Network Manager Applet

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Tim wrote: >> I have a computer where the Network Manager Applet cannot be seen. How >> can I restore it on the system tray? > > If you're using Gnome, you may have removed the "Notification Area" > which is where the Network Manager applet (and others) appear.  R

Re: Restoring Network Manager Applet

2009-10-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:36 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > I have a computer where the Network Manager Applet cannot be seen. How > can I restore it on the system tray? If you're using Gnome, you may have removed the "Notification Area" which is where the Network Manager applet (and others) appear. R

Restoring Network Manager Applet

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have a computer where the Network Manager Applet cannot be seen. How can I restore it on the system tray? Thanks in advance, Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Re: privoxy conundrum

2009-10-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Frank Cox wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >> Any way to solve the conundrum? > > 1. It's included in my user.action file. and it hasn't caused any problems > yet that I'm aware of. > > 2. If you read the article referred you to earlier you will discover a > reference to customizegoog

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:10:27 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > > I took a look before writing my answer and the information I got is it's a > mean for people on the net or your ISP to take a look at the data on your > computer *before* it's encrypted. Not on your computer, when it reaches t