installation from boot.iso on a usb stick

2010-01-08 Thread Andras Simon
Is this possible? Or only the live cd can be transferred to a usb drive? I like what http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/ch-new-users.html#sn-which-files says about installing from boot.iso, but if that requires a "real cd", then I won't be able to do it. By using livecd-is

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Marcel Rieux wrote: > Timothy's messages do not end up in my spam box anymore. I guess he > solved the problem. I'm not sure. I've just found one "spam" from him dated 19/12. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2009/12/19 Andras Simon : [...] >> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway. >> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as >> "not spam", hoping to teach it that the

Re: Installing F12 on a Netbook sans Swap

2009-12-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Richard Shaw wrote: >> The text based installer _intentionally_ does not have support for custom >> partitioning since F12. Its in the Release notes. > > Well that's a pain... I guess I'll have to search for/submit a bug for > my buttons not being visible in anaconda. I had to use a

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: > >> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway. >> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as >> "not spam", hoping to teach it that

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following >> mention: >> >> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of >> following any links in it or of providing the sender

Re: f12 guide

2009-12-16 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/16/09, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I have just installed f12 on a laptop and I want to finish the install. > > Searching for the fedora guide for f12, I can just find f11. > > Where is the f12 guide? I don't know which one you're

Re: Troubleshout hibernate

2009-12-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/2/09, Eric Tanguy wrote: > I try to hibernate my fedora 12 with nvidia driver from rpmfusion. The > hibernate stage works fine. The problem is on resume. The system go back > normally and the screen switch off and that's all. It seems the problem > is well known but i can't find a solution o

Re: OT: Linux Malware is possible? if it is :(

2009-12-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/2/09, Frank Cox wrote: > Many people lose sight of the fact that their important data is in their > home directory. > > If I lose /bin I can download and reinstall stuff to create it again. > > If I lose my home directory, all of my data is gone and I can't just > download it from some rand

Re: how to find out dead links

2009-11-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/14/09, Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > wget -r -p -U Firefox "http://www.somesite.com/"; 2>&1 | grep 404 > 404.txt > > > why come 404.txt is 0 Byte? how to put the STDOUT to a file with wget? I think what you're doing is fine, and the only reason 404.txt is empty is that there's no server liste

Re: Dell Latitude Suspend/Restore

2009-11-09 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/9/09, Dave Cross wrote: [...] > Most things still work fine, but suspend/restore has stopped working. > Well, suspend seems to work ok, but restore doesn't. I now have to > reboot the laptop each time I want to use it. > > My suspicion is that the Live image doesn't include an RPM that I w

Re: pdf viewer wont zoom in enough

2009-11-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/2/09, David Timms wrote: > On 11/03/2009 01:42 AM, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 11/2/09, David Timms wrote: >>> Wondering if anyone is having trouble reading pdf files. Document >>> Viewer. Using poppler 0.10.7 (cairo), opens the pdf OK, but even at the >>&

Re: pdf viewer wont zoom in enough

2009-11-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/2/09, David Timms wrote: > Wondering if anyone is having trouble reading pdf files. Document > Viewer. Using poppler 0.10.7 (cairo), opens the pdf OK, but even at the > largest zoom (400%), the page is shown at less than the full height of > the screen, making it real hard to read it. > > Wh

Re: File conversion

2009-10-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 10/18/09, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 18Oct2009 13:52, Ed Greshko wrote: > | It would seem that some people have had success > | http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/convert-avi-to-3gp-using-ffmpeg/ > > Isn't that the reverse of what Ashley's after? Don't judge a webpage by its url :-

Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

2009-10-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 10/14/09, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 10/14/09, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > How is it working for you ? >> >> If, by 'any other mini', you mean 'any netbook', then yes, I run it on >>

Re: Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

2009-10-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 10/14/09, Linuxguy123 wrote: > How is it working for you ? If, by 'any other mini', you mean 'any netbook', then yes, I run it on an underpowered netbook (1st gen eee pc, but with memory upgraded to 2GB), and I'm quite happy with it. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: [FYI] Laptop/netbook keyboard on/off toggle of WiFi transmitter stopped working with Fedora's 2.6.30 kernel

2009-10-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 10/12/09, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > On 2009/10/11 Andras Simon wrote: >> >> On 10/9/09, Mike Fleetwood wrote: >>> If I should be logging a bug please let me know. >> >> It'd be useful, I think. > > Bugzilla report raised. > > https://bugzil

Re: [FYI] Laptop/netbook keyboard on/off toggle of WiFi transmitter stopped working with Fedora's 2.6.30 kernel

2009-10-10 Thread Andras Simon
On 10/9/09, Mike Fleetwood wrote: [...] > On my Asus EeePC 1000HE netbook with Fedora 11 the keyboard toggle of > the WiFi transmitter, Fn+F2, use to work perfectly. However since > upgrading from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 this stopped working. [...] > If I should be logging a bug please let me

Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-23 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/23/09, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 09-09-23 04:15:14, Andras Simon wrote: > >> No. Neither are bash commands, but you issue them in a shell (which, >> in your case, is probably bash). Since the shell sees your command >> and its arguments first, it can and does manipula

Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-23 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/23/09, gil...@altern.org wrote: >> gil...@altern.org wrote: > Those packages provide contributed multilingualization (m17n) input > maps > for... whatever the language. If you don't need them, just say yum erase m17n\* >>> >>> Yeah, I suppose with yum they wouldn't come

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/21/09, Aaron Konstam wrote: > As you seem to have figured out Sugar is a Window Manager just like > Gnome and KDE are. Once it is the Window manager it takes over the I don't know about Sugar, but Gnome and KDE are certainly _not_ window managers. It may not matter in this discussion, but s

Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/21/09, gil...@altern.org wrote: [...] > Remains the cases of dictionaries, which is more complex than I thought. > Why install: > > Jun 29 18:21:54 Updated: m17n-contrib-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch > Jun 29 18:23:14 Updated: m17n-contrib-marathi-1.1.9-6.fc11.noarch > Jun 29 18:23:15 Updated: m17n-co

Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/21/09, gil...@altern.org wrote: [...] > Same goes for certain software. I don't have a trace of Blutooth hardware > on my system. Certainly the install program must have found that out. Why > do I receive updates for Blutooth? What if you had a bluetooth usb dongle? How does the installer

Re: F11 and jackd

2009-09-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/15/09, lanas wrote: > Hi, > > Using yum I've installed jackd and qjackctl on an fully updated F11 > x86_64 system. When using qjackctl to start jackd it reports that it > cannot connect to alsa. What would be the proper configuration to use > jackd on a F11 x86_64 system ? Maybe PulseAud

Re: F11: How do you find & run QtRuby?

2009-09-09 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/9/09, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I thought Id try QtRuby but I am not finding > it in the Programmers menu? > > How do you run it? I'm not sure, but by the look of it I'd say there's nothing to run but your own (or someone else's) program that uses it. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: rogue suspend is driving me nuts

2009-09-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/4/09, brian wrote: > On 08/31/2009 07:48 PM, brian wrote: >> On 08/31/2009 06:05 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: >>> >>> If you can't solve the problem, and you don't need fancy Power >>> Management services, you can `yum remove gnome-power-manager`. I did >>> that and also removed gnome-screensaver,

Re: battery monitor not working on Fedora 11 on Asus laptop

2009-08-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/21/09, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Asus laptop, which Fedora 11 doesn't seem to be able to tell > anything about the battery status, although Fedora 9 does. Any clues > about what to look into about this? Does cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state produce something useful? Andras -- fed

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/20/09, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to know > what other commands I might try to restore things without shutting down > and rebooting. kill -9 can be pretty effective. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: Where is whats new setup?

2009-08-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/6/09, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:43:15 +0200 > Andras Simon wrote: > >> On 8/6/09, Tom Horsley wrote: [...] >> > Come to think of it, I'd also like to clobber the >> > "firefox closed abbynormally, restore windows?" dialog >

Re: Where is whats new setup?

2009-08-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/6/09, Tom Horsley wrote: > Whenever I start firefox for the first time after an update, > it jerks me off to this (or a similar) web page: > > http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.2/whatsnew/ > > Anyone know where this first time run nonsense is setup? I don't, but Ctrl-w is your f

Re: F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-08-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/31/09, Andras Simon wrote: > First, the graphical install didn't work (I have no idea why: X was > running fine with F9 and 10). It hung, with the last lines of It turns out that the graphical installer was waiting for user intervention - it's just that because of the sma

Re: F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/1/09, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: > >> X is fine with the F11 live cd, too. > > So why not install from this? To mention just one reason: the installation process dies with an ugly sigsegv. I can dig up the bugzilla entry for you if you're interested..

Re: F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/31/09, Andras Simon wrote: > First, the graphical install didn't work (I have no idea why: X was > running fine with F9 and 10). X is fine with the F11 live cd, too. > used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all > free space" or some su

Re: F11 installation w/o journaling fs

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/31/09, rgheck wrote: > On 07/31/2009 10:06 AM, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 7/31/09, rgheck wrote: >> >> >>> I installed on an Eee 1000 by using the livecd-tools to copy boot.iso to >>> a pendrive, boot from that, and then do an NFS install. I'

Re: F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
I'm trying to install F11 on an eee pc with a 4G ssd drive (F9 and F10 worked well on it). For various reasons, my preferred method of installing from a live cd on a usb stick was not an option. so, instead, I followed the instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1235298&pos

Re: F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
Sorry for this, I pushed "Send" too fast. On 7/31/09, Andras Simon wrote: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1235298&postcount=111 > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

F11 install: some nasty surprises

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
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Re: F11 installation w/o journaling fs

2009-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/31/09, rgheck wrote: > I installed on an Eee 1000 by using the livecd-tools to copy boot.iso to > a pendrive, boot from that, and then do an NFS install. I've also had Where did you find the boot.iso? > success copying the DVD ISO to a pen drive that way. To do this, install > livecd-tools

F11 installation w/o journaling fs

2009-07-30 Thread Andras Simon
I'm trying to install F11 on a first generation eeepc. The usual way (live-cd via a pendrive) doesn't work now unless the root fs is ext4. I'd like to avoid a journaling fs, because this thing has an ssd (and a fairly small one at that). Is a network install my only option? Or can I switch off jou

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/24/09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Andras Simon wrote: > >> On 7/24/09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> > at this point, i have to agree. i've been on fedora for several >> > releases but if i can't get minimally funct

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/24/09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > at this point, i have to agree. i've been on fedora for several > releases but if i can't get minimally functional video drivers that > don't lock up my desktop every 15-30 minutes, it's time to move on and > find something that works. life is too short t

Re: F12 networkmanager, anyone else worried by this?

2009-07-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/22/09, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/7/22 Timothy Murphy : >> 3. The connection is always lost (in my case) after Suspend to RAM. > > You can't maintain a connection when suspended. But you can get it back immediately after wake-up. This works for me 100% with wicd and 95% with NM. Andras -

Re: disable right-side Windows key

2009-07-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/19/09, Frank Cox wrote: > How can I disable or re-map the right-side Windows key on my keyboard? If I > hit > it by accident, it pops up a menu and gives it focus, so I have to hit Esc > to close that menu before I can continue with what I'm doing. > > The left-side Windows key doesn't appear

Re: good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?

2009-07-16 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/16/09, Tim wrote: > Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with > USB ports work with Fedora pain free? I've heard tales of some drive > enclosures that go asleep on you, but can't recall if it were this range > of models, and there's some of these on sale locally f

Re: SELinux warning about sendmail

2009-07-13 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/13/09, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 07/10/2009 06:09 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> Sometimes I see the warning: >> >> SELinux is preventing the sendmail from using potentially mislabeled files >> (/root). >> >> sendmail is not installed, but according to s

SELinux warning about sendmail

2009-07-10 Thread Andras Simon
Sometimes I see the warning: SELinux is preventing the sendmail from using potentially mislabeled files (/root). sendmail is not installed, but according to sealert, this warning is really about ssmtp. Of course I'm not trying to mail any file from /root, in fact, I don't mail anything. Any idea

Re: Graphics card recommendation?

2009-06-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/26/09, Bill Davidsen wrote: > This server on FC6 1450 fps w/ glxgears, on F11 ~220. Watching "about this Just as an aside: I'm not sure these numbers mean too much. I get > 5000 fps with a low end nvidia card (7300 GT) and the proprietary driver. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/21/09, jack wallen wrote: > I have used Calibre before. It's biggest strength is being able to > manage the Sony eReader as well as scheduled downloads of RSS feeds, and > convert to usable formats. It's a nice manager but I wouldn't use it as > a reader for any long period of time because o

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/21/09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > OT: I hadn't heard of FBReader, but I just installed it on F11 to have a > look. Before I form an opinion I need to be able to read at least the > introductory text, but it's so garbled as to be illegible (all the > letters are there, but more or less on t

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/21/09, Frank Murphy wrote: > Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. > Against maybe buying a 7" netbook for same purpose. I periodically review the e-book offerings, and so far I've always come to the conclusion that my 7'' eee pc is much more useful then either of them (for me an

Re: howto disable the screensaver in F10 XFCE spin

2009-06-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/19/09, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Would yum removing gnome-screensaver be the way? Try gnome-screensaver-preferences. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commu

Re: Fresh Fedora 11 fetches 362MB+ of updates, where's deltaRPM?

2009-06-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/12/09, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Andras Simon wrote: > >> On 6/12/09, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram >> >> >> # yum install yum-presto to enable it. >> &g

Re: Fresh Fedora 11 fetches 362MB+ of updates, where's deltaRPM?

2009-06-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/12/09, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram >> # yum install yum-presto to enable it. > > > Thanks Rahul, but I guess you meant: > > "Go to System->Administration-> Add/Remove Programs, and select yum-presto". I'm pretty sure he didn't, because in that ca

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/4/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> Couldn't this be a fair description of lots of OS software, too? That >> doesn't make them crap. Work in progress, perhaps. > > The driver which causes most problems is the proprietary nvidia driver. I didn&

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/3/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> Have you filed bug reports for your problems with nvida? They can't >> fix them if they don't know about them. [...] > Plenty of users have filed "KDE bugs" with us which turned out to be NVidia &g

Re: Questions with rsync

2009-06-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/3/09, GMS S wrote: > > Will this command do the job for backup? > > rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup > > How would I exclude these files below: > > /lost+found > /media > /mnt > > and others which I do not need. > > And what is the compression lever by rsync (using -a option)? Not an answer to

Re: Are you using LXDE?

2009-06-02 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/2/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: >> I don't know why KDE is so slow on my machine > > Well... > >> NVidia graphics card > > ... that's why. Crap drivers. Have you filed bug reports for your problems with nvida? They can't fix them if they don't know about them. Andras -- fe

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: 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 >> Pu

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

2009-05-28 Thread Andras Simon
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 is a mixing solution w

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/19/09, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 19:24 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 5/19/09, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> >> > Page down works for me if I'm understanding what you want correctly (it >> > takes me down to a blank command line s.t. h

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/19/09, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Page down works for me if I'm understanding what you want correctly (it > takes me down to a blank command line s.t. hitting "up arrow" again will > take me to the last line of history). I think that page down should only if you're less than a page back in his

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/19/09, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:31 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> > On 5/19/09, Dan Track wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> It's really annoying for me, that wh

Re: How to scroll to end of command line history

2009-05-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/19/09, Dan Track wrote: > Hi, > > It's really annoying for me, that when I run "Ctrl+R" to search > through the history I end up finding my command but I'm stuck in the > history, how can I get to the end of the history with a keystroke. If you're using bash, and haven't changed the line edi

Re: How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

2009-05-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/18/09, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jorge Fábregas wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I used to record (time-shift) some radio programs over the web using >> mmsrip >> and mplayer (for MMS/ASF streams) but now one of my local radio stations >> switched to a Flash stream. Here is the current URL: >> >

Re: rsync -

2009-05-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/14/09, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I have two f-10 desk top computers, boxes 6 and 9. I use them > interchangeably and keep notes [notecase] in both. I would like to > update each from the other without losing anything in the process. > > The name "rsync" seems to imply that it will make them iden

Re: Detection of 16GB RAM

2009-04-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/24/09, Ed Greshko wrote: > Karthik Balaguru wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Does X86_64 FC2(Fedora Core2) detect 16GB RAM ? >> > FC2? What is FC2? > > We are on F10. You seem to have hit a time warp Who knows? Maybe we did... Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh

2009-04-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/23/09, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:00:00AM +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 4/23/09, Dave Feustel wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:15:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> Dave Feustel wrote: >> >> > I now have X11 via

Re: How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh

2009-04-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/23/09, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:15:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Dave Feustel wrote: >> > I now have X11 via ssh working on F9, but refresh of the remote X11 >> > window is extremely slow, even over a 1GB switch. Is there a way to >> > speed up the refresh? >> >>

Re: utf-8 not rendering properly

2009-04-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/17/09, Konstantin Svist wrote: > I was looking stuff up on Wikipedia and noticed that some languages > didn't render properly. > Specifically, text in Khmer doesn't seem to be supported. > (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_language or > http://km.wikipedia.org) Do you have khmer fo

Re: Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?

2009-04-13 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/14/09, suvayu ali wrote: > You can setup FF to open the pdf outside of FF. Does it slow down when > you do that? How about Evince, does it lack any features that Adobe > Reader has? I use Evince exclusively both in my Fedora 10 home desktop > and Xubuntu 8.04 work desktop without any problem

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-05 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> There may be reasons for not liking vi or emacs, but their being >> useless is certainly not one of them. > > They're useless compared to editors which you can just start to use with no > learning curve. Is th

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > KDE user here, and I think his opinion is not far from the truth (though > IMHO vi and Emacs are equally useless, there isn't one "worse" than the > other). There may be reasons for not liking vi or emacs, but their being useless is certainly not one of them. A

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-04 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/3/09, Armin wrote: > I'm trying to learn emacs, it seems to have a little steeper learning curve > than vim. Changing font, for example, is such a pain :S (no useful fonts > are > available in Shift+Click menu). Maybe, but you only have to do it once. Emacs is not a word processor, but an

Re: OT: Sleep Mode (?)

2009-03-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/27/09, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have recently bought a new computer and a fancy keyboard with many > keys I have never seen before. I accidentally pressed a key at the > upper right of the keyboard marked "WAKE", which seems to have put the > computer to sleep. Symptoms are that the moni

Re: while updating selinux-policy-targeted...

2009-03-25 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/25/09, Miroslav Grepl wrote: > Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On 03/24/2009 04:14 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >>> I see this >>> >>>Updating : >>> selinux-policy-targeted 4/8 >>> libsepol.pol

Re: while updating selinux-policy-targeted...

2009-03-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/24/09, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 03/24/2009 04:14 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> I see this >> >>Updating : selinux-policy-targeted >> 4/8 >> libsepol.policydb_write: Warning! Policy version 22 cannot support >> permissive types, but some were

while updating selinux-policy-targeted...

2009-03-24 Thread Andras Simon
I see this Updating : selinux-policy-targeted 4/8 libsepol.policydb_write: Warning! Policy version 22 cannot support permissive types, but some were defined This is on F9. Something to be worried about? Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@red

Re: Virtual Box

2009-03-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/22/09, Martín Marqués wrote: > OK, here I'm finding some problems with KVM. I have a AMD Athlon X2 64 > but kvm module doesn't load: > > # grep -c svm /proc/cpuinfo > 2 > # modprobe kvm-amd > FATAL: Error inserting kvm_amd > (/lib/modules/2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kv

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/21/09, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Well, > I see that many of you point me to centOs. The idea is interresting. > However, why centOs is not as known as ubuntu. The main advantage in ubunti > (in my point of view) is LTS and codecs! Why centOS is not a commercial > success? Because it's not a comm

Re: Virtual Box

2009-03-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/20/09, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 3/20/09, Aldo Foot wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >>>> On 3/20/09, Paul W. Frields wrote: >>>> >>>>> To install f

Re: Virtual Box

2009-03-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/20/09, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> On 3/20/09, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> >>> To install from a CD or DVD ISO image that you have on your hard disk, >>> make sure you set its SELinux context properly: >&

Re: Virtual Box

2009-03-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/20/09, Paul W. Frields wrote: > To install from a CD or DVD ISO image that you have on your hard disk, > make sure you set its SELinux context properly: > > su -c 'chcon -t virt_image_t /path/to/some-os-image.iso' Is this really needed? Last time I installed an OS in a VM (both KVM and VM

Re: Hydrogen crashing desktop when opening. F10

2009-03-15 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/15/09, Nigel Henry wrote: > How are you running it then? On xfce? No, nothing but a WM (fvwm 1; it's been working pretty well here for almost 15 years :-)) > I may try removing it, and re-installing using apt-get directly. Perhaps > synaptic still has a problem, but there wern't any error

Re: Hydrogen crashing desktop when opening. F10

2009-03-15 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/15/09, Nigel Henry wrote: > As synaptic has been repaired now by an update, I thought that I'd try > installing something to check it out, so installed Hydrogen, and > hydrogen-drumkits, which installed ok without any of the previous md5 > missmatch problems. > > Anyway, I click on the Hydrog

Re: blinking is evil

2009-03-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/6/09, Michael Hennebry wrote: > After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. > Most of the header lines were blinking at me. > What's going on? > How do I make it stop? I'd have a long, hard look at /etc/virc. But I'm not a vi person, so what do I know. Andras -- fedora-list m

Re: kernel errors when inserting a CD

2009-03-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/6/09, Bill Crawford wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:58 Steve wrote: > >> After some investigation, I have found that I only get these errors if I >> boot with a CD in the drive. Then I found that they also appear in the >> logs >> whenever a CD in inserted into the drive. >> >> Anybody

Re: Not Remembering Root Password

2009-03-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/6/09, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:33 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> it's my computer and I'm the only user, so password or not, I am BOTH >> me and root, anyway. >> >> Do you really think it matters? What could happen, aside from making >> me think a few nanoseconds longer be

Re: Fed10 and recording quitar music

2009-03-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/6/09, johnbs wrote: > Hello everybody, > could somebody please give me the load down on recording quality > music with Fedora 10? What programmes should I use, etc in fact > everything! My friends tell me I would have to quit Fedora and go to > Windows : an idea which does not please me.

Re: Installing nVidia drivers on FC10

2009-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/1/09, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > Thanks Sam and Andras > Remains to be seen if the driver makes a difference. That will take a few > days. > Meanwhile, can anyone shed any light on the header file? Do you have the kernel-devel package installed? Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fed

Re: Installing nVidia drivers on FC10

2009-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/1/09, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/3/1 Andras Simon : >> On 3/1/09, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: >>> I have a test box which has been showing some corruption of the display >>> from >>> time to time. >>> Since it doesn't matter if I pla

Re: Installing nVidia drivers on FC10

2009-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/1/09, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > I have a test box which has been showing some corruption of the display from > time to time. > Since it doesn't matter if I play, I thought I would try installing the > latest support for the graphics card from the nVidia website. Don't bother. Add rpm-f

Re: Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

2009-02-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/22/09, Nigel Henry wrote: > Experimenting a bit, I set up a one liner in rc.local, which uses aplay to > play a tune which I put in /usr/local. See below. > > aplay /usr/local/Summer-in-the-city.wav > > I had to disable pulseaudio, by removing alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, otherwise > the tune wou

Re: bbc and realplayer

2009-02-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/12/09, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:57:38 +0100 > Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote: > >> rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio2/live/r2_dsat_g2.ra > > Just out of curiosity I fed that link to mplayer, and it worked fine for > me (of course I also have a vast co

Re: bbc and realplayer

2009-02-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/12/09, Tim wrote: > They (the BBC, and various other sites) seem to wrap all their media up > in a tangle of crap that makes it even harder to use whatever media > stream they're using. i.e. It doesn't have to be *THAT* hard to play > Real Media. Indeed. But the difference between the BBC

Re: F10 Audigy SB / ALSA problem

2009-02-03 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/3/09, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I can't remember what I tried to remove (don't have access to the machine > right now), but I did "rpm -qa | grep pulse" and tried to remove all those > packages that show up with pulseaudio. That's probably too much... So I'll > just try removing pulseaudi

Re: FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

2009-01-22 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/12/09, Andras Simon wrote: > On 1/12/09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I might have a lot open, and want the option of picking up where I left >> off. Like I had to use the facilities on the plane, and don't want to >> run the battery down... (or even while eat

Re: How to find out where grub is installed?

2009-01-18 Thread Andras Simon
Tim and Mikkel, Following your advice, the install went pretty smoothly, and I ended up with a bootable F7 and F10. Quite a relief for me. Thanks for your great explanations and handholding! (And for your patience, of course.) Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsub

Re: How to find out where grub is installed?

2009-01-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/18/09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I forget the exact wording, but the installer has an option for > where to install Grub. If you are using a separate /boot partition > for this install, tell it to install Grub there. If not, tell it to > install Grub on the / partition. (This is controlli

Re: How to find out where grub is installed?

2009-01-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/18/09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >> >> But if grub is in the MBR, how can it read grub.conf from /dev/sda2? >> I'm sorry if my complete lack of understanding shines through... >> >> In any case: how do I install the "missing

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