Re: Fedora 11 openvpn

2010-01-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: Does anyone know of any problems regarding Fedora 11 and openvpn? For anyone who's interested in the resolution of this problem, it turned out to be a Netgear router that doesn't pay attention to its static routes and sends packets off

Fedora 11 openvpn

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Cox
Does anyone know of any problems regarding Fedora 11 and openvpn? Here is his description of the issue: I think that I have misconfigured something on our LAN. The intended configuration: - there are a couple of class-C subnets which are all connected via our VPN (openvpn). - all

Re: Setting Application startup priority

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 23:38 -0500, William Case wrote: How do I set/change Application's startup priority? A feelthy hack: start that stuff from a bash script(s) and use the sleep command to hold it back until everything else is ready to go. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: Email Hosting Recommendations?

2010-01-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 14:06 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: I'm looking for a good email hosting solution for 5-10 users. Were mostly Linux Desktop users with a few Mac's. Any particular reason why you don't just set up your own mailserver? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? Boot to runlevel 1 and change it back. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: fedora

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 11:40 +0530, parag wrote: I want fedora DVD of karmic 9.10 Karmic is a version of Ubuntu Linux, which is not something that you get from Fedora. You get Karmic from Ubuntu Linux. While this is a Linux-related mailing list, this isn't the right one for what you're looking

Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

2009-12-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 12:27 -0800, Gordon Charrick wrote: I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that recur. I use kalarm to keep track of tasks; wouldn't know what to do without it any more. I looked at tkremind (front end for remind) a while back and it would

Re: A survey

2009-12-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 01:09 +0300, Hiisi wrote: 1. Are you left-handed? Yes 2. Do you use mouse with left hand? Yes 3. How to configure in F12 (Gnome) mouse pointer to be left-handed-mouse oriented (I mean how to mirror mouse pointer)? I don't. I left-click with my middle finger and

Re: Unable to use USB Modem Virgin Broadband, Australia

2009-12-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 18:31 -0800, Ankit Bhatnagar wrote: currently using Fedora12 unable to get USB modem detected as modem it appears it recognizing as flash drive, When I had a (Novatel) modem that was being recognized as a flash drive I found that it magically turned into a modem if I

Re: Firefox not working after on line updates

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:31 -0600, Brian Wood wrote: I downloaded/built/installed a new version of sqlite, but that hasn't helped. This is likely your problem. Firefox probably expects to find sqlite installed from a Fedora rpm and not a homebuilt one. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: How to remove language packs from thunderbird

2009-12-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:48 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: When I bring up thunderbird as a normal user it lists a large number of languages available. I only need 2 languages, how do I remove the ones I don't need? I just delete all of the langpack-* files in /usr/lib/firefox* or

Re: OOo Writer for Flyers!?

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 07:55 -0500, Marc Ferguson wrote: My question is, am I using the wrong application? You are indeed. I use Scribus to create my monthly theatre flyer (which can be seen at http://www.melvilletheatre.com/playing.htm ) I create it with Scribus, then make plates from that

dhclient fedora11 x86_64

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
I just received this inquiry from my brother: Are you aware of any issues which might cause one of our machines (intel core2 duo, if it matters) to lose it IP address every few hours? The problem is that dhclient seems to hang such that, to recover the machine, I need to kill off dhclient and

Re: dhclient fedora11 x86_64

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 13:14 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:13:16 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: Are you aware of any issues which might cause one of our machines (intel core2 duo, if it matters) to lose it IP address every few hours? Is the few hours period identical

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:10 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the procedure. I have no Dell

Re: yum install mencoder makes X11 flaky

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:38 -0600, Kelly Jones wrote: How do I find out what yum installed/upgraded, and remove it so my X server behaves properly again? less /var/log/yum.log -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 12:11 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: I get about one a day, typically while in Firefox and doing something else. The machine locks up tight (flashing num and scroll locks) and requires power cycling and nothing seems to get logged. Remove your firefox plugins and

Re: Firefox frequently jamming Fedora 12

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:53 -0800, Daniel Qarras wrote: The questions are: is anyone else seeing even remotely similar? Is there any known reasons or fixes for this? Should I file a BZ about this? If so, what information should I provide? Get rid of any plugins and addons, then see if it

Re: Tiff files frmo xsane arent usable in windows

2009-12-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 05:03 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Problem is, that windows user, nor me on a windows box here can open these files? Can you open the files on a Linux computer? If so, then the files are fine. At that point you need to find a good tiff file viewer (or whatever) for

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

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:04 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: As has been pointed out, however, serious damage can be done even if the cracker never gets root privileges. Many people lose sight of the fact that their important data is in their home directory. If I lose /bin I can download and

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:01 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: A contributing factor may be privoxy, which I use. By itself, privoxy is benign, of course, and has no effect,aside from cleaning up all the clutter. One possibility, that occured to me, is the loaded flash code quietly calling

Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:08 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: with docbook, though, he's going to send me the PDF format of the book, but i still don't know of a tool that will let me insert notes. pdfedit -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list

Re: Flash 10.1 beta

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:19 +0100, davide wrote: Hi, I tried to install Flash 10.1 from the Adobe website, but even if installed firefox continues using the old one. How should I install it correctly? Remove the old one first. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Failures upgrading two completely different machines from F11 to F10

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Cox
I have two machines that I want to upgrade and both have been failures. FAILED UPGRADE ONE: (Intel i7-940 desktop) First, my desktop machine. (This one.) I ran preupgrade again tonight without changing anything from my earlier attempts when it didn't find Fedora 12, and suddenly Fedora 12 was

Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:16 -0200 Germán Racca wrote: You can remove a program that takes up little space (~1.5Mb) so it won't be upgraded, saving space for finishing your upgrade. Then you install it again...does it make sense? Of course it makes sense, but there's nothing left there that

Re: Failures upgrading two completely different machines from F11 to F12

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:04:54 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: I have two machines that I want to upgrade and both have been failures. I see that I got my Fedora release numbers mixed up in my previous message. I've been working on this all day, and it's been a long day. To clarify, both

Re: samsung m800

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:25:07 -0800 Marc Wilson wrote: Doesn't the Instinct's manual tell you what to do in order to enable USB Storage? It's not automatic. It just says to connect the phone to the computer with the cable, slide the doodad on the phone screen over to connect with computer and

Re: samsung m800

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:44:51 -0700 Kevin Kempter wrote: Have you had a look at dmesg ? sometimes I find that certian usb things dont automatically give me a connection but I can usually find the device name in a dmesg output and mount it myself The only device name that shows up in both

f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
I just cranked up preupgrade on this F11 computer and was told no releases available for upgrade. Sigh... -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:08:38 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:11 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I just cranked up preupgrade on this F11 computer and was told no releases available for upgrade. Sigh... # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install preupgrade # preupgrade Same story

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:43:46 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: # yum clean metadata # preupgrade does that work? No change. Still the same thing. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:05:12 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: How about if you delete the releases.txt file from the directory you ran preupgrade from and try again? The only releases.txt file that exists on this computer is /usr/share/doc/preupgrade-1.1.3/releases.txt I did find a file named

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:55:47 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: I downloaded that into the /usr/share/doc/preupgrade-1.1.3 directory, but regardless of whether I name it releases.txt or releases.list I get the same result. No releases available for upgrade I may have found the problem. wget http

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:43:55 -0500 Jamie Wellnitz wrote: ran into the out-of-space on /boot during the upgrade (that is, rebooting after preupgrade finished). You got a little further than I did. I just tried rebooting my laptop, then ran preupgrade again. It worked for a minute or so, then

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:29 -0500 Jamie Wellnitz wrote: I noticed that the Fedora 12 upgrade option was not the default during the reboot. If you don't catch the grub prompt, it just boots into Fedora 11 again. No, the only thing on the grub menu (and listed in grub.conf) is the single F11

Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:58:08 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On my desktop, I had a permanent ethernet connection, so I told it to download the initial kernel during the reboot (after installing the rest of the packages). I noticed when it booted that it used NetworkManager to configure the

samsung m800

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
My cell phone was dying so I got a shiny new Samsung M800 to replace it. This phone browses the web, takes pictures, makes coffee and puts the cat out; my old phone was pretty much just a phone. I hooked it up to my computer and got this in /var/log/messages: Nov 17 22:33:06 mutt kernel:

Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:27:22 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: I stared at the error for almost 3 minutes before I realized that it was allowing me the option to do the download at boot time and continued on to the package download. It doesn't for me. I have exactly this problem trying to run

Re: F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:39:44 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: You have run out of space before getting to the anaconda kernel and initrd. Check /boot for a preupgrade directory. It needs to copy a few things into it (like the anaconda kernel and initrd, but also a kickstart file, and some

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:54:45 -0800 Rick Stevens wrote: C allows quite a bit of leeway to the compiler implementation. Is the C Standard Library actually standard, then, or are there implementation differences there as well? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:20:15 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: On 14Nov2009 00:31, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: What was switch for? I wouldn't expect it to be a library routine because switch is a C language keyword. And looking in section 3 means you're looking for a library routine

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:46:03 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: There is even no man 3 switch on RHEL4. When was the last time you saw it? I'm pretty sure that I have never seen it. See my reply to Cameron immediately prior to this one. Again, it seems an odd choice for whoever puts the man pages

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:43:53 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: Would you expect to see individual man pages for if, ?:, void, etc.? Actually yes, I would. Those are fundamental parts of the C language and should have the same man documentation as the library functions. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:15:22 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Moreover, IMHO documenting language keywords via man pages as they are traditionally understood would be next to useless. *blink* man switch tells me all about the TCL Built-In Command called switch. So the built-in TCL keyword

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:29:32 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: I don't think any other language has individual man pages for syntactical elements. Otherwise, you end up with massive conflicts; who gets the man page for {, +, ;, etc.? See what I just wrote to Patrick about the Tcl Built-In Command man

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:50:57 -0500 Steven W. Orr wrote: There's nothing wrong with perl having all kinds of perldoc pages. But perl comes from one place. C, OTOH could come from lots of places besides FSF and the switch statement in gcc may not be exactly the same as the switch statement in

Re: help

2009-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:16:28 -0800 (PST) Ralph Gorrill wrote: I yhave a DELL lap top that one of my employess loaded FEDORA on with out telling anyone...I need to remove it...he is gone and I have no password...can anyone help me please. You want to remove Fedora and do what? Install

Re: Webstart

2009-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:22:13 -0500 Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: netx: Unexpected net.sourceforge.jnlp.ParseException: Invalid XML document syntax. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Parser.getRootNode(Parser.java:1200) I'm not sure when was the last time this worked under F11. Any hope this will work

Re: smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus

2009-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:55:28 -0800 (PST) Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: does anyone has a good howto, docs how to set up an smtp, pop3, imap server, with webmail, and has anti virus solution, and even spam filtering? :D [plus secure connection for the clients :D ] It's all right here:

man 3 switch

2009-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
I just discovered that man 3 switch is missing. Is it supposed to be there or is there some reason for it to not be? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53:17 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: What you say is strange. Documents is one of the directories created by the system in every home directory. I don't like that behaviour -- I have my own scheme for home directory organization that I've been using for some time and I have

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:33:24 +1030 Tim wrote: documents is not a substitute for data, or simply files. If it's not a document it's NOT a bloody document. Got any documentation to back that up? *tee hee* -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list

Evince home directory

2009-11-02 Thread Frank Cox
When I open a document from Evince (File-Open) I always get a window that says this: The folder contents could not be displayed Error stating file '/home/frankcox/Documents': No such file or directory I don't have a directory called Documents. Is the default directory name hard-coded into

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:44:38 +1030 Tim wrote: For system-wide configuration, see: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults Aha! That's the solution, indeed. For an individual user, you can edit the file ~.config/user-dirs.dirs to reflect the directories that you actually want to

Re: shutdown now on F11 as root problems and app crashes in VNC sessions

2009-11-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:04:59 -0500 Comcast Mail wrote: Hello Mr. Mail (or may I call you Comcast?): I've normally used the command shutdown now as root in a terminal window, in a remote VNC session, on other machines and it works. I want to run the machine I have as a headless server/remote

Re: two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else

2009-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Mike Cloaked wrote: I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes, particularly related to ext4? This machine (an i7-940) is working fine using the latest F11 updates and it has an ext4 filesystem. I rebooted it

Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails

2009-10-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:38:28 -0400 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: You probably meant: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ It's apparently available from the standard Fedora repository too. yum info bleachbit tells me all about it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails

2009-10-28 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:46:05 +0100 Joachim Backes wrote: Is there a utility to remove unused/unneeded entries? I just remove all of the files under ~/.thumbnails as part of the script that backs up my home directory every night (prior to the start of the actual backup, of course). They get

Re: Looking for an Accounting package recommendation ?!?

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:13:01 -0400 William Case wrote: He has one major concern -- an appropriate accounting package. I set this up on Centos 5 for three companies (commercial property rental, retail, and publishing) a couple of months ago: http://www.ledgersmb.org/ So far they are very

Re: where's network-applet on F12 panel?

2009-10-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:56:17 -0400 fred smith wrote: there's no networkmanager applet on the panel. ps says nm-applet is running, but how do I interact with it if I can't see it on the panel? Do you have the notification area on your panel? If not, add it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville

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

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:54:57 -0600 Linuxguy123 wrote: How is it working for you ? Dell makes minicomputers? I thought minis were higher-end equipment than Dell's target market, more the territory of IBM, HP and the like. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: How is it working for you ? I run it on an Acer Aspire One. Works fine. *blink* Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer? How could you possibly call something like that a mini? See my tractor-trailer rig and I

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

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:50:14 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: And the touchpad can be a bit too sensitive. But then, I'm a big oaf. I got caught out by that a couple of weeks ago. The only touchpad computer that I use on a regular basis is my little Acer, and I had to set up a new Mac laptop for a

Re: privoxy conundrum [*NOT* solved]

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:59:31 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Any more ideas? customizegoogle -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: print to PDF?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:06:51 -0400 Jeffrey Ross wrote: I have a handful of image scans that are saved as JPG files, I'd like to convert them to a single PDF file. I know I can load the images one by one into one of the image manipulation programs and print them as individual pdf files but

Re: Any way to download Silverlight videos?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:34 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: I suspect just like Flash players use FLV files for video, Silverlight might use some specific video format (wmv?). http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/Building-Silverlight-Video-Applications.id-306542.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~

Re: privoxy conundrum [*NOT* solved]

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:54:57 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: However, the French newspapers I read don't seem to fare well with default.actions at all. Just checking liberation.fr/monde today, I noticed that doubleclick.net and smartadserver.com are getting through! I know that

Re: privoxy conundrum

2009-10-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:37:56 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Can you give me an example of a website that's causing you problems? Allow me to rephrase that: Can you give me an example of a website that's giving you problems and that won't force me to create some kind of user account that

Re: privoxy conundrum

2009-10-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:49:35 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: blocking it causes some (at least one known, so far) essential sites not to work at all. 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

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. customizegoogle

Re: privoxy conundrum

2009-10-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:58:29 -0600 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I am using pretty well the standard user.action file Correction: I have restored the standard user.action file and the problem persists: no site using google- analytics.com will load. I haven't

Re: Using a USB Hub on Linux ?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:56:17 -0400 Jim wrote: Is there anyone out that is using a USB hub to connect to one USB Printer from mulitiple computers ? You will probably have better luck connecting the printer to one computer and connecting the computers together via ethernet. All of the

Re: What happened to NFS on fedora 11?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:47:36 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:35:40 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: Do I have to edit every NFS mount line in my fstab manually? Apparently I do :-(. I can only mount from older machines if I explicitly give proto=udp as a mount option, at least

Re: What happened to NFS on fedora 11?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:24:04 -0700 Craig White wrote: is there some particular advantage to using udp instead of tcp protocol? I only use nfs on a LAN and have always used the tcp. Whatever it defaulted to has always worked for me up until yesterday's update to nfs-utils. Whether it was using

Re: What happened to NFS on fedora 11?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:46:19 -0700 Craig White wrote: The default protocol for NFS is tcp. You are overriding the default by specifying udp protocol and I am wondering if that offers a particular advantage. I never overrode anything until today. If NFS defaults to tcp, then I have been

Re: What happened to NFS on fedora 11?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:44:42 -0400 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Slightly off-topic: you might want to look at migrating to NFSv4. You only need one port (tcp port 2049) for it, so you don't need to do the port pinning stuff noted above. I don't think my fileserver (Intel SS-4000E)

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:00:06 +0500 (GMT-5) gil...@altern.org wrote: Same here. A windows opens with the file to be extracted and an Extract button. If you extract, it asks where and the file appears there. But what if you don't extract? Where does the file go? That's my question. Edit -

Re: .wine not installing in home directory

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:07:05 -0400 Jim wrote: .wine is not showing up in /home/user but wine packages are installed. Did you run wine as that user? ~/.wine won't be created until you do. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: fribidi error with abiword on F11

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Globe Trotter wrote: fribidi-0.19.2-1.fc11 contains libfribidi.so.0 with the symbol you refer to. Clearly this is installed. But yum provides */libfribidi0* libfribidi.so.0 == libfribidi0* Since when? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: BIOS update

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:58:56 +0400 Hiisi wrote: I would like to update BIOS on my desktop. Is it possible to update BIOS from window$XP on virtual machine as guest? I doubt it (but someone could prove me wrong). http://www.flashrom.org/trac/flashrom Maybe this will do it for you. It has

Re: BIOS update

2009-09-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:48:54 +0400 Hiisi wrote: No. I think it's windows program. I don't know the difference actually. I thought it is possible to run exe programs in DOS. Windows programs can't be run on DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXE -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: Ebooks -- How?

2009-09-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:55:50 -0400 William Case wrote: I came across some ebooks online I would like to read. Is there anyway to do it in Fedora 11 on a desktop? I use and recommend fbreader. yum install fbreader -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com --

Re: Questionable Status

2009-09-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:10 +0300 Jussi Lehtola wrote: That's because older distributions didn't have automatically enabled disk health monitoring GUI software. Fedora 11 does. At risk of asking a stupid question, where does it provide that monitoring? I haven't seen anything about SMART on

Re: sftp access to fedora11

2009-09-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:18:19 -0700 online.service@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mr. Service.com (or may I call you Online?) I don't have any ftp server installed/turned on , why i still have sftp access? Because sftp runs through/over ssh. If you're running sshd, you have sftp access. --

Re: Fedora security updates

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:27:56 +0530 Naveen Dhulipudi wrote: I am new to fedora Operating system. Could anyone please let me know if there are any updates, security patch releases for fedora instance.If yes, Please let me know how to get alerts for these updates through email and where

Re: booting without X

2009-09-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:30:07 -0700 Gerhard Magnus wrote: I have a box I'm running headless and I've realized I don't need to be running X on it. Is the best way to have it come up automatically without starting X each time I boot to change line in /etc/inittab line id:5:initdefault: to

Re: Fonts ??

2009-09-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:01:36 -0400 Jim wrote: What about TrueType Fonts, where do you get them for Fedora ? You may need msttcorefonts, which can easily be found with a google search. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:21:15 +0400 Hiisi wrote: Why you did so? Was it really necessary to activate window$ if you only wanted to see that everything is in order? That was the easiest way to give it a quick test. If there was a problem I could have returned it and exchanged it for another one

Re: F11 on Acer One - unpluging the power cable is not detected

2009-09-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:08:02 +0100 jaivuk wrote: Yes, I mean Aspire One. I may try KDE, despite I found recommendation to use lightweight XFCE. Unfortunately Gnome is no-go as you cannot rename menus Applications... and it takes whole toolbar if you place it on the left side... I don't

Re: Netbook Opinion

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:26:56 + Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey Guys, I am about to get a netbook for home/work so it must dual boot Linux and windows. What are some opinions anyone having used various brands have? I have an Acer Aspire One (the one with the 160gb hard drive and 1gb of ram)

Re: Acrobat repo for FC10?

2009-09-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:40:09 +0100 Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: Why not just stick with the Free tools already available? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220983 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Acrobat repo for FC10?

2009-09-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:58:51 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What do I do for FC10? Use the same repo? This is a i386 FC10 notebook... Yes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:15 -0400 Christopher K. Johnson wrote: I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other than creating a document or document template which you open for each new document you start. If you set it up as the default template it will load

Re: Latest kernel update for F11?

2009-09-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:41:46 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: Well, if there's no other way, I'll do that. I just wondered if somewhere @ fedora.org there was a html page listing the latest kernel version, and kept in sync with the repos...

Re: Latest kernel update for F11?

2009-09-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:04:49 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: Page Not Found (404)Sorry! The page you are looking for has been moved or no longer exists http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Click on the Fedora package announce archives link near the top. -- MELVILLE

Re: flash cookies

2009-09-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:47:01 -0700 Joel Gomberg wrote: I had this same sad experience at first. It gets stuck looking for the directory where the LSO's [flash cookies] are stored. Just set it manually from the better privacy add-on options menu. It's

Re: ati drivers fail -- migrating to ubuntu

2009-09-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:38:48 -0400 Kevin Abbey wrote: I'm interested to learn opinions on this subject from the fedora community. What ATI card do you have? The ATI Radeon X1950 Pro in this computer works great (and the X1550 that I had previously also worked great), WITHOUT the proprietary

Re: Gnome without a mouse

2009-09-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:17:16 -0700 john wendel wrote: I'd like to control the Gnome desktop without using a mouse, just a keyboard. http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/stable/dtconfig-mousekeys.html.en -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com --

Re: openoffice.org crash on selecting text

2009-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:46:02 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote: openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.1.fc11.i586 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520772 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00132.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: Evince: Prints some images not others

2009-09-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:01:44 -0500 Smith, Herb wrote: I have been trying to print a pdf document that contains several jpg images. Some of them print, however others do not. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220983 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

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