Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:13 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves > > wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:56 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: > >

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:56 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: > > I'd like to buy a vowel. > > Yum is not a package manager. > Huh? "The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (*YUM*) is an open-source command-line *package*-

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:56:54 -0400, > Jake Peavy wrote: > > I'd like to buy a vowel. > > > > Can someone tell me what package xxd is in? > > If it is installed, you can do: > yum whatprovides `w

yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Peavy
I'd like to buy a vowel. Can someone tell me what package xxd is in? Here's the progression: 1) yum install xxd 2) yum whatprovides xxd 3) yum whatprovides od (worth a shot?) 4) google: yum install xxd 5) google: yum xxd 6) google: fedora xxd 7) search gmail fedora list archives: xxd 8

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-02 Thread Jake Peavy
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It > originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, > and then as root ran > >shred -vz /dev/sdd > > The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but sh

Re: USB I/O performance

2009-08-29 Thread Jake Peavy
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just a quick note to call people's attention to > > http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2007/02/17/getting-good-performance-out-of-usb-hard-drives-in-linux/. > This is a couple of years old but it worked like a charm for me. > > Brief

Re: man 5 proc?

2009-07-17 Thread Jake Peavy
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/17/09 12:01, quoth Jake Peavy: > > man 5 proc doesn't return on my system. Do I need to install a package? > > Are you saying that the command hang

man 5 proc?

2009-07-17 Thread Jake Peavy
man 5 proc doesn't return on my system. Do I need to install a package? TIA -- -jp If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscrib

Re: F11: No video -- anaconda or live -- 8800GTX

2009-06-19 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jake Peavy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jake Peavy wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jake Peavy wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> On

Re: F11: No video -- anaconda or live -- 8800GTX

2009-06-16 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jake Peavy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jake Peavy wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >>> On 15/06/09 18:46, Jake Peavy wrote: >>> >>>> All, >>>> >&

Re: F11: No video -- anaconda or live -- 8800GTX

2009-06-16 Thread Jake Peavy
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jake Peavy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On 15/06/09 18:46, Jake Peavy wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> Was going to put F11 on my Dell XPS710, but neither Anaconda installer >>&

Re: F11: No video -- anaconda or live -- 8800GTX

2009-06-15 Thread Jake Peavy
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/06/09 18:46, Jake Peavy wrote: > >> All, >> >> Was going to put F11 on my Dell XPS710, but neither Anaconda installer >> (on x86_64 installation DVD) nor x86 LiveUSB bring up video. >> >> >

F11: No video -- anaconda or live -- 8800GTX

2009-06-15 Thread Jake Peavy
All, Was going to put F11 on my Dell XPS710, but neither Anaconda installer (on x86_64 installation DVD) nor x86 LiveUSB bring up video. Video card is Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX (G80/NV50 I think). This seems to be well supported by nouveau according to the website, but I'm not getting any love so f

Re: cell phone

2009-05-12 Thread Jake Peavy
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Rambod Kamaei wrote: > hi to list. > can i install fedora packages in my cellphone? > > Best Regards, > > Rambod Kamaei (PhD) > CCIE, CCNP, Linux Expert. > > Of course. Dial #5516614*2*5*607#95982100992369 for ffmpeg Dial #76961536240#5*642626#0447#9283 for j2se

Re: curl question...

2009-04-02 Thread Jake Peavy
On 4/1/09, bruce wrote: > > Hi guys... > > I know this isn't the list for this question.. but i'm trying to get a > quick > resolve for a problem i have.. i'm prety sure it's user related. > > i'm doing a curl to a site, and not getting the results i'm looking for.. > i've got the cookies/user-age

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

2009-03-05 Thread Jake Peavy
On 3/5/09, g wrote: > > Jake Peavy wrote: > > On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > >> > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > > > > Dammit! Missed it. > > > > Does anyone have a copy they can email me

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

2009-03-04 Thread Jake Peavy
On 3/3/09, Steve Searle wrote: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only > Dammit! Missed it. Does anyone have a copy they can email me? The site says we can share with friends ;-) TIA -- -jp I hope if dogs ever take over the world and they choose a king

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-14 Thread Jake Peavy
On 2/14/09, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > > > > > > most people with automatic updates might not have noticed, but if > > you look closer, the recent bunch of updates, including KDE 4.2, > > installs the MySQL server on the machine (and some other database > > related stuff w

Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

2009-02-12 Thread Jake Peavy
On 2/12/09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:. I'm #100! boo ya ka shah! eat my shorts, suckas! this thread sucks my ass! hahaha -- -jp Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com -- fedora-list mailing list f

Re: Omega 10 release

2009-02-04 Thread Jake Peavy
On 2/4/09, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Globe Trotter wrote: > > I noticed that there was a bunch of iso's. How do we decide which is for > a > > 64-bit system or a 32-bit system? > > > They're probably all 32-bit. They're also all GNOME. :-( > What's the point of the Omega project anyway? I couldn't

Re: Omega 10 release

2009-02-02 Thread Jake Peavy
On 2/2/09, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Is there an Omega 10 release out? A google search only provides me with the > beta iso. > ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/ ? -- -jp I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat." It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go sw

Re: how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

2009-01-16 Thread Jake Peavy
On 1/16/09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding > package to be installed? someone just dumped a perl script on one of > my systems, and it fails with: > > "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc " > > fair enough, so

F10 Live: Boot and Install to Hard Drive without X

2009-01-14 Thread Jake Peavy
Hi all, Is there a method by which I could boot the Live image but into text mode? And, if so, is there a way to then proceed to install the image to the hard drive? I wouldn't mind installing the complete, normal (X-enabled) Live image to the drive and then just not making use of X, but I don't