Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread Les Mikesell
much less expensive than good bandwidth to the home. Comcast bundles several accounts with email and space on their servers for storage and http service along with the connection. There's not a lot of reason to run your own server unless you have dynamic content. -- Les Mikes

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
ou need specific scsi drivers) typically aren't booted frequently anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
u are doing now. Is there a fixed policy on how fedora must relate to upstream packages? That is, do you have a requirement to take every default that the upstream has (themes, etc.)? Or can any packager make any whimsical change he wants at any time? Or something in between? -- Les Mik

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
ring it away in some safe place would take ~10 minutes (including the time to install sabayon). The time and energy you have invested in this thread by now probably measures in days... Does sabayon allow publishing a profile so people could share their choices? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
ere's a fair chance that they won't get moderator approval and ever appear. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: "Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
t was a scam trying to steal passwords or something, but I guess it's just another case of Microsoft stupidity: http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2008/01/free-public-wi.html -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
figure out how to get 'your' version of Linux into these ROMs. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 16:00:29 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: The low cost residential account comes with terms that say you won't run servers on it. If you aren't running a server, it doesn't matter much if they block port 25 or not. Except whether

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
x the residential rate.) The low cost residential account comes with terms that say you won't run servers on it. If you aren't running a server, it doesn't matter much if they block port 25 or not. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Mark wrote: btw. i never understood why Linus Torvalds was so opposed to Gnome. i'm beginning to understand why. How much less RAM would your system need if everything shared one window toolkit? And how much better could it be if all development had focused on just one? -- Les Miksell

Re: starting multiple simultaneous downloads of a file

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: Em Sex 19 Dez 2008, Les Mikesell escreveu: Ali, Saqib wrote: Hello All, I am looking for a utility that can start multiple simultaneous downloads of a file. I was looking into wget, but it doesn't seem like that it can do that. Any thoughts? You've g

Re: starting multiple simultaneous downloads of a file

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
s you want? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: OT: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
; messages as you download via pop so you can delete copies from your server as you read them and still be able to use the web interface to gmail to search for something later. Or, just set up an imap client directly with gmail and not bother with your own server. -- Les Mikesell

Re: Setting up Linksys WRT54GL for Remote Server

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
o map different port numbers, you can make sshd listen on a different port - see /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Setting up Linksys WRT54GL for Remote Server

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:59:04PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: You probably only have one public IP so you can port-forward port 22 to only one inside address. You can pick a different port to forward to port 22 on the other box - or if you want more convenient access, set

Re: Evolution with mapi plugin?

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
he CIO fired by the CEO and the Board... And in the places where it didn't, the typical email would just become a word or excel attachment instead of html. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mai

Re: F10, VMware Server 2.0, and selinux

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
ally target the distribution's nonstandard quirks in a useful way. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Setting up Linksys WRT54GL for Remote Server

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
different port to forward to port 22 on the other box - or if you want more convenient access, set up something like openvpn between the private networks behind the routers. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Free (as in speech) flash alternative

2008-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Kam Leo wrote: > By using or consuming flash content you will be supporting the very company that created the Flash standard, "non-free" players, and associated content creation tools. Don't use flash and you will not be offended. And the alternative? Silverlight/Mo

Re: What are these F-10 boot slides?

2008-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
is expected or acceptable, you need to specify bg,soft for the mount - or better yet use the automounter so you don't even consider mounting until the need arises. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.

Re: OT: mp3 -> ac3 -> SP/DIF output?

2008-12-15 Thread Les Mikesell
isn't very demanding, my CPUs are both hovering around 1 to 2% usage. If you only have 2 channels, is there some reason to encode as ac3 instead of pcm? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: E-mail Server

2008-12-14 Thread Les Mikesell
reasonable to deploy strictly as a mail server if you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: Sprint service smartphone recommendation for F10?

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
that is handy when traveling even if you know the route. It also has 'movies near me' where you can drill down to review, but that may be on all the sprint phones with gps and data. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
st. But the individual instance isn't the point. You do need the ability to expedite security updates and mistakes are always possible. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinf

Re: Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
oiled. Sorry to destroy your illusions, but I work with hundreds of windows servers that stay up for years with only a few scheduled reboots. Before (say) Win2k SP2 you might have been able to make a point about this. Today you can't. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- f

Re: infrastructure modest proposal

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
s-testing were batched in all-or-nothing updates, or another layer of updates-qa was added for this batch move process, it might actually become possible to do meaningful tests with packages in their proposed production context. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Second try: Clarification of statement about stateless sytem]

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
nyone is still working on that. Anyway, the idea is that you can have a group of client computers with no maintenance or installation for the OS but the /home directories are saved across reboots, either on a local drive or nfs-mounted from a server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.co

Re: Sprint service smartphone recommendation for F10?

2008-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
n entertainment phone than a smartphone but it does email reasonably well if you can get by with just seeing the most recent 25-100 messages in your inbox. I think you can only sync the calendar with exchange or outlook (I used to have a treo and now have an instinct...). -- Les Mikesell [

Re: OT: rdesktop and netmeeting

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
eo conferencing with Macs? A number of family members are running Macs these days, and it'd be great to be able to connect with them. If you have SIP connectivity, Counterpath's X-lite might work for you: http://www.counterpath.net/X-Lite-Download.html. I haven't tried it with F

Re: Some people mis interpret Fedora's Mission Statement.

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
t relevant to you? Giving and taking from the community -- isn't that a definition of a community member? Do you usually talk about your community in terms of how you can 'use' it? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.

Re: Some people mis interpret Fedora's Mission Statement.

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
piece of software if its beta quality ? Seriously? Am I just misreading? I don't see it defined as a test bed there. How does 'proving ground' and 'laboratory' differ substantially from 'test bed'? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-li

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
ot;Vetting" should be like every other fedora item: let the users download it and if it is broken they get to keep both pieces. Having a way to add comments and feedback would let you crowdsource the work of determining what works best in what situations, though. -- Les Mikesell [EM

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
is a big difference in end user run-time operation and administrivia. But they aren't treated differently in the distributions, which contributes to the reputation of open source documentation that started this topic. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list f

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
rk' for everyone, but a few dozen canned configs might cover most of the cases. This is, of course, a different issue than 'how do I connect a form in openoffice to a table in postgresql?'. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
d to whatever extent possible, fedora could produce alternative packaged configs on the order of the caching dns server that would help some subset of users. Making an end user need to know about a million config options to create one of a dozen or so common setups doesn't make m

Re: Analog-to-Digital Audio:

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
mples/sec are my initial specifications. The flat response is only a "want". I can calibrate out any deviations if they are not severe (like being at -60dB at 5 Hz :-). You probably want to start here: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ for anything resembling professional a

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
dy an expert should try to implement. Rather than confuse people who should be just following standards with the thousands of options they shouldn't touch anyway, we need a dozen templates for this sort of program and something that makes it easy to adapt any needed local settings without

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
n anyone else. Even if the article was strictly about businesses using RHEL, the changes all start being distributed in fedora - including the ones that are going to cause maintenance issues for users upgrading to the next RHEL. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mai

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
ng to use such a program is going to cost you in maintenance over time. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commun

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
different usage models, the end user would only need to know what he wanted to accomplish, not the million variables he had to change to do it. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: nx server

2008-12-03 Thread Les Mikesell
at is pre-configured in the client. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
tories to remove the with their contents, or you can 'rmdir' if they are empty. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Quest8ion about what backup util to use.

2008-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
#x27;t make it.) Is there a favored util that will do what I want? Backuppc is close. It is really intended to back up multiple machines over a network with a web interface to browse and restore, but it will work locally and you can mount your extra disk in it's archive location. -- L

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-25 Thread Les Mikesell
last. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Network Card Naming Issue

2008-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
l backup are VM images, and usually not those either. The problem of mismatched identifiers is always going to exist, depending on which part you swap, and the motherboard, nics, conrollers, and disks are all equally candidates. We just need something besides andaconda that knows how to glue

Re: Network Card Naming Issue

2008-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
ried that, but it wasn't pretty. What if you want to replace your current eth0 with a different card and shift the use of the existing one to a different subnet? And all of this gets in the way when you need to restore your backups onto a similar but different box. -- Les Mikesell [

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-19 Thread Les Mikesell
AIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Try modprobe iptable_nat iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE and make sure the host itself can ping the targets you are trying. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedor

Re: Make a DHCP server using Fedora - Help

2008-11-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Wed, 11/19/08, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Make a DHCP server using Fedora - Help To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.&

Re: Make a DHCP server using Fedora - Help

2008-11-19 Thread Les Mikesell
nnect your dhcp-serving interface there. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Make a DHCP server using Fedora - Help

2008-11-19 Thread Les Mikesell
. You might avoid it if you run a nameserver and squid proxy on the host and configure the clients to use the proxy. Otherwise you need the host to route the packets if you have a NAT gateway elsewhere, or to route and NAT if nothing but the host knows about this subnet. -- Les Mikesell

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-18 Thread Les Mikesell
a standard codec which leaves you pretty much in the same shape as needing flash. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/C

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
each partition and let cron run it, or look up one of the packages that keeps some history, like rdiff-backup. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http:/

Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
achine to hold a compressed disk image. http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/ -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: dependency champion?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
ime or not? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: freenx 7.3

2008-11-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Roman Makurin wrote: В Втр, 04/11/2008 в 09:46 -0600, Les Mikesell пишет: Does anyone have step-by-step instructions for using freenx 7.3's ability to remotely mirror the console session? I'm trying to do it under Centos but maybe someone here has more experience with it. I can mi

freenx 7.3

2008-11-04 Thread Les Mikesell
t been able to get a connection to the console session. If I say I want a vnc session I can see mirroring the console as a choice but haven't been able to make it connect. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://ww

Re: screen + vim + paste -> not happy

2008-11-04 Thread Les Mikesell
r the initial screen draw. If you haven't tried it, it is much more responsive on remote connections than other remote X approaches and cross platform clients are easy to install. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscr

Re: Fedora / RedHat - The problem

2008-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
sfied customers, -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Fedora / RedHat - The problem

2008-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
else and probably for a longer time than anything else. Blame vista for changing interfaces which is what breaks things. Something Microsoft does every decade or so (and maybe they've learned something from it now) and linux continues to do about every month. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROT

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
y contrast, even near the end of FC6's life, a kernel update would not boot on some common scsi controllers. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guideline

Re: Fedora / RedHat - The problem

2008-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
reation of *.rpmnew or *.rpmsave files get logged somewhere? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:54 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Chris Tyler wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 20:41 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I would certainly find Fedora more useful if it got security fixes for a year instead of six months. Fedora gets security fixes and updates for

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:21:04 -0600, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: work as a business. The Delorian is best known as the car in the "Back to the Future"movies. Perhaps, but their owner's creative ideas in financing also got them a lo

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
bug fixes in the updates to understand why you really don't want to upgrade anything important until after about 6 months after a release. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
od match to what fedora does. Have you heard of that one? It stuck all the new technology available in 1957 into one car. Engineering-wise it was not bad at all, but it was such a flop in acceptance that the name became a joke. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing li

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
better fit. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
't be supported with interchangeable parts? You aren't talking Ford and Chevy here - it's more like DeLorian and Tesla. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
nstead of beating your head ageist the wall trying to change the goals of the rest of us? Basically I'm just wondering out loud where the next server distribution is going to come from. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Are you working simply to improve your computer? I thought the machines were supposed to work for us. Some people like to explore the way machines work, and modify them, rather then just use them. If we didn't have people that like to &q

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Claude Jones wrote: On Fri October 31 2008 1:06:10 pm Les Mikesell wrote: The real problem with this from a user's perspective is that no version of fedora ever 'matures'. I have no idea why I'm jumping in to this, Les, but the real problem is that you refuse to accept t

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: The real problem with this from a user's perspective is that no version of fedora ever 'matures'. That is, you can participate in the process, report bugs, etc., but you never end up with a resulting improved, stable version that is

Re: Fedora vs RedHat

2008-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
iscarded and replaced with new betas from upstream. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Remote Rescue - PXE, SSH, and a remote console?

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
d up with at least a framebuffer containing a root xterm in the waiting remote vncviewer. But, those options don't work together. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fed

Re: Ubuntu Ibex offers choice of KDE4.1.2 or KDE3.5.10... and kernel-2.6.27.

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
has a price factor that might make it attractive - and they give away toys. When the choice is among free linux distributions, what is the point of making one into something users don't want? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsub

Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
other mounted filesystems. (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?) I usually throw in the -mount option to find on general principles to keep it from walking into isos or nfs mounts that might be in arbitrary places and explicitly list the mount points I want if it has to span them. --

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
M itself. Yes, it is a project policy and philosophy difference that permits the repositories to be coordinated. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fe

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:02:46AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Sure, but there were reasons that SysV, AIX, Solaris, HPUX etc. didn't share the best way do everything. Among opensource builds of essentially the same upstream packages there's less excuse t

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:28:22AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: However, there are conceptual differences in system administration so it is somewhat painful to jump back and forth between ubuntu and an RPM based system with redhat-style configuration frequently. True; but

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
pplications on different machines to isolate them. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
d save the GUIness for when you want to pick a new package or two? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
hardware and drivers. You can sort-of get most of the effect by making /boot a separate partition, doing a basic install on the new hardware, then removing everything except /boot and copying in your old stuff, but that seems unnecessarily cumbersome. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PRO

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
static IP (or dynamic dns) you can make it connect. If you only need to connect to the tunnel endpoint you can use private addresses for the tunnel and add routing for it on your home side. For more than that you'll need routing set up on both sides or NAT on the tunnel box. -- Les Mik

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
As long as you don't check the box under 'advanced' that says 'disable encryption of all traffic' everything should run through its internally set up ssh tunnel (which shouldn't care that it is running through your reverse tunnel_. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
reenx always performs better for me, except perhaps for the initial screen draw and I use it over a local lan, remote cablemodem, and an assortment of slower remote connections. What are the circumstances where vnc works better for you? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list ma

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
at you can download from http://www.nomachine.com. You can connect using only port 22 so your firewall probably already permits it and remote performance is much better than vnc. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: What are your unsatisfied NetworkManager use cases?

2008-10-22 Thread Les Mikesell
r the default gateway or the DNS servers that are offered. That is, I just want to be able to reach the addresses on that branch, not route anything through it. Screwing up your default gateway is at least as bad as resolv.conf. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list f

Re: More RAID-1 problems

2008-10-05 Thread Les Mikesell
ompress it by hand? I thought /etc/mdadm.conf wasn't really necessary anymore - and you said the rescue mode boot worked when it obviously couldn't read it. What happens if you just remove it? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redha

Re: More RAID-1 problems

2008-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeffrey Ross wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I extracted the initrd file and looked at the file "init". in this file I can see the following (relevant) information.. echo Creating block device nodes. mkblkdevs echo "loading raid1 module" modprobe -

Re: More RAID-1 problems

2008-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
robe md" before this? Did you build this configuration with the installer or have you copied a working system to a different machine? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: More RAID-1 problems

2008-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
mention, but are the underlying partition types set to FD (raid autodetect). I don't see why they'd work from the rescue boot if they aren't though unless you are assembling them by hand. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Not by itself, but its a reasonable thing to run in backticks so the shell will do it for you: echo `cat multi_line_file` or echo $(cat multi_line_file`) if you prefer that syntax. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscrib

Re: [Fwd: Config Network Setting]

2008-09-29 Thread Les Mikesell
u can also include ETHTOOL_OPTS in your ifcfg-ethX file to force a setting but if the other end of the connection is set to autonegotiate both ends must negotiate - and current equipment usually gets it right. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-li

Re: Preventing rsync of copying always all files to my pen

2008-09-27 Thread Les Mikesell
eas? Are you sure it is really doing a copy? Rsync will attempt to update the file attributes and display the name if you use -v, but they won't quite match between fat and linux filesystems so it will do it again next time. It shouldn't take much time, though. -- Les Mikes

Re: Installation of multiple Linux Instances

2008-09-19 Thread Les Mikesell
, run them natively on the host or a different system and let the clients connect remotely. If you need to test the database server side under different OS versions you could try iscsi disk connections instead of vmware images. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list f

Re: PDA Calendar sync (was Re: Calendar choice: looking for advice)

2008-09-12 Thread Les Mikesell
a mac or a pc with its outlook sync software will work with it. Is there a free equivalent? Or some other wireless device that works as well as the ipod touch? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailm

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-09 Thread Les Mikesell
ay with autodetection of devices, etc. you may find you need more things running just in case. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-09 Thread Les Mikesell
ay or may not be better than seeing it in your MUA's outbox until it is delivered at least to a reliable forwarding relay. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
prefer to configure their MUA(s) to speak SMTP directly with an ISP or 3rd party relay, but the preference is more likely due to the nicer fill-in-the-form configuration interface instead of the overall functionality. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@red

Re: grandma-rated mail reader

2008-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Give thunderbird a try. It looks/works pretty much the same across linux/windows/mac and is all pretty obvious. Thanks, I'll have a look at it. At first glance it still seems to have more bells and whistles tha

Re: grandma-rated mail reader

2008-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
m calendar mode to mail reader mode (or why the modes are hidden in a second-level pull-down.) There must be something simpler out there. Help. Give thunderbird a try. It looks/works pretty much the same across linux/windows/mac and is all pretty obvious. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROT

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