Re: [OT] Flash 10 for Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-10-15 Thread Mike C
Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com writes: I just upgraded without issue on a x86_64 F8 system. I installed the i386 version as I did not see a native 64bit version available using yum list '*flash*'. It seems to be much more CPU efficient. I haven't done any real benchmarking but almost

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-06 Thread Mike C
Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com writes: Better in what way? I think either case gets you out of typing a 2nd LIKS password. Using /dev/urandom seems to avoid having a password where anyone could ever recover it, and I think using LUKS on swap will kill suspend in either case (it may work

encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
I have a machine with f9 clean installed and encrypted /, encrypted swap and encrypted /opt partitions. Of course during boot you are asked for the luks passphrase for all three partitions. I have been able to avoid the passphrase prompt for /opt, by placing a keyfile in /root and added this

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com writes: The / and primary swap partitions (or logical volumes) are handled a bit differently than say /opt. They are mounted very early in the boot process, and in fact are handled by the initrd's nash scripts. If you change the LUKS options for

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-08-05 Thread Mike C
Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net writes: What's the point of encrypting a partition and then keeping the key for that partition on the hard drive so you don't have to enter anything to access it? Well - if unencrypted then in principle in the even of theft the swap partition would have

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-31 Thread Mike C
Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com writes: If you'd like to not have to disable the gpg signature check, that's only a few more steps (most of which only need to be done once). Another valuable piece of the jigsaw - thank you for this Todd Mike -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike C
Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org writes: Yes you can use the current F9 src rpm and build it for F7. I did the same thing for FC6. As for Les' contention about the upgrade cycle, Thanks Mark - having never done this kind of building before is there a good easy to follow link to a

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike C
John Austin ja at jaa.org.uk writes: Please see below my notes to myself when doing the same for F5 Hope they help John Fantastic - thank you very much for this... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-29 Thread Mike C
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to fix bind (bind-chroot) running in an old machine running FC7 so that it offers the same protection as bind-chroot-9.5.0-28.P1.fc8 and bind-9.5.0-33.P1.fc9.i386 ?? Can one use the src rpm for F8 and re-configure it for FC7? I guess there are still

Re: NetworkManager sabotages DNS? on fc9

2008-07-24 Thread Mike C
McGuffey, David C. DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY at saic.com writes: My next task was to go looking at the logs to see what was trying to scribble in resolve.conf...but your post puts me onto something. I have used static addressing for ages on desktops from FC1,2,3 onwards - and on a desktop machine the

Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Does anyone have Excel 2003 working under Wine in F8? I installed Office 2003 Pro after installing wine in F8, then running winecfg to make an initial setup, and using winetricks to install corefonts. I had to yum install cabextract before the winetricks script would install corefonts. I have

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Frank Murphy frankly3d-fedoracore at utvinternet.com writes: Have a look at Crossover Linux, if you don't wan't to run\virtualise windows . http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/group/?app_parent=779; This is a report on office 2003 I do use Crossover too (I have been a paid up

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com writes: VMware Server works fine here on F9. OK - thanks - one nice thing about Crossover (and Wine) is that one can run specific MS Office applications without having to install a full Windows VM operating system. I presume that with VMWare you have to

Re: Wine 1 and Office 2003?

2008-07-10 Thread Mike C
Frank Murphy frankly3d-fedoracore at utvinternet.com writes: You can run both in seperate bottles. Or become an advocate for office 2003, and get the latest\ + nightly builds, in returen for aiding and abetting Thanks Frank, that sounds useful -- fedora-list mailing list

Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
After updating my F8 installation today (which includes update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg) I am getting crashes with Excel/Excel Xp and 2003 running under both wine and crossover. Anyone else seeing the same issues? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
Mike C mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: After updating my F8 installation today (which includes update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg) Whoops - I misread the log file - there was no update to xorg - But I am still getting crashes in Excel running under wine or crossover. Was OK yesterday

Re: Problem with wine/crossover after today's update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg

2008-07-09 Thread Mike C
Mike C mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: Seems that this is a kernel related problem - I reverted back to 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 and now Excel XP runs fine under Crossover. The problem I was seeing was right clicking a cell and clearing the cell contents made Excel hang... and needing to reset all apps

Re: Wireless problems.

2008-06-23 Thread Mike C
Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org writes: [root at sulla ~]# ifconfig wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:E5:20:BF:BA inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:19 errors:0

Re: Wireless problems.

2008-06-23 Thread Mike C
Mike C mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: modprobe -rv rt61 modprobe -av rt61 then ifdown wlan0 ifup wlan0 This just unloads the kernel module and reloads it, and then restarts the wireless. I looked back and realised you have the rt61pci module listed but you can reload

Re: NetworkManager: how to select wireless interface

2008-06-09 Thread Mike C
Andrea mariofutire at googlemail.com writes: I just would like to know if it is possible to choose which interface to use, and in case NM wants to connect both, how do I choose the default gateway? I've seen it chosen at random so far. Equally at some point no doubt someone will want to have

Re: iwl3945 - any hints with F7?

2007-08-25 Thread Mike C
Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have iwl3945 working well and consistently with F7? I use it for a few months on my Dell D420 Fedora 7 box which uses this driver and firmware. Works out of the box with no problems. However I have heard some reports of this not working