Evolution hangs overnight

2009-06-12 Thread RS
Hi, I am seeing a weird Evolution bug when i leave my PC on overnight. I've seen this for 3 days now. I switch off the monitor and when i return the next morning, I see Evolution not able to display the GUI properly (grayed out)..I have to force kill it and restart Any ideas on how to debug it du

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-01 Thread RS
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 17:25 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > RS wrote: > > > I just finished installing and configuring skype on F11 Pre. Get the > > "static" tar.bz2 file and untar. when you run the skype executable. it > > will complain about a bunch of missing

Re: Skype under Fedora-10

2009-06-01 Thread RS
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 15:23 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a Skype HOWTO or FAQ for Fedora-10? > > I would like to transfer my Skype contacts to someone else, > but don't see any way to do this under Linux. > > Incidentally, is there any alternative to Skype > that works under Linux and

Overriding default battery re-charge threshold

2009-05-31 Thread RS
Hi All, I am looking for ways to override the default battery re-charging mechanism on my Thinkpad R61. The TP originally came with Vista business and it had a utility where I could say something like "Only re-charge when battery charge falls to 'x'% - for ex 50%" - the idea being to prolong batte

multi-media packages/gcc/latest CPU optimizations

2009-05-30 Thread RS
Hi, I'd like to understand how some of the multi-media packages are compiled for distros to make maximum effective use of the latest CPU features (SSE4,multi-core,large L2/L3 caches etc) I understand pkgs are compiled assuming i386 (or i686?) to cover the vast majority of PC's out there. For pack

Re: Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

2009-05-29 Thread RS
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so > that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application > Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs. Is there an open source > application ser

Re: No sound from Flash (YouTube)

2009-05-28 Thread RS
ve you tried the 64-bit flash plugin at http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz I know it's Alpha - but atleast it works well enough with all the youtube and CBS streaming vids..and it avoids a whole lotta multi-lib issues... -RS -- fedora-list m

Is it just me or does sound quality suck in Fedora?

2008-09-17 Thread RS
ng at the newly open sourced OSS?? -- RS -- 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:AMD Phenom motherboard for FC9

2008-05-21 Thread RS
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Mick M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > Now that F9 is out I thought I would build a new system. > I want to use the AMD Phenom quad core cpu. > I only upgrade hardware every few years so this is a big jump from Athlon > 2500 with 512M memory. > > I have been