Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:35pm on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > > 2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 : > > > > > > Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ? Does this sound like a > > > kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ?

Re: Unable To Install In Graphic Mode

2009-12-31 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:11pm on Thursday, December 31, 2009 (UK time), David Dembrow scrawled: > Attempting to install fedora 12, I get a message that there is not > enough memory to install in graphic mode and it reverts to a text mode > and installs some prepackaged set of applications. It is a system with

Re: Login sound in gnome desktop.

2009-12-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:18pm on Thursday, December 24, 2009 (UK time), sandeep Patel scrawled: > I have installed Fedora-12.And I found here that there is no login > sound in gnome desktop environment.When I logged into kde desktop > environment I found login sound there. > Please anyone suggest me wha

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:21am on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: > DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free > versions versus proprietary or anything else. Please sir, can I have permission to post something. I know you are in charge and that this mailing l

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:10am on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 (UK time), Antonio Olivares scrawled: > +1000 > > I have reported this before too :( > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-November/msg00448.html > > Strange behavior, not just me (TM) Post the email headers. Lets see where the del

Re: volume keybindings

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:18am on Monday, December 21, 2009 (UK time), Amadeus W.M. scrawled: > Sorry to say, but I had to uninstall pulseaudio yet again. So I'm back to > alsa and I feel much better. Except that my Page-up/down shortcuts > don't work anymore. I guess they used to control pulse volume. Does >

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:27am on Saturday, December 05, 2009 (UK time), François Patte scrawled: > I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware > installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). > > lspci does not give info about these hw. > > lshw, does not give the manufacturer >

Makefile for lib64 libraries

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Searle
I have just upgraded to 64-bit Fedora, and have a mysql appliation where the build fails with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient I know that this is because the library is in lib64, and my Makefile.am contains: bin_PROGRAMS = scraperes scraperes_SOURCES = main.cpp ... AM_CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/i

Re: 64bit firefox unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:15pm on Sunday, November 29, 2009 (UK time), Paolo Galtieri scrawled: > The 64 bit version of Firefox from F12 is very unstable. I imported my Your installation maybe. I havve it running on two machines with no problems. Try disabling all addons and see if that makes a difference. S

Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:27pm on Thursday, November 26, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: > I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba > partition with command > > mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="xxx",rw //xxx /mnt/mydir > > I do not have writing permissions on the mounted

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:22am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage scrawled: > That's where I found the fedoraforum link in my post. What does > about:plugins show in your system? See www.stevesearle.com/s.png Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:51am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage scrawled: > I'm trying to get Flash and sound working in Firefox for F12, I followed > the instructions in > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205642 to the letter to > install flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-4.x86

Networked pulseaudio guide

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Searle
Does anyone know of any documentation for setting up networked paulseaudio under Fedora 11? I have pulseaudio working fine on two computers, but one has a much better soundcard/speaker system thant the other, so I want to share that. Thanks Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powere

Re: Heads up: Brute force attacks on the rise recently

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:03pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (UK time), Michael Cronenworth scrawled: > -Make sure your root password is not a dictionary word. > -Add iptables rules to limit multiple connections on SSH to 4 within a > minute.[1] Perhaps this needs to become a Fedora default. > -Update your syst

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:45pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (UK time), Bob Goodwin scrawled: > >I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice >word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? > >I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't tr

Re: programs disappear

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:06am on Friday, October 23, 2009 (UK time), roland scrawled: > I reinstalled vim-minimal and now it works. > But how can this happen Bit rot :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in t

Re: programs disappear

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:24am on Friday, October 23, 2009 (UK time), roland scrawled: > wenn I do the folllowing > > [r...@svtdp01 roland]# crontab -e > crontab: "/bin/vi" killed; signal 4 (no core dumped) > > [r...@svtdp01 roland]# vi > Illegal instruction > > Apparently /bin/vi has disappeared. Unlikely, i

Re: Fedora 11: Very very slow graphics rendering

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:02am on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (UK time), Hiisi scrawled: > Try lshw as root. Open terminal and type: > su - > (You will be prompted for root' pass here) > lshw Yo may need to install lshw using yum or yumex first - its not installed as standard (or at least it wasn't on my system).

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:17pm on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 (UK time), psmith scrawled: > i'm doing some pen testing of my brother's companies network he wants me > to see if it's possible to get in so I'd be using the output as a word > list, and yes unfortunately i'll need all of it for comparison i'm not >

Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:34pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (UK time), DB scrawled: > Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed?? I'm no expert, but this might help move things on. I assume each machine can ping the router, as their Internet connextions work. However, can each machine ping both other m

Re: What is the "official" way to get a flash player plugin installed for Firefox?

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:06am on Friday, September 11, 2009 (UK time), Howard Wilkinson scrawled: > Can anybody point me at a repository that has an RPM for the flash > player plugin for Firefox (FC11)? And any gotchas I should be aware of? Add the Adobe repository by going to the site and following the Get A

Re: convert ico to svg or png

2009-09-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:20pm on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (UK time), Gerhard Magnus scrawled: > Does anyone know a program for FC11 that will convert Windows icon files > (.ico) into a format accepted by gnome (.svg or .png)? Imagemagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Yum installable. Steve

Re: fc9 and kde 4.3

2009-08-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:07am on Saturday, August 22, 2009 (UK time), Michal scrawled: > Are there kde 4.3 rpm packages already available for fc9? if not are > they going to be? Fedora 9 (F9 not FC9) has reached its end of life, an nothing new will be released for them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle

Re: plotting large datasets

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:10pm on Friday, August 21, 2009 (UK time), DJ Delorie scrawled: > I've got a need to plot "value vs time" data for 32 channels > simultaneously. Gnuplot isn't up to the task (not enough uniqueness, > even mixing lines and points, or control - the graph is just a mess). > What else is th

Re: Sorting Music by Composer

2009-08-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:51pm on Monday, August 10, 2009 (UK time), R. G. Newbury scrawled: > Does anyone know of a program with the flexibility to set things up this > way? Banshee can sort by composer, or any other tag. You will need to right click on the headings, and add composer as a column. Its yum ins

Re: Speaking of language support...

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:10am on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: > I stand corrected. You have reminded me of some of the strange > translations of tech manuals written in other languages into > English. I especially like the earth wire. (Ground wire.) What's wrong with earth

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:50am on Saturday, July 25, 2009 (UK time), g scrawled: > if user is in directory "/home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is > looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories > and their content. Or, 'rm -rf *' - those extra key strokes take years of

Re: F12 networkmanager, anyone else worried by this?

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:29pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > As long as I can still chkconfig --level 2345 NetowkrManager off > and chkconfig --level 2345 network on I'll be OK no matter how > deluded the NM developers remain about their "replacement" :-). Why would you want to r

Re: Startup logo on F11

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:52pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: > Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for. BTW, what is the > "rhgb" for? Red Hat Graphical Bootmanager Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs

Re: Startup logo on F11

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:03pm on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: > Can anyone quickly tell me how to permanently get rid of the startup > logo for F11? I always want to see the startup messages while it's > booting up. I probably could figure it out by digging into the system > but if an

Re: prelink segfault

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:17pm on Saturday, July 11, 2009 (UK time), stan scrawled: > That should enable you to open a bugzilla against prelink. Or remove > the package with the executable that is causing the problem and try > again. No error, you have your culprit. Bugzilla 510935 logged. Thanks for your h

Re: Is this a firefox 3.5 problem? (Actual URL enclosed :-).

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:45pm on Sunday, July 12, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > Here is a randomly selected multi-page article from time.com: > > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909616,00.html > > At the bottom of the article text there are what I presume > to be links to subsequent

prelink segfault

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Searle
I am getting the following on one of my Fedora boxes. Has anyone any ideas how to tackle it. I have reinstalled prelink. /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 47: 594 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/prelink -av $PRELINK_OPTS >> /var/log/prelink/prelink.log 2>&1 Steve --

Re: Another Firefox 3.5 problem update

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:35am on Friday, July 10, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: > (exasperated sigh) Sighs back :-) > 3)Even though I don't have any screen shots to pass along I did find > one of the websites that failed to work with it. http://www.monster.com > flat out does not work with 3.5 and t

test - please ignore

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Searle
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Re: sha256sum is not my friend

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:14pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: > steve searle > The CHECKSUM file has both the name of the iso and its expected checksum > > in it. > > > > So the command: > > > > $ sha256sum -c Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM > >

Re: replys

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:48pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: > How does one compose a reply to a message inside digest mode? Point me > to instruction or supply instructions, please. You can't re-join it to its original thread, so jsut do the best possible. Change the subject back to the

Re: sha256sun

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:20pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: > Not quite. You want to -c against the small CHECKSUM file, which contains > a list of ISOs and their sha256sums. For example: > $ sha256sum -c Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM > > > I don't get it! you want me to match a downloadable che

Re: Root Access

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:27pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), Tim scrawled: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:41 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > > What does logging in as root give you that can't be achieved by > > logging in as yourself and using su? > > I imagine the common problem bein

Re: Root Access

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:19am on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), Mike Dwiggins scrawled: > I need to be able to log in as root to do my job! I wish it were not so > but, it is! Life always fair! What does logging in as root give you that can't be achieved by logging in as yourself and using su? Steve --

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:53pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Kevin J. Cummings scrawled: > No, that can't be it, as it gives me the same (good) hash with and > without the -b/-t options. From man sha256sum: Note: There is no difference between binary and text mode option on GNU system. > > Are you r

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:32pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: > The copies from here show the correct key. > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/iso/ Yes - that matches the CHECKSUM file that came with the iso, and it is signed correctly. However when I run sha25

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:02pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Andre Robatino scrawled: > Which torrent was this downloaded from? Normally, if the contents are > bad, the comments will root it out pretty quickly. I followed the link on the Fedora site's page: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ I guess it

ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
I downloaded the i386 DVD for Fedora 11 via the torrent. However it fails to verfy. $ sha256sum Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso fc2e12f550462cc91202b65cc654b0e1999a6c04c6d6f1b998ef5f03073bfd09 Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso I thought torrents were self checking, so does this mean their is an invalid iso image

Re: Which directory contents I can remove??

2009-06-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:03am on Sunday, June 07, 2009 (UK time), Bruno Wolff III scrawled: > Normally you don't have to. There is supposed to be cron job that deletes > files /tmp and /var/tmp that haven't been read or written in a while. Supposed to be, or is? Can you give any more information, esp what it is

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram scrawled: > On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > > > > I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove > > gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it. > > > > Is ther

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:51pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Beartooth scrawled: > Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not, > might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the > dependencies? I do the following horrible hack: Hide the first of the System -> Prefe

Re: hardware for fedora

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:33am on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Sharpe, Sam J scrawled: > I don't find it a PITA (I have akmod-nvidia installed) and the 3D > performance of the Intel chipset is not great enough to satisfy the > applications that some of my users run. Out of interest, what applications? Ste

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:29pm on Friday, May 22, 2009 (UK time), Mike Cloaked scrawled: > So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and > he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an > Nvidia graphics card - are you suggesting that people on this list t

Re: konsole's "configure konsole" doesn't work

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:04pm on Saturday, May 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kofler scrawled: > Compiling stuff directly from source without packaging it as an RPM is > one of the quickest ways to make a mess out of your system, especially > if you don't know what you're doing. I can't agree with this - there are m

Re: files which start with a dot and firefox gmail

2009-04-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:02pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 18:44 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > > However I agree it is just a > > convention, the files are intrinsically different from "normal" files. >

Re: files which start with a dot and firefox gmail

2009-04-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:54pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:15 +0100, Cannon, Andrew C wrote: > > Mark, > > > > In *nix space, all files that start with a dot are classed as 'hidden' > > files. Thus, they won't be normally viewable. It may be

Re: nVidia vs. ATI graphics card for fedora

2009-04-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:17pm on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 (UK time), Globe Trotter scrawled: > Thanks very much! I will try for an older graphics card. Do I have > options other than ATI or nVidia that would not have these issues. I > do not want to mess with kernel and driver re-configurations. I expect > it to

Re: ssh problem

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:44pm on Monday, April 20, 2009 (UK time), Dave Feustel scrawled: > I am trying to set up ssh for use on my local network. > When I try to access f9 with ssh from suse, the connection is refused. > When I try to access suse with ssh from f9, ssh hangs. > AFICT, all other ssh invocations o

Re: looking for pre-configured RHat derived server for mail

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:56pm on Friday, April 17, 2009 (UK time), Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak scrawled: > Claude Jones wrote: >> I know there are a number of Redhat/Centos/and even Fedora specialized >> distributions out there that are packaged for server use. Can any one >> recommend any that they've used? W

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:58pm on Thursday, April 16, 2009 (UK time), Dan scrawled: > Just updated the kernel about an hour ago. > > Fedora 10 (x86) > Dell GX240 > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF > > When booting it gets as far as "starting anacron" and then I just > get a

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:20pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan > > scrawled: > > > > > On Sun, 2009-

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:18 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote: > > Hi guys > > who can help me with opening 80 port for apache in iptables, I want to > > access my apache server from remote computer, but I failed in conf

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:18pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Nathan Huang scrawled: > First step: > echo '-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport > 80 -j ACCEPT' >> /etc/sysconfig/iptables This seems OK to me. > > Second step: > /sbin/service iptables restart > > error: > iptab

Re: Goto [Was Re: Chown ???]

2009-04-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:01am on Saturday, April 11, 2009 (UK time), Marko Vojinovic scrawled: > Are these letters available electronically? Any links maybe? I'm just > curious, > would like to read them. http://tinyurl.com/danq7a Not sure if the rebuttal is online Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com /

Re: screen blanks with nomodeset

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:33pm on Monday, April 06, 2009 (UK time), Jack Howarth scrawled: > Chris, >The worst part is that the fglrx drivers have stopped working > on my machine with X1650 Pro graphics. The kernel level drivers > seem to work okay, but when X starts up, I only get a black screen. I have the

Re: re the new KDE 4.2 (or so)

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:49pm on Monday, April 06, 2009 (UK time), Elgato Salvahey scrawled: > It is a law of cosmology, and the second law of thermodynamics, that > the entropy of the universe must always increase. Since this implies > that ALL things MUST increase in complexity, This is wrong. Entropy in the

Re: view more or less?

2009-04-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:41pm on Sunday, April 05, 2009 (UK time), Garry T. Williams scrawled: > On Friday 03 April 2009 04:00:45 Steve Searle wrote: > > round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward > scrawled: > > > I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my col

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:56am on Saturday, April 04, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: > I am starting to learn how to program in C, and I am looking for a > proper editor for that. Do you recommend Kate to me? Or is there > something better? Ideally you want something that does syntax highlighting and autom

Re: view more or less?

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Searle
round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward scrawled: > I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague > insisted I do not use less but view instead. I would be wary of colleagues who insist you do something - advise maybe but why should he insist. > I thought a

Re: fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:58am on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i have to side with ed on this one -- while we may not like closed > >> source technology, nvidia has generally worked well for me when > >> i've had to deal with it. >

Re: playing MP3's

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:32am on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (UK time), dco...@efn.org scrawled: > would like to know what to download/install to play > mp3's in Fedora. The Unofficial Fedora FAQ is helpful. http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mp3 Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_N

Re: Label Program reccomendations ??

2009-03-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:59pm on Monday, March 09, 2009 (UK time), William Case scrawled: > Can someone recommend a quick and easy label maker. Up to now I have > used the label facility on OOo Writer. Its OK, in fact, its good for a > large-ish merge etc. but a bit of a PIA for just one or two file folder > e

Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:31pm on Saturday, March 07, 2009 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled: > To disable it, simply do a, yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, which will > also remove kde-settings-pulseaudio package, if you are using KDE. Thanks for this. Having put up with stuttering sound on the PC I use to p

[OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Searle
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the creation of this message 20:41:37 up 24 days, 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.01 pgphr3D6hKzCq.pgp De

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:17am on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 (UK time), Dave Bolt IT Solutions scrawled: > So here is what I do. > Open a terminal > Change user by typing su followed by return key. You will be prompted for It is probably less confusing if "su -" (without the quotes) is entered. This will make it

Re: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:51pm on Saturday, February 28, 2009 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled: > I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I > live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out. Actually they determine where your ISP connects you to the internet. Thus I am doomed t

Re: gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:42pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Steve Searle scrawled: > Around 07:59pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Todd Zullinger > scrawled: > > > Steve Searle wrote: > > > On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the > &

Re: gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:59pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Todd Zullinger scrawled: > Steve Searle wrote: > > On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the > > window it (gvim) freezes and I have to kill it off. This does not > > happen when I switch

gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the window it (gvim) freezes and I have to kill it off. This does not happen when I switch to KDE or XFCE. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS

Re: Friendly backup utility

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:07pm on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Reinhard Sy scrawled: > I am using unison for my backup which is a frontend to rsync I think. It is not a front end for rsync. And unison synchronises in both directions, whereas rsync is only in one. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.c

Re: DHCP assistance required.

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:56am on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Simon Slater scrawled: You owe me one :-) > default-lease-time 600; > max−lease−time 7200; should be: max-lease-time The max-lease-time does not contain dashes but some sort of double length dash. Steve -- (o< www.steve

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:33pm on Monday, February 16, 2009 (UK time), Gene Heskett scrawled: > 3.# mysql -u root mysql 3.# mysql -u root mysql -p ^^ The -p will cause you to be prompted for root's password. What you have tried does not supply the password. Steve -- (o< www.ste

Re: Sendmail

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:23pm on Thursday, February 05, 2009 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: > Adil Drissi wrote: > > > I have successfully installed Mysql and PHP but I am unable to send email > > via php. Sendmail is already installed apparently. I want to know if there > > is a way to test email by send

Re: music download sites?

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:15am on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 (UK time), JasonB scrawled: > i use mp3 obsession [2] its very cheap and all online so you do not > need any software. songs on there are from 9cents and all good > quality. also, this site is legal unlike many that have been suggested > here 8-) Thi

Re: Understanding the mystery of printing?

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:00pm on Friday, January 30, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:08:57 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Could this be related to your locale setting? > > I don't know for sure. All was US English until I installed Fedora 10. What is the output from th

Re: Problem with totem

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:40pm on Friday, January 30, 2009 (UK time), Jim scrawled: > I would uninstall Totem, that is one app that I have never seen working > in any Fedora Core. He's using Fedora 10, not one of the Core versions. And it works fine on my installation of Fedora 10. Steve -- (o< www.st

Re: Linux Bowl - Any Ideas?

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:56pm on Thursday, January 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > I always thought it had something to do with the trophy (viz. FA Cup, > Ashes, etc.) but I speak from the vantage point of complete ignorance. From Wikipedia: Bowl game ...The term "bowl" originated from the

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: > But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not > offered the chance to create a regular user account during the installation? Firstboot will ask you to set up a user account. Did you bypa

Re: Printers

2009-01-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:42pm on Sunday, January 25, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > > New printers are actually often a better buy... > > I remember buying a laser printer at Office Depot and the > printer was something like $100 and their web site listed > replacement toner cartridges at $116 :-). I'm

Re: Printers

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:00pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Michael Comperchio scrawled: > Inexpensive as in I'm not working steadily right now and there doesn't > seem to be a lot of hiring going on any where. I'm talking about going > to Staples or Circuit City or the like and not spending much mor

Re: Question for our users

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:38pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > Hello Fedora Users! I was wondering if everyone wouldn't mind answering > > the following questions for me to the list. > > > > What is Fedora (the operating system)? > > > There is no "Fedora"

Re: Printers

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:24pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Michael Comperchio scrawled: > What would be the best choice in inexpensive printers for use with > Fedora? I'm relatively new to F10, though I've used Linux before. I'm > hoping to never have to boot to the windoze side again. But printing

Re: Listing devices on network?

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:01pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: > How do I list the devices on a home network? I'd use nmap. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the creation of this message 13:40:41 up 32 days, 1

Re: new Fedora 10 install - no Kate KDE editor

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:25pm on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kempter scrawled: > # rpm -q --whatprovides kate I presume (but don't really know) that rpm, like yum needs the path, so it should be # rpm -q --whatprovides */kate or # rpm -q --whatprovides */bin/kate to cut down on the output. St

Re: new Fedora 10 install - no Kate KDE editor

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:30pm on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kempter scrawled: > Hi all; > > I've just installed fedora 10 on a new box but I dont have the KDE editor > 'kate'. Anyone know which package I need to install to get it? # yum provides */bin/kate The result from this shows kdesdk is

Re: Log Files

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:43am on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Leon Vergottini scrawled: > I do need help again. I would like to know if Fedora has a log file which > log all events by all users and where can I found it? Also if possible, can > such a log file be created if there is not such a log file.

F10 failing at GNOME and KDE logon

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Searle
Running Fedora 10 on a desktop and it has just stopped logging on. When logging on to a KDE session, the message "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation" is displayed. Clcikign OK (the only option available) returns to the logon screen. If I attempt to logon to GNOME, "Naultilus can

Re: home directory

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:49pm on Friday, December 19, 2008 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: > Dumb question - why not use $HOME? Because he wants to do it for any user he cares to specify. $HOME only gives the current users home directory. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by F

Re: E-mail Server

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:04pm on Sunday, December 14, 2008 (UK time), Leon Vergottini scrawled: > I have been tasked to commissioned an e-mail server in the first > quarter of next year. I got this task because I am the only one at work I don't know if you are intending to use Fedora as the server. If you

Re: cron.weekly

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:22pm on Sunday, December 14, 2008 (UK time), Patrick Dupre scrawled: > Hello, > > Since I switch to FC10, I have the cron.weekly starting 2 times: > This is what I have in my crontab: > > # run-parts > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > 02 0 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.dai

Re: NFS broken

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:15am on Saturday, December 13, 2008 (UK time), Frank Cox scrawled: > nfs is still working fine for me here. I assume you're talking about f10? > (You didn't specify.) No F9. It will only affect you when you reboot and mount NFS drives. I have temporarily set selinux to permissive, wh

Re: FC9 - recent upgrade breaks NFS

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:02am on Friday, December 12, 2008 (UK time), Bill Davidsen scrawled: > Looks to be a bit different, I'll have to poke a bit before I can offer a > decent bug report, but rpc.statd isn't starting, which makes all of my NFS > mounts fail. I checked against another system which works, the

Re: Data persistence/ retaining setup/ booting with a Live USB release ?

2008-11-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:08pm on Friday, November 28, 2008 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: > My friend's laptop died. She needs to reinstall XP but she has lost her > install disks and the XP install disks we have tried thus far don't work > for her machine. > > I like F10 so much I am thinking of recommendi

Re: Wireless, Broadcom

2008-11-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:33pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: > 6. The Fedora setup shouldn't have been affected by anything you did in > fedora. However, without knowing which guidelines you used, I can't say > for certain. I think Mark made a typo here - and he meant to say "

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