Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Waugh
similar. (And, unsurprisingly, I've been seeing that dialog pop-up behind the window that caused it...) Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Open with Other Application dialog has some entries duplicated.

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 19:05 -0400, Paolo Galtieri wrote: When I right click on a file and bring up the Open with Other Application dialog I notice that some entries have multiple entries. For example Okular is listed over a dozen times, Firefox is listed twice as is Brasero. Is there a way

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
Tim: There's supposed to be some function (or was in earlier Fedora releases) that'd periodically update your user directories. Though I don't know how, and how often, it actually did its trick. I've never seen it do its trick. Paul W. Frields: It's xdg-user-dirs-update, and it does work

Re: /etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:40 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: The best approach is usually to identify your own change, make the same change in the .rpmnew file, then mv the .rpmnew file into place. What about SELinux issues when you mv instead of create new files? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: My solution to installs for little machines is a box I got from Newegg, has a USB connector and PATA inside for old drives (SATA available as well), and I install on a real computer with lots of resources, even if I'm running on next to

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
Mikkel: System -- Preferences -- Network Connections Pick the type of interface, and then the specific interface. Highlight it and click on edit. Under the IPv4 Settings, change the Method drop-down to Automatic (DHCP) address only. If you are using IPv6, then change that drop-down to

Re: Network Audio

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:03 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Right now I am getting two machines using one set of speakers via audio Y-cables, but it definitely has a negative effect on the sound quality. Also a good way to do permanent damage to the output stages of your sound cards. --

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-06 Thread Tim
There's a suggestion that a resolv.conf.save file will be copied to resolv.conf each reboot. You could try that file as a reset to (your) normal options for your configuration. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which in principal just means running named and pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten by NetworkManager, Are you

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 21:42 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I messed up, I was following all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was successful and it was time to update. I did a su -l and then typed yum update. I realized I

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 18:54 -0500, KC8LDO wrote: I did an awful lot of research using Google on the network file share browsing issue I had with Fedora 11 using Nautilus. The two things that stand out are something the ISP's are doing and also with the NetBIOS name resolution order done by

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: I'd like to change the destination of the default GNOME directories : the directories like Videos,Music, Documents.. ( I'm using GNOME in Italian, so the original name, maybe, are a little different). Usually their definition is in

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
Tim: If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you never intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you. R. G. Newbury: ONE HUGE PARTITION? I'd like to know who is crazy enough to recommend

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: I was assuming that the partition was being formatted each time Fedora was re-installed, but if he uses a separate partition for /home, then that could well be it. Unless you manually partition, and manually add options to do a file system

Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, I've not spent any time trying to get a pure nfs4 environment. IMHO, it doesn't buy anything. Getting away from usernames and numerical user IDs having to all be the same on each computer? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: HP Pavilion a375c w/Fedora 12 compact flash problems

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 22:48 -0800, Donald Russell wrote: I have Fedora 12 running on an HP Pavilion a375c PC. It has one of those multi-card reader things, and if I insert a Memory Stick, an icon for it appears on my desk top and I can browse files on it etc. If I insert a Compact Flash

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending linux single to make the server boot in sigle

Re: Firefox KDE integration à la openSUSE

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 20:26 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Has anyone looked into openSUSE's brilliant integration of Firefox into KDE4? Is this something that interests the Fedora community? Status: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration; Code:

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 20:20 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Clearly we have different needs. I've never needed to do any of those things without stopping the system. In fact the adding space thing is probably what looks most attractive, but I'm paranoid about disk failure so I can't see

Re: F12/Subversion/httpd -- PROPFIND access denied [Solved]

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 02:20 -0500, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: The answer: mod_evasive (mod_evasive20.so in my case). The evasive module is designed to stop denial of service attacks. You have to wonder about that... (about it being designed to stop them, instead of create one). It doesn't

Re: list server got slower ?

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 11:16 +, Mike Cloaked wrote: All very well - but the fact remains that for a user like me the list is the primary method of discussion about Fedora issues, fixes, workarounds etc. and I would like to see a timely server response - certainly it did not used to be like

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
Mail Lists: I'd suggest something like: Fedora Users Tony Nelson: Too terse to guide new signups away from the developers' list. The currentname is wordy and wraps too often. And that wrapping has been known to cause problems with some clients, in the past. One way or another (e.g. it's

Re: small gripe -- for Fedora, or KDE, or ....?

2010-01-02 Thread Tim
Rex Dieter: It goes both ways. For example, Gnome doesn't support the GenericName part of the desktop-spec, whereas KDE in general doesn't offer Comment keys. BeartoothHOS: I have no idea what that jargon refers to. If you look at various something-or-other.desktop files, you can get a

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-29 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:10 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: There was a discussion a while back as to how to describe list. The result is what you see today. The idea is that the list name/description would clarify expectations to everyone arriving here. In short it says: this is what the fedora user

Re: slow boot for latest fedora kernel 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64

2009-12-29 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 20:00 +, N James Bridge wrote: Without quiet I still get no output at all for 2min 35sec, then normal rush of messages. Bootchart (very nice!) shows that the boot process itself is running normally, once it starts, about 45sec overall. The initial wait isn't shown on

Re: list server got slower ?

2009-12-28 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 17:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: You say it isn't a local clock issue, yet the time zones are flipping within your LAN. AFAIK, Adelaide is GMT+1030 in summer time. The only time I've seen time zone incorrectness like this was when some systems, at the office I worked at,

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-28 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 17:58 +1030, Tim wrote: Abbreviating down to the salient comments, ~/.bash_profile says: # User specific environment and startup programs ~/.bashrc says: # User specific aliases and functions NB: I should add that's the textbook situation. When it comes to practice

Re: list server got slower ?

2009-12-28 Thread Tim
Tim: Yeah, our timezones are GMT+9.5 normally, or GMT+10.5 in summer time (which is now). A half hour difference, but the headers show the time flipping by 14 minutes, as well. And, it's all on the same computer. Grr! Ed Greshko: Weird Wondering if hwclock -r returns a correct

Re: list server got slower ?

2009-12-28 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 10:29 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: It clearly shows delay exactly as original post said 2-3 mins in int-mx05 ... and 7-10 mins in lists01-xxx I managed to miss seeing the additional delay. If each message takes 15 mins to process that would be a maximum of 96 messages

Re: list server got slower ?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 11:36 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: As of a few weeks ago, posting to this list got the post back in my mailbox in a few minutes. Now I am seeing delays. Greylisting, perhaps. If something has changed, the learnt whitelist might no-longer be in effect. -- [...@localhost ~]$

Re: Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 23:57 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Finally, there is one more very important thing to comment on. One notable misconception that is typically put forward by opponents of eye-candy is that all those effects take time to execute and thus slow you down when using the

Re: Compiz -- Discussion

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
Tim: e.g. Open menu, instantly pick choice, versus open menu, wait for effect to subside before you can even read menu, then pick choice. Tom Horsley: Yea, reminds me of all the fancy menus in DVD and BluRay movies so beloved by the authors and despised by the poor users who just want to get

Re: Calendar with recurring tasks?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Also does differences, so you can print not only the birthday of kids but their age this year, anniversaries, last friday in the quarter, Easter, whatever. Just once, or maybe every time, I'd like to see a calendar NOT ask me a year to go

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 22:52 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: So it is in .bash_profile and not .bashrc? Abbreviating down to the salient comments, ~/.bash_profile says: # User specific environment and startup programs ~/.bashrc says: # User specific aliases and functions -- [...@localhost ~]$

Re: list server got slower ?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
Tim: Greylisting, perhaps. If something has changed, the learnt whitelist might no-longer be in effect. Mail Llists: No I dont believe so - there is no delay on the incoming MX .. only on the list server and the outgoing MX. Your ISP's or within the list server servers'? Headers from

Re: AGP?

2009-12-27 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:12 -0800, john wendel wrote: My FX 5200 will still play HD video, it just loads the CPU. But who cares, when I'm watching video, I'm not doing much else with the box. So long as your cooling is good enough... On my laptop, the CPU gets really hot with some things

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread Tim
Tim: There are drivers to read ext3 on Windows. If you use both systems, you'll have to weigh up which is the most convenient. Native file systems on Linux, which supports your normal permissions and ownership file details. Or a pathetic-featured file system that can be easily read by many

Re: User image for About me in taskbar in f12?

2009-12-24 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 06:19 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: All the image files and the directories that hold them have read permission for everybody - what else needs to be changed? And are the directory permissions world executable, too? NB: I'm just making educated assumptions about the

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 04:52 -0500, William Case wrote: The blockage seems to be at the fedora-list You can tell, for sure, by reading the mail headers and looking at the dates and times for each server it's gone through. or why else would I receive a block of 61 posts, some of the posts

Re: Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

2009-12-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:02 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: If you can boot from CD or DVD, why not install that way? One big reason: They're a slow media, compared to other things. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox

Re: User image for About me in taskbar in f12?

2009-12-23 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 19:49 +, Mike Cloaked wrote: on the taskbar as has been usual in gnome it is possible to select an image when you right click the username and click the image at the top left of the window that opens. However this image is not seen when you close the personal details

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-22 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:31 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Last year, the college spend $79 each to upgrade 500 machines from Office 2003 to 2007. Seems they ordered the keyboarding book that used 2007, instead of the one that used 2003, so they had to buy the new software. Checked with

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 16:55 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Timothy's messages do not end up in my spam box anymore. I guess he solved the problem. It's a fair bet that the problem's really gmane's not him. i.e. The way it adds headers, directing follow-ups to a news group when the replies really

Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 00:15 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: About your monitor, I suspect what the earthquake might have done is flex some bit of hardware just right and cause it to rub through some micro-corrosion on an internal signal lead. You know, the same mechanism attributed to

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
Marcel Rieux OTOH, when I formatted, I wasn't so sure that ext3 was much use on a USB drive. I still don't know. Aaron Konstam: In it is not muh use if you ever want to put it in a Wiindws machine. There are drivers to read ext3 on Windows. If you use both systems, you'll have to weigh up

Re: RFE? Or am I wasting my time?

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:45 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: Am I the only person in the world that cares? I mean, would it just be a waste of time for my to file a RFE that's inevitably going to be ignored or closed NOTABUG? I agree with your assessment. Unless it is actually going to compress the

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 19:25 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Finally got the go ahead to create two Linux courses to our College program. Have included Linux in my lab since Redhat 9 thru the current Fedora 12, but have just been able to show students little bits of it from time to time,

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote: My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition. What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted for. Windows was partition 4, Linux was

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
boxes, and several users use it. Sure, root can mangle anything, but it makes it harder for the wrong user to stuff up the wrong personal files. Simple FAT storage losing ownership is useful for transferring file from box to box, where user tim has different UIDs from one box to the next. That's

Re: Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:47 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: If you're trying to install via a network install (NFS or HTTP), then the ISO image itself is what you point at, not a loopback mount of it. The installer wants to see the ISO image itself, not the files in it. When I've done network

Re: G11 keyboard

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 22:40 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: I have a Logitech G15, because I like the little display in the middle. It doesn't improve my typing speed. A good keyboard can really help, and a bad one can really hinder. Some keyboards are just plain nasty. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname

Re: asus eee pc 1101HA: memtest error

2009-12-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:16 -0800, Colin Brace wrote: Just now I am running memtest from the Live OS (F12) on an USB stick. It has run now for some 8 hours, and during the 2nd pass I got an error message: Tst: 7 Pass: 2 Failing address: 7ba7454 - 123.6MB Good: 2aa1e9b Bad: 0aa1e19b

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Lauridsen
and master) and i get a W access for kernel DENIED to timlau fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly If i try to commit some changes to the kernel.spec So it look like it work as expected. Tim -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:02 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Very weird: it still sees the partition as FAT32, even though I formatted it ext3. When you prep a disc, you specify the partition types that you want, and formatting tools may format the partition with the same file system type, by

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Tim
. Learn more A different Tim, here, but that might be due to him posting through the gmane usenet to email gateway (it gives me problems, too; different problems, though). You could have a look through the headers of one of his mails, and see if there's something in there you can use to tell your

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-18 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote: I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is no open with option, same attachment open fine in F12, starting Openoffice writer!!! Chances are

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: This shows that your download is corrupted. That would explain all your other problems too. You need to download the iso again. If you are using direct download, I would suggest you to switch to torrent. While downloading torrents, your

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-18 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:07 +0100, Antonio M wrote: don't understand why same attachment starts openoffice in F12 (two boxes) , that are both standard installation. What is different??? Configurations??? Without seeing your computers, or example emails, we cannot tell, just make the usual

Re: F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

2009-12-18 Thread Tim
Tim: One of their prior posts said they got it using a torrent. Gene Heskett: In which case they should restart the torrent. Most clients do a full check and will re-pull anything that doesn't pass that 64kb blocks crc. One thing that sprang to my mind, would be whether the torrent hadn't

Re: F12 Live CD - Network Question

2009-12-17 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:43 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: I suspect you have wireless capabilities on you machine and eth1 is traditionally the wireless NIC. *Traditionally* a wireless NIC is wlan, not eth. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to

Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:27 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't think there is a very user friendly way to do what you want other than using different SSIDs. Sounds like something NetworkManager should be doing by itself: When supplied with two like-named SSIDs, pick the one

Re: Bind Problem in Fedora 12

2009-12-16 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:51 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote: Then again the parsing could work better on F 12 and it's catching more mistakes. Mistakes should be fixed, not glossed over. That would indeed be Deja vu from the days when I was coming over from Windoze. Glossing over mistakes is the

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:49 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Why not put everything in a single git repository? That would require every packager to check out the entire package set, all revisions, all branches. No thanks. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Real Audio on F12 (SOLVED)

2009-12-15 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I tried it and it seems to be pretty much what I want: mplayer -dumpfile MyStream.out -dumpstream -playlist URL and a subsequent call to mplayer will then play the stream. One trick you can do that is to let you work on a

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The -playlist option made it work. Sometimes needed for .ram files, as they're often a playlist or referrer of some time. Not always needed, as some .ram files are the media, itself. And I've noticed mplayer *sometimes* not care

Re: F11 iptables can't disable

2009-12-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:01 -0500, KC8LDO wrote: Yes I can use service iptables stop at the CLI but the firewall is right back again with filtering when I reboot the machine. Try reading the replying posts again. service iptables stop will stop it now, and only now. Likewise with using it to

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:59 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is rather long and complex :-) Add -dumpstream to the command line, and it'll get dumped to

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Tim
Patrick O'Callaghan: Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is rather long and complex :-) Marko Vojinovic: mplayer -ao pcm:fast,file=givemeaname.wav -playlist

Re: linux as router

2009-12-13 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 22:59 +0100, paul van der meij wrote: I don't think that it makes sense to configure a router with one physical network card. If another PC on the same cable segment tries to reach something it needs a router that has connection with more than the same network cable. Not

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was slow! I was forgetting the other common reason for that sort of thing: Not enough RAM

Re: Issue setting KDE resolution - Fedora 12, ATI, Dell Inspiron 8600

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 19:17 -0800, Lets Go Canes wrote: ith the added problem of having to boot single-user to delete the xorg.conf file to get the display back. You shouldn't have to do that, simply switching to a text-only console should give you a working display so you can issue commands.

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not exist

2009-12-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:24 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Even if there's no website, there needs to be an A record. Since it's a valid domain. Well, at least for the FQDNs that they're actually making using, such as the ones the MX records point to (and they do). There are records for both mail

Re: alter from hda to sda

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 22:29 +0100, Rune Johansson wrote: I have tre separate partitions for linux systems so that I can keep my old after installed a new. I also have a separate partition for /home. When I installed F11 it wasn't able to reed my old /home because it was a hda -

Re: Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Would the bios drive order translation account for the slowness of the F12 system? It is intolerably slow when multitasking, often taking 30 seconds to a minute to close a window if the package manager is also running. The BIOS will be

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not exist

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:14 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: his message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

Re: receive webcam on Fedora 10

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 07:53 -0200, Adel ESSAFI wrote: I have surfed the web to find if pidgin or kopete can receive webcam for my msn contacts. I have found no clear answer for fedora. The only thing I've seen actually working with receiving webcams, is amsn. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: confirm

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:05 +0100, Austin Christain wrote: thanks guys for what you are doing out there..i need you to send me info/material to help me with my LPI1 exam am already prepareing for I have some walls that need painting. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

Re: How do I disable coredumps on F12?

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: The abrtd service is designed to collect all the relevant information on a crash and send it back for analysis. Part of that relevant information would be the coredump. So, you want to remove a portion of the relevant information? Don't

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not exist

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 06:08 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Sounds like there may be no A record for redfish-solutions.com. There definitely wasn't, here. But the original poster didn't state whether there should be public records for the domain. External could just been another network they work

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:38 +, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: in that case it was a third party screensaver, downloaded from the web. NOT one supplied by Ubuntu. Precisely why I made the comment, the other day, about not getting packages from personal websites, where nobody will have

Re: OT [but very interesting] Coimputer design]

2009-12-08 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 08:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: How does this computer design strike you? Video: Amazing Computer portable computer http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7H0K1k54t6A Since you ask... One thing that immediately struck me as being obviously dumb, when you consider

including pam_radius_auth package in distribution

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Lank
this in the official releases. What would it take to get it added and on the path to inclusion in the distro? Tim -- 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: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:53 +1100, Roger wrote: Question: with /boot / and /home partitions, do /usr /etc /var and others all go into directories in / I've never found out how the partitioning and install systems handle this. As far as accessing them is concerned, they're all directories

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:05 +1100, Roger wrote: I have only ever edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to alter how grub boots. I do not know if this the correct thing to do That should be fine. Do you have more than one boot partition? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:56 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: /boot/grub/grub.conf is the configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a symlink for compatibility As I recall, that's a Red Hat-ism. The menu.lst file being the default GRUB file, as used by GRUB, and grub.conf being the file

RE: Tiff files frmo xsane arent usable in windows

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 06:25 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: it seems whatever came out of xsane isn't compatible with the fax viewer in XP. Three guesses: It's a compressed TIFF, and the other computer doesn't support that compression scheme. You saved a grayscale or full-colour TIFF, and the

Re: Printing on F12

2009-12-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 18:31 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: lp php-test.css returns lp: successful-ok It's a CUPS bug. I've filed a bug report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=545026 Thanks for saying about it. Tim. */ signature.asc Description

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
Joachim Backes: What's then the difference between editing grub.conf and menu.lst? None! Aaron Konstam: None, Other than, when something breaks the symlinks, making them two independent files. (It can happen.) How did youu guess the relationship between the two files? No guessing needed.

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:37 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: There, that's MY snarky remark. Gods, people, if you want to use Ubuntu, go use Ubuntu already... no need to tell everyone about it. Here's mine: He's taking his bat, and someone else's ball, and going home... -- [...@localhost ~]$

Re: nautilus overwrite files

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
Henrique Koesjan: show me before I overwrite the file, if they have the same name. Marc Wilson: Why would you need a plugin to do what Nautilus does by default? Read their addendum to the original query. Nautilus doesn't show you any details about the file it's about to overwrite. You don't

Re: To hyper-thread or not to hyper-thread

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:29 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Well the Intel ads make XEON hyper-threading sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread, As do (just about) all manufacturers when describing their new, and sometimes not new, technology. The emperor is wearing no clothes! --

Re: Compiz plugins

2009-12-06 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:20 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I've always found this super and meta terminology quite confusing. What keys do you press when you read press alt+meta3+F9 in some instruction manual? It seems only third party, very old, web pages ever go into any information about

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 15:37 -0500, Clemens Eisserer wrote: In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Do you have two disparate grub.conf files? /etc/grub.conf is supposed to be a link to the real file

Re: mplayer stop XScreenSaver ignored

2009-12-06 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 23:42 +0200, Dj YB wrote: I have toggled stop XScreenSaver in mplayer misc tab and my screen saver is still running while mplayer is playing in full screen. Ever since I've been using mplayer, and that's probably back to Red Hat 8 Linux days, the cancel the screensaving

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 21:44 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Using root to fix things is not usually required And isn't going to work for fixing up personal settings, you'd end up customising the root login, instead of your own. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't

Re: Flash for my new F12/64 install

2009-12-04 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:45 +0530, Jatin K wrote: just download the flash plugin from the following[1] link (please note that link is valid only for 1 week ) [1] http://senduit.com/8913b8 It might be unwise to get files from some third-party source, which could be compromised or just plain

Re: Flash for my new F12/64 install

2009-12-04 Thread Tim
Tim: It might be unwise to get files from some third-party source, which could be compromised or just plain broken. And unnecessary when you can get them directly from the people who made the file. Jatin K: I've uploaded that file.. I've got it from adobe ( downloaded from

Re: How to install printer driver without printer connected.

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Waugh
, double-click on the printer icon in the printer configuration window and click the 'Change...' button next to 'Make and Model:', and try another driver. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: OT: Linux Malware is possible? if it is :(

2009-12-02 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:09 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: Yes, but with qualifications. The problem with Windows has been, and generally is, that the user usually runs with elevated privileges--compromise that user, you compromise the entire OS. Not to mention that with Linux, you generally have

Re: Wine

2009-12-02 Thread Tim
Hector E. Celis: How in the hell do I install DVD43 using wine. Same question for ICOPYDVDS2 And how do I install LimeWire If we can't copy DVDs for personal use, can't use limewire , then FEDORA is GARBAGE useless to normal users. Plenty of us normal users don't use our computers to

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