Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chanel4 and 5 also have online content I can watch happily on > Fedora. What application do you use to watch Channels 4 and 5? I take it they don't come through the iPlayer? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathemat

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rich Bishop wrote: > In case something non-junk comes on - the STV catchup player ( > http://video.stv.tv/bc/ ) is flash, and so can be used with Fedora. Thanks, that looks interesting ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail:

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
maybe evening something like "Slingbox"...use to...but no longer will > work wine. I have actually tried Slingbox, but not with great success. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinit

TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer. -- Tim

Re: Preupgrade F11 -> F12 Not Working

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
trouble with preupgrade is that if it doesn't work, which is all too likely, it leaves the machine in a halfway state. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list

Re: Very BAD preupgrade experience.

2009-12-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Point anaconda to the thumb drive and the upgrade > will proceed without a hitch. I assumed install.img had to be in /boot , for some reason. If it doesn't have to be there, it seems a crazy decision to try to install a file in a partition that manifestly won't hold it in many, if not m

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

2009-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
ved centrally in this process, to use the term "installation image" for another file seems bound to cause confusion. Why not just call it the ISO file, or .iso file? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathemat

Re: grub configuration, boot.

2009-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
the >> UUID >> for the partitions. You can then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and make the >> kernel line specify explicitly the partitions you want to use with the >> syntax >> >> root=UUID=... Is it necessary to do this? I think grub will still accept the o

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

2009-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
ch I believe was the first distribution where it was necessary to abstract install.img as well as vmlinuz and initrd.img . I guess I would first have read of it here, in a posting to this list/newsgroup. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-284236

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

2009-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
me as more or less useless for anyone actually wanting to install Fedora. I get the impression the authors have never put themselves in the position of a likely reader of the Guide, who is almost certainly asking, "I want to install Fedora. What should I do?" -- Timothy Murphy e-mai

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

2009-12-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
images dir is to be placed; > I am not sure, but i think the OP did this part correctly. > Where he might be going wrong is how he interacts with Anaconda, > as I tried to explain in my earlier reply As I mentioned in a post above, this worked fine when I moved the Fedora ISO and the imag

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

2009-12-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
ot;the installation image for Fedora" that is referred to. Does this mean the file install.img or the Fedora ISO? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing

Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

2009-12-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
goes well until I try to install from Fedora-12*.iso when I the error "Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to contain an installation image". Am I doing something wrong? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics,

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
for Marcel's > trouble. Thanks for sharing this information. Yes, I bought one on eBay a year or so ago, from Hong Kong. It claims to be 8GB, but only has 1GB. It was very cheap, so I didn't complain. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
gmail's behaviour in a few thousand years (provided, of > course, that TM at least keeps up his the present day rate of > postings). I must devise a cronjob to continue posting after my demise. I suspect I am being punished for criticising Them - the powers that be in the Fedora empire.

Re: Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

2009-12-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
n preupgrade? But is there a better way? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mail

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
oday's: Can you find integers x,y,z > 1 such that x^x y^y = z^z?] But I will investigate this, and see if I can improve my settings. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irel

Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again

2009-12-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
image". Am I doing something wrong? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: Booting from hard disk

2009-12-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
ne boots into the system on the root= partition; if I specify root=/dev/sda6 , which is the partition for an fc11 system, the machine boots into fc11, though with an fc12 kernel. If I specify root=/dev/sda3 , containing an fc10 system, it boots into fc10, the system on that partition. -- Timothy

Fedora Installation Guide: a brief rant

2009-12-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
saying, "There are 7 ways of installing Fedora on a computer. These are ..., and they are described in the following 7 chapters." -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Booting from hard disk

2009-12-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is it possible to boot the KDE Live CD from the hard disk (from the ISO file), by adding an appropriate stanza to grub.conf ? If so, what would be an appropriate stanza? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
s it get a list of partitions to check? It seems in fact to be reading the Fedora-11 /etc/fstab , but I don't see why. I tried going into the interactive boot, but this failed (pressing "I" had no effect), and in any case I would not have known what to do. Is there a kernel command to

Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
l machines in this way. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/f

Wireless weather station

2009-12-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is anyone running a WiFi weather station under Fedora? If so, what model? And what software? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
t; if you don't use LVM? With respect, that is nonsense. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https:

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
should not be the default, which I agree with. I was an LVM fan for some time, but ran into an insoluble problem a couple of years ago, where some kind of corruption preventing me accessing my LVM partitions. I came to the conclusion that the disadvantages of LVM far outweighed the advantage

Re: Getting rid of /boot

2009-12-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
hat I don't > want overwritten if I reinstall (/home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www, > etc.) That's only 4, or 7 with / , /boot and swap. How do you get up to 15? In any case, the default partitioning doesn't give you 15 partitions, so this seems an odd reason for recommen

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-12-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
to the hard disk, and add a stanza to grub.conf to boot from this. My question is: would clicking on "Copy to hard disk" at that point look at the USB stick for the data to copy? I should really try this instead of talking about it - but I have already installed Fedora-12 on this machi

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-12-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
e mis-read, or not read, the thread. It was suggested that one _should_ copy vmlinuz and initrd to the hard disk, as a way of installing Fedora-12 if the machine does not support booting from a USB stick. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
the hard disk where vmlinuz and initrd have been copied for the data to download? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.co

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
did a hard-disk install. So how were you using the external USB for the install? It isn't important. I was just wondering if there was a way of installing from my USB stick, even if I had to copy vmlinuz and initrd to my hard disk first. But it is really a purely theoretical question --

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
nd initrd.img to > your internal disks, then grub can find them. But will it then be able to see the USB stick, in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk? Otherwise the exercise seems pointless, as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk. -- Timothy Murp

Re: Default keyring for NetworkManager

2009-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
ss seems completely crazy to me. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listin

Re: How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Fedora can see it. I should say that this is only an experiment. I could perfectly well install from hard disk (and probably will) or (possibly) with PXEboot. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity Col

Re: Default keyring for NetworkManager

2009-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
just to move that "default keyring" thing out > of the way. This was solved by making it accept an empty password. How do you make it accept an empty password? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics,

How to install Fedora-12?

2009-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
My ancient Pentium Pro (Asus P2B-LS) desktop does not appear to support booting from a USB stick, although it does have USB sockets. Is there any easy way to use my USB stick with F-12 on it to install Fedora on this machine? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
sers had graphics problems with F-12? Or is it 50%? Or 75%? I don't see how it is possible to plan development rationally without some idea of the statistics. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity C

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
here is not a greater attempt to get feed-back on the frequency of problems, or equally, the lack of problems. I would have thought it would be relatively easy to design an online form that Fedora users could be asked to complete. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +3

NetworkManager under Fedora-12

2009-11-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
ask before examining the problem. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: Autofs under Fedora-12

2009-11-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 11/23/2009 12:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I meant the mount command: >> sudo mount alfred:/common /common > > Why do you use autofs at all if you give a command > to do the mounting? I only give the mount command because autofs is

Re: Autofs under Fedora-12

2009-11-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
rkManager. In both cases the mount is over WiFi. I notice that NM takes longer to start than it used to on the T43 where autofs does not work. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ire

Autofs under Fedora-12

2009-11-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is there a problem with autofs/automount under Fedora-12? I have exactly the same settings that I had in Fedora-11, but the mount command is not being completed at boot-time, although I have no problem giving it later by hand. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86

Re: Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-11-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > However, I find that when I add my old grub.conf entries for Fedora-11 > to my new grub.conf , I am unable to boot Fedora-11 . > (I'm also unable to boot it if I run grub interactively.) > The error I get is: > fsck.ext4: unable to resolve UUID=66c3...

Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-11-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
ition? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Latest TeX/LaTeX

2009-11-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
\end{document} [...@rose tmp]$ latex test This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. ^C --- Is anyone else seeing this? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Ma

Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
x27;t see why I shouldn't use WiFi if I want to take the risk. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
you > get stuck. In a simple setup you don't an apache or ftp server. I take it that this requires one to download the entire repository? And then keep it up-to-date. I must say that for my simple needs the NFS solution seems simpler. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.n

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
ates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum >> update"? >> > See the original post, which noted that /etc/yum.conf needs keepcache set > to 1. Ok, thanks, I missed that. Must have fallen into the sea somewhere between Ireland and Italy. I suppose you just have to clear t

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
So why didn't it say that before when I yum-installed iptstate? Surely when you yum-install a package yum checks that you have all the required dependencies? It's only a tiny point; yum is a great tool, in my view, and one of the best things about fedora. But it is a bit confusing when

Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
86 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed) ------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
what you suggest. But I don't understand one point: Isn't /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/ normally cleared after "yum update"? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelan

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
leased. Whether, or not, you use that package. For me, > that'd be a huge waste of bandwidth and drive space. That was exactly what I felt about setting up a mirror, which as far as I could see meant mirroring the official repository. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
ve to specify --downloaddir again when updating? Is all this a possible way of saving RPMs on a /common directory served by NFS? I suspect I may have misunderstood the basics of yum ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
at is indeed probably what I want. A document that contains the answer to every question in the universe is only slightly more useful than a document that contains nothing. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematic

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
a-updates.repo >> to implement this? > > yum install yum-plugin-priorities Thanks. I've installed that, but haven't worked out how to use it to make yum look on my local network ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366

Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
.? >> > Actually, that's exactly how I upgraded to F11 from F10. Fedora noticed > that there was an updated version of Fedora available and asked if I > wanted to upgrade. I said sure, so it downloaded all the RPMs and upgraded > me. What do you mean by "Fedora aske

Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
I think it worked on 1 out of 4 machines. It was much more successful (for me) with Fedora-9 to Fedora-10. I'll try it with Fedora-12 but I'm not too hopeful ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Tri

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Todd Zullinger wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> But couldn't yum just have an option to look for RPMs on the local >> network? Ie look first in local cache, then on LAN, then at remote >> repo. I would have thought that would be easy to implement. > > It&

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
r RPMs on the local network? Ie look first in local cache, then on LAN, then at remote repo. I would have thought that would be easy to implement. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irela

Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

2009-11-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4 (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3) just by running "yum update". Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that? Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-

Re: Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
ich I can browse with Samba, and the other not) have "Read-only" checked, and I am apparently unable to uncheck this. If I do so, then when I leave the folder, and re-enter, I see that Read-only is checked again. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090

Re: Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
and Security" tab (not a "Security" tab) but this gives no information on who has permissions. Nor does right-clicking again, and going to Properties=>Sharing. In both cases, I have checked "Share this folder on the network" and "Allow network users to change

Re: Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
e determine if one has "full rights" on a folder? Doesn't the fact that I can browse through a folder on the Windows machine show that I have full rights on the folder? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathemat

Re: Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
/EAGD /mnt/win [r...@helen ~]# ls /mnt/win The Sims 2 [r...@helen ~]# umount /mnt/win [r...@helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=rOisin,rw //harriet/EAGC /mnt/win mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) ---

Re: Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
on your Windows computer! Of course, > resource name and computer name will most certainly be different for you. Is there a KDE equivalent? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelan

Samba with Windows XP client

2009-11-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
fy this Windows folder on the Linux box? Or is there some step I am meant to take on the Windows machine, beyond allowing File and Folder Sharing? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Du

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
up properly at some point ... This did work some time ago, before I upgraded the remote machine to CentOS-5.4 . But I'll study the rest of your posting more carefully later, as I said. Thanks again. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
ch has also been suggested, gives a third IP address. I shall continue with my experimentation ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
ot;Identity". I suppose one could have a second KMail account with a different Identity, but that would be cumbersome. But first I will check if the college mailman does just look at the From: address, as you suggest. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
(and I presume anyone else) has to post email from within the college system. I would prefer to send email from home, where I can use KMail, although it is very little trouble to ssh into my college account, and send email from there. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
gnorant. OpenVPN makes me feel that all the machines are in the same LAN (which I suppose they are), while two machines linked by ssh seems somehow more remote. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity Col

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
easier to use, eg with KMail/dovecot , though that is probably just a reflection of my knowledge/ignorance. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedor

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Sorry, I was being stupid. I am actually running ddclient to send my IP address to dyndns.com . I guess I could look at the code for this and run it to post the IP address to me. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics,

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
---- Seems to work too ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.co

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
gt; Or you could modify the pearl script to do what you > want. Unfortunately, Perl seems temporarily out of action after upgrading to CentOS-5.4 . (There were a large number of warnings about Perl during the upgrade.) But I'm sure this will be sorted out in the next day or so. -- Timothy Murphy e

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
the past is that if openvpn fails I can ssh in, if I know the IP address, and try to work out what is wrong with openvpn. Eg openvpn stopped working for a couple of hours when I upgraded the remote machine (as well as my local server) to CentOS-5.4. Strangely, it just started working again a c

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
- Received: from smtp-out01.alice.it (85.33.2.12) ... Received: from althea.gayleard.com ([95.234.133.98]) by FBCMCL01B05.fbc.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); --- I'll see if I can check if the second address is OK. I don'

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address. Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address? (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem. I can get the IP address by accessing the modem, but I am not sure how I could automate this. I guess I could use lynx, and t

How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
2.urlopen("http://darkstar.heliohost.org/ip.php";) ipaddr = response.readline().split('<')[0] f = open("mylog.txt", "w") f.write(ipaddr + " " + "on" + " " + tt + "\n" ) f.close() p = os.popen("%s -t -fgayle...@alice.it" %

Re: Lost desktop switcher in panel

2009-10-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Click on the cashew and add it. Thanks very much to both of you. I applied Ed Greshko's method with your widget, and all is fine again. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2

Lost desktop switcher in panel

2009-10-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-11/KDE. My desktop switcher - the rectangular icon divided, in my case into 8 small squares representing the 8 desktops, has disappeared from my panel. How can I get it back, please? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
afraid that I suspect a political or philosophical motive at work here. Redhat/Anaconda have a sort of vestigial loyalty to Gnome, and don't want the alternative to be too visible. It's a bit like asking a Ford dealer to admit he sells more Toyotas. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eir

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
for the first - or even the second - time would choose to "Customize now"? It is like saying, "If you think you are cleverer than me, press this button". -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematic

Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'd like to be asked during installation if I want to use Gnome or KDE or some other environment. Am I alone in this? One has to go through a slightly tortuous path to get KDE installed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842

Re: Script on shutdown?

2009-10-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
08-08/msg00066.html Thanks, I'll look at those. I assume that every GUI action, clicking on icons, etc, can be implemented by appropriate CLI commands, but it seems to me rather difficult to determine these. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-284236

Script on shutdown?

2009-10-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
have to close before clicking on my ssh button. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redha

Re: I can't connect via ssh

2009-09-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
us. Can you ping your gateway? (I can't remember its IP address.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
file m17n... in the current directory it will assume you mean that. If there is no such file "yum ... m17n*" will work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland --

Re: F11 FTP Server on Home Box

2009-09-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: > Looking to set up a simple to setup ftp server for my home box. ... > to share /home/user/school_stuff/* > > (SSH\sftp is blocked by the school.) I don't really know what I am talking about, but wouldn't it be simpler just to run a we

Re: Install Fedora, use Fedora as server

2009-09-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
ve CD on several computers. > Thanks for the suggestion to use CentOS and its ease of use. I agree strongly with this suggestion. I think CentOS is a much safer bet than Fedora for a web-server. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: Sc

Re: F11: NetworkManager woes

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
I guess for most people, it works perfectly 95% of the time. But on the 5% failures I have absolutely no idea what to do. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list

Re: How Fedora chose me

2009-09-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
davide wrote: > I just wonder why repositories offers "so few" with respect "the other > distro". I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference. What is "the other distro"? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +3

Orinoco_cs WiFi under kernel-2.6.30

2009-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
failing for WEP or open networks." -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/

Curious double click required

2009-09-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
The first time the little Shutdown window does not appear. Anyone else noticed this? Doesn't really matter, just odd. [I should say that I'm running KDE.] -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity Co

Re: How do you keep your online address-book?

2009-09-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
oupWare via any computer that has access to the host I looked up eGroupWare, but was surprised there is no official Fedora package. (My only fear with this is that an application not supported by Fedora might become incompatible with some later distribution.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gaylea

Re: How do you keep your online address-book?

2009-09-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 14:39 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I presently use OpenLDAP, but I'm not completely happy with it. > > Perhaps if you explained why you aren't happy with it, people might have > suggestions about improvin

How do you keep your online address-book?

2009-09-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
know what the most popular method of keeping an address-book online under Fedora. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To u

Re: Chrome-Fedora People

2009-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
ll videos, and they seemed to work. (This was 32-bit, without any plugins deliberately installed.) The thing I would miss most if I went over to chrome would be the google toolbar. It seems very surprising this isn't available, in view of the connection with google. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail:

Am I being punished?

2009-08-31 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running a dual boot Windows/Fedora system on my Thinkpad T43. Whenever I run Windows, I find my time is 1 hour out when I return to Linux. Is this my punishment for consorting with the devil, or is there a simple solution? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +3

Re: help

2009-08-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
ckets leaving the house?" If I determined that they were, I would think to myself, "So it's a pretty simple issue then, probably something to do with DNS, or maybe DHCP." If I found the packets were not leaving my house, I would be much less sanguine. -- Timothy Murphy e-

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