Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?

2009-12-17 Thread Bruce Korb
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Subject: Saving Tbird e-mail files? - From: Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:06 -0500 To: Fedora-list fedora-list@redhat.com    There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email

Re: pdf editor to simply insert notes?

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Byfield
Why not use the Sun PDF Import Extension to OpenOffice.org? The extension opens the PDF as a Draw file, and you can add notes or anything else you want before creating a new PDF. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 (on Pacific Time) Burnaby, BC, Canada web: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield blog

Re: F12: Won't start X? (was Re: Preup to F12, won't boot)

2009-11-22 Thread Bruce Korb
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:46 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote:   I found earlier threads describing a similar problem with F12 alpha and beta, but found no solution.   Any advice? If you have an NVidia graphics card, then wait. It's not ready for prime time

Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 12 and the Fedora community

2009-11-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
In case anyone is interested; http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps- on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 (on Pacific Time) Burnaby, BC, Canada web: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield blog: http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com

Re: F12 installs report here.

2009-11-17 Thread Bruce Korb
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 14:56 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: Sound Just Works!  Including the stuff from RPM Fusion. Now that is good news ! Cool. If only my system didn't lock up so tight I have to pull the plug to reboot.

Re: Interview with Paul Frields about Fedora 12 and the Fedora community

2009-11-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:19:33 Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net: In case anyone is interested; http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ram ps- on-the-Fedora-12-Highway.htm Bruce, you gotta use tinyurl. Good point: http

RE: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-28 Thread bruce
PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: gnome-terminal question On 09-09-27 19:19:48, Richard England wrote: On 09/27/2009 02:09 PM, bruce wrote: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title

RE: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-28 Thread bruce
. Subject: Re: gnome-terminal question 2009/9/27 bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... i'm trying to figure out

creating a new gnome terminal, running a command when the term starts...

2009-09-28 Thread bruce
Hi. I'm trying to create/invoke a new gnome-terminal, were i start/run a script when the term starts up.. from the gnome-terminal docs, i'm assuming i can accomplish this by using the -x/-e attribute when i fire up gnome-terminal... this doesn't work... others appear to have the same issue...

gnome-terminal question

2009-09-27 Thread bruce
hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... i'm trying to figure out if you can use escape sequences, or modifying the profile for the terminal. trying

RE: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-27 Thread bruce
Fedora. Subject: Re: gnome-terminal question 2009/9/28 bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... i'm trying to figure

RE: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-27 Thread bruce
, September 27, 2009 5:36 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: gnome-terminal question On 09-09-27 19:19:48, Richard England wrote: On 09/27/2009 02:09 PM, bruce wrote: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go

change gnome-terminal title from cmdline

2009-09-26 Thread bruce
hey... curious question... how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... it appears that the escape sequences i've tried aren't working... thoughts/comments/pointers appreciated... thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

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2009-09-25 Thread bruce
Hi.. Trying to run a simple ldap search/query against a supposedly public ldap server. I've tried a number of copy/paste attempts that I've seen from various sites with no luck... If anyone has successfully pinged/queried a public ldap server from the cmdline, can you post your cmd that you used

ldapsearch cmdline question

2009-09-25 Thread bruce
Hi.. Trying to run a simple ldap search/query against a supposedly public ldap server. I've tried a number of copy/paste attempts that I've seen from various sites with no luck... If anyone has successfully pinged/queried a public ldap server from the cmdline, can you post your cmd that you used

attempting to do a ldapsearch on a public college ldap server...

2009-09-23 Thread bruce
Hi.. Trying to run a simple ldap search/query against a supposedly public ldap server. I've tried a number of copy/paste attempts that I've seen from various sites with no luck... If anyone has successfully pinged/queried a public ldap server from the cmdline, can you post your cmd that you used

Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-16 Thread Bruce Korb
to be so easy. It used to be easy. 'Tis quite *beyond* just annoying. If anyone has such a recipe, *please* just post it. Thank you so much. Regards, Bruce -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
cashew. WTF is that? (OK - I get testy before lunch time...;) Would you please be kind enough to explain the steps to someone who doesn't know a desktop cashew from a KDE activity? Thank you so much. Regards, Bruce -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Fennix wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Bruce Korb bk...@gnu.org mailto:bk...@gnu.org wrote: I'd forgotten how I did it. You may remember that I said a long time ago that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops. Now you combine the two. Use

Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
-on-desktop had an about selection Thank you. Regards, Bruce (P.S. I got the KDE version from Konqueror) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: [pnfs] NFSv4.1 (DEVELOPER ONLY)

2009-08-17 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:19:27PM -0400, William A. (Andy) Adamson wrote: I think NFSv4.0 should be moved from EXPERIMENTAL before NFSv4.1 gets moved from DEVELOPER - EXPERIMENTAL! What is left to do in NFSv4.0 to allow this to happen? Todo's I know of that should probably be fixed first:

trying to find a path/file...

2009-07-09 Thread bruce
Hi... trying to figure out how to craft a find cmd to find a given file in a dir, that is changed more than x mins in the past i thought i could use a combination of find, wholename, and cmin... but those isn't giving me what i'm looking for... it's not returning any files... thought i could do

RE: trying to find a path/file...

2009-07-09 Thread bruce
...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Cameron Simpson Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:34 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: trying to find a path/file... On 09Jul2009 19:27, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: | trying to figure out how to craft a find cmd to find

Wiki abuse...

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Bruce
Hi, Just been browsing around the FUDCon pages, and found that you may want to update the details for FUDCon3 in London. Currently, it appears to contain nothing but links to pornographic material. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon3 Kind regards, Andy Bruce -- Andy Bruce

RE: Apache Virtual Server

2009-04-28 Thread bruce
print your complete httpd.conf file, as well as the /etc/host file let's take a look at what you have. -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Dennis Kaptain Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:59 AM To: Community

RE: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread bruce
like i mentioned a 1972 teletype, with paper scroll tape, hooked to the local college system, as a 11 year old.. doing basic/GOTO/Loops... my 1st programming... wrote a really basic (pun intended!!) program to play poker.. 1st started learning statistical probability, arrays, etc...

RE: Chown ???

2009-04-09 Thread bruce
i had a trs-80/radio shack color computer in college... those where the days... in junior high... one of my math teachers was taking her 1st course in programming.. basic.. she managed to somehow get a teletype machine, with the yellow/white paper rolls, so we could actully login/access the local

RE: Damn ! That was easy, Firefox Plugins

2009-04-05 Thread bruce
i thought adobe now has 64/32 bit apps so there's no need for the nsplugin stuff... at least for fc9... i'm pretty sure i removed the nsplugin stuff, and simply installed the adobe64 and have ful functionality.. thoughts/comments -Original Message- From:

RE: curl question...

2009-04-02 Thread bruce
...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Jake Peavy Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:26 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: curl question... On 4/1/09, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi guys... I know this isn't the list for this question.. but i'm trying

curl question...

2009-04-01 Thread bruce
Hi guys... I know this isn't the list for this question.. but i'm trying to get a quick resolve for a problem i have.. i'm prety sure it's user related. i'm doing a curl to a site, and not getting the results i'm looking for.. i've got the cookies/user-agent set.. i'm looking to talk to someone

RE: system-config-printer can't find my remote printer ??

2009-03-23 Thread bruce
hi... thought this would have been solved by now!!! try this.. since this is an internal (to your house) network... turn off all selinux/security stuff... as well as all iptables stuff.. the idea is to let everything pass, and let's see if you can get the printer to work when everything is

RE: file locking...

2009-03-03 Thread bruce
: Subject: Re: file locking... On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:00:54 -0800, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Except in my situation.. the client has no knowledge of the filenaming situation, and i might have 1000s of files... think of the FIFO, first in, first out

file locking...

2009-02-28 Thread bruce
Hi. Got a bit of a question/issue that I'm trying to resolve. I'm asking this of a few groups so bear with me. I'm considering a situation where I have multiple processes running, and each process is going to access a number of files in a dir. Each process accesses a unique group of files, and

listing files with spaces, using wildcard

2009-02-19 Thread bruce
hey... here's one i can't see.. goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa__cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with

listing files with spaces, using wildcard

2009-02-19 Thread bruce
hey... here's one i can't see.. goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa__cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with

RE: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread bruce
hey sam since you've been here before.. any chance that you could post/provide your scripts that you used to help solve the issue... this would be a seriously great help to anyone who runs into this issue and would be searching the net for help!! thanks@ -Original Message- From:

RE: App to manage/track/spawn processes

2009-01-30 Thread bruce
28, 2009 7:04 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: App to manage/track/spawn processes On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 06:33 -0800, bruce wrote: Of course I'd like to know if I'm already running a given child app, so I only have a child app with the same

RE: Printers

2009-01-25 Thread bruce
look online... to buy a used printer... i got a hp-2500 color printer with ~50% of the toner in the cartridges left... got it for ~$30(US) at an auction... you'd be surprised at what you might find!! i also saw the same printer at a later auction go for ~$100 you never know! -Original

RE: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-25 Thread bruce
hell... i'd even like an option to somehow be logged in as root, and then be able to switch to a user to run the PackageMGR app... if you can accomplish this, i haven't figured out how!! in other words, how to be at the same box, and login as two separate gui users? with the same

RE: TurboTax.com (Here we go again...)

2009-01-24 Thread bruce
hey chris... i recently (last few days) recall seeing something in the news that said the IRS was pretty much allowing everyone to do free electronic filing. if this is the case, you might not need turbo-tax at all. (unless you still need a tax app to do the actual calculations for the various

RE: ATT's DSL Lite for Linux

2009-01-20 Thread bruce
i'm willing to bet that that's a holdover from the yahoo/sbc relationship... prior to att and sbc merging.. -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:22 PM To: Community

RE: ATT's DSL Lite for Linux

2009-01-20 Thread bruce
the user/passwd for the dsl modem.. normally (in my case) has come from att... -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:41 PM To: Community assistance,

RE: ATT's DSL Lite for Linux

2009-01-20 Thread bruce
you can call into att/sbc.. get tech support... and you can get the user/passwd from them.. tell them you want 2nd level tech support... -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Tuesday, January

RE: ATT's DSL Lite for Linux

2009-01-20 Thread bruce
for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6:52 PM bruce wrote: the user/passwd for the dsl modem.. normally (in my case) has come from att... In my case, with SBC, I had to run the Windows program to get them. It may depend on what the local phone company

RE: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-19 Thread bruce
hi... just saw this thread. so, is there a way/solution to allow a root user to use the gui/gnome/package update app and if there is, how? thanks -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Kam Leo Sent: Monday,

App to manage/track/spawn processes

2009-01-16 Thread bruce
Hi. Not really a Fedora question, but maybe someone has thoughts on how to implement this. I've got a situation where I'm looking to have a process where I spawn off a number of external apps. I'd like an app to manage the entire process of creating/tracking the child apps. So basically, I'd

RE: Asset Management

2009-01-15 Thread bruce
hi,. take this with a grain of salt. i would suggest that you look at one of the open source apps, and talk with the dev team if possible, or submit your initial request to their email lists if they have one. (assuming you haven't done this yet!!) i'm willing to bet that pieces of what you want,

RE: Fedora10 Wireless configuration

2008-12-22 Thread bruce
there you go again rick... poking those poor cardss with your unauthorized 'naughty' bits but on a serious tip to the user. get a cheap/low cost usb linksys wifi dongle. not sure of the exact model number, but the one i have cost ~$30/40. plugged it in to a fc8/9 system, and it was listed in

RE: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread bruce
what the heck are you talking about.. individual freedoms check your TC from your ISP. I'm willing to bet it's clearly spelled out.. maybe deep in the docs what you can/can't do regards the network. i've frequently run services ssh/vpn/http/smtp/etc... over the network, knowing full

RE: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread bruce
...@wolff.to] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:57 PM To: bruce Cc: p...@themeyerfarm.com; 'Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.' Subject: Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25 On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:41:03 -0800, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: check your Terms

Re: Accidently Removed Add/Remove Programs

2008-12-12 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:17 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: I personally look forward to the day when the open source software ecosystem toolset achieves self-awareness and starts writing and implementing its own release policies, removing the need for any human interaction in the process at all. That

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi all, I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving me nuts. I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal drives and one external USB drive. Prior to Fedora 10

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Bruce Thompson wrote: Just got home to try it out, that did the trick nicely. BTW for those that may have influence, would it be unreasonable to expect the default initrd to include usb-storage? The current approach is to build initramfs

Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-10 Thread Bruce Thompson
Mass Storage comes up. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a known workaround? I did see the thread on fedoraforum regarding SCSI boot problems but it appears to me that these are not the same issue. Thanks much! Bruce. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

RE: root in FC 10

2008-12-05 Thread bruce
, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: root in FC 10 bruce wrote: hey robert. Bruce, avoid top posting... do a search, look for pam/gdm/root/user... there's a config file that can be modified to allow for initial root login initially at the start.. Already done that. Just

RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while

2008-12-05 Thread bruce
: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:00 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while --- On Thu, 12/4/08, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while To: [EMAIL

RE: Fedora 10 freezes after a while

2008-12-04 Thread bruce
hey globe.. what's the driver that you're using in the xorg.conf? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Globe Trotter Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:33 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Fedora 10 freezes after a while Hi, For the

RE: root login

2008-12-03 Thread bruce
hell... if nm works as it should with f10.. that might be a reason to upgrade itself!!! took a laptop on a trip. had a layover in las vegad, figured, what the heck. never could access one of the public wifi networks with nm!! (but it could have been user error!!) thanks. -Original

RE: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-12-01 Thread bruce
tell me. in your xorg.conf.. what's the video driver you're using?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rupesh P Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop I'm having a similar

locking down/securing Fedora/Redhat/centos servers

2008-11-29 Thread bruce
, and everything else that's happening, this can't be screwed up... So, if you're in the security area regarding linux, let's talk! Thanks -bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

RE: Network install over wireless

2008-11-27 Thread bruce
not sure that this is the case... but i could be wrong/misinformed. from my experience, when you do a fedora install, the installer gives you the option of doing an http/nfs/etc... install. however, if you choose a network install (nfs/http) you're asked to provide your ipaddress, or the dhcp

RE: F9 DOS attack

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
hi dave... just saw this thread. are you running a static ip on your external internet connection. if you aren't, you could simply force the cable modem to reset to another ip address.. you might have to work with comcast tech support to accomplish this. (get a 2nd/3rd level guy who actually

RE: root login

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
umm... starting in level 5 doesn't prevent root from running. if you're running f10, you're going to have to edit the gdm pam file. (don't have the article at my fingers right now...) appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you from logging in as the root user. if

RE: root login

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
nick... do this... su - root password: whatever it is edit /etc/pam.d vi /etc/pam.d (or use your favorite editor) look for a line that has: user != root (or something like that) comment out the line, or delete it... save the file, log out, log back in, end you should be able to access as

RE: F9 DOS attack

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: F9 DOS attack Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:30:09AM -0800, bruce wrote: hi dave... just saw this thread. are you running a static ip on your external internet connection. if you aren't, you could simply force the cable modem

RE: root login

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
great... not sure why some kept telling you to deal with the init file... moral of story: be careful when taking advice of people you don't know!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:44 PM To:

RE: root login

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
- Hash: SHA1 bruce wrote: not sure why some kept telling you to deal with the init file... good. if you do not know then those of us who do will continue to keep it a secret. moral of story: be careful when taking advice of people you don't know!!! you can keep your reason for being snide

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2008-11-26 Thread bruce
testt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

RE: F9 DOS attack

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: F9 DOS attack Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:30:09AM -0800, bruce wrote: hi dave... just saw this thread. are you running a static ip on your external internet connection. if you aren't, you could simply force the cable modem

RE: F9 DOS attack

2008-11-26 Thread bruce
yes.. vitalstream!! that was it, with internap... hey.. is the email address at the bottom valid for you? -bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:34 PM To: Community assistance

gnome - f10 - root login

2008-11-16 Thread bruce
hi... haven't yet installed f20, but i've seen a few articles/postings that imply that you can no longer log in to the gnome desktop as root. is this correct? is there a way around this behavior? as a user, there are times when i want to login as root, is gnome now going in the direction of

RE: networking in fedora 9

2008-11-15 Thread bruce
hi jack... regarding the mysql/httpd apps on the local box. when you do a ps -aux do you see the processes listed? when you set up mysql, does it have a passwd/host set up, or did you use the default settingw which are wide open for the setup? regarding the http/apache. on the local box, are

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-13 Thread bruce
lawd buda has spake! or, on the other hand. people like me will still help, and we don't get wrapped up in the fact that the guy/gal didn't go by the exact thing in some doc.. hell, we may not have even read the doc that you're referring to... personally, i've found that as you get older...

RE: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-11-13 Thread bruce
for what it's worth.. and it might not be much! i have a toshiba satellite, running f9, and had an issue where the system would freeze/lockup, that i managed to resolve with new/different xorg drivers. basically, i changed from radeon, to radeonhd in the xrog.conf, and downloaded the appropriate

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-12 Thread bruce
sam... don't worry about the possible html, or not! those who want to help you, will. those who don't won't. where was/is the screen/display you were going to send regarding your display output when the lan is configured/installed during your fc9 bootup process. -Original Message-

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-12 Thread bruce
: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:02 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:51 -0800, bruce wrote: don't worry about the possible html, or not! those who want to help you, will. those who don't won't. Oh really? I

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-12 Thread bruce
and you have to love the list police!!! jeeze!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:21 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: install Fedora

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-12 Thread bruce
Satellite A305-S6825 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bruce wrote: and you have to love the list police!!! jeeze!!! Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines - -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why

RE: Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

2008-11-11 Thread bruce
hey aaron... i'm with you. on a fc9 oo2.4, i do a file-new-documents... i see a biz docs, that has a basic invoice under it. i don't see anywhere in the templates area, any other invoice -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aaron Konstam Sent:

RE: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
hi les/guys... assume you had/have a usb/external drive that was connected to the laptop. assume that it was also the same size (2.5) as the laptop drive... couldn't you set up a process to do a complete rsync/backup every x hours of everything on the drive in use. this would give a

RE: Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
10, 2008 3:28 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Linux backup help bruce wrote: hi les/guys... assume you had/have a usb/external drive that was connected to the laptop. assume that it was also the same size (2.5) as the laptop drive

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
the end of the install process? -Original Message- From: sam Ruma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 6:33 PM To: bruce Cc: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 Hello, Did you just take the default options throughout

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
hi sam exactly what did you do? when you installed fc9, did you just take the default options throughout? do you only have fc9 on the drive? did you format the drive, prior to installing? be patient, we'll get you up/running.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

2008-11-10 Thread bruce
, or just the traditional system-network-config? -Original Message- From: sam Ruma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 6:44 PM To: bruce Cc: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 It is not just a black screen I

RE: Fedora 9 and samba problems

2008-11-06 Thread bruce
hey... just as an exercise, i also tried to setup a smaba share a few daya ago... on a fc9, i could never get it to work. fc8/fc6... worked as expected. if i recall, i thought i saw a bug report... peace -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet

2008-11-05 Thread bruce
just saw this thread.. so bear with me if the questions are already answered... are you using dhcp on the router/laptops? are you using static ip addresses? what does the /var/log/messages say, if anything? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

RE: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet

2008-11-05 Thread bruce
assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Cc: bruce Subject: Re: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:34:49 -0800 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you using dhcp on the router/laptops? The laptops use dhcp. My main desktop computer (this one) is on a wired

RE: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet

2008-11-05 Thread bruce
: Frank Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:01 PM To: bruce Cc: 'Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. ' Subject: Re: acer aspire one - wireless ethernet On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:31:53 -0800 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i ask you

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-22 Thread BRUCE STANLEY
21, 2008, 7:49 PM On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:19 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: It could also be argued that this philosophy of yours is in direct conflict with the whole spirit and intent of the Linux environment in the first place. Linux and it's environments were created to give

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread BRUCE STANLEY
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 10:12 AM On Monday 20 October 2008 23:50, Linuxguy123 wrote: Why

RE: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread bruce
and maybe he did search.. but still couldn't resolve his issue.. but i guess you felt/feel the need to belittle... and you still didn't provide him with any additional help. but i guess your day is a little better. as far as the java issue goes, i believe you can have java enabled on firefox,

RE: installation build and test process question - warning, it is dumb.

2008-10-18 Thread bruce
some would say to use a dhcp configuration/approach, which would reduce your need to go in and clean up the ethX types of issues. if you really need to have manual/distinct names/ip addresses that you;re assigning, you're going to have to do some manual work. you could create a great deal of

RE: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread bruce
craig... the issue that he seems to be dealing with seems to be a function of the SUN jre required in order to run the app on the client site. i'm not sure that anything that you've pointed to relates to this specific issue. so, there again.. if you don't want to help, you can simply delete the

RE: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread bruce
and if someone doesn't know to use google for the site for fedoraproject, or redhat.com. ie, if they have different terms.. the guy (OP) said he did look/search the net before posting... but as i said.. you wanted to feel like a superior species... which is your right i guess.. i've just found

RE: SSH Access Issues

2008-10-08 Thread bruce
here are copies of the ssh_config/sshd_config files on one of my boxes... = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh]# cat ssh_config # $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.15 2002/06/20 20:03:34 stevesk Exp $ # This is the ssh client system-wide

RE: SSH Access Issues

2008-10-08 Thread bruce
how are you trying to log into the other box using ssh?? what's the actual cmd you're using -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Allen Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:28 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: SSH Access Issues Hi

fedora upgrade from 8-9

2008-10-08 Thread bruce
Hi. I'm doing an upgrade from fedora 8 to 9, following the instructions listed in fedoraproject.org. However, I'm running into an issue where I have some sort of issue with HAL. As a test, I'm simply trying to upgrade hal, and then i'll do a yum upgrade for everything. the repos dir is: [EMAIL

RE: Installation problem on Dell OptiPlex620

2008-10-03 Thread bruce
this might be related to issues that were reported awhile ago regarding installing fedora on dell optiplex 320/520 systems... do a search for lilo/optiplex.. some of the emails/articles discuss what was done to get the system up/running, when doing an initial install. might help you out...

RE: Using all of 4GB RAM... questions and Vista versus Linux...

2008-10-01 Thread bruce
i don't know the guts of fedora/rh... but i would imagine that a chunk of the mem space is reserved for system operational functions. as a result, the mem space that you, the app has, is the mem that's left over for apps to play in.. the reserved mem space might be used for swap, mem checking,

Re: Linux and Lightscribe Technology

2008-10-01 Thread bruce
standard, and, as a result has had very little development for GNU/Linux. Both the Lightscribe programs that work on GNU/Linux, one from Lightscribe itself and one from LaCie are both very basic, without nearly the same ease of use as the Windows Lightscribe software. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177

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