Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread jdow
From: Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/30 20:37 On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? Boot to runlevel 1 and change it back. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread jdow
From: Steven Ringwald ringw...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, 2009/December/21 18:02 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

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread jdow
From: TNWestTex mcfo...@bellsouth.net Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 13:16 Steven Ringwald-3 wrote: 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

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread jdow
From: Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 16:37 Mikkel wrote: On 12/21/2009 03:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Mikkel wrote: Under Linux, you can do both. While you will be asked if that is what you really want to do, the tools are happy to let you. Mount

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-25 Thread jdow
From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Friday, 2009/December/25 18:28 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

Re: anti-spam UOL

2009-11-22 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, 2009/November/20 11:27 Please forcibly unsubscribe this person from the list. From: AntiSpam UOL waldyr.rebello.ss...@uol.com.br I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with one of his reject messages for every legit post I make to this

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

2009-10-29 Thread jdow
From: Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com Sent: Wednesday, 2009/October/28 16:03 It seems in the past month brute force attacks are on the rise. They are targeting anyone listening on port 22 and go after root. If you do not have a hardened box, you will see thousands upon thousands of

Re: Hatred of Fedora 11 turned to glee

2009-09-24 Thread jdow
From: Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2009/September/24 12:54 Not only have my problems instantly disappeared, but I've learned two new things about Fedora: : PulseAudio has GUI options for everything : Fedora development team kicks arse If it was THAT good

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-05 Thread jdow
From: Markus Kesaromous remotes...@live.com Sent: Tuesday, 2009/August/04 20:45 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 03:33:25 + From: gel...@bellsouth.net Markus Kesaromous wrote: Is there a low-level HD formatter for linux? linux-google search

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-23 Thread jdow
From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Sent: Thursday, 2009/July/23 10:56 apologies for the unduly harsh tone but, seriously, will there ever be radeon drivers available for fedora that aren't complete junk? this has been going on for some time now, and nothing's changed. currently, on

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-23 Thread jdow
- Original Message - From: Julian Aloofi julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, 2009/July/23 11:15 Subject: Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap? We had a radeon test day in the Fedora 11 test cycle:

Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

2009-05-30 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Saturday, 2009/May/30 17:09 On Saturday 30 May 2009, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2009/5/30 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net: Why can't all of this audio crap have a 'service audio restart'? function? Probably because there isn't a

Re: determining this UUID stuff

2009-04-26 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Saturday, 2009/April/25 21:13 On Saturday 25 April 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 13:00 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I had to replace a terrabyte drive a few days ago, and I'm mounting

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread jdow
From: Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, 2009/April/08 07:42 On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:33 +, g wrote: Dave Ihnat wrote: I don't know where anyone got this lame substitute user stuff, but it's not authentic. then run 'man su' in a linux os and you will find out. Since

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread jdow
From: Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com Sent: Thursday, 2009/April/09 14:52 psmith wrote: my first computer was a spektrum 48k, it used a casette tape for storage and had great games like jet set willy and saboteur, we also used one at primary school where i started to learn to program spektrum

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread jdow
From: Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2009/April/10 09:17 On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM, James Kosin jko...@beta.intcomgrp.com wrote: Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:55 +0100, psmith wrote: the first ever program being 10 print phil is cool 20 goto 10 run Blasphemer!

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

2009-04-10 Thread jdow
From: Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com Sent: Friday, 2009/April/10 12:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:32 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: The purpose of deprecating use of goto was to avoid the spaghetti code that was so prevalent, especially in C. Bzzzt. Close but no cigar. The

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-05 Thread jdow
From: m maximilianbia...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2009/April/05 15:00 On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:52:20PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote: On 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Andras Simon wrote: There may be reasons for not liking vi or emacs, but their being useless is

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-20 Thread jdow
From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com Sent: Thursday, 2009, March 19 05:10 Frank Cox wrote: It looks like the machine can see the second drive and the lvm that's on it /dev/sdb2, but it has the same VolGroup name as /dev/sda2. Yes, this is common and annoying. Here is the

Re: Church sound

2009-03-15 Thread jdow
From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Sunday, 2009, March 15 08:00 Tim: I'd suggest getting a HDD+DVD recorder, record to hard drive, break the recording into chapters after filming, then burn off a DVD. It's then an easy job to replicate that DVD, either burning off another copy from

Re: Church sound

2009-03-15 Thread jdow
From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Sunday, 2009, March 15 12:02 On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:02 -0700, jdow wrote: That's a good way to capture your edit source, too, if you record 420 or better. But that uses a lot of disk fast if you are trying to do HD. Of course, HD is not zero

Re: Church sound

2009-03-15 Thread jdow
From: David Miller da...@millersweb.com Sent: Sunday, 2009, March 15 19:53 Well I have used Audacity for 3-10 min recordings in the past but not for hour long recordings. I have never had a problem with my FC7 machine here at home. The FC10 machine that I threw together for this has the

Re: Question for our users

2009-01-25 Thread jdow
From: Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Sent: Monday, 2009, January 19 10:10 On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:12:25 -0500 Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:34:55 -0600 (CST) Mike McGrath wrote: Hello Fedora Users! I was wondering if everyone wouldn't mind answering

Re: Unrecognized Hard Drive

2009-01-01 Thread jdow
From: Jorge Luis li...@jorge.cc Sent: Thursday, 2009, January 01 10:27 Mikkel L. Ellertson: Jorge Luis wrote: Barring a very lucky attempt to fdisk the drive, I'm afraid I'm pretty much screwed. I believe the drive failed when I bailed out of a GRUB configuration in the middle of the

Re: Unrecognized Hard Drive

2009-01-01 Thread jdow
From: Eli Pelcastre e...@unixdata.org Sent: Thursday, 2009, January 01 11:19 Maybe this can guide you: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hnarayan/maxtor-harddrive-linux.html Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H. Aside from its egregious error using /dev/sda1 it's sort of useful. The first part of it will

Re: Unrecognized Hard Drive

2009-01-01 Thread jdow
From: Jorge Luis li...@jorge.cc Sent: Thursday, 2009, January 01 13:06 jdow: OK, let's break the problem down into smaller pieces. Do you have a known good drive you can test on that adapter? Does it work? I have four drives that I'm using with the converter, including another 200 GiB

Re: How to Restart the service sshd in Fedora Linux System ?

2008-12-23 Thread jdow
Directory /etc/ssh - should be drwxr-xr-x. The world must have the rights to read and enter the directory but not write to it. Most of the files should be -rw---. Only root can read or write them. None should have x permission. And ssh_config and the .pub files should be -rw-r--r--. Nobody

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread jdow
of macros and brought up an initial console window right at the end after running a whole lot of background utilities. Wizardess World was erm a minute or two for booting. But once in it life was nice. (I miss some of the utilities I had running.) {^_-} Yes, I am That jdow -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-21 Thread jdow
Gag me with a pitch-fork. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Mark mark...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com; Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, 2008, December 18 12:56

Re: SSH Access Issues

2008-10-11 Thread jdow
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2008, October 08 09:54 Jonathan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PasswordAuthentication yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no UsePAM yes X11Forwarding yes Check your file permissions. All the files leading up to your

Re: Hibernate and boot to another OS?

2008-09-23 Thread jdow
From: Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 2008, September 21 09:16 On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:13:27 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes absolutely no sense. Do you understand what hibernation is? Why does it make no sense? Hibernation just stores the system

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-06 Thread jdow
From: Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2008, September 05 13:12 * jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080905 20:52]: From: Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2008, September 05 00:50 * jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080905 08:56]: Suppose I have NO RedHat installed. I have

Re: Fetchmail + Sendmail for local users ??

2008-09-06 Thread jdow
. The .fetchmailrc typically looks like: ===8--- defaults mda /usr/bin/procmail -d jdow #set postmaster jdow set syslog set postmaster set no bouncemail set no spambounce set properties #set daemon 60 #set logfile fetchmail_el.log poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3 user 'jdow

Re: Fetchmail + Sendmail for local users ??

2008-09-06 Thread jdow
From: Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2008, September 06 03:32 Arun Shrimali wrote: I am planning to setup fetchmail + sendmail so that I can fetch mails from remote server for few users and they can access mail through outlook express or squirrel mail. Is the combination

Re: When the floodgates open ...

2008-09-06 Thread jdow
From: Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2008, September 06 04:21 When updates re-appear, will we have to do anything more than say yum update? Will we (common-or-garden users) have to do anything to validate or accept the new key? Good questions. I wonder if the

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-05 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 2008, September 04 06:24 On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 23:42 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 10:30 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: hardest of all find a secure way to provide the public part of the

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-05 Thread jdow
From: Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2008, September 05 00:50 * jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080905 08:56]: Suppose I have NO RedHat installed. I have no working computer near me. I want to install Fedora 9. How do I establish the ability to subject the packages to tests

Curious problem with man

2008-08-13 Thread jdow
F8 man man does not find anything. man -M /usr/share/man man finds the man file for man just fine. Directory permissions look fine. Config files are identical with another F8 machine. ===8--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# man -d man Reading config file /etc/man.config found man directory /usr/share/man

Re: Curious problem with man FIXED but Alliance install is BROKEN

2008-08-13 Thread jdow
From: jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2008, August 13 19:24 F8 man man does not find anything. man -M /usr/share/man man finds the man file for man just fine. Directory permissions look fine. Config files are identical with another F8 machine. ===8--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# man -d man

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2008, July 22 04:57 On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:35 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread

Re: Laptop Battery Life Again

2008-07-05 Thread jdow
From: Paulo Cavalcanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2008, July 05 12:40 Hi, I noticed that when I boot on kernel 2.6.25, my laptop battery, according to gnome, has 3h:40 min of charge. However, when booting on a 2.6.24 kernel, this number goes up to 4h:20 min. Then, I collected some

Re: Verizon DSL ??

2008-07-05 Thread jdow
From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 2008, July 03 11:51 Scott Harvanek wrote: If they don't have a USB or RJ45 port... I don't know what else they'd use? osmosis? :) You could call and *ask* them what features their modems have. :) -Scott Jim wrote: I had a bad experience with

Re: clamav 0.93 on Fedora 8

2008-07-02 Thread jdow
I grabbed the version 9 copy's source, rebuilt it for 8, and installed it. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Bob Marcan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2008, July 01 06:53 Will this ever happen ? Regards, Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: what kind of /etc/fstab is this?

2008-05-28 Thread jdow
From: Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 2008, May 25 13:55 On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:18 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: Amadeus W.M. wrote: I'm not convinced about the utility of having schizophrenic partition labels upon install, with no other option. How many people run several