Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-20 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Luis González wrote: > It's ironic, in light of the current thread, [ ** reediting. my apologies. i do not always type as i am thinking ** ] ironic that you did not read back into thread, to see how side ravel occurred. what it is that you

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-20 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 01:19 +, g wrote: >>> Timeo danaos et dona ferentes :-) >> sorry. i do not speak latin, or so that it appears. > > "I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts" (Virgil). See > http://en.wikipedia.

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 01:19 +, g wrote: > > Timeo danaos et dona ferentes :-) > > sorry. i do not speak latin, or so that it appears. "I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts" (Virgil). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeo_Danaos_et_dona_ferentes poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Luis González wrote: > It's ironic, in light of the current thread, ironic that you do not read further back in thread. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Whiskey is Irish or American, whisky is Scotch. Or were you being > ironic? american, greek, irish, ironic. you may chose order. ;o) > The way I heard it was "the rule against ending a sentence with a > preposition is t

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread Jorge Luis González
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, g wrote: > never forget what one of england's greatest prime ministers said to a teacher, > > 'prepositions are something of which i know nothing of' > The phrase mistakenly attributed to Churchill is, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." It's ironic

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 16:01 +, g wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > greetings, > > to make this easier and more enjoyable, '4 in 1'. > > first off, 'beware of greeks bearing gifts'. > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is w

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-18 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 greetings, to make this easier and more enjoyable, '4 in 1'. first off, 'beware of greeks bearing gifts'. Anne Wilson wrote: > Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is whisky, and the Scottish people > take this issue very seriously :-) h

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: > > i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and > > pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. > > my native tongue is american english > >

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 August 2008, g wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> OT: >> I need to learn something of your native tongue > >i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and >pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. >my native tongue is american eng

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. my native tongue is american english Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch'

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Björn Persson
Gene Heskett wrote: > With all due respect for Paul, an announcement like this truly belongs on > the mail list, not on some list only 2% are subbed to. I'm not going to make up bogus percentages but I'm sure there are many Fedora users who don't read fedora-list. I've been participating on this

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: > i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and > pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. > my native tongue is american english Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is whisky, and the Scott

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > What, 5% maybe? Heck, I dunno. i do not know either. but i would suspect it to be still higher. > Yes, and that many more filters and mailboxes to maintain in kmail. As I > have i well know what you mean about filters an

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 August 2008, g wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> With all due respect for Paul, an announcement like this truly belongs on >> the mail list, not on some list only 2% are subbed to. > >2%??? surely you can not think it is that low. What, 5% maybe? Heck, I dunno. >when you signed u

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
>If you want to remove specific packages, you can use the RPM command >directly. But it is not as nice as using yum, because it will not >offer to remove the packages that depend on the RPM you are removing. Right - that's why I like to use yum (disabling the repos did work, so now I'm busy removi

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: > > My system disk picked Friday to die so hard that the BIOS hangs > during POST attempting to identify it as a disk. Naturally, the > weekend I need to restore things on a new disk, is the weekend > the fedora infrastructure is shot and livna doesn't have nvidia > drivers buil

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
From: Aaron Konstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 11:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for > > fedora, so this morning I exchanged the comment to enable it from the > > downloads.fedora s

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > With all due respect for Paul, an announcement like this truly belongs on the > mail list, not on some list only 2% are subbed to. 2%??? surely you can not think it is that low. when you signed up for 'for users of fedora', th

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 11:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for > fedora, so this morning I exchanged the comment to enable it from the > downloads.fedora site. Ok that works, but then it hangs on > updates-d

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2008, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for fedora could this be a part of problem? From: "Paul W. Frields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: fedora-announce-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dat

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 August 2008, g wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for >> fedora > >could this be a part of problem? > > > >>From: "Paul W. Frields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: fedora-announce-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Gene Heskett wrote: > Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid > repo for fedora It is likely related to this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg8.html (That's all I know.) -- ToddOpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobo

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2008 10:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for > fedora, so this morning I exchanged the comment to enable it from the > downloads.fedora site. Ok that work

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for > fedora could this be a part of problem? >From: "Paul W. Frields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: fedora-announce-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14

DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Starting about a day ago, yum hasn't been able to locate a valid repo for fedora, so this morning I exchanged the comment to enable it from the downloads.fedora site. Ok that works, but then it hangs on updates-debuginfo, throwing up the error box, presumably from the same prob