Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

2016-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Mar 31, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > On Mar 31, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Thanks for this. I meant to suggest in my last email that you ask on >> the NM list but pressed "send" too quickly. >> >> So the problem's solved. >> >> But I'm tempted to add to the bug or file an

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread John Pilkington
re-sending to list On 03/04/16 06:36, David G.Miller wrote: Yasha Karant writes: An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in the target machi

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > > As far as I can tell, all of the important hardwa

Re: MAC file sharing

2016-04-03 Thread prmarino1
Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not sure Mac OSX still uses AFP.   Original Message   From: ToddAndMargo Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2016 15:52 To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: MAC file sharing On 04/02/2016 12:51 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 04/02/

Re: MAC file sharing

2016-04-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not sure > Mac OSX still uses AFP. Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia Appletalk Protocol server, and later netatalk to work for SunOS sytems to allow Mac

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > As far as I can tell, all of the important hardware (

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/02/2016 10:36 PM, David G.Miller wrote: Yasha Karant writes: An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine that has MS W

Linux GUI use of a touchpad laptop without physical buttons

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by simultaneously depressing both buttons. (Some track balls only have two buttons plus a scroll wheel -- depressing the wheel is the center "button".) What happen

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread David Sommerseth
On 03/04/16 17:10, John Pilkington wrote: >> > > I've had an interesting week with a new 3TB drive and a family box that has > been running MS Vista for years. I disconnected the Windows HD 'for safety' > and installed kubuntu from the live DVD, with few problems until I tried a > 'real' boot, wh

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/03/2016 11:20 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 03/04/16 17:10, John Pilkington wrote: I've had an interesting week with a new 3TB drive and a family box that has been running MS Vista for years. I disconnected the Windows HD 'for safety' and installed kubuntu from the live DVD, with few pro

Re: MAC file sharing

2016-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, wrote: >> >> Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not >> sure Mac OSX still uses AFP. > > Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia > Appletalk Protoc

Re: Linux GUI use of a touchpad laptop without physical buttons

2016-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the > center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by > simultaneously depressing both buttons. (Some track balls only have > two buttons plus a scroll wheel --

Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
The Ubuntu LTS ("stable" "server" "hardened" "enterprise" distro) bootable DVD actually works in the consumer HP laptop my wife may have to use. The kernel Ubuntu LTS uses is: 4.2.0-35.40~14.04.1 whereas SL 7 is using a 3.x Linux kernel. All of the HP supplied hardware seems to work under Ub

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-04-03 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > In this regard, is anyone using Ubuntu LTS in a production environment? Is > it fact both stable and (reasonably) hardened (e.g., not a > consume/enthusiast product such as > MS Win or RH Fedora)? Ubuntu LTS is used in a lot of production env