Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 04:50 +, g wrote: > if you are meaning 'windows', as in 'ms windows', bill gates stoled > concept from 'apple computers'. plus there was a big stink about bg&c > using exact same 'trash can' icon. The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. -- Do

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Tim wrote: > The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 AM, g wrote: > Tim wrote: > > >> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them.  Hint:  Lisa. > > 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. The concept of having a "desktop" with "windows" was invented by Xerox PARC in 1973 and implemented on the Alto c

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Underwood
On 07/24/2010 05:15 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 AM, g wrote: > >> Tim wrote: >> >> >> >>> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. >>> >> 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. >> > The concept of having

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Tim
Tim: >> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. g: > 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. A second hint: Xerox. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages

install guide to get Fedora 13 on the new 2010 mac mini

2010-07-24 Thread Jurgen Kramer
Just for the interested... I've finally managed to get F13 working properly on the new 2010 mac mini. I use it as a MythTV frontend. There are some caveats and issues regarding SATA and HDMI audio which need to be resolved so I've put together a short guide how to get Fedora 13 (x86_64) on the min

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:23 +1000, Roger wrote: > On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > > *snip* > > > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > >> when stuff is outside my house it can be priced annually, it can be > >> arbitrarily withheld, it can be surveiled, it c

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:09 AM, g wrote: [snip] I try that way, using Ctrl+shift keys Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproj

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:18 AM, g wrote: > if 'pop up blocker' notice shows, hold down , , or key. Pop up blocker is not the problem, but what the problem is, that it shows "applet started" at the bottom of the table i join but the table never gets started for playing!! Regards, Parshwa Murd

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM, g wrote: > if you are meaning 'windows', as in 'ms windows', bill gates stoled > concept from 'apple computers'. plus there was a big stink about bg&c > using exact same 'trash can' icon. > > linux was not even around at that time. Really, the battle of Windows

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: > Hi, Parshwa; Hello > I've been following this thread for some time now.  Had to go back to the > original message since the responses seem to have covered about every topic > except the original one. I'll asume you now have some kind of

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Tim wrote: > The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them.  Hint:  Lisa. Oh I see. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:34 PM, g wrote: > 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. Oh. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:/

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > The concept of having a "desktop" with "windows" was invented by Xerox > PARC in 1973 and implemented on the Alto computer.  That predates > pretty much everything else being discussed here. Ok, but the history is really very wide, in

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: > The concept of a "desktop" with "windows" dates back to the work of Doug > Engelbart in the 50s and 60s, starting well before even a basic > implementation was feasible. Look him up. He was a true visionary. As I said, really history is

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tim wrote: >>> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them.  Hint:  Lisa. > g: >> 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. > A second hint:  Xerox. Xerox Parc. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have installed the Sun java jdk and linked the plugin library > > ln -s /usr/java/latest/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so > /home/pgaltieri/.mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so > > I restarted firefox and accessed > > http://www.gokgs.com/applet.jsp >

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Mark Eggers wrote: > I wonder if I can convince it to use a Sun-based plugin . . . . Sun Java works very well in Fedora. Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:24 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > The concept of a "desktop" with "windows" dates back to the work of > Doug Engelbart in the 50s and 60s, starting well before even a basic > implementation was feasible. Look him up. He was a true visionary. We have him to blame for the

Re: cant make display settings permanent

2010-07-24 Thread Anthony Messina
On Friday, July 23, 2010 11:00:55 pm charles zeitler wrote: > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ariful Hossain wrote: > > I am running fedora 13 with KDE desktop. When i change my display > > settings it works but i have to change it again

F13: Missing software update notifications

2010-07-24 Thread JB
Roger K. Wells saic.com> writes: > ... A message from the maintainer of PackageKit - fix on its way next week. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://f

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 07/24/2010 07:39 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Mark Eggers wrote: > > >> I wonder if I can convince it to use a Sun-based plugin . . . . >> > > Sun Java works very well in Fedora. > > Regards, > Parshwa Murdia > I have both IcedTea and the Sun Java

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Tim wrote: > We have him to blame for the mouse.  Sorry, I just couldn't resist... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1633972.stm -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: Java Support in Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have both IcedTea and the Sun Java SDKs installed in Firefox, and it's > impossible to disable one of them.  If I disable one firefox ends up > disabling both.  If I enable one firefox enables both.  This seems very > broken to me.  In ch

Fedora for the home user

2010-07-24 Thread Robandapril
My name is Robert and just thought id pop in to say, Fedora does sometimes require a little tweaking but you have to keep in mind that its made from millions of people things get overlooked sometimes and you may need to download a couple plugins and such but in my experience its a great platform t

Memory Upgrade on FC13

2010-07-24 Thread binarynut
FC13 Memory terms ?? I have a kit of 2 boards 2gb PC2 (2x1gb) , does that mean that the 2 boards are a total of 2gb with both boards installed ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Memory Upgrade on FC13

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:19:15 pm binary...@comcast.net did opine: > FC13 > > Memory terms ?? > > I have a kit of 2 boards 2gb PC2 (2x1gb) , does that mean that the 2 > boards are a total of 2gb with both boards installed ? Generally yes, buit check with the motherboard manual to see wh

Re: Fedora for the home user

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Robandapril wrote: > My name is Robert and just thought id pop in to say, Fedora does > sometimes require a little tweaking but  you have to keep in mind that > its made from millions of people things get overlooked sometimes and you > may need to download a coupl

Re: Fedora for the home user

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Myers
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > Conclusion: Fedora is good. > It's nice to know that the reported death of fanboyism http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-age-of-the-fanboy-is-drawing-to-a-close/9017 is premature. Fedora probably *isn't* the best choice for the av

Re: Memory Upgrade on FC13

2010-07-24 Thread binarynut
On 07/24/2010 12:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:19:15 pm binary...@comcast.net did opine: > >>FC13 >> >> Memory terms ?? >> >> I have a kit of 2 boards 2gb PC2 (2x1gb) , does that mean that the 2 >> boards are a total of 2gb with both boards installed ? > Generall

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Ariful Hossain
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 20:01 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > Start with using the GUI apps, to get comfortable. Open Firefox and browse > > the > > web. Use mplayer/VLC/xine to watch videos, DVD's and stuff. Use > > Amarok/XMMS/KSCD to

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tim wrote: > The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa. > >> g: >>> 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to. > >> A second hint: Xerox. > > > Xerox Parc. Xerox Parc, is actually _where_ Xerox Alto

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > I try that way, using Ctrl+shift keys excuse the way i typed that. actual usage should be, a simultaneous key press and left mouse button click; +click or +click or +click each of which, is what i found to work and gave no pop-up notice window. -- peace

Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Hi, Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. But it only plays it if I'm logged in. How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or nobody is logged in? To debug I tried su - to another user and play the file. I got error ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(puls

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Ariful Hossain wrote: > This huge thread reminded me the first experience i had with linux. 'huge thread' is not a waste, as huge emails that do not get trimmed are. thank you for giving consideration to doing so in future post. :) -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world withou

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
g wrote: > Ariful Hossain wrote: p.s. your clock appears to be off. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms window

VM Manager, DHCP, and KVM

2010-07-24 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to set up a Windows 7 VM using KVM and the "Virtual Machine Manager" application. My existing internal network is 192.168.1.0/24. I'd like to either have the VM on the same network, or somehow configure it so it has access to the resources (DNS, file shares, etc) on that network. H

fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Robandapril
Wait, I was called a fanboy?, I hardly think that is called for im simply voicing my long standing support for Fedora. Its no big deal, im not upset but all due respect im no fanboy i guess i was trying to involve myself and it got worded wrong... i do that sometimes:) signature.asc Description:

Re: fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Myers
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Robandapril wrote: > Wait, I was called a fanboy?, I hardly think that is called for im > simply voicing my long standing support for Fedora. Its no big deal, im > not upset but all due respect im no fanboy i guess i was trying to > involve myself and it got worded

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Ariful Hossain wrote: > was a high school student and was excited about computers. After > vandalizing the default windows installation( things like deleting files > other then exe ones, as i thought the dont do anything.) one of my > cuisine gave me a linux cd. After several

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Les
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:23 +1000, Roger wrote: > > On 07/24/2010 01:32 PM, Nathan W wrote: > > > *snip* > > > > > >> I don't pretend to know what's coming, but I do know that > > >> when stuff is outside my house it can be p

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music > playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any > ideas? /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:07:34 +0530 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Roger wrote: > > > Not long ago someone wrote to me: > > " If you have a working system and are happy with it then why > > change it" For this reason I will stay with Fedora 11 until I have > > unavoidab

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread g
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Any ideas? 'info nohup'? -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just

Accessing your gnome (ssh) keyring from outside the Desktop session

2010-07-24 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
I normally leave a Gnome session running on my build machine for months at a time, but don't always work directly on that machine (at it's keyboard and monitor). Sometimes I ssh into it remotely to look at progress from automated builds, and occasionally to push out a build. The issue is this: w

Re: Fedora for the home user

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Robert Myers wrote: > Fedora probably *isn't* the best choice for the average home user, but > then you are apparently not the average home user. Okay, but we have joined this listing to know about Fedora! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list use

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:23 AM, g wrote: > Xerox Parc, is actually _where_ Xerox Alto, 1973, was developed. > >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto > > and had a good lead on Apple Lisa, 1983. > >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_lisa > > > see also; > >  old computers time line >  http:

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:38 AM, g wrote: > excuse the way i typed that. No probs. > actual usage should be, a simultaneous key press and left mouse button click; >   +click >  or >   +click >  or >   +click > each of which, is what i found to work and gave no pop-up notice window. The P

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:32 AM, g wrote: > >> This huge thread reminded me the first experience i had with linux. > 'huge thread' is not a waste, as huge emails that do not get trimmed are. > thank you for giving consideration to doing so in future post. :) It is good if we have only the pa

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:35 AM, g wrote: > your clock appears to be off. He might have left, :)! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: h

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > You got a linux CD from your cream sauce? > I didn't even know that a linux could get a circulatory disease. Does this thread really belong to this particular topic the thread was originated from or relates to? -- Regards, Parshwa Mu

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > You're of course free to do so. Just realize the tradeoffs in no > updates (especially security updates). ;) But at least you are always much much secured than Windows. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > The Pop-up notice is not a problem (this already being disabled from > Preferences) but the main thing is that when I click on the 'Play' > button, the new popped-up windows comes, but only the topmost banner > is visible and not the game in reality, but only at the bottom

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> You're of course free to do so. Just realize the tradeoffs in no >> updates (especially security updates). ;) > > > But at least you are always much much secured than Windows. depending how you have firewall setup

Re: fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Robert Myers wrote: > Heavens.  Everyone is so sensitive. Majority might be sensitive. > I was reacting to Parshwa Murdia's conclusion: Fedora is good. But you cannot say that Fedora is bad! > I've already been whacked on this list for suggesting: > 1. Ub

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Ariful Hossain wrote: [snip] Good thread. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Ariful Hossain wrote: [snip] Good thread. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:21 AM, g wrote: Please look at: https://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/pogo-error -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:25 AM, g wrote: Firewall problem is located at: https://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/firewall_error -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:25 AM, g wrote: Never mind, the firewall error links is this one: https://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/firewall-error -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:25 AM, g wrote: > > > Firewall problem is located at: > > https://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/firewall_error was not aware you had firewall problems. my reply was meant to comment made by Kevin Fenzi. i clicked wrong post for reply. inte

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread g
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:25 AM, g wrote: > > > Never mind, the firewall error links is this one: > > https://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/firewall-error i believe you should start a new thread for firewall problems. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free w

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Semcheski
To sum up this thread: "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 06:49:31 pm g did opine: > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> You're of course free to do so. Just realize the tradeoffs in no > >> updates (especially security updates). ;) > > > > But at least you are always much much s

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:57 AM, g wrote: > is your post implying that you are having firewall problems? Yes, I am really facing Firewall problem. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:59 AM, g wrote: > i believe you should start a new thread for firewall problems. Already running, JB replied there but the problem persists. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > FWIW, I do not run any firewalls on my local network.  All the firewall I > have needed for the last 2 or 3 years has been in my router. No one has > gotten through it that I did not give the passwd to.  I used to watch the > logs, but watchi

Re: Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123

2010-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Jul2010 12:55, Robert Arkiletian wrote: | Using 'crontab -e' I set crond to play an ogg music file with ogg123. | But it only plays it if I'm logged in. | How does one make it play even if a different user is logged in or | nobody is logged in? Can you show us exactly what command you used?

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Beatty
> Can I just point out quickly here that Fedora is probably not a proper > distribution for home use?... I love it, personally, but I'm a Linux > administrator. > > You'd probably be much better off with ... Ubuntu (free) Why is it important that we cater to the Ubuntu crowd? Fedora leads the wa

Re: quicktime video work for you?

2010-07-24 Thread Richard England
On 07/22/2010 04:36 AM, Neal Becker wrote: I'm trying to view this: http://blip.tv/file/3900047/ I think I have all relevant software installed, but it doesn't work. Tried both chrome-unstable and firefox. Work for you? Works fine on: Fedora 12 Linux poirot 2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.P

Re: Thunderbird/Lightning won't send meeting invites any more

2010-07-24 Thread Julian C. Dunn
On 07/23/2010 01:26 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/23/2010 01:08 PM, g wrote: > >> >>> Ttry installing the stock fedora versions of TB and enigmail (from rpm >>> fusion repo) and see if those help > > Typo/simple mistake - meant lightning which is in fedora repo not rpm > fusion. > > An

Re: Accessing your gnome (ssh) keyring from outside the Desktop session

2010-07-24 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > I normally leave a Gnome session running on my build machine for months > at a time, but don't always work directly on that machine (at it's > keyboard and monitor). > > Sometimes I ssh into it remotely to look at progress from automa

Re: fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2010 04:36 AM, Robert Myers wrote: > Heavens. Everyone is so sensitive. > > I was reacting to Parshwa Murdia's conclusion: Fedora is good. I suspect most people don't like labels being applied to them simply because their opinions differ. > 1. Ubuntu is probably a better choice for the

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2010 06:40 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > To sum up this thread: > > "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." > > "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." You forgot "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is bad because..." . :-) -

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2010 05:47 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > >> You got a linux CD from your cream sauce? >> I didn't even know that a linux could get a circulatory disease. > > > Does this thread really belong to this particular topic the thread wa

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 7/24/2010 7:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2010 05:47 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Michael Hennebry >> wrote: >> >> [...] >> > What is wrong with it? It is just a bit of shared humor. Don't tell me > you don't find things a bit funny on thi

Re: fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:05:10 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2010 04:36 AM, Robert Myers wrote: >>> snip > I've not used Ubuntu in a while. Can't quite get used to the "Debian" > way. But, if I recall there was no additional "rpmfusion" type of > repository to enable. So, the type of use

Re: fanboy?

2010-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2010 10:35 AM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> > Yeah, but I like to pick the undergarments my wife wears... :-) > > That's rather ambiguous. For whom are you chosing this apparel? > ROTFL That's a good question I'll leave it up to the imagination. :-) -- Any fool can tell the

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/24/2010 10:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2010 06:40 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote: >> To sum up this thread: >> >> "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." >> >> "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." > > You forgot > > "I think cloud comp

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 13:46 -0700, Les wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:36 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > ...So does this also mean you have the same inherent distrust for that > > private internal cloud? You know the one that sits inside of your house > > and that you control? > > >

sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-24 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi, I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the improvements! However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and the sun jdk. If I decide to remove the openjava and work only wit

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Beatty
>However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering > if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and > the sun jdk. As a beginning programmer, no. The differences are highly technical in nature and do not show themselves early on in your endeavor as

FC13 Connect to DD-WRT WPA2

2010-07-24 Thread binarynut
FC13 Anyone using DD-WRT and connecting with FC13 and WPA2 ? What is Maxium character size used on WPA2 . I have been all over the DD-WRT Wiki and can't find that info. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: VM Manager, DHCP, and KVM

2010-07-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/07/10 21:20, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a Windows 7 VM using KVM and the "Virtual Machine > Manager" application. My existing internal network is 192.168.1.0/24. > I'd like to either have the VM on the same network, or somehow > configure it so it has access to the resources (