On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
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Autosave isn't a property of files. It's a property of editors.
Yes, it may be correct.
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On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
vim apparentlt doesn't do it:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9
Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of
network connection). When I restart vim to edit the same file, or
re-open the
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of
network connection). When I restart vim to edit the same file, or
re-open the same file in vim, it finds the swap file it was previously
using, and
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Just keep in mind that a file, if open, may be in some state only a mother
could
love. You really have to be selective about saving open files, or eventually
you
will save a file which is not in a useful state.
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:48 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
Yes, it was failed but the pen drive (in which some videos were there,
unfortunately which had o back-up!) was formated successfully. And I
returned it to my friend. Next day, he says, he was not able to work
with that, which amazed me
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:43 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating
a lot of interrupts. I usually do something like
run /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
I've always wondered whether that would provide it
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Partitioning: Preparing the drive for the partitions it will have, even
if there will only be one part.
Formatting: Putting some file system in place on the partition.
It's two steps, even if you have one
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:13 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
I've added
AllowAdd=true
Broadcast=true
to the [chooser] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf but that didn't
change anything
To the clients or the servers? You want the servers to broadcast
themselves to the LAN.
I haven't done this
On Saturday 21 August 2010 11:52 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Steve Blackwellzep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
In gedit:
Preferences-Editor tab check the autosave box and set your time.
I got it in:
Applications - System Tools - Configuration Editor - / - Apps -
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 18:02 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
For people like me, I like the opposite as I have 'heavy hands' and
thus just touching the touchpad will cause it to click. It is a real
pain to deactivate it (just as it is for you to activate it.) I guess
so many folks complained to
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:38 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora.
Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs)
that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while
creating any new file in Fedora.
Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com writes:
I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a
lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
I noticed that things speed up quite a bit if I move
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Suvayu Ali
fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
What editor are you using? gedit or something else?
When I type the following:
]$ gedit FILENAME.txt
I am able to write something in the popped up file.
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Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au writes:
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:43 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating
a lot of interrupts. I usually do something like
run /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
I've
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Despite auto-save features being in many programs, I tend to avoid it.
After many years of computing, I'm used to hitting a save hotkey every
few minutes, to keep what I've done safe.
I also do the same, I just click
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 00:47 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
I noticed that things speed up quite a bit if I move the mouse in
circles for 10 minutes.
But you're also doing something predicatable and repetetive -- moving
your mouse in circles for 10 minutes.
I'm a bit wary of urandom
Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com writes:
Hi,
Recently one of my hard drives developed bad sectors. I have asked for
RMA and the manufacturer has shipped the new drive. I am expecting
delivery this Monday.
Now my question is, what would be the best way to migrate the data to
On Sun August 22 2010, Tim wrote:
But, perhaps, a bit difficult if you're on a laptop without separate
touchpad buttons, and no mouse...
exactly..
Though, I agree with you, I dislike it. My touchpad is very sensitive,
and hands near it will cause the mouse pointer to whiz about, and stuff
On Sun August 22 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Well, Fedora 13 works quite well on my old Pentium III w/ 512MB RAM.
However, I am using GNOME instead of KDE, which might make a difference.
Ralf
you might want to try xfce.. even lighter, but still full-featured menus..
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On 22 August 2010 00:52, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Suvayu Ali
fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
What editor are you using? gedit or something else?
When I type the following:
]$ gedit FILENAME.txt
I am able to write something in the
Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com writes:
Hi,
Recently one of my hard drives developed bad sectors. I have asked for
RMA and the manufacturer has shipped the new drive. I am expecting
delivery this Monday.
Now my question is, what would be the best way to migrate the data to
JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:
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Please disregard it - I assumed it was lost. I reposted it.
JB
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On 08/22/2010 01:58 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:48 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
Yes, it was failed but the pen drive (in which some videos were there,
unfortunately which had o back-up!) was formated successfully. And I
returned it to my friend. Next day, he says, he was not able
On 22/08/10 02:42, Tim wrote:
Tim:
All your wireless devices transmit on the same channel.
g:
yes and no. depends on manual assignment.
Well, generally speaking, your access point only works on one channel,
and all the clients use the same one. If you have two access points on
the same
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:36:55 -0400,
Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:
Here's an interesting paper on wifi interference:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/channel/deployment/guide/Channel.html#wp134132
Notice that the channel spacing is 5 mHz but
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23:42 +0930
Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
vim apparentlt doesn't do it:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9
Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss
john wendel wrote:
Looks like I'll spend a little time poking at F13 scp and see if I can
improve the transfer speed.
Maybe you are using compression? Compression is a disadvantage when
the network is fast (gigabit); you just spend CPU time.
Then there is encryption. That can't be turned
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you are misunderstanding how auto save works with editors on
linux. The file you are editing is usually saved as a different file.
So if you are editing myfile.txt then the older version of the file
is
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Steve Blackwell zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
Ahh, yes, vim -r, where r stands for recovery.
I had forgotten about that.
Oh.
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
It is possible to format, and mount, a drive without a partition
table. But you have to mount it manually, because the auto-mount
software does not know how to handle it. Windows will also have a
problem with it.
For
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool
for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa
keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64
machines seem to have random number hardware
On 08/22/2010 02:47 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Thomas Cameronthomas.came...@camerontech.com writes:
I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a
lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
Dear friends,
I have a problem with grub on fedora 13.
After hibernation, I found that I couldn't boot into Windows 7 just because the
grub menu showed up and disappear immediately and then my laptop booted into
fedora right away. Fedora is my default entry. Now I must use a trick by adding
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Hoang Le new.leho...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear friends,
I have a problem with grub on fedora 13.
After hibernation, I found that I couldn't boot into Windows 7 just because
the grub menu showed up and disappear immediately and then my laptop booted
into
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Hoang Le new.leho...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear friends,
I have a problem with grub on fedora 13.
After hibernation, I found that I couldn't boot into Windows 7 just because
the grub menu showed up and disappear immediately and then my laptop booted
into
I have just installed a new f13 system clean in a machine that was
previously running and needed updating and I have a problem that I
can't fix.
Everything that I have tested works just fine, except that in
Thunderbird (both stock as well as latest nightly) if you go to
Edit-Preferences-General
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:37 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
If it is not a kernel update then it will most likely not require
a reboot. Everything else can be made functional through a service
restart at most.
Perhaps. However, package-kit more often than not tells me I must reboot
after
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Brian Mury brianm...@alumni.uvic.cawrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:37 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
If it is not a kernel update then it will most likely not require
a reboot. Everything else can be made functional through a service
restart at most.
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote:
I have just installed a new f13 system clean in a machine that was
previously running and needed updating and I have a problem that I
can't fix.
Everything that I have tested works just fine, except that in
Chris Smart wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
It's getting so keeping systems up to date with current patches is
incompatible with reasonable uptime goals. More and more upgrades
require a reboot, and even reading the CVE data behind the update it's
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
It's getting so keeping systems up to date with current patches is
incompatible with reasonable uptime goals. More and more upgrades
require a reboot, and even reading the CVE data behind the
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:48 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
Yes, it was failed but the pen drive (in which some videos were there,
unfortunately which had o back-up!) was formated successfully. And I
returned it to my friend. Next day, he says, he was not able to work
with that, which
On 08/20/2010 09:39 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
It looks like sa-milt is getting a-hold of the message first, and
marking it as [SPAM] with a score of 6.2. Then it looks like its
getting run again
Yeah, I'm not terribly sure. Honestly, I haven't run Sendmail on a mail
server in close
Seems there are errors spewing from httpd when starting:
/etc/httpd/logs/error_log
===
[Sun Aug 22 11:26:15 2010] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd
running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
^ httpd is running unconfined_u?
[Sun Aug 22 11:26:15 2010] [notice]
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
john wendel wrote:
Looks like I'll spend a little time poking at F13 scp and see if I can
improve the transfer speed.
Maybe you are using compression? Compression is a disadvantage when
the network is fast (gigabit); you just spend CPU time.
Then there is
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool
for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa
keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64
machines seem to have random number hardware
There actually is a patch to provide encryption none to improve speed and
reduce CPU for trusted connections.
That would be cool, but you can avoid this by rsyncing over an alternative
transport, like rsh to a remote rsync daemon which you can instantiate off
the cmd line trivially...
jlc
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On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:17 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
If an update requires a service restart, it would be nice if
package-kit
would tell me that, instead of telling me a reboot is required. Even
nicer would be if it would restart the service for me :-).
I don't use package-kit, but yum-utils
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:06 -0700, JD wrote:
After bootup, (Run Level 5), I ran
System-Administration-Services
I checked each service that was marked red (disabled).
For a few of these disabled services, status was shown to be running.
These services were:
akmods
capi
hsqldb
isdn
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:40:37 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:17 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
If an update requires a service restart, it would be nice if
package-kit
would tell me that, instead of telling me a reboot is required. Even
nicer
On 22/08/10 22:05, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I don't use package-kit, but yum-utils contains a clever little Python
script called needs-restarting which you can run after updating:
poc
How does one get this? yum install what?
I believe yum install yum-utils
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On 08/22/2010 02:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 08/20/2010 09:39 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
It looks like sa-milt is getting a-hold of the message first, and
marking it as [SPAM] with a score of 6.2. Then it looks like its
getting run again
Yeah, I'm not terribly sure. Honestly, I
On Saturday 21 August 2010 04:02:41 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB RAM,
which I seldom use.
(It is kept in a holiday location.)
It is currently running Fedora-10,
which probably shows when it was last used.
I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
and was
Zoltan Hoppar hopparz at gmail.com writes:
...
Still shows no wifi network, just disconnected at NM.
But the driver is in: (lspci -vnn)
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device
Hi Suomi and JB,
On Saturday 21 August 2010 10:37 PM, fedora wrote:
Hi Suvayu
I have made bad experiences with LVM toghether with ext4 and fedora 13.
I got hundreds of
I have been using LVM for some time now. And my experience has been
quite pleasant. I think I'll stick to it for a while
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 16:05 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I don't use package-kit, but yum-utils contains a clever little
Python
script called needs-restarting which you can run after updating:
Report a list of process ids of programs that started
running before they
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 16:05 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
It would be nice if we could have a yum option which says
skip-needs-reboot. Then we could only get updates that need reboot
when we wanted those while updating the others more regularly. Perhaps
that is what your python script does.
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 00:24 +0800, Hoang Le wrote:
Dear friends,
I have a problem with grub on fedora 13.
After hibernation, I found that I couldn't boot into Windows 7 just
because the grub menu showed up and disappear immediately and then my
laptop booted into fedora right away. Fedora
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Brian Mury brianm...@alumni.uvic.ca wrote:
If an update requires a service restart, it would be nice if package-kit
would tell me that, instead of telling me a reboot is required. Even
nicer would be if it would restart the service for me :-).
I have had very
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
To be honest, I thought the data from the TCO random generator was funneled in
already. That's what the intel-rng module does.
I don't think that modern Intel CPU's include this function..
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On 08/22/2010 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I am glad you solved you problem but I am amazed that default worked.
Hibernate saves the state of the system at the time you tell it to
hibernate. When you return you load back the system to the state you
had before hibernation. Which means to
On 08/22/2010 01:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
JD,
It's possible that system-config-services is not working correctly. As
an alternative, use chkconfig to look at the default startup status for
each of those services:
# chkconfig --list | grep akmods
akmods 0:off 1:off
Greetings,
I have successfully been using rsync to backup my Linux desktop and laptop
for several years.
My current goal is to automatically backup a Windows 7 desktop to a linux
server using rsync. I've found guidance here:
http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php
I have installed Cygwin along with
Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
I have successfully been using rsync to backup my Linux desktop and laptop
for several years.
My current goal is to automatically backup a Windows 7 desktop to a linux
server using rsync. I've found guidance here:
http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php
I have
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 18:39 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 01:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
JD,
It's possible that system-config-services is not working correctly. As
an alternative, use chkconfig to look at the default startup status for
each of those services:
# chkconfig
I'm providing a little bit more detail if you're interested. I installed
Windows
first and then came Fedora, I installed grub on MBR.
I don't know why but I tried fedora 13 once before and got the same problem. I
used fedora 13 for several days until I try hibernation and it didn't work
On 08/22/2010 07:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 18:39 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 01:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
JD,
It's possible that system-config-services is not working correctly. As
an alternative, use chkconfig to look at the default startup
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Larry Brower wrote:
Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
I have successfully been using rsync to backup my Linux desktop and laptop
for several years.
My current goal is to automatically backup a Windows 7 desktop to a linux
server using rsync. I've found guidance here:
On 08/22/2010 10:50 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
A couple things to try maybe ..
(i) run ssh-agent on the windows box (its in cygwin too I think) -
human auth to that and then run script (not sure if this is ok for your
needs or not)
(ii) fully automatic no human auth required - you'd need
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:33 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 07:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 18:39 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 01:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
JD,
It's possible that system-config-services is not working correctly. As
an alternative,
On 08/22/2010 08:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:33 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 07:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 18:39 -0700, JD wrote:
On 08/22/2010 01:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
JD,
It's possible that
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the
On 08/23/2010 12:07 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
Re-installed and now my video is still 'messed' up. Where can I find
the gtf utility?
yum whatprovides /usr/bin/gtf
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On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote:
There is a problem with system-config-services.
JD,
I would have to agree. Time to BZ s-c-s. Fortunately chkconfig and ps
give you independent confirmations that the unwanted services are not
actually running, no matter what s-c-s may say.
Good
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
James,
My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found
the 'gtf' utility which computed the required
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote:
Please, stop the noise!
I am sure there are people who will be tryinf this for themselves
and see that it is the case. There is a problem with system-config-services.
Enough from you.
If this is how you are going to treat people who try to help
On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote:
There is a problem with system-config-services.
JD,
I would have to agree. Time to BZ s-c-s. Fortunately chkconfig and ps
give you independent confirmations that the unwanted services are not
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:17 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
package-kit more often than not tells me I must reboot after
installing updates. Perhaps it is being over-zealous, but I agree
with the OP that it makes updates feel a lot like Windows.
At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 17:46 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
As for 1) there are hardware generators based on physical phenomenons
(from electronic noise to nuclear decay). I would suggest you to use
an audio input sampling some noise (fan noise). The ambient noise
in addition to the electrical
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