Re: Usage of 32 GB USB stick DataTraveler under Fedora

2011-04-16 Thread Dj YB
On Friday April 15 2011 16:59:31 Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the chance to purchase a used 32 GByte USB stick of type Kingston > DataTraveler 200 at a low price. On the other hand, I heard from > difficulties to use this stick under LINUX - somebody can confirm this? > > Kind regar

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Guilherme Patriota
On 17 April 2011 01:14, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > > > Just to be clear: I am *not* interested in starting a Debian vs Fedor

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: [snip] > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > Dunno if this helps, but: https://kororaa.org/why-fedora/ -c -- u

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Guilherme Patriota
On 17 April 2011 01:14, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > > > Best, > > -Nikolaus > > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Nikolaus, On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to > hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I > went with Debian. > I don't exactly knwo what Debian unstable offers these days, bu

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread James McKenzie
On 4/16/11 6:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I want t

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 06:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I wa

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/17/2011 09:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > Fedora is more security-focused where Ubuntu is more usability focused. > Your first user in Fedora will not have sudo setup. You will need to > setup sudo yourself or use su as needed. FYI, this is changed in the coming F15. When you create the user on in

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Digimer
On 04/16/2011 09:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly > unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart > is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in > Launchpad. Therefore I w

Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in Launchpad. Therefore I want to switch distributions, and I have already narrowed

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, suvayu ali > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD wrote: >>> Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. >>> Xournal does not or cannot save the edited >>> pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD wrote: >> Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. >> Xournal does not or cannot save the edited >> pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own >> format - with .xoj  extension. > > That is incorrect.

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD wrote: > Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. > Xournal does not or cannot save the edited > pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own > format - with .xoj  extension. That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf. -- Suvayu Open source is the f

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 02:32 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:20 -0700, JD wrote: >>> Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? >>> Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit >> pdf >>> files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the fi

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:20 -0700, JD wrote: > > Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? > > Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit > pdf > > files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file. > Huh??? > Sorry, I feel rather slow this mo

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread updog
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Tim wrote: > I'll ask the obvious question:  Have you gone through > the mixer > preferences to check that there's not a (currently) hidden > volume > control, specifically for the beeper? > There's a BEEP pot that defaults to zero but can be increased with no effect. -- us

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2011-04-16 Thread updog
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, James Wilkinson wrote: > OK – that’s a desktop environment thing. (Which desktop > environment, > anyway?) X with a lightweight wm, but the console's affected just the same. > As soon as you make > HDA available, > it will use that. I haven't seen a beep once HDA's loaded

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 12:31 -0700, updog wrote: > The beeper seems to be emulated, but quite well with pcspkr. Once > snd-hda-intel gets loaded, the beep's gone; mixer adjustments don't > seem to help. beep_mode settings don't seem to make a difference > either. I'll ask the obvious question: H

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread updog
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Tim wrote: > Is it one of those cases where the motherboard beeper is, > now, emulated? > Putting a beep sound effect through the sound card, and you > need to have > an appropriate volume control turned up on the mixer? The beeper seems to be emulated, but quite well with p

Re: Who took my beep?

2011-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 17:05 +0200, Göran Uddeborg wrote: > Is there a simple way to find out what is blocking the events? Or do > I have to do some kind of binary search over the things I've updated > to F15 recently? Try asking on the Fedora Test list, which is where F15 is discussed. poc --

Re: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 05:21:41 -0700, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > nobody has an idea? :( > > >Q: Is there any working way to install Fedora 14 & Ubuntu 10.04 using > >(separated) encrypted VolumeGroups? (each volumegroup with other > >password)..so that 2 users (who knows the root passwords

Who took my beep?

2011-04-16 Thread Göran Uddeborg
I've been experimenting a bit by installing bits and pieces from F15, without doing a complete install. Now I realised my beep had disappeared. I'm talking about the nice classical square wave PC speaker beep. The thing that sounds when I, for example, try to do tab-expansion in an xterm, and th

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote: >> Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 >> OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing >> By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) >> >> I tried to edit a PDF file, an

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread JD
On 04/16/2011 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote: >> Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 >> OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing >> By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) >> >> I tried to edit a PDF file, an

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/16/11, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote: >> Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? > > Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf > files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file. You can exp

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote: > Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 > OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing > By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) > > I tried to edit a PDF file, and I have > to report that, on my unicore athlon 64,

Re: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-16 Thread johhny_at_poland77
nobody has an idea? :( Be Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:43:50 -0700 johhny_at_poland77 írta >I installed a Fedora 14 first, then an Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using >dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so i used encrypted VolumeGroups. ok. > >At the end of the ubuntu install it said it cannot install GR

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 05:32 -0700, updog wrote: >> Independently pcspkr works fine for >> the PC speaker, and snd_hda_intel for the internal speakers, >> however the two modules don't work together. Loading >> snd_hda_intel after pcspkr is in and working causes loss of >> the terminal beep. Is it

Re: How gain access to DocumentRoot contents of Apache-httpd through a Web browser which is set to point to the Home folder of the User?

2011-04-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:59 +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > 1. enable the UserDir entry: "UserDir enable" > > 2. uncommment the next UserDIR line (and/or modify it for your > choice): "UserDir public_html > > 3.Set the SELinux boolean control "httpd_enable_homedirs" to "on" to > allow apache t

Re: How gain access to DocumentRoot contents of Apache-httpd through a Web browser which is set to point to the Home folder of the User?

2011-04-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 11:12 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Heh, thought I might be out of date here.. I think that the correct > context for home directory web content is now httpd_user_content_t > (although I think httpd_sys_content_t still works - an SELinux expert > can probably explain exactly

Re: vm with fc 14 won't boot after last kernel update

2011-04-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Barry wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:01 -0400, "Tom H" wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Barry wrote: >> > >> > I had an instance of FC 14 running in a kvm vm on a centos 5.6 box. >> > After updating the kernel today, that vm refused to boot. I'm bumped

Re: Finishing rebuild of rpms, from deltarpms

2011-04-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/15/2011 06:49 PM, JD wrote: > What would be better is > getting a program to do a binary diff between > old rpm and new rpm, producing a binary > patch file, and applying the binary patch > file on the user's old cache of the rpm and installing > that. That's exactly what a deltarpm is. H

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-16 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:48:24 -0400 Dante Conti wrote: > Is it possible to remotely upgrade a server running Fedora 6 to Fedora > 14 (or 15)? If yes, should I use PreUpgrade? > > Thank you for any help you can provide. Are you sure you need Fedora? I'd just plug in CentOS 5, the upgrade to which

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 04/16/2011 02:37 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > After the discussion I am switching to using flash this way on my > machines. In any case I have to do it by hand as I use the 64 bit > flash. :-/ No you don't: > [flash] > name=flash > baseurl=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6907158/flashplayer.x86_64 > enable

Re: snd_hda_intel clobbers pcspkr

2011-04-16 Thread James Wilkinson
updog wrote: > "Terminal beep" also includes audible notifications from programs such > as nedit and mozilla, e.g. search term not found. OK – that’s a desktop environment thing. (Which desktop environment, anyway?) It will almost certainly consider the beeper a fallback to use if there is no oth