Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/27/2011 01:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/26/2011 10:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/27/2011 12:24 PM, Tim wrote: To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what formatting means... The other utterly funny thing is the very last paragraph. Once the drive has been formatted,

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/27/2011 12:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: That isn't what the author wrote. If you want to suggest a better wording, file a bug report and do that. That would be useful. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/27/2011 04:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: If you want to suggest a better wording, file a bug report and do that. That would be useful. Should that be filed at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ ? Or elsewhere? -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak

umount external devices

2011-08-27 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, If I plug an usb HD with multiple partitions on it, I can see onmy desk as many icons as the number of partitions. If I ask to unmount one of them (right click on the icon and using the menu eject) all the partitions are unmounted. Is this

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/27/2011 01:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/27/2011 04:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: If you want to suggest a better wording, file a bug report and do that. That would be useful. Should that be filed at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ ? Or elsewhere? Yeah. That's the place Rahul --

bluetooth question

2011-08-27 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have a bluetooth mouse. When I log-in, I can see a red cross on the bluetooth icon in the gnome-panel, which seeems to indicate that bluetooth is not enabled. Nevertheless, If I click on the ico, I have the possibility to disable

Re: umount external devices

2011-08-27 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/27, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, If I plug an usb HD with multiple partitions on it, I can see onmy desk as many icons as the number of partitions. If I ask to unmount one of them (right click on the icon

Re: umount external devices

2011-08-27 Thread Jatin K
On Saturday 27 August 2011 01:58 PM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, If I plug an usb HD with multiple partitions on it, I can see onmy desk as many icons as the number of partitions. If I ask to unmount one of them (right click on the icon and

Re: Routing problems (Solved)

2011-08-27 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Thanks, that helped but was not my problem. The problem was a classic Forest for the Trees syndrome. It helps to turn on Routing and Forwarding! Yep I can be a DUMMY! On 8/19/2011 1:53 AM, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 19/08/2011 10:34, Mike

Port Question

2011-08-27 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Does there exist a command or command string that will examine a Port and report what application is locking that port? I am beating my head against an install for of all people my Son-In-Law. Thanks Mike D. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Port Question

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Mike Dwiggins m...@azdwiggins.com wrote: Does there exist a command or command string that will examine a Port and report what application is locking that port? netstat -ntulp will output port, pid, and executable. -- users mailing list

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:24, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what formatting means... I disagree. I think that is exactly what formatting means, laying out a new file system, and erasing the contents in the process. format d: on

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Tim
Tim: To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what formatting means... Fernando Cassia: I disagree. I think that is exactly what formatting means, laying out a new file system, and erasing the contents in the process. You can think what you like, it doesn't make misconceptions

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:51, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: With computing, deluding yourself that something actually means something else is an action that will come back to haunt you.  Lying to other people is an action that may well cause someone serious problems. Twisting the

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread panicloop
On 08/28/2011 01:00 AM, linux guy wrote: Here is my grub.conf file. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot

Re: How to make yum download srpms too?

2011-08-27 Thread Jitesh Shah
..snip.. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to make yum also download srpms for every downloaded (and installed) rpm?. I just want to keep a repository of source files needed to build a system in any given state it currently is. For

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread linux guy
Commenting those lines out causes the F14 (non upgrade) kernel to run, thus preventing the upgrade from completing. Which is what I am trying to achieve. In case its been missed, I'm trying to upgrade from F14 to F15. On 8/27/11, panicloop panicl...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/28/2011 01:00 AM,

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:21 +0930, Tim wrote: Fernando Cassia: I disagree. I think that is exactly what formatting means, laying out a new file system, and erasing the contents in the process. You can think what you like, it doesn't make misconceptions true. And my comment was

Re: Embedded PDF in Firefox

2011-08-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:22:08 -0400 Matthew Saltzman wrote: Any idea what I've got wrong? If I can't get embedded display working, how do I fall back to opening a separate window? I'd love to know too, because it seems like every stupid financial site I have to access to see things like online

Re: Embedded PDF in Firefox

2011-08-27 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:22:08PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I have mozplugger-1.14.2-1.fc15.x86_64 installed (so I can run 32-bit Flash with 64-bit Firefox). Mozplugger also is supposed to support embedding PDF displays in a Firefox tab with evince or Adobe Reader, but in my browser,

What tool shows /proc/net/nf_conntrack

2011-08-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I forwarded a port, using system-config-firewall. The destination machine, not surprisingly, shows the IP address of the firewall as the source of the connection. The goal is obtaining the connection's real source IP. However, on the firewall the forwarded connection isn't reported

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall  be the whole  of the Law. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:24, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what formatting means... I disagree. I

Re: Embedded PDF in Firefox

2011-08-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:45:18 -0400 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: nppdf.so is a part of Adobe's AdobeReader_enu RPM. It is a 486 binary and can be used on either 686 or x86_64 systems (with the appropriate support glue installed). But unfortunately, the support glue doesn't work :-).

slim (simple login manager)

2011-08-27 Thread cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com
slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora 14.  I installed it from for Fedora 15: slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64 It doesn't start any more.  I get this in /var/log/slim.log: slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth: Permission denied I'm trying to launch slim by changing my

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:55 AM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Commenting those lines out causes the F14 (non upgrade) kernel to run, thus preventing the upgrade from completing.  Which is what I am trying to achieve. In  case its been missed, I'm trying to upgrade from F14 to F15.

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread linux guy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:55 AM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Commenting those lines out causes the F14 (non upgrade) kernel to run, thus preventing the upgrade from completing. Which is what I am trying to

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 17:54, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: It does mean erasing the files on the disk or other media. Now what dews erasing mean. It means that any program whose purpose is to list files on the media will find no files. That is what most people mean by erasing.

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/27/2011 08:46 PM, linux guy wrote: I used to upgrade that way. I did miss the memo. So did I. The first time I used it was to go from F9 to F11 (I skipped F10 because it had so many install problems.) on my desktop. Since then, I've used it on my desktop for every new version through

Re: How to make yum download srpms too?

2011-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 14:35, Jitesh Shah jitesh.1...@gmail.com wrote: You could may be use rpm -qa to get a list of all installed RPMs and then pipe the output to yumdownloader --source to download SRPMs for all installed RPMs. That is assuming you don't need tight integration with yum.

Re: What tool shows /proc/net/nf_conntrack

2011-08-27 Thread Andre Speelmans
Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I forwarded a port, using system-config-firewall. The destination machine, not surprisingly, shows the IP address of the firewall as the source of the connection. The goal is obtaining the connection's real source IP. However, on the firewall the

Re: Port Question

2011-08-27 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Mike D. On 8/27/2011 5:10 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Mike Dwigginsm...@azdwiggins.com wrote: Does there exist a command or command string that will examine a Port and report what application is locking that port? netstat -ntulp

Re: What tool shows /proc/net/nf_conntrack

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:46:12 -0400 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I forwarded a port, using system-config-firewall. The destination machine, not surprisingly, shows the IP address of the firewall as the source