Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-08 Thread Neil Thompson
55, In IT since 1980 (COBOL, punch cards, etc). Linux - SLS (April(ish) 1994) - Slackware (Shortly afterwards) - Red Hat Mother's Day (May 1995) and been on Redhattish stuff ever since. Currently chief linux geek at an engineering copmpany. -- Cheers! (Relax, don't worry, have

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread poma
On 08.12.2013 00:54, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a TV that accepts MP4 content from usb thumb drives. Instead of > a thumb drive I want to plug it into one of my box's usb ports that > would look to it like a thumb drive. > > Is this doable? Solutions? > > With all the cable cutt

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread lee
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" writes: > I rarely use Nautilus on F19. I'm trying it now. There are a few > improvements that seem obvious. You might like nemo better than nautilus. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

auto-mounting removable drives

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hello: I am running F19 xfce on a 32bit box (fully updated at the time of this test) I have "Applications Menu -> Settings -> Removable Drives and Media" open Under "Removable Storage": [checked] Mount removable drives when hot-plugged [checked] Mount removable drives when inserted

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> , when NTFS is a viable cross platform option. > > You want journaling on "dumb" flash media without TRIM support, really? > Think about it… The FTL is the opposite of dumb, therein li

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > , when NTFS is a viable cross platform option. You want journaling on "dumb" flash media without TRIM support, really? Think about it... FAT32 is the only filesystem that can currently be read by the vast majority of devices (cameras, music

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > But also unfortunate timing, in that there haven't been significantly better > alternatives to FAT32 that address resilience, volume size, and file size > limitations. Oops, other than NTFS. I don't know what the licensing terms are for NTFS

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> FAT32 isn't useful for mass storage of video files because of its 4GB file >> size limit. And exFAT/FAT64 is not only patent encumbered, but it also uses >> only one FAT so it's actual

Re: font manager

2013-12-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2013, Patrick Dupre sent: > The behavior of the font veiwer is also strange, I cannot view the > symbol font. Onlt square boxes are displayed! Just a thought, but it's possible that the symbol font only contains symbols, and are you trying to view letters as tes

Re: Burning Audio CD with Brasero

2013-12-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 December 2013, Jim sent: > Xine will play The CD but when you show Playlist, you get Titles I > have never seen before, I don't know where they are getting these > titles names Usually some internet CD audio database. They do things like compare disc IDs, track lengths,

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > FAT32 isn't useful for mass storage of video files because of its 4GB file > size limit. And exFAT/FAT64 is not only patent encumbered, but it also uses > only one FAT so it's actually less resilient in the face of any kind of > corruption,

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Tim wrote: >> Dedicated hardware, >> such as TVs, probably are not going to be versatile to do something >> beyond the product designer's intentions. And are highly unlikely to >> give you a way to install dri

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I guess this could be used as a starting point... > https://mbed.org/handbook/USBMSD ...And this chipset supports USB OTG http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=124;74;110&PLine=74 Try to find a PCIe USB controller

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > What is needed is for the PC to emulate a "mass storage device" and > mount a FAT32 filesystem. I guess this could be used as a starting point... https://mbed.org/handbook/USBMSD FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Tim wrote: > Dedicated hardware, > such as TVs, probably are not going to be versatile to do something > beyond the product designer's intentions. And are highly unlikely to > give you a way to install drivers to do anything else. Think outside the box for a secon

Re: font manager

2013-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/13 07:49, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to use font-manager, I get: > font-manager:4338 : WARNING **: sqlite3_step failed! > INFO: Finished loading 0 families > > and no font ca be displayed! > > The behavior of the font veiwer is also strange, I cannot view the > symbol fo

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Mike Wright
12/08/2013 07:22 AM, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't all bottom posting. What I did with my big screen was attach an old comp with 2 hardrives to the vga port on the tv. That comp, named video, has some 90 complete tv series on it and alm

font manager

2013-12-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Trying to use font-manager, I get: font-manager:4338 : WARNING **: sqlite3_step failed! INFO    :  Finished loading 0 families and no font ca be displayed! The behavior of the font veiwer is also strange, I cannot view the symbol font. Onlt square boxes are displayed! Thank for your help

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread Dan Thurman
On 12/08/2013 08:53 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 23:50 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: I almost never want a directory displayed as per "view items as a grid of icons". Is there a way that I can make my choice of view ("view items as a list") the default? I waste so much time

how to boot on f16 in rescue mode?

2013-12-08 Thread Adel ESSAFI
hello, I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and then when booting from the live CD i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux rescue". However, fedora always boot "normally"!! I found no /mnt/ sysimage Thank you for any input. -- PhD

Re: Burning Audio CD with Brasero

2013-12-08 Thread Jim
On 12/07/2013 10:42 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 07 December 2013, Jim sent: How does one setup Brasero to burn the name of Songs to CD ? I've only briefly dabbled with CD text. I don't have a standalone player that support it. And the software players that supposedly support it, hav

Re: systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is > resumed from suspend or hibernation. I can get something to run when the > system is put to sleep by using sleep.target (for example, I have an > "ssh-suspend" service that

Re: SD card slot

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:39 PM, bitlord wrote: > On 12/07/2013 05:14 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> Hi Gang: >> >> I made the error of pulling the card out before unmounting it, and now >> the computer won't read a card -which may be obvious. Is there any way >> to fix this? >> >> Thanks, >> Richar

Re: fedup 18->19 and GRUB upgrade several seconds

2013-12-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:56 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 04:35:28PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: >> I'm currently preparing to fedup an F18 system to F19, looking at these >> instructions: >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch18s02.html

Print flash from Firefox not working -

2013-12-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
In Fedora 19 I am unable to print flash crossword puzzles from firefox. The work around is always the same, use Seamonkey instead which works as expected. The problem with Firefox is that it stops at the point where the box comes up for selecting the printer, no printers are offered! The same b

Re: systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Greg Woods wrote: > I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is > resumed from suspend or hibernation. You can place a script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep like this. Replace with your own script you want to have executed when the system is waking

systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is resumed from suspend or hibernation. I can get something to run when the system is put to sleep by using sleep.target (for example, I have an "ssh-suspend" service that kills all the ssh sessions because they are always hung a

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 23:50 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I almost never want a directory displayed as per "view items as a grid > of icons". Is there a way that I can make my choice of view ("view > items as a list") the default? I waste so much time and motion > selecting this. And while

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Mike Wright
12/07/2013 05:39 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: Did you get Netflix configured on fedora using the howto link I supplied in the reply? Not quite. I found f18 files somewhere and got it to the point where I get the nice display that tells me I'm almost there and I need to run some .exe. Fails a

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread Mike Wright
12/07/2013 08:16 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: It is possible with the right kind of arduino chip and the right firmware for it to make something that looks like a USB drive. (At least I think I figured out that was possible once). I keep hoping someone will combine that with a network interface so I c

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ah, so it modifies the ISO image in place, does it? Yes, it does. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-08 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't all bottom posting. What I did with my big screen was attach an old comp with 2 hardrives to the vga port on the tv. That comp, named video, has some 90 complete tv series on it and almost 1600 movies. It has vlc installed that plats everything and the

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 08.12.2013 13:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Quoting Heinz Diehl : > >> On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >>> just from the above, what is the purpose of running "isohybrid" >>> in step 1 when you just do a raw copy of the ISO image to the >>> USB drive in step 2? >> >> Isohybrid makes t

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/12/13 09:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/08/13 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: Well that solves the problem. What I don't understand is that so few reported the difficulties. Well it could be that some of us never got yum-3.4.3-119 installed. Was it ever pushed to updates or was it onl

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/08/13 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > Well that solves the problem. What I don't understand is that so > few reported the difficulties. Well it could be that some of us never got yum-3.4.3-119 installed. Was it ever pushed to updates or was it only in updates-testing? I updated earlier

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/12/13 07:31 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 20:23:42 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. I'm getting this message

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Heinz Diehl : On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just from the above, what is the purpose of running "isohybrid" in step 1 when you just do a raw copy of the ISO image to the USB drive in step 2? Isohybrid makes the image a "hybrid", being bootable from both CD and a USB-drive.

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.12.2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just from the above, what is the purpose of running "isohybrid" > in step 1 when you just do a raw copy of the ISO image to the > USB drive in step 2? Isohybrid makes the image a "hybrid", being bootable from both CD and a USB-drive. -- users mailing li

Re: failed updates

2013-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 20:23:42 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > > [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates > > Trying other mirror. > > > > I'm getting this message for pretty much every mirror

Re: How to install DVD version from iso on hard drive -

2013-12-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Heinz Diehl : On 07.12.2013, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I've installed another hard drive in this computer and would like to be able to install Fedora-20 on it from an exiting F-20-beta iso file already on this same computer. I can't seem to find any instructions for doin

Re: fedup 18->19 and GRUB upgrade several seconds

2013-12-08 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 04:35:28PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: > I'm currently preparing to fedup an F18 system to F19, looking at these > instructions: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch18s02.html > > The bit about updating the GRUB bootloader has got go

Re: Applications looking up the own computer name are blocked for several seconds

2013-12-08 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Sam, > The app tries a DNS lookup for "user-pc". The domain gets appended from > /etc/resolv.conf > > dhclient does update /etc/resolv.conf from dhcp, but it's been doing that > for quite a while. That hasn't changed, and your real issue is the slow DNS > response. > > Doing an strace should te

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 07 December 2013, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent: > I almost never want a directory displayed as per "view items as a grid > of icons". Is there a way that I can make my choice of view ("view > items as a list") the default? In the preferences. The first tab, the first item, is