Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was > always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it, > because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to > Red Hat shareholders. Why would

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Doug
On 10/28/2018 11:30 PM, Leander Hutton wrote: On 10/28/18 10:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: When it finally breaks, look up Unicomp. They have excellent buckling spring keyboards. (I am typing on one right now.) Yup, know all about Unicomp. I restore Model Ms as a hobby and have one

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly >> closing that project down as it wont support their new code >> and sticking with cloud services and such. I do

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Leander Hutton
On 10/28/18 11:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >> RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly >> closing that project down as it wont support their new code >> and sticking with cloud services and such.  I do not see >>

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Leander Hutton
On 10/28/18 10:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > When it finally breaks, look up Unicomp.  They have excellent buckling > spring keyboards. (I am typing on one right now.) Yup, know all about Unicomp. I restore Model Ms as a hobby and have one of Unicomp's black/white/gray UltraClassic USB

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly > closing that project down as it wont support their new code > and sticking with cloud services and such.  I do not see > them support anything that does not directly

Re: Message list text color -

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 21:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > As I said there's only one css file I can find and it doesn't look > like much: > > [bobg@Box83-F28-workstation ~]$ cat > /home/bobg/.mozilla/seamonkey/e582sp8a.default/extensions/tonequi...@mesquilla.com/skin/filterEditorOverlay.css > >

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
This is much worse news for SUSE. IBM and SUSE had some strong collaboration whereas IBM Cloud ran SUSE Enterprise. With RHEL becoming "IBM's own Linux" the incentive to offer SUSE is suddenly gone. FC On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 20:40 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know this is strictly OT, but I

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:49:46 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to > this list: > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html From the Reuters version of this story: "IBM said Red

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/28/18 6:38 PM, Leander Hutton wrote: On 10/28/18 6:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this list: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html Red Hat owns and funds a lot of

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Leander Hutton
On 10/28/18 6:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this > list: > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html Red Hat owns and funds a lot of projects. I use Ansible on a daily basis

Re: nedit and utf8

2018-10-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/29/18 8:21 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > How can I get the right display of the character > Σ > > with nedit? AFAIK nedit doesn't support UTF8.  As a matter of fact if you start if from the command line to edit a file with that symbol. [egreshko@f29bk ~]$ nedit sym nedit: the current locale

Re: Message list text color -

2018-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/28/18 00:39, Tim via users wrote: Bob Goodwin: I suspect that n one reading my inquiry knows how SeaMonkey works. No big surprise. A user-support group is more about operating the software than the programming of the software, and it's a rapidly moving target. I checked and found one

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/28/18 3:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this list: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html poc Oh [expletive deleted] !!! IBM RUINED Lotus. Hopefully Fedora an spin

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:20:05 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/28/2018 04:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to > > this list: > > > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html > >

nedit and utf8

2018-10-28 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, How can I get the right display of the character Σ with nedit? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du

Re: FSTRIM Service Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I've just noticed that at boot time that the FSTRIM service is > registering a failure. The failure seems to be because it is trying to trim > two windows mount points which are on the SSD, that are mounted as RO > because I

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/28/2018 04:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this list: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html More discussion here:

OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I know this is strictly OT, but I suggest it's of some interest to this list: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: FSTRIM Service Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/29/18 5:23 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > >     I've just noticed that at boot time that the FSTRIM service is > registering a > failure. The failure seems to be because it is trying to trim two windows > mount points > which are on the SSD, that are mounted as RO because I can't mount

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/28/2018 02:54 PM, stan wrote: Huh. It's been a while since I looked there, time got away. The discussion was in a google group, IIRC. Anyway, the idea is that the user is presented with a tic-tac-toe grid and a circle appears in one of the eight exterior squares. At the same time, in

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:54:55 -0700 stan wrote: > The age doesn't really matter, since the game is basically evolved to > its final form I thought of a way it might matter. I don't think it supports python3, so if you are on F29 or later where python3 is the default, you will have to type

FSTRIM Service Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-28 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I've just noticed that at boot time that the FSTRIM service is registering a failure. The failure seems to be because it is trying to trim two windows mount points which are on the SSD, that are mounted as RO because I can't mount them as RW due to Microsoft functionality.     Is

Re: Networkmanager Wait Online Failing at Boot Time

2018-10-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/10/18 6:15 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/27/18 2:46 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: My main concern with this is not the mounts failing at boot, I can understand why they failed, but more why the networkmanager wait online process is failing. I tried a boot with the ethernet cable disconnected

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:01:33 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > I've taken a look at it and downloaded it. The last time the project > was updated was 2015-7-10, the wiki has nothing but a rather generic > home page and the README file in the downloaded .zip has no > instructions on how to install or

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/28/2018 11:40 AM, stan wrote: I don't know that it makes teenagers run for their lives, but there is a brain game called brainworkshop on sourceforge that uses dual n-back training (based on research) to enhance / sustain working memory, thus keeping executive function of the brain in top

Re: I need granny games!

2018-10-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:43:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have a customer (actually she is a great grand mother) who > wants me "specifically" to put her together a cheap machine > to only play Freecell. No internet, no printing, no sound. > So Xfce, Fedora, and K Patience to the