Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

2024-03-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, 13:40 Thomas Cameron, wrote: > > I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each > forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT. And I have to go out of my way to even > remember all the fora I am a member of. For those of us who are members > of a bunch, it's kind of a

Re: Mozilla VPN

2023-12-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 16:12 murph nj wrote: > I've decided to try a new VPN provider, and figured I'd give Mozilla's > offering a go. > > They have a client for Ubuntu, but nothing for Fedora. > > I tried installing using the instuctions from this website: > > > https://blog.radwell.codes/2021/12/

Re: I HAVE NOY USE FEDOREA AT ALL

2022-12-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 00:46 figjux figjux wrote: > I do not what is happening, but the last time I used Fedora was at least > 10 years ago. > So than. I beg you to unsubscribe me from this bulletin. > It´s a spend time for you and me. > Juan, YOU HAVE NOY READ FEDOREA BULLETIN UNSUBSCRIBE INS

Re: FYI: Microsoft broke secureboot in qemu-based VMs

2022-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 01:32 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > But the bottom line: this is now broken. Just an FYI… > /// Microsoft does not represent that the UEFI Revocation List is error free and you bear the entire risk of using it. NEITHER MICROSOFT NOR UEFI MAKES ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMP

Re: Security Flaw - Thunderbird FYI

2021-09-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon., 20 Sep. 2021, 23:44 Ed Greshko, wrote: > > > This means if you get an encrypted message, walk away from you system, and > forget to secure it > anyone can click on an encrypted message it will be displayed. > . If you walk away from your system and forget to secure it and you don't trus

Re: IRDA to Ethernet gateway for PalmOS (ppp?)

2021-07-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun., 11 Jul. 2021, 00:32 Ed Greshko, wrote: > > I can't specifically answer your question other than to say there is a > > irda-utils.x86_64 : Utilities for infrared communication between devices > > package which may be worth exploring. > Thanks Ed! That helps. I also found an interes

IRDA to Ethernet gateway for PalmOS (ppp?)

2021-07-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
Does anyone know if IRDA (for networking) is still supported by Linux? I need to build a gateway from IrDA to ethernet to make legacy palmos devices talk to the internet. I vaguely remember IrDA having different protocols, and palmOS not supporting all of them. Maybe they did serial to ppp, like

Re: CentOS 6 Client installation stuck and don't complete

2021-06-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed., 2 Jun. 2021, 20:42 Rohan Talkar, wrote: > > Complete client installation logs as below. > === > Any help / suggestions appreciated. > > Regards, > Rohan > The only suggestion I have is... DON'T DO THIS. Pasting huge logs dec

Re: Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)

2021-04-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat., 3 Apr. 2021, 06:01 lejeczek via users, < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I'm experiencing sleep/resume issue with my Lenovo two > laptops, same problem my friend sees, only he did file a > support request to Lenovo. > Wasn't it discussed right on this list a few days ago, on a

Re: btrfs RAID 5?

2021-01-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue., 5 Jan. 2021, 20:53 Chris Murphy, wrote: > > If there are specific topics that need single source documentation, > including how to, with examples, possibly also with references - maybe > that'd be more useful and maintainable. > -- > Chris Murphy > Unpopular opinion (on this list): Arch

Re: btrfs RAID 5?

2021-01-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat., 2 Jan. 2021, 15:55 Richard Shaw, wrote: > From what I've been able to find online it doesn't look like RAID 5 is > well supported by btrfs currently. Anyone have any data to the contrary? > You might find this of interest... https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/ For this reason, Sy

Re: Seamonkey settings??

2020-10-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 18:43 stan via users wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 13:59:10 -0700 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 10/5/20 1:32 PM, stan via users wrote: > > > > On my Seamonkey, I see that each line at the top starts with white > > > dots. When I click in them, that line is hidden, and the whi

Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

2020-07-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 16:07 George N. White III wrote: > > In my experience, the docs that might actually be useful often require a > non-disclosure agreement (NDA). > ... And can be found with a simple Google search with "site:.ru" as parameter. ;) Case in point: https://www.google.com/search?

Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

2020-07-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 15:40 Joe Zeff wrote: > > That's not why they do it. It's so that when (not if) somebody uses the > document improperly (or whatever) they can show that they've made a good > faith effort to prevent it and aren't responsible. Hmmm... Yep, that could be one of its uses. W

Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

2020-07-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 21:52 George N. White III wrote: > > CSR was formerly Cambridge > Silicon Radio, now owned by Qualcomm and qualified > under the name "Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. (QTIL)". It > may not be easy > to see technical d

Re: Virtual Box not loading vboxdrv on Clean install of Fedora 31

2020-04-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 15:32 Bob Marcan wrote: > > > Is there any particular reason you don't use KVM? > It is Linux native virtualization. > Look, we're here to make Virtualbox better. Not to encourage users to stop using it. Thanks for your understanding. FC __

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 s

Re: Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

2018-02-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 2/27/18, Robin Laing wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. You're welcome. > I would rather do it the other way and have the ESR version as the > firefox-oldest. But I'm not sure if the AppImage project maintainers build Firefox-ESR... I haven't seen it on the repo. > A separate profile

Re: Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

2018-02-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 2/27/18, Robin Laing wrote: > Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that > require it. Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR > on the same machine? > > I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I > don't want to lose that. >

ESC/P thermal receipt printers and Linux...

2017-12-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
Running dmesg after plugging my POS-5890K labelled usb thermal receipt printer, it identifies itself as full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci idVendor=0416, idProduct=5011 Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Product: POS58 USB Printer Manufacturer: GD32 Microelectronics SerialNumber: Printer

Re: What is the technical name for "mtp://" urls in Mate Desktop folder explorer (Caja, ex-Nautilus)

2017-11-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/24/17, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On 11/23/17, Dave Stevens wrote: >> what about this: >> https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/ This bash script that sets udev rules and automounts mtp devices also looks promising

Re: What is the technical name for "mtp://" urls in Mate Desktop folder explorer (Caja, ex-Nautilus)

2017-11-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/23/17, Dave Stevens wrote: > what about this: > https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/ > > dave > Thanks Dave! Media Transfer Protocol huh. Missed that one. The article is a bit inaccurate on this statement "because the file system

What is the technical name for "mtp://" urls in Mate Desktop folder explorer (Caja, ex-Nautilus)

2017-11-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
I'm curious as to what is the technical name given to these pseudo-URLs used by Caja (formerly Nautilus) on Mate Desktop... When I plug USB flash drives / Thumb Drives / Pen Drives (use your naming choice) I get those automagically mounted (automount). But when I plug my Samsung Android smartphon

Re: pulseaudio MUST DIE!

2017-11-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/23/17, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/23/2017 01:59 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I ended up removing pulseaudio but couldn't get alsa to work either, >> so I now have a sound-less system just like in my AMD 386 running OS/2 >> back in 1993 before the SoundBlaster 16

Re: pulseaudio MUST DIE!

2017-11-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/22/17, David A. De Graaf wrote: > Sound now works perfectly - just the way it should. > I cannot discern any important loss of function from the deleted 34 > packages so far. aplay, vlc, xmms, mythfrontend and even > skypeforlinux all work fine with alsa. > > pulseaudio should just go away

Re: /boot on btrfs

2016-11-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/8/16, Mark Haney wrote: > I've been told repeatedly that BTRFS isn't production ready. I've used it > here on a handful of servers and had nothing but trouble with it, > stability-wise. I sure as hell wouldn't use it on /boot if I can't trust > it for /home or /. Name me one piece of soft

Re: /boot on btrfs

2016-11-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > That's absolutely not true. Fedora has wanted to use Btfs since... one > of the Boston FUDCons in 2008 or 2009 > Well, we disagree. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de En

Re: /boot on btrfs

2016-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > since 2009. sorry, that should have read 2012. :) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revoluciona

Re: /boot on btrfs

2016-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > At the moment I do use xfs/raid1, but considering to switch (back) to > btrfs since simplifies setup having features of both lvm+raid. > Fedora/RedHat's stance on btfs is "passive agressive" (Not Invented Here Syndrome). I suggest you use S

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Antonio M wrote: > reed means just a mistyping for readnot difficult to understand. > > I was just pulling your leg, Antonio. Since you answered a bit in a patronising tone I thought returning the kindness, but you know, all for laughs and stuff. FC _

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Antonio M wrote: > I am happy that you don't need to reed archives > Whaat exactly do you mean by "reed" archives? reed *noun* plural noun: *reeds* - *1*. a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family that grows in water or on marshy ground. - used in na

Re: how to login to the list

2016-10-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:56 PM, antonio montagnani < antonio.montagn...@alice.it> wrote: > I am receiving all posts, but if I try to log to the list and I say that I > forgot the password, I get the answer that this e-mail is not connected to > any account!!! That of course is not possible > Th

Re: huge java speedup on arm32 via java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32

2016-09-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote: > The luckier from you already tuned arm32 boards to not need java at all. I despise this message. FC-- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se conv

Re: Upgrade to F23 breaks Adobe Reader

2016-09-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
welll, Adobe Reader for Linux hasn't been supported for at least two years... https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1597058 FC On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: > Following last night's upgrade to F23, Adobe Reader now gives: > > /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread:

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > I don't know about decent picture viewers, but I have some experience with > indecent picture viewers, if that helps :) > Remember this meme. ;) http://img.memecdn.com/your-porn-collection_o_152855.jpg FC -- During times of Universal Decei

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/17/16, Dev wrote: > You are asking alternative of default image viewer right? > Check this project http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightgallery-desktop/ It says "node.js" but my mind reads "ebola". FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/17/16, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> Anyway, Ristretto in Xfce is really not adequate, so I am asking really >> nicely, please for recommendations. >> What picture viewer do you use on F24? > > Irfanview under WINE. > > http://www.boekhoff.info/?pid=linux&tip

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/16/16, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > For the longest time I used gthumb for picture viewer. I even installed > a gnome app on my Xfce desktop with Fedora21, but I did not like what > they did to gthumb in Fedora22. I almost shudder to think what it looks > like in F24 (though I could try the li

Re: captive portal SSL certificate issue on F23

2016-07-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: > I am on F23 at the moment You dont say which browser you use, and Fedora flavor. For instance, on Fedora XFCE, the default browser is Midori. On more vanila Fedora versions, its usually Firefox FC -- During times of Universal Deceit,

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 6/26/16, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Yes, that looks like it works in an F-24/VM. It did not occur to me that > "Custom OS" would get me back to a familiar process. > Surely a bug of the user, not the software. Surely the UX designers thought it was all very intuitive, and that anyone could detect t

Can Fedora act as a Sun Ray server?

2016-05-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
I'm curious if anyone here has experience setting up a server for Sun Ray thin clients. More specifically, I wonder if I could set up a PC running fedora as a server for 2 or 3 Sun Ray thin clients, specifically the Sun Ray 270 It includes an AMD CPU internally but I'm not sure what protocols

Re: Java Access in Firefox

2016-05-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 5/8/16, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using Firefox 49.0a1 on both Linux and Windows and > on both systems Firefox will not activate Java, this has been the case > for several versions of Firefox. I have to java plugin in the > appropriate mozilla directories, but Firefox

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 5/2/16, jd1008 wrote: >> How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will >> suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into >> windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this (after >> all only command line software runs with the Li

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/22/16, jd1008 wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ > Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit > Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy Since when Microsoft cares about the legality of its acts? They certainly gr

Re: How to rip a DVD?

2016-04-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/1/16, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I've always used handbrake to rip an mp4 file for this, but this > particular DVD seems to be copy protected somehow. It's "From Up On > Poppy Hill," from Studio Ghibli. Just checked this title on amazon.com and I see it's available in a "Blu Ray / DVD Combo pa

Re: How to rip a DVD?

2016-04-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/1/16, François Patte wrote: > The problem is that video dvd that you can buy are double layer dvd > (about 9Gb) and the RW dvd are only 4.7 Gb so you need to compress the > data ripped from the video dvd. k9copy does the job. There's double-layer recordable DVD media since ages FYI http

Re: howto setup docker storage on btrfs f23?

2016-03-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 3/18/16, Mark Haney wrote: > IIRC, wasn't Ted Ts'o working with RH on BTRFS when it was being > developed? Of course, I've slept since then, but I'm pretty sure I read > some articles discussing that collaboration. If there was a political will to make BTRFS a first class citizen on Fedora, t

Re: howto setup docker storage on btrfs f23?

2016-03-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
Fedrora is rather btrfs-hostile. (you know "not invented here syndrome"). If you want to use btrfs I'd suggest you use SUSE where it is supported. Dec 2012: SUSE says BTRFS is ready to rock https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/677226-suse-linux-says-btrfs-is-ready-to-rock Nove

Re: VLC VideoLAN

2016-02-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 2/19/16, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I installed VLC on my computer (fedora 21) with the purpose to play .VOB > files. > > Actually I can run LVL on the line command, but I am not able to do > anything in this way... The help command give me this output : I am curious as to why you seem to ca

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 2/15/16, Tim wrote: > What's more mind-boggling is why those (in Google) who created the > problem haven't pulled their fingers out and fixed it. It's not a new > problem, the fault is entirely theirs, and they should know better. > Don't make the users jump through hoops to fix things that y

Re: 'urlsnarf' sniffer fails with "undefined symbol: ip_fast_csum"

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:36 PM, stan wrote: > > Looks like a bug. I think something in the library has changed. Your > best bet is to open a bugzilla at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ > for libnids. There are no open tickets for libnids right now, so no > one else has reported this error. No

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > Why are we on this bizarre sidetrack > about whether you can use tail to get id3 information? > I don't know. ;) You implied that the Unix way was not appropiate for multimedia content, I said you could use text mode utils just fine, and that

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > Of course you can have single tools that act on files to get well > defined information. But while it's a useful model it doesn't work > well in all situations. > All I wanted was mpg123 so I could play a darn mp3 file. ;) KDE/Gnome wizards ca

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > > > You are proposing having an http server in the way as *simpler*? > Anyway, again, id3 tag lengths are not fixed. don't twist my words, Ian. I introduced a web server into the argument that you can't get id3 tags with a single tool, and

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Tim wrote: > > That can't be the only place they're put. The ID3 info is put at the end of MP3 files, that is per design. (Actually, a clever hack, so mp3 player that don't know anything about id3 could still play the files). FC -- During times of Universal

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > If you want to do that > you have to cheat and cache everything before you start playback. Or, > in more general terms, doing anything non-linear with multimedia > information is very difficult to handle in a streamed manner > No. I never said

'urlsnarf' sniffer fails with "undefined symbol: ip_fast_csum"

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
32-bit F23 Mate spin, here I install the dsniff package to use urlsnarf... # dnf install dsniff Last metadata expiration check performed 0:35:54 ago on Tue Jan 12 08:24:21 2016. Dependencies resolved. Package

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > such as when searching for ID3 > tags in an MP3 file. > You could also use gnu 'tail' part of gnu textutils -I believe it's now called coreutils-, to get the last 'n' bytes of a file, and there's your ID3 info... FC -- users mailing l

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Which would get funny, if you wanted to seek back and forth in a large > chunk of data fed to a program via stdin, such as when searching for ID3 > tags in an MP3 file. > Which gets back to my point, that doesn't prevent big media player

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > > There's some logic to that, but all some illogic. Would you have yet > > another binary program to play wav files, another for oggs, another for > > flac, and have to call the right one for each audio file you want to > > play? Or would you

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > And a "dnf install gstreamer1-plugins\*" here wants to install > "35 Packages", while some dependencies probably are installed already. > That's why I mentioned mpg123 earlier in the thread. Most mp3 players in the Linux world require a

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Manjaro includes decoders. But it's Europe based. sorry, forgot the link on my previous email. https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libmad0 (just for reference, I'm not trying to make any point here, so no reply is needed). FC -- Duri

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Manjaro includes decoders. But it's Europe based. Thanks again Sylv. As does Debian, which I mentioned in my initial message. :) FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > None. I have them enabled myself not a problem. But maybe you'd like > to take a look at this article: > https://crossingtheair.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/installing-codecs-and-more/ > Hope this is useful! > Thanks Stlv, And everyone else

Re: mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > mpg123 is available from the rpmfusion repos. Thanks Ed! Is there any side-effect from enabling the rpmfusion repos? Conflict with system libs? FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante

Miracast support still broken in Fedora? or is there hope?

2016-01-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
Almost a year ago (11 months), the developer of Miracleclast, which implements Miracast [1] support for Linux, wrote: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-February/458142.html On 02.02.2015 19:58, David Herrmann wrote: >* [snip] *>* As people continuously ask me about this, I'll j

mpg123 not included, why?

2016-01-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
#dnf install mpg123 "No package mpg123 available" Why is this? I thought mp3 DECODING was safe to distribute, as does Debian https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xmms2-plugin-mad and that only MP3 *encoding* was actively pursued by the Fraunhoffer Insitute and assorted MP3 cartels. according to thi

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Agree with Chris. > Cheers, > Sylvia > Thanks for letting us know your thoughts, Sylv. FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > It's neither of these, > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Data_persistence > > 'currently implemented (as a Device-mapper copy-on-write snapshot), > every single change to it (writes AND deletes) subtracts from it

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text > screen but startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than > localhost, reports network unreachable. > > What am I missing? > > Bob > Bob, What Virtualbox

In Firefox 41.0.1 / Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, mouse pointer doesn't change to magnifying glass

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, Can anyone else confirm this bug?. In Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, when using FF 41.0.1 to view a JPEG file that has been scaled down automatically, when positioning the mouse cursor over the image, on the Windows platform the mouse cursor changes to a magnifying glass to show the user that th

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > A bigger Specialized spin called Scientific has OpenJDK :) > Since nowadays we still need a DVD since nothing fits on a CD anymore :( > > https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/scientific/ > > It should contain JAVA as it is listed here: > >

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Well, before writing a rant you should check that your facts are up to > date. You see, F2FS is supported and you didn't know. > F2FS is supported in the kernel. Is is supported by Anaconda as an installation target/option? My rant, if yo

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > If I remember correctly, Anaconda didnt support installing to F2FS > partitions - or partitioning F2FS in the first place. This was my exchange, two years ago. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/441707.ht

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > No tutorial, but if you use the liveusb-creator to transfer the > livecd image to a usb stick, it has an option to create persistent > storage, then when you boot the usb stick the first time, > you just "dnf install" whatever is missing, and

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > I don't know about the LiveCD images, but F2FS is part of the kernel and > has been for quite a while. I'm running F22 and it's in there: > > [root@prophead ~]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs | grep f2fs > f2fs > If I remember correctl

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On the other hand, you might _not_, because your use case for the live > USB is not necessarily everyone's, and in fact it certainly is not the > main reason we produce these images today. The issue will go away the day I can boot a Li

Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Well, I admit to being a little hostile to _this_ kind of complaint, > which is pretty hard to even respond to in a helpful way because it's > so full of unsubstantiated aggressive statements. (Starting right in > the subject.) > > If yo

The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason

2015-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
Once upon a time, I believe it was Fedora 17 or Fedora 19, I was a happy camper. I used to download a Fedora LiveCD, and it included everything I needed for functional work on a otherwise Windows netbook. I just booted off the USB Flash Drive, and off I went to do my daily online chores like E-Mai

Re: Why was YUM removed

2015-12-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > It's a terrible name for anyone who knows motor racing: it indicates > a total failure. > What is wrong with the Linux world that prevents it from using human readable package names that indicate its FUNCTION? Fedora-package-manager was not

Re: How can Fedora determine the maximum speed of network computer cards?

2015-11-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Is there something in Fedora that I might use to determine the maximum > speed the network card of my computer can attain on Internet? > Your Ethernet card will operate allways at its maximum speed (100Mbps if Fast Ethernet or 1000 Mbps if Gi

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: > And when it's iconed, click or right click on the tray icon or in overview > mode do nothings > >> ... until HTML5 UI appears. :) > What does this mean? Jitsi has got a users mailing list. I suggest you guys take your support questions there.

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and > Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers. The thread subject line was : "Samsung laser drivers for Linux - thinking aloud" https://lists.fedorapr

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named > "cdroot" nor one named "autorun". Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers. As far as I remember, dri

Re: Pale moon, was Re: replacement for seamonkey?

2014-05-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Absolutely! Pale Moon is built from the Firefox release source code that > has a large community of developers and security-aware people, next to > having seen over a decade of development by now. It includes, among other > things, protecti

Re: Pale moon, was Re: replacement for seamonkey?

2014-05-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I am beginning to like Pale moon.. pulled in all my Chrome bookmarks ( > awesome, automatic!), and it is VERY snappy! > What's the track record of this fork for security fixes? Do they patch in hours, days or weeks after a 0day is discover

Re: replacement for seamonkey?

2014-05-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > Seamonkey is the name given to the old Mozilla browser/email/kitchen-sink > suite that was developed by Mozilla prior to firefox. (Not the > older/original > Netscape. > Yes Seamonkey suite was born first as Mozilla. But it isn't "old". I mean,

Re: replacement for seamonkey?

2014-05-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:57 AM, lee wrote: > are we going to need a replacement for seamonkey which comes without > restrictions management, and will there be one in Fedora? > Take your concerns to the Seamonkey Council http://www.seamonkey-project.org/about#contact I personally use Seamonkey

Re: Gnome weather extension as malware?

2014-05-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Tim wrote: > Unless you're actually in the airport control tower, or flying a plane, > I doubt you need to keep updating a weather report that often. > LOL your comment made my day. Well said. :) Although by reading some other mailing lists, I could quickly conc

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

2014-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, a USB stick will wear out a lot quicker if it's used as a > root filesystem with /tmp. Well, I've been waiting for Samsung F2FS for a long time, but still no boot support AFAIK http://www.techspot.com/news/50428-samsung-creates-f

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

2014-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > 1. I could use ext4 on all HDDs eventually. But I wonder, can I use ZFS? > Specially I would like to have the ability to expand the single HDD into a > Raid once I get the second HDD as painlessly as possible. If I use ext4 I > guess I will ha

Re: Fedora *is* for servers! [was Re: Need advice]

2014-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > For more, see the Fedora Server Working Group: > Formed in October 2013. *cough* *cough* FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Need advice

2014-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, poma wrote: > OL or LOL? :) > > Red Hat Announces Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta > >> December 11, 2013 << > The RHEL 6.5 source was out Nov 21 http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/11/red-hat-launches-latest-version-of-red-hat-ent

Re: Need advice

2014-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Rachmayanto Surjadi < rachmayan...@sanatel.com> wrote: > We are developing internal software using MySql dB and are planning to use > Fedora for the server. My advice, grab either CentOS http://www.centos.org/ or OracleLinux http://mirrors.wimmekes.net/pub/iso/

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > So, aren't you happy you've helped the OP avoid doing the research only to > learn it wouldn't have helped him at all? :-) I'm happy of having done the research to learn something myself and educate others in the process. All without the need

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > So? What did the samba devs say? Did they even bother to answer the > question? > > Best, :-) Here's the update: the last kernel on top of which you can run NETBEUI is 2.4 [1] Nobody seems to have ported the required kernel patches to 3.

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > So, you are offering advice to use a protocol which may or may not exist > and be available now? I'm asking the samba devs right now to learn something in the process (current status of NETBEUI support in Samba 4.x), and to lower your anxiety

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > So, you are offering advice to use a protocol which may or may not exist > and be available now? And of which you have no current experience? > I'm offering a pointer to check whether Samba.org currently supports NETBEUI or not, based on my p

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > If you do it this way, it should > really not matter much which transfer protocol you are using. NFS, > samba, ftp, scp, rsync, even http --- they should all give you roughly > the same (fast) performance > I disagree. Different protocols

Re: Pacman game availability for Fedora

2014-03-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: >> I´m not a lawyer, but regardless please do not break the law. > > Between the unjustness of the law (which puts games at risk of being lost to > history, when five or ten years of protection would be more than enough) and > the fact that Arc

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