Re: mysterious progress bar

2013-01-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:59:11 -0500 Claude Jones wrote: > I'm on fully up-to-date F18 using KDE DE. Regularly, maybe every few > minutes, I get a rectangular progress indicator appearing on my screen. > It only appears for a moment. It has a little monitor icon on the left, > and vertical progre

Re: Fonts missing

2013-01-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:18:51 -0200 Lailah wrote: > I have 2 users in this system, and fonts are around 300MBs. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/rpm.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- user

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:17:56 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF#compress-newsletter.pl -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS o

Re: Script Problem in Firefox

2012-12-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:04:20 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas on how to fix? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of P

Re: infoslip viewer

2012-12-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 06:14:42 +0200 Pravin Singh wrote: > Im having problems installing infoslip viewer in fedora 17 . the > binary i got from infoslip.com does not work. Its asks for jre, but i > installed jre. Does anyone know if there is an rpm or someway to fix > this. I dont want to boot in wi

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:22:19 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I'm already confused. If I don't want it listening on the internet and > our LAN [eth0] on this computer where do I tell it to go? # If you want dnsmasq to provide only DNS service on an interface, # configure it as s

Re: Blocked site -

2012-10-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:30:00 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > If nothing else this has been a learning experience. You could set up dnsmasq, which will cache your dns queries, saving a small amount of bandwidth but more importantly speeding things up some. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~

Re: Samsung ML-1666 printer driver problem

2012-10-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:13:14 +1100 Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: > Any tips what to do now? Thanks :-) Have you tried the stuff listed on this website (found with a fifteen second Google search): http://salahuddin66.blogspot.ca/2010/11/samsung-ml-1666-printer-in-linux.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D

Re: att-uverse new, can't access internet

2012-09-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:28:53 -0700 jackson byers wrote: > Now f16 has no internet. Are you sure that you have no Internet and not just a non-existent or stale DNS server? Contents of /etc/resolv.conf? Result of "ping 8.8.8.8"? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvillethe

Re: how to use the wget command to copy whole website to local

2012-09-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:18:31 +0800 yujian wrote: > I want to copy a website to my local disk. I use the command wget -r > www.example.com, but I find that only html copyed. httrack -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of

Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

2012-09-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I don't know if there are any tools that might automate that process. It's my understanding (based on no actual experience) that Apple uses sqlite extensively on their equipment. Accordingly, there is a reasonable chance that the

Re: Loosing the keyboard

2012-09-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:23:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/19/2012 01:15 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > Maybe you have broken keyboard? Does this happen with other keyboards > > attached to this computer? > > That's an interesting idea. After all, he says that he's "loosing" the > keyboard

Re: Software Removal....

2012-09-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:37:17 -0400 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to remove some apps that are installed, > namely ones that don't even functionsome title are: "Tetravex" - > Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, "Nibbles" some form of worm game and a > few others. I have tried goin

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

2012-09-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 08:34:10 +0200 Lukáš Šembera wrote: > on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that > I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for example, > when I'm mounting a NFS share, I've to use the IP address. The same issue > is with ping, s

Re: sylpheed updates on Fedora

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:00:52 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have been wondering about the lack of updates for sylpheed on Fedora. > Neither the stable 3.2 nor the new develomental 3.3.1 has been provided: I provide stable updates for Sylpheed on Centos here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/article

Re: Fwd: Re: libreoffice-writer-3.5.6.2-2 prints header line

2012-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:11:24 -0400 Jim wrote: > >> I have gone through the LibreOffice-Writer settings and can find > >> nothing that would cause this Header Line to be printed on a document. What header line are you getting? Do you have a header set in your document at all? If the header is u

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:26:10 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > Not quite. I know that in Linux you can get around some invalid > characters, such as spaces, by quoting the name so that the shell knows > to pass it on to the program as one string so I suggested trying it in > XP to see if it worked. Wha

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > is there a safe way to do a complete > reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is? Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melv

Re: criminal use of linux

2012-08-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:49:01 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Why is this not being brought into a courtroom, rather than companies just > paying licenses? Cost. License Fee: $1 Legal cost to fight it in court: $2 Chance of winning in court: < 100% (Note: 99.% is still < 100%) What c

Re: gnome icon missing

2012-07-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:11:25 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > The 3 icons (right side): sound, abrt and Networkmanager disappeared > from my desktop > while there are running. > > How can I have them back? Put the notification area back on your panel. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinem

Re: "best practices" for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:40:58 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > obviously(?), i'll want to install the basic OS to the SSD drive, > with the assumption that i won't be updating /usr 20 times a day or > something silly. then again, who knows how often i'll be installing > new packages? I rec

Re: Setting up a remote home folder

2012-06-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:54:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > I currently have a desktop running Fedora 17. Is it possible for me to > install F17 on another computer, in such a way that it shares the same home > folder as my desktop? The folder itself should still be physically present > on t

Re: 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:25:25 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Where do you find a 64bit version of Adobe Reader? You don't. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: audio notification from system

2012-05-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:28:12 -0700 JD wrote: > When I mute the speakers, > the sound disappears. If it's an electrical problem that causes the speakers to crackle, i.e. hardware, muting the speakers could also make the sound go away. So you haven't eliminated hardware as the issue yet. -- MELV

Re: audio notification from system

2012-05-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 19 May 2012 08:33:38 -0700 JD wrote: > > Well, it is kinda starting to sound more like a hardware issue. I suppose > > I've assumed you've eliminated that > > > > You can always go to /usr/share/sounds and play all that is there to find > > if any match. > > > Played all of them in 5

Re: red hat?

2012-04-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:12:27 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > You wear them for so many years that they finally come apart when you're > tucking them back in? (This one's happened to me, more than once. If I > like a shirt, I'll wear it, off and on, until it falls apart or > otherwise gets ruined.) M

Re: xxxterm for fedora

2012-03-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:09:06 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have been using this browser for a while and I wonder whether the ISC > license (something I had never heard of before) is something that > allows for it to be packaged for fedora. > > Here is the license: https://opensource.conformal.co

Re: peer-to-peer home folder synch

2012-03-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:56:39 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > What I want is a reasonable way for the two computers to keep their > respective home folders in synch on request (does not need to be by a > daemon i.e. Dropbox, although that would be preferred). Is there any > software that accom

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:23:31 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ > newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update > a while back. I just tried it with firefox 10.0.1 and flash 11.1r102 on Centos 6.2/x86_64 and it loaded fine. --

Re: Opening X.pub files

2012-03-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:33:31 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Is there a fedora available program that will open (manage) X.pub files? X.pub? Do you mean Microsoft Publisher files? If so, the the only program that I'm aware of that will open a Microsoft Publisher file is Microsoft Publisher. --

Re: What it be..

2012-03-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:51:46 -0500 Hal wrote: > What is the correlation between Fedora Version Numbers and RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 There is no direct correlation. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users

Re: how to send Bcc: using Evolution

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:40:27 -0800 Mike Wright wrote: > I'm new to Evolution and am having trouble with some of its features, > such as how does one Bcc a recipient? Did you try typing "evolution bcc" into the google searchbar (without the quotes, of course)? The first several results on that p

Re: split pdf file into two

2012-02-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:02:03 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > So i have a 12 page pdf. I want to split it into pages 1-7 say and > 8-12. > > What do I do? I guess pdfseparate does not help. pdftk -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THO

Re: Cronometer (GPL) goes web based, loses GPL ?

2012-02-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:49:30 -0700 linux guy wrote: > Has the cronometer provided broken the rules of the GPL by enhancing > it and turning it into a web application and not providing the course > code back to the user base ? The copyright owner of the software (generally the person who wrote it)

Re: pyQt on Windows and Mac ? Android ?

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:50:59 -0700 linux guy wrote: > Is there anything better for a simple multi platform app ? C/Gtk? It does Windows and Mac, but not Android. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! --

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100 NOSpaze wrote: > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > a book lyx -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users

Re: Text search in Libreoffiice (ctrl+f/edit search) fails in the current F16 version

2011-11-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:20:26 +0100 Joachim Backes wrote: > having a Libreoffice problem in F16 with searching text, using Ctrl+F or > edit/search: no menu appears for entering the text to search. F15 has no > such problems! I've seen this before and have fixed it with the big hammer approach: rm

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

2011-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:38:43 -0500 Gary Waters wrote: > The offending file appears to be /home/admin/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal > > What in the name of the sweet lawd jaysus is that? How do I rectify > this? I'm kinda from planet noobie at this level.. running ".cache/tracker/meta.db-wal" throu

Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

2011-11-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT) George R Goffe wrote: > I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G > of the upgrade. How much memory does your machine's bios screen tell you it has? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.c

Re: Restoring from a tarball

2011-10-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:24:34 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > sudo tar -cjf marcia.tar.bz2 /home/marcia > Assuming that > the username hasn't changed and that I've put the backup in the same > place that I made it, what arguments to I give tar to make it put > everything back exactly where it was? I a

Re: list of rpms in iso file

2011-09-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:02:27 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have been trying to determine what are the packages in a live iso > file? If it's an iso file, then just mount the iso and see what's listed in the directory. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:09:34 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > >Is it possible the PDF contains an image of the text rather than text > > itself ? > > > > > I'm not sure, how would I tell? Load the pdf into evince. File - Properties - Fonts If no fonts are listed, then there is no text i

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:18 -0500 Manuel Escudero wrote: > Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general > that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something > like that, Generally speaking, users can only write files in their home directory. So if you restore the home di

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:07 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Besides which, a shell script named "a.out" would arouse my suspicions. > Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan. a.out is the default name of the executable file that's created by C compilers on Unix systems

Re: question on nautilus

2011-08-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:47:28 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Suggestions? (and that includes a scolding for "why didn't you look in > the obvious place?" which is not obvious to me) yum install vim-X11 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com -

Re: Power Outage, USB drive not mounting

2011-08-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:42:12 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Server is FC12 > USB drive is EXT4 and labeled 2GHJTCB4 What does /var/log/messages say when you plug it in? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW P

Re: Java path

2011-06-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Adam Tong wrote: > wanna intall a oftware that ak me for java path. I ntalled java jdk uing yum. > I there a way to know where a package i intalled? rpm -qil packagename which java -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.co

Re: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

2011-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:56:12 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > > It's my current understanding that you can use Thunderbird on > > Windows to import a pst file and then import from that into Evolution or, > > possibly, Sylpheed. > > > > Or, if you have a dual boot, use Thunderbird under Linux, which is wha

Re: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

2011-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:16:58 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > For work, I have had to use Microsoft outlook for e-mail. > I'd like to be able to get at it through either > KMail or evolution on my home F13 machine. > I've tried to set up both without success. > That I've never used a mail cli

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:49:19 +1000 Nermin Celik wrote: > Is it possible to recover the memory and resume the program where it had to > terminate unexpectedly. It depends on the design of the program but generally speaking, it's not possible. Some programs save datafiles and the like as they run

Re: How to save .swf video -

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:47:49 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Wget doesn't seem to work. The file it saves is much too small and > VLC doesn't react to it at all? I just downloaded that file and looked at it with Firefox. It showed me the initial screen with a play button but when I pressed play

Re: How to save .swf video -

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:29:08 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Is there a preferred way to save an ".swf" video clip? > Preferably a yum application. Google shows some offerings from > places I am not familiar with. wget? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.me

Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

2011-04-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:38:43 -0400 Dante Conti wrote: > I know that Fedora 6 is very old (and > no longer supported), but -- amazingly -- this is what the hosting > provider just installed on the server. I know how you feel. I just upgraded my movie theatre to digital cinema from 35mm film and

Re: 3D Chess screen saver

2011-03-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:43:02 + Aaron Gray wrote: > I am looking for an old screensaver that I believe was OpenGL on Fedora that > was a chess board. queens comes with xscreensaver-gl-extras -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS

Re: gnome program

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:41:32 +0800 xinyou yan wrote: > As i thought I use gnome why system not contain gnome.h yum install libgnomeui-devel > When i lose some file . How can i find the correct name to yum install > or find source file . yum provides (Read "man yum" for more details and lot

Re: term.h curse.h

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:02:56 +0800 xinyou yan wrote: > I didn't find term.h and cures.h which i want to write some program > about the terminal in fedora14 yum install ncurses-devel -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WO

Re: Mailing list validation tool

2011-03-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:36:47 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Until I look a bit I don't know if this helps, but it is helpful. If I know > an address doesn't work I can send a postcard and ask for an update. If > someone pays $75/year to join an organization and asks for the newsletter, I > would thi

Re: Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

2011-02-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:11:34 +0100 Outway wrote: > Is there a specific reason why the fedoraproject chose to use a mailing > list instead of a newsgroup? Many ISP's no longer provide NNTP access as part of their services. Mine, for example, stopped providing a newsserver just about exactly a yea

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:29:10 -0400 Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Why are we still getting the freetype package without the > bytecode-interpreter on? Read here: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,110733 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WAT

Re: Security - Run apps with other users

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:59:37 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > Are there any howtos/docs/links? man sudo -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: where is the gedit dictionary?

2011-01-31 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:26:46 -0800 Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I'm running FC13 with a gnome desktop. Does anyone know the name of the > file for the dictionary used by the gedit spell checker and where it's > stored? gedit uses aspell for its spelling checker http://aspell.net/ -- MELVILLE THEATR

Re: privoxy errors

2011-01-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:23:48 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > what could be the problem? i have to enable it user by user? http://melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!

Re: Installed ATI driver removal after Xorg update

2011-01-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:11:49 +0100 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > So, how can I set up from grub only an command > line boot-in till terminal logon? Why is no fallback possibility? Hit e at the grub prompt, then add a 1 to the end of the commandline. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilleth

Re: Locking down F14 shutdown options

2011-01-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:07:12 -0500 Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > Thanks ! Do you happen to know how I can accomplish this part in a > way that applies to all users at once ? (i.e., which files the panel > relies on as a template for any new user who logs into the system) ? You can set up the default

Re: Locking down F14 shutdown options

2011-01-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:40:11 -0500 Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > I fired up gconf-editor, and searched around. No "main menu" > application, and couldn't find any entry for the 'logout' button > either. Tried both as a regular user, and as root (ssh -X root@localhost). > > There is a panel/global/loc

Re: How to change background.

2011-01-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:24:05 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > It's easy to change desktop background *after* user login. But how do you > change the background *before* user login? Background of what? For gdm: Look at gdm themes. You can make your own and test them using xnest, too. For a user's

Re: Locking down F14 shutdown options

2011-01-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:59:31 -0500 Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > Can I modify F14 to require the root password when either > Suspend/Restart/Shutdown is selected via the Shutdown Options > (lower-right corner of GDM login screen), or when a user > selects System -> ShutDown -> Suspend/Hibernate/Resta

Re: Restricting ssh

2011-01-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:28:47 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Can I configure it so that it only accepts connection > from certain machines, wherever they may be in the world? Set ssh to accept only keys and not passwords. Install a key on each authorized computer. Done. You can also run sshd o

Re: i386 or x86_64 tree?

2011-01-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:07:49 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So from this I ASSuME I use the i386 update tree... Yes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: i386 or x86_64 tree?

2011-01-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:23:35 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How do I tell which update tree for Fedora 14 a system uses? "uname -a" will tell you which architecture your kernel is compiled for. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WAT

Re: firefox not working with net connection through wireless modem

2011-01-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:37:16 +0530 souvik@wipro.com wrote: > My system is getting an IP on ppp0 and icon on > desktop top is showing that network manager has detected it. It sounds like you're not getting a DNS server address. Without being able to connect to a DNS server your computer can'

Re: Configuration of HP L2045 monitor

2011-01-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:05:19 + Chris Jones wrote: > What is EDID? How do I tell? /var/log/Xorg.0.log Search for EDID and see what it says in that section. It should list supported video modes and other data. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com -

Re: xmms fedora 14 x86_64

2010-12-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:36:57 +0200 Johan Scheepers wrote: > Kindly point me to the correct xmms for fedora 14 x86_64 please. Not having tried it I can't be absolutely sure, but I suspect you could compile the xmms src rpm here for Fedora 14 without too much grief: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/

Re: [OT] Just wanted to share... (Calyphrox 4.0)

2010-12-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:41:53 -0600 Manuel Escudero wrote: > in a few hours the app will start working as it should... Unfortunately, this means that your application will never achieve a significant user base, regardless of how good it may be. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.me

Re: Change m...@every boot

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:24:20 -0800 (PST) S Mathias wrote: > Where should i put my script? Most stuff that you want to run at every boot can go into /etc/rc.local -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:12:06 -0500 Jim wrote: > This Virus Tester won't allow me to shut down Firefox, no matter what I > click on. crtl-alt-backspace is the the only way out. killall firefox killall -9 firefox -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mai

Re: Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online

2010-12-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:21:37 -0500 Jim wrote: > How can I prevent Firefox from Starting these tests ? I have no idea what a Windows Virus Test is or how it's relevant to Linux, but if it's some kind of a automated advertisement or something similar to that you should look into noscript (firefox

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:44:58 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: > I learned to program in HP BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN, but 'c' is the way to > learn how to program, no 'seat belts'. I have TWO copies of K&Rs book as > well as the 'C Puzzle Book'. For anyone who's new to programming and wants to learn C

Re: Wireless mouse not detected

2010-12-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:57:27 -0500 Alex wrote: > I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse, and the battery died > in the mouse, so I replaced it. Now the mouse doesn't work at all. Since your computer is still detecting the receiver you have a hardware issue and not a Linux issue. Are you

Re: import certificates via command line - Firefox

2010-12-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:48:36 -0800 (PST) S Mathias wrote: > is there any way under Fedora to import certs to Firefox from the terminal? Perhaps the certificate import procedure for Sylpheed that I describe here will be relevant: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/sylpheed-gmail/index.html

Re: How to get the ip address of a network printer by the an uri like dnssd://Lexmark%20E120n._pdl-datastream._tcp.local

2010-11-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:24:22 +0100 Joachim Backes wrote: > For some reasons, I need the printer's IP address. Something issued an address to that printer, most likely your DHCP server (which is frequently built-in to your router). Check the server's log to see what happened. -- MELVILLE THEATR

Re: Dog Command

2010-11-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:29:33 -0800 Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > Where do I find a tar for the dog command? > > I have found a lot of dead links.. I hadn't heard of the dog command before, but since you mentioned it I just downloaded it here. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/26/dist/46/siz

Re: I need a new linux homepage. Ideas ?

2010-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:50:29 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I assume this is the page that appears when the browser [Firefox] > starts? How can I implement this using my NFS server? Create a html page named anything you like, on the server (or on your local computer) with your bookmarks as li

Re: Tahoma Fonts

2010-11-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:22:01 +0100 admin lewis wrote: > Hi, where can I find tahoma fonts for fedora 13 ? http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: Dell Adamo

2010-11-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:12:36 +1030 dp wrote: > Has anyone run F13 on this laptop? If so, could you indicate > if vital things work ok? Not a direct answer to your question, but it's my understanding that Dell computers can change their components over the course of time. So the Dell Adamo

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:21:14 -0400 David Liguori wrote: > I know that there are tools out there for building packages from source > code, and I wouldn't think you necessarily have to be an "uber-geek > programmer" to use them. You may not even have to write a single line > of code. In fact,

Re: How to "eject" an automatically mounted USB device

2010-11-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:28:29 -0500 Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > I am running Fedora 13, and I am using KDE as my desktop environment. > I would like to be able to charge my new (3rd generation) Kindle on my > computer, but I get an error on the Kindle that reads like this: > If you want to use your K

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 01:44 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > However it's impossible to send messages from this machine to the > outside world. because > My ISP rejects all outgoing connections to port 25 except to their own > smtp-server (smtp.direct.ru). -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www

Re: mail client for usage in shell scripts, using the thunderbird configuration?

2010-10-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:59 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Question: Is there an email client, using the thunderbird > configuration, > but fully running inside a shell script (piping,...) without GUI? Not related to Thunderbird configuration, but I use this to send emails from scripts and progra

Re: attached file

2010-10-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 23:10 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I compressed the file. it ie 56k, but still the post does not go > through ! Email is 7-bit and binary files are (usually) 8-bit so the encoding process makes a file attachment substantially larger than the original file. Sending a file a

Re: Re: Can't remove package from update manager

2010-10-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:58 -0700, Silent-Hunter wrote: > Not quite. The one I want to remove is the x86_64 one. It doesn't > show > it in rpm -q zsnes, but it does try to update it through the update > manager. rpm -qa | grep zsnes Post the output -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http:/

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010-10-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 23:34 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > The question is why it shouldn't be intended for productive use as it > is based on OpenOffice that runs farly stable. It's a beta because it's not finished and completely tested yet. While it's based on Openoffice, it's not Ope

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010-10-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > Any suggestions which one to use? Did you read the LibreOffice download page, particularly the part where it says "This beta release is not intended for production use!" -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvillet

Re: Which package you would like every new Fedora user to see?

2010-10-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 19:43 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > All three are already added, but feel free to suggest some new great > tools and apps that you feel are missing. Depending on your target audience, what about geany? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.co

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Where can I get the list of installed packages ? rpm -qa -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Re: Openoffice Writer ??

2010-09-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 13:24 -0400, Jim wrote: > Using Writer to make Business Cards. > When I print the cards the Icon and heading is printed but the body > where Ph.# url and email in center of card is printed out as small > rectanglar boxes , no text. You're using the wrong tool for the job.

Re: complaining about gcc compiler

2010-09-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 01:04 +0530, zico banerjee wrote: > but as far as i know you dont need to give a statement > like"#include"in linux envoironments... > is thATtrue? No that is not true. Simply stated, if the program you are trying to compile was written by you, you need to fix it. If i

Re: complaining about gcc compiler

2010-09-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 00:52 +0530, zico banerjee wrote: > "z1.c: In function ‘main’: > z1.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in > function ‘printf’" Since your program is doing some basic i/o you need to have a #include statement at the beginning of the program. -- MELVI

Re: [OT] e-mail problems

2010-09-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:21 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On my router it is possible to configure things so the DHCP server is > the ISP's server instead of your router acting as the DHCP server . If > that is happening to you that might cause the problem you see, Make > sure > your local lan add

Re: [OT] e-mail problems

2010-09-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:16 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems > when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my > ISP > that it is their problem? How can I prove that the fact that I mowed my lawn yesterday didn't cau

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