Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-01 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 11:30 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You did online updates? This is the reason why offline updates is the > default now, because doing updates without a reboot can cause weird > situations like this. Ok, you maniacs finally did it, you made a Linux suck as hard as Windows.

Re: [OT] HP EX920

2018-05-31 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 15:40 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > newegg has a good price on the 512G HP EX920 M.2 ($180US) NVMe SSD > drives this weekend. > > I can find no references to this part and Linux. Everything refers to > Windows (and the problems they're having with it). > > This is

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-17 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 12:51 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I also found an curious issue. The system > this problem is occuring on is a laptop, and I have an external monitor > attached. When I loggen into Gnome Classic the external monitor was an > extension of the laptop display, i.e. I

Re: Not sure which FM I need to be reading: auto media mount trouble

2017-07-31 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 00:35 -0500, John Morris wrote: > In Fedora 24 about 2/3 of the time when I login the only item in > Computer was "File System" and inserted media (CD/USB) neither mounts or > appears. The other 1/3 of the time it worked. Not good. But the clock > is

Re: regionset for DVD playback and ripping

2017-07-27 Thread John Morris
On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 20:20 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Does anyone here have experience using the program "regionset" to change > the region code on a DVD player? > > Specifically, has anyone tried to make a drive region-free (region code > 0)? And if so, with what result? > > The

Not sure which FM I need to be reading: auto media mount trouble

2017-07-14 Thread John Morris
I have managed to hose something in my account. In Fedora 24 about 2/3 of the time when I login the only item in Computer was "File System" and inserted media (CD/USB) neither mounts or appears. The other 1/3 of the time it worked. Not good. But the clock is ticking on F24 now so I updated to

Re: CIA Outlaw Country attack against CentOS / Rhel (and Fedora?) Is this credible?

2017-06-29 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 20:38 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > Personally, I assume that my computers are always on the verge of being > compromised. It's one of the things I like about fedora -- I always do > a clean install when a new version comes out, and I occasionally to a > clean reinstall

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-28 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 22:18 +0930, Tim wrote: > My understanding was that only an Original Equipment Manufacturer can > sell/supply those OEM versions of the OS, and only to go with a > particular PC (one of those "not to be sold separately" conditions). > With only a retail package being

Re: Off topic: Does anybody know how to read a .ptx (E-Transcript) document file?

2017-06-27 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 13:59 -0400, ven...@billoblog.com wrote: > Cool! I just downloaded and installed it. It installed without a hitch > with Virtualbox, though Microsoft insisted I create an account -- which > I've never done before. I didn't know that Win 10 was free from > Microsoft.

Re: Brother, can you spare a printer?

2016-12-09 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 16:57 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The most likely definition for "Linux is supported" is that somewhere on > Brother's dusty web site you can find a binary blob that you can install on > an Ubuntu LTS, or an RHEL distribution. Close. Perl scripts instead of blobs,

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 12:10 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 > workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? You are changing archs. RPM just wasn't meant to do that. There are no simple ways and as

Re: OT: recommended way of timing two pieces of code in C

2016-02-26 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 12:06 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thank you! So, is there any way that these other processes can be > separated out in the time calculations? I can not come up with > definitive statements unless I can do these comparisons in a fair > manner. Not really. The days of

Re: I'm shocked, shocked!

2015-06-02 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 13:48 -0400, Digimer wrote: I dealt with this by setting names I want in /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules to match MAC to device names (and then the name to IP in the usual ifcfg-X files). Yup, did that one long ago. Now where do I lock down the names of my

Re: Stuck Maximised

2015-04-09 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 16:38 +0200, poma wrote: On 06.04.2015 17:57, Jonathan Allen wrote: Hooray - thank you, that's sorted. Now all I have to do is get the background to display. The screen always shows what was last on it when a task closes and the default wallpaper never appears.

Re: log message when starting firefox

2015-03-30 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 10:21 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: \ This is with firefox 36.0.3-1 and 36.0.4-1. I have set toolkit.networkmanager.disable:true network.manage-offline-status:false browser.offline-apps.notify:

Re: log message when starting firefox

2015-03-26 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 08:54 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Either way, is there a way to get rid of this log message other than installing NetworkManager? Yup. Navigate to about:config and create the following entry: toolkit.networkmanager.disable: true Works for me, somebody at Moz Corp

Monitor madness

2015-01-22 Thread John Morris
Ok, I'm helping convert an XP user. I'm doing it long distance though. Testing with live images hasn't went well but have narrowed the problem down a bit. It is the video setup that is going Boom! Guy has an older ATI RV370 with a 32inch TV on the DVI port (via HDMI converter) and a 1600x1200

Re: End of 32-bit support?

2015-01-21 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 10:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: I honestly do not see any reason to make so much noise about it. Where are 16 bit OS'es today? Does anyone want to go back to them? Not me. So, I think it is inevitable that support for 32 bit OS'es will come to an end. Of course it will

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: Can it be done? So far, swapon says: swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. ... Maybe the devs can have a look and see if they can modify the swapper to allow sparse swap files?? There is a reason why it acts like it

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 14:26 -0700, jd1008 wrote: In older traditional practices, swap space was normally about twice the ram size. Today, with some systems having 64 and even 128GB and even larger RAM, it becomes interesting how big swap space should be. Where is the cutoff for performance?

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 16:31 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security subsystem? *eyeroll* That actually isn't as crazy as you seem to think. Security should always be seen as tradeoff between the cost of the security vs the potential

Re: Fedora Android

2015-01-07 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 12:46 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: My bad, I had misspelled it. Thanks. No, I did it. However my phone is a Nexus 5 so it doesn't look like this will work for me. If you have a Nexus device you don't need anything special, they are all developer friendly. Kinda

Re: Fedora Android

2015-01-06 Thread John Morris
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 17:55 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: There's something that isn't been mentioned yet, but I would love to know. Is it possible to root an Android mobile from a Linux computer, e.g. Fedora? All the solutions I found are about Windows PC. :-/ Rooted a Blu phone and some

Power management and docks

2014-12-05 Thread John Morris
Been banging my head against a minor problem for months now. Finally giving up and asking... Have a Thinkpad and a dock. Mate still allows for this arrangement, I can even configure it to stay powered on with the lid closed off of the dock if I want. The problem is I can't logout and back in