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2016-07-18 Thread Les Howell
Hi, guys, I was just looking at some links as I do everyday, and came across this one: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/17/forget-learning-to-code-every-employe e-should-know-data-analysis/ Where a popup advert for RedHat popped up and covered more than one third of the page. Moreov

Re: Scrolling gone haywire

2016-02-15 Thread Les Howell
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 22:37 +0200, Mihuleac Sergiu wrote: Very happy to hear I'm not the only one. Same issue with my touch-pad -- Lenovo E540 > > On 02/15/2016 10:33 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion - the problem manifests without touching > > the trackpad (other than the c

Re: opening xxx.pat files

2015-12-10 Thread Les Howell
Not knowing where you got the .pat file, I have to say that pat files can mean many things. for example some logic analyzers use the .pat extension for their capture files. Many mainframe and PXI bus testers use .pat as the extension on digital files used to represent the 1's and 0's sent to a de

Re: Altair 8800

2015-06-18 Thread Les Howell
On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 21:01 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Bus termination wasn't mandatory, but it sure as hell helped. Some > > company (can't remember who) developed an active terminator board that > > was much better than just passive resi

Has anyone upgraded from F20 to F21 or F22 using YUM?

2015-06-08 Thread Les Howell
Hi, guys, It is getting to be time to upgrade again. I am debating the wipe and reinstall method, over the upgrade by YUM. One of the issues facing me it the loss of the FEL spin. I use a lot of those tools along with some other stuff I have had to get via download and install. I have a

Re: Libssl and libcrypto

2015-06-05 Thread Les Howell
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 21:45 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 06/05/2015 09:19 PM, Les Howell wrote: > > Hi, guys, > > I just attempted to update Eagle CAD and it requires these libraries. > > Good old "yum what provides libssl" and again for libcrypto return &

Libssl and libcrypto

2015-06-05 Thread Les Howell
Hi, guys, I just attempted to update Eagle CAD and it requires these libraries. Good old "yum what provides libssl" and again for libcrypto return nothing. Since SSL seems to have lots of uses, and libcrypto surely has good uses, where are the recommended sources for these bits? a

audoi card for william austin

2015-01-02 Thread Les Howell
HI, everyone, I have a friend who is heavily into audio, and this is his recommendation: I would suggest getting any of the new 48/96/192kHz audio cards available for PCI-E (SoundBlaster Audigy RX for example) and then getting an inexpensive USB midi device such as the M-Audio Midi Sport Un

Re: Off topic: web hosting sites

2014-05-23 Thread Les Howell
Great responses, thank you all. This will help us narrow down the search. Paul, I am about to join RSSC, the Robotics Society of Southern California. I am not a great meeting or group person, as most of you know, I offer my small tidbits of knowledge once in a while, but generally you all are far

Off topic: web hosting sites

2014-05-23 Thread Les Howell
Hi, everyone, I know that this is not a use the group is setup for, but I don't know who else to ask, so forgive my rudeness, and please if you can give me some ideas. Others might benefit as well. I am not asking for specific recommendations, just some of the names you have found useful

Re: error open ports

2014-03-04 Thread Les Howell
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 12:25 -0500, William Biggs wrote: > I install chrip for my ham radio but every tip . I try to read the radio > I get this error on all ports . How do I set the Permission for the > software for the user I'm using ? > could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: [Errno 13] Permission deni

Re: Very Off Topic

2014-02-20 Thread Les Howell
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:37 +1100, Roger wrote: > A friend has windows 7 professional sp1 on a Dell Vostro, 230 32 bit > driving word 2007. No viruses reported, no infections, all antivirusware > to update. > Until a few days ago printed perfectly to a HL 4040CN Brother laser. > We have tried eve

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight (SOLVED)

2013-12-14 Thread Les Howell
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 15:48 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:54:28 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:45:30 -0800 Les Howell > > wrote: > [] > > Asked and answered Read the previous threads which also mention yum > >

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight (SOLVED)

2013-12-13 Thread Les Howell
Hi, guys, This may not link as a thread because I inadvertently deleted the thread responses in Evolution, and I couldn't figure out how to find the thread from the archives information (it might be helpful to put a reply link in the archive stuff, for dummies like me.) It took a

Strange Warnings on updating tonight

2013-12-13 Thread Les Howell
Hi, everyone, I am running F19 on an AMD 64 bit system. I was notified of updates and chose to install them, but something went wrong. Didn't see the error message, but it stopped. And prompted me to reboot, which I did. They tried yum clean-all followed by yum update. Here is

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Les Howell
On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 01:26 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:54:39 +1300 > Rolf Turner wrote: > > > > Why can't computer geeks learn to write English correctly? > > http://xkcd.com/1238/ > > HTH, :-) > Marko > good one Marko, But if we all think about it, really... Wh

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Les Howell
On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 00:10 +, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > FWIW, I'm absolutely in love with Gnome3. Best thing ever happened to UI. > > That said, it would be nice indeed if users had a choice during > installation, something simple like 3 screenshots to choose from. > > On 22 November 2013 21:

Re: missing files during yum cleanup phase

2013-11-08 Thread Les Howell
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 08:39 +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 2. 11. 2013 at 09:30:56, Les Howell wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I got a few messages during my latest yum update. They indicate that > > some files were not present, since it occurred during the cleanup phase &g

missing files during yum cleanup phase

2013-11-02 Thread Les Howell
Hi everyone, I got a few messages during my latest yum update. They indicate that some files were not present, since it occurred during the cleanup phase I suspect it is not important, but thought I should check just in case... Here are the messages: Cleanup: gnome-documents-3.8.4-1

Re: jaaa not working SOLVED

2013-10-07 Thread Les Howell
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 16:23 -0400, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda wrote: > On 7 October 2013 16:49, Les Howell wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > I have installed JAAA, which should be an audio spectrum analyzer > > package. When I click on it, it doesn't ope

jaaa not working

2013-10-07 Thread Les Howell
Hi, everyone, I have installed JAAA, which should be an audio spectrum analyzer package. When I click on it, it doesn't open. No error message, nothing to indicate anything abnormal. Where would I look to figure out what kind of error is being generated? Regards, Les H -- users mailin

Unable to login occasionally

2013-09-20 Thread Les Howell
Hi everyone, Don't groan because its me again;-) System information: 7.8 GiB AMD Phenom II X6 1035T Processor x 6 OS type 64 bit Fedora 19 Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER GNOME version 3.8.4 disk 483.6 GB After reboot, if I don't immedi

Re: MATE desktop

2013-08-26 Thread Les Howell
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 09:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > sudo yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" > Thanks, Pat, This will help. I did look through the software list, but couldn't figure out the root of the desktop. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

MATE desktop

2013-08-25 Thread Les Howell
My wife doesn't like the GNOME3 desktop. She did like GNOME2, so I have found that MATE desktop is a fork of GNOME2. I have looked at the software menu (on x86_64 F19) and see lots of stuff related to MATE. What is the key to getting MATE installed and run on a user? Will the GNOME3 version of E

Re: AMD

2013-08-19 Thread Les Howell
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 22:07 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > Hi Gang, > > In considering a new computer, one of those under consideration is an > AMD chip with Windoze; the salesman suggested that other customers > have said that Linux has issues with AMD. Do we have issues with this > chip? Since

f19 scientific and boolean calculator

2013-08-18 Thread Les Howell
Does anyone know what happened to the calculator? I upgraded to F19 and now the calculator shows up like a 2.00 simple calculator. I need the boolean and scientific functions. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: F19 install wonked Solved, no thanks Nvidia

2013-08-07 Thread Les Howell
On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 11:04 -0700, Les Howell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:37 -0700, Les Howell wrote: > > HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, > > installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get > >

Re: F19 install wonked

2013-08-07 Thread Les Howell
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:37 -0700, Les Howell wrote: > HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, > installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get > Grubby!! > > Tried using the firmwire boot option to se

Re: F19 install wonked

2013-08-06 Thread Les Howell
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:37 -0700, Les Howell wrote: > HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, > installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get > Grubby!! > > Tried using the firmwire boot option to se

F19 install wonked

2013-08-06 Thread Les Howell
HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get Grubby!! Tried using the firmwire boot option to select the disk, no go. So, what steps should I take to try and find this. I can boot the liv

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-30 Thread Les Howell
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:44 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/16/2013 06:10 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Reindl Harald wrote: > > > >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focus%3D1525074 > >> > >> From: Linus Torvalds linux-foundation.org> > > > > Linus is in a very special cat

Re: cultural differences affecting communication (Re: Etiquette and changing of threads)

2013-07-16 Thread Les Howell
> How do you let go of your cultural and other frames of reference and yet > figure out what a subject at hand is? I don't think that's possible and > that it's only possible to be more or less aware of these factors and to > try to somehow deal with them. > > Still, being a German, you can say

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-15 Thread Les Howell
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:47 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 06:27 +0200, lee wrote: > > You need to realise that native speakers of English have a tendency to > > be overly polite and to expect others to be just as overly polite as > > they are, in ways non-native speakers

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Les Howell
--- On Fri, 2/17/12, Tim wrote: From: Tim Subject: Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16 To: "Community support for Fedora users" Date: Friday, February 17, 2012, 8:29 PM On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 19:59 -0800, Les Howell wrote: > NEW problem  ON login I get the Fedora v

issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-17 Thread Les Howell
OK, I have never had such issues I have read and tried many things on users groups, on various mailing lists and my good friend google, but so far it has been 12 hours with no joy... The process I followed is: 1. back up all users using TAR. 2. segment the tar files using split to get severa