Re: gnote vs Tomboy

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > That is because he said it to me in an e-mail off-list. All of Fedora is > free is it not. As far as I know I can ask the Fedora developers to do > anything I want them to do and they can ignore the request. You can ask any developer on any

Re: gnote vs Tomboy

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have heard that argument before. The fwaact is currently tomcat is > actively being developed and gnote is not. Rahul assurews us that > sinchronation is in gnotes future and he inmplies that Snowy might work > with gnotewws . We will have

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-01 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > It's just that some people are too lazy to read and understand two or three > man pages. Which two or three man pages cover everything selinux related? I like SELinux, but its got its rough edges for example: "/bin/bash is using a leaked

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > If I want to know about Fedora announcements I can use the mailing list. > If I want to track Fedora goings on I can use RSS/ATOM feeds. > I imagine the Fedora powers that be can also set up a twitter account. I think that in this context, there

Re: Test upgrade from F13 to F14 using LVM snapshot?

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > The exception would be the /boot > partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes? I haven't tried this, but if everything else works, you ought to be able to make an image of /boot using dd. (/boot being a relatively small

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Semcheski
To sum up this thread: "I think cloud computing means Y, and Y is good because..." "But I think cloud computing means X, and X is bad because..." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Les wrote: >        Moreover you pointed out one of the real issues: month to month rental > or lease or whatever you want to call it.  And that is not counting the > connection costs, storage premium if you are a non-standard user, or the > lack of control, or the

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Tim wrote: > This (the above, plus the whole of your message that I didn't quote) all > sounds like they've just renamed mainframe computing as clouds. Well the web probably sounded like they had just renamed gopher. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > When people invest their money into something, they want to be "in charge" of > it. And if they are supposed to share it with others, there is bound to be a > lot of friction. One of the key ideas that makes Amazon's EC2 and S3 successful

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, wrote: > Just in general, what's the point in having server-disks (either local or > "in-the-cloud" encrypted? > As soon as you start them up, all we be de-crypted and your system is only > protected by normal security measures. > > Only usefull purpose might be

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Ok, I understand what you are saying, but what you actually describe is an > organizational issue, while I was having in mind a little bit more technical > aspect. No, what I'm describing is a situation. That situation developed over time

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > It was a legitimate question, since I read somewhere that Ubuntu was using > some kind of cloud service and how does one disable it. > > Is there some kind of guarantee that Fedora will not force one to store /home > on a "Cloud server s

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing up, > what is the difference between having a server (possibly virtualized), and > having a server "on the cloud"? And what is the main benefit of the latter > over

Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > A properly-designed cloud computing solution is one where the virtual > machines being hosted in the cloud can be fully encrypted so that the > hosting provider cannot (feasibly) glean any information from them. I do not see a point of

Re: GLPI

2010-06-12 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Maurice wrote: > For those locations running GLPI, are you using OCS Inventory NG as a > companion tool (for inventory gathering)? I am. I have a virtual machine running GLPI and OCS Server. I've setup GLPI to import from OCS frequently (every hour or so). For

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Though maybe smarter packaging by the rpm fusion people could >> make using the proprietary nVidia drivers more newbie friendly. > Definitely, as there is a whole lot of room for improvements (at least > as far as I can see from my point