Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/#linuxutils or the URLs at: https://www.google.com/#q=lightscribe+software+for+linux Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 02:20 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com Dragons

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! I

Re: Moderated message...

2014-01-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/21/2014 04:27 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:49:00 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Dragons, or my signature? Sig, ready made, or good writing skill. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com The inspiration came from a Tolkien quote and a suggestion

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, quit the group, pursue my projects and let you live your false assumptions about the state and its institutions, and build the operating system without me. Regards, Richard Sounds like a plan... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good

Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/20/2014 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Paul: This is the second or third person to abuse me because of my expertise. If you want to stay on topic, then where I make a contribution where it concerns my expertise, I would appreciate if idiots would defer to my wisdom as I continually

Re: Install problem

2014-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
have data you want to keep, then you can not easily install from a live CD. You have to do a custom partitioning telling the installer to use the existing partitions and where you want to mount them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good

Re: email failure

2014-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that is listened to at the university. When talking about e-mail service, what does thats have to do with the trade-offs when using a free service compared to paying for the service? You are just paying for the free service with a different coin. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons

Re: email failure

2014-01-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 01/18/2014 12:17 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: The problem with bottom-posting on this server is that when I send, it is hard for some, perhaps everyone, to know where the quoted message stops and my contribution begins. If you go to the bottom of this email you will see that your

Re: F20 On-screen keyboard for login

2014-01-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/custom.conf. You may also want to look at the /etc/X11/xinit directory tree. Add a file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.d? I am sorry I can not remember how to do it, but it has probably changed sense the last time I did it. This should at least get you pointed in the correct direction... Mikkel -- Do

Re: memory stick not recognized

2013-11-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 11/04/2013 11:28 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: There is no output to /var/log/messages when I plug it in. On 11/04/2013 07:50:57 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 11/03/2013 10:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not recognize

Re: memory stick not recognized

2013-11-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the stick under Fedora? Thanks. What shows up in /var/log/messages when you plug it in? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. For a basic test message, they all work about equally well. It is when you want to send a bunch of mail from a batch file that the differences come into play. I find Nail is the best of the three if you want to send a HTML message. (I send out a monthly HTML format calendar.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: HDMI to USB

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
output. You will have to see if the adapter you want to use will work with Linux. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
smpt.yahoo.com to relay your messages, or retrieve your messages except by using the WEB interface. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux

Re: mail from the command line ??

2013-09-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
foo.bar.com to see the security options. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: LAN driver problem

2013-09-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/ifconfig -a It will show you what network interfaces the system knows about. Mikkel - -- Dear Mikkel, the output of the command ifconfig -a is as follows: [sabina@sabina-linux archivio]$ sudo ifconfig -a [sudo] password for sabina: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet

Re: LAN driver problem

2013-09-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIwsqUACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQwkQCfXQJp98PrPjlGefGaUzzS0U8J xFUAn0fMG0hFVALVnlxtG1get3I8UqMr =DiXG -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
something like dnsmasq on the machines, and have the old IP address in the config file? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP

Re: Firewall and DNS caching without NetworkManager

2013-05-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.42.2/sysconfig.txt - search for PEERDNS. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

2013-05-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: no audio with HDMI

2013-05-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

2013-05-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
actually tried this? Unless the USB device gets detected as a CD-ROM, the format is going to be wrong. The partition table and boot loader for a USB drive detected as a hard drive are different then the format of a CD-ROM. That is why programs like liveusb-creator are necessary. Mikkel -- Do

Re: Two HDs

2013-05-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, then it probably isn't formatted. Have fun. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=512 count=63 Zero out the entire drive: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo You'll need to replace foo with the appropriate device (hda, sda, etc). Kevin Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the hard drive. So /dev/sda may not be your boot drive when you select booting from the hard drive. You can usually reset this in the BIOS... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13

Re: former windows 7 boot manager still showing

2013-01-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
times in the past. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlEJtoQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTZ3wCYn6yGP1uhLA6XkrIwgNz8x6P7 bgCffpOM3bxCtLd80+HAgFX/OQj4wKY= =CTU9 -END

Re: Time settings are wrong on Desktop

2012-11-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
? The check-box is for the hardware clock. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCdHNkACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQ1BwCfS4di9H475psQXin+uTa5u3z6 xGAAn0qhh1S3HwGKSK7ZGy8SEm8T3p5b =afih -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: How to rescue your partitions after upgrade to Fedora 18 Alpha eats them

2012-09-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. It does a great job on drives that have only been partitioned and formatted once. If you have had different partitioning sachems, you may have to pick out the correct partitions from a list of partitions it finds. But it usually isn't too hard. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons

Re: cd reader external

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
would let you do this? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBaGgQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQ/uACcClU5ahcZjmbpVGAO9yrmoONM F2oAnAu8IcRf1/58x3oJCH7+4u9UOBhS =ad2h

Re: cd reader external

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/2012 04:46 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/19/2012 12:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson uttered this comment: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/2012 11:50 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/19/2012 05:18 AM, Patrick Dupre

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
replace the stock BIOS with an open source version on some motherboards? That may be something to look into. I am not sure what hoops you have to jump through to change/upgrade the UEFI image... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
? Well, if you write out my new age in hex, I appear to be the same age as Jack Benny. Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. Happy birthday. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBVCK8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTCogCfYTAsNkeaQZViqdjN

Re: Disconnect

2012-08-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
any interface down. I am not sure if Network Manager uses the ifdown script, but you could alway run ifdown ppp0 to disconnect. This will not help if the interface goes down without you telling it to. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
at 2x is different then the media that will burn at +4X. Also, a lot of newer drives will not burn CDs at slower the 4x. DVD burning is different - a 2x DVD speed is not the same as a 2x CD speed. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/26/2012 12:05 PM, JD wrote: On 08/26/2012 10:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 08/25/2012 09:49 PM, JD wrote: using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work using ... speed=2 . does not work wodim always writes

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2012 11:29 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/06 19:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Disabling it because the system you are compiling the kernel for will not support the hardware. No need for SATA, PCI, or cardbus stuff on a system that only has

Re: boot: linux text = Could not find kernel image: linux

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
side by side and guess I was hoping someone who knows could actually explain what processes are going on here. For some strange reason it is vmlinuz on the Install DVD and netinstall CD, But it is linuz0 on the Live CD. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
this a couple of times, and it was because of drastic hardware changes. But when I make that kind of hardware change, I usually do a new install and restore the user data, and migrate config files. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 01:19 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/07 04:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2012 11:29 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/06 19:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Disabling it because

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
that the signal is out of range. But with the old analog-only monitors you could really damage hardware with software settings! Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 02:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You are not the only packrat when it comes to old disks. I still have a couple of 8 floppies yet, as well as some paper tape. I think I still have an 8

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 02:54 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/07 12:09, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 08/07/2012 01:19 PM, jdow wrote: Removing PATA because I'll never use it leads to you discovering never is often not that far away. (PATA seems to still

Re: boot: linux text = Could not find kernel image: linux

2012-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
* need to burn the image. Like I said, you loop mount it. I cheat - I use Midnight Commander (mc) to open the image. Also, instead of downloading the DVD image, you could have downloaded the net-install image. But I guess that one could have been different... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
output to be output through syslog. Normal program output would generate an unwanted e-mail message from the cron job. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: vmlinuz

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
of RAM and 360M of storage.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAgd/kACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTmUgCeIFDmz0xKTcFPUxBUTVjNcwEJ MmAAn0aoVNJBZuPc3/nTByiYQp4r3Yuk =8YPE

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
into. Compiling a kernel for a laptop will let you eliminate a lot of drivers because you only have limited hardware changes... A server that is not going to get hardware changes. ... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2012 10:05 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 08/06/2012 09:17 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Compiling a kernel for a laptop will let you eliminate a lot of drivers because you only have limited hardware changes... This might have made

Re: question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Is that sufficient? Wouldn't -R work better then -r? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAXvbcACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRpTgCfU1oZxsN6AFcO6XRW3Vz+hHhk m84Anj8r8r+m6xHTNni

Re: Modifying nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf ?

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
only. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAYMLoACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQQzgCfU+WLI+nHZeILIr9d7sMJi0fv HBwAn1+Qm2LIl5lYBcssYz4/X9T+Lf36 =4HRe -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: question regarding ls w/ colors and capturing to file

2012-07-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/2012 08:00 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 7/31/2012 4:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2012 07:12 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Wouldn't -R work better then -r? Yes, it would be better. Ed and Mikkel: +++ script -c ls -FR

Re: systemd and ssh/ftp

2012-07-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. It's good advice. Bill Another thing to consider - if OP's system is connected to the Internet, then his security decisions affect more then just him. Look how poor or uniformed decisions by Windows users has affected our use of the Internet. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the other day, and it gave you a message that it was going to take a while before the pause. I am not sure if you see the same message from the install DVD. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Run my windows dual-boot install in a window in f17

2012-07-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
on the same box. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAR+bIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSs7gCfZVTRDurEkq0ANz4Md0QzPa16 fFgAn3oCmbdSlMIMzC4EpW8Ozk8VfksR =90/X -END PGP

Re: Run my windows dual-boot install in a window in f17

2012-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
have not tried it in a while, so I do not know if it is currently supported. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAQqS8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMR2OACfbgQEGm3LP0

Re: Hard drive not mounting

2012-07-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
connection? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAIHDwACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTn8wCeJIFgso6xzVSbGtPyhb8pBCL4 7rEAn1ia2jTvek9PnOt1M5xXj7TCUYfN =OK3/ -END PGP

Re: Hard drive not mounting

2012-07-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/2012 03:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com mailto:mellert...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 11:27 AM, antonio

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the file system? Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAHgVsACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTLoACfWNuiV8YAgMmwH5zG10ZZqKn9 8yQAn3qZ1vGNbItiZx5BhFgoBdGY0BHL =kyBu -END

Re: Hard drive not mounting (was: F17- Internal USB hub not working)

2012-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/5n/MACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQL2QCfRZQkmldcBEY5FIrf8qCRBQi0 T2UAn0H4b7g0syRG+1dD8ExMfs6LCzFU =Y3Ze -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2012 04:09 PM, Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [] Under Gnome, if you open Advanced Settings -- Theme -- Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors

Re: F17- Internal USB hub not working

2012-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
- do you have a power supply connected to it, or are you running it bus powered? If you do not have an external power supply for it, then do not expect to be able to use any bus powered devices with it. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good

Re: F17 cursor problem : request

2012-07-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, if you open Advanced Settings -- Theme -- Cursor theme you can select different cursor themes including different colors and sizes. The only hard part is that you do not get a preview. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a user daemon. I have done so, and it didn't work

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2012 02:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the sound system? Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of

Re: Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

2012-06-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in the Dell. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qYs8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMS8LgCffA6sxz9LG/E0uHekS8iv1Wzb bsYAnj6RlihnE1XMHfWT9g5924KgMpdZ =iLfn -END

Re: Backup for server

2012-06-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
had to run in order to use them. (I can not remember what it is called - it has been too long sense the last time I had it installed/enabled.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12

Re: way to flush /var/log/message

2012-05-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, Paul What you are seeing is the last last 10 lines of the file, and then new additions as it is added to the file. This is the way tail -f works. You may want to read the man or info page on tail. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good

Re: yum package cleanup

2012-05-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. This directory is expunged during package cleanup. ...I now know where they are stored. Two part question: When is package cleanup performed? Is there a way to prevent the expunging? Thanks, Mike Wright In /etc/yum.conf, change keepcache=0 to keepcache=1. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs

Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
to /etc/skel) Then I have TMP set to this directory. (Add local.sh and local.csh in /etc/profile.d) This works for programs that honor TMP and is easy to add to scripts. if [ -z $TMP ] then temp_file=/tmp/dd.$$ else temp_file=$TMP/dd.$$ fi Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
is still the same mess as usual when every other modern OS detects and mounts devices automagically Oh well... FC One thing to keep in mind is that a USB floppy drive will not be /dev/fd0. It will show up as a SCSI drive. I believe that yours showed up as /dev/sdg. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: Which Windows for Virtual Box ? (F16, USB, etc)

2012-04-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Steven was talking about memory, not drive size. Depending on the amount of system memory, you may want to increase that. As far as disk space, you may want to create another virtual drive that you can connect to the XP VMs. I have a 50 GB drive just for media files. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: OT: Getting local IP addresses from a gateway

2012-04-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in the DHCP setup. The only drawback is that if you change NICs, you have to modify the settings in the router, or change the configuration on the computer so it uses the old MAC address... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN

Re: mknod

2012-04-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/dev/fd[0-9]. I do not have time to generate a rule right now, but if you need help, I can come up with one later... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: EasyCAP driver.

2012-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
it would be a video device. You would then use that device as your source. You may need to read up on Video 4 Linux. (v4linux) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: soft link vs. direct efficiency

2012-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the symlink on the first read. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk97NIsACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTJfACfYZY0InyJhuYBnx2YKuwse0OV hBYAnRD8WK6GIY7wiofm8jpda2hRbDu

Re: How to change network address ?

2012-03-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
am lost. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this? Bob You could run: sudo route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 eth0 from a terminal. This will add a route to the 192.168.2.0/24 network that you can use to talk to the device without changing your IP address. Mikkel - -- Do

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
, depending on what desktop you are running, you set what you want to happen by setting the action in the power manager setup. (This is under System Settings --Power in Gnome.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/2012 04:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pushing the power button, as opposed to holding it, is an ACPI event that is trapped

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 04:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 03/10/2012 08:41 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It sounds like a bad battery. At least I have had the same thing happen in both Linux and Windows when a battery was going bad. Also, if you do

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Sorry for the late response. This is normally covered in the user's manual. What you do is first fully charge the battery. Then you unplug

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
a month to recharge it from storage losses. It does require that the laptop be able to run without the battery. I do not know if any current laptops use the battery as a filter capacitor to keep the supply voltage constant... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It is not for conditioning the battery. It is to update the battery calibration. Most do this at boot so if Robert did a full power reset he should be fine

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
in the battery does not get updated to the current battery life, so it ends up reporting the battery state incorrectly. (The chip is in the battery, not the computer.) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. KDE and Gnome are examples of a desktop environment. I do not know about KDE, but you can run Gnome on top of a couple of different window managers. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
the display manager. Because he is using KDE as his desktop, he wants to use KDE for his display manager as well. That will probably take care of the error message. It is partially covered up by the login block, but we suspect that it is complaining about missing thyme files. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
. I have considered it, but a kill filter works for my needs. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9ZS0gACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRABACeL58si0WY+axUwTwaekEuBXhS

Re: switching on wireless after minimal install: f16

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
a command-line. You must have a GUI (X+Gnome/KDE) installed. You can do it using iwconfig. You can also do it by using the network service instead of NetworkManager. You should have both options available with a minimal install. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/(display manager) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9XsNYACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQmnwCeJ0MBstguVHIAR5AJ7xgKvTQl WYkAnR/RXTVNQPw9fxrATUIHdfMwLmbN =SVJE -END

Re: switching on wireless after minimal install: f16

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You can do it using iwconfig. You can also do it by using the network service instead of NetworkManager. You should have both options available with a minimal install

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
configuration problem that affects CUPS browsing. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9WJQAACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQS8QCdGLDN2V6h5Xlr1/7ZnVyRZrXD wMoAn0RihSTmaSje

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
) Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9U4I8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMQI4QCeIww1YdJtrnPT4As4MENYG4vi 9KkAn00WaPRbRXUx4g0/21R8pK3QIjvt =icNI -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
bobg]# So what are you really doing? [mikkel@x86 Foster]$ su Password: [root@x86 Foster]# -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9U4sMACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRS6ACeNKjnshZqXGuokzO/SgezwfH+ k14AnRw2m26afEXtnKhodkAEZK0SxPZE =6nNf -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
with some older BIOS where you needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the BIOS could read it... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/2012 02:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/04/2012 12:26 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You also used to run into a problem with some older BIOS where you needed a /boot partition at the start of the disk to be sure the BIOS could read

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
did not work properly and ntpd would crash shortly after starting. ntpd would not really crash - it would exit with an error because the time difference was too great. Mikkel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 11:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2012 17:50, schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson: On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clock was set to UTC, and the software clock

Re: Start script

2012-02-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
after themselves, but at least you do not clobber needed temporary files. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9DpeQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMTTzQCfVo/Edo6

Re: Bizarre kernel messages

2012-02-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
much power for the port it is plugged into, and the port is resetting itself. Especially if you are using a bus-powered hub. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Re: bash script regular expression

2012-02-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
this? i mean, how can i get the whole line instead of word by word? Try adding: IFS= before the do command and see if that does it for you. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12

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