RE: Phone calls from laptop

2010-07-15 Thread Tim Van Dyne
My laptop has a internal modem and RJ-11 connector. I want to connect the phone line to the laptop and by using head phones I want to make calls. How to do this? Is there any software available to do this? Kishore Yes, it's called Skype. You of course need a dial-up ISP. A bit o.t.

RE: nvidia driver issues

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Van Dyne
The rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia instructions also say that SElinux protection should be lowered: setsebool -P allow_execstack on I spent quite a bit of time fighting with this over the weekend and found that the only thing that worked was lowering or disabling selinux, and then only the

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
It seems firefox gets worse every release. Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm. I do know that Firefox *sometimes* jacks up royally if you

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
It's not my Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. The particularly on pages that have flash bit should give you a good

RE: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Tim Van Dyne
Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel greatly superior to the KDE analogue? IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to what is provided in Windows. It doesn't bring about the best response in many people. Just saying what you don't

RE: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Tim Van Dyne
On 06/10/2010 02:40 PM, jarmo wrote: Hi Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 ? That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is no way. So any help? Jarmo I have

RE: Chromium by default?

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Van Dyne
I use both Firefox and Chromium, but it looks like most people would like to have just one. I use both sometimes @ the same time. If someone wants to log in and check [insert account here] on my system I open them another browser, usually Chrome, so I don't have to log out of mine. I want