slightly OT

2013-03-17 Thread Roger
I am sad and disappointed. Gimp, for me at least, is now a disaster waiting to happen. It's not flying Buzz, it's falling with style. -Save options are more complex than necessary, defaulting to xcf when an image is png, gif or jpg, is rather pathetic. -Toolbox has disappeared to infinity and

Slightly OT

2013-07-31 Thread Roger
I'm using Fedora 19 developing a couple of small Rails4 apps. A friend who does php programing has offered to help me complete the coding . He is using winxp because he had to much trouble getting Rails4 and Ruby2 working on Fedora 16 in a virtual machine at his work. I have the master app on

Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Roger
I need to test 6 web sites for use with slow internet connections, eg dial up,ISDN, GPRS wireless, etc Are there any Fedora 16 apps that would provide testing and reports please? Thanks Roger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Slightly OT

2013-01-17 Thread Roger
I have a fresh install of Fedora 18. Trying to get ruby on rails working. Have latest ruby, have rails and all the gems have bundle, etc and rvm everything as I have in Fedora 16. Issuing the terminal command rails s in the directory I get error: /home/Me_user/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/execjs-1.4.0

Slightly OT

2014-03-09 Thread Roger
HI all Apologies for ubuntu request but has anyone ever managed to successfully install and use Angularjs and Slim or Laravel the PHP frameworks on Ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10. I'm on the point of frustration because I find no detailed info/tut on installing Angularjs that actually works. Same wit

Re: slightly OT

2013-03-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/17/2013 09:07 PM, Roger wrote: Different topic, still sad. Has anyone found a way to stop Gnome 3 in Fedora 18 from shrinking and enlarging the desktop dependent on where the mouse may be at any point in time. It's affecting my vertigo. I don't wanna go to Mint, don't like Mint. Has any

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roger wrote: I need to test 6 web sites for use with slow internet connections, eg dial up,ISDN, GPRS wireless, etc Are there any Fedora 16 apps that would provide testing and reports please? What exactly are you testing _for_? Do you just mean are they up, or are they compromised, or penetrati

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Roger
On 05/14/2012 12:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger wrote: I need to test 6 web sites for use with slow internet connections, eg dial up,ISDN, GPRS wireless, etc Are there any Fedora 16 apps that would provide testing and reports please? What exactly are you testing _for_? Do you just mean ar

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-13 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:28 +1000, Roger wrote: > I have been asked to test whether sites we are building with Drupal 7 > will load rapidly, and what the response time may be for each page > when accessed with a minimal or older style computer which is on dial > up, etc, possibly with less than op

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/13/2012 07:28 PM, Roger wrote: > I have been asked to test whether sites we are building with Drupal 7 > will load rapidly, and what the response time may be for each page when > accessed with a minimal or older style computer which is on dial up, You can use "trickle" and/or "wget" to pe

Re: Slightly OT

2012-05-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Tim wrote: > There are throttling options for proxy servers, like Squid, so you could > try browsing through it (when throttled) to see a slower network > response. But that's not really a true test, slow networks have latency > issues, too, not just slower throughput. You could have a look at ht

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-17 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 18 January 2013 11:37 AM, Roger wrote: I have a fresh install of Fedora 18. Trying to get ruby on rails working. Have latest ruby, have rails and all the gems have bundle, etc and rvm everything as I have in Fedora 16. Issuing the terminal command rails s in the directory I get erro

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:07:55 +1100 Roger wrote: > > Have installed > libuv-0.9.4-0.1.gitdc559a5.fc19.x86_64.rpm - it requested this as a > dependency. > Have no idea how to get it to install execjs. > Neither yum nor gem will install it. > This is a problem, it not for Fedora 18, which is *fc

Re: Slightly OT

2013-01-18 Thread Roger
So why doesn't yum find the rpm either on the web or after changing to /Downloads where I have the .rpm is located and handle the dependencies as it has done with all other installs to date. Bit stuck on this and would appreciate help please. Thanks in advance Roger have you tried "yum

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread EGO.II-1
This is what I found when I Google-d it, don't know if you've touched on these sites or not. Since I'm not familiar with either of those (Angularjs / Laravel) I can't really tell you why you'd be having those issues. But hope this helps!... http://www.dev-metal.com/install-laravel-4-ubuntu-12-

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread Roger
On 10/03/14 19:31, EGO.II-1 wrote: This is what I found when I Google-d it, don't know if you've touched on these sites or not. Since I'm not familiar with either of those (Angularjs / Laravel) I can't really tell you why you'd be having those issues. But hope this helps!... http://www.dev-me

Re: Slightly OT

2014-03-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 15:45 +1100, Roger wrote: > Apologies for ubuntu request but has anyone ever managed to > successfully > install and use Angularjs and Slim or Laravel the PHP frameworks on > Ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10. You don't mention what feedback you got from asking on a Ubuntu list. poc

Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-11 Thread Roger
On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url? thanks Roger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Sep2012 09:34, Roger wrote: | On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url | www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. | Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url? I think you need to be less vague. A redirec

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:34:49 +1000, Roger wrote: On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url? If you are talking about

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-12 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:34 +1000, Roger wrote: > On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url > www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. > Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just > the url? That's generally a bad idea,

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-12 Thread Roger
On 09/12/2012 11:37 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:34 +1000, Roger wrote: On the server we have a redirection in index.php so that calling url www.domain.org.au in browser displays www.domain.org.au/directory. Is there any way to get the url to not display the /directory, just the url?

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:44 +1000, Roger wrote: > In this particular case it would be handy if the url remained > constant. All the viewer needs to know is the base url. I'm thinking > that subdirectory displays could be irrelevant. > Maybe I'm completely wrong here. I'm no expert in urls and na

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-13 Thread Roger
Try making every page have the same address, and you start breaking the ability of the browser to hit the back-page button, and go back to the prior page (or pages, for multiple presses), then go (correctly) forward again. I'm trying to advise you not to paint yourself into a corner. thank you

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/13/2012 08:27 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:44 +1000, Roger wrote: In this particular case it would be handy if the url remained constant. All the viewer needs to know is the base url. I'm thinking that subdirectory displays could be irrelevant. Maybe I'm completely wrong here

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to hit the "Back" button on your browser!..

Re: Slightly OT about urls

2012-09-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to

Wordpress and NGINX [Slightly OT]

2016-03-09 Thread Mark Haney
I hope someone can give me an idea on how to get this setup. I'm no WP expert (never having setup it up prior to a few weeks ago), but this issue I'd like to find a way to make work. As I said, we have WP running on an NGINX server which is replacing an old Joomla server. The issue has to do with

slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora repositories.) Personally, I am a

mysqldump on Fedora 16 slightly OT

2012-09-07 Thread Roger
HI I'm hoping Arjen or another mysql guru can help me with a mysql command line entry. I got this command line from Google mysql mydb1 -u user -p password -e 'select tables like "field_data_field%"'| xargs | mysqldump -u user -p password d7x Where mydb1 is a Mysql database on my pc, a mysql

Re: Wordpress and NGINX [Slightly OT]

2016-03-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/09/2016 11:20 AM, Mark Haney wrote: I hope someone can give me an idea on how to get this setup. I'm no WP expert (never having setup it up prior to a few weeks ago), but this issue I'd like to find a way to make work. As I said, we have WP running on an NGINX server which is replacing an

Re: Wordpress and NGINX [Slightly OT]

2016-03-10 Thread Mark Haney
That's pretty close to the solution I came up with. I'm really kind of shocked that there wasn't a clear cut example configuration on how to handle this particular issue. Though, I'm willing to bet very few people have dealt with the chaos that is this old site. It being a mixture of Joomla and s

Re: Wordpress and NGINX [Slightly OT]

2016-03-10 Thread fred roller
Also, people like change and seeing companies grow. See if your marketing can put a spin in that direction about growing which would allow you to slowly migrate everything over to what you need there by working the creep out of the website that you are on. I apologize for the top post I am writing

Re: Wordpress and NGINX [Slightly OT]

2016-03-10 Thread Mark Haney
Well, in this case, we'd migrated off onto a new Linux VM with Nginx and WordPress. Everything is clean and no legacy stuff was carried over. But, in order to make a clean break of things, I needed a solution that would keep me from a) either copying those legacy PHP files over to the new server,

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread poma
On 19.06.2014 15:10, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this?

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:59 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one ap

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Neal Becker
Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/19/2014 07:59 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to ha

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2014 11:16 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I'm using rdiff-backup and it's remarkably easy to backup but when backing up HUGE files (like a VM image) it can take a long time, because the receiving side compares the two files and stores only the difference. This is good for disk space but bad fo

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/19/2014 09:10 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was >> wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came >> up with rdiff-backup. Would you

Re: Howto get core dump? [Slightly OT]

2012-01-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/03/2012 12:17 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Well it looks like the answer was much simpler. I just needed to set ulimit -c. I was under the impression that abrt was why I wasn't seeing a core dump, but didn't try the obvious thing first. This whole question reminds me of something that I heard

Re: [slightly OT] What happened to /media ??

2012-05-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 14:04 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Brian Millett said: > > Ok, so I didn't read about the removable media mount point being changed to > > > > /run/media//device > > > > Would have been nice to have that as a gotcha. > > It is in the release notes: > >

Re: mysqldump on Fedora 16 slightly OT

2012-09-08 Thread NOSpaze
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 15:53 +1000, Roger wrote: > I got this command line from Google > mysql mydb1 -u user -p password -e 'select tables like > "field_data_field%"'| xargs | mysqldump -u user -p password d7x I can't see the "select tables" command exists, although "tables" is a table with all t

Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks

2012-09-17 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-28 Thread Cameron Mura
Hello, apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...) In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful resources that describe where user-specific Postscript information/customizations/etc. are st

Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have gone, and clicking just scrolls the way it does in most browsers. Does anyone know if t

Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/2012 02:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > No, that probably doesn't answer your question, but I thought you might find it interesting. Besides, it's my birthday today so you have to humor me on things like this even if you don't want to. How old am

Re: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks

2012-09-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/17/2012 05:16 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 Yup! The legal principle is called "tu quoque" or "you too." You're not allowed to sue somebody for something when you'

Re: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks

2012-09-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/17/2012 08:16 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk Interesting indeed! You don't usually see stories about the GPL in the news. It will be

Re: slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-29 Thread Cameron Mura
Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to normal... === Cameron Mura wrote (on 11/28/2012 09:39 PM): === Hello, apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this list occurred

Re: slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

2012-11-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 29Nov2012 13:51, Cameron Mura wrote: | Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, | allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to | normal... When this happens to you again, try moving the .cups directory sideays, eg: cd mv .cups DOTcups-e

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-16 18:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and clicking just scrolls

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread ja
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and clickin

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: > if you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it > would jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to > have gone, and clickin

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Roger Heflin
I am glad they fixed that "bug". The absolute setting it did have was generally useless on larger web pages, and on smaller web pages as Tim says, it was impossible to figure out where you wanted to be. I am not entirely sure who thought it was a good idea, or how they tested it given it was unus

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 18:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-16 18:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > > jump instantly to the top or bottom of t

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:58 +0100, ja wrote: > On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > > jump instantly to the top or botto

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:00 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I am glad they fixed that "bug". The absolute setting it did have was > > generally useless on larger web pages, and on smaller web pages as Tim > > says, it was impossible to figure out where you wanted to be. I am > > not entirely sure

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2020 10:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That works, but it means looking away from the screen to find them, and moving your hand away from the mouse. Then use both hands. One for the mouse, one for the keypad. HTH, HAND. ___ users mailing

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 11:17 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/16/2020 10:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That works, but it means looking away from the screen to find them, and > > moving your hand away from the mouse. > > Then use both hands. One for the mouse, one for the keypad. HTH, HAND.

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/16/2020 11:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: As I'm right-handed, this is pretty awkward. Never mind. I'm right handed and do it all the time. Of course, I've always used both hands when convenient, so it's not a problem for me. ___ users mai

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, May 16, 2020 3:42:42 AM MST Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if > you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would > jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. This seems to have > gone, and c

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Mike Flannigan
Hold down Shift while scrolling. On 5/16/20 5:58 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Until recently, Firefox had a feature I really liked and used a lot: if you clicked anywhere in a scroll bar other than on the slider, it would jump instantly to the top or bottom of the page. Thi

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/18/20 6:22 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: Hold down Shift while scrolling. What are you suggesting that does? For me, shift with the scroll wheel blocks scrolling. Shift-clicking on the scrollbar makes it scroll by a page instead of jumping to that position. But that doesn't do what the O

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-18 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 21:59 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > that doesn't do what the OP was looking for which was apparently to > jump to the beginning or end. I don't remember it ever working like > that though. Me, neither. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 12 16:57

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 20:22 -0500, Mike Flannigan wrote: > Hold down Shift while scrolling. Yes! This is exactly what I want, thanks. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorapro

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 16:04 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 21:59 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > that doesn't do what the OP was looking for which was apparently to > > jump to the beginning or end. I don't remember it ever working like > > that though. > > Me, neither. You are

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly to that relative position. It's the opposite for me. Clicking without shift jumps to the position, with s

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in > > the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly > > to that relative position. > > > It's

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywhere above or below the slider. It jumps instantly to th

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-19 Thread berend
On Tue, 19 May, 2020 at 18:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in the scroll bar anywher

Re: Slightly OT: has Firefox scrolling behaviour changed?

2020-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 18:12 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/19/20 2:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 5/19/20 2:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > You aren't doin' it right. Hold down Shift and *click* (not scroll) in

Re: Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2012 04:01 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. Happy birthday. And to you! That makes three people I know who share my birthday. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Happy Birthday (was Re: Slightly OT about urls)

2012-09-17 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 15-09-2012 a las 16:24 -0700, Joe Zeff escribió: > On 09/15/2012 04:01 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Well, what do you know - you were born on the same day as I was. > > Happy birthday. > > And to you! That makes three people I know who share my birthday. Happy Birthday to you a

[slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread rpjday
(admittedly not an actual "fedora" topic but i'm sure i'll get some good advice here.) i'm currently perusing someone else's collection of shell scripts, and looking to add more, and want to clarify once and for all the meaning of writing (and verifying) the "POSIX-ness" of shell scripts, and

slightly OT: using fetchmail on a MS Exchange 2007 IMAP server

2010-08-18 Thread Globe Trotter
Hi, Sorry this is a bit OT, but you guys here are so knowledgeable and helpful that I thought I would extend my luck. I have been trying to set up fetchmail to fetch e-mail from a MS Exchange 2007 IMAP4 server and then read it locally. So here is my .fetchmailrc file. set daemon 600 poll exch

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 07:29, wrote: > (admittedly not an actual "fedora" topic but i'm sure i'll get some > good advice here.) > > i'm currently perusing someone else's collection of shell scripts, > and looking to add more, and want to clarify once and for all the > meaning of writing (and veri

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it acts exactly as sh itself would, so that only those builti

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: > >> >> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a >> practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. >> > > My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/20/2017 02:30 PM, George N. White III wrote: On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Jul2017 06:29, robert p. j. day wrote: (admittedly not an actual "fedora" topic but i'm sure i'll get some good advice here.) Hah. You will at least get lots of advice. i'm currently perusing someone else's collection of shell scripts, and looking to add more, and want to clarify once

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20Jul2017 13:41, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it acts exactly as sh i

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread George N. White III
On 20 July 2017 at 18:44, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/20/2017 02:30 PM, George N. White III wrote: > >> On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> >> wrote: >> >> On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: >> >> >> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Ba

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Jul2017 13:41, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote: >>> >>> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill. Bashisms have been >>> a practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh. >> >> My u

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Jul2017 09:28, Tom H wrote: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html Many thanks! - Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedorap

Re: [slightly OT] writing "POSIX-compatible" scripts, and script analysis tools?

2017-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21Jul2017 09:28, Tom H wrote: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html > > Many thanks! - Cameron Simpson You're welcome. Sorry for the late reply but I wanted to find the following. They were in

[Slightly OT] The Linux Vendor Firmware Project needs 15 minutes of your time

2015-08-13 Thread Richard Hughes
Hi all, For the LVFS project, I need vendors making hardware to submit firmware files with carefully written metadata so that they can be downloaded in Fedora 23 securely and automatically. I also need those vendors to either use a standardized flashing protocol (e.g. DFU or UEFI) or to open the d

Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
I need a way to rebustly copy files from a Fedora server to a Windows box. As my usual environment is Linux by first thought was SCP, using Perl and Net::SCP. I first tried an OpenSSH install from the WinSCP site and had managed to connec to the Windows box using passwords, but could not get pu

[slightly OT] rpm Vs deb [Was: Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?]

2010-02-16 Thread steve
Hi, On 02/16/2010 02:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> (1) Curious about why you say Moblin is dead? I missed the announcement! >> >> (2) I'm writing this on a EeePC 1000HA (1GB, 160GB - but I'm using less >> than 20G) running F12 very nicely. > > Moblin and Maemo are merging to produce one project usi

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Mark Haney
I routinely copy files to/from Windows to my Linux boxes, and the best way I've found is either use Dolphin and smb:// or use samba client from the command line. Getting SSH/SCP/SFTP to work on Windows isn't trivial (at least it hasn't been) so I just skip that effort altogether. Another method I

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Mark, Thanks for this, but I need this to be headless and automated, which is why not using passwords is so important. The only method I've got working so far is standard SMB shares but that solution isn't as clean as sftp (if I can get it working) On Tuesday 22 March 2016 12:48:37 Mark Han

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread fred roller
What about a shared folder on the window and a smb mount point on the server? Fred Roller On Mar 22, 2016 9:25 AM, "Gary Stainburn" wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for this, but I need this to be headless and automated, which is why > not using passwords is so important. > > The only method I've go

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Mark Haney
Yeah, I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be the case, but I do see your dilemma. There are a couple of free Windows sshd programs available, though I have no experience with them. This one appears to be pretty good: http://mobassh.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html. Of course, you can always

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Roger Wells
On 03/22/2016 09:32 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > Yeah, I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be the case, but I do see your > dilemma. There are a couple of free Windows sshd programs available, > though I have no experience with them. This one appears to be pretty > good: http://mobassh.mobatek.net/down

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Jakub Jelen
I would check https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH Windows guys did some work and the openssh should work on Windows in some way. I didn't try that yet, but it seems working for some people. If you see authentication failures, there might be something unseful in the logs. On 03/22/

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Fred, I have already tried that and it does work. My problem is that this way error checking and correction is a bit more clunky (checking that the share is live before trying the copy etc. Using Perl and Net::SCP is very straight forward from the sender end, and error checking is a doddle.

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've already tried two versions without much success. I did consider using the full cygwin install, but thought it over the top for what I wanted. I may give that another go before giving up and resorting to SMB Unfortunately, I have to talk to a Windows box as these are PDF's that need to be

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/22/2016 05:27 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: I then downloaded OpenSSH for Windows using the installer found at http://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html I recommend using the cygwin port directly, rather than a third party packaging. This looks like it walks through the setup properly: htt

Re: Slightly OT - connecting from Fedora to Windows 7 sftp/ssh using public keys

2016-03-23 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > I've already tried two versions without much success. > > I did consider using the full cygwin install, but thought it over the top > for > what I wanted. I may give that another go before giving up and res

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