Re: Optical track ball with wheel

2018-11-16 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 November 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > If you use X11 instead of wayland it is even trivial to setup > one of the extra buttons for "drag lock" so you don't have to engage > in contortions to hold down a button and roll the trackball > at the same time to do a drag. Care to

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-08 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 8 October 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > Except "-y" will not mean "sleeping" mode (i.e. complete shutdown, > which can be done with the "-Y" switch) but standby mode, which > simply seems to just spin down the disk. I can't imagine there being much difference

Re: bugzilla is still down

2018-10-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 October 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Could it be your ISP has a transparent proxy causing issues? I had wondered that, too. But a HTTPS connection ought to put a stop to that kind of ISP shenanigans. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP

Re: bugzilla is still down

2018-10-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 October 2018, ToddAndMargo sent: > The error with Brave: > > This site can’t be reached > The webpage at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/post_bug.cgi might be > temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web > address. > ERR_ACCESS_DENIED I see, in Firefox:

Re: bugzilla is still down

2018-10-01 Thread Tim via users
ToddAndMargo: >> When I press "Submit" on a new bug, I get: >> >> Internal Server Error >> >> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to >> complete your request. >> Error 500 stan: > I don't know what error 500 is, but I think you should try creating > a new

Re: Forcing updates install on shutdown

2018-09-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 23:18 +, Rick Stevens wrote: > 95% of the time "dnf --refresh -y upgrade" won't cause issues, but > it's that 5% of the time where it DOES screw up that will drive you > barking mad. Microsoft has had some absolutely horrific problems > doing this "upgrade on shutdown"

Re: Gimp monstrosity

2018-11-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 November 2018, Juan R. de Silva sent: > As far as I can see from his comment he only disaprove some GNOME UI > decisions not GNOME entirely. If Gnome doesn't like being critiqued so much, perhaps they should stop doing things that invite it. Such as removing user

Re: fcgid/mod_fcgi and suexec and permissions

2019-01-14 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> What *actually* will write to your files? Is it an Apache process, >> or your script. Or, probably even better, having them owned an >> actual user that logs in, even if through your scripting system >> (e.g. when I edit files using VIM, they're owned be me, not the VIM >> program).

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-21 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 21 December 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Note that "sizes" in most word processors or printing-related things > are given in points True. And when done correctly, it's an absolute size. i.e. 12 point text is always the same size, no matter what it's printed on or displayed

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-22 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan: > IIRC it used to be 72.72 (my first job was working on an early > typesetting system at Cambridge University Press :-) However > according to Wikipedia a point is now officially 1/72 of an > "international inch": > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) I stayed

Re: Thunderbird-yahoo e-mail authentication and security.

2018-12-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 26 December 2018, home user via users sent: > I used to think Wikipedia is great. Lately, my opinion of it is > declining. It's not always authoritative, it's not very stable > (article contents change too much, too often), and other faults. I'm > almost certain I'm not

Re: How do I : one static DNS , one from DHCP ?

2018-12-10 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 10 December 2018, sean darcy sent: > I still have a single point of failure. A backup would be very handy. Within a small network, it's usual to run two DNS servers on two different machines. On the WWW, it's usual to run more. You really haven't provided enough

Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 December 2018, Joe Zeff sent: > If you can't ping someplace, traceroute will show you where the > problem is, because it will stop getting responses. Though you still have to think about it (it's only part of a diagnosis). That failure just means the device doesn't

Re: kernel 4.19.6-300.fc29.x86_64 does not boot

2018-12-10 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 December 2018, François Patte sent: > For an unknown reason the installation of the new kernel wrote a > wrong grub.cfg pointing as the root partition an unused partition on > my system Strangely when I run grub2-mkconfig this was corrected. > I cannot understand why

Re: How do I : one static DNS , one from DHCP ?

2018-12-10 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 8 December 2018, sean darcy sent: > What I want is: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver Is the DHCP server configurable by you? If so, then enter the list of DNS servers that you want clients to use into the DHCP server, and let it configure your clients. --

Re: Dovecot

2018-12-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2018, Mike Chambers sent: > I thought /var/mail/ was the main root mail dir for users but I can't > get dovecot not to error pointing to it, such as /var/mail/%u or > whatever. /var/spool/mail/username or /var/mail/username (one symlinks to the other, these

Re: Thunderbird-yahoo e-mail authentication and security.

2018-12-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 December 2018, home user via users sent: > 2. What are the advantages, disadvantages, and security risks of each > of the 6 authentication methods offered by Thunderbird for yahoo e- > mail? You can only use the options that the ISP supports as well. Which probably

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 December 2018, home user via users sent: > Something keeps trying to do automated updates, but I have not been > able to figure out what, or how to shut it off. When you log into a GUI session, the GUI can fire off things as you log in. In MATE, there's a

Re: OT: Fedora Interactive boot option...

2018-12-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 December 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > I do remember kernels that would mention pressing 'i' to do that. I > tried pressing 'i' many many times to see what it did, and nothing > different ever happened I found it hit and miss whether it worked. I thought it might be that it

Re: Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2018, a...@clueserver.org sent: > Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. > Rebooting does not help. Is it a regular interval? There are "expire password" options in the user configuration, perhaps yours has been set. I see that mine is

Re: e-mail security.

2018-12-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 December 2018, Howard Howell sent: > I'm still using evolution in F28 and it doesn't do that. If I am > interested, I copy the link location and paste it into a new email. > Generally I'm not interested, so it is not too troubling. but it > would be nice if the hover

Re: Changing mount options without restarting

2018-12-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 November 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > When I tried to list a directory on the system it didn't respond, but > doing an ssh to the box spins up the disks and lets me log in. So > I've no idea what exactly automount is supposed to be doing. I have a similar issue. If

Re: Optical track ball finally arrived

2018-12-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 November 2018, George N. White III sent: > I tried setting a "left-hand" mode, but because terminals were shared > among several users, it was better to train myself to use a right- > hand configured mouse so other users could just move the mouse to the > right side.

Re: e-mail security. [SOLVED]

2018-12-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 1 December 2018, home user via users sent: > Samuel: I understand what you said about anti-virus software. I was > incorrect about wanting it for Thunderbird. In this case, it would > be for the browser. I think you're mostly correct, but I still wish > for something to

Re: e-mail security.

2018-12-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Look in the View menu, inside the Layout section, enable the Show >> Status Bar item. Howard Howell: > It shows 4 options, all checked. What did you think I would find > there? Amongst other options, the one I just described... If you do have a "Show Status Bar" item in the list, try

Re: SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 500GB PCIe Gen3. X4, NVMe

2018-11-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2018, Richard Shaw sent: > I did a little research last time (I believe it was you) it was > mentioned and while there are a lot of opinions the google consensus > I found was that they already reserve some space from the factory but > that reserving an

Re: can't get grub to use /etc/default/grub

2018-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On 25/11/18 4:14 am, sean darcy wrote: > I'm trying to disable the spectre mitigations. Enquiring minds would like to know why? This is up there with daft practices like turning off firewalls, SELinux, never updating, etc. I can imagine temporary disablements to run tests, but permanent ones

Re: auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting >> through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by >> default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? Ed Greshko: > Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to > the

auditing network traffic

2018-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Hi, If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC

Re: Gimp

2018-11-19 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 November 2018, William Oliver sent: > The bottom line is that if someone desperately wants to be offended, > they will find a way. Conversely, if someone doesn't want to be > offended, it's almost impossible to offend them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceS_jkKjIgo

Re: fcgid/mod_fcgi and suexec and permissions

2019-01-13 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 January 2019, Alex sent: > How do I configure apache to allow PHP scripts write access to a > document root without compromising security? Files/directories have three permissions, the owner, the group, and other users. Files should *not* be owned by Apache, nor

Re: Smallest Fedora box to use as gateway/firewall/VPN

2019-01-13 Thread Tim via users
Rick Stevens wrote: >> Fedora changes every 6 months--sometimes in major ways that are not >> necessarily backwards compatible with existing systems. John Harris sent: > Oh, never mind, there it is. You never meant stable, you meant "It > updates too often for me to figure out how to manage."

Re: Thunderbird-yahoo e-mail authentication and security. [SOLVED]

2018-12-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 13:43 -0700, home user via users wrote: > The problem that motivated this thread seems to have (magically!) > disappeared. Perhaps the problem was on the verizon-yahoo end. That does happen. Also, if you've had a few unsuccessful connections, a server may lock you out for

Re: How do I : one static DNS , one from DHCP ?

2018-12-08 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 8 December 2018, sean darcy sent: > I'm running a DNS server (unbound) on a VOIP server. It's crucial > that I can always resolve addresses, even if it's slower. Now DNS1 is > set to 127.0.0.1, peerdns no. Giving: What makes you think it'll be slower? I run a local DNS

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Note that the "standard" packetizing protocols will exhibit these > synchronization issues even on a LAN because you have no control over > the clients' playlist request timings due to the inherent > asynchronous, transaction-oriented

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 26 January 2019, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Since magnetic domains have hysteresis, suitable equipment can > recover the previous state at a physical level. That's why proper > trashing takes several passes. Some drives are supposed have a built in secure erase function.

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 26 January 2019, sixpack13 sent: > maybe "hdparm security erase" is an option (don't know if disk > content is afterwards still recoverable) Of course you could leave a drive filled with non-private files, just to lead them down the garden path. ;-) -- [tim@localhost

Re: Need a statement on Fedora's purpose

2019-03-31 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-03-31 at 15:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > It means they have a problem in their code and don't feel > like fixing it. It is a different culture than open source. In that case, then Fedora is a useful debugging tool that helps them predict the changes that they'll need to

Re: Need a statement on Fedora's purpose

2019-03-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 15:20 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I just had a vendor tell me they do not support Fedora Server > because the the developers of Fedora had stated that it is not > a stable release and is used only as a testing ground for Red > Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). And as

Re: update failed

2019-02-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 10:18 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I had added a 3rd party repository a long time > > ago (UnitedRPM)...I have long since forgotten the reason Next time you add an extra repo, it might be worth leaving yourself a note about why. The only files in my root user's home

Re: LIghtweight editor to replace gedit?

2019-02-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 25 February 2019, Alex sent: > The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all > the notes. Sounds like you're trying to solve the wrong problem. If you provide more info about the crashing, you might be able to sort that out, instead. --

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Tim via users
On 2/3/19 11:32 am, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The drives are connected directly to the computer via a USB link. I have suspected that the problem is related to my system, however Todd Chester in another reply to my posting says that these cheap drives are not to be trusted. I'm going to take his

Re: Email Question - OT

2019-02-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2019, William Oliver sent: > The gist I got was that my domain resolved correctly, and the ICANN > ownership info of the domain was correct, but the ownership of the > some other component, like the IP address, was different, since it > was tied to my ISP and not

Re: New install

2019-02-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2019, Patrick Dupre sent: > I got a machine with 1 ssd and on HD. > The ssd shows up in sdb, with the HD shows up in sda. > I could not change from the BIOS the order. For future reference: If they both use the same interface type, such as SATA, then you

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-03-02 at 08:07 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Is anything better than printouts on archival quality paper? Punchcards! -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 14:54:57 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically

Re: Email Question - OT

2019-02-22 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If the numerical IP address of your service is shared between >> yourselves and others, whether that's because your IP can change at >> different logins, or other's use it simultaneously (such as >> webserver hosts that service many clients on the same numerical >> IP), you're not going to

Re: OT: F29+ alternatives to evolution for fetching and sending e-mails with multifactor authentication

2019-02-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 February 2019, Ranjan Maitra sent: > The IT folks in my department have actually been very helpful and > have found that evolution is a possible alternative for linux users. > They have actually written a pretty detailed set of notes for RHEL > which I am told also

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2019, Tom Horsley sent: > From time to time I've seen web pages where the headers claimed > UTF-8 encoding, but the actual text on the page was some windows > encoding (determined experimentally by display the text in > various codings till one of them made sense).

Re: Can't play video dvd

2019-03-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2019, Paolo Galtieri sent: > There is something about "Free Solo" which appears to > confuse all 3 video players I've tried on F28. That's no surprise. Some authors deliberately create broken DVDs in an attempt to foil piracy. Because the discs appear to work in

Re: Where is this RPM?

2019-03-10 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 9 March 2019, ToddAndMargo via users sent: > How is it the dnf can install 5.0.10? My guess would be that the directory structure for the webserver is different from DNF's access to the same files. They could fix that if they cared. In essence, where / (root) starts for

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-07 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 March 2019, Robin Laing sent: > Biggest villain is the cheap USB cables that cannot supply the > necessary current. Even within some computers. Front panel sockets that have a flylead to the motherboard can be really thin and weedy. Some are tiny ribbon cables. I

Re: Mounting internal disk spins up connected external USB disks

2019-03-19 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 March 2019, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: >Nothing mounted here automatically; the problem is that all disks > that seem to be in reach of the OS and not being fast enough to run > away as fast as they can, get accessed, and then spun up .. Are there bookmarks to those

Re: updated fedora 28 and lost unicode characters

2019-03-15 Thread Tim via users
Aleksandar Kostadinov : >> attaching characters that I lost after update today. See attached >> image from ff 65 and slack. It showed correctly in the past. Not >> sure how to debug what broke :/ stan: > No, I see this also in firefox, but not everywhere, only on some web > pages. I just

Re: Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2019, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming sent: > 3. Cloud storage provider must not be a fly-by-night company, that > is, it will not suddenly close down the next day. You can't rely on the permanent existence of ANY external service. At any time they might decide

Re: Remote Disencruftation

2019-02-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 February 2019, Beartooth sent: > $ uname -a > Linux 2.6.32-042stab134.3 #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 12:26:01 MSK 2018 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Is something there the name of a distro?? (I've forgotten > the proper command, with 'release' in it,for asking a

Re: on screen keyboard?

2019-02-07 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 6 February 2019, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > It's a question of basic usability. When I want to type an > "international" character, it would be nice to see how to do it > without having to root around in keyboard files. Accents are easy as > I use dead keys (áéíóúñ) but

Re: Fedora 28 persistant printer issue

2019-02-19 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2019, Howard Howell sent: > I did a clean install of F28. After a new install, you may need to horse around with the firewall, so that the printer is automatically found by the system. Look for an IPP (internet printing protocol) checkbox, and tick the client

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> If you can't disable the wifi on the modem, then you can just >> ignore it. Connect the WAN port on your router to the ethernet >> port on the modem. You end up with double NAT, but it should still >> work. Bob Goodwin: > Yeah, I think it's a poor design for the application, I

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 17:12 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > The problem is feeding their router data through my DD-WRT router. > An ethernet port is provided which they claim work but provide no > information for doing so. They sent a "technician" a few days ago and > he knew nothing more about it

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If you did things like SSH in from the outside world, or accept >> other incoming connections, then you will strike problems. Their >> equipment would act as a firewall. That's why people say put it >> into bridge mode, then it's virtually transparent. Joe Zeff: > You should be able to

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 04:08 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Initially the ISP feed was into the WAN port on my dd-wrt router a > [a system I have been using for 13 years] and nothing was reaching > the LAN, wired or wifi. Normally the router feeds a 16 port switch > that connects the equipment on my

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-15 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > why are you reinstalling instead of updating? I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual packages), and I'd get compatibility problems (changes

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-16 Thread Tim via users
(Re: *my* installing rather than upgrading) On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've > had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and > that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

2019-04-17 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote: > Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from > Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username. Yes, and no... (Anaconda picking the same UID.) It's the *numerical* user identification. Likewise, GID is

Re: Default route not correctly added

2019-05-16 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Was his gateway up and running before the computer booted up? (I'm >> unsure if an unavailable gateway would have been removed from pre- >> configured settings, though.) Alex: > Before it booted up? I'm not sure I understand. I couldn't reach his > computer prior to him typing the route

Re: Default route not correctly added

2019-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 16:40 -0400, Alex wrote: > The problem is that, after bringing it back to his house and putting > it online, the default route was not added properly and the system > was unreachable until I stepped him through the process of adding it > manually. > > This is the command I

Re: Configuring apache and smokeping on dynamic IP

2019-05-15 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 16:58 -0400, Alex wrote: > I have a fedora30 desktop on a dynamic IP behind a cable modem that > I'd like to configure to support apache and specifically smokeping. > The problem I'm having I believe is with php-fpm. I've installed and > configured it, but trying to access it

Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 13:11 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Is there a reliable usb or dvd distribution with tools to clean up > viruses, root kits, whatever from a Hard drive? > I got a quite slow windows 10 laptop from a nephew for clean up (I > do not know what kind of viruses/malware might be

Re: OT - Antivirus clean up USB

2019-05-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-05-25 at 17:55 +, sixpack13 wrote: > P.S: > if it's an ASUS: shortly I read about that the app installer > distributes malware, etc. !!! Many years ago my ASUS laptop came, as new, with a trojan. Their staff who'd created the laptop's factory installation had used a trojaned

Re: OT: missing hard drive (SSD) with Fedora 30

2019-06-04 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 20:40 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Yes, it is a hardware RAID. The BIOS is very confusing but it does > not say anything in there (anymore). Hardware RAID *relies* on the hardware. If you lose the hardware, you lose access to your files. So, a motherboard dying can make

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-30 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 May 2019, Beartooth sent: > I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to Brasero that I > could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE. I run Mate, have no KDE installation, I can burn discs. You need to say what it is that you need burning software to do. --

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 19:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > All these things can also be done with a USB thumbdrive, which is > generally easier to create and faster to use. Well, not all. I wouldn't use one for back-ups. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 17:18 -0400, Garry Williams wrote: > But, of course, the issue is why this happens in the first place. Does your ISP insert a transparent proxy between you and the internet? They're well known to cause caching problems. ___ users

Re: Konqueror :-{

2019-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 16:56 +, Beartooth wrote: > All I know is that when I try either Brasero or K3B and get > some sort of failure, I just pull up the other, and it does the job. There's also XFburn, that doesn't require KDE. You could burn data discs straight from the Nautilus

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Tim via users
Hi, > (f29) > I need something, preferably from one of the usual repos (so I can > easily install it with dnf), that I can use to fill in a pdf > form. I can view the form just fine, but nothing seems to have > functionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in > "dnfdragora".

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms. [CLOSED}

2019-06-07 Thread Tim via users
Did you try "Atril"? It worked with the example form I found. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html

Re: google-chrome weirdness

2019-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web > font with all the characters in a string mostly on top > of one another, but only for my user. > > See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald > > If I create a completely new user,

Re: google-chrome weirdness

2019-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf > had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in > order to make fonts look better when fedora was going > through a long "spindly" phase for fonts): > > ...[snip]... > >

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? No, I did a default install of the Mate spin. Then I've installed evolution, gvim, autofs, vlc, youtube-dl, smplayer. # dnf history ID | Command line | Date

UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When I went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because something else had already grabbed it: $ cat /etc/group|grep 1000

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:24 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > It looks like this was filed as: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1646774 > > It's not clear whether the maintainer intends to push the > trivial fix to existing branches or not. I think that it > should be fixed in f29 and f30 as

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On 22/6/19 6:22 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: But, of course, I can't respond as the email is "ignored".?? So, I'm putting it out here in case Tim doesn't notice the mistake. Oops, sorry, didn't mean to send that privately.?? I'm used to mailing lists where hitting reply sends the reply back where

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 11:53 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > I suspect ??? though I have no way of confirming ??? that the number of > people who would vote and only subscribe to the announce list is > relatively small. Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't > have the opportunity to vote. Simple

Re: F30 LVM partition on a notebook

2019-06-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to > add another drive and extend /home onto it. I don't get it, either. I agree with the other problems, especially if you have to unplug and read it on another system.

Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-19 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 11:22 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Maybe the bast solution: > - remove the packages > - change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000 > - changw you groupid to 1000 > - reinstall the packages What I've done, and so far so good: 1. Remove the only

Re: Fedora 30 voting is now open

2019-06-21 Thread Tim via users
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Re: UID and GID on F30

2019-06-21 Thread Tim via users
Ed Greshko: >>> I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? >>> >>> I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the >>> ID's. Jon LaBadie: >> What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might >> cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-09 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 9 May 2019, Bob Goodwin sent: > Everything I have read says Viasat's equipment must be used. ... It > also contains a voip adapter for the telephone, before this "system > upgrade" two months ago that was separate. If it's a standard VOIP thing, then you probably can

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-11 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Because most ISPs will only assign one IP to each customer. Ed Greshko: > My ISP gave me 4722366482869645213696 IP addresses. > > OK, they are IPv6 addresses. :-) :-) Aussie ISPs are still dragging their feet on supporting IPv6. They should have been getting it ready MANY years ago.

Re: Planned Outage - Fedora Core Services 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC

2019-05-19 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 19:16 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > There will be an outage starting at 2019-04-10 21:00 UTC , > which will last approximately 5 hours. Hmm, today there will be an outage last month? ;-) ___ users mailing list --

Re: TigerVNC fails to display new windows properly

2019-05-19 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote: > The reason the hostname is displayed as "localhost.localdomain" is > because it's on a private IP range (192.168.9.110) without DNS, and > I'm using port forwarding from the cable modem to this host for port > 5900 through 6000. I'm not sure if VNC

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-05-09 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 15:14 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > If I put the viasat unit into it's bridged mode I would expect output > as 182.168.1.1 but not sure of that. If you put it into bridge mode, it'll have the public IP that the ISP assigns to you (previously that IP would have just been

Re: what happens to firefox?

2019-05-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 11:38 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Today all my add-ons to firefox do not work! Rather ironically, Firefox told me that add-ons were being disabled, despite the fact that I don't have any. Obviously some programmer doesn't understand doing simple if/then clauses.

Re: FC31 (rawhide) networking problems.

2019-04-29 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 02:25 +, George R Goffe via users wrote: > Does anyone know what has changed and possibly how to recover? Wrong list... The people testing unreleased versions of the OS are on the test list. They often are not on this list. They're the ones with the answers to the

Re: Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?

2019-05-06 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 17:31 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > I do not use anymore nautilus, IMHO it's a bad file manager. I agree. It's merely a file browser, it's missing the features you need to *manage* files. ___ users mailing list --

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-20 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 09:40 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Ok, I can accept that based on you greater knowledge, but what's in > a name? I want to connect a wide area network to a local area network > but a network bridge wont work? The procedure for doing it was well > written and quite clear so I

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Ed Greshko sent: > When is jury selection? > > I imagine there must be an upcoming trial to address this travesty. >:-) My vote is: Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. Even though we could all be expecting it on a prearranged

Re: new Ask Fedora site

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Joe Zeff sent: > Even after clearing my cache, I get that from Firefox, but Seamonkey > picks it up OK. Did you fully quit and restart Firefox? If not, it could be operating from something still in memory. When a browser gets stuck in the past, there's two

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2019, Tom H sent: > We should unify the two lists so as not to have these delirious > threads on an almost twice-yearly basis. There would be too much noise. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64

Re: update to F30 seems to have failed

2019-05-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> My vote is:?? Until it's officially announced AND released, it ain't a release. >> Even though we could all be expecting it on a prearranged date, it could >> be deliberately delayed by circumstances. Ralf Corsepius: > That's what I call superflous bureaucracy beyond reason. No,

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