Re: Xbox 360 controller on Fedora 32

2020-07-25 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 12:19 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > does not work due to Python 2 vs. 3 incompatibilities I'm completely unfamiliar with Python. But, has anyone made a 2 to 3 scripting converter? I would have thought there'd be a need for that. And *it's* the computer, *it* should do the

Re: what's the plan for Thunderbird 78?

2020-07-20 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Didn't you read the page on link you quoted? >> >> "Thunderbird version 78.0 is only offered as direct download from >> thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 68 or >> earlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier >> versions." SternData: > Yes, I

Re: what's the plan for Fedora 78?

2020-07-20 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 08:36 -0500, SternData wrote: > According to Thunderbird.net, "Thunderbird version 78.0 is only > offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade > from Thunderbird version 68 or earlier." > > --

Re: newbie question about appimages

2020-07-05 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 07:57 -0500, David wrote: > Today, I downloaded the very latest development version of Chromium > as an appimage, and tried unsuccessfully to run it. > > Is that feasible ? > > My understanding is that if the app is marked executable, then you > just click on run in

Re: Network printer

2020-08-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 18:40 +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > It seems like the term "network printer" often refers to printers > which are connected to a computer, which then shares that printer out > to the network. There are tomes and tomes of arcane configuration > manuals for getting this sort

Re: microphone

2021-01-11 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> Usually when there's only one plug, it's a 4-pin jack. In order to >> use a microphone, you either need to have a headset or a splitter >> cable. Patrick Dupre: > Actually, I tried by using this kind of cable. > 4 connectins on the input jack, and > 2 "outputs": a green one for

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2020-12-28 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:54 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > you can also configure the live image to have a writable persistent > overlay and a separate writable home directory when you create it. By "overlay" is that the original live image plus your extra bits, or are you modifying the live image

Re: Do you disable IPV6? - Fedora Workstation

2020-12-28 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 14:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > When I first configured the tunnel I didn't "need" it either. But > since the tunnel was free I figured it was a good opportunity > experiment with it and learn about IPv6. Fair enough. I've been putting off learning the quirks of IPv6.

Re: libuv-1.40.0-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm 'is not signed'

2021-01-06 Thread Tim via users
John Pilkington: >> I just had a failed build of MythTV, apparently because this libuv >> package is not signed. A build done yesterday was successful and >> is running. Attempts to 'dnf reinstall libuv' also fail with the >> same error. >> >> Is it just me? Ed Greshko: > It isn't just you. >

Re: libuv-1.40.0-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm 'is not signed'

2021-01-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 13:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I'm not sure how this could happen with updates repos. pungi (The > tool that makes them) fails if something isn't signed correctly. All the more reason to be suspicious and cautious, if there's supposed to be a counter-check that doesn't

Re: Waterfox?

2020-11-21 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 13:02 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Some sites just refuse to work correctly with Firefox. I haven't come across that since Win98 era. I wonder, though, if they're really rejecting you because you're running Linux. When you (try to) browse a site, there's a scad

Re: Read-only flash drives

2020-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 07:36 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > Once in a while we come across thumb-drives, that after using a > couple of times, can’t even be reformatted. Some people leave them plugged in all the time, and although they think only that they're using them occasionally,

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity. [solved]

2020-12-05 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 21:43 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm no expert, but I believe the firewall can be set to utterly > ignore things it blocks rather than sending a rejection. Generally > this is more useful for things connected to the internet at large > since you'll just get random probes

Re: F33 BTRFS - Not enough swap space for hibernation

2020-12-05 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-12-05 at 17:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > There definitely is no free lunch with swap-on-zram, but it helps > quite a lot for most workloads. I'm curious how dedicating some of your RAM for swap, therefore having less RAM, is more beneficial than just using your RAM as RAM. --

Re: F33 setting search domain permanently

2020-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 12:58 +0100, p...@uni-bremen.de wrote: > In F33 the name resolution is done via systems-resolved by default, > not NetworkManager (and systemd-resolve was the origin of this > thread, if I remember correctly). And /etc/resolve.conf is now a > symbolic link managed by systemd.

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-12-06 at 15:43 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > As more systems use IPv6, bad actors will have to collect > active IPv6 addresses. You may be one of the first to see that > start. I have to wonder how that's going to go. With IPv4 most people were behind NAT (which isn't a

Re: How do I post to the btrfs mailing list?

2020-12-10 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 17:08 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Thanks for help. It worked. What worked? You are still sending HTML here, which is not preferred. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 17 13:59:11 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail

Re: Unable to remove grub menuentry for kernel 5.9

2020-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 20:52 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > What am I doing wrong? I suppose some questions are: How did you install kernels, in the first place. And have you been manually altering grub menus, too? I've been using Fedora since it used to be Red Hat Linux, and had always let

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-11-30 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:57 +, home user wrote: > In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't > explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me > uncomfortable. Only one of your image links loaded for me, the browser just spent ages with the spinning circle.

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 16:09 +, home user wrote: > --- begin text file --- > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > User Inode PID/Program name > tcp0

Re: F33 setting search domain permanently

2020-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 13:10 +0100, Jouk Jansen wrote: > I would like to set the search domian permanently. I can set it with > resolvectl domain device domain.nl > but after a restart the definition is gone. How do I set it > permanently? If you have a DHCPD server, I would have set it there.

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 08:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > [egreshko@meimei etc]$ host no-mans-land.m247.com > Host no-mans-land.m247.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > So, what is the real IP address of that hostname? m247.com comes up with a general cloud service website, perhaps the no- mans-land

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> All normal stuff, although they're listening to any address, rather >> than only listening to local addresses. That could be tightened up >> for some things, at least. I see no reason for CUPS to listen >> outside of your LAN, for instance. Samuel Sieb: > I assume you're referring to

Re: F33 setting search domain permanently

2020-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 07:42 +, Jouk wrote: > Unfortunately for the VLAN om which my servers reside my university > does not provide a DHCP server, so this is not an option for me. How do you get an IP then? The network manager connection editor mentioned in the other post is probably going

Re: mysterious/suspicious internet activity.

2020-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 12:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > I suppose if one is paranoid about posting their ip addresses they > may be concerned. I tend to avoid that, because it just invites some people to have a go. However, in most posts to a mailing list your IP is in the mail headers. I

Re: Password recovery

2020-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 08:57 +0100, Jerome Lille wrote: > I just thought it was strange that I couldn't do better than around > 1.5 tries per second. Even though I moved the target disk image from > usb to a sata3 ssd on the desktop. And how many threads I configured > didn't seem to matter either.

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 08:49 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I don't know if the "original" format is a knowable thing, I just > presume youtube itself doesn't upscale and that therefore the > highest res should be the original. I don't think you can get the original. I recently uploaded

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 20:34 -0700, home user wrote: > Occasionally, I view a video in which one musician really impresses me, > both in that he seems to really enjoy or be into what he's doing and in > his skill. So I want to stop, repeat, view it very slowly, and even > step back or forth one

Re: How do I post to the btrfs mailing list?

2020-12-10 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 21:18 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > There is plain text option in Gmail. Using that I was able to send > mails to the said list which was accepted. Try doing the same thing here, you're supposed to avoid posting HTML on this mailing list. i.e. Use plain text emails.

Re: android

2020-12-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 22:54 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > 2) It seems that to install an app. I need to use google play > but I do not remember my passwd, and I cannot find a find to have it > restored (it has been set 2 years ago). It's usually a gmail/google authenticated thing. Try going to

Re: Unable to login into custom live image

2020-12-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 22:40 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > The documentation is one of the major reasons people go for Ubuntu > instead of Fedora. I can't say that I've closely looked at Ubuntu for a while, but I don't recall it having much in the way of documentation. There's the usual

off-topic SMTP headers query

2020-12-23 Thread Tim via users
Hi, Just wondering if anybody can answer a question about email headers from SMTP servers: In a recent scam/spam, this is the first header line above the message content (i.e. it *should* be the first system the mail went through in the chain, in the normal way SMTP always worked). Received:

Re: Search engines -

2020-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 10:57 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I think that Google has become nearly useless. If my search term > includes a word that triggers their advertising I am overwhelmed > with responses that have little relationship to my query, it amounts > to being overwhelmed with

Re: Password Recovery

2020-12-16 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 07:51 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > There are services like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ that check > passwords against captured databases. Google will warn you if a > password saved in Chrome appears in one of the stolen password > databases. When this was introduced

Re: (fedora) Re: second ethernet device not "seen"

2020-11-08 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 08:57 +0100, Jouk Jansen wrote: > Probably because my mail-client adds (if not present) "(fedora)" to > the subject. Its makes it easy for me to sort them out. It's really not a good idea to go changing the subject lines of emails, especially to a mailing list, unless you

Re: Recommendations for video-conferencing setup

2020-11-11 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 13:09 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What I don't really understand is how my cheap Lenovo tablet works > acceptably well and my big Fedora desktop doesn't. I'm sure the > camera and mic in the tablet can't be especially high quality. Luck of the draw, perhaps. Some

Re: Recommendations for video-conferencing setup

2020-11-11 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 08:58 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I have lost a lot of my high frequency hearing and > have tinnitus. Consequently, I have trouble > understand folks on the phone when there is a lot > of white or other background noise. Machine shops > are hell on me. Crappy

Re: Recommendations for video-conferencing setup

2020-11-12 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 13:42 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > There's an Android app call Droidcam (non-free) which has a Linux > download. Might be worth checking out. I never got anywhere trying that out. Dunno if it simply doesn't work, or secure boot made it impossible to load the module.

contacting Tim off-list about tinnitus (flying pigs)

2020-11-11 Thread Tim via users
Hi, All email to this address is filtered by yahoo, and it only lets through mail with "flying pigs" written somewhere in the subject line. Bye, Tim. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 23:02 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > listen-on port 53 { localhost; }; > listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; Unless I missed something, elsewhere, your IPv4 connections can only come from localhost. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54

Re: Recommendations for video-conferencing setup

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
Tim (re droidcam): >> I never got anywhere trying that out. Dunno if it simply doesn't >> work, or secure boot made it impossible to load the module. Samuel Sieb: > You would either have to disable secure boot I tried that. > or add the signing key to the system store. I couldn't figure out

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-14 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 14:16 +0100, Petr Menšík wrote: > Wait, what is BIND version you are trying to use? > > http://linuxlighthouse.com should never show in a DNS, or I did not > ever > seen it in bind logs. What is exactly command used for the query? URL > should not be there, only most recent

Re: Swap still not activated on later kernels

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 13:16 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > In principle the location of a swap file’s header may be > determined with the help of appropriate filesystem > driver. Unfortunately, however, it requires the filesystem holding > the swap file to be mounted, and if

Re: Not enough swap space for hibernation

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 21:24 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I have no idea why this is happening when I have 8GB of free swap space : > > $ free -h > totalusedfree shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 7.7Gi 1.6Gi 4.1Gi 269Mi

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 13:38 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > current named.conf > > options > { > // Put files that named is allowed to write in the data/ directory: > directory "/var/named"; // "Working" directory > dump-file

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-14 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 11:33 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > zone: /var/named/internal > > > internal. 86400 IN SOA ws.linuxlighthouse.com. > root.linuxlighthouse.com. 2020101601 86400 3600 604800 86400 > internal. 86400 IN NS ws.internal. > internal. 86400 IN A 108.220.213.121 >

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-14 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 11:33 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > zone: /var/named/internal > > > internal. 86400 IN SOA ws.linuxlighthouse.com. > root.linuxlighthouse.com. 2020101601 86400 3600 604800 86400 > internal. 86400 IN NS ws.internal. > internal. 86400 IN A 108.220.213.121 >

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-19 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 11:15 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > my internal.db keeps giving out of zone errors. do you have input for > the internal view as you did for external view? what am i missing? Asking the obvious questions: Are you restarting the named service after you've made changes to

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-19 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 11:15 -0800, Jack Craig wrote: > your below has resulted na god external.view, but my internal.db > keeps giving out of zone errors. > do you have input for the internal view as you did for external view? > what am i missing? I've done the following tests on my name server:

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-20 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 11:34 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > Perhaps I overlooked, but I miss one line. > About “query” > > I have also: > allow-query { 0.0.0.0/0; ::1/128; 2001:470::/32; }; > > Perhaps allow-query { any; }; would be sufficient... Inside my options I have allow-query {

Re: Fwd: Audio Disc Burning software recommendation

2020-11-20 Thread Tim via users
Sreyan Chakravarty: >> Also when I am burning audio discs do the files need to be in the >> WAV format or can I directly burn MP3 and it will convert as needed? Frank Elsner: > It depends ... > > - When you want to burn a Audio-CD to be played by an (old-style) CD- > Player the files must be in

Re: Recommendations for video-conferencing setup

2020-11-10 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 17:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > but despite testing three different cheap webcams the big > issue is always with the sound. I can hear the other people > perfectly, and the video is fine, but the audio from my side is muddy > and nearly impossible to understand.

Re: F32 bind9 split dns debug

2020-11-13 Thread Tim via users
Jack Craig: >>> listen-on port 53 { localhost; }; >>> listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; Tim: >> Unless I missed something, elsewhere, your IPv4 connections can only >> come from localhost. Jack Craig: > i am sure i am the one missing something. you are suggesting listen > on external ip? >

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-31 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 16:11 +, lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote: > Will NFS tell you data has been corrupted during the transfer and > write process? Does any filing system? In general, writes to storage are assumed to have worked unless something throws up an error message. Your hard drive

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-20 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 14:57 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I simply want to install Fedora 33 beta on an existing drive in this > computer. I have always started the installation process with Media > Writer. Presently it has a new undesirable quirk and insists on > installing to a WD Mybook and

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-22 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 11:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Why would you say something like that about NFS? NFS is a network > filesystem that has been used since before Linux even existed. I > can't think of any common protocol where transferring a file over the > network could affect the

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-22 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 08:09 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > sorry about the missed attribute That doesn't matter. It's just a bit confusing when someone says follow person X's example, when it's really person Y's, and both of them have provided examples in a thread, if you were trying to work out

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-22 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If you boot an install disc as a live OS (it running from that >> install as a usable OS), it has an install to hard drive icon on the >> desktop that will simply dump itself to a hard drive, with little >> choice about how it's down. Samuel Sieb: > You still have all the same

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-22 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 07:56 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > It’s not a terrible idea to use sync. You absolutely should not be > running dd to a device that is used in a mounted file system. It > should be unmounted first. Then there is no risk of sync corrupting > the disk. I'd always

Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

2020-10-20 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 19:26 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > If anyone is that confident that none of the system calls or > code in find will ever surprise them, they're free to skip > the sort. :) > > I always think of this quote when I'm writing some code and > being a bit defensive in its

Re: Install Fedora -

2020-10-21 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 07:28 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > this all good information but I have never used media writer to > create the fedora.iso installation media. Other way around. You give Media Writer your downloaded ISO file, and it creates a bootable disk (optical disk or flashdrive) from

Re: tool to backup/restore just ACLs, xattrs, selinux context, etc?

2020-11-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 09:43 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've been setting up a NAS running TrueNAS, and after getting > media serving sorted out, I'm now looking at using it to backup > files from my fedora desktop. > > Trouble is, the TrueNAS ZFS filesystem don't know 'nuthin about > all the

Re: printers listed after deletion

2020-10-29 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 15:07 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: > I deleted a network printer and then I reinstalled (by Hplip, by > cups, by system-config-printer, for testing) and while in Hplip, Cups > or system-config-printer I get only one printer in the list, if I > print from Firefox,

Re: Do you disable IPV6? - Fedora Workstation

2020-12-29 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 08:32 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > There is no NAT for IPv6, but that's a feature. NAT doesn't really > add any security; NAT is a combination of two things: a stateful > firewall (which gives you the protection) and a packet mangler (which > causes no end of problems). You

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2020-12-28 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:37 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation > of Fedora? > I am aware of the Live Fedora 33 Workstation images. But, for > example, when boothing from that, your settings (program setting) are > not saved.

Re: Do you disable IPV6? - Fedora Workstation

2020-12-28 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:51 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > For a while (for a more than 10 Fedora releases) I used to disable > IPv6 because I don't use it. It's been a while since I don't but I'm > about to disable it again on my new installation. > > Is there a known application/service that

Re: Do you disable IPV6? - Fedora Workstation

2020-12-28 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> To use IPv6 web services I'd need an IPv4 - IPv6 tunnel that's >> hosted outside of my ISP. I don't have a need for that, so I'm not >> going to pay for one. Ed Greshko: > Hurricane Electric tunnels are free. > > https://www.tunnelbroker.net/ The key issue is "need." I'm unaware of

Re: many F33 deltarpm rebuilds failing with md5 mismatch error

2021-01-01 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 07:08 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > In the last few days, I've noticed that F33 deltarpm rebuilds often > fail with an md5 mismatch error. Strictly speaking, if the checksum fails you should not let anything install it. It could be just a stuff-up, it could be malicious.

Re: systemd automount

2020-12-31 Thread Tim via users
francis.montag...@inria.fr: >> Using autofs instead of systemd-automount would have the advantage >> to unmount automatically after some delay. Ed Greshko: > Not true. When did that change? That's how it's behaved for me, for many years. I went to using autofs to auto-mount remote shares on

Re: YouTube - Fedora for Newbies

2021-01-04 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 19:17 -0600, David wrote: > So what are some topics I should learn more about related to Fedora > desktop applications and usage ? You could do videos on different topics, depending on your skillset. And that may be the best way to approach it (one topic in one video).

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 19:21 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so > how is it done? > I'm curious if you've tried other text-to-speech things on Fedora. There are screen-readers, like Orca. The voice from espeak is very primitive. I'd

Re: libuv-1.40.0-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm 'is not signed'

2021-01-07 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 10:30 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Just to let everyone know here, this was a bug/issue with pungi (the > tool that makes repos for Fedora), plus a weird situation that caused > this. > > It was fixed yesterday, and we are taking steps to prevent it from > happening again.

Re: systemd-resolved floods the logs

2021-01-09 Thread Tim via users
Ed Greshko: >> When I tested reverting to the previous behavior I simply started >> with an empty /etc/resolv.conf. >> No symlink. No selinux troubles. Everything just worked. Sam Varshavchik: > Well, then how do the apps that need to talk to the DNS server find > it? Maybe something in the

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-14 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 23:53 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Another possibility is power supply. Either brown outs or noisy > incoming power. Or even made noisy by a power supply. Don't discount cabling, either. If connectors don't fit well, that can easily lead to failures from the tiniest of

Re: B2B Branding

2021-01-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 11:16 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What does this have to do with Fedora? Nothing, it's the same spammer spamming the same spam as we discussed a few days ago. And now, for something different... -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 18

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar > > Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule > >

Re: Concealing posts with email address

2021-01-21 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 16:19 +, Am Titan wrote: > Can someone please help me understand how can i remove my email > address from a post? > unfortunately I cannot edit the info. I don't think you can undo what's already been done. If you email a public list, your email is going to get exposed

Re: serious rkhunter warnings not seen before (by me).

2021-01-21 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 15:37 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Apparently at some point in the past, there was a rootkit that > installed a libkeyutils.so in the past. I whitelisted it in my > config, but I suspect that the rkhunter upstream needs to fix their > detection, You "whitelisted" a

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-19 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 15:08 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Whenever I mistype a URL, > it gets turned into food for Midcontinent's search engine. > What is really annoying is that the back > button does not take me back to what I typed. > Also, the search results rarely includes the site I

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 11:35 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Also, when using an outside DNS server, it can be a > problem if you want to resolve domain names within your LAN (if you > have a network of computers and other network devices). You have to > do that another way. Supplemen

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 06:46 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > I think the proper term is DNS hijacking. No, that's a malicious thing. Like someone trying to commit fraud. This sort of misdirection is better described as DNS manipulation. Anyway, apart from inconvenience, it can lead to all sorts of

Re: B2B Branding

2021-01-20 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 13:32 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Some of these messages are incomprehensible without I think the prior message was just outright spam. The email content is gibberish, and the linked website was about search-engine-optimisation. -- uname -rsvp Linux

Re: How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb

2021-01-20 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-18 at 08:47 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > When you say install directly to a USB drive, does this necessarily > mean I need to create a live installer on another USB drive to run > the install on the target USB drive? I'm not sure if you have to do it that way, but it's

Re: btrfs: What to do with large growing files?

2021-01-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 23:01 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > but from what I understand of how blockchain works the database is > append-only, as each new block includes a cryptographically strong > hash of the previous one. That's what makes it a chain. An infinitely expanding file on a

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-23 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> But, yes, you can blackhole various annoying domain names so that >> they fail quickly. I've done that for many years with BIND. Joe Zeff: > And, if you're not hosting your own DNS, you can use /etc/hosts to > do the same thing on a machine by machine basis. Of course, this > isn't

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 09:25 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Also, I rather like the idea of my F33 also be its DNS server. > Mostly I would have it punt to 8.8.8.8 or something. > doubleclick would die. If you install your own DNS server, like BIND, it works like a DNS server ought to. Walking

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 00:07 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Or, you do the sensible thing and point said domain to 127.0.0.1, so > that it times out almost instantly. It doesn't. The web browser waits for something to answer it. Go on, try to get your web browser to connect to a non-existent server,

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 07:19 -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > With that said, I noticed a lot of ISPs push all-in-one boxes, which > forces users to rely on the ISP's DNS and other spyware. Of course > you can put your own router+wifi between the ISP one and your > network, which most people will

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 09:01 +, J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > Didn’t know you could do that. > I tried it, but my bind complained that I was not authoritive. > (Right now there is a dns-storm against the USA-IRS) To be honest, I wouldn't advise anyone to start running their own BIND server

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I > should change them all to something meaningful like the application > name. There's some logic to it. I found the opposite problem when I've looked at KDE, in the past.

Re: Concealing posts with email address

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 20:25 +, Am Titan wrote: > I wants to implement SSO I have freeIPA installed and working. > Can I use cockpit for SSO, or do I have to use keykloack for SSO? Ask unrelated questions in a new post. Anybody who might be able to answer you about SSO and FreeIPA but isn't

Re: midco DNS corruption?

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> It doesn't. The web browser waits for something to answer it. Go >> on, try to get your web browser to connect to a non-existent server, >> it doesn't immediately stop looking. If you load up a page that >> might try waiting for a dozen different things before it will >> proceed and let

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something > intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be trying to find out whether a different voice is better, or if a different

Re: Concealing posts with email address

2021-01-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 10:01 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > that this behaviour is known as "thread hijacking", in case the user > doesn't understand why people might complain about it. Since the original post in this thread was his own, he mightn't understand that. When someone else romps

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-15 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 19:56 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Clearly those lifetime numbers are bogus, as well as sometimes > reporting a lower lifetime value than the test before it. It's > getting younger!! My SSD found the fountain of youth! Or is it counting down to its death, instead? --

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 14:06 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I am fully open to the fact that there may be something wrong with my > HDD. But it is difficult to believe that, since this laptop is from > 2016 and I had been using Windows 10 on it for a long time and saw no > problems. Faults can

Re: Fedora 34 dns resolution problems?

2021-01-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 23:36 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Actually, it's "-- " and that space matters. Any email clients that > ignore that are borken. And there's so few of them... :-p -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 18 16:34:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate:

Re: Password Recovery

2020-12-16 Thread Tim via users
David: >> If you check your spam folder in your email program you might find >> services that brag about having your password and they really do >> have it. Some will show it to you as proof they have more >> information about you. Andre Robatino: > Unless they show it to you, they don't have

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Tim via users
" sixpack13" wrote: > confusing > I've checked that in my profil: no spaces, nowhere > > thanks for quick response(s) ! I see them, too. I can't see it actually causing any technical problem, though. If someone sorts their mail by from addresses, that may cause some unusual sorting. Email

Re: Compressed arecord out -

2021-02-03 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 12:14 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > How can I put them together in one command or if there is a simpler > and better way, how to get a compressed output file from arecord? When you say compressed, do you really mean MP3, or would any compressed audio format suffice? And does

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