Re: Debugging USB device issues

On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 04:10 +1100, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > I am getting nothing recorded in /var/log/messages when I plug in > the GoPro and push its power button (plugging in any other USB device > is working of course) so maybe it is the USB port on the camera that > is the problem? -

Re: good/best source for replacement mem/drive

On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 11:25 -0400, bruce wrote: > anyone have opinions/thoughts on using the USB to LAN > connectors, as opposed to the onboard LAN interface/port? Why would you even want to run through a dongle when you can just plug it straight in? That's a big inconvenience. -- uname

Re: Flatpack takes precedence over Yum?

On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 13:37 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > For GNOME developers, life is easier when users are all running > the same apps via flatpaks, and users can easily move between > distros. Since GNOME devs are doing the work, they get to set > priorities. Might be easier for them,

Re: Does the program llvm break all the hardware or only some of it ?

On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 11:59 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Why are you sending encrypted messages to the list? This makes no > sense. I've been wondering if we're being trolled. There's been plenty of bizarre random responses to things. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64

verifying Fedora 34 mate spin

Hi, Just trying to figure out how to verify the Fedora 34 mate spin. Looking through the pages you get after going to the mate spin, it suggests , the instructions aren't coherent, and don't work as written. There's what looks like it's simply a

Re: router silence.

On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 13:54 -0600, home user wrote: > That appears to have worked. (Odd, I never had to do that before.) > This reply is going through the router. It could be that *your* modem and/or router doesn't need power cycling, in general, but that it randomly goofed and needed it this

Re: stream TO airplay/sonos

On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 12:23 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I've used Noson (available in the Fedora-34 repos) successfully. The > biggest problem is the delay, about 10 seconds, which has made it > mostly unusable for me. Start Noson and enable Pulse Audio, then > Noson appears as a device in

Re: NAS purchase advice

On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:15 +0100, Germano Massullo wrote: > My solution > https://github.com/Germano0/reliable-data-storage-project/blob/master/index.md > One of the surprises I got from building a basic server out of a standard motherboard was its relatively low power usage (I measured it,

Re: lightdm - how to set profile picture

On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 17:30 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > In the end, it didn't matter. I attempted to create $HOME/.face > myself, using just the available tools, namely gimp, by cropping and > saving my mug shot. I failed, since gimp was very confused by my > attempts to save a jpg- formatted

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 11:14 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > I've run a web server on port 8081 for some time since > my ISP blocks ports 80 and 443 completely, and it has > worked fine. > Recently have noticed things in access_log that show > people are trying to connect to the

Re: lightdm - how to set profile picture

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 19:33 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I also found that one when I was searching for a solution. > > We just need to find two more alternative ways of doing this. Then > there's a good chance that at least one out of all the alternatives > will work and it'll finally be

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 11:14 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > I've run a web server on port 8081 for some time since > my ISP blocks ports 80 and 443 completely, and it has > worked fine. > Recently have noticed things in access_log that show > people are trying to connect to the port 8081

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 12:45 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > One other possibility is to do what I do, and run a reverse proxy > such as caddy. Caddy will take care of the annoying renewals > automatically, accept connections via HTTPS and forward them on to > your web server via HTTP. It can be a bit

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

Tim: >> While it can do what you want, it is subverting the purpose of >> HTTPS. I'm not sure anyone should support a technique that hides an >> insecure connection behind a faked secure one. Greg Woods: > I would dispute that. In my case, caddy runs on an internet- > accessible server, but the

Re: I need a temporary imap client

On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 19:50 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I use claws-mail for everything, it talks to my local > covecot IMAP server (which is filled from all my email > accounts via fetchmail). I'm almost the same. Fetchmail drags my mail in, Dovecot is my mail server, but Evolution is my mail

Re: Disable Screensaver / Window Positions

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 07:56 -0500, Alex wrote: > I've done that previously, but the screensaver still activates > after some unknown period :-( Does the control panel still show it as deactivated? You might have two screen savers installed and active. -- uname -rsvp Linux

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 00:37 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II: > Just to clarify. dyndns.org only links my sites name to the > public IP address I get from ISP. Has been the same exact > IP for at least 2 years, but is a static one?? But works > fine. If they don't advertise it as static ("that's a

Re: NAS purchase advice

On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 10:46 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: >- Linux compliant ie., >- it should be formatted in ext3/4 or other *nix file system > to maintain all the linux file details such as access rights, > attributes, links, name lengths/characters, ... I used to use WD MyBook and

Re: Disable Screensaver / Window Positions

Tim: >> Does the control panel still show it as deactivated? >> >> You might have two screen savers installed and active. Alex: > Ugh, how would that ever happen, and how do I find out? > > Where else would I look to find another screensaver? Some people go looking for screensavers and install

Re: F34 kernel-devel drpm checksum mismatch

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 11:26 +, John Pilkington wrote: > For several recent kernel updates, dnf has complained about this but > has updated as normal. I've just noticed that the package name > looks strange, too. Should it get a BZ? .drpm files are delta RPMs. Small differences between one

Re: Setting up webserver for https??

On Tue, 2021-12-14 at 10:09 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Most ISPs actually don't use DHCP as DHCP, _per se_; they're using it > as an IP address management tool. That's a bit like saying I don't use a ruler as a rule, though all I ever do with it is rule lines and measure things. :-\ --

Re: $releasever and $basearch

Hi Patrick, > Where/How can I get the value of > $releasever > $basearch I just copied and pasted your question into Google, this was one answer: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/sec-using_yum_variables For what it's worth, asking

Re: Windows 11 VMs

On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 19:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > The %errorlevel% is 10 which means "I can't do it, waah!" > (or specifically "Conversion failed due to error while applying GPT > layout.") > > So I'll probably just give Windows 11 a pass :-). I'd give it a fail, tell it to go back and

Re: Audio output device changes unbidden under f34

On Sat, 2021-07-24 at 13:01 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > When I queue up a number of podcasts to play in rhythmbox, the output > device often changes when the second podcast starts, from a device > connected via a USB port to the built in audio. Just to be thorough: Can you plug it into

Re: Left-hand mouse click sometimes not recognized

Paul Smith, >> From time to time, I have to click several times to get a left-hand >> mouse click recognized. Any ideas? Tom Horsley: > Busted moving parts in mouse would be my guess as most likely. I've come across many a mouse where the soldering of the switch to the printed circuit board has

Re: Left-hand mouse click sometimes not recognized

On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 12:49 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > My surprise is that I bought my mouse not so long ago (less than one > year). Unfortunately, with today's build quality, that's no big surprise. Mice buttons get a lot of clicking. There used to be an app (I forget on which OS) that told

Re: Artifacts running konsole under Fedora-35

On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 12:46 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Or partly human obsolescence: the staff who wrote the original drivers are > no longer around and it doesn't make sense to train new people on hardware > that isn't generating new revenue. There have been proposal to force vendors >

Re: Does anybody still use `starship'?

On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 10:27 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Growth in the numbers of users of open source software.has outpaced > the numbers working on development, documentation, and packaging. > I suspect many users are blindly following recipes found on the > internet or using code written

Re: Does anybody still use `starship'?

On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 10:27 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Growth in the numbers of users of open source software.has outpaced > the numbers working on development, documentation, and packaging. > I suspect many users are blindly following recipes found on the > internet or using code written

Re: Wayland and Xfce

Tim, >> Yeah, right. Slowly opening menus, slowly spinning desktop cubes, >> hover and wait before continuing, splash screens and other >> animations that delay me doing something "make it work better"? Sam Varshavchik: > I agree. Having said that: if Gnome wants to target the power user, >

Re: Wayland and Xfce

On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 08:49 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Complaining that Gnome is horrible only serves to trash the > reputation of linux and linux users. It wouldn't get the complaints if it weren't... And for a tangential example, it wasn't the people complaining about the crappiness

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

Hi L, > How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? > I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with > windows OS. Seeing as no-one has said this, yet: *** Running things as root is ill-advised. *** While running a file manager as root to deal with some user file

Re: More memory

On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 14:58 -0700, linux guy wrote: > I have 75 Windows with 550 tabs. Across 5 desktops and 4 > activities. My machine has 64GB of RAM. It is always responsive. Okay, we're all coming around to your place to use your computer, then. ;-) -- uname -rsvp Linux

Re: More memory

On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > what is 'earlyoom'? OOM is an out-of-memory condition, earlyoom is something that's supposed to jump in and manage the memory use (somehow) before you run out of free memory. I'm not surprised at Firefox being a problem. It's a

Re: More memory

On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 08:45 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Yes, I am running 24/7 for a week. Every Friday afternoon, I > suspend. Mostly it does suspend, sometimes it hangs, and I have > submitted a bug report on this. In that scenario, I wouldn't expect Firefox to behave any differently

Re: More memory

On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 08:45 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So those background tabs tend to have things running along, and I do > have to figure out this earlyoom to see if it might help here. Oh, for what it's worth, you might find earlyoom to bring its own set of annoyances. If it detects

Re: Wayland and Xfce

Sam Varshavchik: >> Someone who's already used traditional desktop environments, with >> desktop shortcut icons, a taskbar (on top or the bottom), with >> something that looks like a "Start" menu, a tray, a pager, and a >> few other familiar UI icons – someone like that should be able to >> hit

Re: Wayland and Xfce

On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 14:07 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Gnome really isn't intended for those systems anyway. Gnome-shell > requires a reasonable 3d-capable video card to run well. I have a > bunch of old P4 computers in a school for students to use. I set > them up with Mate which works great

Re: Wayland and Xfce

Tim: >> If a graphical user interface needs instructions to be usable, it's >> failed in its creation. The whole point of having such an >> interface is that you can see what's on offer, and how to use it. Samuel Sieb: > Are you trying to tell me that if I gave a system running Mate to >

Re: Wayland and Xfce

Tim: >> I find this just crazy. Why should just the desktop interface >> require a beefy graphics card? I use Mate because of that >> silliness. Samuel Sieb: > It doesn't need to be beefy. Pretty much any video card made in the > last 10 years should work. Since the capability is there, why

Re: More memory

Patrick O'Callaghan >> You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It >> periodically (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and >> can restore them again on startup, but optionally not actually load >> each page until you decide to visit it. Andras Simon: > I believe that

Re: F35 - zram on auto install?

On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:11 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > What are you doing that would require that much disk swap? And even > if it did the performance would be pretty bad unless you're running > an SSD/NVMe drive, and even if you are, in memory swap would still be > faster. With me, I can only

Re: ssd keeps dying??

On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 13:44 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I've had a workstation (dual amd rome) for about 2 years. The M2 ssd > died after about 1 year. I replaced it with a samsung 980 pro, which > then lasted almost 1 more year. Then I replaced it with a 1TB > samsung 980 pro, this time with

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 15:53 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > All of a sudden with F35, no matter what the address of the VM is, > its hostname is set to fedora. Just fedora. Not > fedora.tc.camerontech.com. I see your pain, that doesn't really work well when you have several Fedora PCs, does it?

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 08:42 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > The default configuration rather follows the opposite principle. The > hostname should be well defined and independent of changing IP > addresses. I sort-of go along with that. If you've set a hostname, there's sense in it not getting

Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 23:25 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > As a dirty hack, I created a file /etc/profile.d/hostname.sh: > MYIP=`hostname -I` > MYHOSTNAME=`host $MYIP | awk '{ print $NF }' | sed "s/\.$//"` > echo $MYHOSTNAME > /etc/hostname > hostnamectl hostname $MYHOSTNAME > That sets the

Re: WAS : Kinda OT: Email clients.... ( Now Forwarders)

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 08:23 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I am wanting to know, would gmail start considering all mail from my > domain as spam if it occasionally puts a piece of mail in the spam > folder? Or is DirectAdmin keeping the headers like they are and just > redirecting the email to me? Few

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> Manual, what manual? Ha! I just pressed F1 for help, it opened my >> web browser to: https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.28 >> Giving me: >> >> Not Found >> The requested URL /users/evolution/3.28 was not found on this >> server. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Recall that Evolution is

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 14:26 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > It's not Claws thats slow, its IMAP. Well, to be fair, it's not IMAP, but: Your network, their network, their mail server, how you use your mail client, and how their server and your client uses IMAP. It can be done efficiently, but some

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 12:36 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I can't answer that, except to say that the current version of > Evolution is 3.42 and you seem to be using 3.28. That's roughly 7 > years out of date. In the interim the root website has changed: Only because *this* PC is using

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> Although you can leave mails on a server with POP3, and just read >> newer ones, it's not designed for that usage pattern. Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > `man fetchmail': > > - > -k | --keep > (Keyword: keep) > Keep retrieved messages on the remote mailserver. Normally, >

Re: RE : Does it is better to '''python3 -m install the_program''' instead '''pip3 install the_program" when it is missing in the downloader primary ?

On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 17:26 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Also, I like to think of this XKCD: > > https://xkcd.com/1987/ Python, or nest of vipers? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> Thus far, Evolution is the least-worst one I've found on Linux. Chris: > You must of never had to use the Evolution mail group before.. > They're quite rude over there. Basically, they give you the nice " GO > RTFM" for replies, even though you tried Googling your issue. > > " Go to HELP

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Chris: >> Now, I just have Evolution sort the emails into folders on the IMAP >> server as they come in. POC: > That's what I do. It simplifies things rather than having two filter > regimes fighting each other, though there may be some use cases where > Evo's filtering would be a better fit.

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 13:40 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Although I haven't looked closely at this, I think the same is going > to happen with any desktop MUA, given that Gmail implements this via > its own non-standard "magic". If they used IMAP labels it could > perhaps be made to work,

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 08:06 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > Basically, I imported my emails from CLAWS to Evolution by: > > * Opening Claws > > * Selecting all emails in that one mailbox > > * Clicked the file menu > > * EXPORT TO MBOX FILE > > then imported the emails into Evo by selecting the

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 22:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Actually it's the other way round. Gmail only has labels. It doesn't > have folders, but in most cases labels can be treated as folders. It certainly behaves like it does. I can make folders in Gmail using Evolution, and they appear

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 09:09 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > But there's one thing I cant stand about GMAIL imap, and that is when > you go to delete a email and you tap the delete key, the emails get > moved to [GMAIL/TRASH]. And when you go to look for something under > ALL MAIL, Emails that you wanted

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 10:16 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > So I tried what you said: > > Created a folder called TEST > opened up Nautilus into a small window > then opened the TEST FOLDER in Evo > and brought back up Nautilius and dragged that .mbox file into the > TEST FOLDER > > Wow, that works so

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 09:45 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > Oh, is that what you're supposed to do? > > That's the correct way of using gmail with IMAP? oops No. It's a thing you can do, it's not the way someone must do it. > Whatever email client I am in, I just make a rule > > If

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 11:48 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > If I create a rule in Evolution: > > MATCHES ALL RULES BELOW > ACCOUNT: AccountNameHere > APPLIES TO ALL MAIL > MOVE TO: "INBOX ON THIS PC" I don't understand the purpose of that rule. New mail will always go into your inbox. Are you

Re: Time to update the hardware

On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 23:35 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > To get anything faster I would need to step up to a faster CPU and MB > and RAM... for not a lot of change. For the average user, who just emails, browses the web, and does a bit of typing, they could double their CPU speed (and other

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this > maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a > folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call > categories that auto-categorizes mail:

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 12:21 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > So basically CenTOS is another version of "Debian" basically? Debian > sticks with "older" software. No, it's a recompilation of Red Hat, RHEL. But, yes, it was a long-term install. Various distros had long-life versions as well as

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> Only because *this* PC is using CentOS 7, another one has Fedora. I >> don't think it should be *that* far out of date, but it is CentOS >> 7's current version. Patrick O'Callaghan: > It *is* that far out of date. > > You have the option of installing a Flatpak version (assuming this >

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 08:34 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I replaced the SSD with a samsung 980 pro. Reinstalled fedora. It > then worked a few weeks, then the exact same symptoms. Rinse, lather, repeat... A thought just occurred to me, did you take proper (*) anti-static precautions when

Re: dns lookup behavior

On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 08:23 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > If you are using a hosted nameserver you will have to contact them > and request a PTR record for 172.16.96.20 that points to > centos8-opstcore-vm.homenet172-16-96.com. I don't think you could use that with an external DNS, 172.16.0.0 is

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 10:41 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > I used to add surge protection to power bars. We had a tree fall on > the cable coax that they had installed without a proper anchor, just > a zip tie to the mast for the AC power. The mast was pulled off the > house, which meant

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 07:42 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > Well the fact that the failed ssd is working again tells me it wasn't > zapped by static or power transients. The comment about taking a > long time for the ssd to reorganize itself is interesting, but here > it failed 1 day, and I went to

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

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Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 12:55 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > It makes we wonder if the drive doesn't have whoops mode where it > reinstalls firmware and rescans the drive to get its own internal > mapping into a consistent state. I assume vendors try to design > this (if it even is a real

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 11:26 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote: > And not related... I've have a keyboard go wonky in my Dell laptop > ever since I stressed it out running Folding @ Home for a year. > It was running ... hot... and the thermal stress has caused a > permanent, intermittent flakiness. Not too

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

Tim: >> I'm not sure why you're doing this with sudo. Aren't you resetting >> your own user-account's dconf parameters? Greg: > Ye, that is the case: the ~/.config/dconf/user file gets modified. If so, then definitely you wouldn't want to use sudo. Using sudo like in the first message would be

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> This PC is the main file/mail/web-server, etc., so it runs >> something I don't have to update twice a year, even once a >> year would be seriously annoying. Yes, I know you shouldn't >> work on your server, but it's a small LAN, and I don't want to >> install yet another a computer.

Re: WAS : Kinda OT: Email clients.... ( Now Forwarders)

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 08:23 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I am wanting to know, would gmail start considering all mail from my > domain as spam if it occasionally puts a piece of mail in the spam > folder? Or is DirectAdmin keeping the headers like they are and just > redirecting the email to me?

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Sat, 2022-02-19 at 09:45 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > HostGator offers Google Workspaces but I don't want to have to move > 5 accounts to the new GW accounts and plus, just using HostGator's > default email service, I get unlimited accounts vs having to pay for > each one with GW. > > But then I

Re: [OT] need crontab help

On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 17:39 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > There is a java app that writes directly to the pulseaudio MASTER > channel at full volume twice a day. I'm pretty sure the neighbors > hear it. My idea is to use crontab to run at 12:59 Monday- > Friday. It waits 59 seconds, mutes the

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 12:05 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I am just afraid that using a MOVE command filter could cause some > emails to come up missing or something like that. There's always this approach: Download all mails to a mail spool file. Input that file into your new mail system. After

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 07:05 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I dont mind people coming to me OL... Until they say mean and hateful > things in their email. And then, you get a special filter set up in > your honor that has Claws silently delete your emails and not let me > know that you sent me something

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Tim: >> You could probably consolidate your gmail accounts (if you wanted >> to), or at least pull mail from one to the other (again if you >> wanted to). c. marlow: > using Gmail's fetch setting under webmail settings? Sounds right. I haven't explored their interface for ages, to see where

Re: WAS: Kinda OT: Email clients -- NOW: Storage formats

On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 11:55 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > What format does Evolution use to store emails in? Of the few folders mine does store locally, it's in maildir. I don't know if that's user-selectable, though. The preferences window even says it's maildir for the default "on this computer"

Re: dns lookup behavior

Paolo Galtieri wrote: > dig -x 172.16.96.20 > > returns > > ; <<>> DiG 9.16.24-RH <<>> -x 172.16.96.20 > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > but > > dig centos8-opstcore-vm.homenet172-16-96.com > > returns > > ; <<>> DiG 9.16.24-RH <<>>

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:31 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > I have a wind meter on my roof hooked to a device that counts it's > rotations, and that serial port device would randomly stop working > requiring a reset of the usb-to-serial communication to get it to > function again (I had a cron job to

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 12:21 -0500, Go Canes wrote: > If it was just erasing the partition table the drive would still be > visible using lsblk, and you could re-partition it with fdisk, etc. I do wonder if the devices were ruined, or just had their data scrambled? Neal didn't say whether he'd

Re: WAS: Kinda OT: Email clients -- NOW: Storage formats

Tim: >> Of the few folders mine does store locally, it's in maildir. I >> don't know if that's user-selectable, though. The preferences >> window even says it's maildir for the default "on this computer" >> folder, but that folder's not editable (there's only an >> enable/disable entire folder

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 07:40 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf -f reset /org/gnome/evolution/ > [sudo] password for chris: > error: unknown command -f > > > [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf reset /org/gnome/evolution/ -f > error: -f must be given to (recursively) reset entire

Re: Fedora 35, Nvidia 510 and Wayland: no video

On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 23:16 +0200, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > Mplayer itself had no OSD or other kind of interface visible, which > I'm not sure is normal. I haven't used it for ages, but the letter "o" key was a hotkey to cycle through the on-screen-display options. Mplayer, itself, is a command

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 08:22 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I suspect part of the OP's intent with the reset is in case he, or > some earlier install process, had differing defaults in the global > area. Aplenty of things install a global config, if only to make the > available configs apparent.

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 22:03 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > I used fetchmail for a lot of years. Then one of my upstream email > servers switched to a modified and mostly-undocumented Yahoo > connection mechanism, and I could not find the correct connection > strings and ports to make it work, and

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Chris: >> And what are some pros and cons switching to IMAP? Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > Why should I need IMAP? > > With `fetchmail', that I use, it seems I can even keep emails on the > remote POP server - I usually just don't need that. > Although you can leave mails on a server with POP3, and

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Chris: >> And what are some pros and cons switching to IMAP? >> >> And what program do you use on Fedora for your email? Tom Horsley wrote: > I use fetchmail to download mail from every other mail server > onto my home machine, where fetchmail then injects the mail > into the dovecot imap server.

Re: Alternate text consoles

Samuel Sieb: >> Assuming you mean the CTRL-ALT-F? consoles, F35 workstation still >> has them and I would be surprised if the XFCE spin changed that. Joe Zeff: > That's what I'd have expected. I'm using a new Gateway laptop and > when I checked the Gateway website, there are no support forums

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 12:19 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > (And since you mention it, you didn't quote anything in your last > message, which is not really recommended either). Better that, than the mass quoting. Another option is just word your reply so it makes sense on its own. --

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 06:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > Oh, look at that! Just as I suspected, the nvme controller fails > when heavily used. The thing that surprised me is that I would have > thought the nvme controller which just went down would have been on > the pcie interface card. But now

Re: Evolution: Starting Over

On Sat, 2022-02-26 at 00:07 +0100, greg wrote: > I am not sure if there are readers on this list for these obvious > things. > Regardless, "you" above should not refer to me, if it does. It's the global "you," or "not me." -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 16:30 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I am confused, if you don't check or fetch from this GMX account, > the how do you know when people have answered you? Oops, didn't finish before I hit send. They could also do what I do: Subscribe to the list with two addresses. Have

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> I have a second email address for mailing lists, that I never check >> or fetch from, but use to email to mailing lists (yes, this one). c. marlow: > I am confused, if you don't check or fetch from this GMX account, > the how do you know when people have answered

Re: Connecting Evolution to an Exchange 2010 server

On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 17:47 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > I read (a few) the manual and installed evolution, evolution-mapi and > evolution-ews (seems I didn't need that one). Unfortunately in the > email settings I do not see Microsoft Exchange in server type. I've > tried a few things but

Re: Connecting Evolution to an Exchange 2010 server

On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 10:16 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > dnf install evolution-mapi . Not sure what else to do, and yes > Evolution was not running when installing. Parts of Evolution are always running when logged in. You may have had to log out and in again to get Evolution to load new

Re: Kernel 5.16.18 refuses to process sound

On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 12:27 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > 1. How do I set DNFDragora to skip a current version and call me > back when it has a new version of the kernel for me to try out? Doesn't the "exclude" option let you use the entire package name (with the version number), or does it just let

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