ACL Changes and new package group policy

2008-08-13 Thread Casey Dahlin
The infrastructure team has been working on a new group policy to encourage greater openness in the community while containing newer members until they have earned the trust of the community. As such, the following changes are being implemented: 1) Effective already: The cvsextras group is now

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Evangeline McGlynn wrote: Greetings Fedora Art group, Hi, My name is Eve McGlynn and I am hoping to join the Fedora Art group. A little bit about myself: my formal background is in cartography, which focuses a lot more on design than some people realize (though others are suspicious of the

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Evangeline McGlynn
Have you any graphics to share? I'm afraid I'm terrible about putting things online, but Here's a link to my most recent project at Red Hat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MyFedora/Mockups I'm working on the Fedora Community interfaces with another member of the Art group, the very

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Since the first round ended, we had very little theme activity, so maybe is time to heat the things a bit. I worked on a possible evolution of the Gears theme, about having a lot of gears in a very complex machinery, here is its current status (work in progress, there is

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl.png Which I think is a very cool looking image, I

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Evangeline McGlynn wrote: I'm afraid I'm terrible about putting things online, but Well, this is more a community thing, if we know each others work probably we can collaborate better. Here's a link to my most recent project at Red Hat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MyFedora/Mockups

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel.

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl.png Which I think is a very

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel.

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:17 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:17:36PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl-normal2.png Re: the colors - they should be easy enough to adjust. This monitor I have at work, I think the colors are a bit off so I may need to adjust

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Robin Norwood
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:17:36 -0400 Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The multitude of gears is AWESOME. It might be nice to make them a bit more faded and subtle, but I wonder if that might lose detail to a point of losing the theme. Yeh. I am thinking maybe some clever fade-in

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:50:38PM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Clock_Tower,_Great_Court,_Trinity_College,_Cambridge.jpg Not that this has anything to do with anything, but... /me spots Cambridge in the URL /me looks at the Fedora 10 release name /me ducks

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ian Weller wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:17:36PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl-normal2.png Re: the colors - they should be easy enough to adjust. This monitor I have at work, I think the colors are a bit off so I may

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Mike Langlie
Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Since the first round ended, we had very little theme activity, so maybe is time to heat the things a bit. I worked on a possible evolution of the Gears theme, about having a lot of gears in a very complex machinery, here is its current status (work

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:37:05PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h58/mairinduffy/gears-blueswirl_steampunk_screened.png Excellent, although I am *not* a fan of the gold gears. All blue for the desktop at least, maybe with different gradients

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Robin Norwood
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:32:21 -0500 Ian Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:50:38PM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Clock_Tower,_Great_Court,_Trinity_College,_Cambridge.jpg Not that this has anything to do with anything, but... /me

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Michael Beckwith
[21:34] tw2113 lightbulb! [21:35] tw2113 if we're going for the feel of inside some machine for the gears proposal [21:35] tw2113 we should have a rather direct light source that changes color as the day goes by [21:36] tw2113 not everything in the area would get to change color, just the

Re: Supporting EPEL Builds in Koji

2008-08-13 Thread Mike Bonnet
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:38 -0400, Mike McLean wrote: Mike Bonnet wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 13:54 -0400, Mike McLean wrote: If the remote_repo_url data is going to be inherited (and I tend to think it should be), then I think it should be in a separate table. I'd like to reserve

Re: Supporting EPEL Builds in Koji

2008-08-13 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 17:35 -0400, Mike Bonnet wrote: I was thinking we would probably just call out to the tool the way we do for createrepo, but I'm certainly not against using an API. I'm a little concerned about memory usage when doing the create/mergerepo in-process, since we know

[Bug 458923] New: FreeType 2.3.7 has been released (2008-Jun-29)

2008-08-13 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: FreeType 2.3.7 has been released (2008-Jun-29) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458923 Summary: FreeType 2.3.7 has been released (2008-Jun-29)

[Bug 458938] New: Lohit fonts need to support more languages based on Devanagari

2008-08-13 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Lohit fonts need to support more languages based on Devanagari https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458938 Summary: Lohit fonts need to support more

[Bug 458951] [snd-IN] Sindhi language is not identified by fontconfig

2008-08-13 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458951 --- Comment #1 from Rahul Bhalerao [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-08-13 09:40:52 EDT --- Created an attachment (id=314203) --

[Bug 458923] Update to latest FreeType version which is 2.3.7

2008-08-13 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458923 John Poelstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Issue 79878] OO.o can not select modern font faces conveniently

2008-08-13 Thread meywer
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79878 --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 13 19:58:27 + 2008 --- On http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12735 I read now, that Condensed is

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
It turns out that fontforge can already grok MATH tables [http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/math.html], so I had a look at the MATH tables oft the three contenders. No surprises that STIX doesn't work: a few constants are defined, but the rest of the sub-tables, like accents, shapes or

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The math script, aka MATH table, is a MS extension to OpenType. MS has not yet officially submitted any documentation for these math layout extensions -- and they are quite extensive -- not even in the draft 1.5/1.6 OpenType spec. Despite this, it

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
No, there actualy is some (unofficial?) MS documentation for MATH tables. It has been seen by both George Williams (fontforge) and Apostolos Syropoulos (asana). On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The math

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, there actualy is some (unofficial?) MS documentation for MATH tables. It has been seen by both George Williams (fontforge) and Apostolos Syropoulos (asana). Sorry; I didnt put enough emphasis on _properly_ :-) On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM,

Re: Public demo of amber and eventual production instance

2008-08-13 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Robin Norwood wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:09:20 -0500 (CDT) Mike McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ricky Zhou wrote: On 2008-08-13 12:29:55 PM, Nigel Jones wrote: Surely it'd be better suited as 'amber.fedoraproject.org', or something

Wiki Outage Notification - 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC

2008-08-13 Thread Nigel Jones
There will be an outage starting at 2008-08-14 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. A second outage is scheduled to start at 2008-08-15 03:00 UTC lasting approximately 30 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto

Re: Public demo of amber and eventual production instance

2008-08-13 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Robin Norwood wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:49:47 -0500 (CDT) Mike McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Robin Norwood wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:09:20 -0500 (CDT) Mike McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ricky Zhou

Re: Wiki migration

2008-08-13 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Orion Poplawski wrote: Would it be possible to get a hold of any scripts/software used in the migration of fedoraproject.org to MediaWiki? Thanks... They could use a little love but they're at:

warning :section mismatch while compiling fedora 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 kernel

2008-08-13 Thread nayan kumar
Hi All while compiling linux kernel downloaded from kernel.org i am getting warning as given below WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel from .text between 'is386' (at offset 0xc1001171) and 'check_x87' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to

kernel-doc

2008-08-13 Thread Roland McGrath
I reenabled kernel-doc and tweaked it up. * Make htmldocs too. Some pithy bits are only in the .tmpl stuff and it is nice to be able to point people at install kernel-doc and point your browser at file:///..., etc. * make in %build, only install in %install. Pure rpm anality. * Use

Re: eeedora 2.0 ?

2008-08-13 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Clint Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on a kickstart for the EEEPC, I'm just about finished. Things are working almost perfectly. I have it working as a LiveCD right now. Check out the latest ks file --

Re: Live USB-stick format - SOLVED

2008-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 18:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:05, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might be better off with F8 than F9. Is

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:49, Tom Horsley wrote: but F9 has certainly improved with updates (and with nvidia drivers becoming available) since the release. Beware! There are known issues with some nvidia cards (some of the latest ones, I believe). It is an nvidia problem, and they are

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go.  F9 is not good for ATI cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2. I presume you mean for accelerated desktop effects? Certainly for 'normal' use there is no problem.

Re: Problems running SH jobs using CRON

2008-08-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:04 -0400, jeff goudie wrote: Hi there, I have two SH jobs I've always run manually in the past and would like to have them run once a week automatically using cron.. I looked on the internet for examples of running SH jobs and used crontab -e to create this:

Behaviour of bugzilla.redhat.com

2008-08-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, entering a new bug in bugzilla.redhat.com is rather slow. It takes a lot of time after clicking Fedora until receiving the list of Fedora software components to select. -- Joachim Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- fedora-list mailing

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:05 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I need to install a few new systems in the next few weeks. My requirements are: apache; C++ code development; netfilter; KDE; openvpn; and above all, stability. I have heard a rumor that I might be better off with F8 than F9.

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:49 +, Tom Horsley wrote: My main blocker with F9 now is that I haven't yet figured out how to rip pulseaudio out and get alsa functioning again. I'm using: yum remove kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Behaviour of bugzilla.redhat.com

2008-08-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, entering a new bug in bugzilla.redhat.com is rather slow. It takes a lot of time after clicking Fedora until receiving the list of Fedora software components to select. Known issue.

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:42:23 +0300 Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using: yum remove kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio Weird. Removing the alsa plugin worked for me in f8, but when I tried it in f9, I still didn't get sound. Maybe I also have the device permission

help

2008-08-13 Thread Sanjay S Nair
Hi Everybody, I am new to Linux. I have actually left one week playing with and using purposefully the new fedora 9. I have got solutions for most of the thing all the time. I am a php starting developer and have installed LAMP, phpmyadmin, drupal, filezilla, mplayer successfully and working

Re: help

2008-08-13 Thread Rikke D. Giles
Most of your queries seem to be about yum and playing media. May I suggest you follow the instructions at: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html I just installed Fedora 9 on 4 very different machines. Those instructions worked flawlessly. Now.. to finish updating my Mother's

Re: help

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:54 +0530, Sanjay S Nair wrote: I have installed some of the software from the source using the ./configure, make , make install and I have removed the folder from which i have installed it. Maybe you're doing this in order to learn about it, but in everyday use it's

Re: help

2008-08-13 Thread Gijs
Sanjay S Nair wrote: Eventhough i have successfully installed the mplayer I am not successful in installing the GUI for that player. i don't know sometimes it doesn't works the ./configure, make, make install. yum install mplayer should do the trick. You don't really need to compile

How secure is Fedora without SELinux ?

2008-08-13 Thread David Jansen
How secure is a current Fedora (9) system without SELinux? Of course it is less secure than the same system with SELinux enabled, but is it still at the same level of security as any other Linux distribution that doesn't come with SELinux enabled? or are there packages that depend on SELinux for

Re: How secure is Fedora without SELinux ?

2008-08-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
David Jansen wrote: How secure is a current Fedora (9) system without SELinux? Of course it is less secure than the same system with SELinux enabled, but is it still at the same level of security as any other Linux distribution that doesn't come with SELinux enabled? or are there packages that

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip The advantages to this are that you do not touch the built in drive, and you can plug the USB drive into another computer and boot from it. That way, you can take your Linux drive with you and run it on most other computers. if hardware compatibility

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Roger Heflin
MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped working. When I start pan (under KDE), its

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick Kaiser
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:52:09AM +, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:30:29 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: [...] The error is not terribly useful, I doubt there is going to be a better suggestion than to try a few files at a time, though you may be able to run strace -o pan.out -f pan on the command line and see what was the last file being

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:51:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The answer is either yes, no, or maybe. And you get 10 points for asking one of the silliest questions I've seen asked her in quite some time. Why is it silly? Basically because it doesn't

Re: PAN Failure -- Help

2008-08-13 Thread Roger Heflin
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:30:29 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: [...] The error is not terribly useful, I doubt there is going to be a better suggestion than to try a few files at a time, though you may be able to run strace -o pan.out -f pan on the command line and see

avasys drivers and PM-A850 scanning

2008-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
I found a thread about Kooka being taken out of the distro. I've been using Kooka with my Epson PM-A850 all-in-one scanner- expensive-printer, but I have not been able to scan at 1200 dpi. Now I want to scan at 1200 dpi. I was able to take two scans, then it wedged. I hit the full scan

Re: apple boot partition causes error in install

2008-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
Status: On 平成 20/08/01, at 10:45, Joel Rees wrote: Been mucking around with my vintage clamshell ibook, trying to get fedora 9 to install in a multiboot configuration. Today I hit what appears to be a show-stopper for me. I try to cut a 1 MB apple_boot partition and the partitioning

Re: avasys drivers and PM-A850 scanning

2008-08-13 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Rees wrote: snip Or, preferably, point me to a properly open solution? have you considered xsane? - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'

Re: help on installing fedora 9 on external disk

2008-08-13 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: g wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip snip possible. but still a lot of ifs. my comment was for awareness of possible problems. not for sure problems. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs

Re: help

2008-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 12:24, Sanjay S Nair wrote: Hi Everybody, I am new to Linux. I have actually left one week playing with and using purposefully the new fedora 9. I have got solutions for most of the thing all the time. I am a php starting developer and have installed LAMP,

how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Lancashire, Pete
how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? Example of files contents 0 255 254 2 60 0 4 72 0 6 84 0 8 77 0 10 76 0 12 62 0 or .. 000 377 376 \0 H \0 T \0 M \0 L \0 \0 \n \0 020

where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Pete == Lancashire, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pete how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an Pete unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? ASCII is not 8 bit. And you can't convert it to anything until you know the coding (or can make a sensible guess). --

RE: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bi t as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Lancashire, Pete
ok 7 BIT :-), in my frustration should have said single byte ... well I did it with a perl hack i.e. skip the first 2 bytes and send to stdout every other byte... -Original Message- From: Colin Paul Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:28 AM

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bi t as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Pete == Lancashire, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pete ok 7 BIT :-), in my frustration should have said single Pete byte ... well I did it with a perl hack i.e. skip the first Pete 2 bytes and send to stdout every other byte... So you are assuming UTF-16BE (or LE if it's the odd

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00: is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. rday -- Please go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/index.cgi and file a new bug with the Component you want to upgrade

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifcfg-eth0: # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47 ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=CASE NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Ethernet #DNS1=192.168.1.1 Number 1 problem..

Re: How secure is Fedora without SELinux ?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:00 AM, David Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: (my actual problem was a machine running a web- and mailserver with lots of software that doesn't come from Fedora repositories, eg Joomla and other web applications, where I haven't managed to figure out how to make those

Fedora Core 9

2008-08-13 Thread James McManus
This weekend I upgraded to fedora core 9.  Since then I have been working through a series of relatively minor issues, related to the upgrade.  However, today I did an additional upgrade of 7 packages including the kernal. When I rebooted my system, it got to grub and then began beeping, and

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:16 -0700, Lancashire, Pete wrote: how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? Example of files contents 0 255 254 2 60 0 4 72 0 6 84 0 8 77 0 10 76 0 12 62 0 or ..

Re: Fedora Core 9

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:24pm on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (UK time), James McManus scrawled: issues, related to the upgrade.  However, today I did an additional upgrade of 7 packages including the kernal. When I rebooted my system, it got to grub and then began beeping, and stalled out there.  I have

RE: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bi t as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:36 -0700, Lancashire, Pete wrote: ok 7 BIT :-), in my frustration should have said single byte ... well I did it with a perl hack i.e. skip the first 2 bytes and send to stdout every other byte... Don't top-post on mailing lists. It makes threads harder to read.

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:50 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00: is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying of the newer version of an existing package? thanks. rday -- Please go to

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
Lancashire, Pete wrote: how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? Example of files contents... This seems to work with your sample: $ recode utf16 sample | od -bc 000 074 110 124 115 114 076 012 040 040 074 102 117 104 131

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: but then i found this page: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=752 which appears to suggest that 1.5.1 does indeed exist for f9. i'm just not sure how to interpret that page -- doesn't it imply

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Lancashire, Pete wrote: how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ? Example of files contents 0 255 254 2 60 0 4 72 0 6 84 0 8 77 0 10 76 0 12 62 0 or .. 000 377 376 \0 H \0 T \0 M \0 L

Re: FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

2008-08-13 Thread Stephen Soliday
I would have expected the IDE to show up as /dev/sda the RAID to be /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and the data drive to be /dev/sdd. or the IDE to show up as /dev/sdd. The three SATA drives show up in the same order as listed below, but the IDE drive does not show up at all (/dev/sda or /dev/sdd) On Tue,

Re: F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

2008-08-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:00 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: Is anyone running this combination with either the nv driver or the binary nvidia driver? Are there any issues--in particular with

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: just to turn this into a concrete example, i was after subversion-1.5.1. currently, the latest version for f9 appears to be this one: $ rpm -q subversion subversion-1.4.6-7.i386 $ but then i found this page:

Re: Fedora Core 9

2008-08-13 Thread James McManus
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Steve Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fedora Core 9 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:41 PM Around 05:24pm on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (UK time),

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: snip Where is this from? It doesn't seem to be anything standard. first time i ever saw this type file was in early msdos. i was told that it was msbs to hide message and help files because a text file editor would see

Re: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

2008-08-13 Thread Allen Kistler
From: Lancashire, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding into plain ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ?

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:50 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00: is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying of

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Craig White wrote: you picked an interesting test case to be sure because on RHEL, they are indeed using subversion-1.5.1 but on Fedora, 1.5.1 is only available in updates-testing *of course* i picked an interesting case. if i hadn't, i wouldn't be doing my job, would

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Craig White wrote: you picked an interesting test case to be sure because on RHEL, they are indeed using subversion-1.5.1 but on Fedora, 1.5.1 is only available in updates-testing It happens often for those paying close attention. Sometimes RHEL does include components not part of Fedora

Re: Running VMware-server on x86_64 Fedora 9

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Burns
This post helped me. Thanks, Gene. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Gene Czarcinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Install x86_64 Fedora 9 with development packages (e.g, compilers, etc.). more explicitly: gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel best, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: where to request a newer package version?

2008-08-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 23:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Craig White wrote: you picked an interesting test case to be sure because on RHEL, they are indeed using subversion-1.5.1 but on Fedora, 1.5.1 is only available in updates-testing It happens often for those paying close

Re: Fedora Core 9

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick Kaiser
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:50:58AM -0700, James McManus wrote: --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Steve Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fedora Core 9 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008,

Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:13 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifcfg-eth0: # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go. F9 is not good for ATI cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2. I presume you mean for accelerated desktop

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 06:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: The answer is either yes, no, or maybe. And you get 10 points for asking one of the silliest questions I've seen asked her in quite some time. Why is it silly? Basically because

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Ric Moore
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go. F9 is not good for ATI cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2. I presume you mean for accelerated desktop

CDCARDS folder in home dir?

2008-08-13 Thread Mads Villadsen
Does anyone know what program creates a CDCARDS folder in the home directory? It is a totally empty directory, and I have tried deleting it - but after a while I notice that it has been recreated. -- Mads Villadsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: F8 vs F9

2008-08-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 14:08:00 -0500, Arthur Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If you have ATI, F8 is the

Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:41 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stop the legacy network service (keep it from starting at boot too) network service is disabled but refuses to unplug. Every time I try to 'stop' in either the services 'gui' or by command line I get the following

Re: Fedora Core 9

2008-08-13 Thread James McManus
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Patrick Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Patrick Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fedora Core 9 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 2:35 PM On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:50:58AM -0700, James McManus

Re: FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
2008/8/13 Stephen Soliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] The three SATA drives show up in the same order as listed below, but the IDE drive does not show up at all (/dev/sda or /dev/sdd) that's definitely a little odd. This is the installer kernel or the F9 booted kernel? do you see it under

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