Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 22:30 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Here are the modifications to close match Nicu's version. Note that 256x256 version is not included. Luya Looking good. Perhaps the 22x22/24x24 might need more contrast between border and fills to better distinguish the two

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-17 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
2008/8/17 Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking good. Perhaps the 22x22/24x24 might need more contrast between border and fills to better distinguish the two figures. One another thing that needs improvement is the shadow. In 22x22/24x24 one it's for some reason misrendered, but I'd

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 03:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: New version: http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users22c.png http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users22c.svg http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users24c.png

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 03:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: New version: http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users22c.png http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users22c.svg http://www.thefinalzone.net/echo/apps/preferences-system-users24c.png

Re: [Echo] Preferences-system-users draft

2008-08-17 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Martin Sourada a écrit : Slightly better. To better express my comments, I edited the 22x22 version to what I liked ;-) The changes are: * repositioning to better fit the pixel grid * added gradient to some borders, make them darker to increase contrast and clarity * redo the shadows

Ideas and wining

2008-08-17 Thread Ben Hamment
I tried to make my wallpapers simple as i think this is important when using the desktop and makes it easy to see files etc. As i joined at a later stage it would be handy for me to have an overview on the decisions which have been made for example i am unsure if the gears theme is definate or can

Re: So everyone is aware

2008-08-17 Thread Graeme Fowler
Hi Long-time lurker, first time poster... On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:48 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: We have a lot of work ahead of us. It's all gone very quiet on this list, and there's only been Paul's We're working on it update to -announce. Given the number of Fedora boxes I'm currently

Re: So everyone is aware

2008-08-17 Thread Mike McGrath
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Nigel Jones wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:48 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: We have a lot of work ahead of us. Thanks for the warning, I look forward to helping! Ok, I've started allowing access again where we can. Right now sysadmin-web has been notified of some

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. If you have a DHCP server on the network, then *IT* will configure your network, automatically. There's no client-side user-configuration involved with that, the server holds the configuration data. Yes, it is possible for a DHCP client to have overriding

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: network configuration manually. If you want to manually configure things, then stop using automatic configuration systems, completely. The NM in F9 supports manual configuration through the applet... right click...edit connections.

Re: Autofs timeout?

2008-08-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 07:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:40 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Hello all, I'm using autofs+nfs combo on all my workstations. These machine are also used for software testing and crash a -lot-. Problem is - both nfs and autofs are notorious

Re: Autofs timeout?

2008-08-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 12:20 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:44:30AM -0700, Craig White wrote: Subject: Re: Autofs timeout? From: Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:44:30 -0700 Reply-To: For

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. my native tongue is american english Now you are being offensive :-) 'Scotch' is whisky, and the

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Björn Persson
Gene Heskett wrote: With all due respect for Paul, an announcement like this truly belongs on the mail list, not on some list only 2% are subbed to. I'm not going to make up bogus percentages but I'm sure there are many Fedora users who don't read fedora-list. I've been participating on this

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Mike Dwiggins
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. my native tongue is american english Now you are being offensive :-)

Re: touchpad (Asus F3Sr) on Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread Mike
Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu writes: Sorry, that's gsynaptics and ksynaptics (ending in 's'). Do you know what the status of ksynaptics is? According to http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17286 it seems to be discontinued and a replacement app called TouchFreeze replaces

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-17 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
max wrote: Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: So, is it safe to apply updates? I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't tell if they're just fixing a fault, or sorting out an attack. Assume the latter and act accordingly.

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:09:09PM -0400, max wrote: I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't tell if they're just fixing a fault, or sorting out an attack. Assume the latter and act accordingly. Like, how? Quick, switch everything to another distro? We don't know

(slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi. I'm assuming that something similar to this might happened: Package Managers As Achilles Heel http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss It would help a lot if someone of the infrastructure team explains what is going on. What raised their suspicious? What we, as users,

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 August 2008, g wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: OT: I need to learn something of your native tongue i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. my native tongue is american english.

Re: touchpad (Asus F3Sr) on Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread David Hláčik
Guys, it still does not work for me :( I have added to xorg.conf : *Section InputDevice* *Identifier Synaptics Touchpad* *Driver synaptics* *Option SendCoreEventstrue* *Option Device/dev/psaux* *

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED] kinda

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 23:29 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Patrick; As I said I am now satisfied that a conflict between some entity called 'network' or NM is the cause of my problems. So some of this discussion is a bit moot. On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 20:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Re: DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2008 05:54:42 g wrote: i am half greek, half scotch-irish. i speak some greek, and can read and pronounce what i read, understanding about 2% of it. no scotch or irish. my native tongue is american english Now you

F7 on EeePC : how to connect??

2008-08-17 Thread Beartooth
I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back says ASUS 701 -- model number?? After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all, I soon found that for anyone with large

Bluetooth headset in Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread Steve Repo
I have fedora 9 x86_64 install with all updates up-to-date. I have Belkin USB dongle that works with my Motorola Phone (I can browse my phone over bluetooth) I bought a Jabra 125 bluetooth headset that workswith my Motorola Phone. I want to use this headset with fedora for making calls via

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: This means that if I updated my systems they could be compromised and I need to re-install? All because the announcement was made in other list! In any moment was clear to me, and probably others, that you have to another list to get such important announcements.

Re: No audio when recording using Audacity in Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread Gerhard Magnus
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:58 -0700, stan wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I'm using audacity with jack under F9 to record audio coming in through my computer's line input. Everything seems to work OK, except that no signal appears in the input VU meter or in the displayed waveform. The

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi. I'm assuming that something similar to this might happened: Package Managers As Achilles Heel http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss It would help a lot if someone of the infrastructure team explains what is going on. What raised their

Re: touchpad (Asus F3Sr) on Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread David Hláčik
Well it iits not, you are right. (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406) (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event2 (**) Option Device /dev/input/event2 (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core

Re: touchpad (Asus F3Sr) on Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread Mike
David Hláčik david at hlacik.eu writes: Guys, it still does not work for me :(I have added to xorg.conf : Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver synaptics Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device

Re: touchpad (Asus F3Sr) on Fedora 9

2008-08-17 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:42 +, Mike wrote: Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu writes: Sorry, that's gsynaptics and ksynaptics (ending in 's'). Do you know what the status of ksynaptics is? According to http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17286 it seems to be

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED -- for now]

2008-08-17 Thread William Case
Hi Aaron et al; This is my last post (for a while) on this subject. Actually the answers are quite simple. Just after spending $45 for Understanding Linux Network Internals (but not yet delivered) it came to me what everyone was saying. Below I have tried out my own explanation. No response

Re: F8: Nautilus: Strange behaviors...

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: snip Mine is Microsoft InteliMouse PS/2 Compatable. is this a 'rolling ball' or a 'reflected infrared'? either could be dirty, or possible a lose connection at mouse. As the rolling joke goes, I

Re: Problems with ath5k and Madwifi drivers

2008-08-17 Thread huppert
ath5k shipped with Fedora 8/9 doesn't work with the AR500EG pci-express card. The simplest solution is to take the old ath_pci driver from madwifi. The only problem is to compile it with the current iw_handler.h file. Take the old one of Fedora 7 and use it temporarily just to compile the

Re: [F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

2008-08-17 Thread Peter Boy
Am Samstag, den 16.08.2008, 10:12 -0700 schrieb Sean Bruno: The desktop area for each monitor, is somehow exceeding the displayable area(I have to move the mouse to the edge of the monitor to make the desktop scroll over to the rest of the desktop). This only shows up in a dual head

RE: F7 on EeePC : how to connect??

2008-08-17 Thread Roopnarine, Peter
Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. I recently used liveusb creator to download and install Fedora 9-KDE on an eee PC 4G. The live boot worked fine and the machine networked instantly with a DHCP

Re: [F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

2008-08-17 Thread Sean Bruno
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:53 +, Peter Boy wrote: Am Samstag, den 16.08.2008, 10:12 -0700 schrieb Sean Bruno: The desktop area for each monitor, is somehow exceeding the displayable area(I have to move the mouse to the edge of the monitor to make the desktop scroll over to the rest of

Re: Re: Re: VMware Server 1.06 on Fedora 8 x86_64

2008-08-17 Thread Eugene Poole
Yes, I used vmware-any-any-update117c and vmware-any-any-update117d with the same results. It fails at the vmnet build step. TIA, Gene Kam Leo wrote: Have you installed the latest vmware-any-any-update patch? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: [F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

2008-08-17 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2008, 11:15 -0700 schrieb Sean Bruno: Section ServerLayout Identifier ATI dual head configuration Screen 0 Default Screen 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection So, Xinerama just doesn't

Re: k9copy broken again in FC9 x64

2008-08-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Mick M. wrote: filed as bugzilla 459345 Strictly speaking, k9copy isn't a fedora package... I assume you got it from livna? If we can rule out a qt issue, we'll need to file something @ bugzilla.livna.org. Fwiw, I cannot reproduce, but I'm using kde-4.1.0/qt-4.4.1 (from updates-testing).

Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum updates. unname -a results in : Linux .Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I tried to do so manually with the command : yum update I receive the

Re: Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Bob Goodwin USA
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum updates. unname -a results in : Linux .Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I tried to do so manually with the command :

Re: k9copy broken again in FC9 x64

2008-08-17 Thread Mick M.
Fwiw, I cannot reproduce, but I'm using kde-4.1.0/qt-4.4.1 (from updates-testing). Maybe that's it (ie, k9copy built against newer versions, cannot run on older). -- Rex 4.1 sounds good to me. I submitted an attachment with debug info. (Got tangled up in bugzilla and did it twice.)

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Björn Persson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most users are not using the same mirror all the time, so there would only be a brief window that the system would be vulnerable.

Re: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530

2008-08-17 Thread max bianco
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:09:09PM -0400, max wrote: I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't tell if they're just fixing a fault, or sorting out an attack. Assume the latter and act

Re: [F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
Sean Bruno wrote: o, Xinerama just doesn't work with the radeon driver any more? Or was it just pure luck that it worked at all before? Just for reference, I have a dual head setup with one Radeon and one Nvidia card under FC9. Acceleration is hosed but everything else works just fine

Re: Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 15:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum updates. unname -a results in : Linux .Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64

Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm stumped. I've got a motherboard with the following dual-port NIC: 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Network Connection One port is connected to my DSL modem. It comes up at 100mbps: Aug 17

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED -- for now]

2008-08-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:09 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Aaron et al; This is my last post (for a while) on this subject. Actually the answers are quite simple. Just after spending $45 for Understanding Linux Network Internals (but not yet delivered) it came to me what everyone was

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm stumped. I've got a motherboard with the following dual-port NIC: 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Network Connection One port is connected to my DSL modem. It comes

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED] kinda

2008-08-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Ok, can I give it a try to help clear things up? Not that I am an expert on the subject, but hopefully... :-) Somebody please correct me if I get something wrong here. When we speak of network, there are several layers at work here. First, there is hardware. Cables, network cards at their

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most users are not using the same mirror all the time, so there would only be a brief window that the system

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED -- for now]

2008-08-17 Thread William Case
Thank you very much Aaron; I am not going crazy! On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 15:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:09 -0400, William Case wrote: [snip] I can't find all the connection activity I had found previously but in gconf-editor there is a database called:

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mikkel L. Ellertson writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm stumped. I've got a motherboard with the following dual-port NIC: 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Network Connection One port is connected to

Re: Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Bob Goodwin USA
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Yes, I believe it is the result of system problems. Bob Thanks Bob see the other posts now Things appear to be working now, I just finished the latest update. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: F9 + KDE 4.0 (and 4.1) + Inkscape (missing color picker widgets) [SOLVED]

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Park
In most cases I've seen gtk-qt-engine of misrenders, it's usually a bug in the app. Are the inkscape folks *certain* about this? No, but it was suggested to try and send it their way first, and they could always send back over to the inkscape devs if they felt it wasn't theirs. Here's a

Re: F7 on EeePC : how to connect??

2008-08-17 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:59:13 -0700, Roopnarine, Peter wrote: Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. Hmm I hadn't thought of the driver question. I do remember that getting F8 to run

spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
Friday, my system disk died, so I took that as a sign to reinstall everything from scratch and reorganize my partitions (not to mention getting a much bigger disk). I figure the disk picked Friday to die because it knew fedora updates and livna build system were down, so it would be the most

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
Tom Horsley wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I'd bet on a power spike. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ?? [SOLVED] kinda

2008-08-17 Thread William Case
Thanks for your time and thoughtful explanation Marko; On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:49 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, can I give it a try to help clear things up? Not that I am an expert on the subject, but hopefully... :-) Somebody please correct me if I get something wrong here. [BIG SNIP]

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Alan Cox
Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I gad a very similar thing happen with IBM disks and a raid 1 array. That near miss

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tod Merley
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, my system disk died, so I took that as a sign to reinstall everything from scratch and reorganize my partitions (not to mention getting a much bigger disk). I figure the disk picked Friday to die because it knew

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson writes: Try using ethtoolto lock the port to 100 Mbs Full Duplex. It is probably that the two do not handshake correctly to set the faster speed. If I remember correctly, that was one of the things that the exact protocol was not specified, so not

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or am I misunderstanding something? I think you should get acquainted with the NM roadmap, specifically the work concerning how user connections are going to be publishable as system wide settings so NM can bring up

Kongqueror 4.1 - right click does nothing

2008-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
In both konqueror 4.0.5 and 4.1 on Fedora 9, right click now does nothing. Is any one else having this problem? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I agree with the others, most likey power or impulse related. Yea, power could be it. I unplugged everything earlier in the day the first one died because one of those Wrath of God style thunder boomers was heading my way. Maybe I didn't turn it off soon enough. Anyway, it looks like the repos

Re: F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: It's supposed to be possible to make a live USB stick out of a live CD image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB stick such that the ISO image was a file in the

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with the others, most likey power or impulse related. Yea, power could be it. I unplugged everything earlier in the day the first one died because one of those Wrath of God style thunder boomers was heading my

Re: F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Björn Persson wrote: It's supposed to be possible to make a live USB stick out of a live CD image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB stick such that the ISO image was a file in the

Re: Kongqueror 4.1 - right click does nothing

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:04 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: In both konqueror 4.0.5 and 4.1 on Fedora 9, right click now does nothing. Is any one else having this problem? Right-click where? I get different pop-ups depending on the cursor position. poc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 15:55 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or am I misunderstanding something? I think you should get acquainted with the NM roadmap, specifically the work concerning how user connections are going

Re: Intel 82541GI NIC comes up at 10mbps on one port

2008-08-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson writes: Try using ethtoolto lock the port to 100 Mbs Full Duplex. It is probably that the two do not handshake correctly to set the faster speed. If I remember correctly, that was one of the things that the exact protocol

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Joel Rees
Just being alarmist, here, On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most users are not using

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged, lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff. Has to be really close though,. and you'd know it. For a little while, this was one of those

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 21:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged, lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff. Has to be really close though,. and

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Alan Cox wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I gad a very similar thing happen with IBM disks and a raid 1 array.

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a little while, this was one of those flash-boom varieties with no time delay between flash and boom, so some of them were indeed pretty close. No time delay? Yeah, I think you found the source of your problem.

Re: (slashdot)Package Managers As Achilles Heel

2008-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joel Rees wrote: Just being alarmist, here, On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Björn Persson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/10/227220from=rss Two things bother me about this. First of all, most

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 21:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: this was one of those flash-boom varieties with no time delay between flash and boom I had one of them, with no warning (it was the first strike). It scared the wits out of me, and one of the computers. It suddenly winked out and rebooted,

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: I've seen live television where a camera was struck. They were filming the golf, and one of the remotes got hit. The picture went wonky, then the cameraman dropped his camera, then picked up moments later and carried on filming, unaware of what bit him until told about it. I don't

I think I have shut off a wrong service !?

2008-08-17 Thread William Case
Hi; With all the playing and poking around for the last couple of weeks over networking, I think I might have shut down a crucial service. I have developed the following problems. * information for system = networking missing from my .gconf and gconf-editor. * latest linux

Re: Kongqueror 4.1 - right click does nothing

2008-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:20:45PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:04 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: In both konqueror 4.0.5 and 4.1 on Fedora 9, right click now does nothing. Is any one else having this problem? Right-click where? I get different pop-ups depending

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Using the livecd-creator way to build a custom Install CD on CentOS

2008-08-17 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Oliver Häßler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, well, today i played a little bit with the livecd-creator tools on CentOS 5.2 and I think it is awesome. Well, at work, I have to administrate some CentOS 5 and RHEL 5 Proxy Servers, and I have the problem, that