Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:20:59AM +0100, Paolo Leoni wrote: We are near to preview release, so I have two proposals for Fedora 10 countdown banner: I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK,

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mairin Duffy wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Well, the quality of artwork to a large extent consists of the general feeling that it gives the users. Which is a somewhat vague and unspecific thing, and varies from person to person. It is next to impossible to identify the one or two specific

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Jonathan Roberts
PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the target audience for the Fedora Desktop. Matthias, I guess the

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
William Jon McCann wrote: I'm not sure that message-dissection is a particularly fruitful way to respond to the general theme and tone of a message. But I'll respond here because I find it somewhat better than having discussions via blog posts. Speaking of blog posts, Jon, I noticed that

Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-29 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:02 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote: I put together some designs for the four f's posters. Excellent work as always. I share Ian's concerns about the exact slicing of the logo (midway? Edge? Overlap?), but that's a minor issue. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-29 Thread Paolo Leoni
I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK, it's just fine (might need to be adapted a little bit, change the strings, whatever)... someone more important than me needs to make that decision, I think. I have

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Mairin Duffy wrote: William Jon McCann wrote: I think a lot of the responsibility is on the desktop team (and also the upstream community) to communicate more effectively. What do you mean by upstream? You mean the Fedora Artwork team is the upstream for the Fedora-branded artwork, right? I

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Langlie
Hi Karlie, I can render the process of positioning the XO and inserting an SD card in several steps as technical illustrations. Dan Williams demonstrated for me and it looks like a drawing may also be needed for removing the SD card. I will try to have these for you by the end of this week or

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:24 +0100, Max Spevack wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Karlie Robinson
I don't know, but I can find out. Though I did get these yesterday - I don't know if they'll help at all http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/XO/rsrc/XO/resized_600x398_sdcardinsertion.JPG http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/sdcards/ ryan lerch wrote: Are there any existing line drawings /

advertisement for Fedora Scholarship

2008-10-29 Thread Max Spevack
Hi guys, I'm trying to generate some buzz around this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship and it was suggested to me that perhaps a nice looking flyer that people could print out and stick on walls at high schools or various places would be useful. I guess we'd want to include the

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mairin Duffy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the target audience for

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: We have a Desktop team that is trying to innovate towards its particular vision. I will admit that I don't know enough about what that vision is as I would like to, but I am definitely eager to learn. As am I -- there's a good opportunity to

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Mike McGrath wrote: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop team. Well, there is already a #fedora-desktop

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop

Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi, I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from both gnome and kde folks the package has been split into solar-backgrounds (for Desktop Live Spin) solar-backgrounds-common (for KDE) and

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Langlie
I drew a 6-step process for opening and positioning an XO laptop for SD card insertion. Let me know if anything seems to need revising or clarification. I tried to keep it simple and readable with or without additional text explanation. (Big thanks to professional hand model Dan Williams!) PNG

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:37 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: I am not sure I am reading this right, but it may be the intention for a Desktop spin with a different target audience than the rest of the distro. I honestly don't think that the 'rest of the distro' has any clearly defined target

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:19 +, Jonathan Roberts wrote: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Mairin Duffy
Hi Martin, Martin Sourada wrote: If no serious problems/regressions are reported, I'll request a freeze break at Friday. Jesse said he really needs this ASAP, so I think we should get it to him tomorrow morning. He's on West Coast US time so that will give us a few more hours for folks to

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Mairin Duffy
Michael Langlie wrote: I drew a 6-step process for opening and positioning an XO laptop for SD card insertion. Let me know if anything seems to need revising or clarification. I tried to keep it simple and readable with or without additional text explanation. (Big thanks to professional hand

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mike McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop team. No offense, but... First

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:24 +0100, Max Spevack wrote: Fedora is *forced* to be a lot of things to a lot of people. Of course. That doesn't mean that individual spins cannot have a more clearly defined target audience. We have a Desktop team that is trying to innovate towards its particular

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Sourada martin.sourada at gmail.com writes: I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from both gnome and kde folks the package has been split into solar-backgrounds (for Desktop Live Spin)

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote: Mike McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at writes: Thanks a lot! I updated solar-kde-theme to use the new images. There is, however, a problem: the 1280x1024 image is only 1280x1014, any chance this can be fixed? (It leads to bad transitions between KSplash and Plasma because they use different

rpms/VLGothic-fonts/F-9 .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 VLGothic-fonts.spec, 1.12, 1.13 sources, 1.8, 1.9 59-VLGothic-sans.conf, 1.2, NONE

2008-10-29 Thread Akira TAGOH
] - 20081029-1 - update to 20081029 release. Index: .cvsignore === RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/VLGothic-fonts/F-9/.cvsignore,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- .cvsignore 23 Nov 2006 00:10:23 - 1.2

rpms/VLGothic-fonts/F-9 59-VLGothic-proportional.conf,NONE,1.1

2008-10-29 Thread Akira TAGOH
Author: tagoh Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/VLGothic-fonts/F-9 In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv9777 Added Files: 59-VLGothic-proportional.conf Log Message: --- NEW FILE 59-VLGothic-proportional.conf --- ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig

[Bug 244384] Firefox font antialises too much

2008-10-29 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=244384 Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 467982] anaconda doesn't render glyphs with the proper font

2008-10-29 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=467982 Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

Using fedoraproject.org email addr in bugzilla?

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
I wonder whether it is possible to use a fedoraproject.org email alias in bugzilla without decoupling it from FAS? The connection between a bugzilla account and a Fedora account is based on the primary email address in FAS, right? So, if I update my bugzilla preferences to use the fedoraproject

Re: Using fedoraproject.org email addr in bugzilla?

2008-10-29 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2008-10-29 11:08:32 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: I wonder whether it is possible to use a fedoraproject.org email alias in bugzilla without decoupling it from FAS? The connection between a bugzilla account and a Fedora account is based on the primary email address in FAS, right? So, if I

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-29 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:36 -0500, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 20:03:52 +0200, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:05 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Joachim Backes wrote: ... My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do

Re: KDE 4 - thumbnails in dolphin from avi files

2008-10-29 Thread Michal
Florian Sievert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a package called mplayerthumbs. If you install it and restart dolphin it should display video thumbs the next time. Florian, thank You for answer I will try it best regards Michal -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Per Anton Rønning wrote: I guess I should rephrase my question about my 4GB memory stick/pen, where the filesystem now is set to readonly when I enter it into one of the slots. Could anyone tell me what might have happened by taking a look at the snip of the

Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

2008-10-29 Thread Ubique Enterprises
*Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System * Hello, I have the following request: Background - I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used as a stand alone machine or a 32 bit machine) having a Windows 2003 Operating System

Re: Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net writes: The OP asked for any and all advice. Please don't change the subject. Are you going to give out fishing or gardening advice next? How about cooking? Of course he meant any and all advice relevant to his question... No, actually, there

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-29 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:07:12AM +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: What I saw was more than 8 characters, did you mean something else? as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i entered 8 characters. And it really should be MIME in this day

the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop

2008-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there anything i should know about linux compatibility with the following: * dell studio 15 laptop * intel core 2 duo T8100 CPU (2.1GHz/800MHz FSB) * WUXGA display * 4GB shared dual channel DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz * 320GB SATA HD * 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3450 video * Integrated

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 10/28/08, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: g [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], fedora list fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:51 PM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Brown
You have to set GatewayPorts yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and be sure port 5050 is permitted by your host firewall to allow this forwarding to work for other hosts on the home side. You might also have to specify the interface to bind to. Try connecting with putty from the windows box to

Re: C++ and FTP

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton R?nning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have to use FTP connection in C++ applications. I found some tutorials, but nothing interesting. Has anybody been doing with FTP functions? I will need some tutorials about it. Thank you. Hi, I would also recommend curl, I use it a lot. form man curl:

Re: X over a reverse SSH tunnel

2008-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Tom Brown wrote: You have to set GatewayPorts yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and be sure port 5050 is permitted by your host firewall to allow this forwarding to work for other hosts on the home side. You might also have to specify the interface to bind to. Try connecting with putty from the

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Michael C
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antonio Olivares wrote: Yep! ... Agree! Thing is the point I tried to make was that their quote ... is right on target! thank you. i just wanted to see a little clarification. +++ Michael

Mails

2008-10-29 Thread Hilton Britten
Hi, is there away to take me of the mail list where members of the forum send me mail, some of the mail is coming though two to three times a day. Please help. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread David Hláčik
Your evidence speaks to your point - I would be complaining as well. I don't have an idea for you, though I would probably begin by eliminating all customizations, getting rid of twin-view, and just going back to basic-install mode. I've brought Fedora up on better than 30 machines, and

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antonio Olivares wrote: Yep! ... Agree! Thing is the point I tried to make was that their quote ... is right on target! thank you. i just wanted to see a little clarification. +++ Michael C wrote: So you're endorsing White Power paranoid

Re: pdf converter

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Martin
Phil Meyer wrote: Adil Drissi wrote: Hi, Is there any tool to convert openoffice documents to pdf? If you are asking 'Is there a way to convert office documents to pdf on the command line using open office', then yes, there is. However it is not easy. It requires a macro for the

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 05:36 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: I know that it might be my personal opinion, but those two candidates are not what the majority of the people want. I venture to suggest that this thread is something the majority of the members of this list do not want. Take it

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:53:46 -0400, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie when it comes to mime and sending binary attachments. What other mechanism is available to send binary data via email? The uuencode/uudecode sort of protocol used to be used for this on usenet, but

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 07:53 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:07:12AM +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: What I saw was more than 8 characters, did you mean something else? as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread Claude Jones
On Wed October 29 2008 9:34:33 am David Hláčik wrote: I have tried to set DPI to 109pix (which has my notebook's LCD display) , set to subpixel smoothing, installed freetype-freeworld, but fonts are still ugly. Is it that my notebook's LCD is not good? I have no idea. Do you have access to a

RE: Mails

2008-10-29 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
-Original Message- From: Hilton Britten Hi, is there away to take me of the mail list where members of the forum send me mail, some of the mail is coming though two to three times a day. Please help. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread Rex Dieter
David Hláčik wrote: How you are satisfied with current font look in Fedora ? It is a blocker for daily work for you? Fwiw, (imo and all that) the current default fonts for fedora were chosen more for glyph/unicode coverage, rather than beauty. -- Rex -- fedora-list mailing list

RE: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
From: Michael C So if some imbecile uses a public forum to buy into paranoid racist ideology (I quote: In this history-making time, we shall chart our course and forge a plan for the survival and freedom of the heritage that built and sustains America, Europe, and the other nations around

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Mike
Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com writes: What happened was that I spent a lot of time configuring computer A, and rsync'd the root filesystem onto disk at computer B. I then rsync'd from hard disk to computer C and everything was fine except that the hardware is clearly different. I am

Re: httpd access problems

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Manuel Aróstegui wrote: El dom, 26-10-2008 a las 05:00 -0400, Gene Heskett escribió: Greetings all; I note just now that logwatch reports this: - httpd Begin Requests with error response codes 403 Forbidden

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Per Anton Rønning wrote: But now the pen seems to be really stuck, just look at this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc Unable to open /dev/sdc And also: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1 Unable to open /dev/sdc1 This is not a disaster, it just means that I

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Per Anton Rønning wrote: I have tried both fdisk and cfdisk, but non of these are allowed open the jetflash device (as root!) It has made itself inaccessible it seems, so I guess I just have to discard it. If there is no command that I have not thought of that might help me to erase its

Line width fixed but font size increased

2008-10-29 Thread barry yu
When using Firefox, by pressing Ctrl++ to incease font size, the line width will increase as the fonts are getting bigger, is this the problem of firefox or the design of web page? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: mount relatime option / Ext3-fs: Unrecognized mount option ...

2008-10-29 Thread gary artim
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Ryan Sawhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan, thanks for mentioning removing relatime flag before building a new initrd. I forgot to mention that. See the bugzilla entry link I posted before (comment #4) which explains what's going on. Looking at that bug task

Re: Line width fixed but font size increased

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
barry yu wrote: When using Firefox, by pressing Ctrl++ to incease font size, the line width will increase as the fonts are getting bigger, is this the problem of firefox or the design of web page? It is a problem with the design of the web page. Try it on other web pages and see. It works

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Les Mikesell wrote: Mike wrote: Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com writes: What happened was that I spent a lot of time configuring computer A, and rsync'd the root filesystem onto disk at computer B. I then rsync'd from hard disk to computer C and everything was fine except that the hardware is

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:06 AM On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 05:36 -0700, Antonio

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: It would be _really_ nice if the installer could be re-run in this situation, offering to fix only the things that needed to be fixed (re-detect hardware, build a working initrd, install grub, fix your modprobe.conf and check your fstab and network setup). You can do

Bug ? Save As dialog box should not start with /tmp by default

2008-10-29 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, Here's a scenario that just happened to my wife that should not. This is on Fedora 8. 1. Open a document from email attachment (with Kmail), that opens in OpenOffice 2. Save As the document so that it can be edited. 3. Openoffice Save As dialog open with the default directory

Re: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

2008-10-29 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Ubique Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System Hello, I have the following request: Background - I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used as a stand

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread David Hláčik
I have no idea. Do you have access to a fast internet connection? Another thing you could try if bandwidth is no issue, is to download a couple of other distros and see if they display any better - I would suggest PCLinuxOS because of its configuration tools and one of the Ubuntu

Re: Bug ? Save As dialog box should not start with /tmp by default

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hello, Here's a scenario that just happened to my wife that should not. This is on Fedora 8. 1. Open a document from email attachment (with Kmail), that opens in OpenOffice 2. Save As the document so that it can be edited. 3. Openoffice Save As dialog open

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-29 Thread Tim
Tim: What I saw was more than 8 characters, did you mean something else? g: as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i entered 8 characters. Well, the sample you supplied was certainly more than 8 characters long. Prompted for entry into what? And it really should be MIME in this day and age

Re: Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?

2008-10-29 Thread Rick Stevens
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net writes: What issues? Issues, hassles, basically the same. The things that have to be worked around. My question was: can you please list the actual issues, hassles or however you want to call

Re: httpd access problems

2008-10-29 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I can read them just fine with FF, going to the exact same web address you would use: http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/nitros9 But apparently (some) others cannot. I just had a look, and some files in there are forbidden (cc3io.dis),

Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without

2008-10-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ot] the kind of endorsement you can live without To: fedora-list fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 5:51 AM Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Tue, 10/28/08, g [EMAIL

Re: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

2008-10-29 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Ubique Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System snip Step- By -Step please. Step-by-Step is a lot to ask from a list where

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:14:43 -0500, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be _really_ nice if the installer could be re-run in this situation, offering to fix only the things that needed to be fixed (re-detect hardware, build a working initrd, install grub, fix your

Openbox/Gnome not an option anymore

2008-10-29 Thread Ivan Virgili
I updated my system and do not have Openbox/Gnome as an option anymore. openbox-gnome-session has disappeared from /usr/bin/, wheras the openbox-kde-session is still there. Is someone else experiencing the same problem? Do you know how to fix it? openbox-3.4.7.2-6.fc10.i386 Thanks, Ivan -

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread Claude Jones
On Wed October 29 2008 12:23:02 pm David Hláčik wrote: No my laptop has 1440x900 (Asus F3Sr). OK - in an earlier post, you said you were using 1400X900 - that's why I asked; so, I'm assuming you're saying that the earlier post was incorrect, and you are indeed using 1440X900, correct? And

Re: Openbox/Gnome not an option anymore

2008-10-29 Thread Ivan Virgili
Ivan Virgili wrote: I updated my system and do not have Openbox/Gnome as an option anymore. I found the reason in the changelog: Thu Oct 2 23:00:00 2008 Miroslav Lichvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 3.4.7.2-6 - Drop gnome session script (gnome-session no longer supports $WINDOW_MANAGER)

Re: Firefox not opening from Thunderbird links: error, launching default action command

2008-10-29 Thread R. G. Newbury
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:25 PM, R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to Fedora 2.0.17. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box with the error message: Error showing url: There was an error launching the

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Per Anton Rønning wrote: But now the pen seems to be really stuck, just look at this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc Unable to open /dev/sdc And also: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1 Unable to open /dev/sdc1 This is not a disaster,

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Per Anton Rønning wrote: But now the pen seems to be really stuck, just look at this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc Unable to open /dev/sdc And also: [EMAIL PROTECTED] disk]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1 Unable to open /dev/sdc1 This is not a disaster,

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Per Anton Rønning wrote: I have tried both fdisk and cfdisk, but non of these are allowed open the jetflash device (as root!) It has made itself inaccessible it seems, so I guess I just have to discard it. If there is no command that I have not thought of that

CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Beartooth
I've been advised, more or less btw in an otherwise scarcely related thread, to quit using my KVM switch (which has spare USB ports touted by the maker especially for printserving) as a printserver. So I plugged the printer (an HP psc 1315v) into my #1 machine; and I've been

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Per Anton Rønning wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Double check that you are accessing the correct device. USB drives do not always get assigned the same device. (It might get assigned /dev/sdd instead of /dev/sdc for example.) If you are interested in the reasons for this, it should

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:12 +, Beartooth wrote: Since all I know of printing would go in a gnat's eye, and Alpine has several printing options (none of which I understand well), my first thought is to try to find out if I have a pure Alpine problem, a pure CUPS problem, or

Re: 54 GB in /var/log!! -- UPDATE

2008-10-29 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:17:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Beartooth wrote: [] You should not need this with either method - at least when I go to add a printer in system-config-printers, it first searches for new printers, and should find the new network printer. (I prefer

Re: httpd access problems

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I can read them just fine with FF, going to the exact same web address you would use: http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/nitros9 But apparently (some) others cannot. I just had a look, and some

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Beartooth wrote: I've been advised, more or less btw in an otherwise scarcely related thread, to quit using my KVM switch (which has spare USB ports touted by the maker especially for printserving) as a printserver. So I plugged the printer (an HP psc 1315v) into my #1 machine;

Re: C++ and FTP

2008-10-29 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Per Anton R?nning wrote: Example: - char curlcmd[100]; char url[]=http://url,char receiving_file[]=/some directory/recfile.html //setup url command sprintf(curlcmd,curl %s %s,url,receiving_file); i=system(curlcmd); Why would you use curl with system, when it has a

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Beartooth wrote: I've been advised, more or less btw in an otherwise scarcely related thread, to quit using my KVM switch (which has spare USB ports touted by the maker especially for printserving) as a printserver.

Re: 54 GB in /var/log!! -- UPDATE

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Beartooth wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:17:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Another advantage, if you have CUPS set to allow administration from a machine on the network, is to open a web browser from that machine, and have CUPS on the other machines open - each in their own tab. I also

Re: FONTS

2008-10-29 Thread David Hláčik
Maybe that's the explanation, but I don't think so - I still think something else is going on with your Fedora setup - I haven't ever had to deal with the issue you're seeing, except when my screen resolution was improperly set by the automatic mechanisms, so, I just can't offer any other

Re: httpd access problems

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gene Heskett wrote: Are these files actually there, or are they elsewhere, and these are symlinks to them? Symlinks. Dumb question - do you have the FollowSymLinks option turned on? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is the new printer connection set as the default printer? I am guessing that the USB connection through the KVM switch was the default printer on each machine. I think so. They all show

Re: C++ and FTP

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton R?nning
Matthew Flaschen wrote: Per Anton R?nning wrote: Example: - char curlcmd[100]; char url[]=http://url,char receiving_file[]=/some directory/recfile.html //setup url command sprintf(curlcmd,curl %s %s,url,receiving_file); i=system(curlcmd); Why would you use curl

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is the new printer connection set as the default printer? I am guessing that the USB connection through the KVM switch was the default printer on each machine. I

Re: What is filesystem panic?

2008-10-29 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Per Anton Rønning wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Double check that you are accessing the correct device. USB drives do not always get assigned the same device. (It might get assigned /dev/sdd instead of /dev/sdc for example.) If you are interested in the

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is the new printer connection set as the default printer? I am guessing that the USB connection through the KVM switch was the

Re: OpenOffice is anyone having trouble?

2008-10-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Alex Makhlin wrote: Is anyone having trouble running OpenOffice on Fedora 9 KDE 4.1.2? Any app that I try to open, on any of my Fedora 9 machines, will not open! This has to be a Fedora problem for non of my Fedora machines can open one app. Anyone know why? I would greatly appreciate it. No

Re: CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

2008-10-29 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:00 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] If you are using the CUPS web administration, look at the Device URI: line. One should be a USB device, and one an ippd://address/631/something - the ipp:// one should be the default on

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