Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting reminder 2010-01-07 UTC 1700

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
if needed, or you may email us at any time with questions or issues. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
. Paul W. Frields: It's xdg-user-dirs-update, and it does work. Just tested it here on a fresh account. What does it actually do? Create replacements for missing special directories? (As I said, I haven't managed to see it do anything, yet.) That's right, it does that on first session

Re: F12 all media players have no video but sound only

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
of the box: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
communicating in my experience, and I use it most of the time in Fedora. Yum also has bits that allow it to communicate with PackageKit when run on the command line. This system works quite well. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
be interested in hearing about it via a bug filing, and could probably help figure out where to pull out the appropriate info if it recurs. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http

Re: [in the news] Virtualisation Enhancements in F12

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
use. I'll check with the uploader to find out. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean

Re: Network Audio

2010-01-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
is possible, overlap is acceptable. I do this in my home office with PulseAudio's network capabilities. Works like a champ. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Transifex upgrade

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:45:23AM +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote: Paul W. Frields さんは書きました: Diego posted the summary of what needs to be done here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455#comment:10 In short, we need a few people to step up and help with the process

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
with xdg-user-dirs-update, but it appears that even though you can use the program to set values, you still need to create special directories before first login if they're different from the system defaults. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
with system-config-network (since there's no NetworkManager available) and then you can go to town. :-) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: Top Crashers

2010-01-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
analysis by extracting the ABRT reports from BZ would just be horrible. Is the existing CBI project helpful in this case? http://lwn.net/Articles/362777/ -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
a logout. Maybe I could use sym links, but,IMHO, is not the clean answer! After you change the value in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, run 'xdg-user-dirs-update' to set the changes in stone. The directory to which you point must exist. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: Marketing goals, revisited: the 4 Foundations

2010-01-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
feedback. +infinity is my main comment here, honestly - this is great stuff. Disco! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Re: F13 Schedule - question!

2010-01-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
F13 schedule. Now all we have to do is clean up Trac. :) Late, but +1 to Robyn's suggestion on eliminating confusion with a link. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Openoffice.org EOL announcement

2010-01-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life_SOP I also added a link to that page on the main EOL page so it would be easier for you or anyone else to help contribute directly to it. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906

FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
. Robert Scheck (rsc)663 6. Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) 535 7. Richard June (rjune) 415 As such, Adam Jackson, Christoph Wickert, Peter Jones, and Matthew Garrett are elected to FESCo for a full 2 release term. - -- Paul W. Frields

Re: FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:09:42PM +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:06 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:19 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting

Re: FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:19:47PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 13 Cycle Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph

Re: Fedora mailing list migration

2009-12-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
-list/2009-December/thread.html Also, I asked one of the folks on the migration team to write up a short wiki page that describes what users should expect to see and do as a result of the migration. You can expect that shortly, I believe. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

FUDCon Toronto: please take the 5-minute feedback survey

2009-12-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
shortly after it closes. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list). --Mel * * * * * -- Paul W

Election results for FAmSCo, FESCo coming shortly

2009-12-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
and results. - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

Re: [Patch] Fix PXE booting for livecd-iso-to-pxeboot created images

2009-12-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
for the OP to file the patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedoracomponent=livecd-tools -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: f12 guide

2009-12-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
://docs.fedoraproject.org/ -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

Re: [in the news] Review: 3 top Linux distros go for different users

2009-12-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
is certainly great, but the average user isn't interested in spending time finding and learning new, off-the-beaten-path utilities. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: FUDCon survey draft - last call for feedback

2009-12-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
), but that page needs a *lot* of cleanup first. Robyn's on the road right now but we'll be in #fedora-mktg finishing this up and launching it out, probably in something like 1.5 hours (1900 UTC, which is ~2pm EST for me). -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: Voting app offline time?

2009-12-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:51:15PM -0600, inode0 wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:08:15PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Mike McGrath wrote: On Mon, 14

Re: 3G dongles

2009-12-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
-with-networkmanager/ -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

Re: 3G dongles

2009-12-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:48:30PM +0100, Antonio M wrote: are these kinds of dongles working in F12??? Yes, quite a large number of them in fact. This was one of the major feature points in the Fedora 12 release that went

Re: Detecting how Apps are called.

2009-12-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
not be incredibly useful. The applications called when you insert or attach common types of media are found in your main menu under System Preferences File Management, in the Media tab. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233

Re: Fedora Board, FESCo FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
additional day. These elections now end on 2009-12-16 UTC 2359. - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net

Re: astronomy-bookmarks conflicts with fedora-bookmarks

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
anyone know? [p...@scarlett ~]$ repoquery -q --provides astronomy-bookmarks astronomy-bookmarks = 1-6.fc12 system-bookmarks [p...@scarlett ~]$ repoquery -q --provides fedora-bookmarks fedora-bookmarks = 11-2 system-bookmarks They both provide 'system-bookmarks'. -- Paul W. Frields

Re: astronomy-bookmarks conflicts with fedora-bookmarks

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:01:56PM -0500, Mike Bonnet wrote: On 12/14/2009 04:50 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:32:56PM -0500, Eric Christensen wrote: When trying to install astronomy-bookmarks I get the error that astronomy-bookmarks conflicts with fedora-bookmarks

Voting app offline time?

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
Has the voting app been offline during the move? If so, how long? The answer to those questions will determine whether and how long we need to extend the voting period. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906

Re: Voting app offline time?

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
. Yup, top-side estimates add up to 8 hours, so we should extend the voting by one day as agreed. Make it so! ;-) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Voting app offline time?

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:51:09AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:46AM +1000, Nigel Jones wrote: We had some the original DB downtime ~1-2 hours, then downtime due to fas not been around ~1-2 hours, plus a DB downtime of ~2-3 hours and a VPN downtime of about

Re: Fedora Board, FESCo FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
additional day. These elections now end on 2009-12-16 UTC 2359. - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net

Re: Fedora Board, FESCo FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information

2009-12-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
additional day. These elections now end on 2009-12-16 UTC 2359. - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net

Re: Marketing FAD 2010 - First Brainstorm

2009-12-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
on for purposes of doing Great Karnac impressions, but would mostly be there in the same Get Stuff Done mode as everyone else. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Request for help maintaining packages while away.

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
there is considering doing so, please feel free to team up with me. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net

Re: Docs Installation Guide - Submission and Download problem

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
much across the whole Fedora Project. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tools#Website -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: Request for help maintaining packages while away.

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:38:11PM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: Jef, I'll help with istanbul.  If anyone else out there is considering doing so, please feel free to team up with me. Other than revelation(which

Re: Docs Installation Guide - Submission and Download problem

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
much across the whole Fedora Project. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tools#Website -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Legal aspects of fedora based appliances

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:22:07PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:14 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:10PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: Hello. Fedora contains various tools for appliance creation. AFAIK it is intended

Re: Fedora Insight: Remaining items

2009-12-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:55:52PM -0500, Pascal Calarco wrote: Hi all -- Simon made excellent progress on Monday resolving most of the errors on publictest6 for Fedora Insight. Xinhua works nicely and I am able to submit, decision, and publish articles with the workflow we designed for

Fedora 13 release name

2009-12-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
The Fedora 13 release name is: Goddard The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions, the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the voting. -- Paul W

Elections and infrastructure

2009-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
the infrastructure move. Nigel and I will also post blog entries about the information you see here, and I'll send out announcements to the appropriate mailing lists. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
set -- but at worst, if you had no work pending, you could kill the gnome-session and see if your panels return. (That's kind of an atomic bomb approach.) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
' kaboodle. Still not sure that's necessary though. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:33:21PM +, Beartooth wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:43:47 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: [] On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:52:26 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: [] Try restarting gnome-panel (assuming it's Gnome you're using) That's what I want

Re: Fwd: F13 goals and marketing objectives...

2009-12-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
. This is a pretty tough one to do in one cycle, and I suspect we will learn it over iterations, much as we've done with many other processes, e.g. the release schedule. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
is required in some form for GPL compliance, with respect to the ISO images that we ship. Any new solution would have to preserve this. Might there also be export compliance implications too? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6

Re: Docs Installation Guide - Submission and Download problem

2009-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
to contemplate updating the Fedora Transifex instance. Is that already planned? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Re: Docs Installation Guide - Submission and Download problem

2009-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:23:40AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:47:32AM +0200, Dimitris Glezos wrote: FWIW, Fedora still runs an old version of Tx. If the Infrastructure is out of its freeze period now, this would

Re: Docs Installation Guide - Submission and Download problem

2009-12-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:22:44PM +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: If the Infrastructure is out of its freeze period now, this would be a good time to contemplate updating the Fedora Transifex instance. Is that already planned? We are waiting for an upgrade

Re: Answers from the Candidate Questionnaire now in the Wiki (Was: Candidate Questionnaire status)

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
for a questionnaire for the next election, someone will need to take over this responsibility. Your help has been much appreciated! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: Fedora Talk Follow-up Meeting Wed or Thurs?

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
at the last group session that I participated in. I don't know if it was a one time glitch or if there is a bug. The symptom was that when recording was turned out remote listeners lost audio. Calling back in again fixed things up. File a ticket for this! -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Fedora twitter account

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
toward that goal, so right on! Obviously I don't just want to paste this login info to the wiki, but if someone has suggestions for how to handle it, I'm all ears. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB

Re: Fedora twitter account

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:33:33PM -0300, Matias Kreder wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:38:56PM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote: To further entice folks to pick up on our social networking strategy, here

Re: Video: 5 Fun Things in Fedora 12

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
(s) and follow-up. That seems like a very constructive way forward. I enjoyed the video. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: Video: 5 Fun Things in Fedora 12

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:18:36PM +0100, wonderer wrote: Flash was for me no problem. I wonder if anyone else tried Gnash? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

Re: New sponsor!!

2009-12-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
in the sidebar sponsor listing. :) Thanks to everyone who put some time into bringing on this new sponsor. And of course, thanks to BODhost for their gracious hosting of Fedora! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906

Re: [in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

2009-11-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
also posted updates to my Twitter and identi.ca feeds this morning, with hashtagging that will help them get carried. RTs welcome. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com

PackageKit change

2009-11-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.html - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937

Re: Security policy oversight needed?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
caught the nuance.) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
on rare occasions, it's never been a good thing.) I'm not saying that FESCo shouldn't have purview over the issue, just that you're really drawing a black and white picture where there's clearly some in-between. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: [in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

2009-11-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
with a known security vulnerability and then intentionally exploiting it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/ There's already an update in progress: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00012.html -- Paul W. Frields

Re: [in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

2009-11-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora

Re: Unfrozen!

2009-11-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
painlessness of the release, it would be much appreciated. I never tire of tooting the horn of awesome Fedora teams! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: Xwindow can't start after f12 preupgrade

2009-11-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
to something else, like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig, and then try startx again. Could be your existing hacked configuration file is no longer necessary and interfering with Xorg's newer functions for autoconfiguration. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: fedora 12 tethering

2009-11-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
, it will show up automatically in the NetworkManager list. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster

Re: F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

2009-11-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
other partitions dynamically? Now *that* is easy with LVM, something you can't say otherwise.) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: news / press release index

2009-11-18 Thread Paul W. Frields
://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive wiki page. Should I merge? Thoughts? I'd merge, and leave a redirect at the new page you made pointing to the F12 merged area. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937

Announcing Fedora 12

2009-11-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
features slated. Refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule and: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList - -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http

Re: Can I preupgrade Omega?

2009-11-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
repositories for yum for the new release (i.e. '11' - '12') do exist, it should work. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Re: Fedora 12 bad checksums

2009-11-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list

Tour wiki fix

2009-11-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
is not as attractive or helpful IMHO.) Hope this works for everyone? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org

Digg it up! F12 release...

2009-11-17 Thread Paul W. Frields
http://digg.com/d31AI1X If you're watching this list, please take the time to Digg worthwhile articles on Fedora 12 release, such as the above submission, which links directly to our beautiful one-page (or so) ;-) release notes. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp

Re: scripts that need to be updated to f11? f12

2009-11-15 Thread Paul W. Frields
there is a reason to remove it completely. Are there any other places that f12 needs to be added in scripts? On the log hosts: /etc/cron.daily/zfedoraUsage.sh I rely on that pretty heavily for weekly statistics counts. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org

Re: Curious problem with yum

2009-11-11 Thread Paul W. Frields
until tomorrow and try again. Fedora contributors are working on tools that in the future will help minimize these occurrences. If anyone would like to get involved to solve the problem, they're always welcome! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg

Re: Fedora 12 has gone gold

2009-11-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
and I hope other people enjoy it too! -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs

Re: Fedora Classroom Marketing Class: Monitoring release PR

2009-11-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:04:35AM +0800, Mel Chua wrote: So... our usual Marketing Meeting this week (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Meeting_details) is a little special. It's not at 20:00 UTC - it's at 20:30 UTC. It's not in #fedora-mktg - it's in #fedora-classroom.

Re: Fedora 12 tour

2009-11-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
can't use the material? I also added a photo for bluetooth headset support. I don't think that we have to be limited to just what's installed by default when we talk about the things that Fedora offers. After all, that enables us to talk about virtualization and hardware enablements. -- Paul W

Re: Fedora 12 tour

2009-11-08 Thread Paul W. Frields
and the actual composition were produced using the free tools in Fedora itself (Gimp and Inkscape) - should go without saying but it's still important. I showed this to Spot, sitting next to me in Brisbane, and he agreed it was superb. This document is really shaping up nicely! -- Paul W

Re: Fedora 11 x86_64, ATI HD4870, and RPM Fusion's Catalyst Drivers...

2009-11-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
fps -- and none of the other negative side effects that made the Catalyst drivers such a pain. YMMV. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http

Re: [Was: Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable] - changing repos?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul W. Frields
to the repo configuration files manually, you should be seamlessly transferred to the Fedora 12 branch. IIRC you have to take manual action to stay on the Rawhide branch after that point. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4

Re: package for basic examination of .dv video files?

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
, the latter European (and IIRC most other places). Is that output really showing you the contents, or is it just making recommendations on how it would be imported? No idea. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB

Re: [SOLVED]should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
a message that says something like Can't open library /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1, you can look it up with yum and install it yourself, with 'yum install /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1'. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB

Re: This week's meeting: come to either Daylight Savings Time or not (2 meeting slots)

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
the meetings page and the mailing list with that right now. I'll be there for the 3pm EST; I have an appointment at 4:30pm so I may not be able to stay all 2 hours. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11

Robyn's interview

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
officially. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

Some relevant dates

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
on finalizing her interview text, and then it will get the same treatment. Everything else looks ready to go, so all in all I'd say we're in B+ to A- shape. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717

Fedora 12 tour

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
, and so forth. It seems to me an additional tour page is unnecessary. I just want to voice my opinion, and if there's general agreement, we can knock that off the release deliverables page in favor of the new standard of a meaningful one-page release notes document. -- Paul W. Frields

Re: Fedora Talk changes

2009-11-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:51:50PM -0600, Sijis Aviles wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:35:52PM -0400, Paul Frields wrote: I realize the web string freeze was a few days ago, but now that we have a whole slew

Re: F11: Exchanging messages within the house

2009-11-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora

Re: Driver to Radeon HD 4200?

2009-11-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
-dri-drivers-experimental package first. Install, restart X, and then try glxgears or compiz out to see results. This works on my brand new Radeon HD 4850, for example, which shocked, astounded, and delighted me. :-) -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org

Re: Driver to Radeon HD 4200?

2009-11-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:02:43PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 02/11/09 15:54, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:44:53PM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: rpmfusion is normally the place you want to get

Re: Fedora Talk changes

2009-11-02 Thread Paul W. Frields
in for use in the F12 release? Re-ping --- anyone? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster

Re: file that controls the number of kernels kept

2009-10-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list

Re: Interviews and podcasts, update

2009-10-28 Thread Paul W. Frields
be in his spam bucket. Just for historical note, I did get Matthias and Robyn hooked up via email. Robyn, how's the interview coming at this point? -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717

Re: Polish done Tuesday?

2009-10-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:27:21AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: On 10/25/2009 07:04 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: Hi Documenters and Marketeers, There are some late breaking but fairly minor changes happening that might affect screenshot making. If anyone is working on bits with screenshots

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