Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Nifty Fedora Mitch niftyfed...@niftyegg.com wrote: Another external input is the mail message that Thunderbird is replying to. In general a graphical email tool will transparently pick up the character set of the message you reply to.  Some HTML/XML/RichText

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:10:27 +0500,  gil...@altern.org wrote: I took a look before writing my answer and the information I got is it's a mean for people on the net or your ISP to take a look at the data on your

Impossible to access boot menu

2009-10-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and, whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot menu. I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and I have hiddenmenu in it. But the back-up, /boot/grub/grub.conf~ dates back to August and has hiddenmenu in it too. Since

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-10-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: I try to access the boot menu, where you can choose a kernel and, whatever key I press, I can't stop the countdown and access the boot menu. The timeout=0 starts the boot process without delay

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-10-31 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: Also an answer to Suvayu Ali and Mikkel. Do you have a USB keyboard? Oh, oh! I had a USB keyboard

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-11-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: Oh, oh! I had a USB keyboard when I installed but I now have a keyboard with a round plug. So, I tried to enable legacy support as Mikkel suggested, but I can't access the BIOS. You do not need legacy

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-11-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What is the value of timeout in grub.conf? Arrrgh! 10 sec. If I can see the countdown, it's because it's long enough. There's always at least 4-5 sec. left on the counter when it appears. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-11-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What is the value of timeout in grub.conf? Arrrgh! 10 sec. If I can see the countdown, it's because it's long enough. There's always at least 4

Re: Impossible to access boot menu

2009-11-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
And, if I may add, if I can't access the boot menu, it can't have much to do with Fedora. I meant if I can't access the BIOS. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

2009-11-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
Did you ever believe that you would one day hear Alan Greenspan confess that the way he envisioned global economics was totally wrong? That's what, amongst other thing, you will hear in this stunning CBC documentary entitled The Warning or how the 2008 financila meltdown could have been

Re: Saving Flash where Greenspan confess he's an idiot

2009-11-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: With all due respects, isn't this an incorrect posting given the intent of the mailing list and the intent of the message? Because I have respect for the intelligence of people on this list, I would certainly have

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: I believe this documentary will be available for only one week after airing. Is there any convenient way to save it? First of allyou probably would get a more welcome response if you dispense

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Fennix cn.ste...@gmail.com wrote: Why does no-one answer the question? Well, this is the way things are with sincere Linux advocates. You put Greenspan in one title, they bring out their axe and may well start a fewd that's a thousand messages long to teach you

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: However these methods don't always work. I seem to remember seeing sites that unlink the /tmp file immediately after creating it. If that happens you'd need to poke around in /proc/pid-of-flash-player/fd. The

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: The day you succeed in saving a flv file at the CBC, the BBC or any other place where the file does not readily appear in /tmp, you tell me. All the steps. I'll be glad to double-check. Since I don't live in

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: It doesn't save a file in /tmp. As a bonus, since it's not political, it's not off topic. Perfect for Linux geeks! That one was easy wget http://pdl.warnerbros.com/trailers/alphanum/00a

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 16:44 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Let's see what I can find just for you... How about About Schmidt, at Warner's? http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-Show

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: (...) So, in essence, what you're telling me is that data can come to one's computer with no way to get hold of it. I find it pretty amazing. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 01:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: It doesn't

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: he one thing that you are missing is that some media suppliers don't want folks to save the streams.  Folks like psb and bbc develop there own embedded players that sit

Update broken by MythTV

2009-11-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/osd.xml from install of mythtv-base-themes-0.22-1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mythtv-themes-0.21-4.noarch file

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: That said, I gave you a start for saving those movie clips. You mean this? ./rtmpdump_x86 -r rtmp://203.77.184.132/a1863/o6/tp-live/PBS_CP_General_Audience/cosby-full-revised-CHN.mp4 -o outfile.mp4 The problem is that,

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Best advice:  Don't ask *us* about this, contact your bank, or credit card supplier, and see what they advise and can offer you. Rest assured that my bank will think that dealing with their card is safe. It's when

Re: Saving Flash

2009-11-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Howard Eisenberger howa...@gmx.net wrote: On 2009-11-17, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:52 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However these methods don't always work. The day you succeed

Re: F12 on a P4

2009-11-22 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Pentium Pro is the original i686 system. And since it was introduced in 1995, if your computer is less than 14 years old, you'll be doing fine. No way Fedora is about to adopt OS X manners, Mr Konstam. Sleep tight :) On

Re: Grub timeout ignored?

2009-12-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 Set timeout to 10. For some reason, 5 is too short. -- fedora-list

Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-09 Thread Marcel Rieux
If you start a new message in Evolution and go under Format, you will see that the slash switches from Plain text to HTML. And if you press the slash / character, great it works! How do you write a slash ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
2009/12/10 Christoph Höger choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02:58 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: If you start a new message in Evolution and go under Format, you will see that the slash switches from Plain text to HTML. And if you press the slash / character, great

Re: Writing a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: No shortcut here either (F12, 2.28.0). Could someone have modified one of Evo's XML files? Try an rpm -V evolution to check. No output for this command. For sceptics, here's a screenshot:

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Joerg Bergmann em...@jbergmann.de wrote: I have 2.26.3. Under the Format menu, I may select between two radio-buttons: HTML and simple text (Einfacher Text in german). No shortcut at all. Very strange. Maybe there's a way to select radio-buttons that would

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:20 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 08:04 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: 2009/12/10 Christoph Höger choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02:58

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:20 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 08:04 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: 2009/12/10 Christoph Höger choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net wrote: Evolution obeys the GTK standard method of assigning shortcuts to menu items. You have probably assigned / to this menu item inadvertently at some point. To remove it, just press Backspace whilst the menu item is highlighted.

[Solved] Changing menus and keyboard shortcuts in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
The answer was provided by Mark Knoop m...@opus11.net, who wrote: Evolution obeys the GTK standard method of assigning shortcuts to menu items. You have probably assigned / to this menu item inadvertently at some point. To remove it, just press Backspace whilst the menu item is highlighted.

Should I switch to 32 bit FlashPlayer?

2009-12-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
When I installed my 64 bit version of fedora, I thought I'd go 64 bit all the way, even with FlashPlayer. The problem is there is no yum package available and you have to check when a new version is available which, of course, you don't do too often. Today I ran into this article:

Re: Should I switch to 32 bit FlashPlayer?

2009-12-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend using 32 bit with nspluginwrapper (install i686+x86_64).  You won't regret it. I followed the instructions on this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash and it worked no problem. Thanks to you and

Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
I thought I'd give the Omega LiveDVD a try, but I find the security rather puzzling. First this: # To verify on Linux: # $ sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM # Windows users use http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/ 89b708de224e989cbda9c5bf8feebd38d36a16f1765c60648ec2161d2bb1d551 Omega-12-i686-Live.iso $

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marcel, On Wednesday 16 December 2009 12:34 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I thought I'd give the Omega LiveDVD�a try, but I find the security rather puzzling. First this: # To verify on Linux: # $ sha256sum -c

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: You are correct. But its a minor problem. The CHECKSUM file has one character missing. If you do `cat Omega-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM', you can see that the checksum is shown as this,

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Yeah. I have fixed the instructions and the file.  Your checksum does match btw. Thanks! For now, this forum being on a secure server, it solves the problem :) Omega's site is just a personal site and not

Re: Do you know about Omega?

2009-12-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: (snip) I did a quick test and posted a comment on your blog. To others who would like to post comments: http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/omega-boxer-release/ Regards! -- fedora-list mailing list

8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon and choosing Format, but it still has only 3.7 GB available. Any way around this? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon and choosing Format, but it still has

Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

2009-12-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
Some people here said that, despite Fedora suggesting not to upgrade with yum, they did so and had good results. If this is the way to upgrade with yum: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#Instructions_to_upgrade_using_yum I can tell you that upgrading with preupgrade from Fedora 11 to

To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention: Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. Learn more -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with the following mention: Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device?? Arrrgh! Since you asked, I thought I'd check.. and it's indeed a 4 GB! I bought this drive at Future Shop, more commonly known as Future Shark. The price, $10

What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. BTW, I'm not talking about iotop. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device?? Arrrgh! Since you asked, I thought I'd check.. and it's indeed a 4 GB! I bought

Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
As usual playing video at the CBC/Radio-Canada is a pain. They even succeeded at scrapping Flash video for Linux. See: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows I wrote to the of the CBC CEO to complain and he answered they lacked budget to do things right. When I noted that The Passionate Eye program

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Barry txsc...@fastmail.fm wrote: Could this problem be related to the U3 software that comes preloaded on these? http://www.kingston.com/flash/dt_u3.asp Please! The capacity problem has been settled: it's a 4 GB drive that was in a 8GB packaging. See:

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:59 PM, William Witt will...@witt-family.net wrote: On 12/19/2009 06:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieuxm.z.ri...@gmail.com  wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 12/19/2009 05:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieuxm.z.ri...@gmail.com  wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
Rieux wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: [...] I thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on the pen drive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way, according to fdisk

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I think there is another problem with having pen drives formatted ext3 or ext4. Pen drives can only tolerate a finite number of writes before they crap out. Any format that involves journaling will increase the

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/20/2009 02:29 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Now that i know it's a 4GB drive, I wouldn't format it ext3, but since it's already formatted ext3 and I don't plan to use it  to exchange data, I'll leave

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 20/12/09 05:37, Marcel Rieux wrote: You may test at: http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp Ask Omega where to get it, or use Omega

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: The answer is gecko-mediaplayer and it is in rpmfusion and those videos play fine on my F12 system with that installed. gecko-mediaplayer is not available for playing Windows Media. It does...with the correct

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking on the icon.  If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used. Whatever gave you that idea? As I

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/20/2009 06:46 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking on the icon.  If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If you don't have a partition, the drive

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko In your original post you gave 2 URL's http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows and http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp The first link leads to videos that are flash.  However, they are not directly played by the

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko In your original post you gave 2 URL's http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows and http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I disabled MozPlugger. Everything is back to the defaults as on Omega and your system. Goddammed plug-in! Must have been useful some time ago. If you have any idea of the wrapper used by the CBC for flash, that would

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: 2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have a lost and found directory on that drive. I'm pretty sure that your USB stick currently has a MBR

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: The only other thing I have to say is that when you copy your tarball to the stick, make sure you run: sync and then do a checksum comparison. For the time being, I only have ~1.7 GB of data to back-up. So I copy

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: If you have any idea of the wrapper used by the CBC for flash, that would complete this thread. More FWIW CBC uses the embedded video software call UberPlayer.  This software doesn't support Linux. PBS

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 12/20/2009 09:00 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: You're right, my hasty extrapolations were wrong. But I don't believe you can get a Flash drive working that will be listed only as /dev/sdb any more than you can have a HD

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/455852 I forgot to add that there's an ongoing discussion on the matter at this URL. It might be of interest to you. even technically. See also: http://tarek.org

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote:  mount a /sys/kernel/debug -t debugfs [...] All references at Google's, only 9 of them, say mount a. How come it's not mount -a a is the device containing the filesystem. For this kind

Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-27 Thread Marcel Rieux
It's the first time I open Ryththmbox since I upgraded and it seems there's a problem. When I click the icon, it doesn't open. In a shell: (plugin-scanner:2610): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `GstBaseVideoCodec' (plugin-scanner:2610): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave:

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: (snip) I went to Rhythmbiox's site and learned that the minimum version of gstreamer needed is 0.10.14 . The latest versions of gstreamer are: GStreamer Good 0.10.17 Bad 0.10.17 stable releases2009-11-17 01:00

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: The -devel in the name means that these are optional packages needed by software developers, including people who (re)compile/(re)build software packages from source code. Is that why I have: rpm -q

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: 2009/12/28 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: It's the first time I open Ryththmbox since I upgraded and it seems there's a problem. When I click the icon, it doesn't open. In a shell: (plugin-scanner:2610): GLib

Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:49:34 -0500, Marcel wrote: The -devel in the name means that these are optional packages needed by software developers, including people who (re)compile/(re)build software packages from

[Solved] Re: Problem with gstreamer

2009-12-28 Thread Marcel Rieux
From the description of the bad gstreamer plug-ins in Gnome installer, it seemed that they could be both problematic and not necessary. I removed them and it didn't cause any problem watching wmv media. There were 2 entries for rhythmbox, the latest impossible to select. I removed the one that

/etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
This message was issued while updating shadow-utils today. The weird thing is: ls -l /etc/login.defs.rpmnew -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1475 2009-11-18 08:51 /etc/login.defs.rpmnew I did a research both on the fedoraproject and redhat sites and there's nothing about what to do with this warning.

Re: /etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: If you had made changes to the original login.defs file you can make the changes to login.defs.rpmnew and replace the original login.defs with it.  If you didn't make any changes you can simply replace the login.defs

Re: /etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 06Jan2010 00:24, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: | This message was issued while updating shadow-utils today. The weird thing is: | | ls -l /etc/login.defs.rpmnew | -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1475 2009-11-18 08

Re: /etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: This message was issued while updating shadow-utils today. The weird thing is: ls -l /etc/login.defs.rpmnew -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1475 2009-11-18 08:51 /etc/login.defs.rpmnew I did a research

Re: /etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 06Jan2010 01:50, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: | On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: | On 06Jan2010 00:24, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: | | This message

Flash Problem

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
Suddenly, Flash at YouTube and elsewhere stopped playing. I cleaned /tmp, checked if javascript was enabled, I installed some new flash packages, but not devel and gnash, tried the former kernel(1), all to no avail. (1) I received kernel warning after I rebooted. The Black screen with controls

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Suddenly, Flash at YouTube and elsewhere stopped playing. I cleaned /tmp, checked if javascript was enabled, I installed some new flash packages, but not devel and gnash, tried the former kernel(1), all to no avail. (1

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-06 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: 2010/1/7 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: youtube but apparently needs the bad plugins. Not sure it's an advantage over using the Abode plug-in... It's free software I guess.. Yeees... But have you seen

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it might be a good idea to do just the opposite: remove everything and reinstall, I reinstalled gnash. It works fine at youtube but apparently needs the bad plugins. Not sure it's an advantage over using

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marcel, On Thursday 07 January 2010 10:59 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: # yum install libcurl.i686 This might be your problem. Try this instead, # yum install libcurl This tells me that the the x86_version

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-07 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: 2010/1/8 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com: Too many sites were not playing with gnash. So, I tried to install flash-plugin. First weird thing is that flash-plugin does not show as installed or installable in package

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: However the website (and BBC site) say that it can employ lossless compression: Dirac has the capability of compressing high resolution files for production, compression for broadcast content, and compression for

Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Theora is not lossless. The BBC code is intended for lots of things - such as *production* where you don't want loss. I'm not saying that Dirac doesn't present advantages over Ogg Theora but I believe that, since it's