Re: VIM Q again

2008-06-02 Thread Les
? It is tough enough to get clean code working and delivered. JMHO. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Booting F9 with NO X11

2008-06-07 Thread Les
OS but windows very difficult. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Google Earth and nVidia [partly solved...]

2008-06-12 Thread Les
is not a good idea.) Regards, Les H On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 18:36 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:52 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: Your nvidia driver installation is broken. If you're using Livna's RPMs, then talk to them. OK so part of the problem was that I had

Re: nvidiafb problems

2008-06-29 Thread Les
references last year if I remember correctly. Also because Nvidia is proprietary, the group here has no vision into their code or processes. And if your code is producing segfaults, that needs to be cleaned up before submitting bug reports anyway. REgards, Les H On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 17:48

Re: nvidiafb problems

2008-06-29 Thread Les
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 09:22 -0700, Les wrote: Hi, Russel, Segfaults are probably your best indication of the problem. Generically a segmentation fault occurs when you access memory allocated to another process. You can tramp all over your own processes memory and not necessarily

Re: why all are thinking in that way only?

2008-06-30 Thread Les
. Please don't overstate the case. It is hard enough to get people to run antivirus now. REgards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT (HTML for drawing)

2008-07-08 Thread Les
, short leads (generally 6') and you should be all set. There isn't much that can go wrong other than you may need a null modem connector to transpose the two serial wires. They are available all over the place, or you can simply open up the offending connector and swap them there. Regards, Les H

Re: E-mail

2008-07-09 Thread Les
google it and finish the setup for you. REgards, Les H On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:16 -0500, Allen Meyers wrote: I am new to both linux and fedora and I dearly love what I have experienced thus far except for e-mail. Now because I receive a fair share and must answer it would be nice to be able

Re: How to change LBA48 addressing capability

2008-07-12 Thread Les
The second drive is probably is jumpered to be the slave drive, so with no master it is not being addressed. Regards, Les H On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:40 -0600, Dan Hensley wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 08:25 +, g wrote: Dan Hensley wrote: There are no jumpers on the drive, and I don't

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-18 Thread Les
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:45 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: John Cornelius wrote: This discussion is becoming both increasingly religious and somewhat oblique in its depictions of the elements under discussion. It may be instructive to review the classic definitions of some of these

Re: DWARF 2[/3] the most advanced debugging format?

2008-07-20 Thread Les
thought out. Do you think it will become as widely implemented as COFF? Which debuggers use it effectively? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

2008-07-26 Thread Les
? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: OT: Re: Replies to newbies

2008-08-03 Thread Les
death bed. I hope I have been clear, but I also hope I am a long way from the destination. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: How to install GNU c,c++ library in F8/F9

2008-08-04 Thread Les
of programming you are interested in. Regards, Les H On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 08:46 +0530, Prashanth Kumar wrote: Hi Everybody, I'm learning c,c++ programming in linux. For that i need to know the library functions available. So, plz guide me to install GNU c,c++ library functions and their manual

Re: OT: Re: Replies to newbies

2008-08-04 Thread Les
dictionaries Trust me, ;-) It took years for me to become capable of real expression of complex concepts without every sailors favorite multipurpose word, but that journey, like all journeys had a profound effect on me in many ways. I hope you have the same luck I did. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-09-12 Thread Les
There are also several kinds of H drivers on the market that can drive the pump based upon duty cycle which gives the same effect as current control, but with more torque available. Regards, Les H On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:02 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-11-03 Thread Les
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 11:48 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Antonio Olivares wrote: Which one do you think is better and for what reasons. Ubuntu or Fedora 9. Personally I like Fedora 9. Better for what? It is a matter of using the correct tool for the job. Mikkel

Re: [Fwd: Quota function]

2008-11-14 Thread Les
you need the admin password or the sudoers password to make this work. If you set up the system yourself, you should have the admin password, otherwise, contact the system administrator. Regards, Les H On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 21:40 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Would you mind

Re: help

2008-12-06 Thread Les
Are you using yum? or some other process? Regards, Les H On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:18 -0800, Md. Nazmul Hamid Reza wrote: hi i am running fedora 9 shulphur. i could not install any software in it. when i try to install then it shows 'You don't have the necessary privileges to install local

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-06 Thread Les
is to get information into the Linux sphere. So, my advice is just do it. someone will fix it. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-07 Thread Les
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 11:43 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: 1) be ABLE to write good documentation. You yourself acknowledged good documenters are scarce. You're either good at it or you aren't, it's just like programming or any other complex creative activity

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-07 Thread Les
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:22 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 09:31:55 AM -0800, Les wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 12:04 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: 1) be ABLE to write good documentation. You yourself acknowledged good documenters are scarce. You're either good

Re: (Off Topic ) Open Source: The Model Is Broken ??

2008-12-07 Thread Les
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:22 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 09:31:55 AM -0800, Les wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 12:04 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: 1) be ABLE to write good documentation. You yourself acknowledged good documenters are scarce. You're either good

Re: Root in FC-10

2008-12-07 Thread Les
. Processes a user can start don't have write access to the global system. Processes started from a root account do. Someone will no doubt say that this can be overridden, but it is more difficult than just having an open invitation to the entire system file structure as you do when root. Regards, Les

Re: Advice to an audiophobe ??

2008-12-25 Thread Les
-math explanation I have ever read. I also teach applied DSP (fourier analysis, time series analysis and uses of IFTs.) I have endeavored to explain to many and varied audiences these effects, but never came up with such clarity. May I quote you? Thank you, Les Howell -- fedora-list

Re: Firewall box stop responding

2009-01-14 Thread Les
If you google RFC 1918, it will show that your system has sent a request for a private subnet out onto the global internet. I am no IP guru, but I suspect that you will find the solution somewhere in the linux responses related to RFC 1918. Regards, Les H On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:31 -0200

Upgrade and SELinux messages

2009-01-15 Thread Les
for the FAT32 formatted backup disk. This has disaster potential. I'll try the trick of touch ./relable I. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: KVM Switch Suggestions -- Are The Ebay Cheapies Okay?

2009-01-16 Thread Les
for those ports (5v @1A/port) has probably blown a fuse or component. You may be able to get it fixed. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: how to get username use another home directory

2009-01-16 Thread Les
, the shell variable $HOME will point to the correct directory, in some cases poorly written or experimental code is sometimes not so clean. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Evolution broken

2009-01-20 Thread Les
right corner of evolution to make sure the filter box is empty. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Les
beyond that. But given that the system maps the logical memory to physical memory, and some can do this via hardware, how does adding more memory add more stress? If the system is running the application now, the basic change is reducing swapping to disk, is it not? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-24 Thread Les
feel free to adjust my input if not. The only thing constant in high tech is the rate of change. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: OT: wifi antennas

2009-01-28 Thread Les
or objects as tall or taller than the antenna). Hope this gives you some background and some idea of how to get the best from your antenna purchase. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: How to build a linux based cheap (handheld ) computer

2009-03-13 Thread Les
that is going under and seeing what they might have for sale. There are also some distributors of older SUN computers that are reasonably priced. Just look around. My son in law found one that had been sat outside for trash which he recycled (it had a bad memory board). Regards, Les H

error message from YUM

2009-03-18 Thread Les
on line didn't provide any illumination (as I expected, since this appears to be the window, and not the utility). Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: error message from YUM

2009-03-20 Thread Les
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 21:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Les wrote: If I am reading this debug message correctly, it appears that a lock file is in place. But the path is not given. There are numbered files matching the pattern: /var/lib/rpm/__db.??? These are used to access the actual

Re: thoughts on how to write a linux virus in 5 easy steps

2009-04-05 Thread Les
discussion from me. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Goto [Was Re: Chown ???]

2009-04-10 Thread Les
. Thanks for the great memories and a chuckle. Regards, Les Howell ETC USN (Ret.) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-11 Thread Les
. They were really interesting electromechanical bits of work. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Wireless problem with Fedora 9 and 2Wire 1800

2009-04-18 Thread Les
) had died. Replaced it and no more problems. Hopefully that will do the trick for you as well. That thing draws quite a bit of current, so check the requirements on the modem. Regards Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: who can introduce me some good redhat linux book and download links

2009-04-20 Thread Les
if the data was accurate and up to date. But many on line documents seem to leave that out. So how does one go about checking what is the best sources for training and reference material? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-29 Thread Les
shot one a long time ago. It was in a Jon Boat, with the pole support mounted in a hole in the front seat. Now that was true swampbilly technology. A whole flock of ducks or geese in one shot! Kinda like emacs. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Problems sending Emails

2009-04-29 Thread Les
had not yet fully propagated over their network of servers, and so a few minutes or days later it might work. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: [OT] electronic books. was; Re: Blinking lights of death ? Netgear Switch GS108

2009-05-01 Thread Les
learned has benefited me. Go for it! Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: What /dev is ethernet Webcam

2009-05-28 Thread Les
-cation. Yes, but does Bank Robbery have a better 401K plan? -- Sam Be careful, Now that the government is in the banking business, you know how the politicians hate competition. Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

2009-05-29 Thread Les
the issues.) I suspect that Windows has severe limitations on re-entrance, and most likely hasn't publicly documented that process, which is one of the real issues with drivers anyway. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: problem with my laptop

2009-06-01 Thread Les
ToolsSystem Log It may provide some useful information. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Les
with cash in hand to make that realistic. Any thoughts? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: preupgrade fails F10 - F11

2009-07-17 Thread Les
matter, if the web browsers are standards compliant and the programs are too. The web should be OS independent. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: cli guru needed

2009-08-02 Thread Les
there may be information encoded that will prevent the copy from playing. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: cli guru needed

2009-08-03 Thread Les
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 17:19 -0700, Les wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 12:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Algol 60 guru required

2009-08-04 Thread Les
of implementing pass by value. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Failed dependency check on update

2009-08-06 Thread Les
to remember seeing somewhere that it was changing. Is there a plan going forward that someone might let us all know? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Testing upload/download bandwidth speeds for verification

2009-08-14 Thread Les
, in addition to loading of the sending computer. On the speed tests, check both local responders and remote. I am in California, I regularly use Irvine and a system in New York. there is quite a difference. Regards, Les H On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Daniel B

Re: plotting large datasets

2009-08-22 Thread Les
. I don't know about 32 columns, but it would probably handle that as well. Your biggest issue is how to set them up. The chart tool in calc will let you display them in various formats, and colors. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-03 Thread Les
on that to keep it quiet, and what forces work to weaken the culture. That is a form of code breaking. Regards, Les H On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:34 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dean S. Messingde...@sharplabs.com wrote: I have a terebyte sata drive that I need

Re: For hardware engineer types re: sound controlers and/or codec chips ??

2009-09-06 Thread Les
data appropriately encoded to pass back to the computer where a waiting process will dispose of the data in the appropriate manner for the application. I hope that helps. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

flash cookies

2009-09-08 Thread Les
. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Lots of SELinux denial messages.

2009-09-19 Thread Les
went to bed at about 2:30 and rebooted at that time. Also I emptied the que of alerts when I logged on, so these showed up today since about 9:30. There were four more of these all targeting different objects. Regards, Les H

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread Les
you espouse against those with little or no formal training are allowed to restrict the availability of those talents to the world (and the corrollary of poor performance as a comparison standard.) Just my humble opinion. Regards, Les H. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Failed upgrade to Fedora 11 from fedora 10

2009-09-21 Thread Les
System_u:Object_r:xdm_spool_t:so is not valid (left unmapped). I did the same from fedora 8 to fedora 10 and it worked perfectly. I used preupgrade. Thank you I had the same problem earlier. I had to do the following as recommended by Daniel Walsh: * Les, I believe something went

DVD burning issue

2009-09-25 Thread Les
without dismounting it so the remount is denied. But maybe I am wrong. Is anyone else having this kind of problem? And how can this happen as superuser? Are there any known work-arounds? I couldn't find a recent version of this problem when I looked yesterday. Regards, Les H Here

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-25 Thread Les
, and is the prime reason that both formal training and informal training are necessary and valuable to all professions. In other words we are all have something to share. Just my opinion. Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: DVD burning issue

2009-09-27 Thread Les
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 22:12 +0200, mo wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 17:09 -0400, David Boles wrote: On 9/25/2009 1:57 PM, Les wrote: Hi, everyone, I am having difficulty burning an ISO to try F11 on another computer. I want to burn the live iso image to a dvd. I have tried

Recurrent error on yum update

2009-11-13 Thread Les
that or will I need to re-install from scratch? This system was upgraded via the 10-11 upgrade by yum. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: man 3 switch

2009-11-16 Thread Les
would you categorize all these different effects, provide examples, show the results in the several cases and also hopefully add some guidance (such as man pages do) for the combinatorial effects? Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

PIK microcontroller development issues

2009-12-26 Thread Les
. These little mcpus are really quite powerful and neat for all kinds of jobs. Thanks for any and all help, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: PIK microcontroller development issues

2009-12-28 Thread Les
information and subscribe to the FEL list as soon as my melons (honey dos) are complete. For the non-americans, honeydew is a delicious melon. The pun is that wives give us a list of things to do, Honey, do this please? Regards, Les H On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 04:04 +, g wrote: Chitlesh GOORAH wrote

Re: Sharing my mail with my laptop

2008-05-23 Thread Les Mikesell
existing mail, if you can download via POP to a mail client program that understands both POP and IMAP, you will subsequently be able to drag anything you want to keep back into IMAP folders on the new server. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: OT: Does a proxy IMAP server exist?

2008-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
making another copy you could use fetchmail to grab it (with or without deleting from the original server) so you can feed it to procmail before it is stored where you look at it. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-04 Thread Les Mikesell
SMART_HOST. Also on that system, you will need to make it a POP3/IMAP server so you can retrieve mail. Or run mail/mutt, or something that knows how to read the inbox directly. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-05 Thread Les Mikesell
to relay and be the SMART_HOST for the others, perhaps with address masquerading but they are separate concepts. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
) and :set fileformat=unix and write it back out. Plus, you probably have a program called dos2unix installed... -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
, though. tr can read it's own input just as well with input-filename. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
that you want to combine. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
as quotes for the following character in its own parsing). These details are the same for every command you type (or script) and not repeated in every man page. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: tr problem

2008-06-13 Thread Les Mikesell
, but once its done, I won't need it again till 3 years down the log, and will have forgotten it again. Thanks Les. But you use the shell every day and it parses/processes every command you type. It's worth a bit of time learning what to expect from it at least in terms of variable and wildcard

Re: DVD Based backup without scripts ?

2008-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
scheme involving rsync to another hard drive, perhaps external or remote. If you have multiple machines, backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is particularly good. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: tr problem

2008-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: How to boot from floppy to install Fedora 9 from CD?

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Or, if the PC will boot from a USB flash device you can put the boot image on that (but if it won't boot from CD you are probably out of luck there too). -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: How to boot from floppy to install Fedora 9 from CD?

2008-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
cjakeman wrote: Hi Les and Tom, Thanks for your advice. I've tried http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD [1] but couldn't make it load from the CD. Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope. However, I only want it to run a webserver, so

Re: Yum auto mirroring?

2008-07-01 Thread Les Mikesell
to coordinate this. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Closed source modules will be banned from kernel?

2008-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
releases. Discussions on the reason for the change are outlined in many places including http://lwn.net/Articles/94386/ Do you also happen to have a link for Red Hat's position on this problem or a description of how they deal with it in an enterprise product? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL

Re: Any suggestions for Really Annoying Alarms !!? -- [SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Les Mikesell
do whatever you want. Have it email message to your cell phone or an sms gateway to it. That would be especially annoying if you have to pay to receive them. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
with freedom here: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/08/1832255from=rss. -- Les Mikesell (who likes his tivo...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
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Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
software? Or at least focus the credit on gcc which has been something of a driving force because the alternatives were expensive. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
, and leave politics out of it. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
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Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
prevent - at no gain to anyone. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
as such for several years before Linux was even conceived of. I didn't mean the word GNU. Reflexive acronyms are easy but useless. What was the working system before Linux? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
. But it is equally ridiculous either way, when 80+% is neither GNU nor Linux code. Calling it an xwindow system would make more sense. Or perhaps a firefox/thunderbird/openoffice.org system - with most of the other parts interchangeable. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I didn't mean the word GNU. Reflexive acronyms are easy but useless. What was the working system before Linux? It was GNU. GNU, as a system, pre-dates Linux. As a system of what? GNU was not built on top of Linux. Linux was eventually able

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
underneath is still MS-Windows. Why should a different criterium be applied to GNU+Linux? The 'operating system' is Linux. The other components are mostly not operating system specific. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
people's software. I think it is wrong. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-15 Thread Les Mikesell
the rights of the users to whom you sell or distribute your software. Again, the fact that under certain restricted conditions it may be possible to reuse the code does not eliminate the damage caused by the restrictions that prevent many other uses. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Close your eyes for a moment and picture a big red tag that reads: $ COOPERATION That's the GPL. You seem to be implying that the GPL is necessary for cooperation. You're not showing very good reading comprehension. I'm

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
and standards-compliant. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
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Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
had enough sense to use it. Starting from scratch was an academic exercise that put everyone involved through hell - and still - the best it can do is exhibit standard behavior. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

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