Re: [Mageia-discuss] Can't access floppy drive

2012-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On 30 January 2012 21:26, Paul Simon psi...@sonic.net wrote: I see from your note that it has not been answered yet.  I have the same problem with both Mandriva and Mageia but am not as advanced in Linux as you are.  Let's hope there is someone smarter than we are who can help us, and then add

Re: [Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

2012-02-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/12 15:40, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 12:20 my mailbox was graced by a message from Anne Wilson who wrote: I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my family that are, frankly, clueless

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Remote login

2012-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/12 13:42, Oliver Burger wrote: 2012/3/31 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com: Le 2012-03-30 17:30, Oliver Burger a écrit : Am 30.03.2012 23:22, schrieb Marc Paré: But in the long run, wouldn't it

Re: [Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

2012-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/12 15:19, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: And remember too that Linux is all about user's choice; none of the We are X of Borg, resistance is futile, you will do exactly what we tell you.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

2012-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/12 16:33, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2012 15:17, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: it took only a couple of seconds and involved no action except shutdown, I just wanted to see the red background :) I remember I did the same, for

Re: [Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

2012-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/12 20:53, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 10:57 my mailbox was graced by a message from Anne Wilson who wrote: True indeed, but if someone wants to commit suicide we do have a moral duty not to supply the gun and teach

[Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

2012-04-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like to use an external monitor when doing more serious work on my netbook. As far as I can see there is nothing in MCC for setting that up, so I assume I have to use System Settings. However, that too only offers me the settings for the netbook's

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

2012-04-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/12 19:31, Richard wrote: On Thursday 19 Apr 2012 19:12:35 Anne Wilson wrote: On 19/04/12 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: I like to use an external monitor when doing more serious work on my netbook. As far as I can see there is nothing

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

2012-04-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/12 07:26, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like to use an external monitor when doing more serious work on my netbook. As far as I can see

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Configuring external monitor display

2012-04-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/12 20:16, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On some laptops there's a function key that switches. On mine (HP Elitebook/NVidia GT216 Quadra FX 880M) it doesn't, but I found a package called

[Mageia-discuss] Success with Kontact/4.8.2

2012-04-21 Thread Anne Wilson
Determined to have a clean install on my netbook in time for my holiday, I installed Mageia beta3. This was quickly updated to KDE 4.8.2, including kdepim. Almost everything is working perfectly - almost, in that I can't connect to my Google contacts, but that's not the end of the world.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] page of Mageia in wikipedia (in english) has been deleted

2012-05-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 15:57, Doug Laidlaw wrote: I'm worried because many people will look for information about mageia next week, when the Mageia 2 is released, and I really like the wikipedia and I think an

[Mageia-discuss] Kipi plugins incomplete in beta 3?

2012-05-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I needed to print a couple of photos today and went to Gwenview, expecting to use the Print Assistant plugin - but it is greyed out. I checked the installed packages but didn't see any obvious omissions. Any idea what I'm missing? Anne -BEGIN

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/12 15:54, Doug Lytle wrote: I'm trying to set up a NAS server, and the built-in address is not on the same subnet as my LAN, so I need to temporarily change the address of this netbook so that I can run the configuration. Thanks for the

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/12 16:16, Doug Lytle wrote: guess that I have to remove NetworkManager control before doing this? And then ifdown eth0 before calling up eth0:temp? I wonder of NM was the problem all the time. You shouldn't have to remove

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/12 16:53, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Monday 21 May 2012 17:05, Anne Wilson wrote: And then ifdown eth0 before calling up eth0:temp? No. You can have houndreds of IPaddresses on the same machine. No need to remove one in order to add

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 10:56, Doug Lytle wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm struggling with this. It worked perfectly for getting the temporary ip address, but I'm having great difficulty persuading it to use the original eth0 address. One other thing just

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 14:55, Doug Lytle wrote: No :-( No difference, even though I restarted the network service, Lets start from scratch. But first, can you tell me the ip address of the NAS and your laptop's IP address for eth0. After making note

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 15:08, AL13N wrote: No :-( No difference, even though I restarted the network service, Lets start from scratch. But first, can you tell me the ip address of the NAS and your laptop's IP address for eth0. After making note of

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 16:59, AL13N wrote: On 22/05/12 15:08, AL13N wrote: No :-( No difference, even though I restarted the network service, Lets start from scratch. But first, can you tell me the ip address of the NAS and your laptop's IP address

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 17:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On 22/05/12 16:59, AL13N wrote: On 22/05/12 15:08, AL13N wrote: No :-( No difference, even though I restarted the network service, Lets start from scratch. But first, can you tell me the ip address

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 19:07, AL13N wrote: i was under the impression (considering subject) that you wanted it temporarily? I needed the eth0:temp set-up temporarily. I don't need it any more. i'm not sure, but i don't think the init-network scripts can

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 20:01, AL13N wrote: [...] ifcfg-eth0:temp is now ifcfg-eth0:temp.sav so shouldn't be being read. I'm going to delete it altogether now. perhaps it thinks your eth0 interface alias is now temp.sav instead of temp :-)

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Temporarily changing IP address

2012-05-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 23:02, JPB wrote: Le lundi 21 mai 2012, Anne Wilson a écrit : I'm trying to set up a NAS server, and the built-in address is not on the same subnet as my LAN, so I need to temporarily change the address of this netbook so that I can

[Mageia-discuss] Going back to Cauldron

2012-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I carefully avoided updating for the last week, but thought it sensible to update now. I wanted to stay with Cauldron. However, it appears that I have Mageia 2. Where can I find the URLs that I need to change for that to happen? Anne - -- Need

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Going back to Cauldron

2012-05-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On 28/05/12 21:02, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Anne, On Mon, 28 May 2012 20:20:33 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: I carefully avoided updating for the last week, but thought it sensible to update now. I wanted to stay with Cauldron. However, it appears that I have Mageia 2. Where

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Going back to Cauldron

2012-05-31 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/12 21:58, James Kerr wrote: On 30/05/2012 18:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On 28/05/12 21:02, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Anne, On Mon, 28 May 2012 20:20:33 +0100 Anne Wilsonan...@kde.org wrote: I carefully avoided updating for the last week

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Formal request to the Board/Council

2012-05-31 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/05/12 01:20, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Wobo et bonjour Anne, Le 2012-05-30 10:20, Anne Nicolas a écrit : Thanks to both of you for doing this. IMO, Mageia's board made the right decision and I have to say that I feel that this has vindicated

Re: [Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

2012-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 08 February 2012 12:50:46 Anne Wilson wrote: Am 08.02.2012 13:35, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 08:47 -0300, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati a écrit : On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 08:37 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire Robinson who wrote: I

Re: [Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

2012-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 08 February 2012 16:01:09 Anne Wilson wrote: Then your family members will wait for you anyway (in the best case) without knowing what happened - while they could have been happily working or entertaining themselves until you come and do the updates. Actually, no. Experience

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Remote login

2012-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/12 13:42, Oliver Burger wrote: 2012/3/31 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com: Le 2012-03-30 17:30, Oliver Burger a écrit : Am 30.03.2012 23:22, schrieb Marc Paré: But in the long run, wouldn't it be better to use some server side filtering?

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Testing after resubscription

2012-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On 22/04/2012 00:39, Len Lawrence wrote: On 22/04/12 00:21, nicolas vigier wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Len Lawrence wrote: Just to find out what happens when I post to the list. None of my postings from my gmail address show up but the replies do so it looks like the messages do get

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mailinglist woes, Old messages released

2012-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/06/12 19:31, Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:57 PM, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: afaik there was a way to assign some people the task of moderating them for each mailing list independantly. perhaps we could assign this

[Mageia-discuss] Ripping to mp3

2012-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an audio CD that I want to rip to mp3. My favourite ripper is grip, but I can't get the configuration right. I have installed the fluendo mp3 codec (it seemed to install, anyway). I don't recall having to do anything more than that in the

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Ripping to mp3

2012-06-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/12 17:57, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 12.06.2012 17:37, schrieb Anne Wilson: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an audio CD that I want to rip to mp3. My favourite ripper is grip, but I can't get the configuration right

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Flash videos

2012-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/06/12 09:42, andre999 wrote: TJ a écrit : On 06/12/2012 02:16 PM, TJ wrote: Adobe has announced that Flashplayer for Linux will not be supported beyond version 11.2. There will be backported security updates for a while, but that's it.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Ripping to mp3

2012-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/06/12 09:42, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:37:01 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an audio CD that I want to rip to mp3. My favourite ripper is grip, but I can't

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mailinglist woes, Old messages released

2012-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/06/12 05:55, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2012 12:29, Anne Wilson wrote: The default should be that: mailing from outside the list should be allowed, That would cause an awful lot of spam messages And it would have

[Mageia-discuss] fstab problem

2012-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On my Cauldron netbook, fstab has the lines 192.168.0.200:/DataFromBorg /mnt/QNAS-Lydgate-Data nfs useer,timeo=14 0 0 192.168.0.40:/home /mnt/borg2_home nfs user,timeo=14 0 0 The mounts work perfectly. On the new Mageia2 install, fstab, to do the same job, has the lines

Re: [Mageia-discuss] fstab problem

2012-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On 15/06/12 19:13, Frank Griffin wrote: On 06/15/2012 01:42 PM, AL13N wrote: Op vrijdag 15 juni 2012 16:46:03 schreef Anne Wilson: 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.0.200:/Anne, has dmesg something? did you have nfs in lsmod? Shortly before release I and others

Re: [Mageia-discuss] fstab problem

2012-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On 15/06/12 21:26, Frank Griffin wrote: On 06/15/2012 02:54 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: On 15/06/12 19:13, Frank Griffin wrote: Shortly before release I and others noticed that a lot of basic services that were converted to systemd were no longer starting automatically at boot. I thought

Re: [Mageia-discuss] fstab problem

2012-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On 16/06/12 08:20, AL13N wrote: Op zaterdag 16 juni 2012 09:43:42 schreef Sander Lepik: [...] After installation, all the 192.168.0.40 mounts work, the 192.168.0.200 ones don't. More digging to be done. The errors for those two are: 'mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required

[Mageia-discuss] How can I kickstart pinentry-qt

2012-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is this another problem of the change to statd, or something entirely different? I have pinentry-qt installed, I ran through the GPG wizard and everything looks fine, but I'm never asked for a password, so I can't decrypt messages and I can't sign

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Music player

2012-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/12 16:00, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: 2012/6/15 Diego Bello dbe...@gmail.com mailto:dbe...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Gary Montalbine gmontalb...@cox.net mailto:gmontalb...@cox.net wrote: I was using Amarok as a

Re: [Mageia-discuss] How can I kickstart pinentry-qt

2012-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On 17/06/12 19:28, David W. Hodgins wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:56:36 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: different? I have pinentry-qt installed, I ran through the GPG wizard and everything looks fine, but I'm never asked for a password, so I can't decrypt messages and I can't sign

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Music player

2012-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On 17/06/12 19:35, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: Le 17 juin 2012 17:59, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org a écrit : On 15/06/12 16:00, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: 2012/6/15 Diego Bello dbe...@gmail.com mailto:dbe...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Gary Montalbine gmontalb

Re: [Mageia-discuss] [doc-discuss] Re: meeting tomorrow

2012-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On 18/06/12 10:26, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 18.06.2012 11:18, schrieb Anne Wilson: We can have a meeting tommorow at the ususal time: 18.00 UTC (20.00 Paris time) in #mageia-doc. Partly to get me back up to speed and to discuss, whatever we need. If you have any items for the agenda, just

Re: [Mageia-discuss] How can I kickstart pinentry-qt

2012-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/12 23:41, David W. Hodgins wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:52:05 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: On 17/06/12 19:28, David W. Hodgins wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:56:36 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: different? I

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Music player

2012-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/12 12:26, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Anne et al: Le 2012-06-18 04:53, Anne Wilson a écrit : I dont know for today, as i dont use any more Amarok since Clementine has be released. I remember that to have amarok working with mp3 we needed

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Music player

2012-06-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/06/12 15:28, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: If you have not tried Amarok in a while, then you should give it another try. I don't think you will be disappointed. It's full of bells and whistles that I don't use and don't want, so yes,

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Music player

2012-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/06/12 17:42, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: Στις 19/06/2012 17:09:44 Anne Wilson έγραψε: On 19/06/12 15:28, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: If you have not tried Amarok in a while, then you should give it another try. I don't think you

[Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

2012-06-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using TBird 10.0.5, I find that using the Reply button results in a single line containing the date and name of the contributor being quoted - nothing else. Sometimes, that is. Further investigation suggests that it may be related to replying to

Re: [Mageia-discuss] HP Printer

2012-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/12 01:02, Paul Simon wrote: Gary Montalbine gmontalb...@cox.net wrote in message news:4fe374ba.50...@cox.net... On 06/21/2012 02:51 PM, Paul Simon wrote: Getting good color depends on what you mean by good color. It's subjective.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] HP Printer

2012-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/12 19:24, AL13N wrote: Op donderdag 21 juni 2012 17:02:10 schreef Paul Simon: Gary Montalbine gmontalb...@cox.net wrote in message news:4fe374ba.50...@cox.net... On 06/21/2012 02:51 PM, Paul Simon wrote: Getting good color depends on

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

2012-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/06/12 20:54, Florian Hubold wrote: Am 21.06.2012 13:11, schrieb Anne Wilson: Using TBird 10.0.5, I find that using the Reply button results in a single line containing the date and name of the contributor being quoted - nothing else

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

2012-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/12 01:19, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:54:26 +0200 Florian Hubold doktor5...@arcor.de wrote: Am 21.06.2012 13:11, schrieb Anne Wilson: Using TBird 10.0.5, I find that using the Reply button results in a single line

[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the exact words). Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message that it couldn't locate

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 12:54, James Kerr wrote: On 25/06/2012 11:36, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 13:21, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:06:45 +0100 James Kerr j...@jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk wrote: On 25/06/2012 12:54, James Kerr wrote: On 25/06/2012 11:36, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 14:05, James Kerr wrote: On 25/06/2012 13:28, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:24 +1000 Doug Laidlaw laidl...@hotkey.net.au wrote: But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail to /var/spool/mail/user. If

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail - SOLVED?

2012-06-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 16:29, Remco Rijnders wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:18:36PM +0100, Anne wrote in 4fe8814c.7020...@kde.org: But you use Postfix. I use getmail. Both deliver mail to /var/spool/mail/user. If Anne is downloading her mail

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/06/12 07:52, andre999 wrote: Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilsonan...@kde.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail - SOLVED

2012-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 17:36, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:54:20 +1000 Doug Laidlaw laidl...@hotkey.net.au wrote: The other thought is that the 4upsp8fe.default is a user directory as with Mozilla. Is there another one alongside it?

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail - SOLVED?

2012-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/06/12 17:23, Frank Griffin wrote: On 06/25/2012 11:43 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: It's odd, but I may have solved the problem. That said, I still don't understand why. During the time I've been trying to solve this, I have made two changes. First

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

2012-06-26 Thread Anne Wilson
it is that account that is looking at /var/spool/mail/anne. Perhaps she has such an account on Mageia 2 but not in cauldron, which would explain why she does not see the error messages on cauldron. Jim On 06/25/2012 05:20 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: To be honest I don't recall ever hearing of movemail

[Mageia-discuss] No sound for Google Hangout

2012-06-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My laptop has the usual tinny sound system, so I bought a Creative X-Fi USB 5.1 gadget. Some time back, Coling helped me to get that working, and that is what I normally use for music. However, I can't get the audio in/output sockets to work, so I

Re: [Mageia-discuss] No sound for Google Hangout

2012-06-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/12 15:12, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:56:49 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: Aslamixergui simply shows the PulseAudio channel Have you looked at the Pulse Audio Volume Control on the menu (pavucontrol

Re: [Mageia-discuss] No sound for Google Hangout - SOLVED!

2012-06-30 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/12 15:12, Doug Laidlaw wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:56:49 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: Aslamixergui simply shows the PulseAudio channel Have you looked at the Pulse Audio Volume Control on the menu (pavucontrol

[Mageia-discuss] Ark extraction from context menu

2012-06-30 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The context menu options, Extract here, Autodetect subfolder and siblings don't seem to be working very well - although the simpler Extract to seems fine. Anyone able to confirm? Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Ark extraction from context menu

2012-07-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/12 06:04, Norbert Marchl wrote: Am 2012-06-30 20:59, schrieb Anne Wilson: The context menu options, Extract here, Autodetect subfolder and siblings don't seem to be working very well - although the simpler Extract to seems fine. Anyone

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Ark extraction from context menu

2012-07-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/12 12:06, Anne Wilson wrote: On 01/07/12 06:04, Norbert Marchl wrote: Am 2012-06-30 20:59, schrieb Anne Wilson: The context menu options, Extract here, Autodetect subfolder and siblings don't seem to be working very well - although

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: Let your yes be yes --- It is rude to say no

2012-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/07/12 08:08, Doug Laidlaw wrote: Nowadays, even a local community is multicultural. Here, my brother kept using the phrase spot the Aussie. That didn't mean Aboriginals, but white descendants of the British settlers. In London even,

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: Let your yes be yes --- It is rude to say no

2012-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/12 21:28, Marja van Waes wrote: When things are going bad, and you meet someone you don't like and he asks you how do you do, what do you answer? Some months ago I listened to a radio discussion regarding a scientific paper that stated

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: Let your yes be yes --- It is rude to say no

2012-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/07/12 00:35, Frank Griffin wrote: I've found this to be the case in the past with the Japanese on IT matters. When they say yes they really mean I understand the request you are making, not I am committing to doing it. Others have said

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: Let your yes be yes --- It is rude to say no

2012-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/07/12 04:14, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Friday 13 July 2012 04:47, andre999 wrote: Don't forget that often people will say yes because they would like to do something, without seriously considering the various demands on their time. They

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cultural difference: indirect request --- direct request

2012-07-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/07/12 10:04, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/7/14 Marja van Waes marj...@xs4all.nl: AFAIK, a Grube is a mine ;) A good example of what I wrote earlier in this thread (translating the meaning, not the word). A Grube can be a coal mine or

Re: [Mageia-discuss] How control ernergy events ?

2012-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/07/12 15:52, Jean-Baptiste BUTET wrote: Hi all :) I have an eeepc (701) with a USB HDD as a home server (nfs server, samba server, apache server...). It boot with gdm... then I close screen - It works well. But, I have one issue :

[Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

2012-07-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday I opened kaddressbook (4.8.2-3.mga2), only to find a blank page. Going to System Settings Personal I discovered that my address accounts had disappeared, so I re-created them, one pointing

Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

2012-07-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/07/12 19:49, Balcaen John wrote: I guess you're talking about a *global* offline status of kmail not eventually only the mail dispatcher which sometimes seems to be offline for no reason. In my case, none of the Kontact apps were working.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

2012-07-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/07/12 14:31, Balcaen John wrote: Le dimanche 22 juillet 2012 10:18:01 Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/07/12 19:49, Balcaen John wrote: I guess you're talking about a *global* offline status

Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

2012-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/07/12 20:04, Balcaen John wrote: In mga #6159 however someone mentionned that issue was still present when networkmanager was installed *not* used for managing network ( yeah funny :p ). So i was asking to check that you were not in that

Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

2012-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/07/12 10:01, Balcaen John wrote: Le lundi 23 juillet 2012 09:34:36 Anne Wilson a écrit : Yep Could you remove networkmanager package, log out/log in , then test again. If it's fixed then i guess i'll remove the nm support in kde-runtime

Re: [Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/07/12 13:59, Max Quarterpleen wrote: I am so glad that Anne said that, because she is one of the few people qualified to say what I, and probably several others, were thinking. I grew up learning en_US, but due to one thing or another was

[Mageia-discuss] What happened to Speaker Setup?

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been used to using the Speaker Setup in the Phonon section in System Settings, but I don't seem to have it here. Is it somewhere else? Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Mageia-discuss] What happened to Speaker Setup?

2012-07-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/07/12 02:45, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:10:09 +0100 Anne Wilson wrote: I have been used to using the Speaker Setup in the Phonon section in System Settings, but I don't seem to have it here. Is it somewhere else

Re: [Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)

2012-07-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/07/12 03:45, TJ wrote: The US is a strange place that often makes little sense. We drive on the parkway, and park on the driveway, Perfect examples of needing to be aware of clarity :-) And add to that all the words we've integrated from

Re: [Mageia-discuss] What happened to Speaker Setup?

2012-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/07/12 02:45, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:10:09 +0100 Anne Wilson wrote: I have been used to using the Speaker Setup in the Phonon section in System Settings, but I don't seem to have it here. Is it somewhere else

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

2012-08-07 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/12 18:23, Max Quarterpleen wrote: Nope. It's not the indexing. Top reports what I suspected: nothing taking more than 5% CPU time, and the two top contenders are Firefox and X. if it's X, it's probably the display, but since I seem to

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

2012-08-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/12 10:39, Max Quarterpleen wrote: By running gkrellm and seeing that the temperature monitor on the HDD is not climbing above 40C. I haven't figured out how to limit the CPU in power saving options (KDE). I will be grateful for any help

Re: [Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

2012-08-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/08/12 12:45, Maurice Batey wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:27:32 +0200, Alejandro López wrote: How can you know before buying the PC whether it has UEFI? Is it mentioned somewhere? I thought about asking the selling person, but chances are

[Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on the server as well as on workstations. My main need is for mail serving, for which I use fetchmail/procmail/dovecot - are

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 16:46, Jim Whitby wrote: On 08/22/2012 11:06 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote: My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than happy and I'm seriously wondering whether I could use Mageia on the server as well

Re: [Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 17:40, Maurice Batey wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:25:41 +0100, I wrote: I hadn't thought it appropriate to install 64-bit on a 2GB RAM netbook! Seems the NC110's 2-core Intel Atom processor *can* handle 64-bit, although it came

Re: [Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 18:26, Maurice Batey wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:07:08 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: the motherboard only supports 1GB RAM. My Samsung NC110 came with only 1GB RAM, bujt can work with 2 GB, so I'm awaiting delivery of a replacement

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 18:05, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I don't know what enterprise distros are supposed to be, but IME Debian is quite reliable on a server. By enterprise distros I mean Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its clones. Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 18:56, nicolas vigier wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote: My recent experiences

Re: [Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

2012-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 21:20, Frank Griffin wrote: On 08/22/2012 01:35 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: The Aspire One series require you to remove the keyboard to get at anything. To be honest, I'm not competent to start replacing chips on a RAM board, either

[Mageia-discuss] Playing .flv files (M2)

2012-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the past I've viewed .flv files in VLC. Yesterday a friend sent me such a file, and I was surprised that I couldn't manage to play it at all. No error message or anything - VLC just sits there waiting for me to tell it what to do. If I use the

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