Re: FYI/FWIW: Jon Chiappetta's Fedora/ARM blog @ Wordpress suspended for TOS violation (WTF?)

2013-06-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 02:35 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Contacting WP and, explaining that this may be an error usually works. Jon's already trying to talk to Wordpress about it. He says the

Re: Unlock screen on Fedora18 via VNC

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 22:51 +0900, Uematsu Takeshi wrote: I use fedora18 on my desktop machine. I usually connect to the machine with VNC from laptop computer. But I can't unlock the screen when it gets locked.My vnc viewer is TigerVNC. Which server are you using? One that connects to your

Brightness Controls Do Not Work after Suspend-to-Disk

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Tyler
I have a Toshiba Z-830 (the Portege i7 version) which works fabulously under F17: 15 second boot, 2 second resume from RAM, all features working (except the fingerprint reader, for which I wait hopefully for a future driver). I recently configured hybrid suspend - suspend-to-RAM for 15 minutes

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-30 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 23:53 -0700, John Wendel wrote: On 07/29/2012 10:09 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Hello all, Just thought about asking you guys what the actual name is, Linux or GNU/Linux (In our Bangladeshi community, we're really divided on this issue). I personally

Re: Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 11:07 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/20/2012 05:25 AM, Tim wrote: Whether that be Java, or Flash, or anything else. It seems far too common that a programmer would not care that their program is ridiculously inefficient to the point that multitasking becomes nearly

Re: A file named [?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 18:16 +, Beartooth wrote: On one of my PCs, /bin contains an executable file whose name is the left square bracket, and nothing else. Opening it with gedit gets something that's part text (generally if not all commented out) and part stuff I can't

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 02:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW, F15 is Gnome 2. Umm, every box I've seen running F15 that's running Gnome is running Gnome 3... -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 22:04 +, Beartooth wrote: On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100, NOSpaze wrote: Hi. I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too slow and unappropriate when working

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 11:48 -0500, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with

Re: Run SCO OpenServer in a VM?

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 22:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/2011 03:34 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a friend who is running his business on an old OpenServer machine, and would love to be able to just

Re: bash: ./a.out: Permission denied

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 10:01 -0700, Brian Mury wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:50, shailesh shailesh23...@rediffmail.com wrote: when i try to run compiled c program (./a.out) get error bash: ./a.out: Permission denied chmod u+x a.out If you *just* built this, then your umask may be

Re: [fedora] dd

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 20:36 +0800, xinyou yan wrote: I want to make sure one thing . Can I use tar to pack the file created by dd. I found use tar -rf xx.tar yyy.dd can't make the file into the tar file . It depends on what is in the dd file and what you're trying to do. I assume

Alternate I/O (braille) during Installation of Fedora

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Tyler
I have a student who is blind and hearing impaired. I know that braille output devices, etc., can be configured once a system is up, but the course I'm teaching involves system installation. What support is available for that type of hardware during system installation? -Chris -- users mailing

Buttonless Touchpads

2011-07-03 Thread Chris Tyler
Many HP (and perhaps other) laptops are now shipping with 'buttonless' touchpads. There is a T-shaped line drawn on the pad dividing out two 'button areas' on the pad, but there is no physical button in each area. Instead, the entire touchpad is sensitive (you can move the cursor around even when

Re: bash command not found

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 11:43 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: I tried uninstall and reinstall PackageKit-command-not-found with the same result. Maybe a x86_64 problem ? Eric Two observations: - If Packagekit-command-not-found is active, the error message seems to change from: bash:

Re: bash command not found

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:39 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 2 June 2011 12:35, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: - If pk-c-n-f times out on fetching file list metadata, it seems to silently stop trying to suggest packages. I've seen this on slow connections and disconnected machines

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 20:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/25/2011 07:17 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Or GNOME folks assume people do not shutdown/restart their computers anymore? Many of us who use Linux on their desktops leave them running 24/7, only rebooting for a kernel update. If

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 18:24 -0700, stan wrote: Found the cause. And your observation above seems to be correct. There is a file in /usr/lib/rpm called rpmrc. That file has the compile flags that rpmbuild uses. There is a -g on every one. So anything that is built by rpmbuild with a default

Re: My swap space seems to have vanished....

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:46 +0100, DB wrote: (snip) Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9799655956901929294527+ 83 Linux /dev/sda359569020 645507764 292969372+ 83

Automatic Backup when Drive Plugged In

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Tyler
I was browsing the website of a computer supplier and saw an ad for an HP Simple Save external disk drive, which automatically initiates a hard disk backup (on Windows) when the disk is plugged into a USB port. Later this year I'll be sending my daughter to University with a Fedora-loaded laptop

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. (snip) A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions -- What kind of hardware? (lshw can be useful here) What kind

Re: dm service

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:07 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 02/22/2011 03:26 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! Where is the desktop manager service in fedora? /etc/init.d doesn't contain something related to this.. i ask because sometimes i want to shutdown X... Thanks, Adrian The

RE: Reducing the size of a volume group

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:49 +, Chuck Bruno wrote: If that's the case I would backup whatever personal/important data from the F14 install and remove all the linux partitions. Then you can use something like a gparted live CD to resize your NT partition (back up data from it too first

Re: CHROOT for SSH

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:33 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I gave an SSH access to my server to somebody. But I want (and only for him) chroot him to its home. What is the easiest way to do this ? As a simpler-to-configure alternative, depending on your use case, a restricted shell might

Re: Remote X display access

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 13:53 -0500, Alex wrote: Hi, What is the best way to securely permit a remote X application to display on as local system? ... Here's what I do: local machine: ssh -YC usern...@remotemachine.com I tried ssh -X u...@host and that appeared to work fine. What is

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 14:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: $ ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print length}') )); echo $a $ASDF$(for i in {1..$a}; do printf .; done) 65 hello. $ Why doesn't it print: 65 hello.

Re: ergonomic typing enforcement

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 13:12 -0800, David L wrote: I just bought an ergonomic keyboard because my wrists are starting to hurt. Now that I have one, I am trying to get rid of some bad habits that I've developed over many years. One such bad habit (according to some ergonomic typing web sites

Re: Curious bash evaluation

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:05 +0100, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hello. See this: # A=echo 'hi' # echo $($A) 'hi' # echo 'hi' hi Does anyone understand why does the first command evals the echo but echoes the simple quotes? $() provides a type of quoting, so it's evaluated

Re: firefox, scaled images, and performance?

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: For example: http://www.widescreenwallpapers.in/bulkupload/widescreen/HD/Arctic%20sunrise.jpg If I try to do a save image as and navigate around the file browser to save the image in a directory it takes a little time to navigate to,

Re: firefox, scaled images, and performance?

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 10:43 +0530, Jatin K wrote: What the heck is firefox doing? Am I the only one who sees it? Same here . don't know why ! magic Since some people are seeing this and some are not, could it be a particular extension that you have installed? What happens if you

Re: Selinuxprevents from graphical login

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:47 +0100, Antonio M wrote: On one of my systems, if Selinux is targeted I cannot access to graphical session, as password would be wrong (all users and root) As soon as Selinux=0 at boot time system works fine.System is fully updated I cannot find a related bug in

Re: Mailman tutorial

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:43 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have never configured mailman. My server is F12 and the mail setup is based on: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-fedora-12-x86_64 I have been running this mail setup for over a

Re: F14: what replaces s-c-d?

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:57 +, Beartooth wrote: By s-c-d I mean to abbreviate system-config-display. I've been running three, sometimes four PCs, behind a series of KVM switches, against an HP w2207h monitor, which is a flat panel 1680x1050, for some years and several

Re: Curious failure with F-13

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 12:49 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: My server runs under CentOS-5.5, but I recently tried installing Fedora-13 as a second OS, as a sort of backup. Everything works fine under Fedora except for one thing - I cannot get through to any site on any browser on any machine

Attribute copying problem with useradd

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Tyler
One of my students showed up with an intriguing issue yesterday. They added a /home filesystem to their F13 installation, and now useradd fails to completely copy /etc/skel for new users -- it stops copying with an error on setting attributes on ~/.gnome2 I've looked under the normal rocks and

Re: Build bash 3.2 rpm package

2010-09-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:46 -0300, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: Sam, When you mean 'nuke all other files' what do you want to mean? Delete all other files? If I download the source package (e.g. bash-3.2-24.el5.src.rpm for Red Hat 5), install it, grab only the spec file and put

Re: Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 08:05 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 07:21 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote: Can the dev team make it easier to install Fedora 14 when Windows is already installed on the same hard drive? For that, gparted is required. I don't know why Fedora doesn't have

Re: command to lock screen

2010-08-09 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:46 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On 9 August 2010 09:25, Brian Wood woodbria...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I accidentally logged myself out rather than locking the screen. I was kind of in a hurry and clicked on the item below lock screen. That caused me trouble and

Re: /sbin/init Initrd

2010-07-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 10:43 -0300, Emilio Fernandes wrote: Hi all, where can i get the source code of /sbin/initrd from fedora 11? Assuming you're on the system for which you want the source, the RPM command will tell you which package a file came from (this example is executed on F13): $

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 09:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:57:48 -0400 Chris Tyler wrote: a process that takes a few seconds I understand the need to subscribe, but the process does not take a few seconds. For one thing, a lot of ISPs seem to be blocked or are blocking

Re: Workspace cycle under GNOME

2010-07-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:49 +0200, Marco Guazzone wrote: Is there a way to tell GNOME to do workspace cycle? By workspace cycle I mean that the WM considers: * the Workspace 1 as the next workspace of the Last Workspace (e.g. to pass from Workspace 1 to the last Workspace by pressing

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: It's not my Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. The particularly on pages

Re: How to read Kodak Photo CD

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 21:08 +0200, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Hello, I have some dozens of Kodak Photo CD's dating back to 1992-1998 (not the Kodak Picture CD's, they came somewhat later). How to import them into Fedora13? Thanks! Netpbm used to handle .pcd files, but I haven't had the need

Re: May 17-19 update borked my system

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 01:52 -0400, Dennis Mattingly wrote: 1) How can I list the packages that were updated in my last update? Use the command: yum history info -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Need help with sed statement

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 21:37 -0600, David Bartmess wrote: Not sure if this is the right place, but I need help with a sed replacement expression. I'm trying to express only the filename from a filepath, i.e., whoopie.txt from /opt/dev/whoopie.txt. Basically I'm reading the files that

Re: Lost desktop on reboot

2010-04-10 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 09:54 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On a fresh install of FC12 i386 my desktop comes up (is that because of firstboot), then on a reboot i get the fedora default desktop and not mine. Can you clarify what you mean by the fedora default desktop and not mine -- do you mean:

Re: Compiler package

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:32 -0500, Euplycidus Aerofram wrote: I just bought a stripped down Fedora VM from an ISP, and I've been hunting and pecking to get gcc, make, glibc, and the other 5,000 little dependancies installed. Here's the question: Is there a single binary package/rpm that

Re: internet connection tester script

2010-03-29 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 12:58 -0400, Jim wrote: On 03/29/2010 04:17 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Hiisivery-c...@rambler.ru wrote: OK, I see. You was trying to advertise your nice working script to list members. That was your crafty plan, wasn't it? ;- )

Re: Running X window programs from PM suspend-resume scripts

2010-03-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:10 +0200, Serguei Miridonov wrote: Hello, Is there a trick to run X window programs from PM suspend-resume hooks? For example, I need to restore keyboard mapping after suspend to RAM using xkbcomp some_file.xkm :0.0 Running this in #!/bin/bash

Re: Request before write

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 08:57 -0700, jack craig wrote: Hi Folks, I am looking for a wireless users tool. i'd like an app that i can launch and it will pop open a window and report the 'visible' wireless networks, (name, strength, wep/not,etc). any matches out there? Before you go

Re: firefox lockups after update

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:50 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, the starting firefox ... appears at the bottom of screen for few seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I will wait while just in

Re: How to move my / partition

2010-02-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:29 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6), because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness. Is there any safe way of doing this while the

Re: Fedora -12 packages ---Query

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:21 +0530, Anil Jindal wrote: Hi All, I downloaded fedora 12 image from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Live/i686/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso But I could not find any gcc/g++ or any development tool or package in it. Please

Re: Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed?

2010-01-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 19:09 -0500, Temlakos wrote: Chris Smart wrote: Hey all, I'm still new to Fedora in that I've never seen a new major version of Firefox in this time. Will Firefox 3.6 be pushed out as a system upgrade, or will Fedora stick to the stable 3.5 series? if so, any