Re: More antivirus talk - comodo antivirus for linux

2013-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 19:46 -0400, linuxnuts...@videotron.ca wrote: On 08/15/2013 10:50 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I use ClamAV. What does Comodo add to the party? Can anyone do a side-by-side review? I received some phishing scams with executables in attached zip files. ClamAv didn't

Re: Fedora to Android

2013-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:30 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: The only thing I am missing is a method to read and edit files on the phone. If I click on the Terminal icon in SSHelper I get the message sh: can't access tty; job control turned off which I don't understand. Is there a standard

Re: phone no longer mounts over usb

2013-08-11 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 11:09 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 10:28 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: Hi all, I have a Samsong phone. I used to mount it as Mass Storage (selected on the phone) over the micro usb connection, to copy files to/from. Starting with

Re: Setting the default web browser

2013-07-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:33 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 15:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote: On 18/07/13 15:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10 I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded

Re: Setting the default web browser

2013-07-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 11:43 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10 I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed? I know this is a FAQ, and

Re: Setting the default web browser

2013-07-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 21:46 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/18/13 21:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Thanks all the same. I just installed evo on my all KDE system.. Initially, it would start firefox when I clicked on a link I did xdg-settings set

Re: a different point of view to etiquette

2013-07-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:31 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focus%3D1525074 From: Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.stable, gmane.linux.kernel Date:

Evolution links to launch Chrome

2013-06-17 Thread Craig White
Just upgraded to F18 and now links in Evolution launch Firefox and not Chrome (unlike F17). Using KDE... $ cat .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list [Added Associations] video/x-flv=livna-mplayer.desktop; text/html=google-chrome.desktop [Default Applications] text/html=google-chrome.desktop

Re: Small home web server

2013-06-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 13:50 +1000, Roger wrote: I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day

Re: Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device

2013-04-21 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:03 +0200, Marek Miller wrote: Od: Rami Rosen roszenr...@gmail.com Do: Marek Miller fenixx3...@interia.eu; Wysłane: 10:17 Sobota 2013-04-20 Temat: Re: Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device Hi, It seems as though there is some problem with the USB device

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 23:15 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, g wrote: On 04/18/2013 07:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi Since both CentOS and SL are rebuilds of RHEL. the 3rd

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 12:40 +1000, Roger wrote: On 04/20/2013 07:37 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: It made me start thinking about Fedora vs CentOS because of the problems I'm experiencing with Drupal 7 and

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 22:24 +, Bill Oliver wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, Craig White wrote: Scientific Linux takes all sorts of liberties with build options and even their build system doesn't attempt to produce compatible binary packages - not that I am suggesting that it's a bad

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-20 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 09:51 +1000, Roger wrote: On 04/21/2013 05:01 AM, Craig White wrote: There you have it. Complex and puzzling. problem #1 seems like it would occur on any server that is bound by memory limits insufficient for the application and extensions you are using

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-17 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 09:04 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote: Excellent summation Tim! As I said my problem was not what I wanted but what I could Sell to the Boss. One outstanding suggestion that came up in this discussion was Scientific Linux as the Supported by CERN could be a powerful

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 11:44 +1000, Roger wrote: Thank you to all for the very helpful info. I have CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso downloaded. My laptop on which I'll do the first install does not have a functioning dvd drive so it has to be usb install. I installed Fedora 18 on it this way.

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 17:41 +1000, Roger wrote: I believe that the latest Apache updates of some time ago were flawed or do not correctly interact with php or php updates were flawed and have not been corrected. I have nothing to back up this assertion other than the problems now being

Re: Fedora vs CentOS -- php/apache and Drupal 7

2013-04-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 21:48 -0500, g wrote: so drop centos and run fedora and/or scientific linux. you may well find that scientific linux is very close to current fedora, with the exception of some new !whiz! !bang! software. highly uninformed opinion. If you don't know the difference

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

2013-04-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 17:12 +0100, Tethys wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: The annoying thing is, I'd *gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd charge me a sensible amount [...] Horse feathers. You can get a

Re: Avoiding LVM -

2013-04-05 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:41 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an encrypted partitiion,

Re: How do you keep contacts in Fedora/KDE?

2013-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE keep your contacts? I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts, KAddressBook and LDAP, but would like to organise something simpler. I suspect the simplest

Re: Avoiding LVM -

2013-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:39 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote: As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is the solution to a problem I don't have. I'm not sure where this concept sprang from but I think you could

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:38 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: I have been looking at smartphones and tablets (I presently own neither, due to outrageous monthly fees and lengthy contracts), as I am starting to feel that I no longer want to do without mobility. However, how does Fedora fit into

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

2013-03-20 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 12:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/20/2013 12:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: There will continue to be high-end workstations with whatever features you want that aren't in mobile devices, Like keyboards big enough for touch typing? why type? Just use speech. I do.

Re: Multiboot question

2013-03-01 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 01:01 +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Christopher Meng sent: And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm. If you're never going to span a partition across more than one drive (which can be dangerous - if one of the drives fail, you

Re: Slighty OT Git Hub/Heroku

2013-02-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:50 +1100, Roger wrote: I have a git hub repository where I have put the Ruby on Rails development system on Heroku for work by myself and 2 other volunteer devs. How and/or where would I post the file tree so that we all can work on the various files, I'm lost on

Re: Partial upgrade

2013-02-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 17:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: I finally got the upgrade to run by commenting out the line in /etc/fstab mounting my old Windows drive. However, it didn't install a new F 17 kernel and it still thinks I'm running F 16. Will this work: yum upgrade releasever=17 and

Re: Thunderbird newbie

2013-02-04 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Don't be bullied by the judgmental grammar and spelling police. nice signature ;-) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 01:36 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/01/2013 05:49 PM, Craig White wrote: good grammar is actually a useful endeavor. The purpose of this list is communication. Good grammar facilitates it while bad grammar impedes it. but you are making a vacuous point and I

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 02:02 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/02/2013 01:51 AM, Craig White wrote: There's your challenge... show me that you're not just making a vacuous point. You're the one asserting, without evidence or any attempt at proof that my point is vacuous. It's not up to me

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 00:35 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:07 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/31/2013 12:52 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:55:08 + Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 05:58 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: This list is better off without the grammar, spelling, and style police. If you can't figure out what someone is saying then you should not feel obliged to read it or answer it. You seem to be taking this way too seriously.

Re: OT Web servers and ISP -and Rails

2013-02-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 14:19 +1100, Roger wrote: Thanks Phil I have run into a gotcha with the ISP which will not provide Rails 3 on a shared server. Can someone please enlighten me as to why not. What are the problems? Apologies for OT but google so far doesn't help. I had a similar

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-02-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 17:16 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/01/2013 04:52 PM, Craig White wrote: It's clear that you want this e-mail list, informal as it is to respect your sense of proper grammar. No, it's not his sense of proper grammar, it's proper grammar as it's been taught in schools

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/31/2013 04:44 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:15 PM, Lailah wrote: El vie, 25-01-2013 a las 22:40 +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik escribió: Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/25/2013 12:46 PM, James Freer wrote: LOL - good

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:55 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Way way OT: Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word i, not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e. cummings?

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:07 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/31/2013 12:52 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:55:08 + Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Way way OT: Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word i, not to mention

xorg crashing

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
upgraded (via preupgrade) to F17 on Saturday and the xorg crashes are too frequent. The number of bug reports on bugzilla, just from today (mostly from abrt) simply make it difficult for me to try to make any sense of them: (long bugzilla search/sort, not recommended link)

Re: booting on Fedora 17/18 with basic video mode

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:48 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: You should install the repo key on your system prior to ever installing packages. If you import the key, you don't have this problem. Instructions are on rpmfusion.org website for this purpose. I do. I've been having intermittent

Re: unsigned packages on F18

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:02 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 31.01.2013 20:53, schrieb Jan Litwiński: Dnia 2013-01-31, o godz. 10:25:00 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com napisał(a): I tried to install Java in Firefox and after the download I

Re: unsigned packages on F18

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:04 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:02 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 31.01.2013 20:53, schrieb Jan Litwiński: Dnia 2013-01-31, o godz. 10:25:00

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

2013-01-31 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 23:27 +, David G.Miller wrote: Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us writes: On 01/31/2013 08:34 AM, Andras Simon wrote: I'd think it's the coolness thing. What's cool about looking like an ignoramus? I just go with these are the same people who aren't intelligent

Re: system-config-users and ldapi

2012-04-19 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:37 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 06:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:03 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: Can system-config-users be made to use ldapi (i.e., a socket connection to an LDAP server)? According to man 5

Re: system-config-users and ldapi

2012-04-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:03 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: Can system-config-users be made to use ldapi (i.e., a socket connection to an LDAP server)? According to man 5 libuser.conf, libuser can do this; but I haven't been able to convince system-config-users. It asks for a SASL user on

Re: how to use a mailing-list

2012-04-07 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 18:21 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: register on a mailing-list usually means people are sending and replying to the list-adress and that there is no reason for reply all there is no i want mails twice setting so nobody can imply reply all is the right action just

Re: Samba service with Windows and dual boot...

2012-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 14:01 -0600, R. Welsh wrote: Howdy, Have a couple of open items in forum that I haven't been able to resolve and am looking for guidance. Item 1: I have F16 installed on a system with Samba server 3.x. I have configured both directory shares and a printer share

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: no - if command line syntax/invocations are challenging, you can do this rather simply via the 'system-config-services' gui. Assuming, of course, that your DE has something like that. Not all

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: I am noticing that when I install a printer on my local network, I get an entry added to iptables to the effect of: +++ -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dprot 631 -j ACCEPT +++ It actually shows up multiple

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 08:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:18:45 -0700 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: no - if command line syntax/invocations are challenging

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:30 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/24/2012 06:18 AM, Craig White wrote: No - but I was assuming that a Fedora user would at least at least have enough sense to try running system-config-services before jumping to any conclusions and thus find out

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:35 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/24/2012 07:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: In any case, it is*not* a requirement as you've stated. It is a kludge to get around another problem. *Shrug!* I'm only quoting what I was told and reporting that it worked for me. You can

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:18 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/24/2012 6:30 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Craig White: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: I am noticing that when I install a printer on my local network, I get

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:39 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Craig White wrote: The goal is that the typical user would never actually interact with grub (grub2) or systemctl from the command line at all. Grub manipulations occurring when kernels are installed or removed, systemctl commands

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 08:17 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 03/22/2012 04:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/22/2012 01:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Incidentally, none of the systemctl advocates has answered my query: How do I say chkconfig openvpn on in systemctl-speak? I'm not

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:56 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I wonder if I am alone in finding some of the developments in Fedora-16 actually make life harder for the user? I'd take grub2 and systemctl as two examples. In each case I've read the documentation and understand the motivation

Re: RESEND: Fedora 14=16 Logrotate, Systemctl, Httpd, SSL problem

2012-03-20 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 04:34 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I didn't get a response to this the first time so I thought I would try again and hope for a new set of (knowledgeable) readers . . : Date 2012-02-02 04:55 People, I have upgraded my server from Fedora 14 to Fedora

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:58 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 03/13/2012 02:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: Really? I thought the client simply makes a broadcast and all servers reply with what they have available... myserver is a linux box running samba, but

Re: mysql replacement?

2012-03-13 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 13:07 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I did a little searching but didn't come up with anything. I'm using Fedora 16 and am about to start doing some database work on some databases that were built in Mysql 5 (I think). I know there have been some forks

Re: systemd broken for key servcies in F16

2012-01-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:23 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/19/2012 12:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: if you are upgrading a machine and not take a look wwhat services are running / enabled it's time for you to learn doing things right I've upgraded Fedora several times and never, until now,

Re: ddos defence?

2012-01-18 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 19:40 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: I have a vps that has been repeatedly hit with a ddos attack. The ISP has given me new IP addresses several times but every time I update the DNS records the attack resumes within hours. This is not yet a production site but I need

Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

2012-01-17 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 06:36 +0530, Freak Trick wrote: I am Fairly comfortable with CLI. Just that I do not know how to skip Gnome and log directly into CLI. I tried to edit the systemd to multi-user target by booting from the live CD and accessing the hard drive where the file is stored, but

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 23:15 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Android 3.x and after (4.0) dropped mass storage support and uses MTP so every device which is running 3.x or 4.x uses MTP. Yes, if it also has a SD card that the SD card can be mounted as mass storage. MTP has advantage as there

Re: Neal Becker Software Package..?

2012-01-04 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 23:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/04/2012 09:18 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: about this user, who's now being moderated. Bummer. I never paid any attention to what Linda had to say. It was *way* more fun reading reactions to her posts. :-) agreed...

Re: dumb question

2012-01-04 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/04/2012 04:17 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Though I can't stand the MS world of extensions meaning something, I can't imagine not using extensions to help understand what is there. The system shouldn't give a damn, but the user

Re: Error mount NFS -- nfs4_get_rootfh

2012-01-04 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 22:22 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 01/04/2012 09:23:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/05/2012 01:13 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 01/04/2012 08:55:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/05/2012 12:49 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 01/04/2012 08:31:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:

Re: The software is not from a trusted source ???

2012-01-03 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 10:21 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/03/2012 05:35 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: I was just rather surprised to see this message and would like to know if packagekit is getting more sophisticated or there was some slight problem with one of the packages (unsigned?)

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2012-01-01 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:11 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/01/2012 06:39 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: In case someone new to mail comes along, and believes he is primitive for using this method over that. Wellmy memory may be clouded a bit due to over celebration But I think the

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2012-01-01 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 07:54 -0800, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2012 06:15:34 Craig White wrote: [snip] POP3 is what it is - a retrieval of e-mail from a server where it becomes the end client/user responsibility to store, manage, migrate etc. Anyone who has more than 1

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2012-01-01 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 09:41 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Thus my statement that POP3 is so 1990's. 1990s? Nonsense. From my point of view, the entire internet, including IMAP4 is so 1960s. obviously I don't share

Re: Question about hard disk installation

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 12:57 +0800, alick wrote: 于 2011年12月31日 12:00, Craig White 写道: On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:31 +0800, alick wrote: Hi all, I have a question about installing Fedora from hard disk. I downloaded a DVD iso, extract vmlinuz and initrd.img to partition A, then I put

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 00:12 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: The main reason I write about the things I don't like about Gnome 3 is that I'm still hoping that somebody will be able and willing to explain why some of those decisions were made. Not so that I can argue about them because that would be

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 00:01 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/30/2011 05:55 PM, Craig White wrote: I guess I missed the announcement where you became moderator of fedora-list. Craig Are you trying to be offensive or are you simply obtuse? If she were to come back and were able to behave

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 13:30 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/31/2011 01:10 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: Tom - Im curious - why are you using fetchmail to pull gmail via pop instead of just connecting to it via imap with your mail client? He may simply prefer POP3; I know I do. that's

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 22:51 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.12.2011 22:44, schrieb Craig White: POP3 for a typical mail client is for people who are mired in the 1990's stop your idiotic trolling in this and many other topics i bet you are the one of having 4.000 mails in their inbox

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2011-12-31 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 13:52 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/31/2011 01:44 PM, Craig White wrote: POP3 for a typical mail client is for people who are mired in the 1990's and thus slavishly move mail from computer to computer, program to program, either out of ignorance for a better way or just

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 06:44 +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: On 30-12-11 05:16, Craig White wrote: On this list, we have a pretty wide variety of users including those that are simply desktop only end users that simply want to use a computer and aren't necessarily computer hobbyists nor system

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 09:50 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/30/2011 05:28 AM, Craig White wrote: I think it's reasonable to presume contempt when you tell someone it's time for them to leave. No. Linda has severe issues that cause her to start new threads that have nothing to do

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 09:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: There is only one word to describe the continuation of this thread Ironic It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought... it figures

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:48 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/30/2011 05:45 PM, Joel Rees wrote: And the question of what happens when you plug six USB drives in, well, we know better, hopefully she now realizes that's too much of a good thing and not the way to do backup, but it does help us

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:21 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/30/2011 04:02 PM, Craig White wrote: I'm equally dismayed by your incessant whining about Gnome3 which I see as much the same thing. I'm sorry that you feel that way, Craig. Please note, however, that I always make it very clear

Re: Question about hard disk installation

2011-12-30 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:31 +0800, alick wrote: Hi all, I have a question about installing Fedora from hard disk. I downloaded a DVD iso, extract vmlinuz and initrd.img to partition A, then I put iso file onto partition B. Since I have grub (grub1) from old version of Fedora, I can use

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-29 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 04:57 +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: On 30-12-11 00:56, Joel Rees wrote: Just out of curiosity, Patrick, do your filters not work? Filters work just fine and anything from this Linda person goes directly to /dev/null. It's just too bad that loonies like Linda and the

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 11:56 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Logged in as a different user, XFCE is running on that user. One difference is that I have flash installed locally in the user that has the problems. (It's about time to see if Adobe has a more recent update, I guess.) I'd advise

Re: bridges, NAT, virtual machines, brain hurt :-).

2011-12-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 21:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: I'd like to make a Windows virtual machine that has access to the outside world but is completely blocked from access to my local area network (other than whatever forwarding and routing has to happen on my LAN). The idea is to make a

Re: Silencing Mock

2011-12-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:46 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: I've never really payed attention (or cared) until now, but Mock is annoying me with copious lines of: ... DEBUG: warning: group iwao does not exist - using root DEBUG: warning: user iwao does not exist - using root ... during builds. I

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 20:03 -0700, linux guy wrote: What are the chances that the drive controller in the laptop caused this problem ? I just tested the drive in the laptop BIOS and it says its fine. SMART and what it does for a surface scan. definitely possible - might be useful to see

Re: Giving Up On Fedora

2011-12-26 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 08:57 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: you realize of course that this is just another id for /Linux is One/Linux Tyro/Rameshwar Kr. Sharma/ Mr Craig. My Name is Swapnil Bhartiya. I write for Muktware.com, I used to be an editor of LINUX For You magazine. While your

Re: Sorting Shotwell files..? people bugs.. resizing icons in home-dir..?

2011-12-26 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 09:35 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/2011 08:04 AM, lpeng...@gmail.com wrote: [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Why do you think the fact that you're using a version of Fedora that reached EOL several years ago is relevant to this, or anything

Re: http index page

2011-12-26 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 20:52 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: Hi all, Since lost my harddrive and have redone everything (cept web, since the data backup hd is what i lost), thought I start over and with something new for my web server. I have wordpress installed and have it up and running.

Re: How To Install Miro Arista In Fedora 16

2011-12-26 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 01:17 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Sorry for the sweeping generalizations, but: Your last couple posts ar saying, in effect, in Ubuntu, I used $METHOD to accomplish $USER_TASK. How can Fedora replicate the $METHOD I used in Ubuntu? Hi Pete, You might run

Re: http index page

2011-12-26 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 00:06 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 21:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: It's been a while since I configured wordpress on a RH derived system but if I recall correctly, you use virtual name based hosts and then in wordpress.conf, you can change

Re: Fedora 14 - 15 upgrade: libnih problems

2011-12-25 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 17:04 +0100, Christoph A. wrote: Hi, I did an upgrade from F14 to F15 using yum: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_14_-.3E_Fedora_15 I run it with --skip-broken due to the problems with libnih, and completed the upgrade process (except

Re: Boot disk?

2011-12-25 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 16:37 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Is there a way to identify which disk the BIOS is using to boot from (eg disk 0 or 1) when I don't have physical access to the system to view the BIOS settings? The situation is this, I have a machine at a remote location where the

Re: Giving Up On Fedora

2011-12-25 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 17:15 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:55:18 +0100, SB (Swapnil) wrote: I did not want that subject line, but am forced to. No, you aren't forced to make a drama out of it. Also, some lines of your message read as if your decision to give up is

Re: Listings Question About Ping

2011-12-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 19:55 +1030, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: dark terminal backgrounds are good for novelty but not good for actually using on a semi-continual basis. Can't say that I agree with that, because I believe the opposite. On CRT and LCDs

Re: Was Fedora vs openSUSE now -exageration extraordinaire

2011-12-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 12:24 +0530, Rameshwar Kr. Sharma wrote: Correct, I did ask in the Ubuntu lists too, but please: for a while think of the time when you too were an absolute beginner and finding your way typical of chosing the correct distribution and then start working for it! Its

Re: Was Fedora vs openSUSE now -exageration extraordinaire

2011-12-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 14:28 +, g wrote: On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, Rameshwar Kr. Sharma wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:39 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: Suneeta is a very common name in India. So John is also a common name, Mathew is also common, so what? -=- yes, john

Re: Was Fedora vs openSUSE now -exageration extraordinaire

2011-12-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 19:50 +1100, Roger wrote: On 22/12/11 14:22, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:46:26 -0700 Craig Whitecraigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 10:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/22/2011 10:09 AM, Roger wrote: Ah yes! but the other couple

Re: After a while, dolphin, konqueror (and other KDE apps) won't start...

2011-12-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 07:13 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Let's say I login to a fresh KDE session. All of the above listed applications start and function perfectly. Then, let's say I have closed all instances of the offending KDE applications. If I attempt to

Re: /var/log/messages

2011-12-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 13:16 -0800, jdow wrote: One could observe that Windows tends to get this right. One could observe your attitude matches with It was hard to write, it should be hard to use! One could observe that this is a sign of acceptance of sloppiness. And there are more things one

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