Re: Happy Birthday from FedoraForum.org

2016-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: > > > On 12/25/16 16:41, Joel Rees wrote: >> I got a happy birthday e-mail just now that purports to be from >> fedoraforum@googlemail.com. >> >> Anyone know whether it is likely

Re: Happy Birthday from FedoraForum.org

2016-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Markku Kolkka <markku.kol...@pp.inet.fi> wrote: > 25.12.2016, 10.41, Joel Rees kirjoitti: >> I got a happy birthday e-mail just now that purports to be from >> fedoraforum@googlemail.com. >> >> Anyone know whether it is likely t

Re: Happy Birthday from FedoraForum.org

2016-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
I got a happy birthday e-mail just now that purports to be from fedoraforum@googlemail.com. Anyone know whether it is likely to be legit? -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joels-random-eikaiwa.blogspot.com/2016/11/simplife01-1-meet-the-pilots.html

Re: [OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
watch baseball, FWIW. :) I didn't have "Never send to spam" checked. Guess I missed it somehow. :( Still, there is a problem with the way e-mail is handled. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2016/06/econ101-novel-toc.htm

[OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-06-30 Thread Joel Rees
To keep this off-list as much as possible, the rant is here: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2016/07/to-gil-tim-fedora-et-al.html (The blame lies elsewhere. I wish I had the network and social cred to get a real movement started, away from the current faceless CA system and towards a different

Re: OT: Web server no longer works

2014-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/04 3:52 Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net: On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 13:12 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: On 07/03/2014 12:47 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I run a small weather station that acts as a web server. Recently it's become impossible to access it via the web, though I can

Re: what just happened (time went backwards?)

2014-02-28 Thread Joel Rees
. Nobody will read them until long after the bad things happened and left the system corrupted. Enforced universalism is the last thing we want computers for. [...] -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- users mailing list users

Re: OpenJRE or Oracle Jre

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: Wondrous X bug for your amusement

2013-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: fedora 17 no wireless

2013-01-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: First time to try to use wireless since installing F17. Connects, but doesn't succeed at authorizing. Keeps trying to authorize for several minutes, then gives up. /var/log/messages shows stuff like NetworkManager[483

fedora 17 no wireless

2013-01-16 Thread Joel Rees
tomorrow, but I'm curious as to why I would need to do the set up by hand for F17 when F16 just did its thing and it worked. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

heads up xhost username on F17 -- manpage bug, I guess

2013-01-07 Thread Joel Rees
, but all the fussing with the upgrade that ate my winter break leaves me running way behind. No time. (And not a lot of motivation, frankly.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

2013-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: On 01/03/2013 04:03:57 AM, Joel Rees wrote: After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen too long. Problem got worse

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

2013-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:23:29 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: This sounds like the problem being tracked by this thread: https

F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

2013-01-03 Thread Joel Rees
far. Any ideas what's going on here? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2013-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 01/02/2013 08:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2012, Joel Rees sent: I'm beginning to think the ISP has throttled me

yum in the tarpits (was Re: blacklisting domains for yum?)

2013-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
unblock the .cn domain to see if I can find out more. HTTP access has no problems, even while yum is bogged down. Do we have problems in the mirrors, or has my database for updates/primary_db gone wonky? Clean all doesn't help. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2013-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2012, Joel Rees sent: I'm beginning to think the ISP has throttled me for yum. Could just be the time of the year, with more traffic than usual. Definitely a possibility, particularly

Re: yum group for the security spin?

2013-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Is/are there any sort of yum group(s) that would aid in building an OS install that includes the security lab stuff? (Tried yum groupinfo Security Lab and got no carrot. Somehow I found the menu package, but that doesn't

yum group for the security spin?

2012-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
Is/are there any sort of yum group(s) that would aid in building an OS install that includes the security lab stuff? (Tried yum groupinfo Security Lab and got no carrot. Somehow I found the menu package, but that doesn't automatically populate the menu with installed packages.) -- Joel Rees

min install to graphical, sans gnome, how to start graphical.target

2012-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
and systemd, I have no idea where else needs to be set up. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: min install to graphical, sans gnome, how to start graphical.target

2012-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 12/30/2012 08:02 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Used the netinstall CD image on a USB stick to install the minimal install -- F17 64 bit. Boots to the text console. yum groupinstalled Window Managers, X Window System

Re: min install to graphical, sans gnome, how to start graphical.target

2012-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Maciek Borzęcki maciek.borze...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 21:02 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: What do I need to look for? With all the earth moving under our feet because of /usr merge and systemd, I have no idea where else needs to be set up. Check

Re: USB Live Install problem -

2012-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
that don't require rebooting just to start the install.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2012-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Mika Suomalainen mka...@outlook.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.12.2012 01:07, Joel Rees wrote: So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn . Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
Never mind. I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there. And the engineers whose hubris pushed this accursed merge /usr project have my eternal disrespect. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Joel Rees joel.r

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
(Sorry for the spam, Alan.) On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:12:43 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind. I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in a 15G partition and figure out

blacklisting domains for yum?

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
servers as I refresh them. That would be a lot of work, too.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr after the install. If so, how badly does it bite? if selinux is disabled it should be quite easy to move anything

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 29.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Joel Rees: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr

Re: blacklisting domains for yum?

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
not want to do this, but for the time being, it's very useful.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
home edition or whatever Microsoft calls their attempt to answer freedom with the dole-by-force. Not that I agree with combining /bin and /usr/bin, but in this case I had hard reasons, not just the ones that will become obvious next year when it all hits the fan.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
Well, I looked around with the rescue mode, and it looks like the netinstall failed to install the kernel and associated files. And grub2 can only find f16 kernels. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll

Re: criminal use of linux

2012-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
it rather than letting the company succumb to the demands? Oracle is clearly aligning itself against Google here. Having lost the battle over Java in court, they now think their interests will be best served if Microsoft can succeed in getting a sideways tax on Android through Linux. -- Joel Rees

Re: upgrading to F16 or F17 with /var and/or /usr on LVM volumes?

2012-06-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: On 20.06.2012 16:13, Joel Rees wrote: Tried preupgrade, but it can't find my old system, and kicks the upgrade process to the curb. Then I tried the netinstall CD and it can't find my old system, either

Re: upgrading to F16 or F17 with /var and/or /usr on LVM volumes?

2012-06-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: On 22.06.2012 19:29, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: On 20.06.2012 16:13, Joel Rees wrote: Tried preupgrade, but it can't find my old

Re: Grub Error - Boot failure

2012-06-20 Thread Joel Rees
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upgrading to F16 or F17 with /var and/or /usr on LVM volumes?

2012-06-20 Thread Joel Rees
of the netinstall CD appears to be unable to mount LVM partitions. Does anyone know of a work-around short of backing up /etc and /home and doing a fresh install? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: what name does com1 rs232 get in F16+ ?

2012-06-01 Thread Joel Rees
what group owns the modem port and adding your user to that group? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 26.05.2012 07:45, schrieb Joel Rees: Do you understand the reason you still set up swap, even though your entire workload working set fits into RAM? there is no single reason if you have enough RAM In an ideal

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.05.2012 14:29, schrieb Joel Rees: you can guess how long it takes dump 16 GB to disk and load it Guess, Or calculate? calculate it I'd like to see your calculations, although I got a clue from your

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
understand the reason you still set up swap, even though your entire workload working set fits into RAM? compared with a full boot between 10 and 30 seconds (30 seconds with a LOT of services like mail, www, mysql...) The Gimp? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
below. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Allen jonat...@barumtrading.co.uk wrote: Joe Zeff said: /home/user/.xsession-errors would be another good place to check. Here is it - should that tell me how to go forward

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-03 Thread Joel Rees
in the task bar panel. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
first. That is, kill the stalled session, empty a cache, try logging in again. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Grub2 MBR issues

2012-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
misinterpreting something, most likely the drive letters (which, as you might know, tend not to be stable, and, particularly not the same letters when grub sees them at boot as when the OS, including the grub tools, see them after the boot-up process is complete). -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users

Re: XFCE Login Freeze

2012-04-22 Thread Joel Rees
the user's account? Jonathan Have you tried the brutal method of deleting the caches or the xfce state? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

2012-04-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 04/14/2012 09:11 PM, Joel Rees wrote: With the old flash plugin, youtube works fine. May put flash in one account on the box I'm using here, to see if it's perhaps a CPU or other hardware issue but not now

Re: flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

2012-04-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 04/14/2012 01:03 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Anyone else having issues with this version of flash? -- Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202. No problems at all with flash/youtube on firefox. However, I'm installing from the adobe

Re: flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

2012-04-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 04/14/2012 02:15 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Well, I just downloaded the tarball once more, and took a look. cmp says today's tarball is different from yesterdays. Unpacking the tarball and doing a diff -r reveals

Re: flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

2012-04-14 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 04/14/2012 02:15 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Well, I just downloaded the tarball once more, and took a look. cmp says today's tarball is different from

Re: F16, XFCE/LXDE and hibernate button

2012-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
Proof my brain has not been working right lately -- On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Rick Stevens rstev...@corp.alldigital.com wrote: On 04/10/2012 03:55 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Anybody using XFCE or LXDE who are missing

flash updated (11.2 r202) yesterday, strange permissions stuff, no youtube

2012-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
of flash? -- Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202. And anyone have an idea why the owner of a file would end up 5000+userid? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-11 Thread Joel Rees
moved -- ()[]{}'=;:+*-_\| and so forth -- where you'd type a user name. You often have to think in reverse, of course, as in, I thought I was typing left-bracket, what would that have been? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: [OT] Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-11 Thread Joel Rees
the real frustrations, either. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 04/11/2012 04:02 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Of course, you can always try the keys that might have moved -- ()[]{}'=;:+*-_\| and so forth -- where you'd type a user name. You often have to think in reverse, of course, as in, I thought

Re: [OT] Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 04/11/2012 04:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: He says you've misinterpreted him, which is another communication sin (in that it doesn't lead to communication) that we are all sometimes prone to. As I wrote before, I wasn't personally

Re: [OT] Re: Login on Fedora 17

2012-04-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 04/11/2012 04:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: He says you've misinterpreted him, which is another communication sin (in that it doesn't lead to communication) that we are all sometimes prone to. As I wrote before, I wasn't personally

F16, XFCE/LXDE and hibernate button

2012-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
there's something that needs to be done, don't remember exactly what.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: F16, XFCE/LXDE and hibernate button

2012-04-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Rick Stevens rstev...@corp.alldigital.com wrote: On 04/10/2012 03:55 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Anybody using XFCE or LXDE who are missing their hibernate button in the logout dialog after the recent kernel upgrade? Which new kernel? I'm running 3.3.1-3.fc16

Re: users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
. Joel Rees: Maybe user-id is mis-named. There are sure a lot of people who tend to see user-id and expect the one-to-one correspondence. I know the conflation caused me some frustration back in college, and I'm not In case it helps: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conflation sure I got

Re: users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
(woops, missed the user list) On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 08:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: s/some/a lot of/ if you set

Re: users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 16:10 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Well, there is a reason some people don't want universal ID, for example. It's a lot broader topic than you may want to believe. It's similar to the reason your httpd

Re: users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 04:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Good point. I don't visit those sites, and it's important for me to mention that. No p0rn, period, and many of the moral reasons

Re: sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: yum groupinstall 'Sugar Desktop Environment' Not exactly the question I

users, private groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

2012-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
to grab a download. Does that make sense? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask

Re: F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities

2012-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:53 PM, nomnex nom...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:18:00 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Lenovo S-100 pseudo-netbook (intel 64 running 32 bit) with Fedora installed from the F16 Security spin (LXDE) live USB. Posted earlier, no response, about

sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
Not a really important question, but does anyone know why sugar-desktop doesn't show when you do a yum grouplist? (I suppose I should get back on the sugar lists.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: sugar-desktop group? (idle question)

2012-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
of sugar-desktop on F15. Unless I've been consistently mis-typing sugar-desktop on F15. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Not a really important question, but does anyone know why sugar-desktop doesn't show when you do a yum grouplist? (I suppose I should get back

F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
that didn't get picked up in the dependency check when I installed it. Anyone have a suggestion? -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
I'll just note that you are not alone in questioning the wisdom of the current directions. (Yeah, plural. That's part of the problem.) Not alone in your frustrations, either. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: openbox not fully logging out

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Filed a bug on this, redhat bugzilla 80286 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have openbox (from the F16 security live image via live USB install) on a lenovo s100 and, sometime

Re: openbox not fully logging out

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
Erk. Za Bog Numer. Ji baggu no bango. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Filed a bug on this, redhat bugzilla 80286 Make that bugzilla 802086. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Joel Rees

Re: F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 03/29/2012 11:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I'm sure I need some library for LibreOffice that didn't get picked up in the dependency check when I installed it. Anyone have a suggestion? Try having yum reinstall it. First I tried re

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
giving the car owner a rope to tie his car door shut when there's already a perfectly good lock on the door. Or screen doors on a submarine, take your pick. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

2012-03-30 Thread Joel Rees
from it to our detriment. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

2012-03-17 Thread Joel Rees
complained about the post being OT are the ones who dragged the list into the discussion, if you ask me.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: openbox not fully logging out

2012-03-10 Thread Joel Rees
Filed a bug on this, redhat bugzilla 80286 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have openbox (from the F16 security live image via live USB install) on a lenovo s100 and, sometime in the last couple of kernel updates, it likes to hang up on logging out

openbox not fully logging out

2012-03-09 Thread Joel Rees
telinit 2 and then log back in and telinit 5 to bring it back, but the next time I tried that without re-booting, it just hung. (Not sure what target I would be specifying for systemctl Not sure what to look for in /var/log. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: GRUB2 / Kernel-Parameters

2012-03-09 Thread Joel Rees
? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask

Re: ...kernel module signing on x86??? Why?

2012-03-09 Thread Joel Rees
. Demigods and IP demagogues. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

unusable encrypted volume on a live USB

2012-02-26 Thread Joel Rees
guidance. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: unusable encrypted volume on a live USB (because of passphrase)

2012-02-26 Thread Joel Rees
(I wish I would quit forgetting important details.) On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: This was my second try at a live USB, and I decided to experiment with an encrypted volume for /home. Used a bunch of leetsp3@k substitutions ... I mean, for the passphrase

Re: tr equivalent to sed command

2012-02-26 Thread Joel Rees
. :-/ [...] (What seems clear one day for me is not the next. And I was hoping to grow old gracefully. :() -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Neal Becker Software Package..?

2012-01-07 Thread Joel Rees
the thread, but burying it seems like a good option, too.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: dumb question [on scripting]

2012-01-05 Thread Joel Rees
the chance to reminisce about an old 6800 protyping board, building (though not desgining) my own high-speed cassette interface, designing and building my own dRAM refresh circuit, hand-assembling and typing in a FORTH interpreter in hex, by hand, and ... Oh, never mind. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing

Re: Yum update/bug alert

2012-01-05 Thread Joel Rees
the only one who runs a yum update before I have breakfast every morning? ;) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Neal Becker Software Package..?

2012-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
bullet, but now he has paint all over one of his best shirts, so to speak. And you completely missed the Neal Becker at which you got upset. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fm wrote: [a bunch of stuff that does not need repeating] -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list

Moving to Forums (was Re: [Linda's mistake about a] Software Package..?

2012-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
, the mass migration to the forums is not what it would seem, for several reasons. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: login dialog doesn't scroll in F15

2012-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
I finally added a bug for this to the Fedora bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771284 On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: On 12/23/2011 09:46 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac

Re: getting the nologin users out of the login dialog

2012-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
A bug for the change in /bin/nologin default shell behavior has been recently added to the freedesktop bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44408 On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Craig White craigwh

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2012-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
eyeball filter missed last week before dumping the spambox. (I have a copy of the message, but I like to keep the envelopes around for a while.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: creating all users with one primary group?

2011-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
. -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: creating all users with one primary group?

2011-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
, if you have a default user group, whether assigned primary or secondary, you don't want to ever assign a login user the same uid number. Thanks, Franta -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: creating all users with one primary group?

2011-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
, if you have a default user group, whether assigned primary or secondary, you don't want to ever assign a login user the same uid number. Thanks, Franta -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 30-12-11 07:29, Joel Rees wrote: Reading her posts often reminds me of trying to teach my sisters how to use something on the computer. All of them at once, on a day when they definitely have their wires

Re: It's time for you to leave.

2011-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
not really relevant here, is it?) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

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

2011-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:43:30 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Also, Gnome's fallback has the same issues with loss of title bar

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

2011-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Also, Gnome's fallback has the same issues with loss of title bar. No idea there. Haven't checked yet to see if that's fixed. As Aaron indicates, Gnome is fixed, too. Now, what I am curious about is what kind

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

2011-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: 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

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