Chrome keeps going crazy

2014-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
I keep a half dozen tabs open in Chrome at most times, and sometimes when I open another tab, it seems like Chrome goes crazy and the system almost hangs. Usually I'm able to get to a console prompt and kill all Chrome sessions and things calm down for awhile. Any idea what's going on? I'm

mouse wheel doesn't scroll

2014-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
I've had this problem under previous versions of Fedora and the trick then was always to edit the XF86config file, but now that we're not USING that, how do I get my scroll wheel back? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Nvidia Support

2014-03-13 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com: Hi All; My shiny new Thinkpad W540 is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm preparing what I think I might need for the Fedora 20 install. Nvidia support question, the W540 is equipped with this card: NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB Anyone have any thoughts on the

safe to remove DNF?

2014-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
DNF keeps crashing on me, and I was going to remove it, but it wants to remove a few other things like initial-setup and anaconda. I'm scared to remove those because I don't want to kill my system. Is it safe to remove all three packages on a running system??? -- users mailing list

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com: I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell you which nVidia it has, however switching

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us: On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us: Oh, Ok.. Gotcha. :) I assume there's a FAQ somewhere on how to do this, or do you just sudo yum install nvidia*.rpm or something like that and it'll say oh, you need kmod-nvidia and add that to the install? :) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread John Aldrich
Hello, all... I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an on-board nVidia display chipset. This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh install since I mangled the upgrade from F18. Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to

RE: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting bc98kinney bc98kin...@yahoo.com: Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything.  A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either. 

Printing CD/DVD case cover inserts

2014-01-18 Thread John Aldrich
I recently had a failed upgrade so I had to reinstall. Previously, under Fedora I had some sort of CD/DVD case cover insert printer that would print all sorts of nice covers. Since reinstalling, I no longer have that. Anyone know what it would be? I use the slimline DVD cases, so would prefer

Setting a static IP on Fedora 20

2014-01-11 Thread John Aldrich
How do I assign a static IP on Fedora 20? Network Manager won't let me do that, and the command-line tools I used back in the older versions of Fedora don't seem to exist any more. I want to be able to assign a static IP to my Fedora box so that I can access it from outside via a forwarded port

can't seem to get SSH to work

2014-01-11 Thread John Aldrich
I had SSH partly working up until I started messing with the firewall. It would time out trying to SSH into my linux box, but now it immediately rejects it. I've manually configured the non-standard port I'm using to be allowed in the firewall and now instead of just timing out, it rejects it,

Re: can't seem to get SSH to work

2014-01-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat January 11 2014 6:22:47 PM Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 01/11/2014 06:13 PM, John Aldrich wrote: What do I need to do in order to open a port for SSH (non-standard port, btw.) Assuming you already performed the change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (and restarted the service) you should check

Re: fedup leaves half done 18 19

2013-12-26 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Sean Darcy seandar...@gmail.com: I'm trying to upgrade FC18 to FC19. Ran fedup --network 19. got this non-fatal error: 120.813] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() systemd-sysv-201-2.fc18.9.x86_64 requires systemd = 201-2.fc18.9 120.815] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction()

upgrading from F18 to F20 -- missing dependencies

2013-12-22 Thread John Aldrich
I use KMOD-NVIDIA on my system, and I ran FEDUP to upgrade to F20 overnight and when I came to my computer this morning, there were several warnings: WARNING: problems were encountered during transaction test: broken dependencies kmod-nvidia-304xx-3.11.7-100.fc18.x86_64-304.88-4.fc18.x86_64

just upgraded to F20

2013-12-22 Thread John Aldrich
And now running yum distro-sync results in the system trying to roll back everything. When I look in YUMEX it shows all the repos as F18, not F20. How do I fix that??? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

upgraded to F20, still have F18 packages

2013-12-22 Thread John Aldrich
Can I just do a yum remove *.fc18.* to remove those packages since I should have the F20 versions now? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

I Broke yum

2013-12-22 Thread John Aldrich
Trying again... I used FedUp to upgrade to F20 from F18, however the first time I tried, I switched the display (I'm on a KVM switch) to another computer and when I switched back it looked like the display had not updated and that FedUp was hung, so I rebooted, cleaned everything out and tried

Upgrading from F18

2013-12-21 Thread John Aldrich
Can I use FedUp to go directly from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20 or do I need to upgrade to F19 first? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: ssh tunel failure.

2013-12-05 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Carlos \casep\ Sepulveda ca...@fedoraproject.org: On 5 December 2013 11:59, Paweł Sikora pawel.sik...@agmk.net wrote: Hi all, i've recently reinstalled my previous distro with fc20-beta and observing strange ssh tunels disconnection. i'm establishing tunels in this way: ssh -2fCN -p

Re: [FIXED] Re: UEFI: After upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, F19 grub menu does not appear

2013-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Nick Urbanik nick.urba...@optusnet.com.au: Dear Folks, On 20/11/13 09:53 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, I installed Fedora 19 on my son's laptop, and it worked beautifully with the already installed Windows 8. Then foolishly, I upgraded the Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Now it

Re: need help printing UPS shipping labels

2013-08-14 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com: Does anyone here successfully print UPS shipping labels from the UPS online shipping tool? I find that when I try this with Firefox, epiphany, or Chrome on F19, the barcode-containing section of the label is generated as a 728x416 image.

Alien

2013-05-24 Thread John Aldrich
I have an app that is available in three formats: Mac, Windows and .DEB. I would like to install it on my Fedora box, but, obviously, Fedora doesn't support .DEB files. So, I thought, why not use Alien to install it? Except, there doesn't seem to be an Alien RPM for Fedora 18. The most recent

Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

2013-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Gary Stainburn gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk: Hi Folks. I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients on this list. Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS

Re: how are you?

2013-05-14 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net: http://www.frizzphotozz akonstam Aaron Konstam Don't mess with anybody who can make a lot more trouble for you than you can make for them. % Uh-oh. Looks like someone's email got hacked. -- users mailing list

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

2013-05-14 Thread John Aldrich
One downside to the Fuze is that it is a discontinued model. That being said they have a new model which is very similar, called the Fuze+. It has pretty much the same features as the Fuze, except they switched the central control has been replaced with a multi-directional button instead

Re: Can anyone recommend a cheap MP3 player?

2013-05-13 Thread John Aldrich
On 05/13/2013 06:01 PM, Anthony wrote: I have an old iPod Touch 1st Gen that I really still use quite a bit (mostly for email and the like). But since I moved all of my computers to Linux, I can't access the device anymore and can't transfer music to and from it. I'm not willing to install

Which Fedup?

2013-01-16 Thread John Aldrich
I was looking to download Fedup, but I see that there is one for F17 and one for F18. I am currently running F17, so I'm guessing I should download that one -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the project's source code. Whilst I'm happy to do

Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?

2012-12-06 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: I think maybe you just volunteered. :D I was afraid of that :-/ I'm fine when it comes to bundling up Perl modules (http://rpm.mag-sol.com/), but I've never tried a C library before. Perhaps I'll find time to take a look at it... Well, once you have a

Re: SPAM EMAIL

2012-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
Can someone please do something about the spam coming on this list??? -- 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

Multi-protocol IM clients

2012-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
So, I've decided to jump back onto IM after a few years. My last Linux-based IM client was AYTTM, but I'm not even sure it's still packaged with Fedora, although I suppose I could roll my own so to speak. :D I'd prefer to use a pre-packaged IM client. I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a

Re: Multi-protocol IM clients

2012-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Jack Craig jack.craig.ap...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: [snip] I've tried Pidgin, but I'm having a problem where if I change my status to away it freezes out the keyboard and won't let me type anything until I close Pidgin

Re: Multi-protocol IM clients

2012-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu August 30 2012 4:43:22 PM Konstantin Svist wrote: I know exactly what bug you're talking about, I noticed it appeared a few revisions ago. If you're not afraid of using out-of-date code (supposedly new code has security fixes), you can download an older version of Pidgin from

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-23 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com: Pick another one, e.g. Ubuntu (Debian based), and you have to learn a new way of doing things. Useful to learn, but may be more than you want to put up with. You need to learn their different admin techniques, join another mailing list or forum for

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: is there a safe way to do a complete reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is? Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition? Definitely the way

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
With respect to SELinux... I really have no idea whether it's currently enabled, enabled in permissive mode or disabled (I *think* it may be in permissive mode, but I wouldn't swear to it.) However, I got to thinking... it needs to be set up more like an antivirus program, i.e. smart

Re: Cargo Cult sysadmining

2012-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com: Once, long ago--actually, on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:29:49PM -0700--jdow (j...@earthlink.net) said: Then I discovered a property of Windows. If your motherboard goes bad and you can't replace it with an exact replacement the system and all other software

Re: Ubuntu's Unity desktop repo for fedora by opensuse

2012-07-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com: Jesus! I could see producing an ubuntu package to utterly eradicate Unity from your ubuntu box, but deliberately help to advance and perpetuate Unity? These people are the spawn of Satan! I agree. That's why I switched from straight Ubuntu to KUbuntu

Re: Hardware vendors

2012-07-10 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com: They don't, AFAIK, pre-install any version of Linux. But they do have a full line of machines that come with no OS installed (well, I think there may be a copy of FreeDOS.) Look at the 'N' series machines. Canonical is still trumpeting its 'partnership'

KDE 4.9

2012-05-10 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone know when KDE 4.9 will be released in Fedora? Will that be in F16 or F17? I'm anxious to know because a major glitch in KMail is supposedly fixed in 4.9, and I'd like to get my hands on it. :D OTOH, I'm not so anxious as to add updates-testing to my YUM. :D I'll let someone ELSE be

KDE 4.9

2012-05-10 Thread John Aldrich
Disregard... I just went and saw that the F17 release is supposed to happen in a few days, so I guess that answers my question about KDE 4.9 and F16. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

updates failing due to mirrors down

2012-03-14 Thread John Aldrich
So, I decided to run yum update this morning and it failed due to several RPMFusion and Livna repo mirrors being down. Are RPMFusion and Livna going away / gone? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat March 10 2012 6:23:31 PM Tom Horsley wrote: The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update a while back. http://content.wdtinc.com/clients/sunsentinel/map.php?MAPID=10995CLIENTID=2 0421 never seems to

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com: With the aforementioned resolution changes, my display looks about 10x better. Make that 20x better. One situation which still looks really awful is viewing gmail in Firefox. For some reason that font is terrible. Install Chrome. :D -- users

Clicking on an email link in Chrome

2012-01-19 Thread John Aldrich
Every time I click on an email link in Google Chrome it brings up Firefox and that brings up Evolution. My default email client is KMail. I looked in the help section for Chrome and there is nothing in Chrome on the default application handlers on my system. KMail is set as the default

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

2012-01-19 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 19.01.2012 19:05, schrieb linux guy: I'd like to run my new laptop with the lid closed. I'm using external displays and keyboard, mouse, etc. When its at my desk, I only want to use it as a processing unit. you do not really want this

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows won't boot after update

2012-01-16 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Sergio Belkin seb...@gmail.com: 2012/1/16 Emilio Lopez emiliol...@gmail.com After a Windows Update, Windows 7 Won't boot anymore. I have no idea why and how can I restore it. There is a Windows 7 Restore CD which could solve that, but surely this will remove grub completely.

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net: Greetings, I have just installed F16 on a friend's box. Now I want to enable sshd in order to log in from home and do system administration, updates, etc... for him. Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh without

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk ... additional question

2011-12-13 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net: Perhaps the best option to look at it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/#screenshots Screen Show 1 - shows the syslinux boot menu screen. Usually just press Enter to boot the default kernel. Press

Hacking Xorg.conf

2011-12-03 Thread John Aldrich
Ok, for some reason (probably because I'm using an old KVM switch) my Fedora 16 system is not detecting what monitor I have and is refusing to give me a usable resolution. I have a Dell E2210H wide-screen monitor and it's capable of 1920x1080 resolution, but I can't get that in Fedora. Under

Re: Display resolution problems

2011-11-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu November 24 2011 6:07:46 PM Craig White wrote: no reason to ask essentially the same question just 2 hours after the last time you asked and a most reasonable suggestion was made. Craigare you sure I asked in THIS list? If so, I apologize. I'm having some issues with the new

Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)

2011-11-24 Thread John Aldrich
I have Fedora 16 with a 19 flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024, however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this resolution, and only offers a max resolution of 1024x768, which is freaking HUGE on my monitor! How do I fix this??? I *know* my monitor is capable of

Display resolution problems

2011-11-24 Thread John Aldrich
I just did a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my system which has an integrated Geforce video card ( GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/PCI/SSE2) and I *know* my monitor (flat panel 19 Dell LCD) is capable of 1280x1024, but I can't seem to get it to go to that resolution. I know it works, because A) I do

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Fedora User fedora...@gmail.com: You changed the wrong line. I suspect that you changed SELINUXTYPE rather than the line about 4 lines above it that is just SELINUX. Tried that too. Didn't work. One thing I probably should have mentioned that MIGHT make a difference is that when I

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com: On 21/11/11 00:00, Thomas Cameron wrote: 2) If SELinux is really disabled, your boot problem almost certainly isn't SELinux related. 3) How did you disable SELinux? By that I mean, exactly what file did you edit and how did you edit it? Did you

SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
I just installed a new boot drive and installed F16. Since I absolutely HATE SELINUX, I've gone into the config file and set selinux to disabled. Now when I attempt to boot, I get an error that it can't find the policy file and it hangs the system and won't let it go any further. How do I

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: normally i disable SELinux with selinux=0 as kernel-boot-param you can edit the kernel-line in GRUB menu directly before the system get started I can't get that to work for me. :( I've since gone in and edited the config file BACK to targeted as

Re: problems while installing softwares

2011-10-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun October 30 2011, rohit bishnoi wrote: i have fedora 16 beta 64-bit installed on system. when i try to install software i will get some error mesgs like below... *[root@bishnoi rohit]# ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin bash: ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Mike Chambers wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:28 -0400, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. wrote: You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it to fix your xorg.conf issue. What xorg.conf issue? The *way* Fedora/X Org works now is you DONT need the

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
Ok... I have switched from noveau driver to the nVidia driver. That helps. Except I use XFCE4 as my window manager and the main bar at the top of every window is missing on the local console. HOWEVER, it works fine in VNC. I don't understand why, since both the local console and the VNC session

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Robert Myers wrote: VNC apparently correctly anticipates what's on the other end. Your system is confused about either your video card or the monitor for your console. Were it me, I'd be plugging in other video cards and/or monitors just to see what happens. I

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: If you want to salvage your data, I would recommend ddrescue. It worked wonderfully for me. Thanks. It's not that bad. Yet. I just know that SMARTD is apparently telling me that the drive is failing. I don't have a replacement yet, but hopefully

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Tim wrote: Usually, you can CTRL+ALT+F2 (or one of the other F keys), over to a text console, on the same computer, to use the command line. If that works, then it saves you a bit of hassle to work through this problem. Though, it can happen that the graphics system

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: I don't mean to insist, but I had a similar problem and I was able to replicate the old drive along with the partition table and LVM onto the replacement drive using ddrescue. The procedure is documented in this post.

HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread John Aldrich
A little while ago I inadvertently killed power to my F15 box. Now I'm unable to get a better screen size than 1024X768 (previous was 1280x1024) as well I'm having problems with my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard will suddenly not work any more (i.e. I can't type) and the mouse will

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. fo...@lemcoe.com: You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it to fix your xorg.conf issue. So you think I ought to try yum remove Xorg and let it go? Will that mess up any of my personal settings or will those likely not be touched?

Re: Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(

2011-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu October 13 2011, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: The adults also realize that Fedora already has a process pretty much exactly as Thomas described, and participate in it if they want to. Really? What is it? How do we access this wondrous special forum on changing device names on a whim of a

Re: Remote Access

2011-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri October 14 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: [snip] And, I just figured out the correct response to anybody who thinks it's legitimate to do something like this because I think I need it even after being told that it's against company policy: What *was* your username? clickedy-click!

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

2011-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue October 4 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: No, because there's no point to such a thing. When you install F14 and run update for the first time, you get the most recent version of everything. Doing it your way would update you step-by-step across hundreds of updates for some of the programs,

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

2011-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue October 4 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/04/2011 10:06 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: Is there a link to download ALL Fedora-14 updates all at once in one huge file..? All I've found is a link to download each update separately... No, because there's no point to such a thing. When you

Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

2011-10-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat October 1 2011, David wrote: The company that I work for has it's own server and the software that I use every day, provided by them, runs on Windows. None of it has a Linux clone and I seriously doubt that any of it ever will. And none of it will run on WINE (why would anyone

Re: gnome3 - the funny side

2011-09-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon September 26 2011, Ian Malone wrote: On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition: Desktop design copouts Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to do things that should be obvious and fast to do

Re: gnome3 - the funny side

2011-09-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon September 26 2011, Michael Ekstrand wrote: Actually, the point is that they *are* core functions, and should therefore not need an applet to be efficient and discoverable. Ahh... Gotcha. Log out and lock screen are built in to the shell (account menu at top right, keyboard

Re: Comparitive Desktop Environments

2011-09-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon September 26 2011, Aaron Konstam wrote: Ok, I tried XFCE. I find it far superior to LXDE. You can find things in a reasonable fashion. It shares with LXDE the problem of not being able to change the backgrounds. I think people who balk at Gnome 3 would find it easy to use. Adding

Re: Comparitive Desktop Environments

2011-09-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon September 26 2011, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/26/2011 01:35 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: If I understand, right click on desk top or terminal to change color, image, etc. Bob The problem is there's no way to browse for an image, you're

Need KVM switch

2011-09-17 Thread John Aldrich
I've got two computers -- a Windows XP machine and a Fedora 15 box. I am sending back the new KVM I bought since it doesn't work at all for my Linux box (just sits there and doesn't detect that it's plugged in.) It also doesn't pass along the unifying receiver for my new wireless keyboard and

Re: Need KVM switch

2011-09-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat September 17 2011, Robert M. Witkop wrote: I have had good experience with Iogear. I used the two port when I only had one windoz and on Linux. Then I move to their 4 port for one windoz and 2 Linux. I currently runnit the miniveiw ultra 8 port on 3 windoz and 5 Linux platforms and it

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri September 16 2011, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: LXDE runs way smoother than Gnome 2 in my experience. FWIW, I'm running XFCE at home, mainly because I'm connecting through an SSH tunnel and using VNC to view my desktop at home and I need a very lightweight DE. I still have to drop the

Help... screwed up video config

2011-09-16 Thread John Aldrich
I somehow managed to screw up my video config by changing the default monitor and now X won't start. I told it I had a Dell E1701 flat panel. Turns out I actually have a Dell E1703FP. Well, I checked and the scan ranges are identical, so it shouldn't matter. I've tried deleting the

Re: Help... screwed up video config (RESOLVED)

2011-09-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri September 16 2011, John Aldrich wrote: I somehow managed to screw up my video config by changing the default monitor and now X won't start. I told it I had a Dell E1701 flat panel. Turns out I actually have a Dell E1703FP. Well, I checked and the scan ranges are identical, so

Re: Power Outage, USB drive not mounting

2011-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon August 1 2011, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/01/2011 02:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: OK. I had this problem back in December and thought I had it all worked out. A cold boot with the drive disconnected did the trick. Now why that was needed... Just because it could be ornery.

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed July 6 2011, Andras Simon wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you want to achieve, but man system-setup-keyboard may help you. What would one put in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard if one DID want to enable CTL+ALT+BKSP to kill X? I looked at the man page for system-setup-keyboard, but

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

2011-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
Ok... I just got pointed to a Wiki article for ArchLinux that describes how to do this for KDE (which is all /I/ am concerned about *grin*) Basically you open up Systemsettings, go to input devices, select the keyboard, go to the advanced tab and expandthe key sequence to kill x server and

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue July 5 2011, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: might I suggest trying Google Public DNS servers? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 are the IP addresses. My ISP apparently runs some sort of filtering and occasionally I have problems with their DNS, so I switched

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue July 5 2011, 夜神 岩男 wrote: No, the purpose of Google Public DNS is to give Google insight into every network query you make. Your filterbubble is heavily influenced by your history record in Google's DNS system if you have dodged the other ways of tracking. This sort of profiling goes

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue July 5 2011, 夜神 岩男 wrote: No, the purpose of Google Public DNS is to give Google insight into every network query you make. Your filterbubble is heavily influenced by your history record in Google's DNS system if you have dodged the other ways of tracking. This sort of profiling goes

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon July 4 2011, Eric Tanguy wrote: Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be resolved. Reloading the page and firefox display fine the page. I have the same problem from thunderbird or cli using

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 30 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: $ google-chrome --help [...] --password-store=basic|gnome|kwallet Set the password store to use. The default is to automatically detect based on the desktop environment. basic selects the built in, unencrypted

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 30 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Had a similar problem with Chrome just pop up out of the blue. I changed the web browser in systemsettings from google chrome to google-chrome -- password-store=kwallet and ran like that for a couple days, then gave up and removed the

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (SOLVED???)

2011-06-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue June 21 2011, mike cloaked wrote: If you now switch on sync with a gmail account, then allow time for it to synchronise... and then run it without the --password-store flag, does that then allow sync to put the passwords in the local encrypted sqlite file instead of kwallet after

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (NOT SOLVED)

2011-06-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue June 21 2011, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue June 21 2011, mike cloaked wrote: If you now switch on sync with a gmail account, then allow time for it to synchronise... and then run it without the --password-store flag, does that then allow sync to put the passwords in the local encrypted

Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

2011-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
Why does Google Chrome want my Gnome Keyring password? I don't use Gnome. I use KDE/Openbox. It *only* happens when I'm accessing my computer from remote using VNC, though. It does NOT happen when I'm accessing my computer from the local console. Don't know if that gives a hint as to why it's

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

2011-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon June 20 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Chrome is a Gnome app. So is Firefox. So is Thunderbird. The fact that you're using KDE is irrelevant. The apps use the Gnome libraries and the Gnome keyring. As to why it only happens with VNC, I've no idea. Do you mean it happens with each

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

2011-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon June 20 2011, mike cloaked wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: Why does Google Chrome want my Gnome Keyring password? I don't use Gnome. I use KDE/Openbox. It *only* happens when I'm accessing my computer from remote using VNC, though

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

2011-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
It's not THAT big a deal... I just have to type my login password again, but it's annoying. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password???? (SOLVED???)

2011-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon June 20 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not really. The way you describe it, your home console is always logged on, so you don't need to be authenticated again. OTOH your remote session via SSH is logged out when you go home (even though the SSH connection remains open), so when you

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon June 13 2011, suvayu ali wrote: (snip) Isn't this easy to follow? Maybe there could be a one time splash screen reminding a new user on first login that the documentation is already on their system. that's a very good idea... and maybe put a shortcut on the desktop to it...labeled

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