Re: kglobalaccel memory usage

2010-10-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dj YB yehi...@mail.ru wrote: tried the fedora-kde list first but got no response. whenever I look at the processes table I see that kglobalaccel is taking about 125 MB of memory, that is a lot. I admit that I have lot's of shortcuts and gestures, but still,

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I would use dd to clone (or back up) an entire hard drive.  Easier.  You can even pipe it through gzip to get a compressed image file. I do exactly that... dd piped through gzip then push through an SSH session to a

Re: Converting ext4 to xfs

2010-10-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if there was any way I could convert an ext4 partition into an xfs partition without copying around files onto a separate partition and reformatting. The partition in question is my

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:54 AM, list user cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi All; I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural method based on a template. We tried to do this via open

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: At 90%, the transfer time comes down to 31 minutes. So, 20 minutes is absolutely miraculous!!! Be HAPPY!! Could be compression on the SCP link... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: System time running fast

2010-09-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Brian Wood woodbria...@gmail.com wrote: I have an HP computer with an AMD Athlon X2 dual core processor.  It has Fedora 13 on it.  It continually reports the time incorrectly and gets further off(fast) as time goes by. I doubt this is a Fedora problem, but am

Re: Hole in 64-bit Linux kernel provides root rights

2010-09-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz fiedo...@math.ohio-state.edu wrote: Further story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/ This is a very serious problem which puts multiuser 64-bit Linux systems absolutely at the mercy of their least

Re: Cannot rebuild from src.rpm

2010-09-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am trying to rebuild a rpm from its src.rpm, but getting the following error: $ rpmbuild --clean --rebuild myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm Installing myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm warning: user stewart does not exist -

Re: OCR program for plots recognition

2010-09-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: Could anybody suggest me a program in Fedora repos for plot recognition? I have a bunch of graphs images scanned from different papers and I want to put them into my Ph.D. theses. I have to replot them in GNUPlot for uniformity.

Re: OCR program for plots recognition

2010-09-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: Nice try, Marco! Thank you. But I need some tool to produce data in a text file from graph image. And something that I can just yum' install? I don't see an RPM, but the installation is pretty simple: export

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-31 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Well, if selinux is the best that happened to security since sliced bread, then why people make these comments ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux ... Overall, the reception to SELINUX has been mixed in

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply.  All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. Wiser folks

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM, James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote: Kwan Lowe k...@digitalhermit.com wrote: Sent: Aug 18, 2010 8:37 AM To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system

Re: Recovering a Ghost Image

2010-08-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Paul F. Johnson p...@all-the-johnsons.co.uk wrote: Hi, Just before my old laptop was destroyed by the dog (don't ask), I made a back up from the laptop using Norton Ghost 15 thinking I would be able to use Norton via Wine to recover the archives. Turns out

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has had bad layout for years.  An example is attached.  The only way to get text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open

Re: Processor Scalability and Linux

2010-08-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: Well, 3D animation is my thing and has been since the Amiga platform. The power to render many minutes of animation and still have functional machine to do the rest of my daily activity. I use a virtual machine running

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Terry Polzin foxec...@wowway.com wrote: Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty bodies? I have cron jobs that I want stderr and stdout to be mailed to users IF there is any stderr or stdout from the script.  But if there are no

Re: CRON PROBLEMS

2010-08-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Innocent Muchedzi imuche...@gmail.com wrote: Hie  I m having problems setting up a cron job on Fedora 11. I  have added my schedule as follows 0 12 * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://localhost/goodnews/smsc/inspirational.verses.services.php /dev/null 21 and

Re: ip address from range script

2010-07-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: TEST-A.txt: list of ip address ranges [AS/isp's in a country] TEST-B.txt: list of ip addresses I just need to know, if an ip in the TEST-B.txt is in a range of Damn, how many places have you crossposted this? --

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or not, as desired.  To this end I set my default

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jozsi Avadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses the GPU for working, not the CPU? [by default] Or this solution is still in the beginning part? Just saw this posted a moment ago:

Re: F13 on Samsung N220?

2010-07-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Does anyone have experience or a pointer to installing F13 on a Samsung N220? Nice little computer, Atom cpu, 1 gig, 250 HD, realtek wifi. I installed CentOS on this netbook. I went to pendrivelinux, grabbed the iso to USB

Re: Reply-To munging summary (was: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers)

2010-07-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I also agree with the rest of your post (and see no reason to quote it in its entirety :-), but I wonder if we're all just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic when it comes to mailing lists. I have the

Re: How to easily create GUI app (for non-programmers)?

2010-07-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for ways of creating simple apps and I'm not a coder. I saw fer projects that could help me do this but would really like to hear you if you have done something with some of them or if you have

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

2010-07-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:57 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Hi, I don't see any component in bugzilla for mailing lists, so I'm posting here. In order to do that I have to subscribe, which takes more than a few bounces, and

Re: text to html

2010-07-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Jozsi Avadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MqPXZwc3 output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8QCkp4yv it will be a long day.. :D could someone please help with it? i have to make a one liner that get's the input, and

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Monty wig monty...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gurus, Can someone please point me the right direction on the difference between 32bit and 64bit OS? For almost all situations, I don't see any benefit to staying with 32-bit on servers. There's apparently a narrow case

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: [snip] Even if you're going to run an app in 32-bit mode, you're still better off with a 64-bit kernel. Agreed... The areas where 64-bit apps is not a good idea is on some applications, in particular Java-based apps. In

HCL

2010-06-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I am about to build out a physical Fedora system on an existing laptop. Up to now all my installations have been within VMWare, Xen or KVM. I found the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List), but it is very much dated and largely unpopulated. I seem to recall a process some time ago where

Re: HCL

2010-06-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mr Gabriel gabr...@impactteachers.com wrote: Get a live cd of fedora, and test it on your target machine if you can. Ask in #fedora on freenode if anyone actually has your laptop running fedora, or even indeed on this list :) Thanks for the quick response..

Re: Improving the list climate [was Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228]

2010-06-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] It's always tempting to propose radical solutions when some unusual event occurs (see most responses to terrorist incidents for a real-world parallel). I have to agree with this. Having used mailing lists,

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nermin Celik n.celi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat from FC12 due to Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora. What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: True, but if a Linux distribution wants to attract Windows and OSX desktop users (_IF_), OO is an essential package because it is what those users expect, an integrated office application suite that is compatible with MS Office.

Re: YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with 4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have heard of something like this. Yum seg faults when I ask it to do things when I have 4096M of physical memory installed. I'm running on a system with

Re: Need help with sed statement

2010-05-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:37 PM, David Bartmess dingod...@edingo.net wrote: Not sure if this is the right place, but I need help with a sed replacement expression. I'm trying to express only the filename from a filepath, i.e., whoopie.txt from /opt/dev/whoopie.txt. Basically I'm reading the

Re: WTH is up with this network config?

2010-04-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jack craig jcr...@extraview.com wrote: When I learned about ip address, the network host portions of the IP and the netmask to differentiate the host network numbers. I learned a class A addr used a mask of 10.255.255.255. :D That's got to be a typo... The

Re: Adobe Flash Player X86_64

2010-04-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 02:18 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:09 -0400, Henry Wyatt wrote: I go to terminal and cd directory to my downloads dir and see libflashplayer.so file, but I do not know how

Re: Fedora 12-KVM-Windows 7

2010-04-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:25:36 -0400 Jim wrote: Installing Windows 7 in KVM and Fedora 12 , would win 7 be slower in virt. Good or Bad Ideal ? Don't know about Windows 7, but my XP virtual machine runs faster on my

Re: lost commands

2010-04-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:44 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, how would one do that without any of the package management tools available? Is it with a separate instance of rpm/yum that is on the rescue disc? But aren't packages like yum and rpm not

Re: Changing Home Directory

2010-04-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jeff Sadino jsadino.que...@gmail.com wrote: What bothers me is the last line -bash-3.00$ as compared to [te...@cluster ~]$.  Does this matter, or is it just a different way of saying the same thing?  My passwd file: test2:x:526:527::/mnt/fs4/test2:/bin/bash

Re: load and power management

2010-04-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Peter A lo...@loonybin.org wrote: Am I doing something wrong? My view is pretty simple but the few tests I did seemed to all indicate the same thing... How valuable is reporting the CPU usage if its not really shows how much of maximum CPU power is used?

Re: rpm architecture

2010-04-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Ray Pittigher raymond.pittig...@itt.com wrote: Having some problems installing rpm packages,what does it mean when every package claims it is the wrong architecture? for example.. rpm  -Uvh python-2.4.3-27.el5.x86_64.rpm python-devel-2.4.3-27.el5.*

Re: Strange 'ls' listing

2010-04-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Jeff Kittle jkit...@wi.rr.com wrote: Has anyone noticed that the ls command tacks on ‘.’ Character at the end of each permission string , example: total 124 drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 2009-08-25 13:06 srv Maybe you have ls aliased? -- users mailing

Re: Audacity

2010-04-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: Ok this is really weird. I install Audacity and everything is fine (English) I open preferences -do nothing then close prefs and all is in German Does it save a preferences file anywhere (e.g., .audacity/ or

Re: Strange 'ls' listing

2010-04-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Jeff Kittle wrote: Has anyone noticed that the ls command tacks on ‘.’ Character at the end of each permission string , example: It is to signify an SELinux context exists on the file. This is something new to

Re: Strange 'ls' listing

2010-04-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: I believe you can generate your own formatted output to workaround it. Sure, not intuitive, but possible. You can alias ll to your custom format output. :) Might do that... I was interested because of the OP about

Re: How to compile kernel module for a new kernel before reboot?

2010-04-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Andrew Junev a...@a-j.ru wrote: Hello All, I have a vt6656 WiFi adapter that needs a separate driver to work in Linux. The driver is neither in native Fedora repos, nor in rpmfusion (at least I don't know how to search for it, so I think it's not there). So

Re: Will Fedora PowerPC support?

2010-04-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Fellow Fedora users, In light of all the postings, there is one that has not been discussed: http://www.osnews.com/story/23071/GNU_Linux_Distros_Silently_Drop_PowerPC Apparently PowerPC support is silently

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: . perhaps there was an issue with the original F12 release that would have gotten fixed if you update to current. System is completely up to date at this point... Yes, there is a mechanism to cache credentials - I

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am sorry if it has been asked before, but could not come up with the search terms to look it and I have not seen discussed on the WIKIs I am totally noob to virtualization and I was planning to start learning myself.

Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I just did a Fedora12 Desktop Edition installation to hard drive and an update. This went smoothly, but I had some errors immediately afterwards. During the installation I don't recall being prompted for network configuration. On initial boot, I did the normal configuration such as

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: probably did miss it In system-config-network, if you double click the interface, there is a checkbox for 'Activate device when computer starts' Ahhh... I understand now.. That button is only available on the

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: yes, I can see what you mean truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers' would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put 'ONBOOT=yes' in the configuration and be done with it. ;-)

Re: [389-users] Fedora Directory Server

2010-03-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Wall, Patrick patrick.w...@tc.gc.ca wrote: It basically tells me the passwd is incorrect.  Yet I know it's not. I've reset it a few times, trying different passwds. Here is what /var/tmp/secure has to say (note: I have intentionally blocked out the IP Address

Re: [389-users] Advantage to synching with AD?

2010-03-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
2010/3/5 Dumbo Q dum...@yahoo.com: I'm linux guy, and if it were up to me windows would not be in my server environment.  However I am in a mixed environment where All windows servers use AD for authentication, and linux servers have no authentication setup. My first thought is to use rhds or

Re: [389-users] Advantage to synching with AD?

2010-03-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
2010/3/5 Dumbo Q dum...@yahoo.com: What do you mean by appropriate authorization and duties? Specifically it's the non-technical portion. In some organizations there are some delineation of duties that preclude some admins from creating IDs. I.e., the Unix administrators may not necessarily have

Re: [389-users] Doubt regarding 389 Client Home Directory?

2010-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
2010/1/12 Ajeet S Raina ajeetra...@gmail.com: Hello Guys, [snip] Now When I try logging into the server through : username: meet password: It says: login as: snalamwar s...@10.209.37.77's password: Last login: Wed Jan 13 03:00:09 2010 from 10.209.37.146 Could not chdir to home