F18 download won't burn to CD.

2013-05-12 Thread William Case
I suspect stupidity on my part because I see no questions on the list or google about my problem. I have an older computer that I want to upgrade the OS to Fedora 18. I have downloaded Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (960.5 mb)on to a newer machine. I want to burn it to a CD (700 mb) or

Re: F18 download won't burn to CD.

2013-05-12 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 20:36 -0400, Jim wrote: On 05/12/2013 07:42 PM, William Case wrote: I suspect stupidity on my part because I see no questions on the list or google about my problem. I have an older computer that I want to upgrade the OS to Fedora 18. I have downloaded Fedora-18

Re: F18 download won't burn to CD.

2013-05-12 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 10:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/13/13 10:11, William Case wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 20:36 -0400, Jim wrote: On 05/12/2013 07:42 PM, William Case wrote: I suspect stupidity on my part because I see no questions on the list or google about my problem. I

Quit simplifying, streamlining and improving

2013-03-20 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been away from the Fedora Users list for quite awhile. I am doing a virgin install of Fedora 18. I have had the damnedest time getting Serious Cow downloaded. It is done. But one message. Quit simplifying, streamlining and improving things without telling people. -- Regards Bill

lost gnote dilemma / curiosity !?

2012-05-04 Thread William Case
Hi; I have lost one gnote. I was opening a six month old note, gnote crashed and I lost that note -- only that one note. It had some data on it that is important to me. I have a couple of different ways I have backed up gnote files so ultimately I an not concerned. But here is my question.

re-mapping an older disk ??

2012-02-22 Thread William Case
Hi; I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a deeper hole. SMART Data Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS Backup all data and replace the disk Current Pending Sector Count Number of sectors waiting to be remapped Problem(s) could also be mixed with my trying to set up and

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

2012-02-22 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:25 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a deeper hole. SMART Data Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS Backup all data and replace the disk Current Pending Sector Count Number of sectors waiting

Stuck and Frustrated : Try to get from Live CD to Desktop system Fedora 16.

2012-01-16 Thread William Case
Hi: I used to be able to get from a rescue disk to my system with a chroot command. Been trying all morning to get from my live cd into my desktop root to make repairs. I have tried every thing I can think of. My system is tantalizingly close. I can see it, but I can't get to it. What

Log not rotating in Fedora 16.

2012-01-12 Thread William Case
Hi; I get the following warning on boot up The volume File system root has only 249.6 MiB disk space remaining. I think I have traced the problem to syslog not rotating. Messages-x in /var/log/ is up to 1.4 + GiB. How would you suggest I get the proper log rotation? Or, where else do you

Re: [Bulk] Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-05 Thread William Case
Thanks Olav; On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 22:10 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:04:16PM -0500, William Case wrote: How do I get rid of the Universal Access icon in the upper right hand corner/panel? Googled but seems every distribution has a different answer. How do I get

Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-04 Thread William Case
Hi; How do I get rid of the Universal Access icon in the upper right hand corner/panel? Googled but seems every distribution has a different answer. How do I get rid of it in Fedora 16, preferably using the icon-manage extension in dconf-editor if there is such away. Nothing I have tried seems

Gnote + Gome 3

2012-01-03 Thread William Case
Hi; You can't always believe what you read !? Google shows several conversations about gnote not yet being integrated into gnome. Yet in Fedora 15 I had a little menu icon on a bottom panel task bar/ notification area. I have no remembrance of putting it there, but it just seemed to show up one

Gnome3 RFE discussion !?

2011-12-27 Thread William Case
Hi; I am looking for suggestions of where I can get this conversation going with some people who would like to participate in such a conversation. I have tried the Gnome users list but no takers. My interest is in exploring the ideas expressed here before taking them forward as a request for

Re: Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !? -- Just a comment.

2011-12-18 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 13:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: I guess groups are a purely an initial install convenience and offer no advantages beyond that - in which case if one wants to ensure that an install has all packages of a previous install - then simply ignoring groups and doing

Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !?

2011-12-17 Thread William Case
I think I remember reading a suggestion here about how to get a list of the main or core programs on my machine. It was -- I think -- an rpm or yum list command of some kind + grep. I don't want every plugin or update or library just the main program. I am about to do a virgin install of Fedora

Compiz - ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: !?

2011-12-13 Thread William Case
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: compiz-fusion-extras = 0.8.6 is needed by compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.8.6-1.fc14.x86_64 Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report I get the above warning when trying to update compiz. I have tried yum remove compiz and get another

Compiz download problems ?

2011-10-04 Thread William Case
I am getting the following warnings when I try to update. ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: compiz-fusion-extras = 0.8.6 is needed by compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.8.6-1.fc14.x86_64 Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report Test Transaction Errors: file

Gnome 3 -- liking it more each day !?

2011-08-30 Thread William Case
Hi; Would like to have a conversation about somethings I would like to see added to Gnome 3. If I can get some agreement or advice, I will submit it as a Request for Enhancement to Gnome. After using Gnome 3 for about 3 weeks I really, really, want a toolbox or several of them. A toolbox is

Gnome3 a discussion about submiting some Requests for Enhancement.

2011-08-15 Thread William Case
Hi; I have posted similar comments on the Gnome user's list, but since I am looking to share opinions (the more the merrier) and not looking for help, I don't think I am breaking any kind of netiquette. I have been playing with Gnome3 for a day now, and once I got the full realization through

Re: [Bulk] Re: Gnome3 a discussion about submiting some Requests for Enhancement.

2011-08-15 Thread William Case
Thanks Raul and Stephen; On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 20:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/15/2011 07:22 PM, William Case wrote: 1) I would like to have a right hand hot spot or screen edge Use gnome-shell-extension-righthotcorner. Available in the Fedora repo 3) To make me content

Just a thought about Gnome3's window title bar.

2011-08-15 Thread William Case
When I see how clean a window can be, metacity, I started wondering if the widow title bar is even needed. It seems to come from the Microsoft tradition. On my screen the title bar takes up 3/8 vertically. Two windows open on the same desktop and you have lost 3/4 of real estate. Meanwhile the

Some minor(grrr...) Gnome3 irritations

2011-08-14 Thread William Case
Hi; Just preupdated/updated to FC15 with Gnome3. There is lots to like in the new Gnome and I am sure once I get familiar with moving around in it and getting set up with the way I like to work, every thing will be fine. But today I need some help. It doesn't bother most other people, but my

Re: Some minor(grrr...) Gnome3 irritations

2011-08-14 Thread William Case
Hi Roger; I have discovered a couple of things this afternoon On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 18:49 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 08/14/2011 11:02 AM, William Case wrote: he work area icon on my panel. Lack of work areas/view ports/task areas is why I have stayed away from F15 so far. I know I

Intriquing little FB (and other web) problem. Adding spaces or tabs to posts.

2011-06-22 Thread William Case
Hi; FaceBook and other messaging programs remove excess spaces. That is fine for most posts, but occasionally I want to retain my columnar formatting. I am will to insert a ctl-u unicode formula for space or tab if such can be found. I know I can send my data as an image, but I am looking for

A question from the truly dumb?

2011-05-27 Thread William Case
Hi, More and more I have noticed the use of a double colon [::]in coding explanations but have not noticed it actually used anywhere. Does it mean anything other than being used as a format. For example, in a recent repo description: perl-DateTime-Format-Natural Description :

Re: A question from the truly dumb?

2011-05-27 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 11:44 -0400, nathan forbes wrote: On May 27, 2011 11:34 AM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, More and more I have noticed the use of a double colon [::]in coding explanations but have not noticed it actually used anywhere. Does it mean anything

Firefox / Compiz problem to mull over with someone.

2011-04-29 Thread William Case
Hi; My problem is not a big one or a rush. It is just gotten under my skin and would like help with a fix or a hack or something. Problem: I can't get Compiz at startup to place Firefox on viewport (workspace) #2 at startup or login. Information: Using Firefox 3.6.16 and Compiz 0.8.6 I have

Re: Firefox / Compiz problem to mull over with someone.

2011-04-29 Thread William Case
Hi Joe; On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:51 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/29/2011 11:19 AM, William Case wrote: I am asking if anyone has any suggestions on how to make compiz retain the proper placement or how to change the focus on the workspace switcher applet to workspace #2 at startup? Use

Facebook on Fedora -- a couple of questions/suggestions.

2011-03-29 Thread William Case
Hi; There has been a lot of action on the Facebook pages I belong to over the last couple of days about trojans and/or viruses. They all seem to be link related. I am pretty sure they cannot affect anything on Fedora, but I was wondering. They all seem M$ related. Facebook seems to be unaware

TVTime in F14

2011-03-23 Thread William Case
Hi, Fix for TVTime not fixed in F14. I sent the following post the Fedora Users list last September after the F13 install. I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC - Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable TV. In F13, the picture

Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread William Case
Hi; Just getting some stuff about the Evolution program off my chest. If I can get some suggestions along the way that would be a bonus. The only use I had for WindowsXP was using Outlook to print out my calendar. My Windows harddisk died a month ago. It was due;it was old. But now I have to

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread William Case
Thanks; On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 11:58 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:19 AM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Now I am on a search for a replacement for Evolution that lets me have some control over calendar print out forms. Can anybody help? I have an unorthodox

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread William Case
JB; On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 18:44 +, JB wrote: William Case billlinux at rogers.com writes: ... Now I am on a search for a replacement for Evolution that lets me have some control over calendar print out forms. Can anybody help? Why not start with: $ yum search calendar $ yum

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 14:19 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Just getting some stuff about the Evolution program off my chest. If I can get some suggestions along the way that would be a bonus. I have received some suggestions to try Thunderbird off list. I tried Thunderbird several years

Re: [Bulk] Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 14:36 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 03/20/2011 02:19 PM, William Case wrote: Now I am on a search for a replacement for Evolution that lets me have some control over calendar print out forms. Can anybody help? May or may not be what you want - have you tried

TvTime -- I have forgotten the fix.

2011-03-11 Thread William Case
Hi; TvTime is showing nothing but interference lines. I had the problem before, and was given a simple fix. I can't find the fix now and have forgotten. Running TVtime with Rogers cable in Canada. Still analog, NTSC. Using a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 tuner. -- Regards Bill Fedora 14,

Re: [Bulk] Re: gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-14 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 09:03 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; gnote does not copy and paste within gnote the same way as every other Linux program. I use gnote a lot. I can't select a phrase or whatever move the cursor to the spot were I want to paste a copy

gnote -- Am I the only one ?

2011-02-13 Thread William Case
Hi; gnote does not copy and paste within gnote the same way as every other Linux program. I use gnote a lot. I can't select a phrase or whatever move the cursor to the spot were I want to paste a copy of the phrase and click the middle mouse button to paste in a copy of the selected phrase.

Re: Some Fedora 14 nitpicks

2011-01-14 Thread William Case
Hi Marko, On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 15:57 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2011 18:13:58 William Case wrote: Compiz 1) make it one package yum list compiz* [snip] I have much the same list as you do, but for gnome. I used packagekit and had to pick each component

[FIXED -- kind of] Grub_IMAGE 'bad grub stage1 image' -- what is this telling me.

2011-01-12 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 17:30 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 16:29 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I ran firstaidkit as root and got the following warning: Grub_IMAGE Detected 'bad grub stage1 image'. Fix doesn't fix. Googled and got either way out

Re: [FOLLOW UP] -- TVTime starts with blue screen; then shifts to green screen.

2011-01-12 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 22:49 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I have been using TVTime through six or seven versions of Fedora. it was working until recently. I don't exactly when it quit. Some time in the last two weeks. I have been doing a lot of messing with my computer in that time

Some Fedora 14 nitpicks

2011-01-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Only bother reading this if you have some extra time. I am quite satisfied with Fedora 14, but with each new version I keep a list of small annoyances. I am posting to see if there is agreement with me or not, or further suggestions. I will add some of them to bugzilla as medium or low

Re: Some Fedora 14 nitpicks

2011-01-12 Thread William Case
Hi; On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 02:43 +0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:13 AM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Gnote. 1) make the Linux cut and paste, by select and middle mouse button click, work within gnotes

Re: Some Fedora 14 nitpicks

2011-01-12 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:12 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/12/2011 01:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:13:58 -0500 William Case wrote: 2) I found a site that gave me a description and suggestions of which services I should automatically start on boot or login

Grub_IMAGE 'bad grub stage1 image' -- what is this telling me.

2011-01-07 Thread William Case
Hi; I ran firstaidkit as root and got the following warning: Grub_IMAGE Detected 'bad grub stage1 image'. Fix doesn't fix. Googled and got either way out of date messages or lots of Grub2 stuff. I posted a question here a couple of days ago with lots of info. Will repost if it is helpful.

Re: Grub_IMAGE 'bad grub stage1 image' -- what is this telling me.

2011-01-07 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 16:29 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I ran firstaidkit as root and got the following warning: Grub_IMAGE Detected 'bad grub stage1 image'. Fix doesn't fix. Googled and got either way out of date messages or lots of Grub2 stuff. I posted a question here

Problems with grub/fedora/windowsxp

2011-01-06 Thread William Case
Hi; I don't seem to be able to chainload to WindowsXP anymore. My grub.conf in /boot/grub/ includes: ... title WindowsXP SP3 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 41.0 GB, 40981069312 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders, total 80041151 sectors

PEBCAK and frustrated stupidity still exists -- be warned!

2011-01-04 Thread William Case
This note is just to get some frustration off my chest and to remind the Fedora community that stupidity can reign no matter how smart you might think you are. Just did a virgin Fedora 14 reinstall after completely screwing up my operating system because I thought I had a failing disk drive. The

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-23 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 08:11 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also like to add that this entire thread seems to me to be off-topic. There are plenty of forums for discussing programming and programming languages, but this is list is for

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-22 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:52 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 12/21/2010 03:48 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org mailto:g...@blu.org wrote: Yes and no. It is related to an understanding of what a computer really does. While CPUs today are

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-21 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 13:28 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:43 PM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Parshwa, Two basic questions: 1) Do you want to use programming as a way to understand the inner workings of your computer? Or, 2) Do

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-21 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 02:16 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:46 PM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: I found the answer in The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. This book is such a basic

Re: About programing, a general question

2010-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest. On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:32 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: hi, If one has to start from the scratch, from the zeroth level to do the programing, which programing language one should start with? In the ocean of the

Re: Game suggestions from the over sixty crowd?!?

2010-12-14 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 17:22 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I thought I would like to try a game. The Fedora Repo list gives about 60 at least. I am over sixty, not decrepit yet, but certainly don't want to continually loose to a reflexes based game. What I think I would like (or some

Game suggestions from the over sixty crowd?!?

2010-12-13 Thread William Case
Hi; I thought I would like to try a game. The Fedora Repo list gives about 60 at least. I am over sixty, not decrepit yet, but certainly don't want to continually loose to a reflexes based game. What I think I would like (or some combination of some of the criteria listed) a strategy based

Is anybody using Xournal? -- I have questions, and want recommendations.

2010-11-25 Thread William Case
Hi; I am about to download Xournal, but before I try it out maybe I can get a few questions answered. I am currently reading a 260 page PDF document. I would like to be able to make the equivalent of margin notes to myself. I have and use gnotes and NoteCase each for different purposes. I

Re: [Bulk] Re: Only one minor problem with F14 so far = Evo 'unread' markings gone.

2010-11-19 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 10:20 +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:00 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; In Evolution, the bolding and unread mail count has disappeared from my Account list and Search Folders. Inbox shows correctly as does my message list. I have shut down

Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
I started out to do something I though should be fairly easy but I have been at it all evening. I am trying to burn some data files to DVD as a backup. Here is the problem as far as I can tell. Brasero from root won't burn the files directly but wants to turn them into an .iso. Details: I have

Only one minor problem with F14 so far = Evo 'unread' markings gone.

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
Hi; In Evolution, the bolding and unread mail count has disappeared from my Account list and Search Folders. Inbox shows correctly as does my message list. I have shut down Evo and reopened, and re-booted, so it isn't quite that simple. Other than that the upgrade from F13 = F14 was pretty

Re: Burning mixed ownership of files to disk producing a problem?

2010-11-18 Thread William Case
This reply is as a continuation of the discussion, not an argument with your suggestions. In the end I just burned the user files and left it at that. See below for details ... On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 05:14 +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:32 -0500, William Stock wrote: In a small

Burning mixed permission files to disk problem?

2010-11-17 Thread William Case
Hi; I started out to do something I though should be fairly easy but I have been at it all evening. I am trying to burn some data files to DVD as a backup. Here is the problem as far as I can tell. Brasero from root won't burn the files directly but wants to turn them into an .iso. Details: I

Fedora 14's new name?

2010-11-13 Thread William Case
Hi; Is Fedora using names anymore to distinguish versions? F13 was Goddard. I have looked on the Wiki and on the Project page and several links. I can't find the name anywhere. What is particularly frustrating is that I am sure I saw it two or three weeks ago. It is not deal killer, but I

Re: Fedora 14's new name?

2010-11-13 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 12:23 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:59:08 + (UTC) Andre Robatino wrote: I always use just F13, F14, etc. It would be too confusing to remember the names especially after a few years. Or a few seconds :-). That is why I use the name, Tom.

While waiting for Fedora 14, a question for the engineering types re: searching and finding

2010-10-28 Thread William Case
Hi; How does the cpu search and find stuff? I am asking at the lowest abstraction level and hardware level. I have read several operating system texts and have an overview understanding of 'C'. There is a huge amount of searching and finding of text in memory, conditional statements requiring

Re: While waiting for Fedora 14, a question for the engineering types re: searching and finding

2010-10-28 Thread William Case
Thank you Marko and Patrick: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:36 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, October 28, 2010 19:27:16 William Case wrote: How does the cpu search and find stuff? There is a huge amount of searching and finding of text in memory, conditional statements requiring

Firefox and Adobe Reader 8.1.7

2010-10-19 Thread William Case
Hi; Before I start downloading Adobe Reader et al. Why won't Firefox or evince read: Could not launch Adobe Reader 8.1.7. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall the application I have run into several PDF files that can't be

Re: [Bulk] Re: Firefox and Adobe Reader 8.1.7

2010-10-19 Thread William Case
Hi g; On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 19:26 +, g wrote: On 10/19/2010 03:43 PM, William Case wrote: Hi; Before I start downloading Adobe Reader et al. Why won't Firefox or evince read: Could not launch Adobe Reader 8.1.7. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Firefox and Adobe Reader 8.1.7

2010-10-19 Thread William Case
Hi g; On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 20:44 +, g wrote: On 10/19/2010 08:13 PM, William Case wrote: snip hello w c. Tried that before posting. Meanwhile that site URL is no longer available. Strange, it was an American .gov site. being that it was behind on what is current adobe

Spread Sheet Applet / Accessory.

2010-10-18 Thread William Case
Hi; Does anyone know of a nice little spreadsheet program. I would like something that is equivalent to 'gnotes' but based on columns and rows. Simple, only a few arithmetic features, that can be launched from the panel, almost no menu. Slightly more advanced than gcalctool but very much

Re: [Bulk] Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-04 Thread William Case
Hi Bill On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:35 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Terry; On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 13:01 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:53 -0400, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:46 -0400, William Case wrote: Just curious what do you do

Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-02 Thread William Case
Hi Terry; On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 13:01 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:53 -0400, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:46 -0400, William Case wrote: Just curious what do you do to get audio? I don't get audio. After futzing about for a long while, submitting bugs

Re: Curiosity Question -- TVTime loses focus after installing F13 - [SOLVED WITH LATEST UPDATES]

2010-09-01 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:46 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC - Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable TV. In F13, the picture is black and white with various degrees of interference lines

Re: Java/Firefox craziness -- got it to work in IE

2010-08-31 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:43 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On 30 August 2010 14:10, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi; Just some clarification and double checking. I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13. I get the warning message that I need Sun JVM

Re: [Bulk] Re: Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-31 Thread William Case
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:49 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote: * William Case billli...@rogers.com [2010-08-30 17:14]: Hi; Just some clarification and double checking. Which Canadian Govt. website are you trying to visit? There was a bug open about that but it should be fixed in the latest

Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-30 Thread William Case
Hi; Just some clarification and double checking. I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13. I get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater. There is nothing in the repositories that I can see resembling Sun JVM. Apparently I can download and install

TVTime loses focus after installing F13

2010-08-26 Thread William Case
Hi; I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC - Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable TV. In F13, the picture is black and white with various degrees of interference lines depending on the tv channel. I have played with (used) TVTime

Re: TVTime loses focus after installing F13

2010-08-26 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 12:30 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; I have a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR 1800 tuner with an analog Cable TV (NTSC - Canada). In F12 I received a near perfect video picture from my cable TV. In F13, the picture is black and white with various degrees

Re: New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!? [SOLVED]

2010-08-11 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 19:23 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 00:03 +0200, Frode wrote: William Case skrev: Hi; Hi. I've used one for years without any problems, so if they haven't changed anything in it, you could have a faulty one. I take it you have

Re: New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!?

2010-08-01 Thread William Case
Hi; On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 00:03 +0200, Frode wrote: William Case skrev: Hi; Hi. I've used one for years without any problems, so if they haven't changed anything in it, you could have a faulty one. I take it you have syncronized the transceiver and keyboard? (If you haven't, press

New Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks seems dead ?!?

2010-07-31 Thread William Case
Hi; Is there any known problems with the Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. I have googled and don't seem to find anything applicable. Any suggestions welcome. If I can't get it working I am going to have to return it on Monday. I kind of like the style and reviews. -- Regards Bill

How's gnash for flash comin' ?

2010-07-19 Thread William Case
Hi; Does anybody have an idea when we might see an update for gnash. I keep watching the threads, upgrades etc. to see if one is on the way. I am trying to avoid going back to adobe flash, but I am losing too many services because of it and/or Mozilla. The latest google (GNU and others)

Lost my 3D and don't no where to find it !?!

2010-07-09 Thread William Case
Hi; Installed Fedora 13 with nouveau driver and added mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. Played around with compiz then removed nouveau and replaced it with nvidia to see how that would look. Preferred the look I got with nouveau, removed nvidia and reinstalled nouveau and

Strange! Firefox won't play youTube videos -- Epiphany will !?!

2010-07-09 Thread William Case
Hi; I have both nouveau and gnash installed. I am getting beautiful YouTube videos in Epiphany. Firefox says I need a plugin and about:plugins is not even showing the gnash plugins it used to. I tried adobe flash to see if that would fix it, but no change so I re-installed gnash. -- Regards

Epiphany can no longe read .xml files. ?!?

2010-07-09 Thread William Case
Hi; Epiphany can no longer read .xml files. ?!? Firefox which shares plugins and mozilla with epiphany does still read *.xml files. Any suggestions? Or, what gives? -- Regards Bill Fedora 13, Gnome 2.30.2 Evo.2.20.2, Emacs 23.2.1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Gnome Menu curosity question ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
Hi; Dumb, dumb, question that has been bugging me for years. On the Gnome Menu, what is the difference between 'Applications = System Tools' and 'Preferences = Administration'? There seems to be no rhyme or reason why some applications are placed in one category rather than another. I find it

Re: Gnome Menu curosity question ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
Hi; On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:51 +, JB wrote: William Case billlinux at rogers.com writes: ... Hi, yes, I agree with you. The proper menu organization should be with the topmost specifier system including all system-related menus/items. It is proper to reorganize the System

Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
Hi; I want to add a line to the script that starts the programs listed in gnome-session-manager. There must be (??) an rc.d script or something like it that starts a list of startup programs kept somewhere. I can't find it. I have had the following script line suggested to me. xev | grep -m 1

Re: Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 14:06 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:54 -0400 William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: xev | grep -m 1 ReparentNotify; firefox xchat-gnome Lets step back a bit. What is your high level goal here? Looking for a more elegant solution than just

Re: Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:42 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: On 07/08/2010 03:32 PM, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 14:06 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:54 -0400 William Casebillli...@rogers.com wrote: xev | grep -m 1 ReparentNotify; firefox

Re: Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:37 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:32:25 -0400 William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: ...snip... Or can you elaborate on what you are trying to do further? I am using compiz to place and position certain applications'windows. Firefox

Re: [Bulk] Re: Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:32 -0400, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 14:06 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:54 -0400 William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: xev | grep -m 1 ReparentNotify; firefox xchat-gnome I have the following script in /usr/bin

Spam in 'Unmatched' folder no longer being removed when marked junk ?!?

2010-07-07 Thread William Case
Hi; Just virgin installed Fedora 13 with Evolution 2.20.3 upgrade. Bogofilter s on. Spam in 'Unmatched' folder no longer being removed when marked junk. A copy then appears in Junk folder. Deleting the spam in 'Unmatched' deletes it from the 'Junk' folder as well. Is anybody else experiencing

Re: Spam in 'Unmatched' folder - [SORRY WRONG LIST]

2010-07-07 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Just virgin installed Fedora 13 with Evolution 2.20.3 upgrade. Bogofilter s on. Spam in 'Unmatched' folder no longer being removed when marked junk. A copy then appears in Junk folder. Deleting the spam in 'Unmatched' deletes

TVTime and nouveau ?!?

2010-07-05 Thread William Case
Hi; Just installed F13 with the nouveau driver with the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. TVTime used to work under F12 and the nvidia driver. Now I have an ugly picture full of interference. The only thing I think has changed is the video driver. Is anyone else having the same, or similar

Re: [Bulk] Frustration -- can't find the icon picker application on m system?? [SOLVED]

2010-06-28 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:54 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; What is the name of the little application that pops up when you are trying to pick a new icon in a launcher ? It can be found in gconf-editor, look for /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-desktop-icon -- Regards Bill

Re: [Bulk] Discussion/help re: spellcheck shortcut ?!?

2010-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi, On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 15:36 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I may be getting into something here that may be too complex, but ... I would like to create a script or other programming that I can bind to a shortcut key (Say Ctrl+Alt+F7) that does the following as I am typing: When

Re: [Bulk] Discussion/help re: spellcheck shortcut ?!?

2010-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Frank; On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:08 -0400, William Case wrote: Any other thoughts or suggestions would truly be appreciated. What you are asking for reminds me very much of Borland Turbo Lightning, a DOS TSR spelling checker from years

Discussion/help re: spellcheck shortcut ?!?

2010-06-26 Thread William Case
Hi; I may be getting into something here that may be too complex, but ... I would like to create a script or other programming that I can bind to a shortcut key (Say Ctrl+Alt+F7) that does the following as I am typing: When typing along and a previous word appears underlined in read as a

Frustration -- can't find the icon picker application on m system??

2010-06-26 Thread William Case
Hi; What is the name of the little application that pops up when you are trying to pick a new icon in a launcher ? Googled etc. and found a page that only said Fedora has it's own version rather than the gnome version. Another site said it was called assogiate. It's not. Where would I find it

Curiosity question re Epiphany Browser ?

2010-06-17 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been using two Internet Browsers in tandem for 3 or 4 years; FireFox and Epiphany. Epiphany has been having intermittent crashes for about 6 months now. I have filed bugs and googled for a fix. Apparently Ubuntu users are having the same problems. It appears to be a problem with

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