Re: hidden GRUB menu - Re: Suspension problem last 2 days

2013-09-22 Thread Clive Hills
Err aren't these *fedora* lists. We show the grub menu.
*plonk*
Clive


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote:



 Am 22.09.2013 18:00, schrieb drago01:
  On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net
 wrote:
  Am 22.09.2013 17:36, schrieb drago01:
  On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net
 wrote:
  Am 22.09.2013 02:52, schrieb Ed Greshko:
  On 09/22/13 08:39, Timothy Murphy wrote:
  Ed Greshko wrote:
 
  I've been having a problem on my Thinkpad T61 for the last 2 days.
  In fact since yum update installed
 kernel-PAE-3.11.1-200.fc19.i686,
  though that is probably a coincidence.
  Would it be possible to boot into the previous kernel to verify if
 it is a
  coincidence?
  I'm afraid I'm not sure how to do that.
  I'd be happy to try if someone could suggest the way.
 
  When you boot your system, don't you have a menu to select up to 3
 kernels?
 
  and that is why i cried on @devel about the idea to hide the GRUB
 menu as default
 
  Err you know that we do *not* hide the grub menu in F19?
 
  no - because i do not care about Fedora defaults in many cases for my
 machines
 
  You seem to care enough to write mails about it.

 yes, becuase i am not that asshole some think and care about others
 i wish the future users have the same chance to learn things as i had
 in the past

  If anything you have just proven that just because the menu is shown
  people will not automatically know what the options there mean.
 
  no - it is proven that even if it is there it's hard to understand
  hide it does not make this better
 
  Showing an option that people do not understand does not solve anything.

 then *explain* the menu instead hide it

  So can you stop crying about the idea to hide the GRUB menu as(by)
  default now?
 
  no, simply because if it is hard to move the cursor down in a
  already displayed menu for some users you can be sure that they
  never have a chance to learn about the existing older kernel
  by hide it
 
  You should not have to learn what a kernel is to be able to use your
 computer

 this makes no sense

 why do you have to learn it?
 because there is a menu giving you options?

 does this menu *force* someobody to learn?
 how would it be able to demand anything from a user?

  I am pretty sure you disagree here but we should just agree to
  disagree instead of having a useless discussion.

 if Fedora Core would have had the same attitude than today i would
 never have switched to Linux completly - this boot option where
 people say nobody needs to see it saved my first machine and a lot
 of time for me because it did not boot after a kernel update and
 so i took the only working thing: a menu at begin

 i agree in a perfect world you would not need it
 but this perfect world doe snot exist

 but you are not in the position than *anybody* else to guarantee
 that a kernel update will never have regresions, not now and not
 in the future

  if the affected machine is their only one they also have
  no chance to ask for help and are lost
 
  P.S.:
  do not give thunderbird a negative karma because some extension
  is not updated / rebuilt, file a bugreport for the extension!
 
  OT but no. If an update introduces broken deps it should not be pushed
  until they are resolved.
  Giving negative karma here is common practice

 not common, bad practice at least in that case


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Re: Yubikey single-factor authentication disabled

2013-03-06 Thread Clive Hills
I suppose I have to bite and ask why yubikey is regarded as single-factor?
I guess it isn't something I know as well as something I have?

Spot's poll is interesting - I see SecureID hard tokens leading the hard
tokens featured (7am UTC Thursday) but how does an individual buy one?

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Re: Yubikey single-factor authentication disabled

2013-03-06 Thread Clive Hills
Thank you for the correction.
My bad. Clearly I need another coffee before posting.

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Re: Introduction: Interested in becoming a packager for fis-gtm and vista

2012-07-16 Thread Clive Hills
Coincidentally I was looking at gtm this weekend.
One of the interesting points in re packaging it is that one must bootstrap
gtm from an existing gtm using the providing source.
I'm wondering a bit how that might be affected by the Fedora packaging
guidelines?

I also use Intersystems cache (non free in every sense of course) although
also Mumps based even if broken under F16/F17.
There's also a seeming FOSS mumpsc compiler out there.

Clive
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