Re: F20 Beta upgrade issues - network status gone

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:41:20 -0600 Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:58:27 -0800 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 18:44 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > I just upgraded my laptop from F19 to F20 Beta, using fedup, and > > > enc

Re: F20 Beta upgrade issues - network status gone

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:58:27 -0800 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 18:44 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > I just upgraded my laptop from F19 to F20 Beta, using fedup, and > > encountered 2 noticeable problems with the upgrade process that I'm > > not s

F20 Beta upgrade issues - network status gone

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Ekstrand
rect these reports (I do not know what component is responsible for nm-applet disappearing, or what is responsible for the Bluetooth status display in the first place), and (B) how do I get my Bluetooth status back? - Michael -- Michael Ekstrand — http://elehack.net/ -- devel mailing

Re: $HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:30:05 + Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Seg, 2013-10-28 at 14:00 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > Does any software store files into $HOME/.local/bin/ yet? > > > > Yes. > > > > pip install --user > > > > The pip user sc

Re: $HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Ekstrand
any software store files into $HOME/.local/bin/ yet? Yes. pip install --user The pip user scheme is to use ~/.local as an FHS-ish thing. IMO, this is much superior to the cabal, gem, etc. notion that they should each have their own bin directory for user-installed programs. - Michael -- M

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-28 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 05/28/2013 06:25 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:14 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> On 05/22/2013 03:43 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: >>> Please send your requests as replies to this email so they can be properly >>> discussed. >> >> Have equivalent of apt-get autoremove. > > That'

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 05/23/2013 06:21 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 22. 5. 2013 at 10:55:14, Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> Performance improvement: improve scaling to 5K+ installed packages. >> Since the TeXLive repackaging, my laptop several thousand packages, >> about half of which are TeX-rela

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Performance improvement: improve scaling to 5K+ installed packages. Since the TeXLive repackaging, my laptop several thousand packages, about half of which are TeX-related (I like to have a fairly full TeX install with all the docs). There are two noticable problems: yum slows down considerably (e

Re: fedora release name problem

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 03/19/2013 08:08 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> - Original Message - >>> Once upon a time, G.Wolfe Woodbury said: >>> submit a Feature and do proper testing/bug fixing/etc. for a future >>> release (if and when another name with non ASCII alphanumeric >>> chara

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 01/30/2013 07:57 AM, François Cami wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> = Features/ApacheOpenOffice = >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice >> >> Feature owner(s): Andrea Pescetti >> >> Add Apache OpenOffice, the free productivit

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-05 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: >> Three things: >> >> 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size >>doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well) >>is a fine example of so

Re: Rolling release model philosophy

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 11/02/2012 04:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Adam Williamson writes: >> On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 21:07 +0100, drago01 wrote: >>> I disagree with that. Fedora releases had some small regression >>> introduced via updates from time but is is *very* usable as a stable >>> operating system. > >> I disagree

Re: TextMate 2 open sourced!

2012-08-09 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 08/09/2012 07:38 PM, Onuralp SEZER wrote: > Let make it clear, This apps is write in OSX SDK apps, So for that > reason, If we even compiled clang and other things we cannot be compile > Xcode as I can see because Xcode cannot be compile in linux also Xcode > is part of Apple Developers , in tha

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/01/2012 01:24 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:16:45PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: >> >> Windows-8 will install/boot on existing hardware w/o SecureBoot. > > Yes. > >> Will Windows-8 install/boot on new hardware that contains SecureBoot without >> SecureBoot enabled? >

Re: GNOME 3 - font point sizes now scaled?

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 10/03/2011 10:48 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > Hi, > > A daft question perhaps, but I thought... > >> I'm not sure how we can make DPI magically be correct in gazillions of >> broken displays' EDID. > > How do other OS' do it? I don't know that they do. In my use of Windows up through XP, I nev

Re: what if native systemd service is slower than old sysvinit script?

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 09/15/2011 05:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:14 -0400, Bernd Stramm wrote: > >> Many computers are booted very rarely, once a day or so, and then >> sit idle for very long periods of time. This is very wasteful. The >> reason people do this is because booting takes a l

Re: floppy support

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 08/30/2011 06:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > I see it all the time. "Some older hardware still requires floppies..." > It just seems like a generic defense statement for the fans of floppies > and for those who insist on using them for god knows what reason. > Any hardware that is true to that stat

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 08/26/2011 12:13 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > 3. cp-dev seems to not only use Black Box to bootstrap, but it also > seems to use Black Box sources as a part of itself. I have not yet > investigated whether this is true and, if true, how the relevant sources > are licensed. BlackB

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/14/2011 07:41 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > PS: > > Paul Johnson wrote: >> I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is >> actually available and open. > > Have you even looked at that "source code"? I just have: > > 1. They refer to the Window$ download for the code.

Re: Calling autoconf in a spec.

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 07/15/2011 11:43 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> There's a big difference between having the upstream, who knows their >> configure script inside and out, > > That's a very bold assertion. ;-) Many upstream developers just copy&paste > their configure.ac scripts together fr

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/24/2011 03:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> If you have *specific* concerns, let's hear those. You seem to just >> quoting parts of a public wiki page anyone can read. I don't see the >> point of that > > If trusted boot in fedora

Re: conclusion: F15 / systemd / user-experience

2011-06-14 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/13/2011 11:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > Fedora could well benefit from switching to a rolling release model > as well (no not rawhide - a controlled rolling release much as the > kernel development follows). I ran rolling release distros on my laptops for a while - Gentoo, then Debian

Guide to setting karma thresholds?

2011-06-13 Thread Michael Ekstrand
I'm working on pushing my first bugfix to F15 (#711261), using the guides I found in the wiki[1][2]. For a non-critical-path package, the Update Policy says that it needs to meet the positive karma threshold set by the submitter, but does not indicate what that threshold should be or guidance for

Self Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Greetings. I'm Michael, a Ph.D student in human-computer interaction at the University of Minnesota researching recommender systems (and working on an open source recommender toolkit). In my spare time I engage in recreational OCaml hacking (and use it whenever I can in my research work as well).