Security In F/OSS & KDE [Was "Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?"]

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Gordon
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 14:30 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > [...] > several years of experience with it on 4 different platforms (OpenBSD, > Fedora, OpenSuse, and FreeBSD) have convinced me that KDE has security > holes (or bugs) which permit exploits which cause me lots of trouble. This happens with

Re: I'm a newcomer to Fedora 10 Live CD

2008-12-24 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
> I'm not familiar with running the live CD So you should not answer. > You may need to run with the vesa driver. A proper xorg.conf was missing. I needed to create one with: X -configure Then I used it with: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new export DISPLAY=:0.0 gnome-session and now I'm ro

Re: screen settings

2008-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler wrote: > From: charles zeitler > Subject: Re: screen settings > To: olivares14...@yahoo.com > Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 9:33 PM > > > > > > ATI/Radeon cards are kind of problematic. Guess you > were bitten in some > > way as I have :(, as I have a

smart in f10

2008-12-24 Thread oleksandr korneta
hello, smart (smart-1.1-56.fc10.rpm) segfaults while reloading cache. According to traceback message it must this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/smart/+bug/302345 which has been fixed in the trunk for quite some time http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~smartpm/smart/trunk/revision/844

Re: screen settings

2008-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler wrote: > From: charles zeitler > Subject: Re: screen settings > To: olivares14...@yahoo.com > Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 8:09 PM > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Antonio Olivares > wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler >

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-24 Thread Thomas Cameron
Ian Pilcher wrote: Mail Lists wrote: (1) Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead or alive ? I'm strongly considering it. Almost all of the applications that I use regularly are GTK-based anyway, and Red Hat and Fedora have always been more focused on GNOME than KDE,

Re: nautilus VS samba

2008-12-24 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:13:08PM -0500, Adam D. Ligas wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 18:28 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > the old win98 I have in a vmware session. No problem. > > > > But in nautilus on the fedora 10 box it just says: > > > > Unable to mount location > > Failed to retriev

Re: nautilus VS samba

2008-12-24 Thread Adam D. Ligas
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 18:28 -0500, fred smith wrote: > the old win98 I have in a vmware session. No problem. > > But in nautilus on the fedora 10 box it just says: > > Unable to mount location > Failed to retrieve share list from server. > > Now this is weird: On that same laptop, as

Re: screen settings

2008-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 12/24/08, charles zeitler wrote: > From: charles zeitler > Subject: screen settings > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > > Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 7:52 PM > when i click on "system settings-> screen" my > display goes black > &

screen settings

2008-12-24 Thread charles zeitler
when i click on "system settings-> screen" my display goes black & my computer locks up. any suggestions? thanks charles zeitler -- Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscrib

Re: movie question

2008-12-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 12/24/08, adrian kok wrote: > From: adrian kok > Subject: movie question > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 7:29 PM > Hi > > I would like to play movie but amd get an error helow > > The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-2 System > Stream d

movie question

2008-12-24 Thread adrian kok
Hi I would like to play movie but amd get an error helow The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-2 System Stream demuxer plugin which is not installed. How I play the movie? Thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: I'm a newcomer to Fedora 10 Live CD

2008-12-24 Thread Jim Cornette
Pedro Izecksohn wrote: startx prints to stderr and exits: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4241 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux loc

I'm a newcomer to Fedora 10 Live CD

2008-12-24 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
startx prints to stderr and exits: xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4241 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27

Re: Pasuspender broken in F10?

2008-12-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 09:10 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's > > what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing > > code is now working right. Also the help function looks wei

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Qua 24 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 17:52:43 Neal Becker wrote: > > Strange.  Both links crash firefox here, with or without > > nspluginwrapper.i386 > > Firefox is crashing and causing freeze-ups so often here that I'm > going to explore getting flash to work

Re: F10 64 - CRC error .... system halted

2008-12-24 Thread Jim Cornette
Robert Karge wrote: Hello, I have a new system with an ASUS PQ5 motherboard and Intel dual core 64 processor. I'm trying to load F10 64 the following occurs: Loading vmlinuz... Loading initrd.img ... ... ..

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:54:51 + John Austin wrote: > I compiled the mplayer-plugins as I couldn't find an rpm I think mplayer-plugin changed to gecko-mediaplayer (or something like that) in the repos. Not sure why you'd want to remove mplayer from the name. For me, mplayer works far better on

Re: Updating and installing packages without an internet connection

2008-12-24 Thread suvayu ali
2008/12/24 Richard Hughes > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 12:55 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > > How would this work exactly in my case, since I would be downloading > > the updates / new packages on Ubuntu? > > You can't do it with cross distro versions. You're best best woul dbe to > use a fedora live CD.

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 19:33 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 17:52:43 Neal Becker wrote: > > Strange. Both links crash firefox here, with or without > > nspluginwrapper.i386 > > Firefox is crashing and causing freeze-ups so often here that I'm going to > explore getting

Looking for Ideas on a User-friendly Join Process

2008-12-24 Thread Marc Ferguson
Hi, My name is Marc Ferguson. I recently joined the websites group for Fedora Project and I've been assigned to help figure out a very universal and user-friendly way to tweak http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora. Can you please respond to this thread and let us know what your process is for

F10 64

2008-12-24 Thread Robert Karge
Hello, I have a new system with an ASUS PQ5 motherboard and Intel dual core 64 processor. I'm trying to load F10 64 the following occurs: Loading vmlinuz... Loading initrd.img ... ... .ready Probing E

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 17:52:43 Neal Becker wrote: > Strange.  Both links crash firefox here, with or without > nspluginwrapper.i386 Firefox is crashing and causing freeze-ups so often here that I'm going to explore getting flash to work on Konqueror. I'll use FF as little as possible un

Re: Advice to an audiophobe ??

2008-12-24 Thread William Case
Thanks Tim; Some of these questions were meant simply as examples of the kind of thing I don't understand. Nonetheless, to flesh them out: On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 08:30 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:55 -0500, William Case wrote: > > * What is the difference between alsa and pul

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Neal Becker
John Austin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 08:15 -0600, Steve Berg wrote: >> > libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz >> > firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 >> > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.x86_64 >> > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386 >> > >> > This link crashes firefox: >> > tinyurl.com/6

Re: Can't get Correct Time in Fedora 8

2008-12-24 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:32:44PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > su -# provide root password > > service ntpd stop > > ntpdate 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org # or your server of choice > > service ntpd start > > exit > > I presume you're sto

Re: Updating and installing packages without an internet connection

2008-12-24 Thread Richard Hughes
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 12:55 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > How would this work exactly in my case, since I would be downloading > the updates / new packages on Ubuntu? You can't do it with cross distro versions. You're best best woul dbe to use a fedora live CD. Richard. -- fedora-list mailing lis

RE: pymol vs Fedora 10

2008-12-24 Thread Jack Howarth
The problems with pymol crashing under Fedora 10 using the radeon drivers appear to be resolved now (at least in fedora-testing). FYI. Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 08:15 -0600, Steve Berg wrote: > > libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz > > firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 > > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386 > > > > This link crashes firefox: > > tinyurl.com/6lhxy8 > > If you've installe

Re: how can bring up eth0:2 only

2008-12-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 04:41 +0800, adrian kok wrote: > Hi all > > how can bring up eth0:2 only > > ifconfig eth0:2 up is not working > > I have to use service network restart > > but it restarts all network interfaces > > Thank you > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk

F9: Vnc's desktop window prevents right-side toolbar access

2008-12-24 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I noticed while doing a remote Vnc session that my Vnc desktop is showing the right-side scrollbar covering my right-side pop-out toolbar - thus preventing any access to it. Tried this in various window sizes and all performs the same way. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redh

Re: Pasuspender broken in F10?

2008-12-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's > what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing > code is now working right. Also the help function looks weird since it > doesn't give any program to start, and it doesn't corres

Re: Remote Desktop (F10)

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Remote Desktop (F10) From: Michael Cronenworth To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 12/24/2008 08:46 AM Alternate ports are broken at the moment. See my bug[1]. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Re: Intel i7

2008-12-24 Thread Vnpenguin
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > I'm looking at the Dell XPS Studio with the new intel i7 chip. Anyone > have experience with this new chipset with fedora? > > -Thanks > Not with Fedora, but we have a CentOS 5.2 server with this new processor. It works well :-)

Re: Pasuspender broken in F10?

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Pasuspender broken in F10? From: Jonathan Ryshpan To: Fedora List Date: 12/24/2008 12:55 AM Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing code is now working

Re: Remote Desktop (F10)

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Remote Desktop (F10) From: Steven Stern To: For users of Fedora Core releases Date: 12/24/2008 08:42 AM 1) Where are the configuration files for this located? It's all saved in gconf. /desktop/gnome/remote_access 2) How secure is it? 3) It h

Remote Desktop (F10)

2008-12-24 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 System -> Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Remote Desktop seems to start a VNC server. 1) Where are the configuration files for this located? 2) How secure is it? 3) It has an option for encryption. How secure is that? Setting up a new Fedor

Re: 64bit JRE Mozilla plugin ?

2008-12-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jim wrote: > I have got Fedora 10 on two Laptops and it's still not very stable, I > don't want to put it on my PC x86_64 until it's a little more stable, I > prefer KDE over Gnome, and FC9 was a shamble. FYI, the KDE in F9 has been upgraded too the same version as in F10. Kevin Kofler -

Re: VMWare 6.5 and Fedora 10

2008-12-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Alain Roger wrote: > > I'm reopening this issue not as such but as complementary information. > when i run F10 (without desktop effect) under KDE, it always starts in > 800x600 under VMWare 6.5 whereas last session i set it up to 1200 x > 800 or to 1152 x 864. > moreover, i setup the KDE Manager to

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Steve Berg
> libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz > firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386 > > This link crashes firefox: > tinyurl.com/6lhxy8 If you've installed the 64 bit flash plugin you shouldn't need the nspluginwrapper.i386

video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread Neal Becker
libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.x86_64 nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386 This link crashes firefox: tinyurl.com/6lhxy8 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/l

Re: Unable to login after latest FC10 updates (i386 on Dell GX270)

2008-12-24 Thread Janez Košmrlj
I tried now with the VESA X driver instead of the default RADEON driver and it all works now. So it has to be something with the video driver. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: 64bit JRE Mozilla plugin ?

2008-12-24 Thread Jim
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: 64bit JRE Mozilla plugin ? From: Jim To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 12/23/2008 02:26 PM Yes FC8 , Thanks much. I highly recommend you upgrade from Fedora 8. Updates wil

Re: fedora login window

2008-12-24 Thread Alain Roger
thanks a lot, it works On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM, John Austin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler > > wrote: > > John Austin wrote: > > > I have this in mine > > > Pretty sure that

Re: fedora login window

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > I have this in mine > > Pretty sure that its not all necessary !! > > > > tarifa ~ 1001# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop

Applications tab in KDE

2008-12-24 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, I was successful to install KDE on F10 and to use this wonderfull environment. However, i tried to install PostgreSQL from official Add/Remove Software application (server + client) but after clicking on Apply, F10 downloaded some packages and nothing more was done. i was looking for if F10 in

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Chambers-7 wrote: > > > So your script backsup what is in the list= line? > > By the way I should have mentioned that this presumes that you have set up ssh between the machines for root using ssh keys so that no passwords are needed. It also presumes you are allowing root ssh login o

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Chambers-7 wrote: > > > So your script backsup what is in the list= line? > > The list line contains the directories that you want backing up - these are the items in the loop - so it does an rsync for each of the items in the list line. you can add/change/remove to suit your syste

Re: fedora login window

2008-12-24 Thread Alain Roger
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > I have this in mine > > Pretty sure that its not all necessary !! > > > > tarifa ~ 1001# cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > This sets the display manager to KDM. > > > DESKTOP="XFCE" > > This sets th

Re: VMWare 6.5 and Fedora 10

2008-12-24 Thread Alain Roger
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Alain Roger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Christopher A. Williams < > chriswfed...@cawllc.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:58 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there someone who experienced issue running Fedora 10 on VMWare >

Re: E-mail Server

2008-12-24 Thread Stuart
On 14/12/08 20:47, homb...@tips-q.com wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:04:16 +0200 [...] a) CentOS, not Fedora agreed b) Postfix is probably the easiest MTA to configure. Also agreed, but he default postfix config shipped in Fedora, RHEL (and as a result almost certainly) CentOS is retarded

RAID5 gets a bad rap

2008-12-24 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
I was going back over the archives and saw a lot of people complaining about how slow RAID5 was, and did some quick research into this. Yes, it's true that it can be slowed down if you're rewriting fragmentary data in place, since this takes a read-modify-write operation. But that's true of m

Re: Intel i7

2008-12-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Wilkinson wrote: > You may want to ask again, specifically mentioning the graphics chip > you’re planning on getting. It looks like you have a choice of the ATI > Radeon HD 3450 or the 4850. man radeon on F10 mentions the 3450, but not > the 4850. They're both HD, neither is supported by the