Re: Network Printer Problems

2009-10-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Jim wrote: FC11/KDE-4 Have printer setup as lpd://172.16.1.35 and I can ping the printer and driver is setup , but when I send a test page it Stops in print que. Policy setting is Error Policy : Retry Job Operation Policy: Default Behavior Cups is running in Services I always check

Re: f11: Cannot add LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, I tried to add a LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3, but after having added the server by File-New-LDAP server in the address book window (general and advanced tab) and clicking OK, no ldap server has been added: The server I tried to ADD IS:

Re: f11: Cannot add LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, I tried to add a LDAP directory server to thunderbird-3.0b3, but after having added the server by File-New-LDAP server in the address book window (general and advanced tab) and clicking OK, no ldap server has been added: The server I tried

Re: ibus still broken

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Stuart McGraw wrote: I'm using Gnome but tried that and also tried a full reboot after the updates but that didn't help. I also rpm -e all the packages I listed and reinstalled them. Last night I updated everything I could see that seemed related to gnome, gtk, pygtk, Xorg, etc., on the

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: ...which explains why I sometimes found files I didn't expect to find. May I suggest that you try it and tell me where your tar.gz file ends. Go to: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Select Linux, Select tar.gz The button says: Agree and install now, but I

Re: Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from yumex. Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest. jon Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit

Re: ibus still broken

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Stuart McGraw wrote: (ibus-daemon:21356): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/anthy/shortcut/wnn-add_word] (ibus-daemon:21356): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get

Re: Installing Windows afterFedora

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have managed to go for just under a decade without a Windows machine, but now I need to have such, and I'd like to add it to an existing machine with a large enough partition which was used as work area for a project since shipped. The problem is that while I've put

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: Same here. A windows opens with the file to be extracted and an Extract button. If you extract, it asks where and the file appears there. But what if you don't extract? Where does the file go? That's my question. It is good that we are finally getting all the facts

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: -- I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. -- Mark Twain I was trying to view this video at the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/the_fifth_estate/ID=1278736498 and, as you can see, I suppose, it doesn't work. None of the videos in the video

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: Thanks. So we're all equally shut off from information... What about this now:

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: consulted and that is set to Always ask with the default to be Open with Ark. Oops! It seems that the system default for GNOME is File Roller 2.26.3 I don't see that as an Oops file-roller is a gnome application and if you are running the gnome

Re: ibus still broken

2009-10-01 Thread Ed Greshko
Stuart McGraw wrote: I asked here a few days ago about ibus which broke after I did a yum update. No one responded but I saw some other posts about different problems with ibus so I waited until some new updates appeared. However after upgrading again just now, it is still broken --

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-01 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: I was trying to view this video at the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/the_fifth_estate/ID=1278736498 FWIW, when I click on this link it brings up a page with a video section whose title seems to be: Riding on Risk. It is blank and I get a voice over saying:

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-01 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: gil...@altern.org wrote: I was trying to view this video at the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/the_fifth_estate/ID=1278736498 FWIW, when I click on this link it brings up a page with a video section whose title seems to be: Riding on Risk. It is blank

Re: libflashplayer downloaded to memory?

2009-10-01 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: You can also check Edit--Preferences and look in Main to see where FF will store downloaded files. I like to tell FF to Ask but some like the default settings. The default is Download. I had checked it and libflashplayer.whatever.tar.gz is not there. As I

Re: Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-09-30 Thread Ed Greshko
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from yumex. Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest. jon Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-chewing

Re: Your favourite Flash websites and testing Gnash

2009-09-30 Thread Ed Greshko
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi, I am running the Gnash browser plugin for the past few days and it seems to work well for the websites that I use (YouTube et all). I am curious if anyone else has used it recently and if so what has been your experiences? Can you give the list of your favourite

Re: Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-09-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from yumex. Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest. jon Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-chewing-1.2.0.20090818-1.fc11.x86_64 (installed)

Re: scim - Fedora 11

2009-09-28 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Craig White wrote: ibus however worked right away in most everything. I deleted my symbolic link from

Re: Munged Headers....

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 13:08:00 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Here is one interesting example of your handiwork I love the Cc: If you go back and look at Frank's message you will see that his email client incorrectly tried to use RFC

Re: Munged Headers....

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 16:02:32 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: If you actually look at Frank's email you'd see the entire text portion is enclosed in quotes and Quotes don't effect rfc 2047 quoted material. Too bad you continue to miss

Re: Munged Headers....

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I'm lost. This appears to be in the middle of a thread, but the Subject has changed without anyone taking the trouble to indicate it appropriately. My bad I find this ironic in a thread which has now turned into an argument about correct header

Re: Munged Headers....

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Cameron Simpson wrote: And since I can't find the supposed header you're arguing about I'm having trouble sorting this out. Here it is However, it may not be in its exact original form since it may not survive wrapping in the body of the email. I'll put in a \ where I think wrapping

Re: scim - Fedora 11

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: Maybe it's me and my lack of understanding about this but it seems that since I updated to Fedora 11, that scim-python works only in KDE programs like Kwrite, Konsole but not in gnome (evolution, pidgin, OOo). No matter what I do in those 3 programs, I only have English for

Re: scim - Fedora 11

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: ibus however worked right away in most everything. I deleted my symbolic link from scim.conf = ~/.xinputrc and replaced it with ibus.conf and am going to log out now but I think this will be more than sufficient. ;-) Yeah I'm probably going to stick with ibus

Re: scim - Fedora 11

2009-09-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Craig White wrote: ibus however worked right away in most everything. I deleted my symbolic link from scim.conf = ~/.xinputrc and replaced it with ibus.conf and am going to log out now but I think

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-26 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: I disagree. In general you should use reply to all, and if you want to reply privately to the sender you should use reply. In general you are right. However, this is a mailing list and I (for one) *Do Not* want direct emails from people on the list when they are sending

Munged Headers....

2009-09-26 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:29:43 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I think you miss my point No, but the technical explanation was later on in the message. Because at least some of the fedora lists mung reply-to, I strip them

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:43:32 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: FranklyI'd recommend you use the forwarders approach since this will allow you to take advantage of the cache your ISP has collected and should result is quicker DNS responses

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 15:08:59 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: As an aside, I wonder why your email client seems to be ignoring the Reply-To: in this list mails. I'm trained to only use Reply with this and other mailing lists and only just

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:29:43 +0800, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I think you miss my point No, but the technical explanation was later on in the message. Because at least some of the fedora lists mung reply-to, I strip them

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Roger wrote: When did bash become Swahili or was bash written in swahili. Is the thread about swahili or bash, or both? I'm lost Roger If you are truly lost then please visit https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and select the Thread view for September and do the reading Why

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 17:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Roger wrote: When did bash become Swahili or was bash written in swahili. Is the thread about swahili or bash, or both? I'm lost Roger If you are truly lost then please visit https://www.redhat.com

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
gil...@altern.org wrote: Aldo foot wrote: Isn't the default for the OP overly dramatic? :-) ___ Posts craving attention... :-) When I posted my first message, I had no idea of the existence of m17n. I didn't know which languages were involved. I wrote Swahili to mean

Re: [Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: BTW, kindly don't use we when attempting to define which languages you feel are important. I suspect you'd lump in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etcwith languages you are not very likely to use :-) :-) :-) FWIW, I was so happy to have support for Nordic/European

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/24/09 16:49, quoth Bruno Wolff III: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 16:04:03 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: What I want to do is to set up the DNS Caching Nameserver. The goal is: * for saturn to use OpenDNS.org * For client machines in my

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/24/09 16:49, quoth Bruno Wolff III: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 16:04:03 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: What I want to do is to set up the DNS Caching Nameserver. The goal is: * for saturn to use

Re: attempting to do a ldapsearch on a public college ldap server...

2009-09-23 Thread Ed Greshko
bruce wrote: Hi.. Trying to run a simple ldap search/query against a supposedly public ldap server. I've tried a number of copy/paste attempts that I've seen from various sites with no luck... If anyone has successfully pinged/queried a public ldap server from the cmdline, can you post

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 01:08 -0700, antonio montagnani wrote: LinkedIn antonio montagnani requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Tom, I'd like to add you to my professional network on

Re: Windows XP BSOD on USB all-in-one device

2009-09-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Tom Horsley wrote: Just for grins, I tried connecting my usb HP Photosmart C5580 all-in-one scanner/print to my Windows XP KVM yesterday, and while the HP software was sorta able to recognize the device and get installed, every time I tried to actually do anything like scan or print, Windows

Re: F11: No boot menu

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Greshko
lanas wrote: Hello all, F11 is great. So great that I've installed at work for daily use, replacing my F8 installation. x86_64 at that. Anyhow, I have F8 on /dev/sda6 and installed F11 on /dev/sda1. After install and full update, there's no boot menu that allows choosing between

Re: F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 September 2009 07:11:24 Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:28 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Can someone direct me how to set a system-wide UTF-8 locales? That's the default (using UTF-8 encoding for most, if not all, locales). What do you

Re: F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 September 2009 16:27:28 Ed Greshko wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 September 2009 07:11:24 Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:28 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Can someone direct me how to set a system-wide UTF-8 locales

Re: F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 September 2009 16:42:16 Ed Greshko wrote: Strange I assume that /etc/sysconfig/i18n has LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 That is weird I love a mystery. So, when you issue

Re: F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 09/13/09 19:06, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 08:58 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I manually typed in: system-config-language and the default was the first top item in the list, i.e. Afrikaans (South America) and this was somehow the default set during

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/9/2 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck

Re: F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

2009-09-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Seems to me that the locale is messed up for me. I have a bunch of files that uses the UTF-8 locale and my system reporting locale problems to my system logs. Can someone direct me how to set a system-wide UTF-8 locales? The default system LANG (from which the

Re: fedora11 /usr/share/dict/words file

2009-09-10 Thread Ed Greshko
online.service@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, is there a way i can install /usr/share/dict/words file for fedora 11 , (it should be a list of dictionary English words?)? Thanks You can always do yum whatprovides /usr/share/dict/words to help you find out what package you need to

Re: Simple image crop tool?

2009-09-08 Thread Ed Greshko
Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, is there some simple image crop tool in Fedora repos? Define simple. FWIW, when I really want to crop an image chances are I also want/need to do other types of processing. So, for me the kitchen sink of Gimp works just fine. If, however, I really want to do a

Re: Simple image crop tool?

2009-09-08 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: Hi, is there some simple image crop tool in Fedora repos? Define simple. FWIW, when I really want to crop an image chances are I also want/need to do other types of processing. So, for me the kitchen sink of Gimp works just fine

Re: X wont start for install on an hp pavilion HDX-16 1370us

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Kam Leo wrote: Anaconda did not find a suitable driver. It's happened before on other systems. Do as Ed recommends and complete the text mode installation. Before you go slogging through the log files do the following: yum upgrade yum install system-config-display system-config-display

Re: Fedora update using preugrade with 2 arch.

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, Is it safe to preupgrade a F7 32 bits to a F11 64 bits ? BR All I know is I wouldn't do it Not only is F7--F11 a big jump in and of itself...but trying to go from 32 ~ 64 bits would certainly add to the complexity to the point of likely utter disaster --

Re: Disappearing Kernels during Yum update

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Kam Leo wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Steven F. LeBrunste...@lebruns.com wrote: Over the past few weeks there have been kernel updates for Fedora 11. When my system receives updates, usually using yumex, and a new kernel is installed, the oldest kernel in my /boot directory is

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little box that says System Clock uses UTC? Windows does not really understand UTC or handle it very well. The solution is

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/9/2 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little box that says System

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Have a good evening, I'm just waking up The good newsit is already Thursday :-) Have a good one signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: X wont start for install on an hp pavilion HDX-16 1370us

2009-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; My son bought an hp Pavilion (HDX-16 1370us) laptop, with a 16 screen. Upon trying to start the anaconda installer Fedora 10 says 'X failed to start reverting back to text mode Thoughts? anyone have any hp experience similar they can share (hopefully with

Re: problems posting

2009-09-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Paul Allen Newell wrote: Over the last 3 months, I noticed that I have posted and not gotten any responses. Fair enough, maybe the posts aren't worth it. But I just did a check of the archives and I don't see any of my posts. Don't know if I am incorrectly posting or, in worse case,

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Gene Heskett wrote: Skype has a signup that vz doesn't block, or cannot block. I have attempted to sign up for an account with ekiga on at least 4 occasions now, also twinkle, and the confirming email which must be replied to never arrives for any of those services, which prevents a vz

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Skype has a signup that vz doesn't block, or cannot block. I have attempted to sign up for an account with ekiga on at least 4 occasions now, also twinkle, and the confirming email which must

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-08-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little box that says System Clock uses UTC? Windows does not really understand UTC or handle it very well. The solution is to go to the

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-08-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 09:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little box that says System Clock uses

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-31 Thread Ed Greshko
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The latest insult is that news services, like cnn or fauxnews or the bbc, are all being throttled, so if I want to watch a story without a bunch

Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 August 2009 10:53:56 Steven P. Ulrick wrote: On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 27 August 2009

Re: [fedora] Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Hello Anne I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11. I do not see how to put different images on different virtual desktops. Any help is appreciated. Hmm - I just added extra

Re: Open Office for PowerPC G4

2009-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
David Christopher Chipman wrote: Hi Americo, First things first, welcome to the Fedora Linux user community! Since you're from Mexico, do you have the proper language pack (Spanish, I assume) installed? That may include the menu entry strings that Open Office neds to display. I hope

Re: Broken downloads of FC11-x86_64 and other disturbances

2009-08-26 Thread Ed Greshko
li...@funkster1 wrote: Hi all, first time poster here. I've been trying to download the DVD-ISO of FC11-x86_64 from diff. mirors at least 3 or 4 times in tha last days, and each time the file seems to be corrupt. md5sum doesn't match, and if I try to install anyway it fails, of course. So I

Re: Broken downloads of FC11-x86_64 and other disturbances

2009-08-26 Thread Ed Greshko
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 26/08/09 10:16, Ed Greshko wrote: li...@funkster1 wrote: --snip-- I don't know what to try further, FC10 downloaded and installed just fine. Should I dist-upgrade from FC10 maybe? Please give me some advice if you can, and be gentle to me, I'm a rel

Re: Broken downloads of FC11-x86_64 and other disturbances

2009-08-26 Thread Ed Greshko
li...@funkster1 wrote: Hi Ed, unfortunately the disk check mechanism of the burnt media on boot also fails. I've seen that fail too many times when media is burnt at a high speed I'm downloading with a FF addon called 'Down Them All', where you can choose between md5, sha1/256/384/512 to

Re: change login screen

2009-08-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Yea, I want to know where this list is of actual documented cases of people screwing up their systems by using GUI tools in ways they couldn't have with the command line (rm -rf / was a well known warning before there even

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: It is very simple. I am trying to mount a FAT32 partition when I log in. I want it to be dynamically unmounted, and re-mounted, whenever a different user logs in. This has to be done to change the UID. (GID alone isn't enough to get full functionality under GNOME).

Re: Firewall and nfs mounts

2009-08-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 August 2009 15:44:20 Bill McGonigle wrote: On 08/24/2009 08:15 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: What ports are necessarily opened on an nfs server? Does the client need any ports opened? If you can limit yourself to NFSv4 you're much better off in this

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: It is very true that I did not want to do my own research. I wanted to summon the exact answer I needed from someone else's mind. Rediscovery was something I did not want to waste time on. Of laziness, I stand guilty. Good to know. Genuinely, thanks for the posts

Re: Chinese input methods

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Steve Underwood wrote: I think Romanised entry is a PITA, but nobody has implemented a decent stroke entry method for the recent X11 input schemes. I'd really like to find the time to port my old stroke input system from the xcin days to work with ibus. Chances are I won't. :-) Romanization

Re: Unable to install applications..

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 14:35 -0700, stan wrote: can sum1 help me know what exactly I have to do to solve this issue.! A quick comment before I give you your answer. When I see questions with no capitalization and abbreviations like you've typed above, I

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: It doesn't help to be members of the group/GID. I've definitely tried that mount option. Thank you for all of the GID hints, but as far as I can tell, that's not enough here. GNOME's trash functionality under FAT32, in particular, is based upon the UID of the user that has

[OT] cron difference between a RH system and Ubuntu

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
There are 2 systems... On is a RHELv4 the other is a Ubuntu system...don't know the version. Both have postgreSQL installslightly different versions...but I don't think that matters. The RHEL system pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 8.1.2 The Ubuntu systempg_dump (PostgreSQL) 8.3.6 The issue

Re: Thunderbird does not shutdown properly in F11?

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike Cloaked wrote: I have thunderbird with lightning (and enigmail) installed in F11, and when I shutdown thunderbird I see the processor using a significant fraction of the CPU and the process thunderbird-bin is still active. I can kill this process, but I can't see any way to prevent this

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: I don't think Fedora comes with auto-fs built in, does it? Yes, it is available yum install autofs. The rest of you post indicates that you want to do more/less/different things than what you stated earlier as simply mounting a drive that contains your Desktop directory.

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
One thing I forgot to mention I prefer to solve problems with standard tools than specialized scripts that need to be maintained. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ed Greshkoed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: One thing I forgot to mention I prefer to solve problems with standard tools than specialized scripts that need to be maintained. I totally agree. But the FAT32-user limitation is

Re: Chinese input methods

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Steve Underwood wrote: Hi all, Fedora 11 has changed the input method system yet again. The new system looks like its probably an improvement. However, I can't find many of the input methods that used to be available with SCIM in earlier versions. Things like jyut ping. Have I missed

Re: Chinese input methods

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Steve Underwood wrote: On 08/22/2009 12:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Hi all, Fedora 11 has changed the input method system yet again. The new system looks like its probably an improvement. However, I can't find many of the input methods that used to be available

Re: capital letters in firefox

2009-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Germán Racca wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:16 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Actually, another good thing to try is to create a brand new user with a brand new home directory and login as that user and see if that user has the same problem. If not, then it becomes a question of finding out

Re: GNOME startup, -before- desktop

2009-08-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Jud Craft wrote: It automatically mounts a drive that contains my Desktop directory. Hence, I need it to work before nautilus does. It specifically is a per-user mount, so I can't have it globally automount at computer startup. Have you considered using autofs for this? The automount

Re: thunderbird no longer opens clicked URLs in a web browser (protocol-handler.app.http) ?

2009-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
Lonni J Friedman wrote: Ever since updating to thunderbird-3.0beta3 (in Fedora11), any URLs that I click on fail to do anything. Previously they opened up in Firefox. I've got the following set in thunderbird: network.protocol-handler.app.http;firefox

Re: F11 abd Twitter

2009-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:00 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Konstamakons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: After wasting an hour it became clear that you can not create Twitter accounts using firefox under F1. Using User Agent addon to get

Re: F11 abd Twitter

2009-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:00 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Konstamakons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: After wasting an hour it became clear that you can not create Twitter accounts using firefox

Re: F11 abd Twitter

2009-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 22:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:00 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Konstamakons...@sbcglobal.net wrote

Re: [Fwd: F11 and Twitter]

2009-08-17 Thread Ed Greshko
Aaron Konstam wrote: Message and subject so mangled I had to send this again. After wasting an hour it became clear that you can not create Twitter accounts using firefox under F11. Using User Agent addon to get Internet explorer doesn't seem to help that much. Anyone have contrary

Re: Testing upload/download bandwidth speeds for verification

2009-08-14 Thread Ed Greshko
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have been testing my residential ISP/DSL-Landline connections and wanted to make sure that I was getting what I am paying for. Supposedly, one can use the various website based speed test tools to determine their upload and download speeds. Are these speed test

Re: still no resolution solution..

2009-08-11 Thread Ed Greshko
charles zeitler wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Ed Greshkoed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: charles zeitler wrote: am now running fedora 11 on 64 bit hardware, still unable to achieve 1600x1200 display, as on fedora 10. Can't say I recall your previous

Re: still no resolution solution..

2009-08-09 Thread Ed Greshko
charles zeitler wrote: am now running fedora 11 on 64 bit hardware, still unable to achieve 1600x1200 display, as on fedora 10. have tried booting with nomodeset, booting with nomodeset as new user, adding new mode to xrandr. a generated xorg.conf fron Xorg -configure doesn't work, and

Re: The ideal mail client?

2009-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Apropos IMAP issues in Kmail, I just happened to notice this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202917. That sounds familiar. I haven't tried Kmail for ages, but I definitely recall one or two IMAP clients

Re: What are Microsoft codecs?

2009-08-06 Thread Ed Greshko
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 05:50 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: What are Microsoft codecs? Is it more than an encapulation of MP4? What's the legal status of MP4? Once you have at hand the compression/decompression algorithms -- which must have been developed by

Re: Are you being heard?

2009-08-05 Thread Ed Greshko
David Boles wrote: On 8/6/2009 12:43 AM, gil...@altern.org wrote: David Boles wrote: Are you blind? Did you not see the link in Anne's post? No, unfortunately, I'm not blind. I believe that's going to be it for me on the KDE matter. You like it? Use it! I

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-03 Thread Ed Greshko
. Ed Greshko: If it is really true that start up is quicker with them disabled, and I have serious doubts about it, Try it and see. It certainly is here, on several computers. I did...just now Using a Nokia powered stop watch 2 systems...both fully updated F11

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Anyway, my tests indicate absolutely no difference in start up times...and I think I've taken sufficient steps to ensure both systems under test were equal. Did you make sure that Firefox wasn't held in memory between

Re: How to gut %$##@ Firefox?

2009-08-03 Thread Ed Greshko
Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 03/08/09 06:38, Ed Greshko wrote: First of all, if you are running en_US in your environment then disabling languages pack does absolutely nothing since en_US is the default for firefox. If you are running, for example, th_TH (Thai) then th.jar will be loaded

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