Re: entropy

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 10-01-07 12:40:02, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> Luca wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> if I simply write to /dev/random, will that increase the entropy > >>> of my system? (I'm assuming that the data I'm writing are rand

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:35 +0530, Gustav Degreef wrote: > On 01/07/2010 03:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:31 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > > > >> On 12/13/2009 02:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> >

Re: entropy

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:40 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Luca wrote: > > Hi all, > > if I simply write to /dev/random, will that increase the entropy of my > > system? (I'm assuming that the data I'm writing are random and that > > somehow I got them). > > Wikipedia says so. But random(4) does

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:31 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > On 12/13/2009 02:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote: > > > >> Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath: > &

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 12:11 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > On 01/07/2010 12:01 PM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > > On 12/13/2009 02:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote: > >> > >> &g

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
v4 Settings, change the Method drop-down to "Automatic > >> (DHCP) address only". If you are using IPv6, then change that > >> drop-down to address only. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > That worked for a while, then reverted. > > Sounds like yo

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:26:00 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > It might, in fact it probably would, but it's hard to believe that that > > is the way you're supposed to do this. > > I&#x

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:30 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: > On 01/05/2010 10:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:08 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > >> On 01/04/2010 06:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> I installed bind and tried

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:59 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:24:00 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > There isn't. This is the default, unmodified named.conf. > > So that probably means you are simply talking directly > to the root DNS se

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:24 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:54 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:02 + > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: &g

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:11 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > On 01/05/2010 09:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:08 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > >> System --> Preferences --> Network Connections > >> > >> Pick the type of interface, and

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:54 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:02 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > That seems to be working for the moment, but there's an element of magic > > in it that makes me nervous. The default named.conf file is

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:08 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > On 01/04/2010 06:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, > > which in principal just means running named and > > pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1.

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:22 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:39 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, > > which in principal just means running named and > > pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 05:17 +0100, Tom H wrote: > >> How does one convince NM not to interfere with resolv.conf? > > > Don't know for sure how to make interfaces managed by NM > > stop doing it, but for my non-NM system I still have to > > prevent resolv.conf from being scrogged by setting > > PEE

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:31 +1030, Tim wrote: > Keeping a /home between installs has some problems, too. You find > that > certain things don't like your old .configuration files. That's true independently of how you partition. Even if you do reformat /home, presumably you backup and restore your

NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which in principal just means running named and pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten by NetworkManager, and I notice an excessive number of "Resolving foo ..." messages from Firefox

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by minimal? > I assume it's by installing via the DVD and un-ticking package groups, > leaving just the base apps, but perhaps more seasoned Fedora users > have a b

Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

2010-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:20 +, Alan Cox wrote: [...] > Move country outside the USA or the EU or a few other similar places. In > the US case even posting a link to tools for cracking crypto on DVDs is > not permitted (the 2600 case) Since you quoted the link Alan, you also are guilty ex post

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

2010-01-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 22:53 -0500, KC8LDO wrote: > Speaking about bogus resolvers, having the ISP's mess with DNS, is > just the start of it. Wait until they get around to forcing people to > install custom TCP/IP stacks that ONLY will work on their network as a > means to monitor and control traff

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 11:35 -0500, Beartooth Comcast wrote: > I tried to increase the size of /boot any way I could, and > never found any way to add a single byte. Note that you can only do that if there's unassigned space after the partition you want to grow. If there isn't, you have to create

Re: Codecs for VLC

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 1/2/10, Jim wrote: > [snip] > > How did you install VLC?  If you didn't use yum > or an equivalent package manager, you may not have gotten > the dependent libraries, etc.  My new, but fully > updated F12 set up didn't have all the necessary > dependencies when I installed VLC.  So, c

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 20:10 +1030, Tim wrote: > If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and > that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you never > intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you. I keep /, /boot and /home on separate partitions

Re: Codecs for VLC

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Jim wrote: > On 01/01/2010 12:58 PM, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > VLC DVDPlayback > I have libdvdcss already installed. > > And I should be telling you that this is a X86_64 box. > > VLC and libdvdcss is a X86_64 rpm My system is 64-bit, also: A

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 19:31 +, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it > >> ne

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 15:02 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it > > needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've &g

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, slamp slamp wrote: > Has anyone does this in Fedora 12? I > don't want to re-install the whole system. What did you do anyway? If you installed 64-bit F12 on a 32-bit system, it's not going to run even if you do install the 64-bit kernel. Everything is 64-bit, kernel, app

Re: Codecs for VLC

2010-01-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Jim wrote: > FC11 > > where can Codecs for VLC be downloaded for playing DVD > videos. You're probably missing libdvdcss. It's in the livna depository or you can search for its rpm. This link may help. Scroll down to the VLC DVDPlayback section: http://www.mjmwired.n

Re: Installation plays hardball

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/31/2009 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it > > needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've >

Re: Installation plays hardball

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > I can see both sides of this. I don't think it would hurt anything to > have > a *little* hand-holding by the installer, something to the effect of > "If you > don't want to blow everythign away and start from scratch, choose a > different

Re: Installation plays hardball

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:13 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > "John" == John Aldrich writes: > > John> As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition > John> scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as > John> happened to you. Granted, it's not obvious,

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:06 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:51 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:20 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > IMO, the current description should be changed, but I'd prefer to not

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 08:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Sam Sharpe wrote: > > 2009/12/30 Patrick O'Callaghan : > > > >> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:20 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> > >>> IMO, the current description should be changed, but I

Re: i386 yum update download stops: updates/filelists_db

2009-12-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Rich Emberson wrote: > Trying to do a > yum makecache > on my fedora 12 i386 machine and it starts downloading > updates/filelists_db > and the download rate gets slower and slower, from 100s of > KBs/second to KBs to 100s of B/s to Bytes/seccond > > to 0 B/s - basically s

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:20 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > IMO, the current description should be changed, but I'd prefer to not > see a lengthy debate on the list about it. My 2c: The Fedora users list poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: Bluetooth mouse is randomly disabled (SOLVED)

2009-12-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 17:02 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I use a Logitech V470 BT mouse with my EeePC 1000. On F11 everything > Just Worked, but on F12 I have to manually pair the mouse (using "sudo > hidd --server-search") and even then it regularly disconnects. I

Re: udev and user-space access

2009-12-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 21:59 +1100, Nik wrote: > I've just been trying to access a digital camera over USB on FC10, and > encountered a problem involving udev. F10 is no longer supported. You might have better luck getting an answer if you upgrade to F11 or F12 (if the problem persists that is). p

Bluetooth mouse is randomly disabled

2009-12-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I use a Logitech V470 BT mouse with my EeePC 1000. On F11 everything Just Worked, but on F12 I have to manually pair the mouse (using "sudo hidd --server-search") and even then it regularly disconnects. This what appears in /var/log/messages: Dec 28 14:16:08 localhost NetworkManager: bluez_manager

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 22:02 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:50 -0500, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > > > > ** Just now, as I was typing this at 9:41 pm EST, I received 61 > > fedora-list posts. Six or seven of the posts are current. The rest are > > marked yesterday

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:53 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > 2009/12/21 DB > Hi Chris, > > The original command was > > tar cvzf F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz /home/Dave > > and the "problem" is that tar tvh F11*gz lists all the files >

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 11:13 -0500, Andrew Jamison wrote: > Did you make sure the new Fedoral-list address was added to your safe > list? > Recently the Mailing lists switched to Fedora infrastructure and off > of the Red Hat servers. Not yet. It's due to happen in January and we'll all notice bec

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:07 +0800, Fennix wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andras Simon > wrote: > On 12/19/09, Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with > the follow

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 12/17/2009 06:11 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >Can someone tell me how to determine if a computer can run 64 bit > >Fedora? > > > >I have two similar Dell desk top computers with what appears to be > >the same processor

Re: corrupt image of kernal

2009-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:50 +0530, sandeep Patel wrote: > I have downloaded the fedora 12 x86_64 dvd iso image.and i was trying > to install it on my laptop.there was an error.it showed corrupt image > of kernal. > Please suggest me. What should i do? Did you verify the checksum of the downloaded

Re: Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?

2009-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:40 -0800, Clark Martin wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:22 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: > > > >> This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I > >> haven't found it (sorr

Re: Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?

2009-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:22 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: > This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I > haven't found it (sorry...). > > My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor. > I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it wit

Re: yum install mencoder makes X11 flaky

2009-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:22 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 12/11/2009 11:08 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: > > > Ever since I "yum install mencoder", my X server's been flaky + > > > frequently crashing. > > > > > > I remember yum installin

Re: Fedora wifi: Specifying 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

2009-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:00 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a Cisco AIR-1252 access point with both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz radios. > I have configured both radios to broadcast the same ssid. > > How can I tell fedora to use only 5.8GHz ? So far it only connects to > the 2.4GHz radio. > > W

Re: Real Audio on F12 (SOLVED)

2009-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan: > >> Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using > >> mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is > >> rather long and complex :-) &g

Re: Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.

2009-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:18 -0500, William W. Austin wrote: > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this sounds glib, but the suggestion that comes to mind is "install F12". FC3 and FC4 are ancient systems, long past their shelflife and completely unsupported (including for securi

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:41 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 16:59:06 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using > > mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:48 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 17:41:03 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Monday 14 December 2009 16:59:06 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using > >

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 18:01 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 16:58:36 R. G. Newbury wrote: > > At a console enter: > > 'service NetWorkManager stop' > > I guess that should read 'service NetworkManager stop'. Note the small w > compared to the capital W. These things are

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 01:36 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The -playlist option made it work. > > Sometimes needed for .ram files, as they're often a playlist or referrer > of some time. Not always needed, as s

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:09 +0100, Pikachu_2014 wrote: > > > 2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:31 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Monday 14 December 2009 12:47:27 Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:09 +0100, Pikachu_2014 wrote: > > > 2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:31 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Monday 14 December 2009 12:47:27 Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 14:21 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 13:47:26 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > OT: in the interests of having a more user-friendly experience, such as > > fast-forward etc., I also tried with gmplayer (also with -playlist). It &g

Re: i need visio package

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:10 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > If you really need MS vision, you can run in virtual machine (I used > VirtualBox). > > If you want similar functionality, maybe try inkscape. I think dia is closer to visio than inkscape is, at least it used to be (I haven't used either in

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:31 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 14 December 2009 12:47:27 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote: > > > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan a > >

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Pikachu_2014 wrote: > > > 2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan > > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote: > > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +, Patrick > O&

Re: F12 Networking

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 14:30 -0500, Jim wrote: > FC12/KDE > > Are there any certain packages in Fedora for WPA, WPA2 encrpt. What are "certain packages"? WPA and WPA2 are supported by nm-applet, which is still the recommended way to configure networking in KDE (according to the knetworkmanager co

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:41 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 14:33 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm experiencing considerable frustration trying to get Real Audio files > > to play. I dl'ed the x686 binary from real.com on my netbo

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote: > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan a > écrit : > > I'm experiencing considerable frustration trying to get Real Audio files > > to play. I dl'ed the x686 binary from real.co

Real Audio on F12

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm experiencing considerable frustration trying to get Real Audio files to play. I dl'ed the x686 binary from real.com on my netbook and tried the "realplay" command on a .ram file, but just I get this: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1010:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave despite the fact that

Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 13:48 +0100, Julian Aloofi wrote: > > I think i could rectify the situation if I ran yum update but I don't have a > > wifi connection from the console session. How does one administer a wifi > > connection from the command line in F12 ? I know my SSID, etc, but how do > > I

Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 01:59 -0700, linux guy wrote: > iwconfig lets me set the various parameters of an interface, but how > do I start that interface such that the router assigns it an IP and > DNS works ? NM can be configured to activate on boot, without waiting for a login, so system-config-net

Re: Suddenly print serving has stopped {SOLVED ??]

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:00 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I am top posting to illustrate a problem. No you're not. Top-posting always involves a reply. You simply posted a new message and quoted another message in support of what you say. Nothing wrong with that. poc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 23:48 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: > ... but that announcement was for 11:00 UTC 12/12/2009 - which is > still well before your message saying it started in 20 minutes (which You're quite right. I was reading 11:00 as pm (it was late :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote: > Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath: > > Alternatively, you could jailbreak the phone and copy files using > > scp. I don't know if the phone will then recognize them as somethi

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 20:23 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Tethering can be done on jailbroken phones or on some very limited > set > > of carriers blessed by Apple. > > Apple and AT&T say they will eventually support tethering, but not for > a > while yet, AFAIK (and it wouldn't surprise me i

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:53 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2009/12/12 Patrick O'Callaghan : > >> There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating that the > >> project web site is going to be down for 48 hours for a physical move. > >> Firefox out o

Re: How do I load mp3s on my iPhone in F12 ? And other iPhone/F12 questions.

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 15:39 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > How do I load mp3s onto my iPhone in F12 ? Executive summary: you can't. Unlike many phones, the iPhone doesn't behave as a simple disk drive. There's no way to mount it, the connection protocol is secret, and Apple have no interest in suppo

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:11 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:29 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the > > server at start.fedoraproject.org". > > > There have been several postings from Fedora people indicating th

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
2009/12/12 Christoph Höger > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 23:34 +1100 schrieb David Timms: > > On 12/10/2009 10:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: > > >> for a long time now firefox anno

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > Firefox simply tells me: "Server not found. Firefox can't find the server > at start.fedoraproject.org". > > I really have no idea what the problem might be. Try wiping your Firefox cache and restarting. Also, as with any FF problem, se

Re: Should I switch to 32 bit FlashPlayer?

2009-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:51 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > When I installed my 64 bit version of fedora, I thought I'd go 64 bit > all the way, even with FlashPlayer. The problem is there is no yum > package available and you have to check when a new version is > available which, of course, you don't

Re: corrupt file system

2009-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Christian Langer < clanger.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I can't recall the exact error message. It doesn't happen every time > I boot. However, I did indeed get sent to the root shell. I googled the > message last nite and found an entry said try fsck. I did

Re: corrupt file system

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:36 -0600, Christian Langer wrote: > If I start fedora 12, and I get a message like "corrupt filesystem, > going to shell", what might one do to correct it? Thanks, Where does the message appear and what exactly does it say? If it happens at boot time, it will usually drop

Re: Flowchart-ish tool

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:14 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not > software, > sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar software, might assist. > I > need to show the relationships between items and groups of items, an

Re: DVD43

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 02:08 -0800, Hector E. Celis wrote: > I am a user, but If I can't copy my own moveis, then linux is useless > to me. > I really hate windows and its perpetual battle with viruses. But Linux > has not been able to give me all that I need. Limewire, ICopyDVDS2 and > DVD43. I fin

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:20 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 08:04 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: > > 2009/12/10 Christoph Höger : > > > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02:58 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: > > >> If you start a new message in Evolution and go under Format, you

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote: > Hi, > > for a long time now firefox annoys me now and then with second-long > delay when entering a new URL in the URL-bar. > > I am pretty sure this is some kind of system resource it waits for or > some other process. Is there any sane

Re: Question about Backing up with tar

2009-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:05 +, Andrew Haley wrote: > kevin wrote: > > I would like to know if this will work with fc9: > > > > # sudo su > > # cd / > > # tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found > > --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys / > > > > > > > > Wha

Re: Google Chrome repo now available

2009-12-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:42 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 12/09/2009 11:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:36 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > >> The repo is installed when installing the new, officially supported > >> Chrome beta f

RE: fedora-list Digest, Vol 70, Issue 59

2009-12-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 16:53 +0100, juan andres moreno wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm new in that great help place. my question is, how > can I jail apache in a chroot directory with fedora? I know how do > that action in Centos, modifying the /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog file but > in fedora it doesn't exis

Re: Google Chrome repo now available

2009-12-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:36 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > The repo is installed when installing the new, officially supported > Chrome beta from http://www.google.com/chrome/index.htm Anyone know how this relates to the existing Chromium version, which also has its own repo? The version numbers of

Re: Ath9 regression in latest kernel? SOLVED?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:58 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan on 12/07/2009 02:24 PM wrote: > > Had anyone else seen this? I'll BZ if > > necessary. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538792 > > Upstream says to use the

Re: Ath9 regression in latest kernel?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:57 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 15:24:59 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Since I updated to kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 on my EeePC 1000 > > netbook, Wifi has become so unreliable as to be virtually unusable. . > &

Re: Ath9 regression in latest kernel?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:41 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 12/07/2009 12:24 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >> Since I updated to kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 on my EeePC 1000 > >> netboo

Re: Ath9 regression in latest kernel?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:38 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/07/2009 12:24 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Since I updated to kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 on my EeePC 1000 > > netbook, Wifi has become so unreliable as to be virtually unusable. Lost > > connections

Ath9 regression in latest kernel?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Since I updated to kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 on my EeePC 1000 netbook, Wifi has become so unreliable as to be virtually unusable. Lost connections, dropped frames even when pinging the local AP, endless browswer waits while "Resolving host ...". The same AP supports 1 iMac, a Mac Mini, 3 laptop

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 12:17 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > Again, rsync is a *Unix* utility, designed for *Unix* filesystems > > *only*. If you'd said at the beginning that you wanted to move a > Vista > > partition we could have saved ourselves a lot of time. > > > > poc > > > I was being genera

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 09:28 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:11 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but > > you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have US

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: > On 12/06/2009 08:42 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 > >> Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> > >>> Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of > >>> this as a way to control

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:02 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that > >> it does not save ACL

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that > it does not save ACLs, file attributes too well, and so on that I > gave up using it. Perhaps the problem in this case is not to use > the -a option but to use the man

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:07 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong here and how do I get around this? > >> > > You have to resize Disk2 to 250Gb with resize2fs or parted. > > > Ok, I used gparted to shrink the size of the partition and grow the > partition again. That d

Re: OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:47 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > > How so? The presentation doesn't so much as mention open source. > Besides > > which, this is not in fact a discussion list about open source as > such. It's > > a list about Fedora. > > This is in the list headers: > >"Community assis

Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:42 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > BEFORE: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, size=97.65G, used=91.23G, unused=6.42G > Disk2: partition#1: psize=250G, size=244.14G (newly formatted) > > I did a dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > > AFTER: > Disk1: partition#1: psize=100G, siz

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