Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
. 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 you have a bug to report, then. That appears to be the only way to add DHCP client override options with NetworkManager. Tim, the bug was in my head

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: Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th

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: Alternatively, you could jailbreak

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 not. Is

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: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote

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 random and that

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 to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which

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'm sure it isn't, but it is easy and it works (except

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

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 PEERDNS=no

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 +, 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. However resolv.conf keeps

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. However resolv.conf keeps

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 set up as a simple cacheing nameserver

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 then the specific interface. Highlight it and click on edit

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 +, 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: That seems to be working for the moment

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 servers and should be able to lookup any

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: 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

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: 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 traffic.

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: 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: 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 +, 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 been using Fedora since before

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 needs to be for the majority of users

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 pocallag...@gmail.com: 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

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 see a lengthy debate on the list about

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 jmaldr...@yahoo.com 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

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 12:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/31/2009 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: snip 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 been using Fedora since before

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:

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).

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 neglected to mention I'm

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:

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 freddog...@yahoo.co.uk 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

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 or two days

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

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 sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/19/09, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: All your messages at gmail end up in my

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: 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, one of

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. What are

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 installing/upgrading

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 with my

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 (sorry...). My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm

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 security

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 :-) Marko Vojinovic: mplayer -ao pcm:fast,file

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 +, 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.com on my netbook and tried

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 +, 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 netbook and tried the realplay command

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

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 pocallag...@gmail.com On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed wrote: Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit

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 écrit : I'm experiencing considerable

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 a

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 started playing OK

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 pocallag...@gmail.com 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

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 pocallag...@gmail.com 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

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 +, 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 some .ram files are the media, itself

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 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 mplayer (or anything else

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 rather long and complex

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 ATT say they will eventually support tethering, but not for a while yet, AFAIK (and it wouldn't surprise me if there

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 something it can play, but I wouldn't bet

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

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: 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

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 set it

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: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Simon Schneebeli simon.schneeb...@okko.org 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

Re: Delay measuring

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
2009/12/12 Christoph Höger choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de 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 annoys me now and then with second

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 that the

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 really

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

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 pocallag...@gmail.com: 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 of the box on a fresh Fedora

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: 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 do

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 / What I really want to

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 way

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 choe...@cs.tu-berlin.de: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02:58 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: If you start a new message in Evolution and go

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, and I

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 finally

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 you

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: 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

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 from http://www.google.com/chrome/index.htm

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 general. The same

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 laptops

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, dropped frames even when pinging

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 ri...@nerd.com 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

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. snip . The chipset

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 latest version of the driver as they won't

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 ACLs, file attributes too well, and so on that I gave

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 USB devices?

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 +, 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 USB support. How much does it cost

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 manual

Re: Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:57 +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Cronenworth wrote: John Nissley wrote: I do not know what is causing the disk drive light to stay on now. # yum install blktrace $ man blktrace # btrace /dev/sda Invalid debug path /sys/kernel/debug: 0/Success Mmm,

Re: FC10 and RedHat NTFS file format compatibility

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 21:06 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: Daniel J Celta wrote, On 3 Dec 2009 17:45:33 -0600: Ok I got it... My appologies Sent from my iPhone Daniel J Celta Is it possible to convince those phones to bottom post? Yes, on iPhones it's just a matter of

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

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:39 -0800, Mick M. wrote: Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Two things: 1) The video is from March 2009, so it's not even current. 2) It has

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

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.comwrote: Mick M. wrote: Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Thanks for posting those links. I would

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,

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 assistance,

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 did the

Re: Wine

2009-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:01 +1030, Tim wrote: If you don't know how not to write offensive emails, please practice somewhere else. And on a side note, learn where the ? key is. It's use in putting questions in English is *not* optional. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

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