Re: snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

2009-09-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
Do you give out tickets and fines, jail terms and excommunication for the crime of posting? Bob On 09/13/2009 02:06 AM, Tim wrote: Snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit! (You, and everyone else doing this.) It's a pain to read stuff when there's three pages of stuff

Re: snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

2009-09-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
Guidelines are voluntary. I don't crucify, burn at stake, hang, dismember or torture other list people for doing things differently. We do not live in the 1400s any longer. Bob On 09/13/2009 10:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:52 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote

Re: snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

2009-09-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
with many different views to make a good product. If I banned everyone from my workplace who doesn't think as I do, then I'd be standing in the building alone. With nothing to show for it. Bob On 09/13/2009 10:35 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: Guidelines

Resetting File and Directory Permissions To Original Values

2009-09-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
While trying to fix a problem where users of the Fedora version of Wordpress are unable to upload images using the Wordpress screens and code, I spent a lot of time modifying file and directory permissions in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/*, trying various combinations of

Re: Kernel update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 issues

2009-09-07 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm using the same kernel on: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1121 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at f1ffe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities:

Re: Enabling Tabs On Mediawiki

2009-09-05 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 09/04/2009 08:16 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Robert L Cochrancochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: ...snip... Aldo, thank you for making me aware of this. I'm going to work on installing from the Mediawiki source just as you have. As I want to try to save the one wiki

Wordpress Permissions For Image Uploads

2009-09-05 Thread Robert L Cochran
I installed the Fedora package of wordpress and promptly created a user account for myself and tried to upload a photo to my first post. The upload keeps failing due to permissions problems. Wordpress wants to upload (via php scripts) to /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09. I

Re: Enabling Tabs On Mediawiki

2009-09-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 09/04/2009 06:08 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Robert L Cochrancochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: I recently installed mediawiki-1.15.1. I would like to get those nice tabs that you see at the top of this page for Manual, Discussion, etc:

Re: So far I am not impressed with F11

2009-09-03 Thread Robert L Cochran
Are you really up-to-date with your Fedora 11 system? Firefox is now at 3.5.2 and you are talking about 3.1.1. You might want to look into that. I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 on Fedora 11 x86_64 and have no problems with YouTube. I watch YouTube and Vimeo videos just fine. If your system is behind

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-03 Thread Robert L Cochran
After reading the entire thread, and watching the video, here is what I'd do. Put the drive in a safe. Go buy a new drive, and make use of it. Drop the warranty claim even though it is valid. The company will save money in the end. In about 10 years, or whenever the corporate data on the

Enabling Tabs On Mediawiki

2009-09-03 Thread Robert L Cochran
I recently installed mediawiki-1.15.1. I would like to get those nice tabs that you see at the top of this page for Manual, Discussion, etc: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Site_customization Currently my Main Page shows no tabs. How do I enable them? Do I need to

Re: Am I being punished?

2009-08-31 Thread Robert L Cochran
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 System -- Administration -- Date and Time application, click the Time Zone tab, uncheck the

Re: KDE clock settings

2009-08-31 Thread Robert L Cochran
Does the setting show up when you do this as root? Bob On 08/31/2009 08:52 PM, 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

Thunderbird 3.0b3 Tabbed Email Viewing

2009-08-16 Thread Robert L Cochran
It looks like the recent update of Thunderbird to 3.0b3 is using tabs for viewing emails much the same way Firefox uses tabbed browsing. The tabs seem sticky, so that when I open Firefox, I will see the last couple of emails I read. I'm not complaining, but I can say this will take some

Re: Thunderbird 3.0b3 Tabbed Email Viewing

2009-08-16 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 08/16/2009 12:17 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robert L Cochrancochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: It looks like the recent update of Thunderbird to 3.0b3 is using tabs for viewing emails much the same way Firefox uses tabbed browsing. The tabs seem sticky, so that

Re: Testing upload/download bandwidth speeds for verification

2009-08-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
Do remember that your final throughput can be influenced by many factors. One that hasn't yet been covered is the type of physical wiring you have, the age and condition of that wiring, and whether or not it is twisted pair (as in unshielded twisted pair or shielded twisted pair Category 5e

Re: F11 and external hard drives

2009-08-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
The USB disconnect message is the important one here. It seems very likely to me that the Dynex enclosure is the source of the sudden disconnect. The USB chipset on the Dynex' circuit board may not be working correctly. I find this happens a lot with hard drive enclosures. Some of my USB

Re: TightVNC Server

2009-08-09 Thread Robert L Cochran
Phillip -- never routinely work as the root user! That is a grave mistake. You should do all your work as an ordinary user. Don't stay logged in as root habitually. I only use root to update the software on my machine, or to change a few settings. In the context of a workday, I only need to do

Re: Looking for Shuttle recommendations

2009-08-08 Thread Robert L Cochran
Yes I agree that the Shuttle boxes are heavily overpriced. And when you think about it laptops are easier to tote around, very light and just as powerful. Bob On 08/08/2009 04:42 PM, John Austin wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 01:34 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

How To Use yum-builddep

2009-08-06 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm trying to learn how to build an rpm package correctly. When I do this with yum-builddep to build the dependencies on a source package, I get this: [...@deafeng3 SRPMS]$ su -c 'yum-builddep --enablerepo=rawhide --nogpgcheck augeas-0.5.2-2.fc12.src.rpm' Password: Loaded plugins: presto,

Re: Rhythmbox no longer sees ipod

2009-07-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm having this problem with banshee and amarok, on Fedora 11 too. The advice I was given is to wait for it all to be fixed. I hope gnupod will work. I didn't upgrade, I did a clean install of Fedora 11 but from the days of the beta. I wonder if all this stuff will work as expected on

Re: Playing quicktime movies on Firefox

2009-07-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
I wonder if you have ffmpeg installed? Bob On 07/26/2009 11:33 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote: Frank == Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com writes: Frank On 26/07/09 15:53, Colin Paul Adams wrote: In case it's a dektop specific problem, are you KDE, Gnome etc.?

MPEG-4 AAC decoder For banshee?

2009-07-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
What is an MPEG-4 AAc decoder that will work on banshee and play *.m4a files? Thanks Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Anyone Using Amarok In Fedora 11 With iPod?

2009-07-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
Is anyone using amarok 2.1.1-1 to manage an iPod on Fedora 11? If so, how did you get amarok to recognize the iPod? I can't get podsleuth to see my ipod when connected -- it is mounted as a hard drive instead, and is not seen as a media player. There is a bug for this but I'm not sure how to

Re: Anyone Using Amarok In Fedora 11 With iPod?

2009-07-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 07/26/2009 09:05 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:40 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: Is anyone using amarok 2.1.1-1 to manage an iPod on Fedora 11? If so, how did you get amarok to recognize the iPod? I can't get podsleuth to see my ipod when

Re: networkManager is killing me

2009-07-25 Thread Robert L Cochran
You are not giving any useful information here to help resolve the problem. What you are doing is just blaming NetWorkManager and asking if drastic solutions fit the unstated problem. The problem may not be NetworkManager, but something quite different. I never have a connectivity problem

Re: networkManager is killing me

2009-07-25 Thread Robert L Cochran
Your very first step is to Google and find a website that can tell you how to set up a wireless access point and resolve connectivity problems. You can also find a number of excellent books to read, also devoted to wireless access. Google is your friend. I think those other websites and other

Re: any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

2009-07-05 Thread Robert L Cochran
I think there is probably a physical cause. It gets too easy to blame the operating system for physical device issues. The fan speed is controlled in part by temperature sensors on the CPU and feedback from the fan circuit itself. I think all the fan speed controls are managed by motherboard

Re: Dealing with Fedora's mailing list

2009-07-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 07/03/2009 11:01 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: gil...@altern.org wrote: If there's anybody here who's in charge of Fedora's mailing lists, I must say that the way you're dealing with susbscribers seems dishonest. Personally, I find the benefit I gain from using mailing lists far

Re: Kernel - PAE vs. non-PAE

2009-06-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm installing Fedora 11 on a rather ancient Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop which ought to be tossed in the trash can, and that has the PAE kernel installed, too. Bob On 06/30/2009 09:27 PM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: When I installed F11 on my Toshiba laptop, it installed the PAE version

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/27/2009 08:45 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:35:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm not sure what you mean when you say your files are not copying correctly. How exactly are they corrupt? What convinces you of this? Bob I thought I had given enough

Re: Importing Mail folder from one Thunderbird to another Thunderbird.

2009-06-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I travel a lot and need to get my email on the road. I don't like using webmail even though my ISP offers it. I like to download my emails and tuck them away in a long list of mail folders. Until recently going on travel meant borrowing my wife's laptop. I'd run Fedora by booting off an

Re: Are there Fedora people using Thunderbird 3Beta2?

2009-06-27 Thread Robert L Cochran
Thunderbird 3 beta 2 is okay but it has a very annoying habit of changing the selected font for the text of an email reply or a freshly composed email on the fly. You can be typing along happily and one or two lines later the font suddenly changes and also can be reduced in size from the size

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm not sure what you mean when you say your files are not copying correctly. How exactly are they corrupt? What convinces you of this? Bob On 06/27/2009 08:21 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: I'm having an issue where when I copy files, they are not copying correctly - they are corrupt, I've

Re: Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-06-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
I just used `shutdown -h +6 The system is going down now, please logoff.` as root, in a terminal window. It prints the message in the terminal window every minute, along with its own default message. But it will not cause a Gnome window to open up with the message. I discovered that even if

Re: Encrypted Root with F11

2009-06-25 Thread Robert L Cochran
Copy your initrd somewhere (like to a directory in /tmp) and cd into it. Then gzip -dc initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img | cpio -id If you do this as a non-root user, you will get error messages, but the image file is still decompressed. Then you can look at the init script and see what it

Re: Encrypted Root with F11

2009-06-25 Thread Robert L Cochran
Umm, you know the /boot partition has to be ext3? Grub cannot handle an ext4 /boot. I know this has not a thing to do with encryption, but I thought I'd ask just to be sure. Bob On 06/25/2009 08:23 PM, Brian Mearns wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:20 PM, davidelists4dav...@gmail.com

Re: How can I update fedora core 6 ?

2009-06-25 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/24/2009 08:56 PM, Hyunwoo Kim wrote: I'm an adminstrator in the lab. Our server has installed old version fedora. (fc6) Theseday fedora maybe doesn't provdie update for too old version. What can I do for using yum for this OS? Back up what you have now to a separate hard

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/23/2009 09:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I´m contemplating what to do with one of my old desktops which is a dual Pentium III, 650Mhz, with 1 Gig of RAM and ATA-33 hard disk controller, plus two Elsa Gloria Synergy 8MB PCI video adapters (video chipset? I don´t even remember) for a

Re: Successful Medialess Install of Fedora 11 i386 -- Mainly For Puppet

2009-06-22 Thread Robert L Cochran
running in enforcing mode. I have changed the client to permissive mode for now. Bob On 06/21/2009 10:23 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm really interested in working with the puppet application, and I just happen to have an extra laptop hanging around. Said laptop turned out to be capable

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/20/2009 11:16 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: How do I rename my server to be puppet as you suggest? If you have local DNS setup, you can add puppet as a CNAME for your server. If not, you could add it to /etc/hosts. I've always done the former

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/21/2009 10:32 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: If you have local DNS setup, you can add puppet as a CNAME for your server. If not, you could add it to /etc/hosts. I've always done the former. Okay, so that would work like this: puppet

Editing /etc/hosts On Puppetmaster Server

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
Besides having a CNAME record on my DNS box (which is entirely separate from the box that I'm running puppetmaster on), I experimented a bit and on the puppetmaster server I edited the /etc/hosts localhost entry like this, appending 'puppet' to the end of the line: 127.0.0.1

Re: How to tell if kernel compiled from kernel.org is x86_64 or just 32 bit?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm not sure how it works for the kernel images because those are compressed. You can use file otherwise: [...@deafeng3 ~]$ file /usr/bin/zip /usr/bin/zip: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped Here is my

Successful Medialess Install of Fedora 11 i386 -- Mainly For Puppet

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm really interested in working with the puppet application, and I just happen to have an extra laptop hanging around. Said laptop turned out to be capable of booting from USB. I found an old external hard drive which formerly booted Fedora 8. I connected the hard drive to the laptop's USB

Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-20 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm getting messages like this in /var/log/messages when I run puppetd (from the puppet client I think...the server is called 'puppetmaster'.) Jun 20 19:16:00 deafeng3 puppetd[2556]: Could not find server : getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution Jun 20 19:16:00 deafeng3

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-20 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/20/2009 10:07 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm getting messages like this in /var/log/messages when I run puppetd (from the puppet client I think...the server is called 'puppetmaster'.) Jun 20 19:16:00 deafeng3 puppetd[2556]: Could not find server : getaddrinfo

SCSI Controller Card Compatible With RHEL and Fedora

2009-06-18 Thread Robert L Cochran
I need to run a very old SCSI hard drive, the Seagate ST34573W, with these operating systems: * Fedora 11+ (maybe a little) * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5+ (a lot, till the drive can be retired) My question is, what's a cheap, reliable SCSI controller card that I can buy for this hard drive and

Re: sha256sum

2009-06-18 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/18/2009 08:41 PM, stan wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:24:56 -0400 terryxtly...@charter.net wrote: Todd I interpret the above as ... sha256sum Fedora-xxx-xxx-CHecksum and the program looks for the iso and calculates the number and checks them with the checksum file for a match or no

How To Start Puppet

2009-06-17 Thread Robert L Cochran
I just installed puppet, meaning puppet.noarch 0.24.8-1.fc11 puppet-server.noarch 0.24.8-1.fc11 On Fedora 11 x86_64. I then began following instructions at this website: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/SimplestPuppetInstallRecipe and I'm now at Step Three:

Re: laptop battery died while upgrading using Pre-upgrade

2009-06-16 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/16/2009 07:16 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Globe Trotter writes: Hi, Does anyone know how to address this problem? My laptop battery died while upgrading using Pre-upgrade. It was not connected. So what should I do when I switch it on? Cross your fingers, and hope that your RPM

Re: Are there any BMR (bare metal restore) style apps for linux

2009-06-15 Thread Robert L Cochran
Also G4U. I tend to use G4U right away when I must work on someone else's system. I run off a clone of the hard drive to one of my spares. It is so nice having those clones for CYA purposes. ddrescue is great for drives which are ready to crash and show bad sectors Testdisk and Photorec are

Re: Root Access

2009-06-15 Thread Robert L Cochran
The locked box approach is probably not used in very large enterprises. At least not where I work ( 100,000 employees, 98,000 Tier 3 workstations.) Bob On 06/15/2009 03:14 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: Mike Dwiggins wrote: I installed Fedora 11 on a dual-boot machine. When I booted up on the

Re: Can Fedora 11 Mount an SCO OpenServer 5 (HTFS) disk?

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/14/2009 09:51 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: I need to mount an SCO OpenServer 5 (HTFS) disk on Fedora 11. I think I can image the source hard drive to a USB flash drive and then just plug the drive into my Fedora 11 laptop. Will Fedora 11 mount the OpenServer

Re: Questions with rsync

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
This is a very useful thread for me to follow. You asked some interesting questions that led to answers with complete rsync scripts provided. That's what I call a really great response! It does help if you read `man rsync` and the web resources carefully. They can answer a lot of questions.

Re: Linux based Data Recovery Tools

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm doing something like that right now using a Linux distro named Recovery Is Possible Linux or RIPLinux. In fact I was using RIP version 9.1 to help me rescue a system. It had a little trouble booting on an Hp Pavillion a6400z system, but I retried and it booted up fine the second try. Then

Re: unable to login as root on F11

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
To reinforce what Todd says...I don't feel any need to have a graphical (Gnome-based) login as root. There just isn't the need. You can use `su -` in a terminal window to get root access, then 'exit' when you are done with the task at hand. Typically, I only need root access for configuring

Am I Missing Fedora 11 Updates?

2009-06-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm not missing any updates, have I? It has been a few days without them. I'm using a Fedora 11 which was installed way back during the beta period and kept up to date ever since. Perhaps my yum is set up wrong? -- # yum

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
Yeah, I'm sure. Been there. Done that. Bob On 06/13/2009 12:25 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: Arduino software (from http://www.arduino.cc/ ) needs the Sun Java version to run properly. Have you actually tried it with OpenJDK? Projects will often say you need Sun

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm quite sure of my professional and hobby needs for the Sun Java releases, not OpenJDK. Bob On 06/13/2009 03:35 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: Yeah, I'm sure. Been there. Done that. And can you provide any details or are they under some NDA or trade secret

Can Fedora 11 Mount an SCO OpenServer 5 (HTFS) disk?

2009-06-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
I need to mount an SCO OpenServer 5 (HTFS) disk on Fedora 11. I think I can image the source hard drive to a USB flash drive and then just plug the drive into my Fedora 11 laptop. Will Fedora 11 mount the OpenServer partitions automatically, or do I need to enable this and compile the kernel

Re: Root Access

2009-06-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
I seem able to do everything I need to with just an su - to root from a terminal window. I don't need a Gnome login for root, in other words. So I've left the defaults in place. All is well. A bit more secure in fact. Bob On 06/13/2009 11:35 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Mike Dwiggins wrote:

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
Arduino software (from http://www.arduino.cc/ ) needs the Sun Java version to run properly. This is what the Java alternatives system is for. You can install the Sun JDK yourself and add it to the alternatives and then make it your default Java system. I also need Sun Java for work-related

Re: Fresh Fedora 11 fetches 362MB+ of updates, where's deltaRPM?

2009-06-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/12/2009 06:21 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Arthur Pemberton pem...@gmail.com mailto:pem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Fernando Cassiafcas...@gmail.com mailto:fcas...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't a free, infinite

Re: Anyone Successfully Install with RAID1 or LVM over RAID1?

2009-06-11 Thread Robert L Cochran
Could you post the bug number? Thanks Bob On 06/11/2009 06:27 PM, Brian Hanks wrote: Has anyone successfully installed F11 x86_64 using RAID1 or LVM on top of RAID1? If so, what was the key to your success? I'm looking for some suggestions. I must admit that I'm getting a bit frustrated

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-06-10 Thread Robert L Cochran
security erase suggestion on a much newer drive. It appears to be a lot less labor intensive. Bob On 06/09/2009 05:00 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-06-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/29/2009 09:46 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: On 05/29/2009 05:44 PM, Alan Cox wrote: 'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default). Doing something like shred /dev/sdX as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive (see the man page for more options

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/30/2009 04:49 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Use security erase, that is why it is there. How do you access the security erase facility? From `man hdparm`: --security-erase PWD Erase (locked) drive, using password PWD (DANGEROUS). Password is given as an

Re: Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

2009-05-29 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/29/2009 12:36 PM, RS wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-29 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/29/2009 05:44 PM, Alan Cox wrote: 'shred' is part of coreutils (i.e. installed by default). Doing something like shred /dev/sdX as root will write various bit patterns 25 times over the entire drive (see the man page for more options). Whoopeeedoo. Thats still not the correct way

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-29 Thread Robert L Cochran
is 'ha ha' because of suggestions, or aluminum rusting? I think the idea of dropping a hard drive in brine is funny. Hence the ha ha! if you have no need for drive and wish to insure removing all data, take drive apart, remove disk and burn oxide coating with a torch. or use lighter

OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? Is there free software that can write zeroes or some form of nonsense to every storage

Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

2009-05-28 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs. Is there an open source application server that works more or less the same and will run on either

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Robert L Cochran
I've read through this thread as well, and I too would like to thank everyone for their views. I too work in a large organization where I have absolutely no choice in the hardware and software selections (for 98,000+ active computer workstations.) I don't have a voice in those selections

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have the Latitude E6400 and it is pretty nice. I'm using it right now with Fedora 11. I'm using the 160M video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 0233 Flags: bus master, fast

Re: F10 Wine/Garmin use

2009-05-16 Thread Robert L Cochran
Try the U. S. Geological Survey Bob On 05/16/2009 06:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 20:44 +, Beartooth wrote: I'm running MapSource and TopoUS2008 under Wine on Fedora 10 Linux. I want to find the highest point on the highway from my house to my

Re: Still having problems with my tv tuner -- need help

2009-05-10 Thread Robert L Cochran
Plus there are people like me who are reading this thread because of interest in TV cards. I was looking at a few last night. Bob On 05/10/2009 09:30 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: I was ready to give up. However, I am definitely not getting the second dev so I will

Re: rpm experiences [was: Backing up whole system]

2009-05-10 Thread Robert L Cochran
I entirely agree with Rahul. There are many more tools and choices out there now compared to when I started programming in 1981. Back then it was just assembler, COBOL, and CICS and a bit of database stuff (also IBM style.) Now the list goes on and on. In modern development, you have to take

Re: Backing up whole system

2009-05-09 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have an old edition of the book Unix Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston. It is out of print now, but is available on Safari Books Online. Preston had, or still does have, a website devoted to Unix backup. Amanda was treated as but one backup option of many. There is a pretty good

Re: Backing up whole system

2009-05-09 Thread Robert L Cochran
For just one or two systems I would use G4U by Hubert Feyrer ( http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ ) or G4L by Michael D. Setzer II (please see his post in this thread.) I like to clone an entire hard disk and then store the clone offsite. I have not used G4L enough to gain real experience with it. I

How To Create /home on a Network Drive

2009-05-09 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is mounted from the network drive. But I don't know how to do this. Suggestions? Thanks Bob --

Re: How To Create /home on a Network Drive

2009-05-09 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/09/2009 11:16 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory

Re: Video Capture Software

2009-05-07 Thread Robert L Cochran
David Timms wrote: David Timms wrote: Look at videodog, kino, mlt (in RPM Fusion RSN ?) Also cinelerra http://cinelerra.org/ Currently in review at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118 But kwizart has it in kwizart repos:

Video Capture Software

2009-05-06 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Is there video capture software that works similarly to Pinnacle Studio? I need to capture video from a bunch of 16-20 year old VHS tapes from a VCR. I'd like to do this in Fedora if possible. If such software exists, do I need a specific video capture card. Or is any old capture card okay?

Re: Blinking lights of death ? Netgear Switch GS108

2009-05-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/04/2009 04:19 PM, David Liguori wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: Has the device firmware been pharmed or simply partly flashed and then a power failure struck? If you would like to donate the unit to me, I'll try

Re: Fedora XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
I too like using virtualization. My current laptop has Intel Virtualization Technology and can go up to 8 Gb of memory. I want to mainly run Windows XP and Fedora 11 guest systems, share the data between them, and do all my serious work in the guests. I like securing private things too and

Re: Off topic - mobo recommendations

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
In my eyes AMD has fallen way behind the times. The Phenom X4 quad core processors don't have much on-die L2 cache and the different package profiles are a real pain. I don't know what is selling better for AMD, their ATI-branded graphics boards or their processor lines.

How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
I want to send files securely from my Fedora 11 (Preview) or Fedora 10 systems to a Microsoft Windows (Home Edition) user who quickly gets lost if asked to do anything complex. By securely sending files, I mean I wish to attach files to an email and then send them over the wire either

Re: Off topic - mobo recommendations

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 05/02/2009 03:12 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I just priced a very nice Dell Vostro 420 system. The Intel Q6600 quad core processor offers 12M of L2 and based on my work with slower versions of the Q6600...that is a lot of speed. I meant the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650, 3.0 GHz, with 12M

Re: MDRaid 1 Recovery

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
http://radu.rendec.ines.ro/howto/raid1.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874 Recoveries just never seen simple... Bob On 05/02/2009 07:17 PM, Law Barstow wrote: Hello List, I'm having some issues with my mdraid. The system is Fedora 10, x86_64. I installed the system with two

Re: Blinking lights of death ? Netgear Switch GS108

2009-04-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 04/30/2009 02:47 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net wrote: Has the device firmware been pharmed or simply partly flashed and then a power failure struck? If you would like to donate the unit to me, I'll try to find the time

Re: Fedora XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

2009-04-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
I, too, am quite happily running Windows XP and Fedora on a laptop on the same hard drive. For variety I've also done it with separate external hard drives over USB. A modern hardware system ought to be able to run multiple modern operating systems harmoniously from one or more hard drives.

Re: Blinking lights of death ? Netgear Switch GS108

2009-04-29 Thread Robert L Cochran
Has the device firmware been pharmed or simply partly flashed and then a power failure struck? If you would like to donate the unit to me, I'll try to find the time to take a look at it in the next few months. I'm still very much an amateur, and I'd like to try analyzing why the unit is not

Application For Backing Up Blackberry Data To

2009-04-29 Thread Robert L Cochran
Are there any Fedora-based software applications that will notice my Blackberry 8830 when I plug in its USB cable on a Fedora system? Or better yet, when I pair its Bluetooth to the laptop? I'd dearly love to be able to back it up to my laptop, and I use Fedora just about 100% of the time for

Re: who can introduce me some good redhat linux book and download links

2009-04-20 Thread Robert L Cochran
Les in his posting wonders how you can check the versions to which online documentation applies and I'm concerned about that too. I think the quickest way to learn is to grab a few different distros, figure out how to install them, and then do a combination of researching with Google and

Re: Aargh! Gimp caught Open Office's disease!

2009-04-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
The book Beginning Gimp, Second Edition, by Akkana Peck is excellent! I highly recommend it. I just bought it from Amazon. The book mostly covers Gimp 2.4 features but has a preview of 2.6, and Peck does try to discuss the different interfaces between 2.6 and 2.4 where they arise. Bob On

Total Number of Emails Managed By Thunderbird

2009-04-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
Thunderbird is nice enough to tell you how many unread emails are in a folder, and how many emails each folder has in total (between read and unread emails.) Is there a way to get Thunderbird to present a total count of all emails which are in all folders? For example: Inbox has 1 email

Re: Resources to learn C

2009-04-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
You had it easy with the tiny text window. I started my mainframe career just as IBM shops were converting over to huge CRT monitors and the joys ISPF edit, but were still using punched cards for some things. So I had a little exposure to correcting a punched card which is part of a card deck,

Re: NFR - Bookpool

2009-03-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
Bookpool was in Martha's Vineyard, right? I'm surprised they closed. They don't seem to publish their address, at least not for people like me, so I was not able to visit them during a trip to Martha's Vineyard last Thanksgiving. I used to buy from them, they were always completely reliable and

Re: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing

2009-03-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
Are you using Fedora 10? The update is specific to Fedora 10. I had no problem using the yum command as listed in comment #54 of the big, and it has fixed arduino-0013 for me. Bob brian wrote: I'm unable to install the libX11 update. Can anyone suggest what I might be missing? I first

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