Re: how to reduce the font size in emacs?

2008-06-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] All-Round Linux Tinkerer RHCE -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-14 Thread Anders Karlsson
filter down to Fedora eventually. Thank you for your understanding. -- Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] All-Round Linux Tinkerer RHCE -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Newbie Warnng! : Fedora Core Offline Updates

2008-07-16 Thread Anders Karlsson
give you an idea at least. -- Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] All-Round Linux Tinkerer RHCE -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-19 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080719 15:04]: Björn Persson wrote: Has HURD actually become a working kernel?? Ric Apparently yes: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install The installation instructions sound almost farcically bad. Agreed. I also find this statement

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 19:11]: Les Mikesell wrote: [snip] Deliberate? _Everything_ that is not the GPL is incompatible with the GPL. This one is a clear lie. There are dozens and dozens of GPL compatible licenses. Any license which has no additional restrictions above

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 19:52]: [snip: lots of hairsplitting and otherwise ludicrous statements] Fedora isn't Linux, it's a Linux distribution, but everyone calls all Linux distributions Linux, so Fedora should be called Linux even though it isn't Linux? Is that what

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 19:42]: Anders Karlsson wrote: And any license that does not permit itself to be replaced or over-ruled by the GPL - is hence incompatible - even if it explicitly permits combination with the GPL for any derived work or combination work. Am I

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 22:18]: Anders Karlsson wrote: [snip] So the part of the work that is non-GPL licensed, can stay non-GPL licensed in the combined works and derivatives? I would differentiate between original and derivative (along with combined work) here just

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 22:31]: Thomas Cameron wrote: I've never denigrated or minimized GNU's participation in the success of the Linux operating system, or any other operating systems. No doubt, the GNU bits are of critical import. But that's not why I commented on

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-20 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 22:42]: [snip] Note that he is describing GPL v3. Under V2 (which applies to the majority of works), nothing can be in a 'work as a whole' unless the exact terms of GPLv2 apply to all parts. Of course in the case of pre-existing code already

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080721 04:47]: söndagen den 20 juli 2008 skrev Anders Karlsson: [snip] Is it really so hard to grasp that the term Linux can (and does) mean different things depending on context, who you are talking to, and the counterparts technical savvy? It's

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080721 08:29]: [snip] Language doesn't work that way. If you speak, and your listener doesn't understand you, then *you* are the one at fault. [snip] It's not ones fault when there is a misunderstanding, same as it's not ones fault there is an argument.

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080721 09:25]: This is more or less a yes or no type of question. And I picked Ric's position in the thread since, I feel, he is least likely to take offense. Is this the semi-annual Fedora diarrhea thread where folks pretend to be lawyers,

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-21 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080722 04:25]: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:35 -0300 Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the 3rd time today, 4th in the thread, please see the links into the blong, at the end of the most recent posting

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-22 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Andrew Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080722 13:12]: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Do you have a sample config for me to look at? I have some vermin I want to killfile, and I've not had time to set anything up yet... If you are using claws then use Create

Killfile [WAS: Re: that old Linux argument]

2008-07-22 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080722 14:50]: * Andrew Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080722 13:12]: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Do you have a sample config for me to look at? I have some vermin I want to killfile, and I've not had time to set anything up

Re: Has Anybody used PowerTop

2008-07-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* aakash sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080724 19:17]: So u mean to say that it's USELESS on FEDORA 9. I got that. That's not what I said. I said there were not many things it gave me recommendations to change. It's still useful as it'll show you what it is that is waking your computer up and

Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:16]: Hi all, Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?

Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]: On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote: [snip] Would this help make things better? In theory, yes. In practice, not unless there is moderator support for making sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list. I'm

Re: change default language (localization)

2008-07-29 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080729 09:52]: David Hláčik wrote: Hello all, i have installed Fedora 9 with default english language. Now i want to switch to Czech Language. How can i do that : To have Czech as the default language you can simply edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n to change

Re: change default language (localization)

2008-07-29 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080729 10:48]: Anders Karlsson wrote: * Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080729 09:52]: David Hláčik wrote: Hello all, i have installed Fedora 9 with default english language. Now i want to switch to Czech Language. How can i do that : To have Czech

Re: stop kernel messages from splashing on the console

2008-07-29 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Vikram Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080729 12:21]: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:54:21AM +0100, Christopher Mocock wrote: Vikram Goyal wrote: Hello, I am getting these kernel messages on the consoles which I want to avoid as many times I have to login through them as the system runs in

Re: cron job

2008-07-29 Thread Anders Karlsson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080729 22:11]: Output from nightly cronjobs is filling root's mailbox quickly, and sending everything else to /var/spool/mqueue. These are just status messages (stdout) from the cronjobs which we don't really need mailed to root. Is there anyway to

Re: No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

2008-07-31 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080731 19:24]: This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark. Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) sda5,

Re: defaullt directory for terminals.

2008-07-31 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080731 22:33]: Does anyone want to defend the change to ~/Desktop as the default directory in opened terminals, thus throwing away 20 or 30 years of Unix, Linux and Microsoft tradition? You mean you don't have a key-combo that opens a terminal for you? ;-)

Re: Question on encrypted usbkey and CD in F9?

2008-08-01 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080801 10:01]: Mike mike.cloaked at gmail.com writes: Has anybody recently made/used an encrypted CD or usbkey in F9? Just to be clear about my question - this was intended to be done with luks/dmcrypt USB key, yes. I used

Re: defaullt directory for terminals.

2008-08-01 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Stephen Berg (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080801 16:09]: [snip] Wouldn't setting /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir to true be the setting to change? That's even better. :) I did not see that settings key tbh. I'll have a look at what other goodies there is to change

Re: What are dm-x devices?

2008-08-04 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080804 14:43]: What are /dev/dm-0 through to /dev/dm-3? They are listed as block devices, and owned root:disk. Looking at gkrellm, dm-0 and dm-2 appear to mirror the activity of my system disk, sdb. Device mapper device-nodes. Look in /dev/mapper/ and

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-23 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080823 18:57]: Rahul Sundaram quoted Paul W. Frields: [snip] Disclosure at an inappropriate time gives people the mistaken impression one is not being truthful, when that's not the case. The first announcement gave me the impression that there was a

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 01:38]: Anders Karlsson wrote: [snip] That is a pretty strong statement to make. Not telling everything does not equate lying - especially when what you are telling (or can tell) is true. And if all you have is an impression that he

Re: Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200

2008-08-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Miles Sabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 16:39]: We know nothing of the sort. In fact the RH announcement suggests exactly the opposite ... why else distribute a script to check for compromised RHEL packages? Because some people don't exclusively use RHN ? /Anders -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200

2008-08-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Miles Sabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 19:02]: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Miles Sabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 16:39]: We know nothing of the sort. In fact the RH announcement suggests exactly the opposite ... why else distribute

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 21:42]: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:27:47 -0800 Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the full details can not be publicly disclosed instantaneously due to legal constraint This I simply don't understand. You do not need to understand, you just need

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-24 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080824 23:11]: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:19:03 -0700 Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:27:47 -0800 Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the full details can not

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 03:08]: Jeff Spaleta wrote: Did we have a communication problem? Maybe. You make it sound like it was something in the past. I'd say a week and a half ago fits squarely in the definition of past. Does anyone know yet whether or not the intrusion

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 05:53]: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:37:02 -0800 Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, while a policy for future incidents would be nice, I don't set it as a

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 19:39]: Anders Karlsson wrote: You are making assumptions Les. You don't know how the perpetrator gained access. (Well, I am assuming you don't, but if you do, feel free to enlighten the rest of us.) Agreed - I don't know. And that's a problem when

Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

2008-08-27 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080826 21:36]: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:39 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 07:13 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: (Remember: Using Linux also is a political statement) Maybe. Maybe not. Well, to newcomer, it's likely not an

Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

2008-08-28 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Ralf Corsepius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080827 21:41]: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Umm, the distro does not come with strings attached. Of cause it does. You might want to have some closer looks into the details, e.g. think about why you can't find certain SW

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080902 19:15]: Bill Crawford wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. Everyone needs to whether or not they are at risk with the same vulnerability

Re: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080902 21:09]: This whole incident has kept the rumors mills very busy and _still_ there isn't been a responsible response from Fedora. An update (useful) every couple of days on status (what they are working on) would help users ..after all this is a

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-03 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080904 05:29]: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 10:30 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: hardest of all find a secure way to provide the public part of the signing key The whole point about asymmetric encryption is that you don't need a secure

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-05 Thread Anders Karlsson
* jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080905 20:52]: From: Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2008, September 05 00:50 * jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080905 08:56]: Suppose I have NO RedHat installed. I have no working computer near me. I want to install Fedora 9. How do I establish

Re: How to get a patched kernel into anaconda?

2008-09-07 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080907 15:10]: This is all new land for me, so bear with me if the answer is trivial. I have patched kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 (actually sata_mv.c) to support my sta disk controller. It works correctly, I can attach my disks make directories and store data

Re: iPhone synchronisation

2008-09-09 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Luc MAIGNAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080909 15:04]: Hi, I'm looking for a tool that can import and export music to my iPhone (because Apple still refuse to port iTunes on Linux !!!). What is the best tool to do this on Fedora ? You can try GtkPod or Banshee, but I've not had any luck with

Re: iPhone synchronisation

2008-09-09 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Marcelo M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080909 15:54]: Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a tool that can import and export music to my iPhone (because Apple still refuse to port iTunes on Linux !!!). What is the best tool to do this on Fedora ? BR Hi I don't have iPhone, but