yum problems

2005-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: yum problems

2005-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:33, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; [snip] Now folks, FC2 never to my knowledge had a kernel as old as 2.2.14. The version I installed (from the distro ISOs) was 2.6.5-1.358 I'd guess this was the earliest. [snip] As nfs is something thats

Re: yum problems

2005-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:49, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Resolving dependencies Unable to satisfy dependencies Package nfs-utils needs kernel = 2.2.14, this is not available. Your DB is horked. This is Greater than or equal to 2.2.14

Re: Has tar-1.15.1 been built released for rh7.3?

2005-10-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 October 2005 19:22, Jeff Sheltren wrote: On Oct 10, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I've been running 1.15.1 on this FC2 box now for about 3 months, and it appears to be completey compatible. Then I read someplace where a security hole had been found in pre 1.15 issues, so

Re: Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: httpd and mod_ssl

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
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Lastest openoffice vs kde menus

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Lastest openoffice vs kde menus

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:54, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I recently installed OpenOffice2.0 final, and had previously installed 1.1.5. I had also gone thru my /root/.kde tree cleaning out old references to 1.14, 1.1.2

Re: dependency hell, version 2,197,386.1

2005-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: dependency hell, version 2,197,386.1

2005-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: dependency hell, version 2,197,386.1

2005-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:30, Rex Dieter wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Humm, thats an AMD k6-III in that box, so I grabbed the 586 kernel, is this correct? Yes. Thanks Rex. I guiess I've been rolling my own for too long. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: exporting displays question

2005-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 December 2005 17:42, David Eisenstein wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I'm trying to export the x display on a more or less debian/morphix (the bdi install of emc-4.30 TBE) box in my workshop, current temps in the teens, which I believe uses the XFree86

ssh question

2005-12-11 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: [vendor-sec] New Fetchmail issue

2005-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:18, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:20, Mike Klinke wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:08, Mike McCarty wrote: I'm a little shocked at this, frankly. I Googled around, and found mentions of the Slapper going back to 2002. Why

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:29, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:20, Mike Klinke wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:08, Mike McCarty wrote: I'm a little shocked at this, frankly. I Googled around, and found mentions of the Slapper

An imap server?

2006-02-08 Thread Gene Heskett
the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy

Re: An imap server?

2006-02-08 Thread Gene Heskett
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fetchmail problem?

2006-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
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procmail dovecot Q.

2006-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett

Re: procmail dovecot Q.

2006-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
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services query

2006-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
in that event. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett

firefox-chatzilla for fc2??

2006-02-16 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: firefox-chatzilla for fc2??

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 13:15, taharka wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The subject line is the question. I have it for moz, but I'm wondering if there is a chatzilla plugin for firefox-1.5*? Can't speak for a plugin but, a firefox chatzilla extension exists at; https://addons.mozilla.org

Re: firefox-chatzilla for fc2??

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 13:15, taharka wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The subject line is the question. I have it for moz, but I'm wondering if there is a chatzilla plugin for firefox-1.5*? Can't speak for a plugin but, a firefox chatzilla extension exists at; https://addons.mozilla.org

Re: firefox-chatzilla for fc2?? update

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:09, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 13:15, taharka wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The subject line is the question. I have it for moz, but I'm wondering if there is a chatzilla plugin for firefox-1.5*? Can't speak for a plugin but, a firefox chatzilla

Re: firefox-chatzilla for fc2?? update

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 17:40, taharka wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [...] What it turns out to have been was an option set false in the about:config screen. After that it installed just fine. This really should have been available in the prefs menu, but isn't. I've never used the extension

Need a bwidgit

2006-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: FW: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-075A -- Adobe Macromedia Flash Products Multiple Vulnerabilities

2006-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: [OT] Re: FW: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-075A -- Adobe Macromedia Flash Products Multiple Vulnerabilities

2006-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 March 2006 21:18, Todd Zullinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: I have that same problem. First, this advisory is a wee bit old, and second the files in that rpm are as you say, obviously dated to well before this vulnerability

Re: 1-2-3 out, time for FC2?

2006-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 March 2006 18:08, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 14:01, Donald Maner wrote: With the release of FC5, I figured I'd start the discussion to gauge the amount of support for keeping FC2 updates going. As specified in the FAQ

Re: Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: sendmail

2006-03-23 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Question about yum.conf for fc2

2006-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:00, seth vidal wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Yum is rather continuously erroring out on fedora extras, both branches recently. Do I need to edit that line and send it someplace else now? you need to tell us what

BT RANT, Was Re: Question about yum.conf for fc2

2006-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 March 2006 06:10, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Jeff Sheltren wrote: On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yum is rather continuously erroring out on fedora extras, both branches recently. Do I need to edit that line and send it someplace else now? Gene

Re: BT RANT, Was Re: Question about yum.conf for fc2

2006-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 March 2006 18:44, David Rees wrote: On 3/24/06, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What the hecks the matter with you folks? Take Take Take, but never give back in kind. I just raised the speed limit to about 90% of my bandwidth, but thats still not enough to feed other hungry

Re: New sendmail and missing /usr/lib/sendmail

2006-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:29, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:39:33AM +0100, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote: My sendmail on FC3 boxes also not working correctly. Interesting. I actually did install an update

download.fedoralegacy.org not reachable

2006-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: download.fedoralegacy.org not reachable

2006-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:08, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Am I the only one having trouble with this? I am getting a dns lookup failure. And this seems to be a chronic thing over the last 2-3 weeks for verizon's unprintable name servers. Can someone toss me the numerical address please

Q re dhcpd.conf setup

2006-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Q re dhcpd.conf setup

2006-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Q re dhcpd.conf setup

2006-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:fedora-legacy-list- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:11 AM To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project Subject: Re: Q re

Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

2006-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:07, Nils Breunese wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 06:23, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Plz see subject. I'd like to clean up my yum repo list as it appears some of the repos have disappeared

Re: Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

2006-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list

Re: Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

2006-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Is this a desktop workstation or a server? If this is a workstation or a non-production server, why not just go with the Fedora flow? I run Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it's working just

Odd problem with sha1sums

2006-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Odd problem with sha1sums

2006-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 September 2006 04:39, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I have now burnt 2 copies of the FC-6T2-live-dvd.iso, one on a +dvd and one on a -dvd disk. Both of these freshly written dvd's check with an identical sha1sum when doing a 'sha1sum -b /dev/cdrom

Re: lwn article on the death of Fedora Legacy

2006-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: lwn article on the death of Fedora Legacy

2006-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:19, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Maybe the question we should be asking is: Can we do this? We don't have the number of people that Debian Security has on supporting old releases.. and because we have fallen so far behind with everything.. can we

Re: lwn article on the death of Fedora Legacy

2006-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
favorite horse you know. Mike -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006

Re: Need SeaMonkey opinions - [Fwd: [RHSA-2006:0734-01] Critical: seamonkey security update]

2006-11-08 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
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Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:10, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:54, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more realistic from the users viewpoint, who has his setup all fine tuned and doesn't want to go thru

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:03, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:32, Gene Heskett wrote: Theres several reasons, the old kernel version being one of them. Firewire doesn't work that I know of, and I have a firewire movie camera. And when CentOS5 comes out? I've

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:36, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:33, Gene Heskett wrote: I've no idea when, or if firewire is back among the living.  It took till the last new kernel for FC5 before it worked well enough to be usable. Where does that place centos5

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 November 2006 08:48, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more realistic from the users viewpoint, who has his setup all fine tuned and doesn't want to go thru that on an annual basis. There are other things

Re: Yeah, I have desktop effects:

2008-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote: [...] it is the coolest thing next to slice bread... or better yet, English Muffins. English Muffins better than sliced bread? I always thought the next step up was to bottled beer. There is of course one that's better yet, but this IS a mixed

Re: Yeah, I have desktop effects:

2008-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Don Levey wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote: [...] it is the coolest thing next to slice bread... or better yet, English Muffins. English Muffins better than sliced bread? I always thought the next step up was to bottled beer

Re: VIM Q again

2008-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I'm in the process is adding comments so I can figure out what some disassembled code that is about 25 years old is doing. We've found a couple of buglets we would like to fix

Re: VIM Q again

2008-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01Jun2008 21:26, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sunday 01 June 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote: | On 01Jun2008 20:19, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | So what am I doing wrong when in the command mode, I type | | /s/L1BAE/isspace/g

Re: Switching virtual terminals

2008-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Jim Dever wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:09 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2008 08:29:12 Jim Dever wrote: g wrote: Jim Dever wrote: Tim wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 05:11 -0400, Jim Dever wrote: I just tried it again to make sure.

tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi folks; I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer, whose eol is a single cr into one with a newline subbed for each cr, and tr is being a pita, it broken, or there is PEBKAC. If I use this syntax: tr -c \r \n filename filename2 Then the whole file is converted to

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer, whose eol is a single cr into one with a newline subbed for each cr, and tr is being a pita, it broken, or there is PEBKAC. If I use this syntax: tr -c \r \n

Re: tr problem

2008-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: On Thu June 12 2008 20:42:51 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: Why option -c? Cuz the manpage says that it triggers the character convert thing? My manpage says -c is for complementing the first set. Could you

Re: tr problem

2008-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 June 2008, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 23:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer, whose eol is a single cr into one with a newline subbed

Re: tr problem

2008-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 13Jun2008 22:42, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Before this gets too far off the track, I wanted to replace the single $0D | with a single $0A. And yes, I'm aware that dos used both characters, | which I hate to admit is the actual

Re: tr problem

2008-06-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: CoCo's have always had lowercase, just didn't show it. I'm logged into mine with minicom right now. :-) Working on mouse drivers, somebodies update broke them. Aren't there emulators these days so you don't have to deal

Re: recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

2008-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mark Haney wrote: Maurizio Marini wrote: I would advice any list member that it is in the wild a issue regarding grub and mbr. I invite who has not yet done it, to save mbr on a secure place before any kernel or grub related upgrade, dd is your friend. In the

Re: recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

2008-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, M A Young wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Maurizio Marini wrote: I would advice any list member that it is in the wild a issue regarding grub and mbr. I don't know if this is relevant, but F8 grub (unless the latest update has been written to the boot sector) can't cope

Re: tr problem

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:12 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If and when you try that little experiment, be very careful when you heat up the metal block -- the metal is a lead alloy and has a rather low melting point. I know. ;-) The tour we had was quite

Re: F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:07:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: That is because the verify phase of k3b will not wait till the drive has recognized the disk after the eject cycle, so it errors out. I have squawked about that on the k3b bz, to no avail

Re: recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Maurizio Marini wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: While we're on the subject of mbr's, how big is it? The first 512 bytes of the one I just saved is virtually empty. So I overwrote it with a 4kb version, b but that is bearing some resemblance

Re: recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is not going to help, because the old MBR will be pointing to the wrong location for stage 1.5, so you will get an error on boot. Remember, the part of GRub

Re: F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: I left a DVD-R being written by K3B, and when I came back later, it said the verify failed because there were no tracks to verify. That is because the verify phase of k3b will not wait

Re: F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:44:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: The drive itself must read the equ of LSN0 from the disk, deduce the file system and configure itself, all the while poking at the disk to see what it really is. This process, on any drive

Re: F8 k3b problem or just random glitch?

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:17:20 Gene Heskett wrote: That brings up another question.  I hear folks praising konquerer for its file manager abilities, but to me a file manager is a 2 pane operation ala mc.  I always fall back to mc cuz it Just Works

Re: Memory, swap, and limits

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, James Kosin wrote: [...] Sorry, I'm a bit dated and now I've probably revealed my age. I've been around since the first personal computers and remember when 64K was considered a LOT of memory. James So was I James, but heck, I remember Pearl Harbor, about when the

Re: Memory, swap, and limits

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 June 2008, tom wrote: Sadly, many of us are so set in our ways and fictions that we are pretty much asleep at school. Sadly, I find that is a trap I have tripped over more than once of late, which can be embarrassing in front of all these frogs. :) -- Cheers, Gene There are

Web page problem

2008-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I have setup a softlink from /var/www/html/gene/linkname That points to another directory here, owned by a different user. All that has been chown'ed to apache:apache as I just noted some of it was owned by root. I can goto that page with FF3 and display the contents as a file

Re: Web page problem

2008-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 June 2008, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I have setup a softlink from /var/www/html/gene/linkname That points to another directory here, owned by a different user. All that has been chown'ed to apache:apache as I just noted some

F8, currently offered grub update. Safe?

2008-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
With a 400GB sata drive on a sata_sil pci card and initrd loaded driver module in the mix, which some of the grub stuff insists is /dev/sda when its actually /dev/sdc on this system, is this so-called update safe, or will I be reaching for install dvd's I don't have yet other than Ubuntu-8.04,

Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10? I want it too !

2008-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote: David Boles wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the main idea behind PA is to eradicate that problem since it will be a super set And, as I said, I have no problems

Re: F8 and a GPS -

2008-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 30 June 2008, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I don't know your unit, but my (black box) USB GPS is just a USB-serial converter (prolific 2303) and a serial GPS unit. And that pl2303 is an Excedrin(TM) headache, and the only

Re: F8 and a GPS -

2008-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Les wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: My old Garmin 12 (yeah, it has gray hair) has a very dumb serial interface, so I have to use

Re: formatting an e-book

2008-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote: I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it comes preformatted with a single

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT

2008-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 July 2008, Simon Slater wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Regards, Les H ANother OLD RS232 and other serial buss Factually Accurate but often Retarded Technician. There are times Les, when that description is too accurate. :-( I don't suppose someone

Re: F8 and a GPS -

2008-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 11:08:18 g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: A simple Garmin eTrex H, but I know the same program is used for very many gps systems, not only Garmin ones. thanks. will add it to my list to try. The eTrex has a serial output, which

Re: F8 and a GPS -

2008-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 11:53:30 Gene Heskett wrote: The eTrex has a serial output, which of course my laptop didn't have, so I bought a serial to usb cable - if anyone needs to know which one works I'll check it out. Please do. The invoice says

Re: F8 and a GPS -OT (HTML for drawing)

2008-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Les wrote: Gene and others will correct whatever I get wrong... The original specification was for a serial interface to multiple devices. If you look at the entries below 0x20 on the ASCII table, you can gather such gems as DC1 and SEND and some others. These

Re: flock

2008-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 July 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: type flockOn Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Arnav Kalra wrote: How can i install flock on my fedora 8 laptop What is flock? What are you looking for? flock is a social network-oriented browser, with hooks for stuff like facebook,

Re: flock

2008-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:52 AM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: flock On Friday 18 July 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: type flockOn Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Arnav Kalra wrote: How can i install flock on my fedora 8 laptop What

Dependency hell again. Or is it still?

2008-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm trying to build and install the most recent openmovieeditor release, and that has forced me to install a load of devel stuffs. OpenMovieEditor needs gmerlin, which I got the tar.bz2 from srcforge for it. But, the build is bailing out with this: checking for OpenGL... yes

Dependency hell again. Or is it still?

2008-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Repost with some editing.. I'm trying to build and install the most recent OpenMovieEditor release, and that has forced me to install a load of devel stuffs. OpenMovieEditor needs gmerlin, which I got the tar.bz2 from sourceforge for it. But, the build is bailing out with this:

Re: Dependency hell again. Or is it still?

2008-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Markku Kolkka wrote: Gene Heskett kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 18. heinäkuuta 2008): checking for OpenGL... yes configure: error: Gmerlin needs OpenGL and GLX Compilation in gmerlin failed I've poked at yumex's search bar now for about half an hour

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: Back in the day when I was on dialup, I used www.cheapbytes.com; their service was prompt and their quality was excellent. So did I, so did we all. But that was a long time ago. Surely now everyone is on broadband with

Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

2008-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: Does anyone actually compile anything today? Apart from developers, of course. Yes we users sure do Timothy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# uptime 20:40:56 up 5 days, 21:32, 25 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# uname -a

Re: Semi-)T: how do printer drivers get into distros?

2008-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: The reason I ask is that, about 18 months ago, I discovered that Brother's website provided linux drivers for many models, including the mfp that I wanted to install. Yesterday I had reason to go back to that site, and noticed that before every download

Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings All; So what do we do when we want to install a program that expects to find those libraries and will not build without them? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author)

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: So what do we do when we want to install a program that expects to find those libraries and will not build without them? For libGL, yum install mesa-libGL-devel Already installed, but gmerlin's configure can't find

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Rick Stevens wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Rex Dieter wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: So what do we do when we want to install a program that expects to find those libraries and will not build without them? For libGL, yum install mesa-libGL-devel

Re: Now ON TOPIC, libGL.so, libMesaGL.so on missing list of F8 repo's

2008-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, dexter wrote: On Wed July 23 2008 04:06:58 Gene Heskett wrote: That seems to be faad2 now, but I didn't have the -devel installed. But that was from faac, and I didn't have that -devel installed either. Humm, I have added the /opt/gmerlin/lib directory

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