Just warming up...

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Semcheski
Hello, Just thought I'd introduce myself. I popped into #fedora-admin (nick: mhs), and then ended up deciding to join this list and try to help out a bit. I'm a C++ developer for a lab in a University, and I also am responsible for a couple of servers, and some Xen virtual private servers for

Re: Estimating System wattage

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You only need massive power supplies in a desktop if you're running high-end video cards or something else that needs separate power inputs. Enjoy your very long UPS runtime. In my experience, peak power usage can be

Fedora Systems that were Updated

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Semcheski
I've got six Fedora 8 and two Fedora 9 systems. I was on vacation while the whole security incident happened and the announcement went out not to update the systems. I guess that announcement got lost in the mail. When I got back, I had a ton of email that I was trying to get through, and I saw

Re: Git vs. Subversion. Which one?

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RCS has one key advantage. The current text is present in the file and in a pinch you can quickly edit the file to recover your source. No SQL no special file system hooks. Some licensed systems require you to

Re: the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anything i should know about linux compatibility with the following: * 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3450 video I recently ditched an old Radeon 9200SE for a cheap nVidia card, because the ATI drivers are so

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Semcheski
I feel of two minds about this issue. First, I'm glad you brought it up, because I didn't know browse mode was so different. I think its far more to my liking than the open a folder mode used in all of the Places apps. But on the other hand, I sort of wish you hadn't, because I'm even more sick

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Armin Moradi feng.sh...@gmail.com wrote: You can change the configuration in no time, but for me, the default works good! Ahh -- Under Preferences - Behavior - Always open in browser windows checkbox. Sneaky, but I did find it. That was easier than I first

Re: what is Document Viewer?

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Well, for a brief description of what a menu entry does, you can put the mouse pointer on the entry and get a tool tip. On the other hand, adding an option to the right-click menu to read more about the

Re: OpenJDK / IcedTea is ###p

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com wrote: This is not my experience. I am unable to logon to my netbank using IcedTea. I think this is one of the key points of the thread - OpenJDK may be highly compatible with SunJDK... but IcedTea is not highly compatible /

Re: VirtualBox problems

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Christopher Thielencmthie...@ucdavis.edu wrote: If you're using (forgive me, I forget the exact name) proper networking, e.g. where the virtual machine has a real IP on your network, This is called Bridged Networking. It would make your Windows XP machine more

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jake Peavy djstu...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to buy a vowel. Can someone tell me what package xxd is in? How about these options: yum search xxd yum whatprovides '*/xxd' yum whatprovides '*/xxd*' -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: yum: the package manager I love to hate

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.netwrote: try: yum whatprovides */xxd One thing to note with this: if you have a file that matches */xxd (for example, if you have /home/mike/bin/xxd and the current directory is /home/mike) yum (or maybe its bash) will expand

Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Semcheski
I think getting Samba setup is potentially difficult - you don't describe it in enough depth to say what exactly the problem is (my guess - you need to access the machine by using its DNS name or IP address, the browsing the network neighborhood doesn't even work all the time on a properly

Re: Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kirk Lowery empirical.human...@gmail.com wrote: I've played around with all the settings, googled for the problem, no joy. I even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would only recognize one monitor. Besides, the LiveCD did TheRightThing(tm), so it ought

Re: empathy

2009-12-19 Thread Michael Semcheski
Does it do any video and audio? On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brian Pepple bpep...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 13:49 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote: Does empathy do voice and/or video yet, with yahoo messenger? No, Yahoo video audio support is available yet. /B -- Brian

Re: gmail endless redirecting

2009-12-21 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, jackson byers byers...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting endless redirecting on my gmail Have you tried going to mail.google.com? I have the same problem in Safari if I go to gmail.com, but no problem if I go to mail.google.com. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Self-Introduction: Mike Naughton

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Semcheski
Hi Mike, There is a Detroit Linux User's Group that you might look to hook up with if you haven't already. http://mdlug.org I'm not a member (or in Detroit) but I know someone who is. Mike On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Michael Naughton michnau...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all: My name is Mike

Re: Fedora 11 Release Announcement FINAL

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Semcheski
I talked it over with a few people, and we agreed there could be a Release Announcement written by HP Lovecraft. (I guess because it was written as if by one of his contemporaries). Things to include: full of windows that are incompatible with Euclidean geometry elders from another dimension