Re: Rescue Disk in Fc9 ?? -- [SOLVED]

2008-06-01 Thread William Case
Hi Tim and thanks; On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 05:44 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote: I am sitting here watching bittorrent download Fedora-9-x86_64-CDs to my backup partition of a hard disk. I intend to install from there to my Linux partitions. When I

Not a Newbie question -- cleaning out printer queues ??

2008-06-04 Thread William Case
Hi; This has been annoying me for a long time. How do I absolutely and certainly clean out all printing queues and buffers after I have botched a printing job? Case in point: Yesterday I started to print an SVG graphics file I had created in Inkscape. Immediately after I pressed the print

Re: Not a Newbie question -- cleaning out printer queues ??

2008-06-04 Thread William Case
Thanks Mike; On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:19 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; This has been annoying me for a long time. How do I absolutely and certainly clean out all printing queues and buffers after I have botched a printing job? man lprm

Re: F9 and Bittorrent ?? -- [SOLVED]

2008-06-15 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:54 -0400, Bill Case wrote: Hi; I started Bittorrent seed for my F9 download in F8. I have installed F9 now and would like to continue the seed. But ... I keep getting the following error message from bittorrent: Fedora-9-etc. OS [Errno 13] Permission Denied:

double boot (not dual boot) problems with GRUB ??

2008-06-16 Thread William Case
Hi; When I first boot I get the Fedora splash screen twice -- besides that everything else boots normally. Problem: First let me say, grub and I spent quite a bit of time together a couple of years ago, so I am generally comfortable using it and don't believe my problems are as a result of being

Boinc connection being refused.

2008-06-16 Thread William Case
Hi; When I try to get Boinc working in F9 I get an error dialogue: BOINC Manager is not able to connect to a BOINC client. Would you like to try to connect again? From the command line, I get: ~]$ boincmgr connect: Connection refused execvp(./boinc, -redirectio, -launched_by_manager, -insecure)

Re: totally offtopic (race to make car that runs on tap water)

2008-06-18 Thread William Case
Hi Valent; I have been watching this Dingle story for a couple of years. And I saw the Japanese story a few weeks ago. From everything I can read, the story deserves 'suspended disbelief'. I remain highly sceptical (perpetual motion and cold fusion) but watchful and ready to be proven wrong

Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Hi; When I launch boincmgr I get the following error message: Authorization failed connecting to running client. Make sure you start this program in the same directory as the client. They are both in /usr/bin/ and boinc_client is running happily. If however, in boincmgr

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:07 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Adalbert; Now I am totally confused. On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 23:44 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: William Case wrote on Thursday 19 June 2008: [snip] I tried creating a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gui_rpc_auth.cfg to /var

Re: Boinc problems ??

2008-06-19 Thread William Case
Thanks Adalbert; Mostly joy. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008: I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8) yum installed all boinc files in /var/lib/boinc/ including gui_rpc_auth.cfg. If gui_rpc_auth.cfg

Re: Boinc problems ?? -- [SOLVED]

2008-06-20 Thread William Case
Hi and Thanks; On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:59 -0400, William Case wrote: Thanks Adalbert; Mostly joy. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 00:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: William Case wrote on Friday 20 June 2008: I have no $HOME/BOINC; (I used to in Fedora 8) yum installed all boinc files

Can't get flash-plugin working in FF3 ??

2008-06-21 Thread William Case
Hi; The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie at understanding what I might be doing wrong. I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3. Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed. Firefox 'about:plugin' shows me flash-plugin is NOT

Re: Can't get flash-plugin working in FF3 ??

2008-06-21 Thread William Case
Thanks Chris; On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:56 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:43 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie at understanding what I might be doing wrong. I am running F9 -x86_64

Re: OT How to get National Public Radio FM on Rythmbox

2008-06-22 Thread William Case
Hi all and thanks; On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 05:21 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 23:56 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi -- particularly to my American friends. Does anybody know how to get National Public Radio (NPR) as a feed on Rythmbox. I am new to using Radio

Re: OT How to get National Public Radio FM on Rythmbox

2008-06-22 Thread William Case
Hi Tom and all; On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 13:08 -0400, tom wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, William Case wrote: Hi all and thanks; On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 05:21 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 23:56 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi -- particularly to my American friends

Where are they hiding the source files now??

2008-06-24 Thread William Case
Hi; Where do I get the Fedora 9 SRPMs? I have an old URL and I can't seem to find a clear link from the Wiki. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Where are they hiding the source files now??

2008-06-24 Thread William Case
Hi Thanks to you and Peter Gordon On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 16:03 -0400, Mauriat wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:56 PM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; Where do I get the Fedora 9 SRPMs? I have an old URL and I can't seem to find a clear link from the Wiki. -- Regards Bill

Re: Double checking grub-install ??

2008-06-25 Thread William Case
Hi g; On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:42 +, g wrote: William Case wrote: I am looking for confirmation that this is a correct strategy and the proper use of the grub-install command. i have not used oos for several years and when i have had to reinstall grub, i have been using a mandriva

Re: Double checking grub-install ??

2008-06-26 Thread William Case
Thanks for replying Tim; On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:05 +0930, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:15 -0400, William Case wrote: I have to run fixmbr on my WindowsXP harddisk (sda). I assume this use of fixmbr will blow away my grub. It will change the master boot record to suit Windows

Re: Double checking grub-install ??

2008-06-26 Thread William Case
Hi Stan; Lets step back a little bit. On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:52 -0700, stan wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Tim; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:35 +0930, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:28 -0400, William Case wrote: When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen

BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi; I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think. Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any rudimentary depth. So here goes. I can get Boinc to connect to the World Community Grid immediately after first download and install. (I have removed

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Thanks Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi g; Good question, good point. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:42 +, g wrote: William Case wrote: snip As I said, the double splash image doesn't prevent me from doing anything, so I'll let it sit for a couple of days. If no one (including me) comes up with a solution, I will file a bug

Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote: You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables). Didn't have iptables running. I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as trusted -- still nothing. Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME? John William

Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi Craig; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 00:44 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Craig; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 20:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn

Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:52 -0700, Craig White wrote: [big snip] yum install mod_ssl service httpd restart Port 443 now appears in netstat. Thanks. Boinc still not working -- but that is an application problem to be figured out in the morning. seems hard to believe that mod_ssl

Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Markku; On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:37 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: Craig White kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 28. kesäkuuta 2008): don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd running (sounds like it) You don't need httpd to run the BOINC client. It

Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi; I give up. I am filing a bug. On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working. -- Greetings William, I have used the following site to get my boinc

Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Craig; On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I give up. I am filing a bug. On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up. --correction

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
[snip] If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager bug; a Boinc bug; or both. Of course, if boincmgr does successfully bug; a Boinc bug; or both. Of course, if boinc-clent does successfully reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the

Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick and Craig; Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years. On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote: I believe that what

gnome-system-monitor applet -- can't see or or change the views

2008-06-29 Thread William Case
Hi; In F9 I find that all the view options of gnome-system-monitor applet other than Memory Maps and Open Files are greyed out -- and those do nothing discernible. I can no longer choose All processes, Active processes or My processes. The processes reflected in the main window are only the

Re: Double checking grub-install ??

2008-06-29 Thread William Case
Thank you D. Hugh Redelmeier; On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 01:25 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1) stage1 is one line that is installed on the mbr within the 64 bytes | or 512 bits that is reserved on the disk for booting purposes. Boot records are 512

Re: Hardware browser??

2008-06-30 Thread William Case
Hi Beartooth; I am answering this at the risk of offending you. On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:16 +, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:36:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:44 +, Beartooth wrote: Fedora always used to have a hardware browser; for a while it

Re: gnome-system-monitor applet -- [SOLVED]

2008-07-01 Thread William Case
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 09:21 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; In F9 I find that all the view options of gnome-system-monitor applet other than Memory Maps and Open Files are greyed out -- and those do nothing discernible. I can no longer choose All processes, Active processes or My processes

Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
Hi; I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions. I think I now have more of a focus. To recap: I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot. I have a dual boot system with WindowsXP on

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
Hi Mikkel; On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions. I think I now have more of a focus

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:04 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions. I think I now have

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:50:31 -0400, William Case wrote: I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block (mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should chase that down before I filed an inappropriate bug report

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:15 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Mikkel; Yes. And that was where I was going to leave it. There was a suggestion on the list that I should file a bug against grub. I was about to do that this morning and thought that I should

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
Hi Michael; On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:10:29 -0400, William Case wrote: Can you hit keys to enter the first GRUB menu and stop it from booting any entry automatically? No. The image is incomplete in the first instance

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 21:13 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:10 -0400, William Case wrote: the video mode problem seems to be with grub2 -- not grub-0.97-33.fc9.x86_64 ?? Can't comment on grub2 yet as I've seen it only once or twice, I think, and it's a different

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:33 -0400, William Case wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:15 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Mikkel; [snip] Just to see what happens how would I go about safely removing the stage1 of Grub from /dev/sdb ?? -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9

Re: Double checking grub-install -- revisited ??

2008-07-02 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:28 +0930, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:43 -0400, William Case wrote: If it is, how do I remove it (from sdb -- I presume)? Extra stuff shouldn't matter, if you configure the first thing to take over. i.e. I can have ten discs in a box, GRUB on all

Re: Double checking grub-install -- LAST POST

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:22 +0930, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 00:35 -0400, William Case wrote: Perhaps I am being just a bit stubborn, but I wanted to learn how to diagnose the problem first, not just write something over top

Re: BOINC again !? -- LAST POST

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 19:57 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote: [SNIP] report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package. It's important to work

Can't get CNN video sound ??

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
Hi; I am somewhat of a media newbie. In F8 I was able to setup/get sound with videos. YouTube and CNN for example, remain silent for me in F9. I know I probably need a plugin; in F8 out of frustration I just downloaded mp3 -- I think. 1) how do I get sound for youtube and CNN? FireFox about

Re: Can't get CNN video sound ??

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
Gawd Anne, you frightened me. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:08:25 William Case wrote: I am somewhat of a media newbie. In F8 I was able to setup/get sound with videos. YouTube and CNN for example, remain silent for me in F9. Silly

Re: Can't get CNN video sound ??

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:55 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 22:39 +0300, Antti J. Huhtala wrote: to, 2008-07-03 kello 20:19 +0100, Anne Wilson kirjoitti: The issue of flash, pulseaudio and sound is typically

Re: Can't get CNN video sound ?? -[SOLVED]

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
Thanks Craig; On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:32 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:25 -0400, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:55 -0400, William Case wrote: [snip] you must not be checking too hard because http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Everything

Re: Can't get CNN video sound ?? -[SOLVED]

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
Hi Craig; On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:28 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:59 -0400, William Case wrote: Thanks Craig; On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:32 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:25 -0400, William Case wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:55 -0400

Re: Double checking grub-install -- LAST POSSSSSSS

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:31 +0930, Tim wrote: William Case stands high up on the bridge, puts his trumpet to his lips, and plays the last post taaah taah thhh: So the answer must be grub is switching video modes. I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against

Re: Fedora how to

2008-07-04 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:03 +0200, Jim van Wel wrote: Hi, Maybe handy, I use this site to setup my fedora machines quick! http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html Great resource. I now have it bookmarked in my Fedora 9 file. I wish I had found it sooner. -- Regards Bill;

Re: IRC clients?

2008-07-04 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:09 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:55 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: What (GUI) IRC clients are available pre-compiled for Fedora 9? In the past I've used Xirc but I don't seem to be able to find a version precompiled for F9 (x86_64)

Sunday Morning idle queries ??

2008-07-06 Thread William Case
Hi; Just wondering about a few things: 1) I noticed a program in the latest update list called 'augeas' for editing config files. I have gone to their site etc.-- looks interesting. Has anyone have experience using it and would like to comment? 2) I have just installed kmod-nvidia from

Re: sendmail

2008-07-08 Thread William Case
Tim; I may be way off base here; I am not up on things dealing with networks in general and Network Manager in particular. But ... On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:02 +0930, Tim wrote: Tim: An alternative would be to put a restart script into the Network Manager Dispatcher directory. That way

Any suggestions for Really Annoying Alarms !!?

2008-07-09 Thread William Case
Hi; Yesterday, I once again missed an appointment/activity I really wanted to make. Its Fedora's fault so I thought I would ask here first. Has anyone found a really annoying, really persistent alarm program or applet that can find you anywhere? What, from your personal experience, would you

Re: Any suggestions for Really Annoying Alarms !!?

2008-07-09 Thread William Case
Thanks Bruno; On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:21 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:15:19 -0400, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found a really annoying, really persistent alarm program or applet that can find you anywhere? What, from your personal

Re: Any suggestions for Really Annoying Alarms !!? -- [SOLVED]

2008-07-10 Thread William Case
Thanks everyone; For those who have been watching. I have decided what I am going to do. On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 19:18 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: Great idea! No, no really. Ever since I got your post, I have been chuckling to myself over the image of how mad I would be at myself if I

Re: Linux api for device description?

2008-07-12 Thread William Case
Hi Tom; Kind of unorthadox, because I forget the right way off hand, but parted /dev/dvd (parted) p gives me the name in the header. On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 19:11 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Before I resort to digging up the source code, does anyone happen to know how to get from a device name

Re: Linux api for device description?

2008-07-12 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 19:27 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Tom; Kind of unorthadox, because I forget the right way off hand, but parted /dev/dvd (parted) p gives me the name in the header. Sorry Tom, just tried parted, again; it doesn't work on /dev/dvd. On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 19

Fedora 9 'git' source kernel ??

2008-07-14 Thread William Case
Hi; Just checking that I am doing this correctly. I want to start exploring the Linux kernel. (I realize when the time comes I should ask any in depth questions elsewhere -- but for now I am just looking for start help.) I have 'git' installed. I am ready to download the Fedora 9 source.

Re: Fedora 9 'git' source kernel ??

2008-07-14 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:03 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Patrick; Thank you for asking. On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 14:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Bill, I'm not too sure of your technical background so it's hard

Re: Fedora 9 'git' source kernel ??

2008-07-14 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick; On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 17:38 -0400, William Case wrote: Yes, I have been down that road with others. It seems to be a bit of academic religious proselytizing. You are a lowly student and therefore could never

RhythmBox wants text/html decoder plugin ??

2008-07-15 Thread William Case
Hi; Error messages: A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. I can find no such plugin. Trying to get http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams/r1_ottawa_32.html working. Plus others. NPR

Re: RhythmBox wants text/html decoder plugin ??

2008-07-16 Thread William Case
Hi Tim and Tim and Others; On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:53 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:08 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Tim; What is really annoying is that I had both working for a week. Then, today after some upgrades (I am not sure there is a connection) I

hp-toolbox and refilled cartridges ??

2008-07-16 Thread William Case
Hi all; Sorry for the number of posts lately. I am trying to work my way through F9 fixing and tweaking all the little issues that have been around on my machine for the last 2 - 3 Fedora versions. I am almost finished. I recently had my HP #74 refilled rather than purchasing a new one. It

Compiling -- gcc -- Lex Yacc

2008-07-22 Thread William Case
Hi; I am working my way through the compiling process. I want to be precise about my question so that responders do not waste time on answering the wrong question. Where can I find/see which preprocessor, lexical analysiser, parser etc. the gcc compliler is using in Fedora? What order are they

Re: Compiling -- gcc -- Lex Yacc

2008-07-22 Thread William Case
Thanks Patrick; I am not being defensive, but ... On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 16:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 13:38 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I am working my way through the compiling process. I want to be precise about my question so that responders do

Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread William Case
Hi Anne et al; 2¢ On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:18 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2008 00:21:22 Ed Greshko wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 23:08:15 Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LCD Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW display setup ??

2008-08-01 Thread William Case
Hi; I have a brand new LCD Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW Monitor. The system-config-display does not have this exact LCD display registered. It does offer the option of a Generic 1680 X 1050 LCD Display. However when I choose this and re-log in, everything remains unchanged at Generic Monitor 1600

My clock applet is broken. Is this a Fedora, Gnome or Evolution problem?

2008-08-01 Thread William Case
Hi; I used to be able to click on the clock/date applet in the notification area and get a drop down list of tasks and a calendar which I used frequently. Now a single click just removes the applet and produces a warning dialogue that says Clock has quit unexpectedly If you reload a panel

Re: LCD Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW display setup ??

2008-08-01 Thread William Case
Thanks Tim; On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:01 +0930, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 23:17 -0400, William Case wrote: I have a brand new LCD Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW Monitor. The system-config-display does not have this exact LCD display registered. It does offer the option of a Generic 1680 X

Colour Cordination ??

2008-08-02 Thread William Case
Hi; Does anybody know of a site, tutorial or a manual that explains how to get all my colour formats and equipment synchronized? I don't have any major problems that are urgent, but I would like to go about learning how to get everything producing colours as close to the same as possible. I

Re: Colour Cordination ??

2008-08-02 Thread William Case
Thanks Dean; On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:21 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: icc color profile linux I had never heard of The International Color Consortium. No wonder I couldn't find anything worth reading. Once informed by you, I found their site and hundreds of useful links. If others are

Re: Double checking grub-install -- [SOLVED]

2008-08-03 Thread William Case
For those who helped. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:58 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread. [snip] So the answer must be grub is switching video modes. I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against grub ? I bought a new Samsung LCD

Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi; I have been delving into (messing around with) my network connections and now I can't get Network Manger or my browsers to work. This post attests to the fact that there is some physical connection to my ISP cable connection and my eth0 is active; xchat and FM Radio on Rhythmbox work. On

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:27 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 04:18 -0400, William Case wrote: httpd: could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified domain name using 127.0.0.1 for server name. Bill, you do realize that 127.0.0.1 is localhost

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi Mikkel, Patrick and others On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 13:29 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: First problem; my 'hosts' file backup was recovered. So I think that was what I had. Every manual and the file itself said don't touch this file. I touched it. Did I get

RE: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Sorry Bruce; I don't mean to be obtuse, but ... On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 12:13 -0700, bruce wrote: the 192.168.1.1 in your resolv.conf file is the dns server that the server is using to resolve any domain names... comment out the dns1 entry in your eth conf file.. and restart by doing

RE: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi Bruce; I would like to start fresh on this too. I am using it as a great way to climb in. read, etc. the networking nitty-gritty. Unfortunately I have to leave right now for 2 or 3 hours. Ironically, for my local LUG meeting. On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:06 -0700, bruce wrote: hi william.

Re: [Bulk] Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi Mikkel; On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: [snip] The usual way to check/change settings on the router is to open the web browser to http://192.168.1.1 and log in. This should be covered by the router manual. Neat trick. I will copy

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
Hi Kevin; On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:03 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Kevin et al; It just got stranger; On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:07 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: William Case wrote: Although my browsers don't work externally they did find http

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !? -TYPO

2008-08-05 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:56 -0400, William Case wrote: [SNIP] A new wrinkle I didn't report, but now Evolution is asking for ISP ^^^ account passwords each time I start it. It had stopped doing that in Fedora 9. -- Regards

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !? -- [SOLVED by removing NetworkManager]

2008-08-06 Thread William Case
Hi Kevin, Mikkel, Bruce et al; NetWorkMangager was the culprit ... On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:59 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: I just went back and looked, you have a wired ethernet setup. Why are you using NetworkManager? Have you tried disabling NetworkManager and starting up the

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !? -- [SOLVED by removing NetworkManager]

2008-08-06 Thread William Case
Further events; On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:25 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Kevin, Mikkel, Bruce et al; NetWorkMangager was the culprit ... On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:59 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: I just went back and looked, you have a wired ethernet setup. Why are you using

Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !? -- [SOLVED by removing NetworkManager]

2008-08-06 Thread William Case
Hi g; On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:32 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Case wrote: snip N.B. Tried to man 'network' -- no manual entry. Is there another name to 'man' by? [snip] from following the many post for help with networking, one thing

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread William Case
Hi Ed; Just an off topic comment. On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more. I was wondering if say, all Broadcast

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-08 Thread William Case
Hi Chris; On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:24 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: William Case wrote: http://xkcd.com/195/ provides an interesting perspective :-) -Chris Actually, Chris, it does provide an interesting perspective. I wonder how accurate it is. It explains far more

For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi; Just a quick process question. I have been digging into various RFCs (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF. They are very good and surprisingly clear explanations of how network addressing is to be used. My question is this: These memos are entitled Requests

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick; Thanks; On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 13:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:39 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Just a quick process question. I have been digging into various RFCs (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF

Re: For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

2008-08-09 Thread William Case
Hi Bjorn; On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: [snip] You might want to read RFC 2026, titled The Internet Standards Process – Revision 3: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026 Laughing out loud. Gawd its good to be alive and living in the same world with people who in all

Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Thanks once again Mikkel; On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:51 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: William Case wrote: Hi; If you don't boot Windows often, and you normally want to boot Linux the next time you boot after running Windows, you could try Booting once-only setup in Grub

Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Last week I was messing around with my network and Internet connections and managed to break NeteworkManager. See thread Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !? Aug 5. Since I couldn't get it fixed, I stopped and disabled the NetworkManager service. I now find that many of my gnome

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi Jeff; I would appreciate the help getting things back to normal. On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:05 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the original thread detailing how you munched your NM config..ill

Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:13 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifcfg-eth0: # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
Thanks very much Jeff; On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:51 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [snip] where is dhclient-eth0.conf exactly? It is exactly at: /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf I think you should just remove it since I dont think such a file exists for default operation. Find where it is, and if

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ?? -- additional info

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 18:50 -0400, William Case wrote: Thanks very much Jeff; On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:51 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [snip] [snip] There is no automatic 'undo all the changes I shouldn't have made button' when editing configs. Backup...poke your system with a stick

network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-16 Thread William Case
Hi; NetworkManager has apparently screwed up a lot of small Gnome processes. * Trouble with Evo getting itself stuck in downloading mail (looping ??). * Clock applet not getting task and calendar info from Evolution properly. * I have been told that NM

Re: network vs NetworkManger services ??

2008-08-16 Thread William Case
Now I am getting more confused. On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:02 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:40 -0400, William Case wrote: I will see if I can get help with NetworkManager on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but meanwhile, so as to avoid asking

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