Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/12/09 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's a kernel boot parameter, append it at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf Another thing that I've noticed -- if you have a leftover /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the previous Fedora release, rename xorg.conf and restart, letting X start with a

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 29/12/09 07:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: You did not specify nomodeset. You specified --nomodeset. Remove the dashes. Ok, I had another go at it, let the computer run that way while I had some breakfast, at least half an hour, but it did not blank the screen. title Omega 12.1 Fedora

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 27/12/09 20:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare, and I've now determined

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/12/09 17:52, Sam Varshavchik wrote: xset dpms force off If running 'xset dpms force off' puts your monitor into powersave mode immediately, and if you boot with 'nomodeset', and that makes powersave work for you again automatically, then you have the same bug. After pondering this,

Re: Firefox/Flash print problem -

2009-12-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/12/09 21:51, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bob Goodwin writes: This is an updated F-12 computer, in fact I have two and both have the same problem printing from flash in Firefox. When I ask it to print the menu comes up allowing me to select the printer and that accepts my

Re: Flash drive name change -

2009-12-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/12/09 20:33, g wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I have not been able to change it no matter what I tried. And gparted tells me I've messed something up with it! After messing with gparted for a bit it tells me Partition and File System are unallocated whatever that means, but it sounds bad

Re: Flash drive name change -

2009-12-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 27/12/09 10:30, g wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: Before doing that it would no longer mount, once I ran mkfs it mounted when plugged in. did you run mkfs -t fat or are you meaning when you ran mkfs.msdos? mkfs.msdos Fdisk said it was still formatted FAT32 so I haven't

Flash drive name change -

2009-12-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
Among the Christmas gifts were two small flash drives with the name HP v100w which I would like to change but I haven't figured out how to do it without reformatting them. Presently the appear to be formatted vfat and show up as /media/HP v100w. The space in the name means I have

Re: Flash drive name change -

2009-12-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/12/09 12:49, g wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I refuse to believe there's no way to do this from my Linux system. $ locate label|grep bin/ /sbin/dosfslabel /sbin/e2label /usr/bin/mlabel /usr/bin/ppmlabel $ run man dosfslabel and man mlabel for usage. hth. dosfslabel seems

Firefox/Flash print problem -

2009-12-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.6 about:plugins shows: Shockwave Flash File name: nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42 This is an updated F-12 computer, in fact I have two and both have the same problem printing from flash in

Re: A survey

2009-12-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/12/09 01:41, Hiisi wrote: 2009/12/25 Mike Williamsdmikewilli...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Hiisivery-c...@rambler.ru wrote: 1. Are you left-handed? yes 2. Do you use mouse with left hand? sometimes 3. How to configure in F12

Yumex crashes -

2009-12-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have two new F-12 installs, one each 32 and 64 bit boxes. Yumex fails on both, although I think it may have worked initially after the Omegalive install. My memory is a bit fuzzy on that point, but it could have resulted from an update if that is the case. Yumex asks for a

Re: Yumex crashes -

2009-12-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 23/12/09 12:35, Jim wrote: On 12/23/2009 11:09 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have two new F-12 installs, one each 32 and 64 bit boxes. Yumex fails on both, although I think it may have worked initially after the Omegalive install. My memory is a bit fuzzy on that point, but it could

No F-12 Flash -

2009-12-22 Thread Bob Goodwin
What is the procedure to install Adobe Flash Player in Fedora 12 [in this case installed from the Omega livecd]? I have tried everything I can think of and nothing works including the Adobe procedure for installing their rpm. When I attempt to get some crossword puzzles I

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/12/09 00:11, Mail Lists wrote: Slow it down a moment - lets get some concepts clear. gmail does 3 things for you .. 1) it receives your mail 2) it send mail on your behalf 3) it lets you store the mail it has received and read the mail that it has

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/12/09 12:55, Mail Lists wrote: o Using gmail - with imap - leaves the mail on gmail server. gmail with pop - removes the mail from gmail and stores wherever you told your mail client to store it - once you've done this - unless you store it on your own imap server then no

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the solution

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/12/09 05:11, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/12/09 17:08, Mike Cloaked wrote: Mike Cloaked wrote: This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) connect to you own imap server if you set up a local imap account pointing to

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/12/09 17:04, Mike Cloaked wrote: So re-capping: 1) Set up local imap server - dovecot. 2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you have email - one account may be gmail, another

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-18 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/17/2009 04:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds Mail files

Re: Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 01:14, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/17/2009 12:44 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Are there any differences between this and Omega012-i686-Live-RC1.iso that I just installed. I had some trouble making it work as an NFS clent ... Other than that it looks good.,, Yeah

Re: Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 04:34, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 01:14, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/17/2009 12:44 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Are there any differences between this and Omega012-i686-Live-RC1.iso that I just installed. I had some trouble making it work as an NFS clent ... Other than

Re: Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 05:08, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/17/2009 03:23 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: After the first yum update: Linux box6 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 10:46:22 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Grub shows the original as: vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-162.fc12

How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can someone tell me how to determine if a computer can run 64 bit Fedora? I have two similar Dell desk top computers with what appears to be the same processor, one of which has had F-12 64 bit installed on it and seems to be happy. I always assumed they were 32 bit computers

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 07:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/17/2009 06:11 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Can someone tell me how to determine if a computer can run 64 bit Fedora? I have two similar Dell desk top computers with what appears to be the same processor, one of which has had F-12 64

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/12/09 08:56, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:48 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: bash-4.0$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc

Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds Mail files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall

Re: Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix

2009-12-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 16/12/09 10:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Omega (Boxer) release is a remix of Fedora 12 and includes all the updates till Monday 14th of December 2009 from Fedora, RPM Fusion and Livna repositories. Adobe repository is also enabled by default for convenience but no software is installed from

Selinux message F-12 -

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
I keep seeing a star icon in the F-12 box which produces the message below. I wonder if it has anything to do with my ssh problems? What does it mean? What must I do to satisfy it? Bob # Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 sys_tty_config access.

Re: Omega 12 Release Candidate 1

2009-12-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/12/09 20:18, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi Omega, a Fedora Remix has a RC1 out for your feedback. http://omega.dgplug.org/12/Live/i686/tmp/Omega-12-i686-Live-RC1.iso I downloaded and used liveusb-creator to copy to a flash drive, that booted and ran, set up printer and

F-12 ssh problem -

2009-12-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
I can ssh from this F-11 box to the F-12 box but can't get a connection in the reverse direction. It keeps giving Connection refused. I use Firestarter and there's nothing in the log so I don't think it's a problem there. sshd is running in both, where else do I need to look?

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 11/12/09 07:12, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/10/2009 09:18 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I posted the question and found the response interesting and helpful. I spent a couple of hours reading man pages and experimenting with the lvm commands on various drives. But I have not been able to open

Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bob Goodwin
I bought a new gadget, a USB2 Universal Drive Adapter which does essentially what an external drive box does but it is not limited to SATA drives, On the F-12 computer it shows up in lsusb and I can see a drive at /dev/sdc with fdisk [sdc1] and it shows up as Linux and LVM.

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/12/09 10:19, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: blkid /dev/sdc1 Ok, thank you, that gives me a bit more information: [r...@box6 bob]# file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: LVM2 (Linux Logical Volume Manager) , UUID: X5Vx9im0hf7hS6Y4WNhdW2ju8heRtUh [r...@box6 bob]# blkid

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 10/12/09 14:25, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/10/2009 03:28 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 10/12/09 10:19, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: blkid /dev/sdc1 Ok, thank you, that gives me a bit more information: [r...@box6 bob]# file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: LVM2 (Linux

No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display (xconf.py:4947): Gdk-WARNING **: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID contains invalid UTF-8 Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/12/09 04:49, Roger wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using? What's wrong here? Bob yum install

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 04:56, Ed Greshko wrote: Well...FWIW, it works here fine on a fully updated F12 in both KDE and GNOME sessions. The GNOME session does have the following set [gno...@f12 ~]$ env | grep DESK IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 05:30, Ed Greshko wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I should have said this is F-11/XFCE. I don't have the F-12 box running at the moment ... [b...@box9 ~]$ env | grep DESK IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes Bob OK From my fully updated F11

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:53, Marko Vojinovic wrote: export DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce4 Read the man bash, search for export keyword. HTH, :-) Marko Yes, that helps. I should have added that the F-12 computer does not have that line, is like this F-11 box. The F-12 box works as expected, but

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:57, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Samstag, den 05.12.2009, 04:44 -0500 schrieb Bob Goodwin: This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480534 All I want to do is determine what display parameters I am using? use xrandr What's wrong

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 08:56, Ed Greshko wrote:FWIW, I am pretty sure I was barking up the wrong tree. It seems that DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID is actually related to Xorg than anything elseand it is too late and I've got to get up too early to really delve into it.

Re: No system-config-display ?

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 05/12/09 17:30, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/05/2009 03:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 06/12/09 04:49, Roger wrote: On 12/05/2009 08:44 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just installed [yum] system-config-display and get the following message when I try to use it: All I

Re: Pulseaudio error message -

2009-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/11/09 20:09, stan wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:04 -0500 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I don't have much need for sound but it usually works. This is a new F-12 install from the livecd and it acts like the audio level is turned down somewhere although

copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my configuration to another user by copying a file/s? Or do I have to recreate it for each user? If so can I copy it to

Re: copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/11/09 17:04, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/11/26 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net: I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my

Pulseaudio error message -

2009-11-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
I don't have much need for sound but it usually works. This is a new F-12 install from the livecd and it acts like the audio level is turned down somewhere although I haven't been able to find it. I think I can hear some very faint sounds at times?. One symptom is:[b...@box6 ~]$

Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

2009-11-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/11/09 14:39, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: This was my problem, not F-12! I checked immediately upon booting the computer and found that it was bringing up nfs /mnt/srvr2 but not /mnt/srvr1, the one that was causing me problems since some of my data is stored

Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

2009-11-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 23/11/09 10:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot. Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked something? Bob This was my problem, not F-12! I checked

Re: Omega 12?

2009-11-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 24/11/09 13:19, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/24/2009 11:47 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: Is new Omega 12 (Fedora remix/respin) finished? Not yet. I am waiting to roll in the initial set of updates to get a solid release. Rahul I would like to receive notice when it is

No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

2009-11-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot. Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked something? Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: No F-12 NFS mounts at boot -

2009-11-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 23/11/09 10:43, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: NFS has worked for me without many problems from F10 to F11 but on the new F12 install I have to mount nfs manually after boot. Has anyone else had a problem or have I overlooked

Re: Another preupgrade disaster -

2009-11-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/11/09 21:01, stan wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:43:36 -0500 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 20/11/09 17:29, David Timms wrote: On 11/21/2009 08:50 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Don't know what that means. Why does it want the root for the previous system

Re: Another preupgrade disaster -

2009-11-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 21/11/09 11:49, stan wrote: I haven't got anything more to offer for preupgrade help. Maybe someone eles can give you more help, or you can find a bugzilla that has your error at http://bugzilla.redhat.com . Good luck. Thanks for the help, it's been another interesting experience

Re: liveusb-creator -

2009-11-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/11/09 14:51, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have been messing with this for several hours now, actually since yesterday, and can't seem to install livecd on a thumb drive. In desperation I re-formatted it ext3. That didn't help. I can cp and delete normal files but liveusb-creator

Re: liveusb-creator -

2009-11-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/11/09 17:35, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net writes: LiveUSB creation failed! Unknown filesystem for %s. Your device may need to be reformatted. If you haven't already

Live CD install -

2009-11-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can I run Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso from my nfs server without copying it to a CDROM? I don't see anything in the Bios setup that seems applicable. Looks like it has to be a CD or a USB device [thumb drive I assume]. If so where do I look for instructions to do that? Bob --

Need to add date to script -

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have a simple bash script that lists my internet usage in gigs, the first three lines are data downloaded, the second three data uploaded, 17.0 g and 5.0 g respectively are the upper limit for 30 days.. cat /home/bobg/usg.txt /home/bobg/usg1.sav Listing that - cat

Re: Need to add date to script -

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/11/09 12:44, Steven Stern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2009 11:19 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a simple bash script that lists my internet usage in gigs, the first three lines are data downloaded, the second three data uploaded, 17.0 g

shutdown problem -

2009-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
After yesterday's F-11 updates I was unable to shutdown this computer. It proceeded normally to stopping fail2ban and then just stopped there. I held the power button in to shutdown, rebooted and got the same result a second time. Control Alternate Delete had no effect. I shut

Re: shutdown problem -

2009-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/11/09 05:55, Ed Greshko wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: After yesterday's F-11 updates I was unable to shutdown this computer. It proceeded normally to stopping fail2ban and then just stopped there. I held the power button in to shutdown, rebooted and got the same result

Re: shutdown problem -

2009-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/11/09 05:55, Ed Greshko wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: After yesterday's F-11 updates I was unable to shutdown this computer. It proceeded normally to stopping fail2ban and then just stopped there. I held the power button in to shutdown, rebooted and got the same result

Re: shutdown problem -

2009-11-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 07/11/09 05:55, Ed Greshko wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: After yesterday's F-11 updates I was unable to shutdown this computer. It proceeded normally to stopping fail2ban and then just stopped there. I held the power button in to shutdown, rebooted and got the same result

Re: How to list this data -

2009-11-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 31/10/09 20:42, Suvayu Ali wrote: If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it would work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub perhaps? I am not sure whether vnstat can monitor

Re: How to list this data -

2009-11-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote: cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr \n [b...@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr \n 35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0 That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at the man page again when I am fully awake. Thanks. Bob --

Re: How to list this data -

2009-11-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 01/11/09 03:31, Joachim Backes wrote: On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote: cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr \n [b...@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr \n 35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0 That's the best solution yet. Not sure what

How to list this data -

2009-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen. I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps. My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or 6.0 gB is my current

Re: How to list this data -

2009-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 31/10/09 14:55, Hiisi wrote: 2009/10/31 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net: I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen. I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps. My objective

Re: How to list this data -

2009-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 31/10/09 15:19, Hiisi wrote: Google for bash printf usage. It should be something like printf format arguments Using that you can make your output human readable. Ok, I'll look there. Tnx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: How to list this data -

2009-10-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 31/10/09 19:11, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Bob, On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the other numbers for upload usage.] I know

Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust me to change anything, a matter of permissions perhaps but I can't see where

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 10:17, Daniel J Celta wrote: Bob Look into the permissions by using the 'chmod' command. You may need to pull the man pages to understand the sintax of how to use it. Daniel J Celta I've been changing permissions, I know well how to do that but hate to change things

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 10:36, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:45 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust me

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 11:11, Fennix wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net mailto:bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: On 28/10/09 10:36, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:45 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have two completely updated F-11

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 11:54, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:29 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: This file was copied from OO in F-10 but I have set the permissions to 776: [b...@box9 ootext]$ ll total 12 -rwxrwxrw-. 1 bobg root 9554 2009-10-07 09:42 bp-meds.090827.odt The group

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 15:05, Steve Searle wrote: Around 01:45pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (UK time), Bob Goodwin scrawled: I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? I can open a document

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 28/10/09 17:12, James Wilkinson wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything? I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust me

Re: OT: ATX 4P power socket

2009-10-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/10/09 09:05, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:48 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: they do not sell it completely, but in parts. The crimping tool costs ~10x the price of my mobo. You could look for another broken board to rat the part from. Normally the crimping

Presto, a comment -

2009-10-02 Thread Bob Goodwin
That certainly eases the pain for those of us who are limited in how much b.w. we can use each month! I've been putting off the updates 'til now. Finishing rebuild of rpms, from deltarpms delta rebuild | 101 MB 00:02 Presto reduced the

Re: Your favourite Flash websites and testing Gnash

2009-10-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 01/10/09 01:23, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 09/30/2009 08:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi, I am running the Gnash browser plugin for the past few days and it seems to work well for the websites that I use (YouTube et all). I am curious if anyone else has used it recently and if so what has

nfsnobody ?

2009-09-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
My daughter loaded a bunch of vacation pictures [du -h shows 5.7G} on to my Linux nfs server from her Mac portable via our wireless LAN last night. I can see that the files are there but I can't view them directly, in fact I can only list directories part way through the tree and they are

Re: nfsnobody ?

2009-09-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 08/09/09 05:29, Jussi Lehtola wrote: It seems the user mapping failed and thus the default guest user 'nfsnobody' was used to access the server. (r/w as guest is a possible security issue.) If you can't list the directories all the way down, the permissions aren't correct. You can run #

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 08:00, David Boles wrote: On 9/6/2009 7:47 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 06/09/09 12:31, David Boles wrote: --snip-- You guys are making this hard. Don't 'unzip' the package. 'open' it with the default archive tool, edit the install.rdf file (open it with a test

Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
I've replaced F-10 on this computer with F-11 using the Omega live cd and so far everything seems perfect for the stuff that I use. One of the easiest Linux installs yet! And a lot of bandwidth was saved in doing the updates! That's an important factor with the limited bandwidth usage

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 05:10, David Boles wrote: Nightly Tester Tools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6543 There's a lot of stuff there but I found nothing relative to my problem ... Of course I may not know how to deal with that site either? Bob -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 05:42, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 06/09/09 10:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 06/09/09 05:10, David Boles wrote: Nightly Tester Tools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6543 There's a lot of stuff there but I found nothing relative to my

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 06:02, g wrote: hey bob, still trying to get 24 hr with out searching first, eh? :D How much searching do you suggest I do before asking? Bob Goodwin wrote: Any suggestions? have a look at these links. granted, 3.0b1pre, but may be worth a try; https

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 06:22, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 06/09/09 11:13, Bob Goodwin wrote: --snip-- The Nightly Tester Tools will force your date plugin to install :) install the Nightly tester. It still wont install, I click on Force Install but it doesn't install

Re: Thunderbird config date non-compat.-

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/09/09 06:54, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 06/09/09 11:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: --snip-- I think I did every thing right and: ConfigDate 0.6.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Thunderbird 3.0b3. I guess I need to zip the file before saving

F-11 live cd downloads ?

2009-08-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
Is there a live cd download of F-11 available that has some updates applied already, preferably not via bittorrent? I am trying to save some bandwidth ... Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: F-11 live cd downloads ?

2009-08-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/31/2009 10:39 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Is there a live cd download of F-11 available that has some updates applied already, preferably not via bittorrent? I am trying to save some bandwidth ... I have a remix available. http://thread.gmane.org

Re: F-11 live cd downloads ?

2009-08-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
Rahul Sundaram wrote: I have a remix available. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce/2595 Rahul I downloaded a copy, put it on a CD and it appears to run without any problems. Next to make sure I've copied everything I need from one F-10 computer and I will use

No copy/paste image in Thunderbird -

2009-08-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
After doing an update this morning which included a 23 meg Thunderbird file I can no longer copy and paste image files into an HTML e-mail message, as I have been doing for a long time. I wasted more than an hour with this, rebooted two computers, and finally had to Save as from Firefox [a

Re: No copy/paste image in Thunderbird -

2009-08-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
jack craig wrote: you might want to try tbird 3.x, works fine for me... Via yum for F-10? -- 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

Re: No copy/paste image in Thunderbird -

2009-08-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
jack craig wrote: oops, missed your using fc10, i am on fc11 with thunderbird-3.0-2.6.b3.fc11.i586. this beta got installed with my fc11 upgrade, but its much better than the 2.0 for my usage. my apology for the poor suggestion, jackc... I thank you anyway. I'm reluctant to give up

Re: No copy/paste image in Thunderbird -

2009-08-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
suvayu ali wrote: 2009/8/28 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net: jack craig wrote: oops, missed your using fc10, i am on fc11 with thunderbird-3.0-2.6.b3.fc11.i586. this beta got installed with my fc11 upgrade, but its much better than the 2.0 for my usage. my apology for the poor

Re: A good desktop Wi-Fi card for Fedora 10

2009-08-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
William M. Quarles wrote: Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, William M. Quarles wal...@bellsouth.net mailto:wal...@bellsouth.net wrote: Does anybody know of a good desktop PCI wireless ethernet card that I can buy and use with Fedora 10? I bought a new OEM HP

Re: A good desktop Wi-Fi card for Fedora 10

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Goodwin
William M. Quarles wrote: Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:52 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: it conflicts with my Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card Have you tried the obvious of moving the cards between slots. Some conflicts are just because of shared IRQs

Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at 99.5%. Something did

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