Re: WSJ on Oracle's purchase of Sun and consequences for MySQL

Anne Wilson wrote: >> If Oracle thinks that their $7 billion is going to killing MySQL, they >> are sorely mistaken. Companies come and go. FOSS endures, and so will >> MySQL. >> > So if I were in their shoes I'd want to make some money out of it. Oops - > isn't that what they are planning? I

Re: WSJ on Oracle's purchase of Sun and consequences for MySQL

Max Pyziur wrote: > "This is a monster step backward for those of us who are committed to > sustaining open source," said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at > Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who uses database software > from Oracle as well as MySQL. "I have no doubt that this is

Re: utf-8 not rendering properly

Konstantin Svist wrote: > I was under the impression that utf-8 supported all languages... UTF-8 is a character encoding. You still need fonts for any character you want to view. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

Re: using 'mv' instead of 'cp' to transfer directories to other partitions or disks

Aaron Konstam wrote: > If you are using mv to > transfer to a different disk or partition it probably a little slower. Right. Because mv from one partition to another is: cp + delete src. And this is slower than just cp, but only slightly since marking a file deleted is very fast. Matt Flasche

Re: Shell confusion

psmith wrote: >> dave is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. >> So, I found the sudoers file, but not at all clear about exaclty what >> I need to put in there. >> Once again, I have to learn one thing in order to do another. >> Any help here? >> Thanks >> Dave >> > you need to

Re: unlock utility for linux

Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear fellow Fedora users, > > Does there exist a utility within linux, be it fedora or other that > can unlock a locked hard drive. A friend of mine gave me a disk and > he told me that it was mine to keep, the problem was that the hard > drive was locked What does thi

Re: Shell confusion

Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > When I start a terminal as dave I get a prompt [d...@test-host ~]$ > When I do su amandabackup I get a prompt bash-3.2$ >> From the first prompt I can launch gedit, from the second I get an >> error, No > protocol specified, gedit:4724, Gtk-WARNING ** cannot open di

Re: URLs [OT]

Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > // is functionally equivalent to / - so what that represents is badly > configured web serving software as I would expect the output of each > URL to be the same. That's not quite right. See my other message and RFC 3986. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-

Re: URLs [OT]

Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > I am wondering: > > usually a URL has the form > http://www.company.com/dir/subdir... > > but lately, I have often come across > http://www.company.com//dir/subdir It's probably just a mistake. But it is a valid URL, and can mean whatever the server wants it to mea

Re: dig: single line

Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > How about: > >grep "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]" > > ? > Can it be done more concisely? Still, one of > the numbers might exceed 255 ... unlikely. Just keep it simple ;), and use (http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html): perl -e "print grep(/\b(?

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >> So, I want to limit the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. >> >>Possible? > > Why not just put the mail in their home directories to keep it simple? > You can use a symlink if that make

Re: Disk quotas on INBOXes

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > So, I want to limit the size of their INBOX file as well, through quotas. > >Possible? Why not just put the mail in their home directories to keep it simple? You can use a symlink if that makes it easier. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@re

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:54 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >>>> Give your root password when it asks. >>>> - >>> The essential point is that you have to be root to edit files with only >>>

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

Aaron Konstam wrote: >> Give your root password when it asks. >> - > The essential point is that you have to be root to edit filles with onlu > root w permissions No, you don't. This is the whole point of sudoedit. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscrib

Re: [OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

Nigel Henry wrote: > Up to a few hours ago, when I found out that my torrent download hadn't > completed, there were many folks still seeding, and was able to complete the > download. > > I've attached the .torrent file as well, as it's only 9.9KB. Thanks! I just downloaded it very fast, so so

Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?

Tom Horsley wrote: > Of course I was also trying to make the primary system have > a very robust grub installation, so I spent a lot of time > reading about saved defaults and fallbacks in grub only to > discover that fedora's grub merely ships that in the info > file, but not in grub itself (sigh.

Re: Something is Fishy About My Network

Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> I think you're overstating the complexity of this. It shouldn't be that >> hard for him to get it working with dnsmasq. Also, what aspect of the >> configuration do you think is deprecated? > > The Linux DHCP server no longer has the right hooks to fix up BIN > direct

Re: Something is Fishy About My Network

Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Suggestion #2 (if you are up to it): Disable DHCP serving in your > router and setup a DHCP server on a Linux machine. You can set up the > dchp.conf file to do everything your touter is doing. If this machine > is also running DNS, there are some ways to get them to t

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Robert Moskowitz wrote: Otherwise, you need a local BIND > server, use Webmin to maintain it. I am very experienced with BIND, and > still use Webmin. Why exactly do you think he needs BIND? Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Simon Slater wrote: > Thanks Matt. I saw dnsmasq mentioned in one how-to but didn't chase it > since I was focussing on DHCP and bind. DHCP is a protocol and bind is an implementation (of DNS, mainly). You're comparing apples to orchardists. Now there are half a dozen > boxes, but will increas

Re: Clarification on roles of networking components.

Simon Slater wrote: > Is there any overlap in the functions of NIS, bind and LDAP? Or are > these mutually exclusive? I would be surprised if you needed either NIS or LDAP for a SOHO network. However, I would say NIS and LDAP are similar, but bind (i.e. DNS) serves a fundamentally differen

Re: How to mesure the inactivity time

Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Thanks, > > > How ever, I am searching for more low level procedure. I mean, is there any > event or interruption that the system produces then the user come leaves or > take back his machine. I don't think so, at least not without JNI. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailin

Re: NM: the usual rant

Timothy Murphy wrote: > Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> I agree that it's great if users look at logs and send them to >> technicians when appropriate. My point is just that if they don't >> understand them, don't want to look them up, and don't want to r

Re: Logging from remote sources

Gene Heskett wrote: >> I think it's something like: >> :hostname, isequal, "router" >> >> *.* /var/log/DD_WRT_router.log >> > I tried that, and it duplicated the host machines log to the target. :) Can you clarify? You put it as three lines like that? > So I'm now trying: > :msg, con

Re: Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

David Ward wrote: > I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie). I try to edit > .conf files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have > permission. Use sudoedit. You can configure it to use the editor of your choice (set the environment variables EDITOR and VISUAL). Mat

Re: Logging from remote sources

Gene Heskett wrote: > This, after removing the appropriate # comments, and restarting rsyslog seems > to have worked, however the messages are being intermixed with this machines > messages. They are marked as coming from the 'router', I presume by a > gethostbynumber call someplace. > > This

Re: Swap file size?

Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: > Apologies are in order it seems. > I had my mail settings set to Mail in HTML, but reply in format > received. Since I was receiving plain text, my replies were also plain > text. > Must have forgotten to change the settings last time I re-installed. > (Not suppressi

Re: Alpine will not show attachments

Tom Diehl wrote: > Well except that I went stupid and left out some important details. > If I open up a link in the message it opens firefox and displays the link. Well, that's different. There wouldn't be any attachment to save into the fs in that case, and thus no tmp file for alpine to prematu

Re: NM: the usual rant

Robert L Cochran wrote: > Speaking as someone who fixes other people's computers for money, I > wish that "regular users" of every flavor would get accustomed to > looking at log messages. Or at least email them to me on request. I agree that it's great if users look at logs and send them to tech

Re: Alpine will not show attachments

Tom Diehl wrote: > Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? I haven't used Alpine, but it sounds like it's deleting the attachment when Firefox "exits". The problem is, the Firefox launcher exits immediately if Firefox is already running. That means Alpine is probably deleting the file b

Re: NM: the usual rant

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > If you never want to see the error messages, then turn off sending > them to the log files. You can configure (r)syslog to throw them > away. That's another valid option, if you really think the logs are harming your performance (the impact is usually negligible for de

Re: NM: the usual rant

Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:54:17PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> This is debugging output intended for wireless driver developers only, you >> are not expected to understand it. > > Then it shouldn't be outputting it, unless it's asked for. That's a ridiculous statement. /var

Re: How to mesure the inactivity time

Adel ESSAFI wrote: > Hi list > > > I am developping a tool with java and I want to know the inactivity time > of the user, i.e, the duration of the time that the keybord and mouse > were not used. Use a static variable (secondsSincePress) in your main class (e.g. MyProgram), add a keyPressed met

Re: NM: the usual rant

Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:26:09 -0500 > Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> They read the source and developer >> documentation and solve the problem themselves > > Too bad the NM developers didn't feel like doing that > to fix the problems with ne

Re: NM: the usual rant

Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:07:31 -0500 > Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> "Translating" every error message is not a >> good use of developer time. > > Yes, it is a far better use of developer time to be inundated > by folks asking what the h

Re: NM: the usual rant

Timothy Murphy wrote: > Surely Linux error messages should be intelligible > by the common user? > Or are they intended solely for gurus? Some are for end users, some are for gurus (meant for posting on bug reports and mailing lists). "Translating" every error message is not a good use of develop

Re: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:01:11 +0300 > Hiisi wrote: > >> By the way, your browser sends some information about your system and >> even language you're using on it in a special header. My favourite >> Fedora' browser - lynx - doesn't send it. Because of that I can't browse >> so

Re: file locking...

Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 21:47:39 -0800, > bruce wrote: >> However, the issue with the approach is that it's somewhat synchronous. I'm >> looking for something that might be more asynchronous/parallel, in that I'd >> like to have multiple processes each access a unique gr

Re: Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10

Tod Thomas wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda As noted, this is greatly excessive. Do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=1000 count=2000 > - copies resized xp partition to new drive That's a bs bs, if you follow me. If you're going to use bs

Re: Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Tod Thomas wrote: >> I know this is a little off topic. I did google around looking for the >> correct forum to post this question but had little luck. If anyone can >> make an informed suggestion I'd very much appreciate it. >> >> I have a 150GB ATA disk, /dev/hdb, c

Re: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

Aaron Konstam wrote: > I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I > live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out. It's based on your IP, and various databases (some more accurate and/or precise than others). You can use tor (http://www.torproject.org/) and/or a

Re: [OT] I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: >>> Sri Vasavi College is known in India. You should try visiting it is >>> sometime. >> >> I'd love to if I had a chance. I didn't say it wasn't a good school. >> But Senthil's comment was fairly ridiculous, particularly when you >> consider what Robert said. >>

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

Ed Greshko wrote: > Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Senthil Kumar wrote: >> >>> Respected sir/madam, I am working as a lecturer in a reputed >>> engineering college. >>> >> Well, as long as its a *reputed* engineering college head over to >>

Re: I need copy of fedora linux in DVD form -reg

Senthil Kumar wrote: > Respected sir/madam, I am working as a lecturer in a reputed > engineering college. Well, as long as its a *reputed* engineering college head over to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia#Fedora_Free_Media_Program_India . Just make sure not to tell the upstar

Re: Problem with keyboard layout in kvm virtual machine

Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > In KDE (system settings - regional and language) I have set the "DE" > keyboard layout as well. Whenever I switch to "US" there, I immediatedly > get the correct layout in the Windows guest, and switching to "DE" again > in KDE brings back the strange layout in Win XP.

Re: GreaseMonkey,in Firefox, Setup New User ??

Jim wrote: > Setting up New User Script in Greasemonky, the line below I guess is > about where is the script, the script I'm using is in > /home/user/WVC210 , what would I enter for @namespace ? > > @namespace A scope within which @name should be unique. 0-1 > The domain of the script

Re: Extending Expiration Date of an Already-Expired GPG Key

Robert L Cochran wrote: > Thanks everyone for pointing this problem out to me. How do I fix it? I > don't sign my emails that much but when I do I'd like a valid signature > to show up. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. The basic issue is that not all keyservers "know" about the update. For inst

Re: Solid ICE

Gary Scarborough wrote: > Is the Solid ICE remote desktop software from Qumranet going to be available > in Fedora in the future? To quote their FAQ, "Please contact your local Qumranet representative." In other words, not likely, but apparently you can use RDP which Fedora does have. Matt Flasc

Re: can't display Chinese fonts in Windows openoffice 3.0(English version) on wine (Fedora 9 X86_64)

Ron Siven wrote: > I'm obviously missing something...I gotta ask... > > Why would you run a Windows version of OOo in wine on Linux when you > could just run the Linux version of OOo? You might have better luck. > > -- Ron Especially since OpenOffice 3 is in Fedora 10 repos, and that version is

Re: How to allow local popups in Firefox

Dave Feustel wrote: > Does anyone know how to enable popups in local files > run via Firefox (with noscript)? noscript doesn't block popups (unless of course they're generated by a script). Perhaps you want to add an exception allowing local popups in general. I believe you can do this by adding

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009, Steve Searle wrote: >> Around 02:33pm on Monday, February 16, 2009 (UK time), Gene Heskett scrawled: >>> 3.# mysql -u root mysql >> 3.# mysql -u root mysql -p >>^^ >> >> The -p will cause you to be prompted for root's passwor

Re: Interesting hard disk experience.

Tom Horsley wrote: > A disk (apparently) went really bad - the system would hang > during POST if it was plugged in. So, I got a new disk, got > it formatted and restored from backup, and about the time I > finished that process, it developed the same symptoms :-). > > Figuring it couldn't possibl

Re: Red Hat g++ packaging question

Peter J. Stieber wrote: > internal compiler error: in cp_parser_lookup_name, at cp/parser.c:16202 > Please submit a full bug report, > with preprocessed source if appropriate. > See for instructions. > The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or

Re: How does sudo work these days in F10 ?

Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:12:24 -0700 > Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> How does sudo work these days in F10 ? > > Pretty much the same as it always has. > > Why isn't this asking me for the root password ? > > Because it's asking for your user password. That's what sudo does. If yo

Re: F10 Cups / Samba / Vista

Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> I don't think so Michael... >> >> /etc/cups/mime.convs... >> >> #application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw0 >> - >> >> but it does appear that in /etc/cups/mime.types (my .rpmnew) does >> 'uncomment' the block on raw printing.

Re: Is printing dvi files part of cups?

Steven W. Orr wrote: > I seem to be able to print lots of different types of files. Is there a > list of what is supported? And also, can I print dvi files or do I have > to always use dvips? The general place to look is /etc/cups/mime.types . Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-li

Re: music download sites?

Anne Wilson wrote: >>> AmazonMP3 has a (proprietary) downloader for Linux that works well. I'd >>> like the downloader to be FOSS, and offer Ogg Vorbis, but... >> I can't get the Amazon downloader to work on F10. It does work on F9, >> however. http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html >> >

Re: Where to file bug against man page

Steve wrote: > I want to file a RFE bug against a man page but there is no "man pages" > component under Fedora Documentation on the Redhat bugzilla site. > > Where is the right place to file this? Against the package that contains the man page. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedor

Re: RAM question for everyone!

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > One question that needs to be answered is whether or not the operating system > in > question is 32-bit or 64-bit architecture. > > The 32-bit architecture has a 'glass > ceiling' limit of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM that it can access. It's more of a ic

Re: RAM question for everyone!

Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> I'm really curious. >> > > SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. > > If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. No, you don't want to /have/ to use sw

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

Dave Feustel wrote: > I would only need this capability if Kindle will display my PDF or XML > files. It does not display PDF. However, you can convert PDF to .azw then copy the azw's over. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/

Re: [OT] need to find char codes for allowed symbols on Calif Lic. Plates

Mike Wright wrote: > "open hand" symbol? I found a "plus sign" > on the keyboard ;D but would prefer a "graphic". According to http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html there is no open hand in Unicode. And I'm not sure what kind of plus you want. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

Dave Feustel wrote: > I would expect to do all my ebook reading on the Kindle. My interest is > in downloading my own PDF files onto the Kindle for reading away from my > computer. Kindle does not support PDF. However, according to http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=20014

Re: music download sites?

JD wrote: > Many such sites I have looked at to do not need any windows > software. You just register, provide your personal info > and your credit card numbers. That's it! > You are on your own! Or... you can use sites that have been reviewed by reliable publications. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-

Re: music download sites?

Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > anyone out there using one of the pay for music download sites? I use both AmazonMP3 and Magnatune occasionally. Magnatune is perfect (Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, no downloader needed, etc.), except it doesn't have any mainstream artists. AmazonMP3 has a (proprietary)

Re: OT: help with text file?

Dave Stevens wrote: >> No, because .* is greedy. The .* will consume all but the very last >> non-numeric character (including numeric chars before the last >> non-numeric), then [^0-9] will consume the last non-numeric char. >> >> Matt Flaschen > > ok, ok I give up! I can now see I ought to have

Re: f9 cups: can't delete printer - URI file://dev/null

sean darcy wrote: > For some reason a number of my printers have Device URI: file://dev/null. > > I can't delete them. I tried System-> Admin -> Printing. I also tried > from the CUPS interface :631. > > I looked around for the cups config file that has these printers, but > couldn't find them.

Re: For some reason, I am not getting fedora-list emails.

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I think I will go back to the mailing list to ensure that they did not > change my settings. I doubt it changed your settings behind your back. It's more likely that your email provider has a filtering problem. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@re

Re: OT: help with text file?

Dave Stevens wrote: > whitespace, looks like just spaces to me there's no vertical alignment from > line to line In that case, any of the solutions given will work. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: For some reason, I am not getting fedora-list emails.

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > For some reason, I am not getting my emails delivered to > me from fedora-list, it stopped as of a couple of days ago. It's almost certainly on your end. Try another email provider, or checking your spam folders, etc. > Is there a possibility that I was banned, is t

Re: OT: help with text file?

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I see your grep and raise you a sed: >> >> sed 's/.*[^0-9]//' foo.txt >new_file.txt >> > What happens if there is a number in the middle of the line of text, > as well as at the end? Wouldn't that give you more text then desired? No, because .* is greedy. The .* wi

Re: OT: help with text file?

Cameron Simpson wrote: > | I see your sed and raise you an optimized but less readable grep. > | > | grep -oE [0-9]+$ foo.txt>new_file.txt > > Hoping his numbers are whitespace delimited, Never said that. ;) > awk '{print $NF}' foo.txt >new_file.txt I don't think print $NF is particu

Re: OT: help with text file?

Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17Jan2009 20:36, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > | Dave Stevens wrote: > | > I have a sequence of lines of ASCII text of varying length, each of which > ends > | > with an integer. Anyone have a quick and dirty way of getting these lines > | >

Re: NetworkManager overwriting resolv.conf

Frank Cox wrote: > NM is great for laptops and stuff that relies on dhcp to obtain an address. This is a myth. NM is totally unnecessary and harmful for almost any wired connection. It is /not/ useful for wired DHCP. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscr

Re: OT: help with text file?

Dave Stevens wrote: > Hi, > > I have a sequence of lines of ASCII text of varying length, each of which > ends > with an integer. Anyone have a quick and dirty way of getting these lines > copied to a new file with only the last number on each line of the new file? How about: grep -o -E [[:di

Re: whoisd for Fedora?

Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 02:34 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> jwhois-4.0-8.fc9.i386 for F9 >> That's a whois client, not a whoisd (whois server). >> >> >> > That isw true, but it uses a whois server that is unversally avalable. So people can run

Re: Encrypted partition backups.

Robin Laing wrote: > Is there a tool that allows partition backups of only the changes as > with incremental backups? Do we just have to clone the partition and > make copies of that each time? You could simply create another encrypted partition (e.g. on USB) with different key, then use rdiff-ba

Re: netbook jonesing

Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:50 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> How does one install Linux on these puppies? USB Disk? Netboot? >> I transferred the LiveCD image to SD card and booted/installed from there. > > cool - I can d

Re: rsync help

Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> You can look at convmv (http://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/ (see the man >> directory for basic documentation). > > I was hoping to not do this, I need an exact copy. Is this a limitation > involved in the file systems being used (ntfs) or rsync? One problem is despite NTFS

Re: Installable Live CD

Anne Wilson wrote: > Also, if you can, take a look at the CD that you burned on another box. Can > you see a whole raft of folders and files, or just the one single .iso file? Anne, he wouldn't have got that message if he copied the ISO directly. In that case, the CD wouldn't boot at all. Mat

Re: rsync help

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to sync a cifs mounted share with a usb drive that has an ntfs > partition mounted on it. > > The files in question use some Latin characters and apostrophes etc and > that is making rsync > > fail. You can look at convmv (http://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/ (see the

Re: Silly question

Antonio M wrote: > Just an example: One of messages from Tim: The full headers really aren't telling u s anything new. The header prefix [3SUSPECT] is being injected by your ISP or one of the servers en route, /not/ Red Hat's server or the sender. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fe

Re: Grub and two distros

Tim wrote: > No, the MBR has the most basic information to be able to read something > from a drive. This will be aimed at some partition, where something > larger and more useful (e.g. ordinary disc files rather than half a meg > of space in the boot record) Actually, half a KB. The MBR is very

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I am sure you can help with that. At the minimum, write down a send of > things that are missing and file it in the tracker. This is really an enhancement request not a bug. Which tracker would you suggest? Matt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsu

Re: how can I play DVD's on Fedora 10 ?

Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > can anyone point me to packages or a write-up on how to get DVD playback > working in Fedora 10 ? http://www.fedorafaq.org/#dvd Matthew Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mail

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > It seems to be a BSD license. I choosen Linux for the GPL license and > I usually avoid the non-GPL software (Free Software) when adviced of > that, of course. 2 clause BSD is free software, and in fact GPL-compatible. It's not copyleft itself, but that's no reason to

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

Craig White wrote: >> I can not find reference to the GPL in packaging of other >> distributions that I have just checked. OpenSuse and Debian ship a >> netcat which is effectively public domain, according to the copyright >> notices I have found. > > http://directory.fsf.org/project/netcat/

Re: OOo 3 question

Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I have a document which for 99% of it uses a two column format. However, > right in the middle, I need it to be a normal page for about 3 pages > afterwhich, it goes back to 2 columns. This can be done with sections. Put the caret where you want the non-columned area to par

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> It boggles the mind why RPM distros can't use a web GUI like Debian >> package search (http://packages.ubuntu.com). Instead people have to >> rely on half-baked third party search tools. > > If you didn't know, you could have just asked. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Christopher A. Williams wrote: > ...You mean one that can search all installed or available packages for > every repository you have configured? I mean a /usable/ web interface that can, e.g. let me search the next version of Fedora (that I don't yet have installed) to see if Interesting Package i

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Alan Cox wrote: >> should have their own service, so if say, I want to search the Fedora 9 >> repo I don't have to dig through "ASPLinux" distro packages and other >> cruft. This should be core functionality. > > I believe the assumption is that users should be clever enough to type > the word "f

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Alan Cox wrote: >> It boggles the mind why RPM distros can't use a web GUI like Debian >> package search (http://packages.ubuntu.com). Instead people have to >> rely on half-baked third party search tools. > > www.rpmfind.net That's exactly what I mean by "half-baked third party search" Fedora

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Michael Schwendt wrote: > Though, the main web pages are in a Wiki, and some pages are out-of-date > or contain errors. Such as the link to "Information on the various > packages RPM Fusion distributes" (-> http://rpmfusion.org/Package ) near > the top the page. I doubt there are enough human resou

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Craig White wrote: >> Eh? Ubuntu doesn't ship MP3 either. > > multi-verse? Nothing from multiverse is on the shipped CDs, nor is it enabled by default. It's exactly the same as rpmfusion, etc.. You have to add it to sources.list yourself. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

Craig White wrote: > fedora is obviously not the distribution for you...perhaps you should be > using Ubuntu where they simply don't care about patent rights or > licensing and have strategically located servers to completely get > around that. Eh? Ubuntu doesn't ship MP3 either. Matt Flaschen

Re: Python Guru needed

stan wrote: > In Python indentation matters. And it needs to be consistent within a > block. The python interpreter is telling you that you should have > started an indented block at the while but there is no indented block. Incidentally, doesn't this also mean it's impossible to do the equival

Re: Python Guru needed

Jim wrote: > FC 10/KDE > > I'm trying to set a simple Alarm Clock in FC10 and I have a Python > script I picked up, but I have error, running the script. > Can you explain to me with # comments on each line how to make this work. > > import time > import os > > not_executed = 1 > > while(not_ex

Re: Is this problem solvable?

Timothy Murphy wrote: > My question is: given that I can ping the machine, > is there any way I can re-boot it remotely, > or even just re-start shorewall? You haven't provided enough info, but I would guess no. ssh would be the typical method for doing this. Obviously, it is not possible to reb

Re: Upgrade Caused Downgrade

Ed Greshko wrote: > You knowif you tell people where "about the same place" is and the > errors you are getting someone may be able to help you. I agree. You've provided lots of information about your hardware, which is helpful. But you need to also note the text of the errors, and relevant

Re: How to Burn a Music DVD on K3B

Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Saturday 03 January 2009 12:43:22 pm Jim wrote: >> K3B only has a selection for burning a Audio CD Project 80 min. >> I want to burn Audio to a DVD 4gig, no what I do it holds me to 80 min. >> which is a Cd. > > You can't do that, AFAIK. An Audio CD is a standard (search

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