Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:35pm on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com: Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ? Does this sound like a kernel problem or is my hard drive

Re: Unable To Install In Graphic Mode

2009-12-31 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:11pm on Thursday, December 31, 2009 (UK time), David Dembrow scrawled: Attempting to install fedora 12, I get a message that there is not enough memory to install in graphic mode and it reverts to a text mode and installs some prepackaged set of applications. It is a system with

Re: Login sound in gnome desktop.

2009-12-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:18pm on Thursday, December 24, 2009 (UK time), sandeep Patel scrawled: I have installed Fedora-12.And I found here that there is no login sound in gnome desktop environment.When I logged into kde desktop environment I found login sound there. Please anyone suggest me what

Re: Missing posts again ??

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:10am on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 (UK time), Antonio Olivares scrawled: +1000 I have reported this before too :( https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-November/msg00448.html Strange behavior, not just me (TM) Post the email headers. Lets see where the delay is.

Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:21am on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: DON'T reply otherwise, I don't want to hear a debate on the free versions versus proprietary or anything else. Please sir, can I have permission to post something. I know you are in charge and that this mailing

Re: volume keybindings

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:18am on Monday, December 21, 2009 (UK time), Amadeus W.M. scrawled: Sorry to say, but I had to uninstall pulseaudio yet again. So I'm back to alsa and I feel much better. Except that my AltPage-up/down shortcuts don't work anymore. I guess they used to control pulse volume. Does

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:27am on Saturday, December 05, 2009 (UK time), François Patte scrawled: I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). lspci does not give info about these hw. lshw, does not give the manufacturer

Makefile for lib64 libraries

2009-12-03 Thread Steve Searle
I have just upgraded to 64-bit Fedora, and have a mysql appliation where the build fails with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient I know that this is because the library is in lib64, and my Makefile.am contains: bin_PROGRAMS = scraperes scraperes_SOURCES = main.cpp ... AM_CPPFLAGS =

Re: 64bit firefox unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:15pm on Sunday, November 29, 2009 (UK time), Paolo Galtieri scrawled: The 64 bit version of Firefox from F12 is very unstable. I imported my Your installation maybe. I havve it running on two machines with no problems. Try disabling all addons and see if that makes a difference.

Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:27pm on Thursday, November 26, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba partition with command mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user=xxx,rw //xxx /mnt/mydir I do not have writing permissions on the mounted

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:22am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage scrawled: That's where I found the fedoraforum link in my post. What does about:plugins show in your system? See www.stevesearle.com/s.png Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:51am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage scrawled: I'm trying to get Flash and sound working in Firefox for F12, I followed the instructions in http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205642 to the letter to install

Networked pulseaudio guide

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Searle
Does anyone know of any documentation for setting up networked paulseaudio under Fedora 11? I have pulseaudio working fine on two computers, but one has a much better soundcard/speaker system thant the other, so I want to share that. Thanks Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\

Re: Can't edit text -

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Searle
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 and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust

Re: Heads up: Brute force attacks on the rise recently

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:03pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (UK time), Michael Cronenworth scrawled: -Make sure your root password is not a dictionary word. -Add iptables rules to limit multiple connections on SSH to 4 within a minute.[1] Perhaps this needs to become a Fedora default. -Update your system.

Re: programs disappear

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:24am on Friday, October 23, 2009 (UK time), roland scrawled: wenn I do the folllowing [r...@svtdp01 roland]# crontab -e crontab: /bin/vi killed; signal 4 (no core dumped) [r...@svtdp01 roland]# vi Illegal instruction Apparently /bin/vi has disappeared. Unlikely, if it had

Re: programs disappear

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:06am on Friday, October 23, 2009 (UK time), roland scrawled: I reinstalled vim-minimal and now it works. But how can this happen Bit rot :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the

Re: Fedora 11: Very very slow graphics rendering

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:02am on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (UK time), Hiisi scrawled: Try lshw as root. Open terminal and type: su - (You will be prompted for root' pass here) lshw Yo may need to install lshw using yum or yumex first - its not installed as standard (or at least it wasn't on my system).

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:17pm on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 (UK time), psmith scrawled: i'm doing some pen testing of my brother's companies network he wants me to see if it's possible to get in so I'd be using the output as a word list, and yes unfortunately i'll need all of it for comparison i'm not

Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:34pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (UK time), DB scrawled: Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed?? I'm no expert, but this might help move things on. I assume each machine can ping the router, as their Internet connextions work. However, can each machine ping both other

Re: What is the official way to get a flash player plugin installed for Firefox?

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:06am on Friday, September 11, 2009 (UK time), Howard Wilkinson scrawled: Can anybody point me at a repository that has an RPM for the flash player plugin for Firefox (FC11)? And any gotchas I should be aware of? Add the Adobe repository by going to the site and following the Get

Re: convert ico to svg or png

2009-09-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:20pm on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (UK time), Gerhard Magnus scrawled: Does anyone know a program for FC11 that will convert Windows icon files (.ico) into a format accepted by gnome (.svg or .png)? Imagemagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Yum installable. Steve

Re: fc9 and kde 4.3

2009-08-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:07am on Saturday, August 22, 2009 (UK time), Michal scrawled: Are there kde 4.3 rpm packages already available for fc9? if not are they going to be? Fedora 9 (F9 not FC9) has reached its end of life, an nothing new will be released for them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle

Re: plotting large datasets

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:10pm on Friday, August 21, 2009 (UK time), DJ Delorie scrawled: I've got a need to plot value vs time data for 32 channels simultaneously. Gnuplot isn't up to the task (not enough uniqueness, even mixing lines and points, or control - the graph is just a mess). What else is there?

Re: Sorting Music by Composer

2009-08-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:51pm on Monday, August 10, 2009 (UK time), R. G. Newbury scrawled: Does anyone know of a program with the flexibility to set things up this way? Banshee can sort by composer, or any other tag. You will need to right click on the headings, and add composer as a column. Its yum

Re: Speaking of language support...

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:10am on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: I stand corrected. You have reminded me of some of the strange translations of tech manuals written in other languages into English. I especially like the earth wire. (Ground wire.) What's wrong with earth

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:50am on Saturday, July 25, 2009 (UK time), g scrawled: if user is in directory /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories and their content. Or, 'rm -rf *' - those extra key strokes take years off

Re: Startup logo on F11

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:52pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for. BTW, what is the rhgb for? Red Hat Graphical Bootmanager Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at:

Re: F12 networkmanager, anyone else worried by this?

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:29pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: As long as I can still chkconfig --level 2345 NetowkrManager off and chkconfig --level 2345 network on I'll be OK no matter how deluded the NM developers remain about their replacement :-). Why would you want to run

Re: Startup logo on F11

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:03pm on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: Can anyone quickly tell me how to permanently get rid of the startup logo for F11? I always want to see the startup messages while it's booting up. I probably could figure it out by digging into the system but if

Re: Is this a firefox 3.5 problem? (Actual URL enclosed :-).

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:45pm on Sunday, July 12, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: Here is a randomly selected multi-page article from time.com: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909616,00.html At the bottom of the article text there are what I presume to be links to subsequent

Re: prelink segfault

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:17pm on Saturday, July 11, 2009 (UK time), stan scrawled: snip That should enable you to open a bugzilla against prelink. Or remove the package with the executable that is causing the problem and try again. No error, you have your culprit. Bugzilla 510935 logged. Thanks for your

prelink segfault

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Searle
I am getting the following on one of my Fedora boxes. Has anyone any ideas how to tackle it. I have reinstalled prelink. /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 47: 594 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/prelink -av $PRELINK_OPTS /var/log/prelink/prelink.log 21 Steve --

Re: Another Firefox 3.5 problem update

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:35am on Friday, July 10, 2009 (UK time), Bradley scrawled: (exasperated sigh) Sighs back :-) 3)Even though I don't have any screen shots to pass along I did find one of the websites that failed to work with it. http://www.monster.com flat out does not work with 3.5 and they

test - please ignore

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Searle
-- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html 15:54:16 up 4 days, 5:15, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.10 pgpjpsp2KSaeu.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: sha256sum is not my friend

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:14pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: steve searle The CHECKSUM file has both the name of the iso and its expected checksum in it. So the command: $ sha256sum -c Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM Causes it to look fat the iso in whose name

Re: Root Access

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:19am on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), Mike Dwiggins scrawled: I need to be able to log in as root to do my job! I wish it were not so but, it is! Life always fair! What does logging in as root give you that can't be achieved by logging in as yourself and using su? Steve --

Re: Root Access

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:27pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), Tim scrawled: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:41 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: What does logging in as root give you that can't be achieved by logging in as yourself and using su? I imagine the common problem being using a menu to fire off

Re: sha256sun

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:20pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: Not quite. You want to -c against the small CHECKSUM file, which contains a list of ISOs and their sha256sums. For example: $ sha256sum -c Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM I don't get it! you want me to match a downloadable checksum

Re: replys

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:48pm on Sunday, June 14, 2009 (UK time), terry scrawled: How does one compose a reply to a message inside digest mode? Point me to instruction or supply instructions, please. You can't re-join it to its original thread, so jsut do the best possible. Change the subject back to the

ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
I downloaded the i386 DVD for Fedora 11 via the torrent. However it fails to verfy. $ sha256sum Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso fc2e12f550462cc91202b65cc654b0e1999a6c04c6d6f1b998ef5f03073bfd09 Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso I thought torrents were self checking, so does this mean their is an invalid iso

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:02pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Andre Robatino scrawled: Which torrent was this downloaded from? Normally, if the contents are bad, the comments will root it out pretty quickly. I followed the link on the Fedora site's page: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ I guess it

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:32pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: The copies from here show the correct key. http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/iso/ Yes - that matches the CHECKSUM file that came with the iso, and it is signed correctly. However when I run

Re: ISO download very failed

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:53pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (UK time), Kevin J. Cummings scrawled: No, that can't be it, as it gives me the same (good) hash with and without the -b/-t options. From man sha256sum: Note: There is no difference between binary and text mode option on GNU system. Are you

Re: Which directory contents I can remove??

2009-06-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:03am on Sunday, June 07, 2009 (UK time), Bruno Wolff III scrawled: Normally you don't have to. There is supposed to be cron job that deletes files /tmp and /var/tmp that haven't been read or written in a while. Supposed to be, or is? Can you give any more information, esp what it is

Re: hardware for fedora

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:33am on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Sharpe, Sam J scrawled: I don't find it a PITA (I have akmod-nvidia installed) and the 3D performance of the Intel chipset is not great enough to satisfy the applications that some of my users run. Out of interest, what applications? Steve

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:51pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Beartooth scrawled: Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not, might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the dependencies? I do the following horrible hack: Hide the first of the System -

Re: Screensaver usurpation

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram scrawled: On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote: I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it. Is there anything

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:29pm on Friday, May 22, 2009 (UK time), Mike Cloaked scrawled: So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an Nvidia graphics card - are you suggesting that people on this list

Re: konsole's configure konsole doesn't work

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:04pm on Saturday, May 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kofler scrawled: Compiling stuff directly from source without packaging it as an RPM is one of the quickest ways to make a mess out of your system, especially if you don't know what you're doing. I can't agree with this - there are

Re: files which start with a dot and firefox gmail

2009-04-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:54pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:15 +0100, Cannon, Andrew C wrote: Mark, In *nix space, all files that start with a dot are classed as 'hidden' files. Thus, they won't be normally viewable. It may be

Re: files which start with a dot and firefox gmail

2009-04-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:02pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 18:44 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: However I agree it is just a convention, the files are intrinsically different from normal files. I assume you mean they *aren't* intrinsically

Re: nVidia vs. ATI graphics card for fedora

2009-04-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:17pm on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 (UK time), Globe Trotter scrawled: Thanks very much! I will try for an older graphics card. Do I have options other than ATI or nVidia that would not have these issues. I do not want to mess with kernel and driver re-configurations. I expect it to be

Re: ssh problem

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:44pm on Monday, April 20, 2009 (UK time), Dave Feustel scrawled: I am trying to set up ssh for use on my local network. When I try to access f9 with ssh from suse, the connection is refused. When I try to access suse with ssh from f9, ssh hangs. AFICT, all other ssh invocations on

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:58pm on Thursday, April 16, 2009 (UK time), Dan scrawled: Just updated the kernel about an hour ago. Fedora 10 (x86) Dell GX240 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF When booting it gets as far as starting anacron and then I just get a black

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:18pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Nathan Huang scrawled: First step: echo '-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT' /etc/sysconfig/iptables This seems OK to me. Second step: /sbin/service iptables restart error: iptables:

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:18 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote: Hi guys who can help me with opening 80 port for apache in iptables, I want to access my apache server from remote computer, but I failed in config

Re: how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:20pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:18 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote: Hi

Re: Goto [Was Re: Chown ???]

2009-04-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:01am on Saturday, April 11, 2009 (UK time), Marko Vojinovic scrawled: Are these letters available electronically? Any links maybe? I'm just curious, would like to read them. http://tinyurl.com/danq7a Not sure if the rebuttal is online Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\

Re: re the new KDE 4.2 (or so)

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:49pm on Monday, April 06, 2009 (UK time), Elgato Salvahey scrawled: It is a law of cosmology, and the second law of thermodynamics, that the entropy of the universe must always increase. Since this implies that ALL things MUST increase in complexity, This is wrong. Entropy in the

Re: screen blanks with nomodeset

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:33pm on Monday, April 06, 2009 (UK time), Jack Howarth scrawled: Chris, The worst part is that the fglrx drivers have stopped working on my machine with X1650 Pro graphics. The kernel level drivers seem to work okay, but when X starts up, I only get a black screen. I have the

Re: view more or less?

2009-04-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:41pm on Sunday, April 05, 2009 (UK time), Garry T. Williams scrawled: On Friday 03 April 2009 04:00:45 Steve Searle wrote: round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward scrawled: I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague insisted I do

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:56am on Saturday, April 04, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: I am starting to learn how to program in C, and I am looking for a proper editor for that. Do you recommend Kate to me? Or is there something better? Ideally you want something that does syntax highlighting and

Re: view more or less?

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Searle
round 03:18am on Friday, April 03, 2009 (UK time), Paul Ward scrawled: I was wanting to look at a file the other day and my colleague insisted I do not use less but view instead. I would be wary of colleagues who insist you do something - advise maybe but why should he insist. I thought

Re: playing MP3's

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:32am on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (UK time), dco...@efn.org scrawled: would like to know what to download/install to play mp3's in Fedora. The Unofficial Fedora FAQ is helpful. http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mp3 Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No

Re: Label Program reccomendations ??

2009-03-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:59pm on Monday, March 09, 2009 (UK time), William Case scrawled: Can someone recommend a quick and easy label maker. Up to now I have used the label facility on OOo Writer. Its OK, in fact, its good for a large-ish merge etc. but a bit of a PIA for just one or two file folder etc.

Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:31pm on Saturday, March 07, 2009 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled: To disable it, simply do a, yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, which will also remove kde-settings-pulseaudio package, if you are using KDE. Thanks for this. Having put up with stuttering sound on the PC I use to

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

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:17am on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 (UK time), Dave Bolt IT Solutions scrawled: So here is what I do. Open a terminal Change user by typing su followed by return key. You will be prompted for It is probably less confusing if su - (without the quotes) is entered. This will make it a

[OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Searle
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the creation of this message 20:41:37 up 24 days, 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.01 pgphr3D6hKzCq.pgp

Re: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:51pm on Saturday, February 28, 2009 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled: 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. Actually they determine where your ISP connects you to the internet. Thus I am doomed to

gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the window it (gvim) freezes and I have to kill it off. This does not happen when I switch to KDE or XFCE. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS

Re: gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:59pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Todd Zullinger scrawled: Steve Searle wrote: On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the window it (gvim) freezes and I have to kill it off. This does not happen when I switch to KDE or XFCE. Does anyone know

Re: gvim with Gnome hangs when maximising

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:42pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Steve Searle scrawled: Around 07:59pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 (UK time), Todd Zullinger scrawled: Steve Searle wrote: On Fedora 10 running Gnome, when I am usin gvim, if I maximise the window it (gvim) freezes and I have

Re: DHCP assistance required.

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:56am on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Simon Slater scrawled: You owe me one :-) default-lease-time 600; max−lease−time 7200; should be: max-lease-time The max-lease-time does not contain dashes but some sort of double length dash. Steve -- (o

Re: Friendly backup utility

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:07pm on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (UK time), Reinhard Sy scrawled: I am using unison for my backup which is a frontend to rsync I think. It is not a front end for rsync. And unison synchronises in both directions, whereas rsync is only in one. Steve -- (o

Re: myqsl dummy needs help

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Searle
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 password. What you have tried does not supply the password. Steve -- (o

Re: Sendmail

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:23pm on Thursday, February 05, 2009 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: Adil Drissi wrote: I have successfully installed Mysql and PHP but I am unable to send email via php. Sendmail is already installed apparently. I want to know if there is a way to test email by sendmail

Re: music download sites?

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:15am on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 (UK time), JasonB scrawled: i use mp3 obsession [2] its very cheap and all online so you do not need any software. songs on there are from 9cents and all good quality. also, this site is legal unlike many that have been suggested here 8-) This

Re: Problem with totem

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:40pm on Friday, January 30, 2009 (UK time), Jim scrawled: I would uninstall Totem, that is one app that I have never seen working in any Fedora Core. He's using Fedora 10, not one of the Core versions. And it works fine on my installation of Fedora 10. Steve -- (o

Re: Understanding the mystery of printing?

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:00pm on Friday, January 30, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:08:57 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Could this be related to your locale setting? I don't know for sure. All was US English until I installed Fedora 10. What is the output from the

Re: Linux Bowl - Any Ideas?

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:56pm on Thursday, January 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: I always thought it had something to do with the trophy (viz. FA Cup, Ashes, etc.) but I speak from the vantage point of complete ignorance. From Wikipedia: Bowl game ...The term bowl originated from the

Re: F10 and Gnome - not root login

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled: But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not offered the chance to create a regular user account during the installation? Firstboot will ask you to set up a user account. Did you

Re: Printers

2009-01-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:42pm on Sunday, January 25, 2009 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: New printers are actually often a better buy... I remember buying a laser printer at Office Depot and the printer was something like $100 and their web site listed replacement toner cartridges at $116 :-). I'm

Re: Listing devices on network?

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:01pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: How do I list the devices on a home network? I'd use nmap. Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_No MS products were used in the creation of this message 13:40:41 up 32 days,

Re: Printers

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:24pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Michael Comperchio scrawled: What would be the best choice in inexpensive printers for use with Fedora? I'm relatively new to F10, though I've used Linux before. I'm hoping to never have to boot to the windoze side again. But printing

Re: Question for our users

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:38pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled: Mike McGrath wrote: Hello Fedora Users! I was wondering if everyone wouldn't mind answering the following questions for me to the list. What is Fedora (the operating system)? There is no Fedora operating

Re: Printers

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:00pm on Monday, January 19, 2009 (UK time), Michael Comperchio scrawled: Inexpensive as in I'm not working steadily right now and there doesn't seem to be a lot of hiring going on any where. I'm talking about going to Staples or Circuit City or the like and not spending much more

Re: Log Files

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:43am on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Leon Vergottini scrawled: I do need help again. I would like to know if Fedora has a log file which log all events by all users and where can I found it? Also if possible, can such a log file be created if there is not such a log file.

Re: new Fedora 10 install - no Kate KDE editor

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:30pm on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kempter scrawled: Hi all; I've just installed fedora 10 on a new box but I dont have the KDE editor 'kate'. Anyone know which package I need to install to get it? # yum provides */bin/kate The result from this shows kdesdk is

Re: new Fedora 10 install - no Kate KDE editor

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:25pm on Friday, January 09, 2009 (UK time), Kevin Kempter scrawled: # rpm -q --whatprovides kate I presume (but don't really know) that rpm, like yum needs the path, so it should be # rpm -q --whatprovides */kate or # rpm -q --whatprovides */bin/kate to cut down on the output.

F10 failing at GNOME and KDE logon

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Searle
Running Fedora 10 on a desktop and it has just stopped logging on. When logging on to a KDE session, the message Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation is displayed. Clcikign OK (the only option available) returns to the logon screen. If I attempt to logon to GNOME, Naultilus

Re: home directory

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:49pm on Friday, December 19, 2008 (UK time), Mikkel L. Ellertson scrawled: Dumb question - why not use $HOME? Because he wants to do it for any user he cares to specify. $HOME only gives the current users home directory. Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by

Re: cron.weekly

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:22pm on Sunday, December 14, 2008 (UK time), Patrick Dupre scrawled: Hello, Since I switch to FC10, I have the cron.weekly starting 2 times: This is what I have in my crontab: # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 0 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 11

Re: E-mail Server

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:04pm on Sunday, December 14, 2008 (UK time), Leon Vergottini scrawled: I have been tasked to commissioned an e-mail server in the first quarter of next year. I got this task because I am the only one at work I don't know if you are intending to use Fedora as the server. If you

Re: NFS broken

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:15am on Saturday, December 13, 2008 (UK time), Frank Cox scrawled: nfs is still working fine for me here. I assume you're talking about f10? (You didn't specify.) No F9. It will only affect you when you reboot and mount NFS drives. I have temporarily set selinux to permissive,

Re: Data persistence/ retaining setup/ booting with a Live USB release ?

2008-11-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:08pm on Friday, November 28, 2008 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: My friend's laptop died. She needs to reinstall XP but she has lost her install disks and the XP install disks we have tried thus far don't work for her machine. I like F10 so much I am thinking of recommending

Re: Wireless, Broadcom

2008-11-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:33pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (UK time), Mark Haney scrawled: 6. The Fedora setup shouldn't have been affected by anything you did in fedora. However, without knowing which guidelines you used, I can't say for certain. I think Mark made a typo here - and he meant to say The

Re: Fedora and NetworkManager Quesiton

2008-11-23 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:28am on Sunday, November 23, 2008 (UK time), bob smith scrawled: Working with 386 boxes, and getting ready to upgrade to FC9 on alpha boxes - but I am getting perturbed with networkmanager . Great tool for folks who want things to be simple and easy but it is not what I need

Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled?

2008-11-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:56pm on Saturday, November 15, 2008 (UK time), Kevin J. Cummings scrawled: Dave Feustel wrote: Well, I rebooted and the kermel panick. Here are the last few lines before the system halted: Freeing unused kernel memory: 412K freed Write protecting the kernel text:

Re: FEDORA net etiquette

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:22pm on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 (UK time), Joachim Backes scrawled: I don't mean ascii signature lines, but emails which have been digitally signed by the mail client, for example thunderbird: there in the composer window, you can say: security-digitally sign this message

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