Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Björn Persson wrote: A program similar to Jigdo could speed this up. Transfer only the RPM packages (taking advantage of hard links) and information on what packages are in each ISO image, and then recreate the ISO images at the destination. That way each package would only be

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matthew Woehlke wrote: What about dropping hierarchical mirroring altogether? Why hasn't someone developed a distributed (i.e. bittorrent-like) system for mass mirroring? :-) Already discussed[1][2] on the fedora-test-list. [1]

Re: Fedora 11 Test Day survey

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Cronenworth
James Laska wrote: 1. How did you find out about Fedora Test Days? Mailing list posting. 2. Was sufficient documentation available to help you participate in a Fedora Test Day? If not, what did you find missing or in need of improvement? Yes, I found everything I needed on the

Re: the end of life for flash player (HTML5)

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ben Boeckel wrote: userbase with extra codec messes. I'm sure IE will just play by itself in the corner and Safari will play Apple's game no matter what happens. /s/by/with/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Strange /etc/fedora-release and smolt help

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mike McGrath wrote: Can anyone with F11 installed look at what is in their /etc/fedora-release and tell me which one you have, and how you installed? Also what version of fedora-release you have. F10 to F11 system using preupgrade here. $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 11

Re: Strange /etc/fedora-release and smolt help

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: F10 to F11 system using preupgrade here. $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) $ rpm -q fedora-release fedora-release-11-1.noarch When I brought up smolt the OS is Fedora 11 Leonidas so is this a smolt issue? It seems smolt is under stress

Re: Split Media - A use case

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: That's what they wanted to use :-) besides it was quicker to gen them than to download the live CDs or DVDs. CDs will be much slower than a DVD in terms of read speed. You'll also have to swap disks out during install (hello 1998). Why do they want to use CDs? In

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jeff Spaleta wrote: I wonder, Would there be a reliable way to separate out emulated hardware inside the smolt database reliably so we can get a better statistical survey of in-service physical hardware devices? QEMU inserts its name into the CPU string does it not? It could be sorted that

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jon Ciesla wrote: Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only be a secondary arch in Fedora. . . Can the myth of RH controls Fedora's direction

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Thomas Janssen on 06/17/2009 03:19 AM wrote: Ubuntu Alternative Thats not a LiveCD. It's just a install CD. No Live. So? Your point? A Fedora LiveCD is an install CD. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Thomas Janssen on 06/17/2009 03:25 PM wrote: My point.. It is/was obviously that you dont know what an alternative CD is. So i explained it to you. But i failed. Maybe you grab one in your spare time and check out the alternative installation possibilities, compared to a LiveCD. VM`s are

Thunderbird/Evolution quirks

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
My random thought for today: Thunderbird is listed under the Internet sub-menu. Evolution is listed under the Office sub-menu. Why are they in different places? Ah... mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: Categories=Email;Network; evolution.desktop:

Re: Thunderbird/Evolution quirks

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/24/2009 08:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: If you look at the three things evolution does: mail, contacts and calendar, two out of three fit very well into office. Its the nature of categorization that 'relatively similar' things eventually end up in different buckets. One of the many

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Adam Miller on 06/29/2009 11:31 AM wrote: Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be. user I need help fedora-member What desktop are you running? user I dunno ... I just downloaded the default fedora-member . Enjoy DE Russian Roulette :) What if the

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/29/2009 05:21 PM, King InuYasha wrote: I was reading an article today in ComputerWorld about something called KSplice, which allows Linux users to install critical updates and patch in without rebooting the computer. I tried it and while it was a bit odd for installing (not

Re: KSplice in Fedora?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/29/2009 09:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: It actually can't and this is why it isn't very useful within Fedora, as we get big updates, not just minimal security patches. KSplice can't handle that kind of updates. It can only handle small patches which don't change any data structures. So the

Re: Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/29/2009 09:42 PM, Adam Miller wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Well, Ubuntu will have a problem at that point as well (see Kubuntu and Xubuntu). ;-) Maybe we should write a U Desktop Environment just to give them trouble. ^^

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
梁穗隆 on 06/30/2009 10:51 AM wrote: So I really hope that solang will replace f-spot soon. And solang has more new features than f-spot. I don't see a package review request or any koji builds. Are you sure it's coming to Fedora? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Stepan Kasal on 07/01/2009 05:05 AM wrote: I apologize for that. I got bored writing three-word nonsenses so I tried the null string. I will do better now when I know that it might be read by someone in certain cases. Fedora 11 brings a PackageKit that actually promotes and accentuates

Re: delaying an update

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Christoph Höger on 07/08/2009 09:21 AM wrote: how do I do that? Since you have not submitted it for stable I do not see any problem. Don't do anything. :) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Martin Sourada on 07/14/2009 01:17 PM wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Unblocked orphan gtk-murrine-engine I'm taking over this one. Co-maintainers welcomed. Could you post an update to 0.9.x for F11? I see one in rawhide, but there's some themes that need 0.9.x

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Thomas Janssen on 07/17/2009 10:56 AM wrote: Patch would be welcome. Would make my life easier in #fedora helping people with that problem. The patch should have been attached to the original post. Did you see it? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Daniel P. Berrange on 07/17/2009 11:10 AM wrote: Why not do a patch for VirtualBox to make it look in the right place first ? We've just done that for QEMU too, changing its search order to be /sys/bus/usb, /dev/bus/usb and only then /proc/bus/usb. Removing the whole /proc/bus/usb mount to

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Daniel P. Berrange on 07/17/2009 11:10 AM wrote: Why not do a patch for VirtualBox to make it look in the right place first ? We've just done that for QEMU too, changing its search order to be /sys/bus/usb, /dev/bus/usb and only then /proc/bus/usb. Removing the whole /proc/bus/usb mount to

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bill Nottingham on 07/17/2009 11:30 AM wrote: mkinitrd does; that being said, that's only in the initramfs. OK, anything else? If mkinitrd bites the bullet in the new F12 feature then usbfs could be deprecated as well? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Enrico Scholz on 07/17/2009 12:14 PM wrote: Is there some upstream (linux kernel) discussion to remove usbfs? If not, it should stay as-is. Fedora/RHEL are the last major distros to retain usbfs support apparently. Why not patch VirtualBox to do it correctly? Why not patch your utilities?

Re: Fit and Finish test day: batteries and suspend

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matthias Clasen on 07/17/2009 12:42 PM wrote: Do you feel like writing up a use case involving a UPS ? As Adam stated in his reply, there is really nothing we can do since UPS devices are not supported at all. I haven't gotten around to bug hunting, but is there a bug for UPS support in

Re: Does anything require /proc/bus/usb?

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Enrico Scholz on 07/17/2009 03:41 PM wrote: Which initial comment? That you want to remove a feature to workaround bugs in an application? Michael Cronenworth wrote: Fedora/RHEL are the last major distros to retain usbfs support apparently. Sorry; you must be subscribed to another

Re: Fit and Finish test day: batteries and suspend

2009-07-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard Hughes on 07/17/2009 02:07 PM wrote: It should work fine with 009. If it doesn't work, and it used to work with HAL (without nut installed) then please file bugs. I've recently been regression testing with my APC UPS, and this seems to work fine now. 009 displays my UPS's again. I

Re: How to RPM'ify Perl Modules

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Fulko Hew on 07/21/2009 08:29 AM wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl ? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: RFE: FireKit

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ahmed Kamal on 07/23/2009 04:54 PM wrote: Exactly the point, the user shares his desktop, or starts some service using the services GUI, and FireKit should offer to help. Moreover, this actually would improve desktop security, since without FireKit, a typical user after wasting half an hour,

Re: RFE: FireKit

2009-07-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ahmed Kamal on 07/24/2009 10:12 AM wrote: I agree a long running daemon would best be written in C, perhaps pyGtk would be good enough for only the GUI config dialogs. I will start a request for a fedorahosted project, then I'll work on recruiting developers yes. GUI? What GUI? You don't

Re: Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jussi Lehtola on 07/31/2009 10:06 AM wrote: so there is a 50x speed difference in favor of solv. F13 feature? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Package Kit messages...

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard Hughes on 07/31/2009 10:43 AM wrote: Not really. If you're running an old version of gimp, you can restart [snip] Fedora 10 and 11 support only 2,3 Unfortunately there's a bug somewhere then. I've been meaning to file another bug report on this. The PackageKit applet tooltip will

Re: Package Kit messages...

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 07/31/2009 05:27 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Which is what I was trying to communicate... Should I file a bug then? Yes, please. CC me, too, or link me. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Package Kit messages...

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 07/31/2009 05:30 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: And this is specifically PackageKit, and not some break out from it like an applet or something?... Yes, this is PackageKit. PackageKit contains an applet that appears in your notification area on your panel when there are updates or

Re: Package Kit messages...

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Nathanael D. Noblet on 07/31/2009 05:27 PM wrote: Which is what I was trying to communicate... Should I file a bug then? Bug[1] had been filed in Rawhide during F11 cycle. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502138 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Review: Fedora 12 Alpha Release Notes

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Rahul Sundaram on 08/10/2009 10:08 AM wrote: Please edit the wiki directly for any improvements if you can or reply with suggestions. Thanks. Why are some internal Fedora wiki links set as external links? For example: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut Dracut] instead of [[Dracut]] --

please push gstreamer-plugins-base update

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
For those of us that have pitivi installed and want the pitivi update, we need the new gstreamer-plugins-base update. The gstreamer packages are still sitting in updates-testing (after several updates pushes). Needless to say, dep resolving is failing. Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Close comments/karma after update push?

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
After a recent xorg bug[1] with intel chips, I had to question the use of bodhi for karma/comments after an update has been pushed to updates. Should the comments and karma for packages be closed after an update leaves updates-testing? I don't see any value and it seems the wrong place to have

Re: Thunderbird 3.0pre?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 09/27/2009 10:13 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Well someone I know has had dreadful problems with the x64 version of b4 build for F11 from updates-testing - with huge memory usage and never completed the re-indexing process - in the end it hung the machine completely. He took 3.0pre from the

Re: Thunderbird 3.0pre?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 09/27/2009 10:15 AM, Mail Lists wrote: I do know that the 64 bit fedora beta 4 (there is no 64 bit mozilla.org as, last I read a while ago, they are not comfortable the code is 64 bit clean) had terrible problems from beta 4 (tho beta 3 was fine). I switched to 32 bit mozilla.org

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 10/10/2009 11:07 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: Just upgraded my F11 workstation, which included an upgrade to thunderbird-3.0-2.7.b4.fc11.x86_64 Without any prompting or warning, my email layout -- a key interface into my open source development workflow -- was changed to use something called

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 10/11/2009 03:41 AM, Dodji Seketeli wrote: I don't think so. Not willing to put words in Jeff's mouth, but I don't think he was discussing the UI changes of Thunderbird. I took it as he was rather discussing the upgrade process within Fedora. So never ship beta software? That nixes

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 10/11/2009 11:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Whether to include a beta or not should be decided on a case by case basis. It is a good idea to avoid those but if there are substantial benefits, it is fine. The focal point of the discussion isn't what it originally include but how the software

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 10/11/2009 11:46 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Oh please. Expecting all Fedora thunderbird users to keep track of upstream development of software included in Fedora is totally ridiculous. The package maintainer made the judgement to include a beta release of thunderbird. If major UI or other

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jeff Garzik wrote: Global indexing introduces legal issues, disk space requirements and CPU requirements that extend beyond F11... Maybe I'm a bit stupid, but what is the significance of how many files your emails are stored in? Separating them out provides some sort of security advantage?

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jeff Garzik wrote: Legally speaking, it is important, if I am ever called into court, to be able to show a distinct separation between my personal email and my NDA-heavy Red Hat email. And, bboth of which must be separate from my micro-micro-corporation. If one does not demonstrate

Re: Including windows-binary files for cross compiling into package

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Joost van der Sluis on 10/26/2009 01:42 PM wrote: Those files are not architecture independent. They are somewhat similar to .o files. They contain the run time library for the language, compiled to native windows object files. If you want to compile your own program with them afterwards,

Re: 2009-10-22 - Power Management Test Day report

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Phil Knirsch wrote: All in all the whole test day was a real success. Especially the great idea of Marcela, Jan and Petr to make a rpm for the testday which automated a lot of the work that needed to be done. For the next testday we already plan to expand that idea and include the

Re: 2009-10-22 - Power Management Test Day report

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Marcela Mašláňová on 10/29/2045 08:17 AM wrote: We were thinking about some image, but for measurement we needed installed system. Anyway requirements for tests were huge e.g. openoffice, kernel-debuginfo. When you use a USB drive you can install any number of packages. Just set your

Re: 2009-10-22 - Power Management Test Day report

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Adam Williamson on 10/29/2009 01:13 PM wrote: Not exactly, you need enough spare memory and/or swap space, because they get installed into 'memory'. Not when you use persistent storage... I have an updated F11 USB stick that would like to meet you. :) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Boot from CD, safe changes to USB-Stick

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Duane Smith on 11/04/2009 02:13 PM wrote: You don't wanna change something on the harddisks, but wanna safe the changes. So you boot from Live-CD and the changes are redirected to the USB-Stick. Puppy Linux does it that way*. I wanna see it in Fedora. :D Already possible I believe. I think

Re: Packagekit weirdness: Update applet

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/16/2009 11:30 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: [1] http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/Screenshot-Software%20Update.pn Hm... I'm not Richard, but I bet he'll want you to supply some pkcon output. Try pkcon -v get-updates and attach the output. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: New covenant published

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Tom spot Callaway wrote: (Yes, the irony of a talk on software patents being offered in MP3 format is not lost on me.) Just think... one more year... one more year... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Are there any legitimate reasons why the atd and sendmail services are enabled by default? A default install is for a desktop and they are quite useless in that regard. Sendmail only stores the logwatch output, which actually accumulates after a period of time because no normal desktop user

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hopefully, a Fedora is not going to be a new Linux user, or at least an above average computer users, there are probably going to be several cron jobs that send mail to other places. For example, if you are a registered Linux user, you are probably going to be sending

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Les Mikesell wrote: If you don't use email, why are you using computers again? And if you do, you've provided exactly this information to one or several email client programs. Doing it once for sendmail lets any number of users run any number of email clients that just hand off to sendmail

Re: Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Chris Tyler wrote: For sure. But the original statement it is true when configuration means configuration of the MTA or MUA. Let me clarify: In my case, on my desktop at work and on my home machines, I can do a default installation of Fedora and then send mail without knowing anything about the

Re: RPM Fusion repo?

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: RPM Fusion repo? From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/07/2008 12:05 AM Tim: I'm quite surprised that there was a free WMA plug-in. Rahul Sundaram:

Re: UDF-fs What is it?

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ed Greshko wrote: 3. Created a DVD in live mode on Vista and v2.5 UDF *not* readable on RHELv4. Could not test with F9. UDF 2.5 is only readable with kernel 2.6.26 and higher. The latest kernel update from Fedora 9 should read a UDF 2.5 disc.

Re: Desktop effects on rawhide

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Armin Moradi wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is any way to enable desktop effects on a rawhide box. Apparently there are no kmods for nvidia in the rpm-fusion for rawhide. Thank you, You should install the akmod packages so that you do not have to wait on the repo to produce

Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Fred Silsbee wrote: using yum, will it be possible to go from F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image and going through an update Yes, There is a preupgrade package that does just what you want. Fedora 9 will be getting an updated PackageKit that will automagically use

Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image From: Fred Silsbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/14/2008 12:11 PM is this right? yum install preupgrade

Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/14/2008 04:06 PM No, you are mistaken. If you do nothing special, yum update will continue to update to F9. It will

Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image From: Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/14/2008 04:30 PM Yum update will not automatically

Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: F9 to F10 without downloading an F10 iso image From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/14/2008 04:54 PM On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:42 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Your post in answer to Fred Silsbee says

Re: Non-Graphical PreUpgrade

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Dave Feustel wrote: Is there a non-graphical version of preupgrade that can be run from a text-only console? Thanks. preupgrade-cli -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: how to remove and reinstall kernel 2.6.27?

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
M. Fioretti wrote: There is no initrd for 2.6.27 (the other files are there). So it looks like the rpm install of 2.6.27 was corrupted for some reason. How do I manage to make yum understand that that version isn't properly installed and it should update the kernel to 2.6.27? TIA, Marco

Re: F9 and move to Hyperthreaded processor

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jerry Feldman wrote: Be wary of hyperthreading. AFAIK, Intel no longer supports this feature in their processors. First, there are a number of applications that actually suffer from hyperthreading. For instance, my company's product runs significantly slower on a system with hyperthreading

Re: Turbo Memory

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Turbo Memory From: Robert L Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/16/2008 03:52 PM It is just about a year ago that Claude submitted the inquiry below. I'm seriously looking at the Lenovo ThinkPad T500,

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install? From: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fedora List fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 08:27 AM perhaps a dumb question but i have to toss together a temporary linux box for someone to take to

Re: Which filesystem for SSD in F10?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Which filesystem for SSD in F10? From: Steve Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fedora Mailing List fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 06:32 AM Shortly after it's released, I'll be doing a clean install of Fedora 10 on a solid-state disk (SSD). This

Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled? From: Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 09:11 AM Thanks for the link. I think I have also used Cheapbytes but it

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install? From: Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 10:05 AM I don't know about safer, but firefox 32

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install? From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 11:03 AM Well, maybe. There is no maybe. The full browser crashes you are experiencing have nothing to do

Re: Sound card permissions

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Sound card permissions From: James Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/17/2008 09:28 AM How can I make udev make /dev/snd/* group audio always? You will

Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install? From: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/18/2008 03:39 PM On Tue, Nov

Re: good cordless mouse?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: good cordless mouse? From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/19/2008 10:26 AM Does the middle wheel both scroll

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/19/2008 08:08 PM What is more likely is that the

Re: FC9 without password for special user ( guest user )

2008-11-21 Thread Michael Cronenworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, how can we disable the password request of BB user ? SSH only allows passwordless access with SSH keys without passphrases. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: FC9 without password for special user ( guest user )

2008-11-21 Thread Michael Cronenworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you means we can't disable the password request for using SSH-telnet ? You can, but it requires you to generate an SSH key without a passphrase. The server's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file must have the client's key you generate inside. Once you have this setup,

Re: Preupgrade problems

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Preupgrade problems From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/24/2008 12:25 PM What do I need to do to put in Grub2 in FC8 ?? You will have to install

Re: Fedora install on a 1 GB CF card

2008-11-25 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Fedora install on a 1 GB CF card From: Steve Repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/25/2008 04:53 AM Any reason why you want fedora and not puppy linux/damn

Re: weigh in if you have or have had the iso dvd burn no verify problem

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: weigh in if you have or have had the iso dvd burn no verify problem From: Fred Silsbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fedora List fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/26/2008 01:04 PM after the burn/write, the DVD is ejected and then swallowed up again only to be

Re: Fedora 10 x86_64 install issues, bugzilla?

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Paul W. Frields wrote: There used to be a Release Notes button in Anaconda. However, very few people used it, and the amount of code that we had to carry in the installer image to support it (like an HTML viewer) was large and unwieldy, especially hurting people who were trying to download a

Re: Fedora 10 x86_64 install issues, bugzilla?

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: +1 rant I hate the increasing use of HTML docs instead of man pages. In old Unix systems, man pages were concise, accurate and complete. Now we have bloated, inaccurate, incomplete documentation that is hard to read and hard to search. Large subsystems such as KDE

Re: USB ehci_hcd where?

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Peter Boy wrote: I just upgraded my Thinkpad T40p from F9 to F10. I suffer from the well known USB bug. Each time I connect a memory stick I get the message usb 1-4: new high speed USB debice using ehci_hcd ... hub 1-0:1.0 unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 (repeated) and device is

Re: Where is libflashsupport.i386?

2008-12-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Where is libflashsupport.i386? From: Vivek J. Patankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fedora Users List fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/01/2008 01:40 PM Fedora 10 release notes say Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable

Re: some feedback on fedora 10

2008-12-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: some feedback on fedora 10 From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/01/2008 04:32 PM These list messages are archived publicly, and that any mail addresses in the message bodies, including yours if present,

Re: Which package for gstreamer?

2008-12-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Which package for gstreamer? From: Colin Paul Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/02/2008 09:18 AM Which rpm provides gstreamer-0.10.pc for Fedora 10? # yum provides */gstreamer-0.10.pc gstreamer-devel-0.10.20-1.fc9.i386 :

Re: fedora 9 live firewall

2008-12-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: fedora 9 live firewall From: Eric Penrose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/02/2008 11:52 AM I find it confusing that the settings on fedora 9 live for firewall are such that we tick the options that we trust such as secure http or

Re: How to install sun JRE (for mozilla plugin) on Fedora 10

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: How to install sun JRE (for mozilla plugin) on Fedora 10 From: Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/02/2008 11:10 PM Hi All; I need to access java (the

Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory From: Kevin J. Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/03/2008 11:10 AM On an x86_64 system?

Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory From: Dario Lesca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/04/2008 03:04 AM I am the user of this thread, but

Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: f10.x86_64: laptop HP: Problem to see all 4Gb of memory From: Linuxguy123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/04/2008 10:15 AM The reason I ask is that I am

Re: Current state of multi-core awareness

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Current state of multi-core awareness From: Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/05/2008 10:26 AM On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:43 -0900, Jeff Spaleta

Re: Parsing Digital Audio Files:

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Parsing Digital Audio Files: From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/05/2008 02:39 PM You want audacity, a sound editor. I think the latest version has

F10 - gnome-screensaver misbehaving?

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
I've been noticing Xorg has been taking a nice chunk of RAM after upgrading to Fedora 10. I decided to start up xrestop and see what's up: xrestop - Display: localhost:0 Monitoring 35 clients. XErrors: 0 Pixmaps: 95419K total, Other: 219K total, All: 95639K total

Re: Mysterious update error messgae corrected.

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Mysterious update error messgae corrected. From: Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 12/08/2008 09:25 AM See

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