MediaWiki causes me to ragequit

Hey PLUGgers, Today the ABLEconf internal wiki was hit pretty hard by spammers. :( We looked at how to protect the pages so that only registered users can edit any part of the wiki. Unfortunately, according to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8796 that has been disabled, due to t

Fwd: [Jobposts] Fwd: Work remotely or in India(hyderabad)

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Re: Network Manager & Keyring

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM thinkpad (T30). Recently, I have been > having trouble with Network-Manager. So, I bought a new USB wireless > receiver. I was able to install it without any trouble, and it is > working

Re: Invisible Text

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Anybody care to help me resolve a problem. For about a month the text at > the top of a menu in Firefox menus, Firefox bookmarks, and the > Gnome-Panel Menus, will occationally turn invisible. The text/name of > the men

Network Manager & Keyring

Hello all, I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM thinkpad (T30). Recently, I have been having trouble with Network-Manager. So, I bought a new USB wireless receiver. I was able to install it without any trouble, and it is working fine. All of the available networks in my area, show up in the Network-

Invisible Text

Hi everyone, Anybody care to help me resolve a problem. For about a month the text at the top of a menu in Firefox menus, Firefox bookmarks, and the Gnome-Panel Menus, will occationally turn invisible. The text/name of the menu usually turns invisible when I finish using a menu and it just closed.

PAM anyone?

Hello collective intelligence... My /home partition got full and the machine got unstable. I deleted some big/useless files, fsck(ed) the oartition with no errors and rebooted the thing to be safe. Now I can't login to KDE and I get this error in /var/log/auth.log: pam_ck_connector(kdm:session

RE: Linux losing stability?

Not to mention this, but what is he comparing the stability to ? Windows ? If he's saying people won't use linux because of stability issues, then why are people using windows ? Talk about stability issues. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailt

Re: The Failure of the GPL

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > Interesting article even if the title is a bit of a troll > > -- > Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think > I've forgotten this before. -Steven Wri

Re: FC 11 all mirrors b0rked

How about you join the Fedora Project? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Technomage wrote: > Lisa Kachold wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Technomage >wrote: > > > > > >> Well, > >> it seems that the fedora project has rather a pro

The Failure of the GPL

Interesting article even if the title is a bit of a troll -- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. -Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955) -- Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it wa

Re: FC 11 all mirrors b0rked

Lisa Kachold wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Technomage wrote: > > >> Well, >> it seems that the fedora project has rather a problem. >> >> all mirrors report that the repomd.xml data file are not properly linked >> metahandlers. >> this is rather a problem fro doing net installs on a m