Re: disk encryption

2016-01-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I think you can get rid of disk encryption using luksipc. Here is what I did when I had to do the reverse process: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/467195.html Not completely sure it will help, but I think luksipc should have the potential to work. Best wishes, Ran

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Doug
On 01/14/2016 11:45 PM, Tod Merley wrote: potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote: On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenov

Re: disk encryption

2016-01-14 Thread Susi Lehtola
On 01/14/2016 06:40 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a hindrance and would like to remove it. Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install the system rat

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Tod Merley
potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual bo

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and > just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the > installation of the Fedo

OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the installation of the Fedora or doing updates. I wanted to check out the Windows

disk encryption

2016-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I installed Fedora 23 on a Laptop a while back and I decided to use disk encryption. At this point I find the disk encryption to be more of a hindrance and would like to remove it. Am I correct that it may simply be easier to re-install the system rather than try to remove the encryption or i

Re: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.fc22.x86_64

2016-01-14 Thread g
On 01/13/16 04:23, Tim wrote: <<>> > g: >> *nix are as close as you will get for os. > > What's that saying amongst NASA employees? > "There's no problem that you cannot make worse." > i may be wrong, but i understood that NASA used microscratch, like too many other federal gov departments. esp

Re: opensource.com user poll

2016-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/14/2016 03:59 PM, Digimer wrote: To what end? I don't think Fedora tries to be a general desktop OS. It's always appeared to me to be more aimed at professional/developers. Even if not, polls like that are hardly scientific so I can't imagine them having much impact one way or the other.

Re: opensource.com user poll

2016-01-14 Thread Digimer
On 14/01/16 06:50 PM, Dan Mossor wrote: > I may be violating some rule somewhere in this mailing, so please don't > flame me if I'm wrong. opensource.com is running a poll to determine the > favorite Linux distro in use. As of this writing, Fedora is in 4th place > behind Ubuntu, Mint and Arch, and

opensource.com user poll

2016-01-14 Thread Dan Mossor
I may be violating some rule somewhere in this mailing, so please don't flame me if I'm wrong. opensource.com is running a poll to determine the favorite Linux distro in use. As of this writing, Fedora is in 4th place behind Ubuntu, Mint and Arch, and slightly ahead of Debian. Can we get Fedor

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 18:38, Raman Gupta wrote: > On 01/14/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone wrote: >>> On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends on iText, which has some

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/14/2016 04:33 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 14.01.2016, Raman Gupta wrote: > >> Pdf-stapler at least provides the select/cat capability of pdftk, >> which mcpdf does not. > > You can do the most with PDF-shuffler, in a graphical way. > > [htd@chiara ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pdfshuffler > pdfsh

Re: OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-14 Thread stan
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:35:10 +0100 Frank Elsner wrote: > you should do an > > echo 'UseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config > > to secure your system according to > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160114142733 Thanks for the heads up. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.01.2016, Raman Gupta wrote: > Pdf-stapler at least provides the select/cat capability of pdftk, > which mcpdf does not. You can do the most with PDF-shuffler, in a graphical way. [htd@chiara ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pdfshuffler pdfshuffler-0.6.0-7.fc23.noarch -- users mailing list users@li

Re: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.fc22.x86_64

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/01/16 08:11, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 07:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: The one relative to my ISP is definitely POP3 but I'm not 100% sure about the Google account. The TBird account settings will tell you. Yep, both accounts are pop. regards, Steve po <>--

Re: OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-14 Thread Dan Mossor
On 01/14/2016 10:35 AM, Frank Elsner wrote: Hello folks, you should do an echo 'UseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config to secure your system according to http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160114142733 Do not aks me for details. I'm just redistributing the warning. --Frank Also,

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:22:24 + Ian Malone wrote: > On 9 January 2016 at 16:09, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > pdf-stapler has finally made it to the Fedora testing repos on Bodhi. > > > > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > > > > If you are in need o

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:48 +0100, Tom H wrote: >> Assuming that your local network is 192.168.1.0 and your local >> domainname is "poc". >> >> 1) If you run dnsmasq on the clients and the server: >> >> - set a domain in your client a

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/14/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: >>> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends >>> on iText, which has some licensing issues. >>> >>> Here is some of that discussi

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: >> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends >> on iText, which has some licensing issues. >> >> Here is some of that discussion: >> >> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2016 at 16:09, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > pdf-stapler has finally made it to the Fedora testing repos on Bodhi. > > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > > If you are in need of this alternative/workaround to the discontinued pdftk, > please test an

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche wrote: > This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends > on iText, which has some licensing issues. > > Here is some of that discussion: > > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/ > > I also have client applic

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-14 Thread Digimer
I usually check the mtime on /root/anaconda-ks.cfg. On 14/01/16 12:43 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was > installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly > on the machine when it was installed)? > > Re

Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-14 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hello all, Is there a way to find out the date on which a Fedora distro was installed on a given machine (assuming that the date was set correctly on the machine when it was installed)? Regards, Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: basic graphics mode/text?

2016-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:11:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: >> My problem is I want to disable or force a basic graphics mode upon >> boot-up, currently when the system boots is reaches a specific point >> and the display changes from 80x24 to some higher resolution, how do >> I stop this behav

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:48 +0100, Tom H wrote: > Assuming that your local network is 192.168.1.0 and your local > domainname is "poc". > > 1) If you run dnsmasq on the clients and the server: > > - set a domain in your client and server hostname configs > > - run dnsmasq on the clients with "--

OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

2016-01-14 Thread Frank Elsner
Hello folks, you should do an echo 'UseRoaming no' >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config to secure your system according to http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160114142733 Do not aks me for details. I'm just redistributing the warning. --Frank -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Unable to locate printer

2016-01-14 Thread vendor
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Stephen Davies wrote: I have a Lexmark E120 network connected via ethernet. Occasionally, attempts to print to this printer result in the subject error message. So, the only resolution that I have found is to reboot the box. The printer then works for a while. I'm not sur

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I want to set up a local dnsmasq server to resolve local hostnames on > my LAN. I'm not (for the moment) concerned with DHCP, just DNS. I'd > like to do this without defining a local doman, so that host foo just > resolves to foo's IP

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Ted Roche
This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends on iText, which has some licensing issues. Here is some of that discussion: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/ I also have client applications that depend on pdftk. My solution was to switch them

dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I want to set up a local dnsmasq server to resolve local hostnames on my LAN. I'm not (for the moment) concerned with DHCP, just DNS. I'd like to do this without defining a local doman, so that host foo just resolves to foo's IP address. The dnsmasq.conf file appears to allow this because defining

Re: pdf-stapler

2016-01-14 Thread Franta Hanzlík
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 10:09:41 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > pdf-stapler has finally made it to the Fedora testing repos on Bodhi. > > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > > If you are in need of this alternative/workaround to the discontinued pdftk, > ple

how to enable touchpad on ASUS G752VL-DH71 running f23 live

2016-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i just picked up a new ASUS G752VL gaming laptop, booted a F23 live DVD in basic graphics mode, i'm in gnome, still some tweaking to do but, for the life of me, i can't enable the touchpad. i've tried the H/W based Fn+F9 which several people online suggest, and a regular USB mouse works fine.

Re: Unable to locate printer

2016-01-14 Thread Stephen Davies
On 14/01/16 15:51, Berend De Schouwer wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 14:17 +1030, Stephen Davies wrote: I have a Lexmark E120 network connected via ethernet. Occasionally, attempts to print to this printer result in the subject error message. So, the only resolution that I have found is to reboot