Re: I need a PDF reader that will open this...

2010-07-07 Thread Dale J. Chatham
fc13 x86_64 with acroread, works fine. It's a large PDF with lots of detail, thus kinda slow. On 07/07/2010 12:01 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I can't seem to open this file and zoom in on it with any Linux based PDF reader. They all seem to lock up.

Re: Top posting

2010-06-27 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Calling all net nazis... Sheesh! On 06/27/2010 02:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Friday, June 25, 2010 00:50:10 JD wrote: I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are there any watchdogs on this

Re: Evolution Update Fails

2010-06-26 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Nope, I'm seeing the same thing. On 06/26/2010 08:30 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The system has informed me via the Update Applet that evolution needs to be upgraded to 2.30.2-1, but the upgrade fails with these messages: could not do simulate: empathy-2.30.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64 requires

Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop

2010-06-18 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I cannot remember the package, but there is a package that will let you run Windows drivers under Linux. I had to do that to get a wireless card working on an Ubuntu machine (get EMC (www.linuxcnc.org) or something better working on Fedora and we'll talk). If you can't dredge it up, I'll try

Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop

2010-06-18 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Couldn't agree more. On 06/18/2010 10:20 AM, Terry Polzin wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:13 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: I cannot remember the package, but there is a package that will let you run Windows drivers under Linux. I had to do that to get a wireless card working

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Dale J. Chatham
On 06/15/2010 12:15 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Greg Woodswo...@ucar.edu wrote: Windows is also targeted because it's easier in so many ways to infect or compromise. I'd say that having ten times as many childish miscreants running windows boxes than Linux has

Re: NFS

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
lsof | grep NFS server works for me. On 06/14/2010 08:24 AM, Ray Pittigher wrote: When running a NFS server on Fedora how can I see what files are in use by others over the NFS mount? This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be proprietary and are intended solely for the use of the

Re: Lots of instabilities in F13 ?

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I had a problem with firefox and java. Never really got rid of it, but if I restored the previous firefox sessino when I opened firefox, in about two minutes the machine would stop dead. Top when it died showed nothing useful except that java had the CPU (and a good bit of it). On 06/14/2010

Re: NFS

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
but what about seeing what clients are doing from the server side? On 06/14/2010 10:32 AM, Dale J. Chatham wrote: lsof | grepNFS server works for me. On 06/14/2010 08:24 AM, Ray Pittigher wrote: When running a NFS server on Fedora how can I see what files are in use by others over the NFS mount

Re: NFS

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Ga I was wondering why I had to scroll past pages to find the newly added part of the conversation. Since it appears to be the rules, sure, but, gakk! On 06/14/2010 11:52 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:25 -0400, Ray Pittigher wrote: Yes

Re: NFS

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
others that have been left out?? On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Timignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:07 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: But to answer your question, I have *NEVER* posted this way. You're fighting over 15 years of training to do

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
On 06/14/2010 01:56 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Thanks Steve, but this is currently and has been off forever. I also can look at the add-ons. I only have Enigmail (for GNUPG), AdblockPlus, Remove duplicates, and English dictionary. I also have Thunderbrowse turned on (I thought I had it

Re: NFS

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
On 06/14/2010 01:43 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Let's not get into a flame war over this. I belong to and run a number of listservs going back nearly 20 years. Many lists I am on (or have been on) have the though shalt not top post commandment. There is a sound reasoning for it. While I don't

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Dale J. Chatham
On 06/14/2010 06:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 19:13:59 -0400, Marcel Rieuxm.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: For this issue you are really complaining to the wrong people. kmod-nvidia is from their repository. If lack of an updated kmod-nvidia update needs to block a

F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I susppect recent updates. It appears that Java/nsplugins/Firefox is causing the system to hang in F13. Has anyone else seen this behavior recently? -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. --Thomas

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
The first time this happened with FC13 was last night. Now it happens every time, shortly after I open T-bird. I am using FC13 with FF 3.6.3. Please expand On 06/10/2010 10:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:37:25 -0500 Dale J. Chathamd...@chatham.org wrote: I

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
-Alt-BS did not work. Only reset. When it was crashing, I ran top and the top process was java, with its PPID nspluginswrapper. Obviously, 64 bit FF. It's been solid since. On 06/10/2010 10:58 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 10/06/10 16:56, Dale J. Chatham wrote: The first time this happened

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Just to nail the point home, if you have spaces in the name, you must put quotes around the name of the variable containing the name. Or: FILE=a b c.txt cat $FILE cat a b c.txt If it has things like ?, *, or others, Danger Will Robinson!! On 06/10/2010 11:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but unusable. When I ran vmware the performance was quite good. Are there any obvious gotchas, is there a better pick than KVM or should I just go back to vmware

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
for me unless I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. On 06/10/2010 12:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's

Re: Help required

2010-06-09 Thread Dale J. Chatham
And, today would be? On 06/09/2010 01:19 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: On 9 June 2010 17:51, Michael Cronenworthm...@cchtml.com wrote: Pallav Jain wrote: I like the fedora project and i installed the fedora core 11. Fedora 11 is no longer supported. Install Fedora 13.

Re:

2010-06-08 Thread Dale J. Chatham
One more note. You *SHOULD* be able to change the partition table with gparted. There is a live cd gparted out there (GIMF (google it my friend)). :) On 06/07/2010 10:27 PM, Sateesh kumarb wrote: I Am Sateesh, Please Help me, How to install Fedora Inside Windows7 For Dual booting. I

Re: Extract file from tar home/

2010-06-08 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Me, too! How about the j option? On 06/08/2010 03:50 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Again when you are right you are right. I never noticed that the z in tar is optional. Thanks, I learned something. -- === One of the worst of

Re: Resizing virtual display on virtual machine

2010-06-07 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Regression!? It sux!!! Has anyone compared the alternatives? Xen, vmware, qemu, kvm, virtualbox? Yes, Xen and virtualbox are pretty much the same except for the admin tools. I'm not sure if the qemu/kvm question even tracks. Dale On 06/05/2010 12:24 PM, Joe Conway wrote: On 06/04/2010

Resizing virtual display on virtual machine

2010-06-04 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Using virtual machine manager fedora core 13 vm How do I change the display resolution in the virtual machine? 1024x768 seems to be all I can get. I've scoured every way I can think of, Fedora docs, VMM docs, KVM, etc. TIA, Dale -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Not that incredibly difficult, but when I do it, if I have space, I create a tarball of the directories of files to rename. Then: find -type f dir | \ while read OLDFILE do NEWFILE=`convert_file $OLDFILE` if [ ! -f $NEWFILE ] then mv $OLDFILE $NEWFILE fi done create an

Re: screen res problem

2010-06-02 Thread Dale J. Chatham
humor Uh, dude. I'm an amateur astronomer and truly enjoy exploring the stars. . No need to insult us stargazers :) /humor This is an individual not suited to have any interaction with humans On 06/02/2010 06:05 PM, jack craig wrote: Of course he is a Superior Being. Don't you

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Dale J. Chatham
OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving on might be a wise for the developers to do :) Dale On 05/28/2010 02:45 PM, jack