Re: Libre Office on F14x64?

2011-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:37:11 pm Christopher A. Williams did opine: I'm picking up chatter that Libre Office as downloaded from their community site will install side-by-side the existing OOo install on F14 (and other distros as well). Anyone have experience with this they'd like

Re: LibreOffice on Fedora

2011-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:14:12 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine: On 01/27/2011 12:44 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Packages are in the repository because someone is volunteering to maintain them. No because of any voting. So if

Re: LibreOffice on Fedora

2011-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 04:23:40 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine: On 01/27/2011 01:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: What about LibreOffice? IMO it should be one or the other, and given the politics involved, I personally would prefer that LibreOffice gets the nod by most of the distro's

Re: LibreOffice on Fedora

2011-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 07:01:26 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine: On 01/27/2011 04:57 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: On 01/27/2011 01:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: A maintainer wouldn't have

Re: iptables and NAT

2011-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 02:26:02 pm Tim did opine: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 01:13 +1030, Tim wrote: Then, you've got several things to think about: Another one: Does your ISP block remote access to port 80. I forgot about that, lots of ISPs do that. Which is why I have a :85 in my web

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, December 26, 2010 11:22:47 am James McKenzie did opine: On 12/25/10 9:23 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 12:51 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: Part of the trouble-shooting was making sure there weren't any cabling issues, so the client brought out an electrician. Not only weren't

Re: Weird Network Manager Problem

2010-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:33:05 am Mike Dwiggins did opine: On 9/25/2010 6:02 AM, g wrote: On 09/25/2010 06:50 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: This all started with a power out crash thanks to my Electrical Company. you trust you electrical supplier and it their fault that

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, August 20, 2010 04:12:34 pm g did opine: i and 15 other subscribers are interested. have a nice day. Make that 16. I've been running it on an old 450 mhz x86 box with everything stripped, boots from a CF card plugged into an IDE adaptor, headless, about 4 5 years now. Best

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, August 20, 2010 04:17:34 pm g did opine: On 08/20/2010 05:11 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: 16. do i hear 17? Yup, that was me, so 17 it is. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday, August 19, 2010 02:27:03 am Tim did opine: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Subtly mixed in with this might be a longer than normal spinup time at powerup, leading to higher head wear in the first turn or two of the spinup, I wouldn't have thought

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:52:41 am Thomas Cameron did opine: Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply. All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. Say those systems have been

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 01:28:56 pm Thomas Cameron did opine: [...] Thanks, Gene, much appreciated. I've upgraded to 500w PSUs. Do you think I did any damage to the system components? That remains to be detected. Depending on how the drive runs its servo's, poor power could mean

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 06:49:35 pm James Mckenzie did opine: suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Sent: Aug 18, 2010 1:31 PM To: James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net, Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Somewhat OT - can

Re: kernel BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/2513/0x10000001

2010-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday, August 19, 2010 01:07:21 am Antonio Olivares did opine: Dear folks, I have downloaded/compiled and installed kernel 2.6.35.2 on one of my machines. I get the above bug with details following: I get the message that there is a kernel oops, but I can't report it since the

Re: how do I get openoffice

2010-08-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, August 13, 2010 08:42:53 am Michael Hennebry did opine: Somehow I managed to install Fecora 13 without openoffice. yum provides openoffice reveals nothing. yum provides *openoffice* buries me in output. I usually get the same effect whenever I want to install a package whose

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, August 07, 2010 05:14:52 pm Bob Goodwin did opine: On 07/08/10 16:00, g wrote: then, start out with a reflector plane and graduate up to a helix. i have built 'cantenna', 'log periodic', and 'helix' for amateur radio microwave, and wifi, with good to excellent results for

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, August 07, 2010 09:42:56 pm Bob Goodwin did opine: [r...@coyote linux-2.6.35.1]# ping shop PING shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.76 ms 64 bytes from shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4):

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, August 07, 2010 09:49:35 pm g did opine: On 08/07/2010 08:30 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: snip double clicking 1st in list of coax cables, 1671a, produces spec sheet; https://edeskv2.belden.com/Products/index.cfm?event=showproductdetailpa rtid=3462 scrolling down page shows

Red Hat employees listed in manpage have blocked addresses? Unreal.

2010-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings list; 2 redhat employees are list as the authors of logrotate in the manpage, so I just sent them a question because it isn't working as expected. Both emails bounced in the time it takes my fetchmail script to go suck the next cycle. Effectively instantly and permanently. So how

Re: Red Hat employees listed in manpage have blocked addresses? Unreal.

2010-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 12:13:32 pm John W. Linville did opine: On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:35:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings list; 2 redhat employees are list as the authors of logrotate in the manpage, so I just sent them a question because it isn't working

Re: Red Hat employees listed in manpage have blocked addresses? Unreal.

2010-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 12:39:53 pm Stephen Gallagher did opine: On 08/04/2010 11:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings list; 2 redhat employees are list as the authors of logrotate in the manpage, so I just sent them a question because it isn't working as expected. Obvious

Re: Newb question

2010-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, August 01, 2010 01:48:26 am Christofer C. Bell did opine: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, July 31, 2010 06:13:21 pm D. VITELLIUS REGULUS did opine: Is there any programs i can use to install .exe files to Fedora 13

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 01:59:59 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Really. I did have a history composed but I had sent something to a printer, which ran out of paper, that put dbus-notifier at 100% cpu on one core

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:47:17 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: That was my view also. Oh really. Really. I did have a history composed but I had sent something to a printer, which ran out of paper, that put dbus

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:25:50 pm g did opine: Gene Heskett wrote: snip If it was still a virgin at 4 months, what exactly was that ISP's name (and problem)? his isp knew he worked with honey pot group and did not want an open system on their network. would not have been good

Re: Memory Upgrade on FC13

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:19:15 pm binary...@comcast.net did opine: FC13 Memory terms ?? I have a kit of 2 boards 2gb PC2 (2x1gb) , does that mean that the 2 boards are a total of 2gb with both boards installed ? Generally yes, buit check with the motherboard manual to see which

Re: Anything for home user and not the technical one??

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 06:49:31 pm g did opine: Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: You're of course free to do so. Just realize the tradeoffs in no updates (especially security updates). ;) But at least you are always much

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, July 19, 2010 09:52:16 am Tom Horsley did opine: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 Tom H wrote: I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. Hopefully, the status is we'll stick with grub forever. The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find it incredibly

Re: Can one now help?

2010-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 05:09:23 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine: -- Forwarded message -- From: JD jd1...@gmail.com mailto:jd1...@gmail.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date:

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:49:34 am JB did opine: Dick Roark linuxguy.sg at gmail.com writes: root (hd1,2) makeactive chainloader +1 Hi, please edit file # vi /etc/grub.conf and make sure that your Windows section reads like === title Windows XP rootnoverify

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 02:25:52 pm JB did opine: Gene Heskett gene.heskett at gmail.com writes: On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:49:34 am JB did opine: Dick Roark linuxguy.sg at gmail.com writes: root (hd1,2) makeactive chainloader +1 Hi, please edit file

Re: OT Slightly Ailurus

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 02:38:44 pm Frank Murphy did opine: I came across this on Google. (It in the review-queue for Fedora) What it does is take some of the normal cli commands and put a gui around them. The one I find could be valuable for testing: snapshots before trying

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Marcel, please just go away and find your own barn to bray like a donkey in. This list member is tired of your 'advice' as to the politics of fedora. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt

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

2010-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 07 July 2010, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 07/07/2010 01:01 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. http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/engineering_services/emaps/bicycle_p

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 June 2010, JD wrote: On 06/23/2010 04:31 AM, Steven I Usdansky was caught red-handed while writing:: My vote is for one grub to rule them all, each distro's grub goes into / rather than the mbr, and the master grub just chainloads each distro's grub. I had been setting up the

Re: [OT] Serial Input Question

2010-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 June 2010, Thom Paine wrote: I'm posting this to the list because I am hoping I can do this in linux not only for free, but also with greater functionality. I am looking at this software http://www.taltech.com/products/comfile.html to be able to read data off a serial input. I

Re: Configuring Evolution toolbar icons

2010-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 21 June 2010, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Monday 21 June 2010 01:47 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The main toolbar is shown in the attached screenshot. You for to attach the screenshot. And its been my experience the attachment will not make it through the server. IMO that sucks, as

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

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes No. Have you actually compared them, or just repeating gossip? I have. They were both as bad as each other, in general. And when there was a

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

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, June 17, 2010 19:22:41 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes No. Have you actually compared them

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: This security update has just been released: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for _Linux_(.rpm) This will download flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm. I don't yet know how stable this will be

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote: On 06/16/2010 09:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: This security update has just been released: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_f or_Linux_(.rpm) This will download

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 12:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote: On 06/16/2010 09:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: This is what they released last week, and its by far their buggiest effort to date. Steve I

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote: This is what they released last week, and its by far their buggiest effort to date. Steve I believe this may be a newer build

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 2:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 12:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote: On 06/16/2010 09:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 4:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 15:20 -0400, David Boles wrote: Since there is no longer a 64bit Flash plugin available you will have to use a 32bit browser. Not so. I use 64-bit Chromium and 32-bit Flash

Re: Restart F-13 download?

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote: I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and a thunderstorm came along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up indicating the download was

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 7:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote: On 6/16/2010 4:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Gene uses 64-bit Firefox, I think, and he was using the 64bit Flash. I gave him the link. Naively. The 32-bit

Re: KDE/Flash too fast weirdness

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, JD wrote: On 06/16/2010 03:29 PM, Peter A wrote: Hi, so this one has me completely stomped... After upgrading to F13 (though yum but I also tested with a clean F13 install, same behavior) every flash video (e.g. youtube) plays significantly faster than it should...

Re: KDE/Flash too fast weirdness

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, jarmo wrote: Gene Heskett kirjoitti torstai, 17. kesäkuuta 2010 05:17:29: Yeah, it works here, but its eating 40-60% of all 4 cores of a 2.1Ghz phenom. Folks with lessor machines need not apply. Are you sure, that it is flash. In my case it was nspluginwrapper. I

Re: Amazing problem of /boot

2010-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 June 2010, Pallav Jain wrote: today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i my self not able to understand though i have installed fedora core 11 and updated all the packages via

Re: Amazing problem of /boot

2010-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 12 June 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/12/2010 08:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what precisely does this '1 2c' do? It points out that your eyesight is better than mine. I doubt that, diabetes and cataracts that go with 75 years are slowly doing their thing. And, as Sam pointed

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 June 2010, Mike McCarty wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] Do floppy disks still exist? Yes, I've got several hundred. And I have at least 2,000 or more, mostly 5.25 formatted for os9 (no not the mac os9, the trs-80 Color Computer version.) Are computers with floppy drives

labeling swap partitions

2010-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; What tool do I use to relabel a swap partition?. It is currently labeled for another disto. tune2fs fails of course. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author)

Re: labeling swap partitions

2010-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 June 2010, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: What tool do I use to relabel a swap partition?. It is currently labeled for another disto. tune2fs fails of course. mkswap -L ... Thank you Tom, worked like a charm

Re: labeling swap partitions

2010-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 June 2010, Terry Polzin wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; What tool do I use to relabel a swap partition?. It is currently labeled for another disto. tune2fs fails of course. man mkswap Thanks Terry, Tom got here first

Re: F13 Sadly Unusable

2010-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 June 2010, Brian C. Huffman wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 17:33 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I wonder, what was your intention sending this email? Blowing off steam? Reporting bugs? You are aware that this is random noise that will be simply ignored, right? (Unless you take the

Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228

2010-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 June 2010, Frank Murphy wrote: Hope nobody Minds. Frank Thank you Frank. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) BOFH excuse #183: filesystem not big enough for

Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228

2010-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 June 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:14 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: Hope nobody Minds. Since you don't explain why you're doing this, we can only speculate. Or are we to expect reposts of every issue of FWN from the announce list? I for one would certainly

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 31 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: It gets me to wondering how a completely new user would be greeted if they were to see the original new Get Fedora web page and were to ask Where are the torrents?. Would they be told...You must

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 31 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/01/2010 08:42 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: It gets me to wondering how a completely new user would be greeted if they were to see the

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 05/29/2010 08:54 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2010, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com

Did I mess up?

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets all;' I put the F13-x86_64 dvd in the lappies drive and saw from the prelim screen that it could install or upgrade, so I checked the disk, it was good, and clicked next. Its installing now, over the F13 beta, but never once did it ask me if I wanted to update that install. Its no big

Re: Did I mess up?

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets all;' I put the F13-x86_64 dvd in the lappies drive and saw from the prelim screen that it could install or upgrade, so I checked the disk, it was good, and clicked next. Its

Re: Did I mess up?

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Did you select Upgrade over Install? It appears that once you do that, you're committed. It doesn't ask you again after the Grub config screen. IIRC this is a change from previous

Re: A question about yum.

2010-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2010, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: we shouldn't forget the old concept of DWIM, meaning Do What I Mean I prefer the more advanced DWISM (Do What I Should've Meant :-) Now that has got to rate a ROTFLMAO! -- Cheers, Gene

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/27/2010 09:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: A...you poor thing. Ed, stop being so patronizing. It doesn't help the conversation. Oh, sorry. Heck, I was gonna pitch in and help by adding that link to XKCD with the worlds smallest violin. As

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/27/2010 10:37 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: Climb down from your high horse for a moment and stop being so much a word police and the defender of anyone with a fedoraproject.org email address. If I (or anyone else) can't use a simple BS without the

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy wrote: There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux open source-related blog planets) over a period of several months, as well as

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy wrote: There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux open source-related blog

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 23:09 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I thought torrent was precisely invented for this kind of purpose. I also held the opinion that torrent is by far the number one method of getting Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/27/2010 09:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: A...you poor thing. Ed, stop being so patronizing. It doesn't help the conversation. Oh, sorry. Heck, I was gonna pitch in and help by adding that link to XKCD with the worlds smallest violin. As

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, g wrote: Jud Craft wrote: I'm sorry if I'm late to the party or this has been previously snip true to form. 38 complaints about no link to torrents, of which only 1 poster, #26, provides a hot link in his post. for me, it is easy to find because i have both

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:15:08 -0400, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: So far, no other 'tone' has gotten anyones attention. The website is a disaster Rahul, you should admit it, and take steps to get it fixed if you have

Re: Rocket Fedora 13 media artwork

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Valent Turkovic wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/rockets-artwork-for-fedora-13-me dia/ I remixed some Fedora graphics to create new CD/DVD labels. Hope you enjoy them,

Re: A better name for spins... (was: Regarding Get Fedora page)

2010-05-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Ed Greshko I don't believe Activities has much meaning either... Mike Fedyk: I agree. I think the word edition is better. Fedora KE (KDE Edition) Fedora GE (Gnome Edition)

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy wrote: There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux open source-related blog planets) over a period of several months, as well as

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy wrote: There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux open source-related blog

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 23:09 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I thought torrent was precisely invented for this kind of purpose. I also held the opinion that torrent is by far the number one method of getting Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Larry Brower wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; CRS is catching up with me I believe. What is the invocation of ifconfig that will bring me up a working eth0:1 at an address of 192.168.1.3? One that will let me ping dd-wrt at its std 192.168.1.1 address

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Genes MailLists wrote: It didn't appear that I had to, and thank you very much. Routing, by default, for IP's on same subnet uses the network on that subnet. So no need to change or add any route. Well, at some point I have to move cables and then convince this cable

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Genes MailLists wrote: On 05/23/2010 12:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 23 May 2010, Genes MailLists wrote: It didn't appear that I had to, and thank you very much. Routing, by default, for IP's on same subnet uses the network on that subnet. So no need to change

Re: Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Darr wrote: On Sun 23 May 2010 @ 16:06:31 zulu, Gene Heskett scribed: Well, at some point I have to move cables and then convince this cable modem its a valid client, probably by cloning the right MAC address. Often you can just power down the cable modem for a half hour

Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

2010-05-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; CRS is catching up with me I believe. What is the invocation of ifconfig that will bring me up a working eth0:1 at an address of 192.168.1.3? One that will let me ping dd-wrt at its std 192.168.1.1 address on a different 192.168.xx.xx subnet from the regular eth0 . I've apparently

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-18 Thread Gene Heskett
, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will not run for anybody but root. And this is a bad thing? I

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, r...@dwf.com wrote: I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. How do I 'rip it apart' ?? rpm -qpl src.rpm should show you a list of the files

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Mikkel wrote: On 05/17/2010 04:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, r...@dwf.com wrote: I want to look at the individual files in a src

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 May 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 10:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 May 2010, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and company Servers / Mail Gateway etc. And the million dollar

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 May 2010, r...@dwf.com wrote: I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. How do I 'rip it apart' ?? Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but I have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 05/15/2010 11:22 AM, r...@dwf.com wrote: I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. How do I 'rip it apart' ?? rpm -qpl src.rpm should show you a list of the files in the RPM. When you install it, they get installed in your

Re: X11 forward in F12

2010-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:43 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: May I suggest using -Y instead of -X. Its supposed to be more secure. That's not clear from the man file: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 May 2010, jackson byers wrote: Its phishing, nuke it. I don't know how to tell whether the below quoted email is really from gmail or some sort of spam/scan. I don't recall ever giving my birthdate to gmail before, or having to put in my password except when starting gmail.

Dive Into Python.pdf

2010-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Is there a way to set the text colors so they aren't the same as the background in this? Looking at it with AR. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) All newspaper

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes: My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes: My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar

Re: New boot failure

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes: My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad

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