Re: Progress?

2011-08-03 Thread James McKenzie
On 8/3/11 12:35 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: On 08/02/2011 08:15 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On 8/1/11 11:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote: [...] Constructive criticism and suggestions are far more useful than just enumerating grievances. Amen said the choir. Bellyaching about something you cannot change

Re: Progress?

2011-08-02 Thread James McKenzie
On 8/1/11 11:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 1 August 2011 17:52, Stuart McGrawsmcg4...@frii.com wrote: On 08/01/2011 03:31 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 04:14, Gilboa Davaragilb...@gmail.commailto:gilb...@gmail.com wrote: ... Because if you were actually trying to

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-31 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/24/11 10:41 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:52 AM, yudi v yudi@gmail.com mailto:yudi@gmail.com wrote: No it's not my homework, just curious. I looked at that link before posting. what confused me was the DEL key code. Usually the first 32

Re: More RAM not recognized -

2011-07-29 Thread James McKenzie
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:06:58 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:38:15 -0400, BG (Bob) wrote:     This Dell DM4700 came with 2-256 mb strips, some time ago I added     2-1 gb

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-25 Thread James McKenzie
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:52 PM, yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: No it's not my homework, just curious. I looked at that link before posting. what confused me was the DEL key code. Usually the first 32 characters are control characters but the wiki article clubs DEL with the control

Re: installing picasa

2011-07-20 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/20/11 2:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Robert Vargasrobertjvarg...@aol.com wrote: Hello, Can anyone help me. I'am trying to install google picasa3.0 without wine. I downloaded 3.0 and it opens for a second or two then disappers ? You didn't say what

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-17 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/17/11 2:49 AM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:23 +, JB wrote: Many what about questions that would have to be asked ! Like how do you keep on working when the cloud has evaporated? (Your host goes out of business, or screws up their computers, or gets hacked, or...) Most

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-16 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/15/11 6:31 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 14:18 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: snip I agree with you that Gnome2 is dead but someone has to explain why a feature like holding the ALT key is necessary to power off in the User Menu. It seems to me there was room

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-16 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/15/11 4:55 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: I for myself have been a big Gnome fan over a lot of years, and have been using it both at home and at work. I also have been a big LXDE and xmonad fan, which runs on all of my laptops. Not a big thing for me, I'll drop F15, and when F16 comes out,

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-16 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/16/11 1:25 PM, JB wrote: Roelof 'Ben' Kusterswebat bentrein.com writes: Change is gonna happen. And it's gonna destroy the status quo. If you ask me, it's very urgent that that happens, because - next to a whole new - perhaps Matrix like - approach to social interaction, it will make

Re: kernel bug

2011-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:24 +0200, admin lewis wrote: Hi, where I have to post for a kernel bug ? thanks lewis. Instead posting it, report it to Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com If it truly is a Kernel

Re: kernel bug

2011-07-15 Thread James McKenzie
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 15.07.2011 15:53, schrieb James McKenzie: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:24 +0200, admin lewis wrote: Hi, where I have to post

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
introduced the 'Start' button feature. Over the years, I grew used to this. I still think that the idea is 'stupid' but I now understand why this happened. And I was and remain a command line power guru. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 12:53 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Tim wrote: I don't...  They all (Linux too) seem to be heading for being some

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/14/11 3:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 07/14/2011 09:53 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Frantisek Hanzlikfra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Tim wrote: Now, back to what I said earlier. YOU, the Linux user, have a CHOICE of desktop/window managers. YOU should

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/13/11 11:36 AM, Tim wrote: I see the sense in pushing the boundaries for high end computing. I don't see the sense in making low end computing require high end hardware. What's low end computing? Email, web browsing, not playing video games. It's just gross inefficiency to require a 4

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-13 Thread James McKenzie
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 09:54 -0500, Mike Chambers sent: Without intending a flamewar Hmmph...  Then goes ahead and does something that's likely to do so. Statements, like that, are similar to:  With all due respect...

Re: Need Support For Hardware Live Usb Issue + Bugs version 0.1

2011-07-10 Thread James McKenzie
] [drm:intel_drm_platform_mux_info] *ERROR* MUX INFO CALL FAILED What kind and model of video card is installed in the system you are creating the boot USB from and what is in the Dell? Looks like a video mismatch AND a video card NOT supported by the open source ATI video driver. James McKenzie

Re: f15 sync slow after couple of days

2011-07-02 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/1/11 4:06 PM, Rich Emberson wrote: When I first start my machine, a sync takes less than a second and compiling a small Java project takse 34 seconds. After running for two days, a sync takes 25 to 30 seconds (and running sync just after a sync still takes that long) and compiling the

Re: Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

2011-07-02 Thread James McKenzie
On 7/1/11 9:14 PM, JD wrote: Common people! JAVASCRIPT being executed by your browser on your system is a HUGE WIDE OPEN SECURITY HOLE!!! You do have the option of turning it off, you know. That is one thing every security expert knows about and disables in a major way. James -- users

Re: About Fedora bugs

2011-07-01 Thread James McKenzie
is diving in without asking first. Been there, done that. Do not make the assumption, as corrected above, that everything in Fedora is under Fedora's control. There are many 'upstream' projects that are separate from the project. I work with one of them James McKenzie -- users mailing list users

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
remember. That is why root works and joe-blow does not. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/28/11 8:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/29/2011 10:51 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/28/2011 10:13 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/28/11 6:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: Works fine as root. Usually ordinary users are prohibited from accessing /proc/whatever from what I remember

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/28/11 8:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/29/2011 11:18 AM, James McKenzie wrote: I was referring to /proc/pid whatever when that user did not 'own' the process. I'm under the impression that this is/was part of the security 'features' of Fedora Linux. I don't have a RH box to look

Re: where is gnomebreakpad

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
(and both of you are very valuable to the project and you both have brought in a great deal of good information, now folks may question it.) Very respectfully, James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: cannot boot to F14

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
of these options will help. Again, this is NOT a Fedora issue. Some BIOS's are old enough that they cannot boot from newer media. And this is not the first time this has happened in the history of PC configurations (I remember the old 32MB boot issue...) James McKenzie -- users mailing list users

Re: where is gnomebreakpad

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/26/11 4:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/26/2011 10:16 AM, James McKenzie wrote: (and both of you are very valuable to the project and you both have brought in a great deal of good information, now folks may question it.) And, because of the way I've been flamed for something I didn't do

Re: cannot boot to F14

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
. I try to stay out of discussions like this, but I've seen where folks installing 1TB drives cannot boot off of them when the physical number of cylinders is larger than their BIOS can handle. At least this problem was solved in a good manner. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users

Re: [OT] Spelling... [was: Re: where is gnomebreakpad]

2011-06-26 Thread James McKenzie
that French was the language to use, and we are an English only shop. Led to interesting spelling 'errors' which were not. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Firefox 5.0

2011-06-22 Thread James McKenzie
of FF4, so ... Just to note, there was only one update for FF4, 4.0.1. Something like what happened with MS-DOS (for those who remember, DOS 4.0 bombed a bunch of hard drives, actually destroyed a bunch of data.) BTW, FF5 does look and feel 'better' than FF4. James McKenzie -- users mailing

Re: sound problem

2011-06-19 Thread James McKenzie
E6400s (I had one do the same thing with WindowsVista 64 bit.) James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread James McKenzie
labels but what the device is. Some folks would love to see Mikey's USB Thingie but that is not what is written in hardware at the first glance and is only picked up if a device specific driver is loaded. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/14/11 10:20 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: 2011-06-13 04:26, James McKenzie skrev: And before MacOX, there was Lisa and before Lisa was Star ;-) But that was lng ago! Lisa bombed, it was the first major failure for Apple. Never heard of Star (and if it was anything like Lisa, I don't want

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread James McKenzie
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: On 12/06/2011 11:12 PM, David wrote: I see. Now I understand you completely. Since Linux is user supported. I am sure that the developers would welcome any tutorials that you would write and provide. That is the way the

Re: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
Surely I can. I just thought there should be the other way. Say, thru sudo. Well, it seems that changing file attributes is the only way here. You might be able to do this using sudo but the command would have to be very specific. I did not think of editing the sudoers file for this. James

Re: Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system.

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
-only and that the mount process is to memory, not physical media. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
browser, Chrome. Did you change the hypertext Application from Firefox to Chrome? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 9:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: F-15 and Firefox simply do not work as I want them to so I installed Google Chrome to try it. However when I click on a link in an e-mail

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
environment, I would still be using it today. Could not and still cannot find anything as bullet proof. I ran a BBS on it that had an uptime messured in YEARS. Cannot say that for Linux/UNIX/MacOSX. However, I have found the desktop wars amusing to say the least. James McKenzie -- users mailing

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
a great life. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
with. One day, I will install CentOS 6 on one of the Macs that I have here and then continue computing, which is what I like doing. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: We need to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out there. When you run Windows for the first time, annoying tutorials badger you

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 6:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/13/2011 08:48 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: We need to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out there. When you run Windows for the first time, annoying tutorials badger

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
need a better OS than one riddled with security holes and that has difficulties running more than 24 hours. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:17 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 10:06 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: We need to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
companies that cannot or will not move to RH 5. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
Windows sells and Linux doesn't. Sad to say, but Gnome3 may be the step in the right direction for the 'common ordinary user'. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:37 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 10:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun June 12 2011, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: We need to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 7:42 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 10:31 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/12/11 7:17 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 10:06 PM, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/12/11 6:36 PM, David wrote: On 6/12/2011 8:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700 James McKenzie wrote: We

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/12/11 8:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/12/2011 10:26 PM, James McKenzie wrote: Marketing is what is it is all about. You could make the best gizmo in the business, but if you cannot get folks to use it, you just wasted your time and alot of someone else's money. This happened

Re: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/9/11 10:58 AM, Hiisi wrote: On 9 June 2011 19:45, James McKenziejjmckenzi...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/9/11, Hiisihi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: --SNIP-- What group owns the log file. It may be as simple as adding the group to the sudoers file with the /var/log directory. Thanks, James,

Re: git patch comments

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/8/11 2:52 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Turns into: Git comment - bullet 1 - bullet 2 This is how git formats the text when it sends the bug in. I've done this myself and was surprised when formatting I applied disappeared. If you want the latter, you'll have to inform the git folks

Re: Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system.

2011-06-11 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/11/11 3:03 AM, Joshua C. wrote: Hi I'm greeted with Unable to fix label of /run: read-only file system. every time I boot the system. After relabelling the system several times and upgrading to the lastes selinux-policy (-29.fc15) I still get this. There's though no obvious impact on

Re: OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

2011-06-09 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/9/11, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi, list! Sorry for off-topic. I want to give certain users to execute some commands to configure web-server. Here's what I have in /etc/sudoers for user 'hospes': Cmnd_Alias HOSPES = /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig, /usr/sbin/setsebool,

Re: test message ...

2011-06-06 Thread James McKenzie
of messages are discouraged... James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
release package. If I want Gnome 3, I'll look for it and get it. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
this to the product package as a convenience (and I really don't find it that convenient when the download is 2+GB. Something around a single CD would be a real great release package. If I want Gnome 3, I'll look for it and get it. James McKenzie Well, it looks like you are firmly

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
? Read the mailing list guidelines. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
Fedora back again Good. There's been that talk for a while... James McKenzie (I've never met a CLI I don't like.) The two babies were delivered. But that was not enuf - post factum they even told us that they wanted them to be dependent, which amounted to twins desired. Now they are both

Re: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
with CentOS. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
that is complete, there should be a CentOS 6.x release. I will not blame RedHat for this, the codebase is different and more files means more stuff to remove/replace. BTW, I do work with RHEL 5.5/5.6 at my workplace and we are looking to move to 6.x as soon as it is approved. James McKenzie

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-27 Thread James McKenzie
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 15:20, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: The most obstinate wing has been driving GNOME for a very long time now. For a good laugh, just browse the gnome-devel archives. 15 years ago, in

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread James McKenzie
that are moving to Linux for 'security'. They want that Windows look and feel... The good part is that those of us that don't want it, don't have to have it either. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: bios update

2011-05-22 Thread James McKenzie
. We need more advocates like Matt. [Sidebar] Is it still possible to purchase a Dell computer with Linux pre-installed? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-22 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/22/11 4:00 PM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 08:40 -0700, JD wrote: Usually, well encrypted connections are hacked by: Guessing stupidly chosen passwords or stealing them (copying written notes, implanting trojans, asking someone to login to something and hoping they'll use the same

Re: F15B: Wireless Unavailable

2011-05-22 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/22/11 7:01 PM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: I recently bought a new Dell XPS 15R laptop and installed Fedora 15 Beta on it. I have been having trouble getting the wireless adapter to work. After downloading and installing the latest Intel Wireless WiFi driver/firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-21 Thread James McKenzie
. I may not be able to publish what I find due to security constraints unless the information is public knowledge. I know of no restrictions on publishing the WPA-2 standards though. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-21 Thread James McKenzie
at a handcuff surprise... James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-21 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/21/11 6:01 PM, JD wrote: On 05/21/11 17:45, James McKenzie wrote: On 5/20/11 3:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:20 +, g wrote: I know it extremely well, having taught it in undergrad CS courses. Most of us out here that lived through that mess are very well

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-20 Thread James McKenzie
it secure. Thus, the key to securing your Wireless network is a combination of using very strong cryptography and very good physical security (knowing who is connected and why and who is connected to your wired+wireless router physically.) James McKenzie -- users mailing list users

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-17 Thread James McKenzie
establishment. Other than that, lock the damn door and secure it. Adding MAC whitelists is but one of five steps.. We've discussed the other two to the end. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-17 Thread James McKenzie
of unsecured wireless connections, or poorly secured ones. If I'm out in the woods, the pickings are slim and you just might want to take the effort to break in. Same if you have valuable data. TJX learned the lessons of not securing their network AND having valuable data. James McKenzie Steve

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-17 Thread James McKenzie
or even cracked at all. JD: As far as I can discover, it has not been. DES has and 3DES is in danger of being broken (however it offers many permutations of the two/three key combination.) James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-17 Thread James McKenzie
of security is knowing what NOT TO do, not what TO do. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Quicktime Demuxer Plugin for Firefox

2011-05-16 Thread James McKenzie
should work in Wine. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Comparison of Desktop Environments in F15?

2011-05-15 Thread James McKenzie
and functional interface. James McKenzie Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Comparison of Desktop Environments in F15?

2011-05-15 Thread James McKenzie
that the GNOME folks had forked off GNOME3 and left GNOME2 available. However, the source should be available to all and you are always free to maintain/update/make 'better' this software yourself. That is another advantage of FOSS projects. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users

Re: Networking problem

2011-05-14 Thread James McKenzie
mode (I assume). Still these two machines refuse to talk. Can you use traceroute to communicate between the two of them? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Networking problem

2011-05-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/14/11 7:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 05/14/2011 10:09 PM, JD wrote: On 05/14/11 18:45, James McKenzie wrote: On 5/14/11 6:40 PM, JD wrote: On 05/14/11 18:24, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/14/2011 01:27 PM, JD wrote: I also brought the fedora firewall down, and retried to ping Fedora from

Re: Networking problem

2011-05-14 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/14/11 8:42 PM, JD wrote: On 05/14/11 19:41, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 05/14/2011 10:09 PM, JD wrote: On 05/14/11 18:45, James McKenzie wrote: On 5/14/11 6:40 PM, JD wrote: On 05/14/11 18:24, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/14/2011 01:27 PM, JD wrote: I also brought the fedora firewall down

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread James McKenzie
to use it in both worlds. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread James McKenzie
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 05/11/2011 08:32 AM, James McKenzie wrote: There iS No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TSNTAAFL). And that is Yet Another Way to mangle a perfectly good acronym: There *Ain't* No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL).  Bob

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread James McKenzie
, and only branches.  No roots, no trunk, no flowers, no fruit.  Just sticks... Aye!! Sticks that we are stuck with :) All planted in a document our 'Government' continues to ignore: The US Constitution. However, this has nothing to do with finding a FOSS alernate to Skype. James McKenzie

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread James McKenzie
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 08:32 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: Would any of us go to a major computer manufacturing company and DEMAND the same thing that we DEMAND of software?  That is:  Give me your latest/greatest for free

Re: wvdial does not disconnect after ctrl-c

2011-05-10 Thread James McKenzie
root      2024  0.0  0.0  50616  2344 pts/0    S    08:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd 230400 modem crtscts defaultroute usehostname -detach user 1 noipdefault call wvdial usepeerdns idle 3600 logfd 6 remotename 0 kill -15 2024 if that fails kill -9 2024 as root This should disconnect you. James

Re: wvdial does not disconnect after ctrl-c

2011-05-10 Thread James McKenzie
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ranjan Maitra mai...@iastate.edu wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:10:37 -0500 James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Ranjan Maitra mai...@iastate.edu wrote: Hi, I have been using wvdial (briefly) and I have a strange

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-05-07 Thread James McKenzie
On 5/7/11 12:54 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: James McKenzie wrote: On 5/1/11 5:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gregory Hosler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2011 09:48 AM, Digimer wrote: On 04/24/2011 09:46 PM, ssc1478 wrote: Hi, I'm new to Fedora - been using

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

2011-05-07 Thread James McKenzie
... Then we can hope that some of them will 'look under the hood' and realize there are better performing WMs for their purposes. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason

2011-05-06 Thread James McKenzie
will tell you how much space yum is taking up. Yes, you can brute force cleaning of that directory using rm but it is best to use the yum clean all command. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Mounting apple .dmg files in fedora

2011-05-05 Thread James McKenzie
. Apple .dmg files are compressed High Performance File System files (hpfs), not hfs. I don't know if Fedora can or even should mount them James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Mounting apple .dmg files in fedora

2011-05-05 Thread James McKenzie
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to mount an Apple .dmg file like so: mount -t hfs  -o loop ximg.dmg

Re: [OT] Need Some Help Here...

2011-05-05 Thread James McKenzie
none the wiser. You can lead a horse to water, even force its head under it, drown it, and it will still not drink. Some people are like that. Super-thick is what we call them in the Security world. Fun to watch them, not fun to work with them. James McKenzie CISSP #36780 -- users mailing list

Re: howto boot from usb iso?

2011-05-03 Thread James McKenzie
on the device. Can you boot from USB on your device? There should be a MBR on the device as well... James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: howto boot from usb iso?

2011-05-03 Thread James McKenzie
everywhere This explains what is being seen. I need to get one of these for my old Thinkpad if this allows booting from a system that does not natively boot from USB. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: ecryptfs and password

2011-05-01 Thread James McKenzie
I've worked at. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-25 Thread James McKenzie
Wi-Fi because management is too cheap or lazy to install proper networking... Then the entire corporate network security depends on the strength of WPA2... Ask TJX about the WAP gap and what kind of fun it can create. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed? - pygtk2 broken

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
to prove it. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Many connection reset when iptables enabled.

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
AdBlockPlus on my system. I stopped most of the Flash 'junk' with it. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-24 Thread James McKenzie
the client to the AP. You would have to be sniffing at the same time that a connection is being made. WPA2 is supposed to 'suppress' this information... James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: iptables questions

2011-04-17 Thread James McKenzie
or do you use Google Mail (gmail)? James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

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