Re: FC15/16 NetworkManager drops network connection

2012-03-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Symersky, Henry henry.symer...@rosalindfranklin.edu wrote: Can someone please explain to me how to configure the NetworkManager in order to KEEP ETEHERNET CONNECTTION EVEN AFTER LOGGING OUT ?? Thanks. Usually in the past (well for me always in the past once NM

Re: importing photos from Galaxy Nexus Android phone?

2012-03-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com wrote: On 03/12/2012 01:22 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Has anyone found a successful, reliable recipe for importing photos from a Galaxy Nexus Android phone? Never mind. I've figured out that

Re: display

2012-03-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: I can the following: cvt 1600 1200 return # 1600x1200 59.87 Hz (CVT 1.92M3) hsync: 74.54 kHz; pclk: 161.00 MHz Modeline 1600x1200_60.00  161.00  1600 1712 1880 2160  1200 1203 1207 1245 -hsync +vsync How can I

Re: YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

2012-03-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  google-chrome 19.0.1061.1 is out - both html5 and pepper flash work fine. Of course not yet in the stable branch but available for dev branch. -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
Does anyone know if there is a problem being addressed to remedy no updates appearing in the repos since March 1st for F16? Thanks -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have installed several updates since March 1. -- That is rather amazing considering I could not see a single f16 x86_64 update rpm on the server dated after March 1st! Perhaps you were updating something from

Re: F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Alchemist raimi...@gmail.com wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F16 Very good - updates starting to flow again from today -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Peter Larsen plar...@famlarsen.homelinux.com wrote: Patric, fdisk (you have to start using -cul instead of -l) reports what-ever the partition table contains. It's utterly ignorant to what's on the actual partition. So simply login with fdisk, do a t and change

Re: Alternative to a Pogoplug

2012-02-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 02/28/2012 03:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:52:23 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Any recommendations? newegg.com has a bookshelf computers category I was glancing at the other day. Perhaps

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/19/2012 11:27 PM, mike cloaked wrote: If you got rid of the top panel initially did you install the notification area back into the bottom panel? Of course.  I have the notification area, log out, workspace switcher and so

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/20/2012 01:00 AM, mike cloaked wrote: OK I have several machines running f16 xfce some x86 and some x86_64 and none have the issue that you are seeing. I think you're a tad confused.  I'm not the one having trouble getting

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:01 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/20/2012 01:00 AM, mike cloaked wrote: OK I have several machines running f16 xfce some x86 and some x86_64 and none have the issue that you

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/19/2012 09:24 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I remember when I did the initial install of Xfce, there was a second panel on the bottom of the screen with a couple items including a magnifying glass. I deleted that panel as

Re: Proper F16 Java setup ??? (Firefox Additional Plugins Required)

2012-01-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:51 AM, edik landave elwa...@gmail.com wrote: #replace the java version name for the one you have downloaded #This have worked for me: 1. Download jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin from the SUN site. 2. su--pwd--mv jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin to /usr/local 3. chmod u+x

Re: libreoffice paper size magic.

2012-01-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:35:49 -0500 fred smith wrote: Hmm that's odd. I didn't have to do either of those things. Just looked and both the printer default and document default paper are US Letter. I don't recall

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2012-01-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:23 +1000, Roger wrote: I've found over time that formatting with ext3 tends to remove most hidden partitions I don't see how it can do that.  Formatting creates a file system within a partition.

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 01/14/2012 11:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waughtwa...@redhat.com  wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: The configs were before I used splix and can look up my old notes on the issue.  However if you have a previously defined printer before you installed the splix package the way I would proceed is to delete I

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Rick Sewill wrote: On Saturday, January 14, 2012 07:47:05 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost the sound! If you are now using

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer and it works without any fuss or bother. Oh, do you use the Fedora splix

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora 16-i386 Can't get Samsung printer to print, Error Log Messages below. Samsung CLX3170. How did you install the printer? With many Samsung printers now the splix package will provide suitable opensource drivers that

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:18 -0500, Jim wrote: E [12/Jan/2012:17:08:55 -0500] PID 15290 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11. Samsung's CUPS filter crashed.  You need to let them know about it so

F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread mike cloaked
I know that recently some folk have posted of bad experiences with f16 - however I am running f16 on 6 machines (4 laptops and 2 desktops) with 4 x86_64 and 2 i686 - and all are now stable, and running with a responsive and crisp xfce desktop. I can do everything that I need to do, and one of the

Re: F16 - a good experience - except Zenbook trackpad + couple of other things

2011-12-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: +1 from me too but has anyone got a solution to the Zenbook trackpad hassles? (I am using XFCE) out and also: What particular issues are you having with the trackpad - I don't have that particular machine but I have

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Fedora User fedora...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:04:00 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I generally don't do install from DVD because there will always be the first

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/22/2011 02:31 AM, mike cloaked wrote: the almost inevitable problems that have come from the upgrade of an older system. And I've been doing upgrades for years and this is the first time I've ever had the slightest bit

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:07 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: When not using the retrace server, abrt usually just uploads the text backtrace, not the coredump.  (I believe you can instruct it to do so, but it doesn't do so by default and I have never needed to.)  When

Re: Problems with java applet

2011-12-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: Hi, after upgrading to F16, my online banking does no longer work. With F15, all was fine. My bank uses a java applet to log in, and that works. After logging in, I'm no longer able to do a singe transaction, because I have

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my system. Just

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.  I think abrtd needs

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:07 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful

Re: f16 - gthumb

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: More **issues** with f16!  Or is it GFnome3?  :) gthumb They have crippled it.  It seems. In full screen it is only showing thumbprints!  It will not go up to real full screen (image filling as much of screen as

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: $ vncviewer TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Nov 22 2011 14:21:13 Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. ^C Sun

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now have to reset

Re: fedora 15 Alt panel

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Before (until fedora 15), it was easy to configure the panel: Just right click, add to panel. Does this function disappear? check the net, it looks like that I may have to use Alt and/ot Ctl? The right

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original question. Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I do have a

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW? I am seeing the same

Re: fedora 13 to 14

2011-12-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I update a fedora 13 to fedora 14 by using the DVD but then I lost the network!! Here are some of the failures: lspci 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Linus is a kernel developer and not a UI developer.  Thus, his opinion does not matter. Since Linus is not a UI developer, he is only an end user.  Thus, the opinions of end users don't matter. I think his opinion

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: Change for the sake of being different is not progress, it's marketing. Changing the way things work to break the old tools so people will ue YOUR tools instead the 3rd party stuff is how MSFT got big, it is less

Re: Partition Management

2011-12-02 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 12/01/2011 09:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: why dual boot this days? windows XP on due to constraints at her work sounds not like playing 3d games and all other things are running fine in a virtual machine, most time

Re: Occasional panel freeze under Fedora-16

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I wonder if anyone else has suffered from this? I'm running Fedora-16/KDE on my laptop. Occasionally - two or three times a day - I cannot get any response from my panel, eg clicking on the f-icon has no effect. If

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 11/23/2011 04:23 PM, mike cloaked wrote: /usr/lib/cups/filter/ a usr/lib/cups/filter/ has the rastertosamsungsplc and rastertosamsungspl in it and permissions are the same as other execute files. /usr/share/cups/model

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: This is weird Mike , if I open Firefox and type in 192.168.0.5, IP to printer it shows a Information page from there I can PRINT  out reports of the printer from that page. But I can't print out anything like a txt doc or Print

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: ov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus[915]: [system] Activating service name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' (using servicehelper) Nov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus-daemon[915]: dbus[915]: [system] Activating service

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: It is hard to proceed just on the basis of the lines in the log if you can't remember the steps you took then you could remove the printer definition - and copy the two files into your system as I described

Re: F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried updates-testing?  There is an update that is supposed to help. I do use updates-testing - but which particular update are you referring to? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is x86_64 or not but I had a very very similar issue with a Samsung scx4500w when I installed f16. It turned out that the copy of the file rastertosamsungspl

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jimbinary...@comcast.net  wrote: I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is x86_64 or not but I had a very very similar

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 11/23/2011 12:23 PM, Jim wrote: On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jimbinary...@comcast.net  wrote: I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is x86_64

F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
I have been running f16 x86_64 with kde 4.7.3 for a week or two on two different machines. Occasionally I have found that the screen saver kicks in but then fails to time out and so the screensaver runs continuously without powersaving the monitor after a period as normally happens. Occasionally

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora 16 Printer has been working fine in Fedora 14, 15. F16 doesn't like it. I'am not getting any Selinux errors. Printer state: Idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed I can't tell from the messages

Re: bash update killed my shells

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:27 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:54:54 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15725 Read through the comments.

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Unplesant isn't much of a description :-). If you mean thin and spindly and hard to read, you might want to try this: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Thank you for that lovely hint - it

F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
I have two machines running f16 x86_64 fully up to date with a KDE desktop. One has the following graphics: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 01ff Flags: bus master, fast

Re: F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure the second machine is fully updated, and running the latest kernel? Try to do a yum update again, and reboot the machine, there were some recent (couple of days ago?) updates to some xorg packages... I had

Re: F16 - VSFTPd not allowing users to login

2011-11-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andy Blanchard zoc...@gmail.com wrote: Update:  This is now fixed.  The problem was that /bin/bash was not included in the file /etc/shells. Bug 754056 has been opened against the setup RPM, which provides /etc/shells, to correct this in the next release of

Re: F16 / HTTPD will not start

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: It was working under F15, before the upgrade.  Now, systemctl httpd.service start results in Shouldn't it be systemctl start httpd.service ? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 Fedora User wrote: The system does seem to boot faster but this is really arcane compared to

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/13/2011 04:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Unfortunately, chkconfig itself doesn't translate to systemd well. However, this thread got me thinking that there is a need for a chkconfig-like tool for systemd.  So,

Using chrony in f16

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
Now that chrony is in place in f16 instead of ntp does anyone know of some documentation on configuring chrony? I have started the daemon and the time was correctly set up with default configs.. however for use in a laptop where the network may well not always be present should settings be

Re: Using chrony in f16

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: mike cloaked wrote: Now that chrony is in place in f16 instead of ntp does anyone know of some documentation on configuring chrony? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChronyDefaultNTP man chrony man chronyc man

Re: Installing Fedora 16 from USB

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Miguel Cardenas mfcarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that comes with no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable USB with the ISO... It starts the installation but then it says it does not

F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature that I have been unable to use and maybe I am simply too stupid to be able to find the answer by googling. I have a script that I want to be executed using

Re: F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature that I have been unable to use and maybe I am simply too stupid to be able

Re: F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:29 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature

Re: /etc/init.d files under Fedora 16

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Last time I used Fedore was awhile ago. I decided to come back to it now, installed Fedora 16 and discovered the following: there are very few scripts under /etc/init.d And, also, I got my sshd installed

Re: installation on a dell netbook

2011-10-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Shiv Manas s...@linux.com wrote: 1. Create a Live USB Stick https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ 2. Boot from the above stick http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Boot_a_Live_USB_Drive 2011/10/7 Martín Marqués

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM, jackson byers byers...@gmail.com wrote: mike cloaked responded: The last update to chrome in f14 gave avc denials and in order to get chrome to run after that it was necessary to run the following commands (as root) before chrome would run again: semanage

Re: How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Alexander Volovics a.volo...@upcmail.nl wrote: I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad - TPPS/2 IBM

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:40 PM, jackson byers byers...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel J Walsh replied This is definitely something in SELinux.   The current upstream google chrome is a little strange from an SELinux point of view.  Have you tried chromium? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium

Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

2011-09-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com wrote: Can someone explain this? If you look at this chart, calls to US and Canada are free. You are correct if you are connecting from the US/Canada - but if you connect from elsewhere there is a charge even for calls to the

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 09/18/2011 06:54 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Great that it works with the f15 kernel - if it is any help I had until recently been running an f15 kernel in another f14 laptop for quite a while

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 09/17/2011 02:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: OK my dongle arrived in the post today - so this evening I thought I would try it out - after plugging it in, and firing up f16 it works out of the box - hooray! I

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 09/16/2011 05:20 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there. So, I bought one of those new $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port.

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 09/16/2011 06:19 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: If you want to adapt the DE to your needs (as opposed to adapting yourself to a new DE), KDE seems to be the best possible choice. The first time I used XFCE after installing it, my

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  Everyone is required to change - if you don't like G-3 there are several great DE's ... fedora makes it super easy to try them - then pick the one that suits your needs.  Fiddling and diddling and painting the donkey

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-09-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  Check the documentation for:        hdparm --secure-erase    and/or  --security-erase-enhanced I have used these commands for a number of drives - it is the fastest way to really erase all data on a drive, and

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:03:39 +0200,  antonio.montagn...@alice.it antonio.montagn...@alice.it wrote: How can I report the full set of messages? (If not

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:35 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:03:39 +0200,  antonio.montagn...@alice.it antonio.montagn

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:35 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville linvi...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:36:06PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: TP-LINK TL-WN821N Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote:  You could try this fedora app:  pdftotext  (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) The OP needs to confirm that the original pdf is actually text and

Re: Unable to create a liveUSB from Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso

2011-07-28 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:25 AM, yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: The live CDs have the hard drive boot loader code and partition at the beginning of the image. The DVD images do not. Mikkel Thanks for the info. This method of putting the DVD iso onto a usbkey I have been using for some

Re: Can't send email

2011-07-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  This is exactly why (half) solutions like this are really bad. A well designed service should be a back end that works everywhere  - and allow front ends to be built (or shared) for different DE's.  In this regard,

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:22 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, yes I did set a hostname but did not set up networking on the same screen - little point since the network was not accessible

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: I finally found the problem - it was a bad DVD burn - a good DVD did not give the problem! You mean you didn't run the media check? *Always* run the media check the first time you use an install DVD. poc

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: It would be nice to get a crack at that DVD. I'm curious how a bad burn caused a fixed bug to resurface. I don't know but it was certainly not an alpha or a beta iso - disk is binned though -- mike c -- users

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: It would be nice to get a crack at that DVD. I'm curious how a bad burn caused a fixed bug to resurface. I don't know but it was certainly

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: We are going around in circles. My question to you was did you use the Install a new system or upgrade an existing system option? You responded: Install new system was the option - if you go from there you don't

Re: updated bind for: CVE-2011-2464 / CVE-2011-2465

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  Is there an update for bind coming to F15/6 to address    CVE-2011-2464 / CVE-2011-2465  I didn't find one in koji .. Looks like bind-9.8.0-7.P4.fc16 is currently building but that is affected too? -- mike c --

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I am glad to drop it but 2 people said they had done the installation without having setup networking right after entering the host name. Since you never got to the adding repo stage their setting up networking at

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, yes I did set a hostname but did not set up networking on the same screen - little point since the network was not accessible (in fact not only was DHCP set to not give an address to the machine

Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but today I was asked to help someone install f15 on a machine which currently does not have a network connection (all previous installs were on machines with an active network connection). I may be a complete idiot but I could

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:13 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but today I was asked to help someone install f15 on a machine which currently does

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