Re: 2.6.40 kernel?

2011-08-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Rahul Sundaram wrote: https://plus.google.com/106327083461132854143/posts/SbnL3KaVRtM Super! Good to know. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Question about SMART

2011-07-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Paolo Galtieri wrote: I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. One

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

2011-07-05 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Reindl Harald wrote: 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf # This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any # modifications will be lost. Section InputClass Identifier system-setup-keyboard MatchIsKeyboard on Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
夜神 岩男 wrote: This is well put :-) I believe you meant to say that you always choose UIDs/GIDs = 1000. Indeed I did... that sort of typo is the kind that leaves a sleepy coder scratching his head sometimes ヽ(o`皿′o)ノ I'm glad you got the idea anyway. I've found this to be a simple

Re: GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA wrote: I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk with Clonezilla. Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk one time. Once the

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ed Greshko wrote: When I rebooted I made sure not to request NTP as an option. Also, I picked Advanced when creating the first user an picked UID/GID=1000. Great stuff! So, that answers another issue raised on this list earlier. :-) But there's still the issue of Fedora using the

Re: F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick Lists wrote: Does anyone have an idea how I can make these keys work? There used to be something about atkbd messages in /var/log/messages, but I believe that is only for the old PS/2 keyboards and not USB keyboards. I don't know what built-in laptop keyboards are classed as. Keep us

Re: Laptop Graphics

2011-07-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Johan Scheepers wrote: Looking around to buy a new laptop. I like Intel. -- 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: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Johan Scheepers wrote: I have a multiple boot internal drive (different linux flavors)(excluding windows). Have a external usb drive for backup between these different systems. Now booting in a different flavor the permissions change to numbers. My normal permission is johan johan. I

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
JD wrote: Machine one..johan 1000:1000 Machine two ..johan 500:500 This is the problem I had with Debian and friends. Fedora starts users at 500, while Debianc uses 1000. So, if you use the same username on both, you now have the same user with both 500 and 1000 uid. When you log back into

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
?? ?? wrote: Every time you create a user on any system, specify the UID GID explicitly, and always use UIDs/GIDs = 1000. Fedora doesn't care if you have a UID much higher than 500, but Debian does care if your UID is lower than 1000 (in fact, the man page for useradd on Fedora even says

Re: My eyes! My eyes!

2011-07-01 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I know you are looking for a full easy-eye theme, but... What I have done (in KDE), is to select any theme I like and to change the

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ed Greshko wrote: Isn't Chrome source code available? I thought it was. That doesn't help me a lot. I took 2 years of Computer Science back in the early 80s (learned pascal, c, assembly language, fortran) and I can still understand short pieces of code, but when it gets complicated or much

Re: chown ??

2011-06-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: Backing up configuration files can be handy, too You bet. I keep a number of config files in my backup, since I spent a lot of time configuring them and like to restore that configuration in future editions of Fedora. Of course, I always compare to make sure that the new system

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
james tate wrote: On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and files in tom to owner:tom . The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not changing the directories and files to owner, tom . Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the

Re: chown ??

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: My solution: mount user stuff to /home/you/mountpoint. Eg. I mount my Documents partition and my Backup partition to /home/me/Documents and /home/me/Backup. This way, I am the owner and I don't have to with changing the ownership of /mnt/stuff. I should

Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I just nstalled Google Chrome to test it. Immediately, it asked to open Kwallet. I allowed it, and then I thought... Yikes! Should I have done that? Why does Google chrome need to see the contents of Kwallet even before I have visited a web site and while all I am doing is configuring it? Is it

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ed Greshko wrote: Are you concerned that Chrome maybe doing something evil? Yes. even though I do use google services, I don't trust them and I have never trusted their browser or their addon toolbar, etc. I use firefox and like it, but I wanted to have a look at chrome, because of its recent

Re: Google Chrome browser and Kwallet

2011-06-29 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: google-chrome --help good idea. I never thought of running it that way. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
It is common knowledge that one does not need to reboot for updates to take effect in GNU Linux. However, in actual practice, this is not so. I could cite many examples, but this should suffice: On Sunday evening, I installed a new updates-testing version of mesa and then I suspended the

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: For a couple of releases now the graphical updater tools have supported the ability to warn the user when this is the case. If you were using these tools then you should have received such a warning. I run yum from the command line, as I feel I have both more control and

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Andrew Haley wrote: How could it be otherwise? If a file has been deleted, the proper thing would be for the running process to read the new copy into memory. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: needs-restarting Never heard of it. I will definitely man it and add it to my repertory of knowledge. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: gnu linux update question

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The upshot is that if a process has a file open, and that file is replaced by a different one (using unlink and creat) then the process will continue to use the old file and all its attributes. When the process closes the file, or terminates, the reference

Re: gnu linux update question [solved]

2011-06-28 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Then you should know to run needs-restarting when it has finished to check for this yourself. Thanks for the info. Finally, after so many years, I *do* understand how it is meant that it is not required to reboot. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Partitioning in anaconda

2011-06-26 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Marko Vojinovic wrote: you do have to worry about it rewriting your grub bootloader. Absolutely correct! I boot into rescue mode and reinstall the grub bootloader to the MBR of /dev/sda. This is the only little 'glitch'. Once Windows is installed, however, it has no further effect. --

Re: Partitioning in anaconda

2011-06-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Frode wrote: Questions: 'Olde' knowledge says that only one primary partition can be visible to the system at one time. Is this not longer true? Don't quote me (DQM), but I think this only applies to Windows. DQM, but I think grub doesn't care. I boot systems installed on partitions that

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-18 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Sam Varshavchik wrote: My knowledge of systemd is limited only to what I had to figure out to fix the systemd- related subset of everything that was utterly broken after updating from F14 to F15. Same here. I had to rewrite all of my scripts. Just really easy stuff, like starting a daemon

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-18 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Aaron Konstam wrote: But: chkconfig --level 35 nfs on would start on entering runlevel 3 and 5 and not on entering runlevel 2 4. Are you saying you can't arrange to do that in systemd. Is that considered a step up? As I understand it (could be inaccurate :-) ), there are no run levels 0,

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-17 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Aaron Konstam wrote: eqwuivalent to: chkconfig --level 35 service name To start it during this session: systemctl start service name.service To start every time you start graphical.target: systemctl enable service name.service I'm not sure how you would differentiate between

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-17 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I'm not sure how you would differentiate between multi-user.target and graphical.target. I just remembered that multi-user.target is a subset of graphical.target, so this should likely cover your needs. Again, don't quote me. -- users mailing list users

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-17 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Sam Varshavchik wrote: This is specified by the service unit. systemd uses a slightly different paradigm. The service itself knows what system state it should be running in, by default. Enabling the service puts it as a target for the state. I'm glad you know what you're talking about. It's

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Joe Zeff wrote: No. They were arranged that way to minimize the possibility of keyboard jams in early manual typewriters. True. Now that you mention it, it jogs my memory. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The hardest to remember are ¿ and ¡ Really? ¿ is alt-/ (shift-/ is ?) ¡ is alt-1 (shift-1 is !) I find those really obvious. I just found ç and Ç. They're also somewhat obvious, but not based on the c. ç is alt-, Ç is shift-alt-, -- users mailing list

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Antonio Olivares wrote: You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc Add a line setxkbmap -option compose:ralt I use the menu key, to the right of right-alt, since right-alt is also known as Alt-Gr and it has a different function than left-alt. left-alt-m does not print µ,

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: in F15 the settings are under System Settings - Region and Language - Layout. I don't know which version of kde you are using, but in fedora 15, with kde-4.6.3, there is no layout under systemsettings/locale region and language. Layouts are shown under:

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: f you take lessons, though. The keyboard layout becomes second nature, quite quickly. You can do that with a program, you don't need to go to a school. While it may seem overkill, for many, but if you do a lot of email, or programming, or any other regular typing. It's worth

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW all of these use Right Alt, not Left Alt. Yes, right alt and left alt are not the same thing. On German keyboards, left alt is called alt and right alt is called Alt-Gr, so you can see that they are different. Even on a US international keyboard, right alt m

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I don't even have a Menu key, nor anything labeled Windows I hate those damned windows keys, but they are handy as spare keys to be mapped to useful functions that windows does not have. I can use menu as compose, and the left windows key is actually meta, if I am

Re: Special characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: íïéë - Iḿ almost loving it... :) Tell me about it. It's like you can actually type freely and don't have to look at character charts to type words. All I need to learn is which alt I need to type to get the apostrophe, and not an m with an accent... apostrophe

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: what's the setxkbmap command to use the menu key? There is no right alt on the JP keyboard layout on my notebooks. I use KDE and there is a graphical interface to set it. However, I am guessing that you can likely find success with: setxkbmap -option compose:menu -- users

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: What's the '' for [?] If you don't use the '' at the end of the line, the program will run, but the command line will be hung until the program is terminated. If you put the '' oat the end of the command, then the running program goes into the background, I believe, and you get

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: so, the '' part is superfluous when I pass the command in my bashrc file I believe so, but don't quote me. Try it: it should work. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: I'm using the US English keyboard, and am so used to that, I don't want to change the layout. I type a lot in German and French and I also use the US 104-key generic layout. In systemsettings/input devices/keyboard/layouts, you can select US- international with

Re: Saving Youtube Videos in Fedora

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:26:57 -0400 james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: At one time Youtube videos were being temp. downloaded while playing to the /tmp directory where you could save from, but now it seems that is no longer the case. Where are they being temp.

Re: Saving Youtube Videos in Fedora

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Actually, I modified it a bit more, as I couldn't quite get it to do the whole download, so I put this in my .bashrc function fid () { echo $( ps -fu peter | egrep 'libflashplayer\.so' | egrep 'npviewer.bin' | egrep -om 1 -E '\[0-9]+\' | head -1 ) ; } All I do is type fid to get the flash id

Re: systemd discussion

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
JB wrote: - going beyond system init replacement - not adhering to UNIX principles (modularity, etc) - interference with sysadmin duties/decisions to set up the system (e.g. loading modules on its own and e.g. enabling sys capabilities and protocols) It would be nice if there were more

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Or diacritical+space, which works all the time. I speak as one with an apostrophe in my name :-) I have an ü :-) but in English, I usually just use ue. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
nomnex wrote: I used to simultaneously press Ctrl, Shift and U keys. Release U key and enter Unicode symbol's hex code Holy Moley! But you have to memorize the unicode hex code for each character. You're right, it doesn't work in KDE. Linux compose key sequences method is a gem I like

Re: Special Characters

2011-06-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: Ever more, the need for the standard QWERTY keyboard (and its ilk) to be abandoned has increased. It's inadequate for anything more than primary school beginner's English. I've always wanted a keyboard that has the letters arranged in order. It makes no sense for me, and likely

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Andre Robatino wrote: If the command IS actually necessary, it would also be good to determine if it's necessary to do the cd command first, and remove it if not, for the same reason. That is for experts to ascertain. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Andre Robatino wrote: I removed the cd instructions from the wiki after reading it and deciding they weren't necessary. Suit yourself. It is a wiki, and as I understand it, it can be edited by any contributor. If you are privy to information that supercedes the current information, then you

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Horsley wrote: For me, I can't get all flash pages to work unless I completely remove nspluginwrapper Never had that one! For me, nspluginwrapper has been a saviour. I used to not be able to open more than one youtube video tab at a time, without having firefox lock up and then all of

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Horsley wrote: That's what the site: syntax in google searches if good for :-). Thanks for the tip! I will definitely be using it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Shitty fonts/theme in Mozilla apps in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Horsley wrote: For me, this did the trick: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Thank you so much for bringing this to my/our attention!!! I have also had the spindly fonts in KDE (in Okular, too) and noticed that they were thin and wiry up to size 13 and then

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Christian Kreibich wrote: I've upgraded a 64-bit test box from F14 to F15, and am not impressed. For starters, the 32-bit Flash plugin no longer works in Firefox. Most pages using it stall the browser for 10-15 seconds, then I get a black/grey rectangle. I've followed the instructions

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Then, I run, as root (not sure if you need to cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, but it can't hurt, just in case): mozilla-plugin-config -i I forgot to mention, in case you are copying the tarball by hand into the plugin directory... Make sure that ownership

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Wiki can be edited by anyone with a Fedora account. If you don't have one, you can get it within minutes https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts Feel free to pitch in and add more details. Sure, I can get one. But I should also add that I am not an expert and have

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Feel free to pitch in and add more details. I now have an account, but I am unable to complete the contributor agreement, because the program refuses to accept my agreement without a telephone number. Should I just put in a fake number to see if it will work? -- users

Re: Flash plugin stalls Firefox in Fedora 15

2011-06-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Should I just put in a fake number to see if it will work? The fake telephone number worked. I am now a contributor, but I don't know what I can contribute. I will see if I can add the nspluginwrapper stuff I had mentioned earlier in this thread to the wiki. I

Re: booting F14 on 2nd drive on a Windows 7 PC

2011-05-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
FHDATA wrote: C. I used F14 32bit install media and it sees p0 as /dev/sda1 and it sees p1 as /dev/adb D. Fedora 14 install completes successfully During which it was instructed to install boot loader onto p1 and to leave alone /dev/sda1 ... I would suggest installing Fedora to

Re: Can't resume from hibernate with FC14

2011-04-13 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Eric B. wrote: I have no idea what those error messages mean. I am extremely frustrated, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to work with a laptop that I cannot hibernate as I take it back and forth to the office every day. I had a similar problem and have not tried to hibernate for a

Re: .rnd

2011-03-06 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/06/2011 03:14 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I didn't see anything that is. That is about files with the extension .md, while I was asking about a file called .rnd (. r n d). While that is true, you can always type .rnd in that site's search box to find what

.rnd

2011-03-05 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the seed for a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran yum provides */.rnd and nothing at all turned up. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: .rnd

2011-03-05 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:28 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the seed for a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran yum provides */.rnd and nothing at all turned up. yum only

Re: F14 and grub

2011-02-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Christian Langer wrote: Any suggestions? Try: sudo chown root:root splash.xpm.gz Also, run, for selinux' sake: sudo restorecon -v '/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz' Since you cannot boot, you will need to do after booting from a rescue disk. bfo.org or boot.iso should work, or, I believe, the

Re: F14 and grub

2011-02-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: bfo.org Sorry, that should be bfo.iso from boot.fedoraproject.org. -- 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: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Heinz Diehl wrote: In Fedora is there a better email Browser ? Kmail. I've been using it for over 10 years, and it has never failed me yet. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: putting something into single quotes in a bash script

2011-02-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
g wrote: maybe not for some who are not used to man pages. Actually, I am intimately familiar with man pages; however, the only commands I know are space bar, 'b', 'q' and the mouse wheel. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

putting something into single quotes in a bash script

2011-02-02 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
What is the difference in a bash script when one places something between single quotes: - using the apostrophe, ' - using the accent grave, ` ? Eg., ps -fu 'whoami' ps -fu `whoami` They produce entirely different results. There are many other places where one might wish to put a command,

Re: putting something into single quotes in a bash script

2011-02-02 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Joe Zeff wrote: You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have the time to read a book just to find out the meaning of ` and learn that it is not the same as '. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: putting something into single quotes in a bash script

2011-02-02 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
g wrote: man bash The man page for bash is the worst one of all! I use man all the time for all kinds of commands, but anything to do with bash directs you to this bash page, meaning you have to pore over hundreds of separate entries in the vain hope of finding something relevant to your

Re: rescue mode

2011-01-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: You can also use the much smaller (220 MB) boot.iso CD image. I guess I could just have gone to the command shell and run the install command, eh? Just get to the grub shell and run root and setup commands. I never thought of that until now. I thought I had to

Re: rescue mode

2011-01-27 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tim wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 21:25 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Windows changed the system clock from UTC to local time, so fedora needed to do a complete relabelling before I could finally boot up again. I can't see why that was necessary. I've experienced it before. It says

rescue mode

2011-01-26 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Which disk would I download to get into rescue mode on F14 x86_64? All I need to do is reinstall grub, after (hopefully) repairing a broken Windows XP that I have not been able to boot for a year because of having gotten a new motherboard a year ago. I do not have a floppy drive or any type of

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Mike Chambers wrote: wireless drivers in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box My laptop has a BROADCOM NETXTREME BCM5751M GIGABIT ETHERNET and it uses the tg3 kernel module. I just booted up after the initial installation and it just worked. The kernel module must have

Re: Irritating sound when playing flash

2010-11-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Vadgama Harsh wrote: Am using fedora 14 64 bit. when i play some flash videos there is a irritating clicking lowpitched noise when videos play. any solutions? You tubevidoes seem to play perfectly without the sound. Other videos requiring flash seem to have this issue. By the way i am using

Re: Irritating sound when playing flash

2010-11-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
stan wrote: I'm not living up to my full potential I'm sorry to hear that, but recognizing it is the first step to recovery LOL -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
suvayu ali wrote: Hi everyone, I was trying to clean my /tmp with tmpwatch and noticed a really large file sitting there, and I have no clue what could have generated that. Anyone has any ideas? $ lt /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam -rw-rw-r--. 1 me me 13G Oct 29 01:47 /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
JD wrote: you can save yourself a lot of trouble by downloading the firefox add-on I could, but I like Suvayu's function better. I already put it into my .bashrc and its a keeper. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Takehiko Abe wrote: The new flash player (preview 2) unlinks a temp file right after opening it as discussed in this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dky73/flashplugin_not_caching_to_tmp_any more/c10ylu5 Finally, someone who gets it :-) That is what I was saying all

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I meant link to it before it's deleted. Wasn't that obvious? No. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dky73/flashplugin_not_caching_to_tmp_any more/c10ylu5 It gets deleted right away, so there never is any file in /tmp, so there is nothing to link to (except

quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I am using Adobe Flash 10 (x86_64) with Firefox on Fedora 14. I have noticed that, when watching YouTube, the videos are downloaded into the ~/.mozilla cache (in the older flash, it was /tmp). With some YT videos, the file remains in the Cache, but with other videos, the file vanishes at the

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Suvayu Ali wrote: dupe_flash () { pid=$( ps -fu `whoami`| egrep 'libflashplayer\.so'| egrep -om 1 -E '\[0-9]+\'| head -1 ); fid=$( lsof -p $pid | egrep '/tmp/Flash'| egrep -om 1 -E '\[0-9]+[a-z]\'| tr -d 'a-z'); cp /proc/${pid}/fd/${fid} ~/flashtmpfile } Thanks! PS: Duh... I really don't

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Suvayu Ali wrote: dupe_flash () { pid=$( ps -fu `whoami`| egrep 'libflashplayer\.so'| egrep -om 1 -E '\[0-9]+\'| head -1 ); fid=$( lsof -p $pid | egrep '/tmp/Flash'| egrep -om 1 -E '\[0-9]+[a-z]\'| tr -d 'a-z'); cp /proc/${pid}/fd/${fid} ~/flashtmpfile } Like I said, I

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
suvayu ali wrote: this is very limited and elementary function but it does the job. I am sorry to report that the function does NOT work. It captured a segment of the downloaded .flv, but not all of it. In the mozilla cache, there is a file that has over 13M, but the function only captures a

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I am sorry to report that the function does NOT work. OK, I tried it again with one of those YT video that mysteriously auto-delete themselves. Very strange behaviour, I must say. Anyway, perhaps it does work after all? I had to wait until the file was completely

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
suvayu ali wrote: What version of flash are you using? I am using flash 10 beta for x86_64, likely the same as you. See my previous posting for my apparent success. I will have to give another try, though, but to hear that you yourself use it successfully, I am most reassured :-)) Thanks.

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash [solved]

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
suvayu ali wrote: Happy to be of help. :) FWIW, I have successfully used this with youtube, vimeo, dailymotion and metacafe. Thanks a lot for responding. I really like this. And it's a new function for my .bashrc. ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Actually what I do is hard-link to the flash file in /tmp, thus keeping a handle to the file so it won't disappear when the Flash process terminates, then copy the link once I'm sure it has completely downloaded. I already thought of that, but it didn't work. I

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Actually what I do is hard-link to the flash file in /tmp, thus keeping a handle to the file so it won't disappear OK, I tried this, as described in my previous post, using Suvayu's commands. It didn't work, as I am unable to hard link to a file that has been

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Try it and see. I am on it this very second. I has misunderstood earlier and thought you meant the file in the mozilla cache, but you did explicitly state /tmp/Flash. I just tied to make a hard link, but it says the /tmp/Flash* does not exist. Using Suvayu's

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Suvayu Ali wrote: How do you hard link a deleted file? Have no fear. I like your function. :-) I was just curious about how Patrick manages to link to a deleted file. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

su or sudo su?

2010-10-18 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. Recently, I discovered I could simply type su -. What's the difference: su - sudo su - ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: su or sudo su?

2010-10-18 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
all participants wrote: ... Thanks, guys. I now understand the difference. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010-10-18 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
JD wrote: I found that current release of libreoffice is same as openoffice. OpenOffice is at version 3.3 in F13, while LibreOffice is only at 2.96 in Rawhide. Are you sure they are the same? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: ... why top-posting should be avoided... (was Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?))

2010-10-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
JD wrote: On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided... -- Sam On 10 October 2010 21:01, Timignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: I'd really appreciate it if anyone could

Re: Can't tell which hard drive to install Fedora 13 OS to.

2010-09-17 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote: Does anyone know of a way to distinguish between the two, or can anyone help me through this process? I know exactly what you are talking about. I have 2 identical hard drives, both 300GB, and the installer shows both as the same and asks which I would like

Re: Liberation or Corefonts?

2010-09-13 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Alex wrote: I'm trying to find some better fonts for my monitor/video card combination. I find that Liberation and Dejavu are the best fonts to use. They have a wide utf-8 spectrum. I no longer install any non-free all-purpose fonts, unless I want decorative fonts. Personally, I prefer

Re: dict databases

2010-09-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Silent-Hunter wrote: I... had dozens of them! Celtic, and German, and Russian, etc. Does anyone know where to find those...? I have not used dict for a number of years, since kde-3.5, basically. There is no kdict for kde-4.5. However, there is goldendict (qt) and stardict (not as nice, for

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