Re: I do think the world is coming to a end

2012-05-30 Thread Piscium
On 30 May 2012 17:19, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: I'm sorry that I may have posted this to the wrong location, but the Linux world has got to see this. Won't  Microsoft have a run in, with the GPL-3 ?

Re: I do think the world is coming to a end

2012-05-30 Thread Piscium
On 30 May 2012 22:41, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: My concern really is that now it is much easier for the American security services to have access to everybody's communications. It's not changed. Read the analysis on things that have leaked out in court cases. Skype seems to

Re: I do think the world is coming to a end

2012-05-30 Thread Piscium
On 30 May 2012 23:36, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: . What I would wish is a return to the more nuanced approach to data collection that existed before 9/11, in particular in Europe. I don't believe

Re: what does this file mean? C\:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt

2012-04-29 Thread Piscium
On 29 April 2012 05:20, Darlene Wallach freepales...@dslextreme.com wrote: What does this file mean? I don't understand how I got it in my home directory Thank you Darlene Wallach $ cat C\:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt It was only last week that I realised I had that file in my home

Re: what does this file mean? C\:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt

2012-04-29 Thread Piscium
On 29 April 2012 12:20, Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanef...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a particular reason you need to use Adobe Reader? I personally abandoned it years ago in favour of Evince, and I haven't looked back. I can only remember one instance I had problems opening a PDF, and

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Piscium
On 30 March 2012 02:11, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: If I want some real work done, I just install TeXLive from DVD and I am good to go. It is also possible to download it. I did that last week (TexLive 2011 from upstream via mirror). It was straightforward, the only

Re: grub2-mkconfig with 3.2.10 kernels?

2012-03-19 Thread Piscium
On 18 March 2012 15:00, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: Just did an update and it included a new kernel, but then on reboot after running grub2-mkconfig noticed that the newest one was not first. Seems to be sorting the 9 before the 10? Is this a bug? I have been using

Re: grub2-mkconfig with 3.2.10 kernels?

2012-03-19 Thread Piscium
On 19 March 2012 19:53, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: I have had some messages on the grub list, and they confirmed the bug, and a fix seems to be to modify the /usr/lib/grub/grub_mkconfig_lib by changing one line from sort -n to sort -V.  Note: That is an unofficial

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2012 11:04, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: When I ran: yum install alacarte an F16 version of alacarte was installed. Ah, OK, looks like I was wrong when I said it was not available. But does it work well? I am still on F14 so did not test myself the solution as

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-13 Thread Piscium
On 13 March 2012 19:40, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:       I would like to change some menu names such as Scanner tool to       xsane, etc.       I don't even know what application some of the menu names refer       to. It seems to me I went through this once before but can't  

Re: Abrt quota in F16?

2012-03-12 Thread Piscium
On 11 March 2012 16:21, Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanef...@gmail.com wrote: Tried, it only allows quota configuration for crash reports, not debuginfo files. Thanks though! Ah, sorry, did not read your email properly. However I don't think that what you are looking for exists. Let's

Re: Abrt quota in F16?

2012-03-08 Thread Piscium
On 5 March 2012 23:08, Christopher Svanefalk christopher.svanef...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone throw me a (very short) rope on how to adjust the Abrt space quota for debuginfo files?  Thanks in advance! Try /etc/abrt/abrt.conf -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

kernel build question - CONFIG_XEN

2012-02-26 Thread Piscium
I tried to build a kernel. In this section of code I had an issue: # now run oldconfig over all the config files for i in *.config do mv $i .config Arch=`head -1 .config | cut -b 3-` make ARCH=$Arch listnewconfig | grep -E '^CONFIG_' .newoptions || true if [ -s .newoptions ]; then cat

CJK Extension B Chinese fonts for Firefox

2011-06-06 Thread Piscium
The link below [1] points to a page that tests the display of Chinese characters. With Firefox on Fedora 14 I can display correctly Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and CJK Extension A characters, however of the 4 CJK Extension B characters only one is displayed correctly. The character

Re: CJK Extension B Chinese fonts for Firefox

2011-06-06 Thread Piscium
On 6 June 2011 14:05, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: You can get closer by installing hanazono-fonts.  As in 3 out of 4. I did that and as you said I now get 3 out of 4. Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: CJK Extension B Chinese fonts for Firefox

2011-06-06 Thread Piscium
On 6 June 2011 14:41, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: Just for a test I installed the Windows zip file. It gave the laste one. Yes, correct. I also downloaded the zip file with the Han Nom fonts from [1] as recommended in [2]. In contains two TTF files. I put them in the folder

Re: CJK Extension B Chinese fonts for Firefox

2011-06-06 Thread Piscium
On 6 June 2011 15:08, Steve Underwood ste...@coppice.org wrote: As well as the missing characters, there are still a lot of places where something readable is shown, but it looks really ugly. Typically a mix of fonts are being used. For example, on my FC14 box 张启德 displays badly, because the

Re: F14 install freezes due to disk problems

2011-05-15 Thread Piscium
On 14 May 2011 21:18, Lewis NH2 lew@googlemail.com wrote: Good Evening, I am trying to install F14 on my box... Without any success so far. The problem: when it comes to write the partitioning scheme to the disk, the system freezes. This occurs with the following CD images: - Fedora 14

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-03 Thread Piscium
On 2 May 2011 14:06, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 1 May 2011 19:29:50 +0100 Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: I like to rebuild a number of Fedora source packages for performance and some tweaking. In the past I have used rpmbuild for that purpose, but this weekend I started

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-03 Thread Piscium
On 3 May 2011 20:36, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: big snip #= unconfined_t == # This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execstack' allow unconfined_t self:process execstack; You should report this as a bug in gcc. You mean _glibc_?

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-03 Thread Piscium
On 3 May 2011 20:47, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/glibc-2.13/elf' make[1]: *** [elf/tests] Error 2 You can turn the protection off # setsebool -P allow_execstack 1 To allow this access.   This is the default in F15/F16 fresh

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-02 Thread Piscium
On 1 May 2011 19:29, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: My question is if the policy files of the wiki page are current? They are three years old, which is a long time in dog years or Fedora years! I wonder if anybody could tell me where to get updated policy files as I am not proficient

SELinux for mock

2011-05-01 Thread Piscium
I like to rebuild a number of Fedora source packages for performance and some tweaking. In the past I have used rpmbuild for that purpose, but this weekend I started using mock. So far I built about a dozen source packages successfully, but then got a SELinux snag when building glibc (I am using

Automatically added to Bugzilla CC list

2011-04-30 Thread Piscium
I would like to be automatically added to the CC list for a bug on Bugzilla after I report it. However in spite of having in my Bugzilla preferences the setting Automatically add me to the CC list of bugs I change = Always, automatic adding is not working. Any ideas? -- users mailing list

Re: Automatically added to Bugzilla CC list

2011-04-30 Thread Piscium
On 30 April 2011 09:40, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:39:31 +0100, P wrote: I would like to be automatically added to the CC list for a bug on Bugzilla after I report it. Why? For bugs you report, your address is added to the ticket in the Reported

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 18 April 2011 14:01, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Nothing of this is really essential, but these are nice Debian features that Fedora apparenttly doesn't have. Now I would like to know about stuff comparable to this that Fedora has, but Debian hasn't (I'm sure there are many).

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 25 April 2011 13:16, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms. This isn't really a good comparison as the

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-25 Thread Piscium
On 25 April 2011 15:15, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/25/2011 07:42 PM, Piscium wrote: Yours is a good point, and also the way I see things. So yes, everything I use on a regular basis is available in the repos I have currently enabled, plus a package or two in Atrpms

Re: Claws versus Evolution for email.

2011-04-04 Thread Piscium
On 4 April 2011 20:44, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I ask questions that have seemingly simple answers on this board.  So much knowledge and experience and everyone does things a bit differently. I had never heard of Claws before. I am currently using Thunderbird. How

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-04-01 Thread Piscium
On 1 April 2011 20:41, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/28/2011 10:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I've done so for many years, but with Gnome3 my feel is things have developed into a direction, they have broken my Camel's back. I have a desktop and a laptop.  I'm

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2011 07:24, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Debian's  menu system dates back to the time when there was no freedesktop.org xdg menu specification and my understanding is that, the Debian menu system is considered deprecated.   Window managers in Fedora usually  have

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2011 11:13, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the information (also to Tim). Yes, I managed to easily create a menu in Fluxbox with  fluxbox-xdg-menu. Open box seems to have a similar script though I have not tested it. I could not yet find something similar for awesome

automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-13 Thread Piscium
I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them around, so I have been exploring and comparing. I noticed that for many of the window managers that I install in Debian (examples: fluxbox, openbox, awesome) there

Re: Update on: why is my Linux so damn slow?

2011-02-13 Thread Piscium
On 13 February 2011 07:17, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote: secondly, I have to report that a simple vacuuming of the sqlite databases of Firefox as explained here: http://www.gettingclever.com/2008/06/vacuum-your-firefox-3.html is enough to make a real difference. I tried this and

Re: Distorted audio in Firefox -- another memcpy bug hiding somewhere?

2010-11-13 Thread Piscium
On 13 November 2010 18:53, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: After upgrading to F14 on x86_64 I'm getting distorted audio in some situations. Mostly playing /some/ flash audio. This was discussed in https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-5739 and our bug 638477, with the conclusion

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 05:30, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 November 2010 00:35, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: In short: according to former Sun employees, Sun had around 100 people working

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not going well, or else that the OO team was so small that need not have time to examine and take a small patch. Correction: need not should be did not. -- users mailing

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-07 Thread Piscium
On 7 November 2010 21:58, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not going well, or else that the OO

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-06 Thread Piscium
On 6 November 2010 00:35, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: In short: according to former Sun employees, Sun had around 100 people working on OpenOffice.org. 30 of those left and went to work with LibreOffice. That's 30% of the work force. Sounds to me like OpenOffice.org still has got

Re: X won't start after upgrade last night

2010-10-25 Thread Piscium
On 24 October 2010 18:29, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I did an upgrade last night (fc13, x86) to get the security updates, and on the reboot X doesn't come up. I think I've seen this before, but can someone jog my memory what it messed up? And thoughts as to why would be appreciated

Re: Update failes

2010-10-25 Thread Piscium
On 24 October 2010 23:59, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I posted on pastebin teh output of the failed update of a fedora 10 installation. Sorry it is: http://pastebin.com/eTfDxUSB Fedora 10 is EOL'd. Perhaps it is not available at

Re: Update failes

2010-10-25 Thread Piscium
On 25 October 2010 19:49, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: 4) I posted the output of anaconda like it is suggested by the installation 5) I did expected that somebody would have a look on this file It is unlikely that anyone will spend time looking at this considering that is so out of

keyboard locale configuration

2010-10-23 Thread Piscium
I use the Irish keyboard in Gnome, and all is well, including when I start a terminal. However if I press CTRL-ALT-Fn to get a console, I get the wrong keys, for example, if I press '\' I get ''. These are the contents of my /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file: KEYTABLE=ie MODEL=pc105 LAYOUT=ie

Re: system hangs when i turn on desktop effects

2010-10-23 Thread Piscium
On 23 October 2010 13:33, sumatheja sumath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,         I'm using fedora 13 on  my dell inspiron 15 r with intel HD graphics. When i turn on the turn on desktop effects(compiz effects) my system hangs. Can anyone help me with this?? Likely you were bit by this

Re: keyboard locale configuration

2010-10-23 Thread Piscium
On 23 October 2010 11:23, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: I use the Irish keyboard in Gnome, and all is well, including when I start a terminal. However if I press CTRL-ALT-Fn to get a console, I get the wrong keys, for example, if I press '\' I get ''. These are the contents of my /etc

Re: keyboard locale configuration

2010-10-23 Thread Piscium
On 23 October 2010 16:29, DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I changed the US default to the UK Natural keyboard via the keyboard marker at the bottom right of my KDE screen Seems to be OK for me. Thanks, that was a good idea. I changed to the UK keyboard and the majority of the keys is now

Re: Edit gnome menu

2010-10-18 Thread Piscium
On 18 October 2010 20:50, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, normally I would edit the gnome menu by clicking the right mouse on the fedora icon in the gnome panel. But there is no option to edit. Any suggestions? yum install alacarte After that you need to restart the gnome-panel,

Re: F13: Problem with Gparted?

2010-10-18 Thread Piscium
On 18 October 2010 23:51, Dan Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: You may notice that when using the move slider completely to the left, 1MB unallocated space appears in the 'Free Space Preceding' textbox.  Apparently, you cannot set this value to 0 with the move slider or by entering it manually,

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 03:20, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: I ran the commands and everything compared,  but when I ran; # /usr/sbin/alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so It ran , but I did not get the result shown below There is 1 program that provides 'libjavaplugin.so'.   Selection  

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 08:47, Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2 Obviously you need to type the above in a single line (it was broken in pieces by the mailer

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 17:26, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: There is nothing about jre or java in about:plugins , Things to try: 1. Do you still have in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins a ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_21/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so? If so, and you added the other link to /libjavaplugin.so, then

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 18:39, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote:   i believe you can rename that (or delete it) and it will be recreated but that probably wont help. /pluginreg.dat has all the same thing that shows up in about:plugins Exactly, that file is a sort of cache. If the file is deleted

Re: Fedora 14 livecd fails when converted to liveusb ?!?

2010-10-16 Thread Piscium
On 16 October 2010 17:41, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Has anybody tried booting Fedora 14 livecd as liveusb? Does it work for you? When Fedora 14 Beta came out I put it (KDE spin) on a USB stick using Fedora 13 live-usb-creator and everything worked fine. -- users mailing

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-16 Thread Piscium
On 16 October 2010 23:36, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: So, I have to do run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg every time a new kernel rpm is installed? If so, then it is a nasty requirement, because updates are set to be automatic, but running this command is not. If we are at some

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-16 Thread Piscium
On 17 October 2010 00:15, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote:  I have in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins  a     ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_21/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so    but the jre won't show in about:plugins . What am I missing This is what I have (and it works): [r...@dell-d3000

Re: Desktop effects not working

2010-10-01 Thread Piscium
On 1 October 2010 15:31, ashish ashish10...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed FC-!3 in my system.Everything is working fine except the desktop effects. If i turn them on i cannot launch any applications like gimp or open office. If i click on any of the applications the machine will either get

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

2010-09-29 Thread Piscium
On 29 September 2010 08:37, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: Fedora-14-Beta-i686-Live-XFCE.iso has the same cksum as Beta RC3? No, that would be a big coincidence. This is the copy in my local mirror, but it should work for you:

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

2010-09-29 Thread Piscium
On 29 September 2010 10:37, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Beta is identical to Beta RC3. In general, for each of Alpha, Beta, and Final, one of the corresponding release candidates is chosen (usually, but not necessarily, the last one). You can verify this by comparing the

Re: Scottrade streaming quotes errors on latest fc13

2010-09-27 Thread Piscium
On 27 September 2010 00:35, T.D. Telford d...@dougtelford.com wrote: Scottrade streaming stock quotes is initiated from firefox, and uses a Java applet. fc10 is fine and the fc13 dvd install, with no updates is good, but the latest fc13 changes (as of today) show the major index quotes are

test management system

2010-09-22 Thread Piscium
Hiya, I am looking for a test management system, to help software/firmware testing. Something like an application that runs on a server that would allow testers to create test plans, write test cases, mark test cases as passed or failed once tested. Ideally it could be used with a browser as

Re: list server returning lots of undeliverables

2010-09-22 Thread Piscium
Same here. Michael Got one bounce to the email I sent. -- 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: HTML editor under gnome

2010-09-10 Thread Piscium
On 10 September 2010 07:49, A. Boggiano boggi...@gmail.com wrote: My girlfriend need an html editor for her ebay auctions. She used kompozer under kde on fedora 8. Now she switched to fedora 13 with gnome (kde is too slow on his old notebook) and she asked me for an editor *LIKE* kompozer.