Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:38:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/19/14 22:12, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Also, recall I don't use openbox, would it be possible to delay the > >> starting of pnmixer by using a user specific autostart instead of the > >> syst

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:44:03 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > To summarize. The problem you're having is with pnmixer. You have 4 systems > configured, software wise, the same and only one system has this problem. > The problem presents itself coming out of hibernate as well as on initial > boot.

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:39:45 +0200 poma wrote: > On 19.10.2014 14:55, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:47:05 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/19/14 13:37, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>>>> https://access.redhat.com/do

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:28:45 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 01:10 +, Bill Oliver wrote: > > Here's the problem. Let's say you have a set of data and you want to > > characterize it in order to use it as the basis of a model. In order > > to do that, you really nee

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:47:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/19/14 13:37, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/pdf/Kernel_Crash_Dump_Guide/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7-Kernel_Crash_Dump_Guide-en-US.pdf > >&g

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello again! Thanks!! > >> OK, so my understanding is that you start pnmixer, and it starts fine, > >> then you hibernate, and then you reboot to resume from hibernation, > >> and THAT is when the crash occurs. > >> Is this basically correct? > > Basically, correct, except that pnmixer itself cra

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:41:32 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > > On 10/17/2014 09:52 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:35:18 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > > > >>> Well, I'm using kdm and when I select openbox I don't actually have a > &

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:35:18 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Well, I'm using kdm and when I select openbox I don't actually have a > > "system tray". But, I'm not an "openbox" user. I've tried to reproduce > > your problem with xfce and lxde in a VM but was unable to reproduce the > > problem

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, I put my output of dmesg, lspci -v and lsmod: $ dmesg | fpaste Uploading (94.3KiB)... http://ur1.ca/ieix9 -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/143066/36035301 $ lspci -v | fpaste Uploading (8.6KiB)... http://ur1.ca/ieixj -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/143068/14136036 $ lsmod | fpaste Upload

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:59:14 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > > On 10/17/2014 08:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:18:13 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/18/14 10:04, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> Thanks, Ed! > >>

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:18:13 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/18/14 10:04, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks, Ed! > > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:57:26 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/18/14 09:37, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>>

Re: pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks, Ed! On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:57:26 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/18/14 09:37, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I have been getting this message when I start pxmixer: > > > > (pnmixer:3435): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion > > 

pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been getting this message when I start pxmixer: (pnmixer:3435): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed What is missing? How do I get around it? I am on a fully updated Fedora 20. Many thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This ma

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:21:35 + Bill Oliver wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > > > It would be a bit of work, although not an overwhelming intellectual > > challenge, to produce an R package that would do essentially the same thing > > as "easyfit". There are a number o

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:08 + Bill Oliver wrote: > 3) One specific statistics package that I use about four times a year Just curious: what is this specific statistics package that you use about four times a year? R can not substitute for this? Ranjan _

Re: yum failure.

2014-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:48:51 -0400 William wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I have F20 on a 64-bit system. I'm a home user with no sysadmin > training and no real sysadmin experience. I tried to do my weekly > patches, and got this: > > bash.6[~]: yum update > error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/proce

Re: what does this error message mean?

2014-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:46:57 +0200 poma wrote: > On 15.10.2014 17:11, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:49:16 +0200 poma wrote: > > > >> On 15.10.2014 14:48, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:28:53 +0200 poma > >>>

Re: what does this error message mean?

2014-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:49:16 +0200 poma wrote: > On 15.10.2014 14:48, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:28:53 +0200 poma wrote: > > > >> On 15.10.2014 07:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:40:50 +0200 poma > >>>

Re: what does this error message mean?

2014-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:48:57 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:35:50 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I have the following messages upon boot/wakeup from hibernate (in my dmesg > > also): > > > > Which one are

Re: what does this error message mean?

2014-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:28:53 +0200 poma wrote: > On 15.10.2014 07:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:40:50 +0200 poma wrote: > > > >> On 15.10.2014 05:35, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> > >>> I have t

Re: what does this error message mean?

2014-10-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:40:50 +0200 poma wrote: > On 15.10.2014 05:35, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have the following messages upon boot/wakeup from hibernate (in my dmesg > > also): > > > > .. > > [9.049204] systemd[1]:

what does this error message mean?

2014-10-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi. I have the following messages upon boot/wakeup from hibernate (in my dmesg also): .. [9.049204] systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 313 (plymouthd). [9.076954] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [9.076955] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [9.076

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
you > could apply to the motherboard and also run memtest for 24 hours. I > recently did flash my motherboard and haven't had a hang since, but > its a server/raid and the load can get pretty big, hasn't yet. > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote:

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks again! On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 23:15:56 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > > http://ur1.ca/iawmi -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/139547/00617141 > > Reading your dmesg dump, I'm not convinced that the irq handler is > what causes you problems. Some years ago, the code was modified that > the missin

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:35:36 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 04.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Anecdotally also, it appears to be true. Without the resume = UUID > > stuff, it does not wake up from hibernate but goes on to reboot. > > I tried both with and with

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks again! > 3.17 is the mainline kernel which is under actual development, and > will be the stable kernel once released and updated. Soon after 3.17 > is released, the merge window opens, which is the time the developers > are sending new patches to Linus. After 3.18-rc1 is released, the > me

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks again! On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:51:49 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > > In that case, you should download your kernels directly from > kernel.org. It's not a big deal to compile a kernel on your own. > > 1. Download e.g. the latest mainline kernel from kernel.org > 2. Unpack it into /usr/src >

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thank you again! On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:30:39 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 03.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > How does one go down to a 3.15.10 kernel? I could try that and see, I > > guess. Would it also downgrade the headers, etc? > > If you install a Fedora ke

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 21:34:18 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 01.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Unfortunately, there are hard lockups. > > Then, you should definitely report this to the Fedora kernel folks. > You can also try with a vanilla kernel from k

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 21:34:18 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 01.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Unfortunately, there are hard lockups. > > Then, you should definitely report this to the Fedora kernel folks. Thanks! I have done this. > You can also try with a vanilla k

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 08:52:19 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 30.09.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Thanks! I will do that right now. This only happens to me on a wakeup > > from hibernate and with one new laptop (Dell Precision M3800). > > If this gives you problems,

Re: strange issue with ssh on F20 on DSL/VPN (more addl info)

2014-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I wanted to provide a further update in that the problem with openconnect only happens with VPN on the wired network but not when VPN is used using wireless. Any ideas as to why and how to fix this problem? Many thanks, Ranjan On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:00:00 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > D

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks! I will do that right now. This only happens to me on a wakeup from hibernate and with one new laptop (Dell Precision M3800). Best wishes, Ranjan On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:47:15 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 30.09.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > kernel:do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq

what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-09-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, I get the following message repeatedly from syslogd, after a wakeup from hibernate: kernel:do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) I am running kernel 3.6.3-200 on a fully updated F20. Any suggestions as to how to diagnose and fix the issue? Thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice

conky help (was Re: battery indicator)

2014-09-29 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:37:30 +0200 poma wrote: > On 29.09.2014 02:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> > >> See what can you get within > >> /sys/class/power_supply/... > > > > > > > > Thanks! There are the files in: > > > > /sys/c

Re: battery indicator

2014-09-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> > See what can you get within > /sys/class/power_supply/... Thanks! There are the files in: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1 alarm energy_full_design presentuevent capacityenergy_now serial_number voltage_min_design capacity_level manufacturerstatus

openconnect/cisco vpn (Re: strange issue with ssh on F20 on DSL/VPN)

2014-09-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
openconnect plugin with NetworkManager. Best wishes, Ranjan On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:00:00 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > A bit more information that I found over the course of the afternoon > and evening. > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:18:31 -0500 Ranjan Maitra >

Re: battery indicator

2014-09-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:05:33 +0200 poma wrote: > On 27.09.2014 19:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a new Dell Precision M3800 laptop and I am trying to figure out > > why the battery indicator does not work (find anything). Any suggestions > &g

Re: strange issue with ssh on F20 on DSL/VPN

2014-09-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, A bit more information that I found over the course of the afternoon and evening. On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:18:31 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > So, I have a strange issue. > > I have a local machine (laptop) connecting remotely to several desktops > including one tha

strange issue with ssh on F20 on DSL/VPN

2014-09-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
So, I have a strange issue. I have a local machine (laptop) connecting remotely to several desktops including one that is a fully updated F20 (this is the one I have total control over and therefore my choice of distributions). The others are RHEL5's or Centos6. Connections are only permitted to a

battery indicator

2014-09-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have a new Dell Precision M3800 laptop and I am trying to figure out why the battery indicator does not work (find anything). Any suggestions as to how I can get this going? batti for instance is installed but finds nothing. However, there is a battery in the laptop, and does hold charge for

addl info: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-09-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:17:40 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having this issue sometimes (not always but quite > frequently) upon wakeup from hibernate for the past few days (on a > newly installed notebook) which is a Dell Precision M3800. > > I get the

F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-09-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been having this issue sometimes (not always but quite frequently) upon wakeup from hibernate for the past few days (on a newly installed notebook) which is a Dell Precision M3800. I get the following message on my consoles: Message from syslogd@ kernel:BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1

Re: Fedora 21 release schedule, etc.

2014-08-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:27:44 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:44:41 -0600 > jd1008 wrote: > > > Seems that ever since fedora switched to every 6 months release > > schedule, the number of bugs has been higher. > > I think it is impossible to perform thorough testing and iron ou

Re: Fedora 21 release schedule, etc.

2014-08-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:44:41 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > > On 08/28/2014 01:48 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Up to Fedora 21, releases have occurred at roughly 6 month > > intervals. Fedora 21 is scheduled to be released about 11 months > > after Fedora 20. Is the intention to schedule future r

Re: Dicom image -

2014-08-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:05:11 -0400 "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: > > On 08/27/14 03:51, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 26 August 2014 20:59, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > > wrote: > >> > > >> > Is there a Linux application that will display a dicom image file? > >> > > >> > Bob >

openconnect (2 issues)

2014-07-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been using the openconnect option to Cisco's Anyconnect VPN, but have noticed two shortcomings. 1. When I lose connection for whatever reason, I have to manually restart the anyconnect plugin everytime. Is there a possibility to have it reconnect along with the connection? 2. When I a

Re: wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

2014-07-17 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:18:17 + Andre Robatino wrote: > Pete Travis petetravis.com> writes: > > > Yes, my experience is that buying user devices like laptops and desktops > (servers are a different story) > are not cheaper without Windows > preinstalled.  That wasn't the case ~10 years ago w

Re: wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

2014-07-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
From Dell, I bought the Dell XPS 13 last year with Ubuntu on it. I am very pleased with it. Not sure if this will qualify as a high-performance for you though. Ranjan On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:07:03 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I think you will find what you're looking for at Puget Systems > h

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:36:45 +0930 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2014, Ranjan Maitra sent: > > OK, thanks, all! After struggling with this a bit, I have decided to > > delete Windoze and write away my forced purchase of W7 as a donation > > to the charity calle

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:39 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:12:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote: > > > It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs > > > that are for some reason I do not

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:12:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/23/2014 09:30 PM, JD wrote: > > It has limited functionality because there are certain files or dirs > > that are for some reason I do not quite understand yet, are not > > relocatable to other sectors (blocks :) ). > > I don't know if i

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:00:33 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/24/14 11:46, JD wrote: > > The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk > > an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS), > > has been ParttionMagic 8.0. > > Unfortunately, it is only

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my > > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will > > b

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:55:24 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > > > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:16:44 +1000 Roger wrote: > > > Hi Ranjan > > regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed > > Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the > > Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on > > Linux I inst

Re: Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-23 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora wrote: > > On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my > > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will > > b

Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will be here tomorrow. I had two questions: 1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not sure if I want to wipe it off (ideally, I would hav

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:07:32 +0200 poma wrote: > On 20.06.2014 16:55, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > >> Cryptic is the Zimmermann Real-time Transport Protocol, not me. :) > >> SIP, as Liam already wrote, is a well known term in the world of VoIP. > >> I just don&

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> I have Skype 4.2 installed, fedora 20 amd_64, is there a problem?? No. No problem: I just don't like the 3/686 rpms it needs! Besides, this would be the only non-OSS on my system and I would like to avoid that. Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be delete

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:57:36 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Use those two terms in the search, Ranjan! :) > > But the real question is, do you expect that this additional service is > > free of charge. > > No, I don't, but skype is free of charge for PC to PC?

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> Use those two terms in the search, Ranjan! :) > But the real question is, do you expect that this additional service is free > of charge. No, I don't, but skype is free of charge for PC to PC? Or am I even more obsolete than even I thought I was? Ranjan ___

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> Cryptic is the Zimmermann Real-time Transport Protocol, not me. :) > SIP, as Liam already wrote, is a well known term in the world of VoIP. > I just don't get it that you haven't used it so far. :) Well, I use commandline and no desktop, only a WM. So I guess you could say that I am obsolete.

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:57:58 +0200 Liam Proven wrote: > On 20 June 2014 15:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Sorry, poma: I don't know what SIP means. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol > > It's a standard for making phone calls over the I

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:44:10 +0200 poma wrote: > On 20.06.2014 13:58, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:52:39 +0200 poma > > wrote: > > > >> > >> For those who do not wait: > >> https://jitsi.org/ > >> > > > >

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:52:39 +0200 poma wrote: > > For those who do not wait: > https://jitsi.org/ > Thanks! So, I have never used jitsi. Can I use it to communicate with these confused souls using skype? Ranjan > > poma > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To

slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora repositories.) Personally, I am a

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 08:30:01 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. > > > IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. > > Yes, that's the plan. T

Re: Unable to hibernate fc20 system

2014-06-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi all, Not sure if this is relevant, but I recall having this issue and was told that hibernate was disabled by default on F20. Some stuff has to be done with grub: see the following thread. http://www.marshut.com/ikhxhm/f20-system-does-not-resume-from-hibernate.html Again, not sure if this is

thoughts on using Fedora for Dell Mobile Precision 3800 laptop

2014-06-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am considering buying the Dell Mobile Precision M3800 (with QHD+ 3200×1800 resolution) for use with Fedora 20 and later. Any thoughts/experiences with it? (I am excited about the resolution aspect.) http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m3800-workstation/fs It appears to have a touc

Firefox: 256-bit encryption gone for F20?

2014-05-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I tried the following this morning on Firefox (updated from F20 repos): https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html and came up with 128-bit encryption. I could swear that at least the last time I checked it, it used to report 256-bit encryption. I wonder if/why this no longer holds. I am using

Re: Doing a bit of c++ compiling

2014-05-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 5 May 2014 13:48:19 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK, in terms of compiling ANYTHING, I am at best a hack. I don't > believe I have any compile stuff on this system, as it was a base > notebook install. But here I am needing one LITTLE c++ piece of code > compiled. You can find it

Re: reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20

2014-04-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:52:52 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 22.04.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > > > Okular > > lets you read, alter and add comments (I think, in the English version they > > are called "Reviews") > > I receive quite often .pdf files containing comments. Evince reads > them

reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20

2014-04-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, I have been given a pdf file with comments written in Adobe. All I get are tiny yellow balloons with (physical) lines indicating that there are comments in them. The comments themselves are unreadable. Is there some OSS that can read them? I am using an up-to-date F20 (as of last night). M

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:48:23 +0200 Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 08:38:11AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:15:04 -0400 Rahul Sundaram > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 20

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:15:04 -0400 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Roger wrote: > > > > > It happened. It was known for years. > > > > Everything I have seen says it has been known for about 1 week. > > > > Incidentally, I am no pro

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:16:19 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 13:33:29 +0100, >Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 04:48 -0400, EGO.II-1 wrote: > >> My apologies for the top post, but when that was sent it was from my > >> Android phone and there's no re

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, NPR reports that https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/ will inform you whether the site uses OpenSSL and whether it has been updated with the patched version. Not all the sites that I use appear to have been patched:-( HTH, Ranjan FRE

Re: Off Topic - . pdf to eps (unknown switch using pdf2ps -eps)

2014-04-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:57:23 +1000 Roger wrote: > My apologies for so off topic but I feel it is important to have > choice. Not intending to change the subject or start a flame war. > > >> True. But if you do a search on it online (using DuckDuckGo, but why > >> should that matter?) > > It ma

Re: pdf to eps (unknown switch using pdf2ps -eps)

2014-04-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:25:56 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to convert pdf to eps using > > > > pdf2ps -eps file.pdf > > > > but I get the fol

Re: pdf to eps (unknown switch using pdf2ps -eps)

2014-04-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:17:03 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/06/2014 02:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to convert pdf to eps using > > > > pdf2ps -eps file.pdf > > > > but I get the following: > > > > Unknown

Re: pdf to eps (unknown switch using pdf2ps -eps)

2014-04-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 16:15:42 -0500 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Uhm... why don't you try t compile with pdflatex and then you can directly > use the pdf files and graphics with other extensions but not eps. > ​ > I think you should ask in http://tex.stackexchange.com/ Is a site >

pdf to eps (unknown switch using pdf2ps -eps)

2014-04-06 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been trying to convert pdf to eps using pdf2ps -eps file.pdf but I get the following: Unknown switch -eps - ignoring Unknown switch -eps - ignoring I seem to think that this worked just fine a month ago, but maybe I used some other switch. What am I doing wrong? I am on Fedora 2

Re: how to request RPMfusion to create an rpm

2014-04-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 05:04:56 +0200 poma wrote: > http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ#I_would_like_to_see_an_RPM_for_package_X._What_should_I_do.3F Thank you, poma! It seems that you forgot to be cryptic this one time, thankfully!:-) > > > poma > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to request RPMfusion to create an rpm

2014-04-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:05:07 -0500 g wrote: > > > On 04/02/14 20:35, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 09:32:16 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > <<<>>> > > >>> I understand that this request can be denied (it is after all a

Re: how to request RPMfusion to create an rpm

2014-04-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 09:32:16 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/03/14 09:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering how one goes about requesting RPMfusion to create a > > package which does not fall within Fedora's guidelines. The package I > &

how to request RPMfusion to create an rpm

2014-04-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I was wondering how one goes about requesting RPMfusion to create a package which does not fall within Fedora's guidelines. The package I am interested in is: https://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/ I had moderate trouble installing it on one 64-bit WS, but on the other one, I am still wo

Re: Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

2014-03-31 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:18:52 -0600 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Well when I work with typography I preffer to use xelatex for compile > instead of latex or pdflatex. I don't use lualatex yet because in Spanish > we have yet some issues with the correct hyphenation. > > Whe need to m

Re: Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

2014-03-31 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:56:30 -0600 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Well, actually ebgaramond is one of many options available for print and > save money and paper. You need to learn a little bit of typometry. One of > the best books for learn about all this is The Elements of Typographic

Re: Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

2014-03-31 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Aradenatorix! On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:14:05 -0600 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Well, perhaps the problem is not with the Garamond font in fact. > > You should take care about few typographical details, one of those is about > the boldface. As you should know, the boldface is an in

Re: Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

2014-03-31 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:14:02 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: > 2014-03-31 6:50 GMT+02:00, Ranjan Maitra : > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying my luck at using Garamond fonts in LaTeX with > > Fedora. From the repo, I found > > > > texlive-ebgaramond-svn30741.0.15

Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

2014-03-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been trying my luck at using Garamond fonts in LaTeX with Fedora. From the repo, I found texlive-ebgaramond-svn30741.0.15__2013_05_22_-4.fc20.noarch and installed it. I got LaTeX to compile my document, however, I am unable to get the boldface fonts. Not sure why this is, so can someo

Re: Advice on which web browser as a second choice.

2014-03-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello everyone, I use xombrero https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero and dillo. Neither however is compatible with DuckDuckGo with encrypted Google Suggest Search plugin: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/tag/search (or at least I could not figure out how to use with these). Hence, for searchi

Re: Targus Bluetooth 4.0 Micro USB Adapter not working on Fedora 20 (SOLVED)

2014-03-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:40:21 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Ranjan > Everything works now! Using bluetoothctl got my headphones paired, > and changing the priority of soundcard vs. headphones in KDE > systemsettings to put the headphones first resulted in actual sound > coming out of my hea

Re: Targus Bluetooth 4.0 Micro USB Adapter not working on Fedora 20

2014-03-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am not very familiar with bluetooth adapters, but you may want to play with or search for bluetoothctl (as root) assuming that you have bluez installed. HTH! Many thanks, Ranjan On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:58:15 -0500 Steven Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone > "Targus Bluetooth 4.0 Dual-Mode

Re: The Installer redux, was: Fedora Present and Future

2014-03-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, You do have a legitimate point about enough users not putting in BZ requests, however, I have grown very frustrated with the BZ process (for a few other packages). Lazy maintainers (and let me throw away my restraint to call them for whatever they are here) are using the flimsiest of reasons t

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> So, I don't know what may be different in my configuration (maybe the windows > swap?) that allowed me to compete the exercise. But surely, it isn't totally > broken for everyone. Perhaps not. And in fact, I have sort of figured out what to do to get exactly the old anaconda way of doing thi

Re: black-grey screen and how to add kernel nomodeset in F20?

2014-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Samir, Thanks! > Searching online, it looks like this laptop has two graphics chips an > nvidia and an intel, right? I had not been aware that there was a choice. So I looked up the invoice and found: Monitor: MOD,LCD,13.3FHD,FML,LED,L322X (320-9392) Video Card: Intel HD 4000 (320-3810)

Re: anyone set up open DITA toolkit on fedora?

2014-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:08:02 -0400 "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > i'm going to take a shot at this later today, just curious if > anyone's been through this and has any advice or warnings about > pitfalls? thanks. > Sorry but what exactly is DITA? Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is

Re: black-grey screen and how to add kernel nomodeset in F20?

2014-03-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:58:27 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/15/2014 06:55 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I will try this out, but I have no screensavers installed on this XPS > > 14. (Btw, even Alt-F1-F2-F7, etc has no effect.) > > What you need is CTRL-ALT-F2. Sorry, tha

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