Re: SELinux on Fedora 17 - troubles, troubles, troubles, ...

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 07/19/2012 04:24 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Why is using of SELinux on Fedora (I don't have experience with other distros) so painful from a regular user perspective? I'm talking about situation in which after installing stock packages and just running applications I'm spending more

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 07/15/2012 07:14 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank put in the Motherboard (the motherboard says it can handle

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 11/27/2011 01:41 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It works

Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 04/17/2012 08:23 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Fernando Cassiafcas...@gmail.com writes: My current setup includes a PCI-X ATI X1600 board, which its dual DVI+VGA outputs. That card has two 19' monitors connected, a DVI one and a VGA-only one, both LGs. Now, suppose I

Why do e.g. ssh sessions hang when I try to log out?

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed this a lot recently. I want to run an X app off another machine, say thunderbird. So I do ssh -X user@host to log in and run thunderbird from the command line. When I get done, I exit thunderbird and get a command prompt back. Then when I

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/2011 09:06 PM, Fedora User wrote: I cannot believe that we are at F16. I clearly recall RH9 to FC-1. But I digress. I know that others have said this in the past. I just thought that I would reinforce the notion that clean installs remove

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/2011 09:08 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I just wondered if anyone here has had any experience in using SSDs in general, and with Fedora in particular? I am thinking about an upgrade, but I am uncertain whether it is worth it to invest

Re: OT: How much RAM should I get in a new laptop ?

2011-12-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2011 04:04 AM, linux guy wrote: I'm specing a new laptop, probably a Dell XPS 17, with an i7 processor. It will have an SSD and be driving 2 monitors. The XPS 17s come in two varieties, one with 2 DIMM slots and the other with 4 DIMM

question re: multi-head gnome3

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two monitors, plan on going to three soon. In GNOME2, I often have an app spanning both monitors. With multiple desktops, that app would stay on one desktop and if I needed a second desktop it was a piece of cake, just ctrl+alt+arrow to go to

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-30 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 11/29/2011 11:27 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Pete Travisli...@petetravis.com writes: I have three or four displays attached to two different nvidia GPUs. I have noticed that a nouveau driven setup handles window management much more sanely, and provides adequate 3D support for my purposes.

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 12:54 PM, Don Krause wrote: On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:51 AM, suvayu ali wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 20:41, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 11:51 AM, suvayu ali wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 20:41, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent

Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy All - I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital video port. It works

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2011 02:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 13:30 -0500, Matt Rose wrote: As well, KDE's track record on this is not exactly stellar. KDE4 was basically unusable up until 4.3 or so. I'd dispute that. I've used KDE 4

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 11/20/2011 05:33 PM, John Aldrich wrote: I just installed a new boot drive and installed F16. Since I absolutely HATE SELINUX, I've gone into the config file and set selinux to disabled. Now when I attempt to boot, I get an error that it can't find the policy file and it hangs the system

Re: SystemD Resolved

2011-11-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2011 12:36 PM, Fedora User wrote: After all my kvetching, it turns out that systemd is really pretty easy to administer. SOME techs have a tendency to write documentation that is rather esoteric. I think that I likened the 49 man pages for

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 11:16 AM, JB wrote: ? supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp writes: ... The IT market is massively overweight, overvalued and engages in enormously wasteful development practices right now. Open source development for the most

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 08:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and more features and performance per release. That's a politicians answer.

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 02:42 PM, inode0 wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. How is a desktop user affected by new

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 09:44 AM, inode0 wrote: Red Hat as a company is poised to be a billion dollar company this year (FY12). The FY 2006 earnings were $278.3 million.[1] That's a 4X increase in just 6 years. That's *amazing* growth. What does this have

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 03:30 PM, Alan Cox wrote: like maybe there's some round hole/square peg going on here. Fedora, almost by definition, will be bleeding edge and therefore, somewhat buggy. But, really, our version of buggy is *so* much better than I

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 01:15 AM, JB wrote: Hi, every Fedora release is going downhill ... Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and more features and performance

Re: selinux is a pain

2011-10-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/20/2011 06:14 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: I reinstalled (better hardware) a server and had selinux enabled (was disabled before), and I starting to see why so many people don't use selinux. My question is, how many people are using selinux?

Re: pings with noise

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/2011 10:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping command as in: ping -a ip-address each ping return should cause a noise to be generated. I can't seem to get that too happen. What

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/2011 05:32 PM, Konstantinos Karantias wrote: Am I the only believing that they will just make the development for Linux slower and will not cease it at all? I don't think they are that bad. I think they are exactly that bad. Do you not

Re: Why does http://localhost:8080 displays a Blank Page?

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/2011 10:30 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: Yum info Display the below Information [QUOTE]Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_GB to language list Installed Packages Name: tomcat6 Arch: noarch

Re: Default user groups

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/2011 04:50 PM, Chris Smart wrote: Does anyone know where Fedora sets the default user groups for new users? Say I want to create a new user and have them automatically added to a few more groups, how can one do that? Thanks! -c

Re: SeLinux, should I disable it?

2011-01-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/2011 09:03 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: Hi, After I install F14 (KDE), how should I disable SeLinux? Because more of the time it gives alerts and it is highly technical in nature to understand the SeLinux (for a normal person, not from

Triple head?

2011-01-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I figure it will require the proprietary driver, and while that is not optimal, I'm willing to do it. I really want to have three monitors set up. If so, how'd you do it? - -- Thomas -BEGIN PGP

Re: Triple head?

2011-01-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/2011 03:49 PM, ? wrote: --- Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I figure it will require the proprietary driver

Re: Triple head?

2011-01-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/2011 04:19 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: 2011/1/17 ? supergiantpot...@yahoo.co.jp: --- Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I

Re: crontab

2011-01-09 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2011 04:44 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, To have the same shell running twice a week, I am using crond and anacron if I understand correctly. I have a file in /etc/cron.weekly (file.cron) and I also schedule the same file from

SOLVED Re: computer-center-extra is no longer with us in F14

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2011 02:54 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:19:44 -0600, Aaron wrote: There is not a control-center-extra rpm installable in F14. Correct. That's what the RPM Obsoletes tag shows as I've demonstrated. In F14,

Re: SOLVED Re: computer-center-extra is no longer with us in F14

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2011 10:47 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: System/Preferences/CompizConfig Settings Manager - General Options - Focus and Raise Behavior tab - Uncheck click to focus and raise on click Argh! Sorry, meant uncheck click to focus and auto

Installing Skype on 64-bit Fedora 14

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed the skype RPM on my 64-bit Fedora 14 machine and ran into all kinds of problems with missing libs like: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory skype: error

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 01/04/2011 04:27 AM, S Mathias wrote: cat asdf.txt bla-bla bla-bla bla[XYZ] importantthing another important thing [/XYZ] bla-bla bla-bla [XYZ] yet another thing hello! [/XYZ] bla-bla etc. $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt output.txt $ cat output.txt importantthing another important

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-30 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 12/30/2010 12:34 PM, S Mathias wrote: I just can't google for it: I'm searching for a bash one liner (awk, perl, or anything) for this: there are text files, in several directories: mkdir one mkdir two mkdir three echo word1 word2 word3 one/asf.txt echo word2 word4, word5

Re: Window Management under Compiz

2010-12-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 12/28/2010 03:45 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: How do you get the window to be chosen when you move the cursor to it under compiz? First, yum install control-center-extra Then click System/Preferences/Windows. Choose Select windows when the mouse moves over them. TC -- users mailing list

Re: Sealert does not pop up as a desktop window

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 11/23/2010 07:07 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have having the following problem with sealert: # sealert could not attach to desktop process # Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul sealert -b maybe? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Happy Halloween, Fedora Project!

2010-10-29 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.camerontech.com/fedora_pumpkin/IMAG0680.jpg Cheers, - -- Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-22 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/22/2010 02:47 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Thomas Cameronthomas.came...@camerontech.com writes: I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-21 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/21/2010 10:46 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 machines seem to have

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-21 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/21/2010 10:46 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 machines seem to have

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 02:34 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 00:27 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply. All running Linux, so

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 02:36 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 10:27 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply. That is seriously overloaded I would

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/18/2010 08:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:52:41 am Thomas Cameron did opine: Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply. All running Linux, so

Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w power supply. All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. Say those systems have been running for over a year, but lately they've been really flaky. Random

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
I have a shell script I use to reset my default desktop environment. It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories and so on. To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back in. [tcame...@case ~]$ cat ~/bin/cleardots #!/bin/bash ls -ad .* | egrep -v

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: You must know that .* matches the directory . and the directory .. To wit: $ echo .* . .. .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl Notice . and .. ??? Yup, and they are unaffected using this script. If you want to pick up

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: On 08/14/2010 06:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I have a shell script I use to reset my default desktop environment. It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories and so on. To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 09:46 PM, JD wrote: On 08/14/2010 07:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote: Thomas Cameron wrote: On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use .[a-zA-Z]* $ echo .[a-zA-Z]* .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl

Installing Windows XP under KVM

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
This might have been covered elsewhere, if so I'm sorry for the noise. I tried to install XP SP3 as a KVM guest yesterday and it just hung at installing devices. The little flashing scroll bar at the bottom of the page was still going, and it was pingable, but the installation progress bar

Re: Be excellent to each other / Call people out for doin a good job

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 05/11/2010 10:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people are going to notice the

[389-users] disable SSL at startup

2010-04-24 Thread Thomas Cameron
Howdy - Posting this to the list just because Google searches didn't tell me. Very possible I was asking the wrong question, but here's what I was searching for. How do you disable SSL at startup for Fedora Directory Server (389)? In /etc/dirsrv/slapd-[hostname]/dse.ldif, change the line:

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-04-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 04/03/2010 07:12 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Microsoft's patent infringement list with a check book in hand? Interesting... Red Hat is no place for Olympia Academy style pranksters, just for brain dead serious people, right? Google, you better beware! Thanks for the insight! plonk --

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 03/22/2010 10:06 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net mailto:lists.red...@samsharpe.net wrote: On 22 March 2010 22:36, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com mailto:m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Suse uses AppArmor without

Video card for three heads?

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Cameron
All - I'm currently dual head and I like it a lot, but I'd really like three monitors. I use the heck out of compiz, so I need a card or cards and drivers which will drive three monitors with accelerated X. Anyone doing this? What card/driver combo do you use? -- Thomas -- users mailing

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