Re: Fn key -

2020-09-01 Thread Fred Smith
may be available on a panel in the "add to panel" section, or it should also appear on the menus somewhere (unless you're running Gnome, where they believe in hiding everything useful). Fred -- --

Re: Mouse right-click works intermittently

2020-08-22 Thread Fred Smith
ill have that symptom when the switches wear. I've seen it myself. Since I like the feel of Logitech mice, I keep on buying them, keeping a spare or two that I buy whenever I find them on sale. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: Network printer

2020-08-16 Thread Fred Smith
es it print, but the scanner works too. Oh, all of them were connected via ethernet (even if the first started as USB, it wasn't long before I dragged a network cable over to it). Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of

Re: Recover access to Windows Shares on home network

2020-08-10 Thread Fred Smith
    J$  Disk  Default share >     print$  Disk  Printer Drivers > SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available > > Windows has SMB2 AND 3 available. Don't see anything in smb.conf to > set a protocol excerpt from /etc/samba/smb.c

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 06:01:31PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-21 17:12, Fred Smith wrote: > >I have Centos-7 on a little acer netbook, with the brother drivers for > >our DCP-7065. Every once in a while it stops working (with no errors > >that I've

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
ething that comes down in an update clobbers something that Brother's installer changed. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him

Re: Printing failure -

2020-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
ux. But it is a "bad thing"(TM) to disable selinux. selinux should be producing alerts, which you could use to fix or at least "solve" the problem without totally disabling it. Fred -- ---

Re: Create bootable disk with fedora - but not using live-CD

2020-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:31:18PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: >On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 16:24, Fred Smith ><[1]fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:48:43PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > I want to create a bootable US

Re: Create bootable disk with fedora - but not using live-CD

2020-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
right device for the USB stick so I didn't wipe out the installed system on the computer. This was probably back around Fedoraaa 11-13 or thereabouts, and I h aven't kept up with Fedora for the last few years, but there is no reason THAT I KNOW OF why it wouldn't still work. Good luck! Fred -

Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

2020-07-18 Thread Fred Smith
rcing employees to paste >that legal scare blob on every pdf automagically puts the world+dog >into compliance of their imaginary restrictions. At the place I worked (til retirement a year and a half ago) it was inserted automagically by the mail system (Exchange) and us indiv

Re: Migrqate from Legacy to EUFI?

2020-07-08 Thread Fred Smith
gt; msdos because Fedora can't run off of that kind of filesystem. How > is the partition formatted now? I think he is referring to the partition table, not filesystems. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes

Re: Audacity: "Error opening recording device"

2020-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
e of the tutorials on the Audacity Wiki about how to I record from this device, or from that one. If you haven't gone there yet, I'd urge you to try it. And if that doesn't help, ask some questions on the Audacity forums. I got lots of help from those places. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcsh

Re: Microphone trouble

2020-06-18 Thread Fred Smith
on' t use Gnome) as well as alsamixer. I found some articles at the audacity site that told how to configure it for specific kinds of recording that helped me immensely. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord,

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

2020-06-07 Thread Fred Smith
and then I gave a simpler concept that was good enough. > > I knew what you meant.  :-) > > Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used when a > "folder" would seem better > in some cases. they were called d

Re: Fedora 32 MTA

2020-05-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:25:38PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 5/10/20 1:05 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:20:44 -0400 > >Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > >>On May 10, 2020, at 11:54, George N. White III > >>wrote: > >>> > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:00,

Re: Power Mgmt problem

2020-05-09 Thread Fred Smith
post came through or not? I just wanted to > check back in. I saw it, but don't have an answer for you. sorry! -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us // (__

Re: VDQ Thumb drive software

2020-05-08 Thread Fred Smith
. I get > > > > $ rpm -q gnome-disks > > package gnome-disks is not installed > > Then 'dnf install gnome-disk-utility' to get it installed. > Mate also has a disks utility, named--odly enugh--"disks" On Ubuntu it is under the Control Center, possi

Re: Problem with Brother scanner

2020-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:43:59PM -, Doug Herr wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I recently got a Brother scanner/printer for my Fedora 31 desktop. I've > > installed all the drivers from Brother and the printing part works > > fine, but not scanning. > > > > When I launch simple-scan, [snip] > >

Re: usb usb2-port8: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

2020-04-11 Thread Fred Smith
ll dmesg stopped > printing this error. The device that finally made it stop > was a USB 3 backup drive. I plugged it back in to the exact > same usb port, and the messages did not start back up. computers and their hardware being fickle, it may well start up again once you actually try using it

Re: linux -- ide question

2020-03-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:57:55PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:45:29PM -0400, bruce wrote: > >hey, > >for those who do linux dev/work, what's your goto IDE/editor? > >just curious. > Bash an

Re: linux -- ide question

2020-03-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:45:29PM -0400, bruce wrote: >hey, >for those who do linux dev/work, what's your goto IDE/editor? >just curious. Bash and vi. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of

Re: OT?? : Xscreensaver: Is it me??

2020-03-14 Thread Fred Smith
're really there (not like the poetic little man upon the > >stair). > > > yup, they're there ! > > watched it here: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiJb0Qm1SE what's the point of the horrible noises accompanying each of the screensavers? -- Fred Smith -- fre...@f

Re: Mouse controls for Fedora

2020-03-08 Thread Fred Smith
cleaner into it, I suspect it's all sealed up. In that case, the proper fix is probably a new mouse. Sorry! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence wi

Anybody need a ... ??

2020-01-25 Thread Fred Smith
;free to a good home", if anyone has, or knows of anyone who has, a use for a V90 modem. Original packaging (including the floppy-based "drivers" for windoze! :) ) and a printout of the modem manual. Anyone?? Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fc

Re: VLC and Distortion

2020-01-12 Thread Fred Smith
0%? > > It is around 30% > > Same on Firefox and Parole where there is no distortion I don't have youtube-dl, but I have the videodownloader plugin for Firefox. Downloaded it as mpeg-mp3 and it sounds fine to me. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31

2020-01-10 Thread Fred Smith
familiar with them. -- ------- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcs

Re: Any thoughts on the Vivaldi browser?

2019-12-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 06:31:49PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Any of you guys use the Vivaldi browser? Any thoughts > on it? I've used it a little. not my main browser, but to the extent I've used it it seems like a nice browser. YMMV :) -- ---- Fred

Re: HP DL-5170DN Printer not working

2019-10-20 Thread Fred Smith
> My first Brother printer (HL-2070N) was automatically recognized by my Centos sysstem (C4 or 5, I think)which, when the USB cable was plugged in said it had recognized a BrotherHL-2070N and asked if I wanted it automatically configured. I said YES, and it "just wor

Re: HP DL-5170DN Printer not working

2019-10-19 Thread Fred Smith
Setting>Devices>Printers says :- >HL-5170DN >Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3 I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother printer. You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.st

Re: open ssh

2019-10-04 Thread Fred Smith
f yours has that feature. Otherwise running bind or dnsmasq > somewhere on the local network would be the way to go. I set up DNS/Bind9 and NTP on a raspberry pi somewhat over a year ago. cheap, doesn't tie up a bigger machine someone has on desktop (like, e.g., me) and uses minimal electricity.

Re: is the mailing list mangling email character-encoding

2019-09-22 Thread Fred Smith
you'd think that > everyone would see the same issue. > FWIW, I find these headers in your posting on my system: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by fcshome.stoneha

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-04 Thread Fred Smith
y good point. And, yes, the default is still 512. > > For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will > be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface. > > poc I tend to use "bs=10M", which won't make it any faster, unles

Re: Bluetooth mouse battery status

2019-08-28 Thread Fred Smith
raproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org --

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-26 Thread Fred Smith
ration > without rebooting? No, the GUI is still there, it's just on another virtual screen. Usually you can go back there by doing ALT-F1 or CTRL-ALT-F1. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lo

Re: gnome max-out during sign-in in Firefox.

2019-07-25 Thread Fred Smith
oraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives

Re: UDEV RULES

2019-07-02 Thread Fred Smith
s@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > > ___ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-07 Thread Fred Smith
t item in the top bar and see if it gives you a menu that includes "Help". screenshot attached. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the e

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 07:45:32PM -0600, home user via users wrote: > (responding to Fred) > Thank-you, Fred. > > I tried "man evince". I got nothing like what's in your post. > > I could find nothing in the GUI for getting any kind of help. > > I searched for a web site for evince, and found

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:17:01PM -0600, home user via users wrote: > (Fred Smith said) > > evince > > Thank-you, Fred. > > h > -- > -bash.3[~]: dnf install evince > Last metadata expiration check: 0:52:01 ago on Wed 05 Jun 2019 > 07:15:38 PM MD

Re: need something to fill in pdf forms.

2019-06-05 Thread Fred Smith
ionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in > "dnfdragora". evince -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the w

Re: Anyone ever heard of just USB 3 dying?

2019-05-16 Thread Fred Smith
s I use (now all 3 or 4 years old) have separate chips for USB2 and USB3, so it's possible. curious to hear what happens if you plug one of those devices into a USB2 port? (assuming your system offers any). USB3 or 3.1 ports are blue (slightly different shades of blue between 3 and 3.1) while

Re: Modem/Router/Router -

2019-04-14 Thread Fred Smith
ired lan, maybe you can detach its wifi antenna? Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Fat

Re: Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

2019-04-03 Thread Fred Smith
necessary stuff. Mine has quit going to sleep, too, when the screen is closed, so I've just had to bite the bullet and learn to do Fn-F4 before closing the lid. Odd thing is, that waving a strong magnet around where the sensor is WILL cause it to go to sleep. G

Re: Frequent temporary freezes on Dell XPS 13 laptop

2019-03-30 Thread Fred Smith
any chance running the Folding At Home client on this machine? Even with FAH doing GPU folding only I had that problem on Centos. It was particularly noxious when watching any kind of video. Fred -- --- .Fred Smith / (

Re: SMB permissions -

2019-03-05 Thread Fred Smith
the server and the clients, since earlier versions of SMB are rife with holes. for the uid= and gid= items you can also user the numerical value, from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I find this works fine with my NAS box, which I talk to via SMB. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneha

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-03 Thread Fred Smith
ux, everybody else is in bed with Windoze). Couldn't be bothered to configure NFS. Looked at configuring iSCSI but it looked like a lot of work for little or no benefit, especially since we just use it so all of us can store stuff on it, not for backups. -- Fr

Re: Remote Disencruftation

2019-02-17 Thread Fred Smith
os:7" > HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/; > BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/; > > CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7" > CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7" > REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos" > REDHAT

Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

2019-01-26 Thread Fred Smith
rchives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 03:17:28PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/04/18 14:20, Rick Stevens wrote: > >I'm using Xfce as well with the LightDM display manager and there's > >no text associated with the icon, just the icon (which sort of looks > >like an abstract inkjet printer with a page going

Re: Evince has no print option -

2018-12-04 Thread Fred Smith
yone, but the Gnome-3 people seem to be on that bandwagon too. No offense meant to any particular person(s), its just that I don't see the value in oversimplification. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know?

Re: App similar Winhex for Fedora

2018-11-09 Thread Fred Smith
s output to less: hexdump /dev/sda | less -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Fred Smith
edoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 10/29/18 6:30 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > Some of us (many businesses) don't want a new version of Linux > every six > > months, they want systems that will be stable and will run for > years > > with nothi

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Fred Smith
me reinstalling and re-configuring all of them once or twice every year. And I don't want to do that with my home systems either. I want something I can use for 2 or 3 years, at least, before enduring the reinstall pain again. They may use what appears to be an old kernel, but

Re: Ryzen APU best mainboard?

2018-10-24 Thread Fred Smith
ecause the CPU I had purchased was too new for the BIOS as shipped. Can you say "chicken-and-egg" ?? :)) Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - God made him who had no sin to be sin for

Re: Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread Fred Smith
a desktop, you could probably pull the drive from its enclosure, open the desktop and attach the drive (using an appropriate cable) to a SATA port in the desktop. then boot up, make sure it doesn't mount the "new" drive, then do your copies that way. Should be faster, and it

Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-09-06 Thread Fred Smith
Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham

Re: Tip: finally found a USB 3.1 card that works with 28

2018-09-05 Thread Fred Smith
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives:

Re: Brother MFCL2710DW on Fedora?

2018-08-27 Thread Fred Smith
to their page for that printer and find the link for Linux drivers. should be a single download that is a tool that grabs the right driver files and installs them for you. good luck! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread Fred Smith
lly if it is for a business where 80 bucks won't kill you. Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves thos

Re: Anyone have a favorite archive manager?

2018-07-28 Thread Fred Smith
from the uncompressed archive. Or: gunzip tarfile.gz which uncompresses the tarfile and removes the compressed one. Probably still needs enough space to hold both the compressed and uncompressed, but only until it finishes decompressing, then deletes the compressed one. th

Re: Odd ARP entry

2018-07-21 Thread Fred Smith
gt; http://fedoraproject.org, however the only problem is I should NEVER > see an arp entry for an IP address not on my subnet > > and obviously 209.132.181.15 is not on my subnet of 172.18.19.0/24. > > so the original question remains, why am I seeing an ARP entry for > an IP address

Re: sound from virtual machine gone?

2018-05-17 Thread Fred Smith
Box, and run Win10 in it. In my case, Win10 audio, as presented to me on the Centos box I run it on, is horribly choppy. NO clue why. I vaguely recll back when I first started running win10 in VB that sound wasn't that way, but it has been, now, for a long time. -- Fred Smith --

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 06:21:07PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Fred Smith > <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 05:08:42PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Check this out. After fully charging from this mor

Re: battery discharging whilelaptop powered off?

2018-05-17 Thread Fred Smith
talking about). The very reason why after a lot of customer furor, Apple agreed to replace iphone batteries cheaply rather than raking all those customers of the coals of overly-priced replacement batteries. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: Mate Session + child Caja consuming 98% of io badwidth to/from boot drive

2018-04-29 Thread Fred Smith
!!! It stays at 92 to 98 % did you look at top (or use ps) to see if there is a runaway caja in the background consuming resources? not that I find caja does that, but have seen it happen with one odd program or another on rare occasion. Not necessarilyy in Mate. -- ---- Fred

Re: printer and Fedora support.

2018-04-24 Thread Fred Smith
B onnection and share it if other systems need it. like the poster above, I find that simplescan works, as well as the scanner app in Sane (xsane). One thing,, if you go with a Brother multifunction unit, be sure to download the driver insstaller, NOT the individual driver files. You may have

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-11 Thread Fred Smith
n needed. alternatives are: 1. run on battery, plug in when discharged 2. remove battery when working at a stationary location (some laptops are sealed and you can't do this), charge it then remove it, put it back in when mobile. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

Re: samba share without authentication

2018-02-24 Thread Fred Smith
ft has (finally) deprecated it as being too insecure for words. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father

Re: fed/centos - recovery app/process???

2018-02-15 Thread Fred Smith
ual core dump. > > That's correct. It's also correct for Linux, except that by default the > core dump is normally turned off and you have to enable it (see 'man > core'). > > poc I always use "ulimit -c unlimited" to enable coredumps. is there a more preferred way? --

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred > music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in the > domicile to play them, but regardless of how i decide to eventually > play these CDs,

Re: how to convert a ma4 file to other format??

2018-01-26 Thread Fred Smith
versatile tool! fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power

Re: Fedora27: Firefox freezes

2018-01-01 Thread Fred Smith
n 30 seconds, and the HD activity light is pegged ON for the duration. I'm guessing it may be a swap storm, but I don't see unusually high memory usage in top. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord is like a strong

Re: F26 calibre bug? Qt bug? Or just wait a while?

2017-11-24 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 01:53:59PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On fedora 26 I keep getting this: Well, I'm no Centos-7, not Fedora, but... I use Calibre directly from the Calibre web site, and that version is up to 3.12. further, that one works fine with qt5-qtbase 5.6.2. I suppose it wouldn't

Re: DWA-192 USB Wireless Network 5 GHz Interface Connection Speed Severely Degraded

2017-11-08 Thread Fred Smith
but they do mean you won't ever get a 1GBps file transfer on a 1GBps network. and if you have wireless links in there somewhere its even worse, because there might be 20 local wireless APs all trying to transmit or receive on the same channel. and nearby microwave ovens, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseu

Re: DWA-192 USB Wireless Network 5 GHz Interface Connection Speed Severely Degraded

2017-11-06 Thread Fred Smith
B", and the other in "Mb" ?? the former is megaBYTES, the latter is megaBITS. They differ by roughly a factor of ten. -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.m

Re: fedora and NAS

2017-11-06 Thread Fred Smith
as moved to. Without the vers=1.0 parameter the mount > command says the drive is down. The documentation for mount.cifs for > the vers option says that smbV3.0 was introduced with Windows 8 and > windows server 2012, but I think that is an over- simplification of > the issue. I am ac

Re: cannon mfc 620 scanning

2017-10-27 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:43:54AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 22:38 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 06:23:21PM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 21:41 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > > > On Thu, 201

Re: cannon mfc 620 scanning

2017-10-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 06:23:21PM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 21:41 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 00:14 -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 17:51 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 20

Re: cannon mfc 620 scanning

2017-10-25 Thread Fred Smith
s up anything. (check out its manpage). It is part of the sane-backends package. Oh, of course the FIRST question I should have asked is: Has it ever worked, before, with LInux/SANE ? good luck! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Fo

Re: Problem: Cross compile to arm (Raspberry pi) using autotools

2017-10-07 Thread Fred Smith
d that your preference is to build on a linux box other than the RPI, if you get sufficiently despearte, you could install dev tools on the RPI and build there. Compiling stuff on my RPI3 is reasonably fast (I haven't tried something large like a kernel). -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.ston

Re: wireless mouse dies

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Smith
. Integrated Rate Matching >Hub >Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub >any idea: shall I file a bug?? you may have a bad usb dongle, or an intermittent USB port. Have you tried it in a different port? -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Smith
y chronyc should run and create such a racket at 100% CPU. > > Thanks again! > > Ranjan > > > > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on > receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing

Re: MikeeUSA -- Notice Bruce Perens has NO response (nor does Moglen). [Was: Re: GrSecurity]

2017-08-03 Thread Fred Smith
ve blocked further posts from that poster. Hah. I've just added it to SpamBayes' spam training folder, so by tomorrow I shouldn't have to see any more of 'em. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Shar

Re: Network dies on laptop lid closure

2017-07-18 Thread Fred Smith
roject.org do you have the network configured to be available to all users? If not, perhaps closing the lids makes the network drop, whereas enabling that option might prevent I haven't seen this, so I'm only guessing,... I have my laptop set to allow that, and it doesn't have the prob

Re: Do I need KDE??

2017-07-17 Thread Fred Smith
. > For anyone else, pedal to the metal would be my answer. You don't NEED to install the full KDE/Gnome/Mate/XFCE/whatever desktop to use apps written for it. just install the app with yum/dnf/apt/whatever and it will bring in the components that app needs. Sure, it takes some spac

Re: Fedora on a NUC?

2017-07-09 Thread Fred Smith
I can then play it again and again. > > Thanks to everyone for your help. I've used it for multiple DVDs, and it won't work without the key. haven't used it, myself, for bluray, as I don't have a bluray drive. My son has one and he has used it, but on Win7, not LInux. -- --- .

Re: Fedora on a NUC?

2017-07-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 02:35:56PM -0400, Temlakos wrote: > On 06/22/2017 05:54 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:13:08PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > >>On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 03:38:51PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >>>On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:2

Re: Multifuncional Brother MFC-9320CW

2017-06-25 Thread Fred Smith
ds. I don't have THAT particular Brother printer, but I've used it on several Brother devices (inclduing the older multifunction copier at work) and it always has worked fine. And afterwards, either simplescan or Sane has been able to scan things using the scanner in the MFC. --

Re: Fedora on a NUC?

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:13:08PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 03:38:51PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:29:13 -0400 > > Temlakos wrote: > > > > > All right! Where do I get that tool? > > > > I don't think

Re: Fedora on a NUC?

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Smith
t beta versions. Dang, I'm gonna need that soon. Or you can go to makemkv.com and buy a license. I think it's forty bucks. Despite these obstacles, the tool works great (at least for DVD, I haven't used it for BluRay, not having either any BluRay movies, or a suitable drive.) Fred -- -

Re: gnome-password-generator replacement?

2017-06-19 Thread Fred Smith
anyone trying to guess passwords has > a much simpler job. possibly of brain-dead underlying systems that will accept only those characters. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your pa

Re: New AMD Hardware

2017-05-17 Thread Fred Smith
doomd.net > > "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak > I just saw a posting from one of the Centos devs who reports C7 is working fine for him on one of those new MB/CPU combos. Of course, that doesn't mean the kernel is mak

Re: Printer address -

2017-05-08 Thread Fred Smith
uot;address" like that? if so, you wouldn't have an IP address, or at least it isn't meaningful since it is USB-connected, not network-connected. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than a

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
for your particular Linux driver, there is usually a link to a list of additional steps that have to be done by hand to finish installation. Did you go thru those, or at least verify that they are still in place? -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
who knows if it actually works. which makes me wonder if it is actually connected via wireless, or only should be...: can you ping the device? Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty Go

Re: OT : Blue Hat

2017-04-07 Thread Fred Smith
ant red model in the same hat, for people who want to celebrate RH (since, as I hear, RH no longer sells their red fedora to the general public). -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everla

Re: Firefox and flash plugin

2017-03-29 Thread Fred Smith
...@htt-consult.com >2. mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org >3. mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >4. mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org >5. mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > ___ > users mailing list --

Re: virt-manager thinks an ISO file is a directory

2017-03-14 Thread Fred Smith
nload an application > > (a.k.a. software) and install in on Windows. It then does upload the > > completed data to their server. "Worse", it looks as if they developed > > the software with Visual Basic. :-) > > Good grief. > > poc and it's probably chock ful

Re: [OT] Unable to install Google Earth

2017-02-28 Thread Fred Smith
also work fine on Centos-7). I wish I could point you to the right place, but with some diligence you should be able to find it. good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord d

Re: Non-working Fn key on Asus eeePC 900

2017-02-23 Thread Fred Smith
not a bad key, but I can switch keyboards too if > needed. How do I fix this? Robert: on my 901 (also running an ancient Fedora, F20) lsmod | grep eee returns not only eeepc_laptop, but also sparse_keymap. I dunno what sparse_keymap does, but it prolly has something to do with mapping keys :)

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