Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/04/2010 10:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is it better to run firewall through fedora 12 or through router or both A firewall at the router can stop things at the boundary, but depending on how it's implemented, may not stop things between clients within your LAN. That's probably

Re: Fedora and long threads - positive rather than negative!

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 18:18 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: What kind of response do you get when running XP if you come across a problem - where do you go to get a bug fixed within a matter of days or perhaps even a few weeks when running XP or Vista? Is it even possible to get fast turn around

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
Craig White: Get a blog for your uninformed opinions. I think you are seriously underestimating the amount of hostility your ramblings generate. Tom H: +1 Paul Allen Newell: +100 ÷0 -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address,

Re: Strange msgs from restore;

2010-04-05 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 22:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2010, George R Goffe wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to copy my boot partition (and others) to a new drive with dump/restore pipes. (cd /rb.boot ; /sbin/dump -f - /dev/sda1 | /sbin/restore -rf -) I get a bunch

AMRISH SONAWANE invites you to use Boxbe

2010-04-05 Thread AMRISH SONAWANE
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Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: To use cups to serve printers to clients in a different LAN in the /etc/cups/client.conf file you need to have a line: ServerName 70.238.70.20 where in this case 70.238.70.20 is the address of the server. Note: 70.238.70.25 is not

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-05 Thread Tim
Dave Higton: You're lucky with your CRTs. The ones I've seen that were a few years old, had bad screen burn, plus a nasty colour cast as one of the electron guns had lost emission. I was glad to have my last CRT monitor replaced here (by an LCD) because it had bad Moiré patterning, which

Severe problems with radeonHD 3470 and dual head conf

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Boy
Hi, I bought a new box with an ATI Radeon HD 3470 (it is one of the rare graphic boards with 2 DVI and passive cooling). Installing F12 it automatically configures xinerama mode (better spanning) as desired. But: - Using a VGA adapter and VGA connection the second screen uses a

Re: Strange msgs from restore;

2010-04-05 Thread T. Horsnell
John Austin wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 22:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2010, George R Goffe wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to copy my boot partition (and others) to a new drive with dump/restore pipes. (cd /rb.boot ; /sbin/dump -f - /dev/sda1 | /sbin/restore -rf -)

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/04/2010 10:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at

No sound

2010-04-05 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I don't have sound on my F12. There seems to be no way to test the sound, either. What can I do? Thanks! (I started using Fedora with version 6, which was running fairly smoothly. Over time, I feel, quality has degraded, and now, with F12, nothing runs smoothly any more. Every

Re: No sound

2010-04-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/05/2010 05:22 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I don't have sound on my F12. There seems to be no way to test the sound, either. What can I do? Thanks! (I started using Fedora with version 6, which was running fairly smoothly. Over time, I feel, quality has degraded,

Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 21:29 +0930, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: To use cups to serve printers to clients in a different LAN in the /etc/cups/client.conf file you need to have a line: ServerName 70.238.70.20 where in this case 70.238.70.20 is the

Re: Firefox not running : unable to load XPCOM (was Re:)

2010-04-05 Thread Don Vogt
Hopefully this will solve your problems. :) probably but to be honest, I haven't been tracking this problem but generally, you can just nuke the file, ~/.mozilla/firefox/YOUR_SALTED_PROFILE/pluginreg.dat and it will be rebuilt on the next Firefox startup. and more to the

RE: F11 - F12 woes

2010-04-05 Thread Jeff Kittle
do_suspend() is defined here: do_suspend() { echo -n mem /sys/power/state; } Suspect some other process is writing or reading or has applied a on lock to /sys/power/state -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On

CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hi All, This is a strange question, perhaps... How do I _enable_ CD-ROM automount on Fedora 12 machine? I have Fedora 12 running MythTV. Previously CDs/DVDs were mounted automatically each time I insert a disk into the drive. Recently I noticed it doesn't happen any longer - I have to do it

Re: Firefox not running : unable to load XPCOM (was Re:)

2010-04-05 Thread David García Granda
Hi Don, 2010/4/5 Don Vogt dn...@yahoo.com: Hopefully this will solve your problems. :) probably but to be honest, I haven't been tracking this problem but generally, you can just nuke the file, ~/.mozilla/firefox/YOUR_SALTED_PROFILE/pluginreg.dat and it will be rebuilt on the

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/05/2010 10:33 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hi All, This is a strange question, perhaps... How do I _enable_ CD-ROM automount on Fedora 12 machine? I have Fedora 12 running MythTV. Previously CDs/DVDs were mounted automatically each time I insert a disk into the drive. Recently I noticed

Re: Fedora 12 install trashed boot sector of hard rive

2010-04-05 Thread Bart
Op zondag 04-04-2010 om 17:03 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jeff Kittle: Hi Trying to install Fedora 12 x86_64 and the disk partition tool hung. Had to power down machine. Now when I try to install, it always goes To the basic text type of install and tells me I have no hard drive

Re: No sound

2010-04-05 Thread Bart
Op maandag 05-04-2010 om 10:22 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Oliver Ruebenacker: Hello, I don't have sound on my F12. There seems to be no way to test the sound, either. What can I do? Thanks! (I started using Fedora with version 6, which was running fairly smoothly. Over time, I

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/05/2010 12:03 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is it better to run firewall through fedora 12 or through router or both A firewall at the router can stop things at the boundary, but depending on how it's implemented, may not stop things

Re: Firefox not running : unable to load XPCOM (was Re:)

2010-04-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 05 April 2010 08:44 AM, David García Granda wrote: Did you remove nspluginwrapper? Yes, please try this before we can say we give up. :) I tried to clean things up a bit using package-cleanup but didn't do much. I did clean out old kernels and kernel-devel files. That didn't

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:16:20 -0700, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just using the firewall that comes with Fedora 12, is there better firewall software out there. That depends on what you are looking for. iptables has limited deep packet inspection features. It is also only

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Steven, Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:50:46 PM, you wrote: So what's the best way to bring automount back? P.S. I don't need a file browser or any other application to activate when I insert a disc. I just want the disc content to be accessible by the system... System - Preferences -

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Mikkel
On 04/05/2010 11:51 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 09:34 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:16 AM, Michael Miles wrote: I'm not too bad with firewalls but I am used to more detailed firewall software. I just came from the hell they call Win 7 and I was using Bitdefender for the

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread suvayu ali
On 5 April 2010 10:03, Andrew Junev a...@a-j.ru wrote: Hello Steven, Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:50:46 PM, you wrote: So what's the best way to bring automount back? P.S. I don't need a file browser or any other application to activate when I insert a disc. I just want the disc content to be

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/05/2010 12:03 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello Steven, Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:50:46 PM, you wrote: So what's the best way to bring automount back? P.S. I don't need a file browser or any other application to activate when I insert a disc. I just want the disc content to be

Re: Grub-Menu takes ~30s to appear :/

2010-04-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/05/2010 08:53 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, Since upgrading my old P4 based Laptop from Fedora-10 to Fedora-11 the bootloader takes a very long time to start. I later upgraded to Fedora 12 (because of improvements in the nouveau driver) but that didn't help. HDD is set to first boot

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/05/2010 10:15 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:51 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 09:34 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:16 AM, Michael Miles wrote: I'm not too bad with firewalls but I am used to more detailed firewall software. I just came from the

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:40:31 PM, you wrote: System - Preferences - File Management Click on the 'Media' tab. What should be the settings there? I tried setting everything to Ask what to do, but it still doesn't automount the disc... I don't use Gnome these days, but I

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences Check the settings for media-automount I checked this one already before posting the question. It is ticked. I also tried removing it and putting it back again. Still no

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/05/2010 11:33 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 10:15 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:51 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 09:34 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:16 AM, Michael Miles wrote: I'm not too bad with firewalls but I am used to more detailed firewall

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 05 April 2010 11:50 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences Check the settings for media-automount I checked this one already before posting the question. It is ticked. I also

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 10:57:20 PM, you wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 11:50 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences Check the settings for media-automount I checked this

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Monday 05 April 2010 12:12 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello Suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 10:57:20 PM, you wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 11:50 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:32:25 PM, you wrote: Try this, # grep -i mount /var/log/messages Here it is: # grep -i mount /var/log/messages 2010-04-05T21:09:54.217904+04:00 frontend1 automount[1385]: lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ table auto.master #

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/05/2010 12:32 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 12:12 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello Suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 10:57:20 PM, you wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 11:50 AM, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/05/2010 11:51 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:33 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 10:15 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:51 AM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/05/2010 09:34 AM, Mikkel wrote: On 04/05/2010 11:16 AM, Michael Miles wrote:

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/05/2010 12:53 PM, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello Suvayu, Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:32:25 PM, you wrote: Try this, # grep -i mount /var/log/messages Here it is: # grep -i mount /var/log/messages 2010-04-05T21:09:54.217904+04:00 frontend1 automount[1385]: lookup_read_master:

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread psmith
On 01/04/10 23:44, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Craig Whitecraigwh...@azapple.com said: as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused about Red Hat/Fedora. Fedora is a completely separate entity with its

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Rick, Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:56:43 PM, you wrote: Andrew, first off you should sort out why you're getting kernel oopses. That's just bad in any case. I'd look at /var/log/messages and dmesg and look for anything regarding your DVD/CD drive. Yeah, I have a feeling these oopses

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/04/10 23:44, Craig White wrote: I do have faith that Fedora governance is independent of Red Hat. Craig you are joking right? fedora is just a testing ground for redhat (think selinux, pulseaudio, abrt

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/06/2010 02:39 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Meanwhile, back on the farm, Mark Shuttleworth pays his developers and doesn't get a cent back... for now. Far from true. You need to check your facts. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Klipper now works in GNOME!

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On the brighter side, an upgrade has arrived since I noticed that Klipper only worked properly in GNOME after Parcellite was installed and functional. The upgarde caused problems selecting text. I removed Parcellite and now Klipper works perfectly in GNOME. Glipper is still unavailable. -- users

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 21:36:30 +0100, psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: you are joking right? fedora is just a testing ground for redhat (think selinux, pulseaudio, abrt etc etc), and the governance is full of @redhat.com people It isn't just a testing ground for Redhat. Redhat had

Re: Fedora and long threads - positive rather than negative!

2010-04-05 Thread psmith
On 02/04/10 18:18, mike cloaked wrote: Occasionally there are long threads in the Fedora forums which start with flame baiting by one or other poster and quite often run for ages without reaching a sensible conclusion but generate bad feeling and not much else. As a long standing fedora user

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-05 Thread psmith
On 02/04/10 18:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/02/2010 11:05 PM, Michael Miles wrote then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at volunteers who are giving you something for free? Maybe they are

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's Check for Updates?

2010-04-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/06/2010 02:59 AM, psmith wrote: i think his reply was meant for me rahul, notice that the first paragraph of him mail is my reply to the two complainants verbatim, and mea culpa for the language/post, it was a result of a long day dealing with extremely ungratefull people and i let

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 21:36 +0100, psmith wrote: On 01/04/10 23:44, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Craig Whitecraigwh...@azapple.com said: as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused about Red

Re: Klipper now works in GNOME!

2010-04-05 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 05.04.2010, 17:17 -0400 schrieb Marcel Rieux: On the brighter side, an upgrade has arrived since I noticed that Klipper only worked properly in GNOME after Parcellite was installed and functional. The upgarde caused problems selecting text. I removed Parcellite and now Klipper

Re: Grub-Menu takes ~30s to appear :/

2010-04-05 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, IIRC, on older notebooks, there was a default time delay in the boot process (setting in BIOS, I think) that allowed the hard drive time to spin up to full speed before being accessed. I have a 10 year old IBM Thinkpad 240X (500MHz P4, dual boot W2k Debian Etch), and it does the

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 22:50 +0400, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences Check the settings for media-automount I checked this one already before posting the question. It is ticked.

Which card for my laptop?

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Robinson
My laptop has a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Since Fedora does not support it natively, it is a pain every time I want to upgrade Fedora. And even after jumping through all the hoops to install the firmware, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Consequently, I wind up being able to use

Re: Which card for my laptop?

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 21:39:24 -0400, Andrew Robinson awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: My laptop has a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Since Fedora does not support it natively, it is a pain every time I want to upgrade Fedora. And even It should have worked for F12 with open firmware installed.

Re: Klipper now works in GNOME!

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Christoph Wickert christoph.wick...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag, den 05.04.2010, 17:17 -0400 schrieb Marcel Rieux: On the brighter side, an upgrade has arrived since I noticed that Klipper only worked properly in GNOME after Parcellite was installed and

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/05/2010 05:40 PM, Mail Lists wrote: Lots of good comments here. I have seen a befsx (newer than the befsr) which could not keep up with a cable internet connection - reduced d/l by 20% or so. This was a nominal 30 Mb/s d/l and the router was definitely the bottleneck. The

Re: CD/DVD automount in Fedora 12

2010-04-05 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Aaron, Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 4:13:47 AM, you wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 22:50 +0400, Andrew Junev wrote: Monday, April 5, 2010, 9:47:50 PM, you wrote: OK, let's try this: in gconf-edit, apps - nautilus - preferences Check the settings for media-automount I

Firefox not running : unable to load XPCOM (was Re:)

2010-04-05 Thread Don Vogt
-- Message: 12 Did you remove nspluginwrapper? Yes, but firefox still doesn't run What about removing packages from fc10 and fc11? goffice04-0.4.3-5.fc11.i586 libdhcp4client-4.0.0-37.fc10.i386 libdvdcss-1.2.10-1.i386 libvolume_id-141-7.fc11.i586 Livna