Re: Connect Standard Windows VPN to Linux box

2010-01-14 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:45 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/15 j.halifax . j.hali...@seznam.cz: Thank you for your advise... The http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/vpn-setup-using-pptp.html describes the connecting as Linux box to Linux VPN server (if I understand it correctly).

Re: Connect Standard Windows VPN to Linux box

2010-01-15 Thread Craig White
j.halifax . wrote: I don't understand why. I tend to use RHEL or CentOS for servers so I was unaware of this. Paul Horwatyh said (in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350381): === The poptop server has to the best of my knowledge never been packaged as part of Fedora. The

Re: Connect Standard Windows VPN to Linux box

2010-01-15 Thread Craig White
Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/16 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: I think that pptp is generally regarded as low quality, insecure vpn tunnel and that Windows L2TP is a much better implementation as is openvpn. Agreed, but is L2TP routable behind NAT? it is on Windows server - only

Re: NFS mount error

2010-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 13:59 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I've got a simple network, systems 'A' and 'B' connected via wireless. B wants to mount A's /, /home and /usr/local. The fstab entries are A:/ /Anfs defaults0 0 A:/home /A-home

Re: Install

2010-01-26 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:04 -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: I am working on shifting the household from ubuntu to fedora. I installed F12 on my daughter's desktop with no issues; it does run slower, perhaps the graphics driver is not optimal. I then tried to install on my machine which is

Re: Iptables question

2010-02-11 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:44 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: Craig White wrote: Perhaps this is just a thing with Linode VPS but it is Fedora 11. I would think that given my iptables rules, this shouldn't happen # ssh r...@localhost ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Re: latest F12 quckly unusable after restart

2010-02-12 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:28 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 20:21 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Since I updated my F12 workstation on Tuesday (haven't done it for two weeks before that) my machine becomes unusable pretty quickly after

Re: expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION

2010-02-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 03:31 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: BTW the OP didn't say whether his mail is on an IMAP server or not. This could possibly be relevant. poc I doubt it. I'm on POP3 (Google) and I've seen

Re: Cron says bad command

2010-02-18 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:01 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: In /etc/crontab, I have this line: 30 * * * * /home/root/fix_mail r...@mtranch[221]-ls -l /home/root/fix_mail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1324 2010-02-18 07:04 /home/root/fix_mail* Crond sees this and says (from /var/log/cron) Feb

Re: recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

2010-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 21:53 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: technically, etckeeper seems to be little more than a (by default) wrapper around git. i could just as easily finish the install, cd /etc and run git init to create the initial repo there, then git add to

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:15 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: This is not Windows, but in the same tradition, after rebooting my CUPs server, I have lost connectivity to this printer from *both*

Re: KMail

2010-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:52 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: Did you update to KDE 4.4? If so, check recent postings on the Fedora KDE list. There are some problems with akonadi. See https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde FWIW,

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:22 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 02/24/2010 08:12 PM, Craig White wrote: go to the Windows system, go to Start = Programs = Accessories = Command Prompt and open a telnet session... telnet hostname_OR_ip 631 and see if it responds and how

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:15 +0100, Jan Litwiński wrote: G'day Marco, * Marco Maccaferri ma...@maccasoft.com [100226 19:03] wrote: Hi, I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is using a

Re: SAMBA poor performance

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:55 +0100, Marco Maccaferri wrote: Hi, I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is using a wireless connection so I initially tought about some interferences from nearby

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of becoming standard practice, given that each Linux app decides for itself where to

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Like many good

Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

2010-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:55 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8qpcal=1qpcal=1qptimeframe=Yqpsp=2010 Now, you might find this doesn't correspond to the ravings of the Linux counter guy. You're right! It does correspond to my experience, though.

Re: Sound lockup if gdm pulseaudio enabled

2010-03-02 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:03 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 23:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: pulseaudio runs as the logged in user gdm does not Quite obviously, but does the gdm 'user' have appropriate permissions to use pulseaudio, itself. I don't know because I use kdm

Re: partition customization ....how do I ???

2010-03-03 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 05:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: before you actually start with disk druid in anaconda, you just switch to virtual console ControlAltF2 and then run 'fdisk /dev/sda' and create your partitions in fdisk, switch back to anaconda ControlAltF7 and then use the partitions you

Re: secure log stopped working

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:29 +0100, j.halifax . wrote: Hi all, Don't you know anybody please what could be a reason that records of /var/log/secure stopped coming? Couldn't it be due to hacking the box? :( Thank you for any help. very likely - manually editing the file will cause it

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:49 -0800, bruce wrote: hey I know this isn't an OS question, but I'm lost!! New to configuring Postfix, with a few questions about how to configure Postfix. I'm running Fedora, with Postfix, from the basic yum install. The Sendmail process has been stopped.

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:05 -0800, bruce wrote: Hi Craig... I'm getting an err in my maillog file Mar 4 13:42:17 lserver6 postfix/master[12985]: daemon started -- version 2.3.3, configuration /etc/postfix Mar 4 13:42:17 lserver6 postfix/qmgr[12988]: C01AF2D:

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:38 -0800, bruce wrote: hey craig... not so fast!! i've seen some of those links.. and tried what they've stated. don't work!!! i've seen a few sites that imply that you need to set the cert(s) in order to get the process to work correctly.. which is why i

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:00 -0800, bruce wrote: craig... you misunderstand... if you were using postfix to relay through gmail's auth port (as i'm looking to do) then the conf files would be extremely relevant! we'd be attempting to do the same thing... however, i finally got it to

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:33 -0800, bruce wrote: hey... one more question. the tests i've done work, but the sender/from name on the email is the system name of the account that's doing the sending. is there a param in the main.cf file that can be set to force the sender/from name to a

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:04 -0600, Mikkel wrote: On 03/04/2010 06:27 PM, Craig White wrote: I would submit that only a very tiny amount of people would actually do what you are trying to do (use gmail as a smarthost). Yes, it would be worth it if you leave a trail behind in case anyone

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 14:40 +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:42 -0700, Craig White wrote: At this stage, I simply will not accept mail from any smtp server whose forward reverse DNS don't match. So if you are sending me e-mails from server mail.example.com you better have

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 23:42 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-03-04 23:10:45, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:42 -0700, Craig White wrote: At this stage, I simply will not accept mail from any smtp server whose forward reverse DNS don't match. So if you are sending me e-mails from

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:12 +1030, Tim wrote: Craig White: I actually have a long set of postfix rules which determine which mail gets through - far more than 'simply forward and reverse checking' and I'm surprised that you would think I would do less. Might have something to do

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:34 -0600, Mikkel wrote: On 03/04/2010 09:25 PM, Craig White wrote: I was just generally referring to the issue of smarthost = gmail which has nothing to do with SASL as far as I could imagine. For that matter, smarthost setup really has nothing to do with SASL

Re: My contribution

2010-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 21:21 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Whatever nonsense Mr White might throw at me to state that real Linux believers never admit there's a problem, I say there is a HGE problem. And, like it or not, this is my contribution. there isn't a problem, at least not one

Re: My contribution (only the Knode issue)

2010-03-05 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 12:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: Here's what Knode looked like when I opened it today: http://cjoint.com/?dgcNjJBH6c What's this: Loca... O... Sent Dr... Moving the vertical bar doesn't lengthen the names and I saw no option

Re: MySQL backward compatibility question

2010-03-06 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: I'm starting to play around with MySQL and PHP on fedora 12. With Fedora's fanatical devotion to churning out latest versions of everything, I'm just wondering what the rate of new MySQL versions that are non-backward compatible has been

Re: My contribution (only the Knode issue)

2010-03-06 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:08 -0600, Mikkel wrote: On 03/06/2010 06:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: A car would work without a differential in much the same way a wagon or cart would. However, when cornering the tires would need to rotate at different speeds. This would tend to cause slipping

Re: Firefox plugins

2010-03-09 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 03/10/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:43 +1000, david walcroft wrote: Fedora 12 x86_64 I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files libflashplayer.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt

Re: Firefox plugins

2010-03-09 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 03/10/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:43 +1000, david walcroft wrote: Fedora 12 x86_64 I've being trying to get 'about:plugins' to recognize these .so files libflashplayer.so nphelix.so nphelix.xpt

Re: Firefox plugins

2010-03-09 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:17 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 03/10/2010 12:49 PM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 03/10/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:43 +1000, david walcroft wrote: Fedora 12 x86_64 I've being

Re: Problem with apache virtual host in new fedora 12 installation

2010-03-10 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 06:55 +0800, Richard Cahilig wrote: Hi, I have problem with my new apache virtual host setup in my fedora 12 server. I can't access it in the browser and I am receiving error 403. Please see the error below in my error_log. [Thu Mar 11 14:24:40 2010] [crit]

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:04 +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 01:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: Upstream, either Xorg or Gnome. One of the reasons, IIRC, was that some people are using/could use that key combo by mistake. How? How could you accidentally press that awkward key combination?

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:07 +, psmith wrote: On 11/03/10 16:01, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartekbartek...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information that a

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:09 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote: Did they move /var/named to /var/www/named? nope... pebkac ;-) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-12 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 10:59 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: On 03/11/2010 09:02 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu

Re: nss update problem ?!?

2010-03-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 00:19 -0500, William Case wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 21:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 23:03 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; Do I just wait for repairs? Or, do I report this as a bug? or you could read the e-mails today because

Re: Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates

2010-03-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 10:34 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent of our install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ? Since the 3.5 - 4.0 KDE pushathon, everyone I know who was a KDE user (myself included, and Linus too!)

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 17:21 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Honestly, I never thought that I'd find this kind of communist planned economy reasoning within the advocates of a company listed on the NYSE. Of course, I'm not a geek, not even a suit, so I know nothing. But, if you really get infuriated

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: We are *not* irrelevant. I'm not, and neither is the OP, and the attitude that says we are is the *problem*. #1 - mentioning Red Hat or the NYSE on a Fedora list is irrelevant. #2 - this is a community based distribution and

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 16:38 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:47:52 pm Craig White wrote: I am not a typical user. I have been a sysadmin for 12 years. I have a general idea of how a good bug reporting and triaging system should work. When I submitted a bug that I

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:43 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2010 03:29:40 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: In another post, Tim has pondered if we aren't seeking the emergence of Karl 3.0. An update, Karl is alive and

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 12:48 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: On 03/13/2010 06:26 PM, Russell Miller wrote: I use Fedora. I even somewhat like Fedora. Apart from the fact that I'm taking my data into my hands with every release (from 11 to 12 I lost all my data on trying to upgrade), and

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 17:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tim wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 18:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: The issue may be that nfs4 doesn't seem to be working, mount.nfs4 gives a failure, so perhaps job one will be to find out why the export isn't working. Are all

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 20:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Of course a blog is exactly the right forum for those kinds of broad based, opinion diatribes while the list is exactly the wrong place but one thing

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:37 +1100, Roger wrote: On 03/14/2010 09:58 AM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 17:21 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Honestly, I never thought that I'd find this kind of communist planned economy reasoning within the advocates of a company listed

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-15 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote: On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote: The users and bug reports are, by and large, irrelevant. Mine certainly have been. As I said, sometimes I did not give enough info, but it also really didn't *matter

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 08:16 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: What is Goodwin's law? I only know about the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law I took his smiley to mean that he

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 01:45 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: BTW, to all, I found this article that I found very interesting: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/377930/51c110883cc4de9c/ It answered a lot of my questions on Fedora/Red Hat development. I intend to comment on it but spent the day

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:56 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:44:56 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: If your mailer supports it, Reply-To-List is preferable to Reply-To-All on mailing lists. It uses the List-* headers to figure out the correct

Re: Replying to Yahoo emails in Evolution...

2010-03-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:16 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: I use Evolution as my email client. I use gmail accounts to group my various interests via different email addresses and receive my emails via their SMTP server services. Everything works great except that when I get an email from a

Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

2010-03-19 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated in rc.local. It runs perfectly when started from a root login;

Re: bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:17 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Two pc's: 1 - router 2 - logger Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed]. What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Tim wrote: I don't know why I'm bothering to reply to Karlbot 3.0, but here goes, even though he will not realise that he's got the wrong end of the stick on just about everything. I know what you mean. My hope was that a

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Tim wrote: I don't know why I'm bothering to reply to Karlbot 3.0, but here goes, even though he will not realise that he's got the wrong end of the stick on just about everything. I know what you mean. My hope was that a

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 03:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Tim wrote: I know what you mean. My hope was that a deafening silence would have ensued after the post. Should another topic be raised I'll do my best

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 06:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Craig White wrote: The part of the movie which reminded me of Del was when Neal says... You know everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 19:56 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: The BIG problem with open source is that developers are always right. Users must fill zany bug reports, RTFM, Google their way through thousands of pages of, sometimes dead wrong, technical mumbo jumbo. (Cf. my comments

Re: SD card insertion not detected in Core 12

2010-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:55 -0700, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote: Hi, I have 2 laptops that can accept SD cards. The Fedora Core 12 (Gnome 2.28.2) set-up in both are as follows: 1. Thinkpad T61: 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 2. Lenovo S10: 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686 On both these machines SD

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:18 +, BeartoothHOS wrote: meaning by we those few who have not yet killfiled him. (I will in a minute.) I am one of those who enjoys a train wreck and rarely ever killfile someone but he is actually getting close to giving me sufficient motivation. I find it

Re: Sorbet (Sherbet) no longer on Fedora's future but on bios merits

2010-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 19:59 +1100, Roger wrote: On 03/24/2010 05:45 PM, charles zeitler wrote: how's this for a hypothetical: some person (let's call him 'Marcel') enters his BIOS, (maybe makes some changes), invokes password protection reboots. some time later, he installs a fresh

Re: NoMachine setup

2010-03-26 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 22:10 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2010, Jim wrote: I also forgot to tell you, That there is a SSHD program for Windows on the internet called Putty you would have to do a Google on it. NoMachine has a Client for Windows, You might goto

Re: How to remove linux partition

2010-03-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 00:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS. It would be my suggestion to get a copy of Partition Magic. Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a

Re: log in through root

2010-03-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 20:26 +0100, agraham wrote: On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote: Hi! I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and finally added a user name rajanish .I am log in through rajanishbut i have not accessing throgh root...I want to log in

Re: question regarding mounting the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive

2010-03-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:40 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: Craig, On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive and I'm ready

Re: F12 crash

2010-03-31 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:34 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Since my system is a stand-alone one behind two firewalls, not locally networked to any others, doesn't run

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net said: You keep saying this. I shall make only two points as I am bored of

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:55 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: I've written a case study about how Ubuntu is run and how Red Hat is/should, IMO, be run. From a non-geek like me, it might seem pretentious. pretentious would probably be a most generous characterization. Get a blog. Spare us. Red

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. And I recently learned they don't even

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Craig White craigwh...@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 own management, resources, servers though clearly

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:43 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: On 1 April 2010 23:35, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:02 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: as far as I can tell, you seem to be the only one confused

Re: Login errors after network change

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:14 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: Hello All: I just did a Fedora12 Desktop Edition installation to hard drive and an update. This went smoothly, but I had some errors immediately afterwards. During the installation I don't recall being prompted for network configuration.

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:23 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: That's the document about the board I was referring to, but it's not Fedora statutes, it doesn't say where Fedora stands in relation to Red Hat. Nowhere in this document will you find something to back your assertion that Fedora

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

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:51 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: I'm confused. If you want Red Hat to treat you as an employee, that seems to be here: http://www.redhat.com/about/careers/ If you want to create your own commercial Linux distribution, using Fedora as your upstream, you're welcome to do

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

2010-04-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 10:35 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith 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

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

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 02:03 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: OK. So, you're not working for Fedora, you're contributing work to Fedora. Call it the way you want, it might soon prove difficult to find work contributors. People who contribute applications to Apple's iPhone receive 80¢ per download.

Re: Cups not advertising printers

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm installing a new print server, and it's not serving. I've configured the printer, it works locally, but even though I checked share the ipp packets are only sent locally. My existing servers are on FC6, and work fine (private

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

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 09:52 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: On 3 April 2010 09:01, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 02:03 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: Though Red Hat is doing fine now, I believe it would be better off questioning its development model before problems

Re: How to compile kernel module for a new kernel before reboot?

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 23:04 +0400, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello All, I have a vt6656 WiFi adapter that needs a separate driver to work in Linux. The driver is neither in native Fedora repos, nor in rpmfusion (at least I don't know how to search for it, so I think it's not there). So

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

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 13:40 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: I believe its not a discussion if one or more parties have already made up their mind. ;) FWIW, AFAIK the kernel project and all of GNU also work through contributors. ;) GNU obviously is volunteer but I think that it's

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

2010-04-03 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 22:20 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Don, That actually helps a lot. :) On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:49 PM, Don Vogt wrote: I would like to avoid removing and installing again firefox and xulrunner, but maybe as last option it would work :-? Regards, David

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 Hat

Re: Compiler package

2010-04-06 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:32 -0500, Euplycidus Aerofram wrote: I just bought a stripped down Fedora VM from an ISP, and I've been hunting and pecking to get gcc, make, glibc, and the other 5,000 little dependancies installed. Here's the question: Is there a single binary package/rpm that

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

2010-04-07 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 20:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 06:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Also, IMHO, there is no upside in attempting to engage the OP in intellectual discourse. The best thing to do is to make no response to any new postings. The ancients had a

Re: SNMP and web based system monitoring tool

2010-04-08 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:53 +0800, thomas wrote: Hi All, We have 100+ Linux boxes and 200+ RHEL Virtual Instances running. We are looking for SNMP based Open Source web based monitoring tool for monitoring these system from single browser. Please help to point me to url if any one is aware

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

2010-04-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:51 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: i recommend we re-name Marcel, Oblio banish him to the Pointless Forest. I like the sentiment and the Harry Nilssen reference but you forgot the punchline from the story... if everyone in the town of Point has a point, then I must

Re: Yum Update - Metadata does not match checksum

2010-04-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:57 +0200, Melanie wrote: Hi all! Last week I installed Fedora 12 x86_64 from DVD (Download from Fedora HP). After the install I tried to update my system with yum update. But I get following error messages (for all mirrors): [r...@melanie ~]# yum update Geladene

Re: Yum Update - Metadata does not match checksum

2010-04-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 19:00 +0200, Melanie wrote: Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 08:52 -0700 schrieb Craig White: I also get back to the original configurations. In the meantime I updated yum to 3.2.27-2 - With the new yum version the above mentioned error didn´t occur again. But I got a lot

Re: Yum Update - Metadata does not match checksum

2010-04-10 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 00:02 +0200, Melanie wrote: Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 12:47 -0700 schrieb Craig White: Hi Craig! I am using the ext4 filesystem. To edit config files I just use vi. I know that updating with yum should be very simple. On my old pc I have fedora 10 (32bit

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Trying to see if F13 is something I want to use, so its installing on my laptop. Unforch when I get to the window of install choices, it unchecks the graphical desktop if I check software devel, and a web server

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Trying to see if F13 is something I want to use, so its installing on my laptop. Unforch when I get

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