Re: Wish List.....

2013-11-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/17/2013 07:37 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com mailto:richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: It /is/ possible to buy one and install it on Fedora on it. I remember that when I had an earlier Blackberry it was

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/21/2013 05:10 PM, Hugh Caley wrote: I'm voting for Cinnamon, since the developer of compiz isn't interested in keeping it going. But maybe if MATE was the default for Fedora he'd change his mind? Or someone else would take over? Hugh -- *Hugh Caley Software Developer, Rocket Aldon

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/22/2013 07:02 AM, Roger wrote: Setting aside the fact that users list is hardly the place to influence the choice of defaults and it is entirely offtopic to the purpose of this list, the idea that users drive the defaults of Fedora doesn't seem to match reality. If you do want to

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/22/2013 03:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I agree that this isn't really the place to influence the choice of defaults, but it is entirely the place for users to form consensus. If you try to talk about this on devel

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/22/2013 08:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Which ones would that be?just out of curiosity. I mean... Enlightenment for example Rahul I had forgot about that one!.well for my own experience with Fedora, I jumped

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/22/2013 07:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts.

Re: OT- Getting Firefox GMail Old Compose (for a while) - Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/23/2013 09:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com mailto:fulko@gmail.com wrote: Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after New Compose) Get UAControl from here:

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/26/2013 04:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 11/22/2013 01:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You know what you prefer and it is available in the repo. It shouldn't matter much to you what the default is. I don't think that's entirely true. Those of us who use a lot of systems and support others

Re: fedup and selinux

2013-12-24 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I have learned MORE about SELinux just being on this mailing list than from ANY other source out there!thanks to all for your responses to this(this will only help me in my pursuit of RHCE certification!..) EGO II On 12/24/2013 04:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Dec

Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking a certain domain or email address and prevent them from hitting your Inbox, I would like to know if anyone

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-28 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/28/2013 04:29 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/28/2013 06:06 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking a certain

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-28 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/28/2013 02:35 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: I wonder what Google's secret is? Most likely, a heavily customized version of SpamAssassin. Or if not specifically SA, some other Baysean filter. Which, incidentally, wouldn't be amiss

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote: In the past, I've emailed friends, and my first or second posting has gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything about it. I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my email. Why?

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2014-01-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote: On 12/30/2013 4:00 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote: On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent: SPAM is very subjective. I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas) and

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2014-01-01 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/01/2014 02:06 PM, David wrote: On 1/1/2014 1:31 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote: I have it on...and I would hope its working...but its just seems to me that a LOT of spam is getting inI dunno. I think I will be looking into Spam Assassin for TB

Re: Fedup F17 -- F20

2014-01-05 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/05/2014 10:01 AM, JUSTIN TAYLOR wrote: Sorry about leaving off the subject... I had a brain fart I guess. So F17 doesn't support fedup huh? A little odd since yum installed it for me. But no matter, I'll download an F18 ISO when I get the chance. Thank you very much!

Re: serious scriptlet problems with today's updates

2014-01-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/17/2014 11:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/17/2014 10:55 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mark Haney mha...@practichem.com wrote: My question is, WTF happened? My system is pretty clean. I never install packages by hand,

Re: Password for shutdown -

2014-01-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long time and never had this requirement. I am the sole user of this computer and see it as an annoyance, more so when

Re: Password for shutdown -

2014-01-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/19/2014 09:57 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 19/01/14 09:16, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long

Re: Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

2014-02-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/09/2014 04:23 PM, Edward Mart wrote: On 2/7/2014 12:29 PM, CS DBA wrote: Unfortunately it's web order only... I can send it back if needed but some level of confidence before I pull the trigger would be nice... Seems this store installs fedora 20 on that exact model, they may be

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/15/2013 04:48 PM, Anthony wrote: On 05/14/2013 11:05 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? I have had great experiences with System76. I've owned a few of their machines but, if I were to

Re: [OT] Failure to boot .... This could happen to you.

2013-05-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/16/2013 07:27 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: It took a bit of time, but I finally tracked down the problem to the DVI cable which had been chewed on by one of my cats. (Doing dental impressions now to find the culprit.) Replaced cable, all is well.

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/16/2013 07:35 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 22:16 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I imagine anything that has a sub-woofer in it is pretty weighty? And would have to be pretty big. I don't believe what they call a sub-woofer will actually be one - something that's able

Re: suggestions for linux laptop

2013-05-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/17/2013 01:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:13:46 -0400 Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 05/15/2013 12:05 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I am looking for a new laptop running Fedora. A real workhorse but hopefully not very heavy. Any suggestions? Btw, what is the highest

Re: F18 - yum update broken?

2013-06-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/14/2013 07:55 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: On 06/14/2013 03:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:47:36 -0700 Paul Erickson va...@telus.net wrote: Has yum update broken? For some reason when I went to update today, if got the following message: ...snip... I have never

Re: converting text to pdf

2013-06-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/15/2013 07:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like to print anything you like to the virtual pdf printer. Thats the procedure I normally use...makes it easy to get a padf configured and printed in a jiffy with very few problems!. EGO II -- users

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 07:21 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent: Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a linux box. I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 10:23 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than configuring Windows to Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I have never used SAMBAbut I've always been told (by Windows admins no less!...LOL!) that it was the easiest thing

Re: install the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player

2013-06-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/16/2013 11:29 PM, poma wrote: On 10.06.2013 06:28, Lingxian Guo wrote: Just but unfamiliar,I am using Fedora 18 64bit .The plugin of the Adobe Flash Player should be installed to Firefox,I do not know how to do? http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ poma You could just always install it

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/17/2013 10:13 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: why is SAMBA still around?,,,I always thought the Open Source Universe was about finding and using software that Just Worked? When it comes to interfacing your open source, open standards OS

Re: mcelog.service

2013-06-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/18/2013 12:41 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/17/2013 07:21 PM, lee wrote: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 06/16/2013 07:09 PM, lee wrote: Just think it through and then explain to me how it would make sense to dedicate (a part of the limited) resources to have mcelog constantly running.

Re: USB printer connection

2013-06-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 06/18/2013 12:53 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I guess I'll have to ditch my SAMBA 3 whitepapers and look into the NFS thingie some more! Always explore the options. And I assume the NFS has workable access and file permissioning? Linux

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
Wow! well this is great news for me, as I was holding off upgrading for fear of something going wrong. And bear in mind I have a full backup of my system, it's just that I have scarce time to babysit a full restore...but I guess I'll give it an attempt this coming weekend over a cup of Earl Grey!

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 01:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 7/9/2013 10:19 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: I agree completely. Harald's posts are among the best on this list in terms of their technical content. It's more disruptive that they're out of sequence due to moderation than that his tone can

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:17 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: I've used fedup on 4 very different machines, and it has worked faultlessly. Thanks for reporting. I was afraid of upgrading (F18-F19) and would have waited months. After your message, I did it and it worked perfectly well: 1. I downloaded the DVD

Re: Disabling ipv6

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:27 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 10:58 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Once in a while I see people suggesting the disabling of IPv6 to cope with some issue. My I _kindly_ ask not to do that anymore? Even though such trick might take away the

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:45 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no, it's just the first time. Then it remembers your choice. Frédéric Oh!ok...cool!

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 02:46 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: What I want to know is, what does fedup do if, as in my case, Gnome isn't installed? Don't know that. Sorry. Frédéric Doesn't it kind of put it there?...as a default?...or will it configure some sort of interface so that you can install it?

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no, it's just the first time. Then it remembers

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 03:08 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no,

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 04:29 PM, staticsafe wrote: http://durham.io/2013/07/09/seth-vidal-creator-of-yum-open-source-software-killed-in-bike-accident-off-hillandale-rd/ May he rest in peace. Deepest condolences to his family! God bless them all! EGO II -- users mailing list

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 05:06 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 07/09/2013 05:04 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 07/09/2013 03:08 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

2013-07-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/09/2013 05:27 PM, staticsafe wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:16:58PM -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Oh! ok.that explains it! So then theoretically I should be able to use the fedup-cli command and upgrade my system, without having anything change except the versions

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

2013-07-11 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/11/2013 08:41 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 11:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Or if he would have been uncomfortable with this (I did not know him), perhaps name it after his passions: yum and biking (from what I read here) in some creative way yummy cycles? Even has a

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. I've had an

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/12/2013 09:10 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: See?...it's stuff like the stories above that make me hesitant to go from 18 to 19 Why? Something went wrong. Once. I spent several days, off and on, cleaning up cruft and duplicate packages from

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 03:45 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released? What are the main reasons? Thanks in advance, Paul As far as it was explained to me: you're not REALLY required to upgrade, if the version you're using suits your purposes.

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-12 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Hi, imagine you have the following: package A, depends on C, installed package B, depends on C, not installed package C, installed All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, and in the meantime, package B has been updated to

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 09:44 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: ALL!).And now for..fedup-cli --network 19...and I'll keep my fingers crossedbut what's the time frame?like an hour?2?...2+1/2? About an hour or two --- it depends on how fast you can

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and version 2 from Fedora 18

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, lee wrote: Besides all the reasons already mentioned: It can be much more manageable to adjust one or two things when upgrading from one release to the next than it may be having to suddenly adjust five or ten after skipping

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/11/2013 09:16 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Isaac Cortés González w.isaac.cor...@gmail.com wrote: I support the idea, it should be done at least something like when Verne was released and Dennis Ritchie, not only the Fedora Community has lost a great

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:34:18PM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more

Re: Schr?dinger?s Cat

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 07:36 PM, Roger wrote: On 07/14/2013 05:17 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 7/13/2013 12:05 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: When do we get rid of grub and grub2 and design a BM4H? (Boot Manager for Humans) Once the fundamental Transhumanism technologies are fully operational.

Re: questions on package management

2013-07-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/13/2013 07:42 PM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/14/2013 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: It's not simply about knowing which packages have been or are to be updated --- that I can see when running 'yum update'. It's about information what has actually changed

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/14/2013 08:35 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51:05AM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more recent versions. Maybe this could be done

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

2013-07-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/14/2013 12:26 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: For me it was the aggravation. Installing was always a struggle. I was on F14 when I tried to do a fresh install of F16. Never got it to work

Re: a different point of view to etiquette

2013-07-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 07/17/2013 12:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger wrote: Thank you Linus and others. As I see it, this discussion has little to do with culture, nations or ideologies and a lot to do with rubbishing another person or their ideas for what ever reason. We are all equal, some have more

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
in the future, but I made a similar plea earlier about this same issue, and wellI'll see you all in the future! Cheers! And keep up the great work guys! Cheers! Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Parting Shot....

2013-07-25 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/07/linux-were-all-in-this-together-right_24.html EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: setting up my 2T hard drive (WAS Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.)

2013-11-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 11/15/2013 03:37 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: linux guy, My name is Darlene Wallach. I purchased a 2T Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk disk from Costco a few years ago. I finally set it up and found your very immensely helpful directions! Thank you very much!!! Darlene Wallach On Thu, Sep 29,

Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 12:04 AM, staticsafe wrote: On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 11:15 AM, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com: WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not too familiar with the Terminal and the command

Re: Something went wrong.....

2013-01-05 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/05/2013 12:57 PM, antonio wrote: Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 11/12/2012 22:19: On 12/11/2012 01:07 PM, antonio wrote: I have a doubt on this subjectif the error is before login, where shall I get the .xsession-errors file??? A new version of the file

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

2013-01-05 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/05/2013 02:20 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV has been a bit of a flop. R. G. Newbury: HD will come. If you like sports you might hit on your local station to broadcast Oz footie in HD. We had a sports-only HD channel, that

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

2013-01-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 09:02 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 01/13/2013 08:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:03:01 + g wrote: why is it that when posting to this tsl i will sometimes receive my via my subscription and sometimes i do not? I don't know if any other mail services operate

Re: Appointments tasks

2013-01-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 09:27 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:29:28 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Yes, you're using fallback-mode of GNOME 3, not the GNOME Shell. The applet differs when using GNOME Shell. Yes, you are absolutely right. How can I get the same behavior in the

Re: Appointments tasks

2013-01-13 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 09:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 2013-01-13 15:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/13/2013 09:27 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:29:28 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Yes, you're using fallback-mode of GNOME 3, not the GNOME Shell. The applet differs when

Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 10:13 AM, David wrote: On 1/13/2013 9:42 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/13/2013 12:41 AM, Errol Mangwiro wrote: By the did anyone else see this? http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852692/valve-linux-steam-box-local-gaming-server I am eagerly awaiting this. Wondering

Re: Steam on Fedora

2013-01-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 11:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I tried out Team Fortress 2 and everything worked without a hitch. Very impressive! Richard Wish List - Note to self: add Team Fortress 2! LoL! EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

2013-01-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 03:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.01.2013 21:14, schrieb g: also, good luck with subfolders under inbox who needs luck there? mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new is your friend Thank you Sir! This is JUST what I needed! EGO II -- users mailing list

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

2013-01-14 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/13/2013 04:23 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: What's a poc? ;-) Patrick O'Callaghan: Part of a sig. But that would be spelt POAS... ;-) Speaking of TLAs, it always makes me smirk when I see someone refer to a computerised cash register as a POS (point of sales) device. Considering that the POS

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-16 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/14/2013 11:47 PM, staticsafe wrote: On 1/14/2013 23:02, g wrote: On 01/15/2013 02:09 AM, staticsafe wrote: also, good luck with subfolders under inbox. What exactly is the problem? there is a known quirk with mozilla's thunderbird email client involving an email account's Inbox that

Re: FedUp: best plan?

2013-01-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/16/2013 08:59 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:41:41AM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to upgrade via FedUp can anyone advise me whether issuing: 'sudo fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog fedupdebug.log' is

Re: A Look at Fedora 18

2013-01-17 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/16/2013 11:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/16/2013 12:05 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I remember reading that F18 includes both Gnome 3.x and also Gnome 2.x renamed MATE desktop? More or less. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. Fedora also includes Cinnamon, now, which is an alternate shell

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/18/2013 03:18 PM, g wrote: On 01/15/2013 04:47 AM, staticsafe wrote: OK, now I'm worried. if you do all your sorting on server and use imap, you *might not* have a problem. i can not comment what happens when running imap, as i use pop3 and have not tested the corruption problem with

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/18/2013 03:59 PM, g wrote: On 01/16/2013 04:47 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: So just to clarify for someone like me.who has a three sub-folders under my GMail account running on TB. You're saying I should move those folders to the Local Folder on my computer and away from under

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/18/2013 01:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: David A. De Graaf wrote: Fedora 18. What a disaster! What were they thinking when they threw away a perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on us? Whoever decided to reinvent disk partitioning and embed it in this installer

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/18/2013 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/18/2013 05:03 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 02:57 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I hate them too, but we probably aren't the intended audience. Which raises the question of what the hell is the thought process behind that? Are they

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/20/2013 08:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 02:26, schrieb Joe Zeff: That's always possible, of course. Most of the time, the posters are complaining that they don't understand the boot messages and they don't want to see them; all they want is the animation back. That's not

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17-F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:04 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com wrote: Dear friends, I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:13, schrieb Tim: ...complete snippage of what indicates why he gets moderated... oh and your Put your tin hat on, your fingers in your ears, and start chanting la la la la la, now was fine? Yes, I may be lucky in that my software

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:26 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 21 January 2013 15:32, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things really are under the hood.

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:44, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I am currently running Fedora 17 on my laptop. I'm the only one who uses it, and can access it, but I worry sometimes about someone trying to hack into it when I access the internet

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17-F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:12 -0500 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before I move forwardI have way too much riding on this laptop working properly...and since

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17-F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:53, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: In my mind, the biggest issue with F18 is the installer which has been commented on, and which puts things like disk partitioning under the rug. Perhaps the goal is to mimic other popular (by ways of mob

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/23/2013 02:59 PM, James Freer wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because first new anaconda was approved and integration all over the distribution started and after that damage was done people realized hm new

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/23/2013 03:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:59:21PM +, James Freer wrote: I have the greatest respect for the developer's that put in considerable effort for each release. The problem with 6 month release cycle is too little time. I've used linux now for almost

Re: Display rates -

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: On 1/27/2013 1:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: When the application named system-config-display was still available it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards at Fedora killed it that is no

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives from all sides. First,the developers would be able to REALLY

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:37:31PM +, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. However, it can enter into emergency mode. I would like to

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 04:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p. I would suggest you try data recovery.

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:44 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I like your ideas J.Z(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have their long term support versions that are stable, and the packages and apps have all been tested and have been proven to work

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just filed the following bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 What happens when you boot from a

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:10 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: P.S -Sorry about the J.Z. thing...I was in a rush to get my response to you...(had to reboot my machine and didn't want to wait until after wards!!) That's not a problem for me. Like with everybody

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 05:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful:

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/27/2013 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were necessary

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