Re: Saving screenshots

2015-01-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.01.2015, Alex Regan wrote: If they're just in the cut buffer, what app can I use to paste them in to? I'd rather not have to install GIMP just for this Maybe you *should* use GIMP, because it handles such cases in an extremely convenient way. You could just press Shift+Ctrl+V

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

2015-01-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.01.2015, poma wrote: For people not subscribed at de...@lists.fedoraproject.org Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/205010.html Opposed to what is written in this article, firewalld leaves the system open even

Re: Fedora-21 firewall advice?

2015-01-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.01.2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm presently using shorewall with iptables. Can shorewall be used with firewalld? No, it shouldn't, since both eventually apply different iptables rules. I'm surprised that I have never seen an article starting In Fedora 21 you will have to choose

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.01.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: I need to restart the machine to have it fix! If you do not use selinux for something useful, add a selinux=0 to your kernel boot parameters. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device against *things* on your system. Any recent Linux distribution can be secured without using selinux. Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of the people I installed Linux

Re: strange double-click

2015-01-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.01.2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: I now have an issue, many days now, not sure when it started.. sometimes, when I SINGLE-click, it acts like a double-click. I have been encountering this phenomenon several times over many years, and it has *always* been the mouse, and nothing software

Re: current laptop recommendations

2015-01-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.01.2015, Ian Malone wrote: Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux compatibility? I've installed some newer Asus machines recently, and all worked flawlessly. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: strange double-click

2015-01-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.01.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: [] Here's a good example how this could work. Did that several times to several mices, and it worked to times. In the end, you'll be lost anyway.. http://dimasio.com/quick-repair-of-the-logitech-anywhere-mouse-mx-black-usb-double-click.html -- users

Re: strange double-click

2015-01-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.01.2015, Paul Cartwright wrote: http://dimasio.com/quick-repair-of-the-logitech-anywhere-mouse-mx-black-usb-double-click.html I know, I would end up with either broken or lost parts, or not be able to get it back together again... I have had two L*gitech Anywhere MX mice, and could

Re: Nouveau driver is fast in Fedora 21 -_-

2015-01-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.01.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My recommendation is not to buy NVidia Cards ;) Besides that nvidia cards/nouveau have been working for me, do you think e.g. AMD/Radeon cards are any better, and why? Is the driver more stable, faster etc.? I'm going to buy a new gfx card for one of my

Re: Fedora Android

2015-01-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.01.2015, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm wondering what applications people use to link the two? I rarely have to connect my Android phone (CM11) to my computer. When I have to, I use obex and obexftp. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: f21 - dead.letter

2015-01-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.01.2015, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Jan 04 03:01:07 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16108]: Unable to locate mail Jan 04 03:01:07 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16108]: Cannot open mail:25 # systemctl -l status postfix postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded

Re: emacs with emacs-slime shows error Don't know how to compile nil

2015-01-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.01.2015, R Mercado wrote: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/slime.el:Error: Don't know how to compile nil I would try to update first, to the most recent version from MELPA. You can do that from emacs with package-install.

Re: mozilla-adblockplus-2.6.6-1 shows 2.6.4 installed

2014-12-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.12.2014, Andre Robatino wrote: I have mozilla-adblockplus-2.6.6-1 installed in F21 (was just pushed stable in F19, F20, and F21). Firefox's Add-ons/Extensions still shows 2.6.4. My firefox shows the correct version. A quick grep into the Fedora 21 adblockplus src.rpm does not reveal

Re: Need soundcard advice

2014-12-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.12.2014, William W. Austin wrote: Are there ANY PCIE sound which is roughly the equivalent of the Audigy 2 cards? I won't say money is no object, but I'm approaching the point where cost is less important than finding such a card if on exists. Take a look at this one. It's not

Re: Samsung Gs3 and F21/Xfce

2014-12-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.12.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: A little more digging and it seems that gnome has this automated. Xfce seems not to have it. Perhaps I need to reboot or somehow restart Xfce? yum install gvfs gvfs-mtp -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Terminal bell/beep in XFCE

2014-12-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal beep/bell. What is the output of grep -i bell ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Terminal bell/beep in XFCE

2014-12-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I manually changed MiscBell to TRUE, but that didn't help. Yes, it did some time ago. Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug which different maintainers/people still try to assign to each other, without any solution..

Re: Xfce Thunar directory size

2014-12-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.12.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Shows the Kb of the directory. I am use to Nautilus and Nemo showing how many files are in the directory. Thunar does this by default. Look right at the bottom of the Thunar window. It gives you the amount of items in the current directory, as well as

Re: [OT] Compiling a module for the Fedora kernel

2014-12-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.12.2014, poma wrote: All users should participate more, they shouldn't be just a casual observers. That is the true value. Yes. And if the faulty behaviour is reproduceable with the latest mainline, and since the offending commit is already known, the bug could be directly reported to

Re: [OT] Compiling a module for the Fedora kernel

2014-12-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2014, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: I then compiled it for the new kernel, but for me the problem is still there, a noisy fan. I will investigate further... How about finding the first official kernel with the faulty behaviour, bisecting the offending commit and reporting it to the lkml

Re: [OT] Compiling a module for the Fedora kernel

2014-12-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Heinz, it was you who pointed me to the offending patch: http://tinyurl.com/mz4vsr8 As far as I can see, the nouveau driver hasn't changed much since then. Hmm, I wrote this because it seems to me that reverting this particular commit does work for

Re: [OT] Compiling a module for the Fedora kernel

2014-12-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.12.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: I first tried the latest and greatest nouveau driver from freedesktop.org as is, but the fan problem remains, so I still have to apply my patch to the nouveau source.. I think you should file a bug against the nouveau driver on bugs.freedesktop.org

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have an annoying issue with PDF. I have evince installed, but when I click on a PDF in a thunderbird email, it starts to open a window, then Just tried it out of curiosity on a Lenovo laptop with bog standard F21 and thunderbird. No problems here. --

Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

2014-12-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than evince I've been using evince a lot during my mastergrade studies, and it worked for me. For special cases as e.g. pdf annotation I've been using Xournal. I agree that okular is somewhat

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.12.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/?source=typ_t4_highlighted Not clear if this satisfies OSS requirements of Fedora but it would be at least a worthwhile alternative to pdftk's functions. The author of this package states: It’s the first public and

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.12.2014, poma wrote: https://www.winehq.org Use the Force, Luke ... I do not want to run any Windows software on a Linux machine. Since I depend a lot on pdf merging functionality, I chose the shortest and easiest way if all fails. At work, I'm bound to Windows anyway.. -- users

R in F21 older than in F19

2014-12-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, installed one machine with F21 today. One of the programs I'm using most is the statistical software R. What's weird is that on F19, R is in the version 3.1.2, while the 2 releases newer F21 has version 3.1.1. Does anybody know what's going on here? -- users mailing list

Re: R in F21 older than in F19

2014-12-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.12.2014, Michael Schwendt wrote: Typical case of an update race. Ok, thanks! Have already compiled from the official source. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: No video in News or Youtube ?

2014-12-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.12.2014, Mickey wrote: F20 Firefox-firefox-34.0-1 Flash-plugin-11.2.202.424 In Addons/plugins Flasplayer is Always Activated. Remove the flash-plugin package, download it from Adobe and copy the libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins (create the directory if it does not exist).

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2014, Ali AlipourR wrote: I need some advice on Backup solutions, what is your personal methods and solutions? rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target You can even use it to move a complete installation to another disk, just exchange source with target. It's fast, easy and reliable. --

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: It doesn't, however, do compression or encryption. If the data is important (why make a backup otherwise?), this is a bad idea. One single bit flip can render your whole archive/backup useless (unless you have some par2 checksums for it, which isn't a 100%

Re: Yum Repairs?

2014-11-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.11.2014, Garry T. Williams wrote: AFAIK, CTRL+C is nothing else than a SIGHUP, SIGINT Yes, thanks for the correction! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

XFCE on F21 desktop

2014-11-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, up to F20, I used the respective 4 GB full DVD image to install Fedora, which also contained the XFCE desktop. Now, with F21, there's a desktop and a server edition, and it seems the full DVD is missing. Does the desktop edition also contain the XFCE desktop, or do I have to use any XFCE

Re: XFCE on F21 desktop

2014-11-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.11.2014, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Workstation does not have the Xfce packages on the media. Thanks, Kevin. That was what I wanted to know. You can of course install Workstation, then 'yum groupinstall xfce-desktop'. Hmm, so I have to install without a desktop environment first, to add

Re: Yum Repairs?

2014-11-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.11.2014, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Is there a command to rerun the command so that whatever I stopped can be done again, and hopefully prevent breakage? Just re-run yum update, this should do it. AFAIK, CTRL+C is nothing else than a SIGHUP, so yum should have terminated correctly.

Re: XFCE on F21 desktop

2014-11-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.11.2014, Joe Zeff wrote: Why shouldn't people like me who know what they need be able to get it without having to go on-line during the installation to get things? Yes, I agree. This is why I asked. On top of that, it's a big advantage for people with slow internet connections to be

Re: Out of the Broadcom frying pan (DELL) to the fire (HP Envy)

2014-11-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.11.2014, Gary Stainburn wrote: I'll check again but I believe this is a new chipset and not yet supported You could also grep for BCM4352 in the latest kernel sourcetree. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Clearing the unallocated disk space

2014-11-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.11.2014, Tom Horsley wrote: A way is to run as root cp /dev/zero tempfile for one tempfile per partition until the cp fails due to running out of disk space. That will allocate all free space and write zeroes to it. Yes. Or dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M, which is the same. Delete

Re: Out of the Broadcom frying pan (DELL) to the fire (HP Envy)

2014-11-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.11.2014, Gary Stainburn wrote: Now I've got a newer Broadcom chipset on the replacement laptop and so far all I can Google is people who've failed to get it working. Can anyone point me to a post where it's worked. http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2014-06/msg01413.html

Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.10.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: Does it make any difference if mutt is compiled with '--with-gnutls' enabled or with '--with-openssl' enabled. When compiled with --with-ssl, it uses openssl for TLS, and with --with-gnutls it uses the gnutls implementation. (Btw: there is no

Re: Closing port 631 from other computers

2014-11-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.10.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Listen localhost:631 Which in fact is the Fedora default.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.11.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: Is that so. I didn't know that. How are you supposed to get the certificate then. Given that all the most used mail progs (thunderbird, outlook, apple mail, evolution, etc) connect you automatically the ISP's dont hand out certificates. Check if the

Re: gnutls, openssl and compiling mutt

2014-11-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.11.2014, Alexander Volovics wrote: And then we might be talking about different things. These might be general certificates. When I connected to my ISP with mutt the first time and I had to accept a certificate I had the impression that a personal certificate was generated to identify

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.10.2014, Joachim Backes wrote: Let me give a résumé: unfortunately, some time Win is needed, especially for such PDF stuff. yum install xournal -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Can't re-create initrd

2014-10-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.10.2014, CLOSE Dave wrote: What am I doing wrong? You could use dracut to recreate your initramfs? Works flawlessly (here as a test, with an old kernel): [root@kiera boot]# dracut -v -f initramfs-3.16.3-rc1.img I: *** Including module: i18n *** I: *** Including module: drm *** I: ***

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Anecdotally also, it appears to be true. Without the resume = UUID stuff, it does not wake up from hibernate but goes on to reboot. I tried both with and without the resume device in grub.conf, and my system showd identical behaviour: it went into

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the difference between the Fedora vanilla kernels (as described in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories) and the kernel on kernel.org, would you happen to know? As far as I can see from the description, these are the

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: How does one go down to a 3.15.10 kernel? I could try that and see, I guess. Would it also downgrade the headers, etc? If you install a Fedora kernel: yes. I think: if you're able to reproduce the error easily, you should try to bisect the patch which

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: How does one do this? Most probably, a yum downgrade will do it. I've never used any Fedora (or other distro) kernels longer than during the installation, so I've no experience. Also, what is the difference between the Fedora and vanilla kernels? I

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Does grub not have to be updated also? How does one do that? No. Your kernel gets installed by make install. Grub.cfg will also be updated. After make install, you're done and ready to boot your new kernel. No need for further (grub) action. I see: makes

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.09.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Thanks! I will do that right now. This only happens to me on a wakeup from hibernate and with one new laptop (Dell Precision M3800). If this gives you problems, you could try to disable irqbalance to work around. Otherwise, I would have ignored the message

Re: Please keep F20 up-to-date (if you can't hold release dates)

2014-10-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.10.2014, Gerhard Hueller wrote: I did that, but rawhide is built with debug compiler options and therefore notably slower While I'm not convinced that there is any significantly slowdown in real use caused by DEBUG, you can do it the easy way: take a look at koji.fedoraproject.org,

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-10-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.10.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Unfortunately, there are hard lockups. Then, you should definitely report this to the Fedora kernel folks. You can also try with a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and if the problem persists, you could report it directly to the linux kernel mailing list.

Re: what causes: kernel:[38405.042543] do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2014-09-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.09.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: kernel:do_IRQ: 0.81 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) Could be a bug in the irq migration code. You should report this to the Fedora kernel maintainers. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 5tFTW: F21 Alpha, Shellshock, Schedule Docs Update, Flock 2015 Locations, and a Fedora User Committee idea (2014-09-26)

2014-09-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.09.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You can do whatever you are doing now. Fedora is just focusing on an particular set of products. Thanks Matthew and Rahul for explaining this. Although my main DE (awesome) is easily installable on nearly any distribution, I love XFCE. I'll definitely

Re: boot fedora 20 from usb

2014-09-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.09.2014, Paolo De Michele wrote: the shell command is: dd if=/dir/file.iso of=/dev/sdx1 bs=1M Run isohybrid on the image before dd'ing it. It's in the syslinux package. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 5tFTW: F21 Alpha, Shellshock, Schedule Docs Update, Flock 2015 Locations, and a Fedora User Committee idea (2014-09-26)

2014-09-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.09.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: This will be our first release with distinct Cloud, Server, and Workstation products How do they actually differ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 5tFTW: F21 Alpha, Shellshock, Schedule Docs Update, Flock 2015 Locations, and a Fedora User Committee idea (2014-09-26)

2014-09-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.09.2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: It has been extensively explained earlier and summarized posted on a weekly basis here as well. In case you missed it: [] Thanks, I've already read them all. However, some of the information given is not precise enough or could be misinterpreted. For

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-09-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.09.2014, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: If a ping every 300 secs(ICMP\HTTP\HTTPS 1\2)Will consume bandwidth and can be disabled using a basic FW rules(from a network level). This is clearly the wrong way to do it, e.g. fixing the symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem itself.

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? Yes, at least I do. When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole archive useless. So therefore I just copy the whole thing. It's easy, reliable and fast. -- users

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.09.2014, ergodic wrote: Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd In my case, it's all very simple. I'm using rsync -avxHSAX --delete /source/ /target after having done an integrity check. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.09.2014, Doug wrote: First: Higher power does NOT increase noise in the signal. It just increases the amount of radio frequency energy in the general area, which may be noise to some _other_ piece of equipment. Yes, you are right. I was imprecise. What I meant is that barely

Re: WiFi Tx power question--more

2014-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.09.2014, Doug wrote: A better location will probably be somewhere up above all the clutter around your work-station. Try it up about head-height or higher, on a little bracket or shelf on the wall. This is what I did some time ago and what worked for me. Btw: I'm using an external

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.09.2014, jd1008 wrote: Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm So, reason I am asking is that I would like to increase Tx power to 30dBm due to poor connectivity with the hotspot router. There are two barriers: 1. the capability of your adapter 2. CRDA For most countries,

Re: is it the future?

2014-09-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.09.2014, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: Can you point out a place where those refutes can be found? I want to see how one goes about refuting an objective statement. Yes, that would be interesting. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2014, Tod Merley wrote: So lets say I do see a wrong fingerprint. As in ghost busting who am I gonna call!? The person(s) who is/are responsible for the bank/netshop whatever you're trying to communicate with. In most cases, they could connect you with whoever operates the

Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

2014-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2014, bitlord wrote: There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use it, and it pings fedora servers every

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2014, Tod Merley wrote: I am simply seeking thoughts on the basic approach, alternatives, other things to do to make a secure transaction environment. When logging into your bank account (or the like) the very first time, make a copy of its certificate/fingerprint. Every time you

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2014, Tim wrote: Ideally, for things like banking, you really want to know the fingerprint ahead of your first use. They should really give you a hard copy of what to expect when you set up your account / get a new card. I've never seen that a bank has recommended checking the

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2014, Tod Merley wrote: Thank you.. You're welcome! Btw: for those few who do not immediately know how to localize/check the fingerprint of the certificate a website is using: 1. Go to the login dialog on the site you wish to enter 2. Don't insert any credentials! 3. Firefox: click

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2014, Tod Merley wrote: General question - can one spoof a certificate? I suppose man in the middle is simply nasty. You can't spoof a certificate, but create one on your own and present it as the real one when you're the man in the middle. Therefore the fingerprint check. Once you

Re: Secure Transactions

2014-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2014, jd1008 wrote: As I said, the caveat of all add-on is that they are just as mysterious with respect to their actual content as FF itself - and for that matter, Windows and Linux and Unix/variants, are just as mysterious. I say this because even with open source software, does

Re: md5 encryption

2014-08-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.08.2014, dustin kempter wrote: hi all, I just had a question. so I have been hearing that md5 has been compromised, how much of a security threat does this impose? MD5 is not used for encryption. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 for further details and for what md5 actually is.

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: After that, boot from an external medium (e.g. a CD/DVD/USB-stick).. http://www.sysresccd.org You could burn the image onto a CD, or copy it to an USB-stick. One way to create a bootable USB-stick is to run isohybrid on the .iso image (isohybrid

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2014, jd1008 wrote: However, I found no files in /sdb3/lost+found [] At this point I do not have any EXT4-fs error messages in the output of dmesg and in the file /var/log/messages. Great! Seems you have a healthy filesystem now. -- users mailing list

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2014, jd1008 wrote: https://www.sendspace.com/file/ym076o You have some old inodes in the inode hash list which have the same inode number. In addition, your filesystem metadata are corrupted. I assume you have a backup of all your important data on this partition? If not, try to

Re: Can fstrim work on read only mounts?

2014-08-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.08.2014, Ali Alipoor.R wrote: 1- can fstrim work on read only mounted partitions? No. On partitions mounted ro, nothing gets deleted, and thus there is no need for discard. 2- can discard and ro options be mixed in fstab? Yes, but this makes no sense. I've read the other answers you

Re: Mesa-10.2.5 was released - while Fedora still ships 10.1 :/

2014-08-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.08.2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Are you sure you're not counting rpms? It looks like there are 4 packages that have mesa as the start of their name. There will be some others that need to get rebuilt in order to link with the updated mesa. I can believe that the latter set could get

Re: encrypted partition

2014-07-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.07.2014, Patrick Dupre wrote: I have an encrypted (LUKS) partition and fedora did not offer me to mount it. How can I mount it manually? man cryptsetup cryptsetup open /dev/sdx test mount /dev/mapper/test /some-dir -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: PWM fan speed too high

2014-07-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.07.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: But I can refrain from trying a kernel recompile which I last did a decade or so ago (although, as far as I can remember, this is not such a kind of rocket science as one might guess from the recent thread on new kernel rebooting). This would be a

Re: PWM fan speed too high

2014-07-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.07.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: What an effort in time and disk space just to change a few bytes of code! It takes no time when you already have a complete kernel tree :-) You can just apply the patch, type make and your're done within a minute. Otherwise, if you plan to recompile

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: what is it I am symlinking?? the actual kernel?? If you need to: the root directory of the kernel source. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.07.2014, Joe Zeff wrote: If you really need to put it on a spare partition, you can always move everything there from /usr/src and then mount that partition at /usr/src and go from there. And don't forget to take a look into /lib/modules and update the (now) incorrect symlinks to the

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: Is it me, or does every other update lately seem to include a new kernel.. I thought linux was meant to stay up running. I seem to be rebooting weekly now, just for a new kernel. I've never used any Fedora kernel any longer than for the first install.

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Your expertise with kernel would be very welcome for the Fedora kernel also, when you offer Heinz. ;) Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years): 1. Download a kernel from kernel.org 2. Extract it into /usr/src 3. Apply some minor

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, poma wrote: Do you have any .config item worth mentioning, something you recommend or vice versa? Nope. Every config is different, and so is the machine which it will be installed on, and the preferences of the one who uses it. It's a learning experience for anybody who's new

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: You'd be better off replacing the second step 5 by make rpm-pkg and the last step 5 and step 6 by rpm -i No, I wouldn't. My .config is highly customized, and the way I described just fits my needs perfectly. I'm quite aware of the possibility to build a kernel

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Marko Vojinovic wrote: What is the purpose of installing a non-Fedora kernel, in your case? Coming from SLS, slackware and yggdrasil way back in time, it's how it has been for me all the time. I have my configs, scripts and so on. I kept them over time, and they just work :-)

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: my / file system ran out of space. I had 5.8Gb free before I started this.. Your root partition is way too small for kernel development. [root@kiera src]# du -ch linux-3.15.6-rc1 [] 4.1G total -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: you say to put it in /usr/src. Can I put it in a spare partition that has more space?? does it need to be in /usr/src?? You can most probably have it where you want it to. If something expects it to be in /usr/src, you can create a symlink. -- users

Re: new kernels rebooting

2014-07-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2014, Tom H wrote: The method that I suggested is right There's no wrong or right. It's just one way to do it (not mine). But of course, it can be the way for others. It's perfectly fine to build a kernel by using rpm an manage it using yum, but it's not what I prefer. because (and

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2014, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format This one's free, without any advertising and backs up your messages in

Re: making fc20 backup

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Rick Stevens wrote: /proc, /sys and /dev are dynamically created at boot so backing them up is sort of a bad idea (well, backing them up is OK but restoring them would be bad). Why would this be bad? The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and often

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Rolf Turner wrote: (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and subfolders. [] This is surely not an answer you would expect, but: Thunderbird is badly suited to handle big

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Bill Oliver wrote: But then, I guess Gentoo is the only distro left that hasn't adopted systemd, or will be doing so shortly. You could run Arch with openrc.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: C) Report a bug and be ignored, told to fsck off to someplace else, and be ridiculed to boot. I fully understand your reaction. I reported a (quite different) bug with systemd and got zero response. After some (longer) time, I finally got a

Re: Regex broken??

2014-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2014, Stephen Davies wrote: 2. I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space. Way back in 19-something (guess it was 1993) when I poked around with Powerbasic, I remember there was a function called trim(), which removed the whitespace on both ends of a string :-) -- users

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.07.2014, Balint Szigeti wrote: The only reason that I wanted to reach, make the system(s) better if we don't get rid of it. But keep in mind that there are alternatives. Thus, systemd isn't unavoidable. I'm permitting myself to mention that I've been using openrc on my Arch machine

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2014, Edward M wrote: It may become problematic once KDBUS merges into the mainline kernel. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html This thread showcases once more the all-dominating and rude attitudes of some of the systemd devs. At least, the

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