Re: entropy

2010-01-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 18:05 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: IMHO, 16 bit sampling of a mic with high gain will produce at least 100 bit/s of entropy, especially in a noisy environment (server room with a lot of fans). Sampling a microphone is likely to capture a regular pattern. Sampling a high

Re: entropy

2010-01-11 Thread Tim
Tim: One of my very old computers had a white noise generator for use by the random number function. One day I decided to test it by repeatedly polling it and using alternate polls as X and Y co-ordinates to place a mark on a graph. The images was, predominately, two fat parallel diagonal

Re: evolution connect to exchange 2007 crash, bugzilla closed?

2010-01-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:13 +1100, L wrote: Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM what this mean? Upstream means the package sources that come down to us. Evolution is made by someone else, and we're using it. So, that could mean the source has been fixed, and we only need to wait until we have

Re: F12 - partition damaged after hibernation on SDHC card

2010-01-17 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 19:31 +, jaivuk wrote: I actually find how to do swap file as a regular file by reading man mkswap, however I'm still not sure hibernation supports it. A kernel line parameter (in grub.conf) or a setting in the initrd file specifies where to read to un-hibernate. If

Re: What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me?

2010-01-17 Thread Tim
Suvayu Ali: I guess like most apps in linux, the developers are not always interested in providing good documentation. Mail Lists I dont agree - it is true for a subset - NetworkManager, Dbus, plymouth spring to mind .. not sure whats common among these ... Many - no definitely most -

Re: WAV files in Evolution

2010-01-17 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 14:00 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: I am looking for a good, fast, clean way to play WAV files in Evolution. Near the top of the plugins list, on my Evolution, is an item for playing audio files in-line. Try it. Also, on my Evolution, all the open-with applications I've set

Re: What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me?

2010-01-18 Thread Tim
Tim: You'll notice a common trend of graphical apps with poor documentation, based on the belief that they're self-evident, versus console apps that (much more obviously) need documentation. Mail Lists: Possibly possibly not - DBUS is not graphical however ... not is NetworkManager - nm

Re: Fedora's LWN subscription

2010-01-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:37 -0500, Max Spevack wrote: We've got about 20 subscriptions that we can enable Just curious as to whether this was allocating some special memberships away, or there was a total limit of membership? It doesn't sound sensible to deliberately limit membership. --

Re: remove localhost from /etc/hosts??

2010-01-22 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 19:09 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: It is not supported for a Grid Engine installation that the local hostname contains the hostname localhost and/or the IP address 127.0.x.x of the loopback interface. The localhost hostname should be reserved for the loopback interface

Re: Mail Problem.

2010-01-26 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:05 -0700, r...@dwf.com wrote: Im at a loss here. I have 5 machines, 4 of them (should be) forwarding any mail generated by scripts to the 5th. Its not happening. When I go to the mail machine, my main machine, I can do telnet localhost 25 and it

Re: deltarpms and newer kernels

2010-01-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 22:16 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Not sure if I understand it correctly, but anyway... The kernel is not being updated, but rather installed concurrently with other kernels. So you cannot create a delta rpm for it, since there is a completely new rpm coming with each

Re: NFS mount error

2010-01-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 16:44 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Regarding Craig's comment, /home and /usr/local are in seperate partitions, so access via / is not possible. Yes, but (depending on your NFS options to counter this), you're exporting the directory tree, not dealing directly with

Re: Where ffmux_mp4 comes from?

2010-01-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 20:50 +0100, Alain Portal wrote: I should want to know where ffmux_mp4, that ones can see in the profile, comes from? General hints for researching files that are already on your system: Use the locate command, but replace my example filename with the actual filename

Re: F8: CPAN problem

2010-01-28 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 17:03 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: Now, I can proceed to figure out how to complete my original intent: to add maildir support to sendmail (as opposed to just installing and using Postfix) as I want the sub-directory feature from which dovecot IMAP gladly supports instead of

Re: Thunderbird Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:30 +0100, DB wrote: In Thunderbird, I have set my default for pdf attachments to Okular. Everytime I try to open a pdf attachment, I get a dialog asking me if I want to save the attachment. When I save it, I then have to go to the downloaded file open it with

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Woodruff wrote: Disc's 1 3 failed Linux test at installation. Burned Disk 1 twice more and still fails. Went ahead with installation. You're asking for trouble going ahead under that condition. Try and resolve the failing disc burning issue, first. Buy

Re: Re:Testing sound?

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 01:43 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: Is there any CLI command for making a noise from a .ogg file? play, aplay, paplay, ogg123, mplayer The last one probably won't be installed, the others seem to be, by default. apropos play Perhaps there ought to be an easter egg man

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: sound still doesn't get out on the TV Obvious questions: Has SPDIF ever worked on the TV? And, with the input socket that you're currently trying to use. Can you test your computer's output and the TV's input with other things? --

Re: Re:Testing sound?

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:08 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg works fine. It is the only one of these 5 programs that actually works on my laptop: play does not seem to exist; It comes with the sox package. I might have it installed as a

Re: Thunderbird Okular question

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 21:24 +0100, DB wrote: I assume there is no way to persuade TBird/Okular to play ball with the octet-stream? There's no good way to handle that. It's the generic description for any binary file (sound, picture, PDF, whatever), that hasn't been specifically identified. If

Re: cant find MPEF-1 Codec or play audio files

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:11 -0500, Matt Smith wrote: I downloaded a few MP3 files, but cannot get them to play in fedora's rythmbox. I downloaded and installed Amarok, but the files will not play in amarok either. Thanks for the suggestions. MP3 is patent encumbered, and cannot be legally

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-31 Thread Tim
Tim: Has SPDIF ever worked on the TV? Marcel Rieux: No. Hmm, then you're flying blind if you want to diagnose a problem. You won't know where the problem really is. You could have the TV set up wrong, or it might have a fault... Can you test your computer's output and the TV's input

Re: Thunderbird Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Tim
Tim: Wild guess: The problem email you're dealing with was generated using a Microsoft system. They've had thirty (?) years to get a grip on properly using MIME types, but haven't learnt it yet. Patrick O'Callaghan: Make that 18 years (the earliest MIME RFC is dated 1992), but still

Re: Thunderbird Okular question

2010-02-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 21:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: They could figure out the MIME type client side using the same shared-mime-info-based mechanisms which are used after saving the file (extension, sometimes file contents), either just for generic application/octet-stream attachments or

Re: help with... F9

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 18:55 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: As far as updates: If an app or utility or library works just fine, no problems--they usually do from the initial install--why be concerned over the latest update? But I see it all the time. It must be some kind of

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 00:58 +0100, François Cami wrote: The reason _I_ do not own anything more current is that I don't need any faster card than the ones I have. A common problem is that from time to time someone will need to buy a new card (their old one failed, they're building a new

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:39 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Then you go to a different computer shop. Very easy to say, not so easy to do for some people. And even when you have a few shops to visit, the same thing applies: They carry new cards, and only a few in stock. Ordering in as they need.

Re: e100 error

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:30 -0800, Les wrote: The only thing changing in my system is the adding of the PCI based video card. How can that affect the hardware setup of the NIC card? If the PCI busses share an IRQ, things can get pernickity. Try a different slot, or re-arranging the order of

Re: Open source medication adherence tools?

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:56 +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: E.g. I need to take the blue inhaler as I need it, the green and brown ones twice a day, the yellow pills in the morning, the pink ones at night and two of the brown ones with lunch.. now, what have I forgotten? :-) Pity the poor

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:13 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: NV does not feel that in the Linux market they would make more money, sell more hardware, with Open Source drivers than they do with the drivers they provide. They feel that the closed source drivers suffice, and they provide those. It's

Re: Open source medication adherence tools?

2010-02-03 Thread Tim
Tim: Pity the poor pharmacist who has to help a customer configure their reminders, as well as the usual advice about taking their medication... Bryn M. Reeves: Seriously? Are you genuinely concerned about that? I'm honestly unsure if you're joking or not. :) I'm semi-serious... Have you

Re: wireless adapter stops working after update

2010-02-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:34 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: I'll try keys en combination of keys of the keyboard (must be a hell of a job to try any combination). Usually, if your computer has a hotkey sequence for killing the wireless interface, it'll be labelled on the keys (perhaps with a

Re: Using abrt for bugs that are non-crashes ?!?

2010-02-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 12:37 -0500, William Case wrote: I now find that Epiphany takes about 40 to 80 seconds to load a site while Firefox is still almost instantaneous. If you mentioned the site, someone may be able to look at it and say why that browser has problems. Otherwise, we're left

Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla [Making Progress]

2010-02-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 20:38 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: I'm guessing Gnome has therefore chosen to only show things in Places-Network that are definitely methods of file transfer, hence will only show if SFTP is advertised as a service. It's very confusing If that's the case, I'd say it's the

Re: Weird DNS issue with a specific web site with Fedora 12 (Temporary failure in name resolution?)

2010-02-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 18:24 +1100, Tim Long wrote: I recently upgraded my work computer to Fedora 12 and I am having a weird DNS issue for an internal website in my organization. Performing a dig/nslookup for the web site returns a IP address but trying to contact via a web browser/wget

Re: SELinux security alert/Squid -

2010-02-09 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:59 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I just added myaccount.wildblue.net to the Firefox no proxy for list and that seems to satisfy an access problem I didn't know I had. If that's you're only need to access an unusual port, then bypassing the proxy would be a good solution.

Re: Packages to be removed for Fedora 13

2010-02-10 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:32 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: To follow the default route is the behaviour for the Default device selection. Selecting a specific device from the list of available devices turns of that feature. Yes, it's obviously meant to work that way, but it wasn't. It'd get

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 22:56 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: It would make sense for the cathode ray tube multisync monitors from the days of yore. Obsessive geek types could set the resolution very high to fit more source code on the screen... ... while those with poor eyesight

Re: weird F12 printing problem

2010-02-15 Thread Tim
fred smith: It's NOT a shared printer. it is attached to the LAN with its own IP address. Aaron Konstam: Even so it needs to shared on the server that is distributing its services to the rest of the machines. Or are you connecting it to each computer independently. No, that's not how such

Re: expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION

2010-02-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 09:28 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: Although for POP3, Evo still apparently doesn't support the option to delete on server when deleting locally, which would be handy. That's harder to do, as that depends on keeping track of message numbers on the server, and how they

Re: Sendmail help sought

2010-02-15 Thread Tim
Tim: One problem with such simple masquerading is when you send out a mail using a local LAN address, it fakes your local domain to be the ISP's domain, and that constructed address happens to be the same address as someone else on your ISP. Gene: That is -not- correct. The outside world

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

2010-02-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 20:52 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: I went to all kinds of effort and expense to build the very most powerful Xeon box I could afford. What I didn't realize, was that it would generate so much heat that I would not be able to tolerate its use with my window

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

2010-02-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 23:48 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I would suggest you find out how much Celeron is really using before thinking it is low power. Well, considering that the PSU is only a 90 watt-er, a simple motherboard with only on-board i810, low amount of RAM, no daughterboards,

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

2010-02-16 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 01:38 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: It's obvious you didn't even read my link. Please read my link. Bzzt, WRONG! Some other guy's comparison between two PCs that he has, bears no relation to a comparison of two PCs that I have. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:08 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: What really rips me off is that this auto numbering stuff has been going on for YEARS in a predictable cycle. Use Writer for bit, find numbering to be irritating. Do a web search to try to figure out how to turn it off. Turn off some

Re: Setting GDM Login Screen Background

2010-02-22 Thread Tim
John: Seems to still work for me. Try putting your desired background image in /usr/share/backgrounds someplace if you haven't maybe. Sawrub: I tried putting a symbolic link under the directory /usr/share/backgrounds/ pointing to the directory that hosts my desired picture. Added

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim
Tim: One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic. Patrick O'Callaghan: Or even *too* simplistic :-) ;-) My spelling gets worse and worse, the more I see badly written stuff on the interwebs. It's corrupting my memory. I think it was Brian Kernighan who said

Re: [OT] Re: F11 - F12 preupgrade problem resulted in odd alsa loaded

2010-02-23 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:28 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote: Uhh.. how does preupgrade problem... turn to THIS? It's the community aspect of Fedora. ;-) I don't mind an *occasional* *small* tangental slip, probably most people don't care, either. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: Help Diagnose Slow Disc Access

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 21:29 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: what I use for my two disk-to-disk backup drives: I leave one connected to eSATA and the other in a bank safe deposit box. Once a week I swap them. The bank is quite some ways from my home, so even a direct nuclear strike on

Re: Basic image (picture) editor in Fedora 12

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:08 +0530, JayLinux wrote: Am looking for a basic image editor (excluding Gimp-interface/menus are too complex) to re-sample and re-size pictures. gThumb There's even some things you can add to Nautilus to let you right-click on files and resize them (look through my

Re: DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 08:11 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I am trying to get a handle on how to properly assign DNS PTR records, given these conditions: 1) Single machine containing: a) DNS Server b) Sendmail Server ... The problem here is assigning the PTR, since only ONE

Re: F12: Sendmail, clamav-milter spamass-milter

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:45 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have spent weeks trying to resolve the following issues: I have F9/10/11 working just fine. 1) SendMail - I can get SM to run, but I am unable to send outgoing email messages. Why? Because of some sort of

Re: Historical cpu consumption information?

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 13:42 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: To make a long story short it seems to happen when I plug my blackberry in to charge! It seems silly to use a $1000 computer to charge up something, instead of a $20 battery charger. Considering that so many things use USB incorrectly

Re: How to Get rid of Dragon Player

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 09:22 -0500, Jim wrote: It doesn't do any good to modify File Assc. kde come right in changes it to Dragon Player again, I had changed to VLC as priority player. I'm not a KDE user, but just a generic observation: Is that for the same type of media, or something that

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-24 Thread Tim
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* windows machines, both from user and admin accounts. Obvious question: How long did you wait? If

Re: Printing from Windows XP

2010-02-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: AFAICT, SMB is no longer involved with my printing services. XP can access them directly, and I configure them as an internet printer via a URL like: http://server:631/printers/printerName Correct, you're accessing CUPS

Re: firefox flash plugin duplicates!

2010-02-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 08:03 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Actually I found the answer by fiddling around - after updating the flash-plugin it is important, if not vital, to then go to the firefox profile and delete the pluginreg.dat file with firefox closed down, and then next time you restart

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-03-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 14:26 +, John Austin wrote: Maybe I am not thinking clearly All I am doing is using Thunar/PCManfm as a file manager and clicking on an email file to read or print it. If you just want to read individually stored emails as files, there's probably any number of ways

Re: package rollback

2010-03-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:32 +0200, Dj YB wrote: I wish till that time to revert to my old state. how do I do that? I've not done it myself, but research: yum downgrade -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.

Re: Which backup program should one use? Was Re: Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

2010-03-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:48 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote: I've been confused what backup program, dump or tar, to use. At first, I was using dump to back up my partitions. I might throw another suggestion in: One of the RAID techniques where several drives are mirrors of each other. Once you

Re: User to set CPU scaling?

2010-03-01 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:25 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Is there a way for non-root users to be able to administer CPU scaling? Currently the interfaces are all owned by root:root and short of a hack to change their permissions on boot, I'm wondering if there's a proper way to do it? On my

Re: User to set CPU scaling?

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Do you think it would help Chris if you named the taskbar applet? I couldn't recall the name, and I was using the wrong computer to have a look. However, if I click on the add to panel (to add an applet to the top or bottom taskbar) menu

Re: F12-i386-DVD iso won't burn properly -- SOLVED

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:24 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote: I use the rawread script from http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm#rawread which automatically reads the correct size of the ISO, and runs a dd command reading exactly that much off the disc. I have to ask: Why

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

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:38 +0530, Jatin K wrote: how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in exercise ?? One answer: Use a command line tool, like fdisk, that does exactly what you tell it to, rather than a GUI tool which works in the manner it thinks best. Over the last

Re: Sound lockup if gdm pulseaudio enabled

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:32 +, Neil Bird wrote: Essentially, the issue is that, with gdm audio enabled, any normal user's app. will hang when trying to generate sound. This made my login nearly impossible as I have a couple of applets that 'tone' when logging in, and this seemed (via the

Re: F12-i386-DVD iso won't burn properly -- SOLVED

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
Andre Robatino: I use the rawread script from http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm#rawread which automatically reads the correct size of the ISO Tim: I have to ask: Why doesn't the installer's self test routine work that way? This problem has been around for *years

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

2010-03-02 Thread Tim
I'll prefix my answer by saying I don't know the RHCE exam, and that you're asking that question in the wrong way. Write your subject line to attract the attention of the right people, don't assume everyone reads every message on this list. e.g. RHCE exam query about disk druid partitioning

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

2010-03-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:15 +0530, Jatin K wrote: thank you for you reply . I've got the answer for craig white will do according to him and let list to know if it works or not The same thing as what I'd already said... I have to wonder if you're learning to pass the test or

Re: FIXED: FC12+control-center-extras - DEATH

2010-03-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:42 +, T. Horsnell wrote: Fixed by updating nautilus. Yes, I should have applied all the updates immediately after the install, but as usual we were in a rush. Surely if you had installed something extra that depended on an updated Nautilus, it should have dragged

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

2010-03-03 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: If I wanted to do a custom partition install, I wouldn't run the standard install disc, and then try to break out of it somehow, and do something behind the installer's back, and then resume the install. I've done that plenty of times, as

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Tim
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 a reverse DNS address that tells me that your ip address

Re: Update broke network

2010-03-04 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:39 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Remind me, what is network manager good for? I'm sure it does something useful, but so far I have only perceived it as something that causes trouble. Since you ask: (When it works) Automating going from one network to another,

Re: postfix issue...

2010-03-04 Thread Tim
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 with you saying this: At this stage, I simply will not

Re: [Bulk] Re: Converting html to text ?!?

2010-03-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:25 -0500, William Case wrote: We are talking about different applications. LyX is a type setting program based on LaTex. It can be found in the Fedora 12 repo. Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable,

Re: Fedora 12 does not work after replacing the motherboard

2010-03-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:48 +0300, Andrew Junev wrote: Any other cases like installing my video adapter to another motherboard or putting a new video to MSI motherboard and running Fedora on it - everything works flawlessly. Windows works just fine in 8600GT + MSI MB combo, too. But trying to

Re: My contribution

2010-03-05 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 21:21 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: Maybe you'll remember I had problems I'm, now, *certain* that you're seriously nuts. You have unrealistic expectations of the world, and are pointlessly annoying the people around you trying to make everyone else fit into your odd view.

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 09:41 +0300, Hiisi wrote: Alternatively, they can charge me with extra money for so called 'static IP'. I don't need it because I don't want to run WEB-server at home. I just want to access my files at home computer from lab computer to eliminate stresses in case I forgot

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:43 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with wrong UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly those installed from a live CD which created one or more odd IDs when install to disk was used. NFS 4 is

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 16:14 -0500, Andres Felipe Acosta Gil wrote: I downloaded the disc image and burned it in a DVD, then i booted Fedora, but the screen turns dark and the dvd stops, should i download the fedora image and burn it again?? or what else should i do?? Obvious question: How

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 20:35 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: The rpms are xz compressed but the isos are not. That is what I am asking, or is it too much compression? When is so much too much? Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already compressed doesn't gain you anything.

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

2010-03-10 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 06:55 +0800, Richard Cahilig wrote: 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. Virtual hosts (generally) read from:

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Tim
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? I could buy it if the key sequence was ALT zxc but

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

2010-03-12 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:21 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally deleted an unknown number of files in /var. Since I haven't seen anyone else mention it, I will: The chances of that happening are drastically reduced when you don't run as the root

Re: Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

2010-03-12 Thread Tim
Raman Gupta: The fact that yum-fastestmirror ignores bandwidth when selecting mirrors is annoying for high bandwidth machines too -- I regularly find that yum selects mirrors which have low latency but whose bandwidth is very poor, which requires a manual update to the exclude list. Tony

Re: Dependencies problem while upgrading

2010-03-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:53 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: I didn't try skip-broken. I was afraid that if broken dependencies were skipped, it might cause further problems with installed software. Umm skip broken should skip the things that are broken, it shouldn't allow anything that would leave

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 23:22 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/ I seem to recall that you may also have to re-install (repair) the xorg installation, as the NVidia installer stuffs up some of the files (that's NVidia's own installer, not the RPM

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:33 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: b) evolution - probably the only real alternative. cons: clunky UI - prone to crashing a lot. pros: supports in encryption, calendars, maildir++. I can't say that I've noticed it crashing a lot. Or even crashing at all,

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
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 the computers using the same OS? Prior Fedora releases used a lesser (than 4)

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
Tim: Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already compressed doesn't gain you anything. Often, things will get bigger (e.g. new archive headers will be added to the file), and you're just creating more decompressing work to be done. Mike McCarty: Yes, that's correct

Re: Deafening silence

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:00 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: And if you want your music without interruptions (os or mail beeps) - I assume that is easily configurable? Even on the old one-thing-at-a-time sound system, you couldn't really do that. e.g. You'd start playing music, and at some stage an

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
Amiga5: With these do you not have to recompile kernel everytime you install new nvidia driver? Kevin Fenzi: No. There is sometimes a short delay when a fedora kernel comes out before the rpmfusion kmod is available, but it's usually less than a day. If you use the akmod, rather than kmod,

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-14 Thread Tim
Tim: I can't say that I've noticed it crashing a lot. Or even crashing at all, since about the Fedora 9 era. Patrick O'Callaghan: I wish. Evo is my main MUA (and I only use it for mail). It does crash and hang a lot less than it used to but I couldn't in all honesty say it never happens

Re: Creative Labs Live! Cam Notebook Ultra Model vf0310 and FC11

2010-03-15 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:35 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: as far as cheese goes: ...video support is still experimental and may kill your cat. I'm taking that to mean that it won't help when trying to use Skype or other web cam related software? Not directly. Cheese being an application that

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-15 Thread Tim
Please, someone, please trigger Godwin's law with this thread... It's so close... -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list

Re: Request before write

2010-03-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 09:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: sorry to be dense, but the NM applet? you mean the network manager icon on the top bar? if so, your comment is valid as long as you dont connect. as soon as you do, the rest of the world is not reported. Something's wrong then, as it

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The normal reply command is not supposed to reply to lists, just the sender. The normal reply command is supposed to reply to whatever's written in the reply-to field, if it exists, ignoring the from address, under those circumstances.

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: It used to be that *NIX supporters put the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were years. I used to do that, though the maximum was about 3 months. Usually not because the computer crashed, or needed rebooting, but I used

Re: Charging USB devices with Fedora

2010-03-17 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:49 +0200, Kari Somby wrote: The protocol says that max current for one USB host is 500 mA. Which is not available to plugged in devices by default. The power supply feature is initially only a low current, and can be increased when the device negotiates with the host.

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-17 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:26 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Lists aren't supposed to mung the reply-to header as it supposed to be for the sender to direct replies to a different address. I think you'd find it hard to prove that they're not supposed to. But whether it's desirable, or not, is yet

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-20 Thread Tim
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 put forward the motion that pure timewasters should be considered for having their list membership set to read-only. Marcel

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