dynamic IP assignment (was: Re: need help with printer set-up.)

2018-05-09 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 9 May 2018, Doug sent: > (I have a number of computers, as well as two printers, at present, > and it drives me crazy that dynamic ip assignment by the router uses > the same address for more than one device!) It could be that your router only is able to assign a small

Re: F28: Mouse and Keyboad issues

2018-05-12 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 May 2018, Łukasz Posadowski sent: > I have mouse sensitivity at middle, but I indeed changed > keyboard repeat rate in dconf. Default setting is way too slow for > me. Just out of curiosity, what do people use keyboard repeat for? I can't see any point in being able to

Re: F28: Mouse and Keyboad issues

2018-05-12 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Just out of curiosity, what do people use keyboard repeat for? >> >> I can't see any point in being able to repeatedly type a string of >> letters, but it's useful in cursoring around. Maybe it's time that >> keyboard repeating was made more intelligent, and only repeats some >> (user)

Re: SOLVED: cruft, bad ldconfig path Re: qutebrowser fails with a certificate error in F28 - Seems that it is looking for linux-vdso.so.1 and not finding it in libnssckbi.so

2018-05-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 10 May 2018, stan sent: > This turned out to be a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d that had a path set > to /usr/local/lib/firefox. When I removed that file and ran > ldconfig, qutebrowser started just fine. And it had no effect on > running nightly (firefox), which is installed

Re: Nagios "Unrecognized character \\x7F; marked by <-- HERE after tatus.cgi

2018-05-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 10 May 2018, Alex sent: > I've done a bit of searching, and it appears apache thinks the cgi > files are scripts and not executables. How can I configure apache to > interpret these files properly? On my system, CGI scripts have filenames that give away the content type

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 May 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Are both related to Intel 945GM and neither one ever being > addressed/resolved. > > Since Intel 945GM is old one would have to question if it is capable > of supporting wayland efficiently. Based on those BZ and other > searches, if it were

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-16 Thread Tim via users
Tim wrote: >> I bought a recent motherboard, that uses some intel HD Graphics 630 >> (rev 04) chipset, yet X seems to be using i915 drivers as a basic >> way of using the chipset. Samuel Sieb: > Isn't that the right driver? Don't know, can't tell. There doesn't appear to be any related

Re: Strange behavior with MATE desktop

2018-05-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, John Morris sent: > Dunno about the other problems but those two behaviors are normal. > ~/Desktop is a standardized location so both desktop environments > will see a .desktop file dropped there. Well some window managers will use that for any file that's

Re: xhost or firefox - cannot use firefox with su

2018-05-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > I gave up on trying to get direct access as a different > user to the display, sometimes it would work, sometimes > it wouldn't work, and I could never track down why. Firefox had a habit of always trying to use the local browser window. I

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Beartooth sent: > > Under F27, they kept filling up with some sort of cruft, to the > point of refusing dnf upgrade; but when I found any of the cruft, it > was in places where I dared not lay about me with a cyber-battleaxe. > I jumped to F28 the day of

Re: Dfault video player -

2018-05-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 May 2018, Bob Goodwin sent: > I have a bunch of iPhone videos to view. > > I have spent the last hour googling without success: > > How to make the default video player "VLC" and remove the "Videos" > item offered whenever I go to view one. I haven't even been able to >

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-21 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> There are programs that just don't terminate every time when I log >> out. Various system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find that after > updating (using dnf with the tracer plugin) I'm advised to restart

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > FWIW, if you investigate a little I think you'd find that for every > user that logs-in for a GUI session there will be about 9+ processes > that are left running and remain running. It seems these processes > are then reused on subsequent

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > Of course I'll still need my reboot script to umount -l nfs > filesystems to keep systemd from spending 5 hours timing out trying > to talk to systems that have gone down :-). That's why I went with autofs, rather than fstab entries.

Re: after F27->F28 upgrade, hangs at end of boot

2018-05-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, stan sent: > Yeah, it's exactly the opposite of business communications, where > everyone just puts their response at the top, and the whole chain is > in the message below. There, everyone is in the loop, so it makes > more sense to just put the response at

Re: Can I ask question ?

2018-06-16 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Does the narrow end go to the front? Patrick O'Callaghan: > Preferably when tilted over the eyes and accompanied by a loosely > hanging cigarette and a drawl. It was one of those nights, and the server wasn't booting. I was convinced there was foul play involved, and went down to the

Re: Can I ask question ?

2018-06-14 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan: > Only if it has something to do with Fedora of course. Does the narrow end go to the front? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is

Re: FC27 packages after upgrade

2018-06-16 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 June 2018, stan sent: > anaconda is the Fedora installer, so those are probably leftovers > from the install of F27. I've always wondered *why* anaconda gets installed on a new system, and why it receives updates. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: cups-service able / enable

2018-06-14 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Ger van Dijck sent: > So next question is How can I check if cups is running and if not how > get it running ? As well as the other suggestions, if you have a browser running, you can see what you find at http://localhost:631/ (that's the CUPS web interface).

Re: Getting rpm update history with wildcarding

2018-06-14 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent: > To be fair, I don't think the rpm man page documents its > wildcard support. If it does, I'm looking past it. I've always successfully done things like this: rpm -qa \*pulse\* More through force of habit, than any hard knowledge. --

Re: md5 files - how to use them ?

2018-05-28 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 28 May 2018, Angelo Moreschini sent: > I got the eclipse plugin > "WB_v1.8.0_UpdateSite_for_Eclipse4.5.zip.md5" (plugin windowbuilder). > The suffix md5 is for checking the integrity of the file... > > But I cannot use this file (I cannot to install it on eclipse..) >

Re: Associating file types with apps

2018-05-31 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 May 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > However, it seems the problem is with Chrome. I know with Firefox > you can set whether to just save or else open an application with a > downloaded file, but I don't know where that would be set with > Chrome. One thing to check is

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-05-29 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 29 May 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > The logs here are interesting anyways, and I'm still wondering where > the system actually saved the image: in /tmp, or swap partition? The usual method of hibernating is to dump the memory into the swap partition. I do not know what

Re: rp-pppoe

2018-05-27 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 26 May 2018, Gary Hodder sent: > currently I am using a rp-pppoe with a router/modem in bridge mode on > adsl and all is working fine. > We are being forced to move to nbn, in our case fibre to the node. > The provider I am looking at uses vdsl, Protocol: IPoE (DHCP / >

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it with the right options. If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. --

Re: OT: Annoying List Behavior....

2018-06-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent: > Normally if someone sending from a domain with strict DMARC > rules configured their From field as 'Name ' > the list DMARC mitigation would take the 'Name' part, add > 'via users' and send it from the list address. > > Thunderbird

Re: R: Re: can' connect to localhost

2018-06-06 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 7 June 2018, antonio.montagnani sent: > i can't connect by telnet as you suggest. I can print to my remote > printer anyway. It seems that i cannot connect to my local cups > service, and on this machine i have no loal printer conected. I am > lost but now here it is

memaker failure

2018-05-27 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I saw an intriguing sounding package in the updates mail, memaker. Though it fails to launch. If I try it from the command line, I get this unfamiliar set of messages in return: INFO:root:python-launchpadlib not found! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/memaker", line 55,

Re: memaker failure

2018-05-28 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If I try it from the command line, I get this unfamiliar set of >> messages in return: >> >> >> INFO:root:python-launchpadlib not found! >> Traceback (most recent call last): >>File "/usr/bin/memaker", line 55, in >> from MeMaker.app import MeMakerApp >>File

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Only if you mount it with the right options. >> If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have >> a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. Samuel Sieb: > Ok, I didn't think I needed to spell it out. By default, Fedora > configures /tmp as a tmpfs

Re: 4% battery; dpesn't suspend

2018-06-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 31 May 2018, sent: >> The usual method of hibernating is to dump the memory into the swap >> partition. I do not know what will happen if your swap partition >> is smaller than your RAM, though. Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > 32 GB of RAM here, swap space is just ~16 GB: my guess

Re: F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB

2018-06-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Oh, and let's not forget the times (twice in recent memory) where > updates to KDE Plasma resulted in not being able to logout or even > reboot from the menus. In that case one needed to know about "init > 6". :-) :-) While some will argue

Re: Feature request: line break eliminater

2018-06-27 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > It's the way the text is rendered that affects how selection is done > and this is what complicates things. I'm not saying it's impossible, > but pretty danged complex to try to sort out what the _expected_ > behavior is supposed to be.

Re: centos7 -- webapp setup

2018-06-27 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 27 June 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Almost no-one running a commercial venture runs Fedora because of > potential stability issues AND the fact that updates are only > available for Fedora for "current release less one" (updates stopped > for F26 one month after F28 came

Re: cpupower

2018-06-25 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2018, Howard Howell sent: > This typically requires more than just vacuuming the outside. > Typically you have to remove the heatsink and fan, and use a brush or > q-tips to ferret out the various dustbunnies in the nooks and > crannies that are near the CPU. Ah

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? Ooops!

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Beartooth sent: > But now it just keeps giving me a login screen, letting me type, and > (after Enter) going back to the login screen. I remember things like that, in the past, being associated with the wrong permissions for the /tmp directory. The graphics

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent: > Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores > is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts > (overheating). > Fans are at full speed all the time, as I can hear them :) :) Sounds like you have inadequate

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Note that you now have to explicitly enable rc.local to make it run > at boot time: > > # systemctl enable rc-local.service I just did that, and nothing more (I hadn't, yet, got around to making a rc.local file and putting anything

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent: > I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting the > system in it. I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many years ago. Though I can't recall what their success was like. I'd be concerned about

Re: How to install MPEG-4 AAC decoder ?

2018-06-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > You asked this same question earlier today and received an answer. > Why are you asking again? My guess would be that they're probably not seeing the replies. Either not waiting long enough, or they need to check their spam filters for

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

2018-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > You'd run into the exact same thing if you updated, say Mozilla, from > one version to one that's incompatible with the old one. You'd need > to blow all the users' ".mozilla" directories away in that case. Why > go through all this? If a

Re: The /crypt method to support habitual clean installs of Fedora without losing data

2018-05-02 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 May 2018, Temlakos sent: > One of you (I don't know who it was) shared with me an excellent > method of making possible a clean reinstallation of Fedora--going > above and beyond the "manual upgrade" described in the Installation > Guide, that amounts to erasing the /root

Re: Mate Session + child Caja consuming 98% of io badwidth to/from boot drive

2018-04-30 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2018, JD sent: > I had no idea tha Caja would be doing this, and what's > more is that all it's i/o was to/from the boot disk. > > About 30 minutes after I sent the email, it's i/o load > wen down back to near zero. Perhaps a thumbnailer plug-in trawling through

Re: Stitch photos?

2018-08-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 August 2018, ToddAndMargo sent: > Is there a way to stitch four photos together? Well, other > than just eyeballing them. Search for "panarama" as well. There's a plugin for GIMP: http://stitchpanorama.sourceforge.net/ It may be prepackaged in a repo. --

Re: copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?

2018-08-01 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 1 August 2018, Gianluca Cecchi sent: > while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) > in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem: > - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names > - if I have to paste a

Re: Nautilus search bar slow

2018-08-08 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 7 August 2018, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent: > I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy > feature that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of > search for that filename. Very, very slowly. I'm using an older release, with the Mate

Re: Banshee music player fake tagging

2018-08-12 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 August 2018, Tony Nelson sent: > The Banshee music player banshee-2.6.2-30.fc28.x86_64 has numerous > problems beyond becoming unresponsive at startup 2 out of 3 attempts. > It often (I think not always) only pretends to set the id3 tags in a > music file. It remembers

Re: OT: trace/extract vector points from a picture

2018-08-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, None via users sent: > I took a picture of alligator/crockodile? boots that have a nice > stitched drawing. I would like if any drawing/picture expert can > help me get just the part of the gator/crock from the drawing? You can use programs like GIMP to

Re: OT: trace/extract vector points from a picture

2018-08-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Or skip GIMP completely, load the original bitmap in inkscape and > manually (or maybe automatically) trace what you want. I have done > something like that before. It's a lot easier if you have a graphic > tablet or screen pen of

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > Was hoping someone had already tried with the laptop, the motherboard > and graphics sre the same across all the latest XPS 15s, so if it's > been done on one it should be done on them all. Are you sure? Manufacturers change

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-19 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something > stopping sddm from displaying the screen, rather than a total > failure. Is it using an unsupported (by your monitor) screen mode, and the monitor is simply blanking

Re: Dell XPS15 9570

2018-08-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 August 2018, Thomas Letherby sent: > I tried with LightDM, which gave the same black screen, with the > following in /var/log/messages, not sure why it's trying to talk to > PulseAudio? I'm not sure what stage you're up to by then: Just getting the logon screen, or have

Re: sed and grep stopped working!

2018-08-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 August 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > This is the sort of thing that always makes me want to > run memtest for a few hours to see if memory corruption > is happening (in, for instance, the in memory copies of > pages from shared libs the tools might have been using). > >

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 August 2018, Jonathan Ryshpan sent: > What is the device android-a81a750feb8c4486? There are only two > devices connected to the router by wires. Very odd. A phone or tablet. Or is your weather doodah android based? > The router has a DNS server in it. The server

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > my DHCP server doesn't supply Domain Name Not unusual. All sorts of different things may happen. Clients can use their own (ignoring the fact that it mightn't work with anything else in the network). They may or may not inform the DHCP

Re: suspends shutdowns system instead of suspending

2018-07-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 21 July 2018, Sudhir Khanger sent: > None of them can suspend on battery. When connected to power suspend > works just fine. Does the system check whether your battery is sufficient to stay on suspend, first? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64

Re: Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-19 Thread Tim via users
Rick Stevens wrote: >> Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago), things >> like Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email >> systems did not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again? >> If we needed complete control of things or our email

Re: F28 suspend to ram bounce

2018-07-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Robert Moskowitz sent: > I have seen this for some time (perhaps since install) on F28. I > suspend to ram and the system seems to suspend then immediately > restarts by itself. I unlock and suspend again and this 2nd attempt > 'takes'. Are any BIOS "wake

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Alex sent: > I believe the open source support for NVIDIA is better than for AMD > these days, correct? I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've made an open-source

Re: Software to create bootable USB stick

2018-08-31 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 29 August 2018, Danny Horne via users sent: > I've tried Brasero and Wodim, neither recognises my USB drive (even > though it's mounted) I thought it needed to be unmounted to directly write to it, rather than copy files to it. > and both say the ISO is too large to burn

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-04-05 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 5 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Yes, as I suspected, Evolution just grabs the whole message instead > of asking the server about the different parts. I think that means > that Thunderbird would be able to show the message without > downloading any large attachments, but

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 5 April 2018, Sam Varshavchik sent: > This is not Docbook XML. I know that. I was using an example of something in HTML (forgetting to mention that), that's simple to read, but often gets mangled when translating between different mark-up languages. Convert back and

mail quoting issues (was Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails)

2018-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Careful with the quoting. Maybe it's related to the html format of > the email, but your text appears as part of what you quoted There's a bunch of mail clients that stupidly extend the quote symbols beyond the quoted text (Evolution

Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails

2018-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Bob Goodwin: > Yes, and Thunderbird is set to send plain text to this list, it > never seems to work, so to be sure I change it in "Options," except > when I forget. You have the list address in your address book, set to only receive plain text? Considering that you're using HTML colouring to

Re: Issues trying to lock-down display resolution and overscan

2018-04-05 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Go Canes sent: > The first is overscan - the NUC is used as a media PC, and is hooked > up via an A/V receiver to a HDTV using HDMI. Unfortunately there > doesn't seem to be a way to tell the TV to turn off the overscan. Are you able to rename the input

Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails

2018-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > The final thing I'd validate is that if you have an > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename or move it and let the system sort > things out without the help of that file. Also check for video setting files in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ I forgot

Re: html to man page

2018-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 2 April 2018, Cameron Simpson sent: > I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source > format for human written content. It is massively hostile to > authoring by hand. As I recall, it's meant to be human understandable (and editable with a plain text

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Sam Varshavchik sent: > I find Docbook XML to be irreplacable, when it comes to writing > technical documentation that serves as a single source of both manual > pages and publishable HTML. I'm pretty sure I've looked at Docbook, though could have been

Re: Power settings wrong or battery dying?

2018-04-12 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 April 2018, sixpack13 sent: > do you got a setting "calibrate battery" or simular named in your > BIOS (seen in samsung's) ? > maybe, try it before buying a new battery. On one device, that was the end of my battery. It immediately went from being not too good, to

Re: HW and SW threats: how to block?

2018-04-12 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 April 2018, home user via users sent: > Ad-blockers are not sufficient. So let's please get back to the > original question. There are several coin-mining blockers available > for Firefox. Based on your experience, which is most effective? I would hazard a guess that

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2018, Bob Goodwin sent: > So I guess it boils down to how do I tell NFS to store data in /home > instead of "/"? I've been looking at this and can't see what to > change, or maybe it can';t be fixed that way? I'm not sure of which side of the equation you're

Re: Dependency failed for Suspend

2018-04-19 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 19 April 2018, Neal Becker sent: > Perhaps the messages are not related to the suspend issue. But the > symptoms are very strange. The laptop appears to suspend (power > light changes from on to flashing), but at a random time later > (seconds to minutes later), it wakes

Re: NFS setup -

2018-04-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2018, Bob Goodwin sent: > From the client /etc/fstab: > 192.168.1.86:/exports/home//mnt/test/nfs4defaults0 0 Okay, looks normal. The server has /exports/home making it available to your LAN. When your client saves into its /mnt/test/,

Re: Issues trying to lock-down display resolution and overscan

2018-04-16 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 April 2018, Go Canes sent: > why would a power-cycle clear it, while a reboot doesn't? Badly implemented power saving routines in the hardware (graphics chipset in your computer, or the monitor)? Or bad detection of a link between equipment. It reminds me of the number

Re: Wacom Bamboo Slate and Fedora 27+

2018-04-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 April 2018, Jeremy Eder sent: > I'm constantly drawing workflows/diagrams on a notepad...I like the > freedom of ink and paper. I then manually convert the useful ones to > google draw/lucidcharts. I stumbled on this https://www.wacom.com/en >

multiple GUI logins and mounting external drives

2018-03-27 Thread Tim via users
Hi, If I use the GUI switch user feature, so that two users are currently logged into the same PC, graphically (and you can switch between them using CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F2), I frequently find that whenever I plug in a USB drive, or SD card, that nothing pops up on the login that I'm using.

Re: Administrivia: DMARC mitigations enabled -- applies to Yahoo addresses, at least (was Re: HYPERKITTY does not show messages parts being addressed in replies.)

2018-03-27 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 27 March 2018, Todd Zullinger sent: > All that said, the best solution would be to stop using > @yahoo.com as a mail provider -- at least for mailing lists. > They have repeatedly caused grief to the folks that manage > the Fedora Project mail systems. And that'll only work

Re: empty messages from fedora users list. [CLOSED]

2018-03-29 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 29 March 2018, home user via users sent: > Earlier this afternoon, from Thunderbird running on a windows-7 box, > I sent 2 messages from yahoo account #1 to yahoo account #2, each > with different few-megabyte (not mega-pixel) picture attached. I > also sent 1 message from

Re: Hard drive to sleep

2018-10-07 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 7 October 2018, Ralf Corsepius sent: > HW-wise you should check if your drive-hardware is suiteable to be > frequently "put to sleep/woken up". Most NAS- or server-class HDDs > are not, most desktop/notbook drives are. All the domestic NASs, that I've seen, put their

Re: Can't play .mov video -

2018-10-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 October 2018, Bob Goodwin-Fastmail sent: > [bobg@box83 ~]$ vlc /mnt/box48/2018-06-Jun-15-LUKE-SHEARING-Clippers/ > VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332) > [55b0c3eb9670] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default > interface. > Use 'cvlc' to

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-22 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 18:56 -0700, stan wrote: > I wasn't clear.  The link isn't to any potential replacement for the > users list. Oh really? What's the subject line for this thread say? And the content of the first message. This thread that you started... Who are you, the Iraqi minister for

user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-22 Thread Tim via users
Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the MATE desktop. Is it possible to get it to show the user face pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some outside directory (not

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 October 2018, Federico Bruni sent: > Given the replies so far, my opinion is that this list should not > switch to Discourse. Likewise. I imagine some confusion with *some* people not understanding why we would want to keep a mailing list is probably with those people

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

2018-10-21 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 14:42 -0700, stan wrote: > There's a big mail thread on fedora-devel about using a web forum > software called Discourse instead of mailing lists. I won't use them, at all. I don't participate in any of them. I've looked at some when googling for answers, hated every one

Re: apache configuration --running two/2 test sites

2018-10-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, bruce sent: > I'm simply trying to get the two(2) sites to be accessed via two(2) > different urls.. > http://104.248.125.83/foo > http://104.248.125.83/oxwall > > I do not have an actual FQDN, the two(2) sites are tests on the box. > The "/foo" and

Re: apache configuration --running two/2 test sites

2018-10-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, bruce sent: > Sorry to return... I'm still really screwing up things/something > with my test for displaying two(2) apps.. Apps? That may have its own set of problems, as opposed to serving two sites. Have you tried running Apache on your own machine, to

Re: OT: replace a timestamp across multiple files

2018-10-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 October 2018, Mike Wright sent: > I have a set of dns zone text files in "bind" format. On the fourth > line there is a 10 digit timestamp (ignoring white space, the first > field). There is no way to predetermine the value so search and > replace by value is a no go

Re: user pictures on logon screen

2018-10-23 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the >> MATE desktop.  Is it possible to get it to show the user face >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? >> >> Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some >> outside

Re: Message list text color -

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 21:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > As I said there's only one css file I can find and it doesn't look > like much: > > [bobg@Box83-F28-workstation ~]$ cat > /home/bobg/.mozilla/seamonkey/e582sp8a.default/extensions/tonequi...@mesquilla.com/skin/filterEditorOverlay.css > >

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > RHEL is defunct, out-of-date garbage, so I see IBM slowly > closing that project down as it wont support their new code > and sticking with cloud services and such.  I do not see > them support anything that does not directly

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was > always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it, > because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to > Red Hat shareholders. Why would

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 22:20 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > One of Fedora's business values is the free testing users perform  > for RH. This value has eroded over time.  More testing is being > automated and is often incorported into build systems.  These tests > often originated with end

Re: OT: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> And you can say it about anything.  e.g. The commercial phone >> companies don't exist for people to be able to communicate (what >> their customers consider their primary purpose to be).  They're >> there to make money and it really doesn't care how well the >> communications aspect of it

Re: waay off topic... help if you wish, toss if you don't.. if more than a few object.. would the moderator kill the thread please!

2018-10-26 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 26 October 2018, Eddie O'Connor sent: > "Crawling"is that the same as "Parsing"? Going from page to page, or site to site, parsing the contents. Whether that be following links from one page to another, using the links on those pages, or following links from some other

Re: Message list text color -

2018-10-27 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 14:02 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I dnf installed SeaMonkey in an attempt to reduce problems I have > with configuring newer versions of Thunderbird which no longer accept > some of the add-ons essential to me. It seems to work as expected > except for the message "headers"

Re: hibernate stops working after upgrade to F29 from F28

2018-11-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 3 November 2018, Ranjan Maitra sent: > So, I wanted to mention that the following is what I have on my > /etc/default/grub > > GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 > GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" > GRUB_DEFAULT=saved > GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true >

Re: user pictures on logon screen [SOLVED]

2018-10-23 Thread Tim via users
Tim wrote: >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the >> MATE desktop.  Is it possible to get it to show the user face >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? Todd Zullinger > I don't use MATE, but do still use GDM, so hopefully this is >

Re: Message list text color -

2018-10-27 Thread Tim via users
Bob Goodwin: > I suspect that n one reading my inquiry knows how SeaMonkey works. No big surprise. A user-support group is more about operating the software than the programming of the software, and it's a rapidly moving target. > I checked and found one .css file already there, apparently

Re: [fedora-arm] Re: no hdmi audio on older tv

2018-11-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 November 2018, Jiri Vanek sent: > Yes. I tried four cables. Each of them on both TVs. Each behaved same > for me. *however* factr that I had tried several different cables, > does not mean I used different type of cable. they are very > likely from same shop in my

Re: [fedora-arm] Re: no hdmi audio on older tv

2018-11-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 15 November 2018, Doug sent: > I realize that this is off-topic, but it sounds like you are an > expert on modern TV equipment, so I have this question: I work in video production, and I occasionally service such equipment. > I have a Samsung 24" HDTV (1920 x 1080)

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