Re: strange ip address reported by nftables

2022-08-20 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-08-20 at 09:58 +0200, François Patte wrote: > The problem is: how an IP from a private network (10) could reach my > machine through the internet? WiFi? Smart devices within your home? Does your ISP have real public IPs, or are they NATing you? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-116

Re: strange ip address reported by nftables

2022-08-21 Thread Tim via users
François Patte wrote: >>> The problem is: how an IP from a private network (10) could reach >>> my machine through the internet? Tim: >> WiFi? François Patte: > I don't understand your question. The machine is connected to the box > with an ethernet cable? It was a thought that maybe there

Re: Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-21 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 00:00 +1000, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > I have a fairly recent ASUS ROG motherboard that I want to interrogate > from the CLI - specifically to see which SATA drives are hot-swappable > but dmidecode does not supply that information - is there some way of > getting t

Re: Interrogating BIOS from CLI? - dmidecode doesn't have the info

2022-08-22 Thread Tim via users
Roger Heflin: >> And the bios will have no way to know what is hot-swappable as that is >> an external case feature/add-on enclosure. Philip Rhoades: > Not sure what you mean - I can set "Hot Swappable" in the BIOS. For something to be hotswappable, everything has to support it (the host port, t

Re: Monitor id detection via HDMI is variable

2022-08-24 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-08-24 at 21:14 -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > Dmesg would not show me anything that happens after > login right? No. On all the systems I use, it'll show things as they happen. Plug in a USB flash drive, and see what it discovers. Unplug it, see what happens next. Et cetera. I

Re: Monitor id detection via HDMI is variable

2022-08-25 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I also look at /var/log/messages, other people use journalctl, but I >> find the messages file easier to deal with. Samuel Sieb: > You must have upgraded from a much older version or else you've made > some changes. Not an upgrade, a fresh install. And I don't recall making any changes

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-08-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 18:25 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > There are not too many emails here, maybe a few tens of thousand > totaling just over 1GB (a few mailing lists). Not all in the inbox, or one folder, I hope? > My main mail client is on another machine, still running tb 91, and > not sho

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-08-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 18:25 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > My main mail client is on another machine, still running tb 91, and > not showing this problem. Okay, after doing some tests I can confirm the same behaviour. I set up the old thunderbird-librnp-rnp-91.12.0-1.fc36.x86_64 to access my lo

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-08-29 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 10:39 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > After trying a few solutions (unsuccessfully) I compared an empty profile > (working, created as a test) > to the bad one (hanging) and started moving some control files (file in the > root of the profile) across. > > The last thing I d

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 08:57 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm not sure about emptying the junk folder automatically, my > interpretation of the junk process was the mails have to remain in that > folder for the junk processing to determine a new mail is junk according > to your rules, My under

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 22:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > My understanding was that the interpretation had already been done, and > they remain in the junk folder in case it got it wrong. You can check > what it's junking, you can find a mail it erroneously junked, and you > can

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-02 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 12:55 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I mark the spam folder to only show unread messages. This way I see what was > added > before marking all as read (after unJunking any mistakes). That kind of thing's a pet hate of mine. On usenet (newsgroups), the clients had an IGNORE

Re: following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to start

2022-09-03 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 10:36 -0500, Dave Ulrick wrote: > I see that TB 102 has a DNS-over-HTTPS option under General / > Network Connection / Settings but it's disabled. Perhaps turn that function on, exit, off again, and see if it sets the new setting. There could be a conflict between old confi

Re: fstab: systemd still uses the old version

2022-09-05 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 11:06 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > For every person who reports a problem like this there are dozens if not > hundreds > who never report the problem. Many will discover outdated or incorrect > advice from the internet. > Some will decide that linux doesn't work and

Re: virt-manager alt-click passthrough?

2022-09-11 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 08:24 -0400, Alex wrote: > I've also tried the RealVNC client/server trial, and I can't get that > to connect at all. It does appear qemu/realvnc server is listening on > 5900: > > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > - > > qemu

Re: Best Gaming Laptop of 2022 for Hardcore Gamers

2022-09-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 11:54 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Could this not be automated in the footer link, e.g. by including the > Message-ID? Technically you could automate it in a variety of ways. e.g. Each message through the list gets a "report me" link added to it with a their unique I

Re: Best Gaming Laptop of 2022 for Hardcore Gamers

2022-09-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 07:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Every post has a > Archived-At: > header that provides a link to that exact message in the archives. > That can be provided to identify the message. Though headers aren't so easily viewed on some systems. You typically get your choice of a

Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

2022-09-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 22:24 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Evolution does support them but I turn them off. (read receipts) Likewise (and no image loading by default), though I did once have someone tell me that I'd read a message they sent me because they had the receipt. They are a bit of

Re: Best Gaming Laptop of 2022 for Hardcore Gamers

2022-09-13 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> If I click on that header in Evolution (as you'd expect to be able to >> with a HTTP address) I get a 503 error from a web server. I still get >> a 503 error if I strip it back to: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/ Kevin Fenzi: > Thats because it was down. ;) > > Please try again now. Th

Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

2022-09-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 16:32 -0500, dwoody...@rdwoodyard.com wrote: > When you are in the compose window the options tab at the top has a > check box for return receipts. That's for if you want one of your own posts to request receipts from the recipient. They were concerned about responses when t

Re: email tracking, is it possible in fedora mail clients?

2022-09-15 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 11:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >2. Getting a read receipt cannot be interpreted as meaning that the > receiver did read the message (let alone understood it). As with SMSs, you only really know if it was received and understood when you get a reply. > To s

Re: FYI: Microsoft broke secureboot in qemu-based VMs

2022-09-17 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 02:30 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I am not a lawyer, but I'm sure lawyers can have a field day with the > above statement. Specially if your machine - real or virtual - stops > booting after a revocation list update. Curiosity makes me wonder why something gets listed the

Re: Question on bad links?

2022-09-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 18:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > As Jonathan mentioned in a previous reply, systemd is using symlinks for > temporary data storage, like a dictionary or map depending on which > programming language you're using. Kinda wierd. I wonder what the advantage is over creating s

Re: Question on bad links?

2022-09-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink > target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short > enough to fit within the inode structure, no data block on the disk > needs to be allocated. That'

Re: Question on bad links?

2022-09-20 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 01:35 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > like the time a nimwit admin of a multi-user > computer (300 users) came home from a security class learning > that "setuid programs were bad". Over the weekend they used > chmod to remove the setuid bit of every program on the system. > Resu

Re: Question on bad links?

2022-09-20 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-09-19 at 21:59 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Mail servers, on the other hand, were jumping to the file-per-message > method just as fast as Usenet servers discarded it, and are still using > it. I certainly noticed a massive improvement when I went from mail spool files to maildir on Do

Re: Using kernel 5.19.8 does not boot

2022-09-20 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 20:42 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've gone through episodes of having a bad kernel come up. I just remained > on the previous kernel, until this got sorted out. As long as you've booted > a working kernel "dnf update" is not going to remove it, but just uninstall >

Re: Noto fonts - ugly and unreadable for everyone or just me?

2022-09-22 Thread Tim via users
Barry wrote: >> What is it that you are finding ugly about noto that is great I deja? Richard W.M. Jones: > Small spidery unreadable letters. They actually appear better somehow > in the screenshots than they do on the screen itself. > Are you scaling the screen display? I saw very little diff

Re: Fedora on a Mac Book Pro

2022-09-23 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > the lack of a right mouse button is annoying You don't have to use a Mac mouse on a Mac. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is au

Re: encryption and flash based media question

2022-09-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 11:14 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > If you follow the recommendation to fill the device with random data first When was that ever recommended, and where? While a logical thing to do, I've never seen anything or anyone ever say that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.

Re: wired headset and its integrated media controlling buttons issue

2022-09-25 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 15:24 +0200, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: > Please, who of us know, if it would be possible to extend sound > devices support so wired headsets with The integrated buttons on The > microphone would be supported by not only Fedora distribution? You should say whether you're usi

Re: Firefox have gone haywire ?

2022-09-28 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 09:47 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > I did clear cookies but not data - which data clearance > turns out solved the issue - thanks for the tip! Site authors play with their sites all the time, just as much (or more) as users fiddle with their computer. Sometimes their c

Re: ext2(3) question(s)

2022-10-02 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 15:18 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Because it's not a command, per se, there's no man page. That doesn't necessarily mean there shouldn't be a man page. There's man pages for many configuration files. There's no reason they can't make man files for things like kernel optio

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 06:29 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > The difference between the technology and quality > of Fedora and Windows will make your head spin. > As I have stated before, I wish I had more > Linux customers. Linux is just fun to work on. > Windows is such a house of cards. A

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 10:37 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Not to try to one-up you, but I once saw a tech support rep that had > about a dozen things open, all maximized. Instead of looking at the > taskbar to find the one he needed, he was minimizing them one by one > until he found the right one.

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 16:30 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > A lot of the current yoof don't have computers but do have smartphones. > Recently I was speaking to a family member who teaches music at a local > college. He described how his students send him messages: > > * Write message on paper

Re: Qemu-kvm and Windows-11 22H2 upgrade problems

2022-10-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 10:15 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > I work on MacOS too. MacOS is just weird for > the sake of weirdness with no practical purpose > in mind. And the Menu Bar at the top is just > beyond stupid. Of all the myriad of Linux > GUI's, not a one does stupid, weird stuff

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-10 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 14:40 +, Beartooth wrote: > I run dnf clean all, followed by dnf upgrade, on all my machines, > all on F36, daily. (I don't necessarily reboot, even if there's a > kernel change. Should I?) Unless an odd problem has cropped up (with their repo, or something going really b

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 08:38 +0100, Barry wrote: > I guess this is a hang over from yum days. The problem I assume is > how to update to the latest packages? > > With yum the yum clean all is required to get the latest meta data > for the yum update. > Today you can use dnf update —refresh to get t

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 08:24 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I used to teach “practicals” for workshops using the software in > question. Spending the first couple sessions on linux basics made the > remaining sessions flow more efficiently. You can’t cover very much > in a few hours, so the ma

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-11 Thread Tim via users
stan: >> You can fix this by going into edit->settings->general If you page >> down, near the bottom there will be a setting to allow or disable >> automatic updates. Beartooth: > I tried that. Clicking on ">>" and scrolling got me to > edit->settings->general (as did clicking on the equ

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-12 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-10-12 at 14:06 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > My experience is that Firefox installed from Linux repos don't have a > tickbox to allow Firefox to update itself (if it did, it'd download a > version from Mozilla, not the repo). > > You may find a section

Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

2022-10-13 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> And I can confirm the same thing on my PC using Fedora 36 (which is >> usually kept up to date every other day or so). Beartooth: > So it isn't me. That's some slight consolation. But how do I know > what repo it's getting all these mandatory instant updates from? Are you sure it

Re: Tool to live duplicate a small area of the screen on a separate window

2022-10-14 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 13:08 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Felix, for the suggestion. Unfortunately, KMag shows the area > where the mouse pointer is, and what I am looking for is a tool that > shows on a window a *fixed* area, as if it were a small virtual > monitor with a view confined to tha

Re: booting with test_fs set

2022-10-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-10-16 at 13:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > What is your email client doing to make your reply appear quoted? That > makes it difficult to find it. He's probably doing what a lot people do: Not leaving a blank line between quotes and his reply. Leave a completely blank line between

Re: booting with test_fs set

2022-10-17 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Ok I will do like I did with this post. I cut off all below the bottom > line and the line its' self this time. I hit enter for a new line and > posted this, so I wasn't top posting. Did this work? Yes, that worked brilliantly. --

Re: My USB camera quits after 10 seconds. How do I troubleshoot it or get help ?

2022-10-17 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> "Unless you keep unplugging it, it appears to be having a problem. Are >> you using it with windows on this same computer on the same port?" linux guy: > Not with this log I'm not. But my laptop dual boots F36 and Windows > 10. F36 freezes just like on this computer. Windows 1

Re: dnf with rpmfusion not working? Are others seeing this?

2022-10-17 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 04:44 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > dig @8.8.8.8 download1.rpmfusion.org > > ; <<>> DiG 9.16.33-RH <<>> @8.8.8.8 > download1.rpmfusion.org > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 36512 > ;;

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-17 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have group > installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. > I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but systemctl afaik seems > not to behind t

Re: dnf with rpmfusion not working? Are others seeing this?

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 16:33 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Kept checking it for a few hours, and then eventually it > did start returning valid addresses. > > download1.rpmfusion.org. 300IN A 193.28.235.6 > > Don't know if it was a router issue, or a configuration > issue.

Re: X, xfce or dekstop? What's up?

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 19:37 +0300, jarmo wrote: > How about, when you are in X, just open konsole and typ there sudo dnf > update ? That's all I ever do. In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never had an update on a running system foul it up. Naturally that's going to depend on what you

Re: screen saver and .mov question

2022-10-18 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 08:22 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I saw that someone asked if a webcam could be used as a source for the > screensaver, too, which would be kind of neat. Interesting idea. Could be an amusing way to reinforce keeping your fingers off someone else's PC: mugshots recorded

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 16:50 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Many (perhaps all) of the gnome.org mailing lsits are being moved to > Discourse. This apparently is a decision made by the Gnome Foundation > and has caused a good deal of consternation on at least some of said > lists. I speak mainly

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 16:50 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > In some ways many of us consider the Discourse platform to be > significantly inferior to a mailing list. It does offer a mailing list > interface but in several respects it is inadequate. I refer you to this > post which goes into som

Re: OT: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 10:28 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I've noticed this exact trend. I think it is a management climber > wanting to cut costs to get ahead, regardless what it does to customer > service, and thus company reputation. And, unless my issue is > absolutely essential, I *do* give

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 03:40 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > People have tried that kind of thing, here. Suggesting support move to > a web forum. We have hyperkitty to thank/curse for that. This list > carries on, users maintaining its activity. The various website things > come

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 11:32 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I suspect one reason for the change was the need to combat SPAM and > DOS attacks. I noticed comments about spam handling on the mailing lists Patrick linked (the notion that the web forum was better at rejecting it). I have to wonde

Re: Sound distorted (new, F36)

2022-10-24 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 11:37 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Well it looks like the issue is the "audio pro" profile.  I switched > to "analog stereo duplex" and I think it may be fixed.  This "audio > pro" is something new? Yes, it seems something recent on my systems, too. I don't know what it's sup

Re: Grub Background Image not Displayed in Grub Boot Menu

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 09:10 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I tried putting the image in /boot/grub2/backgrounds but even though > grub2-mkconfig picked it up and placed and entry for it in > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg it still did not display at boot. Has Fedora > actually disabled that functionality? I

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing > lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various > flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook, > and TokTik, and more of the sa

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I understand that the explanation for the migration away from mailing > lists is that maintaining the mailing lists is a hassle and takes up > too much resources. I'm suspicious of the veracity of that; running a > mail server, and some ma

Re: Bugs in wine. Any alternatives?

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 10:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Wine is the bad side of the open source model. > Give the software away for free, then hold the > user for ransom if they want the bugs fixed. > Libre Office does the same thing. Fedroa > does not and spoils all of us. In the past

Re: Native Windows to qemu-kvm?

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 12:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > A customer approached me about a specialty application > (aircraft transponder tracking) that needs Linux. But > wanted to put it on an old computer with windows on > it. He asked if you could dual boot. I said yes, > but it is f

Re: no sound

2022-10-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:18 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > From what I've read, aplay fred.mp3 should work. > I get noise. On the chance that you don't have mp3 support, try an ogg or wav file. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boi

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 20:36 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Now, hardware is so reliable that most people never consider that > it's at fault and keep trying to find a software solution that can't > exist.  I'm not saying that you should look at the hardware first, > but don't ignore the possibility. I'd

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> On the chance that you don't have mp3 support, try an ogg or wav >> file.  stan: > It has to be one of the following formats, from  man aplay. > >  -t, --file-type TYPE >   File type (voc, wav, raw or au).  If this parameter is >  omitted the WAVE format is used. > > These d

Re: no sound

2022-10-27 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 11:19 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Note that you don't have to use a .txt extension for that file. I know. I started off personal computing on Amigas, where filename suffixes weren't part of the file type determination. Other than raw plain text, every file had identifiers in t

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-10-27 Thread Tim via users
he email's from address). Your ISP is an authorised sender for you. You''ll notice that my messages don't come from my address, but the list server has changed them to: Tim via users And I see the same for some other people. I think this is the list's approach to re-auth

Re: Fwd: [Undeliverable: Re: Mailing lists and Discourse]

2022-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 15:40 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I use gmail for lists.  I'm still using Yahoo for lists. When I first started using mailing lists, yahoo was the biggest source of spam coming into them, so I figured they deserved to be the recipient. And they seem better at not fa

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 20:27 +, Jake D wrote: > I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile and > the ONLY option is to start over, is there nothing like Resotre > Points in windows? Hmm, hahaha, is this a troll?   Was there anything ever more self-destructive than Windows?

Re: How do I rebuild Grub/Boot/initramfs from a Live USB?

2022-10-28 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 23:09 +, Jake D wrote: > No, it's not a troll. It does appear otherwise. > Thank-you for your otherwise completely irrelevant , unsolicited and > entirely unhelpful opinion piece. NB: I responded to you in EXACTLY the same way as your opening post. Go back and read

Re: Trying to get apache to run on two interfaces.. But get errors. Probable doing something wrong? or impossible. Thanks

2022-10-29 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 17:40 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Had two Listen lines in httpd.conf but commented the > second one and it is working on that ip/port. > Listen 192.168.16.104:8081 > #Listen 192.168.24.104:8081 You could simplify that to just: Listen 8081 If you want it

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 09:32 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link > displays fine in Chrome and Firefox but with any of the pages linked to > from this page, none of them will display in Chrome and in Firefox > Nightly I have to clic

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 15:34 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The only way to mitigate this behavior is still > to turn down "System Sounds" volume in the audio mixer. I suppose you could search for likely sounding file names for the sample that's played. e.g. locate sounds|grep usr Look through

Re: F37 XFCE bell – where to turn it off

2022-11-26 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 16:15 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I suppose you could search for likely sounding file names for the > sample that's played. > > e.g. locate sounds|grep usr > > Look through the results and play the likely candidates. Then if you > find it, del

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-11-27 at 09:31 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I have no trouble playing that video in nightly. So, something > differs in our configuration. YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available bandwid

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), >> and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available >> bandwidth). There's no guarantee that two different people receive the >> same data for the same request (the HTML page, nor the video file). >> Esp

Re: Backup data from Firefox

2022-11-29 Thread Tim via users
Andreas Fournier: >> I know about it but I would like to keep my data out of the cloud >> and only on my own machines. Jeffrey Walton: > +1. This is why I don't use the feature. > > I would use it if Firefox allowed me to specify a machine within my > network. Firefox could even use my OpenStack

spam through Hyperkitty

2022-11-29 Thread Tim via users
Well, so much for the notion that web forums are better at stopping spam than mailing lists... I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 15:48:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is a

Re: spam through Hyperkitty

2022-11-30 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 22:32 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to > Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible > reasons for this included "better control of spam" and "Mailman depends > on Python 2", the

Re: spam through Hyperkitty

2022-11-30 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 14:53 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Are you sure you mean Discourse? That actually sounds more like > Discord, which is not the same thing. Ah yes, you're right. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 15:48:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate

Re: What is 127.0.0.1.8888

2022-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 21:51 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Attempting to log in to Google account. Process hangs for some minutes, > then complains that it can't access 127.0.0.1.. Any idea what's > going on? (Fedora 35, reasonably current) As to your question in the subject line: 127.0.0.1

Re: What is 127.0.0.1.8888

2022-12-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 09:12 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > What's going on is configuration of claws-mail for OAuth2 connection to > gmail. At the end of the process one connects to Google (with Firefox) > to provide an authorization password. At that point things go haywire > with the address

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I > still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the > next video it won't play without me switching my device between analogue > and digital, in w

Re: 1 line null webserver

2022-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 13:40 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > I'm using dnsmasq to create an ad/media blocker. Whenever it receives a > request for any listed domain I want to return a specific IP that points > to a dummy webserver. That part works. > > It's the dummy webserver that has me stumped.

Re: 1 line null webserver

2022-12-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 13:40 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > It's the dummy webserver that has me stumped. I'd like it to return 0 > bytes, status 200 for every connection to port 80. You mightn't need to have a webserver pretend to answer their queries, my approach of using a domain doesn't exist DN

Re: 1 line null webserver

2022-12-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-04 at 08:50 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > I'd tried that approach before but it left me with 404 errors splattered > across web pages. Probably as annoying as the ads they replaced. Zero pixel transparent gif as the webserver's 404 page. But my other approach (domain doesn't exist

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-06 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 09:03 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio muted > that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net there is > potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get pipewire to > work, so my view on wh

Re: Are Meta/Facebook servers using Fedora Linux?

2022-12-06 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-12-06 at 19:30 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > The keyword is "known". Developers don't work on 5 or 10 year old > software. Existing bugs don't get uncovered and fixed. They don't > become "known", so they don't get backported and fixed. > > That's exactly the point Greg HK makes at >

Re: where did all of these *$!#!! icons come form

2022-12-08 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 21:28 +, Steven Usdansky via users wrote: > Just a guess: you're displaying $HOME instead of $HOME/Desktop. Check > ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs You also get that affect on some desktops if you delete or rename the "Desktop" directory. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80

Re: how to disable local email delivery

2022-12-08 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 17:44 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I want this (spooling) to not happen, but have all mail relayed to my > upstream SMTP server which is the SMART_HOST defined in sendmail.mc. If you look at the bottom of the /etc/aliases file, you'll see something like this about root mai

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
Stephen Morris: >>> Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio >>> muted that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net >>> there is potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get >>> pipewire to work, so my view on what I'm seeing is pipewire is not >>>

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 12:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Ever since last night, my desktop has been unable to resolve > slashdot.org, but other computers on my LAN can. Is it the browser, or whole system, that can't resolve it? The dig or nslookup commands will be using the OS to resolve the address

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 12:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Ever since last night, my desktop has been unable to resolve > slashdot.org, but other computers on my LAN can. I'm presuming that > there's something wrong with my DNS, so I'm trying to clear its cache, > but I can't find instructions on how

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 13:54 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I should mention that for various reasons this box is still running F 25 Yes. That would have helped. What's in your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf files? Do you have the "dig" tool installed, what results does it return (and in comp

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 16:21 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > If you reinstalled, but kept your existing home partition, you may have > systemd "user" services disabled or masked that pipewire requires. > > One way to check this is to create a brand new user, login as new > user and see if (with all the

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
Joe Zeff: > [joe@khorlia ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Generated by NetworkManager > search zeff.us > nameserver 8.8.8.8 > nameserver 8.8.4.4 Looks normal. I'd expect the google DNS servers to be working well. > [joe@khorlia ~]$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # An exampl

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> It is resolving. It looks like you're having a web browser issue (not >> connecting, or something jamming in the cache). I'm guessing you've >> restarted your browsing during this situation. But have you tried >> flushing its cache, too? You can flush the cache without destroying >> sav

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
Tim via users wrote: >> Can you edit the "hosts:" line in the nsswitch.conf file? See if >> simplifying it helps? >> >> e.g. hosts: files dns >> >> Are you able to restart the network connection? Joe Zeff: > Done! After the edit, I disabled/e

Re: Clearing DNS cache without rebooting

2022-12-10 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Are you supposed to remember which epson printer is which without any >> clues? Are they both going to get the same name? Will they self- >> modify one of their names? Will they always be the same ones in the >> same order? I despise things that make me play guessing games. Samuel Sieb

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