Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 06/13/2011 12:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: After all, most of the hardware is at least 6 years old.  So, by today's standards, for a desktop, it's OLD, and I need it to maintain usability for another 2 to 3 years. The mobo and CPU

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Not all that old. I'm running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 on the Debian 6 VM, which I haven't checked lately to see if there's an update. My current kernel for F12

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/13/11, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: [...] Considered XFCE and LXDE instead, but decided the best option was to abandon the Desktop GUI environment all-together in favor of a well-featured window manager

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: On 06/12/2011 06:08 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's time to move on.  My current [snip] Every distro exists to fit a niche. That Fedora is not the one

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. This reminds me of OS/2 users on oS/2 maling list who often  decided that not only

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/12/2011 03:08 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's time to move on.  My current [snip] As was stated in a recent response on this list, Fedora is always

Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. My current and future needs are for a support life measured in years, not months. And CentOS and Scientific Linux didn't fulfill my other requirements. Neither did the Rolling Release distros:

Re: Netbook gotchas?

2011-06-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:     I've been running Omega Linux 14 (respin of F 14) on an EeePC 701, with an 8GB camera card in the slot. I'm very pleased with the OS (Rahul, I owe you big time!); but the hardware just doesn't fit my extra large trifocal

Re: Looking for a new notebook - 12 screen

2011-05-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 5/26/11, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I have been using an HP2400 duo core for years (is there a way to find the manufacturing date without going into bios?).  But this morning it jsut about gave me a heart attack when it would not come out of standby. 

Re: Guidelines for a noob

2011-04-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus arad...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I installed Fedora14 on an old Dell PC (an Optiplex G260) enhanced with 2 GB in RAM. All is working OK, but I have few doubts yet. Before continue with this I want to specify two things: First, I have a

Re: VirtualBox multi cpu

2011-03-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 3/22/11, Luc MAIGNAN luc.maig...@winxpert.com wrote: I use VirtualBox on a RHEL5 with 24 cores (6 x4-cores processors). But it seems like only one or two processors are used. How can I configure VirtualBox and/or my virtual machine to allow it to use all processors ? Does

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium wrote: I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them around, so I have been exploring and comparing. I

Re: f12

2011-03-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: madunix at gmail.com madunix at gmail.com writes: I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum check ...  all went OK ... but it didn't change the behaviour.  Thanks for your help. ... OK. Now you can look at your

Re: f12

2011-03-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com wrote: Recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 12 (upgrade procedure not fresh install) and Xorg appears to behave strange, cpu jumps to high utilization and Xorg getting 50% or more  and swap keep increasing. Any suggestions. Yes.

Re: Any Fedora that would run SANE/SSHD on an ancient 486sx with 8MB RAM?

2011-03-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if there's any Fedora (1.0? :) that would run on a 486sx-33 system with 8MB of RAM. Why does it have to specifically be Fedora? I don't need a GUI. My intent is to connect an ancient SCSI based scanner through a PCMCIA

Re: random crashes

2011-02-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/27/11, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: TO: OP If you think it's specifically a Fedora problem (I don't), I would install Me neither. It's just that I still think it's possible that it's not a HW problem

Re: random crashes

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100,    Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something interactively (even if it's

Re: Trying to install Fedora 14 on a Stubborn Sony Vaio

2011-02-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS, trying  to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I have BIOS set to boot off Cdrom. I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios to be first boot

Re: Trying to install Fedora 14 on a Stubborn Sony Vaio

2011-02-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jimbinary...@comcast.net  wrote: A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS, trying  to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I have

Re: Recommendations: Simple Audio Recorder

2011-02-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Zoltan Hoppar hopp...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to suggest one of my favourite sound recorders, it's name is Pulsecaster. It's usable for podcasting, but records anything that you say into your mic. No need to terminal, it has nice gui, and uses pulseaudio directly.

Re: Recommendations: Simple Audio Recorder

2011-02-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language practice.  Commandline type okay.  Will be using a Skype-type headset with integrated

Recommendations: Simple Audio Recorder

2011-02-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language practice. Commandline type okay. Will be using a Skype-type headset with integrated microphone--two separate plugs. Have found many audio recording studio programs, but don't need all that sophistication. Tried

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote: A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly then GNOME desktop? No, it isn't, but since you can totally customize either, the question is really irrelevant. B -- users mailing list

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: snip I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux from Mac or Windows. so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from unix to slackware and changed from

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Boggiano boggi...@gmail.com wrote: --- On Tue, 1/18/11, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: snip I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux from Mac or Windows. What about those of us who came from

Re: Computer transplant -

2011-01-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 1/5/11, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:     This computer has developed problems and I have elected to replace     it with another used computer which FedEx should deliver in a few     days. I know I can transfer file from one to the other but is there     any hope I

Re: Migrating DVD ISO image to USB

2010-12-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: The Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image is a DVD image that uses GRUB rather than isolinux to boot to a menu of Live CD ISO images. At 5.3 GB, it will not fit on an ordinary single layer DVD and requires a dual-layer DVD

Re: Fedora 10 Boot Problem

2010-12-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni roub...@gmail.com wrote: I have downloaded a fedora 10 dvd iso of size approx 1.58GB and after burning it is bootable! But surprisingly it also has no EFI folder! How it boots at all ? And if it is bootable then other DVD ISOs having no EFI

Re: Fedora 10 DVD can't boot!

2010-12-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni roub...@gmail.com wrote: I am new here! Hello everybody! Can any one say how to boot from Fedora 10 DVD ? Because it has no EFI folder in dvd. I have downloaded fedora 10 i386 dvd iso (32bit) several times from different locations but no iso has

Re: Two Instances of Nouveau Running

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote: Bartek wrote: --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartekbartek...@yahoo.com  wrote: $ps -ef shows, in part: [snip] B Wow!  It finally showed up.  8 hours after the initial post.  At least, on my Yahoo mail account.

Two Instances of Nouveau Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
$ps -ef shows, in part: root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0] root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1] Is this normal? I don't recall ever having two. I recently replaced my LG Flatron L1960TR-BF (4:3 ratio) with an Asus VN242 (16:9). Could this

Two Nouveaus Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
(NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this. First try got error from Fedora List Mail Daemon.) $ps -ef shows, in part: root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0] root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1] Is this normal? I don't recall ever having

Re: Two Nouveaus Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/2010 12:11 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: (NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this.  First try got error from Fedora List Mail Daemon.) Was it Two Instances of Nouveau Running ~3hrs ago? Because I don't see

Re: Two Nouveaus Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com writes: ... Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you have only one connected, the others disconnected (if that is your desired config). Only have the DVI-DVI cable connected. In fact

Re: Two Nouveaus Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartekbartek047at  yahoo.com  writes:     ...       Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you have only one connected, the others disconnected (if that is your desired config). $ xrxndr xorg.conf

Re: Two Nouveaus Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/2010 02:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svistfry@gmail.com  wrote: $ps -ef shows, in part:        root      178     2  0 09:06 ?        00:00:00 [nouveau/0]        root

Re: Two Instances of Nouveau Running

2010-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: $ps -ef shows, in part:    root       178     2  0 09:06 ?        00:00:00 [nouveau/0]    root       179     2  0 09:06 ?        00:00:00 [nouveau/1] Is this normal?  I don't recall ever having two. I recently replaced

Bug or Anomaly or What?

2010-12-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
Just a few days ago, I switched from my old, reliable LG Flatron L1960TR-BF (4:3, 1280x1024) monitor to an Asus VH242 (16:9). Both are LCD types with flourescent tube, not LED, backlight. With everything shutdown, I hooked up the Asus using the LG's DVI-DVI cable. The boot went fine. New

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote: On 11/25/10 7:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com  wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time Support in my next OS. I stayed

Re: Contents of install DVD vs CDs

2010-11-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: [snip] I ask this because I just installed an Amahi system using a local repo built from the install CDs and many of the dependencies for Amahi are NOT met during the install.  They, for the most part, get picked up

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com  wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] That's okay as long as the OS is current when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time Support in my next OS. I stayed on FC4 for similar reasons, until I could go to better hardware and FC13, and I still run XP in a VM for one application

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: [snip] Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little about it, but that will change over the next few days. I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been around

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: All my research recommended NOT using a journaling filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out faster.  Although, I did read one article where the writer actually

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: [snip] All my research recommended NOT using a journaling filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out faster.  Although, I did read one article where the writer actually

Re: Virtual desktops

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Zoltan Hoppar hopp...@gmail.com wrote: I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around - basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things together -

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote:     I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest smallest slowest EeePC afaik.     I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD drive.

Re: FC14 install memory requirements

2010-11-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 11/15/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I have a Asus EE 700 with 512 Mb memory.  FC12 meminfo reports ~490Mb usable memory as I suspect Video is stealing some memory. Anyway, FC14 install reports that there is NOT enough memory for a graphical install.  To

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12.  I think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any faster.  It takes almost the 6 month release cycle

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] That's okay as long as the OS is current when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years or so.  (I'm not a cutting edge type of person.  It matters little to me whether something

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Saturday, November 13, 2010 06:26:09 pm Patrick Bartek wrote: I've never demeaned Fedora.  There are things I don't like to be sure, but that can be said of all things.  I've been using it since FC3 after trying a dozen or so other

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 11/12/2010 08:31 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: That's okay as long as the OS is current when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years or so. I understand that, but you will never find that to be the case

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I never said that nor was it my intention to imply that.  All I said was in the 10 years of using Linux none of my systems were ever hacked or infected.  I never said I didn't check my

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: ...snip... Fedora's release cycles when it was Fedora Core used to be longer and not on a strict schedule as it is now.  A new version was released when it was ready.  Fedora now has

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's fast release cycle.  I need a longer life OS.  I build my personal systems to last about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd application behavior, no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage, no excessive or abnormal net (or hard drive

Re: Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
-- On Thu, 11/11/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/11/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I hope that you're not deluding yourself... Why would you think I am? I'm no expert on intrusion

Re: Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd application behavior, no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage

Re: Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote: Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: [massive snip] I've spent enough time fixing friends' infected Windows machines that I've gotten a feel

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:     I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest smallest slowest EeePC afaik.     It boots and it runs. But it's not usable yet; for one thing, when I set it to boot, I then have to check every

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date security, but a personal desktop that has more that sufficient security.  After 10 years of using various versions

Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] How do you know you haven't been infected or hacked? (I don't doubt that you do, just curious about how.) Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd application behavior,  no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:23:30 -0600 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Per:  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until approximately one

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:35:33 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Just because it's EOL doesn't mean it stops working on that date, too. ;-) Sure. The way people talk about EOL, you'd think that it did. Stop

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
-- On Tue, 11/9/10, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12.  I think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any faster.  It takes almost the 6 month

Re: Feedback

2010-11-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 11/7/10, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote: Thank, you are probably right. After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or 13. I just gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm db. I checked the hardware. The system became unstable after an access to

Re: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Maxime Alarie mala...@processia.com wrote: I have never used dd to clone a hard disk.  I use rsync for a lot of my backups, and I was wondering what would be the best tool to clone a  disk.  I don’t want 3rd party software also.  I want built in command line tools.

Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?

2010-10-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 9/30/10, adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Can I know which fedora is stable? If you mean like how Debian classifies its releases? Then I don't think Fedora ever reaches Stable. It is really a cutting edge test bed for new features and code for RHEL and not a general

Re: Re: Canon BJC-70 colour portable printer, no yellow.

2010-09-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 07:18 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: The manufacturer of my printer (Epson) recommended that I use the printer at least twice a week to keep the jets clear.  It didn't help. Sure it did.  You use more ink

Re: Re: Re: Canon BJC-70 colour portable printer, no yellow.

2010-09-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote:   On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Huntercheery...@hotmail.com  wrote: [snip] Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now it works. From the test AND from Linux

Re: Re: Canon BJC-70 colour portable printer, no yellow.

2010-09-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote: [snip] Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now it works. From the test AND from Linux. Probably, the yellow ink jet was just clogged, a common problem if you don't use your printer regularly, particularly if

Re: Canon BJC-70 colour portable printer, no yellow.

2010-09-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 9/26/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote:   Hi! My Canon BJC-70 will not print yellow or any colour that requires yellow. It prints other colours, but none that contain yellow. I have tried everything, including compiling the latest GhostScript. Please help? Did

Re: [Fedora] Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

2010-09-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Greg Woods wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:01 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: Unfortunately the last two kernel upgrades (2.6.34.6-54 and 2.6.34.7-56) didn't correspond to an upgrade of the kernel

Re: Root File System Maxed Out

2010-09-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 9/21/10, earlsco...@comcast.net earlsco...@comcast.net wrote: I am a new user to Fedora.   I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download it. The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in

Re: Liberation or Corefonts?

2010-09-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Tim wrote: And for other things that you might have to deal with, such as being handed a Word document.  They're designed to copy the metrics of the Microsoft fonts (size and shape), so that documents will appear as

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/09/2010 05:29 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] IIRC, CentOS 5, the latest version, as well as Scientific Linux, too, is based off FC6.  That's not all that far removed from 4, is it?  Although, as I recall, FC6 worked so well, for me

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or better yet, on Nov 2nd, of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and then do yum update to get the latest

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:13 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: FWIW, usually for a typical install from CDs, you only need the first two (or three), not the whole set. I used to find that was promised (as in, if you picked

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB RAM, which I seldom use. (It is kept in a holiday location.) It is currently running Fedora-10, which probably shows when it was last used. I tried installing

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB RAM, which I seldom use. (It is kept in a holiday location.) It is currently running Fedora-10, which probably shows when it was last used. I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,

Re: Fw: What are the requirements and features of Fedora?

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Matthew Ramos matt.nole at yahoo.com writes: Hi everyone -I am new to Linux and I am trying to compare Fedora’s desktop version Linux to a few other distributors.  Could anyone please tell me: the hardware requirements

LVMs and Real Partitions (was Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?)

2010-07-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over real partitions) other than being able to resize them while they are mounted. They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that can

Re: quicktime video work for you?

2010-07-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks much for the help!  That was the clue I needed to get firefox going.  I needed gecko-mediaplayer. I still haven't figured out google-chrome-unstable though. google-chrome-unstable-6.0.472.0-53024.x86_64 It seems to

Re: quicktime video work for you?

2010-07-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to view this:   http://blip.tv/file/3900047/ I think I have all relevant software installed, but it doesn't work.  Tried both chrome-unstable and firefox. Work for you? Yes.  Works fine here. Downloads and plays

Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?

2010-07-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de wrote: I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine which I have no physical access to. It has a network connection. I wanted

Re: Preupgrade F11 --- F12 ?

2010-07-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de wrote: I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine which I have no physical access to. It has a network connection. I wanted to upgrade to F12 using preupgrade again, but this time I am afraid I'll run into problems due to

Re: multiple paper formats in printing

2010-07-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/13 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au: On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 09:12 +0200, Antonio M wrote: I am using a network printer (NRG-MP-C3300) and I am noting that I can choose format of paper (A3-A4) when printing from

Re: New Update has no kmod for new kernel and new nvidia driver

2010-07-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora 12 x86_64 I did look this time and it seems the gods that have control did not give a kmod for the new Nvidia driver 195.36.31 for the new kernel 2.6.32.16-141. It has a kmod there for the old kernel 2.6.32.14-127

Re: Q about swap size

2010-07-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept swap at 1GB:

Re: Flash videos not playing in Fedora 11 firefox browser

2010-06-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, ranjan sundar nja...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to download flashplayer for linux from adobe website and downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and found that it contained only 1 file with .so extension (shared object). [snip]   My guess--and it's only a guess--is that

Re: Flash videos not playing in Fedora 11 firefox browser

2010-06-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Zip is used for some Linux stuff, besides which the OP says he extracted a .so file, so it is for Linux. As far as I've found Adobe doesn't distribute

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. Both drives are 160 GB in size. I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to 500 MB and 8 GB respectively.   The first resize

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Mats u...@comhem.se wrote: I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on the same hd. If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and then the same with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation I've seen is about installing windows and

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes No.  Have you actually compared them, or just repeating gossip?  I have. They were both as bad as each other, in general

Re: About fedoras evolution?

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Mats u...@comhem.se wrote: I have tried to find information about fedoras evolution but haven't find an answer to the following question: How long will fedora 12 be supported with security updates? Approximately 13 months from initial release. This goes for all Fedora

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/15/2010 01:28 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer video recording and/or playback formats.  Ultimately, the consumer chose which format it preferred.  They will, again

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:42:16 -0600 Greg Woods wrote: I believe it is only a matter of (not much) time before Linux is targeted. Linux is already targeted plenty at the server level. Leave a linux box hooked to the

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Dale J. Chatham d...@chatham.org wrote: On 06/15/2010 12:28 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer video recording and/or playback formats.  Ultimately, the consumer chose which format it preferred.  They will, again

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Steve Underwood ste...@coppice.org wrote: On 06/14/2010 12:54 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Sun, 6/13/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com  wrote:     That isn't going to make people very happy. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe

Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 22:35 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: That isn't going to make people very happy.   http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe-Temporarily-Kills-64-Bit-Flash-For-Linux Or are you reading that the

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