Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:08:48PM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
 | From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us

  ...snip...

 | 
 | Why do you think you deserve compensation, what do you think would be
 | fair and how would you enforce it?
 | --
 
 Getting rid of the asshole would be a good start

Excellent idea and I know just who it should start with.

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Re: OT: procmailrc question

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:38:50PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
 On 07Jan2014 22:04, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com wrote:
  I am new to making my own procmail recipes and am a bit stumped with
  this one.
  
  I use sylfilter as my spam-filtering tool: this tool is available at
  http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/
 [...]
  Being perhaps foolhardy, I have been trying to get syfilter to work
  with procmail using my .procmailrc. I was trying to mimic the example
  here:
  http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/~kuroki/keijiban/procmailrc.txt
  
  However, the issue is that I do not quite see how to get this to work
  because unlike bogofilter, sylfilter does not add anything to the
  header. If it returns a value 0, the mail  is classified as junk,
 [...]
  (which the user does not see):
  Return values:
0   junk (spam)
 
 As you say, it does not modify the email.
 
 Instead, you want a recipe shaped like this one:
 
   # Get rid of duplicates
   :0 Whc: .msgid.lock
   | formail -D 16384 .msgid.cache
   :0 a
   /dev/null
 
 This recipe discards duplicate emails, but by replacing the formail command
 with your sylfilter command you can have it discard (or file) junk email.
 
 Example (untested, needed adapting):
 
   # Get rid of duplicates
   :0 Wc
   | sylfilter ...
   :0 a
   /dev/null
 

Dropping messages to /dev/null is dangerous. It's a good way to lose
legit mail that was misclassified. Better to create a spam directory and
put mail classified as spam in there. It's easy to skim thru that and
pick out any mail that was misclassified.

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Re: NetworkManager

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:24:09PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

 ...snip..
 
 I wish there were an alternative to NM
 which worked as well as the old Windows Connect to.

Wicd

...snip...

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Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:00:02PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote:
 
 On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote:
 Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent:
 SPAM is very subjective.
 I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas)
 and then in February they're too lazy to cleanly unsubscribe: they
 just tag the message as SPAM, and they argue it's SPAM because they
 dont want to receive the messages anymore.
 Dumb, but true.
 I've seen that often enough.  When the this is spam button simply
 configures their own software, it's merely a dumb thing to do.  But when
 their mail client's spam button *reports* the message as spam, it
 causes problems for the senders, who did nothing wrong.
 
 I'm not doing that though, I don't intentionally sign-up for
 anything and the deliberately mark it as spam when I'm no longer
 interested. Every mailing list I've joined I have a genuine interest
 in, or it's a hobby of
 mine..(PremierGuitar.com.GuitarFetish.com...etc) I see no real
 way that my email address got out TO the people who are using it as
 a spam receptacle! 

You see no real way? If you post to a list or news group your email
address is out there for the bots to harvest. Your address or your IP is
in your headers even if you spoof it.

All I want is for the mail that I have no
 intention of reading to be sent either to my spam folder...or else
 the trash! I guess for now it'll have to be me adding addresses to
 my filter, until I can get a handle on the Spam Assassin thing..or
 else I might have to just block everything..and then create filters
 for the stuff I DO want! but one way or the other...I intend on
 handling this spam issue before the end of the year!! Thank you all
 for your input...some of those ideas I'm definitely going to try
 out.heck ANYTHING'S better than being strapped to your
 computer for hours at a time!

Your best bet is procmail + spam assassin. The trick is to call SA from
sendmail, postfix or whatever you have on your system. If you call it
from procmailrc the downloads will slow to a crawl.

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Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 05:16:58PM +1030, Tim wrote:
 Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor sent:
  I swear if EVER I find the person who invented spam?...I'm gonna hit
  him with a whiffle-ball bat! LOL! 
 
 And we'll be cheering, too.
 
 On a whim, I once googled spammer beaten up, and read an amusing story
 about a ten minute fist fight between a spammer in an internet cafe and
 a policeman, with the spammer trying to avoid being arrested and trying
 to eat his USB spam stick at the same time.  Oh to be have been a fly on
 the wall with that one.
 
 And I seem to recall reading a Russian spammer got murdered over it.
 Can't say I'm sorry.
 
 I was once asked what it would take to stop a spammer, and my response
 was cut their hands off.  I don't think anything less would be
 effective.

A hollow point, judiciously applied, would be more efficient. It would,
however, deprive one of the pleasure of hearing the screams of agony. 
 
 -- 
 [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
 Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
 
 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
 trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
 public lists.
 
 
 
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Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:41:40AM +1030, Tim wrote:
 Tim:
  I've always considered having to check your spam for false positives to
  make having anti-spam filtering a waste of time.
 
 Heinz Diehl:
  It depends. I've been receiving about 30 spam emails daily, on
  average. A quick look into my spam-folder is enough to check if any
  serious email accidently got classified as spam.
  
  I'm using a combination of procmail and CRM-114, by the way..
 
 But you don't trust it enough, not to check...
 
 If I had to check up on it, I don't consider it trustworthy.

You don't entertain the possibility that not all spam filters are 100%
correct or that no software is 100% reliable, given the fact that it's
all developed by humans, none of whom are 100% infallible?

 And,
 probably more to the point, it's an extreme annoyance when you email
 someone, and their crappy anti-spam software falsely classifies your
 email as spam.  Eventually you give up trying to get a reply from them,
 and have to phone them for a response.

Did it ever cross your mind that the software might not be so crappy,
but that the user might not know how to write filters correctly?

I really get tired of people blaming the software, and yes, there is
some really crappy software out there but a program that has been in
widespread use for a long time has almost all the bugs fixed and ain't
all that crappy.

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Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote:

  snip...
 
 It's not uncommon for SpamAssassin to catch 400-700 a *day*.  When really
 bad new campaigns start up, sometimes it can go over a thousand.  Usually,
 only 5-10 get through, whereupon I feed 'em to sa-learn.

Doesn't your ISP have spam filters or are you the ISP?

 .snip.

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Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:13:24PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

  ...snip..
 
 Yes Joachim this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!..Thank you so
 much! My Inbox seems to be growing every day with more and more
 spam. I literally spent a whole hour and a half ...JUST adding email
 addresses to the Block list

Blocking email addresses is completely futile. Are you not aware that
spammers use throw away accounts that are frequently changed and also
use innocent users computers as bots without the owners knowledge? 

 ...snip...

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Re: evince

2013-12-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:20:17AM +0100, poma wrote:
 

  ...snip..

 Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus
 nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.

Those pompous lessons really paid off.

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Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-12-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:43:50PM +0530, AP wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:40 AM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Ya'll have seen the AP is gone yet the thread goes on and on?  :-)
 
 Because the name g is mental deficient.

What you wrote has nothing to do with what you quoted.

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Re: is something wrong with email server?

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:30:44AM -0600, g wrote:
 
 
 On 11/28/2013 11:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
 
 
 One would normally try a search before asking on a list.
 
 'ap' is not _normal_. ;=)

I know but he's like heroin. You can't resist just one more hit.

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Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 01:32:11AM +1030, Tim wrote:
 Allegedly, on or about 28 November 2013, g sent:
  let out one point.
  
  if you will note;
 
X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer
  
  is also a thread breaker. 
 
 I think that one may just be due to a bad webmail client.  Some of them
 are just plain awful, in a plethora of ways.
 
 He has posted from at least three other addresses, in the past, which
 worked properly.  Just the gmx.com one that goes bad.  I can't say that
 I remember noticing any behaviour that indicated he was trolling.
 Though he seems to do quite a bit of commuting, between the chemistry
 departments of two universities in Britain and France.  ;-)

Continually asking questions that can be answered with a simple web
search qualifies as trolling, especially when he's been repeatedly
admonished about it. He also is polluting at least 2 other lists 
asking the same sort of questions. He's posted under more than one name
and from more than one address. Yeah, he definitely qualifies as a
troll. Either that or he's a mental deficient.

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Re: is something wrong with email server?

2013-11-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:41:09PM +0530, AP wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote:
 
  Check this how this list's archive:
  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/thread.html
 
  You can clearly see the breakage you are causing: All of your postings start
  a new thread, i.e. replies of yours do not appear in the thread you are
  replying to.
 
 Well thanks for posting this link. As a home user, I really don't know
 why is this happening...! I am myself amazed. What is the remedy then?
 (Just uses browser to send mails). Is it a browser's bug?

One would normally try a search before asking on a list.

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Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29:19AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
 On 11/23/13 10:17, inode0 wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
 Just read some stuff on this list about spins, a concept which had
 not previously impinged itself upon my consciousness.  So I went and
 had a look at the spins.fedoraproject.org page. It started off by saying
 What is a spin? Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored
 
 
 For God's sake, people!!!  That's alternative versions!!! Alternate
 means every other or every second.  Alternative means available as
 another possibility.  Saying alternate when you mean alternative is
 sloppy, lazy thinking and irritates and confuses the reader.
 
 Why can't computer geeks learn to write English correctly?
 In American usage this is acceptable and common.
 But wrong nevertheless.  It conflates two quite distinct ideas, blurs
 the meaning and diminishes the language.
 But if it bothers you
 that much why didn't you just correct it on the wiki in a fraction of
 the time it took you to rant about it here?
 
 Why so hostile?  Why rant?  The page that I looked at
 (spins.fedoraproject.org)
 did not appear to be a Wiki nor to be editable by the user in any way.
 Anyway, my mission is to enlighten people. If I'd just corrected it,
 no-one would've noticed.

Another English major heard from.

I assume you're aware that languages evolve over time in accordance with
common usage.

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Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:33:41AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
 On 11/24/13 09:30, Robert Holtzman wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29:19AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
 
 SNIP
 
  But wrong nevertheless.  It conflates two quite distinct ideas, blurs
  the meaning and diminishes the language.
 Another English major heard from.
 Actually not true.  Maths honours, Ph.D. maths, M. Stat.  But
 what is your point?
 I assume you're aware that languages evolve over time in accordance with
 common usage.
 
 This is such a tired and tiresome old cliche that it is not
 worth responding to.

Especially when you don't have a good refutation.

 Read what I wrote and think, 

I did.

rather than glibly reacting with
 smug conformism.

I didn't.

Now that you've told us how marvelous you are, let's get back on the
subject of fedora.

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Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 08:46:07PM +0530, AP wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:21 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote:
 
 [crap]
  as in usage as a _noun_, which is defined at;
 
 This is really shameful to have people like you..

Pot meet kettle.

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Re: good bye - Fwd: list-moderation - Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 Hi
 
 
 On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
 
 
 
  To you it's rude, to me blunt. This will never be resolved as it's a
  matter of individual taste, enviroment, upbringing, etc. You seem to
  have a thinner skin than I do.
 
 
 No.  I can tolerate it just fine but I shouldn't have to.  If you can't be
 courteous to other users in this list,  you aren't following the list
 guidelines and moderators may choose to step in and at that point, your
 argument that it is all so very personal and subjective and hence we should
 all tolerate any abuse that is thrown out won't work.

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Re: good bye - Fwd: list-moderation - Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 HI
 
 
 On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Robert Holtzman  wrote:
 
 
 
  The problem, of course, being that idiots seldom appreciate their idiocy
  unless it's pointed out to them...bluntly.
 
 
 That is a really weak excuse for being rude.  The expectation in Fedora is
 that everyone should read and follow
 https://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

To you it's rude, to me blunt. This will never be resolved as it's a
matter of individual taste, enviroment, upbringing, etc. You seem to
have a thinner skin than I do.


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Re: good bye - Fwd: list-moderation - Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:34:05PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
 well, you even do not find it worth to answer and continue not release posts
 
 if you would act honest and practice what you preach you would have written
 an answer within the last two days and even a please unsubscribe now would
 have shown more respect than nothing at all
 
 since this bevavior not likely changes i quit *until midnight*, choose if you
 are fair enough to release at least this goodbye and/or reconsider how to 
 act
 with people yourself within these few hours
 
 in a free community respect also means people are sometimes allowed to be 
 hot-blooded
 and straight-ahead, given that my seek/give-help ratio is 1/1000 i do not 
 need to creep
 in the sand in front of anybody because trying hard to not insult people over 
 a long
 time is not fair enough
 
 goodbye and hopefully you find enough people with enough knowledge while 24 
 hours
 a day acting like a pure gentleman in any context - i did not meet much of 
 them
 in the last 35 years, honestly not a single one
  I'm sorry for pushing the email through moderation.  I was offline for a 
  couple of days (traveling to Hong Kong),
  and I was without internet access.  It looks like the other moderators on 
  the list didn't do any moderation in my
  absence, so all I can do is apologize that it took so long for your message 
  to go through.
 obviously there is a need to re-hash
 
 so explain *here and now* and in the public what do you you expect from me
 
 if you insist on this paragraph *UNSUBSCRIBE ME NOW* - period

IIRC there was an apology from the moderator for pushing one of
your messages thru moderation too quickly. That being said, I'm sorry to
see him go. He was a good source of valuable information.

BTW, the moderator(s) seem to confuse bluntness with rudeness and/or
combatitiveness. For my part, I appreciate bluntness.

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Re: good bye - Fwd: list-moderation - Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:22:03PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 Hi
 
 
 On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Robert Holtzman  wrote:
 
  BTW, the moderator(s) seem to confuse bluntness with rudeness and/or
  combatitiveness. For my part, I appreciate bluntness.
 
 
 Bluntness is often used as a excuse by people who are rude.  It is easy
 enough to see the difference.  You are wrong is blunt but is helpful to
 suggest how it can be improved.  You are an idiot is rude and not really
 justified in this list even if you good technical expertise and it is
 against Fedora's code of conduct.  I will leave it as an exercise to reader
 to figure out which side they stand on.

The problem, of course, being that idiots seldom appreciate their idiocy
unless it's pointed out to them...bluntly.

I contend that, as has been previously stated in another post, this
matter was poorly, clumsily handled.

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Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:

  ...snip...

 P. S.  Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba!

Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm
thinking of taking over and installing one of the linux distros.

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Re: Problems booting Fedora 19 with UEFI

2013-09-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 01:40:29AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:

 ...snip...
 
 If it was anything but liveusb-creator, it might not have done the
 necessary magic to make UEFI boot work properly.  Grab it from
 https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and try remaking the USB
 drive with it, and see if it works.

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Re: USB memory stick - where?

2013-09-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
 On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:38:05PM +0200, ppq wrote:
 
  Am 20.09.2013 14:35, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
  If I install a memory stick in a Fedora-19 laptop,
  is there a simple command that will tell me
  where it is on the filesystem, eg /dev/sdb1 ?
  I know I can find this indirectly,
  but is there eg a switch to lsusb that will tell me?
  
  lsblk is quite useful
 
 Great, thanks!  I was wondering if there was no better way than
 dmesg | tail... :-)

I usually use cat /etc/mtab.

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Re: Enable JavaScript preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

2013-08-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 03:53:03PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:

 ..snip..
 
 smart people never built websites which are unuseable without JS
 JS is nice for additional features and comfort but only a fool
 builds a ordinary website which doe snot work without JS

Don't try counting the number of web site dev fools out there. You won't
live long enough to finish.
 
 
  The security answer here isn't going back to the web of the 90s. It's using
  modern container and security policy systems to contain the risk
 
 no policy will help you in case of a hacked server blowing exploits
 to visitors and this happens all day somewhere else

 .snip 
 
 cause and effect: because these attitude most users starting in
 a few years from scratch to use computers will be idiots in case
 of how to handle computers because they never got the chance to
 learn - hence with this attitude i would never became the poweruser
 i am now and never had done the switch to work as IT professional
 while my whole knowledge is from learning by doing

+1

 
 this attitude is understandable in case of Apple/Microsoft which
 try to reduce their support but it is *unacepptable* in the
 context of free and open software

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird Aug releases

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:04:56PM -0400, David wrote:
 On 8/8/2013 4:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
  On 08/08/2013 01:34 PM, David wrote:
  I can certainly agree with not following the Daily/Nightly, Alphas and
  Betas but the official(s) IMHO should arrive more quickly.
  
  The people doing the packaging and testing aren't exactly getting paid
  for their work.  If you want the new releases available sooner, there's
  nothing stopping you from helping out.
 
 
 Joe did you not read where I said that I was asking for the 'regular
 Fedora Community users', sucjh as you, and not for myself? And that I
 was asking because so many other Linux distributions already have them.
 I already have the latest releases.
 
 As for 'helping out'? No. I can't. Programing and computers is not my
 field. My field is mechanical design and engendering. Before digital
 calculators and computers we used pencils, paper, chalk boards, and
 slide rules.  :-)

Brings me back to the old days. You certainly spell like an engereer. I
know. I are one, also mehanical and design. Save your 2H lead, the
drafting board shall return!!!

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Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:44:07AM +0200, lee wrote:
 Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net writes:
 
  On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote:
  Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com writes:
  
Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19?
  
  I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple
  things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program something would
  have required unreasonable learning efforts and appeared not to be
  feasible anyway because one bug after the other would have needed a
  workaround.  It would have taken me nowhere.
 
  Did you think that the devs were sitting around drinking coffee and
  watching pr0n in the time since you gave up on it? Considerable progress
  has been made in quite some time.  
 
 hopefully so
 
  LaTeX works great for what I'm doing, and I didn't bother to install LO
  on Fedora.  Give it ten years or so, and LO might be usable.
 
  Ten years? Give me a break.
 
 Yes, ten years.  That gives them plenty of time to add features and to
 get them to work reliably.
 
  There are thousands of people using it right now with great
  satisfaction. If you haven't checked to see what has been fixed you
  aren't entitled to make that statement.
 
 It turned out to be incredibly buggy, and the devs seemed to be more
 interested in implementing new features than in fixing bugs.  Just give
 it some time and don't be surprised when it crashes; what's the problem
 with that?  We do not know what these thousands of people use it for
 and what it takes to satisfy them, so what.

I would say, that with the size of the user base, requirements would be
quite varied.

Out of curiosity, why post this to the fedora list and not the LO list?
Try it and see what replies you get.

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Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote:
 Martin Skjöldebrand shieldf...@gmail.com writes:
 
   Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19?
 
 I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple
 things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program something would
 have required unreasonable learning efforts and appeared not to be
 feasible anyway because one bug after the other would have needed a
 workaround.  It would have taken me nowhere.

Did you think that the devs were sitting around drinking coffee and
watching pr0n in the time since you gave up on it? Considerable progress
has been made in quite some time.  

 
 LaTeX works great for what I'm doing, and I didn't bother to install LO
 on Fedora.  Give it ten years or so, and LO might be usable.

Ten years? Give me a break. There are thousands of people using it right
now with great satisfaction. If you haven't checked to see what has been
fixed you aren't entitled to make that statement.
 
 
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Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:44:26AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:

   snip...
 
 hint: if would really be the asshole you think i would not need
 to post anything and help others because the ratio seeking
 and giving answers in my case is 1:1000 over years
 preach what others have to do are not doing much else substantial

+100

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Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:55:15PM -0300, Fernando Lozano wrote:
 Hi Reindl,
  first: my intention is *not* to start another epic thread
 
  since i am always the unholy prick here after i lose patience
  maybe others should also reconsider *not* hijacking threads by
 
 Thanks for clarification. Changing the subject (and keeping the original
 one with a [Re:]) is standard procedures in many mailing lists, I didn't
 know it was not accepted here. My apologies.

Re: means the message is a reply to a previous post. If the subject
line on the same thread is changed then [was..] is appended.

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Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

2013-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:48:35PM +0930, Tim wrote:
 Allegedly, on or about 10 July 2013, Rejy M Cyriac sent:
  +1
  
  I have learnt to just gloss over the unimportant parts of his mail,
  and focus on the vast amount of good information that he shares with
  the community. Live and let live for the common good, I would say. 
 
 -10
 
 I'm sick of his behaviour.  If he modifies his own behaviour, and
 continue to behave normally, he might get unmoderated.  Let him stay
 moderated until he can stop being an insulting, aggressive, egotistical
 sod.

Pot, meet kettle.

 
 Having sociopaths on the list drives people away.  New members, old
 members.  They unsubscribe, they delete and ignore entire threads,
 because they're sick of reading that crap.

You're a psychiatrist Now?

 
 And despite the support stories, I don't see a *vast* amount of good
 information coming through.  I see small amounts of information, and I
 see plenty of other posters providing similar and more amounts of good
 information.  And they do so without being an ass.
 
 Seriously, stop defending him.  There's no excuse for what he does.
 I'll go even further.  Since he's shown no evidence of stopping doing
 it, unsubscribe him.  We're all better off without it.

Speak for yourself my dictatorial friend.

One of the basic rules of internet usage has always been to grow a
thick skin. Is someone forcing you to read his posts? Did you forget
where your delete key is? Is there something wrong with being agressive
(whatever you think that is)?

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Re: Fwd: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:12:12PM +0200, François Patte wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 
 
 -  Message original 
 Sujet: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora
 Date : Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:54:28 +0200
 De : François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr
 Organisation : Université Paris Descartes
 Pour : jehan.procac...@tem-tsp.eu
 
 Le 08/07/2013 10:02, jehan procaccia a écrit :
  I did had the possibility to partition manually ! I choosed my disk,
  uncheck it and check it again then it proposed me to partition
  manullay (personalisé ). that's for the manual way to install,
 
 Thanks for this. I could (I hope, because the feed back for the user is
 minimal...) keep my previous partitionning. BTW, the logic of this
 escapes my mind! It is like if there is some secret door!
 
 Now, the install has begun and... I don't know what will be installed
 I had a minimal choice (gnome, xfce...) I can see that a lot of gnome
 packages will be installed: It will take me a lot of time to get rid of
 this packages... because I want a totally gnome free installation! And I
 will have to check carefully what is missing

You want to be Gnome free? you can download the KDE, lxde, or xfce
spins. I think the last two are Gnome but KDE isn't.

 
 Also, no time for installation is displayed, I'm stcked there waiting
 for an end!
 
 
 Many thanks to all those crapy packagers who think that common people
 are to stupid to manage their own computer!

Wrong!

Everyone else seems to be able to manage their own computers. Not sure
what your problem is.

A poor workman blames his tools.

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Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:53:07PM -0500, Anthony wrote:
 I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer.
 When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to
 do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to
 
 /run/media/anthony/Storage
 
 But I want to have it mount automatically for both me (the system admin)
 and any other users that login to their accounts. I'll then change
 individual folder permissions for access control.
 
 How can I make it mount automatically since it's already showing in its
 unmounted state on my desktop?

I have never known a usb drive to show up on the desktop without being
mounted. Have you looked in /etc/mtab? If so, what does it show? If
not, how do you know the drive isn't mounted?

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Re: hackers

2013-05-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:01:13PM +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
 Around 10:40pm on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (UK time), 
 richard.vicker...@gmail.com scrawled:
  Nothing
 
 Richard, you appear to keep sending emails to the list with the text
 portion containing no content. I appreciate that this may be done to
 please those who are fed up with what you do write, but perhaps you
 could stop sending them altogether.

First, he probably won't, just to be spiteful. Second, have you looked at
the attachments he sends instead of text? Aside from the list footer,
the main attachment is in html. He seems to refuse to comply with
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Re: hackers

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:17:53AM -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:

 .snip.
 
 Ignore and move on? Would you say the same thing if we, the state, threw
 you in prison for the use of the term? Civil society already does. Case in
 point: use of the term my account has been hacked or ...website had been
 hacked have negative connotations; instead of looking to fix homes in
 faulty software, they blame someone for attacking them. This has to change.

No, it doesn't *have to* change and will actively resist.

 People don't normally intend to rob a bank when they go in to make a
 withdrawal. They have to understand that the same goes for hackers.

No, they don't *have to* understand and will actively resist.

What you're trying to change is human nature. 

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Re: hackers

2013-04-24 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:20:05PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
 Hi,
 
 --- On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com wrote:
 | I tend to think the 'hacker' vs. 'cracker' distinction is lost to history in
 | the mainstream today.
 \--
 
 Continuing to educate the masses is the only way that people will
 learn the real meaning. I usually refer them to the following:
 
 * Free as in Freedom
   http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
 
 * How to become a hacker
   http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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Re: ZDNet Recommends Linux

2013-04-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:20:01PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
 
 
 Am 11.04.2013 21:14, schrieb Joe Zeff:
  On 04/11/2013 11:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
  sarcasm on mailing lists without smileys or whatever indication
  is pretty dumb - there is not but and no if, it is dumb
  
  IMAO, if you can't make your intentions clear without smileys, you should 
  learn how to express yourself better.  Of
  course, one of my hobbies is writing, and I've completed NaNoWriMo six times
 
 bullshit in case of a mailing-list with readers all over the world
 if you make sarcsam mark it or shut up is the rule in this context

He Did. Try reading the *whole* post. 

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Re: About that installer...

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:32:08PM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote:

 snip

 Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't
 partition, you shouldn't be running Linux.

I've been beating the drum about this for years. It's not just
partitioning. The various OSs have been being dumbed down for some
time, especially the DEs.

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Re: Use existing Partition without formatting when installing F18 ?

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Oncaphillis wrote:
 Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1
 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible
 to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
 
 Any trick around this ?

Back up your system with rsync and restore them after install. Can't
think of a reason this wouldn't work but it's cumbersome.

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/run directory

2012-12-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just started trying out fc17 after a long time away from Red Hat/Fedora. 

I have been trying to figure out the logic behind mounting removable
media in the /run/media directory or, for that matter, the function of
/run. The only thing I've found was in the release notes where it
mentions it with no explanation. Searches turned up little.

Any pointers?

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Re: /run directory

2012-12-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:49:24PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
 Robert Holtzman wrote:
 
  Just started trying out fc17 after a long time away from Red Hat/Fedora.
  
  I have been trying to figure out the logic behind mounting removable
  media in the /run/media directory or, for that matter, the function of
  /run. The only thing I've found was in the release notes where it
  mentions it with no explanation. Searches turned up little.
  
  Any pointers?
 
 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Release_Notes/sect-
 Release_Notes-Changes_for_SysAdmin.html
 
 See, 3.2.2. /run directory as part of systemd feature.

That's why I couldn't find anything. It happened back in fc15 and I
kept looking in fc17 docs.

Thanks.


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