Tim:
>>> Did that xv security issue get sorted out before the release?
Patrick:
>>AFAIK that was fixed almost immediately after it was announced.
Kevin Fenzi:
> You mean xz? xv was a pretty cool (but not open source) image viewer
> back in the day. :)
Yes, I did mean tha
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 16:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes?
My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those
mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure.
Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've updated to F40. Everything works as expected, (I don't have an
> Nvidia card at present so YMMV). I do have some comments on the new
> KDE/Plasma but I'll post on the Fedora KDE list after a bit more
> testing.
Did that xv
On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 19:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to
> implemented.
No xeyes? Who doesn't want a pair of googlie eyes goofily staring at
their mouse pointer?
Actually, I do have a pair of them on this PC, I
Joe Zeff:
>> In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never yet run across a .pdf
>> file that Linux's default viewer couldn't read. What is it about those
>> files that requires Windows to read?
George N. White III:
> a) fillable forms that explicitly say they must be completed using
On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 13:47 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
> However, given that absolutely everyone today has compute power
> on their desk and everyone has a gpu for things like compositing instead
> of what was available back when X was designed
Bullshit!
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Tim:
>> Let's be clear, we're not talking about annoying changes to how the
>> desktop looks, that can be put up with. But when you find essential
>> software and/or hardware doesn't work anymore, or doesn't exist
>> anymore, and support libraries are incompatibl
On Sun, 2024-04-14 at 09:49 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> Then in corporate life, I needed to ensure a stable development
> environment.
This is one of the big problems with computers in the work place. You
may have single-task computers which you want to work, and not mess
around with. You may
your real
ethernet interface), specifying interfaces to ignore, and timeout
parameters.
Another thing that springs to mind, is do you have IPv6? And if not,
is it waiting for it in vain?
Bye,
Tim.
--
NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the mes
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 23:20 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Perhaps more importantly, why can't that happen in the background? Why
> does gdm care if the network is connected?
It'd need to be *if* people are using a network share for their
homespace, or other "expected to be there" directories.
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've been made aware that it takes two minutes for systemd-networkd-wait-
> online.service to spin its wheels, before giving up with a squeal:
>
> Apr 09 22:03:30 shorty.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Starting
>
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 10:57 +0200, Walter H. via users wrote:
> always get 500
Loading that link is working fine here, too. I didn't try to log in,
though.
For what it's worth: Always put your *entire* message in the message
body, don't split it across the subject line and the message.
--
On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 17:15 +, John Pilkington wrote:
> The rpmfusion nvidia howto says it may take 5 minutes to build. That's
> a long time to wait with no obvious progress during a reboot.
Many years ago I had to put up with that (different hardware now).
But, I didn't hide the textual
Tim:
>> Brute force and ignorance is a tried and tested method. Trying to be
>> clever with boot menus, and carefully selecting specific partitions
>> while installing, often goes awry. Not to mention the times you come
>> across an installer that only wants to do
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 17:58 +, Beartooth wrote:
> Sure enough, my own machine has (with apologies for formatting):
>
> btth@localhost:~$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> btth@localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d$ ls
> brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_.repo google-chrome.repo
>
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 16:41 +, Beartooth wrote:
> I normally have two or three browsers open. Most have been
> installed for so long I no longer remember what dnf calls them.
>
> My wife, who also runs F39, has been having trouble with the ones
> she has, and I have yet to
On 3/26/24 16:21, Beartooth wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote:
It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb
Question : How do I look up what it calls them?
If you know the path
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an
>> NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall
>> it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is
>> unchanged. Makes it a lot easier when I do the
On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 11:45 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> You will almost certainly not be able to connect between devices on a
> commercial wifi network. They don't want folks to attack other machines
> on the network. It would be a huge scandal if a hotel allowed a guest to
> connect to
On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 09:00 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> But I will never buy another HP again. They screw you on the ink, and
> they are apparently using DRM so you can't use third party ink. Screw
> that. Never again.
It's a shame we can't override such shenanigans with custom drivers.
On 3/13/24 14:42, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/13/2024 12:33 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
I couldn't find any way to pass grep options to -g but grep itself has
-A and -B for showing "n" number of lines After or Before the matched
context.
If you need to pass options to grep, consider piping the output
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 22:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It shortly became clear that the user experience of interacting with
> Discourse via email was significantly worse than a traditional mailing
> list, so a bunch of us set up a new list
> (evolution-us...@lists.osuosl.org) where we
Joe Zeff wrote (about web forums):
> why don't you simply set as many of them as possible to email you
> when there's a reply?
Have you noticed how many of them won't let you reply to an email
notification? Essentially you get a "someone left you a message"
message, no details on what the
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 11:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> However, realize that you spend a long time setting all that up.
> The subscriptions, filtering, how things look in your email client, etc.
> For someone new or just wanting to ask a question or two, lists are
> horrible.
I say forums
Thomas Cameron:
>> I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each
>> forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
> Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of
> them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of
On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +, Barry wrote:
> The majority of user traffic is on https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
> these days.
I flatly refuse to use webforums. They're extremely inconvenient.
Email comes to me, I can go through it in my spare time as I see fit.
Websites waste my
** *
* **
some tumbleweeds drift through
So, is everything working fine, or did a new release break everyone's
systems so badly they can't email any more? ;-)
--
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.108.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 16:17:31 UTC 2024 x86_64
Tim:
>> A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
>> still remaining and handle it itself.
Joe Zeff:
> And how do you suggest that it detects it?
Other programs manage it, dunno what's so magic about it. It's not a
problem that *I* need to solve.
After
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in the
> ".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file
> "192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to
On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 08:54 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Every once in a while, Thunderbird just loses its mind. No idea why. But
> I will generally just rename my ~/.thunderbird directory to something
> like ~/.thunderbird.old and launch Thunderbird again.
Is Thunderbird one of those apps
Tim:
>> I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB
>> sticks.
Go Canes:
> Once upon a time you could use "plop boot manager" to boot off of USB
> devices if the motherboard didn't provide support. Of course this
> meant that you had to have
Samuel Sieb (re: lost & found directory):
> That directory is also special. There might be consequences for
> recreating it. I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode.
I would imagine there'd have to be reserved space in the partition so
it doesn't otherwise fill up 100% making it
Tim:
>> I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then?
home user:
> That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and
> incomplete.
>
> I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a
> local (near Washington, D.C) store.
>
On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 13:58 -0700, home user wrote:
> No other computer.
> No live boot. Tried making one multiple times with multiple sticks
> and multiple ports. Even a local youngish professional programmer
> (specializing in embedded and micro) could not figure it out.
I'm curious how you
On 2/22/24 16:40, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
No to ask too stupid a question, but do we have an
RPM of Star Office in the repos?
Seems like we have the libraries, but not the
main program
# dnf list | grep -i star | grep -i office
libstaroffice.x86_64 0.0.7-11.fc39 @fedora
StarOffice is
On 2/20/24 08:57, Tim Evans wrote:
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
httpd web server is working as well. I get prompt
On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 07:43 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
> The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
> httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the
> server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error:
>
On 2/20/24 07:51, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 6:43 AM Tim Evans <mailto:tkev...@tkevans.com>> wrote:
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing;
httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the
server a
[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but
wanted a broader look ]
I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC
server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the
existing backups).
The old server wrote its data (including
Recently connected a very old HP-1300 LaserJet printer to my Fedora 39
workstation, via USB cable. CUPS found and configured the printer as
"HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)."
Print jobs are okay, but with every job I get an extra page, with the
following error message
On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 22:04 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> I expect it's that motherboard firmware knows how to activate two kinds
> of input devices - PS/2 via the emulation of the legacy chips that date
> back to the 1980s, and USB. A PCIe device is neither of those. It's
> not just a matter of
ToddAndMargo:
> Just found this on their web site:
>
> "***Don't support CMOS or MS-DOS"
>
> Even if it did not arrive dead, it would have still
> required the OS to boot. Lesson learned.
>
From what I'd read, that ought to be the case with any PCI-E based
card. Apparently the slots
Tim:
>> I'm kind of surprised someone still has PS/2 keyboard/mouse that they'd
>> like to keep using.
ToddAndMargo:
> One word. It is a "Unicomp". Best typist keyboard ever made.
I was always partial to the IBM Selectric typewriter keyboards. But,
these days, I'm us
On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 20:22 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> I too would much rather have a working PCIe card, though I have found
> USB-to-PS/2
> dongles generally more reliable. I haven't bought one in over a decade, so
> can't
> recommend against any in particular that don't work.
*Some* of those
On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 19:05 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> What is updating files without a command and writing these entries?
Had you done any manual updates anytime before you shutdown? Perhaps
they were completing their install.
--
uname -rsvp
Linux
DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Wasn't the original quote "With great power there must also come
>> great responsibility" ?
José Matos:
> Yes, and it first appeared in the comics before the movies. :-)
It's a wee bit older than that...
"Voltaire, the French author first coined the phrase “with great power
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:21 -0700, home user wrote:
> A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad
> sticks and maybe fix them.
I wouldn't trust any ability to "fix" them. If they've faked the size
identification, they'd have no qualms about selling reject memory
chips,
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 08:12 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> I do control the DHCP and the DNS servers in my network and I did
> manage to make the DHCP stop proposing 'domain-search' and yet
> NetworkManager (after OKD update and my interventions with
> /etc/resolv.conf systemd-resolved
On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 07:31 +, Strahil Nikolov via users wrote:
> That's true but right now I have no control over OpenShift/OKD
> behavior.
Bug report... If it's a software fault, they may fix it. If it's not,
they may point out where a configuration problem is.
> I even managed to make
Thomas Cameron:
>> I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained
>> (https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/).
Wolfgang Pfeiffer:
> Quote from the page above - seems to be old and, to put it mildly,
> wrong:
> "procmail is unmaintained. The "Final
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the
> easiest way to get rid of the git, especially when you consider that the
> tech he connects to when he calls back to clean up his mess won't be
> anywhere near as
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller who wanted to know
> if he could use MS Home Web Server (I think it was) to set up a
> website. (If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it.) I
> tried to explain the risks,
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 00:02 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Add to injury, if they get hacked and they pencil
> whipped, they become responsible for all costs
> involved. Telling them that their grandchildren
> will need lawyers does not phase them.
You would think that "you hate your
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 16:39 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> I needed a password eight characters long
> I picked "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
>
> Okay, that was a "Dad Joke" but it probably is a really
> strong password and easy to remember. I recommend run on
> phrases to my
ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Multi-Factor Authentication is a technique to try to get around
>> the users response to the obnoxious nature of passwords.
>> Whether or not it improves things or just manages to
>> further annoy the poop out of the users is up for debate.
& this:
> Certain
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 02:56 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> This all goes back to using easy passwords. And the
> same passwords on different sites:
>
> https://www.nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscyber/guidance-topic/multi-factor-authentication
>
> "In fact, databases of known breached
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 17:54 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> c) Something you are, such as a biometric. This method
> involves verification of characteristics inherent to the
> individual, such as via retina scans, iris scans, fingerprint
> scans, finger vein scans, facial recognition, voice
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 22:08 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> not really, because, the knowledge of user and password is somewhere else;
There are a lot of people who'll have an unsecured phone, because it's
a pain to them.
> so neither the person who stole your phone (the 2FA device) nor you
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 20:00 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> buy an iPhone ...
>
> exact this what you want is the other way of it sense;
>
> 2FA = 2 Factor Authentication
>
> example you login on a site, there you have the knowledge of
>
> user and password
>
> and then the 2nd factor,
On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 01:43 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> CUPS driver ays is has two sides and puts it as
> "sides=one-sided" for the default.
>
> But I can find anywhere in my print properties
> of my programs to put it at two sides.
Try printing from a different program, e.g. a word
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 01:18 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Fedora 39
>
> I do not have a stinkin' smart phone.
Me neither, I keep mine nice and clean. My friend has one that feels
like it's been slid along a public toilet floor.
Pet hate, some service that asks people to scan a QR code
Tim:
>> Which I received base64 encoded, for reasons unfathomable.
Dave Close:
> I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way:
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
These days, 8-bit mail ought to be able to traverse the int
On Fri, 2024-01-12 at 21:33 -0800, Dave Close wrote:
> Speaking of email clients modifying received messages ...
>
> {This message was not written in HTML. If you are reading it as such,
> the presentation is dishonest and not what the author intended.}
Which I received base64 encoded, for
Sherman Grunewagen:
>> When I send a message to the list, the "From" field has my
>> name and e-mail addr. But when it appears on the list, it's
>> been magically changed to "fedora users".
>> Some posters have their name preserved in the
>> From: field. Is there a list setting that controls
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 12:19 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I assume the installer chose the block size, since I basically did a
> "next, next, next" installation. Should I have chosen something different?
I didn't choose block sizes, just some partition sizes in bytes on my
systems. So I'd hope
On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 12:50 +, Andre Robatino wrote:
> If you're talking about "Mouse & Touchpad" under Settings, "Single
> Click" and "Double Click" both work with the left button, but neither
> do anything with the middle button, though I'm not sure if they're
> supposed to since I never
On Fri, 2023-12-29 at 11:48 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> There are usually lots of dangling symlinks, so you may want to clean
> up the dangling links.
This kind of thing (lots of annoying post-install fix-ups) is why I
gave up doing upgrades, many years ago.
I do fresh installs, where the
Tim:
>> I could upload a screenshot of how it rendered if you want, and if
>> widening your browser window doesn't help you, but since it may be
>> private data I don't want to make the situation worse. Your call...
Walter H:
> that was the solution but I wonder why this is
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 14:35 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I might print something once a week (if that), I've got a USB connected
> Brother laser printer. I now see ipp-usb running all the time at about
> 3% cpu and using about 2.6 meg of memory. Why is it using cpu all
> the time when I'm almost
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 14:21 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> Have you tried this?
> https://hosting117696.a2f78.netcup.net/xchg/_banking.zip
>
I've downloaded a zip file from that link just now. Directly
downloaded, no page involved during the download process.
If I then try loading the
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 06:34 +0100, Walter H. via users wrote:
> with Windows this problem doesn't exist with Firefox, I tried
> Firefox with Fedora, CentOS, Debian and there exists the Problem;
>
> faking the useragent with Linux, no solution
Did you also fake the operating system info, too?
Tim:
>> Certain suspend modes require a suitable power supply, too. They don't
>> switch off fully, some power circuits are required to stay up, and
>> supply sufficient current to the motherboard. It also requires all the
>> hardware to support suspending, some will
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 14:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Don't suspend. I find it is hit or miss whether things work correctly
> with ACPI Sleep States (S0 - S5). In particular, S3 and above.
I got the impression that only laptops seem to have reasonably well
working suspend, and suspect that
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 09:13 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote:
> And my question about _only_ mono fonts being available in Ghome's
> terminal (while other terminals choose any font) ?
I don't recall Gnome Terminal handling proportional fonts well at any
time. They were chooseable, but the
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 17:07 -0600, Thomas Cameron via users wrote:
> The files should inherit either the label of the directory they're
> created in, or if a specific context has been set for a filename, it
> should get that context.
>
> Normally, if something's incorrectly labeled, you can
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 16:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It should not be possible for a userland process to cause this, which i
> why I thought it could be OOM.
Hmm, I've had a mpv playing a video file hard lock-up a system several
times (dunno if it was a corrupt video file, or another
, it
On 12/8/23 12:56, Tim Evans wrote:
Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have
used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental
backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS).
Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 23:42 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II:
> Problem was a bunch of the selinux errors it was showing talked
> about resetting things but it mentions FILETYPE and then gave a
> ton of options for that value, and I had no clue which one should be
> applied.
Generally, if it's
On 12/8/23 13:18, John Mellor wrote:
btrfs send? Its very similar in operation to zfs send on Solaris and
Freebsd. The data stream can be pushed over ssh to another machine
running btrfs receive pretty easily. Maybe follow
On 12/8/23 13:16, Roger Heflin wrote:
I use rsync with a --backup-dir=/${DIR}/backup/${MONTH}/${DIRDATE}/
and a bunch of --excludes for directories/files that I don't need
backed up.
Thanks, Roger. Actually, I have a dim recollection of having set up a
thing called 'rnsapshot' to a NAS
Since tine immemorial (I first touched a UNIX system circa 1984), I have
used the venerable 'dump' utility to do automated full and incremental
backups to an NFS-mounted network storage appliance (NAS).
Now, with a brand new laptop, with fresh install using btrfs
filesystems, I find 'dump'
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 17:28 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II:
> Will try turning selinux back on at some point, and see if it comes
> back or not. Just working fine with the selinux disabled. Wish the
> messages actually gave more info.
Once you've run with SELinux off, you then have to do a lot of
On 12/2/23 15:48, Tim Evans wrote:
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo
T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.)
It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows.
I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce
Tim:
>> I have one of those two-bay USB - SATA hard drive gadgets, it has
>> clone drive function that works all by itself. I've used it a few
>> times for relatively pain-free drive cloning.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I have one of those, which I use in a RAID1 configuration
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:34 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Looks to me like I have a bad product. Or am I missing something?
The obvious question: Do you have different discs to try it out with?
Do you have a non-burnt disc to try? Such as a pressed disc that came
with some hardware, it
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 16:44 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I made some effort to anticipate disaster by copying my /, /boot and
> /boot/efi partitions to a spare drive (and modifying its /etc/fstab
> appropriately), but it didn't work. No doubt I would have needed to
> update the EFI
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 13:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Crossed my fingers and did it. All good.
Close your fingers and cross your eyes, flash the firmware for a big
surprise...
Reminds me that I ought to get a spare drive, I just used my spare one
in something. When it comes to system
Tim:
>> Running a game as root?! Not a good idea!
Frederic Muller:
> Well it didn't run either way... hence my question. As I said I thought
> it would be the executable in a kind of database.
In general, you do everything that affects *you* as your own user.
Applic
On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 21:23 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> It's because you're using sudo and the root user doesn't have a dbus
> session to Gnome.
>
> If you really have to use sudo (why?), try putting it after the inhibit
> command.
> gnome-session-inhibit sudo FPVFreerider.x86_64
Running a
On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 11:04 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote:
> As the title says
Always put your full message in the message...
> some of my functions key do not work or not properly.
> I checked in keyboard customized shortcuts, media, all are disabled.
In your keyboard preferences is the
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo
T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.)
It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows.
I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows
partition to
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 22:11 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> ffmpeg seems to be necessary to play some videos,
> so I wanted ffmpeg.
> Not really sure how either firefox or chromium is using it.
Browsers can play video files within the page. They may need extra
codecs to be able to play some
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:11 -0700, home user wrote:
> What is the current, simple, best practice, f38 way of removing the
> oldest memtest, both from the hard drive (if it's there) and from
> the grub menu?
It *ought* to be as simple as
dnf remove kernel.
Where you use a specific kernel
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 09:43 +, John Pilkington wrote:
> /!\ Please remember to wait after the RPM transaction ends, until the
> kmod get built. This can take up to 5 minutes on some systems.
Don't they bother to do anything to let you know when it's finished?
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Tim:
>> If you open VLC's media information window (in the tools menu),
>> when it is connected, does it give you any useful info about the
>> stream it's currently playing?
Alex:
> It just displays "udp://127.0.0.1:5000" in the Title.
You'd need to look in
mpose ownership restrictions through how you log in. It seems like
their way of handling the conflicting mess of Windows/Mac/Linux usage
on the same device.
For old-school NFS, you need to be the same user on the NAS as the
local system. This isn't the user name, but your user ID number.
[tim@fluffy tv
On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 11:02 -0500, Alex wrote:
> I contacted silicondust support, and they said any application that
> supports DNLA will work, but apparently weren't able to tell me how
> vlc specifically is being spawned. It's definitely launched by
> HDHomeRun, but I can't find anything in the
On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 14:37 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Okay, I might have gotten a little silly here, but this will
> work for low skill users.
Well, to emulate some systems, you need:
Are you sure? Y/N
Are you really sure? Y/N
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Tim:
>> So, come OS install and update times, I tend to open a box, inspect
>> heatsinks, clean it, and reseat all the connections. Having a spare
>> power supply to swap over is handy, too. They don't always age
>> well, especially the bargain basement types.
>
Joe
On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 21:02 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> You are having far too many problems with too many programs. The
> common fixes are not helping.
Remembering tales from long ago - how updating an OS often seemed to
induce faults in hardware that was apparently working fine before.
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