Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 5 Apr 2018 at 9:58, ToddAndMargo wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: ToddAndMargo Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:58:34 -0700 Send reply to:

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I like making image files, and include the date as back of the image name. That way, I can have multiple backups of images, and in the event of something going wrong, can restore older versions on other disk to recover files that might have been deleted that should not have been. On 5 Apr

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: I'm pretty sure I've looked at Docbook, though could have been another thing. But what I found when using *some* form of intermediate language, that the conversions to other forms were not optimal. I might write a page with headings and subheadings, properly in sequence,

Re: Messages by booting Fedora 27 on Dell Inspiron 3721.

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 12:28 PM, Ger van Dijck wrote: When booting FC27 I get the following messages : radion ;01;0.0; failed VCE resume (-110) ipmi;dmi; Invalid offset; 0 ACPI error[\_SB_.PC10.GFX0.DD02;_BCL]Namespace lockup.failure ; AE_NOT_FOUND (20170303/psargs-3640) ACPI error;Method

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 12:12 PM, home user via users wrote: I went the grep route. As best as I can determine, all personal e-mail addresses have been replaced with "[e-mail address]", all passwords have been replaced with "[password]", and my ip addresses are not in the file. I fpasted it: I

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 5 Apr 2018 at 8:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:36:20 -0700 Send reply to:

Lost touchpad vertical scrolling after upgrading this laptop from F25->F26

2018-04-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
Hi Folks, I just recently upgraded the F25 on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 1520) to F26. It mostly went well, except that I seem to have lost the ability to use the vertical scrolling part of my touchpad. I'm running the MATE desktop, so the first thing I did was to check the mouse

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

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

Re: html to man page

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

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/05/2018 01:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I like making image files, and include the date as back of the image name. That way, I can have multiple backups of images, and in the event of something going wrong, can restore older versions on other disk to recover files that might have

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/05/2018 01:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: G4L includes ntfsclone for windows paritions, and fsarchiver for that and others, and it can backup data only, and is faster. Also, has options to change size of partitions. Bit level restores exactly the same size, but can be resized by

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
My G4L program can clone to local disk or usb flash. Use a 128G USB flash for my home machine, and to do my mom's machine as a backup. If hard disk were to crash, could quickly pop out the disk, and put in a new one, then boot from the usb flash or cd, and reimage. At the College, I had an ftp

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

2018-04-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 15:20 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > There's a bunch of mail clients that stupidly extend the quote symbols > beyond the quoted text (Evolution included), and if you don't delete > them (which Evolution often refuses with HTML messages), or carriage > return even more space

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

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

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-05 0:29 GMT+02:00, Sam Varshavchik : > Andras Simon writes: [...] >> I can't resist recommending the late Erik Naggum's xml rant (one of >> many): >> >> https://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html >> >> To whet your appetite, here's a short excerpt: >> >>

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/04/2018 09:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the reply. There are lots of issues with doing cloning. Usually, doing a disk clone gets arround issues where the boot loader is using the blkid, since it makes the blikids for the partitions the same. Problem with that thou is

Re: Update Chromium Browser.

2018-04-05 Thread Ger van Dijck
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:24:13 +0200, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 18:11 +0200, Ger van Dijck wrote: Hello Fedora Team, I get a message : There are 3 Updates for the Chromium Browser under Fedora 27 . When trying I get the message dependencies

How to remove second GDM/login screen

2018-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all Running an X session via GDM and awesome wm on one tty. And on another tty there's another GDM login screen waiting ... I'd like to get rid of that second and useless GDM login screen. Permanently. Is it doable? Or do I need to switch to another display manager? Thanks a lot in

Re: html to man page

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

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

2018-04-05 Thread Go Canes
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:05 AM, Tim via users wrote: [...] > Are you able to rename the input socket used on the TV? On some sets, > if you name it "PC," it will switch off overscan. I've looked for options to change without much luck. The TV has "PC" assigned to

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote: If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that operating system whose name I shall not mention.  (I hear it is slow, buggy, and expensive.)  Stay in Linux.    # dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx If I understood the original

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread JD
On 04/05/2018 08:29 AM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Sam Varshavchik sent: I find Docbook XML to be irreplacable, when it comes to writing technical documentation that serves as a single source of both manual pages and publishable HTML. I'm pretty sure I've

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 08:48 AM, home user via users wrote: I think I got it. The log file is a mere 15 thousand lines long, and is loaded with private information. How do I quickly and easily cut this down to a reasonable size? Maybe try the other method with Evolution's logging? Otherwise, try

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-04-05 Thread home user via users
I think I got it. The log file is a mere 15 thousand lines long, and is loaded with private information. How do I quickly and easily cut this down to a reasonable size? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/05/2018 08:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote: If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that operating system whose name I shall not mention.  (I hear it is slow, buggy, and expensive.)  Stay in Linux.     # dd bs=1M

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/04/2018 09:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the reply. There are lots of issues with doing cloning. Usually, doing a disk clone gets arround issues where the boot loader is using the blkid, since it makes the blikids for the partitions the same. Problem with that thou is

Help understanding the kernel release schedule

2018-04-05 Thread Flo H
Hi, I am confused about the way the kernel packages land in Fedora, specifically Rawhide, and was wondering if someone could shed some light on this issue. Looking at [1], I see that the kernel in the updates repo is 4.17.rc. How is that possible? What is the source for 4.17? A build of

Re: empty messages from fedora users list.

2018-04-05 Thread home user via users
I went the grep route. As best as I can determine, all personal e-mail addresses have been replaced with "[e-mail address]", all passwords have been replaced with "[password]", and my ip addresses are not in the file. I fpasted it: bash.9[~]: fpaste -t "logs from Evolution run"

Re: Help understanding the kernel release schedule

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 11:02 AM, Flo H wrote: Hi, I am confused about the way the kernel packages land in Fedora, specifically Rawhide, and was wondering if someone could shed some light on this issue. See https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel Looking at [1], I see that the kernel in the

Re: Help understanding the kernel release schedule

2018-04-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/05/2018 11:02 AM, Flo H wrote: > Hi, > I am confused about the way the kernel packages land in Fedora, specifically > Rawhide, and was wondering if someone could shed some light on this issue. > > Looking at [1], I see that the kernel in the updates repo is 4.17.rc. How is > that

Messages by booting Fedora 27 on Dell Inspiron 3721.

2018-04-05 Thread Ger van Dijck
Hi all , When booting FC27 I get the following messages : radion ;01;0.0; failed VCE resume (-110) ipmi;dmi; Invalid offset; 0 ACPI error[\_SB_.PC10.GFX0.DD02;_BCL]Namespace lockup.failure ; AE_NOT_FOUND (20170303/psargs-3640) ACPI error;Method parse/execution failed