Hello all, I was just wondering how to go about creating the "su" /
admin account for F-29? I installed the beta and it only created the
main user,...I'm almost certain that in F-28 there was an option upon
install to create the admin/root account? I didn't see it in the beta,
is it gone? is th
On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote:
On 12/30/2013 4:00 PM, 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 the
On 01/01/2014 02:06 PM, David wrote:
On 1/1/2014 1:31 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote:
I have it "on"...and I would hope its working...but its just seems to me
that a LOT of spam is getting inI dunno. I think I will be looking
into Spam
On 01/05/2014 10:01 AM, JUSTIN TAYLOR wrote:
Sorry about leaving off the subject... I had a brain fart I guess.
So F17 doesn't support fedup huh? A little odd since yum installed it
for me. But no matter, I'll download an F18 ISO when I get the chance.
Thank you very much!
--
On 01/17/2014 11:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
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On 1/17/2014 10:55 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mark Haney
wrote:
My question is, WTF happened? My system is pretty clean. I
never install packages by hand, only by either the st
On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, I've
used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long time and never had this
requirement. I am the sole user of this computer and see it as an
annoyance, more so when
On 01/19/2014 09:57 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 19/01/14 09:16, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new,
I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux
On 02/09/2014 04:23 PM, Edward Mart wrote:
On 2/7/2014 12:29 PM, CS DBA wrote:
Unfortunately it's web order only... I can send it back if needed but
some level of confidence before I pull the trigger would be nice...
Seems this store installs fedora 20 on that exact model, they
may be
On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote:
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On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and
large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough spac
On 01/24/2016 10:17 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
I am always amazed that people think shutting off a security
something-or-other for some-amount-of-time can be considered safe.
It takes virtually the blink of an eye to get compromised.
If you need to turn off a security feature to do something, then th
On 01/24/2016 10:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/24/2016 07:17 PM, Tim wrote:
I have, unfortunately. And I see a lot of people who do on this list or
forums. You can recognise them by the ones that when either dealing
with a problem, or the installing a system, the first things they do are
turn o
Hello all,
It's been a while since I've had to come here and inquire about the
Fedora OS, but I'll keep this short and to the point.
Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 - i5 - 8GB RAM - 320GB HDD
I was running F23until the Gnome Software app told me that there was
an update for F24..whic
Yetjust another reason why I love Linux?!the patching system. Its on
POINT! when it comes to catching and preventing these kinds of
things?.this community handles its BUSINESS!...LOL!On Aug 10, 2016
12:17 AM, stan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a severe security hole in TCP on
I was about to recommend an uninstall and re-install. When I realized? This
ain't Windows!! On Sep 16, 2016 1:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> On 09/16/2016 01:04 AM, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > Following last night's upgrade to F23, Adobe Reader now gives:
> >
> > /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux
It's interesting indeed to see if this works.please keep us posted as to
how this turns out! On Oct 4, 2016 8:04 AM, Tom Horsley
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:49:55 +1100
> Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
> > work out how to load into virt-manager or something
>
> If you DD the whole disk to a f
On 10/30/2016 04:15 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Everyone,
I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped
to use for archive files for some digital images.
Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google
searches that I did stepped me through mounting it
On 10/31/2016 11:20 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 10/30/2016 07:31 PM, fred roller wrote:
System is detecting... you are being assigned sdd in your sequence
but the system is choking on the size. ... seems to some extent
limited to 2Tb according to this[1] and similar articles eluding to a
2Tb
On 10/31/2016 04:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 10/31/2016 01:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
In certain cases isn't there a way to format a drive using the GPT
option? (I believe it's in "Disks") and then you select the drive in
question.then go to the up
Thank you so much! I was worried that something was wrong with my upgrade
from F24 to F25! I will next attempt to figure out the "single
finger-scroll" issue. (it only works with 2 fingersand there's no option
that allows me to change it)...but that is one of the jobs of using
Fedo
On 09/13/2012 08:27 AM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:44 +1000, Roger wrote:
In this particular case it would be handy if the url remained
constant. All the viewer needs to know is the base url. I'm thinking
that subdirectory displays could be irrelevant.
Maybe I'm completely wrong here
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site
like that once! It was "based" out of Chinaand no matter WHAT link
you clicked on, you'd go to a sepa
On 09/14/2012 02:27 PM, fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:58:07PM -0300, Lailah wrote:
El jue, 13-09-2012 a las 15:41 -0400, Fedora User escribió:
People must have too much time on their hands. Add some features; maybe
clean up some code. But why on earth make major UI changes to
On 09/14/2012 02:32 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, fred smith wrote:
because there's been a LOT of whining from many people about the multi-
window interface. Allegedly it alienates Photoshop users, preventing
them from being willing to learn to use Gimp (and Linux, et
On 09/17/2012 07:24 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 09:21 +1000, Roger wrote:
Alienating Photoshop users is an entirely different subject, not
related to Gimp single or multi screen use. It really should not be
part of this discussion. It implies that they have a mental block
prevention fro
Hey all,
I'm running F-17 on a 32 Bit System with 3GB RAM, and an Intel 2935
Proc. My problem is: I'm trying to remove some apps that are installed,
namely ones that don't even functionsome title are: "Tetravex" -
Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, "Nibbles" some form of worm game and a
fe
On 09/17/2012 08:16 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444
--
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
Interesting indeed! You don't usually see stories about the GPL in the
news. It will be
On 09/18/2012 01:02 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:37:17 -0400
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I'm trying to remove some apps that are installed,
namely ones that don't even functionsome title are: "Tetravex" -
Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, "N
On 09/18/2012 09:35 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
On 09/18/2012 05:37 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
namely ones that don't even functionsome title are: "Tetravex" -
Some sort of mutated Sudoku game, "Nibbles" some form of worm game and a
few others. I have tr
On 09/18/2012 09:55 AM, bha...@bhanks.net wrote:
Message: 7
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:35:58 +0200
From: Reindl Harald
To: Community support for Fedora users
Cc: bha...@bhanks.net
Subject: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut
Shell
Message-ID: <5057354e@thelounge
On 09/18/2012 02:26 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Does anyone have any experience connecting to an nfs4 server from an
iPad/
I know little more about the iPad than how to turn it on but there
are a couple of them on my LAN and I would like to give them access
to my
On 09/18/2012 08:15 PM, Patrick Kobly wrote:
It helped the person in the thread to set up an insecure NFS server. I wouldn't
advise following the suggestions in that thread... I would suggest becoming
familiar with how user Id mapping happens with NFS.
PK
On 2012-09-18, at 5:55 PM, &qu
On 09/19/2012 02:05 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
And in today's news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/win8_rootkit/
A few things in particular stood out to me:
1) "Writing a bootkit couldn't be an easier task for virus writers
with the UEFI framework available, much easier than before when
On 09/19/2012 10:47 PM, JD wrote:
On 09/19/2012 08:30 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/19/2012 02:05 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
And in today's news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/win8_rootkit/
A few things in particular stood out to me:
1) "Writing a bootkit
On 09/19/2012 11:06 PM, JD wrote:
On 09/19/2012 08:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/19/2012 10:47 PM, JD wrote:
On 09/19/2012 08:30 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/19/2012 02:05 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
And in today's news:
http://www.theregister.c
On 09/20/2012 07:27 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 20.09.2012, Eddie O'Connor wrote:
Right? And the only way to be able to iunstall/boot
another OS would be to turn the UEFI offbut without the proper
keythat is impossible?
To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn
o
On 09/20/2012 08:24 AM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/09/20 04:45, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:29:47AM -0700, jdow wrote:
That is why I like my unique to the machine key that is supplied to the
user along with the board serial number. So he can make changes. But
the
changes for his
On 09/21/2012 02:58 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
On 21.09.2012 07:42, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 21.09.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn
off secure boot or you could use your own keys signed by Microsoft.
It's not (U
On 09/22/2012 12:15 PM, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp
server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and
either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my
birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to
install Fedora on the tablet? I know I have a USB port on it and that I
can put Fedora on the USB stick as an install file, but how do I get the
TABLET
On 09/22/2012 03:17 PM, Fedora User wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 13:42 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my
birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to
install Fedora on the tablet?
Start
On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
Hi all,
I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I
decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone.
But first:
1. The rant
Clearly something bad is going on in Fedora world. I've been
upgrading to Alphas/Betas f
On 09/23/2012 09:02 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:59:43 -0400 EGO2.1 wrote:
On 09/22/2012 07:21 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400
"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my
On 09/23/2012 07:22 PM, Roger wrote:
On 09/24/2012 02:09 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/23/2012 07:33 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
Hi all,
I recently had a weird problem after "upgrade" to Fedora 18 Alpha. I
decided to share the solution, maybe it will help someone.
But
On 09/24/2012 02:27 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Sunday, 23. September 2012. 21.22.50 JD wrote:
On 09/23/2012 09:10 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I have an old 80GB iPod that has a bunch of music on it that I'd like
to get off.
Good luck.
I've tried to use gtkpod, but the stock export dumps eve
On 09/24/2012 03:55 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On 24/09/12 00:43, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
It just seems that.of all the different methodsTHAT one is the
safest. I've accumulated quite a few "irreplaceable" files throughout
the years...and I'd hate to lose s
On 09/27/2012 05:49 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 27/09/12 02:12, Ed Greshko types:
On 09/27/2012 05:37 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
How do I change the default application for playing a video file
received from an iPhone [.mov]?
Presently I have t
On 10/02/2012 12:14 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
The header is self explanatory. I always wonder what bad would it
bring to the vendor if they open source their graphics driver?
Thoughts?
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
If I had to hazard a guess?...I would say it more about money than
anything el
On 10/03/2012 08:39 AM, Roger wrote:
On 03/10/12 19:18, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/02/2012 12:14 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
The header is self explanatory. I always wonder what bad would it
bring to the vendor if they open source their graphics driver?
Thoughts?
Junayeed
On 10/03/2012 11:12 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Hey everyone. While issues about the motivations behind free and open source
software are very relevant to Fedora, an extended left/right debate isn't.
We're not going to solve that here. Let's stipulate that reasonable people
can disagree on the big
On 10/03/2012 11:14 PM, John Wendel wrote:
On 10/03/2012 07:23 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/03/2012 11:12 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Hey everyone. While issues about the motivations behind free and
open source
software are very relevant to Fedora, an extended left/right debate
You HATE administration?..Wow!I HATE help-desk.I would LOVE
to be in administrationwhere you don't have users screaming at you
because they're too "dense" to figure out MS Office 2010!LoL! I
would give anything to sit in some cubicle...or officewith nothing
but me and so
On 10/07/2012 05:21 AM, Daniel Landau wrote:
I posted this question on ask Fedora
(http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/2612/fedora-fails-to-boot-with-systemd-journald-failing),
but didn't get any answer so I'm asking here also.
My computer is in a totally useless state, as I can not boot a
On 10/07/2012 09:22 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:17:22PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
On 07/10/12 10:21, Daniel Landau wrote:
What can I do to fix my system?
Reinstall, and then leave things alone.
That's really not a very friendly suggestion. Traditionally, Linux-based
On 10/07/2012 01:09 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 22:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I have a Dell Latitude E6410 with an nVidia graphics card, using the
nouveau driver and the GNOME desktop on F17.
Recently, the laptop screen stopped blanking when idle in X mode. I've
mo
On 10/07/2012 01:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 10:04 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
.I HATE help-desk.
I spent over seven years doing tech support for an ISP. I stuck with
it because I found out that I enjoyed the problem solving (and was
better at it than at least 90% of m
On 10/07/2012 02:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 10:46 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
...maybe it's just that because of the "abuse" I've suffered at the
hands
of those relentless users who feel that because you're on the other end
of the phone.that the
On 10/07/2012 04:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 12:43 PM, jdow wrote:
Eddie and Joe, there is nothing more frustrating than being in a
critical
hurry while a first string tech support guy rigidly follows the "is it
plugged in" script.
Yup! That's why I always make sure that the member
On 10/07/2012 04:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 01:17 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/07/2012 04:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 12:43 PM, jdow wrote:
Eddie and Joe, there is nothing more frustrating than being in a
critical
hurry while a first string tech suppor
On 10/07/2012 05:07 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Not really a good idea, but most particularly not keeping boot
separate. Nothing wrong with the other stuff being on one partition,
you just need to make the change carefully.
Daniel Landau:
There's no reason why you couldn't keep everything on one part
On 10/07/2012 05:17 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/10/07 13:33, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/07/2012 04:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 01:17 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/07/2012 04:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 12:43 PM, jdow wrote:
Eddie and Joe, there is no
On 10/07/2012 07:12 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 02:17 PM, jdow wrote:
Child, eh? Those were the years I was a lousy date at least one night a
week while I was in college and even after I'd graduated - with an
advanced
degree.
I just saw that there's a review of my book over at Goodrea
On 10/07/2012 09:55 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/10/07 16:12, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/07/2012 05:17 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/10/07 13:33, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/07/2012 04:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/07/2012 01:17 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 10/0
On 10/14/2012 05:10 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 10/14/2012 04:30 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 10/14/2012 01:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
It is the ONLY user account on this system. Well other than root.
So, add another account and see if it's affected the same way.
That'll tell you whe
On 10/28/2012 01:56 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
Can anyone suggest an architectural CAD package comparable to AutoCAD
for use in preparing layered drawings for residential remodeling?
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
Don't know if this is what you're looking forbut you might star
I have a Gateway T-6321 that I recently had to re-install Fedora Linux
v17 on. I've put just about everything that was on there from before
(Totem, Clementine...Thunderbird etc.) but when I try to play movies in
Totem or music in Clementine I get errors such as:
Clementine: - "Your GStreamer i
On 10/26/2012 07:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 27.10.2012 01:29, schrieb Steven Stern:
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Smartctl tells me the problem is at LBA 2014551336 (this is a 2TB disk)
sounds bad
Here's the question: If I just reformat and restore /home from a
On 10/28/2012 11:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/29/2012 03:54 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I have a Gateway T-6321 that I recently had to re-install Fedora Linux v17 on.
I've put just about everything that was on there from before (Totem,
Clementine...Thunderbird etc.) but whe
On 11/19/2012 03:47 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
In case anyone is interested, it's now possible to get netflix running
on patched wine.
I've written out the way I did it on my machine, here:
http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_%28Watch_Instantly%29_in_Linux#Running_with_Wine
For
On 11/19/2012 04:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Monday 19 November 2012 06:18:03 Roger wrote:
You are SOooo right, denial of responsibility is what happens!
I am aware of instances recently where windows machines are obviously
hacked and email addresses appropriated. It's no use telling the peo
On 11/26/2012 01:59 AM, JD wrote:
On 11/25/2012 11:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 11/26/2012 01:11 AM, JD wrote:
I was building kernel 3.7-0.rc6.git.fc19 and during the build
I saw this:
Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
Only 4096 Is that strong enough Shouldn't it be 819
On 12/06/2012 12:48 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
Quoting Dave Cross :
Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux.
I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on
Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the
project's source code
I am currently using Fedora 17 on a Gateway T-6321 Laptop with 3.0GB of
memory and a 320 GB Hard drive. I am trying to run the "Backup" that
came with Fedora and have the entire set of files save to an external
2.5" SATA Hard drive connected with a StarTech enclosure that connects
to the laptop
On 12/07/2012 03:15 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
Might not be news to many of you, but thought I would share it anyway:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0NDQ
--
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
mob: +46762628251
skype: csvanefalk
Interesting indeed! Wonder how it's going
On 12/07/2012 07:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 12/08/2012 08:07 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I am currently using Fedora 17 on a Gateway T-6321 Laptop with 3.0GB of memory and a 320 GB
Hard drive. I am trying to run the "Backup" that came with Fedora and have the
entire set o
On 12/10/2012 01:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:09:28PM -0600, Charlie Brune wrote:
Has anyone tried to re-load a Chromebook with Fedora?
Yes -- the Fedora ARM team is working on it. Check this out,
PARTICULARLY noticing the large warning at the top of the page:
https:/
On 12/10/2012 05:56 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Charlie Brune wrote:
Has anyone tried to re-load a Chromebook with Fedora?
alot of fedora-arm people already have it.
Does this even make sense? A $200 Fedora laptop sounds nice. 8-)
yes, I want one too.
On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
preupgrade is going away in f18.
It's being replaced by fedup.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
Sounds like an April 1st gag.
Yes, I did look at the page.
So.according to the site, there's a
On 12/15/2012 03:17 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 12/15/2012 05:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 09:53 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
preupgrade is going away in f18
On 12/16/2012 03:47 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 11:18 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment
or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local
network, this isn't a significant risk.
You don't think some malcon
On 12/16/2012 10:04 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 12/16/2012 08:47 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 11:18 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment
or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local
network, this isn't a s
On 12/16/2012 12:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 16.12.2012 18:02, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 19:17:50 +1030,
Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 11:18 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment
or if you don't tr
On 12/16/2012 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 09:02 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
They have to get people to use such a repo, which is going to be hard.
One could get away with it perhaps for a little while by showing
different data to users and to the mirror checker. And only a small
fract
On 12/16/2012 03:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 09:12 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
the first and largest mistake in context security you can make
is to think you are secure but not have the knowledge to make
sure it is so - goodwill and hope is no base for security
OK, what do you, personall
On 12/16/2012 04:59 PM, Fedora User wrote:
What problem in preupgrade does it seek to solve and how does it solve
it?
I have read the documentation and that question doesn't seem to be
answered.
I'm not sure if there's a SIMPLE problembut I remember using
preUpgrade to go from F16 to F17 a
On 12/16/2012 06:35 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2012, François Patte sent:
And, because there exist dumb programmers, everybody must change his
mail reader, until a new stupidity comes in mind of the developpers of
the new mail reader you have chosen...
Unfortunately, that
On 12/16/2012 06:49 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
The days of people just blindly clicking on a link.or
downloading a fileor running an app just because it comes from a
"trusted" vendor...are over!
Surely you're
On 12/16/2012 06:55 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
You don't think some malcontent might try to set up a bogus repo, or
damage another one, just because they're an ass?
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I can only hope that because of the integrity of most of the people
who use / support Open
On 12/16/2012 07:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 04:25 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
So thenthere's not enough REWARD for anyone to even ATTEMPT
something such as this?.well I for one am glad! Makes it a little
easier to sleep at night! LoL!
There's not enough
On 12/16/2012 08:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 05:15 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Age is irrelevant when quantifying competence or skill nor should it be
(you'd feel peeved I should imagine if somebody referred to you
similarly because you first installed Linux from a floppy).
I'm not saying
On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
OMG!...incredible!
Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on
(IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete.
Sorry! I'm just amazed!bec
On 12/17/2012 03:17 AM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the
last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to
get them to do what I want them to.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I on the other hand am curious to see the
On 12/17/2012 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Surely you're not serious? Do you really think people bother to do so?
Most don't, even less would know that they should. That's evidenced by
the massive numbers of infected computers.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I should have cla
On 12/17/2012 03:28 AM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
The honour system, in the computing fraternity, at least, died long
ago.
Viruses, trojans, spyware, facebook...
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
And yet...I don't hear often of many Linux machines getting hacked or
being infected with viruses,
On 12/17/2012 03:37 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2012, Joe Zeff sent:
There's not enough reward for most people, no. That's not to say that
it can't be done or that somebody won't have the right combination of
skills and low self-esteem needed to do something like this just
On 12/17/2012 03:38 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 12/17/2012 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
OMG!...incredible!
Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on
(IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obs
On 12/17/2012 05:03 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 12/17/2012 01:47 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Mine actually gets used as a tool, fiddling around with it is the
last thing I want to do. It wastes my time having to tweak things to
get them to do what I want them to.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
On 12/17/2012 05:28 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
OMG!...incredible!
Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was worki
On 12/17/2012 05:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/17/2012 02:15 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
just because some developers or what-have-you decided to finagle things
and make them different.
This reminds me of an interesting way to describe political movements
on a two-axis graph t
On 12/17/2012 05:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/17/2012 02:23 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
because she couldn't get a grasp of the "Workspace" features and Unity
she "scrapped the entire thing, she's only recent;y returning to it
because.like me.she'
On 12/17/2012 05:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and
USE Fuduntu Linux on her old Dell Inspirion...
If I weren't so interested in personal survival, I'd forward th
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