Re: help with... F9

2010-01-31 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 31/01/10 11:14, Ed Greshko wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Jake Peavy wrote: ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but I don't have time... Then we don't have time to answer your question, sorry. I would like to opt out of your collective we. I am not part of a collective, Borg

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 01/02/10 12:01, N James Bridge wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:25 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:17 +, N James Bridge wrote: A trivial point perhaps, but mahjongg (one of the gnome-games package) has disappeared off the games menu. There is a new gnome-games-extra

Re: Leading number in package names when updating with yum

2010-02-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 17/02/10 08:49, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:26:43 +0100, Joachim Backesjoachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: Hi all, can somebody explain what the leading number in some package names means when running yum update, for example Feb 17 07:25:19 Updated:

Re: I'm on CNN at 1:30 Pacific Time

2010-02-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/02/10 10:05, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Mike Chambersm...@miketc.net wrote: Saw the last 2-5 minutes of it, so really missed the whole conversation mostly. My whole CNN interview is on YouTube - I just hope you don't run 64-bit. xD

Re: using sudo

2010-05-24 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 24/05/10 22:11, terry wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. Look into /etc/sudoers. That's where you enable

Re: Uninstalling real player

2010-06-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 12/06/10 15:44, Aaron Konstam wrote: rpm -q :grep realplayer Use rather: rpm -qa |grep -i realplayer -- Erik. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Uninstalling real player (the real answer)

2010-06-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 13/06/10 00:10, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: now the error is: prerm called with unknown argument `0' error: %preun(realplay-11.0.2.1744-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Yeah, that is precisely what I got. I installed RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm and the output in the terminal was as follows:

Re: Thunderbird sounds -

2010-07-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 08/07/10 16:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: I can tag Thunderbird received messages with color but what I really need is to tag them with a sound. I would like to play a unique sound as the output of an e-mail filter. I can hear the incoming mail tone from other

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/07/10 11:41, Andrew Haley wrote: On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the improvements! However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering if there is any substantial difference between

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/07/10 12:33, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley: On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the improvements! However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering if

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/07/10 15:53, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am 26.07.2010 13:36, schrieb Erik P. Olsen: On 26/07/10 12:33, Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley: On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/07/10 01:54, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/26/2010 03:48 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Except logon to my netbank which only is possible using Sun's java. :-( Do you have a bug report on that? No, but I have been working with Deepak Bhole on trying to solve the problem. It is probably one

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-07-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/07/10 18:11, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com [2010-07-28 02:02]: On 28/07/10 01:54, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/26/2010 03:48 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Except logon to my netbank which only is possible using Sun's java. :-( Do you have a bug report

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-08-05 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/07/10 23:21, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 28/07/10 18:11, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com [2010-07-28 02:02]: On 28/07/10 01:54, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/26/2010 03:48 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Except logon to my netbank which only is possible using Sun's java

Re: sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

2010-08-05 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 05/08/10 23:01, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com [2010-08-05 16:51]: On 28/07/10 23:21, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 28/07/10 18:11, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com [2010-07-28 02:02]: On 28/07/10 01:54, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 07/26/2010 03:48 PM

Re: newest update trashed firefox

2010-08-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 17/08/10 13:01, Paul Cartwright wrote: I just rebooted after the latest update, and when I opened Firefox, it didn't work right. menus refused to work, and right-clicking on a page doesn't do anything, like normally it says - open in new tab... luckily I have Google-Chrome installed...

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/08/10 14:25, Darr wrote: On Thursday, 19 August, 2010 @03:22 zulu, g scribed: with what all i am involved with at this time, it looks like it will be mid of next month before i can bust my virgin. That should give you plenty of time to digest this

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/08/10 15:17, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:08:37 +0200 Erik P. Olsen wrote: How can a Linux user without access to windoze ever install dd-wrt? I used the Tools Start Private Browsing mode for all my interactions with the web interface on the router. That prevents firefox

Re: SELinux

2010-08-29 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 29/08/10 18:42, Rex Dieter wrote: Patrick Dupre wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for module Math::GSL::Errno:

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-31 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 31/08/10 11:22, Alan Cox wrote: Do you understand the details of how your airbag system works, or how your ABS braking works. Can you model the crumple zones of a car, or do you just get in and put up with the little safety inconveniences like the weight of the doors, the length fo the

Re: Problem customizing the Panel Menubar

2010-09-08 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 08/09/10 11:33, Jon Ingason wrote: 2010-09-08 11:21, g skrev: On 09/08/2010 09:16 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: snip How do I get Edit Menus? did you right click on F fedora logo? Yes, I did and no difference. Right on empty space, then select properties. Isn't that what you want? -- Erik

Re: AVI and gxine

2010-10-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 07/10/10 22:02, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I wanted to watch a video in AVI format. Since xine supposedly can play AVI, I installed gxine from the Fedora repository. When I tried to play the AVI movie, I get the message: Error loading library: msvidc32.dll Besides

Re: jre Firefox plugin won't work.

2010-10-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 17/10/10 17:45, Jim wrote: On 10/17/2010 03:54 AM, Piscium wrote: On 17 October 2010 08:47, Pisciumgrok...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 2 Obviously you need to

AdobeReader on Fedora 14 (x86_64)

2010-11-04 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Has anybody succeeded in installing AdobeReader on F14 64-bit? On my newly built F14 following transaction check problems stops the install process: Transaction Check Error: package cairo-1.10.0-2.fc14.x86_64 (which is newer than cairo-1.10.0-1.fc14.i686) is already installed package

Re: AdobeReader on Fedora 14 (x86_64)

2010-11-04 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 04/11/10 13:56, Andre Robatino wrote: Erik P. Olsenepodataat gmail.com writes: Has anybody succeeded in installing AdobeReader on F14 64-bit? I was able to do it the other day (temporarily, in order to print a broken PDF) although I had to use setsebool allow_execstack on to get it

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/11/10 17:30, Jon Ingason wrote: 2010-11-21 16:39, Robert G. (Doc) Savage skrev: Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs Help] menubar in gnome-terminal on my Thinkpad laptop. The show menubar option is enabled/checked in both config-editor and in the popup

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/11/10 23:23, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 21:46 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 21/11/10 17:30, Jon Ingason wrote: 2010-11-21 16:39, Robert G. (Doc) Savage skrev: Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs Help] menubar in gnome-terminal

Re: skype on fedora 14 x86_64

2011-01-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 02/01/11 21:14, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 01/02/2011 07:26 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: Johan, On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Johan Scheepersjohans...@telkomsa.net wrote: On 01/02/2011 06:52 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Johan

Unmatched entries

2011-01-10 Thread Erik P. Olsen
In logwatch on my fedora 14 system I get the following message: polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.23 [/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path

Re: java problem

2011-01-10 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 10/01/11 14:15, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com mailto:a...@redhat.com wrote: We can use either Sun java or the open JDK, but the problem is in Sun java installation and when you try to play online chess at the said

Re: java problem

2011-01-10 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 10/01/11 15:18, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com mailto:epod...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't necessarily prove it's a fedora problem. I have for example a java problem (both Sun's and IcedTea) with loging on to a certain home

How to change background.

2011-01-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
It's easy to change desktop background *after* user login. But how do you change the background *before* user login? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: How to change background.

2011-01-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 15/01/11 23:36, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:24:05 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: It's easy to change desktop background *after* user login. But how do you change the background *before* user login? Background of what? Of the desktop. I know perfectly well how to change desktop

Re: How to change background.

2011-01-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
plymouth, and it has plugins. For example: su yum install plymouth-theme-spinfinity; su plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity; And spinfinity is just one theme 2011/1/15 Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com: On 15/01/11 23:36, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:24:05 +0100 Erik P

Re: firefox menus not working

2011-01-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/01/11 10:27, N James Bridge wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:31 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 22:58 +, N James Bridge wrote: after installing the latest updates, all of Firefox's menus have stopped working Since the update, have you completely quit all running instances of

Re: problem with my favorite radio

2011-01-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/01/11 22:06, Adel ESSAFI wrote: Hi list mplayer http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/popup/rtci.asx I have a problem with my radio on linux. mplayer could not play the radio on linux. However, the same link works fine with windows media player. It works fine from the gui. -- Erik --

Re: Status of flash support in Fedora 14 (64-bit)?

2011-06-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/06/11 09:20, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I have the following situation: Shockwave Flash File: nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181 MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash

Linksys E3000

2011-07-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I am interested in purchasing this router. Does anybody have experience with it? Can it be recommended to use with linux? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and

Re: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

2011-10-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 11/10/11 03:02, Jared K. Smith wrote: The Fedora 16 release name is: Beefy Miracle Childish. -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name

2011-10-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 11/10/11 10:23, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 11.10.2011, 08:40 +0200 schrieb Erik P. Olsen: On 11/10/11 03:02, Jared K. Smith wrote: The Fedora 16 release name is: Beefy Miracle Childish. Why? Beefy Miracle has a long history in Fedora, in fact it dates back to the days

VirtualBox installation question.

2011-12-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have installed VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64 and have been running it for quite some time. I have now noticed that a new version VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64 is available but not as an update only as a new install. Is it safe to remove the current package and

Re: VirtualBox installation question.

2011-12-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/12/11 23:54, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.12.2011 23:50, schrieb Erik P. Olsen: I have installed VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.14_74382_fedora14-1.x86_64 and have been running it for quite some time. I have now noticed that a new version VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora14-1.x86_64 is available

Re: VirtualBox installation question.

2011-12-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 17/12/11 01:47, Germán A. Racca wrote: (BTW, Erik, take into account that F14 is EOL. We are in F16, and the same versio of VirtualBox is available). I know. Thank God F14 is pretty stable. I am actually in the process of converting to F16 but it'll take a while since I also skip gnome

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-23 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 23/12/11 09:44, Fernando Cassia wrote: [snip] Keep your promise to not add more to this topic! -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Why some say spammer

2013-11-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/11/13 14:04, poma wrote: Bee awesome.:! Bee? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines:

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 16:25, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/21/13 17:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? It is there on mine [egreshko@f20f default]$ ll /etc/default/grub -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 382 Dec 19 06:34 /etc

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing. [SOLVED]

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 16:48, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 21/12/13 16:25, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/21/13 17:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: /etc/default/grub is missing on my newly installed F20. What's replacing its functionality? It is there on mine [egreshko@f20f default]$ ll /etc/default/grub -rw-r--r

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 19:44, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do another F20 installation to see if it shows up this time. If not I suppose it is hardware related. Maybe anaconda doesn't like bios with uefi turned off. I had no problems

Re: F20: /etc/default/grub missing.

2013-12-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 21/12/13 21:53, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/12/13 19:44, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do another F20 installation to see if it shows up this time. If not I

Chromium and Fedora 20.

2013-12-27 Thread Erik P. Olsen
There is no chromium repo for fedora 20. Will there be no chromium packaged for fedora 20 and on? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Chromium and Fedora 20.

2013-12-27 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/12/13 00:51, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: There is no chromium repo for fedora 20. Will there be no chromium packaged for fedora 20 and on? There was no Chromium browser in F19 either. You can install Chrome from Google

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 02/01/14 18:10, poma wrote: On 02.01.2014 12:13, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/02/2014 11:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is

dnf and/or yum?

2014-02-25 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Can dnf and yum be used interchangeably? And is there a gui interface to dnf like yumex? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
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 space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 space on disk to allow for another system. It's

Re: honestly, what in the name of mutt is so slow about fedora rawhide?

2014-04-04 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 04/04/14 23:16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: following up on my recent posts about how painfully, excruciatingly, nad-grindingly, thigh-suckingly slow firefox is on fedora rawhide, well, nothing's changed. when i do something as simple as switch tabs, i can go fix myself a martini while

Re: External microphone Fedora 14.

2011-03-01 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 22/02/11 14:27, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: [snip] I have attached an simple file, what you have to insert as root to /etc/modprobe.d as is. Could you send the attachment to the list, please? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Redirection of mailto=root

2011-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Various routines send messages to root@local domain normally using the setting mailto=root, For example /etc/anacrontab and /etc/crontab. Is there a central place where such can be redirected to an external mail address? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Redirection of mailto=root

2011-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 15/03/11 11:03, Mike Chambers wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 09:59 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Various routines send messages to root@local domain normally using the setting mailto=root, For example /etc/anacrontab and /etc/crontab. Is there a central place where such can be redirected

Re: copy files from virtualbox -

2011-03-27 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 27/03/11 14:58, Bob Goodwin wrote: How can I access files downloaded in virtualbox/Windows from Fedora 14? I a normal dual boot installation it's easy enough but I haven't found a way to do it with vbox. Perhaps it can't be done? Bob

ATI FirePro V3800 question.

2011-04-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I've bought this graphics card and it hangs my Fedora 14 system right at the point where it switches to graphics mode. I wonder what I am missing because my alternative system Fedora 12 on the same hardware works beautifully. I've found that ATI has issued a driver, Catalyst, for the card. Am I

Re: ATI FirePro V3800 question.

2011-04-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 02/04/11 16:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 15:18:05 +0200, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com wrote: I've bought this graphics card and it hangs my Fedora 14 system right at the point where it switches to graphics mode. I wonder what I am missing because my

Re: ATI FirePro V3800 question.

2011-04-03 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 02/04/11 23:32, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 22:17:43 +0200, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com wrote: I've found that on F12 I have mesa-dri-drivers-experimental installed whereas on F14 it is only mesa-dri-drivers. I've now installed the experimental version on F14

Re: ATI FirePro V3800 question.

2011-04-04 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 04/04/11 22:19, Vaclav Mocek wrote: On 04/03/2011 03:57 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 02/04/11 23:32, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 22:17:43 +0200, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.comwrote: I've found that on F12 I have mesa-dri-drivers-experimental installed whereas

Re: Fedora-15 netinstall

2011-05-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/05/11 01:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: I just installed Fedora-15 on my laptop using the netinstall CD. 1) I had the DVD ISO on my server, and I thought I would be asked where I wanted to download from. But as far as I could see, I wasn't asked for an IP address, and F-15 was successfully

Colour printing question.

2011-06-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print. I have used for testing an image scanned by a flat bed scanner (HP ScanJet 7400c) and the

Re: Colour printing question.

2011-06-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 03/06/11 00:29, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 06/02/2011 03:14 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print

Re: Colour printing question.

2011-06-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 07/06/11 17:56, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 03/06/11 00:29, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 06/02/2011 03:14 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows

Re: Colour printing question.

2011-06-08 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 08/06/11 10:29, Tim Waugh wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 22:35 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Changing Saturation to 200 did the trick. It would be helpful if you could file a bug report so that we can hopefully make that the default behaviour for that printer at 100% saturation in future

Re: A Software Center for Fedora?

2013-05-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/05/13 05:46, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Anthony wrote: One of the things I really like about Ubuntu is the concept behind the software center. Canonical has poorly implemented it but the idea behind it is pretty solid. That got me

Re: A Software Center for Fedora?

2013-05-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/05/13 07:52, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I assume this is only going to benefit gnome user, What about the rest of fedora community? Why would you assume that? You are free to run it any desktop environment you want. Isnt

Re: A Software Center for Fedora?

2013-05-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/05/13 19:58, Richard Hughes wrote: On 18 May 2013 18:27, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Any GNOME application is pretty much the same as any GTK application Agreed. gnome-software just requires gtk3-devel at the moment so it'll work fine in LXDE/XFCE and will work fine in KDE

Re: SQL Issue

2013-07-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 09/07/13 20:11, Fernando Cassia wrote: And no, I won't engage in a flame war, so I'll stop this here. No you won't you just start it. -- Erik Concordia parvæ res crescunt discordia maximæ dilabuntur -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: netinst of fedora xfce

2013-07-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 26/07/13 12:54, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, Is there somewhere a place where I can find the netinst image iso of fedora with xfce desktop Could be easy to put some links on fedora pages, we can only get live cd I don't want live

Re: How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?

2013-07-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/07/13 17:07, lee wrote: Hi, how does one get a clean installation of Fedora? Clean means that only those packages are installed that are actually needed and only those services are running that are actually needed. Needed by whome? -- Erik -- users mailing list

HD to SSD question.

2013-08-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the process. -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: HD to SSD question. THANKS.

2013-08-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/08/13 22:57, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the process. Thanks to everybody for providing

Printing of colour pages from adobe reader comes out greyscale

2013-09-26 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Subject says all. Printing the same pages with gimp comes out correctly. Printing is ordinary colour print not photo. Adobe reader: Version 9.5.5 Fedora: Version 19 fully updated as of 25/9-2013 CUPS: 1.6.3-4.fc19.x86_64 Printer: HP Photosmart 8450 Is this a known issue and is there a fix for

Re: Printing of colour pages from adobe reader comes out greyscale

2013-09-27 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 27/09/13 11:17, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:57:21PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Subject says all. Printing the same pages with gimp comes out correctly. Printing is ordinary colour print not photo. Adobe reader: Version 9.5.5 Fedora: Version 19 fully updated

Re: Printing of colour pages from adobe reader comes out greyscale

2013-09-27 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 27/09/13 11:54, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:37:26AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 27/09/13 11:17, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:57:21PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Subject says all. Printing the same pages with gimp comes out correctly

Re: Firefox - gedit is the best!

2013-10-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/10/13 22:22, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 28.10.2013 22:14, Reindl Harald wrote: so at least provide a sample URL Here you go: https://github.com/gammu/gsm-docs/blob/master/standards/3gpp/TP-24/23040-009.doc?raw=true Whether you like it or not FF doesn't recognise doc files

EasyCAP driver.

2012-03-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I've boroughed an easycap device in order to perform VHS2DVD conversion of my old VHS-tapes. I am therefore seeking a driver for Fedora 14 or 16. Does anybody have experience with this device? [erik@epohost ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 009: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd STK1160 Video

Re: EasyCAP driver.

2012-03-28 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/03/12 14:53, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com wrote: I've boroughed an easycap device in order to perform VHS2DVD conversion of my old VHS-tapes. I am therefore seeking a driver for Fedora 14 or 16. Does anybody have experience

Re: EasyCAP driver.

2012-04-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 28/03/12 14:53, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Erik P. Olsenepod...@gmail.com wrote: I've boroughed an easycap device in order to perform VHS2DVD conversion of my old VHS-tapes. I am therefore seeking a driver for Fedora 14 or 16. Does anybody have experience

Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas on F16 it became 1000. I wasn't aware of that but

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 07/06/12 01:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/07/2012 05:26 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 07/06/12 18:09, Joachim Backes wrote: On 06/07/2012 04:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/07/2012 08:20 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 07/06/12 01:27, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/07/2012 05:26 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Thanks to everybody for providing valuable insight and good solutions to my problem. I now feel confident that I will be able to make an orderly transition to F16. -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/06/12 14:53, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 15:42 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 06/14/2012 03:25:25 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Where do you find a 64bit version of Adobe Reader? I find the following link instructive:

F18 wont let me admin users and groups.

2013-01-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Nothing happens when I select Applications Menu - Administration - Users and Groups. And nothing seems to be logged. I've even logged in as root to no avail. Any suggestions? -- Erik Concordia parvæ res crescunt discordia maximæ dilabuntur -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F18 wont let me admin users and groups.

2013-01-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/01/13 16:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0100 Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing happens when I select Applications Menu - Administration - Users and Groups. And nothing seems to be logged. I've even logged in as root to no avail. Any suggestions

Re: F18 wont let me admin users and groups.

2013-01-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/01/13 16:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0100 Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing happens when I select Applications Menu - Administration - Users and Groups. And nothing seems to be logged. I've even logged in as root to no avail. Any suggestions

Re: F18 wont let me admin users and groups. CIRCUMVENTION

2013-01-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/01/13 17:16, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 16/01/13 16:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0100 Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing happens when I select Applications Menu - Administration - Users and Groups. And nothing seems to be logged. I've even logged

Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting.

2013-03-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I believe this has been brought up before but I havn't seen a solution to it. Google-chrome is set to be default browser, in Preferred Applications Web Browser is set to launch G-C for hyper links etc. Nevertheless when a link in TB is selected Firefox is launched and what is equally bad is

Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

2013-03-07 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 07/03/13 16:11, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:55:57 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: What can be done to change this behaviour short of reporting a bug in bugzilla? That probably wouldn't do any good either :-). The real problem is that there is no such thing as a default anything

Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

2013-03-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 08/03/13 07:46, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/13 14:05, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hmm, there should be possible set default browser for individual users, not only as system global. Yes, there is xdg-settings is supposed to be the command to set that up. However, I've found it to be

Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

2013-03-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 09/03/13 12:10, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/09/13 18:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 08/03/13 07:46, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/13 14:05, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hmm, there should be possible set default browser for individual users, not only as system global. Yes, there is xdg-settings

Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

2013-03-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 09/03/13 13:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/09/13 19:38, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 09/03/13 12:10, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/09/13 18:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 08/03/13 07:46, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/13 14:05, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hmm, there should be possible set default browser

Re: about:config - Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

2013-03-09 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 09/03/13 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.03.2013 13:46, schrieb Erik P. Olsen: OK, I see the same files but they do nothing with regard to launching google-chrome from links in thunderbird. SEE SCREENSHOT - offlist-CC because it maybe is refused by the list go in the prefecrences

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