Re: Live ISO image creation

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 June 2018 at 08:31, Jozsef K via users wrote: > Hi, > I have a question about live ISO image creation. What I would like to > achieve is to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat while I am in live > environment and then to create a new ISO image file which would be the same > as the one I boote

Re: Flash on 64 bit systems (was Re: Firefox 4 repo)

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 July 2010 09:18, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 19 July 2010 01:01 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >>> Would you say use of noscript or flashblock would be a good compromise? >>> >  If not what are my other options? (maybe I should start a new thread for >>> >  this discussion) >>> > >> I think

Re: Jobs in Cloud Computing

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 July 2010 21:49, JD wrote: >  On 07/20/2010 01:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:13:41 -0700 >> JD wrote: >> >>> Work directly with our customers to create Salesforce based solutions >> Now it is all clear. Cloud computing is a sales gimmick. >> >> I bet it is almost as mea

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 July 2010 18:21, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing up, >> what is the difference between having a server (possibly virtualized), and >> having a server "on the clou

Re: F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 March 2010 15:24, fred smith wrote: > Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901. > > In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for > the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some > support built in, i.e., network manager detects the wireless hots

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 March 2010 13:35, Cris Rhea wrote: > Recently, I rebooted two servers that had 20 days shy of 3 years > of uptime: > >  10:37:30 up 1075 days, 16:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.33, 0.30, 0.33 > > While interesting in the "uptime game", it really struck me that > we have finally achieved the

Re: Four Tweaks for Gnome 3

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 June 2011 13:19, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:57:18AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 06/03/2011 05:39 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: >> ings. >> > >>   I don't agree - I think the right solution is that extensions vie to >> be accepted as part of Gnome Core - otherwise its

Re: Reset gnome 3?

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 June 2011 13:15, Gary Waters wrote: > Is there some way to reset gnome 3's setttings? I have been googling > around about tips and tweaks for gnome 3 and noticed I am missing a few > things, such as "places," "recent documents," and the plus/minus signs > at the bottom right to add/remove des

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 June 2011 09:16, david grant wrote: > I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on > forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to my post > below. I have a degree of visual impairment but I cannot believe that I > am the only potential user of Gnome 3

Re: Four Tweaks for Gnome 3

2011-06-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 June 2011 14:31, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 02:04:17PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 3 June 2011 13:19, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:57:18AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> On 06/03/2011 05:39 AM,

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 June 2011 12:41, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:07 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> It doesn't care whether that is flash, rotating media, or indeed cards >> pinned to donuts. > > Is there an RFC for the last one?  ;-) > Maybe next April? Though the pigeons might eat them. -- imalone -- u

Re: Upgraded F14 -> F15, now how do I use this?

2011-06-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 June 2011 10:33, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > After a mere two weeks of F15 (Gnome3, not KDE) at home, I went to a mates > house who still has F14. First thing I did when I wanted to get on the > internet, was swoop the mouse into the top-right corner - and was stunnned > to find nothing ha

Re: Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

2011-06-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 June 2011 17:59, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 02:23 +0930, Tim wrote: >> Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC, >> so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to >> continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card?  (

Re: HD permissions stay put (SOLVED)

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 July 2011 08:45, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 03/07/2011 20:25, JD wrote: >> On 07/03/2011 11:09 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >>> On 03/07/2011 20:01, JD wrote: On 07/03/2011 10:55 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Johan Scheepers wrote: A bit late replying, but some things others may

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 July 2011 22:46, JD wrote: > On 07/03/2011 02:26 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> JD wrote: >> Machine one..johan 1000:1000 Machine two ..johan 500:500 >> This is the problem I had with Debian and friends. >> >> Fedora starts users at 500, while Debian&c uses 1000. So, if you use

Re: Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 July 2011 05:24, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> ls is behaving correctly. Bash is presenting a ridiculous fiction to >> you via its "pwd" builtin, which lies. Try doing your test above >> again, and wherever you type "pwd", also run "

Re: No Minimize Button

2011-07-07 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 July 2011 12:51, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >>> But the long and short of it is, if you want the buttons (and more) >>> back, just install gnome-tweak-tool and pick the right options to >>> re-enable them. > ... >>> >>> I've been using the list archives for almost >>> all my troubleshoot

Re: Progress?

2011-08-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 August 2011 17:52, Stuart McGraw wrote: > On 08/01/2011 03:31 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 04:14, Gilboa Davara > > wrote: >> >>     ... Because if you were actually trying to be constructive, oh man, you >>     chose the wrong way to do

Re: NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

2011-08-02 Thread Ian Malone
2011/8/1 夜神 岩男 : > On 08/01/2011 10:25 PM, Jatin K wrote: >> On Monday 01 August 2011 06:41 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >>> On 08/01/2011 09:59 PM, Robert Marcano wrote: On 08/01/2011 08:03 AM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: ... > NFSv4 has become both more awesome and more complex. > Before getting into

Re: Progress?

2011-08-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 August 2011 03:15, James McKenzie wrote: > On 8/1/11 11:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> As others have said the last two: >> * Give us back the assurance of never having to reboot. > This is a silly requirement.  There are always reasons to reboot.  What > you mean, from wh

Re: Amrish Sonawane left a message for you...

2011-08-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 August 2011 09:02, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > Is this really relevant? As little or no further information as been > given as to the message I'm assuming it is spam and will take it no further. > > cpp4ever Most likely spam/phishing. Along the lines of those facebook 'messages' that myst

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 August 2011 14:17, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:57:07AM +0930, Tim wrote: >> There's a table of contents (TOC) at the start of the disc that says how >> far in, and how far for, each track is located. > > Sounds like a file system to me. ;) > > (j/k - I know what you'r

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 August 2011 07:44, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:17 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> It should be possible to write a FUSE wrapper that would let you do >> the desktop-interface trick as a proper mount. Not that I'm >> volunteering. > > Though, I wonder wh

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 03:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On 08/10/2011 02:11 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> CDs are static information. If I burned a set of wavs to a CDROM we >> wouldn't say, "It's not a filesystem because it's audio." >> >

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 10:13, Markku Kolkka wrote: > shailesh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 11. elokuuta > 2011): >> [tommy@tommy cprog]$ gcc hello.c >> [tommy@tommy cprog]$ ./a.out >> bash:  ./a.out : Permission denied > > Is your "cprog" directory on an USB stick, external hard drive, >

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 18:00, Steven Stern wrote: > On 08/11/2011 11:52 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping >>> that a few things get fixed.  I don't know if they're general problems

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 17:59, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/11/2011 09:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >> I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. > > And, I question your > statement that "Gnome Shell is the future of Fedora," because I've seen > a number of posts both here and at fedoraforum.org from pe

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 18:10, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 11.08.2011 18:52, schrieb Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak: >> On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping >>> that a few things get fixed.  I don't know if they're general prob

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 20:08, Alan Cox wrote: >> are borked with a standard-desktop because some developers >> are thinking it is cool rely on 3D-crap > > The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely > necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has > Enlight

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 September 2011 21:15, Linda McLeod wrote: > > > I love this Fedora-14, and everything Red Hat, but Fedora-15 is a lot > like those vile Windows OS's.. Essentially, every time I see a post like this I stop reading as soon as it tries to argue that something is wrong because it's like Windows.

gnome3 - the funny side

2011-09-26 Thread Ian Malone
On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition: Desktop design copouts Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to do things that should be obvious and fast to do without an applet to do them. If these are useful, we

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 September 2011 10:59, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 09/26/2011 11:59 PM, Roger wrote: >> Some say that the new Fedora GUI is unhelpful and possibly difficult to >> use, preferring a simpler desktop. > > Ahh, this is all about GNOME 3.  It's very unfair to describe the > actions/attitude of GNOME

Re: Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

2011-09-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 September 2011 14:37, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Because the Gnome devs are preferring not to listen to their former > users' complaints and prefer to furtherly isolate themselves in their > "devine ivory cathedral's tower"? > Can't really say this until we've been through a few iterations of

Re: Adobe Flash Player 10

2010-09-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 13 September 2010 14:39, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Zoltan Hoppar wrote: >> Just go to Adobe site and download the flash player for linux. Choose >> the rpm version - and the rest done by fedora installer. >> > Linux x86_64 is no longer supported. I think the O.P. is running 64bit. > Correct, howe

flash hanging, grey window, fedora 13 64bit, upgrade, solution

2010-10-06 Thread Ian Malone
Since it hasn't come up on a quick search of the mailing list and it's sufficiently late (/early) that I don't want to have to work out where to file a bug right now (and may forget): Upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 (kudos to Fedora, generally went very smoothly, I think this is the only thin

f13 pulse and passthrough

2010-10-11 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I've had a look and the only thing I can find on this is an unresolved bug report. Which is odd, because prior to pulse every sound system I ever used let you play the sound in directly to sound out. Anyway the situation is this: I'd like to be able to play a guitar through my sound card and b

Re: f13 pulse and passthrough

2010-10-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 October 2010 14:16, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 23:16 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> I've had a look and the only thing I can find on this is an unresolved >> bug report. Which is odd, because prior to pulse every sound system I >> ever used let you play the

Re: f13 pulse and passthrough

2010-10-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 October 2010 16:02, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:16:37PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've had a look and the only thing I can find on this is an unresolved >> bug report. Which is odd, because prior to pulse every sound

Re: f13 pulse and passthrough

2010-10-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 October 2010 15:34, Ian Malone wrote: > On 12 October 2010 14:16, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 23:16 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >>> Anyway the >>> situation is this: I'd like to be able to play a guitar through my >>> sound card and be able to

Re: f13 pulse and passthrough

2010-10-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 October 2010 23:12, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:09:55PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 12 October 2010 16:02, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> > >> > >> > In PulseAudio, each sink has an associated "monitor" source that you &g

Re: VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 October 2010 11:29, Tod Thomas wrote: >  I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard > and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other > media.  I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the > VHS standard was retired, or its

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 February 2011 21:54, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/14/2011 11:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/14/2011 10:03 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >>> I've found very obvious buffer overflow conditions and failures to enforce >>> changes of variable types in publically available code bases. >> >> It's bee

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 February 2011 19:13, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/18/2011 09:55 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> To derail discussion slightly, this doesn't really fix the problem, >> just shifts it to a different place (keeping track of lengths and >> dynamically handling data) > > In

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 March 2011 05:53, Fernando Cassia wrote: > This is silly makes me waste time... wasting time is no good. > > [root@doscabezas sound-juicer-2.20.1]# yum install Perl-xml-parser > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > Setting up Install Process > No package Perl-xml-parser available. > > ..G

recording from a webcam, cheese, vlc

2011-03-26 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I'm trying to record from a webcam and getting terrible performance from Cheese and problematic performance from VLC. Is anyone able to either tell me how to get one of them working properly or suggest another app that will work? Details (hardware at bottom) Cheese cheese-2.30.1-1.fc13.x86_64

Re: sinf compiler error I don't understand

2011-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 April 2011 23:29, les wrote: > First let me say, that while I have used C++ I don't normally use it for > my work and so am not throughly familiar with what it does, so if this > is due to a C++ error, please be gentle. > > I am working on some DSP code I developed a long time ago, and now wa

Re: recording from a webcam, cheese, vlc

2011-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
> 2011/3/26 Ian Malone >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to record from a webcam and getting terrible performance >> from Cheese and problematic performance from VLC. Is anyone able to >> either tell me how to get one of them working properly or suggest >

Re: recording from a webcam, cheese, vlc

2011-04-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 April 2011 00:33, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 02/04/11 19:15, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> Thanks, with a bit of tweaking I'm able to record with ffmpeg, though >> it's a pity this means I can't preview what's being recorded. However >> I'm a bi

Re: sinf compiler error I don't understand FIXED!!

2011-04-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 April 2011 23:25, les wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 00:13 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 1 April 2011 23:29, les wrote: >> > Clearly sinf is recognized, and compiles and runs.  It returns 1.000 as >> > expected for M_PI/2.  But the line that is commented out wi

Re: No sound over hdmi after suspend

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 April 2011 13:00, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Fedora 14 with the following sound setup: I've got my television > connected over hdmi using the onboard graphics card of the Core i3 550. > Futhermore I have a sound system connected to my mainboard using TOSLINK. > > This works great r

Re: sinf compiler error I don't understand FIXED!!

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 April 2011 17:20, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ian Malone wrote: > >> I think there have been suggestions that it's time to start having >> libm linked in gcc by default as the space saving (its purpose a very >> long time ago) is tiny. > &

Re: recording from a webcam, cheese, vlc

2011-04-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 April 2011 19:12, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 03/04/11 17:13, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> This is with an attached webcam, not sure what you need for IP cameras: >> > >       I have never found a scheme for recording a video stream from >       VLC, don't see &q

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 May 2011 16:32, James McKenzie wrote: > Again, do not take this as anything other than a personal opinion on > why this discussion is a waste of time and effort.  Skype has been > bought and there is nothing out there like it.  Not in the Linux world > nor the Windows world.  People will c

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-18 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 May 2011 12:23, Tim wrote: > Really MAC filtering is only barely useful as the most basic of > management tools.  e.g. You have a video game or mobile phone that > automatically tries to log into a nearby network, and it's a pain to > configure (or you can't).  So you blacklist it, and hav

Re: Orinoco WiFi cards

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 May 2011 02:47, Timothy Murphy wrote: > And finally, I wonder if there is a list of PCMCIA and USB WiFi devices > compatible with Fedora-14? Not specifically F14, but I've been using this recently to try and find a new card: http://linuxwireless.org/ (as the kernel driver for mine seems a

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 May 2011 13:19, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > 26.05.2011, 20:24, "Michael Schwendt" : >> >> If you log out, they are still available at the top right of the screen. > > I find it perfect. > > Switch on and off quickly with Suspend, and use Shutdown before going away > for long (makes you want to

very long boot time in fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I'm trying to work out why Fedora 15 takes an incredibly long time to start on this machine (Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1GB RAM laptop), booting takes several minutes as opposed to F13. No custom modules, just stock Fedora, intel wireless and graphics, used preupgrade to go F13 to F15. I can try

Re: very long boot time in fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 May 2011 22:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/27/2011 02:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to work out why Fedora 15 takes an incredibly long time to >> start on this machine (Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1GB RAM laptop), >> booting takes

Re: F14->F15 after preupgrade boot hang

2011-05-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 May 2011 09:53, Dj YB wrote: > Hello, > on my other F14 installation did a preupgrade yesterday then rebooted and then > waited forever and nothing happened. > > any idea what to do? > > this is an installation on a usb flash drive which is working fine. > using nvidia display > > Thanks for

Re: F14->F15 after preupgrade boot hang

2011-05-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 May 2011 10:32, Dj YB wrote: > On Friday May 27 2011 12:24:03 you wrote: >> On 27 May 2011 09:53, Dj YB wrote: >> > Hello, >> > on my other F14 installation did a preupgrade yesterday then rebooted and >> > then waited forever and nothing happened. >> > >> > any idea what to do? >> > >> > t

Re: F15 long boot time/cups scheduler problem

2011-05-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 May 2011 10:51, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 27/05/11 04:56, Tim Waugh wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 21:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>>          Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this? >> It might be trying to find out the hostname for each network interface. >> Do you have a network i

Re: F15 long boot time/cups scheduler problem

2011-05-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 May 2011 12:34, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 27/05/11 06:51, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 27/05/11 06:02, Ian Malone wrote: >>> Was hesitating to suggest you might have the same problem I did, as it >>> looks to be stopping at a different point, but it's maybe worth

Re: very long boot time in fedora 15

2011-05-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 May 2011 17:36, R. G. Newbury wrote: > On 05/26/2011 05:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote > >> I'm trying to work out why Fedora 15 takes an incredibly long time to >> start on this machine (Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1GB RAM laptop), >> booting takes several minutes as oppo

Re: F15: Follow-mouse focus and hacks for GNOME shell?

2011-06-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 June 2011 07:50, Hiisi wrote: > On 1 June 2011 07:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 06/01/2011 01:40 AM, sguazt wrote: >>> Didn't find a way to set this type of focus under GNOME shell. >>> >>> Searching in the Web I've found these 2 hacks: >>> >>> gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/focus_m

Re: tmpfiles.d and spaces in filenames

2011-06-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 June 2011 16:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > How can I specify filenames with spaces in tmpfiles.d configuration > files?  There's no hint in `man tmfiles.d'.  I tried > > - fstab style:      d /foo\040bar 0755 root root > - web style:        d /foo%20bar 0755 root root > - quoted style

Re: tmpfiles.d and spaces in filenames

2011-06-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 June 2011 19:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun  1 09:59, JD wrote: >> On 06/01/11 09:37, Ian Malone wrote: >> > On 1 June 2011 16:11, Corinna Vinschen  wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> How can I specify filenames with spaces in tmpfiles

Re: tmpfiles.d and spaces in filenames

2011-06-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 June 2011 20:30, Mike Williams wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, JD wrote: >> >> On 06/01/11 12:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > No, each filename counts as one argument, even if it has spaces in it. >> > The problem arises when you *use* the argument. The above should read: >

Re: quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

2010-10-21 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 October 2010 05:43, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> How do you hard link a deleted file? > > Have no fear. I like your function. :-) > > I was just curious about how Patrick manages to link to a deleted file. > I assumed this meant hardlink to it before it is deleted, t

fullscreen impress with compiz (openoffice)

2010-11-18 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, OpenOffice impress slideshows aren't working for me in F13. If I try to run a slideshow it fails to run fullscreen and instead opens a root-sized window which, if I'm lucky centres on the screen. (If unlucky it sits at the bottom of the screen and has to be dragged up.) The window also sits be

Re: mp3 libraries for f14

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 January 2011 15:23, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 02:45:25 am Kam Leo wrote: >> If you need the mp3 plugin for gstreamer get it from here: >> http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ > > Let me second this.  Fluendo has produced 'legal in the US' decoders f

Re: RT2500 wireless nic??

2010-01-15 Thread Ian Malone
2010/1/15 Michael D. Setzer II : > Does anyone know how to get a wireless RT2500 to work? > Have a co-worker that has an old P4 notebook that has this nic for wireless. > Long ago, I had gotten it working with a sourceforge driver, but when I > upgraded it to Fedora 11 that method wouldn't work. I

Using surround sound outputs separately?

2010-01-18 Thread Ian Malone
I've had a couple of Googles at this, but it's hard to pick the right keywords and I've not hit anything. Has anyone got a surround sound card (5.1 or 7.1) to separately output stereo on two pairs of channels or able to suggest how? What I've got is a 7.1 card with 4 stereo out jacks, which mostl

Re: Using surround sound outputs separately?

2010-01-18 Thread Ian Malone
2010/1/18 Jatin K : > On 01/18/2010 02:15 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> I've had a couple of Googles at this, but it's hard to pick the right >> keywords and I've not hit anything. >> >> Has anyone got a surround sound card (5.1 or 7.1) to separately output >

Re: [OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-19 Thread Ian Malone
2010/1/14 Dave Cross : > But I'd probably do something like this: > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > foreach () { >  s/\.?0+$//; >  print; > } > > __END__ > 1.20 > 1.00 > 1.25 > > Not sure about the '?', surely you don't want this to happen: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; us

Re: Using surround sound outputs separately?

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 18 January 2010 10:42, Ian Malone wrote: > 2010/1/18 Jatin K : >> On 01/18/2010 02:15 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >>> I've had a couple of Googles at this, but it's hard to pick the right >>> keywords and I've not hit anything. >>> >>> Has

pata disc / sata host converters

2014-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I'm looking at a motherboard update and have apparently left it too long: it's hard to find new MBs that have PATA connectors (there are a few, but choice is pretty limited). The hard drives for this machine are SATA, but the optical drives are PATA. There are a few PATA to SATA converters whi

Re: what's the point of filing bugs against Fedora?

2014-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 January 2014 20:17, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >Even reporting upstream doesn't always help. The problem I mentioned > has been > sitting upstream for 3 weeks with no response > > Yes indeed. That can happen. What did you really expect? You are not > using a commercial product with any kin

Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 19 January 2014 20:39, doug wrote: > dos not support at the moment. In spite of the fact that almost all the > download links listed show the > 64-bit system, if you read the blurb thatshows up at the beginning of the > site, it says it recommends > the 32-bit version. I can't find this, can

Re: f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

2014-01-20 Thread Ian Malone
On 20 January 2014 08:56, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:44:11 + > Ian Malone wrote: > >> However I think most developers are using 64bit by >> this stage, so from that point of view 64bit is better supported. >> > > The day will come when all

Re: EXFat file system

2014-01-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 January 2014 02:55, doug wrote: > On 01/22/2014 07:34 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> >> On 01/22/2014 06:29 PM, Jim wrote: >>> >>> I have a GoPro Camera that has formatted the SD Card to a ExFat file >>> system and Linux cannot read the sd card. >>> What do I have to do to be able to read card,

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 February 2014 02:13, Roger wrote: > > > Totem in F19+ use gstreamer 1.0 as opposed to gstreamer 0.10. Be sure you > have "gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld" installed. > > > When naming such things, has anyone considered how it looks to a novice to > be installing a plugin or app that conta

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 February 2014 03:23, Doug wrote: > On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 >> Fred Smith wrote: >> >>> Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other >>> suitable substitute). >> >> I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly

Re: Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

2014-03-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 March 2014 13:21, lee wrote: > "Patrick O'Callaghan" writes: > >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, lee wrote: >>> As to NFS, I have had bad experiences with it, like network cards >>> freezing up and computers being halted because NFS failed for unknown >>> reasons. I never got it to work r

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 March 2014 15:19, lee wrote: > Matthew Miller writes: > >> I was at a large cloud conference a while ago, and almost nobody was >> using Fedora, and so I asked people why they chose the distribution >> they are building their stuff on, and why they didn’t choose >> Fedora. Almost universal

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 March 2014 16:40, Liam Proven wrote: > On 22 March 2014 03:54, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Are you asserting that people who bitch and whine about the installer are >> entitled to a monopoly on mocking hectoring tone; and unhelpful, annoying, >> unproductive engagement? > > I don't think any

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 March 2014 15:15, lee wrote: > Ian Malone writes: > >> On 21 March 2014 15:19, lee wrote: > And I don`t want a "minimalist system" either. That is very different > from not wanting things I don`t need or don`t want. > > Think of cinelerra, for examp

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 March 2014 19:08, lee wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > >> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:15:03 +0100 >> lee wrote: >> >>> Think of fvwm: You may think it`s a "minimalistic" window manager. It >>> is not, it`s actually the most powerful and most versatile WM I have >>> ever seen, and it`s easy to con

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 March 2014 23:08, lee wrote: > Ian Malone writes: > >> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic > > I`m not so sure about that. There are even ppl who have never heard > about emacs, and if they`d see it, they might very well think it i

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2014 10:09, lee wrote: > Ian Malone writes: > >> On 23 March 2014 23:08, lee wrote: >>> Ian Malone writes: >>> >>>> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic >>> >>> I`m not so sure about that. The

Re: my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2014 08:14, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 23 March 2014 23:37, Bill Oliver wrote: >> >> >> Firefox will only allow one invocation of itself on my machine. >> Sometimes, if I invoke the program by clicking an icon, it will come up with >> an error message that says you can only have one cop

Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2014 16:11, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/24/2014 04:15 PM, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 24 March 2014 15:02, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>> Wrong. Most servers typically are headless, and if they have a graphic >>> card-build-in, it's usually inaccessible or unused. >> >> >> I am actu

Re: weird xzcat behaviour

2014-04-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 April 2014 16:45, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 01.04.2014 17:33, Chris Adams: > >> Once upon a time, Mark Haney said: >>> sudo xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb >>> >>> I would get a 'Permission denied' error. >> >> That's because the "> /dev/sdb" was parsed and handled by

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 05:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM, lee wrote: >> >> >> Hm, not really useful when it doesn`t work with existing WMs ... > > > That would be the responsibility of the WM's themselves. WM's have to add > support. Not the other way around as you

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 14:26, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> Joe Zeff writes: >> >>> On 04/01/2014 09:49 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: That would be the responsibility of the WM's themselves. WM's have to add support. Not the other way around as you seem to think. >>> >>> Which is why I poin

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 15:05, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/02/2014 09:42 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> I know you weren't reply to me, but this is really the point I >> wanted to make: to take advantage of Wayland it

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 19:48, Liam Proven wrote: > On 2 April 2014 13:20, poma wrote: >> Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to >> 2001, owned at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Mir was the >> first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 t

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 16:04, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> I originally missed this line in Rahul's email: >> > Other apps can use the compatibility layer called XWayland." >> >> But did

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 April 2014 22:25, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> >> I would love to spend all my free time reading up about every new >> project, but it's not going to happen. Sorry typo, "I would loathe

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 April 2014 14:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > HI > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> >> So no-one is allowed to ask questions on hear and have them answered >> by anybody who knows what they're talking about? > > > You

Re: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

2014-04-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 April 2014 14:50, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > I don't think we said anything contradictory at all. I pointed out > that the Wayland developers are including a compatibility layer called > XWayland that provides a backwards-compatible interface for > applications and window managers that are

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