fedora16 bug??
by beyond.hack
Hello experts,
(This is my first post here, so kindly ignore any mistakes if any here)..
I have been using Fedora 16 for quite a time and yes, I am facing a big
problem..may be because of a a bug in Fedora 16..
I hope you people will make it clear..
the condition is::
I have two harddisks both are having Fedora 16 installed occupying the full
space on both of them, say hdd-A and hdd-B.
The problem comes when i boot my system with both the harddisks plugged in.
First I select which hdd to boot from bios then the selected one starts to
boot up, GRUB appears and loads the selected kernel but after the booting
process is done.
what I am getting is a mixed File System.!!!! i.e. I get the /home
directory of other hard disk!!!!
and this is the case when I boot any of the harddisk A or B,
I always face the cross mount problem??
Rather, if I boot with single hdd,(other one plugged off) it boots as
normal!!!
Is anyone facing this problem??
Any help or discussion is appreciated..
Regards!!!!
11 years, 5 months
(no subject)
by Sourav Basu
Hello everyone. I am a computer student doing grads. I am an Open Source enthusiast and a Linux Lover. Although am new in this contribution thing i want to become an active contributer. Hope to learn from you all.
-Sourav
11 years, 5 months
[Event Report] Barcamp Mumbai 9, Sunday, June 17, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
I attended Barcamp Mumbai 9 [1] at Veermata Jijabai Technological
Institute (VJTI) [2], Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on Sunday, June 17,
2012. After an informal introduction, four parallel tracks were
scheduled. Each session was 20 minutes long, and 10 minutes between
talks for people to move between the halls. Although most of the talks
were non-technical, there were quite a few interesting sessions.
Raj Desai presented on "The Math of Music". He explained how the
rhythms or beats used in music formed a pattern, and how they often
use prime numbers. For example, a 5-beat sequence is made from a
combination of a 2-3 beat sequence, or, a 7-beat sequence is made from
a 2-2-3 or a 3-2-2 beat sequence. He also played the different beats,
giving numerous examples.
Krishna Patel played the short movie "Geri's Game" [3] in his session
on "How To Watch a Movie", and explained the different aspects in a
movie like composition, props, sound, colour etc. He mentioned that
one might have to re-watch a movie several times focusing on just one
aspect at a time to observe and learn how they have been used.
The session on "How to memorise a pack of 52 playing cards in under 2
minutes" by Aniceto Pereira taught how to use two simple mnemonic
systems to memorise a pack of cards. For the four suites, we used the
letters C (clubs), S (spades), H (hearts), D (diamonds). For each card
in a suite, a consonant is assigned. For example, Ace was assigned the
letter 't' or 'd', because there is one vertical line in it, referring
to one. The number '2' was assigned the letter 'n' because there were
two downward strokes in it. So, if we had an Ace ('t') of clubs ('c'),
we would combine the letter and the consonant to form an image, say
"cat", and associate it with our environment to remember it. For each
card that we have, we build a series of images to remember them.
Anurag Patel's [4] session on "Sh*t people say to a chat bot" was
hilarious! He had created http://rickfare.com to compute Mumbai's
autorickshaw fare calculation, and later added support for other
cities as well. There were times when people started to chat with the
bot, and he shared quite a few entertaining, priceless conversations
from the server logs.
The talk on "Negotiating with VCs - An Entrepreneur’s Legal Guide" by
Abhyudaya Agarwal was very informative, and detailed. I had presented
"Quite Universal Circuit Simulator - A Qt Love Story" [5], an
introduction to electrical circuit theory using Qucs [6]. You can
install Qucs on Fedora using:
$ sudo yum install qucs
I also had a chance to stay at Anu Shakti Nagar [7], a quiet, serene,
beautiful residential township in Mumbai in this visit. Few pictures
taken during the trip are available in my gallery [8].
SK
[1] Barcamp Mumbai 9. http://barcampmumbai.org/index.php/BCM9
[2] Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute. http://www.vjti.ac.in/
[3] Geri's Game. http://www.pixar.com/shorts/gg/index.html
[4] Anurag Patel. http://web.gnuer.org/blog/index.php
[5] Quite Universal Circuit Simulator - A Qt Love Story.
http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#qucs-a-qt-love-story
[6] Qucs. http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
[7] Anu Shakti Nagar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anushakti_Nagar
[8] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album82
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
11 years, 5 months
[Fwd: [X-post]Join Fedora SIG]
by Ankur Sinha
Hi folks,
I expect you've read the announcement on one of the lists already. For
those of you who didn't:
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com>
> Reply-to: ankursinha(a)fedoraproject.org
> To: Fedora Ambassadors <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, Fedora
> Devel Mailing List <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, Fedora Test list
> <test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: [X-post]Join Fedora SIG
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:54:52 +0530
>
> Hello folks!
>
> First, please forgive me for the X-post. The email concerns more than
> one team and I really didn't know what mailing list to send it to. I've
> therefore sent it to the 3 major lists that I hope would cover most of
> the community.
>
> ----
>
> We've been recently looking to reduce the learning gradient that new
> folks need to hike up when they look to contribute to Fedora. Users
> looking to give back to the community is amazing. I feel we need to go
> out and give them as much help as we can. The importance here is that
> most of them will be new to the workflows, SIGS, teams and processes
> that Fedora community uses. Quite a few of them will be new to Linux
> even. For these novices, learning all that is required to become
> contributors is a daunting task. However, what is important is that all
> of them have the *potential* to make awesome contributors!
>
> At the moment, this is how folks go about it:
>
> 1. Look at the join-fedora page[1]
> 2. Select what they want to do, or randomly pick one that looks
> most familiar
> 3. Join the various mailing lists
> 4. Ask how they can help
> 5. Start working, and learn while they work, get sponsored etc.
>
> Even though this works, there are a few issues here IMO:
>
> 1. Quite a few folks aren't sure what they want to do. The join
> fedora page is confusing for them at times. They don't know first hand
> what each role is about, so they aren't sure if they should join up SIG
> A or SIG B. This doesn't make them "folks that can't contribute (they
> can't even figure out what SIG to join! heh!)". It makes them "folks who
> need to find where they fit in, what they're good at in the Fedora
> community"
> 2. The various mailing lists: devel, mktg, infra are work oriented.
> While we do guide newcomers that ask for help on the lists, these
> newcomers are usually scared to ask questions. They feel they'll make
> fools of themselves if they ask simple questions in front of established
> contributors.
>
> Basically, the working mailing lists aren't exactly the best
> environment for new comers. They are task oriented. They aren't
> dedicated to aiding new comers. We also don't want lots of introductions
> etc. on the work mailing lists either. We want them to be dedicated to
> *work*.
>
> I therefore suggest setting up communication channels dedicated to
> aid newcomers. I've already run into a "Welcome SIG"[2] initiative. The
> "welcome SIG" was intended to be more broad. It was intended for users
> too. If we set up "welcome SIG", I'm afraid it'll turn into another
> troubleshooting channel. We already have #fedora, the users mailing
> list[3], askfedora[3] for troubleshooting. I'd like to set up a channel
> dedicated to prospective contributors: something like a "Join Fedora
> SIG"(proposal on the wiki here[4]). Gnome already has something on these
> lines: the Gnome Love[5] project. It works. I'm on the mailing list.
> People ask for help, they get their guidance. Slowly, they turn into
> contributors. I'd like to again stress that the current mailing lists,
> while already present and open to the public are not *dedicated* to this
> purpose of guiding newbies. I suggest:
>
> 1. #fedora-join on Freenode
> 2. fedora-join mailing list
>
> The goals of these are:
>
> 1. Set up a communication channel between the existing contributors
> and prospective contributors. Speaking to current team members is always
> encouraging. We could even set up a system to send "easyfix" tasks to
> this mailing list giving folks a chance to work on them and learn in the
> process.
> 2. Guide/aid prospective contributors to turn into solid
> contributors. Rather than just pointing them to join.fp.o, talk to them,
> see what issues they face, help them decide where they want to get
> started.
> 3. Via these channels, form better mentor-mentee relationships.
> Here, I mean "mentor" in the real sense of the word. Rahul, for
> instance, brought me into Fedora almost 6 years back via a font
> packaging IRC work shop. He's still my mentor and I still email him when
> I get stuck in a situation. Such relationships improve the community,
> both work wise and fun wise.
> 4. Give prospective contributors a communication channel to converse
> amongst themselves. This is very important. Take the GSoC mailing list
> for instance. It is set up specifically so that the candidates can talk
> to each other. Since they're all in the same boat, they feel more
> comfortable discussing certain issues amongst themselves. They'll also
> be aware of what different people are up to which will give them a
> better idea of what they can do.
>
> I'm looking to set up this channel. Whatever I've written above is
> mostly what *my* neurons could think up. I initially thought that
> extending the classroom SIG to also function as the Join Fedora SIG
> would work, but Kevin suggested we keep them separate. (The function of
> the classroom SIG is for the community to teach each other). Basically,
> I'd like to look for potential, not polish. We can help them gain the
> polish that established contributors have.
>
> What are your views on this folks? Here, I'd request folks to follow
> "plussing": please criticize this as much as you want, find issues, but
> only if you have a "plus" to give as a solution. (I ran into it in a
> book I recently read. I think it's a great way to go. No harm giving it
> a try :-) )
>
>
> Steps:
> 1. File ticket at infra to set up fedora-join mailing list
> 2. Set up IRC channel #fedora-join
> 3. File ticket with websites SIG to make tiny changes to join.fp.o
> to list Fedora-Join IRC and mailing list channels.
> 4. Ask infra if we can set up a system to send "easyfix"
> notifications to the channel/mailing list.
> 5. Get started!
>
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome_SIG
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
> [5] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove
<snip>
The Fedora Join SIG[1] now has a mailing list[2] and an IRC channel[3]
up and running! If you have some time to spare, please hang out here and
help new folks. Even more importantly, if you know folks looking to
contribute, please point them to the mailing list or the channel, which
ever they prefer.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
[2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join
[3] #fedora-join on Freenode
--
Thanks,
Warm regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"
Please only print if necessary.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/
11 years, 5 months
Re: [fedora-india] Help with tagging in Ask Fedora
by Ratnadeep Debnath
Hi Rahul,
Why do we allow users with any karma point create a tag? AFAIK in Stackoverflow, users need to have a minimum reputation to add tags, else they are bound to use the existing tags.
We can add such a feature to askbot too.
Thanks,
rtnpro
Sent from my HTC
----- Reply message -----
From: "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid(a)gmail.com>
To: "Fedora India" <india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: [fedora-india] Help with tagging in Ask Fedora
Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 2:59 am
Hi
Tagging is a mess in Ask Fedora at this point. Too many tags and many
questions have senseless tags and I need help in cleaning it up. I did
it once but we need to do this regularly. If you are a moderator, take
a look at
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/tags/
Remove tags which are too narrow or too generic or doesn't make sense
independently or too small - hp2346 or fedora or manager or 3.3 for instance
You should eliminate tags which are used in less than say 5 or 10
questions and find the nearest equivalent
Collapse tags which are very similar - print, printer, printing and pick
just one that is used mostly commonly and eliminate others
The overall goal should be to narrow down tags to less than 50 or so tags.
If you have questions, feel free to ask
Rahul
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11 years, 5 months
Help with tagging in Ask Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Tagging is a mess in Ask Fedora at this point. Too many tags and many
questions have senseless tags and I need help in cleaning it up. I did
it once but we need to do this regularly. If you are a moderator, take
a look at
http://ask.fedoraproject.org/tags/
Remove tags which are too narrow or too generic or doesn't make sense
independently or too small - hp2346 or fedora or manager or 3.3 for instance
You should eliminate tags which are used in less than say 5 or 10
questions and find the nearest equivalent
Collapse tags which are very similar - print, printer, printing and pick
just one that is used mostly commonly and eliminate others
The overall goal should be to narrow down tags to less than 50 or so tags.
If you have questions, feel free to ask
Rahul
11 years, 5 months
Fwd: Changes to the process of becoming a packaging sponsor
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
If any of the package maintainers here qualify, please apply and become
a package sponsor. It helps to bring in new contributors.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Changes to the process of becoming a packaging sponsor
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:39:07 -0500
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
A while back, FESCo approved and I implemented some changes to the
process of becoming a sponsor in the packager group, and I wanted to
make sure that everyone is aware since the path to becoming a sponsor is
shorter and simpler than ever before.
The most important change is that sponsor status no longer implies
provenpackager status. Sponsor status is now solely about helping new
packagers through the process. We now use the following simplified
criteria for new sponsors:
* Maintain at least three packages.
* Have done five high quality, nontrivial package reviews.
* Have been a member of the packager group for at least one release
cycle (generally six months) so that you have seen the process of
branching for a new release.
Requests for sponsor status are now made via a trac instance:
https://fedorahosted.org/packager-sponsors/ and are voted on by the
existing sponsors.
One final, and less-related change, is that the above trac instance can
also be used by new packagers to request fedorapeople access for their
packages during the review process. This replaces (or at least
augments) an informal procedure by which people had to find the right
person after their review had been posted or come to IRC at the right
time to get fedorapeople access.
So, if you believe you meet the above criteria and would like to sponsor
new contributors, please feel free to step up and file a ticket in our
new trac instance.
- J<
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