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mozilla-mail & /var/spool/mail/$USER
by Raghu Vadapalli 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Can I access my /var/spool/mail/$USER using mozilla-mail & thunderbird. When I use the wizard all I see is pop/imap options. may be it's a too dumb question. But any help would be greatly appreciated. Raghu.

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Re: 16x9 aspect ratio display
by Lewis Bloch 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Lew Bloch misstated: > 1280:1024 is exactly 4:3. How do you get 3.2? Er, I meant 5:4.

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Yum repository with nessus
by Douglas Phillipson 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Doen anyone know of a yum repository that includes the nessus vuln scanner? Thanks Doug P

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bz2 without mpg's
by chris 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I am wanting to create a bz2 arcive of some files but without adding mpg's. Anyone know a command or program that I can do that with.

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dynamic signatures
by Bestin P. Jose 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

i have a dynamic signature generation program(shell script). i am using pine as mail client. i want to have dynamically generated signatures for each mail i compose. how to do this? thanks, Bestin Jose

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Sound Card Detection Problem
by Brandon Cirella 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Fedora does "detect" my sound card but what it detects is not my sound card. Is there any way I can manually set my sound card so I can get sound?

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Sound problems in KDE
by Søren Neigaard 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi I have some strange sound problems on my system (Fedore Core 2 running KDE). Its like the sound is always a little behind, both in games and in MPlayer. Also in MPlayer I cant adjust the sound. I am using aRts both for xmms and MPlayer, and in xmms I can adjust the sound but I cant in MPlayer (I cant even move the bar). Any ideas whats wrong here, and how to fix it? Best regards Søren

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fedoratracker.org: An update and a request
by Brad Smith 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi folks, First the update: Since fedoratracker.org launched the number of packages indexed by it has increased dramitically. This, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, has had a very serious affect on performance. When the problem got so bad that I found myself googling for packages instead of using my own tool (believe me, that is _not_ a fun position to be in) I knew something had to be done before FC3 was released. So, long story short, over the last several months I've devoted an inordinate amount of time to comepletely re-writing chunks of the Tracker's back-end code to improve performance and am pretty happy with the results. Improvements in this revision: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Very significant increases in package search speeds. Listing all packages in FC1 now takes about 9 seconds, for example. Once the DB has cached the result, the same search takes only 3 seconds. - Scalability improvements (so you can expect it to stay fast for the forseeable future) - Results are now shown 25 at a time instead of loading every match at once. I'm open to feedback about whether this number should be increased. - You can now search by package category, something I've been wanting to implement for a long time - Improved logging and exception handling Known issues that I will fix when I can, but have no timeframe for because I have to get back to the Real Job(tm) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Repository searches can still take about 15-20 seconds. I've figured out ways to cut this time down significantly but haven't had time to implement them yet. - For some reason the fedora.us repos did not index properly during the last nightly database update. Hopefully this problem will fix itsself on the next run. - I just noticed that the link for listing files in a package doesn't currently show anything. Not sure why this is. Probably a quick fix once I get around to it. Please check it out and I hope you find it useful. If you have comments, questions or bug reports, either respond in this thread or email brads -at- red hat com. http://www.fedoratracker.org --Brad

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Fedora Upgrade
by Sri Chav 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Is there a way to just change the boot loader configuration without installing or upgrading Fedora? I have Fedora installed on my secondary hard disk. However, the install cd will not let me change the boot loader since the kernel parameters were not changed. Any suggestions/ideas? Thank you -s- _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx

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Re Problem copying files
by Ian Malone 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

(sorry, hadn't realised thread was still going) Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:02:31PM +0100, Tor Harald Thorland wrote: > .... >> Could not write to /mnt/..... > .... >> It is a flash drive.. I have enough space, the right permissions >> and so on.. it is copying all the other files, except for the ones >> with norwegian characters.. >> One of the files is called nødbrannpumpe.doc > nødbrannpumpe.doc > 00000000: 6e c3 b8 64 62 72 61 6e 6e 70 75 6d 70 65 2e 64 | n..dbrannpumpe.d > $ touch 'nødbrannpumpe.doc' > touch: setting times of `nødbrannpumpe.doc': No such file or directory > The file name is not a legal file name for this type > of file system. > $ df . > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 46786 6 46780 1% /mnt/flash1 > $ mount > .... > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob) > .... <snip> > A bit of digging may still be required but it looks as if the two > bytes used for the multi byte character "ø" are not in the legal > character set: > (space) ! # $ % & ' ( ) + , - . 0-9 ; = @ A-Z [ ] ^ _ ` a-z { } ~ They're not, and judging from his reply in this thread, changing the name isn't a problem for the OP. I should point out, though, that it is possible to successfully use utf8 filenames on a vfat volume by giving mount the '-o utf8' option. I'm not sure how you would get the updfstab system to add it though, so I can only suggest manually '-o rw,nosuid,nodev,user,uid=bob' (and last time I tried, just doing a remount isn't good enough, the volume must be unmounted, then mounted with the new options). On top of that it will likely make garbage of existing filenames with high bit characters, but I don't /remember/ it being destructive. This is quite useful if you dual boot with Windows (for Millenium anyway), since windows also appears to use utf8 for filenames, and files with names like "Veinte Años.ogg" can be shared bewteen Linux and Windows. It's also likely to be useful when copying files from a flash drive that were taken from a Windows machine (although only the name will be affected, contents should be readable regardless). -- imalone

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