Linux killer!
by malcolm
I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux
I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu
The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far
Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better
Then I asked the question - so what do you think of Linux ?
'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 )
Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they said
OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also
true they said
It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck
Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did
point out that
they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't
cut much ice with
teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the
ground if I don't have
the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers
are OK but
only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the
Linux version of Real Player
won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does.
Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was
better than the Windows
equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the
lack of Windows Media plugins
Help .... please !
M
18 years, 8 months
kernel-module-ntfs and Yum
by Daniel Silva
Hi,
I've installed the kernel-module-ntfs package with yum, but when i run the
'yum update' command the package isn't updated.
Can anyone tell me why?
Daniel.
18 years, 8 months
RE: Security, Hacking & Social Engineering Presentation.
by Mike McGrath
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Igor Lumpus
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: SV: Security, Hacking & Social Engineering Presentation.
>
> > --
> > Emmanuel Goldstein.
> > Room 101, Ministry of Truth.
> > W2, London. Oceania.
> >
>
> Can't help but asking if you are a fan of George Orwell's 1984???
> And if so, why did you choose Room 101???
>
> IL
>
I don't know if anyone has suggested this but MIT's Open CourseWare is
often a good place to find information on IT related subjects. This one
might be of interest to you:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-
857Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm
-Mike
18 years, 8 months
RE: Eclipse plugins
by Dan Thurman
I believe it is: /usr/share/eclipse/plugins
for your particular fedora box.
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:45 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Eclipse plugins
How should one install Eclipse plugins in FC4 so that they are available
system-wide?
TIA.
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mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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18 years, 8 months
USB modem install on FC4
by Jean François Ortolo
Hi all
I have got installed FC4 32bits on my AMD64 machine as a classic
client workstation.
The Ethernet connection works fine, as much as all network
configuration tools.
I've some difficulties to setup an USB analog modem, Hayes compatible.
Whenever the modem is being switched to USB, the right modules are
being charged ( generic-ppp, etc... ), however, when I try to setup the
new modem device as root with the menu "Desktop" -> "System Settings" ->
"Network", the only listed serial interfaces are classic serial
interfaces, no USB interface, unless I'm wrong.
All the listed interface are: modem ( There is no /dev/modem device in
the /dev directory ), ttyS0, 1, etc, ttyl0, 1, etc,
input/tty-something_I_don't_recall, ttyM0, 1, etc, and ttyACM0, 1, etc.
I presume all these interfaces are purely serial, not USB, so I can't
setup my modem, such that it could be accessible by the machine.
I tried "modem" ( which gives me error 2 after an "ifup <device>",
then "ttyS0", which gives me error 6 ( unsuccessful locking attempt ).
I tried with the debug options in the /etc/ppp/options file.
The /var/log/messsages file shows the modem doesn't respond at all to
the ATZ command, which proves it's not accessible from the machine,
through the ttyS0 interface.
The modem interface was the first option I setup, which gave me error
2 at fist attempt to make an "ifup <device>".
The error 2 is not very clear. The 'man pppd' says any error, for
example "contradiction beetween the configuration characteristics".
The fact is, the /dev/modem doesn't exist at all, which is something I
don't understand.
Many thanks four your help.
Best regards.
Jean-Francois Ortolo
18 years, 8 months
DVD doesn't mount, but writing works fine.
by Kim Lux
I'm running FC4 with all the updates. Generally it works great. I can
write DVDs without errors using K3B.
However, I can't mount a DVD for reading. Selecting "Mount" on the "CD
Recorder" icon on the desktop yields:
"mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was
specified Please check that the disk is entered correctly."
I've tried this with both a Rocky Ridge and Joliet formated DVDs as well
as a 3rd party commercial DVD.
Double clicking the "CD Recorder" icon yields:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
Doing it manually:
mount /dev/hdc -tjfs tmp
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
Any idea what could be causing this problem ?
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
18 years, 8 months
mounting DVD/CD, what is supposed to be in fstab ?
by korgull
Hi,
I'm having an issue with mythTV. Previously in FC3 I could slide in a CD or
DVD and mythTV would recognize the format and either mount the CD or start
playing the DVD. Now in FC4 that doesn't work anymore for me.
I've tried some things and when I set the fstype in fstab to udf, mythTV plays
DVD's automatically again.
Unfortunately it doesn't mount a normal CD that way, so I'm still not back to
the way it used to be.
I somehow can't put "auto" for fstype in fstab because in that case it will
mount a DVD using the iso9660 fstype (which is wrong). When that happens,
mythT will not recognize the disc as a DVD any more and not start playback.
Is this mouting of a DVD using the iso9660 fstype a bug ?
Does anyone have a solution ?
Regards,
Marcel
18 years, 8 months
