One more mplayer qyestion
by akonstam＠trinity.edu
So I went and installed:
mplayer-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
mplayer-libs-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
And this is what happened. When I opened a movie trailer I got by
e-mail I got the sound but not the picture.
Then I went to www.css.com and tried to play their video. An error
message that it could not find Windows media player.
So what do I do now.?
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18 years, 8 months
yumex and memory
by Eric Tanguy
Using yumex use a lot of memory but it seems that yumex does not
restitute it. You use yumex, you look for something so first in your
default repos and after you try in other repos but at each time you
click on refresh on the repos tab yumex does not restitute the memory.
If i try this 4 or 5 times yumex saturate my memory and the only
possibility is to close yumex and reopen it.
Someone could confirm this and/or explain me why ?
Thanks
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Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) sur athlon kernel 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
18 years, 8 months
OT - How to reply to digest email?
by Nick Bishop
Hi people,
I am subscribed to fedora-list in digest mode, to cut
email volume. My question is when I see a message in
the digest I want to reply to, how do I ensure that my
reply gets attached to the right thread at the right
point?
I do alter the subject line, and trim the reply-quoted
stuff, but is there another trick I can also use?
Nick Bishop, email replies ignored.
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18 years, 8 months
Mounting windows at startup
by Paul Smith
Dear All
How can I mount the following at the startup:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
18 years, 8 months
SAMBA home directories and SELinux
by Stephen Walton
I have the usual entry in smb.conf on my FC4 server:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
As an additional wrinkle, home directories on the server are physically
on /users but get mounted on demand on /home on both the server and on
client workstations using a typical LDAP/autofs setup.
With SELinux enabled, both smbclient and users on Windows machines fail
to get access to home directories. What magic chcon invocation do I need?
18 years, 8 months
mplayer codec in Fedora Core 4
by Antonio Montagnani
If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target
directory???
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18 years, 8 months
Re: Newbie: Mozilla and Firefox windows "disappear" under FC3 2.6.11
by Clive＠Rational
Some diagnostic information I have found when Mozilla
fails under Linux Fedora 2.6.10 / 2.6.11
I do not have the skills to diagnose anything from
this
Should I post the info on some other list?
Thanks
Clive
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut
here ]------------
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: kernel BUG at
mm/rmap.c:483!
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: invalid operand:
0000 [#1]
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: Modules linked in:
parport_pc lp parport md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc
orinoco_cs orinoco hermes pcmcia microcode vfat fat
dm_mod video button battery ac ohci1394 ieee1394
yenta_socket pcmcia_core ohci_hcd ehci_hcd i2c_sis96x
i2c_core snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore
snd_page_alloc 8139too mii floppy ext3 jbd
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: EIP:
0060:[<c01560dc>] Not tainted VLI
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286
(2.6.10-1.771_FC2)
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: EIP is at
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx:
c1171d40 ecx: c1171d40 edx: c1171d40
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: esi: 00000000 edi:
000f4000 ebp: cbe71aa0 esp: d2925df0
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b
ss: 0068
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: Process mozilla-bin
(pid: 5822, threadinfo=d2925000 task=cd991870)
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: Stack: c014eb0b
0b8ea067 0024c000 08db4000 c03e2e28 08db4000 09000000
cdb64090
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: c03e2e28
c014eba6 0024c000 00000000 08db4000 cdb64090 091b4000
c03e2e28
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: c014ebfd
00400000 00000000 d2925e98 00400000 08db4000 cd43a564
c014ed09
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014eb0b>]
zap_pte_range+0x1bd/0x221
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014eba6>]
zap_pmd_range+0x37/0x52
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014ebfd>]
unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x57
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014ed09>]
unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x2a0
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c03023d9>]
wait_for_completion+0x12d/0x229
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0153e97>]
exit_mmap+0xc2/0x1e5
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0118d40>]
mmput+0x1f/0x16a
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011e68b>]
do_exit+0x22b/0x5bf
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011ebcc>]
sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0128f87>]
get_signal_to_deliver+0x747/0x802
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01032ce>]
do_signal+0x55/0xce
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0302abf>]
schedule_timeout+0x53/0x10f
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c016f756>]
pipe_poll+0x21/0x5e
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01760a6>]
do_pollfd+0x5b/0x83
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0176117>]
do_poll+0x49/0xa5
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01756c0>]
poll_freewait+0x33/0x3a
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0176322>]
sys_poll+0x1af/0x1bd
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01756c7>]
__pollwait+0x0/0x94
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c010336e>]
do_notify_resume+0x27/0x35
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01034be>]
work_notifysig+0x13/0x15
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: Code: ff 05 f0 89 40
c0 50 9d c3 89 c2 8b 00 f6 c4 08 74 08 0f 0b e0 01 a3
cb 31 c0 83 42 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 19 8b 42 08 40
79 08 <0f> 0b e3 01 a3 cb 31 c0 9c 58 fa ff 0d f0 89
40 c0 50 9d c3 55
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: <3>Debug: sleeping
function called from invalid context at
include/linux/rwsem.h:43
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: in_atomic():1,
irqs_disabled():0
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01188f3>]
__might_sleep+0x80/0x8a
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011c6d4>]
profile_task_exit+0x18/0x41
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011e477>]
do_exit+0x17/0x5bf
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0103e1b>]
do_trap+0x0/0xa2
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c010400b>]
do_invalid_op+0x0/0x8b
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c010408a>]
do_invalid_op+0x7f/0x8b
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c02a70a6>]
skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x4f/0x1e1
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c02ccb83>]
tcp_recvmsg+0x60b/0x646
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<e09eab03>]
hermes_bap_pwrite+0x34/0xa8 [hermes]
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c010361b>]
error_code+0x2b/0x30
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014007b>]
do_generic_mapping_read+0x1bc/0x357
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014eb0b>]
zap_pte_range+0x1bd/0x221
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014eba6>]
zap_pmd_range+0x37/0x52
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014ebfd>]
unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x57
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c014ed09>]
unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x2a0
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c03023d9>]
wait_for_completion+0x12d/0x229
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0153e97>]
exit_mmap+0xc2/0x1e5
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0118d40>]
mmput+0x1f/0x16a
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011e68b>]
do_exit+0x22b/0x5bf
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c011ebcc>]
sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0128f87>]
get_signal_to_deliver+0x747/0x802
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01032ce>]
do_signal+0x55/0xce
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0302abf>]
schedule_timeout+0x53/0x10f
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c016f756>]
pipe_poll+0x21/0x5e
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01760a6>]
do_pollfd+0x5b/0x83
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0176117>]
do_poll+0x49/0xa5
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01756c0>]
poll_freewait+0x33/0x3a
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c0176322>]
sys_poll+0x1af/0x1bd
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01756c7>]
__pollwait+0x0/0x94
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c010336e>]
do_notify_resume+0x27/0x35
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: [<c01034be>]
work_notifysig+0x13/0x15
Jul 8 18:00:47 localhost kernel: note:
mozilla-bin[5822] exited with preempt_count 1
Jul 8 18:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6180]:
session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jul 8 18:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6180]:
session closed for user root
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut
here ]------------
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: kernel BUG at
mm/rmap.c:483!
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: invalid operand:
0000 [#2]
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: Modules linked in:
parport_pc lp parport md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc
orinoco_cs orinoco hermes pcmcia microcode vfat fat
dm_mod video button battery ac ohci1394 ieee1394
yenta_socket pcmcia_core ohci_hcd ehci_hcd i2c_sis96x
i2c_core snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore
snd_page_alloc 8139too mii floppy ext3 jbd
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: EIP:
0060:[<c01560dc>] Not tainted VLI
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286
(2.6.10-1.771_FC2)
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: EIP is at
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx:
c1171d40 ecx: c1171d40 edx: c1171d40
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: esi: 00000000 edi:
00000000 ebp: d525dc44 esp: d6eefed0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b
ss: 0068
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: Process nautilus
(pid: 5390, threadinfo=d6eef000 task=d918b100)
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: Stack: c014eb0b
0b8ea067 00001000 b7b11000 c03e2e28 b7b11000 b7b12000
d64efb7c
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: c03e2e28
c014eba6 00001000 00000000 b7b11000 d64efb7c b7b12000
c03e2e28
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: c014ebfd
00001000 00000000 d6eeff78 00400000 b7b11000 cb0f675c
c014ed09
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eb0b>]
zap_pte_range+0x1bd/0x221
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eba6>]
zap_pmd_range+0x37/0x52
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ebfd>]
unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x57
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ed09>]
unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x2a0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01520be>]
vma_link+0xf6/0x207
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153781>]
unmap_region+0x61/0xc6
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153a77>]
do_munmap+0x166/0x1dd
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153b39>]
sys_munmap+0x4b/0x63
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0103473>]
syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: Code: ff 05 f0 89 40
c0 50 9d c3 89 c2 8b 00 f6 c4 08 74 08 0f 0b e0 01 a3
cb 31 c0 83 42 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 19 8b 42 08 40
79 08 <0f> 0b e3 01 a3 cb 31 c0 9c 58 fa ff 0d f0 89
40 c0 50 9d c3 55
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: <3>Debug: sleeping
function called from invalid context at
include/linux/rwsem.h:43
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: in_atomic():1,
irqs_disabled():0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01188f3>]
__might_sleep+0x80/0x8a
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c011c6d4>]
profile_task_exit+0x18/0x41
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c011e477>]
do_exit+0x17/0x5bf
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0103e1b>]
do_trap+0x0/0xa2
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010400b>]
do_invalid_op+0x0/0x8b
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010408a>]
do_invalid_op+0x7f/0x8b
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014020e>]
do_generic_mapping_read+0x34f/0x357
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0140465>]
__generic_file_aio_read+0x15d/0x177
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010361b>]
error_code+0x2b/0x30
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eb0b>]
zap_pte_range+0x1bd/0x221
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eba6>]
zap_pmd_range+0x37/0x52
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ebfd>]
unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x57
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ed09>]
unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x2a0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01520be>]
vma_link+0xf6/0x207
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153781>]
unmap_region+0x61/0xc6
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153a77>]
do_munmap+0x166/0x1dd
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153b39>]
sys_munmap+0x4b/0x63
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0103473>]
syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: note: nautilus[5390]
exited with preempt_count 1
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: scheduling while
atomic: nautilus/0x00000001/5390
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0301dfb>]
schedule+0x3d/0x4ee
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0302f81>]
rwsem_down_read_failed+0x1ff/0x21d
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0134e2f>]
.text.lock.futex+0x7/0xb0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0134d17>]
do_futex+0x37/0x5e
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0134e06>]
sys_futex+0xc8/0xd7
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0119035>]
mm_release+0x7f/0x86
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c011e53c>]
do_exit+0xdc/0x5bf
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0103e1b>]
do_trap+0x0/0xa2
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010400b>]
do_invalid_op+0x0/0x8b
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010408a>]
do_invalid_op+0x7f/0x8b
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014020e>]
do_generic_mapping_read+0x34f/0x357
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0140465>]
__generic_file_aio_read+0x15d/0x177
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c010361b>]
error_code+0x2b/0x30
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01560dc>]
page_remove_rmap+0x22/0x36
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eb0b>]
zap_pte_range+0x1bd/0x221
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014eba6>]
zap_pmd_range+0x37/0x52
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ebfd>]
unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x57
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c014ed09>]
unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x2a0
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c01520be>]
vma_link+0xf6/0x207
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153781>]
unmap_region+0x61/0xc6
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153a77>]
do_munmap+0x166/0x1dd
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0153b39>]
sys_munmap+0x4b/0x63
Jul 8 18:01:03 localhost kernel: [<c0103473>]
syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jul 8 18:02:44 localhost smartd[4231]: Device:
/dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jul 8 18:02:55 localhost shutdown: shutting down for
system reboot
Jul 8 18:02:55 localhost init: Switching to runlevel:
6
Jul 8 18:02:56 localhost login(pam_unix)[4829]:
session closed for user root
Jul 8 18:02:57 localhost cups-config-daemon:
cups-config-daemon -TERM succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:57 localhost haldaemon: haldaemon -TERM
succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:57 localhost messagebus: messagebus -TERM
succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:57 localhost atd: atd shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:57 localhost cups: cupsd shutdown
succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost webmin: Stopping Webmin
server in /usr/libexec/webmin
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost rc: Stopping webmin:
succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost xfs[4600]: terminating
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost gpm[4509]: *** info
[mice.c(1766)]:
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost gpm[4509]: imps2:
Auto-detected intellimouse PS/2
Jul 8 18:02:58 localhost gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:00 localhost gconfd (root-5339): SIGHUP
received, reloading all databases
Jul 8 18:03:00 localhost gconfd (root-5339): Resolved
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory"
to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Jul 8 18:03:00 localhost gconfd (root-5339): Resolved
address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable
configuration source at position 1
Jul 8 18:03:00 localhost gconfd (root-5339): Resolved
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults"
to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Jul 8 18:03:02 localhost httpd: httpd shutdown
succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:03 localhost sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:03 localhost sendmail: sendmail shutdown
succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:03 localhost sendmail: sm-client shutdown
succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost smb: smbd shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost nmbd[4614]: [2005/07/08
18:03:04, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(56)
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost nmbd[4614]: Got SIGTERM:
going down...
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost smb: nmbd shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost vncserver: Shutting down VNC
server:
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost vncserver: vncserver
shutdown succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost vncserver: [60G
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost vncserver:
Jul 8 18:03:04 localhost rc: Stopping vncserver:
succeeded
Jul 8 18:03:05 localhost mysqld: Stopping MySQL:
succeeded
Jul 8 18:07:49 localhost shutdown: shutting down for
system reboot
18 years, 8 months
OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out
by Fajar Priyanto
The future is forming up....
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1863060,00.asp
The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only
nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective Jan. 1,
2007. Although state CIO Peter Quinn has said repeatedly that this issue does
not represent "the state versus Microsoft Corp. —or any one company,"
adoption of the long-debated plan may result in all versions of Microsoft's
Office productivity suite being phased out of use throughout the state's
executive branch agencies.
Massachusetts posted the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference
Model on its Web site.
As part of this new policy, the state will support the newly ratified Open
Document Format for Office Applications, or OpenDocument, and PDFs (portable
document format) as the standards for its office documents.
Quinn told DesktopLinux.com earlier this month that he challenged Microsoft
and other companies who sell software that uses proprietary document formats
to consider enabling open-format options as soon as possible. Quinn said that
"government is creating history at a rapidly increasing rate, and all
documents we save must be accessible to everybody, without having to use
'closed' software to open them now and in the future."
Quinn said the state runs a "vast majority" of its office and system computers
on Windows and that "only a very small percentage of them run Linux and other
open source software at this time. This is in tune with the general market in
the U.S. But we like to 'eat our own cooking,' in that we are using
OpenOffice.org and Linux more and more as time goes along, because it
produces open format documents."
In contrast, Microsoft's Office creates Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other
documents that are accessible only by Microsoft products, making them
ineligible for use, the state said.
"Microsoft has remade the desktop world," Quinn said. "But if you've watched
history, there's a slag heap of proprietary companies who have fallen by the
wayside because they were stuck in their ways. Just look at the minicomputer
business, for example. The world is about open standards and open source. I
can't understand why anybody would want to continue making closed-format
documents anymore."
Microsoft's answer to that is simple. MS Office, which is upgraded about every
three years and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, brought in more
than $11 billion last year, or about 28 percent of Microsoft's total revenue,
according to the company's recently filed annual report.
"We've had an active, ongoing conversation with Microsoft since January about
this, and they've been open to hearing our position," Quinn said. "But I
don't know one way or the other how they're ultimately going to react to
this. Also, this isn't just about Microsoft. We're focusing on the formats
here, not necessarily the software."
Unless Microsoft starts supporting OO.org, Quinn said, the state will
gradually phase out Microsoft Office in favor of OO.org.
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18 years, 8 months
exercise a hub
by Thufir
I have a hub I'd like to run some tests on. For this purpose I've
acquired two older desktops, I know that sounds backwards, but there
you are. I'm going to put a minimal, one-cd install on both desktops
and connect them with the hub. There won't be an internet connection,
nor any other computers connected to the hub but the two old desktops.
Why exercise the hub you ask? Great question.
My neighbor has a SMC7004VWBR 802.11b wireless router which I connect
through. I have an Asus WL-330g 802.11g ethernet adapter which I use
for the wi-fi connection. It's supposed to be possible to connect the
adapter to hub, and then several computers to the hub. I've spoken
with Asus, who tried it with a similar SMC router and confirmed the
setup. I spoke with SMC, who confirm that it's not the router.
I haven't totally eliminated the Asus WL-330g adapter as a suspect in
this, but the net, so to speak, is closing on the hub. The SMC tech
alternately suggested that a firewall running on the computer is
causing the problem, or that the hub is at fault. I looked through
the Windows2000 software installer, nothing there. Similarly, there
wasn't a firewall under linux, this is on a dual boot machine, of
course. Again, this points to the hub. I went through my browser
settings with SMC and have tried multiple browsers. I want to stay
focused on the hub for the moment.
The SMC tech suggested a "managed" hub, and definitely I'll check that
out. In the meantime, though, I have these two older desktops and
want to find out, if possible, if there's something wonky with the
hub.
Unfortunately, the only diagnostic tool I really have is "ping."
Obviously the two machines should be able to ping each other through
the hub. I'll also try and set up some ftp, but I'd like to go at
this systematically.
Is there a list of tests that I could run on this hub to confirm, one
way or the other, if the hub is up to snuff?
Here are the details for the hub:
"WiseCOM 8-Port 10BASE-T HUB
Compliant with 10BASE-T, 10BASE2 and 10BASE5 specifications of the
IEEE 802.3 standard.
Automatically partitioning function to isolate network failure.
Equipped with a variety of informative LEDs for easy viewing and
troubleshooting.
MDI-X/MDI selection switch, allowing you to swap the last 10BASE-T
port transmit and receive ping assignments to link your hub to another
hub.
easy to instll on a desktop environment
Emission: FCC Part 15 Class A
Ethernet HUB for Workgroup"
-from the box cover
Thanks,
Thufir
18 years, 8 months
Skype
by Antonio Montagnani
When I open the window for countries in user search I get a large window
where Lebanon is tha last country but I do not see following countries.
I am using skype rpm for FC3 in FC4.
Any idea??? I remember working fine in FC3...
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