any suggestions to choose cool programs to edit files?
by BB Cao
Dear All,
I'm staring change to linux to work on editing things, such as, documents, presentations, figures,... I used to do those things on Windows machines. Of course, all my other jobs has been done on Linux and I am very pleased of that. As a starter, I found it is difficult to find apropriate programs. Your suggestions will be highly appreciated. I'm interested in doing the following:
1, write Latex files,
2, write a daily record,(diary?)
3, occasionaly edit a couple of webpages,
4, organize references
Thanks!
Best,
Cao
---------------------------------
Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
17 years, 11 months
Runlevel3 services
by Ali Helmy
Hey mates,
How can I start the [acpid] and [messagebus] services from the console on
runlevel3?
--
Cheers,
A. Helmy
==================
One Life... LIVE It
==================
17 years, 12 months
Aprox 25 failed http and DVD installs of FC5 and counting :o/
by Dave Russell
I have a system that was running FC4 up until very recently.
I first tried to install FC5 in the same way I do all my home installs,
using a boot iso and a local http source (loopback mounted FC5 DVD iso,
sha1sum'd to ensure integrity).
The install fails each time (on average) at between 5 and 60% through
the rpm install phase.
The machine locks hard, and it is not possible to switch to another VT
or do anything except power off the machine.
A DVD install performs in exactly the same way.
On the handful of times that I am able to get a very minimal install
installed (by removing all the packages from the install selection), the
machine soon locks up when adding more packages or running yum update.
The lockup's appear to be ext3 throwing wobblers and re-mounting
filesystems as read only.
EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_delete_entry: bad entry in directory
#1376454:
inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=914432000, rec_len=12, name_len=1
Aborting journal on device dm-0.
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in ext3_unlink: IO failure
My initial suspicions were a co-incidental imminent hardware failure...
however I have run memtest86 overnight to confirm no issues with memory,
and have also done a read/write destructive badblocks test on the array
which also reported no problems.
I've raised a bugzilla case, but so far no joy.... can anyone help, or
suggest anything else I should try?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189570
Here's hoping.
17 years, 12 months
very odd STOR to OR FTP issue
by ahall＠madasafish.com
Hi there.
We have a very odd FTP problem and are totally flummoxed as to what the answer
might be. I'm hoping someone here can help.
We're repeatedly seeing this error delivering files via FTP...
[CRITICAL] [Interface::Ftp::send] Could
not put file.xml on connection test - 500,OR not understood
And when running an strace see this...
write(9, "STOR file.xml\r\n", 29) = 29
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [PIPE], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
select(16, [9], NULL, NULL, {120, 0}) = 1 (in [9], left {119, 903000})
read(9, "500 OR not understood\r\n", 1024) = 23
So it seems as though we're sending a STOR command but clients are receiving
an OR command - which they don't understand. Is STOR becoming truncated somehow?
N.B. This all used to work fine until I rebooted our firewall the other day. As
far as I am aware, this is the only change to our system, and we're almost
positive the problem lies there. We're thinking that something - a module maybe -
either isn't running, or isn't running correctly, or is configured incorrectly.
Has anyone seen something like this before, or have any ideas what might be wrong?
Thanks very much.
---- - Madasafish - Voted Best Heavy Consumer Broadband Provider in the 2006 Internet Industry Awards http://www.madasafish.com/
17 years, 12 months
Is wireless support any better with FC5?
by James Pifer
Is wireless support any better with FC5?
I'm on FC4 now and have been using ndiswrapper with a Broadcom card for
some time: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
Controller (rev 03). Recently my DLink DI-624 router died and I just got
the replacement. Now I can't get FC4 to reconnect. I can scan the
wireless network and see it, but I can't connect to it.
I've also tried two PCMCIA cards, a DLink DWL-G650 with the Atheros
chipset (I've never got this to work) and a CompUSA card with an unknown
chipset (doesn't work either).
I've also never been able to get WEP to work, so I've been stuck using
no encryption and filtering MACs. I would filter MACs anyway, but would
really like to use WEP, even though it's not the greatest security.
All three of these NICs work fine when I boot to Windows XP.
So I'm wondering if FC5 improves anything. I've heard that SUSE is much
better at handling wireless, but I really like Fedora/Redhat.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
James
17 years, 12 months
How are OS updates handled by default in FC5?
by Dan Kegel
In olden days, the throbbing update icon on the taskbar would
start up automatically when you logged in.
In FC5, what handles that function? I know about yum and pirut/pup,
and have even downloaded and looked at their sources,
but I have no idea what a default install does about OS updates.
I ask because I'm experimenting with setting up my own little
repository at kegel.com for some of my own apps, and I would
like to understand how the update process works; will I be able
to push out updates to people who add my repository to
/etc/yum.conf.d, or will users have to do something manual
(like run yum, pup, or pirut by hand)?
- Dan
--
Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
17 years, 12 months
Linksys NSLU2
by Robert Cahn
Does anyone have any experience running this box in a mixed Fedora Windows
home office environment? The users manual makes it pretty clear that it's
focussed on Windows but I run both type of machines at home and would like
to use it for backup and data transfer between the machines.
Thanks,
/Bob Cahn
robertscahn(a)gmail.com
17 years, 12 months
/proc/cpuinfo discrepancy
by Tony Crouch
Hi All,
After doing a fresh install of FC5 and fiddling with some of the gnome
panel applets, I came across the cpu-scaler. It seems odd, to me, that
it says my processor is only 668MHz when it is meant to be (and under
older FC distributions the same applet came up with 3.06GHz, the correct
readout).
The readout from /proc/cpuinfo is:
> [tony@localhost proc]$ cat cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 15
> model : 2
> model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
> stepping : 9
> cpu MHz : 668.000
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
> bogomips : 6127.27
Was wondering if someone could shed some light onto the discrepancy
between the known processor value and the one stated in cpuinfo.
Cheers,
Tony Crouch
--
GPG Key fingerprint = EEB2 6364 791C 3BE2 A008 22D0 C469 950C 7C5A EE77
17 years, 12 months
