Some thoughts on "ESR: Goodbye Fedora"
by Timothy Murphy
I read the article by ESR,
and agree that it was difficult to tell from his rant
exactly what problem it was that he had encountered.
Personally, I haven't found that yum has deteriorated
in any way; it seems to me much better than
the update program I used with the old RH distributions.
I ran Ubuntu for a while recently
(it was on a second-hand laptop I bought)
and it didn't seem to me any better or worse
than Fedora in this respect.
I went back to Fedora because I was running that
on other machines, and it seemed easier
to run the same distribution on all.
(What struck me forcibly was that there was
much more difference between KDE an Gnome
than there was between different distributions.)
However, I do feel that the hostile reaction to ESR
is counter-productive.
One weakness as I see it with Fedora
is that there is no mechanism for feedback.
Nobody knows as far as I can see what problems people meet,
unless they post bugzillas
(which in my experience is a fairly useless exercise).
While the documentation project is certainly a worthy aim
it seems to me to have become excessively bureaucratic,
with more discussion about the techniques of documentation
than the actual content of the documents.
(In my experience beautifully produced documents
are if anything less likely to be helpful
than the simplest of texts.)
--
Timothy Murphy
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
17 years, 2 months
problems with sendmail in FC6
by simon butler
hi all, i'm struggling to get sendmail to accept remote smtp connections in
FC6. i have the following lines in my sendmail.mc file:
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA, Modifier=A')dnl
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
but still get the "can't connect to smtp server" error.
is there something else i need to do?
tia.
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17 years, 2 months
Deficient FUSE kernel module detected
by Paul Smith
Dear All
Whenever I mount (from Fedora) the disk with Windows Vista, I get the
following big warning:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows
WARNING: Deficient FUSE kernel module detected. Some driver features are
not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and
unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process
naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. The safe FUSE kernel
driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version
2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6.0 or later software packages,
except the faulty FUSE version 2.6.2. Please see the next page
for more help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26
#
Should one be worried about it?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 2 months
Question asked on OOo mailing list - probably better asked here ??
by Bill Case
Hi;
After a discussion on how to bind a unicode glyph or accented character
to a shortcut key or key combination of my own choosing one of the
responders suggested I wait until the sharp folks figure out how to
solve it. I am resending my comments to the Fedoara List because this
seems to be where all the sharp folks hang out. My response was:
"Here is what I would like to see the sharp folks do to solve this.
1) Starting at the lowest level of the display hierarchy, create a shell
command that is equivalent to <Ctrl><Shft>+U,+ unicode#. Lets call the
command 'ucode' with the following syntax: ucode [option] unicode# (in
hex,
oct or decimal). E.G. ]$ ucode 2714 would return the ✔ on stdout.
It should work with 'echo' so that it can be used in shell scripts along
with other characters to produce a string. Options are not necessary,
but
programmers seem to like to complexify things. So lets add options for
font and point size changes or whatever else.
2) Moving up a level, the 'ucode #' command could be used to Bind a
unicode output to a key or modified key in xkeymap or readline etc.
3) Up another level to the desktop, the 'ucode #' command could be
recognized by Gnome, KDE or whatever so that a particular glyph or
accented character could be bound to a global key. I use Gnome with
metacity, but I
used to use KDE a couple of years ago so I am pretty sure KDE has the
same kind of key binding facility. In gnome-configuration-editor under
applications metacity there is a "keybinding_commands" process which has
"command_1, command_2, etc." where the user can enter a specific
command. I would like to enter command_3 <=> ucode 2714. Then go to
the
metacity "global_keybindings" process and add <Super_L>y to command_3.
Voila.
4) Up to the application level. All my applications run under Gnome
e.g. OOo, Evolution, gTerminal, gedit, etc. They should now recognize
<Super_l> y as a checkmark. I acknowledge that it is possible for a
duplicate shortcut to be created by accident. A warning message should
take care of that, and it is no more of a problem than already exists
when created new shortcuts in any application.
This process gives each user the freedom to create a glyph and/or
accented character keystroke shortcut that persists and is meaningful
to
the user rather than being stuck with the choice of the original
keyboard layout designer and shouldn't be difficult to implement. In my
view the
problem has always been to get a command that replicates keystrokes
without having to climb the learning curve of 'expect' and attaching a
full blown script."
I don't know if this is a practical solution; I am not a programmer and
have been using Linux/OOo for only 2½ years. So read the above
suggestion as directions to where I want to go, not particularly as a
suggestion of how to get there.
Before making a request for an enhancement; is this amateur stuff or has
it been suggested before or is there some major impediment that I am not
aware of?
I have noticed, on the 3 or 4 mailing lists I belong to, more and more
questions on how to use unicode effectively both from the command line
and in applications. I know as time passes, I find more uses for
unicode components and memorizing several unicode codes and/or using
cheat sheets seems to fall short of finishing the job of converting the
world from ASCII to unicode.
--
Regards Bill
17 years, 2 months
emerald themer error calling tar?
by Terry Zink
I;m trying to update my emerald themes via svn, but it's telling me that there is an error calling tar?
Standard fedora core 6 install, beryl installed via yum install beryl-gnome.
Any ideas? :)
Thanks in advance.
google didn't come up with anything useful.
17 years, 2 months
Re: Building a strat1/2 time server
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
"Mark Haney" <mhaney(a)ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Weiner, Michael wrote:
>> > Dear list readers -
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sorry to cause some additional noise on the list, but I am looking for
>> > help in building a strat1 or 2 time server. I have a Fedora Core 6
>> > server running with the latest NTP server installed. What I am trying to
>> > do actually is build an authoritative or reference time server that we
>> > can use here for testing daylight saving time adjustments in our
>> > environment. After thinking about it, I have come to the sane conclusion
>> > that this wont work with a normal ntp server as it will constantly want
>> > to FIX the time back and my ntpclients wont pull time if the server is
>> > out of whack. So I need to build an ntp server that doesn't go out and
>> > sync with an outside source, that my clients can use in this test
>> > environment. So, my question is, just how do you build one?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any insights and additional information would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Michael Weiner
>> >
>> >
>> > ===================================
>> >
>>
> The only way that I know of to get this kind of a time source, is to
> actually have a strat1 or 2 time source in your location. We had this
> discussion here at the office a while back, since we ahve a strat2
> cesium clock to sync all our SONET rings. Even then, if you don't have
> people actually syncing from the strat2 directly, and only have the ntp
> server syncing it, it will still technically be only a strat3 time source.
>
> HTH.
Why don't you just pull down the ntp source rpm and hack the code? The
problem with using a real strat1/2 ntp time server is it would still
report the correct time. Instead, hack the ntp server code to report
the time with an offset. Then just point the system under test at your
hacked time server. If you get creative in your hacking, you can even
make the "offset" easy to change (e.g., read from a file, an environment
variable, etc.).
Cheers,
Dave
--
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 2 months
Re: approved mechanism to switch to 32-bit firefox?
by Jacques Beigbeder
>> I noticed that a fresh install of x86_64 FC6 resulted in
>> both i386 and x86_64 packages for firefox being installed.
>> I would like to configure my machine to default to the
>> i386 version of firefox and am wondering if there is
>> an approved mechanism to setting this (since FC6 went
>> out of its way to preinstall the i386 binaries on
>> x86_64)?
What's about:
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php
Install Macromedia Flash/Shockwave plug-in
Special 64-bit instructions:
# Force 32 bit version
--
Jacques Beigbeder | Jacques.Beigbeder(a)ens.fr
Service de Prestations Informatiques | http://www.spi.ens.fr
Ecole normale supérieure |
45 rue d'Ulm |Tel : (+33 1)1 44 32 37 96
F75230 Paris cedex 05 |Fax : (+33 1)1 44 32 20 75
17 years, 2 months
Programs for Indexing documents and search via web
by Dario Lesca
Hi, someone can suggest me a good server application (jva, php, ecc)
that indexing all tree of my documents and have an web interface for
search it?
Many thanks
--
Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>
17 years, 2 months
Getting grub splash screen back
by Paul Smith
Dear All
I have changed grub configuration and now I do not have the usual grub
splash screen. How can I have it back?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 2 months
firefox2
by Craig
Did anyone make a rpm that work with fc5?I been
looking all over the place for one.
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