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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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Test GIMP 2.7/2.8 ?
by Valent Turkovic 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I there a way to test new GIMP 2.7/2.8 in Fedora? I looked in Rawhide repos and I still see only 2.6x versions there. Any plans to put 2.7 in Rawhide repost for testing purposes? -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Vinagre???
by Antonio M 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

I have two boxes, both have UltraVNC and Vinagre (Remote desktop viewer), exactly the same packages both in F11 fully updated When I connect from A to B both Vinagre and UltraVNC work, but when I connect from Ato B UltraVNC works fine but in Vinagre I see the list of remote desktops, but when I try to connect I get the message Connection closed: The connection to host B has been closed. Any idea?? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomontag(a)ekiga.net

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Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
by jaivuk 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello guys, I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora 11. First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default one?! Second problem I have is shutdown button (and possibly restart as well) - when you click on shutdown button by mistake, system will shut - there is no confirmation dialog. I also tried to find some ways how to customize gdm in Fedora 11 but I did not find any usable guide. Can anybody please advise me how can I have prompt asking for username only (showing last logged user at maximum) and not displaying the list of all local users? Also can I somehow add confirmation or remove shutdown restart buttons from gdm screen? Or can you please advise any alternative to gdm? Thank you very much, Jan

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SMS server/gateway
by Jamie Bohr 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

I am looking for a SMS server software for RHEL. The phones we use can receive email but it does not always get to the phone in a timely manner and sometimes I get "connected refused" when trying to send messages via email. I've looked at smstools and Googled around but would like the forums opinion on what they have used and experiences. Thank you for your time, -- Jamie Bohr

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Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's
by JayLinux 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this: Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g. Opera, Adobe Reader, etc. so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L) This would be similar to the 'aptonCD' package in Ubuntu ( http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/) APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one > or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages > you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository > that you can use on other computers. > APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your > .deb packages located in one specific repository, so that you can install > them into your computers without the need for an internet connection. Thanks, Jay -- Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686)

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PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi there, the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit troublesome. I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager, but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly) under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab, but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the notification icon). I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root. And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do do ifdown and ifup each time that happens. Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated. /W

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Perl TK
by Patrick Dupre 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello, Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!) Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the widget ! I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Tk ; use strict ; my $types = [ ['Text Files', ['.txt', '.text']], ['TCL Scripts', '.tcl' ], ['C Source Files', '.c', 'TEXT'], ['GIF Files', '.gif', ], ['GIF Files', '', 'GIFF'], ['All Files', '*', ], ]; my $main = MainWindow -> new () ; my $filename = $main -> getOpenFile (-filetypes => $types) ; if ($filename ne "") { # Open the file ... print $filename ; } -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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