gweather
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
The gweather applet is not always working and I cannot figure out why
and where I have to enquire when instead of sun/clouds/... and
temperature, there is only: --
Of course, in that case, there are no information at all.
What to do?
Thanks.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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13 years, 4 months
Re: Thoughts of a user
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
> You are joking, aren't you? I don't know what you mean by "lesser
> graphic-cards," but I have a Toshiba laptop with Intel graphics and F 13
> that I use as a showpiece.
I'm not joking. Yes, there are some look-perks that Linux has - like the
cube and the wobbly windows - that are nice, and "Oh wow!" indeed. But did
you notice my mentioning of the true transparency? Even conky isn't truly
transparent, but what about borders or panels? The panels take the colour
of the desktop-background if told to do so, but that doesn't make them
transparent; move a window off the bottom to see what I mean.
Isn't it possible to keep these effects and make it transparent?
Leaving my comments on hardware management and wifi (almost) unnoticed.
--
Greetz,
Roelof Kusters
aka Ben
The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it
draws you in.
Make 1000 euros in minutes! Sell my house: http://www.bentrein.com/house
13 years, 4 months
Re: Thoughts of a user
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
> 2) is solved! [ yum install gconf-editor .... ]
Nope. It's perhaps in the process of being solved. But the things that I
can edit, don't change a thing in the enabling of the wifi thing. In the
nm-applet group, there's the key 'disable-wifi-create'. I have a feeling I
need to change that. But it's now set to <schema>. When I try to edit it,
I get the error:
Currently pairs and schemas can't be edited. This will be changed in a
later version.
So it's not solved yet - stress yet. Looking forward to that fix!
--
Greetz,
Roelof Kusters
aka Ben
The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it
draws you in.
Make 1000 euros in minutes! Sell my house: http://www.bentrein.com/house
13 years, 4 months
smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any
by Juan R. de Silva
I did the stupidest thing I could as to forget that I was running on
battery while installing FreeBSD on a free (1st) partition. and I found
the laptop shutting down when it was too late.
After this event smartctl consistently reports Read Failure starting on
LBA 26203589, Current_Pending_Sector 1, and Offline_Uncorrectable 4.
This block is within partition in question. Thus I know I damaged hdd
within its boundries.
Simply formating this partition certainly did not help.
I've run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 both starting with the reported LBA
and then on the entire partition. And I still have same report from
smartctl
I run badblocks on the partition firs in non-destructive and then in
destructive (read/write) mode in both cases badblocks reported 0 errors.
But smartctl still gives me the same report.
In all the cases I run smartctl -t offline /dev/sda1 just to ensure
smartctl updates its data before I run final smartctl -A /dev/sda
Any suggestions folks? It drives me crazy. I'm fighting it 2 days for now.
13 years, 4 months
whats wrong with my internet connection checker script?
by S Mathias
$ true && true || echo hi
$ true && false || echo hi
hi
$ false && true || echo hi
hi
$ false && false || echo hi
hi
$ ping -W 1 -c 4 google.com >& /dev/null | grep -q "100% packet loss" && ping -W 1 -c 4 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/null | grep -q "100% packet loss" || echo "no internet connection"
no internet connection
$
ping -W 1 -c 4 google.com >& /dev/null | grep "100% packet loss"
$
ping -W 1 -c 4 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/null | grep "100% packet loss"
$
...both sides "false", because they have no output, because google.com and www.yahoo.com is reachable.
how come it writes "no internet connection"? [at the longest line]
i just want a "oneliner" that checks if theres "internet connection" or no. :\
where did i screw up? 8)
13 years, 4 months
how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command
by Antonio Olivares
Dear folks,
I have a Flat Panel Monitor with built in speakers. If the monitor is on(not sleeping), the speakers work. When the Monitor goes to sleep, the speakers no longer work :(, I have a cron job that plays music in the morning, but since the monitor is sleeping the music does not play :(
I tried adding a command to wake up the monitor like
48 04 * * 1-5 sleep 2; xset dpms force on > /dev/null 2&>1
but the monitor does not wake up :(, I tried using variations like
xset -dpms
and
xset +dpms
and force on, force off to no avail. I sent a message to list, on how the crontab job was set and the script itself, but it has not made it to list, or was deleted? If you get a double post, please accept my apologies in advance, don't know how to blame, users* list or yahoo mail^{1}.
Regards,
Antonio
{1} yes poc and others, yahoo mail sucks, but being on it for a great while makes it hard to be apart from it :(, I go back to classic profile when using linux, since on windblows, the new yahoo mail does not do a good job of quoting and throws message replies to /dev/null in many cases, and threading sucks like Rahul says :)
13 years, 4 months
4 questions Regarding Fedora 14
by S Mathias
A few questions regarding Fedora:
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1) Is there any method to customize a Fedora Install iso?
i download from fedoraproject.org -> i do some "magic" to the iso -> custom iso done, installable
i'm thinking about like this:
https://allmyapps.com/
http://ninite.com/
http://www.freenew.net/
but not web based [and not windows..], because i want to do plus things with a normal fedora, e.g.:
- plus repos [rpmfusion]
- plus packages [from e.g.: rpmfusion, other, like google chrome]
- pae kernel
- small setting like chromium extensions, settings for them
-> and then, when i install a Fedora from the custom iso cd, i don't have to download/install packages/set things
how can i customize an iso like this?
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2) is there a "gconf-editor" like "thing" under Fedora? [under ubuntu, you can set many-many things through it]
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3) there is a file under ubuntu..:
/etc/modules
where i can type the modules what i want to load at boot. is there something similar under fedora for it?
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4) there aren't any "tofromdos" package under fedora? how can i convert files that have unix eols?
####################################################################
thank you for any answer [sorry for asking this kind of things] and Happy Christmas!
13 years, 4 months
Re: Thoughts of a user
by DB
On 12/26/2010 11:36 AM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Thoughts of a user
>
> 2) Wifi: It may be a sore point, but there is no ease of installing
> (newer) machines with built in wifi cards. While I understand that all
> those things are built for functionality with Windoze, and that many
> manufacturers don't make their own Linux drivers, but even with the
> correct drivers it doesn't often work. I feel it should be on the
> forefront of the developers attention to make wifi work more easily - on
> all machines. Wireless computing is getting more and more popular, and
> is the future for the internet. So if Linux wishes to survive (sorry to
> put it so strongly), it is important that wifi works as easily as when
> installing Windoze. It doesn't; check the forums, check google. Few
> issues are so frequent.
>
> 3) Hardware management: su -, lshw, isn't good enough a hardware manager
> for the average user. A new app should be developed that looks better
> and is interactive. Enable and disable certain hardware should be an
> option. Finding manufacturer's details of driver-less hardware is a
> must. Aida32 springs to mind, XP's Device Manager springs to mind. GUI,
> interactive. This is necessary to appeal to the average user - ie. me.
> And while we're at it, try and make the wifi-card enableable through
> this app; rfkill unblock all doesn't always do it.
>
Hi there,
I agree with Ben on these 2 points....
My son just gave his daughter a Netbook & the 2 of us spent a couple of
hours trying to get it (and his Kindle) to link up to my wireless Lan.
I used (in the evil dayz of Windoze...) to have McAffee on the system
with its network manager which would at least draw me a pretty picture
of what was visible/up/down on the LAN. Sadly, it could never offer me
anything like a "logging in check" where it could tell me "Ok, step 1
works & gives me this result; step 2 gives me No Reply...." & so on. To
know where I am in a logon scheme would be a great help.
Managing hardware is IMMHO yeuk! You plug it in & Most Times It Just
Works.... sometimes, it doesn't! Where do you go from there? Is there
anywhere a Helpful, Friendly Piece Of Script that I can access without
spending days hunting through Gooogle????
Yes, Mr Gates Hardware manager, with its enable/disable/uninstall does
seem to be a long step from that which I, as a not-very-experienced
Fedorious, can find.... BTW, anyone know if Computer Literacy still
have their Quick Card of 'nix commands? (Think I gave away my last one
about 20 years ago....)
TTFN
DAve
13 years, 4 months
bluetooth mouse suddenly stopped working
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I have a logitech V470 bluetooth mouse which did work fine up to day....
This morning, it no more works! Cells are OK.
I tried hctool scan and it does not see the mouse, except if I press a
small button under the mouse on wich "connect" is written.
But bluetooth cannot pair to the mouse.
It seems that the use of hcitool disconnect the wifi...
does anybody can give me some clue?
Thanks.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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13 years, 4 months
