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connecting to facebook chat
by Dj YB 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hello, I am inside a campus network and trying to connect to chat.facebook.com using kopete on port 5222 this is not working for me, I have tried to consult my network admin since I thought the problem reside in the network firewall configurations. he claimes that he can see successful connection from my ip on this port (5222) however both Kopete fail to connect and trying 'telnet chat.facebook.com 5222' gives timeout error every time. trying the same for jabber.org fail also. Assuming my net admin know his job Is there a chance something I did can block me from getting to this service? my firewall is configured using the gui to only allow incoming SSH but I did nothing regarding outbound connections. Thanks in advance, YB.

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FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13
by Tod Thomas 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase the size of the physical boot partition? Thanks in advance. - Tod

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Help with VirtualBox??????
by DB 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hi All, Just loaded VirtualBox on my antique system - very pleasantly surprised how easily eveything (almost!) seems to have gone.... must be a problem waiting to bite me! Anyway, reason for going down this path is to be able to use Photbook software which runs on everything - so long as it's called Winderz! Having got it running, I now need to be able to move photos from my Fedora 12 external USB harddrive & there comes Problemo Uno - my virtual machine can't see any USB ports. During installation it kept bubling on aabout how I'd got USBFS set up & should change it, but no idea how. So, question to you smart folks out there.... HOW do I change the USB file system to something it might like? Or is there a different way to share data between the Fedora host & the XP guest machines????? As ever, many thanks fr all the time you spend helping me out of my "Tar Baby" situation(s)! Greetings Dave

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Video in a small window -
by Bob Goodwin 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

This computer runs F-13 and XFCE. I have two "IP cameras" that provide video streams that I would like to make available in one corner of this wide screen monitor. I can view both cameras using either Firefox or VLC, I normally just click on an icon that brings up the desired camera in VLC but it would be convenient if I could elect to put a small image in one corner and keep it there when required, as when waiting for someone to come in the driveway, e.g. Can anyone suggest a means of doing that? Thanks. Bob

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apache 2.2.16 and directory
by Rafnews 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hi, when i use apache httpd under windows i have no problem to setup it, however under fedora 13 i have some little problems. I guess it is due to my limited knowledge of Fedora 13 and apache collaboration. like under Windows OS, i would like to have different directories under fedora which will represent my different tools. for example if my fedora server address is 192.168.1.2 and i have a tool named 'tool1' URL should look like: 192.168.1.2/tools1/ where 'tool1' should be be found in /var/www/html/tool1/ directory. how can i do that under fedora ? Should the directory have particular rights ? -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 13 PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MySQL 5 Apache 2.2.16 PHP 5.3.1 C# 2005-2008

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Getting printer information failed
by Michael Hennebry 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

"Getting printer information failed" is what firefox tells me when I try to print. Other image viewers go through the motions, but nothing prints. I can print a test page and I can use lpr to print text from stdin. I'm running Fedora 13 and Firefox 3.6.7 . In my effort to find a CUPS version, I came across system-config-printer 1.2.3 . What should I look for? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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nouveau with two GPUs... anyone?
by DJ Delorie 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

I tried F14 alpha today, yum updated it, wanted to get all four monitors on two Nvidia GeForce 9800 cards working as a single desktop. Had partial success. The default no-conf setup activated the first two monitors (first card only), put them next to each other. With many hours of fiddling, I got a xorg.conf that activated all four monitors, but cloned 0 onto 1 and 2 onto 3, and put the 0/1 clone next to the 2/3 clone. I couldn't move anything to the "right" virtual locations. All I want is a desktop with all four monitors arranged my way, I don't need the XRandR extensions (although that would be nice to silence all those warnings about it missing), I don't need to ever move, resize, or enable/disable the monitors - they're fixed. Is there *some* way to tell nouveau to use two GPU cards, without also having to manually fiddle with every other configuration option there is? And *no* I don't want to use the nvidia driver - I have that now, that requires Xinerama, which kills performance for the apps I use most. My current layout: Card2/Monitor1 C1/M1 C2/M2 C1/M2 Rotated CW normal CW normal (although I'd rather have C1/M2 *above* C1/M1)

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Problem with chrt
by JD 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

I am trying to run a command in realtime mode just to see if it behaves any different as far as timings are concerned. Man page says: CHRT(1) Linux User’s Manual CHRT(1) NAME chrt - manipulate real-time attributes of a process SYNOPSIS chrt [options] prio command [arg]... chrt [options] -p [prio] pid So, I tried the first example instance above: $ sudo chrt 0 ./freq -s120 -u0 -r chrt: failed to set pid 0's policy: Invalid argument Hmmm. I thought the arg after chrt should be the value of the priority, since options to chrt are optional!!! Another broken utility??? Soo I tried: $ sudo chrt ./freq -s120 -u0 -r # i.e. no value for priority chrt: failed to set pid 0's policy: Invalid argument Anyone tried this before? Any clues?

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How to stop NetworkManager from frobbing my /etc/resolv.conf
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

After copiously scouring links all over the place, I think that I've succesfully managed to set up a bridge between my real network interface and the virtual network interface used by virtmanager-hosted virtual machines. I now have F13 hosting a virtualized machine with full network connectivity. Yay. One glitch remains that I can't fix. After a reboot, /etc/resolv.conf has nothing useful, even though dhclient came up fine on the bridge. Experimentation uncovered NetworkManager as the guilty party. NetworkManager, AFAIK, doesn't know anything about virtual bridges. I had to set it up by hand: [root@monster network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-vnet0 DEVICE=vnet0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes eth0 is bridged: [root@monster network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 # Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) DEVICE=eth0 BRIDGE=vnet0 #BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:30:48:FC:83:FA ONBOOT=yes OPTIONS=layer2=1 TYPE=Ethernet NM_CONTROLLED=no [ bunch more stuff snipped ] I also have eth1, which I would like to be owned by NetworkManager: [root@monster network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1 # Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:30:48:FC:83:FB ONBOOT=no BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Ethernet IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=no NM_CONTROLLED=yes PEERDNS=yes What's happening is this. The S10network script runs first, and brings up eth0 than vnet0; and configures the interface and /etc/resolv.conf from DHCP. Later S23NetworkManager runs, and removes my DNS server from resolv.conf, because none of the NetworkManager-owned network interfaces are up. I want to use NetworkManager for eth1, but I'll have to either disable it, or bounce the network initscript after NetworkManager, which might cause some confusion elsewhere. Is there a way to force NetworkManager not to touch /etc/resolv.conf.

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Openoffice converting to The Word Format.
by Mickey 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Will OpenOffice convert Doc files to be read by Windows 7 or Microsoft Office 2010, I know that they can be read by Microsoft Office 2007.

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