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nautilus help
by kellyremo 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

When i rith click on a file in nautilus, i could see, this: Compress -> .tar.xz Compress -> .tar.7z But there not using the best compression method: smallest file/longest creation time, like: 7z a -mx=9 FOO.tar.7z FOO.tar xz -9 -z FOO.TAR How could i set it in nautilus, to ".tar.xz" with "-9", and ".tar.7z" with "-mx=9"? Is there any solution? I'm using Fedora 14!

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Gnome-system-log bugs cannot be reported
by Antonio M 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

I don't see gnome-system-log in the list of components to be bugzilled Anyway, I get a wrong day of the week in yum.log during report, i.e. today is reported as Friday when it is saturday (and not only on my calendar but also on my computer's clock) See attached image Tnx Regards Antonio Montagnani

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NTFS mount problem
by Kevin Cummings 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Today I tried to help a client restore an MS SQL database from a disk drive, so I tried to copy it off of his SATA drive mounted on a USB converter plugged into my USB port. The system found it as /dev/sdb. I could see that it had 2 partitions, sdb1 and sdb2. The data was on the sdb2 partition, but when I plugged it into my F14 laptop USB port, only the /dev/sdb1 partition finished mounting. I could see the /dev/sdb2 mount command running with "ps", but it never finished mounting. The mount point directory remained blank. And, to boot, I couldn't kill the mount command with a "kill -9". The process was in one of the "D" states, but there were no errors in /var/log/messages, and the process never seemed to finish, not after 10 minutes.... Could someone please explain to me what would keep the partition from mounting (with ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs installed). I'm pretty sure I can't kill it because the system is waiting for some disk IO to complete, but I can be annoyed because it is taking so long. (If it helps, this disk used to be the system disk on my client's Windows 7 system. It developed a problem that keeps it from booting Windows 7 properly. So, the customer went out and purchased a new disk drive to replace it, installed Windows 7 on it along with their application. Now they just want to migrate their old database from the old disk drive to their new disk drive so that they have access to their customer data again. Windows 7 is able to mount their old disk drive as the G: drive (though it takes a short while), but they are unable to copy their database off it due to "Permissions" problems. Which is strange because all the file permissions look to be the same on both disk drives.) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome(a)verizon.net cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

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Let's talk about compression rates
by S Mathias 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 64035788 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 63480808 Jan 22 11:20 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz $ I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing too. They could compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 MByte DJVU. Amazing. Why don't these technologies spread?? Any opinions regarding it? Thanks.

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Re: Let's talk about compression rates
by S Mathias 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

wow... http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ihLLHyiT $ time 7z a -mx=9 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; time xz -9 -z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; ls -lS 7-Zip 9.13 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-04-15 p7zip Version 9.13 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Scanning Creating archive linux-2.6.37.tar.7z Compressing linux-2.6.37.tar Everything is Ok real 6m43.608s user 10m1.092s sys 0m3.957s real 10m40.788s user 10m33.363s sys 0m2.106s total 120264 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 61570448 Jan 22 15:42 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 61567410 Jan 22 16:13 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z $

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alias doesn't work
by Hiisi 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi! I have few aliases in .bashrc. They all work as expected. Recently I installed firefox4 from remi repo and pretty happy with it. However I would like command 'firefox' to be aliased to 'firefox4'. So, I added the following entry in .bashrc: alias firefox='firefox4' But it doesn't work! After I login and trying to start Firefox by typing 'firefox' from the terminal it starts firefox 3.55, no the 4.0 beta8! I checked with which command and it shows: $ which firefox alias firefox='firefox4' /usr/bin/firefox4 If I then start firefox4 from command line, closing it and next time the alias works - entering 'firefox' from command line starts firefox4. Is it normal? How can I change it to always start firefox4 whatever command was entered first? TIA -- Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times. -- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT

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Post Migration To Fedora 14
by Gene Poole 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

OK, I've completed the migration/upgrade from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. Everything seems to be working except the VMware Server 2.02 Web Interface to the remote server. I assume that I need to reinstall that? Is there a pointer to some instructions? Thanks, Gene Poole

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Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
by Steven P. Ulrick 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hello Everyone, I'm still having this problem, and I wonder if someone could try the steps described below to see if they have the problem as well... I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8. Also, I am running Fedora 13 and KDE 4.5.4. All of this is fully updated. I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this from any email in KMail: No. Why do you need the "full-install" DVD? and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>No.  Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?</body> If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased online, it looks like this when I paste it: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>9101128882300487354725</body> In the above example, this is the procedure I followed: 1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired email. 2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy" 3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste" 4. The result is always the same. I get the text that I selected, plus a whole lot HTML markup... I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only. In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail. If I copy from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly. Also, when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then check my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <body>9101128882300487354725</body> As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur. I do know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within KMail) I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then pasted the result into any application, I would get this: "9101128882300487354725" That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for me now :( Your help is greatly appreciated. Steven P. Ulrick

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Howto import Address Book from Thunderbird to Claw-mail
by Mickey 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

F14 How does one import the Address Book from Thunerbird to Claw-Mail.

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Re: Post Migration To Fedora 14
by Gene Poole 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

On 01/21/2011 08:15 PM, athmanem(a)gmail.com wrote: > AFAIK, VMware Server Remote Console plug-in is not updated to newer > versions of Firefox [1], you can extract the content of the plug-in > (.xpi file) and run it as standalone app. > > If fedora is used as VMware server host (BTW fedora is not tested) then > you should follow this how-to [2] > > [1] http://communities.vmware.com/thread/252218 > [2] http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-on-a-fedora-14-des… > > HTH > > -- > Athmane Madjoudj The primary machine that's running VMware Server 2.02 is CentOS 5.3, and all is well there. It boots to run level 3. My problem machine is a client running Fedora 14, which always boots to run level 5. It's the FF plugin that's causing me trauma. And based upon the link you provided above, there's no relief coming. Thanks, Gene Poole

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