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Virtual Mac or Windows Interface
by Doll, Margaret Ann 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

We use a lot of Adobe software at the University. The software includes Illustrator. Is there a virtual way to run Mac or Windows software on a Fedora system? Is there a good alternative to Illustrator on Fedora? How good is gimp?

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PEBCAK and frustrated stupidity still exists -- be warned!
by Bill Case 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

This note is just to get some frustration off my chest and to remind the Fedora community that stupidity can reign no matter how smart you might think you are. Just did a virgin Fedora 14 reinstall after completely screwing up my operating system because I thought I had a failing disk drive. The one that has all my backups. Compounding my problems by losing grub and my WindowsXP partition. After spending more than a day working on it, and a couple of calls to my vendor, my solutions got more and more inventive until I managed to just about blow the whole machine up. Only then, in my frustration, did I think to take the side panel off my computer, jiggle the cables to the harddrive, remove the cable and reattach it. Fixed everything. Now I am busy trying to get everything back to the way I like. No reply necessary. Just thought someone else might be in the throws of some frustrated, non-thinking stupidity and might need a warning to stop, take a breath, indulge in the sin of your choice and think before doing any more damage. Particularly, try to keep screwdrivers out of your hands at times like these. I know you might say, I have been there, done that. Even bought the T-shirt. But PEBAK continues exist in the best of families. -- Regards Bill Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1

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ssh by user amandabackup
by Matthew Saltzman 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

I'm trying to set up amanda using the amaddclient command. That requires that user amandabackup be able to log into the client machine using ssh keys. I've generated the keys on the server machine, copied the public key to the client machine in /var/lib/amanda/.ssh/authorized_keys (/var/lib/amanda is amandabackup's home directory). I believe all file protections are set correctly--they mirror the ones for a regular user. But ssh fails to use the keys and prompts for a password. ssh with keys by a normal user works fine. No error messages to be found in /var/log/secure on the client or with ssh -v on the server. Any suggestions as to what the difference is and how to fix this would be welcome. TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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a perl question
by S Mathias 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

cat asdf.txt bla-bla bla-bla bla[XYZ] importantthing another important thing [/XYZ] bla-bla bla-bla [XYZ] yet another thing hello! [/XYZ] bla-bla etc. $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt $ cat output.txt importantthing another important thing yet another thing hello! how can i sovle this question? what is SOMEPERLMAGIC? are there any perl gurus, that have a little spare time? Thank you! :\

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Easy PPTP Setup?
by Oliver Ruebenacker 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hello, I am looking for a way to set up PPTP on F14. I did it long time ago on a different machine back in F6 and it has been working all the way to F14. The tool there opens a dialog box. Unfortunately, I have no access to that other machine right now. The only information I have is the IP of the PPTP server, and my account information consisting of username, domain and password. The maintainer of the PPTP server says the rest will be provided automatically by DHCP. I tried on SUSE with tools like pptpsetup and pptp-command, but these tools are poorly documanted and to me entirely incomprehensible. For example, they ask for CHAP secrets and routing, which I have no idea about. So I installed Fedora 14, thinking that it would be easier. But now I can't find the tool I was using on the other machine. What tools can you recommend? Thanks! Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil) Turning Knowledge Data into Models Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org

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Error - Running Acroread
by Mickey 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

F14 , fresh install $ acroread /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

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Re: F14 Design Spin
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

From savayu ali: > I think the others understood that, what they were asking was why is > the live CD not sufficient for your purposes since after the install > is done, you can choose to install whatever other packages you need. I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop live-cd misses some basic stuff - like OpenOffice. I don't know if that is the case with the Design Spin, but someone is asking a design spin disk. I would like to offer him the complete packadge, without needing to download another gigabit of data - which I know from experience can take days here. I'm assuming that OpenOffice et al aren't in the Live CD Design spin either... Is this a correct assumption? -- 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

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Printing slow
by Geoffrey Leach 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

This has been reported in Bugzilla as 661814. Fedora 14, up-to-date. foomatic-4.0.5-1.fc14.i686. Output to HP LaserJet 1300, with parallel to USB connector. On Fedora 13, printing of a web page containing a JPEG file would take a minute or so from hitting print to page on the printer. On Fedora 14 (from first install) it takes 15-20 minutes. Printing a single .jpg with the lpr command yields similar results. Straight text prints immediately, whether directly or via a2ps. As the list is not flooded with complaints, I'm guessing that its a configuration problem. Any suggestions as to what that might be? Thanks.

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fedora13 - mouse IBeam change
by bruce 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi. down vote favorite hi. sorry to have to ask such a basic question!! i've got fedora 13, trying to figure out how to change the "I Beam" pointer. earlier, i had a "thin" "I Beam" pointer in my gedit/term windows. now, I have a "thicker/shadow" kind of "I Beam" pointer when i move the mouse over the gedit/term windows. obviously, i've made some change, but i can't figure out what I changed, or where this attribute is set. i've checked google/irc, as well as looked through the "system-preferences-appearance" with no luck.. i saw the customize part of the gui, and could resize the "arrow" but nothing for the "I-Beam". in one of my older boxes, the "thin" I Beam pointer is working, so it's something I've done... this isn't critical, but it is anoying!! any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. thanks

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VirtualBox addons problem
by Luc MAIGNAN 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi, I try to install the VirtualBox addons on a Fedora 14 image. The error message is : KERN-DIR does not point to a directory. But I have setup it to the path to my current kernel. What's wrong ? BR

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