nautilus help
by kellyremo
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!
13 years, 4 months
Gnome-system-log bugs cannot be reported
by Antonio M
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
13 years, 4 months
NTFS mount problem
by Kevin Cummings
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)
13 years, 4 months
Let's talk about compression rates
by S Mathias
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.
13 years, 4 months
Re: Let's talk about compression rates
by S Mathias
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
$
13 years, 4 months
alias doesn't work
by Hiisi
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
13 years, 4 months
Post Migration To Fedora 14
by Gene Poole
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
13 years, 4 months
Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8
by Steven P. Ulrick
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
13 years, 4 months
Re: Post Migration To Fedora 14
by Gene Poole
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-d...
>
> 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
13 years, 4 months