oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis
Dear List,
I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video
conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and
Windows.
Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo
for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow
video conferencing with Fedora.
Thanks much
--
Greg Ennis
PoMec Corporation
www.PoMec.net
12 years
Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing
I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It
originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
and then as root ran
shred -vz /dev/sdd
The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding"
about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default
number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days.
The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing
the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs
would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running
something like:
shred -vz /dev/sdd1
shred -vz /dev/sdd2
shred -vz /dev/sdd3
shred -vz /dev/sdd4
in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure?
Thanks
Dean
12 years, 3 months
Wireless adaptor DWL G-122 E1 /Fedora14 &Intel pentium(r)dual 3.00Ghz
by Vicenç Meĺendez
Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
Any help is welcome.
Kind regards
Vicenc Melendez
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Antes de imprimir este e-mail piense bien si es necesario hacerlo.
Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
12 years, 9 months
X server in F14 horribly slow
by JD
After upgrading to F14, switching from one workspace to another is
excruciatingly slow!!
I am a gnome user.
Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server
or to the ATI Radeon driver?
12 years, 9 months
Firefox 4 ?
by Mickey
When will Firefox 4 be coming to Fedora 14 ?
12 years, 12 months
Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl
Hi,
I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with
an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that
"Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens
up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL
then it comes up and displays properly.
Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem?
Regards,
--
Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com
12 years, 12 months
Can't dual-boot Fedora 14 on new MacBook Pro?
by Charles Ulrich
Hello,
I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro.
The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice
surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot actually boot
into Fedora. Here is what I did:
1. OS X by default ships with an EFI partition (/dev/sda1) and an HFS+
partition (/dev/sda2). I used Boot Camp in OS X to resize the existing
OS X partition and reboot to the live CD.
2. Once the Fedora live CD is booted, I used the disk utility to
delete the "Windows" partition (/dev/sda3) that Boot Camp created.
This leaves the original EFI and OS X partitions plus a chunk (40G) of
empty space at the end of the disk.
3. Run the Fedora Installer, telling it to automatically partition and
install using the free space on the disk. It creates a 500M boot
partition (/dev/sda3) and an LVM partition (/dev/sda4).
4. When the installer gets to the part about the boot loader, I go
with the defaults, which is to install GRUB to the boot sector of the
Fedora boot partition (/dev/sda3).
After the install is complete, I would expect to be able to hold down
the Mac's "Option" key to choose which OS to boot since /dev/sda3 has
a boot sector, but only the OS X disk shows up. (What does Boot Camp
do, then, besides resizing the disk?)
I read somewhere that a boot loader called rEFIt would help, so I
tried that. I installed it using the instructions on the project's
website and rebooted. An option to boot Linux shows up in the rEFIt
boot screen, but when selecting it, I get a black screen with an error
message along the lines of "no operating system found."
Further research suggested that rEFIt had to "resync" in order to find
GRUB, even though I installed rEFIt after Fedora. I did that by going
into the rEFIt "menu" and answering in the affirmative when it told me
that a resync was necessary.
Now, when I select Linux in the rEFIt boot menu, it only shows a
gray-out penguin and nothing else happens. The lack of output makes
the problem difficult to troubleshoot exactly what's going wrong.
Maybe if I knew more about EFI, I could play around in the EFI shell
provided by rEFIt.
Anyway, has anyone here had success dual-booting Fedora 14 on a newer
Mac, and if so, what procedure did you use? I'd like to install Fedora
to the whole disk, but I'm reluctant to try that until I can get a
dual-boot scenario to work. I you could, please CC my email address in
any responses since I'm subscribed to the digest version of the list.
Thanks for your time.
Charles
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http://bityard.net
13 years
Fedora says Thank You
by Tom Callaway
First of all, I do not want to take any credit for this idea, it belongs
to John Rose, and has been bouncing around, trying to come to life,
since July 2010. I am just happy to help it finally hatch!
John, Jared, Paul, Max, and I all want to thank Fedora users and
contributors for everything that they do in our rich and diverse
community. As a small token of our appreciation, we're giving away free
Fedora stickers and case badges to any community member who sends us a
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE). It is our little way of saying
thank you for all that you do.
Here is a short FAQ:
Q: What is a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope?
A: A Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) is an envelope with the
sender's name and address on it, with affixed paid postage. In the UK,
this is also known as a "Stamped Addressed Envelope (SAE)".
Q: Where do I send my SASE?
A:
Red Hat
c/o Tom Callaway
314 Littleton Road
Westford, MA
01886-4105
Q: How long is this offer good?
A: We will return any SASEs that I receive on or before May 31, 2011.
Q: How does this work?
A: Basically, you write your mailing address on an unsealed envelope and
attach paid US postage to that envelope (enough to send a letter to that
address from the US). This is your SASE.
Next, you put your SASE in another envelope, which you then mail to me
at the above address.
When I receive it, I will open your envelope, put in some nifty Fedora
stickers and case badges, seal it up and drop it back in the mail to you.
Q: Is there a limit on how many SASEs I can send you?
A: Please, one SASE per person. If you have some sort of complicated
situation, feel free to email me directly and we'll work something out
(spot(a)fedoraproject.org).
Q: Is this offer open to contributors outside the US?
A: Of course! We realize that it may not be possible or simple for our
international contributors to get their hands on US postage, so you are
more than welcome to include an International Reply Coupon instead.
(More info about International Reply Coupons can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon) If you choose
this option, please do not forget to include the self-addressed envelope!
Q: I can't find an International Reply Coupon!
A: Just email me (spot(a)fedoraproject.org) and let me know, we'll work
something out.
Q: Can I decorate my SASE?
A: Sure. Just remember that it will be coming right back to you.
Q: Do I need to prove that I am a Fedora User or Contributor?
A: Nope. If you go to the trouble of sending us the SASE, we'll send you
stickers and case badges.
Q: Can I tweet/dent/facebook/IRC/email/tell my friends about this offer?
A: Absolutely.
Q: Can I just put some money in the envelope and have you buy postage
with it for me?
A: No. Any money found in the envelope will go into my 1 year old son's
college fund. If postage is a problem, please send me an email
(spot(a)fedoraproject.org).
Q: Will Fedora or Red Hat keep a record of my mailing address?
A: Nope. All we'll do is put stickers and case badges in the envelope,
seal it up, and drop it back in the mail.
Q: How many stickers and case badges do I get?
A: One large Fedora Logo laptop sticker (3 inch) and four small foil
"Powered by Fedora" case badges.
Q: What do the stickers look like?
A: http://spot.fedorapeople.org/sticker-pic.jpg
Q: Is this an April Fools Day joke?
A: Nope. This is serious.
Q: What if I don't use Fedora?
A: You can still get stickers. There is no OS check involved.
Q: I want more stickers than you normally give out! Can I ask for a few
more?
A: If you have a special situation, feel free to email me
(spot(a)fedoraproject.org), and we'll see what can be done.
Q: Is this information on the Fedora website somewhere?
A: Yes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thank_You
Q: I have a question that isn't answered here, where can I ask it?
A: Email spot(a)fedoraproject.org.
Thanks again,
~tom
==
Fedora Project
13 years
Separate /usr partition
by Robert Nichols
I just noticed that ever since Fedora 11 the Installation Guide
recommends against having a /usr partition separate from the root file
system (though as recently as Fedora 12 the Example Usage still showed a
separate /usr). I've always used a separate /usr kept mounted read-only
except when necessary for updates. I was wondering just what sort of
"boot process becomes more complex" issues I've been fortunate enough to
avoid, and whether the reasons for that recommendation have become
stronger in more recent releases.
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Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
13 years
