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Re: [ubuntu-za] Laptop processor.
by Johan Scheepers 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

On 03/07/2011 21:14, Wesley Werner wrote: > Good eve > > Find out what your options re graphics, get make and models, search on > the forums to see the success rates of those models. > > Nvidia provide drivers on their site (albeit still proprietary) and > just now I see AMD have some open source initiative too. > > So follow your budget, lookup matching stories online, until you find > a nice balance of hardware, budget and success rate. > Thanks to all that responded. I will test drive with live cd's at the shops. Johan S

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Thunderbird 5
by SternData 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Just FYI, I downloaded Thunderbird 5 from Mozilla.com into ~/bin and it's working just fine on F15. Unfortunately, not all Thunderbird extensions are supporting the new version. -- -- Steve

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Gnome Q: Application window save-data for restore when reopened?
by Dan Thurman 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

I am sorry if this question was asked before, but I was wondering why is it, that most app- lication's main window do not restore it's last save-data the next time it is opened? What I am talking about is window position and size data, but not limited to these only. How many times does an application have to be repositioned & resized every time it is opened? We do have a startup session save for apps that supports session-saves, and restores saved apps to its last position, size, & workspace locations. (BTW, as of F13, session-saves do not work well.) In any case, session-saves are for applications that will be restored when a new session is opened. But this is a different application for a specific purpose. If I am not being clear, let me try to explain. Let's take an application such as Totem. Now if one opens Totem, one notes that this app positions itself at the top-left corner with a rather large window size. Annoyed, totem is repositioned, resized for viewing pleasure. Now, I am done with totem, I closed it. Later in time, I decided to open Totem again, and the behaviour is exactly the same as before, top-left and a large window size. Drat! If there was window-app save-data, the next time Totem opened, apps window would obtain the save- data and reposition and resize the app is exactly as it was the last time it was opened. Further, is there a Gnome application design framework, that includes built-in support for application save-data which include things as position, size, workspace location session-save hooks, and any window specific save-data so that designers will automatically have this code when developing new windows applications? (Yeah, dream on?) It would also be nice if this was standardized, so that a Desktop configuration tool would recognize these apps and allow for Global & User property changes saved either in the the global or user's (~/.config "database") or whatever is appropriate.

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Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?
by Manuel Escudero 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Hi, I'm going to give you some quick context: Last week I went to a "Startup Weekend" Event in Guadalajara, Jalisco, (My county is Mexico) and I live in Mexico City. Usually I use Desktop machines, in fact, I ONLY own one computer and it's a Desktop (F15 KDE 64 Bits BTW) And it has never gave me problems before, I can pacefully work at home, at work, at school with desktop computers as many things I use are on the cloud and all the machines I use in my diary life have mostly the same setup (Software, Configs and other things, such as Fedore as the primary O.S. and Windows VM's inside Vbox). BUT for this event I had to ask for a borrowed laptop as I don't have one. The thing is I usually work in Fedora Linux and in Windows VM inside of Fedora Linux Because of Dreamweaver CS5, that is my main web development production app, also I use Windows VM's to check's IE compatibility, and some Corel and Ulead Programs. As a Matter of fact, I CAN'T work in a PC where I only have Windows or where I only have Linux, (or with dual-boot) I'm used to use both O.S. at the same time, complementing one with the other, Linux as the MAIN O.S and Windows in a VM... The laptop I got only had F14 ans it wasn't powerful enough to create a VM, Wine won't run Dreamweaver CS5 or most of the windows tools I need to work correctly and I felt "inproductive" in some way at the event. MY QUESTION IS: As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is a Free Service like XenApp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpdUDUVMNKM (Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource technologies that give me that option. I don't intend for a enterprise enviroment, something personal where I can virtualize at much 5 apps for my personal use in the cloud... is it possible? What should I use? Thanks! -- Manuel Escudero Linux User #509052 Twitter: @Jmlevick <http://twitter.com/Jmlevick> Blogger: Blog Xenode <http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/> PGP/GnuPG: E2F5 12FA E1C3 FA58 CF15 8481 B77B 00CA C1E1 0FA7 Xenode Systems - xenodesystems.com <http://www.xenodesystems.com/> - "Conéctate a Tu Mundo"

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Re: /.autofsck continually updated every reboot
by Jackson Byers 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Sam Sharpe wrote >I think you misunderstand then. Sam, you are right, I had badly misinterpreted. Your suggested test convinced me. I rebooted out of my backupf14 into my mainf14. backupf14 now shows no /.autofcsk mainf14 _does_, completely in accord with what you said. thanks much Jack

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Re: /.autofsck continually updated every reboot
by Jackson Byers 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Sam Sharpe wrote >The /.autofsck file is created by the system automatically at boot time >by the /etc/rc.sysinit script by simply touching the file. It has no >content. The logic behind it is, that if the host went down not properly >(i.e. power loss) the /etc/rc.sysinit script will find this .autofsck >file at next boot time and the system can act with a default scenario or >like configured within the file /etc/sysconfig/autofsck. If the hosts >shuts down or reboots properly, then the .autofsck file will be erased >by the /etc/init.d/halt script and no automatic filesystem check will >happen next boot. I think this answers the 3 questions by Ralf. The file >is generated by /etc/rc.sysinit, used by the system to know about no >proper shutdowns and you should leave the file as it is. There is not >any need to delete it. I had already seen this. Nothing in there is consistent with my case. My reboots look normal, so system should erase ./autofsck, but it doesnt. There is no fsck activity during the boot at least none I can see. I used,once, 'touch /forcefsck', which did do the fsck, no errors, normal reboot. Jack

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Partitioning in anaconda
by Frode Petersen 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Hi. I've searched release notes, bugzilla and news archives for an answer to this, but haven't found one. I have found one other query on fedoraforum, but no solution. ( http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-259666.html ) I started installing f14 on a machine (P4, 2GB ram, 30GB free on 75GB HD, 1st partition is WinXP). I use manual setup of partitions, as I have always done, planning to use the following approximate scheme: sda1 - primary - ntfs - 45 GB - winXP sda2 - primary - ext2 - 200 MB - /boot sda5 - extended - ext4 - 7 GB - /home sda6 - extended - swap - 2 GB - [swap] sda7 - extended - ext4 - 20 GB - / It seems that anaconda overrides my choice of not ticking the 'create primary partition' box in the 'add partition' dialog, making all three first partitions created primary. This means that both /boot and either /home or / would be primary partitions. Questions: - 'Olde' knowledge says that only one primary partition can be visible to the system at one time. Is this not longer true? - If still true, the system wouldn't be able to see the home or root partition, would it? - If the behaviour is by design, what is the reasoning behind it? Is it better than letting the admin decide? I haven't yet tried partitioning with fdisk first, but will try to do that tomorrow. Hopefully it will be a usable workaround. Have a nice weekend, Frode Petersen

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/.autofsck continually updated every reboot
by Jackson Byers 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

[byers@f14 ~]$ uname -r 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE [Background: Re: backup copy of F14 boots, but can't login. endless recycle of login screen: fixed by 'touch /.autorelabel, reboot'. Still was unable to make id:3:initdefault: take effect. Ctrl-Alt-F2 does get me to text login screen. Also can get to runlevel 3 by appending '3' to kernel line] Since then, I noticed I was getting a newly updated /.autofsck every time I rebooted. Thinking this was indicating I needed to run fsck, I did touch /forcefcsk, rebooted, and the system did the fsck, no errors, needed no response from me. Still getting a newly updated /.autofsck on every reboot. Still no effect id:3:initdefault in inittab. Any advice re /.autofsck? Does its continual reappearance indicate a problem? thanks Jack

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phpeclipse stop working
by Remi Collet 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

I'm used to work with eclipse-phpeclipse (from the repository) After installing eclipse-egit and eclipse-jgit, PHP project are no more available... After removing git stuff, workspace, .eclipse, reinstalling eclipse, still not working... PHP Eclipse is listed in the Installed software, but not available in the "New project". Any idea ?

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Kicad question
by Vinny Onelli 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

Hi, I just installed Kicad and I have a couple question for some one familiar with "PCB design" I generated a new part and saved in my user directory, but the program does not give me the option to access any other directory other the default. The second question, can PCB design show a picture of the part highlighted? Thank you in advance. Vinny

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