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Pleasant experience with yumex on F21 beta
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Maybe because I am using Xfce instead of Gnome, but I doubt it. First on startup, it does not go off and read the packages for update, eventhough this is diabled. Just a bad behaviour on F20. But it is just fast now. In the past I only used yumex when I really needed to search for something. I may be more inclined to use it now.

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A gmane mystery
by Timothy Murphy 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

I've been collecting redhat.fedora from gmane for several years, but about a week ago I found that while I could read gmane newsgroups I was unable to post to them - that is, my posts did not appear. I was able to post to gmane.test, and could read these posts. So I assume there is no problem with my From: or other headers. I'm not sure if the gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general is in fact "mirroring" this mailing list? And if so, whether the problem lies with the list rather than the newsgroup? I seem to be properly subscribed to the mailing list, with my current email address. Any enlightenment or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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Disk Drive Torture Test
by JD 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Is there a linux disk drive non-destructive torture test package?

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Xfce lock screen really not blanking screen
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

On a Lenovo x120e. It makes the screen blank, but does not turn off the video so there is this black light on the screen. My Gnome system (same model, different unit) really turns off the video for blanking the screen. I should also say that the Xfce system is running F21 final RC1. So am I missing an Xfce screen option, as I am new to Xfce? Or is something not right either in Lenovo support or in F21?

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Somewhat OT, encryption question
by William Oliver 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

I was thinking about the infamous "code purple error" for HP computers, where Windows is keyed to the hardware of the machine. If you swap out a hard drive or change a card, it won't boot. Apparently, there is a "tattoo" of various hardware identifiers in static memory somewhere and the OS matches a code put in during installation with that number. For the HP issue, the fix is easy -- you just delete the command to check during boot up. But, I was thinking about this as an encryption option -- where one could encrypt files in a way that automatically incorporates hardware information with the passphrase. That way, if someone were to intercept a file and knew your passphrase, they would still not be able to decrypt the file unless they did it on one specific machine. Is there anything like that for fedora? It would probably be pretty easy to hack the gpg source code to add a few lines to append system information to the passphrase, but if there's something already around, I'd like to play with it... billo

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monitor arrangement
by SternData 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

I just plugged in a 2nd monitor and it's working very nicely. I have it set so monitor #1 (primary) is on the right and monitor #2 (secondary) is on the left. I set this from ALL SETTINGS -> DISPLAYS. On reboot, the system comes up with #1 on the left and #2 on the right, not physically, but virtually. I have to move the mouse to the right on the primary monitor to get it on the secondary monitor to the left. How can I force the settings to be saved across sessions and boots? -- -- Steve

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Wine + Safari 5.1.7 + Adobe Flash Player
by JD 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi all, I repeatedly installed Adobe flash player within wine so that Safari can play flash vids (under Wine). But Safari keeps popping a message in the video window to install the missing plugin. Any info on how to make it work?

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process tbl
by bruce 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hey.. A test app does a fork, creates children processes. Is there a way to view the procTBL "ps" to be able to see that a process is a "child" process? I know you can see when a child has stopped, but the parent is still running.. but is there a way to see if there are "running" children, some attribute that denotes i'm a child? Or, is there some attribute that denotes the process has running children? thanks

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Guest OS on VBox and key bindings
by JD 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Is there a way to alter key bindings so that key sequences like Ctl+Alt+Fn (n=1....9) can be intercepted by GUEST and be able to see a GUEST virtual tty? Thanx.

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grub : how to edit grub config by command / script ?
by santosh 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

I am using CentOS 6 and grub 0.97 1. Launched a Virtual Machine (VM) with CentOS 6. (This step is done.) 2. After the VM comes up, copy latest kernel and initrd from remote server to /boot through a script present at /etc/init.d/ (This step is done) 3. How to edit grub config file either by command or by script (but not manually), to update the new kernel and initrd so that next time it boots up with the new kernel ? Thanks Santosh

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