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yum upgrade problems

Posted: 20 Jun 2008 11:59 PM PDT

Matt Giwer wrote: 

It isn't that easy. If the package manager were to proceed in the face of
error conditions it could hose your system. The developers have taken the
cautious approach by exiting and bringing the problem to your attention for
manual intervention.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Cinelerra

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 03:27 PM PDT

Cork Soaker wrote:
 

It wasn't when I installed it a couple of weeks ago. It runs fine, but
sometimes you have to wait a little for large files to load. If you hurry
it, it can appear not to be working properly. Maybe they took it down for
some reason. Ubuntu Hardy is outlined in section 9.2.1 I think, right?

--
Peace,
Fred
(Remove FFFf from my email address to reply by email).

Evolution as newsreader

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 05:26 AM PDT

Magnate illuminated comp.os.linux.setup by typing: 

I think you've already had a couple of pointers about Evolution as an
NNTP client.

I have it set up to read from news.individual.net, and it is pretty
flaky at both article downloads and also group listing.

As others have done, I recomend looking elsewhere.

There are a myriad of differing clients you can use.

Here are just a few

1) Claws mail
2) Sylpheed
3) Thunderbird
4) Pan
5) Knode (needs some KDE libs)
6) slrn (terminal news reader)
7) Gnus (terminal news reader)

One of them may suit you more than another. I suggest you try them
until you find one that *you* like. It is all about personal
preference.

--
Moog

“Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?”

Booting off USB drive / old pc with USB FDD support

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 05:09 AM PDT

Nope only USB Floppy.

Thanks

How to format MSdos on diskette?

Posted: 16 Jun 2008 04:55 AM PDT

On Jun 17, 7:46am, "Johannes Beekhuizen"
<xs4all.nl> wrote: 

Good that you've found a solution. You seem to have skipped over the
note to use 'mtools'. I''ve found mtools tremendously faster for
floppy manipulation, for years.As near as I can tell, the filesystem
and utilities for dealing with floppies as a full, mountable file
system are just more powerful than the average use needs, and mtools
limited capabilities capture almost anything sane you'd want to do
with a floppy.

Unable to use stunnel with tin...

Posted: 14 Jun 2008 11:20 PM PDT

On 6/15/2008 4:06 PM PT, Ant typed:
 

I configured the firewall to allow both port 563 and 1119 for stunnel
command. And I no longer need to run it as root (no idea how I fixed it,
maybe it was the firewall OR testing stunnel with root did something)! :)

Thanks all!!
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Which distro?

Posted: 14 Jun 2008 12:13 PM PDT

Baho Utot wrote: 

Indeed ;-)

Faced with a similar problem years ago,we did in fact effectively 'write
our own distro'

WE had a master machine tat we upgraded to latest kernels: then we had a
scrip which would tar thelot up and shove it onto a slave machine,
carefully updating all teh new biaries and carefully not stepping on the
old configuration files.

Does Fedora 9 have disk utility to "shrink" windows partition?

Posted: 10 Jun 2008 07:22 PM PDT

Fred wrote: 

I don't know what shrink means. Defragmenting the drive should make it as
small as possible. From there use parted or some partition manager to limit
the size of the windows partition. In my very antiquated experience one simply
limits the size of the windows partition and leaves the rest untouched
instead of declaring it a linux partition. The installer then finds the unused
disk space and installs on that.

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A Zionist is a Jew who wants money from a second
Jew to send a third Jew to Palestine.
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Two versions of wine

Posted: 10 Jun 2008 07:24 AM PDT

Andrew Halliwell wrote: 

Hi, thanks for that. --prefix seems to be the option.

Thank you very much. :-)

Poor Internet downloads

Posted: 09 Jun 2008 04:17 PM PDT

Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
 

For the curious:

It seems to be a driver problem. After switching from WLAN to USB (such
a cable was already lying around) my Internet connection works as
expected - at least for now :-)

DoDi

Bootable grub CD gives no menu

Posted: 08 Jun 2008 08:00 AM PDT

Darren Salt <demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
 

The same. The hack just deleted the error returned from a BIOS call.

After reading some of the code, I see that it tries by default to check
the geometry of the CD using the BIOS INT-13 function 4B01 (AH=4B AL=01),
and if an error code is returned, then grub assumes that the CD is not
available. As it happens, return code 01 means that the command isn't
implemented. A little experimenting showed that 4B00 returned 00, for
example. This pdf doc describes those BIOS calls:

http://www.phoenix.com/NR/rdonlyres/98D3219C-9CC9-4DF5-B496-A286D893E36A/0/specscdrom.pdf

This check is nonsensical for a bootable Grub CD, since the CD had to be
available to boot Grub, but that code block seems to be there due to
commonality with the Grub that installs on the HD. Grub might be booted
from a hard disk, then be used to boot a CD if the BIOS isn't able to
boot CDs, as with very early PCs, so there's a check using an "extended"
BIOS call to see if the CD is there.

I've no idea how widely implemented the 4B01 function is. It's not
mentioned in the INT-13 Wikipedia page. Maybe it *is* common now and
there *is* an unusual bug in my laptop's BIOS to stop it working.

--
Dave Farrance

Automagic may be a bore --

Posted: 07 Jun 2008 04:57 AM PDT

Thanks for the pointer.

Could not find anything concerning mime types,
and nautilus (the file manager) does not seem
to have relevant variables --
I'll keep investigating but if any further
ideas arise, don't hesitate :-)

(I can't even decide that, concerning this-precise-file,
I want it to be always opened with emacs -()
A.O.

Utility to strip $Log from RCS checked-out files

Posted: 27 May 2008 12:21 PM PDT

On 9 Jun, 17:58, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: 

I agree. The $Log are a pain. I was lucky in that I didn't have to
deal with them, but I can see they would be painful to p out.

regards,
Fred