Re: criminal use of linux
by EGO-II.1
If theres indeed no "teeth" to M$'s claim..then they're just trying to see of they can shake a few trees....see who gets rattled?....intetesting......that a co. so big is so scared of the small fry....
Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone
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From: "Christopher Svanefalk" <christopher.svanefalk(a)gmail.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: criminal use of linux
Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2012 6:26 am
Best,
Christopher Svanefalk
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Joe Wulf <joe_wulf(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Correct... Micro$loth has never passed up an opportunity to bully.
From: Digimer <lists(a)alteeve.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: criminal use of
linux
<snip>
Legal fights with companies sitting on the kind of cash MS has is a
nearly impossible battle to win, unless you can match them. So this has
nothing to do with facts and more to do with bullying.
Digimer
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As one who studies laws, and the abuse of political power, I wouldn't worry about this; there is absolutely nothing MS can do - it's just a mere scare tactic.
Richard, please do not see this as a personal criticism, but if that was indeed the case, then would not the legal departments of the affected companies (especially Oracle, who most likely has a legal war machine easily on par with MS) have dismissed it rather than letting the company succumb to the demands?
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11 years, 10 months
Files of type .abw start weirdly in KDE
by Jonathan Ryshpan
When I click on the file foo.abw in the Desktop I would expect the
abiword application to start with foo.abw open. But actually firefox
opens with two tabs and two dialog boxes, both of which state:
You have chosen to open
foo.abw
which is an AbiWord document (10.0 KB)
from /home/jonrysh/desktop
What should Firefox do with this file?
O Open with AbiWord (default)
O ...
The preferences in System Settings->File Associations all look OK.
Clicking on any other file in the Desktop works OK. What's going on?
System is Fedora17 with KDE 4.8.4.
Thanks - jon
11 years, 10 months
Re: Unable To Update.....
by EGO-II.1
Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is root....I don't remember creating a different username/acct when I first installed Fedora. And when I install software and I get prompted for a password....the same one that logs me in also gets me past authentication.....bit there have been times when I'm in terminal....where I'm not permitted to do something...and the response I get is the system telling me that I need to "be" root.....so I dunno....how can I be a root acct when I have no permissions...?
Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone
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From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Unable To Update.....
Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 6:03 am
On 08/01/2012 05:06 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> I tried Ed, but it's saying I don't have permissions......now I know this is ill advised, but when I first installed F16 I did the unthinkable and made my USER account the ROOT account, so I don't see how that's possible.....hmmm.......lloks like I'll be upgrading a bit sooner than I thought then?.....need to get an external 500GB drive....transfer
>
You've successfully weirded your system. Doing what you did is like walking around with a loaded gun in your hand, with the safety off, and your finger on the trigger.
Don't know why you can't delete those files if your user is truly root.
You could always boot a Fedora DVD and go into "rescue" mode and delete files from there.
If I were in your shoes I would forget about clamav and just backup all data and install F17 from scratch. And when you install clamav, I'd do it from the Fedora repos and not download and compile from source like I think you were doing.
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11 years, 10 months
F17 GNOME 3 dual monitor problem
by Paul Erickson
I have installed F17 on an A7V8X-X with an Athlon 2500 cpu with 2.5Gb of
memory with a
Quadro NVS 280 64MB AGP8X video card. Installation went fine and I was
able to add enough
extensions to GNOME 3 to make it usable, but when I add a second
monitor, I get a
"GNOME 3 failed to start" starting in fall back mode. The monitors are
identical Samsung
SyncMaster 740N's. A web search reveals that others are having problems
with dual monitors,
but so far I have seen no solutions.
Anyone found a solution for this?
cheers, Paul
11 years, 10 months
old files in /var/lib/rpm
by Reindl Harald
am i right that "Filedigests", "Filemd5s", "Provideversion",
"Pubkeys" and "Requireversion" are unused fragments of older
rpm/yum versions and can be removed?
all machines are installed in 2008 with Fedora 9....
[root@buildserver:/var/lib/rpm]$ ls
insgesamt 85M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,4M 2012-07-21 21:39 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K 2012-07-20 15:20 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 2012-07-21 21:39 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21M 2011-11-30 14:26 Filedigests
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,1M 2009-05-23 14:40 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K 2012-07-21 21:39 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K 2012-07-21 21:39 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80K 2012-07-21 21:39 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K 2012-07-20 15:11 Obsoletename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51M 2012-07-21 21:39 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968K 2012-07-21 21:39 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364K 2011-11-30 14:26 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K 2011-11-30 13:49 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532K 2012-07-21 21:39 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592K 2011-11-30 14:26 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140K 2012-07-21 21:39 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76K 2012-07-21 21:39 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K 2012-07-16 13:05 Triggername
11 years, 10 months
RE: criminal use of linux
by Patrick Kobly
-----Original message-----
From: Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Wed 01-08-2012 10:48
Subject: Re: criminal use of linux
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>;
> Best,
>
> Christopher Svanefalk
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:jack.craig.aptos@gmail.com> > wrote:
> Typical M$ thinking, and within recent history, SCO!!
>
> Thing did not go very well for SCO in the end.
>
> Why is this not being brought into a courtroom, rather than companies just
> paying licenses?
It is frequently the case that even a successful defense against a patent lawsuit costs more than licensing a bogus patent.
Furthermore, there is a non-zero probability of losing said lawsuit, with costs that would significantly exceed the costs of a license.
So if w is the cost of a license
p is the probability of losing a lawsuit
z is the probability of a lawsuit even being filed
x is the cost of defending the lawsuit and winning
and y is the cost of defending the lawsuit and losing
if
w < z(py + (1-p)x)
w < z(p(y-x) + x)
Then it makes sense to just settle. Some firms may make a more conservative estimation of p than others. Some firms believe that y and x are quite close, and much larger than w - which means the probability of winning or losing doesn't really matter. Some firms assume z is 1 - a lawsuit is inevitable.
11 years, 10 months
mysqld: Query cache disabled?
by Richard Shaw
I was using mysqltuner perl script on my mythtv machine and it's
telling me that "Query cache is disabled" and that "Thread cache is
disabled" even though I think I have the relevant options set in
my.cnf:
# mysqltuner script tuning options
skip-external-locking
query_cache_type=1
query_cache_limit=3M
query_cache_size=32M
join_buffer_size=512.0K
tmp_table_size=32M
max_heap_table_size=32M
thread_cache_size=8
table_cache=256
key_buffer_size=64M
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Richard
11 years, 10 months
Unable To Update.....
by EGO-II.1
I'm currently finding it difficult to upgrade my Fedora 16 laptop. I
have tried being selective and choosing just one or two of the updates
in the he updates list, hoping that after they went through I'd be able
to do the rest but to no avail. I would like to submit a photo of the
actual updates, but I think I remember reading that it's not allowed on
this mailing list. SO I have just copied the names of the updates, and
the error message I get when it fails. Hopefully someone can help me out
with this!?
Name Of Updates:
"The Linux Kernel": kernel-3.4.6-1.fc16 (32-bit)
"Development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel":
kernel-devel-3.4.6-1.fc16 (32-bit)
"Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc":
kernel-headers-3.4.6-1.fc16 (32-bit)
"Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel": kernel-tools-3.4.6-1.fc16
(32-bit)
List of Errors upon failure to upgrade:
> ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 is needed by
> kmod-wl-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686-5.100.82.112-1.fc15.1.i686
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i686 is needed by
> kmod-wl-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i686-5.100.82.112-1.fc15.19.i686
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.43.8-1.fc15.i686 is needed by
> kmod-wl-2.6.43.8-1.fc15.i686-5.100.82.112-2.fc15.i686
> Please report this error at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&...
Thank in advance for any help!
EGO II
11 years, 10 months
Weird Happenings.....
by EGO-II.1
Ok so I've been using F16 for quite a while now, and I decided that it
was time to get "serious" about securing my system, well aftger browsing
the web and reading up on it. I decided to download clamav.....now
here's where things get weird, after downloading the clam "tar.gz" file,
my laptop started acting funny. Mind you this is WITHOUT installing the
actual clamav file. And now I have lost the use of my touchpad, or to be
more precise it has started to act flaky, in that it seems that it will
switch from the "Right-Handed" mode to Left-Handed. or sometimes it
won't work at all. Is there a cure for this? Because this is just one of
two problems I'm having, but I will post the second one in another post
to keep things separate and coherent. Any help one can give would be
much appreciated!
EGO II
Fedora 16 3.4.4 Kernel
Gateway T-Series Laptop (T-6321)
3GB RAM
32-bit
Intel Dual CPU T2390
11 years, 10 months
F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff
by Marco Guazzone
Hello,
On my system, the boot phase takes only approximately 28 seconds but
both the reboot and shutdown phase take approximately 1 minute and 10
seconds.
This did not happen with F16.
Could someone help me to solve this issue?
Here below are my systemd services:
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION
abrt-ccpp.service loaded active exited Install ABRT coredump hook
abrt-oops.service loaded active running ABRT kernel log watcher
abrt-vmcore.service loaded active exited Harvest vmcores for ABRT
abrtd.service loaded active running ABRT Automated
Bug Reporting Tool
accounts-daemon.service loaded active running Accounts Service
acpid.service loaded active running ACPI Event Daemon
auditd.service loaded active running Security Auditing Service
colord-sane.service loaded active running Daemon for
monitoring attached scanners and registering them with colord
colord.service loaded active running Manage, Install
and Generate Color Profiles
console-kit-daemon.service loaded active running Console Manager
console-...m-start.service loaded active exited Console System
Startup Logging
crond.service loaded active running Command Scheduler
cups.service loaded active running CUPS Printing Service
dbus.service loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus
fail2ban.service loaded active running SYSV: Fail2ban daemon
fedora-loadmodules.service loaded active exited Load legacy
module configuration
fedora-readonly.service loaded active exited Configure
read-only root support
fedora-s...it-late.service loaded active exited Initialize
storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.)
fedora-s...ge-init.service loaded active exited Initialize
storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.)
fedora-w...storage.service loaded active exited Wait for storage scan
ip6tables.service loaded active exited IPv6 firewall
with ip6tables
iptables.service loaded active exited IPv4 firewall with iptables
mcelog.service loaded active running Machine Check
Exception Logging Daemon
NetworkManager.service loaded active running Network Manager
prefdm.service loaded active running Display Manager
rsyslog.service loaded active running System Logging Service
rtkit-daemon.service loaded active running RealtimeKit
Scheduling Policy Service
sendmail.service loaded active running Sendmail Mail
Transport Agent
sm-client.service loaded active running Sendmail Mail
Transport Client
smartd.service loaded active running Self Monitoring
and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
sshd.service loaded active running OpenSSH server daemon
system-s...eyboard.service loaded active running System Setup Keyboard
systemd-binfmt.service loaded active exited Set Up Additional
Binary Formats
systemd-journald.service loaded active running Journal Service
systemd-logind.service loaded active running Login Service
systemd-...collect.service loaded active exited Collect Read-Ahead Data
systemd-...-replay.service loaded active exited Replay Read-Ahead Data
systemd-remount-fs.service loaded active exited Remount Root and
Kernel File Systems
systemd-sysctl.service loaded active exited Apply Kernel Variables
systemd-...s-setup.service loaded active exited Recreate Volatile
Files and Directories
systemd-...essions.service loaded active exited Permit User Sessions
systemd-...e-setup.service loaded active exited Setup Virtual Console
tcsd.service loaded failed failed LSB: Init script for TCSD
udev-settle.service loaded active exited udev Wait for
Complete Device Initialization
udev-trigger.service loaded active exited udev Coldplug all Devices
udev.service loaded active running udev Kernel Device Manager
udisks2.service loaded active running Storage Daemon
upower.service loaded active running Daemon for power management
Thank you very much.
Best,
-- Marco
11 years, 10 months
