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anyone out there still using NIS?
by Robert P. J. Day 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??
by Bill Case 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi; For anyone, but particularly Les H. I have been re-reading some notes I have made on how DRAM works. As a result I have a couple of unanswered questions? 1) This question is for personal visualization purposes. I fully realize it makes no real difference on how DRAM works. What is the most common arrangement of memory cells (??) within a memory stick. It seems to be proprietary information? I have seen schematics of two possibilities; a) with each stored bit side-by-side for the length of a 'word' or in my case a 'double word' (i.e. 64 bits), or, b) in a 4 X 4 arrangement. Is there some place in the DRAM manufacturer's specification I could be looking to determine this? As I said, this question is for no technical reason. When I am thinking about DRAM memory, I use a visualizations in my mind about what is happening in memory. I would like my mental vision of the process to be as close to physical reality as possible. 2) When referring to DRAM memory, what is a 'cell'; is it physically one bit (capacitor, transistor, lines and all) or is a cell a group of them? If it is a group, from what I have read it is a bit ambiguous whether 'cell' refers to one 4 X 4 ( or one 16 bit linear) arrangement, one 'word' or one 'double word'? -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1

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Seamonkey composer
by Anne Wilson 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

For a quick and dirty web page edit, such as adding a single date to a club calendar, I like seamonkey composer. At the moment I have to open the web browser then change to composer, which seems silly. I've added the relevant command to the manu. Can anyone tell me how to add composer to the krunner, or will it appear when I've called it a few times? Thanks Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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F11: Nautilus Preferences crashes!
by Dan Thurman 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Yup. it crashes - every time for me. I have all the latest updates installed. Open the Nautilus main browser, select Edit->Preferences and bugtool pops up and crashes all open Nautilius browsers. Not very nice.

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booted from X if I unplug USB external drive
by Maurizio Ungaro 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi all, My USB external disk doesn't go to sleep, even if it's not mounted. It was sleeping properly (even mounted!) with Fedora 9. Furthermore, if I unplug it (to make it sleep), I get booted from X. var/log only shows this: Sep 28 12:44:50 mauri kernel: usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3 Sep 28 12:45:04 mauri kdm[1950]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I'm using Fedora11 x86_64 - I'm actually not sure if this Fedora-related at all... if not, I apologize. best regards, mauri

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location of popup helpers question
by Gene Heskett 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Greetings; I have one rather exasperating function I wish I could either turn off, or relocate. It's in kmail, the little "helpful" (not) gizmo that pops up if you leave the mouse sitting on an icon. It is useful for some things, but I have kmail setup with the message list pane left of the message pane, which puts the messages panes subject line not too far below the icons along the top of the main window. And when it pops up, it takes about a minute for it to go way, during which time the messages subject line is hidden. Having to move the mouse to a clear place when I want to switch to the + key, and back again tends to aggravate my arthritis. Can this be relocated to a point above the icon, or can the display timeout be set down to maybe 2 seconds? If so, what file do I edit to accomplish this? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair. -- George Burns

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imac9, 1 GeForce 9400 loads x86_64 live cd, but GeForce GT 130 results in a black screen.
by Justin P. Mattock 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I've two machines (imac9,1) first one boots the live cd x86_64 GeForce 9400 but the other machine GeForce GT 130 doesn't(using an i386 works barely). any ideas on how to do an install with with the livecd while being in init3? Justin P. Mattock

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Router in Fedora. Alternative to Mikrotik
by Fabio Jara 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hello my good friends, recently i have been introduced to a system new to me, Mikrotik Router http://www.mikrotik.com/ I was wandering, is there some alternative to make Fedora work like that? i mean, have to configurate all in graphic mode? The real problem that i am facing is that the my network needs some bandwidth control by IP and those ip have to me given by the dhcp as static by MACADDRESS. and have to be routing between the internet and my internal servers of apache, samba, and mysql. Is there something like webmin based but for routing and bandwidth control? Thanks in advance and my best regards to all. -- Fabio Jara. Universidad Privada del Este - Paraguay. IT Manager. Fedora Ambassador for Paraguay.

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reading /var/mail
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

I want a SIMPLE GUI tool for reading mail in /var/mail. Like for /var/mail/root I don't want a heavy hitter like Evolution or Thunderbird, and mail is not a GUI. I have used Webmin's reader, but I have systems that I do not want to install Webmin on. Are there other alternatives?

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Moovida review
by Valent Turkovic 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Could somebody please help review Moovida package so it gets into Fedora faster. Moovida is an excellent media center app that is used to be knows as Elisa. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510965 Cheers! -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, msn: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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