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oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear List, I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and Windows. Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow video conferencing with Fedora. Thanks much -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.net

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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Best FOSS alternative for skype?
by Marko Vojinovic 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Ok, I just lost enthusiasm in further use of skype. Being closed source was bad enough already, but I tolerated it due to its good-enough quality, reliability and free-of-charge use for skype-to-skype calls. But now that Microsoft is taking it over, I suddenly lost faith that these good features will still be there from now on (not to mention Linux support). Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service? I do know that there are such VoIP apps, but I am not familiar with the quality of service, availability and accessibility of each of those. I am willing to migrate and start persuading my existing skype contacts (which are scattered all over the globe) to migrate to a FOSS solution as well. But I cannot do that if this alternative does not provide functionality that at least matches that of skype. It has to be up to the task. So which one is on the top of the list, in your opinion? TIA, :-) Marko

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/var/cache/abrt-di
by Ranjan Maitra 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi, Looking at my files and diskspace, I note the following: $ sudo du -sm /var/cache/* 1961 /var/cache/abrt-di 1 /var/cache/cups 1 /var/cache/fontconfig 1 /var/cache/foomatic 1 /var/cache/hald 1 /var/cache/jwhois 1 /var/cache/ldconfig 3 /var/cache/man 1 /var/cache/mash 1 /var/cache/PackageKit 217 /var/cache/yum Googling on how to reduce this abrt-di beast, I came up with the solution that you should delete the reports in the abrt GUI tool. But these are all deleted for me, and I think there must be a better way to remove this cache? Any suggestions on how to do this cleanly? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

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How to setup IPSEC client?
by Eric B. 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi, I'm trying to setup FC14 with an IPSEC client to connect to my VPN at work. I have been given a PEM/KEY file for authentication (and a p12 if needed) but I can't seem to figure out how to configure IPSEC. I've been trying to read up on it as much as possible, but I just can't get a good grasp on how to do this. I have all the settings I need, but I just can't figure out how/where to configure them. The Network Manager tool doesn't have anything that supports PEM/Key certificates, and the same goes for the Network Configuration gui as well. Can anyone please point me in the right direction how to best set this up? Thanks! Eric

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Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?
by Richard Shaw 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

I'm having issues with my builtin audio. At first I thought it was the new speakers I bought. I know they're not quite as my Cambridge Soundworks but the external 5.1 decoder is having issues so I figured it was time. I hear a high tinny noise and assumed it was the cheap amplifier but after plugging in some old but nice SGI headphones I still heard it. To that end I'm in the market for an inexpensive sound card but don't want to go too cheap and get something equivalent to my onboard audio. I found the Asus Xonar DG[1] for a decent price but it uses the CMI8786 which is supported in alsa 1.0.24 (which I have) OR kernel 2.6.38, which I don't. I'm really hoping the OR is right and it's not supposed to be an AND. Interestingly enough this chip doesn't appear to have internal volume controls so I'll have to rely on PulseAudio. Anyone have this card working (well)? Even though it's not a big investment I'd like to know someone has it working. Richard

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f15+Gnome3: how to put on desktop an applet for see cpu and network usage
by Dario Lesca 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, on my f14 I had place on my panel the system monitor, witch show me the CPU and network usage. How to do that into F15+Gnome3? Many thanks. -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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request for package
by Adrian Sevcenco 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi! How and where can i request for a package inclusion? Thanks, Adrian

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How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?
by Michael Hennebry 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

For work, I have had to use Microsoft outlook for e-mail. I'd like to be able to get at it through either KMail or evolution on my home F13 machine. I've tried to set up both without success. That I've never used a mail client before probably doesn't help. With KMail I'm stuck when I get to Server Innformation Incoming server: Outgoing server: Use local delivery With evolution, I'm stuck when I get to the "Receiving Email" page. For server, I'm completely stuck. Which username? My name on my box or the username part of my e-mail address? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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Remote Desktop in F15 & Gnome 3
by Andy Theuninck 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

I want to turn on desktop sharing, but the menu options listed in the documentation no longer exist. This is the document I'm looking at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Sharing_Your_Desktop Alternately, if there's a way to tweak /etc/sysconfig/vncservers to use x0vncserver instead of Xvnc, that would probably accomplish what I want. According to the man pages, the two programs take pretty much identical arguments, but the vncserver wrapper script used by init doesn't have any obvious options for switching backends.

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