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Fedora Release Notes.....
by EGO-II.1 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

I usually read up on the release notes immediately after upgrading. But I'm going to be on the road a lot, with no internet connection within the next 4 weeks, and I don't want to waint until I find an internet cafe, or until I retur home. Is there somewhere that I could find the release notes for F18 in a pdf format?...so that I can read up on it on my Kindle?...or is there an application that can convert the html webpage into a pdf?....just curious is all...and might this be something that can be "included" with the next release?...a pdf format? Thanks In Advance EGO II

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OT Web servers and ISP
by Roger 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

I have run into a gotcha with the ISP which will not provide Rails 3 on a shared server. Can someone please enlighten me as to why not. What are the problems? Apologies for OT but google so far doesn't help. TIA Roger

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Not So Bad......
by EGO-II.1 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

So I finally have gone ahead and performed the Upgrade to F18 using Fedup. And I have to say, it wasn't as bad as I had THOUGHT it was gonna be! Kudos to the devs for this one....I just hope that in the future, this'll remain the way to upgrade your system. Also I am curious as to if there will ever be a GUI to go with this...the way Anaconda had one? But other than that...it was quick and painless.....hopefully the Super Bowl will be the same!...LoL! Go 'Niners! Cheers! EGO II

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Fedora 17: unable to login. Laptop keypad is locked
by santosh 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Hi, I am having dual boot Winxp / Fedora 17. In winxp everything is working fine. By mistake the "Shift key" was pressed for a long time, It displayed to activate "sticky key". I clicked on "Activate" button blindly. (As I was not aware of it) At that time keyboard of my laptop was working fine. When I rebooted the machine, Keypad is locked, unable to type password, hence unable to login.to the system. I have tried to boot through old kernels. Its booting properly then it displays login prompt. At that point I am unable to type password as keypad of my laptop is locked. Please suggest what should I do ? Regards Santosh

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humble suggestion to Fedora developers
by Ranjan Maitra 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Dear friends, By now, it is clear that F18 has not quite matched up to expectations. The main problem appears to be the installer. Several people here have expressed their intent to stick to F17 and give F18 a miss. While there is always a small proportion that appear to say this every time a new release is put out, there is a larger issue here for Fedora itself: several of us can not update because fedup or even fedora-upgrade does not work (and some of us do not want to try this out because failing would mean dealing with the installer or going back to F17). However, Fedora needs to have people try out the distribution to work through kinks in all the packages, otherwise F19 will be equally bad if not worse. But without installing F18, there is no way out to this problem. Therefore, I would like to suggest that Fedora put this current installer (F18) in abeyance and re-roll the release using the old installer while the new one is fixed for F19 (after responding to the feedback generated thus far). I am not sure how an update to the installer in F18 will help since an install is needed for an update and once updated, there is no need for the installer. The main benefit to Fedora for such an approach will be that all the other features introduced in F18 can be tried and evaluated. Best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!

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Writing Music to a DVD instead of CD
by Mickey 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Fedora 17 How can I write a Music format to a DVD instead of CD . I have to many Songs to write a CD. Can K3B or Brasero do the job

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winhq and 64bits
by Rafnews 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Hi, i'm trying to install msxml6 and dotnet35 as 64bits package under winehd, but for an unknow reason (at least from me) it seems wine always requests and accepts only 32bits packages. why ? my fedora 18 installation is a 64bits OS, so where is the problem ? what should i test now ? thx -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 18 x64 MySQL 5.6.x Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c Tomcat 7.17 PHP 5.4.8

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Tint2 - panel/task bar
by Rafnews 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Hi, 2 days ago i installed tint2 on my fedora 2. I put it as startup application via gnome-session-properties. for an unknown reason, today morning when my computer started, tint2 was not anymore among startup applications and therefore didn't start at fedora boot :( have you already had something similar ? thx -- Alain ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 18 x64 MySQL 5.6.x Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c Tomcat 7.17 PHP 5.4.8

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Re: pipelining configuration settings
by g 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

On 02/02/2013 12:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: <> > There *is* such a button, or at least a toggle of other form; it's called > "Allow scripts globally". It can be accessed from the "S"-icon menu, or as > a checkbox in the NoScript options. It's marked as "dangerous". to me, a *button* is a selection icon on the toolbar, not an "[X]" selection in a list of configurations, which you mention and on my system show as; [] Scripts Globally Allowed (dangerous) i do not see it under the "S" icon list. it is in list tab "General" when the "Options" is selected in "S" icon drop down. [i am not trying to be technical. just want to be 'specific' about where i see it.] > What I think VanguardLH is asking for is a "Disallow even whitelisted > scripts, without actually altering the whitelist" toggle. As far as I > know, that doesn't exist. i do not claim to know what VanguardLH is thinking, tho it would help if he were more 'specific'. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates.

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Re: WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel [SOLVED]
by Mike Fleetwood 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

On 31 January 2013 23:34, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2013 06:19 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after >> booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my >> wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks >> displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog >> messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared. >> >> Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome. >> >> Thanks >> Mike >> >> >> Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before >> --8<-- >> >> Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio >> killswitch; enabled by state file >> >> >> Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after >> --8<-- >> >> Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by >> radio killswitch; enabled by state file > > yum install rfkill > > Then provide the output of "rfkill list" Solved now. Bit of a brown paper bag moment. I must have unknowingly disabled wifi, but exactly when I was testing that kernel. Fixed by: # yum install rfkill # rfkill list all 0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes <-- HERE Hard blocked: no ... # rfkill unblock all (Or press [Fn][F2]). I was just a bit dismayed to see that software blocking wifi removes the wifi device line from the output of lspci: 01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Thanks, Mike

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