Self-Introduction: Matt Phillips
by Matt Phillips
Full legal name: Matthew C Phillips
Country, City: USA, Harrisburg
Profession: Developer, Network Security Analyst
Company: Operation Mobilization
Goals in Fedora Project:
- limited QA for Fedora Core
- Fedora Legacy - I'm on a team that develops a customized distro to
meet the needs of our diverse offices worldwide. This had been
based on RH and will soon be based on FC. Unfortunately our EOL
needs to be much longer than RedHat or Fedora's. We will be
supporting older versions for quite some time, so we'd might as
well work with Fedora Legacy and not duplicate effort.
Historical qualifications:
- a SquirrelMail developer 2000-2002
- a Centrallix developer http://centrallix.sourceforge.net/
- somewhat proficient in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Shell, etc. Learning
Python now....
- Not too much of what I do is known outside my organization,
unfortunately. But then again, trust is something that can only
be built up over time.
GPG:
pub 1024D/0DAA7AF4 2002-03-06 Matt Phillips <matt.phillips(a)c.ict.om.org>
Key fingerprint = C64E A6C2 48F6 70FE CFEC 5490 9F2B B62C 0DAA 7AF4
sub 1024g/6DC2030C 2002-03-06
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Matt Phillips <matt.phillips(a)c.ict.om.org>
International Coordinating Team, Operation Mobilisation, UK
Public PGP Key: http://moses.om.org/~mattp/gpg.asc
20 years, 5 months
2.6.0-1.30.x86_64 runs on Asus K8V
by kas
Just a heads up for those who have been unable to run the x86_64 kernel
rpms from the FC2 development tree on K8T800 motherboards without
reconfiguring...2.6.0-1.30.x86_64 boots as built...ie with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y. No oopses and the K8V's onboard 3c940 is running
fine with the sk98lin driver. The boot log is clean and the only thing
that shows up in the syslog are a couple messages about SELinux. ACPI
is even turned on and it seems to be happy with the APIC too.
This system is pretty vanilla...Athlon64 3200+,1 Gb, 2 PATA drives and a
CD-R/W on the std VIA IDE controller and an ATI 9000 AGPcard. However,
the VIA SATA (not the Promise, but the one on the southbridge)
controller is turned on and showing up as IDE channels 2 and 3 according
to the log. Knowing that this would be of interest to some folks, I
hung a SATA to PATA bridge on an old 20 gb drive and lo and behold, it
is mountable and seems quite functional also, which might be encouraging
to some folks. I'm not booting from it tho so YMMV. Kudzu also finds
the (generic) Promise controller when enabled in bios so good things
might happen there to.
Karen
20 years, 5 months
Re: MP3 support in KDE
by Simon Perreault
On January 7, 2004 15:27, Darrell Esau wrote:
> I'd like to get MP3 support working in KDE (I believe this was stripped
> from kdelibs or perhaps kdemultimedia, along with ID3 tag reading for
> metadata).
> Is there any easier way to get this done other than recompiling all of KDE?
Nope. And it's not as easy as setting a flag in the spec file: the source
tarball itself has been modified.
BTW: why is this done? In the freetype RPM, for example, the patented bytecode
interpreter can be enabled by setting a flag in the spec file. Why not do the
same thing for MP3 support?
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20 years, 5 months
Re: MP3 support in KDE
by Simon Perreault
On January 7, 2004 15:27, Darrell Esau wrote:
> I'd like to get MP3 support working in KDE (I believe this was stripped
> from kdelibs or perhaps kdemultimedia, along with ID3 tag reading for
> metadata).
> Is there any easier way to get this done other than recompiling all of KDE?
Nope. And it's not as easy as setting a flag in the spec file: the source
tarball itself has been modified.
BTW: why is this done? In the freetype RPM, for example, the patented bytecode
interpreter can be enabled by setting a flag in the spec file. Why not do the
same thing for MP3 support?
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20 years, 5 months
For Reference: Sizes of Packages in Fedora
by Steven Garrity
Since there has been a lot of talk about the size of the distribution
and the number of disks, I thought I would take a look at the hard numbers.
Attached are three comma-separated-files including the rpm names and
file sizes (kilobytes) of each of the three CDs - sorted by file size
(largest to smallest).
This info is available to anyone who does an "ls" on the CDs, but it's
much more convenient to analyze the numbers in this spreadsheet-friendly
format.
Steven Garrity
20 years, 5 months
No bigmem kernels anymore?
by Axel Thimm
Hi,
FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few
users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
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Axel.Thimm(a)physik.fu-berlin.de
20 years, 5 months
Re: MP3 support in KDE
by Simon Perreault
On January 7, 2004 17:04, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> i would say that it is done this way because kdemultimedia doesnt have a
> configure option to turn on or off mp3 support
No. It is the case, but they could have included a patch that does the thing.
They did it because they wanted to remove all mp3 code from the source RPM,
not only the compiled RPM, as they did for xmms et al. But they didn't do it
for freetype. Why?
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Simon Perreault <nomis80(a)nomis80.org> -- http://nomis80.org
20 years, 5 months
Problems with PHP please help....
by Rolf Berkenbosch
Hi All,
I have a big problem, i have a script that send a mail to a user
on the server. That's php script use function mail. But while i
running this script i get the following errors:
Warning: Unknown(/home/sites/2027970086/www/web/tset.php): failed to open
stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/sites/2027970086/www/web/tset.php'
for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in Unknown on line 0
What to do???
Thanks,
Rolf Berkenbosch
20 years, 5 months
Re: Where to submit bug reports
by Jef Spaleta
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> If that (and the "Participate" menu) is not obvious enough case it >
becomes increasingly popular for people to just submit their
> reports at bugzilla.fedora.us instead, picking a completely
> unrelated component, something must be done about the Fedora
> Project pages. However I don't know what would help. Integrating
> an official Fedora FAQ could help.
If people aren't reading the the official website as it is...a long flat
FAQ i doubt will help. Personally i think people don't understand the
concept of the unfolding menu on the left-hand side.
My vote would be to add a flat site-map link so people looking for
information, and aren't click happy enough to click through the menus
haphazardly to find the schedule or the communicate page or whatever it
is they want, can just hit the site map link and see all the page links.
I think the pages as named are pretty self-explanatory...I think the
fold out menu on the homepage is not helping the lazy people who aren't
interested in reading all of the website to find the info they want.
That said, i think its in every community member's best interest to make
an effort to read the whole official website, so personally I'm fine
with the fold out menu. But its not an easy to use quick reference, a
site map would be better for that.
But the more general topic of how to get users interacting with bugzilla
effectively, is something worthy of discussion. Right now I'm getting
ready to focus my very limited talents at trying to come up with a
Fedora specific variation of the Gnome bug squad guidelines for testing
and bug hunting. I have have a very dim hope of getting my crap together
in time, to have a draft out for test1 beta testing. I've been spending
some time nagging developers on irc for ideas, like boilerplate
responses and bug hunting tips and experimenting with calls for focused
functionality testing and doing community triage commenting. All these
sorts of things are variants of what Gnome is doing with the bug squad.
So my short term plan is to have some sort of reasonable useful testing
guideline draft in place to float to testers for FC2 test releases. A
test of the testing guidelines. I just need to get my crap together and
mock up a draft. And i could really use help on that, because I'm no
technical writer.
Long term though, i think the best solution for bug reporting and bug
testing is to build end-user oriented tools that use the xmlrpc
interface to bugzilla effectively. There is a lot of room to explore the
idea of a bug reporting tool inside Core, that comes with some
predefined test suite scripts and system information gathering scripts.
Becuase Fedora is a specific platform...a specific os, any Core bug
reporting tool can do things a Gnome specific bug-buddy can not because
Gnome has to be cross-platform. Use of a Fedora Core bug-report utility
can mandate the installation of pieces of Core to make sure the more
advanced test suite and information gathering scripts do their jobs
well. Of course there are trade-off on issues like privacy, but i think
there is room for an attempt at a balanced tool that helps prevent
bugreports that lack even the most basic information that developers
really need to diagnose the problem. And if the bug reporting tool is
clever enough to understand where packages came from..it might even be
able to report bugs to even 3rd party bugzilla's. But thats really long
term, and I'm not the person with the technical ability to build that
sort of tool. I'll beat the crap out of it to test it if it gets built,
but i can't build it.
-jef
20 years, 5 months