Calendar with recurring tasks?
by Gordon Charrick
It's been a while since I went looking for a calendar that handles this
simple task only to be repeatedly disappointed. This is one feature that
(uggh) Outlook handles right.
I want to keep track of monthly (or quarterly, or whatever) bills that
recur. Assume it's Jan 1st and you have three bills due this month. You
look at your task list and see the three bills along with the date
they're due. You pay bill A and check off the task for that bill. Now
you look at your task list and see 2 bills still due in January and one
due in February. Pretty simple and logical way to keep track of monthly
bills or other tasks that need to be done regularly, but haven't found
any Linux apps that can handle this task. Anyone have any
14 years, 3 months
Where did my penguins go?
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I modified /etc/grub.conf on my ThinkPad W700 to show the boot-up
process as text. I did this by commenting out "hiddenmenu" and removing
"rhgb" and "quiet" from the kernel spec line. The W700 has trouble with
a tickless kernel in F12 and needs "nohz=off". The first stanza is shown
below.
The W700 has an nVidia display and uses the nouveau driver. Immediately
after the menu screen in F10 and F11 I'd see 4 penguins (quad core) as
the initialization began. It was kinda neat, but in F12 there's just
black space where those penguins would be. Where'd they go? Is this an
artifact of the nouveau driver?
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
#
# Kernel 0
title Fedora 12 (Constantine) [Update 3] (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=blah-blah-blah LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us nohz=off
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 3 months
The Counter-Fedora People At #fedora
by Randy Yates
Why do the following people, time after time, insist on banning me for
asking fedora questions on #fedora?
VileGent
Khaytsus (or however you speel his name)
[R]
They are absolute pricks. If the Fedora community wants to improve
their position with the public, I suggest that they start monitoring
#fedora for the utterly vehement, venomous, vicious attitudes these
regulars have there and do a little pruning of operator priviledges.
I have been a Fedora user for 4 years (since FC3). I have (for
better or worse) provided documentation on some things that have
helped me:
http://galois.digitalsignallabs.com/notes.htm
I have encouraged my friends to switch to linux/fedora. I'm advising
others. I've filed several bug reports. I'M ON-BOARD WITH FEDORA!
So if you want to keep folks like me, and encourage others, please,
PLEASE - clean up the #fedora channel from the egomaniac, self-centered,
self-serving folks that spoil it for so many others.
Have a good New Year!
--
Randy Yates % "Watching all the days go by...
Digital Signal Labs % Who are you and who am I?"
mailto://yates@ieee.org % 'Mission (A World Record)',
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com % *A New World Record*, ELO
14 years, 3 months
F12/Subversion/httpd -- PROPFIND access denied
by Steven F. LeBrun
After upgrading to Fedora 12, I installed and tried to set up a
Subversion repository with mixed success. I have worked out the bulk of
the issues but one still has me stumped. Hopefully, someone on this
list knows the answer or can point me to a URL that does.
The problem is that I cannot get Subversion to work with Apache 2.2.
Every time that I try to checkout the repository, I receive a 403
Forbidden Access error. To make matters more frustrating, if I access
the repository using local access (file:///...) the command works. It
is only when I try to use HTTP/WebDAV access (http://localhost/svn/...)
does the access problem occur.
Things that I have tried:
- SELinux enabled and disabled -- no difference.
- Various permissions and ownerships.
-- The repository and Subversion directories are currently owned by
apache.apache.
- Various settings in my subversion.conf file for httpd.
-- When the <LimitExcept> section is commented out, the failure comes
on the third
"PROPFIND /svn/Home/sfbooks/trunk HTTP/1.1" request. The first
two return 207
while the third one returns 403. Using Wireshark, all three
requests are identical
barring numbers in the IP headers.
-- When the <LimitExcept> section is active, the failure comes on the
very first request,
"OPTIONS /svn/Home/sfbooks/trunk HTTP/1.1" request with a 403
response.
-- Both 403 responses contain the same reason: "You don't have
permission to access
/svn/Home/sfbooks/trunk\n on this server."
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Setup:
Root Subversion Directory: /opt/Subversion
Repository Parent Directory: /opt/Subversion/repos
Password File: /opt/Subversion/users/passwords
(created using htpasswd)
SVN Authz Config File: /opt/Subversion/permissions/svnauthz.conf
Repository: Home (located at
/opt/Subversion/repos/Home)
Project within Home Repo: sfbooks/trunk
Content of passwords:
steven:MD5PasswordHash
Content of svnauthz.conf
[/]
steven=rw
Content of conf.d/subversion.conf
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so
Alias /svn /opt/Subversion/repos
<Location /svn/>
# mod_dav Commands
DAV svn
DavDepthInfinity on
# SVN Provider Commands
SVNParentPath /opt/Subversion/repos
# authz_svn_module Commands
AuthzSVNAccessFile /opt/Subversion/permissions/svnauthz.conf
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
# Authentication Commands
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository Login"
AuthUserFile /opt/Subversion/users/passwords
Satisfy Any
Require valid-user
</LimitExcept>
# <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
# Order Allow,Deny
# Allow from All
# </Limit>
</Location>
--
Steven F. LeBrun
Quote: /"Winter meant the coming of the lazy wind, which couldn't be
bothered to blow around people and blew right through them instead."/
-- Terry Pratchett, from /"Wyrd Sisters"/
14 years, 3 months
small gripe -- for Fedora, or KDE, or ....?
by Beartooth
I run Gnome, and have a strong if irrational allergy to KDE in
general; but there are several apps (such as Konqueror for man pages, and
K3B) that I use so much that I make sure to get them even if I have to
install all of KDE to do it. I might well use, or at least try, several
more, if I didn't have to interrupt what I'm concentrating on ..
But for as long as I can remember, there have been two kinds of
entries in the Main menu: ones that will tell you what they are or do if
you hover the cursor over them -- and ones that belong to KDE.
Why the lacuna? Do KDE developers, like Apple developers, presume
that *everyone* already knows?
Do they, like the poet Stefan George, want entanglements of
"barbed wire against the uncalled" [Stacheldraht wider Unberufene] around
their demesnes?
Do they offer descriptions, which Fedora (a/o Fedora/Gnome) then
suppresses?? To whom ought one address a request for them??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
14 years, 3 months
Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?
by Genes MailLists
Suggestion:
May I suggest as we move to the new mailling list server, that we
please change the name(s) from the current long (and goofy) one(s) such as:
"Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
to something more concise ?
thanks.
14 years, 3 months
F12: KDE and PulseAudio latest update
by Terry Barnaby
Having just updated my systems I have been trying to use skype with
an USB webcam having its own microphone under KDE.
The skype app only sees the PulseAudio device and cannot select
the USB webcams mic from its options menu. This used to work
some time in the past (F10 rather than F12 ?).
Also the KDE "System Settings/Multimedia" screen only shows the
"PulseAudio Sound Server".
paman shows the USB webcam mic is present.
How to I get Skype to use my USB webcams mic ?
14 years, 3 months
Disk druid within gnome?
by Robert Moskowitz
Is disk druid available for partitioning (and formating) a USB attached
drive while running fedora?
I have a 120Gb drive in a USB housing and I want to delete the old Linux
partitions, create a single ext3 partition, then rsync all my data to
this drive...
14 years, 3 months
Can't burn DVDs
by Konstantin Svist
I just tried burning a DVD (authored by DeVeDe) and both K3b and
GnomeBaker fail to start writing. Clean boot doesn't help, neither does
lowering the write speed to 4x.
Anyone else having this problem?
kernel:
2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686
dmesg:
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
...
warning: `growisofs' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:80/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 32768 out
cdb 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
res 40/00:02:00:18:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata2: soft resetting link
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata2: EH complete
14 years, 3 months