Fed 10 and Windows Vista not talking
by Chris Hogan
I have a small Lan with Fed 10 on the desktop system, and a laptop with Vista. I can not seem to get them to see each other on the network. I want to be able to access an NTFS drive on the linux machine with the vista machine. I have samba set up with my workgroup name, but both my wireless modem/router and my windows machine can't see the linux system. HELP, I'm a linux Newb.
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15 years
mysql vs gene, score 1-0
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
What was done to mysql between F8 and F10?
My passwords are all null and void after the update. Not even mythtv can
login, but about 10 instances of mysqld are running.
The password reset instructions on the
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html#resetti...>
fail repeatedly with this message:
#> mysqld_safe --init-file=/root/mysql/mysql-reset-root-pw
nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
090303 00:28:10 mysqld ended
And the init-file:
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('me') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
I was, since there wasn't anything precious in the database, going to remove
it and re-install, but the removal would have removed all of kde too. That
is not very nice.
Instructions please?
Thanks
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15 years
openssl ipv6 support
by Michael Cronenworth
Anyone know if OpenSSL supports IPv6? All I've found is that it does
not, which is a real bummer. I found a bug[1] that looks like it added
IPv6 support, but when I test using the openssl command line argument it
fails.
If OpenSSL does support IPv6, then I'd be grateful to know where to look
to work with the C ABI.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198737
15 years
Partition imaging program(s), for Linux (ext3 FS)
by JayLinux
I am an old Norton Ghost 2003 user & use a NG 2003 DOS Boot CD to
backup & restore NTFS <--> partitions on Windows system (dual-boot
Linux & Windows XP Prof).
I have not used Ghost for ext3 partition image backup, though have
been using it regularly for NTFS --> NTFS (Windows) partition backup,
with good results.
For Linux, I have tried partimage, but that will not image an ext3 -->
NTFS partition (it can save the ext3 partn. image to NTFS partition, but
from some posts at the partimage Forums, it seems there are problems
in restoring the image to ext3, if the image is saved to an NTFS
partition).
Are there any other programs (other than Norton Ghost & partimage)
that can image a Linux partition to NTFS) _and restore_ from image
properly ? Most of the free space on my HD's is on NTFS partitions.
Thanks,
Jay
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15 years
Re: How to mesure the inactivity time
by Rick Walker
> I am developping a tool with java and I want to know the inactivity time of
> the user, i.e, the duration of the time that the keybord and mouse were not
> used.
You can check out my typing/mousing activity monitor written in
Tcl/Tk for helping people with RSI to take programmed rest
breaks: http://www.omnisterra.com/walker/linux/tm-1.2.tar
Here's the core code:
proc get_idle {t m d} {
upvar $m midle ;# mouse idle time
upvar $t tidle ;# typing idle time
upvar $d delta_time
global now
global x
global y
global xold
global yold
set then $now
set now [clock seconds]
set delta_time [expr $now-$then]
set f [open {| cat /proc/interrupts}]
while {[gets $f line] >= 0} {
if [regexp " 12:" $line] {
set xold $x
set x [lindex $line 1]
} elseif [regexp " 1:" $line] {
set yold $y
set y [lindex $line 1]
}
}
close $f
if {$yold == $y} {
set tidle [expr $tidle + $delta_time]
} else {
set tidle 0
}
if {$xold == $x} {
set midle [expr $midle + $delta_time]
} else {
set midle 0
}
}
It basically looks for the mouse interrupt count (12:) and the keyboard
interrupt (1:). If you have keyboard or mouse on USB you'll need
to look at (5:) instead. "cat /proc/interrupts" returns a list
of interrrupt numbers and a running count. If the count hasn't
changed since the last poll, then I consider this an idle
condition and increment the idle counters by the difference in
time between the last polling event and "now".
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15 years
barebones laptop
by Terry Polzin
Does anyone have any recommendations of a barebones shell to build a new
laptop on?
THANKS,
Terry
15 years
update to fedora 10
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Hello, after I update fc7 to fedora 10, I cannot start an X session
(startx) when logged as a standard user !
The mouse pointer does not show up and the gnome session never starts.
root user is OK.
I boot in test mode.
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15 years
How to mesure the inactivity time
by Adel ESSAFI
Hi list
I am developping a tool with java and I want to know the inactivity time of
the user, i.e, the duration of the time that the keybord and mouse were not
used.
Is there any API that facilitate the access to this information.
This should certanly done with KDE and GNOME desktops when they go on
background screen.
Thanks in advance fior help
Regards
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15 years
display "stretched"
by brian
Since upgrading to 10 a few weeks ago, I've occasionally logged in to
find the display stretched out of shape. Everything appears too tall &
thin. Logging out and back in has always fixed the problem.
I've gone through the logs but I really don't know what I should be
looking for, nor even what information I might post to this list to help
in diagnosing the issue other than my video card info. Can anyone give
me some pointers on what to look for, or what I can provide to help
solve this?
The driver is:
SiS 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
15 years
XFCE 4.6 Success
by John Wendel
For those of you lusting after XFCE 4.6, I just wanted to report that I
ran the graphical installer and installed in a sub-directory in my home
directory. The only tweak I had to do was edit the "gtk-doc.pc"
pkgconfig file and pretend that it was version 1.10. The build took 7
minutes.
Added $HOME/xfce4.6/bin to the PATH and ran "startxfce4" from a level 3
login. Works like a champ. It worked with the 4.4 configuration files in
my home directory. BTW, this was on an old F8 box. My F10 box gets the
treatment tomorrow night.
Regards,
John
15 years