oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis
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
11 years, 12 months
Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing
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
12 years, 3 months
No wireless (waiting for authorization) after awake from suspend
by Gene Smith
F15 on new HP dv7-6195 (i7/sandy bridge) cannot regain wireless
connection after awake from suspend. In KDE, I see notification "waiting
for authorization" and then a "key" icon appears over the wireless icon
in tray. In gnome, a dialog pops up with my wireless key (correctly
filled in) for me to confirm. After confirming, it keeps popping back up
every 30 seconds or so. Never asks for my password, just wireless key.
It is set to be stored in encrypted file.
Wired ethernet connection works fine before and after suspend and
wireless works fine only before suspend.
I have tried rmmod / modprobe to remove / add back the wireless driver.
Also, set selinux to permissive thinking it might be that type of problem.
Only reboot, so far, brings wireless back.
Any ideas?
-gene
12 years, 3 months
KVM virtual machine transfer query
by Sanjay Arora
Hello all
I have a question. Can a kvm virtual machine, a linux or windows guest,
generated of fedora, be transfered to a rhel machine and started? or vice
versa?
Please note, I am not talking of live migration. Just transferring files
generated on one OS & running on the another? And what if hardware of the
machines is different?
With best regards.
Sanjay.
12 years, 4 months
Reading an OpenServer hard drive with Fedora
by Bill Davidsen
Is there a way to get at the odd SysV volume manager slices if I have access to
an OS drive? The disk or partition is split into slices, sort of like a crude
LVM. I need to recover the files from the disk, based on a full raw backup of
the drive or the drive itself.
I was hoping for a fuser implementation or so, since the extra cost networking
stuff wasn't bought when the system was built. A local business depends on this,
and I'm trying to help them recover.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
12 years, 5 months
[F15] X server died unexpectedly
by mike lan
Hello every one
I got "logged out " many times while working on KDE , looking at the logs
"X server died unexpectedly" ,
switched to xcfe for now. wich works fine.
mike
12 years, 5 months
prognosticate preupgrade?
by Beartooth
When I first tried F15, I managed to get it hopelessly snarled;
but now I have an expendable laptop running F16 Beta with xfce, and I
think I can learn to live with it. The rest of my machines all still run
F14. I'm wondering what my chances would be if I ran preupgrade twice on
any of them. Anybody want to venture an educated guess?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
12 years, 5 months
Yep, names like p4p1 are soooo much better than eth0 :-(
by Tom Horsley
Especially when a new biosdevname package is installed and it
decides the name is no longer p4p1, but is now p6p1.
All the iptables rules that refer to the interface name
are broken.
The ifcfg-p4p1 file needs to be renamed and edited.
Wasn't the theory propounded that these new names
would cause less confusion?
(And why was having some disks named hda0 versus sda0
confusing, so we had to change all the names to sda0?
Can these two theories be made compatible? :-).
12 years, 5 months
SL6 to F16??
by Beartooth
I've been playing with Scientific Linux on an oldish machine, and
now I want to try F16 with xfce -- *not* live, but installed, with
the .iso on a DVD. I realize that requires me to install the gnome
version and then add xfce. Do I just command "yum install xfce," or is
there something more esoteric?
In the course of playing with SL, I've put spare copies of
various data into it, and of course tweaked all sorts of things, many of
them a tad bit tedious; I'd like to preserve them into the F16 install.
Is there a way Fedora can treat SL6 as if I were upgrading
earlier Fedora install? I see this :
$ uname -a
Linux Hbsk.localdomain 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 17:20:08
CDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
There's plenty of space for dual-booting. I suppose I could
install into free space, boot to it, mount the SL partition, and copy
stuff. But that sounds like needless hassle to me, even if I got all of
it right.
Is there another way??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
12 years, 5 months
TV Tuner cards?
by Alex
Hi,
I'm interested in a TV tuner card that I can connect to my roof
antenna with a RG6 coax, and wondered if anyone had any suggestions?
I've used the Happauge cards in the past, but that was quite some time
ago. I've found the linuxtv.org page, and although they have a list of
available TV tuners, they don't really give any impression on which
have the best features, etc.
I'd probably also like to set up MythTV at some point.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Alex
12 years, 5 months
