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
12 years
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
Best FOSS alternative for skype?
by Marko Vojinovic
Ok, I just lost enthusiasm in further use of skype. Being closed source was
bad enough already, but I tolerated it due to its good-enough quality,
reliability and free-of-charge use for skype-to-skype calls. But now that
Microsoft is taking it over, I suddenly lost faith that these good features
will still be there from now on (not to mention Linux support).
Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same
quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service?
I do know that there are such VoIP apps, but I am not familiar with the
quality of service, availability and accessibility of each of those. I am
willing to migrate and start persuading my existing skype contacts (which are
scattered all over the globe) to migrate to a FOSS solution as well. But I
cannot do that if this alternative does not provide functionality that at
least matches that of skype. It has to be up to the task.
So which one is on the top of the list, in your opinion?
TIA, :-)
Marko
12 years, 6 months
Does the Asus Xonar DG sound card work well in F14?
by Richard Shaw
I'm having issues with my builtin audio. At first I thought it was the
new speakers I bought. I know they're not quite as my Cambridge
Soundworks but the external 5.1 decoder is having issues so I figured
it was time. I hear a high tinny noise and assumed it was the cheap
amplifier but after plugging in some old but nice SGI headphones I
still heard it.
To that end I'm in the market for an inexpensive sound card but don't
want to go too cheap and get something equivalent to my onboard audio.
I found the Asus Xonar DG[1] for a decent price but it uses the
CMI8786 which is supported in alsa 1.0.24 (which I have) OR kernel
2.6.38, which I don't. I'm really hoping the OR is right and it's not
supposed to be an AND.
Interestingly enough this chip doesn't appear to have internal volume
controls so I'll have to rely on PulseAudio.
Anyone have this card working (well)? Even though it's not a big
investment I'd like to know someone has it working.
Richard
12 years, 7 months
Wireless adaptor DWL G-122 E1 /Fedora14 &Intel pentium(r)dual 3.00Ghz
by Vicenç Meĺendez
Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
Any help is welcome.
Kind regards
Vicenc Melendez
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Dear users members,
I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
I have tried Ralink r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
adaptors with no results.
12 years, 9 months
X server in F14 horribly slow
by JD
After upgrading to F14, switching from one workspace to another is
excruciatingly slow!!
I am a gnome user.
Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server
or to the ATI Radeon driver?
12 years, 9 months
Oh no! Something has gone wrong. (GNOME 3 login issue)
by Valent Turkovic
Hi guys and galls,
I'm testing few older gpraphics cards and few nvidia cards have issue
when using nouveao module that after typing in login info I don't see
GNOME Shell nor compatible mode dekstop but just get message saying:
"Oh no! Something has gond wrong. A problem has occured and the system
can't recover. Please log out and try again."
This looks like Fedora tried to load GNOME Shell but it didn't detect
card features correctly so it fails. My question is why GNOME doens't
just switch to compatible mode instead of crashing?
Which logs are relevant with this issue? Should I look at X log or
GNOME Shell has some of its own logs, and if it has where are they
located? I'm interested to see what causes the issue.
I tried also loading nvidia proprietary module but it looks it doesn't
support latest X in Fedora 15.
I'm willing to work with devels to track down bugs and make Fedora 15
and GNOME Shell better but need some guidance.
Cheers,
Valent.
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12 years, 10 months
F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time
by Sam Varshavchik
On my laptop, it seems that at every boot the clock is offseted by my
timezone.
Date/Time properties shows "System clock uses UTC" unchecked. This is a dual-
boot with WinXP, so I must keep the bios clock on local time. Yet, it seems
that when I boot the bios clock is read as UTC nevertheless.
Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with what's
happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I should look?
12 years, 10 months
