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
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
/var/cache/abrt-di
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
Looking at my files and diskspace, I note the following:
$ sudo du -sm /var/cache/*
1961 /var/cache/abrt-di
1 /var/cache/cups
1 /var/cache/fontconfig
1 /var/cache/foomatic
1 /var/cache/hald
1 /var/cache/jwhois
1 /var/cache/ldconfig
3 /var/cache/man
1 /var/cache/mash
1 /var/cache/PackageKit
217 /var/cache/yum
Googling on how to reduce this abrt-di beast, I came up with the
solution that you should delete the reports in the abrt GUI tool. But
these are all deleted for me, and I think there must be a better way to
remove this cache? Any suggestions on how to do this cleanly?
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
12 years, 6 months
How to setup IPSEC client?
by Eric B.
Hi,
I'm trying to setup FC14 with an IPSEC client to connect to my VPN at
work. I have been given a PEM/KEY file for authentication (and a p12 if
needed) but I can't seem to figure out how to configure IPSEC. I've
been trying to read up on it as much as possible, but I just can't get a
good grasp on how to do this.
I have all the settings I need, but I just can't figure out how/where to
configure them. The Network Manager tool doesn't have anything that
supports PEM/Key certificates, and the same goes for the Network
Configuration gui as well.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction how to best set this up?
Thanks!
Eric
12 years, 7 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
request for package
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! How and where can i request for a package inclusion?
Thanks,
Adrian
12 years, 9 months
How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?
by Michael Hennebry
For work, I have had to use Microsoft outlook for e-mail.
I'd like to be able to get at it through either
KMail or evolution on my home F13 machine.
I've tried to set up both without success.
That I've never used a mail client before probably doesn't help.
With KMail I'm stuck when I get to
Server Innformation
Incoming server:
Outgoing server:
Use local delivery
With evolution, I'm stuck when I get to the "Receiving Email" page.
For server, I'm completely stuck.
Which username?
My name on my box or the username part of my e-mail address?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
12 years, 9 months
Remote Desktop in F15 & Gnome 3
by Andy Theuninck
I want to turn on desktop sharing, but the menu options listed in the
documentation no longer exist. This is the document I'm looking at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Sharing_Your_Desktop
Alternately, if there's a way to tweak /etc/sysconfig/vncservers to
use x0vncserver instead of Xvnc, that would probably accomplish what I
want. According to the man pages, the two programs take pretty much
identical arguments, but the vncserver wrapper script used by init
doesn't have any obvious options for switching backends.
12 years, 9 months
