OT - wire tester
by Robert Moskowitz
My brother-in-law just called for help; his Test-um TP600 (discontinued)
just died. It has suited his needs to a tee but now he needs something
new. Something with similar functionality and cost.
He said I recommended this to him some eons ago when I was informed
about test equipment. I haven't done that stuff for years. So are
there any recommendations on what others use?
thanks.
11 years, 3 months
heads up xhost username on F17 -- manpage bug, I guess
by Joel Rees
A heads up notice:
xhost user
gives
xhost: bad hostname "user"
but,
sudo -u user ls /home/user
lists the user's home directory. So the username is valid.
Searched the web and found an ancient thread on xhost on Ubuntu (see
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-xserver-utils/+bug/60040>),
and it suggested
xhost SI:localuser:user
which does what I wanted.
This is a change since F16, and not mentioned in the manpage. (The
manpage, kind of looks like someone started to bring it up to date and
forgot it in the middle.)
I'd check to see if there is a bug filed, but all the fussing with the
upgrade that ate my winter break leaves me running way behind. No
time. (And not a lot of motivation, frankly.)
--
Joel Rees
11 years, 4 months
K3B crashes on opening wma audio
by Robert Moskowitz
I am trying to burn a wma audio file to an audio CD. So I tried k3b.
It crashed on trying to open the wma.
So I tried to play the file with movie player, which told me it did not
have the files to play wma and I allowed it to download the needed
files. After restarting movie player it played the wma audio. I then
tried k3b again, and it still crashes. Nothing in /var/log/messages.
Any recommendations?
11 years, 4 months
getting NetInstal CD to access my local repos
by Robert Moskowitz
I am trying to install f17 from my local repos using the netinstall CD.
But it is trying to access the internet repos. How do I stop this? I
know there is some boot option but so far I have not found it yet...
11 years, 4 months
bluetooth connection between two computers using pand with Fedora 17: connection failed
by Kevin Wilson
Hello,
I am trying to create a simple bluetooth connection using pand with Fedora 17.
I followed these two links:
http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1393215.html
And ran, on the server:
pand --listen --role=NAP
And on the client-side
pand --connect btAddressOfServer
I see this on the client side:
...
Connecting to 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
Bluetooth: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
Bluetooth: Unexpected continuation frame (len 0)
bluetoothd[602]: input-headset driver probe failed for device 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
input-headset driver probe failed for device 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A
Connect to 00:23:4E:E5:70:3A failed. Operation now in progress(115)
...
I also activated hcidump and it did not show something which might be
considered as an error.
Did anybody tried it and it worked for him ?
Any ideas what can be the problem?
When I try to switch sides I get the same problem.
I use fedora 17 with these rpms:
bluez-4.99-2.fc17.x86_64
bluez-compat-4.99-2.fc17.x86_64
rgs
Kevin
11 years, 4 months
Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution
by R. G. Newbury
On 01/05/2013 07:01 AM, Tim<ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV
> has been a bit of a flop. We only have about 3 high res TV channels out
> of about 16, and much of what they put to air is standard resolution,
> anyway. And, oddly enough, one of the better looking programs is a
> 1980s UK TV program shot using 900 line resolution tube cameras; bumped
> up to high res it looks very nice, compare that to modern 4:3 CCD studio
> cameras which rarely went above 750 line resolution. Then there's the
> several heavily compressed standard resolution channels from the same
> station that looks like VHS is being put to air. And people don't seem
> to be complaining about it, nor even noticing. Seriously, why buy a
> $1000+ high res TV set when there's little of it to watch.
HD will come. If you like sports you might hit on your local station to
broadcast Oz footie in HD. In North America, CBS has, for some years,
broadcast (OTA) what appears to be a completely uncompressed HD stream
and watching football ( American style) in that format is awesome. As a
'benchmark' most HD programs hereabouts take 5 to 6 G/hour for storage.
Some programs (The Good Wife is one example) regularly takes 8G/hr and
the difference is noticeable. I get that program OTA from 2 different
stations: one at 8G and one at 5G. The difference is noticeable. NFL
football runs 11-12G/hr in 720p.
G
11 years, 4 months
cant run unetbootin-linux-583
by Robert Moskowitz
$ ./unetbootin-linux-583
./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries:
libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# yum provides libpng12
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Matches found
[root@lx120e2 ~]# yum provides libpng12.so.0
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 : Temporary backwards-compatibility
copy of old libpng
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Provides : libpng12.so.0
# yum install libpng-compat
And I still get:
$ ./unetbootin-linux-583
./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries:
libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So how do I get this to work? FWIW, my system is a x86_64 install.
11 years, 4 months
Cant write successfully to USB devices
by Robert Moskowitz
This is on a Lenovo X120e with current f17 patches.
Both to my SD slot and to USB drives very recently, writes to USB drives
is not working.
It seems to work. I can see the files and open them. Then I unmount
the device move it over to another system and that system cannot read
the files. For the SD card, I have tried removing the partition,
recreating it, and copying the files. It still fails.
Interesting, I successfully copied the files only my Galaxy III (New
Verizon software makes the III mount as a Win install device, but going
to 'Tethering' gets it mounted properly showing all directories) and
then mounted both the Galaxy and the SD card on the other system and
successfully copied files to the SD card and opened them.
The other system is back-leveled on F17. Don't know if this is a
software or hardware problem. But it is recent. Only early in the
week, I could copy files.
How can I troubleshoot this?
11 years, 4 months
None
by jiwa navid
i am getting the same "oh no something went wrong.......logout n try again" msg after installing vlc.
can any 1 give me solution to this. i really want to get it fixed.
@Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl>
11 years, 4 months