Re: Brasero problem and question.
by William Mattison
Good evening,
> > Problem: That progress bar shows no progress. I checked task usage of
> > CPU, and CPU usage of Brasero is negligible. Even after many minutes,
> > nothing seems to happen. What am I not doing that I should do, and/or
> > doing that I should not do?
>
> Sorry, I don't have a solution for you but thought I would mention that
> apparently Brasero has been unmaintained for some time and a new maintainer
> recently took it over so there may be a fix in future versions, but of
> course that doesn't help you right now.
>
> You'll end up having to install a bunch of kde libs but try k3b.
>
> Richard
Thank-you, Richard. I hope it gets fixed soon. As far as I know, K3b (and microsoft's media player) allow the user to put 2-second gaps after all tracks or not at all, but not selected gaps. Brasero allows the user to add a two second gap after *selected* gaps.
Bill.
10 years, 10 months
need help printing UPS shipping labels
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Does anyone here successfully print UPS shipping labels from the UPS
online shipping tool?
I find that when I try this with Firefox, epiphany, or Chrome on F19,
the barcode-containing section of the label is generated as a 728x416 image.
If I use Firefox or IE on Windows, the same label is generated as a
1400x800 image.
The UPS scanners won't recognize the barcodes in the smaller images, so
I have to print from Windows.
Any ideas? Is this some odd javascript default-image size setting that
differs with OS?
- Mike
10 years, 10 months
copying video dvds
by Stuart McGraw
I generally mount and then use "cp" to copy my video dvds to
hard disk for convenience. 99% of the time this works fine
and the resulting directory is playable by vlc, etc.
However occasionally I'll get an "Input/output error" when
copying a disc that vlc played fine and, unsurprisingly,
there are problems when later trying to play the copy.
I suspect that vlc makes use of error correction capabilities
on the dvd, whereas "cp" doesn't.
Is there some way or tool that will make a copy of the dvd
using (or at last preserving in the copy so that vlc can use)
the error correction stuff on the dvd so that the copy is
playable even when there are some errors?
10 years, 10 months
Off-topic, slightly - Hand of Thief Linux Virus
by linuxnutster＠videotron.ca
I was just reading about this new malware threat. I'm not clear on how
exactly this thing can get installed on a Linux system. Would it require
100% social engineering? I installed Fedora on my elderly mother's last
two laptops so she can do her banking without being paranoid about
keyloggers, trojans, etc... She is a news hound, so it's only a matter
of time before she comes flying at me demanding reassurances.
10 years, 10 months
Re: Windows XP security in VMware -
by Reindl Harald
Am 14.08.2013 00:40, schrieb Steven Stern:
> On 08/13/2013 02:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 13.08.2013 19:24, schrieb Steven Stern:
>>> On 08/13/2013 12:12 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>>> On 13/08/13 12:58, Steven Stern wrote:
>>>>> If XP has access to resources on the host machine (e.g.,
>>>>> shared directories) or assets on your network, you need to
>>>>> treat it like any Windows machine. Use decent anti-malware
>>>>> software and keep it up to date.
>>>>>
>>>> That's sufficient I guess, I've done without Windows for about
>>>> 20 years and I see no reason to suffer that exposure now. I'll
>>>> simply continue to ignore it.
>>>
>>> Make sure you run anti-malware software on your Apple stuff. I
>>> use the free Sophos AV. There's no magic to OS/X and it's
>>> becoming an increasingly attractive target
>
>> *wow* how do you bring *Apple* in a topic running Windows on a
>> Fedora host?
>
> Read up-thread: "There are no Windows boxes on my LAN, only Apple
> stuff in addition to mine." My point is not to be complacent about
> Apple boxes
maybe you could consider/learn to quote what you refer to instead
expect people seachring the needles you speak about in previous
posts.................
10 years, 10 months
Scanimage Fails at 1200 dpi with sane_read I/O error
by R. G. Newbury
I've been using scanimage for years with an HP3055 MFP which is network
attached. Suddenly, it stopped working at --resolution=1200. The only
thing I can remember upgrading was/is the kernel, but even going back to
the 3.7.3-101.fc17 kernel and downgrading everything does not help.
Most intrigueingly, scanning works at resolution=600.
Some details:
scanimage -d$hpaio -A
All options specific to device
`hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12':
Scan mode:
--mode Lineart|Gray|Color [Color]
Selects the scan mode (e.g., lineart, monochrome, or color).
--resolution 75|100|150|200|300|600|1200dpi [75]
Sets the resolution of the scanned image.
But scanning results in this:
Scanning 1 pages, incrementing by 1, numbering from 701
Scanning page 701
scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
Scanned page 701. (scanner status = 9)
And the MFP hangs in a perpetual'Cancelling Scan'.
And this used to work. I have 700 pages already scanned at 1200 dpi...
Anyone have any ideas on how to debug this?
--
R. Geoffrey Newbury
Mandamus Publishing Inc.
Suite 106, 150 Lakeshore Road West
Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 3R2
www.mandamus.ca
t416-479-0930 f905-271-1638
rgn(a)mandamus.ca
10 years, 10 months
Windows XP security in VMware -
by Bob Goodwin
If I run WindowsXP in a VM am I looking at Windows security risks? I
have whatever protection Fedora 19 delivers out of the box and my DD-WRT
router. I am still uneasy booting Windows ... There are no Windows boxes
on my LAN, only Apple stuff in addition to mine.
Comments?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
10 years, 10 months
Troubleshooting the network connection speed
by Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-)
Before I go complain to my ISP, I'd like to hear if anyone can give me
an idea what is going on with my networks... :-)
I have two machines, with following link properties:
local --- 20Mbps/2Mbps (GSM wireless)
remote --- 100Mbps/100Mbps (100Mbit LAN connected to optical uplink)
The remote machine is in another country, cca 2000 km away. It is
connected to a 10Gbit optical link, but only through a 100Mbps switch,
so that caps the bandwidth.
When transferring large files via wget from remote to local, the
maximum bandwidth that I get is 2Mbps. It *used to be* 20Mbps (couple
of days ago). Occasionally it drops down to 300Kbps (it just happened
as I write this), but after several minutes it gets back up to 2Mbps.
But it doesn't want to get back up to 20Mbps, which is the max download
throughput for the local machine.
To test the local link, I opened 15-20 random youtube links
simultaneously in Firefox. It easily capped the full 20Mbps, so the
local link apparently works as advertised.
Another test of the local link --- I went to
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
and clicked the big blue "download now" button, to download the Live
Desktop .iso --- the download manager in Firefox says it will complete
it in 17 hours, since it is downloading at 15 KBps (i.e. 150 Kbps).
This is of course ridiculously slow, for a 20Mbps link.
All speed numbers are consistently reported by jnettop, KDE network
widget, Firefox download manager and wget. If you suggest some other
tool to measure the throughput, I'll try it out too.
The remote machine appears to work ok --- I have downloaded and
uploaded (elsewhere) all sorts of things, and it consistently works at
100Mbps up/down. Downloaded Fedora DVD iso in a couple of minutes. I
can seed torrents from it at 100Mbps no problem (this is currently off
because I'm trying to pull something to the local machine).
So I believe something is wrong with my local link, but don't know
exactly what --- youtube works, but other things don't.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
Also, any ideas what to tell to my ISP?
I could ask them to look into it, but they just might open a bunch of
youtube links, verify that the link works, and blame the remote machine.
Any suggestions appreciated.
TIA, :-)
Marko
P.S. Before anyone asks --- I *do* know the difference between bits and
bytes, Mbps and MBps, etc. I was careful to provide you with a
case-sensitive units, and I know what I'm talking about. :-)
10 years, 10 months
Brasero problem and question.
by William Mattison
Good afternoon,
I'm using Fedora-18 (updated last Wednesday) on a 64-bit system. The desktop is Gnome (updated last Wednesday). This is about Brasero 3.6.1.
After putting together the project, that is, listing all the tracks I want burned onto a music CD, I click the "Burn..." button. Up comes this message box with the title "Creating Image", it says "Creating image", shows a progress bar, says "Normalizing tracks", and has a "Cancel" button. This happens regardless whether or not I have a blank CD in the burner.
Question: I do not want volume normalization of the tracks. If I'm burning a Beethoven symphony from one commercial CD, and a Dvorak symphony from another commercial CD, I surely don't want tracks 1-4 normalized relative to each other; and I surely don't want tracks 5-8 normalized relative to each other; though I in theory *might* want tracks 1-4 normalized relative to tracks 5-8 (or visa-versa) since they come from different commercial CDs. I did not see any way of disabling the volume normalization. How do I do that?
Problem: That progress bar shows no progress. I checked task usage of CPU, and CPU usage of Brasero is negligible. Even after many minutes, nothing seems to happen. What am I not doing that I should do, and/or doing that I should not do?
Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.
10 years, 10 months
