How to tell why Firefox won't connect
by Chris Adams
I'm getting an error connecting to an HTTPS website with Firefox of
SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP on Fedora 33. How do I see what ciphers
Firefox is configured to use?
When I use a public scanner to see what the site supports, it appears
that there are multiple secure ciphers available, so I don't know why
Firefox doesn't like them (and it doesn't provide any more information).
The site in question is https://support.juniper.net/.
I understand adjusting Fedora settings to require good security, and I
know I can lower security system-wide, but no debugging info is not
good. And really - having to lower system-wide security settings to
allow connection to one site is a poor design.
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>
3 years, 3 months
Espeak -
by Bob Goodwin
Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so how
is it done?
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
3 years, 3 months
Small-time factoring?
by Beartooth
Having begun life as a mathematician (BA 1961), I still sometimes
play with numbers, whether or not I'm near a computer. I mostly start by
factoring them, so that I know what I've got. But I get lost juggling
more than about two or three three-digit numbers.
It would be nice to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't
need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic
use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster.
My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or
can be handily installed. Anybody know?
--
Beartooth Implacable, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
-- JRR Tolkien
3 years, 3 months
YouTube - Fedora for Newbies
by David
One of my personal goals for 2021 is to make a good Linux video for newbies
and post in on YouTube, and emphasize Fedora.
I am not satisfied with the dozens or hundreds of videos already available.
Most start with a biased against rpm-based distros, or are server-oriented
and a bias against Gnome.
So what are some topics I should learn more about related to Fedora desktop
applications and usage ?
First, I would start my video as to why choose Fedora over all the other
rpm-based distros ? Why not live in Mageia 7 or their 8 Beta ? Or why
not OpenSUSE ? or why not OpenMandriva 4.2 RC1 ?
I would likely mention Fedora 33 has all the latest wayland functionality
as Arch-based distros but without the drama of running vanilla-Arch or
Manjaro or ArcoLinux. Right ?
Feel free to email me privately,
dlocklear01(a)gmail.com
3 years, 3 months
multiboot
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I can compare 2 machines (fedora 32).
One of them (laptop) never boot improperly,
grub displays the boot options and the elapsed time, and finally it boots automatically on the right system.
The other one, occasionally does not boot automatically at all.
The elapsed time is not displayed, and it does not boot automatically.
The only option is to force the boot manually.
Would you see a reason for this behavior?
Thanks.
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Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988
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3 years, 3 months
Horde packages for Fedora or RHEL?
by Thomas Cameron
SquirrelMail has been my go-to for ages, but it hasn't been maintained
in forever.
I think Horde makes sense as a replacement, specifically the Horde
Groupware Webmail Edition. But the installation instructions have you
run pear commands and installing outside the package management system.
Not really interested in that.
Are there any packages for Horde Groupware Webmail Edition that anyone
knows of? A cursory Google search doesn't find anything.
Thomas
3 years, 3 months
OT: XML Libraries (For Possible Use in LyX Code)
by Richard Kimberly Heck
Hi, all,
Over at the LyX development team, we've been working on DocBook support
(mostly new contributor Thibaut Cuvelier has) and are looking into the
idea of abandoning our home-brewed tag-writing routines in favor of an
XML reading and writing library. I know there are a lot of these and am
curious if anyone here has experience with any of them and preferences
about which are best maintained, etc. We know about QXmlStreamWriter, of
course, but would prefer not to get our code any more entangled with Qt
than it already is.
Our needs, I think, are pretty simple at this point: Mostly just writing
XML (and variants) in a sensible way. We have long thought, too, about
transitioning LyX's own file format to XML, but that's probably no
around the corner. Still, something with a decent parser (and maybe the
option to do it stream- or DOM-like) would be useful somewhere down the
road. Probably XSLT, etc, are not that important to us.
TIA,
Riki
3 years, 3 months
audacity
by François Patte
Bonjour,
Since the last upgrade to f33 I can't record anything using audacity:
whatever the recording device I choose, the message is the same:
error opening recording device
error code: -9997 invalid sample rate
Once upon a time it used to work without any problem.
Explanations on the audacity site are not clear at all for somebody like
me...
Does anybody know how to configure audacity for recording?
Thank you for helping.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
FSF
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-fr...
3 years, 3 months
Electrum and tor proxy
by Jerome Lille
Hi
I'm wondering if anybody else has problems with Electrum when using a
tor proxy? I have version 4.0.7 on Fedora 33. The wallet stays offline
and I get following in the system logs
"Socks version 71 not recognized. (This port is not an HTTP proxy; did
you want to use HTTPTunnelPort?)"
The same thing also happens with Electron Cash
/Jerome
3 years, 3 months
usb stick problem
by Kostas Sfakiotakis
Am trying to plug a usb memory stick onto my computer .
From the looks of it , at first it looks that it gets recognized up to
a point , initially it gets asigned letter "f" /dev/sdf
but then some error pop up and i can't see it on dolphin or access it
somehow .
The attached files contains the relevant messages but i don't understand
what it says .
Can someone sched some light in it ??
3 years, 3 months
