[CentOS] rpm command option

2020-05-05 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We located an application recommended by one of customers for sharing certain data.  It was available for installation using a few different methods.  Using yum was also recommended for the installation.  The install instructions began with what appeared to be a fairly typical command as indicated

[CentOS] System Time

2020-03-08 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system time keeping features in computer systems.  This intern was also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock. The intern wondered why computer motherboards were not just equipped with a chip like the ones in the RCC so that

[CentOS] Network Diagnostics

2020-01-07 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
In our smallest office, we have a Dell CentOS 7 system, a Windows system and an HP 8610 printer, all hard-wire Ethernet connected with a Linksys router. The router provides Internet connection. All of the network-connected systems get their IP address from the router at power up. Successful

[CentOS] gedit font size

2019-07-07 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We recently installed CentOS 7 on a system. We chose the GNOME desktop install option and have used yum to install all of the available updates.  The first run of yum update yielded about 450 megabytes of items to be installed or updated. All of the updates have been successful. One issue with

[CentOS] mplayer

2019-06-25 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We recently installed CentOS 7 from DVD.  Our install selection was the GNOME desktop option. yum update yielded about 465 megabytes of updates all of which were successful with no warnings.  The multi media option was not chosen because KDE was listed. GNOME was not apparent in the software list

[CentOS] Disk Performance Issue

2019-06-24 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We have a very old Dell desk top machine that has been running CentOS 6 for the past five years.  It received a new, 1 TB disk and additional memory before the OS installation.  It has been the primary Linux machine in our smallest and most remote field office.  It has been updated at least once a

[CentOS] Firefox Video Capability

2018-11-13 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
One of our summer interns has stayed on during the school year to work some weekends on special projects. This past weekend, her assignment was to trouble shoot problems with Firefox when trying to view various on-line training videos. At some web sites, the video associated with the page will

[CentOS] Address Codes

2018-10-30 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
One of our summer interns has stayed on during the school year to work some weekends on special assignments. This past weekend, her assignment was to draft, and try out, procedures for scanning all incoming regular mail including the envelopes. This is a new effort for us because previous mail

[CentOS] Firefox Issue

2018-09-17 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when yum finds packages available.  Information about one of the CentOS 6 machines is