Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will upgrade it to 5.4 The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through the

Re: [CentOS] google gears on 64 bit centos 5.4?

2009-12-19 Thread James Hogarth
XPI is the package format for firefox extensions http://pickup.nieir.com.au/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.34.0.xpi There's the one I'm using which works fine for all our stuff for native gears on 64bit firefox 3.5 ... The RPM I'm installing just includes a pretweaked FF profile that

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/19/2009 02:02 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Is there any decision about the donation programme? The Web page still says: If you are looking to make a cash dontation to the CentOS Project, please check back here after August 15th, 2009. I assume that donations aren't refused, but is

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Phil Savoie
David McGuffey wrote: Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will upgrade it to 5.4 The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through the university book store), doesn't seem

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Bob McConnell
Phil Savoie wrote: David McGuffey wrote: Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will upgrade it to 5.4 The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through the university book

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: David McGuffey wrote: What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color photos/graphs embedded. Not looking to spend a lot, just enough

Re: [CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-19 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Scott McClanahan wrote: Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages from the extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has any implementation based feedback. Thanks. I've used DRBD on

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:28:24AM -0800, MHR wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: David McGuffey wrote: What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Serwe wrote: So basically, you're saying you'd want to allow or disallow traffic based on mac address? Seems like you could put mac filters on a number switches, Cisco being the most easily documented by Mr. Google. Be a lot faster than any kernel, and a total waste of BSD. If you

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 58, Issue 6

2009-12-19 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-19 Thread Peter Serwe
I'd argue handling it at the layer 3 level to be preferable than splitting every customer into their own vlan. If you split into vlans like that, if you have single-box customers, you'll have to have subnet boundaries for every /30... OTOH, vlan isolation for customers is pretty much the norm,

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 19 December 2009 06:57, Karanbir Singh wrote: The simple answer to that is that we are not ( the CentOS Project ) in a place where we can take on financial donations. Which essentially boils down to the fact that if you were to contribute some money as a financial donation, it

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:52 +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will upgrade it to 5.4 The Cannon

[CentOS] Cannot see samba in win Neighborhood

2009-12-19 Thread Matias Morawicki
Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I´ve been searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I still can´t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood. I can see the samba shares from win via net view \\servername but if I issue a plain net view

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Yes, I checked that site.  The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but it wouldn't

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: (I'd still stick with Brother or HP. If the Canon ink cartridges are the newer, electronically aware/controlled kind, I'll be surprised if you don't want to switch soon enough anyway.) I like the carts on my Canon i9900 photo printer... they are simple clear plastic carts,

[CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread Gordon McLellan
I have a trio of servers that like to reboot during high disk / network IO operations. They don't appear to panic, as I have kernel.panic = 0 in sysctl.conf. The syslog just shows normal messages, like samba complaining about browse master and then just syslogd starting up. The machines seem to

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread William Warren
I'm looking at the controller myself. Have you tried updating either the firmware on the card the drivers or both? On 12/19/2009 10:55 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: The other variable is the two machines running drbd have promise raid cards in them. I also have the same raid card in my personal

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread William Warren
Do you have a BBU on this card? Various sites report the controller has poor performance on writes without the bbu. On 12/19/2009 10:55 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: I'm really at a loss on what to do next... Any suggestions? ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread nate
Gordon McLellan wrote: I'm really at a loss on what to do next... Any suggestions? Run hardware diagnostics? Run a burn in test? I use this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/ For burn-in. In my experience it takes less then 4 hours at high load with this app to turn up faulty hardware.

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon McLellan wrote: I have a trio of servers that like to reboot during high disk / network IO operations. They don't appear to panic, as I have kernel.panic = 0 in sysctl.conf. The syslog just shows normal messages, like samba complaining about browse master and then just syslogd

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1648 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 ntp Update

2009-12-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1648 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1648.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 580f3d82a287fc0a9dd84d60c4da129f

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1648 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 ntp Update

2009-12-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1648 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1648.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 38239cde2c52308a7b4bfcf066914d84