Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-02-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: snip There's actually so much more to video than most think. When you watch a video with sound, you are actually watching a multiplexed stream of one video stream and one audio stream (or a few etc). Our first

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-31 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:23 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Still not sure why it produces an .xml file instead of .avi or something else, but if I RFM, I will probably

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: We are finally going to replace our VHS-C Camcorder, with a Digital Camcorder, tomorrow. Looking for suggestions, for Digital Video Editor to use

[CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
If I use system-config-display or system-config-display --reconfig although I get a message that I need to log out of GNOME, to have the new file written, for new Display Resolution, logging out or restarting the box does not result in the new settings for the Display taking hold. Sometimes, the

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question [SOLVED]

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: If I use system-config-display or system-config-display --reconfig although I get a message that I need to log out of GNOME, to have the new file written, for new Display Resolution, logging out or restarting the box

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Cinelerra. It is very powerful, and Dag kindly added to his repo quite

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question [SOLVED]

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: If I use system-config-display or system-config-display --reconfig

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 17:32:00 Les Mikesell wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own? If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Still not sure why it produces an .xml file instead of .avi or something else, but if I RFM, I will probably figure that out. Welcome to Non-linear video editing, I haven't read up on Cinelerra but it saves an

Re: [CentOS] it's that time again - lj rca's

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:48 AM, RobertH robe...@abbacomm.net wrote: it is that time again to let your choices be known in one of the mainstream journals http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/readers-choice-awards Thanks! CentOS is one of only 13 distributions in their list. :-)

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 1/29/09, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/1/29 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: Anne Wilson wrote: Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own? If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If the former,

Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Chris Boyd cb...@gizmopartners.com wrote: On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: You said that the UPS is fully charged. I wonder if you need a UPS with larger capacity and if your UPS is working properly. I don't think there's any problem with the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2009-01-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: We are finally going to replace our VHS-C Camcorder, with a Digital Camcorder, tomorrow. Looking for suggestions, for Digital Video Editor to use

Re: [CentOS] yum problem

2009-01-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Anthony Kamau akcen...@anroet.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of James Bensley Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 7:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum problem

Re: [CentOS] Ping and traceroute...

2009-01-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Right now, we are blocking pings and traceroutes to our website. But, in order for our members to test

Re: [CentOS] Ping and traceroute...

2009-01-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Right now, we are blocking pings and traceroutes to our website. But, in order for our members to test the connection when they are experiencing slow browsing, we are thinking about unblocking them... Are there still any

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

2009-01-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Michael St. Laurent mi...@hartwellcorp.com wrote: What is the status of i7 architecture support for CentOS-5? Do the latest updates support it? Mike: As Tru pointed out, you should trim your Sig file considerably, or eliminate it. I really doubt that DoD cares

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

2009-01-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Michael St. Laurent mi...@hartwellcorp.com wrote: What is the status of i7 architecture support for CentOS-5? Do the latest updates support it? according to the upstream notes wait for 5.3 Is there a projected release date for CentOS-5.3? This will

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

2009-01-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Michael St. Laurent mi...@hartwellcorp.com wrote: Mike: As Tru pointed out, you should trim your Sig file considerably, or eliminate it. I really doubt that DoD cares if you get help or information from this mailing list. We have people with .gov email

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

2009-01-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Michael St. Laurent mi...@hartwellcorp.com wrote: Is there a projected release date for CentOS-5.3? hedidnotask...this search the forums..when it's done..unless you would like to help..:) I have helped by sending money. I don't know if

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@fas.sfu.ca wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive and 125M ram. Can I install

Re: [CentOS] acroread = resource hog

2009-01-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Ed Donahue libera...@gmail.com wrote: Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources. Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em,

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard s...@wa4phy.net wrote: After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a back function on any pages or tabs. I am running Firefox on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) (fully updated) and I am

Re: [CentOS] yum update nfs

2009-01-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Agile Aspect agile.asp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - when I'm running CentOS 4.4, and I run the command yum update nfs which version of NFS do I get - the version for CentOS 4.4, or the version for CentOS 4.7 (which I presume is the latest release)? Any

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host

2009-01-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@panet.co.yu wrote: Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, I know, it sounds

Re: [CentOS] Update to Centos 5 anaconda kickstart %post bug?

2009-01-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Warren, Eucke ewar...@wms.com wrote: snip I appreciate the response. If you recall I did post the link so it's a safe assumption that I read the page and understood it's content. What I'm after is whether there's any other information channel that might not be

Re: [CentOS] Update to Centos 5 anaconda kickstart %post bug?

2009-01-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 1-8-2009 3:14 PM Warren, Eucke spake the following: snip I appreciate the response. If you recall I did post the link so it's a safe assumption that I read the page and understood it's content. What I'm after is

Re: [CentOS] totem-xine

2009-01-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:46 AM, A. Kirillov nevis...@infoline.su wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: For video - I use the totem plugin with xine backend totem. I compiled my own but I suspect that rpmforge has it. I found gstreamer backend totem to be most unsatisfactory. Could you please

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing -

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:52 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I can't imagine that kind of risk on a Server. Bad on a Desktop, but an unacceptable risk on a Server. risk?whats risky about the hardware managing the fans without CPU software intervention

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I just replaced my fan in my nc2400. It was a 5hour job. Had to pull EVERYTHING to get to where they have the fan in the thing. Now I want to know if it is working. It is suppose to be thermostatically controlled,

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I read something in a forum, that said the CPU temperature can go to 100 C., in a few seconds, but I now wonder if that is true or not. Yeah, turn on a machine w/o a heatsink :) In a couple of seconds it will get

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: snip Yeah, turn on a machine w/o a heatsink :) In a couple of seconds it will get so hot that you can't touch it and the internal safety threshold on the proc will shut it down. I suspect the mobo

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I just replaced my fan in my nc2400. It was a 5hour job. Had to pull snip So how can I find out what Centos knows about the system temp and fan state? snip Now with the new fan in, it is not turning at all, but the

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

2009-01-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: The HW people are way ahead of the SW people? A good reason not to use the latest motherboards, with this technology, in production servers, at this time? actually, that was desktop stuff I described

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into snip I

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of,

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kay Diederichs kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit

Re: [CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip the PSU in your Dimension 2400 (a celeron system with the i845gv chipset) may not work with a PCI-Express motherboard as they've changed hte PSU spec to require significantly more +12V than

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:30:40 Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:14 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: snip There is an option in K3B to automatically erase RW media when it finds one in its drive. You have to set that option or else it defaults to not erasing it (and not asking you). On the Settings menu,

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or RedHat.com please tell me. redhat probably. We saw similar

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:25 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: OK. I've made some tests and if you believe

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing -

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: snip I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into that last

Re: [CentOS] Video support for Intel 852GM GMCH

2009-01-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I am looking at a mini-itx system that has the Intel chipset. The video spec is the Intel 852GM GMCH. Anyone know anything good or bad about this? I googled and got this URL. Maybe you will learn something about it,

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2008-12-31 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing -

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2 problem with udev and ssl

2008-12-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: Got cocky and decided to upgrade from from 4.7 to 5.2. Have a couple problems I can't figure out. Was that upgrade using anaconda or yum? Hadn't you thought of backing up and

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 5.2 on an old machine in graphical mode (to use LVM) but anaconda crash. I made several tries with various installation resquest (the last is Server, Customize after installation)

Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory

2008-12-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: snip I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.

2008-12-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, MHR a écrit : You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem What do you need as information? I'm not in from of this machine tonight, the only

Re: [CentOS] TimeZone Mystery on a virtual dedicated server

2008-12-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ami Mahloof ami.mahl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a weird problem woth the time zone on my virtual (goDaddy) dedicated server I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to GMT+7 i am in NY (GMT-5) when i do GMT-5 i get all the times 2 hours ahead

Re: [CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?

2008-12-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: snip designs. Also, Dell is fairly notorious for using PSUs that are just barely adequate for the system as originally configured. And, I believe, in the Dell Dimensions, we have 4 of them, they use Proprietary cases,

Re: [CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?

2008-12-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: And, I believe, in the Dell Dimensions, we have 4 of them, they use Proprietary cases, motherboards and PSUs. not since the 90s, anyways. at one time, Dell dimensions used PSUs with two wires

[CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?

2008-12-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
(a) Mark (mhr) suggested I buy a bare bones box, when I reported the problem with the mainboard in this Dell Dimension 2400 box. Possibly I can have the mainboard repaired (and the PSU, if it is also having problems), and if so, I will give this one to my Stepson and go the bare bones box route

Re: [CentOS] OT: (a) Biostar or MSI mainboard? (b) all Celeron CPU's OK?

2008-12-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: (a) Mark (mhr) suggested I buy a bare bones box, when I reported the problem with the mainboard in this Dell Dimension 2400 box. ... The one that seems the most interesting is the Biostar P4M890-M7 TE

Re: [CentOS] Please share some RHCE/RHCT learning material

2008-12-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Xiaobo Zhu xia...@zhu.net wrote: will anyone please share me some material on RHCE/RHCT, I am fighting for the Quality Engineer in RedHat, and that may help a lot in the coming written exam. As a previous reply mentioned, there are two (2) factors in the Red

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: snip Hi Warren, Nice explanation. I would like to ask what you recommend people do if they want to be able to ssh in from anywhere on the internet. Say they are going to be traveling and they know they will have to login

Re: [CentOS] Another security question

2008-12-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: as much encryption as is possible Just strikes me all wrong. Use the RIGHT amount of intelligence. I agree with you, 100%. Not well written. The goal, obviously, is to be as safe as possible

Re: [CentOS] Please share some RHCE/RHCT learning material

2008-12-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: snip As a previous reply mentioned, there are two (2) factors in the Red Hat certification process. The first is the written examination. The second part is a hands on test, to administer a box. Many people who do very well

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: snip I succeeded to download RHEL server 5.3 beta. If graphical installation succeeded, unfortunately, I was unable to restart the laptop. ore info in the updated bug:

Re: [CentOS] Another security question

2008-12-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to be able to check my bank account while we are on holiday. I know the bank's site is encrypted from the start - the login page is https and Verisign-trust encrypted - but is there any risk in using

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: snip Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this issue. I've never used USB Memory while logged in as root. I'm using CentOS 5 (32 bit). snip Yes the usb stick/memory mounts correctly, but then they are

Re: [CentOS] HAL Daemon failure on boot up

2008-12-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Dick Roth snip I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available. Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution? snip Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: snip My wife just made me an offer I may refuse: She told me to go to the Dell web site for Colombia and look for a new, inexpensive box there. They have one with Ubuntu Linux on it, for about US$700 with a monitor and 3

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this issue. I've

Re: [CentOS] HAL Daemon failure on boot up

2008-12-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dick Roth raro...@comcast.net wrote: I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available. Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution? Your

Re: [CentOS] HAL Daemon failure on boot up

2008-12-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Dick Roth raro...@comcast.net wrote: I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available. snip Dec 6 20:02:40 c-75-69-199-70 kernel: hdf: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: snip TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but it might suit your purposes. As I wrote a couple of nights ago, if I was in the USA, I would order one of those, without giving it a second thought.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: snip it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: snip Try running: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem. It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms,

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but it might suit your purposes. Good luck. Mark: H. If I was in the USA, I'd go for that, in a minute. But, we are down here in South America (much closer to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: snip I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) I hadn't thought about blaming someone else for this problem, but, thank you for the idea! :-) Actually, the box has always had a UPS with automatic voltage

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: snip I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :) I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)

Re: [CentOS] Emailing jpeg images with Evolution 2.8.0

2008-12-16 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Allen andy.al...@virgin.net wrote: I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known

Re: [CentOS] Yum messages: /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1 is not a symbolic link

2008-12-16 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:05 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: Ran yum update this A.M. Got this. Is it a problem for rpmforge, CentOS or just me? Maybe not a problem at all? Bill: I have PUP running and this morning got the alert that updates were available. I had PUP

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Gordon McLellan gordonth...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget to enable the featuret... magic sysrq is disabled by default. quoting from http://aplawrence.com/Words2005/2005_04_13.html: To use it, you need to have it enabled in your kernel (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ).

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:44:25 -0500: It does not work on my box. That's why I suggested it. ;-) That's why I test my backups, after I make them. I appreciate you suggesting that I test this, so

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 16:40, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq To enable it. Maybe you can put it in one of the sysconfig files, somebody here will know :-) To do

Re: [CentOS] Checking to see if I can mail

2008-12-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:59 AM, John jse...@gmail.com wrote: snip Loud and clear. Q5 S9 Thought it was 599 for CW, yes. RTTY, PSK31 That too. I think I blew the Final in my HF Transceiver, when I forgot to reduce the power, before I started using PSK31. Probably about 30 seconds of that

[CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
Earlier, I was using GNOME and Firefox and the Mouse died. I had to kill the power, to get the box going again, because it doesn't have a reset switch; which is *not* an elegant way to get going. What key combination would get me going or to a shell? CentOS 5, fully updated, 32 bit. TIA!

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0500: What key combination would get me going or to a shell? Probably none. If it doesn't react to CTRL-ALT-DEL it's frozen to death. Kai: I tried that and I tried

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Gordon McLellan gordonth...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to look at this, for future reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Gordon: Thank you! I bookmarked that URL and I will read it, slowly. Hoping not to need to kill the power to get out

Re: [CentOS] GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

2008-12-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:50 PM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: snip Did you try switching to a virtual terminal, e.g. CTL-ALT-F1? Bill: I tried CTL-ALT-F2 and I tried CTL-ALT-DEL If the box is not totally frozen It was 100% frozen. this should let you work at a command

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:02 AM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. Thanks to

Re: [CentOS] Checking to see if I can mail

2008-12-12 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: Been able to receive mail but unable to get mine to appear on list. I tried resetting the list to see if I am able to mail out again. Lets see if this works. Test#12 Loud and clear. Q5 S9

Re: [CentOS] Checking to see if I can mail

2008-12-12 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:16 PM, John jse...@gmail.com wrote: snip On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: Been able to receive mail but unable to get mine to appear on list. I tried resetting the list to see if I am able to mail out again. Lets see if this

[CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum Repository installed. I downloaded the .rpm file from Adobe and when I tried to install it, got

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this. Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12 Bill:

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: MHR wrote: I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit machine (at work). I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this morning, but k3b said it couldn't read

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: snip I think you should dump that old version (if you're CentOS 5.x?) and get it updated to the 10.2 Why your plkuginreg.dat has 9 while your rpm shows 10.x, I couldn't guess. However, mine is wrapped.

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: snip unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum did, either, Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not a tar file. but I suppose that would

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: Try running: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem. Kind regards, Dag: Thank you. I will try that right now and get back to you. If that doesn't work, I will try

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: snip Your IP address, 70.62.90.185, is listed on zen.spamhaus.org, and you can probably go to their web site to see why it's listed. It's listed on zen.spamhaus.org because it's in pbl.spamhaus.org

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM, James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at my maillog and it looks like someone is trying to get into my pop3 server. snip About 5 or 6 years ago, I couldn't access my POP3 mail on my web site. When I contacted OLM Tech Support, they discovered that

Re: [CentOS] Adobe plugin for firefox

2008-12-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Bo Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue with workstation opening pdf's with firefox. I have the adobe plugin installed and enabled in firefox but firefox will only let me save the file. Under applications I have tried using the doc reader and adobe

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