[CentOS] about:plugins -Re: interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/04/2011 02:46 AM Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:25 AM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] interview request for

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/03/2011 08:06 PM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/03/2011 09:24 PM Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/04/2011 08:37 AM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 08:09, ken wrote: What does your about:plugins page say? (For explication, see the about:plugins subthread.) Or do you have some other diagnostic which indicates these are not the same? It does say Shockwave Flash

Re: [CentOS] about:plugins -Re: interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/04/2011 08:41 AM Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] about:plugins -Re: interview request for ppl who have

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
One other factor might be video hardware acceleration. Of those who have Shockwave working, are you also running VHA?? On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm

[CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread ken
For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes long.

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 05:10 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:02:47PM -0400, ken wrote: This was one feature I was interested in with the answering machine I spoke of before: I'd want to be able to pick up an incoming call with a bluetooth phone so I could walk around

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 05:23 PM Les Mikesell wrote: What tames my enthusiasm about bluetooth though is its maximum range is said to be 20'. Gimme a wifi phone. That was the point of the base station with wireless handsets. I've seen those with 3 or 4 handsets for well under $100. They

Re: [CentOS] Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null

2011-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 05:45 AM John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, ken wrote: Like the error says, you need to specify the display. I.e., on the remote machine you must set the environmental variable DISPLAY... something like (export DISPLAY=192.168.1.42:0.0 firefox) Though this may work

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2011 09:04 AM Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:57:04AM -0400, ken wrote: What I'd hope to do is plug the analog output from the ATA into the input of my home's POTS (Plain Old Telephone System, i.e., the 1970s technology). That way all the cabling I have

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2011 08:55 AM Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/30/11 6:04 AM, ken wrote: On 03/29/2011 05:23 PM Les Mikesell wrote: What tames my enthusiasm about bluetooth though is its maximum range is said to be 20'. Gimme a wifi phone. That was the point of the base station with wireless

Re: [CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
On 03/28/2011 04:22 PM Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:50 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 03/28/2011 05:59 AM Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 22:41 -0400, ken wrote: It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax

Re: [CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 11:55 AM Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/29/2011 10:35 AM, ken wrote: I've got a couple dozen other things I need to do... and the person who was going to fax me something is scanning the doc and attaching it to an email, so I don't need the fax anymore. So I'm bagging this project

Re: [CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
I also have a PCMCIA slot and an old modem card from a previous laptop, so that might be a better option than wrestling with a winmodem. I don't know yet The old PCMCIA modem card might not be a fax modem. If the laptop does have a good old DB-9 serial port connector, then going

[CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 01:21 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: GV has been around for years - but previously you had to get an invite from an existing user or go on a waiting list. Now you can just sign up and get a free number which you can send

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 01:37 PM ken wrote: On 03/29/2011 01:21 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: GV has been around for years - but previously you had to get an invite from an existing user or go on a waiting list. Now you can just sign up

Re: [CentOS] OT: google voice + chat - Re: finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-29 Thread ken
On 03/29/2011 04:32 PM Stephen Harris wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:52:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/29/2011 1:37 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: Exactly correct. It also works the other way; pick up the phone and dial a number and asterisk routes it via google chat so you get your free

Re: [CentOS] Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null

2011-03-28 Thread ken
On 03/28/2011 05:58 AM Roland RoLaNd wrote: Hope this email finds you well. I need your advice with something if you can help out. I have an RC serer (selenium rc) which is running on a centos 5.2 and another on a 5.4 machine. if i run it through X server, in other words if i run the

[CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

2011-03-28 Thread ken
On 03/28/2011 05:59 AM Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 22:41 -0400, ken wrote: It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? (Hope so.) Hylafax; has been quietly running at work

[CentOS] fax software

2011-03-27 Thread ken
It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? (Hope so.) tia. -- Anything is easy if you know how to do it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] HOW to REDIRECT to HTTPS?

2011-03-04 Thread ken
On 03/03/2011 08:04 AM erikmccaskey64 wrote: I'm searching for a method [on client side] to redirect to HTTPS in a few given domains. e.g.: http://www.facebook.com/ to https://www.facebook.com/ Ok. I use several webbrowsers, and not all of them has add-ons to redirect these pages

Re: [CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-25 Thread ken
On 02/24/2011 08:25 PM Chuck Munro wrote: From experience I can attest to the fact that PAL/NTSC CCTV cameras are significantly inferior to modern digital security cameras. I have used devices from Axis, who appear to be the largest and most diverse manufacturer (www.axis.com)

Re: [CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-24 Thread ken
this with Linux? Thanks to everyone for the comments and tips, the previous and future ones. Best, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ecommerce hosting

2011-02-24 Thread ken
. If you believe time is money, it's not hard to see his thinking. As you hunt, keep in mind what you need the hosting service to provide. And then be sure to ask if they provide it. hth, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ecommerce hosting

2011-02-24 Thread ken
On 02/24/2011 01:03 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On 02/23/2011 09:18 PM Thomas Dukes wrote: Would appreciate some suggestions for ecommerce hosting. Been using, cough, cough, godaddy, for about 5 or 6 yrs but in the last year or so, they really suck. Did the hosting myself

Re: [CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-23 Thread ken
On 02/22/2011 09:02 PM B.J. McClure wrote: Not sure it will answer your question but there was an article in December 2010 issue of Linux Magazine re surveillance cameras and linux. HTH. B.J. BJ, I looked around Linux Mag's site for quite a while, did a couple searches, and

Re: [CentOS] security cameras (not USB, not CCTV)

2011-02-23 Thread ken
On 02/23/2011 01:36 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 02/23/11 10:16 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: I think you will get far better video quality using CCTV cameras than a webcam on a USB port. you may think that, but those solutions you mentioned are all NTSC composite video, while even a $30 USB

[CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-22 Thread ken
I heard about some inexpensive security cameras which get their power through the same cat5 cable which delivers the data/pictures (which would simplify wiring tremendously). Does anyone know about these? Do they work with Linux, particularly CentOS? tnx 4 tips.

[CentOS] mysqld status discrepancy

2011-01-25 Thread ken
Bug, explainable, or expected?? Checking the status of mysqld as root, then as a regular user: # /etc/init.d/mysqld status mysqld (pid 4806) is running... $ /etc/init.d/mysqld status mysqld dead but subsys locked ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] How to unpack rar file?

2011-01-13 Thread ken
I think I did this once a long time ago, but don't recall clearly How do I unpack a .rar file? tnx. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to unpack rar file?

2011-01-13 Thread ken
On 01/13/2011 05:20 PM ken wrote: I think I did this once a long time ago, but don't recall clearly How do I unpack a .rar file? tnx. Thanks very much everyone. I got it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 5.5 KVM GRUB / Virtio issue

2011-01-12 Thread Ken Bass
On 01/12/2011 02:04 PM, Ken Bass wrote: More info...After comparing my working system with the non-working one. I notice the non-working ext3 filesystem has an inode size of 256. The working system 128. Could this be the issue with grub? I see some ramblings on the Internet about grub

[CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread ken
Given an HTML file which looks like this: - begin snippet - HTML HEAD TITLE We've Lied to You#8230;/TITLE META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79LINK REL=HOME TITLE=Maximum RPM HREF=index.htmlLINK REL=UP TITLE=Using RPM to Verify Installed

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread ken
On 12/30/2010 09:18 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/30/2010 8:19 AM, ken wrote: Given an HTML file which looks like this: - begin snippet - HTML HEAD TITLE We've Lied to You#8230;/TITLE META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79LINK REL=HOME

[CentOS] remove newlines / perl /concise example

2010-12-30 Thread ken
Thanks for the previous tips and suggestions. Here's a more concise example: Input file: I want everything on one line, i.e., remove all newlines. Like so: Simple perl code: #!/usr/bin/env perl # Remove newlines from a file in two ways: # (1) Just chomp

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread ken
On 12/30/2010 11:01 AM John Doe wrote: From: ken geb...@mousecar.com Some file this script would need to process could very well be ridiculously huge, which is why I chose to process line-by-line. Secondly, yes, I was already using the general strategy of taking out the newlines (where

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread ken
On 12/18/2010 04:31 AM Kai Schaetzl wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. Kai Kai, You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been running several server apps (mail, web, ldap, cups, and

Re: [CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso

2010-12-17 Thread ken
On 12/16/2010 09:36 AM Keith Roberts wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, ken wrote: To: CentOS Mailing List centos@centos.org From: ken geb...@mousecar.com Subject: [CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso Just did a few searches, trying to find a redhat or centos 6.x livecd iso, preferably an i686

[CentOS] centos6 686 livecd iso

2010-12-16 Thread ken
Just did a few searches, trying to find a redhat or centos 6.x livecd iso, preferably an i686... but no joy. Maybe google's web crawlers haven't found the page yet. Anybody here know where to find it? tia, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Yum Updates dependencies missing (rpmforge)

2010-12-05 Thread ken
On 12/05/2010 08:43 AM Lanny Marcus wrote: There are updates available, for the below multimedia packages (CentOS 5.5, 32 bit), but I'm getting missing dependency errors from yum update for these. --- Package directfb.i386 0:1.2.10-1.el5.rf set to be updated --- Package ffmpeg.i386

Re: [CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime gmime-sharp

2010-11-29 Thread ken
On 11/28/2010 05:13 PM William Hooper wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: You need to take a closer look at what yum is trying to install. This message is telling you yum won't update the package because it will break a dependency on another installed

Re: [CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime gmime-sharp

2010-11-29 Thread ken
On 11/28/2010 05:16 PM William Hooper wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, William Hooper whooper...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: You need to take a closer look at what yum is trying to install. This message is telling you yum won't

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM behaviour: does yum/RPM overwrite a file modified by a user during an update ?

2010-11-29 Thread ken
On 11/29/2010 07:38 AM giggzounet wrote: Le 29/11/2010 12:44, Gabriel Tabares a écrit : ... where in the rpm package can I find if the file is a configuration file or not ? This will list configuration files for an installed $package: rpm -Vv $package 21|grep -e ^ c

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM behaviour: does yum/RPM overwrite a file modified by a user during an update ?

2010-11-29 Thread ken
On 11/29/2010 04:29 PM Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: rpm -Vv $package 21|grep -e ^ c Or the slightly easier (and per the rpm documentation) rpm -qc packagename HTH rpm -qvc $package gives more info-- the files' permissions

Re: [CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime gmime-sharp

2010-11-28 Thread ken
On 11/27/2010 04:38 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 11/27/10 12:44 PM, ken wrote: This would seem like a bug... or why is yum trying to install package versions which are already installed? this most frequently happens when you mix dependencies of different yum repositories.I noted .rf

Re: [CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime gmime-sharp

2010-11-28 Thread ken
On 11/28/2010 01:58 PM William Hooper wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: # yum update ... -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos for package: gmime-sharp --- Package gmime20.i386 0:2.2.26-1.el5.rf set

[CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime gmime-sharp

2010-11-27 Thread ken
# yum update ... -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos for package: gmime-sharp --- Package gmime20.i386 0:2.2.26-1.el5.rf set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 from installed has depsolving problems

Re: [CentOS] something chmod'ing /dev/null

2010-11-18 Thread ken
And if you updated solely through yum, /var/log/yum.log is a time-stamped list. It's unfortunate that /var/log/rpmpkgs doesn't have the same format. :( On 11/17/2010 02:54 PM JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Pruett wrote: On 11/17/2010 10:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At

Re: [CentOS] Maybe OT : strange wildcard behaviour

2010-10-25 Thread ken
I'm getting strange stuff too: $ /bin/ls -l radiolab101510--Fate-and-Fortune.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 zl zl 57144527 Sep 30 16:10 radiolab101510--Fate-and-Fortune.mp3 $ /bin/ls -l *.mp3 /bin/ls: unrecognized option `--Fate-and-Fortune.mp3' Try `/bin/ls --help' for more information. $ rpm -qf /bin/ls

[CentOS] SOLVED -

2010-10-13 Thread Ken Dechick
Hi Akemi, Thanks for the reply. Do you mean no src.rpm of your custom kernel? If so, rpmbuild -bs will build it. The only source rpm I can find is from the CentOS Extras. FIlename makes it appear that you need the 2.6.18-8.1.8 kernel from CentOS Extras:

[CentOS] SOLVED - wrong subject : kvm-kmod CentOS 5.5 - sorry

2010-10-13 Thread Ken Dechick
Kenneth M DeChick Linux Systems Administrator Community Computer Service, Inc. http://www.medent.com k...@medent.com Registered Linux User #497318 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Schshschshchsch.-- The Gorn, Arena, stardate 3046.2 . This message and any attachments may contain information

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread ken
Before yum and when I used to have time for it, I compiled from source everything on my machine. It wasn't that big of a deal. Just took some time. The pay-off was significant in performance and speed... reason being that, if you configure gcc for your particular cpu, the code is able to take

[CentOS] kmod-kvm for custom CentOS 5.5 kernel

2010-10-08 Thread Ken Dechick
Hello all! I have actual need to build a custom kernel.(Have to change Preemption model to 'server' and turn off Preempt the big kernel lock, ect) I have heard bits and pieces about these changing defaults in newer kernels but I haven't investigated that yet. This of course is not a problem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, Firefox, and Java Plugin

2010-09-24 Thread ken
CCing the CentOS group on this... maybe someone there knows how to handle the error. On 09/23/2010 03:19 PM ken wrote: On 09/23/2010 01:29 PM Mathieu Baudier wrote: As it turns out, I don't have the Argeo version. If I'm still having But you have the java browser plugin? Sorry

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, Firefox, and Java Plugin

2010-09-24 Thread ken
On 09/24/2010 10:53 AM Barry Brimer wrote: Quoting Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org: Apparently I don't have the java plugin browser installed. I've tried to install it using the rpm.bin file at http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=enhost=java.com, but it's erroring out:

[CentOS] korganizer missing alarms

2010-08-31 Thread ken
Korganizer has been working fine for years for me. But just recently it's started missing alarms... I mean I set an alarm for an event but the window for it is never popped. I googled around and found that other were having this problem back in 2007 and 2005, but there's no mention of it in

Re: [CentOS] Stuttering sound

2010-08-10 Thread ken
On 08/10/2010 10:09 AM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:34 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com mailto:jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: -Audacious plays OK but other applications have problems. -For instance, mplayer acts quirky: when I pause a

Re: [CentOS] Stuttering sound

2010-08-10 Thread ken
On 08/10/2010 01:41 PM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: On 08/10/2010 10:09 AM Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Thank you very much, people, my issue was resolved as per https

[CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
Running yum update, yum appears to perform fine and appears to finish but continues to reside in memory: ... Updating : lftp 2/4 Cleanup: lftp 3/4 Cleanup: freetype

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: From: ken geb...@mousecar.com yum-updatesd is not yum. man yum-updateeresd JD Thanks, JD. Sorry, I copy-and-pasted from the wrong machine. Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run yum update, it fails like

[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not* have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work

Re: [CentOS] Small Business support for *nix systems in Spain

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 03:57 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 07/23/10 12:05 PM, Kurt Hansen wrote: Our company has 30 shops that connect to a central server where the point -of-sale software runs, and is currently operating on Unix (it´s an old system we acquired when we bought another company). It seems

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 12:48 PM Rob Kampen wrote: ken wrote: One problem I've discovered in cpuspeed is that there are drivers missing: # cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5/kernel/drivers/cpufreq # ll total 72 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14408 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_conservative.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-24 Thread ken
On 07/23/2010 08:46 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 25.07.2010 02:01, schrieb ken: Plus, I would think we both should have cpufreq_performance.ko as it's one of the drivers mentioned in the cpuspeed docs and manpage. No, as that is build into the kernel, rather than being build

[CentOS] cpuspeed: missing drivers ???

2010-07-23 Thread ken
One problem I've discovered in cpuspeed is that there are drivers missing: # cd /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5/kernel/drivers/cpufreq # ll total 72 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14408 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_conservative.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16168 Jul 1 21:40 cpufreq_ondemand.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread ken
On 07/22/2010 02:39 PM Hakan Koseoglu wrote: JD, On 22/07/10 10:25, John Doe wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know the cons of running a PAE kernel...? I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain those exta 700MB... You should use 64 bit if possible but

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread ken
On 07/22/2010 05:43 PM JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:33 -0400, ken wrote: On 07/22/2010 02:39 PM Hakan Koseoglu wrote: JD, On 22/07/10 10:25, John Doe wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know the cons of running a PAE kernel...? I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth

Re: [CentOS] disabling touchpad in CentOS 5.5

2010-07-21 Thread ken
On 07/20/2010 11:09 PM Sameer Oak wrote: I've HP 520 laptop. I installed CentOS 5.5 a few days back. The laptop has some weird placing of touchpad that is frustrating me while typing. Please advise me how to disable touchpad on CentOS 5.5. -- Regards, - samoak. Find out what the

[CentOS] error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host [hostname]

2010-07-15 Thread ken
When launching oowriter and other apps, I get this error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host myh.dom.tld The app -- oowriter or whatever I happen to be invoking-- starts okay. But this error message tells me something's not right. Curiously, the hostname command

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-07 Thread ken
On 07/06/2010 02:54 PM Jerry Geis wrote: I download the RHEL 6b2 and noticed the modprobe.conf was no longer present. I used modprobe.conf to place options for ethernet drivers like which order to install the drivers. e1000e before forcedeth - things like that. Anyway - seems like that

Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread ken
=no NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.0.88 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 You might already have such a file on your system. In fact, you should have one for each NIC... at least. Of course the last variable, GATEWAY, is used to specify the default route. hth, ken -- Find research and analysis on US

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread ken
On 06/17/2010 04:16 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs

[CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs the speed at 600MHz. This processor is capable of 1.5GHz and when

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
On 06/16/2010 03:09 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/16/2010 1:47 PM, ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu

Re: [CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

2010-05-30 Thread ken
On 05/28/2010 11:51 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010, Robert Heller wrote: But I get *exactly* the same problem. I had the same problem too... Friday morning, while trying to get myself out of town... so I haven't looked into it much. Just bailed on much of the

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-21 Thread ken
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:06PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching nameserver package installed. My ISP's nameservers are there. It must have something

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-21 Thread ken
On 05/21/2010 09:41 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:06PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching nameserver package installed. My ISP's

Re: [CentOS] gcc?

2010-05-03 Thread ken
On 05/03/2010 08:48 AM Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Massey, Ricky ricky.mas...@lmco.com wrote: Try kdevelop. Will second this... It comes with project templates for anything from a simple shell helloworld to full blown GUI apps. Nobody's mentioned glade2-- or as its

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of vi vs. emacs)

2010-05-03 Thread ken
, Pali, Japanese, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Russian alphabets, emacs is what works for me. And for other reasons too. Different (key) strokes, ken -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of vi vs. emacs)

2010-05-03 Thread ken
On 05/03/2010 12:18 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ken wrote: Of course, the one *I* want is brief. I think $$ome editor$ still advertise brief emulation mode. *How* many keystrokes is it to do column copy in emacs? It's a *programmable* editor... so you could do it with one keystroke

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS?? [Solved]

2010-04-20 Thread ken
On 04/19/2010 09:00 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: In reality, what you are asking for seems superfluous... you just keep a bookmark of some podcast url and when you go there, it starts playing the stream, you never have to actually store the podcast (and then have to manage

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS?? [Solved]

2010-04-19 Thread ken
the media on an ipod. Works. Be mindfull of the fact that it needs to reformat something on your device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(software) On 14 April 2010 22:07, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-14 Thread ken
On 04/13/2010 05:26 PM ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? Apparently iTunes installs and runs on wine. I'm gonna try that. Stay tuned Well, I got wine installed

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-14 Thread ken
Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ On 04/14/2010 03:48 PM Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:36 -0400, ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:26 PM ken wrote: On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know

[CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-13 Thread ken
Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] iTunes on CentOS??

2010-04-13 Thread ken
On 04/13/2010 05:08 PM ken wrote: Anyone know how to download and play stuff from itunes.apple.com (without having to use Windows or Mac)? Apparently iTunes installs and runs on wine. I'm gonna try that. Stay tuned (but not necessarily iTuned). yuk yuk yuk

[CentOS] 'p' in boot selector going into single-user

2010-04-12 Thread ken
On boot, when I hit the F12 key to bring up the boot menu, the screen displays the various kernels and other boot options. In the text below this menu it says I can hit 'p' to bring up a menu with other options. I've done this with the last two boot-ups and no other menu or options appear. Is

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 09:05 PM William Hooper wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Without the full yum output it is a bit hard to be sure (you might want to paste the full output to pastebin.centos.org, but it looks like: --- Package gmime.i386 0:2.2.25-1.el5

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 09:56 PM Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 03/31/2010 08:13 AM, ken wrote: -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos for package: gmime-sharp --- Package gmime.i386 0:2.2.25-1.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution gmime-sharp

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-31 Thread ken
On 03/31/2010 08:18 AM William Hooper wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:30 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Available Packages gmime.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 epel gmime-devel.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 epel The newer version of gmime is coming from

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 12:47 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: On 29 March 2010 13:21, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: When I do yum update gmime gmime-sharp I get: ... -- Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread ken
On 03/30/2010 04:51 PM Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 03/30/2010 06:34 PM, ken wrote: I've done a 'yum clean' and then run 'yum update' and get the same result as above. My hunch is that the problem is particular to these two packages (gmime and gmime-sharp)... because I've had repeated problems

[CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-29 Thread ken
When I do yum update gmime gmime-sharp I get: ... -- Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos is needed by package gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 (installed)

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Small touch screens that works with CentOS

2010-03-19 Thread ken
You could screw an OpenMoko phone to the wall. It has, not just a Linux-compatible screen, but the whole Linux OS on it. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/ On

Re: [CentOS] APIC error on Intel Atom CPU, CentOS 5.x

2010-03-16 Thread ken
On 03/16/2010 07:17 AM Timo Schoeler wrote: thus JohnS spake: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 09:53 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: For me it dies on any kind of traffic, not just rsync. I even saw this fetching ISOs using FTP. The machine just died (network-wise; I don't have console on this machine in

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-03-01 Thread ken
On 02/28/2010 05:25 PM Michael Klinosky wrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: ... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever.

[CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of the problem to the package

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread ken
On 01/24/2010 12:47 PM ken wrote: When running totem to play a move (e.g. mpeg-1 file), it fails with the message: A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. After reading docs and trying various things I've reduced the source of the problem

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