Re: Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-13 Thread techlists
I agree with you David. Only thing I would add is it is important to know how the machine will be used. You are right. I have a 12 year old Toshiba that has a 1G Celeron and 256mb of ram. I was able to load and test Qmail Toaster on CentOS 5. However I would never want to do any Drupal

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-13 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Mark, Those two are virtually identical. Things to consider: *1) QHD+ doesn't work in Chrome* *2) You won't have any use for the touch screen* *3) The M800 comes with two 500G drives (SATA and SSD)* *4) The M800 is available with a lot of options and customizations that the * *XPS15 does not

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Phillips
I forgot to mention in my first post that I don't want the touchscreen and consider it a waste of money. But I do want the higher horsepower and RAM for development work and visualization of Windows. I gave up dual booting a long time ago. I have been a long time Dell user, and have found the

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-13 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 17:25 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: Does anyone use an Dell XPS15 or M3800 laptop? I am looking at these two models, or perhaps the developer edition with Ubuntu pre-installed. I have read that these machines get really hot...to the point of the machine crashing. Just

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2014-08-13 Thread joe
The world is about to change radically. Intel just announced a new chip that will begin shipping this fall that is a dramatic JMoore's law leap over chips to date. Much smaller, thinner, more powerful, a big performancve jump over Haswell, and it runs so cool that it will be able to run in

Re: CentOS 7

2014-08-13 Thread Kevin Fries
Try starting your ntp manually: systemstl start ntpd You may see an error message referring you to the journal. Startup scripts in SystemD are not difficult, but are very different and can be a bit intimidating until you realize they are no different that what you always used but in a

Re: CentOS 7

2014-08-13 Thread Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
I am able to manually start ntpd using the command systemctl start ntpd.service. I thought I had indicated that in my original post. When I run the enable command, it does create a sym link. Below is what it does... ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service'

Re: CentOS 7

2014-08-13 Thread Kevin Fries
Just to make sure we are using the same vernacular... you are looking at /var/logs or the Journal? Kevin On Aug 13, 2014 5:02 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. mailing-li...@phoenixinternet.net wrote: I am able to manually start ntpd using the command systemctl start ntpd.service. I thought I