Re: SL7 client for Microsoft ActiveSync

2015-02-09 17:33 GMT+01:00 Yasha Karant : > This is a SL issue in that if SL is to be used in the real world as both a > workstation and as a server environment, > one needs workstation applications that communicate/interoperate with > those commonly available from other environments > (the two pr

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013/8/1 Vincent Liggio > ​[...] > > Microsoft installs, and ASKS how you want your updates to run. It > It ask when you install W8 or W2K12? Sure? ​​ > doesn't blindly do it. Not that I want to use MS as an example... The > point I'm trying to make is if you're going to create an automatic > u

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013/8/1 Vincent Liggio > ​[...] > > That's fine, do a single update immediately after install. If they are > "not an option" how come most OS's on the planet are not patched? (not that > this is a good thing, mind you). > There are a bunch of currently installed OS not patched because for a ver

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013/7/31 Vincent Liggio > How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running > Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average > user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for > non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu. > Sorry, but this simply

Re: Issues with the recent kernel and proprietary nvidia drivers

2013/3/27 Yasha Karant > [...] > An excellent suggestion. The unfortunate reality is that for a least some > of these products, the only well support environment is MS Windows, > sometimes Mac OS X, and only lastly, open systems such as Linux or the BSD > variants. In the case of Nvidia, the CU

Re: Instability in VM "blocked more than 120s"

Hi Niels, 2012/4/20 Niels R. Walet > [...] > The vms are stored on the raid array of the underlying machine--which is > not maintained by me: dmsg suggests an LSI SAS based MegaRAID driver > then you need to go in touch with the guys maintaining the underlying host. They need to check if your

Re: Instability in VM "blocked more than 120s"

Hi Niels, 2012/4/20 Niels_Walet > [...] > Does anyone have any suggestion what I could try to further diagnose this > problem, or maybe even a solution? > the error say that the filesystem does not reposoned. In this case it is not the filesystem in the virtual machine, it is the host system wh

Re: network manager questions

2012/4/10 Bluejay Adametz > [...] > I wonder just how much the user base overlaps between Fedora and RHEL. > [...] > I guess everyone who uses RHEL, SL, ... in a professional environment. Especially for upcoming releases I need to know in which direction it will move if the IT should act proacti

Re: Gpg Error from Script

Hi, 2011/12/12 Todd And Margo Chester > [...] > Solved. In my script, I had to add "xhost +" before calling gpg > http://scientificlinuxforum.**org/index.php?showtopic=1231&** > st=0&#entry8971 > "xhost +" mean that ever

Re: fsck boot sequence failure SL 6.1

Hi Yasha, 2011/11/15 Yasha Karant > [...] > Although SL follows TUV, supposedly El Repo and some of the other > repositories actually are willing to fix the bugs in the TUV distribution > or to add vital functionality (such as additional device drivers for > hardware not supported by TUV), perha

Re: UEFI

2011/10/20 Phong Nguyen > Microsoft does not control UEFI. While they are (rightfully) mandating > Secure Boot as part of the Windows 8 certification process, they are not > mandating that it remain always on. The OEM/VARs should be providing a UEFI > configuration option to disable Secure Boot.

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

Hi Jdow, 2011/7/3 jdow > [...] > The big thing, Thomas, is I am not a machine. And to me the RFC you cite > means nothing. Humans are too erratic to abide by some silly RFC that > declares how they MUST post. > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

Hi JR, 2011/7/3 JR van Rensburg > [...] > Ah, but you have to admit it got everyone's juices flowing - I've never > no question about it, I only mentioned that there are some rules the community wrote down several years ago to ease the way of communication and that this work for decades. seen

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

Hi Yasha, 2011/7/2 Yasha Karant > [...] > I too agree and was rather surprised to find this much discourse on the > subject on a professional list, unless there is a posted protocol/etiquette > guideline from the list owner. I also was surprised to see the use of > language not maintaining deco