Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread MHR
b.conf is just a convenience to match most other config files that live in /etc. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
would be it, but it doesn't hurt to check. Sometimes you need to turn on or off certain switches (mine's an ECS GeForce 6100PM-M2, and I have to turn off APIC because the motherboard goes haywire with it enabled). I'd expect this to have shown up in earlier kernels. You might see if Dell is any help Anyone else? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
e regular (non-PAE) kernel.  The > system halted after udev [ok] and no other on-screen information. > It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible with the latest kernel. Can you post more details about the machine, say info from a working kernel? Things like c

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer wrote: > > Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..." > > About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines. > I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in > the office. > > The next morning, o

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WM977mANl8 > There's also this one on the the impotence of proofreading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=related (No, that was

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
gestions on fixing this? > Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus Sorry, I just couldn't resist. I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your machine. Can you elaborate on that at all? mhr _

Re: [CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

2010-06-03 Thread MHR
Sometimes I just lose patience, kill the browser and restart it and re-login and all is well. One thing gmail does well is recover from abrupt/unexpected termination. HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-06-02 Thread MHR
Follow-up On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, MHR wrote: > > I looked up the drivers at > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140 and > decided to try the hpijs-pcl5e ("recommended driver"), and it prints a > test page just fine, also odts, pdfs, jpgs

Re: [CentOS] pup problem

2010-06-02 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > MHR wrote: >> #!/bin/bash >> >> # A shell script to kill that annoying runaway seamonkey that won't die >> >> case `basename $0` in >>         "seakill")      

Re: [CentOS] pup problem

2010-06-02 Thread MHR
quot;Unrecognized command."; exit 1;; esac kill -9 `ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}'` ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep If it works, nothing is displayed. If seamonkey/firefox is already gone, it give me kill's error for not finding the process (or for a missing process number because 'ps' couldn't find it, either). HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-06-01 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Can you try it with the RHEL6 beta (perhaps in a VM) to see if it is > still a problem with more current revisions? > Don't really have the facilities to experiment like that Tha

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-06-01 Thread MHR
10:47:46 AM PDT printer Brother2140 is idle. enabled since Tue 01 Jun 2010 11:14:16 AM PDT /undefined in --get-- printer HPOJ4315 is idle. enabled since Thu 22 Apr 2010 10:47:46 AM PDT Brother2140-5135mhr 200704 Tue 01 Jun 2010 11:11:09 AM PDT So at least I get an err

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-06-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:09 PM, MHR wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Or the yummable Adobe Reader? >> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/03/install-adobe-acrobat-pdf-reader-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ >> > > Yummy. &

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-30 Thread MHR
ess hinting is fixed! Many thanks.. > I am glad to hear this, but it really would have been a whole lot simpler just to install the official release tarball mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-28 Thread MHR
ee to chime in there, too (but only if you ARE seeing the problem, please :-). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and seamonkey

2010-05-28 Thread MHR
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robert wrote: > Has anyone had any success in rebuilding seamonkey 2.0.4 for CentOS 5 > (32-bit)?  I'm currently running seamonkey-2.0-1 which I rebuilt last > November. Sadly, I have no idea where the SRPM originated. > I found  seamonkey-2.0.4-1.fc12.src.rpm and

Re: [CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

2010-05-27 Thread MHR
r fly-by-night (i.e., M$) OSs. Even the proprietary versions of UNIX don't mess with this (much). They may be different, but they aren't too variable. Thus, I find this claim difficult to believe. Do you have examples? Proof? Cheers. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked

2010-05-20 Thread MHR
file name(s). > Down side is that you've got to remember to cd out of the flash drive > before it'll umount. > The way I do that is usually to close the terminal window, which removes the process that's cd'c to the drive. I don't do this daily, so it

Re: [CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked

2010-05-20 Thread MHR
ck next time on both, but unless the zip program uses a daemon, which I've never heard of, I wouldn't think it's that. Didn't try fuser (or lsof). Will next time. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked

2010-05-20 Thread MHR
urry. There's nothing in any of the syslogs. The laptop was just updates to the L&G CentOS 5.5. What am I missing? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
ink - I had problems with earlier 64-bit "builds"). 64-bit builds are catching on, finally, with the advent of cheap 64-bit CPUs (like mine - the quad-core Athlon II X4 - $95 retail). All AMD Athlon IIs and the whole line of Intel multi-core CPUs is making 64-bit more commonplace

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Mohilef wrote: > I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates. > Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between > 5.4 and 5.5 ? > I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla. Of c

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-15 Thread MHR
e, too, so I think that means all is well. THANK YOU, CENTOS TEAM! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.5 i386 and x86_64

2010-05-15 Thread MHR
x86_64 3.0-33.8.el5_5.5updates 8.7 M It took me three times running yum to get this loaded. However, it seems that all the packages are now installing, so problem worked around. Perhaps a mirror check would be helpful, or it could just be me. mhr _

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-05-13 Thread MHR
st when it's done Okay, that worked. Thanks. Still, shouldn't evince, GIMP, etc. have a backport update to fix this? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-05-13 Thread MHR
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > > Have you tried evince? > >      mark > Document Viewer = evince I just tried it with AR by opening the file with it, but it also does not print the page. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-05-13 Thread MHR
> plugin that can deal with this embeded thingy. > That makes sense. Does anyone know if any of the newer releases of GNOME/GIMP have more plugins/fixes along these lines? Sounds like something that should be back-ported to CentOS 5 (and 6?).

Re: [CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-05-13 Thread MHR
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, MHR wrote: > I just had a strange occurrence.  I was printing out some PDFs and I > pulled one down off the web (my wireless bill) and tried to print page > 1.  My browser properly fired up AR9, but nothing printed.  I tried > agian, still nothing.

[CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

2010-05-13 Thread MHR
x27;t print the file either. I tried opening it with GIMP, and it gets this error: Opening '/home/mhr/Documents/pdfs/vzwA0418.pdf' failed: Plug-in could not open image I couldn't find any related data in the logs (spooler logs are all empty, nothing in dmesg). I tried disabling and

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread MHR
ig leap, especially if you've never done that before. You're asking to break the system. Speaking from experience with experiments of this nature, I'd recommend against it. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-01 Thread MHR
: 1) You don't need to cd to /tmp to copy a file out of it. 2) You don't verify the existence of the file before copying it. 3) You don't log what happens if the file doesn't exist. 4) I don't see anything to do the appending you mention

Re: [CentOS] Can no longer print

2010-04-23 Thread MHR
ted.  Where can I get it? > Have you checked any of the hits in Google? There are many of them HTH. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
| grep GraphicalTheme= [...@mhrichter ~]$ cat /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf | grep GraphicalTheme= GraphicalTheme=TreeFlower [...@mhrichter ~]$ Ah! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Alvin Chang wrote: > > look for kdm.conf or xdm.conf... Hmm - am running GNOME, but: [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate xdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate kdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ ??? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
w does this work under CentOS? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Volume keys don't work

2010-04-17 Thread MHR
30), root:(976,196), --- > root 0x1a5, subw 0x0, time 217989951, (110,163), root:(951,229), I don't think this is significant, but I thought I'd include it anyway. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Volume keys don't work

2010-04-17 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:36 PM, MHR wrote: > A side effect that I just noticed is that the volume up/down controls > keys no longer seem to function at all. > > I reset the keyboard shortcuts to use them, but even with the whole > volume control panel enabled, they don't do a

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-17 Thread MHR
estion remains: anyone else have this problem with a Logitech EX110 wireless desktop on CentOS (or any other Linux system) - with details? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
anyone else uses the EX110 and either has the same problem or has never seen it Thanks, though. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Volume keys don't work

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
one before mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, MHR wrote: > I've had a Logitech cordless desktop on my primary desktop for the > last few years, and every once in a while the number pad would just > "go out" - the key and num-lock would still work, but of all > the others would do

[CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
what happens, but I'd be really, really disappointed if it all just comes back to life (meaning that it *is* a problem in the system and not the hardware) Let us know if you can, and I'll report after I reboot. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > CentOSPlus has the firewire drivers... > I asked about this a little while back, and I'm pretty sure the firewire drivers are ok in the non-plus CentOS. Or did I get that o

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
7;s Chrome browser is now available for Linux, but you have to have a newer version of (I think it was) gtk that's not available on RH/C 5 at all - yet. Ah, well, patience in this particular arena pays off - we get the best support and solid reliability for free, so a little wait, or even a long one, is worth it in my book. CIao. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, nate wrote: > > I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago. > How many people got trampled in the rush? ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread MHR
t site, so - anyone? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.5 released

2010-03-31 Thread MHR
and runs* > > (patient? me?) > "Patience, my ass! I'm gonna kill something!" (It's from a poster of two scrawny vultures in a tree, also seen on bumper stickers, license plates and elsewhere.) Yes, I can wait - I want it right, not right away. mhr __

[CentOS] VMWare vs. KVM - recommendations?

2010-03-29 Thread MHR
Okay, I'm being noisy today. I have VMWare Server 1.0.8 installed on my CentOS desktop, and it runs my XP and CentOS guests just fine, though I don't use them much. I'm considering moving to either VMWare Server 2.0 or switching to KVM instead, mainly because VMWS 1 is now obsolete and also becau

[CentOS] Image viewer refuses to print TIF graphics

2010-03-29 Thread MHR
ation, log in, open APE and run the conversion. Other alternatives welcome mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 3.8+Wine

2010-03-29 Thread MHR
That could be a part of your problem. HTH. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] AR 9.3+ vs. savable fill-in PDFs on CentOS

2010-03-29 Thread MHR
ng this problem? Yes, I know all about evince - use it most of the time, but it does not handle the fill-in PDFs or the ones where you can save the filled-in values. Any other options? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] Problem burning DVD+RW discs

2010-03-28 Thread MHR
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:21 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:43:07AM -0700, MHR wrote: >> >> 2) That said, I have never been able to erase a rewritable disc with >> K3B.  It always errors out because it claims the disc is in use (well, >> yeah, it&

Re: [CentOS] Problem burning DVD+RW discs

2010-03-28 Thread MHR
I tried to do a multi-session continuation with K3B I hit enough snags to give up. Actually, that was when I ran into the erase problem above, but at least that part is solved. HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] printer trouble - missing driver?

2010-03-27 Thread MHR
me special reason you don't update to 5.4 and see if that helps? If it's just your home machine, that shouldn't be too much of a stretch Or did you misstate your CentOS revision - 5.4 comes with hplip 1.6.7, too? mhr ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] awk global replacement only after keyword

2010-03-26 Thread MHR
; for matches. Once I get to work, I will give these a try. >> >> Thanks guys! > > Sure. And what you want is just > { if ($0 ~ /keyword/ ) { >     start = 1; >  } >  if ( start == 1 ) { >     sub( str, repl ); >

Re: [CentOS] awk global replacement only after keyword

2010-03-25 Thread MHR
ound. Now, if you want to process multiple files, you'd have to reset the found flag when the filename changes, and that's another if-else clause, which gets kind of long for a "one liner." It's ugly, but it's awk mhr

Re: [CentOS] vim how to set colorscheme murphy

2010-03-19 Thread MHR
rs (which you will then have to keep updated). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

2010-03-15 Thread MHR
drive gets hit >>> with a round from the Garand but I doubt if anyone will want to go to the >>> trouble.  It could also be fun. >> >> Since most are about 5" x 3-1/2" that makes a perfect MOA target at 100

Re: [CentOS] Burning data cd in CentOS?

2010-03-14 Thread MHR
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > Neither does Adobe Reader!  I've envountered PDF files that have been > simply malformed on some level.  Otherwise it is a matter of how > bleeding edge the PDF file is, along with issues like non-embeded > non-standard font references (and

Re: [CentOS] Burning data cd in CentOS?

2010-03-14 Thread MHR
AR in a yum repository, but I've never looked past adobe.com's web site, wehre you can download and install via rpm or in tgz format. Or you can do it the hard way. ;-) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is parralel processing automatically done on multi-core CPU's?

2010-03-06 Thread MHR
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed this article, > http://www.howtoforge.net/fully-utilizing-your-x-core-cpu which uses > http://code.google.com/p/ppss/ for parralel processing. > > So, can anyone tell me if parralel processing happens automatically on > Ce

Re: [CentOS] Lightscribe

2010-02-09 Thread MHR
might find something else that works. I was looking for this a couple of years ago, but I never saw the value of lightscribe over labels, which can be printed on inkjet or lasers, in full colr, and "stomped" onto most CDs/DVDs with little or no

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread MHR
ersion 2.0 has some issues with CentOS. I have also heard about others on this list - check the archives for virtualized OS support. I think the most recent recommendation was for Sun's VirtualBox, and there's also the built-in xen (though I hear good and ba

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

2010-02-01 Thread MHR
me as /etc/grub.conf. You have to be root to edit it (them). grub-install won't do what you want. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

2010-02-01 Thread MHR
) as root while the system is up? What exactly are you trying to do? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
anged it to 10, it loaded Sun's Microsoft Documents to OpenOffice Documents guide in a jiffy (not literally...) and was paging right away. Still, I'll have to test that tomorrow - it doesn't make sense that a 2 page document would be so difficult. mhr __

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
dead for 22 seconds just to read ahead one page? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:11 -0800, MHR wrote: > >> >> So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going? >> > --- > No, but it takes about 5 secs to start up on a P4-1.7. That machine is > 10 years old almo

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: >> >> I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion. >> > Let me elaborate a little. Evince does not have a whole lot of features, which is fine until I need to do th

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 09:42 -0800, MHR wrote: >> I don't see the Document Viewer on my menus, >> even though I know it's around.  Guess that's a separate topic, and a >> GNOME one at that > > &

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread MHR
I know it's around. Guess that's a separate topic, and a GNOME one at that mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-28 Thread MHR
I've noticed recently that the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (9.3) has a really annoying tendency to stop for 30-60 seconds shortly after it starts up to read/display a PDF file. I don't see this on my Windows copies, just on CentOS. Anyone know what's up with

Re: [CentOS] Seamonkey (Mozilla) web browser for CentOS 5.4?

2010-01-27 Thread MHR
e Evolution for email and I don't chat or IM at all.) I use them for different purposes, too - SM for general browsing, FF for watching videos online and for cases where I need multiple different logins to the same site (like Yahoo or Gmail) at the same time. mhr _

Re: [CentOS] Seamonkey (Mozilla) web browser for CentOS 5.4?

2010-01-27 Thread MHR
uot; and "2.0.2" releases, the > FC_RPMS haven't (yet) been built for those. > I use SeaMonkey as my primary browser all the time, but I don't depend on the RPMs for it. I just get the L&G tar.bz2 file from Mozilla.org and install it. Works fine for me, although I

[CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread MHR
I read in another forum that CentOS has problems with Firewire drives, something along the lines of whenever a new kernel is booted, the drives are gone. Can anyone elaborate on that? I don't use Firewire drives (at all, yet), but information about this would be nice to have Thanks.

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

2010-01-24 Thread MHR
everything, thought xine is better for movies. Thus, I am not a totem user. Good luck. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8

2010-01-22 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/22/2010 05:14 PM, MHR wrote: >>    1. CESA-2010:0061 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gzip      Update >>       (Karanbir Singh) >>    2. CESA-2010:0061 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gzip Update (Karanbir Singh) >>    3.

[CentOS] Fwd: CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8

2010-01-22 Thread MHR
:0061 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 gzip Update (Karanbir Singh)   3. Re: CESA-2010:0061 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 gzip Update      (Karanbir Singh) According to the rest of the message, these are el4 packages - shouldn't an erratum be issued since this calls them CentOS 5 vers

Re: [CentOS] Yum update failure (was a digest reference)

2010-01-18 Thread MHR
usually resolves this sort of issue for me. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] changing openoffice defaults

2010-01-18 Thread MHR
to whip up a shell script that makes the same change externally, then send that to your 1000 installations. However, as John Doe says, this won't override local setting changes. Again, please do not top post in this list, particularly not with off-topic issues such as

Re: [CentOS] changing openoffice defaults

2010-01-18 Thread MHR
ol files when there are built in option controls that will accomplish the same thing easily and conveniently Also, please do not top-post on this list. HTH. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-07 Thread MHR
crappy. Aside from that, mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] MIgrate/Upgrade from Centos 5.4 32bit to Centos 5.4 64bit

2010-01-05 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Oliver Schulze L. > wrote: >> Hi, >> It is posible to do a simple procedure to upgrade a Centos 5.4 32bits >> (i686) to >> a Centos 5.4 64bits(x32_64)? >> >> I was th

Re: [CentOS] MIgrate/Upgrade from Centos 5.4 32bit to Centos 5.4 64bit

2010-01-05 Thread MHR
I've never tried it. When I put CentOS on my machine, I already had a 64-bit CPU and I never seriously considered NOT using the 64-bit install. HTH. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT:Which filesystem to use with large files

2009-12-23 Thread MHR
ledge of the underlying file system structures, so this shouldn't be an issue anyway. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
f everything, and my HP4350 fax-printer inkjet for faxes and (rarely) color - it's cheap as long as I don't overuse it. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
, electronically aware/controlled kind, I'll be surprised if you don't want to switch soon enough anyway.) Best of luck anyway. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:57 AM, 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 w

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

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
r had any good results with them, and I've never heard of any, either. Don't even know if you can use them with Linux I'd stick with Brother or HP. Okay, that's a lot, probably too much. Good luck! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-12 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Mhr wrote on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:27 -0800: > > Yes, using ZA is a bad idea. XP has its own firewall which is enabled by > default if you are patched up-to-date. Keep that on. > Now you've sparked my curiosity - how is

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread MHR
A, but in NAT it works fine (with the exact same smb.conf...). Many thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread MHR
be a bad idea (or a complete waste) to use a firewall, like ZoneAlarm, on my Windows guest OS? Opinions welcome. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Is lsb 3.2+ detrimental to CentOS 5.4?

2009-12-09 Thread MHR
nt if I can't use the newer lsb. So, is it possible to use lsb 3.2+ on CentOS 5.4 without breaking anything? Is there anything else I'd need to do, other than convert to Fedora (not going to happen)? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
operate the same general way as RH/CentOS images since they all share the same base code. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
o.  But again, I have no external drives for it. Again, I'm no expert here, but if you can get a livecd image written on a USB flash drive to boot, you should be able to get a netinstall cd image to boot just as well, from a USB drive. That "should"

Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > So basically, CentOS+OOO3.1 vs WinXP+OOO3.1 scores 1 to 0. Good work CentOS > and OOO teams! Thanks for the laugh, Sorin! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.c

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
the mike and phones plugs don't work., and those are under warranty Just my $0.02 or $0.03 mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-26 Thread MHR
There is an option in Office 2007 to use the older formatting (O03 and earlier). That should solve the problem, short of getting rid of the M$ monster altogether mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-25 Thread MHR
office "novell" version from: http://go-oo.org/ > Not really - OO 3.1 for Linux and (gag) Windows reads them just fine. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-11 Thread MHR
xed the rest of it. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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