Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:04 AM +0100 Always Learning wrote: > You need to do a little on-line reading about USB (the effective > replacement for Centronics (parallel) ports and RS232/RS423 serial > ports. Also about the PCI replacement called PCI-Express. I see USB as being on par more

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:57 PM -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > the x86_64 architecture has teh same basic instructions as x86_32, but > with more registers which are also wider 64 bit registers. As someone who coded in assembler for PDP-11, PDP-10, 8086, and 68000, I have to report that m

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorry to be mean. But there are things off-topic and there are things ooo-tooocc. And this one belongs in the second category. Really, please take this elsewhere. Thanks. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving root mail

2011-08-24 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <50117.213.157.4.156.1314117697.squir...@nimrod.dscd.de>, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > In article > > , > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter. When I tried > >> to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I > >> a

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:38:30 PM Drew wrote: > > The older ISA (now called PATA = Parallel ATA) has been replaced by SATA > > (Serial ATA). SATA has 3 speeds. Most new disks are either SATA 2 or > > SATA 3 speed. > > IDE I assume you meant. :) ISA was the old bus PCI replaced. Yes, but, te

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/24/11 12:05 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > As someone who coded in assembler for PDP-11, PDP-10, 8086, and 68000, I > have to report that more registers is a Very Good Thing. Just how many more > registers do you get when going to 64-bit? indeed, thats the main performance gain, other than the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread ken
On 08/24/2011 01:59 AM John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/23/11 9:21 PM, ken wrote: >> I haven't looked up and compared the lists of instructions >> on 32- vs. 64-bit CPUs, but generally the bigger processors have more, >> and more sophisticated, instructions. This means, e.g., that instead of >> takin

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread James Szinger
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I would like to upgrade my system to a 64 bit machine. I'd like to find a > bare bones platform to build on. I'm not looking to spend a lot of money on > this as it is a home system. I looked on the CentOS sponsor page but only > saw hosting s

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:17 PM -0400 Thomas Dukes wrote: > I need PCI slots for an additional NIC and a 32 bit video capture card > used for zoneminder. Check with the zoneminder people to see what video capture options you can get today that will work with their code. Fewer and fewer m

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread m . roth
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:17 PM -0400 Thomas Dukes > > wrote: > >> I need PCI slots for an additional NIC and a 32 bit video capture card >> used for zoneminder. > > Check with the zoneminder people to see what video capture options you can > get today that will work

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sorry to be mean. But there are things off-topic and there are things > ooo-tooocc. And this one belongs in the > second category. Really, please take this elsewhere. Thanks. > I've seen many threads about har

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread m . roth
Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Anyway, have you anything experience with CyberPower UPS's? Small ones, for workstations? Yep, I've got one on mine at home. Been good. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Always Learning wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Always Learning > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help > > I suggest: > > mini-tower / half-tower > AMD 4 core processor with virtualization facility > (AMD are cheaper than Intel

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/24/11 1:16 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Ebay sell SATA -> PATA and vica versa adapters, plus others. > So you should be able to use existing PATA drives on a newer > SATA m/b with the right adapter. not even worth the bother. SATA DVD-RW drives that are probably 6X better than the last ATA

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Please don't argue. Just don't send any more way off-topic stuff in the future. Thanks. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 13:43 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU > > Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > > Anyway, have yo

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread m . roth
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >> Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us >> Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> >> > Anyway, have you anything experience with CyberPower UPS's? >> >> Small ones, for workstations? Yep, I've got one on mine at home. Been good. > > Have you found a program to commun

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
How exactly is it OT if he needs the UPS to talk to CentOS?? please stop being so stuckup On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sorry to be mean. But there are things off-topic and there are things > ooo-tooocc. And this one belongs in the >

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Dukes
Well!! This has been an adventure. I really appreciate all the help!! Found this on tigerdirect: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4 01989&sku=B69-1317 Again, any advice, comments, etc., regarding any incompatibilites would be welcomed!! TIA, Eddie ___

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:04:59AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > How exactly is it OT if he needs the UPS to talk to CentOS?? Please don't top-post. Because the original post made no mention of "CentOS" at all. At least that's my guess and that's also the first impression I had about the post.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 21:16 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > Ebay sell SATA -> PATA and vica versa adapters, plus others. > So you should be able to use existing PATA drives on a newer > SATA m/b with the right adapter. I was trying to avoid mentioning that 'name' in case one of the readers got u

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:18 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:04:59AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> How exactly is it OT if he needs the UPS to talk to CentOS?? > > Please don't top-post. > > Because the original post made no mention of "CentOS" at all.  At least > that'

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

2011-08-24 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 13:19 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > not even worth the bother. SATA DVD-RW drives that are probably 6X > better than the last ATA versions are $19. SATA hard disks are dirt > cheap for terabytes. Wish we had those low prices in England. Buyers should be aware that HDD

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Because the original post made no mention of "CentOS" at all.  At least >> that's my guess and that's also the first impression I had about the >> post. Sorry I should have initially stated it was for CentOS6. >> > > well, where else would h

Re: [CentOS] UPS issues with PFC PSU

2011-08-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:26:39AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > well, where else would he connect the UPS to? His fish tank? Based on past nonsensical threads in this list that is indeed a possibility, yes. > Surely if someone has a PC, and is subscribed to a Linux mailing linux > and asks for