Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 14.12.2010 00:20, Warren Young napsal(a): > Nothing is truly intuitive > in computing. ("The only intuitive interface is the nipple.") As a father of two kids, I can testify that even the nipple is hardly intuitive. Every kid (and mom) needs to learn how to use it. Just to clear one myth. B

Re: [CentOS] yum difference

2011-01-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 10.1.2011 00:35, derleader __ napsal(a): > Red hat yum downloads packages from RHN > Centos yum downloads packages from the fastest mirror? > > There is difference in configuration. yum can use plugins and in this case RHEL yum uses rhnplugin for communicating with RHN/Satellite. Yum itself (

[CentOS] Re: OT: Bugzilla command line interface?

2008-11-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-11-29, 02:18 GMT, MHR wrote: > Does anyone here have a good working knowledge of the command line > interface to Bugzilla? > > If so, please contact me off-list as this is OT here, but my inquiry > on the bugzilla list met with silence It is OT, but I cannot resist to make a small plug

[CentOS] Re: Enterprise Package Tracker

2008-11-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-11-29, 20:23 GMT, Vandaman wrote: > yumlist or yumex are not as good as rpmfind, as i don't run > yumex/GUI on any server. He, didn't say yumlist, but yum list (and you can add yum search to the mix). Matěj ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-12-03 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-03, 00:41 GMT, Christopher Chan wrote: > This is not a matter of preferring Ubuntu. It is one of NO > CHOICE. I know next to nothing about Debian/Ubuntu > configuration files nor am I familiar with dpkg or apt as I am > with rpm and yum. You think I want to move over for fun? I am c

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-12-04 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-04, 00:42 GMT, Christopher Chan wrote: > What would you pick? Learn a few new commands/configuration > files or have to prep up a new desktop rollout every six > months? 12 -- Fedora 8 is still pretty good and only now you would have to switch to F10. Actually, I know about many peop

Re: [CentOS] Off-distro content; was: Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-12-05 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-04, 17:50 GMT, R P Herrold wrote: > Almost all (I cannot think of any exceptions, but there may be) > of the core centos team do not run off-topic threads on either > the fedora or RHEL lists; May we have the same courtesy? sorry, I will do better next time,

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-05 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-05, 13:22 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > Got second cup of coffee downed and went to see if the bug was > known here > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific\ > &order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&content=plugin > > Didn't see a match. If someone can confi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: >> I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. What is the output of the command mozilla-plugin-config -l ? And if you have flash-plugin in ~/.mozilla then many bad things will happen to you. Remove it and install the one fr

Re: [CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients

2008-12-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-17, 08:37 GMT, NiftyClusters T Mitchell wrote: > It is possible that dedicated Cisco hardware solutions will > scale better. Your mileage may vary, but I have terrible experience with Linux Cisco VPN clients, so I would strongly suggest OpenVPN. Of course, I don't know anything about

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-21 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-21, 22:38 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > Note that I changed "vesa" to "vga" since the card mentions > only vga. Forget about VGA, it is really obsolete now -- all graphic cards you are likely to encounter in the wild are VESA-compatible, which is what you want. Matěj

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-22, 00:11 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > He had tried vesa in a parameter to system-config-display, as > suggested by Alan, and it hadn't worked. So I figured try > something that _ought_ to work on stuff even 10 years old (or > older) and go from there. OK, if *that* didn't work, t

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild xorg (continued from Centos-devel)

2008-12-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-22, 17:38 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > Well, having faith that things really _are_ working, one of his > messages in the log file about insufficient memory reminded me > that many laptops and less-expensive desktops have shared > memory. I've suggested that he check BIOS for variou

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-22, 17:58 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > Other folks chimed in at various points, so you might want to > take a gander at those too. I think I saw couple of these in our bugzilla now and I wonder whether it is the same. Try to run gnome-default-applications-properties and take a loo

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-22, 23:49 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > I presume this completes the triage process? Now, who reports I hope this bug is publicly visible https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471193 otherwise just yes, IMHO (and it is not official statement by RH Gecko developers) whole busin

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: > find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files I think you can have only one action (either -exec or -print), but not sure about it. Anyway, my first instinct when things are getting to be more complicated is to use while cycle, like th

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-23, 18:05 GMT, Vandaman wrote: > If you are having problems with 5.2 then address these problems > immediately without waiting for 5.3. How do you address them? File bugs > or ask questions relating to your existing problem but 5.3 beta is unable > to solve them automagically for you.

Re: [CentOS] Installing RHEL5.3

2008-12-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-24, 14:00 GMT, Alain PORTAL wrote: > More info in the updated bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D477708#c5 Thanks Alain, this looks really pretty bad. Bug updated and maintainer asked to take a look at it. Matěj ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-24, 01:22 GMT, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: >> On 2008-12-23, 12:15 GMT, James Bensley wrote: >>> find . -exec grep -q "$1" '{}' \; -print >> ./found_files >> >> I think you can have only one a

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux

2009-01-05 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-12-30, 15:32 GMT, Tony Placilla wrote: > The root answer is that if he wants to use ZFS (which is > a *good* choice) he should use some flavor of Solaris I would just add that RHEL 5.3 (and thus CentOS 5.3) when it happens, will have ext4fs as a technology preview, which may fulfill OT