) more specific? What are you doing (exactly) and
what is not working the way you think it should?
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dmidecode should work in any Linux:
As was discussed earlier in this thread, dmidecode mainly reports on
motherboard components and does not address peripheral devices.
Also, please do not top post.
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bugs,
there's always Window$! ;^)
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a lot about apache, but it seems to me that the simplest
solution is to mount your intended target to /var/www and that should
take care of it (provided that you have all the necessary files moved
there as well).
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to replace any broken
system under warranty.
We don't have too many servers (about 20 in 5 locations) or workstations
(about 150 in 5 locations) but I have had no problem with Dell machines or
their service ... maybe I am just lucky.
Nope - blessed.
:-)
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the chicken?
;^)
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on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following:
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ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL
as the little four number boxes
instead).
However, on his Ubuntu system, using Firefox, they displayed just
fine. Also, I just tested it in Win XP and both Seamonkey 1.1.11 and
IE display it correctly.
What's going on?
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, on both Windows and CentOS, the
character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it
just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
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MHR wrote:
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On Tue
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Correction: Make that 64 bit or 32 bit? I clicked on Send before I saw my
typo.
32 bit here - haven't tried it at home yet
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on CentOS 5.2?
What are the differences, with respect to other languages, between
Firefox and SeaMonkey? Some configuration setting?
I don't know that one
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it works
in Windows)?
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(non-ws) - dunno what that means.
Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
be able to use it
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said it right, you need to do:
yum install fonts-chinese
Works fine for me here :)
Works fine at home now - I'll verify at work tomorrow.
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to remove or anything like that? I uninstalled
the nfidia driver from dkms and removed all related files that I could
find.
Yoik.
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:54 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with
CentOS and RHEL3
Device Videocard0
MonitorMonitor0
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Viewport0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
No help, but it was worth a shot
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appears when the login
screen takes over and the display goes back to 1680x1050 (the login
screen), so that wasn't it.
Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up
- is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this?
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grain of salt.
I use metacity, too.
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after
running it, and the file seems to be set up right, or at least not any
more wrong than I would have, and it still doesn't work.
I've had to tweak xorg.conf by hand every time to get it right. Not
sure why
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Dunno' what to tell you more. Most of the hints I told you have worked for me,
maybe somebody else can help you?
I appreciate your efforts - at least I've eliminated a lot of things
that are not the problem
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that it is the gdm (GNOME).
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gnome list from Ritz about a setting that might help. I'll find out
when I get home, undoubtedly late tonight, as usual.
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structure set up to create a video DVD with it (if
you're going to use that format), which means you need the info files,
vob files and some others I can't recall off the top of my head.
There are other options, too - check out dvdauthor or qdvdauthor, for
example.
mhr
, building the iso across the network, burning the DVD with either
k3b or growisofs from a command line for absolute reliability.
I have never been able to find a complete dvdshrink for linux - what
is your source for that?
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less kind four letter (words and) acronyms).
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, but newbies have responsibilities, too. In my
eyes, these were neither assumed nor fulfilled.
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and annoying. Apparently
there are a fair number of movies that it will not do, and I had to
pick several of them.
Thanks for the clarification (darn you!).
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HTH
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, Pune, Red Hat
ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ
That was it!
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Display in the Main Menu.
Doh! I forgot all about the preference setting
Ah, well, a little older, a little wiser, a lot grayer
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of the two cutting edges is raw meat. It's not the
edges that are bleeding, it's the victim in between (or on) the
cutting/bleeding edge(s).
One chooses to be a masochist or not.
Oh, wow!
I thought bleeding edge was, like, a British curse.
Thanks!
/fake_innocence
;^)
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the perspective (darn you! :-).
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environment, IMHO.
The solution is obvious: either don't get Vista in the first place, or
upgrade to XP SP2 (NOT SP3).
;^)
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init 1 does that without bringing the system all the way down
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to poke around in the CentOS documentation first - most of
the questions you raised are answered there.
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I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount
it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back
in.
Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the
unplug and plug back in physics?
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folder to another.
Has anyone else noticed this kind of instability in SM (or FF, for
that matter, but mainly SM)?
Just curious.
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not have used a smashing search...).
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and have never had
a memory problem, and only one time when it was 2GB and I
inadvertently tried to open 300+ JPEGs all at the same time.
IMNSHO, if you have a 64-bit CPU, unless you have a specific need to
run in 32-bit mode, use it (64-bit mode).
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to
have one cable plugged in.
The difference in the video itself (DVI vs. VGA) is quite startling -
visibly cleaner and crisper.
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is the right solution in
/that/ case.
For (normal) CentOS, I have used a USB plugin wireless adapter on my
laptop with excellent success, although it is not as easy as (okay, I
won't name that other excuse for an OS) 1-2-3 - it takes some looking
to find the whole enchilada, but it /is/ find-able.
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that were changed or added newly. Among other things, it now suggests
that you copy the .config file from the config/ directory (or from
your /boot) instead of the SOURCES directory.
Wow! Major update, and I didn't need these for the 92.1.6 build
THANKS!
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as well.
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there is no connection between priorities and include/exclude
commands, and second, you open yourself up to other weaknesses if you
use any repos other than those at CentOS. Looks like you just need to
set them correctly, and get the excludes right, and the two should
work together nicely.
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was talking about was this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cp configs/* ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
Wait - which one works and which one does not, or do they both work or
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2, and it really screwed up all my
settings until I changed the permissions and umask back.
HTH
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rpms are for.
BTW, please do not top post.
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and how to create a proper dkms.conf file (and where)?
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- duh!).
Looks easy enough (and there's a newer nvidia driver now - 173.14.12 -
do they change it daily?). I'll see what happens. (gulp)
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for the various
tasks one needs for debugging.
My $0.02, and it's not available for spending on editor wars. :-)
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have two IDE DVD burners) and I'd
rather not replace any more than absolutely necessary to accomplish
this.
So, what is the best way to put a correct MBR that will boot from
/dev/sda on /dev/sda if /dev/sda is the first boot device?
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to run anything on Windows, or
even just run /anything/ on Windows at all, other than that which does
not run anywhere else.)
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My personal view is:
As server: Yes, yes, yes
As desktop: Simply no (comparing to other distros).
As you said, this is a personal view.
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PROTECTED] ~]# df -Pkl | awk '/^\/dev\// { avail += $3/1024 } END {
printf(%d Mb used\n,avail)} '
18173 Mb used
Well, I get 18167, but that's not too far off.
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:12:58AM -0700, MHR wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Lunix1618 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -kPl
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted
{
printf(%d Mb Used\n, used)} '
This is simpler (and does not involve as many execs forks) as:
awk '/^\/dev\// { used += $3/1024 } END { printf(%d Mb Used\n,
used)} ' /tmp/checkingdiskspce
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but without the quotes) to the end of the line, and it will come up at
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drive, so I'm wondering if they just
overloaded the capacity of the flash drive's FAT32 root directory name
space, but I thought that limit was 512 entries, not less than 171.
Any ideas?
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to a directory on the
flash drive, just not the root directory. Most of the files were
image files, although there were others, too
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRC FAT(32?) has a limit of 512 files in the root directory.
Me, too, but there weren't that many files total, and a lot of those
were in subdirectories.
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it - there were actually 325 files in the base
directory, some with really long filenames.
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should be glad his numbers go that high!
(My office mate just said that ;^)
I had to think about what DASD stands for, and I've been around for a
while. Besides, nowadays there are DASDs other than disk
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the same machine before and after, they all get automounted as usual.
Curious
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Could you post a sample, using the OP's example as a base?
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MHR wrote:
I have a brand new, unaltered (as yet) 4Gb USB flash drive from Micro
Center that does not get automounted when I plug it into my 5.2
desktop (home or work).
The 1GB flash drive I got from Micro Center a while
that will not find any just installed files...
Or when you run updatedb (as root)
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handed to you. If you're
going to play with computers in general, and Linux in particular, you
need to do your homework before asking a question on this, and most
any other, list, and then make the question specific if you want a
good answer.)
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with the configuration
changed to allow write access to NTFS file systems and install that.
To build the module, look here for guidance:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
To build the kernel, see here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
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for actual genuine, non-winmodem, CHEAP modems?
And, yes, I realize that this is OT - should have said so up front
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, senfax can't find it as a 2 or 2.0 class fax, and efax dies with
a segfault.
Is this at all possible (using it for a fax) or is it hopeless?
Thanks.
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P.S.: I'm beginning to like eBay - had a wildly successful bid for a scanner
for 1 cent plus shipping, and it works
included, download one from the mfr.
Lesson learned - I just hate to give on the free approach as long as it
seems to be viable.
(sigh)
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, I think it may be google-earth), so I downloaded
the file (GoogleEarthLinux.bin) and installed with sh
GoogleEarthLinux.binThe latest version is now installed and I can
launch it, without any problem, but, it does not seem to
work. :-)
Where did you get this?
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to give a pretty quick response (usually under 2
seconds) on this.
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that it might be something to do with installing the 2.4.1
version of OOo with the nautilus option turned on, which I don't know
whether I did or not, but that wouldn't affect Evolution as well.
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Is there a setting somewhere in the global arena of CentOS that
controls whether or not hidden (.prefixed) files are displayed in
file lists?
Never mind - apparently if you right-click in the file list and select
show hidden files
this in a formal way
(bugzilla, etc.)?
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been soundly
thrashed in prior efforts for not doing that.
So, to clarify: when an issue is solved, modify the subject: line so
to indicate and do NOT start a new thread?
Foo - I thought I had it right this time
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This does prevent the oft-seen complaint about people using the
reply action to start a new thread.
Strange - I used to do that (edit the subject, in gmail) to start a
new thread and it did not do the right thing either.
I don't do that any more, but yowch!
(heavy sigh, Orcan smile)
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I remember running into this a while back. That being the case,
shouldn't unifdef be included in kernel-devel, or at least one of the
packages
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Good point - well taken. I will keep this in mind for future posts
that fit the category.
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it, which is better - the RH NTFS module(s)
or the fuse implementation? Maybe I'll look for another excuse to
build a modified kernel if the latter
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well... if you go for the fuse/dkms route, you will lose the chance to
build the module upon kernel update. :-)
True - decisions, decisions,
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of them might be involved peripherally,
dragging in a more recent module from rpmforge, but I'm thinking you
could try K3B and not lose anything if it works.
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(if some fail), etc. I've also had DVDs go bad, which
is really annoying, but it's rare and hasn't happened yet on any
critical backup DVDs.
Without more information as I said above, that's about all I could tell you.
HTH.
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printouts on a CDC 6600 mainframe, in 1974
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! You know, the ones that ran on the 8 floppies, like the old
Teraks we used at UCSD?
Never mind - too modern (vintage 1978-79)
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do it - it's part of the KDE (but you can use
it under GNOME, too).
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is your best bet for where) and comes with CentOS (and most
modern Linux distros), will do that, too. If you're used to the vi
interface (like I am), that's the best choice. If not, ymmv.
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Sure, though we should probably stop top-posting afore someone gets cranky=}
YEAH!
;^)
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old..
Can we get back to the regularly scheduled program please?
Hey, sit back and learn! Haven't you ever been told to listen to your
grandfather's stories?
I'm too young to compete with these old folks - all of my hardware is
younger than Jim.
mhr
if, on the same system, it
works fine for me?
It looks like a permissions problem if it works for root (always) and
not for a non-root user.
If it's not too much trouble, I would uninstall and reinstall both,
and make sure your root permissions are set properly (002, IIRC).
HTH
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