[Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones, but he kept the original fans so yesterday we did replace them, but I would like to be able to monitor the temps. CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones, but he kept the original fans so yesterday we did replace them, but I would like to be able to

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/21/2011 10:47 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones, but he kept the original fans so yesterday we

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Rich Braun
Jerry Feldman asked: But, I don't have any ACPI support: /proc/acip/thermal_zone is empty. I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to check to see if the unit temps are ok since this system is our Oracle server. My experience on this topic has been woeful. Support for sensors is not standardized

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 11:12 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:47 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones, but

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
10/21/2011 11:25 AM, Rich Braun wrote: I spoke too soon! Looks like I do now have sensors working on that Core I5-760. I think perhaps the sensors-detect script loads the kernel modules you need. (After detecting which ones are needed.) DR ___

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/21/2011 11:16 AM, Rich Braun wrote: Jerry Feldman asked: But, I don't have any ACPI support: /proc/acip/thermal_zone is empty. I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to check to see if the unit temps are ok since this system is our Oracle server. My experience on this topic has been

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/21/2011 11:25 AM, Rich Braun wrote: I spoke too soon! Looks like I do now have sensors working on that Core I5-760. Had to invoke service lm_sensors restart and now I get the output below. Conclusion: try running sensors-detect (after installing the sensors package if not already

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 12:14 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: In my case, sensors-detect installed /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors, but did not install a script in /etc/init.d. You don't need it to do either of those things. You need it to a) figure out which sensor kernel module you need to use, and b) load the

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread Rich Braun
David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net suggested: I think perhaps the sensors-detect script loads the kernel modules you need. (After detecting which ones are needed.) Looked to me like all sensors-detect did was update sysconfig (to store the list of kernel modules somehwere), at least on my

[Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread Chris O'Connell
Hi Guys, This is off topic, but I figured I would ask you all. Has anyone had any experience converting 8mm tapes to DVD? A bunch of coworkers came to me and asked if I could convert their old 8mm to DVD for them. I actually don't want to, so I'm looking for a reputable service I can send

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 10/21/2011 02:22 PM, Chris O'Connell wrote: Has anyone had any experience converting 8mm tapes to DVD? A bunch of coworkers came to me and asked if I could convert their old 8mm to DVD for them. I actually don't want to, so I'm looking for a reputable service I can send these things to.

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Coats
My brother had it done in the Austin TX area by a local guy going into the business. They did pretty good for lots of our old family 8MM, super8, and slideshows of slides. Wife and I purchased a gadget that is really a small rear projection screen with a mirror (use your own projector and

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 10/21/2011 3:18 PM, Jack Coats wrote: My brother had it done in the Austin TX area by a local guy going into the business. They did pretty good for lots of our old family 8MM, super8, and slideshows of slides. Wife and I purchased a gadget that is really a small rear projection screen with a

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
I've got that on my todo list for when I'm working again. I've got a box full of old 8mm home movies that my parents made when I was a toddler. I checked out a number of film conversion services about a year ago, and the one that looked best to me was http://www.mymovietransfer.com/ They do

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
Sorry, I just reread their web page. Turns out I misremembered some of the details. They *don't* actually do frame-by-frame scanning. Found another place that does frame-by-frame scanning: http://www.filmtransfer.com They charge 25c/foot == 12.50 per 50-foot reel; half the cost of the other

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Pieri
Frame-by-frame scanning is the best option for preservation. The process is comparable to how Hollywood does digital conversion and restoration of film. The practical differences are that Hollywood uses higher resolutions, usually 4K for film stock, and the frame scans are stored RAW. --Rich

Re: [Discuss] VMWare Player question

2011-10-21 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: Instructions that accessed hardware and other specialized instructions were either trapped or replaced in line by calls to vmware code. Look up trap-and-emulate,

[Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-21 Thread markw
I've got a pretty good feel for the technology and functionality, I could write a white paper on how to use it. The question I have for this group is this... Do you trust it? Is it reliable? is it a viable technology? ___ Discuss mailing list