Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

2012-10-22 Thread James Crawford
Question, Is the video one of the older/non supported AMD chipsets (HD 4000 and older)? Are you using Catalyst driver? If yes to both then see http://www.unixmen.com/ubuntu-12-10-and-amd-catalyst-problem-solved/ It sounds like this may be what you are running into. James C.

Fwd: RE: making PDFs workable

2012-09-14 Thread James Crawford
What I did to setup for the conversion Note I'm doing this on a CentOS 5.x system 1. Add RpmForge to the YUM repo file wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -K rpmfo

Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-12 Thread James Crawford
As noted earlier, none of this helps if the PDF is just a big image. The PDF referenced below is an image exported from Xara Xtreme Pro (graphics software for Windows), and every test I can run on it indicates is a big image file; >no native text to copy. I don't run Adobe reader, it may hav

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-13 Thread James Crawford
> >My first thought was a NAS server however to take full advantage of hardware RAID I would need to find a second daughter card to take fully >use the dual channel backplane and controller it will work as one channel but just slower. Also since the drives are 1 - old, 2 - small in size, and 3

Re: can I fix windows with linux

2012-01-20 Thread James Crawford
I will second Trinity, I keep a live cd, at work, Used it to clean up several User Errors on our Win systems. it will scan with several different av scanners. Do look through its documentation as there are various scripts already setup to do various things. James C. >Look at Trinity Resource Ki

List Reminder

2011-12-01 Thread James Crawford
Why is the list server sending passwords with the member check James C --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/lis

Re: , Maybe you missed it....

2011-11-19 Thread James Crawford
su - fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -l Should return the partition table of "ALL" drives that are visible to your system that includes the drive you are booting from. blank line implies you are not running fdisk with root permissions. James C. yeah, same response. blank line On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at

Re: KVM/QEMU issue

2011-11-04 Thread James Crawford
but can post it Monday. James Crawford Hi Folks, I ran into a bit of an issue today and now im stuck. I have a VM server running Centos 6 with several VMs running inside of it. Well one of them had a drive run out of space so I thought no big deal, Ill blow away the drive in virt-manager

Re: virsh and guest IP

2011-11-03 Thread James Crawford
I can't think of a virsh command that would return the IP of the guest. Are you using DHCP to assign the Guest IP? Ask dhcpd server. We setup Static IP when we build the guests, so I keep it on a spreadsheet. Of course we only have 14 Guest across 4 Host servers. James Cra

ubuntu host web access is slower than windows guest vm

2011-07-30 Thread James Crawford
> search example.com > nameserver 1.2.3.4 > nameserver 5.6.7.8 > > dig crow202.org 1.2.3.4>> 131 ms response dig crow202.org 5.6.7.8>> 75 ms response I'd never heard of the dig command before, and both seems to have use the 8.8.8.8 nameserver. I was hoping to check each nameserver this wa

re ssh issue

2011-06-18 Thread James Crawford
Larry I think it looks like either a firewall issue, or sshd is ignoring you. Check logs on lapdog2 (messages, and secure) see if that provides any hints. James C. Again, name/ip resolution is not a problem and is always working correctly. BTW, here is an attempt from today: larry@fogtest:~$

re: computer donation

2011-06-13 Thread James Crawford
Betty, Thanks, I had an unplaned day off, AC failed this weekend and need to be home when service tech arrived so after it was fixed I delivered it to Eric. James --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subsc

Re: re computer donation?

2011-06-11 Thread James Crawford
to Eric's side of town any time soon? I'm located in the 60 and 202 area. James PS I get the list as a digest, so it may be a bit before I respon. On 06/11/2011 06:35 AM, James Crawford wrote: Eric, I have a Fujisu (sp) laptop the back light is having issues but s

re computer donation?

2011-06-11 Thread James Crawford
Eric, I have a Fujisu (sp) laptop the back light is having issues but still works. Currently running XP-SP3 I would wipe its HD with DBAN, and could do an initial install. I currently have ISOs for Ubuntu 10.4, 10.10, Fedora 14, and 15 burned ( along with a few older distros). I

Re: A survey engine

2010-11-14 Thread James Crawford
We use limesurvey http://www.limesurvey.org/download at my office, takes a bit of time to set up a given survey, but seams to work for us. We have it on a stand alone system If intrested I could send a link to one of our currently active surveys. James C. ---

Zimbra and Mobil Sync

2010-10-22 Thread James Crawford
>From: Stephen > Subject: Zimbra with Activesync (android) >Has anyone here set up a zimbra server with activesync? http://wiki.zimbra.com>/wiki/Mobile_Device_Setup Using the Network Ed We just tested syncing to a Droid-2 (I think) No problems what so ever. Easer setup than the soon to be rep

re: OT: Zimbra project help

2010-10-15 Thread James Crawford
Jill James - Thanks for the info. Do you know if the built in Zimbra chat is XMPP, or something else? Our end users are using Pandion as a chat client and I'd like to not change that for them. I think the builtin version uses wildfire based on this thread http://www.zimbra.com/forums/admini

re: OT: Zimbra project help

2010-10-13 Thread James Crawford
Zimbra has its own IM server with the network install. We are running a Zimbra NE ( have been for the last 2-3 years ), but all our servers are running Cent or Fedora no AD in use. I seem to recall several Threads in ZimbraFourms Administrator section on AD intergration. We just left the Old ma

Re: Linux laptop for a pre-schooler

2009-10-23 Thread James Crawford
I know I'm late to comment but I just installed qimo on an old Dell box that we were not using any longer. My 2 yo grandson loves Tux-Paint and we will be setting the box up at his house this weekend on next. Along with instructions to his parents on how to usw the system, I hope to break them f

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 28

2007-08-14 Thread James crawford
Jim, I have an old boxed set of Mandrake 8.1 Pro with books, someone out there should have something more current. James C. > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:18:46 -0700 > From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Mandrake CDs > To: plug > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: t

Lenovo 3000 c200 installation issues remaining

2007-08-07 Thread James crawford
> > Message: 3 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:17:05 -0700 From: gm5729 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Lenovo 3000 c200 installation issues > remaining To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> > >> > Message: 3 >> > Date:

Re: HELP! Need a laptop for Linux Expo Tomorrow!

2007-08-04 Thread James crawford
have to, so long as >>> >> you know one that will work with a distro such as CentOS (preferred) or >>> >> Ubuntu. >>> >> >>> >> I'd like to keep it in the $1300 or less range (preferably less). >>> >> >>> >

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 25, Issue 29

2007-07-10 Thread James crawford
I'm running x86-64 bit FC 6 / 7 on a desktop and x86-64 Ubuntu 7.04 on a Laptop. Only problems I have had are Flash related. James Crawford > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:44:27 -0700 > From: Joseph Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: 64 Bit Computing > To: Ma

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 24, Issue 58

2007-06-24 Thread James crawford
> > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:48:54 -0700 From: KevinO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: 7z on LINUX To: Main PLUG discussion list > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Vaughn Treude wrote: >> > Hell

Re: fedora 7, ndiswrapper, belkin wireless desktop

2007-06-08 Thread James crawford
Josh I was able to get ndiswrapper working on a Ubuntu 7.04 X86-64 system with the Broadcom 4318 by following the instructions at Ndiswrapper setup I definitely had problems when I forgot to do the blacklist step. James C. > Date: Fri,