Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab

2017-02-27 Thread Robert Blair
Best wishes to Connie! She and the support provided by Fermilab truly changed scientific computing throughout the world. We are all very grateful! On 02/24/2017 03:52 PM, Bonnie King wrote: > Friends, > > The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie > Sieh's retirement

Re: encryption of root filesystem

2014-03-10 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 encrypting the root file system sounds difficult but likely using ecryptfs-create/mount-private can be used and would cover a users intimates. On 03/10/2014 06:29 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote: Hi, I have to admit that I don't know, if this is possible.

Re: Drop Box on SL 5.10

2013-12-16 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've used the python script documented at http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-official-dropbox-command-line-interface-cli for years - it worked fine under sl5 and under ubuntu 12.10. On 12/15/2013 01:52 PM, Larry Linder wrote: Help:

Re: New Install of 6.4 - no Internet

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If this is like the board I got a while ago - one issue is the BIOS defaults (the USB problems). The board I had had IOMMU disabled by default and this needs to be enabled for USB to work under linux. On 08/08/2013 10:45 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On

Re: peculiar statd/mountd problem

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a little more detail on the problem described. We have designated a fixed port for statd, but it appears to listen on the designated port and grab the corresponding UDP port but it also grabbed the UDP mountd port before mountd was started which

Re: FireFox Error

2013-04-01 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect your best approach is to install a personal copy from Mozilla.org in your home area. It updates automatically and, aside from resource issues - as in how many people need to do this, should function just fine. I used to do this to get a

Issues with the recent kernel and proprietary nvidia drivers

2013-03-25 Thread Robert Blair
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an SL6 system which uses the epel nvidia kmod modules. Just recently X began crashing whenever a flash or other video is played. I presume this is related to the most recent kernel update. The system was a bit unusual in that it had two video

Re: Issues with the recent kernel and proprietary nvidia drivers

2013-03-25 Thread Robert Blair
ago the availability of the nvidia-detect package from their repository. I suggest you to take a look at that. The relevant mail: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-February/001652.html Andras On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:36:12 -0500 Robert Blair r...@anl.gov wrote: I have