RE: Standard Mpeg-1 Video player

2011-09-08 Thread JR van Rensburg
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:11 -0500, Jordan Dean wrote: > For my purposes, the only thing that would be considered standard > would be > specifically from the SL repos, we would also use the same thing on > our TUV > machines. > > It appears however that this is not possible due to concerns about >

RE: Standard Mpeg-1 Video player

2011-09-08 Thread Jordan Dean
>> On 09/06/2011 03:14 PM, Jordan Dean wrote: >>> Has anyone found a player / codec that is in the standard SL >>> repositories that will playback mpeg 1 encoded video. (Totem does >>> not have the codec in the two sets of gstreamer plugins that are provided). >>> Thanks, >>> Jordan Dean >> Can

Re: Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-08 Thread JR van Rensburg
You need to set the GDM/KDM to login using LDAP authentication instead of local. Install the ldap admin modules and use them to set it up. (Sorry, can't be more specific, it's a long time since I did it on RH/Fedora) On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 09:20 -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote: > I have the option

Graphical login + ldap (+ NFS?) problems :)

2011-09-08 Thread Christopher Tooley
Hello All, I think I asked this a while back but perhaps I wasn't very clear on what has been happening. I have the option to do LDAP with a centralized server, and I would like to do so. I use NFS mounted home directories (NFSv3). I have installed SL6.1 and it works great. I know I have succ

Re: {OT} Saga with certificates continues : "Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad"

2011-09-08 Thread Connie Sieh
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Connie Sieh wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1870876696-1143114093-1315381521=:22438 Content-Type:

Re: SL6.1 memory usage

2011-09-08 Thread Stijn De Weirdt
issue resolved (somewhat) dmesg|Memory shows 1GB reserved (of which 850MB memmap = 1.3% of total memory) it also shows 650MB absent, apparently this is due to holes in the memory mapping, which is something hardware specific (it's an AMD Dell C6145, so it's amd specific or Dell/Bios specific)

Installing SL6 behind a proxy

2011-09-08 Thread mad
Hi! I install SL6 via Cobbler (PXE) within a company network. While installing anaconda tries to reach Scientific Linux ftp server. The outgoing network traffic uses a proxy. The connection fails and every try does take time. Can I switch off these network connections completely? Thanks in adva