Re: SL7 client for Microsoft ActiveSync

2015-02-09 Thread Thomas Bendler
2015-02-09 17:33 GMT+01:00 Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu: This is a SL issue in that if SL is to be used in the real world as both a workstation and as a server environment, one needs workstation applications that communicate/interoperate with those commonly available from other environments

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013-08-01 Thread Thomas Bendler
2013/7/31 Vincent Liggio vi...@blueskystudios.com How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013-08-01 Thread Thomas Bendler
2013/8/1 Vincent Liggio vi...@blueskystudios.com ​[...] That's fine, do a single update immediately after install. If they are not an option how come most OS's on the planet are not patched? (not that this is a good thing, mind you). There are a bunch of currently installed OS not patched

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013-08-01 Thread Thomas Bendler
2013/8/1 Vincent Liggio vi...@blueskystudios.com ​[...] Microsoft installs, and ASKS how you want your updates to run. It It ask when you install W8 or W2K12? Sure? ​​ doesn't blindly do it. Not that I want to use MS as an example... The point I'm trying to make is if you're going to

Re: Issues with the recent kernel and proprietary nvidia drivers

2013-03-27 Thread Thomas Bendler
2013/3/27 Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu [...] An excellent suggestion. The unfortunate reality is that for a least some of these products, the only well support environment is MS Windows, sometimes Mac OS X, and only lastly, open systems such as Linux or the BSD variants. In the case of

Re: Instability in VM blocked more than 120s

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi Niels, 2012/4/20 Niels_Walet niels.wa...@manchester.ac.uk [...] Does anyone have any suggestion what I could try to further diagnose this problem, or maybe even a solution? the error say that the filesystem does not reposoned. In this case it is not the filesystem in the virtual machine,

Re: Instability in VM blocked more than 120s

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi Niels, 2012/4/20 Niels R. Walet niels.wa...@manchester.ac.uk [...] The vms are stored on the raid array of the underlying machine--which is not maintained by me: dmsg suggests an LSI SAS based MegaRAID driver then you need to go in touch with the guys maintaining the underlying host.

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-11 Thread Thomas Bendler
2012/4/10 Bluejay Adametz blue...@fujifilm.com [...] I wonder just how much the user base overlaps between Fedora and RHEL. [...] I guess everyone who uses RHEL, SL, ... in a professional environment. Especially for upcoming releases I need to know in which direction it will move if the IT

Re: Gpg Error from Script

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi, 2011/12/12 Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com [...] Solved. In my script, I had to add xhost + before calling gpg http://scientificlinuxforum.**org/index.php?showtopic=1231** st=0#entry8971http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1231st=0#entry8971 xhost + mean

Re: fsck boot sequence failure SL 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi Yasha, 2011/11/15 Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu [...] Although SL follows TUV, supposedly El Repo and some of the other repositories actually are willing to fix the bugs in the TUV distribution or to add vital functionality (such as additional device drivers for hardware not supported

Re: UEFI

2011-10-20 Thread Thomas Bendler
2011/10/20 Phong Nguyen pho...@fnal.gov Microsoft does not control UEFI. While they are (rightfully) mandating Secure Boot as part of the Windows 8 certification process, they are not mandating that it remain always on. The OEM/VARs should be providing a UEFI configuration option to disable

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

2011-07-02 Thread Thomas Bendler
Hi Jdow, 2011/7/3 jdow j...@earthlink.net [...] The big thing, Thomas, is I am not a machine. And to me the RFC you cite means nothing. Humans are too erratic to abide by some silly RFC that declares how they MUST post. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.