Re: Firefox 4?

2011-06-11 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/02/2011 03:30 PM, John H. Outlan CPA wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Alexander Hunt alexander.d.h...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/02/2011 04:44 AM, Hugo Berus wrote:

Re: VLC GoogleEarth yum conflict

2011-06-05 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/03/2011 03:59 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote: On 06/03/2011 04:39 PM, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Todd And Margo Chester writes: Hi All, Anyone know what this is all about?  Is this and rpmfource

Re: Wine on 64-bit Scientific Linux 6

2011-06-04 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/03/2011 03:35 PM, John H. Outlan CPA wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/03/2011 12:21 PM, Gerard Lally wrote: Hi

Re: where did all the icons go?

2011-06-04 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/02/2011 04:11 AM, Brent L. Bates wrote: Did you try using `rpm -q -ficon-file-name' on 5.6 to see what RPM they were in? On my SL 5.5 system, it says: redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.2.x86_64 Does SL 6 have a similarly named RPM? I don't have easy access to a SL 6

VLC GoogleEarth yum conflict

2011-06-03 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, Anyone know what this is all about? Is this and rpmfource issue? Many thanks, -T # yum upgrade google-earth | 951 B 00:00 Setting up Upgrade Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency:

Re: Wine on 64-bit Scientific Linux 6

2011-06-03 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/03/2011 12:21 PM, Gerard Lally wrote: Hi very sorry for what will be to many here a couple of basic questions. I am using the single DVD to install, not the two DVDs. How do I go about installing Wine on 64-bit SL 6? Do I have to enable another repo during setup or afterwards? And

Firefox 4?

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, Under SL6, are we stuck with Firefox 3.6? Is there some plan to support Firefox 4 in our future? (I have just been using the binary under CentOS 5.6.) Many thanks, -T

where did all the icons go?

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I just installed Xfce on my new server. On my old server (CentOS 5.6), I have zillions of icons under /usr/share/icons. Now under SL6. I barely have any at all. Is there some RPM full of icons I am missing? I can copy the old ones over, if needed. I use a lot of the Bluecurve

Virtual Box has been given to Apache Foundation

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I realize that this is really off topic, but I have seen posting on Virtual Box on the list, so I think some may find the following interesting. (I risk being a troll here but ...) I got an eMail on my tdf-announce (The Document Foundation, A.K.A. Libre Office) that Oracle has just

Re: Virtual Box has been given to Apache Foundation

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/01/2011 01:54 PM, carlopmart wrote: On 06/01/2011 10:51 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I realize that this is really off topic, but I have seen posting on Virtual Box on the list, so I think some may find the following interesting. (I risk being a troll here but ...) I got

Re: Virtual Box has been given to Apache Foundation

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/01/2011 02:12 PM, curriegrad2004 wrote: It would be asinine for Oracle to even donate VirutalBox since virutalization is potentially a huge market. If they did indeed give away VBox it would be quite a shock to me that Orcale can do such a move. Hope springs eternal! I really misread the

Re: where did all the icons go?

2011-06-01 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 06/01/2011 01:56 PM, Alec T. Habig wrote: Todd And Margo Chester writes: I just installed Xfce on my new server. On my old server (CentOS 5.6), I have zillions of icons under /usr/share/icons. Now under SL6. I barely have any at all. Is there some RPM full of icons I am missing? Try

Re: pbone

2011-05-31 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/31/2011 05:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I ask the guys over at http://rpm.pbone.net/ to add a line for FC14, FC15, RHEL6, and SL6 over on their advanced search and they actually did

pbone

2011-05-30 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I ask the guys over at http://rpm.pbone.net/ to add a line for FC14, FC15, RHEL6, and SL6 over on their advanced search and they actually did. Now we can search for SL6 and RHEL6 specific RPMS at pbone. Very cool. -T

Re: XFCE 4.8 in EPEL - xfce4-volumed

2011-05-27 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/27/2011 12:30 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/26/2011 10:04 PM, John H. Outlan CPA wrote: We really need xfce4-volumed in there for the volume daemon. That's all I'm seeing for now after a quick look around. Thanks xfce4-volumed depends on keybinder. keybinder requires gtk 2.20.

Re: xsane crashes

2011-05-27 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/27/2011 03:30 PM, Robert E. Blair wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With a 64 bit sl6 install a once working scanner (under sl5) now crashes xsane. This probably won't help, but if you have an Epson scanner, you could try Epson's iScan utility. -T

Re: xsane crashes

2011-05-27 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/27/2011 04:07 PM, John H. Outlan CPA wrote: Sent from T-Mobile G2, please excuse any typos On May 27, 2011 6:58 PM, "Todd And Margo Chester" toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/27/2011 03:30 PM, Robert E. B

Autocad viewer

2011-05-27 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, Do any of you guys have a favorite viewer for Autocad dwg and dfx files? Many thanks, -T

Re: Autocad viewer

2011-05-27 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/27/2011 09:20 PM, Jason Bronner wrote: Depends on what im doing in particular and where i am. there's a variety of linux tools to do it with and windows tools to do it with for free, but i actually like the online AutoCAD WS service from Autodesk. it's free and browser-based and

Re: XFCE 4.8 in EPEL *soon*

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/26/2011 12:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/23/2011 02:15 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Thanks to a lot of work by various people, XFCE-4.8 will be in EPEL as soon as enough testers say its working (or it is not which is just as good so it can be fixed). I claim NO credit on doing

Re: XFCE 4.8 in EPEL *soon*

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/26/2011 03:03 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/26/2011 04:02 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 05/26/2011 12:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: It has just been pushed to epel-testing. Please give feedback it you try it out. You can do: yum --enablerepo=epel-testing groupinstall xfce

Re: XFCE 4.8 in EPEL *soon*

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/26/2011 03:14 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote: On 05/26/2011 04:03 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/26/2011 04:02 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 05/26/2011 12:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: It has just been pushed to epel-testing. Please give feedback it you try it out. You can do: yum

Re: XFCE 4.8 in EPEL *soon*

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/26/2011 03:29 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 16:24, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/26/2011 03:03 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/26/2011 04:02 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 05/26/2011 12:18 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: It has

gdm install question

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I only installed SL6 Basic server. This means I have no graphics and am sitting at run level 3. Now that Xfce 4.8 x86_64 is out, I am about to get my graphics. I will not be able to physically get at my new server until Monday. So, some stupid question till I can see for myself. I

Re: gdm install question

2011-05-26 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/26/2011 08:54 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I only installed SL6 Basic server. This means I have no graphics and am sitting at run level 3. Now that Xfce 4.8 x86_64 is out, I am about to get

Re: Xfce 4.6 / 4.8 for SL 6

2011-05-23 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 05/23/2011 06:58 AM, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote: A repo file (to put into /etc/yum/repos.d) is avalaible here: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/6x/i386/dim/xfce48.repo Hi Jean-Paul, Very cool. Thank you! I am waiting for the x86_64 version. Will yum groupinstall

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/24/2011 06:07 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: vim and bash +1:) +2 on the vi (vim) Secondly, I use Mousepad a lot. It allows me to save text files in Windows format for all kinds of stuff I have to do for my Widows clients. -T

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/19/2011 03:00 PM, john h outlan wrote: I use Scientific Linux in a small CPA practice I run. Mainly because (other than being an enthusiast) I feel my data is safer. I have one CPA firm running Linux. CCH constantly threatens to go to a M$ server, but so far have not pulled the trigger

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/19/2011 03:00 PM, john h outlan wrote: I use Scientific Linux in a small CPA practice I run. Mainly because (other than being an enthusiast) I feel my data is safer. Don't forget you can encrypt your hard drives with SL6. Seriously, about three years ago, this area had a rash of

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/20/2011 01:04 AM, Lukas Press wrote: I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten years and although everyone used windows I always thoughtthe

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/20/2011 11:30 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Almost all? From single server hosting companies to clustered scientific/medical environments ? I should check out the smaller medical groups. Ones that can not afford their own staff. Thank you! -T

What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-18 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I am a consultant who only works in two counties. I am currently working my way out of two jobs, which is normal. Also means I have to do some cold calling, also normal. And to facilitate that, I have made up a database of local

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-18 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/18/2011 10:24 PM, Jason Bronner wrote: any kind of business that needs a database backend, a webserver, NAS services, or mail services and doesnt want to deal with administrative nightmares ofMicrosoft products,

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-18 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/18/2011 10:42 PM, Jason Bronner wrote: HR/Payroll, Medical/H7, Client/Server app vendors or anything else that needs to consume data that you can cable a stupid MySQL box onto the router and say, there's your database. 0TCO, now GO! We have some HR/Payroll and Medical folks kicking

Want to encrypt backup drive same as Disk Druid did my master drive?

2011-04-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, I installed a new system using the encryption option in the disk format tool (Disk Druid) that comes with the installer. I now has some removable Sata hard drives I want to encrypt using the same encryption as the Disk Druid did.But since the Disk Druid is not available after

Re: Want to encrypt backup drive same as Disk Druid did my master drive?

2011-04-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/16/2011 03:53 PM, Lucian wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I installed a new system using the encryption option in the disk format tool (Disk Druid) that comes with the installer. I now has some removable Sata hard

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-15 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/14/2011 04:41 PM, jdow wrote: On 2011/04/13 13:08, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but riddled with bugs seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. Phil Not exaggerated. Years

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 08:11 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote: Hi all, I'm new t Scientific Linux but not to Linux, I'm trying SL because I'm looking for a RHEL 6 free distribution and at CentOS they are still working. I tried to install using SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso into a VirtualBox

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but riddled with bugs seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. Phil Not exaggerated. Years of pain and experience. Wait until you get your job threatened over it. Fortunately,

Re: SL vs. RPMForge repo

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 01:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Nicolas Kovacs wrote on 04/13/2011 02:48 PM: I'm aware this question could possible (also?) belong on the RPMForge mailing list, though I'm not exactly sure. Did you install the rpmforge-release package provided by SL? Which third party repo do

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but riddled with bugs seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/08/2011 12:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I gather you came from the CentOS world.:) Yes xfce is in the CentOS-5 extras repo. Akemi A really, really old version. :-( -T

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have. SL6 xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6. I am hoping to fix that soon (well for EPEL that is) Cool. What kind of time frame are you

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/09/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Cool. What kind of time frame are you looking at? And, will you announce it to us all when you do? I am hoping by end of April and will announce. It may or may not be 4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not. I have an almost bare

Re: Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote: Brctl addif br1 eth1 Hi Federico, Back in the day before Virtual Box took care of the bridge itself, I use to put this kind of stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a bash script that runs at the very end of your boot up. Just and idea. -T p.s.

Re: repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/10/2011 02:45 AM, Federico Alves wrote: I use KVM, the technology included in the kernel. Federico That is my next project after I get Xfce installed.

Re: Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/09/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote: Brctl addif br1 eth1 Hi Federico

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