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Power burn test
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show up early next week. SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddrive spinning. I can jsut do pings on the lan card for it to stay awake. I have searched here and on the net and have come back with nothing.

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CentOS vs RedHat packages
by Scott Ehrlich 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Hello Once Again: Another learning experience question - it is my understanding that CentOS essentially IS RedHat but with any commercial connection removed. That being said, is there any difference in the included, or quality of packages between the two distros? I've got some basic issues with a critical server I'm about to set up, and if I cannot get beyond said issues, I may opt to try CentOS. Seeing that CentOS is free (can't call RedHat for support), I'm wondering if I should try and make the case for CentOS over RedHat. Once the choice is made, it may be next to impossible to revert to the other version (RH vs CentOS). Thanks for your insights. Scott

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Re: Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5
by Lanny Marcus 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

On 02 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, Why should I remove ProtectBase ? Whithout removing ProtectBase, > Is it NOT proper to install Priorities? I believe it is one or the other. If you decide to change to Priorities, which is recommended on the Wiki, remove ProtectBase, before you install Priorities.

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How to replace ntfs by ntfs-3g?
by Olaf Mueller 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Hello, I can write to an ntfs partion if mounting it by hand with 'mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf5 /mnt/xp'. But if I use the mount option from the kde Storage Media panel applet (kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5.centos) then the partion will be mounted without write support. So how to say kde and CentOS to use ntfs-3g and not ntfs? Maybe by changing some links? Thank you very much. regards Olaf

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Re: [CentOS] KStars on CentOS 4.4?
by Lanny Marcus 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

On 03 August 2007, "Lamar Owen" <lowen(a)pari.edu> wrote: <snip> > currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars > for us to do telescope control. > The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and > bounds since then. Lamar: I found a very easy way to do it. I found that for CentOS 4.4, I could install the kdeedu RPM, from the Fedora Core 3 Install DVD, without any problem. And for CentOS 5.0, I installed kdeedu from the FC6 install DVD. That installed a lot of other stuff too.... Thank you for posting! KStars is both powerful and elegant. I am going to put FC7 on my daughters box and let my wife try the latest KStars there. Lanny

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Latest Pidgin update problem
by fredex 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

A while back I added the pidgin repo to my yum configuration and installed pidgin. it has automatically updated itself a time or two since without trouble. but now that Pidgin 2.1.0 is out, it won't update properly. Yum finds a couple of libpurple packages to update as well as pidgin-devel, but not the pidgin package itself: --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated ---> Package pidgin-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated ---> Package libpurple-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 for package: pidgin-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 is needed by package pidgin-devel Anybody else seen this? It seems odd that the official pidgin repo would have 3 of the four necessary packages but not the fourth. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0 - SOLVED
by Mark Hull-Richter 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Thanks for all the input - the HPLJ4 driver "supplied by" Minolta (with CentOS 5) solved my problem. mhr

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Data corruption on external hard disk
by Niki Kovacs 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very satisfied with it. Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films, music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around here (small South French village, town hall and public library use Linux :o)), I replaced the FAT filesystem on the disk by an ext2 filesystem. Now it's already almost full with data. A few days ago I had a problem with the subdirectory Cinema/ containing a collection of my favourite movies. I wanted to copy them from the disk to my newly purchased laptop (ASUS W6F, already running CentOS 5), when suddenly I got a read error on data. I checked in a Terminal what was going on, and the file ownerships were all curiously set, like missing read flags, no more --x rights on directories, whereas I remember I had set them right in the first place. So I started a series of recursive chmod's on the directory Cinema/... but I got nothing: the command prompt never went back. Unmounting the disk was not responsive neither, so I just shut it off. When I was performing this, it was a very hot day, almost 40°C. The disk was really very hot, so I wonder if this might have damaged it. I could retrieve some of the data on the disk (music, pictures, documents), but now, instead of the Cinema/ directory, I have one big file that looks like this: [kikinovak@buzz:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l total 692996 -rw-r----- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime drwxrwxrwx 4 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 10 12:25 Series Notice that the file size is something like petabytes :oD Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data? Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Distro clarification thanks
by Scott Ehrlich 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry. The education is most appreciated, and well-received. This is list is wonderful. Simply lurking, I, along with many others, no doubt, pick up so much. A great support team. Again, thanks to all. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
by Lanny Marcus 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

On 02 August 2007, "Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting Mark, possibly something there that will help you. Lanny

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