General Linux

Feedback for kernel upgrade to 2.6.32.9 using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmin ?Koala)
Ale <abonizzoni80(a)gmail.com> wrote: Do you think there is any risk ? Any suggestion ? Not really. Keep both kernels installed and add the new kernel to the boot menu. If for some reason the system will not boot with the new kernel, just reboot and select the old one again. You might want to copy the configurati... 17 Apr 2010 12:59

multipathd startup command failed?
Greetings; We got multipath working on a RH5 machine, however when starting the multipathd script we get the following command failed: # /etc/init.d/multipathd restart Device /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 not found Command failed I've checked the multipath.conf file and see: devnode_blacklist { devnode "^(... 16 Apr 2010 09:26

Mass mailing - which soft to use?
I need to send one email message to about 1000 recipients. I need it to look like originating from my email. (Note that I'm not a spammer, all recipients are journalists which expect such kind of messages.) Which software to use for this one-time mailing list? (Well, maybe I will need to send it again in a future... 20 Apr 2010 15:51

Critical temperature reached. Shutting down
Hi all, I am booting a machine that is standing in a hot environment, and during the boot sequence, I am getting the message "Critical temperature reached (63 C). Shutting down." After which the system obviously shuts down. I suppose this message is coming from ACPI. My question is however, is there a way to co... 15 Apr 2010 21:28

ESX hardware configuration
Hello, At work we found an old Dell PowerEdge server with 4GB of RAM and 2x70 GB disks. I want to install several Windows VMs for testing purposes. I know Windows on a stand alone system wants 1+ GB of RAM. My questions now are: 1. How many Windows VMs can I run simutaneously on this hardware? 2. How much... 17 Apr 2010 21:48

Firefox/iceweasel startup problems
Hello, We have some users whose iceweasel (3.0.6) doesn't start up. They are Debian 5.0.2 systems, and the home dirs are on nfs. So the machines sometimes spontaneously reboot (we haven't yet figured out why), and afterwards whenever the user tries to start iceweasel, it always presents the "restore session... 14 Apr 2010 17:47

tar -cz causes diff problem
Does the gzip (-z) option to tar introduce some entropy into a file between iterations with the same arguments? e.g.: $ tar czf test_0.tgz *.txt; tar czf test_1.tgz *.txt $ ls -l *.tgz -rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 4262 Apr 14 08:22 test_0.tgz -rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 4262 Apr 14 08:22 test_1.tgz $ diff *.tgz Binary files tes... 15 Apr 2010 13:37

Google Has Become A Farce
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:42:34 +0200, Sidney Lambe wrote: Who can look through even thousands of hits much less check out the pages themselves? It is a question of what type of search do you want to do. If you want to find a document with an exact string, then use Google with that string quoted because it ... 14 Apr 2010 09:53

Sound input device?
I'm looking for a sound input device to be able to do some home recordings and use my computer as some sort of improvised amp. Is there any sound input device which is explicitly supported on linux? Bonus points if it's a USB device. Thanks in advance, Rui Macie ... 23 Apr 2010 20:51

HOw to rebuild a Raid 0 when one disk has gone?
I have a raid 0 array, with two partitions, /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sda3 as parts of that raid 0 array. Disk sdb3 has gone bad (a whole bunch of bad sectors in previously good data-- and the errors are all on sdb.) so I have to replace it. Now I have a backup of most of the data ( unfortunately it got done only after ... 14 Apr 2010 16:39