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Follow up to the stability question I asked at the last meeting
by Mike Pfaiffer 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

The person who suggested the power supply was the problem was partially correct. The thing finally stopped letting the machine boot. I had it replaced today. FYI, one of the 12v lines was putting out 1v under load (thanks go to RD and his bag of many tools for pointing this out). The guys at Itech (friends from the old days) said they pulled it out and tested it too and said there wasn't much left to it. It looks like things are almost back to normal. Well at least as normal as you can get in half an hour and a week and a half turned off... Alas it does appear there is bloat creeping into our applications. The system monitor (over a couple of minutes) showed one processor spiking at 100% usage. Then again I have four user space programs open at once (three active and one waiting for input). Later Mike

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(OT) Lexmark printer repair?
by Adam Thompson 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Does anyone have any recommendations for where I could get an older Lexmark printer (Optra S 1255) repaired? It’s the only printer I have that can do duplex, otherwise I’d just be offering it to a good home :-). -Adam

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Fwd: UG News: Ebook Deal/Day - Save 50% on Theory in Practice titles (includes The Art of and Beautiful books)
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

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IBM Jeopardy Challenge, Night 1: Watson Ties for the Lead
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

As mentioned at last week's MUUG meeting... http://gizmodo.com/#!5760514/ibm-jeopardy-challenge-night-1-watson-ties-for… -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Migrate to KVM
by Montana Quiring 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hello, Any advice about migrating bare metal systems to KVM? Are they any good tools, best practices, etc. that anyone would recommend? Regards, -Montana Quiring CTO of QMTS http://qmts.ca

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Solaris 10 newbie question
by Kevin McGregor 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

I installed Solaris 10 x86 in a virtual machine (VMware Workstation). Now I want to add a second, 8 GB, hard drive to the VM. I added the "hardware", and now I'm at the point where I've got the disk formatted and partitioned, or almost. My question is about "slices". I'm using UFS, and I just want to create a filesystem for my own use. So which slice (0-9) should I use for that? I'm guessing probably not 0-2, but would any of the rest be preferable? I intend to use the whole disk for one filesystem. Kevin

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Quite apropos: Cisco Linksys routers still don't support IPv6
by Adam Thompson 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=61237

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How to scrub a hard disk
by Michael Doob 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Check out this Swiss product: http://www.roesch-swiss.ch/index.php?id=1159&prod_id=81 Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard
by Kevin McGregor 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Does anyone have a copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard they could bring to the meeting tomorrow night? My (retail copy) appears to be damaged, and it won't boot. Do you think I could get my copy exchanged for a working copy at the Apple store? Are they that nice? :-) Kevin

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Looking for ram
by Dan Keizer 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi there .. I have a Sun U40 that needs ram ... DDR2 667 ECC registered/buffered. 512MB to 4GB DIM's are usable anyone have any of this stuff laying around I can use in my new desktop :-) Thanks. Dan.

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