The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages. In the past it used to, but those packages are now in a separate repository (rpmforge-extras) which is disabled by default.
You can find a complete listing of the RPMforge package packages at http://packages.sw.be/
via AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge – CentOS Wiki.
The rpm at this link allows for yum to see the additional packages — such as alpine and perhaps others that were missing in the base.
From concept to creation, WebOS was developed in about nine months, this person said, and the company took some shortcuts. With a project like this, programmers typically start by creating the equivalent of building blocks that can be reused and combined to create different applications. But with WebOS, Palm employees initially constructed each app from scratch. Later, they made such blocks, but they were overhauled once by Palm and then again by H.P., forcing programmers to relearn how to build WebOS apps.
via H.P.’s TouchPad, Some Say, Was Built on Flawed Software – NYTimes.com.
This is not a problem. This is just an informational log entry in /var/log/messages. Use the following commands to see the current status of your raid:
# cat /proc/mdstat
via JBD: Barrier-based Sync Failed On md0-8 – Disabling Barriers Error and Solution.
RPC is extremely painful and there isn’t to much in the way of beginners resources.
via SunRPC beginner tips « ☠ I could not think of a blog title ☠.
There are five broad categories of “bad things” that running software could do, for the purposes of our discussion. In no particular order, software can attempt to damage the machine, compromise the user’s privacy, damage the user’s information, do “bad things” to people other than the machine’s user, and lastly, impersonate the user.
via OLPC Bitfrost – OLPC.
The company is hanging on to the mobile operating system, according to multiple sources, but will submit it to the open source community. HP plans to make the source code available to software developers under an open source arrangement, which will give other hardware manufacturers the ability to work with it.
A better way to find out the correct host controller:
# udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0
where sg0 is the device node of which you’d like to know the corresponding SCSI controller – down that tree you will find hostX mentioned as part of the device path.
And thanks for the rescanning tip, it saved my day.
via Re-scan the SCSI bus in Linux after hot-swapping a drive | Racker Hacker.
Linux LAN card: Find out full duplex / half speed or mode.
ethtool command
Uss ethtool to display or change ethernet card settings. To display duplex speed, enter:
# ethtool eth1
Having problems with an NIC that keeps reporting fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as its MAC address.