February 2009 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] RH Enterprise 5.0 Question

by Tim Keller

Melissa, Are you looking foe something specific or do you just want a hardware overview? Here's a couple commands: "lspci" - will display all the devices on the various pci buses. "lsusb" - displays the usb devices. /proc/cpuinfo will display lots of info about the cpus on the system. /proc/meminfo - memory info. If the system is using lvm you can use the pvscan / vgscan / lvscan to determine you physical / volume group / logical volume config. Is that what you're looking for? Thanks, Tim. On 2/4/09, McDonald, Melissa <mmcdonald(a)centralfcu.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I need to determine the hardware configuration of a RH 5.0 Linux server. > Is there a command that will probe the hardware configuration and send > the output to the screen? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Melissa McDonald > > 508.841.0549 (Office) > > 774.275.4449 (Mobile) > > > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com I am weary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Feb. 4, 2009

Re: [Wlug] RH Enterprise 5.0 Question

by Brian J. Conway

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, McDonald, Melissa wrote: > > Greetings, > > I need to determine the hardware configuration of a RH 5.0 Linux server. Is > there a command that will probe the hardware configuration and send the > output to the screen? lspci (-vvv) is a good place to start for devices. 'dmidecode' will also give you a lot of BIOS/CPU/memory/chipset information. There's probably a few tools out there that combine them in a nicely formatted way. Brian J. Conway

Feb. 4, 2009

RH Enterprise 5.0 Question

by McDonald, Melissa

Greetings, I need to determine the hardware configuration of a RH 5.0 Linux server. Is there a command that will probe the hardware configuration and send the output to the screen? Thanks in advance. Melissa McDonald 508.841.0549 (Office) 774.275.4449 (Mobile)

Feb. 4, 2009

successful upgrade to openoffice.org 3.0 ; ubiquity of .docx; reaching college students with linux

by Andrew Perry

Hi Everyone, (1) Thanks a million for all of the help, especially the link to the fantastic tutorial, posted by James Gray, I think. I am in the process of installing hardy updates, and it appears that openoffice.org 3.0 is part of what's being installed, so it looks like everything is working perfectly. (2) To Greg: yes, I could ask students to submit all of their assignments in .doc or .rtf format (or even open office format), but they most wouldn't listen. Many can't figure out how to save to any format but .docx. It's a perpetual hassle to nag them. Besides that, I get many files from colleagues, professors at my college and other colleges and universities, as well as the Mass. Dept. of Education, and increasingly, most are in Office 2007 formats. It's hard to convert the whole world to linux. (3) Here is a new issue for everyone who is interested in commenting. I am a mathematician but besides math ,I also teach a computer literacy course each semester. You would all be proud: I do my best every semester to convert students to the linux religion, or at least to make them aware of linux and the evils of Microsoft. However, for every student who finds my linux modules interesting (about 2 hours of a 45-hour course on average), there are a dozen who get annoyed and find the material boring and irrelevant. Once I brought in a PC running compiz and they found that mildly intriguing. They absolutely hate the movie "revolution os". If I pass out ubuntu cds, I doubt they get used. Can anyone suggest teaching resources (videos, for example) that would be likely to make an impact for non-technically minded college students ? Thanks, Andrew -Dr. Andrew B. Perry Dept. of Mathematics, Springfield College Schoo Hall Room 123 263 Alden St., Springfield MA 01109 Work Phone (413)748-3193

Feb. 1, 2009