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Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remote access to it to perform regular system maintenance, virus cleanups, occasional software installations, reboots, config changes,

I have a dual boot CentOS 5.2 / FC4 machine, and recently I have bought a new widescreen tft monitor. I used to use a plain 4:3 crt, and after plugging the 16:9 tft naturally X needed reconfiguring. This was easy in FC4, and seemed as easy in CentOS, but with a wrong result. Basically, what I did was to run system-config-display to reconfigure for the new monitor and resolution. All goes

My friend has an external sata hard disk, and likes the hot-plug feature. However, that works only if the appropriate sata setting in the motherboard bios is set to AHCI (IDE compatibility and RAID are two other options, but hot-plugging doesn't work with them). The machine has WinXP atm, while Linux is about to be installed in the following couple of days. Now, on wikipedia I read that

I just tried to install the flac plugin for xmms, and failed. Google does not help. How to fix this? (btw, this is CentOS 5.2, fully updated) [root at sith ~]# yum install xmms-flac Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: scientificlinux.physik.uni-muenchen.de * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com *

I am trying to compile cairo-dock from source (failing to find an existing package for CentOS). I believe all dependencies are satisfied, but while doing "make", at some point it says (I can provide the full make output if it's needed): gcc -g -O2 -o cairo-dock -Wl,--export-dynamic cairo_dock-cairo-dock-callbacks.o cairo_dock-cairo-dock.o cairo_dock-cairo-dock-dbus.o