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Posted: 18 May 2008 01:49 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

What Linux distribution do you use? Most probably you can find a guide
specific for your distro - or somebody here can tell you.

It's a lot easier if you use the tools specific to your distro, not some
generic, outdated guides.

E.g. for Ubuntu have a look at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu>.


Michael

DDS-4 tape drive compatiblity

Posted: 18 May 2008 07:06 AM PDT

Scott Hemphill wrote: 


I was guessing something like that. I think you are saying that the
format is as standardize as say ext3 or fat16.

 


Thanks, Scott, I'll try that. So we are expecting/hoping to be able to
interchange any non-compressed DDS-4 tapes among DDS-4 drives.

I found the following doc which gives a lot of technical detail on the
Compaq (rebadged Sony) drive.
 
 
 
 
 
 


I haven't found anything definite yet about DCLZ for the DAT40i. More
about that later.

CentOS 3.9 installation problem

Posted: 17 May 2008 02:11 AM PDT


"F8BOE" <ch> wrote in message
news:48306bff$0$19976$free.fr... 


I agree. Why use such an old distro???

Does rysnc works for this?

Posted: 17 May 2008 02:06 AM PDT

On 5$B7n(B18$BF|(B, $B2<8a(B4$B;~(B39$BJ,(B, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: 

Great thanks guys.
Your help is highly appreciated. I will try all the suggestions.
Good luck to me. Thx. ^.^

Linux to be embedded in Asus motherboards, offering 3-second startup.

Posted: 16 May 2008 12:12 PM PDT

On May 16, 7:18 pm, Leonard The Committed <com>
wrote:
 

Keep in mind though that even if Asus provided some source
code for the built-in Linux, that doesn't mean the object files in
the motherboard's flash memory correspond. They could
potentially put spyware in there and you don't know that
it's truly safe until you inspect the code and more importantly
compile and install it yourself.

As an example, what if someone at DeviceVM, which makes
the distro, is highly pro-China and decides to prevent
the embedded Firefox from loading to a pro-Tibet website?

What's needed really is for Linux partisans to te
what DeviceVM has done.

Fedora 9 | changing login screen?

Posted: 15 May 2008 12:36 PM PDT

net wrote: 

Actually it's Gnome (i.e., the Gnome Project) that doesn't provide the
option/utility to change the greeter (aka login screen). Lots of other
folks have complained about its inflexibility, too.

If you get ambitious, there are some things you can change by editing
the GConf structures for the gdm user. Like you can hide the
reboot/shutdown buttons if you want (and a very few other useless
things). As of about a week ago, Gnome added an option to hide the user
list on the login screen, an excellent improvement that would be nice if
it came downstream to Fedora.

The best doentation on what you can and cannot do is at www.gnome.org.

32-bit library on 64-bit SUSE 10 system

Posted: 11 May 2008 04:26 AM PDT

Darren Salt wrote: 

Hi Darren, hi Andrew

Thank you both for your help. I checked your proposals and everythink was fine.
Meanwhile I browsed through some forums and found that I have a memory problem.
My (1und1) virtual server has very little memory. This makes yast fail. I succeeded in
using yast by killing unneeded processes. This minimum memory usage made yast
work. Now I have installed the 32-bit version of openssl and my program is
completely happy.

Thanks.
Andreas

Linux stopped reading my 2nd HDD - Help!!

Posted: 10 May 2008 03:05 AM PDT

DOES KUBUNTU / UBUNTU Linux take care of this problem.
It recognizes MTNL internet flawlessly with firefox----- where the
Debian distribution failed.
Why don't u run VirtualBox on your Windows XP system until Kubuntu
comes up.

Erach


On May 12, 10:34 am, sridhar <com> wrote: 

Where do I find a list of repositories?

Posted: 09 May 2008 05:00 PM PDT

Thank you!

"s. keeling" <com> wrote in message
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video driver / only low resolution possible?

Posted: 30 Apr 2008 08:59 AM PDT

On Fri, 02 May 2008 10:44:53 +0200, Eilko wrote:
 

You should probably have a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it exists it can
be modified slightly to get your higher resolutions.

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
EndSubSection

If the file does not exist it can be created in a number of ways. You do
need to know a few data ahead of time such as the capabilities of your
monitor.
 

Install a more newcomer-friendly distribution such as Ubuntu.

GRUB or LILO on NTFS?

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 07:13 PM PDT


"Kertis Henderson" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 


First off, though I know of no way to install grub or lilo on an NTFS
partition...
that's *not* where you'd want it to reside.

If you really want to use such a boot loader...you'll need to install it on
your MBR


I never tried it as I'd see no possible use for doing so...
but you could probably boot from a Linux live cd such as Damn Small Linux
and install lilo or grub from there.

If you end up trashing your mbr in the process you can
use the fixmbr command from the repair console

md5sum

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 03:47 AM PDT

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:44:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Obviously, You did not read the lines: "It is important to note that the
hash value shared by the two different files is a result of the collision
construction process. We cannot target a given hash value, and produce a
(meaningful) input bit string hashing to that given value"

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/


--
Regards/mvh Joachim Mæland

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
-Mario Andretti

2 files, 2 sizes, identical md5sums

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 11:11 AM PDT

gamename writes: 
 

Which means that if you can test a million files a second you will need on
the order of 10000000000000000000000000 years to find a match.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Strange mount

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 05:03 AM PDT

"Guillaume Dargaud" <gdargaud.net>
wrote: 

I've seen it but it seemed strange to me. Have not yet
had time to look up version differences and why a
"rootfs" type filesystem appears as an extra mount on
a few systems I support.
 
... 
... 
...

How to set ACPI governor?

Posted: 19 Apr 2008 02:43 PM PDT

John Hasler wrote: 

Wait. No. This is not what he stated. And the NSA has a long history of
casually monitoring civilian traffic, in direct violation of its charter, the
law, and the constitution. (Look at the warrant-free taps they put on the
backbones of AT&T, mentioned all over various media including this article:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70908. They can, and do,
monitor at any time and in any way they deem suitable.

Then look at their role in the creation of the Clipper Chip, an encryption
technology designed to rest the decryption keys in federal hands, and its
abandonment when it was discovered the chips could be used with unregistered keys.
 

That's a different story. I can easily believe that they, as its authors, are
aware of a few subtleties not widely published. A backdoor doesn't have to be
robust, merely buried in many thousands of line of complex code. And it
doesn't have to be permanent.

This does not mean SELinux is useless, but that it should be viewed with a
very cautious eye, considering its source.
 

Again, no. He didn't say this. Please don't extrapolate his thoughts into
complete nonsense: while SELinux has been widely used and reasonably reviewed,
it deserves careful and justified distrust of its source.
 

Now, you're just trolling.

beginning

Posted: 19 Apr 2008 04:08 AM PDT

Thank you all for the tips on linux and newsgroups!

The reason I've posted the same questions is that I wasn't sure where to get
the right answer, as I've just subscribed. I would not do the same thing
now.

"Allodoxaphobia" <com> wrote in message
news:config.com... 

Debian's Kernel 2.6.24 and future versions: Use amd64 or 686?

Posted: 18 Apr 2008 04:00 PM PDT

Meat Plow <net> writes:
 

Or you could not bother and compare the config files that ship with the
bespoke debian kernels. You will find little difference.

You would be far more interested in "standard" kernel stability and
performance than some optimised mish mash assuming you want to
use it on your desktop.

Clearly if you have very specialised needs then the above might not be
so valid. I know that whenever I have compiled my own there is very,
very little difference in performance and one of the only times I would
consider it would be for very specialised HW situations where I know I
can leave out 90% of the default drivers.

linux server setup - in the deep end

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 11:50 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Keith Keller <san-francisco.ca.us>: 
[..] 
 

Seconded! I'd also look into http://www.ltsp.org/ a halfway
reasonable server could easily serve +300 students with thin
clients and save tons of money + time for administrative
purposes.

You can run an extra citrix server for some software needing M$,
though most things can be done with Linux apps. You might want to
run the citrix client on the thin clients to save the server some
horse power and speed things up.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 112: The monitor is plugged into the serial port

Network Printer in Ubuntu

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 02:59 AM PDT

On Apr 16, 9:06 pm, Maurice Batey <removethis.org.uk>
wrote: 

Maurice Thanks
- Ubuntu comes with a HPLIP toolbox which did the configuration for
me. Though I still have no clue as to what I did wrong back there:-))
Vivek

Fedora and I are not mixing

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 12:51 PM PDT

com wrote: 

It is not a good idea to log in as root. Log in as a user and go root. Be root
only when necessary. Anyway when you exit root you become the user again.

You should be at a run level where ctrl-alt F1-F6 give you separate terminals.
I think that is at least 3.

However it does not make sense that an exit does not simply give you a login
prompt instead of shutting down.

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Palestinians have nothing to negotiate with Israel but the schedule for its
withdrawal to its 1948 borders.
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Install Win XP over Linux

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 06:43 AM PDT

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:03:22 -0700 (PDT), "com"
<com> wrote:
 
XP Home running in Xen or VMWare or VirtualBox or Qemu is real XP
Home.
 
Since the first time I installed Redhat, I have always followed the
same procedure. Use partition magic to partition and format the
Windows partitions. Use it to partition but not format the linux
partitions. Install linux. Install windows. Use a liveCD or a linux
floppy to boot into linux Mount the linux partitions. add the Windows
partition to lilo.conf. run lilo.

The only time I have ever had *any* problems, was when I tried to make
a SCSI drive a boot drive. Then I had to figure out how to modify irq
mappings in the boot options.

I don't particularly use lilo over grub for any reason except: I know
lilo it has preformed well so i see no reason to change

Install Debian on a Machine with Windows XP

Posted: 12 Apr 2008 04:57 AM PDT

<com> wrote 

This is a lot easier than some replies seem to suggest. While I don't
disagree that doing lots of study and reading will be helpful, it's not
actually necessary to get Debian up and running on your machine. Try this:

1. Boot from the CD you burned, hit enter at the prompt for a 'normal'
install
2. When it gets to the partition manager stage, choose Manual partitioning
3. Select your Windows partition (it is probably the only one, unless you
have one of those wanky OEM recovery partitions or something).
4. Choose "resize the partition" - it will tell you the minimum size you can
make it - this of course depends on how full it is.
5. Reduce it by at least 10GB (this is plenty for messing around with Linux,
but more doesn't hurt if you can spare it).
6. Create TWO new Logical partitions: a small one (1 or 2GB, ideally 2x the
computer's RAM) and a large one (all the rest of the space)
7. Make sure the small one is set as "use as swap space" and the large one
is set to be mounted as / (the root partition).
8. Exit the partition manager and write the changes
9. Proceed with the rest of the install
10. Reboot into Debian and enjoy.

Good luck,

CC

PC / Mac / Linux benchmarks (programs) that compare performance to Cray and other supercomputers...

Posted: 07 Apr 2008 11:33 PM PDT

In article <net>,
James Wilson <info> wrote: 
More of historic interest. 
True. 
Historic. Current models are a bit more complex. 
Old Crays.

PCs will also tend to out perform the ENIAC as well.

--

problem with samsung S203D DVD writer on suse linux 10.2

Posted: 07 Apr 2008 04:10 PM PDT

Fernando Peral Pérez wrote: 
 
 
 
 
 

Not that I am aware of. I thought Toshiba and Samsung were different companies
in Japan and Korea respectively. I had never heard of TSSTCorp and found nothing
to indicate its connection to any other company when I googled it. When I came
into possession of one as part of a pre-built computer it was identified as
TSSTCorp not any other company.

Google that drive and see the web has nothing but complaints about it. So if it
is a subsidiary and to unload a known defective product by using the parent
company name that is sufficient reason to stop buying Samsung.

I am talking something that was known defective about two years ago. I forget
exactly how long ago I asked after my problems with it and lots of peopletold
me about it.

Over the years I have had a lot of CD and DVD burners and this is only one that
has been a disaster. Replacements are a max of $50 these days. No real effort to
find one for $30. It only takes a driver.

But until you have a new burner there is no way to eliminate it as the problem.

As long as you are going root to burn it should work. I have used k3b with no
problems the first time I tried it so I know it works if the burner works. I
have over 400 CDs and DVDs burned and no problems. Failures are uncommon and I
verify every burn.

With the TSST I was griping about the deteriorating quality of blank media
going the way of 3.5" floppies with maybe half or more failures.

--
Despite all the questions about the official version of 9/11 the fact
remaains the government has no official version of 9/11. That is immensely
convenient for all parties concerned.
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Dual Booting

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 11:29 PM PDT

JAG CHAN wrote: 

Leave the small drive installed and put linux on the new drive. This will keep
linux safe from almost any stupid thing XP might do. Linux will detect the XP
formated drive and include it in /etc/fstab with the correct parameters so you
can access any data from linux.
 

If needs to partition it for some other reason it is sort of arbitrary mainly
dependent upon how much data he wants to access when running XP as it can only
MS type file formats.

--
Tell me what convinced you when you were skeptical about the Jewish gas
chambers. If you never questioned them, why not?
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