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Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:32 AM PDT

The Natural Philosopher wrote: 
I am trying to make this ftp connection using Dreamweaver MX 2004. The
error message is:

"An FTP error occurred - cannot make connection to host. The remote host
cannot be found."

This error message happens immediately upon the attempt to connect.

I am able to access this site by its domain name in a web browser. The
above error message is what I get when I put the ftp subdomain on it.
Without a subdomain the FTP attempt times out because the server does
not respond. That it cannot find the remote host with the FTP subdomain
causes me to suspect the Bind9 configuration. Are you sure Bind9 does
not have to be configured for ftp?

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KDE4 vs. KDE3

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:00 PM PDT

On 04/10/2010 02:45 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

<shrug> OK. It was just a thought. If it isn't worth the trouble, it
isn't worth the trouble.

I've pretty much always used Mandrake/Mandriva, and KDE is the default
there. I've used Gnome a time or two - didn't care for it, though I
could get used to it if necessary.

To each his own.

TJ
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GRUB boots to prompt but won't boot OS

Posted: 04 Apr 2010 03:40 AM PDT

On 7 Apr, 23:41, "David W. Hodgins" <afraid.org>
wrote: 

That is my understanding
 

Yes, /boot is on /dev/hda1, which I originally made only 50Mb (7 years
ago I think), which is why I'm now having to clone and resize.
 

(hd0) /dev/hda
 

That's what I thought
 

Thanks. I had done the above, but looking for stage1 instead, which
did return the answer (hd0,0), although I didn't know about
configfile. Anyway, I got a linux sysadmin friend to look at it, and
we got the system running as I describe above, after which grub-
install /dev/hda did the trick. What I had tried, following the grub-
install manual and info from various web pages I'd found, was grub-
install --root-directory=/dev/hda1 hda, which had failed. I don't know
why this failed, or why what we did succeeded, but it essentially side
tracked me away from finding the right answer. I think some of the
grub-install description is at best misleading, and at worst just
plain wrong.

Unfortunately this means I'm never going to get to the bottom of why
doing what I tried to do failed, unless of course I run into the same
problem again, which isn't that unlikely given that I have several
debian system with disc that are either dying or too small to be
upgraded any more.

Does anyone know how to cross compile the Linux kernel.

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:41 PM PDT

On 04/02/2010 11:41 PM, Alex Stubbins wrote: 

Some day? One first starts with the hardware and then determines what
controlling functions are needed. Switches will do nicely for most things. Why
do you think you will need an OS based system? It would be nice to start with
the hardware requirements.

That said there are plenty of linux on a chip cards available today. See the
ads in Elektor, Nuts-n-Volts, Servo and certainly other magazines I have not
heard of. It isn't like you have a new need.

I have bought $50 media players that would handle a variety of audio and
video formats which were not only computer controlled but the software could
be upgraded. Whatever you are thinking of has likely been done if you look
around. And that is your price barrier including profit. No matter what neat
feature you have anyone can add it to their software.

Not to discourage you. Doing things better and cheaper needs all the
competition it can get. Please join in.

My opinion is free and worth every penny you pay for it. The future will be
split between know-little and know-much users. The former will buy all kinds
of dedicated hardware which are really just computers. The latter will user
their computers directly to do the same things. Think Tivo vs MythTV.

Once I got a LCD TV with the VGA input I -canned the dedicated player and
bought a computer to drive it directly.

Your problem will be the former market requires a brand name and marketing.
Good luck.

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Sun Apr 4 02:44:11 EDT 2010

Increase Linux Partition Size

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 10:26 PM PDT

On 04/01/2010 01:26 AM, Pandi wrote: 
 

You got $40? Get a second HD. If you only have a 50GB drive I am first
curious where you got it and second computers are faster than 500MHz these
days so you might consider a new one.

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Sun Apr 4 03:09:20 EDT 2010

aptitude vs apt-get

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 02:38 PM PDT

"Artist" <speakeasy.net> wrote
 

My take on it is this:

apt-get is a suite of commands you need to type in a console:

apt-get install
apt-get remove
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean
apt-get source
etc.

You do one command, on one set of packages, at a time. Nice and simple. Easy
to understand, providing you can read man pages. The downside is that you
can end up having to type in a lot of package names as arguments (though if
you are a heavy CLI user you will have some skill with xargs etc.).

I haven't used aptitude much, but last time I tried it fired up some
curses-based pseudo-GUI, which allowed me to scroll through lists of
packages and mark them for installation, removal etc. I can imagine that
people who get used to this find it very helpful and much better than having
to type command lines - but if you really want this sort of functionality,
you should use synaptic (or today's KDE equivalent), which is much nicer to
look at, easier to navigate, resizeable etc.

I understand that aptitude *also* does the command-line commands like
apt-get - but you might as well use apt-get for those as there is no
difference.

So to me aptitude is neither one thing nor the other. But I guess it would
be useful for people who want some sort of GUI on a box without X.

CC

Can't see all drives on Linux

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:06 PM PDT


 

For some reason I didn't get Dave Hodgins reply on my newsreader and
had to go to Google to find his reply.

Perhaps I need to add that the C and D partitions are on the same IDE
physical hard drive, formatted as NTFS. I don't see how Hodgins'
explanation accounted for the fact that one of the partitions on the
same hard drive was fully browsable while the other was not, even
though they are using the same drive controller. Nor does it explain
why the C: drive is partially browsable. It also doesn't explain why
YLMF Linux couldn't browse the optical drive containing its own live
CD.

Thanks DoDi and Dave, but I'll stick with Puppy Linux until I can get
this mystery solved.

Uninstalling Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 01:37 PM PDT

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:36:59 -0400, Bob Martin <com> wrote:
 

If he uses the new install to repartition/install, it will install
a new copy of grub or lilo.

No need to uninstall. If he does want to uninstall, make sure
grub is the first thing uninstalled, as that will restore the
windows boot loader.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Remote X11 App Resource Usage

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 09:24 AM PDT

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

Would the remotely run application need to be built for VNC
compatibility or would any X11 application work with VNC?

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compiling on 32-bit vs. 64-bit (gcc fails on 64-bit)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:37 AM PDT

On Mar 24, 6:17pm, Robert Heller <com> wrote: 

*Ouch*. did that once by accident. I'd suggest backing it up, wiping
the disks and starting over. If not, Then install the 64-bit version
somewhere, git the list of all the standard RPM's, and use yum and rpm
to reinstall *everything*, including both i386 and x86_64 versions of
things, and discard the i386 versions lying around. But it would be
much faster to re-install.

Partition header search tool? Trashed MBR trying to recover drive

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:24 PM PDT

On 2010-03-24, Doug Freyburger <com> wrote: 

No worries. Glad if it helps you.

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How to Get Synaptic Working on X11 Remote?

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Artist wrote:
 

There's a leetle checkbox in the putty config dialog somewhere for X
forwarding. You need to have xauth, not (just) X11, on your server. (It is
part of the package of the same name in Debian)

Open Source Programs (SysAdmin and NetAdmin)

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:17 AM PDT

On comp.os.linux.setup, Bob Martin <com> wrote: 

A sysadmin who uses a mouse. Whatta joke.

Sid