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Posted: 30 May 2007 03:15 PM PDT

ZnU wrote: 

That, and they'd have several years of picking up a market. They can
lock people onto the platform through "killer" applications.
 

A) I was thinking more for wi-fi networks.
B) Not *yet*. Do you honestly think it won't improve over the next few
years?
 

Yes, full fledged operating systems like *Linux*, which is what they're
using. There is absolutely no reason that the current system they're
using couldn't scale up.
 

I've used touch-sensitive keyboards before. I still haven't seen one
that works well. I have no reason to believe that it will work better on
a smaller area.
 

I'm pretty good with graffiti, much better than I am pecking at such
small keyboards.
 

Jobs has lied before. "The one button mouse is here to stay!" "We'll
have 3ghz G5s by the summer!" "Why would anyone want to watch video on a
2 inch screen?" Etc, etc. First and foremost, he's a salesperson, and
he'll do everything in his power to generate momentum for his new
product. Even if it means lying.

Is there a means of automatically setting directory permissions

Posted: 30 May 2007 08:14 AM PDT

On 2007-05-30, voipfc <com> wrote: 

Simply running umask in a shell affects only that shell and
subprocesses. Modifying the umask globally requires modifications to
/etc/profile or the equivalent (and restarting any open shells, or
getting every logged-in user to source the modified file). Modifying it
for one user permanently requires modifying ~/.bash_profile or
equivalent.

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YUM ERROR

Posted: 29 May 2007 09:24 AM PDT

On May 31, 10:46 pm, Wayne Dernoncourt <com> wrote: 

What? You may need to find a new base repository, or mirror an old
one.yourself if the standard . But the problem is more likely the
mixing of livna and other non-Fedora-published repositories. And
mplayer is *NOT* a base Fedora core package, due to patent and
software licensing reasons.

Expecting the FC published base and updates-released and extras to
always interroperate with rpmforge, pidgin, crash-hat, and livna is
asking for your new Bose CD player in your car to interoperate with
the GPS your mom bought you without having to get.... clever with the
wiring.

Diskless Print Server ??

Posted: 29 May 2007 08:19 AM PDT

Douglas Mayne wrote: 

It will certainly run faster than a 10MbpS link will feed it. I run all
parallel on even 100mpbs and its all slower than the parallel interface
will go native..

If 

USB IS slower than parallel IME. 
we used to do that..but with print servers in a box being peanuts, the
novelty wore off. AND they DO need disks.

Error running nautilus as root

Posted: 28 May 2007 05:36 AM PDT

> try at least 'su -' to see how clever your distro set 

This did it! Thanks for your help!

Matthew

free spyware and virus checker for Linux?

Posted: 27 May 2007 12:02 PM PDT

On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:02:03 +0000, Umma Gumma wrote:
 
ClamAV : http://www.clamav.net
F-Prot (free, as in beer, for home users): http://www.f-prot.com/

Viruses...
Linux viruses do exist, in theory. The main purpose for using AV on
GNU/Linux is to prevent prevalent viruses from spreading. AFAICT, The
most prevalent viruses are written with another platform targetted
specifically. For example, using AV could prevent you from forwarding an
EMail with a virus attached. I would say that the virus would need to be
"forwarded" because it is unlikely that a virus would be attached from a
native GNU/Linux system, and be self-propogating from that platform.

Spyware...
AFAICT, spyware is divided into two categories:
1. Designed to track a specific online presence and activity. This method
uses browser cookie tracking, IP connection tracking between collaborating
or associated websites (such as, was publicized with doubleclick), and
other forms of data mining.

2. More virus-like behaviour (keyloggers, rootkits, etc.) This form could
enlist the PC in a bot-net, etc. IMO, people would not be sane if they
allowed their computer to be controlled in this manner.

Given the stark contrast to the two forms it is important to distiguish
which form is of most concern.

laptop display problems with Linux live CD

Posted: 26 May 2007 05:47 PM PDT

On 30 May 2007 05:10:30 -0700,net, wrote
 
Actually I have the opportunity to try several live distributions
in the last few months and Mandriva 2006 thru 2007 Spring works a treat
but so does DSL current,
Puppy 2.0.3cc,
Ubunto 7.04,
Fedora Core 5,

Mandriva 2007 Spring updated my previous 2007 without any hitches
last weekend. It is running on a cheap desktop replacement (heavy
laptop) with Celeron 1.8, 512 MB of DRAM and doing dual boot on a
111 GB hard drive. SiS chipset all around. I had to add a
refurbished 3COM PCMCIA modem to get it online.

You guys who offer advice here are great to spend so much time
with ignorant newbies and help Linux spread. I have been reading
for just over a year and am still using my Amiga for posting and
e-mail after an exhaustion fueled mistake crashed my initial address
and newsgroup listings on the "compromise" as I call my other computer.
Thanks again for all the hints and help you meant for others
but which I also profitted by.

later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)

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Where did the upper right hand menu go?

Posted: 26 May 2007 12:22 AM PDT

Darren Salt <demon.cu.invalid> did eloquently scribble: 
 
 
 
 
 

Could've been SuSE or Mandriva, y'know.
:)
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Debian Question: linux-image-2.6...-k7 vs. linux-image-2.6...-amd64

Posted: 25 May 2007 03:37 PM PDT

Ant <com> writes: 

Sarge, Etch, Lenny, and Sid are all different tracks. Currently these
correspond to:

oldstable=Sarge
stable=Etch
testing=Lenny
unstable=Sid (Sid is always unstable)
 

Among free software programs, nearly all have 64-bit ports.
 

Of these programs I have only installed xine and xmms, and both of
them are 64-bit executables.

You can check particular packages by looking at the page of the
package. E.g., for XMMS in unstable:
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/xmms.html>.

Followups set to alt.os.linux.debian.

- anton
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Can cp (copy) use hard linking to save space like rsync snapshots?

Posted: 25 May 2007 04:58 AM PDT

Grant <com.au> writes:
 
 

Hard links work only on the same partition. The do NOT work across
partitions.
And you do not use cp, you use ln
ln file1 file2 makes file2 a hard link to file1
But again, that leaves only one copy of the file, not two. It is NOT a
backup.



 
 

Installing old linux on new RAID hardware

Posted: 25 May 2007 01:47 AM PDT

In <46589b30$0$56922$newsreader.octanews.com> Beta <com> writes:
 
 
[del]

To find out which version is required, have a look inside the kernel
Doentation/Changes files:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
....
o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version
o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V
o e2fsprogs 1.29 # tune2fs
....

Module-Init-Tools
-----------------

A new module loader is now in the kernel that requires module-init-tools
to use. It is backward compatible with the 2.4.x series kernels.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

So, you should check if it's a least that version, then you should be
fine. As you will have to compile a custom kernel anyway, you should
check all other program version mentioned in this file, before you
have a go at it.
 
 
 

OK, I see.

Good luck,
Uli
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Running Linux (which version) in a Virtual Machine for Windows XP

Posted: 22 May 2007 01:06 PM PDT

On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:06:20 GMT, Umma Gumma
<Invalid> wrote: 

With a small amount of RAM (256MB or less), you want to avoid bloated
GUI environments like Gnome or KDE. Try Xubuntu or even Damn Small
Linux.


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I have no printer, where is lpr printing?

Posted: 22 May 2007 08:57 AM PDT

Baho Utot wrote: 
Never had that..

My huge HP plotter failed and I got 'man in' to service it. He
diagnosed overcurrent in the main head motor..he basically cleaned all
the cigarette ash, dog hairs and dead mice out of it and greased the
slides with snake oil..it worked!..wonderful two hours of chat as well.
I never ever got a bill either..

Redialing with sendfax (mgetty+fax) if busy

Posted: 21 May 2007 01:25 PM PDT

Alex <com> writes:
 
 

Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel? Faxservers are precisely to solve
problems like you have.

 

It retries the next time the faxq runs. Three times according your config.

 
 
 
 
 

Yes.
crontab -e
0-55/5 * * * * /usr/bin/faxrunq
runs faxrunq every 5 min. When a fax does not go through this tries again
next time it is run.

faxspool spools the fax.

 
 

Problem with configuring Telnet

Posted: 21 May 2007 04:34 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>: 

[ telnet doesn't work? ]
 
 

It's installed and enabled according to the OP, if you care to
take a look.
 

If you abandon all the advantages of ssh in exchange for
insecurity it just means you haven't really worked much with ssh.

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download linux server with PHP 4 on windowx xp

Posted: 21 May 2007 01:49 AM PDT

On Mon, 21 May 2007 11:24:53 -0500, John Hasler <gt.org> wrote:

 
 
 
 

Of course it will. While linux is running, the windows installation will be
stopped siting dormant on the hard drive.

upgrading to kernel 2.6.21.1 problem

Posted: 19 May 2007 04:14 PM PDT

Hi, thanks and sorry for the late reply, i've been running lots of
experiments here, as i have time avaiable.

Em Segunda, 21 de Maio de 2007 02:17, Jerry McBride escreveu:
 
Actualy some modules have been renamed:
ip_nat_ftp and ip_nat_irc are now nf_nat_ftp and nf_nat_irc
and so the same changes in ip_conntrack_

The "network options" in the kernel config is getting more and more
complicated, it would be great if the helps in that section would give us
the module name that will be created, like the most options in "device
drivers". The "network options" section is becaming too complex and it
should have better helping texts... that's my opinion.

Anyway, i've net, nat and almost everything running now
somewow, the system have adapted to the new module naming.

i have now a weird situation with one program that worked fine in 2.6.18 and
now is not working right, and i have yet to test my firewire interface...
other than that, the rest seems fine now.

 
Humm... module doesn't exist lots a lots of times ;)

Thanks again for your reply
ArameFarpado

C++ compiler cannot create executables

Posted: 19 May 2007 06:12 AM PDT

> checking for libmcrypt version... configure: error: libmcrypt version 

Doh! My mind disengaged for a moment there.
I did a quick Google for libmcrypt rpm and came up with this site:
dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmcrypt/

It worked like a charm.

On another note, I couldn't figure out how to add it as a repository
to Yum.
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B4 

I installed rpmforge-release but that didn't seem to add it to /etc/
yum.conf

Any ideas?

How to create the /etc/modprobe.conf file from scratch

Posted: 19 May 2007 12:50 AM PDT

On 20 May, 07:26, maxim2k <com> wrote: 

A farirly significant set of drivers are either hard-loaded into the
kernel, or hard-coded into the initrd.img for the CD or floppy image:
enough to access most basic types of hardware enougeither h to mount
and make accessible the rest of the drivers from the CD or network
boot. It's a real bootstrap sort of process.

Then Anaconda or the installer is supposed to do some guessing and
poking to detect the rest of the hardware and stores the generated
list in the new system's modprobe.conf.

Installing new system drive, doesn't work?

Posted: 18 May 2007 05:26 PM PDT

Baho Utot wrote: 

I set all the permissions as you show them in your list.

Making 2.6.x modules needs full kernel source or only headers?

Posted: 18 May 2007 11:18 AM PDT

On Sun, 20 May 2007 21:22:31 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
 

<shrug> I don't know, I'm only just starting to learn about this modules
stuff.
 

What if I'm not trying to make all the modules, just one of them (my own)?

Geek blowing smoke? (dual-boot advice)

Posted: 18 May 2007 09:45 AM PDT

You're in the Phoenix area? Small world. Me too.

Jack

Moe Trin wrote: 

RTFM'd, Still Having Trouble with FC6 Kernel Sources

Posted: 18 May 2007 06:17 AM PDT

Eric wrote: 

I don't know much about kernel-making,
but is the name of the kernel likely to be specified in the .config file?
I would have thought it was more likely to be implemented
in /sbin/kernelinstall .

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Microsoft CRM - CRMQuery +fetch +Operator +Like

Microsoft CRM - CRMQuery +fetch +Operator +Like

CRMQuery +fetch +Operator +Like

Posted: 17 May 2005 11:05 PM PDT

Is the number of digits the same? Is it always 3 digits or can it be 4 like
6122?

--
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Avanade


"com.au" wrote:
 

unable to add schema fields in CRM Activity

Posted: 17 May 2005 01:18 PM PDT

On the sunny side, you supposedly will be able to in 2.0... HTH,

Dave

Help! How to set the "level of reading" of the Account record

Posted: 17 May 2005 01:05 PM PDT

On the sunny side... you should be able to accomplish this easily in
2.0. You'll just need to add a custom entity, and restrict access on
that (entire) entity to read only for the subordinates. HTH,
Dave

CRM Exchange Connector

Posted: 17 May 2005 12:28 PM PDT

I thought it was possible to have multiple mailserverurl keys in the registry
looking at multiple exchange servers. Is this wrong John?

Cheers

Dan

"John O'Donnell" wrote:
 

Appointment Alert

Posted: 17 May 2005 11:33 AM PDT

Thanks for your Reply Dave

All I am interested in doing is having an alert sent went an appointment is
comming up soon. Sort of like an Outlook Callendar reminder poping up when
you have something due. I know there is nothing that can provide a pop up.
But I was wondering is there an activity I can create that would be triggered
by an appointments due date? As to your number 2 comment I have c360's
summary pack and it shows that info. Thanks anyway

"Dave Carr (dave- no com" wrote:
 

Post Callout- OrigObjectXml

Posted: 17 May 2005 10:33 AM PDT

Thanks for your answer...
Indeed i could filter out my standard fields but in my OrigObjectXml i need
to test some fields like the following example :
if the address1_name is not filled, i set a value than i update the
account...

But i don't how to manipulate OrigObjectXml with the fields .



"Rob Bakkers" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message
de news:com... 
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standard 
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during 

True Demo

Posted: 17 May 2005 05:53 AM PDT

Jen,

If you have access to a MSDN subscription, then you can download it from there.
Otherwise, there is no "true" eval license.

Your best bet is to try to find a local partner that has experience with it to
see if they can arrange more of a hands-on type demo for you. We've done that
for a few of our prospects.

A key is to make sure you know what you are looking for. If your expectations
aren't kown going into any package, odds are you will be dissappointed.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------
On Tue, 17 May 2005 05:53:35 -0700, "atwork_247"
<microsoft.com> wrote:

I have watched every demo on the website and even got a cd that had more, but
I need to touch the software and let my employees do the same. Does anyone
know if I can actually load a demo on my pc? I just spent $$$$$ on GoldMine
and I don't want to make another mistake by buying more software that I
cannot touch.

Thanks,

Jen

Mail Merge - Quote.dot

Posted: 17 May 2005 05:06 AM PDT

In the mail merge toolbar is 'Main doent button'.
This let you setup the typ of the mailmerge doent.


christian
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Related Doents for MSCRM
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CRM and SharePointServices

Posted: 17 May 2005 12:57 AM PDT

So installing WSS does not modify the IIS default web site?


"Roger" <com> wrote in message
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truly global CRM solution?

Posted: 16 May 2005 09:52 PM PDT

multi-lingual and localization support would be a good start.

Cheers

Ryan


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Conversation: truly global CRM solution?
Subject: Re: truly global CRM solution?

More detailed question required.
We are using it fine in Germany =)

Basic Question

Posted: 16 May 2005 05:41 PM PDT

see if the same thing happens from a workstation

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User authentication when launching Crystal Report

Posted: 16 May 2005 12:58 PM PDT

John,
thank you very much.

The problem was exactly as you described it, so now it works fine.

Thank you !!!!!

Ruben Porporato.

"John O'Donnell" wrote:
 

Outlook connector - Auth

Posted: 16 May 2005 07:19 AM PDT

The PC must be joined to the domain, otherwise you can neither install nor
use CRM Sales for Outlook. Therefore XP Home is a non-starter, as it cannot
be joined to a domain


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Access is Denied error

Posted: 16 May 2005 04:55 AM PDT

John,

Thank you for your reply.

The 1st byte is set to 00

Joel

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Page not found after installing FTP Server Service on MS CRM 1.2

Posted: 13 May 2005 08:04 AM PDT

Hi Julio~

Also make sure the default.aspx file is located within the folder. Then, if
no other websites are running on the server set the IP Address to All
Unassigned under the properties of the CRM website. Make sure the port
number is set to 80. Do you use any host headers for the CRM website? If
so, temporarily remove the host header, restart IIS and then test and see
if the error occurs.

Warm Regards,

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Send Direct E-Mail error

Posted: 13 May 2005 04:54 AM PDT

Hi Shawn,

thanx again for your quik response. I will wait for your post.

Best regards,

Jani Lindner

"Shawn Nulph" wrote:
 

Moving /home - Forums Linux

Moving /home - Forums Linux

Moving /home

Posted: 17 May 2007 09:21 PM PDT

On 2007-05-18, Matt Giwer <REMover.rr.com> wrote: 

It's not? The OP seems to have originally placed /home on the
/ partition, and now wants it on its own partition. He probably
wants to be able to erase / without disturbing /home.
 

Why?
 

If users are logged in moving /home could cause problems. The
most sure way is to go to runlevel 1, log in directly as root, and
then move /home to its final destination e.g.

mount /dev/hda88 /mnt/newhome
cd /home
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/newhome;tar xvf -)

# (force of habit; the equivalent mv should work too)
# verify newhome is good; then
rm -rf /home
# or
mv /home /oldhome
mkdir /home
mount /dev/hda88 /home
# now edit /etc/fstab and add an entry for /home

If runlevel 1 is not an option, then set /etc/nologin or equivalent
(like beating your users over the head with a hockey stick if they
log in), kill off any processes using /home (lsof can help here), then
do the above.

You need to remove or move the old /home before mounting the new
/home if you want to be able to eventually free up that space without
having to umount the new /home. If you don't move it out of the way,
the new mount will mask the existing files, and there will be no way
to delete them without umounting the new /home.

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Blog publishing (newbie)

Posted: 17 May 2007 05:40 PM PDT

On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:40:31 -0400, Neil Jones wrote:
 

A good tool for newbie bloggers is WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/

How to set the order of init.d scripts.

Posted: 16 May 2007 01:30 PM PDT

On 16 May, 21:30, voipfc <com> wrote: 

On most Linux systems, the "chkconfig" command is used to read the
chkconfig line in the init script and set the order appropriately.
Take a look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to get a sense of what happens at
runlevel 3, and at the contents of the files and the man page for
chkconfig.

Is there some good serial port terminal tool ?

Posted: 15 May 2007 10:46 PM PDT

On May 17, 7:23 pm, Nico <com> wrote: 

What isn't intuitive about minicom? Anyone here who has ever used a
popular terminal program for the PC such as Telix or Procomm will
recognize minicom.
 

Kermit?! If minicom isn't intuitive, kermit is arcane! Only greybeards
will recognize kermit. I remember it, but fortunately only used it
sparingly to transfer to/from old systems that had nothing else.

video/wireless devices for FC6 on Dell laptop; recommendations?

Posted: 15 May 2007 12:39 PM PDT

In alt.comp.linux Richard Vaughn <com> wrote:
 

Ok, this appears to be supported by open source DRI drivers. I have not
tested this personally, but if it works, this would be the card of choice. I
would try and find someone who has a similar laptop, and test it with a live
CD. The other cards do not have open source 3d support at this time, as far as
I can tell, so I would avoid these at this time.

Regards,

Mark.

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From Mozilla to Mailx and Sendmail ?

Posted: 14 May 2007 09:26 AM PDT

On May 15, 11:23 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: 

That's maybe the goal, but I was asking something completely
different, if someone knows how to...

Thanks anyway.

How to recall history command for editing

Posted: 14 May 2007 03:08 AM PDT



voipfc wrote:
 

If you are using bash then first do:

shopt -s histverify

Then when you do !27 it will put the command on the command line and
allow you to edit it.

Good luck,

Steve

P.S. This was found via the time-honored method of "man history".

cron daily jobs all run together

Posted: 12 May 2007 07:52 PM PDT

Darren Salt wrote: 
They do, but mine contains only:

cron.d:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Nov 15 2005 sysstat

$ cat cron.d/sysstat
# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A

I like to keep my regular stuff together in /etc/cron.hourly, .daily,
..weekly, and .monthly in each of which run-parts runs one after the other as
fast as it can.

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Is there an easy way to install apps on Linux

Posted: 11 May 2007 01:43 PM PDT

On 11 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, Roger wrote:
 

As you are new to Linux, your best bet is to use the applications that
come with your distribution (or in the case of *buntu, the applications
available through Debian), and you _REALLY_ want to be using the
package manager for this.

1: The packages have been inspected, poked at, tested AND someone
is keeping an eye on it for security problems.

2: The package manager keeps track of what is installed, where, and
what conflicts and dependencies exist, AND how to resolve them.

3. The package manager can handle updates, and the safe removal of
packages without breaking the system.

Do you know how to do all of that? Are you aware of the consequences
if you are not able to do so?

Unlike windoze, there are (literally) hundreds of different Linux
distributions, and they use several different package tools. Most often,
packages are built for a specific release of a specific distribution,
much as a fender for a 2006 Plymouth PT Cruiser isn't going to fit very
well on a 2004 Chevrolet Corvette. or a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. The
common tool among all distributions is the tar file and compiling from
source - which is still simpler than you trying to figure out how to
bash that piece of sheet metal (or fiberglass) into something that may
be made to fit and function like a fender.
 

Then why are you using a keyboard? Can't you just click on some icon
and have your thoughts translated directly to words in some web-form?
 

uhuh
 

The reason it did not is because that cryptic command stuff can do things
that your GUI can't do because the author never thought you'd need or
want to do so. If the GUI author didn't include it, you can't do it.
Amazing. Additionally, the commands can be chained together to do
things quite different, and rapidly without much effort. In reality,
while there are a lot of "cryptic" commands on the computer, you rarely
use even ten percent of them. Here, there are over 1300 commands in my
PATH as a user - yet I average using around 80 commands to accomplish
everything I use the computer for. Tell me where the icons are that you
can use to find out how many commands are on your system, and which ones
you are using.

Old guy

Video Problem installing FC6 on P4

Posted: 10 May 2007 11:56 AM PDT

On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:58:13 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Good morning, Matt.

I found ONE video card (Matrox G-200), out of my large stack of video
cards, that works. So, the problem is solved for now. Unfortunately I
had to accept that and move on to my next problem, so I didn't get a
chance to retrieve and post messages generated by the non-working cards.
I do appreciate the offer to look at them and I may take you up on that
when I get myself dug out from under the current pile of issues to deal
with. :-\

Ubuntu 6.10: I cannot compile "hello world"

Posted: 10 May 2007 08:27 AM PDT

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bill Mar wrote:
 
Thanks!
you enabled the "crystal ball" option,
understood what i meant
and gave me the solution
(or at least something very well worth trying)

Thanks again
Luciano :-)
 

Where can I download UPDATE 2 for RHE 4 !

Posted: 10 May 2007 07:14 AM PDT

Zex wrote: 

Who do you think pays Red Hat to produce those updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to test those updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to package those updates and all the other
packages into a distribution that you can easily install?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to maintain all the development and test machines?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to maintain all the servers to distribute the
updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to purchase the networking capacity so you can
download those updates?
It is the subscribers to their service that do it, and you want to freeload
off all those of us who pay for it?

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where and how to create a cron job

Posted: 10 May 2007 03:14 AM PDT


Ayon kay Bill Mar: 

Tnx sir. i tried using crontab -e and my back-up scheduling is now
ok...tnx so mch

How to setup telnet server for root account ?

Posted: 08 May 2007 10:43 AM PDT

com.tw wrote: 
Simply excecute "su -" once logged in..and go superuser.

Having a root capable direct telnet login is a security hole so large
that even I don't do it on a private network!

Active mode FTP over PPP

Posted: 08 May 2007 04:13 AM PDT

Mark Hobley <deletethisbit.com> wrote:
 

The three servers are connected to each other by ethernet. I have an idea.

Keep all the servers on 192.168.0.*

On the modem panels provide DHCP addresses as: 192.168.1.* for the first panel
through to 192.168.254.* and use a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

This allows 254 modem panels, each containing 254 modems. (Presumably you
don't have any more than this.)

(Remember you cannot use *.0 and *.255 for client addresses)

A dialling in client then requests its PPP address via DHCP, and is placed on
the 192.168.1.* network (presuming the first panel takes the call)

You still need to activate packet forwarding on server A, but this is trivial.

I assume here that all 64516 modems are connected to server A, obviously you
need to adjust this model to suit your layout.

Regards,

Mark.

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USB hard drive compatibility and Linux

Posted: 08 May 2007 03:23 AM PDT

Wenslauw wrote: 
Just bought a new Seagate 500Gb drive with 16Mb Cache, and 5year
warranty, for $139.99 delivered. Stuck it into one of my
USB/Firewire400 cases, and formatted it to EXT3. 465 GB of usable
storage. Have two others and am dumping them over. Also can dump my
internal 120Gb drive.

Hey, works fine in PCLinuxOS and Simply Mepis 6.5.

Repartition tool

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:30 PM PDT

Don Phillipson wrote: 

http://livecdlist.com has some like, QTParted, Gnome parted (Gparted).

or: any live cd has the partition editor in the install file.

Also, > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ 

Dual-boot system: How to change default to Windows

Posted: 06 May 2007 09:56 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, Stefan Patric
<com>
wrote
on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:48:42 GMT
<KiT%h.1834$%phx>: 

Well, really, everyone knows that the normal method of designating
partitions with single letters starting with C:, D:, etc. is just so
intuitive! :-)

I'll admit I'm of two minds of all this. The HP mindset -- since HP
originally had a nomenclature that identified a drive by SCSI ID --
is a bit brittle; what if one changes the scsi ID? A similar problem
exists for the Linux ordering, which is basically first drive /dev/sda,
second drive /dev/sdb, etc., regardless of whether drive #1 is id 0, id
1, id 3, etc.

However, there's a third alternative...and in fact, several more.
Take a look at /dev/disk; one will find three alternate choices
to the standard /dev/hda1 nomenclature.

/dev/disk/by-id:
Entries here are symlinks, with names starting with the interface type
(ata or scsi, presumably), followed by an identifier read from the drive
(I have a Maxtor_98196H8_V80BT60C and a
WDC_WD800LB-55DNA0_WD-WMADW1096956, apparently; it's possible that
there's a unique identifier in there somewhere as a lot of systems are
configured with two identical model drives), followed by -partNN if it's
a partition as opposed to the entire drive.

/dev/disk/by-path:
Entries here are also symlinks. I'm not entirely sure what the first
part is on other systems (on mine it's pci-0000:00:02.5, which is
probably an indication of where the interface card, or in my case
which onboard controller, is), followed by 0 or 1, followed by colon,
followed by 0 (master) or 1 (slave), followed by -partNN as before.

/dev/disk/by-uuid:
Entries here are symlinks, and apparently represent a UUID generated
when the partition was formatted for use.

This is all part of udev. Presumably mount doesn't care whether it's
accessing the device directly (/dev/hda1) or a symlink that's correctly
pointing to the device.

Of course, during booting, all of this isn't quite set up
yet, so there's not a lot one can do; I happen to like GRUB
but LILO might make more sense for those already familiar
with e.g. /dev/hda1.

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Does some have any idea to install DSL on HDD without FDD?

Posted: 06 May 2007 06:54 PM PDT

google-rambo88 <com> wrote:
 

There is a command dsl-hdinstall that transfers the system onto the hard drive.

http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/distributions/damnsmall/baseinstall/index.html

Regards,

Mark.

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Making 'ptal-init setup' permanent.

Posted: 05 May 2007 09:56 AM PDT

On May 7, 4:41 am, elsiddik <com> wrote: 

Ok, a good point to start, but are you sure that '/etc/rc.local' is
somewhat debian specific?
I don't have such as directory (file!?) in my /etc. I guess his debian
counterpart could be the directory '/etc/rcS.d'. In thins directory
I've many symlinks to '/etc/init.d', one of which keep my attention,
'S55bootmisc.sh'. A comment line inside this file declaim as follow:
" # Short-Description: Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup."
So what I would to do, put the 'ptal-init setup' entry inside it?
This isn't a simple 'typeit_typeenter_goaway command', but an
interactive one, with many questions to answer to go to its end. So
what I would like to do is save its final results.

Apologies in andvance if I'm too noob and I'm saying non-sense things
in a bad english :-}

installation/upgrade questions

Posted: 04 May 2007 01:01 PM PDT

Thanks, guys, for the feedback.

Now I know that at least I'm not alone with erratic CD-ROM behavior. I did
give the the thing a cleaning, which helped some. I'll get another one if I
must.

BTW, the problems were from CD-R discs for the most part, though some may
have actually been industrially-pressed CDs. I have no expectation of any
results from any DVD or CD-RW disc.

MB

A curious one

Posted: 04 May 2007 09:05 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 
Well I use it as a files server so I can share files and printers wih my
wife's old Mac, and its recently taken up a positin to go online as a
web server for a very small site that so far has juts 700 people
looking at it on an irregular basis..an its a place my wife can showcase
websites she is developing for clients..so no one is paying anything for
its use..its just a development and utility platform.
 

Yup. That's a tree branch across the line, or the wires clashing
together. That's what got it into this state...I have it on 'no auto
reboot' since when we do get an outage, chances are the power goes up
and down several times before its cleared.

My 
Nah. I am more irritaed on having to wait for the lights to stop
flashing, then 'press enter' to get it to carry on booting..

keeping drivers over boot

Posted: 04 May 2007 03:16 AM PDT

On 4 May 2007 03:40:48 -0700, elsiddik <com> wrote:
 

I don't know what 'em is. Only thing I know that works is 'make install'
and I suspect there must be a cleaner solution.

The link /vmlinuz is a damaged link and The link /initrd.img is a damaged link due to lack of free disk space...

Posted: 03 May 2007 12:18 PM PDT

> > # apt-get remove kernel-headers-2.6.8-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-k7 
 
 

Thanks! I always thought headers were required for modules (not just
compiling). Heh, I am still learning Linux a lot. :)
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Duplicate Linux Disk

Posted: 02 May 2007 11:29 PM PDT

On Wed, 02 May 2007 23:29:35 -0700, com wrote:
 
If you are using the grub loader, then you will need to install grub on
the second disk. This is because you used tar to copy the partition, which
is the correct way to do it, IMO, BTW. It is correct way to copy because
it allows for the source partition to have different properties than the
destination partition (size, filesystem, etc.) You just have to remember
to account for the bootloader.

The final fixups for making sure the copy will work as intended. Two
of the fixups are as follows:
(1) grub needs to be installed, and its menu verified,
and
(2) /etc/fstab needs to be edited (that is, if you intend to boot
without recabling.) The FC distribution may use "disk lables"
instead of standard device names which is a big annoyance for me.
If you are going to recable in the event of a drive failure, then you may
not need to do this step.

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