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Simultaneous LinuxWindows on dual processor PCs 460
Marten Kemp There wasn't any. There was a mode with protection and virtual memory but it wasn't designed to support a virtual machine. From the '386 on the...
LVM crash
During installation of a new scsi disk in a ProLiant 370 server with RHEL4, LVM manager crashed (hung) and the configuration was corrupted. The machine cannot boot...
linux on PC 462
spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: It is very easy, actually. The key is to install both Windows versions first before you install GNU-Linux...
linux on PC
02-13-2006 Any of comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.answers, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup might be a good starting point. You might also check in distribution watch. You don't...
linux on PC 464
Double booting of LINUX and Windows is a very common thing and usually works without problems. Installation is not very...
linux on PC 465
Thanks to everyone for all the posts. I allready have windows 2000 installed on my PC at home...
Kernels and MicrokernelsBasics
I'm trying to get some understanding of kernels as relevant to a realtime kernel that I use. Pretty much all I know about it is how to run...
Turn $5's into $50,000's
Hi, my name is Matt and I am 17. I like to skateboard, photography, and occasionally play paintball. I currently...
GTK+ questions
Hello *Scrollbars* Are there any gtk2 themes-engines with scrollbars that operate just like plan9 scrollbars? I. e. left click on scrollbar moves up, right click...
GTK+ questions
and said: Um. I dare you to find a normal user, give him an Athena app with a vertical scrollbar as in "xterm -rightbar -sb", and get him to...
eth0: Outofsync dirty pointer 470
On 14 Feb 2006 23:21:20 GMT, Kevin the Drummer staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yeah, bad pointers in kernel space typically mean an OOPS right afterwards...
eth0: Outofsync dirty pointer 471
Dances With Crows Software can...in conjunction with asynchronous events..cause random flakiness. I wrote an OS for a single board computer. About once every couple of hours it would...
eth0: Outofsync dirty pointer 472
Yeah, I plan to upgrade to Mandriva 2006.0 just as soon as I can on that machine...
Stop KDE from launching at boot 473
Robert Hull FWIW - I have the exact *opposite* issue (I'd like to boot directly into KDE). After a Debian Sarge install (3.1r1, Kernel 2.6.8-2-386, KDE 3.3.2) onto my older PII with...
Stop KDE from launching at boot Ok GREAT kind of
OK.......so I rebooted after 'apt-get install kdm' and !shazam! - I now have a GUI login...
Stop KDE from launching at boot 475
Robert M. Riches Jr. I guess KDM, since I had a terrible time even getting all of KDE installed to the point where startx would actually work...
Stop KDE from launching at boot 476
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:31:20 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said: Debian, by default, doesn't *have* any distinctions among...
Stop KDE from launching at boot 477
Dances With Crows Okee dokee ;-) oh, before I forget -- after running 'apt-get install kdm' I was finally presented with the 3-4 Shutdown options (End Current Session, Turn Off Computer...
Stop KDE from launching at boot 478
Dances With Crows 3 things though; * Once my User logout occurs (End Session in X) and...
Stack Size for a
Hi, How can i know the default Stack Size allocated to a Thread in Red Hat Linux...
I have a question
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:39:52 -0800, binkylin Now comes the "canned" speech about what's wrong with GG posting. It's offered as a learning tool, to help you get more, and...
A newbie's progress continued
Hello, it's me again. I'm sure many of you are like the cat who ate a chunk of cheese and then lay down by the mousehole - waiting with baited breath. I...
xfce trouble after startx
on my laptop -- if i use kdm, xfce (xfce4) starts up nice. it's totally GUI-windowy and pretty, there's a mouse flashing...
DriveReady error
i'm receiving a message from dmesg: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 32571215, scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Start-Stop Unit 00...
Help: Comparing Directories with Diff
I am trying to build a backup script that creates incremental copies of home directories. Basically, the script would look athome and compare it tocopies-yesterday, and pipe the path of...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu
bootloader that comes with Windows. But I might be wrong. I don't know this subject. This is...
Do It
MAKE MONEY EASY MUST TRY Now I know public opinion on all this mail-order crap and get rich scheming but here's one that will...
Problems with lircd
I've compiled and installed lircd 0.8.0 for use with a Creative CIMR-100 device but I've having some strange issues. If I use irrecord to attempt...
Problems with lircd 488
On 22 Feb 2006 11:47:59 -0800, Wescotte staggered into the Black Sun and said: Hm. Which lirc* module are you using...
Problems with lircd 489
On 22 Feb 2006 17:05:52 -0800, Wescotte staggered into the Black Sun and said: right thing. Context restored: This looks like it should be OK...
renaming files via shell script
Chris F.A. Johnson Thanks for the help, I've learned alot! mmv is a new one for me the scripts will...
Tape drive doesn't show when booting from linux rescue FC4 Help
p.s., trying to be as throrough as I know how: here's the output of ls -lisadev: total...
Where are KDE desktop icon labels stored
I ask here because I tried everywhere else, including #kde. I run Kanotix. I have 2 other parbreastions. On desktop my other parbreastions have hard-disk icons with labels... like "sdb3...
Linux Computer on TV Screen Hard to read fonts
Seems this hardware is used in several brands of converters. Appears to be pretty good...
MultiCPU 494
Been there, done that. Debugging multi-threaded code is no simple task. A very talented guy I used to work with run his MT code on a dual processor Linux...
MultiCPU 495
Tommy Willoughby If in doubt, and it is running on a *86 machine, run memtest86 overnight...
Please help Hoping to join Linux 496
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:28:58 -0800, zxcvbnm2bg Before you buy a boxed set try the free version first, you should also try Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu...
Please help Hoping to join Linux 497
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:28:58 -0800, zxcvbnm2bg yes. You can boot and run from a live CD like Knoppix or...
memory overload
hello, my httpd crashed, and i checked the top colmmand and it looks like my system is using a rather big quanbreasty of memory ??? is this normal? what could be...
Changing queue length for mptscsih driver
On some of our hosts attached to an Xserve RAID box, we're seeing messages like this: Feb 18...
Urgent KDE translucency problems system unusable
Madhusudan Singh This appears to be an Xorg problem. I see some strange messages in Xorg.log : ADVANCELPRING: outring (0x2f) isn't on a QWord boundary(WW) I810(0): Fixing display offsets. ADVANCELPRING: outring (0x7) isn't...
Urgent Xorg translucency problems system unusable
Jes Vestervang Funny that you should mention that. I initially did not have these lines when I first encountered the problem...
been using only root account system compromized 502
Thanks for the answer. I found out that the PermitRootLogin line was commented out and that UsePAM was enabled. I attach a copy of...
been using only root account system compromized 503
David L. Johnson Pls find below a list of my running services using following command. # chkconfig --list grep on SuSEfirewall2init 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 504
Nehmo - Arno Wagner - Nehmo - I know MBR is Master Boot Record. Apparently it's on C with Windows. there's one there too. But I think...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 505
Timothy Daniels - Nehmo - Looking up "Active Parbreastion", I get this definition: "The active parbreastion is the parbreastion on the first hard disk which is automatically booted when no boot manager is installed...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu
Nehmo" Not having the time to read the linked article, I can only guess that its reference to a "boot manager" is NOT to Microsoft's ntldr boot manager, but to...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 507
Eric Gisin GRand Unified Boot loader They only need to add the 'Chainloader +1' entry (see below) ================================================== *4.1.2 Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems* If you want to boot an unsupported...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 508
In comp.os.linux.misc, on Wed 22 February 2006 22:29, Nehmo Possibly not for a couple of reasons: 1 If you had installed Disk 2 as a slave you would need to rejumper it...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 509
No. That is the "parbreastion boot sector". The MASTER boot record is allways in the first sector of the disk. To...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 510
I run dual boot like this, primarily windoze boxen default to windoze, primarily linux default to loading linux. In any case I let MSFT own the MBR and pbutt control to...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 511
Grant hmmm...Ok; I think I have Twins ^^ I got Win98 on hda1-5-6 (Ext'd on hda2) and linux on hda7-8-9-10-11 (All Logicals) Boot flag is only set on hda1 atm, but I...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 512
Aww Crap %#%*^%... Sorry folks messy format removed $ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 xxd 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000946 seconds (541273...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 513
Unfortunately, yes. As soon as you go over the first 4 IDE drives, you need luck. Or if you have an SATA-SCSI controller that messes with the BIOS disk order. Sorry...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 514
A Further Synopsis... iforone The MBR-MPT doesnothave to have an Active-Boot flag set for GRUB (Linux)-- but AFAICT windoze WILL overwrite it...
Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 515
Arno Wagner I'm reaching a bit - and my brain is starting to hurt :-) - but I have (hd0,0)) -- I guess it's because of my GRUB 'chainloader +1' entry for windoze that causes...
The Information Operations Roadmap
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:52:09 -0800, donstockbauer Now comes the "canned" speech about what's wrong with GG posting. It's offered as a learning tool, to help you get more, and better help, without...
