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Newbie question: problems setting DISPLAY to X server
On 19 Apr 2005 13:03:54 -0700, Mike Mol staggered into the Black Sun and said: Don't do that. This is possible...
REMOVE IE
How will this benefit me? * DCOM will be shut off, preventing possible exploits. * TCP-IP will be hardened against some DDOS attacks and malformed packet attacks. How? I added settings that NIST...
The 2.6 kernel is worse than 2.4
I thought the kernel development process was botched for the 2.4 cycle. With the scheduler fiasco and such, I thought the kernel team would be better the next time around. So I...
The 2.6 kernel is worse than 2.4
Mike Cox Look at a mirror and see who the disaster is :-) ATAPI is SCSI commands sent over an ATA channel. Cdrecord is been working perfectly on my machine with all the 2.6...
Text Editor for Linux 3406
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:01:27 +0000, Edwin Johnson Emacs-Xemacs hardly puts a strain on any modern machine. I've been using some variant of Emacs since the late 1970s, it's...
Text Editor for Linux 3407
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 13:06 GMT, Douglas O'Neal Absolutely. But having more features does not make an editor harder to learn and use if that's...
Text Editor for Linux 3408
That *is* the benefit to using (X)Emacs. The fact that anyone doesn't make use of any given facility is *not* a detriment. It just means that whatever it...
Text Editor for Linux 3409
Your mindset is getting the best of you. I want to get work done, and could care less about ideology. (X)Emacs is the best tool...
Text Editor for Linux 3410
I don't agree with your last sentence. Editors are not the only complex programs around, but they are a good example of a program that is necessarily very complex *if...
Text Editor for Linux 3411
Jove, is of course just another emacs, which proves my point. In 1985 I'd been using an emacs editor for...
iptablesrestore hang during system boot
SUMMARY -------- OS: * Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6) Files involved: *etc-sysconfig-iptables *sbin-iptables-restore Issues: * iptables setup during...
RealAudio 10 & Firefox
I'm running Mandrake 10 on a PIII and KDE Now that I got Firefox up and running I went ot RealAudio and downloaded Player...
Programmatically determine if find command worked 3414
Alan Connor gotcha! f***ing stupid troll. I'm smarter than you, because I have discovered...
Programmatically determine if find command worked 3415
Alan Connor Yes, I'm the top poster in the Spanish groups. I use to give solutions to people problems. Search a little more. I've almost never started a thread. Search a...
1 USB device gets attached to 2 different devices and mouted twice
When I plug in my USB Lexar powershot storage device, fedora automatically recognizes it, mounts it, and creates an icon on the desktop for it. The only...
Defragment NTFS parbreastion 3417
Well that's certainly one person's opinion. How many times have you done it? If that's the case, then why not simply backup and resize then? I teach a clbutt where one...
Defragment NTFS parbreastion 3418
Well, there are examples when backup went wrong and people lost all their data. The...
IPTABLES question, multiple rules
Hi, I have a question. I've set up a PPTP server with PoPToP for a VPN server...
OT Free Software 3420
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:22:33 +0000, Erix Some of the developers are paid to do so, by companies big and small...
OT Free Software 3421
In a message on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:26:25 GMT, wrote : Here is a real life...
OT Free Software 3422
And of course, if someone just cooks something up for their own use, releasing it as open source may cost them nothing...
OT Free Software
Back well before the terms open software and free software were coined, they were the norm. A company or university would write something that they needed for their own use and exchange it with...
OT Free Software 3424
I work for a company that uses free software extensively to support internal systems. We produce some free software because we really needed it for our own purposes. Releasing it more widely has already had...
OT Free Software 3425
Usually, the developers developing free software produce stuff that helps them to be, in some manner, more productive. They produce software that provides their organization some kind of...
OT: What is 'close' to asp.net for development
I do some development in apt.net using C# via Visual Studio and ado.net. The integration of Visual Studio with...
Suspend to disk 3427
That feature is called "swsusp". Seeusr-src-linux-Documentation-power-swsusp.txt for more info. Yes. I've been doing...
Suspend to disk 3428
No. Why will the swap parbreastion contents be trashed? If it doesn't get trashed during a normal VM pageout, why would it be impossible for swsup to do the same? What's the...
Suspend to disk 3429
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:36:57 GMT, Don't know about the distros, but swsusp2 is available as a patch to the current kernel, works...
Linux Is So Bad it Has To Be a Joke... Exposing the Linux Myth, or
Just some of the Linux myths exposed Why so many distributions? The Linux weirdos would like you to believe that it is because...
Linux does provide everything
Hi. Yes. Linux does provide everything windows does, and more. The installation process is just often slightly more tedious, and there is a learning curve if you are going set up mailservers...
Does Linux provides everything what Windows OS provides 3432
However, in an office with 5 PCs it is unlikely that there is a "dedicated IT team, well trained or otherwise. The fact is...
Does Linux provides everything what Windows OS provides 3433
While I wouldn't consider zero desktop space much of an advantage for virtual desktop managers, I'm positive that fvwm can in fact...
bash scripting challengeproblem
he problem to solve is : from the commandline in linux (RedHat enterprise 3) I have close to 50 db2 databases to administer, and it's a hell of a job...
ls recursively
It's a subtle "gotcha". Here's the important bit: Wildcard expansion happens first. Think about that for a minute, and see if...
REMOVE IE 3436
Apr 19, 10:33 am Re: REMOVE IE You didn't read the site. This claim isn't made. I also list "Games." Does that mean I claim...
Is this possible Audio recording over the web
I had an idea for something that I can't find any evidence if it exists, or if it can be done. I buttume it can...
Newbie trying to install RPM on Linspire 5.0
Hi, I'm trying to install RPM on Linspire 5.0, so that I can use Alien to convert the OpenOffice Beta 2.0 .rpm installation files to .deb files to run on Linspire. However, when...
Linux distribution summary
Hi, I'm a pretty new Linux user. I am currently using SuSE 9.2 after trying Red Hat and Mandrake. One of them...
Share internet from Mandrake 10 to windows 3440
Do what? If you want your mandrake machine to act as a NATing gateway for a private net to another net, you want to...
Share internet from Mandrake 10 to windows 3441
OK i did the ifconfig and now I have eth0:1 as 192.168.0.244 I can ping this address from the other computer on my...
Filesystem problems with progeny RH 9 kernel upgrade
Folks, We have some servers till being held at RedHat 9 (and we are getting close to upgrade to RHEL 4). We have been using progeny service to...
problems starting x
i've got ubuntu hoary on an IBM thinkpad. since upgrading to hoary i've encountered a few problems. no deal-closers, but enough to wish...
problems starting x
If the above file is not found (apparently the case with these users), then... This one will be used? Or one...
How to detect locked files 3445
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:02:46 GMT, Mackan staggered into the Black Sun and said...
How to detect locked files 3446
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:08:38 GMT, Mackan staggered into the Black Sun and said: If you move it before the FTP server...
Why do the installed program icons go
Hi. if you are looking for icons on your desktop, you can simply add them yourself by right...
BWWWHAHHAHAHAHAA. Thank God For Win XP! 3448
Mike Cox When they do, I'll ask them to aim carefully; I don't want to get...
BWWWHAHHAHAHAHAA. Thank God For Win XP! 3449
Mike Cox Comes in handy, yanno? Particularly given the love of Flash that a lot of webmasters seem to have nowadays. It wasn't that funny. Cool. Can we download it? Can we see the source...
Meaning of Console_ entries in keymap files
I think the man page for keymap is pretty awful, but I have managed to figure...
FTP utility wanted
Howdy I don't have the most reliable internet connection in the world but need to...
traffic control
Hi all, I'm making a nat box which will be shared among a few people wirelessly, from...
traffic control
Yes, I read on the lartc howto that outgoing data can be shaped and incoming data can be "policed", but that the...
Looking for good ftp client software for Redhat 4
ncftp is the best ftp client I've ever used or even read about. From man (1) ncftp: DESCRIPTION The purpose of ncftp is...
some newbie partimage questions
Hi All, I am very new to part image. I have read over the on line FAQ and am confused about some points: 1) When restoring, who recreates the parbreastion? Do you...
I am interested in Linux Admin, wanted to self learn, what are important things in
GS It's all important. What is administration, anyway? It's making the machine do whatever it is its owners need it to do. You may not need to know the details of applications (though...
I am interested in Linux Admin, wanted to self learn, what are important things in
On 04-27-2005 07:24 AM, GS 0) Operating System installation, setup and, or fine-tuning 0.1...
I am interested in Linux Admin, wanted to self learn, what are important things in
GS Well, you are right, but there is some movement back to terminals on the desktop - not old green screen terminals, but GUI based...
