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Sarge X problem
On 28 Dec 2005 07:40:37 -0800, Carsten staggered into the Black Sun and said: New hardware typically means you'll have an easier time running new software. Debian stable is fine, but it's *old...
Compilation Error in CYGWIN
Hi All, Here is the sample programm in for NANO Second Sleep using the predefind nanosecond function in the CYGWIN Environment. int...
Can't mount lvm through fstab
I am having the most bizzare problem. I hope someone can quickly identify the problem. I created a volume group and filesystem using LVM on an iscsi SAN. I can mount it just fine...
only 4 serial ports with kernel 2.6.14
After upgrading from 2.6.11.7 to 2.6.14.3 I seem to be limited to 4 serial ports (or have a problem with a 2-port board). dmesg before: Serial: 8250-16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8...
Why are the corporates so antiKDE 7330
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:24:45 -0500, Jean-David Beyer I suspect you're right, and Gnome certainly seems the more 'visible' of the two, probably largely due to...
Why are the corporates so antiKDE 7331
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:15:26 -0500, Madhusudan Singh And I don't intend to participate in one...
Why are the corporates so antiKDE 7332
Crashdamage I used something like fvwm on Red Hat 5.0, and could barely stand it. I do not know what desktop there was anymore, but it looked sort-of like...
How to install any software in Linux
Ouch, that is old gear! Where did you find it, at a flea market? The...
HELP!About download FC4 images. 7334
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:24:35 -0500, Jean-David Beyer staggered into the Black Sun and said...
HELP!About download FC4 images. 7335
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:58:52 +0100, Michael Heiming staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yeah, well, so is Perl...
HELP!About download FC4 images
Switch off the computer. Put the CD in a Windows computer, and browse to the directory Fedora-RPMS, and write down or print out the list of files there. There are 576 files! You only...
HELP!About download FC4 images. 7337
Andrew Preater I do not remember Fedora Core releases because I only tried FC2 and did not like it. But with other releases (from Red Hat and CentOS), you...
HELP!About download FC4 images
I wonder when this madness started? Mayayana says it's the same for SUSE, you'll need all of the CDs for installation. I...
dd image "auspacken
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:36 +0100, Enrique Perez-Terron staggered into the Black Sun and said: I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the appropriate mkisofs commands yet. "mkisofs -r -J -b floppyimage.raw -c boot.cat...
Debian replicator boot disk problem 7340
Idea: Google "nfs error 13". Seems there could be a permissions issue. Idea: Quote the exact error message. I might try to look it up in the source...
Missive
FRIEND, As are you, Brandon and www.ChezBrandon.com are intelligent and awesome. May you have an awesome day. A...
Linux Bootup Screens
It applies, that you can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2... to get a virtual console. The X session takes one of them, number 7 on my distro. What sometimes fails here is...
lynx sendmail from script 7343
The oldest Unix email I know of used this syntax to send mail: but it actually invokes "sendmail" to...
lynx sendmail from script 7344
Actually, many (maybe most) domains do accept email via SMTP directly from any host, as SMTP was intended to do. There...
lynx sendmail from script
A smarthost is probably what the OP needs, but it doesn't require a 'big' mailer like sendmail postfix exim...
Lightweight distro lk 2.6 for driver development
I am planning to set up a system to learn and practise developing device drivers. For this, I am planning to buy a relatively low end used computer (something like a P2 400...
Ultra 320 in slow mode
Hi there I've just reinstalled my system on a softraid1 on two Seagate Cheetahs (36GB ST336607LW 68Pin Ultra320 SCSI) connected to an LSI21320-R. When booting up the controller's bios reports that...
How to Parbreastions the disk to install FC4 7348
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:14:23 -0800, CAPSKOV This isn't true. Swap and is all you REALLY need...
How to Parbreastions the disk to install FC4 7349
Confidence. If I recall correctly, the FC4 installation program first gathers information asking you questions, then, when it has all the info it goes ahead to caryy out all the actions...
Spaces in UNIX Filenames 'Bad
You may like to know in the future that **filename expansion** is the last expansion Bash performs on the text of a command, after word splitting...
missing library o3
I was trying to compile gtk+ and friends the othe night (never finished -- too many dependencies), and now a few things won't run. They all give errors similar to this: ** ERROR **: Gdkxft...
MAKE MONEY FAST AND EASY HURRY
MAKE MONEY FAST AND EASY HURRY!!!! Make Money Fast A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across...
No such file or directory" in Batch mode 7353
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried the same under sh-bash or any POSIX shell? AFAIK this is a fairly ancient release. Have you considered upgrading? You didn't...
No such file or directory" in Batch mode 7354
Hi Roger, Roger Leigh That would be something for my employer to decide. I will try to mention it 'though...
regarding unix specific commands 7355
fidlee Well, the program is kind of boring, and I would not use that indenting style. If you change the printf to...
regarding unix specific commands 7356
Let me inject something here that needs to be said *before* you get too far out on a...
can't read superblock on a xfs parbreastion
This is strange. If xfsgrowfs does not check the type of the specified file, it will try to operate on the file given, in this case a directory. It must open the given file...
How to use ggc turn a progam from c++ to pure C
lnzju breastle was: How to use ggc turn a progam from c++ to pure C First of all...
DNS caching 7359
Now I have seen repeated in this thread that there is no way to control what file (actually what...
EnergyMech IRC bot installed on my server by "hacker
Well, I know a lot of people don't like to admit it, but I got "hacked" over the...
Pardus OS by Turkish Developers
Please Welcome: Anatolian Leopard a.k.a. Pardus 1.0 Pardus, named after the famous Anatolian leopard, is available for download online. The open source, Linux based operating system Pardus, developed within...
Why the buffer underrun when using dvgrab
When using the command: dvgrab --format jpeg --jpeg-quality 100 test2 I receive the buffer underrun errors listed below. I normally use the "raw" format, and only receive one...
Wireless
I have been trying for 2 weeks to get a wireless adapter that will work in Linux. I got a christmas present of a wireless hub and pcmcia adapter...
ISO9660 compatibility please help
Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- Didi Why don't you burn them with some burn software, like burnatonce...
Lightweight distro lk 2.6 for driver development 7365
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:57:49 -0800, googler I'm doing the same thing at the moment, also with a P2 at around 400MHz. Machines of that sort of spec are...
gnometerminal tabwithprofile option dont work
I would say it's a bug. When you open a new terminal window, then the tab #1 is implisitt (the window itself is a tab). You see it when you open tab #2 from the...
LinuxUNIX More Vulnerable Than Windows says CERT !! 7367
On Sunday 01 January 2006 19:43 boson I really do wish that some of your people would read around subjects like this a little before posting. e.g. note that "2328 Unix-Linux". "AIX and Apple...
LinuxUNIX More Vulnerable Than Windows says CERT !! 7368
This is not a new story. We know that there are many thousands of buffer overun coding errors implemented in the 30 billion lines of Linux...
Run Linux OpenSourceOpenOffice and LOSE YOUR JOB
The racist, liar and software thief Leslie Bbuttman (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Abbie Diaz, Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, Allison Juergans, allisonhunt1968 plus...
Moving harddisk with Linux installation to a different machine. 7370
People are doing it all the time and generally it works perfectly. There is at least one way it can fail, though...
Moving harddisk with Linux installation to a different machine. 7371
I've done it. You will want to think carefully about how your parbreastions are set up, and about where you put your grub, and about where the second...
LINUX Server Reboot Frequency 7372
OK: you can't "check for memory leaks" in such closed source code, you can only check that the amount of RAM being used is expanding: the "top" command will give a hint, and you...
LINUX Server Reboot Frequency 7373
This used to be true, but no longer. Large chunks are given back to the system. This program: main() { char *p = malloc(1024*1024); free(p); p...
LINUX Server Reboot Frequency 7374
And what does "free" say? Orproc-meminfo, when doing such large allocations? OK, so you'd have to do an allocation large enough to go...
what do these names stand for 7375
Variable data. Traditionally Unix has been arranged so that andusr could be mounted read-only, so logfiles and other writable stuff had to be somewhere that could be mounted writable...
what do these names stand for 7376
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jesse F. Hughes Nope.usr is "user" As in...
So much for dd'ing video DVD
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:03:15 -0500, Fred staggered into the Black Sun and said: Um... what's a CD+RW? I buttume you meant a CD-RW. Is this movie that's been copied...
How can I play .avi, .wmv, .mov videos on a standalone DVD player
What you are tring to do is a hacker project. You want your standalone DVD player to play some files that...
Is Opera viable as browser & mailer
Tore Skogly No. I'll give it a go thanks - the problems I get are virtually identical with Firefox. They fall into four categories. 1-. Java...
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Bernd I started with an APC Back-UPS 400 (or something like that) and it worked fine. Eventually it got too small, and I now have Smart...
Letter box on 1680x1050 LCD while using nvidiafs driver 7381
Dances With Crows That is an interesting point that I was not aware of - that...
Letter box on 1680x1050 LCD while using nvidiafs driver 7382
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:33:30 -0400, Ross Maloney staggered into the Black Sun and said: 1400x1050, not 1680x1050. Since 1400x1050 is more "standard" than the odd resolution...
