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Bear in mind this is the choice of Linux vendors and developers so I might not be the top 3 on the list of an home user. You can read the whole discussion with the comments here. This is the context
...u. So if this applies to you there is solution. The problem from Ryan Naraine blog on ZDNet: The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls "active atta...
...way of doing things is simply hardware changes or changes in what users do and how they interact with their computers. And while I don't see any big fundamental shift in how things are done, I think t...
... much easier. I was very happy to realize that I can save my thunderbird address book and use it on other computers. It works perfectly with linux and in fact with all OS so you can use your addre...
It actually took about five minutes to install Puppy Linux on the computer! There are two main reasons for using it the first is to restore files and the second is to make them disappear
  The question of taking a chance on open source in mission critical application is discussed by Christopher Dawson in the context of the decisions that had to be made in the library where he w
Do you realize that linux is on 90% of the supercomputers? Thinking about it this is a great achievement for an operation system that was created in the dorm room of Linus Torvalds in 1991. When h
I am a little late in congratulating, but better late than never. was reading Joyce Carpenter on computerworld today, and apparently they have won the 2008 Neal award for blogs. Computerworld.c
One of my favorite bloggers from computer world, Frank Haze wrote: It wasn't supposed to be this way: Last week, IBM gave the AS/400 a new lease on life. At the Common 2008 user group meetin
Peter Watson, an Australian software developer gives us his very possitive opinion of the ASUS Eee PC. among other things, Peter Watson says It comes pre-installed with the most user-friendly ver
Martin MC Brown, from computerworld.com is worried about the lack of intrest in programming in the younger generation How do we get kids interested in programming computers, as opposed to just usi
If you among those who need some guidance as to the best way to use Perl go here. You'll find good guidance as to things that can be done and the way to do them. If on the other case this is not
... related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer.' I wonder what software micro$oft plans to disable on my computer? GPL software?...
...t may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure...
My former company just closed the office doors, and rather than abandon the PCs, I hauled them all to my garage. There are about 15~20 PC roughly 500~600 MHZ, 128M ram, 20G hard disks, AGP video, soun
...t may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure...
...urses at my local community college and by reading, reading, reading on my own. However, I do not work in a computer department, nor do I have access to individuals who know Linux/info-systems/compute...
...for Linux, I suppose the days of Linux in his room are numbered (until his dad can buy him that new Windoze computer). Now here's one question that I have regarding tar's cmd line options: I noticed...
...ers, it has 94 percent of the market for operating systems that run on 'clients' such as desktop and laptop computers. Linux claims only 3.8 percent of that market, said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky.' ...
... you to continue reading. A simple search on msn.com reveals that many people are left with a non-working computer after attempting to install Linux. A recent independent study has shown that this h...
...emotely deploy applications without third party packages. 5. Remotely retrieve graphical statistics about computers on a network without third party packages. 6. Recognize hardware without hacking...
Hi Do you know how to use a serial cable to connect to linux, and send file to each other? Give me a website is also very thank you thanks from Peter (cmk...@hotmail.com)
...ot.org/articles/02/06/25/0156226.shtml?tid=126 Now tell me why it is they are having such difficulty with computer programmers wanting to know all the Windows API's completely? What is the differe...
Computer Virus: A malicious computer software program that performs actions detrimental to the system it is run on either without the user's knowledge or against their intentions. Computer virii u
... Linux. I hope you can help me to learn more about this topic... I've just connected a new hard drive to my computer. Now I have the following doubts: 1.- How can I know what is the name of the devi...
Hi group, I am setting up my new place with a designated computer with my mp3 library on it with xmms and xmms-control which allows control of xmms via the web in conjunction w/ apache. I was curious
... reason why it's so much more popular than Linux. I can't see half my friends spending enough time on their computers to get to grips with the (hesitates) 'complex' nature of Linux, which can be daunt...
I'm trying to dual boot a computer with windows xp and am running into a few problems. The first was that windows refused to install unless it had a partition it could write to on hda. I wouldnt giv
...ort of a rant, but more of a view of why Windows software is so bad, and linux software tends to be better: computer science. Ask a Linux developer about hash tables, b-trees, sorts, and 'how' compu...
Hi Everyone, I am planning to install either SuSE 8.0 or Mandrake 8.2 on a new computer that has no other OS on it. The problem is that the computer uses a GeForce4 video card. SuSE and Mandrake sup
So the intern started on Monday, and I've got him doing some stuff we need. To get started quick (no computer, no desk, welcome to the declining empire), I give him my laptop, saying, 'This is linux
...hem the other day and went to their site to get back into it. that runs as a background process when your computer is idle. It analyzes data from the SETI project ( the people searching for non terr...
...er appeared, using a google newsgroup account plus the posts are very irregular, that is, if a person has a computer at home, most generally use a use the internet for a few hours and that is it, thus...
...orry, I tried many things suggested in previous posts and still can't get this to work. I want to backup my computer, include all hidden files, but exclude the matlab65 subdirectory. I get this error ...
I present a situation for your consideration.... Two blank computers, two people, two boxed operating systems, one task....develop a simple program with GUI and write all specs and documentation for
...I have a little server which performs some dumb tasks (playing music, fetching mails, gatewaying, ...) This computer has no input devices but a screen to display status messages (playlist, new mails, ...
I have red hat 7.1 and windows 98 dual booting on one of my desktop computers. The problem I am having is that the time is wrong one or the other. If I set the correct time on linux for instance, the
I am unable to upload pics from my Canon Powershot G2 via the USB port on my computer. This is a new problem, as I have successfully done this several times before. The only thing that has changed on
Hey Microsoft. A personal computer is not a telephone. It is a computing device. Computing and communications can be put into the same box, but they remain two distinct things. If you weld a telephone
...ound a lot longer than Linux.' The funny thing is that other than that, he seems pretty knowledgeable about computers....
...x.' [1] http://www.nmt.edu for those who recognize the school. [2] Most Popular Undergraduate Majors: * Computer Science, 16.5% * Electrical Engineering, 15.9% * Physics, 9.2% * Chemical Engineeri...
Well, it looks as if someone's kid has has snuck on the family computer and is trying to play grownup again with the big dogs. Like all infants, they will soon tire of their puerile games if noone p
Come back when you've *tried* Linux. Or Unix. Or using a computer. Or something.
Has he been emailing you/ Or is it just posting in a newsgroup. Surely a computer 'professional' as you claim to be, should know the difference? I doubt if they'll care.
...eat folk. Seems both sets of parents (and the cow-orkers won't ever see 40 again) are considering getting computers, but mainly for geneology, e-mail, web browsing, maybe a little small composition....
...ody, I'm working in a Linux machine. I execute the ifconfig command to try to guess the IP address of the computer I'm working on and... two interfaces appear 'eth0' and 'eth1'. Does this mean that ...
Can we PLEASE get the government out of our computers? I don't want DOJ telling MS how to run thier business anymore than I want DOJ or any other agency telling me how to run my business. There is
...uffs had the attitude that if one doesn't know all 10000 cmd line tricks by heart he or she shouldn't own a computer anyway. I know and I'm ready to take rap on this. But I'm only doing this as a favo...
...l component to the window's operating system? ' 'No!! Any file ending in .EXE is a necessary file to your computer. Wherever you got that information they're wrong. You need that file. I have learne...
what the heck is going on with the NYSE? How can a 'computer problem' halt trading? I thought their networks were fault tolerant! Maybe they should use a Linux fault tolerant cluster! IBM, please

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