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...ager to learn and to improve.
The difference between a good OS and a great OS lies in the details and the question is how much patience and endurance the type of free spirited students that develop ...
Why did you switch to Linux?
If you want to answer this question I'd love to read your comments but you might want to answer the poll at NewLinuxUser.
For me it was first about the money. I don't
The question how does the fact that the company uses open source influence on it's attractiveness in term of money raising.
The results:
"Companies saw their stock price rise if they met one cru
...ments.
The part of Linux in the market is still less than 1% but the growth is encouraging and as for the question that the article raises:
Could programmers be developing an interest in somethi...
...ue but it is about time that the needs of switching between OS are taken seriousely.
You can even address questions and clarification requests to their VP, just read the post for the accurate info. ...
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
...ally creating the applications used to run the computers.
Bill Thompson at the BBC asks a similar question and believes the solution is in accessibility to the tools and in education.
Mr B...
Hello,
A simple question: I need to add a second hard drive to my linux box and i can't find out how to mount it and format as ext3fs.
Do i mount first ( as raw ? ) and then format? How do i forma
...those funky characters...plus, I thought some of you may need a little english lesson ;-)
So here are two questions I got
1) If I want to set the default variable in the bash shell I type the foll...
... FAT16. The total number of blocks adds up to 8G, which is very close to the capacity of the hard drive. My question is how do I mount these partitions. It may
be that 6, if it is indeed linux, can ...
...ut that disabling UDMA resolved my problems. (-> sdma1 and disabling dma with hdparm -d 0)
The machine in question has an PIIX4 chipset, which worked fine with 2.4.17 (guess) with UDMA enabled.
Ha...
guys
before i play with linux for the fist time , (red hat 9 , suse 8.2 and mandrake 9.1) i want to try out knoppix to get a fell of linux
i have a knoppix 3.1 which i got a while ago from those n
Hi all,
I'm learning RedHat 7.2 by some PDF material. Now I have two questions which I could not find in PDF books. Please give me some advice. Thank you in advance. 1. 'at' When I use 'at' command
...trategies, but I'm still confused about a few things. Could someone give me their thoughts on the following questions?
1) I'd like to have 4 partitions: root, swap, boot, and home. (In understand th...
...e result shows only characters which are below ascii value 128. The characters above 128 are seen as a '?' (question mark).
I have set TERM=xterm in the .sh file which calls the java prog., but it m...
...home machines to Linux). I do like MySQL very much but I'd sure like an easy way to build those ASP's.
My questions:
1. What software is best for web development in the Linux world?
2. I really ...
...out the same functionality with one as with the other, then what's the big deal?
Alow me to answer my own question; How much does Windows XP cost? How much does Redhat 7.3 cost?
If I can have as m...
I have a question that I realize could start a flame war, but I proceed in caution regardless. This posting is MEANT as an observation and an opportunity for improvement on what is (for my purposes) t
... their sizes will be, and I also do not want to divide up usuable space into three partitions.
So does my question make sense? How would you divide an existing root partition into two or more, putti...
1. how to ask in a shell-script for its directory?
$0 doesn't have to include the full-path and pwd only returns the current directory but not the directory, where the script is saved!
2. I have a
...t for an ISP that doesn't support Linux. Not only do we not support it, the techs are not allowed to answer questions about it, even if we know the answer. One of the reasons my supervisor gave me was...
...s 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 that the sequence in which ...
I've switched from a Microsoft web host provider to Unix (and also to a Redhat Linux operating system on my client workstation). In the 'old world' I used M.S. Access database, Frontpage 2002 and ASP'
... 'run Y' won't!
this depends on the $command ($command is a script, that also executes a binary!)
so my question is: WHY??? - how to execute $command, so the script will return from 'run X' and co...
...GET/POST data) how do I encrypt and send this data? And how to read the answer, best of all in C?
Another question: Is there a way to see in clear text what IE/Mozilla sends as https: (before encryp...
I need to get some app that allows to view files on my Visor. DocumentsToGo for Windoze could've fit the bill except I was a Linux backend. How could I stick a text file into my visor?
My understand
...ng, by who, etc. (The most what's wondering me is how much CPU mysql is realy consuming, but that's not the question here ;-)) Thanks in advanced,
Frank de Bot...
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 at 12:36 GMT, peering quizzically at his shoes,
[class] Hi, Mathew!
? in the 'group browser' mode gives:
Hi everybody,
I have a newbie question regarding the installation of hard drives in Linux. I hope you can help me to learn more about this topic... I've just connected a new hard drive to my compute
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
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Notice how they admit Linux is the #2 OS in the world.
Further, notice the total lack of question concering other OS's like OS/2 or MacOSX or BEOS....
But Linux is dead, according...
..., the string '1+2' is returned instead of the integer '3'.
This might be more of a Perl than a Linux/bash question, but how do I get the variable $a to be viewed as a math expression rather than a s...
...ad to reset up some of the fonts to make them look good. Everything seems to be functioning correctly.
My question is... Could I have messed something up by ripping out too much of 1.3.1?
By the w...
...atting's process I've specified a partition to be a UnixFile System within the diskUtility of osX
Now the question is that I'm running an YDL(linux distribution) and I'm not able to:
-see any part...
...ks its a Windows file server, let me transfer some files over for you.'
So today at Lunch he has a lot of questions about Linux, he's already been looking at it in stores and is figuring for a dual-...
New to Usenet also I guess. Advocacy isn't the place for technical questions, it is for flamefests. Sounds like your question would belong to comp.os.linux.setup.
Also, you need to supply more infor
I'm hoping someone here can help me out...
I've written this script that, when launched from the command line, will change the channel on my tuner card and record for a set period of time. It takes
Ok, I have a bit of a snag that dosen't make sense to me.
I know this is a terribly newbie question, but so be it.
First, permissions 101.
when using chmod, the file permissions may be set in an
Which brings to mind this question:
If it costs money just to own the product that will enable .Net development, as opposed to not spending anything for something like Linux, PHP, Apache, an SQL ser
...gh to stop fighting over, let's move past this charter stuff and start putting some actual Frequently Asked Questions into it.'
# # Here is the definition, such as it is, of the methodology. Anybody...
Hello,
System is Mandrake-9.1 with locally compiled Pine-4.55.
Pine does not show URL links correctly, just shows the url highlighted in different color (clicking on highlighted text does not invo
Greetings. This is a multipart question about testing a peer to peer application. I want to create a linux box with 4 network cards. Is there a way to configure the network cards to throttle the bandw
...which email program to use as the default one so that when I click this program will start and compose. The question is is it possible to do similar thing under linux using mozilla? Thanks a lot.
Sh...
Hi everybody,
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 m
Hi group,
I'm a linux newbie but have spent some time tuning, and learning a great deal =-), about my kernel. I am currently running kernel-source 2.4.18-27.8 and I want to upgrade to kernel-source
I'm a little confused about SUID, particularly running as root.
In the beginning, I would revert to 'Windows Mode' and compile apps to run as root, just so I could get them going and get my hands di
Yes. Run /sbin/lilo as root.
Hi,
I'm a beginner when it comes to snmp, and i have some questions:
I need to monitor the raid controller of a few linux servers, and i need to do it via snmp.
the servers are delll poweredge 2
Hi, I'm running Redhat 9.0, and I've configured Samba so that I can access my Linux box from my windows machine and use the printers configured on my linux box.
From time to time, I also mount the w
If so, questions need answering. Is it just a problem with my version, or have the protocols on WinICQ clients been changing recently? Recently, I've been unable to send messages directly to more and
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