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...n will include MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2 and Python 2.5. Ubuntu 8.10 uses Linux 2.6.27 and X.Org 7.4. The fast-user-switch-applet has undergone major changes as well. Clair from the new Linux user-blog wri...
...d 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 for Steven...
Another IBM guide for Linux users and this time it is about maximum performance of playstation 3 on Linux. I have to agree that the contribution of Fedora is significant. There should be no pro
...team plans to make a whole series of them so I can truly say that this is a real step forward for Linux users and for me.   ...
...n make a big deal to what is the best 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 s...
If you use Fedora and have waited to see how the new version works before you upgrade your 8 version to the new 9 one you can probably feel free to install it by now. There are some problems that
...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 like to take chances on things I don't real...
...ffort, to make them compatible with Linux. The reason for this is simple - there are not enough Linux users to make the investment worth the expanses. So we end up with an endless loop scenario....
... 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 meeting in Nashville, IBM announced that its venerable minicomputer hardware is being...
...ion of the ASUS Eee PC. among other things, Peter Watson says It comes pre-installed with the most user-friendly version of Linux I've ever seen. He had planed on enstalling windows xp but pr...
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
Hi. I am a recognixed user of a certain website. When connecting, I have to type my username and password in a form. Can someone point me to examples of how to fill up this form and download files usi
...u did the former (though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you would have been confronted with an End User License Agreement (EULA) stating, most ominously, that: 'You agree that in order to prote...
...ith itself which is why the united linux alliance was formed. Linux is nothing but a lead bellie. Linux users are also lead bellie's, and strange as well....
...ster, even if they were accurate (which they are not), would indicate a problem with either hardware or user error and not Linux. This person is obviously lying, has obviously never even used any ma...
...tions run at normal speed. The main thing I've done recently is try to add a mysql database and mysql user and delete another mysql user (the latter not very successfully). Trouble is, I'm a bit o...
...I fire up vi /etc/rc.d/rc.M and search for the problem. correct and then I do this init 1 (go to single user). followed by my normal init 3. Or I can even edit my / tree from a bootdisk! While Unix ...
...hen you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft wi...
...king I dished out when I revealed that Linux ran its defragmenter early in the morning (thus hoping its users wouldn't notice). To those who are brave enough to face these stark realities, I urge yo...
...estigated this matter, we have terminated the account concerned. Whilst generally we believe that our users' involvement in the cut and thrust of robust Usenet debate is not a matter for the easynet...
Hi All, I have been posting a bit lately about dump. I decided to use it to back up user data on a partition on my RedHat Samba server. Admittedly I didn't research dump properly, and was using it w
Hi, I'm currently experiencing problems during shutdown of my Mandrake 9.1 based system (it also previously happened under 9.0). I believe it is possibly a hardware setup problem with the hard drive
...o prove who is really the best performer, but honestly, who cares? All that really matters to the end user is, 'Can it do what I want and do it well?' Each platform has it's strengths and weaknesses...
...d systems administrators/engineers, force companies to use what we support? I know that the common (l)user will say they want this or that and is usually some piece of cludgeware that we don't want ...
... Windows and making their movies using Linux. This is true, but they are creating video and the average user want's to be able to view the video.Big difference. Linux is a operating system designed by...
I encountered this error 'cannot open password' whenever I tried to use command like useradd, adduser, pwck etc, anything that touches /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow). I checked the /etc dir and could't
...rday I've tried yahoo messenger and found it funny: you can see people and talk (I mean speak) to yahoo users. But I don't like yahoo... I'm interested in internet phone solutions for linux to talk ...
...ounced for years has finally made it to the outside world... the GNOME 2.0 platform is out, and already user software is starting to roll. This feels fine somehow, even if it puts pressure on me bec...
...g tidbit was shared with you in order to establish that I am not much more than the ubiquitous 'average user' that we all refer to. I dabble in programming, but I am far from a hard-core code warrior....
Hi all, I recently set up a RedHat 8.0 fileserver, and opted for dump as the backup tool for the 20Gb user data partition. I have since read in one of the RedHat manuals that dump is NOT RECOMMENDED
...m using Samba to provide a file server for Windows machines. I use dump to perform a backup at night of user data, however I am unable to 'umount' the partition to be dumped. I have found that this is...
...ffice. Most of the network currently consists of windows machines (especially nt4 and w2k). A couple of users are going to want access to the network from their home PCs (w2k or w98se), so I want to s...
... it. I just configured 'tar' for OS/2 to backup my system 'on the fly' to my 2nd HD. No to many Linux users know this, but the JFS file system for Linux was ported from the OS/2 codes. But while JFS...
...sfully configured and tested Gnomemeeting with a LinuxJack PCI card and driver to connect with other GM users and to make PC to phone calls. To get things tested and working, I initially put the pc on...
...nse stupidity of the configuration. Console mode should at least allow you to use it until you define a username and password ( which it chokes on because the directories are setup wrong out of the bo...
...w to Linux (using RedHat Advanced Server 2.1) and I have a problem I was unable to solve. I created a user (with csh as default shell), setup some environments variables (in csh.login) and made a sc...
...strange regarding group membership. Is it possible that there is an upper limit as on how many groups a user can be a member of? On my system (see below) there is a user that belongs to 34 groups, b...
... am writing an article comparing the development experience in emacs and Visual C++ and would like some user feedback. What can emacs enable people to do that Visual C++ can't? Here is my list so ...
... So for about two weeks we ran out of tape in the middle of the night and stuff didn't get backed up. Users Many users don't log off before leaving work. His answer is to write a script that reboo...
...ring the startup of pppd as follows: * The following section identifies your Ethernet interface * and user name. Some ISP's need 'username'; others ETH=eth1; USER=xxxxx...
Hi - I am a fairly new Debian user & have been running 3.0 for about 3 months. Over the weekend I decided to try and upgrade to Unstable on a whim and ran into some problems. Firstly, during the u
...available. There are 2.2.22 kernel source packages, but no 2.2.22 kernel image packages. Are Debian users supposed to build a kernel from scratch just to add a single device driver???? I really ...
Are there any good graphical (X-based) user-interfaces for PGP and/or GPG? Either a front-end for the command-line program(s) or as a seperate program
...ain and I log into it from my win98 machine. My account on the NT box has admin privileges so I can add users, change groups etc etc..blah blah... There's some WIN only apps on the NT box that are use...
hi I'm using MySQL version 3.23.52 installed on linux SuSE 8.1 ERROR 1036: Table 'user' is read only mysql> why this user is read only and how can I change it ? kindly regards
...mputer 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 use a combination of hard coded i...
...a preinstalled copy of LindowsOS, a version of the open-source operating system that sports a graphical user interface and the ability to run Windows applications, according to its manufacturer.' ...
...ogether little pieces. 'That's Cool!' Ah, the honest brevity of youth. So, is the answer, '...a linux user for life?' Hardly. Not yet, maybe never. But it's amazing how the college set will just let...
... Last night, it became unresponsive and logged me out. I was unable to login again. It's not that valid username/password combinations failed to login...
...ring program? Features that I was looking for would be centralized real time information on connected users including connect time, downloads, b/w usage, as well as stats and log view. I was going...
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