I suggest you give SimplyMEPIS (http://www.mepis.org) a try.

Try swapping back to the older RAM, if you still have it. If the BIOS can't find any healthy RAM to uncompress in, I'd expect that it'll sit there doing exactly nothing, maybe not even a beep code.
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You're probably already doing this, but I'll mention it to make sure.

Once you have a general idea of what command you might use, "man <command>" brings up a manual-page on that command. "man...

I keep etherape running in one KDE desktop. If I'm not doing anything else with that computer, I switch to that desktop to monitor overall traffic. Occasionally I run driftnet, which shows the...

Quoting from the Camel book (Perl Programming, 2nd ed, p.87) on relational operators gt, ge, lt, le:


To answer your first question, then, what gets printed is an empty string, to wit, nothing,...

Well, this is serenditious. Just today, I was reading a blog (http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/05/acer-tells-kids-charity-pay-up-or-shut.html) where one of the commenters provided this link...

Your post is very short on details. What OSes are the machines
running? What speed is the network, cabled how? Hubs or
switches? What's the network topology? What's the Internet
gateway -- what...

It'd have to be an extremely tattered power cord to fail under load like you've described. No, sorry, my guess is that the fault is in the monitor, specifically the "power-supply" area where...

So... You're saying that we'll all drown in that sea of overflowing bits?

Your post is lacking a few details.
- what kind of monitor -- LCD or CRT? Better yet, include the model# of the monitor, so someone can look up what kind of cable and hardware (VGA, HDMI etc) the...

Seriously, making SMB shares visible to the Internet is not a good idea. The security in that protocol is inadequate. If having the SMB-connected users' data trashed just-because isn't worrisome,...

Also, just to make sure it's not malware, unplug the machine from your Internet connection and work that way normally for a few hours as a test. If the problem seems to go away, you can suspect that...

Nope. In my experience, a DW declaration defines a 16-bit location in program memory, using it to store a specific value. You'll have to copy that value down into internal RAM before you can work on...

Since the code-as-presented doesn't catch and test the return-value of the system() command, you won't know if system() fails to find useradd, which is probably what happened. It's in /usr/sbin on my...

From reading "man Tk::Text" (I assume that's the widget you're using), it would appear that every other line in your unrolled array was treated as a taglist rather than character-text. (I've only...

The page-scraping is something that Perl excels at. That part, you'll probably code from scratch, as it depends on the structure of the page you're scraping. Start out by dumping your results into...

This very topic is discussed in depth in chapter 8 of "Perl for System Administration" from O'Reilly.

Your code did what it was supposed to do, but it wasn't what you meant.

Your first system() instruction spawned a shell, which then executed your change-directory instruction. Then that shell...

Also doublecheck your firewall and routing table settings. If you've been banging around that box that much, you're probably setting those by rote; read your work through once again to make sure...

If you're on dialup, most ISPs use an activity timer: if there's no Internet traffic coming to or going from your machine for, say, 15 minutes, they drop the connection. Something as simple as having...

No source address? No -- even a broadcast address is an address. A different source address? Yes. That's packet-spoofing, something that's used to cause trouble (a 'smurf' packetstorm, for instance;...

You didn't say what switch hardware you're using. Some broadband routers have an overheating problem which looks like what you're describing: the router actually crashes from overheating. You might...

If it prints all the lines of the file-page in one line on the page, making a black stripe on a white page, then something's probably wrong with the linefeed stepper motor or the electronics which...

The delay-before-repeating and the delay-between-repeats have been controllable values since the PC-AT (where it was set by the BIOS). I run MEPIS Linux, not Mint, and thus KDE rather than Gnome, but...

Looks like a GRUB error message to me. Not having the GRUB docs on hand at the moment, I'd hazard a guess that, for your box, whatever the "rootdelay=" value is set as default, it's not enough. I'd...