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Forum: *nix Software Apr 13th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 1,472
Posted By John A
Try booting without a framebuffer. Does the problem go away? If so, try using video=intelfb:1280x800 as your framebuffer settings instead of vga= (assuming you enabled the intelfb driver when you...
Forum: *nix Software Apr 12th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 1,472
Posted By John A
My guess would be a framebuffer issue. Are you using one right now (eg. is your console text smaller than, say, the text from your BIOS), and if so, what are the settings for it? You can check these...
Forum: *nix Software Apr 1st, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 650
Posted By John A
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread184645.html
Forum: *nix Software Mar 17th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 1,153
Posted By John A
Can you open the files in a different word processor? (Try AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/).)
Forum: *nix Software Mar 15th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 1,153
Posted By John A
What format is this file in (.doc, .odt, etc.)? Is this the only file that you're having trouble opening?
Forum: *nix Software Feb 23rd, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 2,301
Posted By John A
You mean like lsof (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsof)?
Forum: *nix Software Nov 21st, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,646
Posted By John A
I'm not a lawyer, nor have I studied the (L)GPL extensively, but from what I can tell, you just need to provide an alternate exe that isn't bundled with Mono (i.e. statically linked). In the guide,...
Forum: *nix Software Nov 21st, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,646
Posted By John A
Last time I checked, developer support has nothing to do with commercial licensing.
Forum: *nix Software Nov 20th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,646
Posted By John A
Just curious, have you got any references for that?
Forum: *nix Software Nov 11th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 2,423
Posted By John A
Well, there's 3 possible causes:

- A virus got onto your system. This would most likely involve a virus exploiting a security hole in one of your daemons, or you or another administrator...
Forum: *nix Software Nov 8th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 2,423
Posted By John A
What gives you the impression that you might have Trojans on your system?
Forum: *nix Software Oct 31st, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,484
Posted By John A
In order to accomplish that, you'll need a root shell. If your root account is enabled, you can authenticate yourself with 'su', otherwise just run "sudo bash" (or whatever shell you prefer) and...
Forum: *nix Software Oct 10th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 922
Posted By John A
Don't bother. The next operating system that you install on the hard drive will almost certainly wipe out the MBR that contains GRUB you're noticing right now.

If you really must do it, boot up...
Forum: *nix Software Oct 9th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,570
Posted By John A
Oh, vi is a perfectly good command line text editor; there's nothing really wrong with it except that it's not particularly user-friendly to those who have never used it before. :P
Forum: *nix Software Oct 8th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,570
Posted By John A
How about:
http://llbb.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/installing-tftp-on-fedora/

You might not want to use vi if you're not familiar with it though :)
Forum: *nix Software Sep 4th, 2008
Replies: 6
Solved: telnet problem
Views: 1,225
Posted By John A
Well, you need to setup port forwarding on your router. Most common routers such as Linksys and D-Link have this feature; simply forward all outside (WAN) traffic that's on port 22 to 192.168.1.5...
Forum: *nix Software Sep 3rd, 2008
Replies: 6
Solved: telnet problem
Views: 1,225
Posted By John A
Does ssh connect outside your home network? Check your firewall/routing software to make sure that telnet and ssh connections are actually being sent to your home server. Another piece of advice:...
Forum: *nix Software Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,526
Posted By John A
No. Read the VMWare documentation.
Forum: *nix Software Jul 23rd, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,526
Posted By John A
You need to adjust the settings of the virtual machine such that the optical drive is set to your computer's physical DVD drive, not to a file on your hard disk.
Forum: *nix Software Jun 1st, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 1,188
Posted By John A
FreeBSD, like most *nixs, requires a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) to send external mail. On FreeBSD, sendmail is setup as the default MTA, so you should probably learn how to use that before trying out...
Forum: *nix Software May 30th, 2008
Replies: 3
Solved: Unix BC
Views: 1,023
Posted By John A
>people say the program is the best at arbitrary precision arithmetic

It may not be the best, but it's definitely one of the better ones. It's just how floating point precision...
Forum: *nix Software May 4th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,434
Posted By John A
Interestingly enough, 'halt' on FreeBSD does not mean the same thing as 'halt' on a Linux system. Running shutdown -h now on a Linux system will halt the system and cut the power. However, on a...
Forum: *nix Software May 3rd, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,434
Posted By John A
>What is that mean? I did login though...
But you didn't log in with that shell. In other words, you're running a shell within a shell, and you must exit those shells first before you can log out....
Forum: *nix Software Apr 19th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,337
Posted By John A
>what is that mean?
It probably means that you're not part of the wheel group (a typical elite administration group on Unix systems). To add yourself to it, you need to log in as root, then run type...
Forum: *nix Software Apr 18th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,337
Posted By John A
>When I typed " % su " my freeBSD pops "command not found"
No '%' is necessary. Just type in su at the prompt without any kind of prefix, and it should work fine.

Once you're authenticated,...
Forum: *nix Software Apr 18th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,337
Posted By John A
The reason you can't do administrative tasks with a regular user is because it's more secure that way. It's designed so that normal users will have to authenticate themselves if they want to add or...
Forum: *nix Software Mar 8th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 843
Posted By John A
Looks like you should have the 'miniAudicle' executable built by now. You can also try searching your hard drive with a wildcard, e.g. find / -iname '*audicle'.
Forum: *nix Software Mar 8th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 843
Posted By John A
>Where is wxWidgets installed so I can complete step 2?

You have to do things a little bit different since you're using a package manager. Installing libwxgtk2.4-1-contrib and...
Forum: *nix Software Mar 8th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 843
Posted By John A
From the research I did, the main binary should be /usr/bin/audicle. However, if that doesn't work, try running find / -iname audicle at the prompt. That should get lots of results.
Forum: *nix Software Mar 7th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 843
Posted By John A
From what I can see, you should only need to install libwxgtk2.8-dev and libwxbase2.8-dev. The others are older versions or debugging versions. And using a wildcard like you did installs every...
Forum: *nix Software Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 975
Posted By John A
system() merely opens a new shell, and runs the command you send it. The function returns once the program running in the shell exits. fork() is a command that is used to create another instance of...
Forum: *nix Software Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 975
Posted By John A
The way you usually open new processes is with the system() call. But note that this call must be made within the source code, so it's predefined before the program binary is ever made. Or you can...
Forum: *nix Software Mar 5th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 786
Posted By John A
Well, according to the install log, it copied the binary 'chuck' into /usr/bin. Most likely it's already in your path, so just type 'chuck' at the command prompt and see what happens.
Forum: *nix Software Mar 5th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 786
Posted By John A
Sounds like you're missing some libraries again. Try installing libasound2 and libasound2-dev.
Forum: *nix Software Feb 13th, 2008
Replies: 7
Solved: VMWare Player
Views: 1,056
Posted By John A
Actually, VMWare Player shouldn't need a serial number. Are you sure you aren't installing VMWare Server?
Forum: *nix Software Feb 13th, 2008
Replies: 7
Solved: VMWare Player
Views: 1,056
Posted By John A
Register at
http://vmware.com/download/player/player_reg.html

which will provide you with your free serial number. Don't bother with the RPM as this is meant for Red Hat-based systems and...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 24th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 798
Posted By John A
Maybe not the best solution, but try changing the line in /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo from
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
to...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 19th, 2008
Replies: 25
Solved: GTKpod
Views: 3,715
Posted By John A
Try installing/reinstalling gettext and gettext-base.
Forum: *nix Software Jan 19th, 2008
Replies: 25
Solved: GTKpod
Views: 3,715
Posted By John A
Install libglade2-dev.
Forum: *nix Software Jan 19th, 2008
Replies: 25
Solved: GTKpod
Views: 3,715
Posted By John A
Try installing libgtk2.0-dev.
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