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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 7th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,125
Posted By John A
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 27th, 2008
Replies: 3
Solved: sale test
Views: 1,160
Posted By John A
sedo.com seems to be a fairly popular place for auctioning domains and sites. eBay also works.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 26th, 2008
Replies: 3
Solved: sale test
Views: 1,160
Posted By John A
Auction the domain name and/or the website (if there is any).
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,158
Posted By John A
In that case, you want to modify the timestamp_timeout value in the /etc/sudoers file. Open up the sudoers file with
$ sudo visudo
enter your password, then look in the file for a line that starts...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,158
Posted By John A
No. If you want to authenticate to the root user (or any user for that matter), you have to use su.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 22nd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,096
Posted By John A
The 'k' prefix actually doesn't refer to 'KDE', it refers to 'kernel'. Those are various kernel daemons meant for handling threads, ACPI, APIC, IRQ, etc. and cannot be killed.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 30th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 649
Posted By John A
Please post any data-recovery questions here:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum105.html
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 27th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,047
Posted By John A
>Are there any good Vi tutorials you can point me to?

Gentoo has a very nice 'vi cheatsheet' guide. While it is a little bit more command-oriented (rather than being written like a tutorial), the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 17th, 2008
Replies: 4
Solved: azureus
Views: 1,387
Posted By John A
...but you forgot that Azureus is a Java program, which means there's no real need to download the sources, nor is my generic compiling guide very likely to work on it anyway. Although I'd agree with...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 8th, 2008
Replies: 7
Solved: installing java
Views: 1,485
Posted By John A
You should probably use java-package to help generate a .deb package from the JRE .bin available from Sun. Here's a guide that outlines the steps:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 1st, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,256
Posted By John A
Most likely the drivers only require the Linux kernel headers. Find out your kernel version with:
uname -r
Then grab the kernel headers with something like:
apt-get install kernel-headers-version...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 29th, 2008
Replies: 5
Solved: ip addresses
Views: 1,203
Posted By John A
Unlikely. In any case, doing such a thing would be a breach of privacy. Hacking them or whatever else you intend to do with their IP addresses is highly illegal, and you could find yourself in court...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 21st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 910
Posted By John A
>What does the second command mean? I'm logged in twice as alex?
Sort of. tty7 is your 'virtual terminal' which X runs on. 'pts' is a pseudo terminal, which would be the terminal window you're...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 15th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 944
Posted By John A
>but does that really matter when I am logged in as root?
Yes, it does. Try the following at the command prompt before attempting to execute the program:
UP_JAVA_CMD="/location/of/java/command"...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 15th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 944
Posted By John A
My guess would be that you don't have a Java Runtime Environment setup on your system. It's most likely in the YaST repositories, so start up YaST and search for Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Once...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 17th, 2008
Replies: 28
Views: 5,075
Posted By John A
>visudo decrypts and recrypts the file when opened/saved rather than just editing it as text
No. /etc/sudoers is not encrypted. No sane person opening a file full of encrypted gibberish would be...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 16th, 2008
Replies: 28
Views: 5,075
Posted By John A
>GREAT. In Applications, it's missing Add/Remove Programs, and also, in System >
>Administration, it's missing like 20 icons.

Your system sounds pretty far gone. Correcting the sudoers problem...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008
Replies: 28
Views: 5,075
Posted By John A
Hmm. It's using xine right now, isn't it? Try installing libxine-extracodecs. That should at least get mp3 support working.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008
Replies: 28
Views: 5,075
Posted By John A
If you've installed all the necessary gstreamer plugins, then the problem is probably that Amarok isn't using gstreamer (I can't remember, but I don't think it uses gstreamer by default). In the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 14th, 2008
Replies: 28
Views: 5,075
Posted By John A
For mp3 playback, you need the gstreamer0.8-mad package installed. For AAC (m4a), you'll need gstreamer0.8-faad.

Installing Flash is very simple. Download the tar.gz file from Adobe's website. If...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 24th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 1,093
Posted By John A
I'm reasonably sure it uses the .NET framework.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 21st, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,414
Posted By John A
Instead of buying a radio that can record, then transferring everything to your computer real time, I'd say it would be much easier to go the internet route. I'm pretty sure there are tons of Windows...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 11th, 2007
Replies: 4
Solved: How to?
Views: 904
Posted By John A
>they were already formatted before I partitioned them.
You should always format your partitions *after* your create them.

>They show up in 'my computer',and I can access them there but no where...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 10th, 2007
Replies: 4
Solved: How to?
Views: 904
Posted By John A
Have you formatted the new partitions yet?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 29th, 2007
Replies: 12
Views: 2,993
Posted By John A
>i get the feeling some people here aren't here to discuss the threads topic
The thread's topic is about unlicensed gif images. I provided some links which ultimately said that there's no issue with...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 28th, 2007
Replies: 12
Views: 2,993
Posted By John A
>maybe you need to check the original post again :/ see the bit about qt, 1.44 != 3.0
Um yeah, except that "GIF support is turned off from Qt™ 1.44 onwards", which would cover QT 2 and 3. Obviously...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 27th, 2007
Replies: 12
Views: 2,993
Posted By John A
>problem is with qt aparently, as of version 1.44, the support was removed
I have no idea what you're talking about. The screenshot attached is with Konqueror on QT version 3.

>nope, only 87a or...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 27th, 2007
Replies: 12
Views: 2,993
Posted By John A
>so how come konquerer can't show them by default?
Not sure. I've never had this problem with Konqurer (DaniWeb displays just fine).

>is LZW the compression technology?
Yes. It's what actually...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 27th, 2007
Replies: 12
Views: 2,993
Posted By John A
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

http://burnallgifs.org/
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 17th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 2,979
Posted By John A
Perhaps Google will be of use to you?


http://hem.passagen.se/casio2/shool2.html
http://www.brianhetrick.com/casio/tpre.html
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 17th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 2,979
Posted By John A
Then the instruction manual is crappy. A manual should document every feature a device has (or at least the major ones).

But do you really think we can help? It's highly unlikely that one of us...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 10th, 2007
Replies: 2
Solved: Autorun Files
Views: 1,719
Posted By John A
Perhaps you should use Google - there's a wealth of information out there.
http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 29th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,462
Posted By John A
ALL graphics are programmed in bits (except for some old vectors ganes, but they end up as bits eventually). Bits are either a 1 or a 0 - that's the only way computers can store information. An...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 10th, 2007
Replies: 4
Views: 1,228
Posted By John A
You needn't worry.

Yes, quite. They're one of the most professional payment-collection agencies, and so you can bet they have high security. Think of it this way: would you rather trust the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 10th, 2007
Replies: 4
Views: 1,228
Posted By John A
You can most certainly trust PayPal. It's been around for a while, and a lot of sites that sell things use PayPal to handle the transactions for them. If I were to trust my credit card to any...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 29th, 2006
Replies: 17
Views: 5,711
Posted By John A
Don't you mean Apple Developer Tools (http://developer.apple.com/tools/)? There is an editor called X2 Programmer editor, but it's not available for Mac...

@'Stein: If you don't have Parallels...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 27th, 2006
Replies: 7
Views: 1,518
Posted By John A
These aren't free - but they have trial versions so you can see if you like it.


Clone CD (http://www.cdfreaks.com/software/CD%20&%20DVD%20Duplication%20Software/Slysoft/Clone-CD.html)
Easy CD...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 26th, 2006
Replies: 6
Views: 2,860
Posted By John A
That should work excellent. You'll need to start off by downloading the Battlefield 2 server software (http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/BF2/1.4/Battlefield_2_Server.exe). It must be very easy...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 25th, 2006
Replies: 6
Views: 2,860
Posted By John A
You are rather undescriptive. Please elaborate:
What games are you planning to run? You need to choose specific games, and usually each game comes with its own server software, if any.
What are...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 11th, 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 1,651
Posted By John A
Have you ever sucessfuly compiled software on this install before? If not, I would say there's a pretty good chance that you don't have a compiler installed. I'm not familiar with YaST packaging...
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