Thanks Nezachem! I have changed quite a lot in the code, and now it does work, with a few exceptions unhandled (like segfaults when getting a permission denied), but those were not mentioned in the...

Hi all,

I'm helping my girl out with her hw, (/me not knowing C at all, but someone has to help, right?)
I am supposed to read user input, and then try to execute a given command plus the...

that depends on what you need. if you need to virtualise a piece of software, and place it in a separate container, OpenVZ is your friend, and that is mainly software virtualisation.

If you need...

1. yes, you need many drives, so I would go for several smaller drives instead of 3 large ones. also the raid policy set in the controller is important for performance
2. mobo controllers support...

with three drives the only options are raid1+HS, raid0 or raid5

raid0 will be fastest, raid1+HS will be the most redundant

wha?

google for RIS

http://www.google.ie/search?q=mmc+manage+active+directory

kernEl

strange stuff. check your firewalls and the router for not letting port 443 out

hedgehogs and whiskey!

creating is czvf for .tar.gz

xzvf - Xtract,Zip,Verbose,File
czvf - Create,Zip,Verbose,File

just man tar

I just have enough free time these days :)
and forums are pretty good for keeping me up to date on the new trends in IT (I also am in linuxquestions.org, kadets.info,...

yeah, TheOgre is totally right. I had the same problem a couple of years ago and it was readily resolved in the same fashion. only problem being - internal users could not resolve the website unless...

linux has loats of shells available. the most widely used one is bash

AFAIK Macs use ksh

windows has a new shell called powershell you can use for really serious shell scripting

the best way to go is to set up a normal ftp server besides Apache. these things are to be used as intended.

here is the description: http://incubator.apache.org/ftpserver/

since this is a...

happened to me once. I easily deleted the file using dos commands from cmd

from what I've seen in RoI so far that is quite possible :) but as I mentioned before - I served in the Israeli army intel, not Irish

what does it show that you have? two dimms in four slots? what dimms do you already have?

ethereal

not a very detailed tutorial there. and all this is available on sites like howtoforge.com with much more detail.

without even starting to go through your configs, one look at the postfix install...

absurd stuff there. human memory isn't sequential, it's recursively associative

if you have broadband internet, you need one router, and three cables (to connect two computers to router and the router to the modem). the modem should already be there

this whole mepis thing is starting to look more and more like spam. personally, after seeing this mess here, I'm totally disgusted by mepis, without even trying it