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Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 26th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 660
Posted By John A
After opening the file in vim, run the following command:
:set key=
Then save the file.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 18th, 2009
Replies: 7
Solved: online unix
Views: 688
Posted By John A
There are many providers which offer free shell accounts with a limited amount of disk space. A query of "free shell account" on any search engine should turn up what you're looking for.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 18th, 2009
Replies: 7
Solved: online unix
Views: 688
Posted By John A
Something like http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/ will offer you a limited number of commands/software. If you want to learn actual Unix though, at the very least download the PuTTY client and get a shell...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 14th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 932
Posted By John A
Here you go (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=web+editor+linux)
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 12th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 879
Posted By John A
How about running VMWare server on Linux -- it's free, and it's significantly more powerful than VMWare Player:
http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/admin/install_server.3.13.html

Plus, it's designed...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 22nd, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 634
Posted By John A
Boot off your Windows install disk into the recovery console, then run fixmbr (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsf/p/fixmbr.htm).
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 7th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 824
Posted By John A
Use the -R flag for chmod to make the permissions recursive.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 15th, 2009
Replies: 7
Solved: Headless
Views: 1,187
Posted By John A
I don't know of any distros offhand that autostart sshd and have a default username and password, but it should be fairly simple to make your own. The FreeBSD docs...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 10th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 1,352
Posted By John A
>root(hd0,6)
You need to put a space between 'root' and the parentheses:
root (hd0,6)
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 8th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 2,260
Posted By John A
Run mount (http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount) with no arguments.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 6th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 632
Posted By John A
Through the command line?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/batch-commands.html
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 6th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 2,260
Posted By John A
If you're root, you won't need sudo. If under root you get permission errors, then you have some other issues. Perhaps check how your filesystem(s) are mounted.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 27th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 3,477
Posted By John A
So what's in your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 23rd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,296
Posted By John A
>Can you just tell me what kind of technical term am i supposed to search for a c library????
Try installing glibc.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 22nd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,296
Posted By John A
>Have you ran a sudo apt-get update?
Neither Fedora nor OpenSUSE use dpkg as their package manager...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 21st, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 3,477
Posted By John A
What have you got in the /etc/apt/sources.list file? Have you run 'sudo apt-get update' before trying to install build-essential?
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 8th, 2009
Replies: 13
Views: 2,507
Posted By John A
Without knowing the exact error message that you encountered, it's kind of hard to diagnose it. However, if you are having hardware issues with the alternate install CD, chances are that even if a...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 25th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 1,366
Posted By John A
>Do you have to back up and restore your data and settings every time
>you shutdown
That would depend on how you install Crunchbang to your USB pendrive. As far as I know, Crunchbang wasn't ever...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 25th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 869
Posted By John A
Well, is this "your" network? If it is, try disabling encryption to make sure that it is indeed the encryption that's the problem. If it's your company's/school's network, etc. make sure you find out...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 25th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 869
Posted By John A
Might want to try configuring it manually.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=263136

You'll also want to make sure you're using the correct mode; WPA/WPA2 has PSK mode for personal...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 3rd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,318
Posted By John A
>So first off, I've heard of 2 programs, emulators I think...Winetools
>and Yum
Neither of those are emulators. Yum is a package manager for Red Hat based Linux systems (such as Fedora), while Wine...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 14th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 12,919
Posted By John A
>Well it cant run office
Which part of Office 2007 are you referring to? Word (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12811)? Excell...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 14th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 12,919
Posted By John A
Yeah, only a few insignificant programs like WoW (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14154), Photoshop CS3...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 10th, 2008
Replies: 29
Views: 4,256
Posted By John A
Or maybe they just aren't interested in an operating system that promises to offer little more than most *nix operating systems have already been offering for years.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 9th, 2008
Replies: 29
Views: 4,256
Posted By John A
>ReactOS for example.
ReactOS is a terrible example. It's got layers upon layers of bugs. First, you've got the ReactOS kernel which was written from scratch, then you've got the Wine layer which...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,412
Posted By John A
>You cant have more tha 5 primart partitions
Actually, on a standard MBR partition table, you can't have more than 4 primary partitions. Even if you add logical partitions to your drive, one of the...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 15th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 4,243
Posted By John A
>can I still use the same patch?
Nope. The mempat binary is compiled for x86-64, and oddly enough, I can't find the source for it anywhere.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 15th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 4,243
Posted By John A
They are the same, they just use different compression formats. The tarball from mail-archive.com uses a bzip2 compression, the one attached in ubuntu-forums has a gzip compression, and the archive I...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 14th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 4,243
Posted By John A
Okay, I did some research on this, and turns out that this is kind of an Acer hardware bug, in which the fan speed is not controlled by the BIOS, but by the software that's supposed to be keeping...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 13th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 4,243
Posted By John A
I'd suspect your fan control settings would be in /sys/devices/platform/acer_acpi.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 13th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 4,243
Posted By John A
Make sure that your kernel has the necessary modules to detect and control your fan speeds. When I'm running Linux on my MacBook, my fan settings appear in the virtual filesystem /sys:

localhost:~...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Oct 17th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 993
Posted By John A
You can't exactly map each Windows directory to a corresponding Unix directory, but here's an article that goes over the uses of most of the common directories in a standard Unix filesystem.
...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Oct 5th, 2008
Replies: 13
Views: 5,694
Posted By John A
That's an extremely vague question at best, but some easy to use distros include Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, Xandros, and Linspire.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 26th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 2,483
Posted By John A
Post the exact error messages you receive when you try to run 'startx' after login.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 7th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,675
Posted By John A
Try here:
http://register.vmware.com/content/download.html
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Sep 7th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,675
Posted By John A
>How do I install Fedora OS in a VMware virtual machine?
Same way you would install Fedora on a regular machine. After you've set up the virtual machine so that its optical drive points to the...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 23rd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,526
Posted By John A
First of all, test that it's not the disc by inserting it into your working computer. If it boots fine, then the CD works and you've got a hardware issue. If not, chances are that the CD is defective...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 22nd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,406
Posted By John A
>mount /dev/cdrom
Of course, if you didn't have an fstab file, you'd have to do
mount -t iso9660 -o user,ro /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
I'm not exactly sure whether they meant a mount command with or...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 20th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,551
Posted By John A
There's a list of supposedly "secure" Linux distributions here: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Secure/ . On the BSD side of things, OpenBSD seems to be the popular one where security is...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 11th, 2008
Replies: 21
Views: 8,154
Posted By John A
On the other hand, Gentoo has a software model that might be undesirable for a server operating system. Generally speaking, as a source-based distro, Gentoo tends to be bleeding edge, and while...
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