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minimalistic, opinionated, tech junkie, freedom fighting, *nix admin wanabe

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Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux. I am finding it interesting but i am wondering why Linux is not having any Antivirus or some security tools? wont this pose any security threat when we are accessing Internet?

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[B]Introduction[/B] Many people might wonder why you would want to compile source code. After all, most Linux programs can be had by simply opening up their favorite package manager and clicking "install". The package manager does the rest. However, there *are* reasons why you would want to do this. For …

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why is it every time i load a new distro i never find one that has default FFS support? why is it however that virtually/probably every distro out there comes ready to read proprietary FAT(FAT16), VFAT(FAT32) and NTFS partitions but not non-proprietary filesystems such as FFS?!? *BSD are opensource too …

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Last night while watching my usual list of recorded television programs, I saw a commercial for [URL="http://www.kgb.com"]KGB[/URL], the company that begs you to text them with your questions. For a mere 99 cents, they'll answer any question that you ask of them. I'm sure that they have their share of …

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Do you do freelance work as a web designer or web developer? If you do custom work for clients, you're welcome to advertise your service in our [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum52.html"]Custom Services For Hire[/URL] forum within the Webmaster Marketplace.

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i'm trying to find a way to have a simple input box on my site, all i want is to have a box where a user can input whatever they like and then click a submit button and have it save that to the end of a file. problem is …

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ive mastered this page to look good in the latest ie and firefox browsers but cannot view them in any other browsers. if anyone could look how this site turns out in other or past browsers i would be very grateful [URL="http://www.health2happy.com/"][U][COLOR=#0000cc]http://www.health2happy.com[/COLOR][/U][/URL] thanks baz

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I took a working name server running bind 9 and fiddled around with the named.conf file. Then, because I wanted to be able to do further work remotely, I created a link /etc/rc2.d/S20ssh pointing to ../init.d/ssh) so it would run sshd when it boots. I copied the sshd_config file from …

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I am using this code in my html file:- [code] <address>Last Modified <!--#config errmsg="Yesterday" --><!--#config timefmt="%A %d %B %Y" --><!--#flastmod file="index.html" --> </address> [/code] Is there a way i can put this in my stylesheet to save me doing it on each page? thanks :)

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i have my own website (in sig of course). but the biggest thing that is driving me round the bloody bend is my forum. i have tried my upmost to get members.Postings etc can i !!!. can i hell as like i just dont know what to do its so …

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I'm still not convinced that GIF is any use other than for animation though, it's use in the past i can understand, but other than the fact that PNG does not support animation and MNG hasn't really taken off (probably because gif is free now?), the only thing that still …

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There's a new version of MEPISLite out. It is called AntiX. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and is designed to work on older boxes with low ram. It comes with fluxbox and doesn't come with kde. It has the MEPIS installer as well as some other MEPIS goodies. It …

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I've recently installed Ubuntu on a old computer. It has one 20g hdd that is split in 2 partitions. One partition has Windows 2000 on it and on the other has Ubuntu (7.04) on it. When I start the computer it says that it can't find the OS and that …

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it's time to clean up my code and get a w3c validation. in the original page i had [code] <div align="center"><IMG src="http://<mysite>/images/<image>" width="640" height="78"></div> [/code] but w3c says 'there is no attribute "ALIGN"' it mentions that i can get around this in the css. i have been through a css …

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I was really recommended Gentoo, but I couldn't get it to install. Is there an easier way to install Gentoo?? What about Ubuntu, can it do as much as Gentoo, or at least Apache and MySQL

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If you are trying to start the new SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and it won't boot to a gui screen that may mean that it is trying to load the wrong video driver at boot. Some things to remember to do at first boot, before you log in a demo.... 1) Press …

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I am trying to embed my cgi:irc script into my html page, it works fine if i simply point a hyperlink to it, but it looks horrible and comes up in a different page, so i tried the <embed> tag like this :- [code]<embed src="https://alienlinux.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/cgiirc-0.5.9/irc.cgi" align="center" width="520" height="360"></embed>[/code] but it …

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hi, i have:- Server Version: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/5.1.4 mod_mp3/0.39 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7j the php module seems to have loaded ok yet when i point to any php content it still delivers the code and not the propper content and i don't know what to check now as i am so …

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since ati has the linux drivers for my video card(ati radeon 9200), does that mean it can run all the eye candy and stuff? thanks for your help.

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does anyone ever flag thir threads as solved? i'm getting tired of going into a thread to try and help only to find that its been solved and not been marked solved. is it just me, or does this irritate others too? please mark your threads solved when thy are …

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i tried today to change to konqueror web browser, i came to daniweb and noticed that all the gif's were replaced by the broken link icon, so i googled away and after a while i found this:- Q) What is up with GIF support? A) This has to do with …

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Hello All, I am new to the forum and have a bit of a problem... I am trying to change the windows generated UID numbers to specific UIDs when I log in to the linux machines. I am having trouble changing the UIDs to specific numbers. I downloaded and installed …

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hi guys I did try to run a search of the forum but it spat out nothing useful. forgive me if this has already been addressed. but I do need some help here. I'm a total newbie to linux and was trying to install ubuntu 6.1. I burned an ISO …

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Wow. The new MEPIS release is geared a lot more toward Mac Tel users than ever before. Quote from Warren Woodford "The MEPIS CDs contain an experimental "SimplyMEPIS Assistant" for OSX that helps prepare a MacTel computer for the installation of SimplyMEPIS. And the MEPIS installer detects MacTel hardware and …

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To whom ever would like to tackle this, I have a real problem trying to use Knoppix and Linux on Comcast. The Comcast Network people say that they don't support Knoppix Live CD or any of the Linux O.S. programs, and what I need to do is use my Linux …

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I'm completely new to Linux. Any help out there would be appreciated... I downloaded Knoppix 5.1 and it downloaded as an .iso file. I burned it to CD but can not get my computer to boot from the CD. I've checke the boot order and changed it so my CD …

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:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: How can I install Beryl on an nVidia 6500 graphics card on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy OS and on an AMD 64 3500+? I understand that this is a difficult question, but the doccumentation on the Beryl website is very overwhelming. I want the cool graphics, …

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Hi everyone i just reinstalled my windows coz i really need it with for my apps, but before i reinstalled it i am dual booting it with my opensuse, now the problem is i am not prompted to the usual OS selection using open suse grub i think coz it …

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Hi everyone Ive got this small site set up and before I register a domain name for it and make it known I want to add some more pages to it but i don't know what to add. Can you please look at the site and tell me what other …

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Hi! I am developing a new website as a hobby, and for about a half year ago a bought itshark.com without thinking that the most common translation on shark is swindle. So, welcome to itswindle.com :-( Shark can also mean to be clever on something, but thats just a slang …

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