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I have VLC running on my laptop which does happily plays CDs and movies on the local disk. However I'm not able to play DVDs. In the Preferences under Input & Codecs Settings where default disk device can be set I'm getting 2 question marks in diamond shape and the …

Now there's a challenge for [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] hardware fans who don't necessarily love the "upgraded" iPhone OS: Install Linux on it. It might be possible but the hard part is getting past the A4 processor. Is there a Linux kernel tweaked for it? Why would you want to run Linux on …

As promised yesterday, this is my potential solution to the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story249841.html"]Linux survival question[/URL]: A Linux Commercial--created by you--and it's a contest. Sound exciting? You creative types will now have a chance to create your own short film/video/commercial for Linux. Give Linux a face, a voice, a rap, a song, a …

I just read a post on another site from someone who calls himself (herself?), [B]linux guru[/B], and it made me ponder the following question: What is a Linux Guru? I've known many knowledgeable people over the years but never have I met an actual guru. I wonder if people like …

i try to complile fcgiwrap from [url]http://nginx.localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap[/url] on solaris 10 platform however i got this error msg [CODE]# make gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic -O2 -g3 fcgiwrap.c -o fcgiwrap -lfcgi ld: fatal: library -lfcgi: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to fcgiwrap collect2: ld returned …

The issues are 1) "Ylmf Windows XP" was a real pirated Microsoft product prior to the arrival of "Ylmf OS" which is Ubuntu Linux. The Ylmf team has been frightened away from distributing real Microsoft products by the arrest of the distributor of "Tomato Garden" which was also a real …

Install dependencies: [CODE]sudo aptitude install python-fuse python-elementtree[/CODE] Karmic only has python-gdata 1.2.4-0ubuntu2 which is too old so get gdata 2.0.6 from here: [url]http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/[/url] and install that. Look for the README.txt and INSTALL.txt for info. Once the dependencies are satisfied: [CODE]sudo aptitude install subversion svn co http://google-docs-fs.googlecode.com/^Cn/trunk/ google-docs-fs[/CODE] and install that. …

hi i'm new to linux and having problems configuring my DHCP on redhat 9. i'm planning for it to be working with windows machines.. pliz assist :confused:

Hi, I have been using Fedora Linux for some time now and I love it. I know the there is an official list of packages/applications/software included in each version of Fedora and it is made by the Fedora project people itself. Here is the official (as I understand it) list …

Hello! I'm running a dedicated web server and I'd like to use APF to block HTTP(S) access to certain PORTS from all IP's except from mine. Anyone knows how to do that? Many thanks in advance!