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Posts Made By: John A
Forum: C 12 Hours Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 64
Posted By John A
Re: HELP!!

fopen, then fread() or fgets() depending on what kind of file you're trying to read. Why don't you go look it up, because I don't feel like helping someone who's too lazy to even bother posting their...
Forum: Community Introductions 1 Day Ago
Replies: 10
Views: 102
Posted By John A
Re: The Best Web Developer is Now On Daniweb!

Sorry for the confusion. May I point you to our rules (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/faq.php?faq=daniweb_policies), which better explain the situation.

Keep It Organized states that

which is why I...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 1 Day Ago
Replies: 10
Views: 197
Posted By John A
Re: DaniWeb Blogs

>If you're going to make a blog, why would you make one on Daniweb,
>as opposed to some other blogsite or your own site?
Exposure. If you make a blog on your own site, it can take months, even years...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro 2 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 336
Posted By John A
Re: Distro to successfully control fan speed.

>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: DaniWeb Community Feedback 3 Days Ago
Replies: 10
Views: 197
Posted By John A
Re: DaniWeb Blogs

I think the biggest problem right now is that the target audience of the forums and the blogs aren't really the same. From what I can tell, most of the blog traffic is generated from external sites,...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 3 Days Ago
Replies: 7
Views: 104
Posted By John A
Re: Firefox 2 issue when posting and reading threads.

Firefox 2 and 3 work fine for me.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro 3 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 336
Posted By John A
Re: Distro to successfully control fan speed.

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 3 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 336
Posted By John A
Re: Distro to successfully control fan speed.

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 4 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 336
Posted By John A
Re: Distro to successfully control fan speed.

I'd suspect your fan control settings would be in /sys/devices/platform/acer_acpi.
Forum: OS X 5 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 372
Posted By John A
Re: Antivirus 2009 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

Chances are, if you didn't download/install anything from those sites you should be fine. However, it wouldn't hurt to run a virus checker through your system just to be sure (use ClamXav like...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro 5 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 336
Posted By John A
Re: Distro to successfully control fan speed.

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: Linux Users Lounge 5 Days Ago
Replies: 9
Views: 608
Posted By John A
Re: Linux editors

Actually, text editors are completely unnecessary. Who needs an editor when you're equipped with 'cat' and some perfectly good redirection operators?

localhost:~ $ cat > textfile
the most...
Forum: Techies' Lounge 5 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 153
Posted By John A
Re: Question Many Experts Do Not Answer It To Me! Is It that Hard?

You're referring to the compiler bootstrapping process, which is a sort of chicken and egg scenario. The gist of it is that early compilers/assemblers were written in machine code in a very basic...
Forum: Kernels and Modules 7 Days Ago
Replies: 8
Views: 217
Posted By John A
Re: LInux>>????

Have you ever considered that there isn't necessarily a Linux operating system that corresponds with each Microsoft Windows release?
Forum: *nix Software 7 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 1,272
Posted By John A
Re: Server anti-virus software needed any suggestions?

Well, there's 3 possible causes:

- A virus got onto your system. This would most likely involve a virus exploiting a security hole in one of your daemons, or you or another administrator executing...
Forum: *nix Software 9 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 1,272
Posted By John A
Re: Server anti-virus software needed any suggestions?

What gives you the impression that you might have Trojans on your system?
Forum: OS X 15 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 288
Posted By John A
Re: Can't connect to Ethernet disk (NAS)

Did you mean 192.168.0.7? Because 192.168.07 is not a valid IP address.
Forum: Mac tips 'n' tweaks 16 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 440
Posted By John A
Re: video/x-ms-wmv how do I instal this plug in on my powerbook pro?

Try flip4mac (http://www.flip4mac.com/) if you haven't already.
Forum: *nix Software 18 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 346
Posted By John A
Re: How to execute "sudo source"

In order to accomplish that, you'll need a root shell. If your root account is enabled, you can authenticate yourself with 'su', otherwise just run "sudo bash" (or whatever shell you prefer) and...
Forum: Website Reviews 23 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 214
Posted By John A
Re: Downloadic.com

In that case, maybe you should snip the thread title too.
Forum: Linux Users Lounge 24 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 244
Posted By John A
Re: help with DiVX

Try installing mplayerplug-in.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 24 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 452
Posted By John A
Re: Forum Highlights - moved

There might be an iframe that you can block, effectively removing the whitespace. I can't remember exactly though, as I've disabled ads through my control panel (sorry, moderators and sponsors only...
Forum: Techies' Lounge 29 Days Ago
Replies: 7
Views: 403
Posted By John A
Re: Dealing with viruses!

>Do you use any anti-virus software
Nope.

>Do you find it to be effective in protecting your system from the countless viruses
>spreading via Internet?
I primarily use Unix or Unix-like operating...
Forum: *nix Software 32 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 303
Posted By John A
Re: shebang -e argument

From the set manpage:


In other words, bail if there's an error.
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro 32 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 317
Posted By John A
Re: Folder corresponding to windows!

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...
Forum: C++ Oct 12th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 344
Posted By John A
Re: Program runs through VC++ but no alone

Is this a purely console-based program, or does it use some sort of windowing libraries? Does the program work if you build it under the 'release' configuration?
Forum: *nix Software Oct 11th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 4,401
Posted By John A
Re: How to install linux in my system????

>Red hat linux in obsolete now
So is the post you're replying to.
Forum: *nix Software Oct 10th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 402
Posted By John A
Re: Format HD that had linspire

Don't bother. The next operating system that you install on the hard drive will almost certainly wipe out the MBR that contains GRUB you're noticing right now.

If you really must do it, boot up the...
Forum: *nix Software Oct 9th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 568
Posted By John A
Re: Tftp on Fedora 7

Oh, vi is a perfectly good command line text editor; there's nothing really wrong with it except that it's not particularly user-friendly to those who have never used it before. :P
Forum: *nix Software Oct 8th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 568
Posted By John A
Re: Tftp on Fedora 7

How about:
http://llbb.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/installing-tftp-on-fedora/

You might not want to use vi if you're not familiar with it though :)
Forum: Darwin, X11 and BSD Oct 5th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 787
Posted By John A
Re: Compiling Darwin - From Scratch!

Follow the guides for compiling Xnu that I linked to previously. Where the twist comes in is the fact that you'll be needing to cross-compile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-compiling) everything...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Oct 5th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,196
Posted By John A
Re: Best LInux Flavor

That's an extremely vague question at best, but some easy to use distros include Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, Xandros, and Linspire.
Forum: Techies' Lounge Oct 4th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 788
Posted By John A
Re: downloading videos from real player

Drag and drop the mplayer file, not the video file.
Forum: Window and Desktop Managers Oct 4th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 435
Posted By John A
Re: Linux Shell from a Windows machine?

Make sure sshd is running on the Linux machine, then connect to it from Vista via PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/).
Forum: Techies' Lounge Oct 4th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 788
Posted By John A
Re: downloading videos from real player

Open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities. Drag and drop the 'mplayer' file that you showed in your first screenshot from its location in the Finder onto the terminal window. The path of the mplayer...
Forum: Techies' Lounge Oct 3rd, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 788
Posted By John A
Re: downloading videos from real player

rtsp streams can't be directly downloaded through a Mac web browser. There are various programs that can do it, probably one of the best free ones that can do it is the Unix mplayer binary. Once...
Forum: Network Security Oct 2nd, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 241
Posted By John A
Re: Twofish Source code

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread148536.html

Closed.
Forum: Window and Desktop Managers Oct 1st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 577
Posted By John A
Re: Help

>If it's installed but you get an error when running it regarding a database being
>out of date, run the updatedb (/usr/bin/updatedb) command then try locate again.
That's assuming that they're using...
Forum: Darwin, X11 and BSD Oct 1st, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 787
Posted By John A
Re: Compiling Darwin - From Scratch!

>Both the guides need..........err........Apple XCode
Both guides say you should install Xcode (Apple Developer Tools) because it includes the Unix development tools (gcc, etc.).

You should be able...
Forum: Darwin, X11 and BSD Sep 30th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 787
Posted By John A
Re: Compiling Darwin - From Scratch!

I haven't been able to find much documentation on building the Darwin operating system from scratch, although it's relatively easy to find guides...
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