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Hello all! i installed Ubuntu OS alongside Windows XP, but i got screen resolution problem, i mean everything was out of the monitor screen, was may be 800x600, i tried to adjust it through ubuntu's GUI Appearence feature but not succeeded, i guessed that i probably need separate VGA drivers …

Im beginner in LINUX and having windows os laptop.Tell me the best linux IDE for windows 64 bit.

I recently installed Windows Server 2008 and how my BIOS keeps setting the Windows boot as the default boot rather than Linux even though I keep setting the Linux SSD as the primary. Any ideas on why it keeps getting reset to Windows in the BIOS? I have 3 OSs …

**OS** - Linux Arch *I assume it could support more than 512GB of RAM.* **Motherboard** - Intel® X79 Express Chipset *According to [this](http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2647&page=2) page. X79 support 64GB of RAM @ 1600MHz.* **CPU** - Intel® Core™ i7-4960X *According to [this](http://ark.intel.com/products/77779) page. i7-4960X supports 64GB of RAM @ 1866MHz.* OS, motherboad and …

I have executables for Linux, but I can't access the installer wizard. It doesn't open. Are there any more software I need to download for the executable files in order to install them?

Hello, I recently started using vim, and decided it was about time to check out some plugins. I am still not very familiar, so my problems could be related to that fact! I started by installing vundle and using it I have installed a few top rated plugins, when I …

Hey. You guys and Linus (well, he said: "Nvidia, f**k you"), were telling that Linux is having problems with latest Nvidia CPUs. Well. My laptop will be kinda custom built. It would have then Nvidia GTX 880M (2x8GB) SLI. Is that on list of compatibility to OpenSuse and Arch? Is …

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i downloaded mysql-5.6.17-linux-glibc2.5-i686.tar.gz for Ubuntu 13.04 what next step to install it on ubuntu

#ss4 #Usage: ss4 <filename> chmod 744 $1 $1 Hi this is my script , after executing it i am getting error as "./ss4: line 6: ss1: command not found" HELP me.

This is possibly a very strange question, and I'm not sure where to ask it! But is there anyone around that uses a standing desk or a treadmill desk, and can you tell us how it effects your productivity and your typing. Do you make more mistakes? Do you use …

Does anyone know how to watch Amazon Instant Video on Ubuntu 14.04? I have googled this, but the solutions may only work on older verion of Ubuntu or Flash player. Doesn't work on 14.04. Any suggestion?

Not sure if this is where I should post this but I found it pretty cool. Its basically all core linux commands for command prompt Note: You have to include the bin folder in your winows Path and it works like a charm

How do i rectify the error i get from yum whenever i input the code sudo yum update yum i get a series of error messages. I ampresently using the fedora 9 version which i love so much

I have Kali Linux and a week or 2 ago I made a new user which was a copy of root. Now I am getting message that new updates are available and when I click install it asks me for administrative password. When I enter the user's password I get …

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I am an Apache/linux newbie. (Trying to learn this technology...) I setup a Mandrake 10.1 server, and am trying to setup virtual hosting. I created a user and a www folder. Set the www folder permission to 777. I created a virtual server as follows: <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot "/home/domain/www" ServerName …

Hi ! I change the CentOS-Media.repo in etc/yum.repo.d because I want to install a program of flash memory. I changed enable and baseurl fields : `enable = 0` to `enable = 1` and `baseurl = file:///media` in CentOS-Media.repo but when I write this cammand in **media** directory : `#yum --disablerepo=\* …

So, basically I tried to do everything i found to fix this but nothing really worked .. (It works fine on my 32 bit pc using elementary os(Luna linux). However my laptop has Kali Linux 64 bit. I have chromium installed. Some of the things that I tried which worked …

I put this in the Unix catagory, however I beleive Windows pipes also can perform atomic writes - correct me if I'm wrong! Say I'm trying to save a large stream of information onto a filesystem. This filesystem might be local, it might be LTFS (a tape filesystem. Here, seeks …

Hi, I downloaded the file package (version 5.18) from ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ For some reasons, I needed to build this 'file' package from sources. So on an x86 Linux machine, I built it from sources. (Linux 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 05:52:39 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) I built the …

I installed Kali linux and while i was running as root I installed quite some programs and made graphical changes etc, even changed desktop environment .. then made a new user so I won't be using root and the new user has all the default stuff and no access to …

Hi everyone :) I have a Cent OS 5 without grafical user interface I want to install a program of flash memory how to change the CentOS-Media.repo in etc/yum.repo.d without editor? I want to change enable = 0 to 1 in CentOS-Media.repo and want that baseurl = file:///media but did …

HI What is the difference between the two payloads ”window/shell_reverse_tcp” and ”windows/shell/reverse_tcp”? I appreciate your help

i want to develop my own operating system based on open source, can any help me out that how i have to start???

hi every one, im using ubuntu 12.04, and i have installed windows 7 and ubuntu12.04 on my laptob, and because im news i could not give the good size for my ubuntu home and boot directory, as from Gpartioned application apears ext4 /home and ext4 /boot are 3.72 GB each, …

hi , i am unable to solve this error , am running chukwa on single node so please guide me . The error am getting is shown below, hduser@bizruntime:/usr/share/chukwa/chukwa-0.4.0/bin$ ./start-all.sh cat: /usr/share/chukwa/chukwa-0.4.0/bin/../conf/collectors: No such file or directory cat: /usr/share/chukwa/chukwa-0.4.0/bin/../conf/agents: No such file or directory starting archive, logging to /usr/share/chukwa/chukwa-0.4.0/bin/../logs/chukwa-chukwa-archive-bizruntime.out starting …

Hello everybody, I am so much glad that I found such type of topic in this forum.I don't know why I love Linux operating system rather than programming.may be my job is on this department thats why I used to love linux server. Just share to you :-).

I'm going to try and extract the artist and album from the meta data of an mp3 file with python but I need a little help. This is what I get on the tag line when I open an mp3 file in vim: ----> `ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿTAGRooster^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Alice In Chains^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@DIRT^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@1992` This is what …

Below is what I'm getting when I try nad start tor, any ideas? M ay 25 14:38:35.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 25%: Loading networkstatus consensus. May 25 14:38:45.000 [warn] Received directory with skewed time (server '193.23.244.244:443'): It seems that our clock is behind by 6 hours, 59 minutes, or that theirs is …

Hy to all! I have a problem, i try to write c program, where parent create two process. And first child write in console (printf()) "one" and the second one print "two". Both of them must print (printf()) their word 5 times. I don't know why don't work.. An example …

Hey, Basically I want to be able to type something like 'editor &' and have an editor of my choice open. Similar to if you type 'emacs &' emacs opens. I was wondering where this information is kept and how to edit it for the desired results. Thank you

Hey guys, I ve been using elementary (luna) os distribution of linux and I am really satisfied with it .. the only problem that i am facing is when switching between application sounds .. I ll give you an example: Using my headphones to speak on teamspeak and listen to …

Hi, I need Dropshipper module for my site. It should be handle my shipping carrier charges and multiple suppliers products. Anyone can help me on this.

Can anybody tell me why VLC not working in fedora 20

I just installed linux fedora 16. When i want to view my software packages in the "Add/Remove software" it doesnt show any packages. it give the following error when i click on the "Package Collection" tab: The group list was invalid The group list could not be loaded Refreshing your …

when i am trying to use ubuntu try ubuntu option/install then after sometime its showed me that The system is running in low graphics mode your screen graphics card and input device sestting could not be detected corectly .You will need to configrure these yourself . But i cant under …

Hello, I have a USB key on which I do all of my programming. It is formatted as an NTFS drive with 32 gigabytes of space. On this drive I have large C::B projects which contain both windows and linux executables. When I try to run the linux executables it …

I am facing a problem with my terminal (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) . I was making some changes in the /bin/bash , but I have keeped a backup of .bashrc in case of something went wrong. Anyway today I have tried to open my Terminal and the following message appeared: There …

I'm trying to edit a TS-file which I fetched from my VU+ set top box. First I tried to rename it from .ts to .mpeg, then I tried to read it into Avidemux. The first question was if I want to index the file, which I did. After a while …

Hey, sorry for bothering again. Couple years ago, when Linux was for me even newer world than it is now (not that I know anything practical about Linux) I installed Linux Ubuntu on a DVD. And tried to boot it up on my computer. So booted it up, purple background …

Hi, I'm facing an issue with Apache proxy module.ProxyPass isn't working.Why is that?Please help me.

I work in an institution ... and use ISA Server splitter speeds for users account on server domain "windows server 2008" .... I want to make server as filter porn sites and proxy sites, Before ISA Server ... can any one a show me , teach me? help plz...... look …

Cek this syntax: root@ubuntu:/opt/lampp# ./lampp startmysql XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok. root@ubuntu:/opt/lampp# ./lampp status Version: XAMPP for Linux 1.8.3-3 Apache is running. MySQL is not running. ProFTPD is running. I already start mysql yet it's still unable to run. Why is it?

I am having Acer 5920 (64bit ,intel mobile express 965 chipset family) laptop. I have been using ubuntu 8.04 64bit on it for a while.Even internet browsing makes the temprature of laptop to shoot to above 50C.I have tried configuring it a lot(using pwmconfig , gkrellm ...). But they either …

Is there any tool (not from system ^1) that I could put in RAM disk and on normal disk. Run both and see the outrageous speed? Some kind of tool, which will print me Read/Write in MBs? ^1 - Not from system, because I want to see how independant programs …

Hello; I tried to install Kubuntu 12 04, i have choosen the automatic installation; the latter is supposed to install Kubuntu on the free part of the partition At the end of the installation i had a message saying that the installation has crashed; and much worse my windows partition …

Hey All What is the equivilant of romaing profiles in windows server for Unix/Linux? Or how would i go about storing user accounts in a centralise location on the network so regardless of what machine users log onto on the network, they have the same desktop experiance? Thanks

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I've been lately doing some "research" about Linux. I just plainly sought what can be possibly done with `sudo su`. I came across `apt-get` function. Apparentely this is way Linux works, along with sum' file extension, that, I forgot (.deb?). But thats besides the point. Then I related `apt-get remove` …