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I just set up a samba media server and I got it up and running but it currently has to have a username and password to access the files. Do you know lines I need to edit in these two files to allow anyone, user or not to access the …

Dear pals, I am using Virtual Box of Oracle in my Windows 7 pc for running Red Hat Enterprise server 6.1 . But When I try to install using Yum i got error as below:  Please advise me fast . I am trying it for 2 days Thanks …

Hey everyone. I need to install opkg in my ubuntu 10.04 server. I have tried installing it by doing this git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg When I tried doing this ./configure it gave me a message saying that I should install autoconfig and automake. I installed the packages but it didn't work. …

is there a swishmax alternative for linux?

Hello, I have a number of long text files, they took from windows system with specific encoding (windows-1256). Can I count the all different number of words in theses files using Ubuntu commands? For example: If I have three text files contain respectively -Hi, hello. -Hello all. -Good people in …

I have this string " țara " which contains a character ț which is stored on 2 bytes. When i do in linux : hexdump -C file that contains the string it shows : 00000000 c8 9b 61 72 61 |..ara| 00000005 It is normaly to view c8 and 9b …

I just installed Opensuse 13.1 "successfully" last night. However each time I boot the system it gives me the error (warning?) message: '**No system tray detected on this system. Unable to start, exiting'**. The system itself is usable in spite of this message.... So what could be the cause of …

I have a 120 Gig iPod classic but I think it's HD must be getting some bad places, it at leat 3 years old, but I think a few years older. A lot of the songs will not play, I have to plug it into my Mint desktop and delete …

Hey everyone. I need to use apt-get and ipkg in my CentOS. I have tried many tutorials about installing apt-get but non of them worked for me. Also I haven't found anything regarding installing ipkg. Can anyone help?

how we did know about root password of fedora (pls help me to find root)

Hi, I have a hotswap sata drive that I use for backups on a PC running Ubuntu 12.04LTS. When I insert the drive it shows correctly on the desktop and I can double click the icon to show the contents of the device. I want to write a script to …

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with my Windows as each have a seperate partition and i am wondering about this...drivers are missing and when i try to get on line say that it can't get on line and i wonder if Usb 3.0 can have a way to let ubuntu …

hi all :) i've problem with spam email in ubuntu 1204 LTS use ispconfig3,... each spam email detected by server (ispconfig3) it's not send to client (outlook), its stopped in sever,.. how to allow/by pass all email contain spam to client??? what must i set??? please help me :(

Hi How can I Compile windows netcat source code(netcat.c)under linux machine. You can use MinGW compiler and Wine. I would like to get nc.exe after I finished compilation. http://joncraton.org/files/nc111nt.zip Is it somthing like this? root@kali:~/Desktop/nc# wine gcc -o nc1.exe netcat.c As we know its easy to compile nc under linux …

My old hard drive with Linux Mint 15 Olivia refused to boot yesterday: kernel panic etc. I tried to repair the file system and now some shared libraries are missing. On this computer, I have a brand new second hard drive with Kubuntu 13.10 freshly installed. From this OS, I can …

So, I may be kind of paranoid. I know some friends, which claim themselves being hackers. Well, I am eager to not try to even thinking of messing with anyone. Cause one showed me the "another side of software". To avoid problems when being hacked, I could just tape webcam …

System Administrators (SAs) have a tough job: Dealing with users and user accounts, security, patching, updates, upgrades, disk space, performance and other miscellaneous tasks often known as "other duties as assigned." For some SAs, the day never ends. Despite the challenges, pitfalls and occasional irate user; system administration is a …

*Virtual situation.* I am about to take my nasty hands to buy seperate hardware and build computer. The computer will be ready, I will run image on CD and install Linux on SDD/HDD (storage). How do I provide drivers to it? I think I have to download them from website …

This week I'll be at InterOp Las Vegas looking for the latest and coolest Linux-based technologies that InterOp exhibitors have to offer. My favorites are certainly the "new innovators." New innovators are small companies who've developed their own products and are trying to get noticed in the high-tech space. These …

2^64 / (1024^2) = 17.592.186.044.416MB = 16 exabytes 2^32 / (1024^2) = 4.096MB = 4 gigabytes 2^16 / (1024^2) = 0,0625MB = 64 kilobytes 2^8 / (1024^2) = 0,000244140625MB = 0,25 kilobytes = 256 bytes **How the heck you guys managed to do anything on "computers" which had maximum of …

We'll be launching a mobile app (iOS, Android) soon. App is native with a local SQLite database. App is supposed to do scheduled database sync with a live online MySQL database connected to a PHP based backend system hosted on a Hostgator dedicated machine. App audience is expected to be …

Hey there. I am decent gamer. I'd like to go through 100% of visuality and emotions (adrenaline, joy, aggresivity, action) that game can deliver. But as you can guess you need very good computer for it. And yes, you could buy a gamer computer, that costs 9000 dollars. Or make …

Allow others access files in your home directory by granting them "search" permissions. Create a publicly searchable, but not listable, subdirectory to your home directory, ~/pub. Create two subdirectories of ~/pub, both searchable and listable to only the members of the groups music and wrestle, respectively: ~/pub/music and ~/pub/wrestle. Note …

Hey, I would like to customize Linux in VMware. Fully for myself. Can I later set it on real computer? If yes, how? If not, dammit!

Is swap space in Linux, something like reserved RAM? Which avoids to display spikes and calculation lag? Offcourse I know, I can't use 2GB RAM program, on 1.5GB RAM computer with 2GB swap. But, if I use 2GB program and go for one calculation that uses in fact 2.5 RAM. …

The world's largest technical support, software and hardware companies use Linux on a daily basis for a variety of tasks and solutions. This post gives you an overview of all the ways in which large companies use Linux. Most don't use Linux on the desktop but do use it in …

How to install Centos 6.4 by pendrive with windows dual booting in two separate hard drives ?

hi everyone, could you give me an advice for hardware specs needed to run a small database server with around 40 to 50 users. actually the setup is the users maybe in other location. i need recomendation what specs, and what brands is the best, all including the router, and …

Hello I have a problem with my new acer computer on Windows 8, it doesnt work and reboot all the time I had try to save all my data before send it to buyer because I think he will only format my hard disk to reinstall windows and some data …

I run ubuntu on my laptop and my problem is that I can't connect to projector.

Hi All, Have written a script file as follows: mysqldump -u xxx -pxxx dbase1 > backup.sql DATETIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S` mv backup.sql /home/user01/dumps/Backup_${DATETIME}.sql read -p "Backup Complete. Press a Enter to exit" If I run the script by typing it's name at a terminal prompt it runs fine, but if I use …

I have 1 TB Hard disk, i want to install ubuntu but ubuntu taking the whole Drive but i want to make partion like windows, i tried partion on ubuntu but the only ubuntu partion can see the rest of my partion is not visible So please tell or tutorial …

I want to learn operating linux. what is the best way to do this? Will working on ubuntu help??

Hi, I am trying to run a process in my Linux system. For security reason, I want to create separate file systems for each individual process by which some system command should not corrupt the whole file system. Is it possible? If yes, please help me with the solution. Thanks, …

Hi to all My computer was running on a windows xp OS with three paritions (Drive C, D and E). In an attemt to install ubuntu on the system, it formatted the whole system. I just dont underatand how this happedned. all important files that i need are in Drive …

By examining the first, third and last (seventh) fields of the /etc/passwd file, determine the userid and login shell for your username, the user root, and the user nobody (yes, there is a system user with the username "nobody"). Create simple files in your home directory, called my.uid, my.shell, root.uid, …

So I just got a new laptop, it was originally running 64bit windows 8 so i had to get rid of it. Daft question, but I put a 32bit linux os (Elementary OS) on my system and it is running hideously slow. I'm hoping it is just that I've put …

I'm currently having an assignment that wants me to copy a select amount of files. More specifically files that are even using the cp command. The assignment is to copy files that start with cp and are even. This was my command at first `cp[24680]*` but it returned all files …

Should I get ubuntu on my mac? Is it good for programming? Does DirectX support linux?

I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS, nginx, PHP5, PHP5-fpm Recently I upgraded my PHP from v 5.3 to what I thought would be 5.4 but the package I used was further along than I thought and I ended up with v 5.5. It upgraded with no issues but I really …

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It's not often I start a new thread, but I've hit a bit of an unusual problem...Admittedly one of my own making... I have a laptop with a completely dead HD, which I've been using for a while with Ubuntu 9.10 installed on a bootable 8Gb USB stick with approx …

Hola a todos, Estoy intentando configurar la tarjeta graficadora Nvidia 720M en ubuntu 12.04 Pero no lanza progamas como Google Earth, Draftsig, y otros.

Hello, I have one big XML file (600 MB - 850 MB) in format "**cells_yyyymmdd_hhmi.xml**" I would like to specify that everyday i will have new file with new date. So, *there should be general way to read it and cut it*. For exmaple, i have file of 7th January. …

Hello, I have one "**tar.Z**" file. Objective is to unzip it by shell script and check the date. * archive: filename_20140103_1540.tar.Z #!/bin/bash cd $REP_DATAS/path u=$(date +%u) if [ ${u} -eq 1 ] ; then dateQ=`date --date='-3 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` else dateQ=`date --date='-1 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` fi tar xvf filename_"dateQ".tar.Z > error: > …

I try to entering Manual IP Address from /etc/network/interfaces like this; #auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet static #address 192.168.1.2 #netmask 255.255.255.0 #gateway 192.168.1.1 but i still can't connected with my internet but if i try to write /etc/network/interfaces like this #auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp I can connected with …

Hi. I'm still a newbie on apache/linux, so I'm hoping that my problem is relatively easy for more experienced people to solve. I have 4 folders, each containing an .htaccess file to restrict access to the PDF files they contain. My problem is that whenever I edit the content of …

Hello! So I've always had trouble with permissions/directory ownership and I can't figure this out... I have my apache directory in my home directory (/home/apott/www). I can edit files over FTP and such which is fantastic but I apache doesn't have permission to access the files... I can give it …