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In the latest episode of the [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179007/SCO_appeals_ruling_in_Novell_case"]story that never ends[/URL], [URL="http://www.sco.com"]SCO[/URL] filed an appeal in the [URL="http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153"]closed[/URL] case against [URL="http://www.novell.com"]Novell[/URL]. Everyone in the Linux and Open Source Communities thought the case was finally brought to a close when the judge declared that Novell is the owner of UNIX copyrights. The …

Hi, In 4 days , my server hosting went non-functional due to critical low space in the / folder that finally i have to seek support to help delete the backups. Nothing works during those times like email, ssh, ftp, sites .. :( The backups folder had 350GB of databackup …

Anyone has any idea why I cannot disable the FileETag ? I have this in my apache config file: FileETag None, I have restarted the server, I'm running on centos 5 and apache 2.2.3. Still, everytime I'm using the Yslow tool in Firefox I got errors that I should disable …

Hi all, I have a phpbb forum that I had to move to a subdirectory (/forum/). We've been going for 8 years so have a lot of stuff indexed on Google etc. Is there a painless way of using .htaccess to send all requests to the subdirectory. The root directory …

Hi, I need a command line to list all the image files that are stored in another server. I have username, pasw, ip and port. However, code below doesn't work. Either with php or command line will be accepted. Thanks in advance [CODE]$pathToImages = root:123123@192.168.10.02:22 /var/www/vhosts/pictures/[/CODE]

hi all, help please ! here is the situation, i work in research and recently assembled a new computer (corei3+asus-h55 based board) and hope to use only via ssh (so did not buy a screen). i have a laptop, but do not yet have a screen for the desktop. could …

Dearall i,ve completed training on rational clearcase on unix and want to do a certification on essentials of cleacase.so, please help me out by mentioning the procedure for applying and the books to be referred to get through the certification.ur help will be appreciated

I downloaded a patch to install DirectX 9 under Wine, but where do I put the patch for it to work?

Hi Friends, I am so tried ti dual boot in my system . i m using windows xp but i m installed new opreating system linux. but i m not installed linux in my system. mu pc configuration. intel chipset dual core. 1gb ram 320 gb hdd pls give me …

Hi, I am new to Linux and I have a wee problem i think this forum can help me with - I have a script that uploads a users profile image successfully to a folder and successfully storing the image path to a mysql database. The problem im having is …

I am not an advanced user, but I changed something somewhere and can not see anything after log-in screen for hardy heron. Screen goes blue after enter of password. I did not create a sudo password. can anyone help with this?

Hy people! =) I'm really interrested about Ubuntu Studio 10.04, and I really want to install it on my notebook. But, my question is the following: - I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed, and I was wondering if Ubuntu 10.04 can "see" the Windows's file-system? I have 3 partitions: 1 …

There's big news in the software patent front from none other than The U.S. Supreme Court. In the case of [URL="http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=167db2c8-5a72-4f52-8c22-6ae54ff16062"]Bilski vs. Kappos[/URL], handed down yesterday, is a major blow to the anti-patent movement, specifically the [I]no software patent[/I] groups. [INDENT]Florian Mueller, founder of the anti-software patents movement (NoSoftwarePatents) in …

Today, June 22, 2010, The [URL="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com"]Open Invention Network[/URL] (OIN) [URL="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release06_22_10.php"]announced[/URL] that [URL="http://www.canonical.com"]Canonical[/URL], the company that owns and produces the [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL] Linux distribution, joins its ranks as the first Associate Member. Florian Mueller, founder and former director of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign and the founder of the [URL="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com"]FOSS Patents Blog[/URL] had this …

I am new to kernel recompilation and building kernels.. Can anyone explain difference between the kernel types smp, non-smp, huge, generic.. How can we identify the type of kernel.. How they are categorize? I am using below kernels and recompiled and loading externel modules also.. but it wasnt successful.. kernel-source-2.6.24.5_smp-noarch-2 …

I know it sounds crazy but the Linux Desktop isn't dead, it's just pining. It's pining for the correct platform--a tablet computer. And, I'm not referring to some cheap imitation tablet that will merely satisfy a few observers and nerdlets who use Linux. I'm thinking of a tablet computer for …

I get error as below when I tried to start my Linux server. /data contains a file system with errors, check forced. Error reading block 77000497(Attempt to read block from file system resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. /data: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck manually. (i.e.; without -a or …

hi! is it possible to chat or to talk to someone using "OPEN TERMINAL" in redhat if will take in to consideration that there is a LAN connection between them?

Hi everyone, I am playing around with Ubuntu that I put on an older PC. I was wondering if it is possible to bring up the Ubuntu desktop on my other computer that runs Windows XP via some kind of remote desktop application. Thank you for any help in advance. …

Well i have been working on linux for a while , eventhough i am stuck to ubuntu only . Well i am planning to venture out a little and understand more about how os is made and may be build os from scratch .. i mean not to code it …

hey friend i need some help here since i'm new to ubuntu(to linux also)...this is the problem. i installed wine on ubuntu 10.04 and install [URL="http://www.programarts.com/cfree_en/index.htm"]c-free[/URL] 4.1 .The installation is completed with no errors.and [URL="http://www.programarts.com/cfree_en/index.htm"]c-free[/URL] is working perfectly except its unable to output any thing to terminal.Is there any way …

Dear All, I'm developing a small Java application which will use Espeak to speak certain text. Now I pass the test as command line argument [I]$espeak -s 50 "a for apple"[/I] It works perfect on command line Now in my program, I've used [I]String cmd = "espeak -s 50 \"A …

Hello everybody, I face some problems in installing some libraries which are (libpthread, libltdl, libpcre) using yum install command but it says that these are not available??? what is the problem, I have installed other packages successfully, but don't know what the problem here?? thank you

I want to unpack tar.gz file Where should I locate the package I want to unpack??

Hi, Popular memory leak detection tool like valgrind ,etc is simply crashing in our customized linux environment (montavista hardhat ,etc) , is there any other good memory leak detection tool which can be used on the target but which does not consume so much RAM like valgrind ?

This Memorial Day weekend reminds us all of those who sacrificed their lives for freedom and to protect a way of life that is based on freedom. While considering the brave men and women who stood up for what is right over the past 250 years, it made me realize …

Hi all =) well, I have this problem with vim.. Whenever I write a code, I get a dark yellow highlighting.. this happens only when I'm on the user mode. When I switch to the root mode, everything is normal, i.e. syntax colors appear normally.. I googled for a solution …

This post is a summary of a conversation I had the other day with an acquaintance of mine. It started out with him asking me what I do for a living and ended up with me having to choke back tears of laughter. I hope you have the same reaction …

I've run across ten new Linux distributions inspired by current news stories. Some, of course, are better than others and a few just have no practical use or purpose whatsoever but still are worth a mention. These ten distributions are in no particular order of my preference or relevance. Maybe …

I'm really really new to this, and have worked a lot of things out myself, but basically I have quite a few rules, all of which work, but now I'm getting into deeper stuff with more variables and my lack of knowledge is starting to show through this! First quick …

Hey there, Well certainly a rookie mistake made on my part here. I have a dual boot machine with Ubuntu and Win 7 installed. Yesterday I had a little play with my ubuntu install and upgraded to 10.04 Lucid Lynx. All was well until I went to boot into windows. …

Hello all, I am not sure if this is the right place to post, but I hope someone can help me out. I am very into computers and love messing around with them, and have been learning about them for years. However, I have never actually made a device or …

Hi everyone, I am having a bit of an issue with multiple outbound connections. I have set up 2 open vpn servers on the same IP address. Server 1: Port 500 dev tap0 ip 10.8.2.1 Server 2: Port 501 dev tap0 ip 10.8.3.1 On the client side I have. Client …

It's a cell phone for crying out loud. Do you get it? A cell phone. You know, you make and receive phone calls on it. It's a telephone that you carry around in your pocket. Who gives a rip whether it's equipped with a web browser, a file editor or …

hiii, i want to ask .. why do we basically use servers.. wat is the basic requirement for making of servers and wat r the mainly used servers and their advantage.... sry if my question is tooo easy but i m unable to get a satisfactory answer for this questio.. …

Hello all, I am having trouble as I am on a shared server where obviously someone has been abusing the SMTP server as Hotmail has blacklisted it, I have contacted my host and they are working with microsoft to resolve the issue BUT in the mean time my customers are …

Could anyone point me to a good C++ compiler for Ubuntu, other than Mono. Note that I was using Visual C++ 6. thanks.

Hey, I need to install PHPIze (To install XCache) so I ran the command [CODE]yum install php-devel[/CODE] (PHPIze is within the php-devel package) And that gives me the output [CODE]Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ftp.uni-koeln.de * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies …

I recently upgraded a friend of mine to [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL] 9.04 Desktop for his five-year-old [URL="http://www.acer.com"]Acer[/URL] laptop with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Windows 2000 after backing up his precious documents, pictures and browser favorites. I installed the latest stable version of Ubuntu, restored all of his settings, Internet connection …

At present I am using kubuntu, which I really do like for updated packages and also the speed of updating the OS. I used to use gentoo but because of compile times (it was a very nice setup) but just the compile times.. I was wondering what was the main …

I need to build a shell script to run daily & upload certain files to an FTP. I thought I'd use FTP, but I'm really not sure how to use FTP in a shell script being run by a cron job. Can anyone give me an insight to how I'd …

Hello all ... i'm still new in linux networking ... my office use mandriva 2005 w/ samba as the file server and all client using win Xp to access the shared folder on that server I need your help about these matter : 1. how to config mandrake/samba to detect …

Hi, I have a HP laptop with intel dual core 32bit processor with 512MB RAM & 80 GB HDD. 2 years back I have installed windows XP on it on my own, it was quite easy. But now I need to install FreeBSD for the C++ development on the same …

To you, my loyal readers, I must offer up a sincere apology for my recent post, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story254705.html"]Five *nix Myths Busted[/URL], and am posting this full retraction for that post. To fully drive home my retraction and refute any myths about my competence with Linux or Unix, I am going to …

It looks like [URL="http://www.yahoo.com"]Yahoo[/URL] has reinstated the [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/technology"]Linux/Open Source[/URL] link on their Tech News page. Perhaps it was just a fat-fingered mistake or an accident of some sort that the link was removed from the main link bar but it certainly raised my hackles. And, frankly, my hackles don't need …

All right, here's my situation. I need to create an application (C language) that uses some of services provuded by unix kernel. I do not really want to install linux on my hard drive just for that. So I am looking for a tip on distribution that is suitable for …

Hello all, I have a laptop running XP Pro. Also using web software called Front Accounting to handle my paperwork for small business. I installed by myself all the necessary software and have some experience using Apache / PHP / Mysql. Brief description of problem: I installed all the components …

Hello--- I'm attempting to compile a software package ([url]http://www.freeusp.org/[/url]) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.3), and unfortunately, the Makefile cannot find an include that is required for compilation. In the /trcgp/ directory is a Makefile with the following: [CODE] include ${DEPTROOT}/etc/gmake.init [/CODE] In my .bash_profile file, I have the …

So, I have 2-3 php scripts that I run as crons calling them using wget: [I]/usr/bin/wget -o /dev/null [url]http://example.com/cronrss.php[/url][/I] These files (cronrss.php) are getting copied in the example.com directory every time the cron runs, every new file having a new number (/home/example/cronrss.php1, ...cronrss.php2 etc) So, what could be the reason …

I have created a basic html form on my web server, and when submit the form i get the following message for apache: Not Found The requested URL /handle_form.php method= was not found on this server. handle_form.php is there, so it should be handling the form. heres my codes for …