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I prefer gnome to KDE but I don't know what this is but I thought I might give it a try. If anyone knows what this is and where to get it, please let me know, thanks. [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/ubuntu-linux,0201--6247----jpg-.html[/url]

I am trying to write some links on a site that would do stuffs for the clients. I kinda want to do something (such as executing a server side script) to a remote client machine (windows machines). Such as downloading something to the client's machine with permission, install vnc for …

what is the API / function for getting the percentage of CPU utilisation by a given process?

Can someone help. I need to find the sco openserver licence version on our server. I tried going into "scoadmin" .... it only gives the licence number... not the version number. I know we are on Openserver 5 but Ima not sure whether it is version 5.2 or 5.4..... :confused:

hi folks! i installed centos server.. now i am trying to host web from my centos.. i need step to step guidance for hosting... i don,t know how do get domain name and dns settings ... please help me...

I am developing a web page which retrieve data from a seperate mysql server on the same network musql_connect('192.16.1.2:3306', 'root', '123'); but ana error shows Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.16.1.2' (13) in /var/www/html/index.php on line 3 the 2 servers are on 2 different virtual network …

OK, I'm not sure what's going on in the minds of the geniuses over at Yahoo but just today they removed the Linux/Open Source link under News/Tech is gone. Its replacement? Social Media. Thanks Yahoo. That's really clever. NOT! In the realm of things dumb, that takes second place right …

hi for all ! my question : how developers can make money from open sources developing ?? I need details about this regards SollideR181

Ubuntu on win 7 network.( 32 /64) Dell A810 all in one printer on win 7 machine. Ubuntu 10 can see network printer but no driver found (not surprising!) tried generic postscript PCL but wont print....it says its printing job 5 etc but no result! Any suggestions? Ta M

I am an absolute beginner with Linux. I did install UBUNTU 10.04 = great, but every time I try to run Lazarus it raises a message: '"/usr/share/fpcsrc/2.4.0/" does not look correct' How to solve this ? Thank you !

hey guys I don't know if this is the right place for my post subject I want to transfer my Fedora OS into router such that the PC has two NICs on it, so i want to connect two computers to this PC and let the Fedora OS acts as …

Hello All, I am new to linux and I m trying to build a series of startup scripts. My goal is to call one startup script that then calls several others based on conditions. I am starting with a simple alias script. I have read many posts on this and …

Hello, I think it was yesterday, that I turned on my computer and my mouse wasn't working. First, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread276352.html"]Mozilla Firefox doesn't start [/URL] and then I cannot move the pointer on my screen, I don't think both problems are related, but I might have deleted some file(s) or while removing …

Hey, so as the title says my Firefox Web Browser doesn't want to start. It was working properly, but I guess after running a virus scan with KlamAV and quarantine a couple of errors that it gave me, it simply does not start. I've googled it, and I've tried a …

I have installed RH9 on a box at home and I am really new to this OS. I was wondering if anyone can help me with installing a package manager. I am not really sure what I am doing. Once I figure out how to install this I should be …

My Linux machine is running Fedora 10, Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL, and VSFTPD. I don't want the public to have access to my FTP files. All I want is to be able to securely connect my Windows machine using Aptana Studio and be able to easily transfer my web …

The topic of certification surfaces every so often in technical circles--especially when job seekers face tough job competition. The value of such certifications comes into question versus that of years of experience. For experienced technicians and engineers, the opinion is that experience is the most important for landing a job. …

hai ! i tried lot of instruction to install ffmpeg on ubuntu... all them were failed it returns finally... [QUOTE] libfaac is nonfree and --enable-nonfree is not specified. If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest version from SVN. If the latest version fails, …

Hi, I want to get the memory usage of my process in Suse. I have used some command like top,ps v but the they give the percentage of memory used while I want the amount of memory used Is there any other command that can give me the amount of …

here is my dilemna! I recently bought a linux netbook and have found this little go getter, better than other window computers i have had and used. learning the ropes to my root terminal, and picking up every little bit of information i can obtain. which is when I fount …

I'M rather new to Linux and I've just started with Ubuntu. I'M trying to understand the file system. I see that rather than a traditional drive letter like C: , Linux uses a single /. But I guess my real question is, where are programs stored? In Windows they're stored …

Hello, I am trying to create a debugfs file using the debugfs_create_file(...). I have written a sample code for this. static int __init mmapexample_module_init(void) { file1 = debugfs_create_file("mmap_example", 0644, NULL, NULL, &my_fops)\ ; printk(KERN_ALERT "Hello, World\n"); if(file1==NULL) { printk(KERN_ALERT "Error occured\n"); } if(file1==-ENODEV) { printk(KERN_ALERT "ENODEV occured\n"); } return 0; …

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in the world of software patents, a reliable source sent me this response from Steve Jobs about a patent pool that's forming and aiming to nail the open source codecs projects. It's enough to make the weak at heart go weak …

I am in a jam. And, I am pulling out what hair I have left. I have a server with CentOS4 on it. It has Tomcat running on port 80. This seems to be hijacking all the sites. By this I mean, I want to run a bunch of non-tomcat …

The latest MessageLabs spam index reveals that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine. But what are the facts behind those headline grabbing numbers and can Windows really get off the hook that easily? …

Hi Daniweb team, How to update xpdf in fedora system in terminal..Can any one help me out. My version is: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) I saw the version in the following command cat /etc/ redhat -release Thank you, Prem

Since I first moved to Ubuntu, one of my biggest complaints is Totem not having any audio, does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

in linux installation, which of these options(Advanced,Expert,Selective,Custom) allows you to select only the packages needed to suit your computing needs?

I've just installed Cent OS 5 on my server and I'm trying to configure it using Webmin. Now I've reached the Apache section and I want to install/uninstall apache modules, but in the apache configuration page cannot see the modules section. This is very strange. Previously I had Ubuntu and …

Using mod_rewrite I use this to test if a file exists: [code]RewriteCond /home/myact/public_html/pagecache%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f[/code] How can I test if the file exists and is less than 5 minutes old?

I recently uninstalled python 2.6 from my Ubuntu, unbeknown to me at the time, the gnome desktop is reliant on python 2.6. Ubuntu then crashed and now will only load up in Kubuntu KDE. Kubuntu will not let me switch back to Ubuntu gnome, it's not an option. So from …

Okay so I have just installed windows xp on an emachines C2685 machine and am trying to set up a dual boot with ubuntu. The problem is that when i run the install off of a live cd the install freezes before it gets to the loading screen and after …

Hi, I had two hard disks on which I had setup Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to dual boot. Last week I disconnected the two hard disks, added an old IDE hdd and installed Ubuntu on it. As long as the ubuntu hdd is the lone one installed in …

I need some Free & Easy Linux Distributions for: 1. Skype; 2. Lazarus Free Pascal + Firebird; 3. Some Linux Application to work using Autocad files [B].dwg[/B]; Is it possible to install them on a USB HDD 320 Gb ? How many independent Linux Distributions can I istall on USB …

[URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL]'s Lucid Lynx (10.04) isn't out yet but Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and [URL="http://www.canonical.com"]Canonical[/URL], and his team look toward the October 2010 (10.10) release they're calling Maverick Meerkat. On his personal blog this morning, Mark wrote, "It’s time to put our heads together to envision 'the perfect 10'." Mark, …

My [URL="http://www.frugaltechshow.com"]Frugal Tech Show[/URL] co-host, [URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow"]Jason Perlow[/URL], and I spoke with [URL="http://www.canonical.com"]Canonical[/URL] CTO Matt Zimmerman early this morning about the upcoming [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL] releases and a few other selected topics of interest to Ubuntu users. There are some secret goings on in the mill at Canonical that he didn't tell us …

I'm placing this thread in the hope it may be useful to the FLOSS, in case it gets due attention and interest. In a recent Ubuntu review, made in the Washington Post, the author concluded in this way: "And that's an important thing to remember when talking about glitches in …

While [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/technology/12slate.html?pagewanted=1"]reports[/URL] suggest that Google is planning an Android or Chrome driven slate computer to rival the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story273324.html"]iPad[/URL], fuelled by some loose party talk by CEO Eric E. Schmidt, others have a date and price for their iPad-alike machine already. Take the Linux-powered WePad for example. The folk at Neofonie, …

I am having trouble when trying to send information through the PC parallel port. I am using the following code to try to send data: #include <stdio.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <unistd.h> int main(void){ ioperm( 0x378, 1, 1 ); outb( 0x378, 0xAA ); sleep( 2000 ); outb( 0x378, 0x55 ); sleep( …

Who says you don't get something for nothing? Certainly not the good people over at [URL="http://www.linuxfoundation.org"]The Linux Foundation[/URL] (TLF) who're offering free [URL="http://training.linuxfoundation.org/lp/sign-up-for-the-free-linux-training-webinar-series"]Linux training[/URL]. TLF is doing its part for the worldwide Linux community by offering this free training plus the [URL="http://jobs.linux.com"]Linux Jobs Board[/URL] and all of its [URL="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs"]other services[/URL]. …

[URL="http://www.mysql.com"]MySQL[/URL] users listened intently Tuesday, April 13 at O'Reilly's MySQL [URL="http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010"]Conference[/URL] to Edward Screven, [URL="http://www.oracle.com"]Oracle[/URL]'s chief corporate architect, while he announced Oracle's grand plan for MySQL. What they heard was that Oracle is interested in MySQL, will invest in it and nothing should change for the community version of MySQL. …

Hi, I'm trying to follow the pocket Linux guide to make a really basic floppy based distro. I'm trying to compile linux-2.4.37.9 as per the tutorial on ubuntu 9.04 with gcc-4.1. I tried using 2.6.* but it was just to big to fit on my floppy. Here is the error …

Required is a program that calculate the factorial of a non negative whole number which it gets from a user. It then displays the number and its factorial.. can any one try to test for me this algorithim? plz

Florian Mueller, Open Source Patent Activist, just released the following information. He believes that patents already used by IBM against [URL="http://www.turbohercules.com"]TurboHercules[/URL] are also a threat to other major FOSS projects. He now calls on the community for action. [URL="http://openbsd.org"]OpenBSD[/URL], [URL="http://xen.org"]Xen[/URL], [URL="http://virtualbox.org"]VirtualBox[/URL], [URL="http://redhat.com"]Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization[/URL], [URL="http://mysql.com"]MySQL[/URL], [URL="http://postgresql.com"]PostgreSQL[/URL], [URL="http://sqlite.org"]SQLite[/URL] and [URL="http://kaffe.org"]Kaffe[/URL] …

I've had KDE for a while but I didn't like it as much to I stuck with gnome. Today I updated my gnome and a while later I decided to un-install python 2.6 and replace it with 3.0. I noticed that un-install was going really slow. Then my computer suddenly …

so, previously, Grub would start and give me the option of the starting either Linux (fedore core) or winxp. Using partitionmagic, I deleted the linux partition and joined it with winxp. When I rebooted, I get a GRUB prompt ("grub>"). I now have no idea how to get it start …

Hi guys, how to find a drive letter in linux (Red Hat)? I inserted a thumb drive but i don't know how to check which drive letter is assigned to it. Sorry so noob in linux. Please help. Thanks.

Hello everyone, Im trying to get my server setup for a small web hosting type system (for friends). everything is working except subdomains ive used vhost_alias for ever when i was just hosting my site to do wildcard subdomains. But I can'e seem to get it working on more then …

"After years of pretending to be a friend of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), IBM now shows its true colors. IBM breaks the number one taboo of the FOSS community and shamelessly uses its patents against a well-respected FOSS project, the Hercules mainframe emulator." Those are [URL="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibm-breaks-taboo-and-betrays-its.html"]the words of …

Today marks the end of an era for [URL="http://www.sco.com"]SCO[/URL], the embattled company whose officers thought that they owned the full rights to the UNIX code, is no more. Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, purchased the company for just over $4 million. The company will be renamed to Linsco to reflect …