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Hello, i'm a newbie here and i just want to ask if what is the best distro in running PHP, MySQL, Apache? counting on your replies. thanks :)

Hello Team: I am trying to access a private network. I have openvpn running on a Linux box, and I would like to access the LAN behind that box. I can establish and ping the vpn tunnel, but I cannot ping any of the boxes behind the openvpn. The network …

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Using VLC or Totem, playing a video file hangs my entire system. The audio still plays, and I can still use the mouse, but my keyboard does not work, and I can't kill X. This is annoying, seeing as I could play video files two …

Please help me out of this. I have a very simple scenario which is 1 windows machine which Im using as host with the ip address of 192.168.1.121 gateway:192.168.1.1 Dns:192.168.1.1 my host machine is running on (linux) with NAT enable mode its ifcfg-eth0 file reads as follows: Ip address: 192.168.1.50 …

Hello all, My web host is Linux (I use cpanel) and i'm having an application developed for my gps project in C++ with Microsoft Web Services. gps devce - sends data ([U]get[/U]) to serial port reader (developed with C++) which then forwards & dumps it into mysql DB - that …

how can i uninstall ubuntu from my Dell-vostro laptop? can anyone tell me the procedures? i've ubuntu installation cd.. but that doesnt has uninstall file.. how can i fix this problem? reply soon plssssssssssssssss..

Hello, I was just hoping for a bit of help or for someone to point me in the right direction. Okay, so this past August, I found a really old windows 98 machine (433mhz processor and 96mb of ram). I decided to put slackware on it, and mess around with …

I have upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.14 on openSuse 10.3 and then downloaded Java 6u6 and installed that, created a symbolic link to java plugin for firefox but whenever I try to load a Java applet it will not show anything, not even the jigsaw piece saying Java is not installed. …

can anyone please tell me how I can send email with freeBSD? I guess the: mail -s " subject" [email]email@emaildomain.com[/email] is for system internal mail only??? do i need to browse my for example hotmail.com ,,, login and then create the email from there? ..... or if there is a …

A lot of people say that Unix BC is a very good calculator program. However whenever I enter the following commands (after loading the math library -- i.e invoking BC at the command line by typing 'bc -l') I get: e (3 * l(2) ) 7.99999999999999999982 e(0.2*l(32)) 1.99999999999999999998 The first …

I am using Linux fedora and I am new in the Linux world, and I'd like to know how to configure its network such that I am able to exchange file with my peers. Please anybody who can help?

Hi All, Can anybody guide me for the little issue. I need to add few nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and after every time reboot, that entry should be edited in /etc/resolv.conf is there any way? Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, So i've been hearing all this hype about the new Ubunut 8.04 and i wanted to try it out. So i've treid the Live CD and i like it, very much. Now i want to dual boot XP and Hardy Heron. Right so i need to resize my …

Yeah I got one of those cds in a mag and thought this looks interesting. It promised very little set up, autodetect my graphics card and come with all the codecs for dvds etc. But when I put the cd in the drive it only gets to 35% then crashes. …

I am new to Linux and have tried to set up a dual-boot with Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux using a disk partition. I have successfully partioned the disk with Windows on one partition and Linux on the other using the automatic partition function during the Linux installation. My problem …

I have installed fedora 7.0 to my laptop and for school purpose I have to format it and install freeBSD. Can anyone please tell me how i format fedora ? since i can't simply go to bio and delete the partition like windows anymore.... I download freeBSD from the internet …

hi, I am trying to take unix administration and shell scripting courses this summer. I have done 2 courses of C++ and a course of java. However i have never learned C. Anyone please give me some opinion if learning C is necessary for Unix. Since C++ is inherited from …

Hi all I recently made a small calculator program and I was wondering how would I set the path so when I just enter "calc" then the calculator program would start without me having to enter cd calc ./calc I have googled but the tuorials tell me to direct it …

hi i hav recently started working with red hat linux .i want to start driver programming. but i dont't know how to set up or configure kernel source tree. and that is the first requirement as mentioned in the device driver programming book. help wud be much appreciated.

Plz let me know how to shut down xenbox using telnet.

I am installing Debian on a net install and it detects the network card fine but when it comes up to downloading packages it fails :( Any Ideas? Bondi

[code][ 870.033842] rtc: lost 2 interrupts [ 877.531867] rtc: lost 1 interrupts [ 880.956371] rtc: lost 1 interrupts [ 889.335974] rtc: lost 1 interrupts[/code] This happens with I use LMMS, a media application, using ALSA drivers. It doesn't affect performance, it's just quite annoying. Is there a fix to this?

I just finished installing Redhat 9 onto VMWare Workstation. I was able to install the VMWare tools but cannot seem to get into the x windows gui. I try to type in [B]startx[/B] but it returns with: [I](EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no …

Hi all hope you are well. I am interested in a quick method (besides cut 'n' paste) of extracting my command history from a putty session (Linux version Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 9)) to a windows text file. Any ideas on that? Thanks for your …

hi all, i m currently working in fedora n opencv.i m able to compile sample codes which are in c and generate executable from them i m reffering [url]http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net/CompileOpenCVUsingLinux[/url] i did all steps correctly with no errors still i m getting "error while loading shared libraries: libcv.so.1: cannot open shared …

[B]The problem:[/B] I made a script that every minute - it restarts a program if it is told to in a mySQL database as well as if the program is not responding. I created it without a problem; it worked in the terminal, PHP and so on. Then why won't …

Okay, so here's the deal. I used to be able to use the application / tool "play" in a console to play mp3 and wav files, but now, I get errors: [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ play Tilt.mp3 play soxio: Failed reading `Tilt.mp3': unknown file type `auto' alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ play Tilt.wav play soxio: Failed reading …

I am new to freeBSD, it is weird to me that I can't logout /neither shutdown the system. I have sh and csh,, i man the "logout" and it says csh has logout utility so i change to csh and type logout... however, it keeps telling me it is not …

When I'm installing Google Earth in linux, it sent me a message saying, "Could not open the file /home/adude/Desktop/GoogleEarthLinux.bin using the Unicode (UTF-8) character coding." The in smaller words, "please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a different character coding from the menu and …

Hi there, I have just bought an IBM Thinkpad and an external CD Drive, the laptop has no OS installed so I bought 'Mandriva 2008'. The problem is I can't boot the OS from the external drive, I have set the BIOS to check the CD Drive first, I have …

Hi if anyone can help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated. I ve just installed kubuntu on my desktop as second os, my other is xp of course. During initial startup i came accross some problem because of my hardware. I am running an athlon 64 dual …

Hello all, I am wondering how email servers usually treat an email that has no real email domain from which it originated in comparison to an email that has a real email domain such as [email]harry@microsoft.com[/email]. How do email servers treat such emails when they are received. For example, some …

I am running my freeBSD with the Microsoft virtual machine. My PC has access to the Internet.. however, my freeBSD in the Virtual Machine doesn't. Is it because i m using the virtual machine? Or if I have to configure the network card manually in the freeBSD?

All I want to know is how to install simple programs such as winrar for linux, I think the format is tar.gz what do I do if they is no help file or readme. I am a n00b so basic steps would be really handy, also I have tried the …

I just recently installed FreeBSD and my system has basically nothing. I add one user which is myself. However I can't do anything with that account since i haven't set permission. My friend told me I need to use sudo command, but which is not available in my machine yet... …

when I try and drop a file into my apache folder it wont let me when I try and access my source server it wont let me, error do not have permissions :( Any Ideas? I tried loging in as root but it wont lket me at the login screen …

how do in install and run java on red hat linux 9 we have already installed jre self extracting file but javac command to compile java files doesnt work we have already setpath are there any other terminal commands what is the meaning of javaconfig

I recently changed my Desktop PC from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10 (yay for me!), but, i had several issues... one of them (the less urgent) is that my Creative Audigy SoundBlaster 0090 doesn't show any signs of life... though, the interesting part is that it is fully installed and …

I installed postfix + dovecot + sasl and so... this is the problem: I try to send mail from telnet using AUTH LOGIN and it works perfectly sending to gmail and hotmail, then i configure outlook to work with the same account and it bounces back a message telling me …

As i said on my other post, i recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 in my desktop computer... i have two HDD's, a master and a slave... before formatting my pc to install ubuntu, i moved some information from my master to my slave. But, when i tried to access my second …

Hi, I'm runnung 'ubuntu' Gutsy Gibbon. Something I miss woth Linux that I used to find usefull in Windows was the 'new hardware wizard/manager'. Is there anything equivilent that I can run when I install some new hardware so the system can identify the new device? Chhers, Jon aka no-box

I am logging on a Linux computer through a Windows computer via SSH. I'm wondering if I can modify and, therefore, save files that are on that Linux computer? If it is possible, what are my options? Is VIM the only option, or is there a more friendly application that …

Okay, I am about to pull my hair out. I installed Linux XP and decided that I should stay with windows. Unfortunately, the PC is not booting from the XP CD. I have no idea, now, how to unistall this OS. Does anyone have any ideas? I can't do the …

Hi there everyone, I've just started with Ubuntu 7.10 and KDevelop 3.5.8 (just installed, true greenhorn to Ubuntu) . First, I created this hello-world program: #include <cstdio> int main() { printf("Hello World\n"); return 0;} with gedit, compiling and linking it with g++ -o hello hello.cpp. Running it with ./hello worked …

Alright, so I got libgpod3 installed, finally! However, it isn't seen by my system. [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ whereis libgpod3 libgpod3:[/code] However: [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop$ ls /usr/lib/libgpo* /usr/lib/libgpod.so.3 /usr/lib/libgpod.so.3.0.0[/code] And, when trying to install gtkpod from source, I get the error: [code]checking for LIBGPOD... no configure: error: *** No package 'libgpod-1.0' found See `config.log' for …

Its mr. question/linux noob, I am now wondering about windows managers: were to find them and how to install. Since every question ive asked in these forums have been answered quickly there no reason to stop. Thanks in advance. SW

Well it sounds bit awkward but what can be done when there is no sound. recently i purchased inspirion 1525 notebook and had installed mandriva in it as other version are not installable because the P.C already has four primary partition and mandriva seems the most stable linux distros. i …

what does it mean to say that "that we have 2 ways for implementating threads ?" i came across this statement and i didnt completely understand it. so i googled and found that we can implement the threads in kernel space and in user space. they talked about each but …

AAH. I'm gonna try as hard as possible not to use all caps and cursing in this post. This is just ticking me off. Alright, so I upgraded to the newest AmaroK. 1.4.8. Turns out, it uses libgpod0.5.4 or something, and I need 0.6.0 to sync to my iPod. Alright, …

hello everyone , i would be very much pleased if anyone can show me a way to integrate apache webserver and PHP/PERL with mysql database on linux, and if possible can anyone let me know about any book which would be usefull in administering mysql commmand line on linux