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I'm having Windows 8.1 ISO file. I also have 7.9GB USB. I wanted to find program which would help me install Windows next to Ubuntu to play games. So I managed to use `UNetbootin` but it didn't work. It booted and displayed "Default" as only menu. Whethever you did wait …

Hello All, Im running Cent OS 5.8 and had a kernal panic. I have resolved this before by running xfs_repair but recently ran into an issue where it seems to hang on Phase 4. In research i found there was a pactch for this in the XFS patch list. I …

Ubuntu is more suited for standalone installations, a more like single user desktop computing, generally Fedora has many components which easily makes it a better OS for Servers, as well as Office Developer machines.

So, I'm at school right now. In programming (actually coding) class. I managed to get working Apache and everything's fine. Got MySQL runnin', which is nice. But then it turned out that I had to use terminal for all the SQL commando's I had to put inside. I'm not close …

Server information: Ubuntu 14.04 Apache2 I installed PHP5 on my webserver and tried to run a script that contained a call to the function curl_init(). The server responded with an error indicating that the function curl_init() was undefined. I installed PHP-CURL and restarted my webserver and encountered the same error. …

Heya. I got my XAMPP install x64 for Ubuntu. Where it has `.run` prefix. I've enabled it to run (through properties). When double clicked it requested for root privilages. Well, I went Googling. Nobody tells me how to start program as root through GUI, but, people say that `sudo su` …

i just installed ubuntu 14.4 but found it difficult to browse using the connectify wifi from my other windows 7 which i have always been uding to share network

Hi I am creating Makefile and it gives me following error Makefile:124: *** unterminated call to function `foreach': missing `)'. Stop. The Makefile around line 124 is .PHONY: popiso popiso: isolinux_cfg $(foreach x,$(_$(country)_pops_roles), pop_iso_$(x)) $(isomedia) @echo $@ @echo @echo allhostname $(allhostname) @echo @echo @echo allnetwork_setup $(allnetwork_setup) @sudo cp $(addsuffix .ks.cfg,$(allhostname)) …

Hello Everyone, A few months Ago I was introduced to Linux operating system...Ubuntu...Some of you are probably wondering where the hell have I been...Let's just say I was stuck in a Window....Needless to say I love The change....Unfortunately for me I didn't know what I was up against....After updating Ubuntu …

Greetings everybody, I require to use either Ubuntu & Windows. That is why, I want to set up both of these in a single PC. When I tried to install Ubuntu, the installation page did not appear, even though I follow the link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStickQuick. along with some other turkish instructions …

Is LFS (Linux From Scratch) bulletproof? I don't want to build OS, that would probably result me throwing laptop through the window 17 times and pulling massive amount of hair opt-out of my head. So. I just want to know. They said that using LFS they were able to build …

Hi guys, can anyone help us connect to a Samsung SCX - 4623FN scanner over a network. we use the printer over the network but we can't see to configure the scanner to scan over a network. Should the scanner be attached to a PC for it to function?

I want to install openSUSE Linux on my computer really badly. So I managed to install openSUSE (64-bit version, as my processor) on DVD. I booted it up, but because I also have Microsoft Windows 7 on this disk, I wanted to make it really carefully. I wanted 1st partition …

Hey, is there a Linux (+ packages?) which I could install on USB, and boot it up on computer and would serve as extremely safe "Sandbox"? I want to put there copy of contracts, important immensely long passwords et cetera. I'm not doing any of those, but, these are just …

Hi i have ubuntu it was working fine but now i cannot execute any command no sudo i cannot go to group and user etc.. any help please

Uh, just woke up and for breakfast I got to run into a Linux problem .. I turned on my pc (Kali Linux) and it has no sound? Ik weird .. used to work until I went to bed ... I have xfce DE. The error I get when I …

So i tryed to download mysql to my dedicated Linux Ubuntu server. But i want to downloade it using "yum install mysql mysql-server", like on CentOS 6.5. But how to make Yum, work propely, and if anyone could help via steam or teamspeak then please say.. =)

Im interested to learn Linux actually i am having Windows 7 64 bit laptop.I am not interested in dual boot,Some of my friends suggested me to download Oracle virtual box.Tell me the process to the Oracle virtual box with linux.Which linux version is preferable for beginners??

So i downloaded Steamcmd... And i can't fix this error in steamcmd (while downbloading gmod) Please help fas, all type of help is good enough!!! Screenshot: http://gyazo.com/1cc675d633bc2b52a8070a8bfde1540a Dedicated root server (Linux CentOS 6.5) [root@ns330797 ~]# cd /home/steam/steamcmd [root@ns330797 steamcmd]# ./steamcmd.sh Redirecting stderr to '/root/Steam/logs/stderr.txt' [ 0%] Checking for available updates... …

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

I recently installed ubuntu 13.10 onto a desktop computer - dual boot with windows 7 - , however the system would always fail to connect to my wifi network. I decided it would be better to upgrade to 14.04 before trying to fix any problems, and at first 14.04 appeared …

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 …

I have an iBasso DX50 digital music player and I have all of my music for it stored on a 128 GB micro SD card. I sync my music directory to it using the following command. `rsync -a --delete SRC DEST` but I've noticed some odd behavior. I thought the …

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 …

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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 …

#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.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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=\* …

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, 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 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 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

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 :-).

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …