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| | Hello, I need to generate a unique id of a computer, but in theory even if it format the computer, the id remains the same. I thought of mac address, but is not guaranteed to be very unique. Working with Linux (Debian, Arch Linux)  |
| | I’m going to demonstrate a very short and simple method of avoiding SQL Injection at the SQL query level. You’ll need MySQLi support, on Debian you can apt-get install php5-mysql will contain everything that you need, and would be installed by default with your LAMP Installation. Calling: [url]http://www.mynonexistentdomain.com/test.php?user_id=10&record_number=1[/url] Ignoring any … |
| | Written by Syahrizal - Article from [URL="http://linuxrise.com"]http://linuxrise.com[/URL] There are plenty of Linux Distros out there. When you want to migrate to Linux, you must first choose a Linux operating system that is suitable for you. If you are a new Linux user, then you should try to learn the basic …  |
| | Hi, I'm running a PCM-9375 system with Linux Debian 5.0.0. I am currently running a a python application on the system continuously, and our system seems to be resetting approximately every 24 hours (not at midnight, but 24 hours from whenever the system was started). I am not sure whether … |
 | Just like the international gang summits in Los Angeles, Linux needs a collective, "sit-down" to discuss the future of this now formidable operating system. I'm not talking about a nice little get together with keynote speakers with high-powered, 10,000 foot views of where Linux is and where it's going. And … |
| | Today, December 26, is the first day of LinuXmas, the Festival of Distros. This three day, three night uber fest of booting new Linux distributions is a new tradition for geeky boys and girls around the world. Here's how it works: Download Live Linux CDs from [URL="http://www.distrowatch.com"]DistroWatch[/URL], burn them or … |
| | I know that Distrowatch.com is a place where people can find all the information they could need or want about all the "flavors" of Linux but I am referring to a marketing effort. If Linux is ever to make it onto the desktop of more people than just those who … |
| | There are three Linux distributions that didn't make it into my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3322.html"]top 10 list[/URL] of best Linux distributions but they are ones to watch. These three distributions are all aimed at the Desktop, are simple to install and use, and they're free. [URL="http://www.linuxmint.com"]Linux Mint[/URL], [URL="http://www.thinkgos.com"]gOS[/URL], and [URL="http://www.opensuse.org"]OpenSuSE[/URL] are the three …  |
| | Are you participating in Hack Week? That's Novell's open invitation to the world for suggestions on how to improve its openSuse Linux distro running through this Friday, Aug. 29. And you might just even win a prize. Calls for porting [URL=http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/]Tomboy[/URL] to Windows (and maybe even Mac OS X), adding … |
| | A few days ago, Red Hat, Inc., [URL="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html"]announced[/URL] that an intruder had broken into some of their systems and possibly compromised some important software packages. The most significant among them is OpenSSH--a secure method of connecting to a remote Linux system. Red Hat quickly took the systems offline to investigate … |
| | Here's some news that's sure to please the greens, while not costing much of it. A Linux-based desktop computer released today is reported to consume just two watts of power, and can save about US$35 a year in energy costs, according to company claims. The [URL=http://www.cherrypal.com/]CherryPal C100[/URL], which its namesake … |
| | Forget the One Laptop Per Child project hyperbole, there seems to be another contender emerging which is deserving of the title 'cheapest Linux laptop on the planet' despite having very little in the way of publicity when compared to the OLPC machine. The Linux lappy in question is the [URL="http://www.elonexone.co.uk"]Elonex … |
| | Sun Microsystems on Monday was giving away packaged copies of [OpenSolaris](http://opensolaris.org/index.html) in an effort to seed the development community with a Linux alternative and boost the number of available applications for the platform. The news came at [CommunityOne](http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/), Sun’s free developer conference collocated with JavaOne this week at the Moscone … |
| | Want a sneaky peek at Ubuntu 8.04? Then you are in luck as the [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha1"]Hardy Heron Tribe 1 Alpha[/URL] pre-release has just been made [URL="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-1/"]available for download[/URL]. This will, in time, morph into 8.04 and is the first in a series of milestone CD images that is slated for distribution … |
 | Although the [URL="https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/2007ClientSurvey"]Linux Foundation 2007 Desktop/Client survey[/URL] does not actually finish until the 30th November, there would seem to be little point adding your opinion to the thousands who have already done so as the results appear to have escaped. The web is already buzzing with reports that participation levels …  |
| | The latest version, V4.0 RC3, of [URL="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/"]Damn Small Linux[/URL] was released today and it is really very small indeed. Described as a 50Mb mini-desktop oriented Linux OS, DSL is actually small enough to fit and boot from a business card CD as a live Linux distribution. Originally developed as something …  |
| | A member of Skype staff posting in the Linux support forum there seems to have taken a course in customer relations from <insert your least favourite company here> if his responses to criticism of the lack of real world development of the Linux version of Skype, compared to Windows development, … |
| | Since the recent announcement of Ubuntu's Windows-based installer, Debian has responded by releasing a [URL="http://goodbye-microsoft.com/"]similar installer[/URL] for itself. The nice thing about this is that you obviously don't need to mess with CDs, but what about some other things? I think Debian's been lacking some innovation lately - they've been … |
| | Google looks like the next thing it's going to do is take over the world. Or at least, Microsoft. I'm sure you've all heard the rumors about Google creating an operating system, but is it really happening? I just found this [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nono/369373656/"]screenshot[/URL] of a supposedly-leaked upcoming version of GooOS. Kind …  |
| | You know when you are invited to the [URL="http://www.stjohns.co.uk/"]St John’s Innovation Centre[/URL], part of the Cambridge Enterprise Hub in the UK that supports early-stage knowledge-based businesses and research institutes, that you are going to be in for an interesting day. When it is a press day with a focus on … |
 | Apple has upgraded the adorable Mac Mini. Reports on the internet reveal that the advertised 1.42 GHz computer was actually shipped at 1.5 GHz, and sported some other features. The new Mac Mini reportably has the following new features: * New 8x Dual-layer Super Drive, model UJ-845. This media device … |
 | Maybe those white shiny little boxes aren’t so great after all. That’s the message I got after Apple Computer pulled its free 30 day trial offer of its Mac Mini personal computer. On Tuesday, the computer maker posted an offer that allowed its customers to try out a Mac Mini … |
| | Cheaply! The system administrator ready to remote work (freelance) in the hosting company or in the dedicated servers provider! I have over 7 years of experience in the system administration. I worked with most of the control panels as ISPManager Pro, cPanel, ISPConfig and etc. and operating systems: Linux (Debian, … |
| | Hi! Larry Irwin here... I've been writing medical practice management and medical records software since 1984. - Altos Xenix, IRIS, SCO Xenix, SCO Unix, SCO OS5, AIX, Caldera, RedHat and Debian... (lots of Windows along the way as well... but it breaks more when updates are applied... so I try … |
| | Here in this post, I am going to share the installation and configuration of multiple instances of Apache Tomcat 6 on Debian 5.0 Lenny. If you have followed the instructions given in the above post, Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat’s multiple instances is just a piece of cake. To … |
| | This is atep by step tutorials how to setup Debian server this includes Debian Installation FTP Server Setup in debian Webserver Setup in Debian Samba Server Setup in Debian Database Server Setup in Debian Time clock sync for debian server Mail Server Configuration in Debian VNC Server setup in Debian … |
| | [B][U]How to install a Debian LAMP Server[/U][/B] [B][U][/U][/B] [I]The combination of Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP setup is known as LAMP[/I] We will be using: [B]Debian Linux - Operating System[/B] Debian is an opensource operating system, which uses the popular Linux kernel. It is a good choice for … |
| | Hey DW peeps, Got the audio/video stuttering thing on my XP computer that started randomly - after I installed Debian 5 (though onto a diff HD to what XP is installed on) ;) Didn't think my dual booting should have anything to do with it and so I've posted here. … |
| | hello. at work ze need to host our web site. and it's a grawing project. the thing that is now we are considering to build our own zeb server in the work place. we have made some progress by installing a LAMP/debian. but we are so confused about the DNS.dommane. … |
| | I'm trying to upgrade libcups2-dev and dpkg is giving me an error. I issue aptitude install libcups2-dev from the CLI as root and receive - [B]aptitude install libcups2-dev[/B] Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... … |
| | Suddenly, the site no longer works properly for me when I use Konqueror 3.5.9 on debian. It had been working as well as could be expected before then (e.g., flash typically required a page reload before it'd work correctly, but the drop-down menus worked.) In the past week or so, … |
| | Hello, I am trying to write a GUI front (with tcl/tk) for a python module. Unfortunately the module takes parameters and I don't know how to call a python module with parameters without going into interactive mode (I'm running Debian) I can get tcl to run a test module with …  |
| | A bit about me first. I'm 21 coming up on 22, have spent the last 4 years working crap jobs to pay the bills but have been moonlighting in PC repair on the side, as well as self-learning as much about a career as a SysAdmin as I can. I … |
| | Hello, I have an old IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 server that i want to use as a server for backups and other stuff The server works but i do not have the driver for the ServeRAID-II controller i need it during the installation of Windows Home Server / Windows Server … |
| | Hello, The situation here is I have a file and each line has a 8 digit number in it (aorkey) the file is called target.lst In another file (file.lst) there are tons of paths in each path there is an aorkey (somewhere its not always in the same place and … |
| | This is atep by step tutorials how to setup Debian server this includes Debian Installation FTP Server Setup in debian Webserver Setup in Debian Samba Server Setup in Debian Database Server Setup in Debian Time clock sync for debian server Mail Server Configuration in Debian VNC Server setup in Debian … |
| | Is it me or is it easier to configure a home network in XP than to setup a wireless adapter in Debian??? I've read through various online resources about iwconfig, ifconfig, linux_wan, orinoco but I still don't get it. And more importantly I couldn't get it to work! Is Ubuntu … |
| | I've been wanting to become, or at least get on the path leading to the position of a Network or Systems Administrator for almost 3 years now. I've google searched everything I can about it, I've talked with a few admins and others in similar IT fields, I've read books... …  |
| | I have got a weird problem with text terminals. When I am switching to text terminals 1-6 with key-combinations [B]Ctrl+Alt+F1[/B], [B]Ctrl+Alt+F2[/B] ... [B]Ctrl+Alt+F6[/B], I am getting on my screen only white blinking vertical lines. I have added a photo attachment here. I think, that this is a matter of graphics, … |
| | Hello everybody, I hope I can explain myself clearly. I would like to design a preview for a program that print some data on a special card. Because the user can choose where to print the data on the card, I think it would be useful to give him a … |
| | hi, Im running debian/ubuntu linux and am trying to get a script/module that runs each time python is called from terminal. I am trying to write scripts that use Scipy,numPy,pyLab, etc and am trying to have all those packages import automatically each time python starts. I am not new to … |
| | i want 2 kno how to install lan in debian 4... i dint give it at the installation time.... also seperate drivers required 4 it? |
| | Hi, I am goint to create a very large array but have this error when running this code [code] #include <iostream> #include <limits.h> #include <cstddef> #include <cmath> using namespace std; int main() { cout << UINT_MAX << " " << ULLONG_MAX << endl; cout << pow(pow(24,2),4) << endl; unsigned long …  |
| | Hello, I call the imagettfbbox function like so `imagettfbbox($font_size, 0, 'monofont.ttf', $code)` but its generating the following error: 'imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font' monofont.ttf is in the same folder. And the code executes fine on the server. It just won't work on my computer. This leads me to believe … |
| | I have been having a serious problem relating to memory allocation and arrays/vectors in C++ using the G++ compilier on both a windows machine(Dev-C++) and linux(debian). I would post all the code, but it is proprietary technology(I'm a Graduate Student) and therefore I can't share it openly without permission. That … |
 | can somebody give example python script that execute debian package when button is clicked. here is the example picture (i`ve created the glade files with Glade Interface Designer): Thanks for any attention.A little help would be usefull, since this program is to help those who tottally offline. [ATTACH]9031[/ATTACH] |
| | I just built my first computer, with some help from everyone on the hardware forums. Now, I'm trying to install some derivation of Linux. I tried installing Debian with the net-install, but everyone I try to it tells me my CD is corrupted. After trying 3 different Debian cd's, i … |
 | Hi! :) I know there are a couple of good books and so, but [B]I'm looking for YOUR experience[/B], tips and suggestions on such an important subject - [B]Linux Server Security[/B]. The fact is that I've just order my first dedicated server. It's unmanaged and only comes with [B]Debian 4.0 … |
| | Hi everybody!! I would like to save a text file in Shift-Jis format but by default the file is always save in UTF-8. I'm using fopen, fput and fclose to create and work with that file, but I don't think that there is any parameter for those functions which can … |
| | Hello, I need to create some dirs (one for each user), taking the dir name from a given string. I managed to do this with the following code: [CODE=C] DIR *dir_ptr; char *target_dir; target_dir = malloc(32*sizeof(char)); for(all users) { /* Set username for current user */ target_dir[0] = '\0'; strcat(target_dir, …  |
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