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| | IBM has announced what it is calling the [URL="http://www.ibm.com/linux"]Big Green Linux[/URL] initiative in order to spark further interest in getting Linux firmly integrated into the enterprise, this time by going on the cost reduction and energy consumption attack. This follows up from the Project Big Green commitment announced by IBM … |
| | Hot on the heels of JavaFX, taking on the likes of Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash, Sun looks set to formally unveil its plans for Project Indiana this week and attack the Linux developer heartlands. Solaris has long been known as the really secure Unix variant that sucks when it …  |
| | [CODE]Addressing some of the typical arguments we hear from the "Microsoft fanboy" crowd.[/CODE] One can debate until you turn blue in the face. It never fails that *some* concepts and facts just fly right over the heads of *some* people. But when the person doing the arguing is supposedly well-educated … |
| | According to a press release I have received from [URL="http://www.windriver.com"]Wind River[/URL], a Device Software Optimisation (DSO) company, a Linux platform has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace for a space mission for the first time. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, will be the underlying OS supporting the processing … |
| | As reported [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1490.html"]here[/URL] last week, three security flaws had been discovered that impacted upon the 2.6.x Kernel. A NULL-pointer dereference within netfilter when handling SCTP connections with unknown chunk types that could be exploited to crash the kernel; a cpuset_task_read() function in /kernel/cpuset.c which had an underflow error that could …  |
| | According to postings at [URL="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21.4"]Kernel.org[/URL] concerning a report by Vilmos Nebehaj which was consequently signed off by Linus Torvalds and Chris Wright, the Linux Kernel 2.6.x has multiple security vulnerabilities. Well, to be precise, two vulnerabilities and what is described as a ‘weakness’ which are capable of being exploited by … |
 | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the open source movement needs to “play by the same rules” as the rest of the business and claims “what’s fair is fair.” Which is pretty rich given the high profile cases involving dodgy business practice and Microsoft during the last few years. … |
| | [FONT="]It seems that everyone and their uncle are doing a Linux deal at the moment, and the latest to hop into the same commercial bed are IBM and Red Hat. Today the companies have announced an initiative to encourage the dramatic growth of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System … |
| | Last Tuesday, Palm announced that they're developing a new operating system. Not surprising, especially since the current one that they've got needs a revamp. The huge news here is that this new operating system is going to use the Linux kernel as the base of the operating system, freeing them … |
| | When we think of "open source", many things come to mind: free, created by volunteers, open to everyone, no profits, etc. That's the steriotype that the media paints mostly, and that when open source programs are created, they are done for the passion of it, and not at all for … |
| | While Apple has displayed a [COLOR=Black][URL="http://www.apple.com/"]new banner[/URL][/COLOR] on its website declaring Happy New Years, "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007," the [URL="http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/"]Month of Apple Bugs[/URL] has been launched, as if to scorn Apple's website banner. The Month of Apple bugs aims to reveal a new … |
| | I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included … |
| | The General Public License is not something to be messed with lightly, after all it is ‘the law’ as far as many open source projects are concerned. Which is why the Free Software Foundation is running into trouble with plans to introduce a proposed version 3 of the GPL to … |
| | “I believe the 2.6 kernel is slowly getting buggier  |
 | A couple years ago, RedHat Linux was a completely open-source, freely-available linux solution that brought linux to the masses. Then, RedHat changed the paradigm: they wanted to transform RHL to a corporate supported linux, and enjoined with the Fedora Project for community support. But now a choice had to be … |
| | Sony BMG, a company that makes a variety of consumer electronics such as the Walkman, CD / DVD drives and burners, has released a product called XCP (eXtended Copy Protection) that prevents copying musical materials from the media onto the computer. According to investigators, XCP uses rootkit technology to run … |
| | What does Googlebombing mean? How does it affect IT? Can it affect the integrity of website searches? Should search engines have the ethical responsibility to restore / correct the rubble the Googlebomb causes? Let's look into this facinating new word I learned today. According to Wikipedia, Googlebombing is "the attempt … |
| | I've been running a linux box with a quad core for nearly a year now. I've managed to make work most of everything I set my mind to except for one very important thing: the four cores. As I gather, I would need to compile my kernel with "the right … |
| | I just got the latest Linux Kernel from a magazine CD. Its the kernel 2.6.29.4 in tar format. Suppose to be the latest. How do I update or install to this latest kernel into my Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks! |
| | [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 … |
| | Hi All, For the last 6 months our site has been under severe brute force, syn flood attack. They keep bombarding a single URL of the server and it is xml file. They are not attacking any other URL. e.g. http://www.example.com/rss123/attackedfilename.xml We have removed the xml page from our site … |
| | I'm having a lot of trouble finding enough RAM for a program I'm writing on Vista 64 Ultimate system, even though the system has 8GB RAM and only 2GB is used. I tried to see how many 10 million byte blocks I could allocate using malloc(), and the compiled program … |
| | I have never programmed before or used Linux (didn't even know what that was before a few days ago,) well I got a book for beginning C++ and a book for Ubuntu Linux. My stepdad says it would be best to learn C++ on windows and not to even mess …  |
| | I have a problem like i need to include a different header files depending on the linux kernel in a .cpp file. I have to check the linux kernel version and include the headerfile depending on that kernel. How can I do that? I have ARCH variable in Makefile which …  |
| | 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, … |
 | hi all, I have successfully created and run knoppix USB flash disk. And i fully read that script and I think I underestood it enoughf. Then I create my IDE hard disk fat partition and format it as FAT32 and copy the files of the DSL linux to it and … |
| | Hi, I'm getting a warning when compiling the following code: [CODE]void printstr(unsigned char *string, volatile unsigned char *videoram) // Print a string { int i = 0; while(string[i] != '\0') { videoram[2*i] = string[i]; videoram[1+(2*i)] = 0x07; i++; } } unsigned char *memset(unsigned char *dest, unsigned char val, int count) …  |
 | Hi folks, I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm about to start teaching a course in Operating Systems Theory. I'll have to cover from the basics (What's an OS, some history, hardware basics, etc) to the more complex and interesting stuff (threads, processes, memory management, deadlocks, … |
 | Hello everyone, I started learning assembly yesterday. Yes maybe I chose a wrong guide but I have a little problem here. It's about getting some integers without a newline. That is probably very easy to solve but I was searching for a solution for a few hours and no results. … |
| | I am reading two e-books on assembly at the moment and have found a strange way of writing out the code and I had wondered if it was native to a certain assembler? I am used to code in the syntax of [QUOTE]mov eax, [input1] add eax, [input2] mov ebx, …  |
| | Hi guys I am an electronic engineer doing mostly embedded device programming. Lately I want to switch fields to become from a half behind IT guy to a full IT pro. The two field I am interested in are: 1. Embedded linux development 2. Oracle DBA (specialize in tuning) From … |
| | Hello, I would just like to install the Intel MKL for Linux. I run the installer then copy the MKL files to the matlab directory (cp /opt/intel/mkl/#ver/lib/32/* /usr/local/matlab#ver/bin/glnx86/) but i can't figure out how to tell MatLab to use the relevant .so file by either changing the BLAS_VERSION variable or … |
| | Hi Everybody, I need a Guide For helping in my Linux Programming. I am interested to kernel development Programming. I done B.E-Electronics and Communicatiion Engineering. I know the Basics of C. So Help Me to Step by Step On my new programming like how to compile?, how to debug?, which … |
| | I'm having difficulty passing variables to threads. I've recently compiled 5.8.7 with threads enabled and I am using the new ithreads. When running code as follows: use Thread qw(async); async { while(1) { print 1; } }; while (1) { print 2; } The code works as expected and prints …  |
| | Hey everyone, I've recently become the owner of a PowerBook G3, and decided to put gentoo linux on it. I'm forced to use BootX to boot to the installer. I can boot to the kernal, and BootX recognizes the ramdisk. However, partway through booting, the process sticks with the message: … |
| | :confused: Hello Community: I am working on an openvpn server two connect to LANs. I am almost finished with this project. However, there is one part I am stuck with. I can ping and access the boxes behind the vpn server from my office network, but I cannot ping and … |
 | Running home desktop - Intel core 2 duo 2.0 ghz with 250gb hd and 2.0 mb ram. Multibooting XP, Mepis, Kubuntu, and Mint. Installed a 40 gb scavenged HD (drive 2) to install Mepis on. Planned to copy some files from Mepis on drive 1. Booted from the Mepis live … |
| | 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 … |
| | I am trying to modify code for a usb thermometer prob for linux. I have the source code and the makefile used to compile. When i use make to compile, it will compile and work just fine no problem. I am trying to setup eclipse so i can modify the … |
| | 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. |
| | I know little about linux but I need to install Cenotos 5.1 on VMWare Workstation. VMWare has a number different options as to which distro you want installed on it. But it does not have Centos. I am not sure which one to choose. They do have a few "Other … |
| | Hi! I'm using TS 2.1. It's very good soft I used this system as RDP Client in many NC's and working great. But I've a problem because I want to implement OpenVpn Server and OpenVPN Client on TS 2.1 systems. OpenVPN part is OK, it's working I communicate through router … |
| | I have been in the IT field for 12 years and work as a LAN administrator in a very small non-profit educational arena (although linked to a large WAN with a large educational institution). I am kind of a newbie with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and am trying to …  |
| | If I were to install the packages [icode]linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-rt[/icode] and [icode]linux-headers-2.6.22-14-rt[/icode], what would be the downfalls of using a realtime kernal? I'm a musician, and getting JACK set up basically requires a realtime kernal (as does every other music based thing with Linux). However, will I lose any functionality from this? … |
| | Hi, I am in the search of my 'perfect' Linux fit. So far, Ubuntu 7.10 seems to be getting the most points, but it is slow compared to Zenwalk and others. My hardware is pretty good, it can manage Compiz Fusion fairly well, but boot times and desktop nice-ness (*as … |
| | hi I know very little about linux - i'm sure you get that all the time .....but for homework I have to make a system call to change the set processor affinity and have it sleep in user space for 10 seconds as well as in kernel space. How can … |
| | Dear all, i installed linux on my laptop few days ago, i have some questions that id appreciate if you gave me the asnwers 2 and make things clear 2 me . my first questions is : what source files implement the creation of new processes? second: What are the … |
| | What is an emulator ? ===================== an emulator is an something that simulating something . an emulator can be a simply machine or an pice of an software that runs on your computer . Which means a machine that simulates another machine. Why emulators ? =============== When you install and …  |
| | im new to OS. i want somebody to please give me the differences between the kernel mode and the user mode. are these block in memory ? i did some research on the internet and all i understood was that kernel mode is protected from the user and it is … |
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