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| | hello everybody, i have a tricky challenge: received a [B]Sony Vaio PCG-TR5B[/B] with XP Pro SP2 for a maintenance job, fresh install of xp, routine jobs. however, the dvd/cd is not working, the mbr doesn't work, no floppy drive, usb port available, but not as a bootable option. which leaves … |
 | Hey, I've been trying to work with wxwidgets so I can start learning GUI's, problem is, it seems like all their libraries are full of errors. I have a hard time believing that a self-respecting group of people would release, as stable, something that would take hours, if not days, … |
| | Hello, I am trying to install scipy on Ubuntu 8.0.4LTS, and am having some serious issues. I have succesfully downloaded and installed scipy, but when I try and "import scipy" in a program I am returned: ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/tim/Desktop/scipy-0.6.0/<ipython console> in <module>() /home/tim/Desktop/scipy-0.6.0/scipy/__init__.py in <module>() 52 … |
 | hi everybody : can any one tell me how to install farsi fonts in ubuntu 7.10 so that I can write texts in farsi thanx |
| | Hi, I have a ¨Server not found¨ problem that has me completely stumped, so I need help! For the past three weeks or so my DSL connection has been disconnecting and then re-connecting itself. Last week it finally disconnected and did not re-connect. This kind of got the ISP´s attention. … |
| | Ok I just bought a barebones rig with everything except for RAM and a hard drive which I got seperately (2gb RAM 160GB HD brand new). I first tried installing Linux Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) on it but to no avail over ten hours later (got the busybox error) so I …  |
| | Recently I downloaded Ubuntu v8.04 (Hardy Heron), and was delighted to find Python pre-installed. However, that pleasant surprise was soon dampened by the fact that IDLE would not run, and so I am left without a decent program for coding in Python. gedit works, but lacks pretty much everything except …  |
 | Hi.. i have installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop. it also has windowXP installed. i'm able to access wireless network on windows but on ubuntu its not detecting it. when i connect it through a wire i'm able to access. i read on the net, seems my WAN card which … |
 | I am new to programmiing and I am starting to learn C++ but I have a question about the differences between programming C++ in windows and Linux? I ask because the book I have covers Windows but I alos want to learn any differences for linux as I have a …  |
| | 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 … |
| | I am using Eclipse IDE on ubuntu 8.04, gcc 4.2.3, -masm=intel flag for intel syntax. I am using inline assembly in a C program by using asm();. If I want to [ICODE]mov eax, myVar[/ICODE] will only work if it is a global variable. How can i use local variables?  |
| | 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 … |
| | I am currently using Kubuntu 8.04. Although I do not know any bash, I altered the bash shell (via internet guides) to append history instead of truncating the history file. After editing the shell, the default way to clear the history only clears the interactive history and not the actual … |
| | Hi, I hope you can help me. I have a 2003 server running winsshd. Inside this server using vmware I run a linux Ubuntu server. I connect to my 2003 server using tunnelier and access the linux through port forwarding, mostly telnet and ftp. Now I want to use X11 … |
| | Hello all! This is a weird problem I'm facing. I'm running Mint/XP/Ubuntu triple boot. Booted into Windows after like 2 weeks, and now I cannot access the internet from windows.:'( It Works just fine in Linux, so definitely no problem on my ISP's side. Maybe I need to reconfigure something …  |
| | Hello guys, I need some assistance in data recovery. My hard drives "quit" on me...okay maybe it's partly my fault... So one day I noticed my computer's Internet was connecting/disconnecting by itself a lot while I was using my XP. I have a dual boot with XP and 2k. I … |
 | not so long ago, i changed my desktop from Windows to Ubuntu... this is actually the first time i log in to DaniWeb since then, and then... it happened... i'm running mozilla, and it's rendering the gray boxes around some items in a very odd way... take a look at … |
| | Hello, Is there a way to install an email server on a personal computer? I don't need a fully functional email server with all the bells and whistles. I just want to build my website on my personal computer before I upload everything to a real web server. In order … |
| | I've found that althought my fonts are fine everywhere else, they're blocky when I Tkinter. I have an LCD screen, and I'm using Xubuntu with Gnome. They work fine in WxPython. It seems like Tkinter doesn't allow for sub-pixel rendering or such (at least automatically). Is there some way to … |
| | I'm using Xubuntu, and I've found that I can't change text control foreground colors in WxPython, on this Linux. They change fine in Windows. They won't change in Xubuntu—it doesn't matter if I use Xfce, Gnome, or KDE; it's the same. It's always black (very problematic when you have a … |
| | HELLO PEOPLE I bought a mac mini about 18 months ago and had a play about with it for 4 or 5 months & i got bored with it as the majority of my stuff i used was on my windoze pc. But hey now mac have released the new …  |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 |
| | Hi! I recently installed Linux Ubuntu, Its great but I am unable to use my winmodem & my WiFi USB adapter. Can any one help me 1. Find a free driver for my modem with full 56 Kbps function ( My modem is Zoltrix Cobra, Connexant HSF chipset, Vendor ID: … |
| | I use pymmsql to access MSSQL 2000, with a table, I store Chinese Character in NVarchar field, Chinese Character display normally when I query them by MS SQL Query Analyzer under Windows or by unixODBC under Ubuntu. But when I query those data by pymssql or pyodbc, all Chinese Character … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 |
 | I am trying to reinstall XP on my system. This isn't the first time I have done this. I have never had a problem before. The only difference now is that I recently had Ubuntu 7.10 on my system on a separate partition. I deleted that partition and my XP … |
| | Hi all I have an aging Vaio laptop running Windows ME which has a Wifi card. This links to the ADSL modem OK and I can access the internet fine. I also have a dual boot XP/Ubuntu tower which the printer is connected to. This also has a wifi link. … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to create a web ui that will run some scripts on my server (Ubuntu gusty). I want the user to be able to select some files on the server via some sort of file select form. The selected file path would then be passed to a text … |
| | Hi, I was given Toshiba Tecra 9000 which worked 3 days until WinXP gave blue screen. After numerous reboots I finally reinstalled WinXP at it worked next 8 hours just fine and then blue screen again. After that it wouldn't install WinXP again. Install stopped error which told to use … |
| | I'm trying to install a Python module, called PySndObj. I extracted the sources. It uses [icode]scons[/icode], so I tried to install it with it: [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop/SndObj$ scons pythonmodule=true ALSA=true scons: Reading SConscript files ... Building the Sound Object Library Checking for Realtime IO support... OS is Linux... Checking for C header … |
| | 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 have two roommate's that download movies all day, every day. It's to the point now that there is no bandwidth left for me to even surf the Internet with. My question is: Is there anyway to install some kind of software on my computer (ubuntu 7.10 or windows … |
 | Hi all, hope you are well. I am starting a new job soon where I will be using a red hat distro (new to me) for development purposes. Now I have had some exposure to the linux o/s (on a degree course, used Ubuntu) but I have mainly worked with … |
| | Firefox has always been my main browser, and I've always visited Daniweb on a daily basis. However, today, I opened up Daniweb (under Ubuntu Linux 7.10, Firefox 2), and my fan started whirring like crazy. I opened up a terminal and entered "top" as a command, and saw that Firefox …  |
 | I'm trying to figure out how to parse options such as -h out of the arguments passed on the command line when the program is called. Here is my code so far. I compiled it with gcc -Wall -o options options.c and got no warnings or errors. Although, when I … |
| | In the top right search bar (for Google), it used to give me good search results, ie: Typing "ubu" would pop up "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu Linux", etc. Now, "ubu" gives me "trippy", "triple mmm", and even "ubuntu lin" gives me "trishakrishnan", and some other weird hints. When I press search, it … |
| | 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 … |
| | Hello, Before I switched to Ubuntu, I used to have some cool boot screens for windows and now I want to create some for Ubuntu, but I have no clue where to begin. What I do know: - text input and output in C - animation in Java - using …  |
| | When Ubuntu Hardy Heron arrives, will I be able to upgrade without formatting my harddrive? So I can keep all of my music, documents, applications, etc. |
| | Hello, I can run php scripts on my computer from the command prompt but I can't open it through my web browser. My assumption is that this happens because apache is not configured to use php. Does anyone know what lines(s) I should add to apache's httpd.conf file? I found … |
| | hey I'm trying to run this program on netbeans on Ubuntu #include <windows.h> #include <GL/gl.h> #include <GL/glext.h> #include <GL/glu.h> #include <GL/glut.h> void myInit(void) { glClearColor(1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0); glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); glPointSize(9.0); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); gluOrtho2D(0.0, 640.0, 0.0, 480.0); } //<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< myDisplay >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> void myDisplay(void) { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glBegin(GL_POINTS); glVertex2i(400, 350); glVertex2i(100, 130); glVertex2i(150, 130); …  |
| | Hi, I have two roommate's that download movies all day, every day. It's to the point now that there is no bandwidth left for me to even surf the Internet with. My question is: Is there anyway to install some kind of software on my computer (ubuntu 7.10 or windows … |
| | I am trying to set up a backup server to backup a webserver, using rsync over SSH. [LIST] [*]Both machines got SSH/SSHD [*]Both machines got some version of cron [*]Both machines got rsync [*]Webserver is Redhat [*]Backup server is Ubuntu (testing only) [*]The machines are on different networks serperated by … |
| | What is OSC? I installed this application, akaRemote.app, onto my iPod touch (with Wifi capabilities), which says it's a controller for sending and recieving OSC signals to the iPod. [url]http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/iphone/akaRemote.html[/url] [quote] You can send pre-deined OSC messages from iPhone to Max/MSP and from Max/MSP to iPhone.[/quote] So, my question is: …  |
| | I am a beginner and want to learn the method to run python script in linux system so that an application can automatically execute a job. For example, I want my ubuntu to do the cron job with a script to play a mp3 file by vlc player at 9pm … |
| | Hello there Right now I have an Ubuntu server machine working as Linux router and having weird issues with it. If I'm working with the machine, such as using samba,http or ssh on it, approximately every minute the connection freezes between the Linux router with Ubuntu and the client computer. … |
 | Honestly I don't have much experience with Linux, but for the past three days all I have been trying to do is get Ubuntu and Kubuntu to at least LOOK decent. I've tested Sabayan and OpenSuse. I mean, I haven't relly gona as far as testing the operating system's functionality … |
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