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There's a comany located in Mississauga Ontario, that sells notebook computers with Linux installed. Not only that, they reduce the price of any computer sold without Windows installed. Their URL is: http://www.angelcomputer.com/ The only connection I have with them, is they're located just a few blocks from my home.

At http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer it says: 3. Make sure a symbolic link to the realplay script is in your PATH.
How do I do this?Thank youInge Svensson

Hello,I'm using Linux actively for about half a year now, using Gentoo on my server and Kubuntu on my desktop. One thing I could never really understand is the whole disk error checking thing.
While Kubuntu automatically checks my hard drives for errors (and repairs them, if found) after an outage for example, I'm not sure about if Gentoo does it too.
Anyway, I read that error checking on Linux is done by running e2fsck for ext2/3 partitions (I'm using ext3). So I ran that on my Gent.... read more

Is there a way in iptables to create the same effect as Linksys's porttriggering? What port triggering does is allows you to forward new iptraffic into a specific private ip (just like port forwarding), but if Iinitiate a service from a new internal ip on the same port, the firewallremembers that it came from me and redirects the packets coming back to mysecond pc.
For instance, I have an iptables firewall (thanks to ya'lls help) setupprotecting my home network. Behind the firewall (.... read more

I've bought a cd that I want to make a backup copy of but k3b complains saying: Problem while reading. Retrying from sector 768.
XCDRoast has a similar problem. Is this actually a bad cd (it runs ok) or is it copy protected. What's the best way to make a backup? Thanks Lionel.

How do I display '[quoted text muted]'? TIA.

My Mandriva 2007 system has started reporting that ct_syncfails when booting. Manually doing service ct_sync startproduces the following: Starting ct_sync: [FAILED] with no other explanation. I have uninstalled shorewall,using an /etc/rc.firewall file created by guarddog. Servicect_sync appears to be supplied by package invictus-firewall,and that package verifies fine, so there's no 'official'dependency on shorewall. Google yielded n.... read more

Hi all, sorry to bother you with this easy question (if you know the answer ;-) ): When using the control center I can see some menu entries that are not visible in the menu itself, for example is Kooka installed but I don't see it in the menu. In version 8.2 you could select KDE-menu instead of SuSE-menu to solve the problem but in 9.0 I don't see this option. Strange that the SuSE-people havent stopped this nonsence as I can imagine this kind of behavour being support question no 1.
O.... read more

Hi I cant find any concrete information about this or I used the wriong search terms on google, but how much memory does a thread in linux take up, if you exclude the stack size of the threaed. And what is the default thread stack size? regards jan

Hi! I have to shape up- and down-stream traffic on my LinuxRouter for the subnet which is behind the router.
Six different combinations of up/download bandwiths shouldbe applied. The speed should be assigned by the clients ip address.
Example: 10.1.1.0 Subnet gets 128/128 KBit/Sec.
10.1.2.0 Subnet gets 512/512 KBit/Sec.
10.1.3.0 Subnet gets 1024/512 KBit/Sec. and so on...
This are the interfaces on the linux router box: eth1 Connect to the Interneteth0 Listens for incoming pptp conne.... read more

--001636c5bdd1d208b104b17aca3b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I used Debian once before, years ago & at the time Debian seemed difficult to configure & software was way behind the times. I dont know if Im just getting older & more cranky, but I *think* Id rather have older but stable & just works. For now, Ill have the option to boot into either Debian or Ubuntu. Ive used Ubuntu for years, but this Unity is killing me. Maybe Debian will be a better fit for me. If so, Ill shrink my Ubunt.... read more

MandrivaLinux 2007.0 (Yes, I know it's old) using kppp for Dial-up internet My ISP is switching from a local 'phone number to a national 'phonenumber. Apparently most of his subscribers have managed the change withease, but weather it's because I'm the only one on Linux (I don't thinkso) or it's something I've stuffed up/not done, I cannot get it to work.
On the local number, I see the various handshaking commands occurring,and, about 20-30 secs after pppd star.... read more

Are there some options that will let me use dd to copy one disk to anidentical unit? If not, is there another utility to do this?Thanks,Randy Hyde

I was wondering if someone could tell me or point me to a web site thatshows how to burn and iso image to a dvdr and make it bootable. I can burna iso to a dvd with no problem, but I can't make it bootable. I am usingkb3 and there does not seem to be any options to make it bootable.
Z.K.

I just got 10.2 up and running under VMWare 5.5.3 using XP Pro as a host.
A few questions for you wizards if you don't mind: 1. It seems that XGL isn't supported on VMWare as of yet - at least fromwhat I've read on the VMWare forums - has anyone had any success with thisor could you give me some pointers on some things to try toperhaps get it to work? 2. Regarding the above question, does MS Virtual PC do a better job atthis? 3. I've got another box dual booting with W2K and.... read more

I used to have redHat 9 installed on this particular laptop. When Idid so, I could resize and move my partitions around using PartitionMagic (version 7 to be precise). However, the mouse support for thislaptop was broken in that version--the mouse continually resynceditself to (0,0) of the screen. As a result, I upgraded to a morerecent version. I upgraded to CentOS 4.1 which I was informed was aclone of RedHat. This solved my mouse problem and runs well.
However, I can no longer use Partit.... read more

For a while now I have been getting lines like these in my Apache1.3.34 access log. Is this a misconfiguration of my Apache or anotherworm or ??? What confuses me is that there is no OPTION or GET or HEAD. Etc. andthe URI is a hyphen. Any explanation (or link to one) will besincerely appreciated.
d150-128-189.home.cgocable.net - 0 [01/Aug/2006:13:02:31 -0700] -408 -c-69-247-65-147.hsd1.nm.comcast.net - 0 [01/Aug/2006:13:08:20 -0700]- 408 -cache-los-ad03.proxy.aol.com - 0 [01/Aug/2006:13:11:42.... read more

SuSE Pro v9.3.
When I shut down the machine it displays an error message (in red)complaining that 'kill' can't be found.
Here are some snips from the output of 'ls /bin': -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18000 2005-03-19 14:28 kill-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25152 2005-03-19 14:28 ln-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 70924 2005-03-19 13:11 loadkeys-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15128 2005-03-19 13:11 loadunimap-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8496 2005-09-14 08:06 logger.
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root r.... read more

We have had a support case for this open for close to a month now, but noreal reply from Red Hat... Are there any kernel NFS gurus here? (If not,what would be a better forum?) Could you please comment on this issue, andespecially the proposed (quite small) patch below. Thanks in advance...
My initial service request text: ====cut here====Summary: unlink doesn't work when multiple clients access same files on nfsserver This problem requires relatively good understanding of kernel internals(.... read more

Hello, I have suse 9.1, and today I upgraded to the latest kernel via yast(2.6.5-7.151). I have a cd burner and a dvd player on an HP Pavillion8755C. The cd burner is a Mitsumi CR-4804TE. For some reason, every 30minutes or so, it ejects. There may or may not be a cd in the drive, itjust ejects. This didn't happen prior to the upgrade to the kernel. Anyidea what might be happening here, and if there is something I can do aboutit other than simply reverting back to the default kerne.... read more

Running 2010.0 on my main machine and 2010.1RC on my backup,I have been trying to get Shorewall configured to allow nfs betweenthe two, sharing of the printer on the main machine, etc.
My configuration for Shorewall must be the problem, but my tinkeringhas not allowed me to straighten it out. I can use shorewall clearand then ping from one to the other, but when I start shorewall, Ican't even ping from one to the other, in either direction.
I have one ethernet interface, that I wish to u.... read more

Hello, I recently bought a usb-ide harddisk enclosure. I put two partitions on theharddrive and formatted one with fat32 and the other one with reiserfs.
I realized, that the reiserfs partition was much slower than the fat32 one.
So I did some benchmarks fat32: ~610 kB/s (without messages in log)reiserfs: ~100 kB/s (see messages in log)ext2: ~112kB/s (without messages in log) ext3: ~ kB/s (see messages in log) I used mount option -o sync in all cases.
(OK, I have only the slow U.... read more

Firefox 3.6.10 Releasedhttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.10/releasenotes/ Heheheh, scroll to bottom of bug report and read last replies about clamav.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594699

After compiling and installing kernel 2.6 on suse 9.0 my computer dont wantto boot into linux any more.
All i receive after grub is black screen. I dont get any error messages.
How do i revert kernel without reinstalling suse ? What could be causingthis ?Thanx

I'm moving some code from RH 9 to SuSE 8.2. I've been looking for a doc that describes any hard limits for shared memory segments, semaphores, and message queues in SuSE 8.2, but so far no joy.
Anybody got a link? Thanks...

how do you install suse over local lan? i downloaded all ftp files on host,will from anotehr pc install from there. how?name of pc is dands[c.
url is as follows.
Danspcdsuse8.2 in the boot cd install, what do i select? smb share or something else? forsmb share what do i type for the information it needs to get on the d driveon danspc? how do i do all this?

Hello folks, I am having problems emptying the Trash can in my Debian-Etch box, I right-click on the icon and select Empty Trash and afterasking me if I really, really, really want to empty delete all thefiles I get the following message: ------------Error while deleting/home/jamiil...m-build.Plo cannot be deleted because you do not havepermissions to modify its parent folder------------ I tried deleting from the shell, but the file 'Trash' does not show inthe ~/Desktop/ What can I do to.... read more

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a old cheap laptop that is a bit 'dodgy' reading CD-Rs - Ican boot the first CD, but it cant read some of the packages - I knowthe disc is fine, i've checked the packages on this computer.
I want to do a NFS install, but the only way i can do this is with a usbnetwork cable (laplink), which works fine with the usbnet driver -problem is that modprobe usbnet of the install CD happily tells meCan't locate module usbnet Any ide.... read more

hy guys is there a way for capture traffic in my eth0 and savi it in a file? the traffic must with header and payload thank a lot scuse me for my bad english

How do I change the default keyboard layout? My default location is en_US but my keyboard is jp106. I've greppedvarious /etc files but I can't find where the keyboard is set on boot.
Thanks..

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