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batch execution under Linux
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when browen@yahoo.com (brewster) wrote: You will absolutely need to implement something yourself. I wouldn't expect "at" to have better than a 1 minute...

Why are backquotes used?
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 9 Comments

After a long battle with technology, Bob Hauck <postmaster@localhost.localdomain>, an earthling, wrote: It is _vastly_ more likely that the source of this 'convention' is the use of TeX and LaTeX...

Linux on a Compact Flash
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Vilmos Soti <vilmos@vilmos.org> wrote in message news:<87d681r7lm.fsf@localhost.localdomain>... If you can boot an IDE drive, you can boot a CF. What's the problem? Yes, that's why we mount the...

use linux & scripts to format multiple drives at once?
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Jean-David Beyer wrote: all the input. Malke -- "I have a cunning plan..."

Home automation project
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Sounds like a lot of work. I know firsthand. See my website: www.hampleman.com/energy_mgmt.htm I am using DS1620's and I have a windows app which logs the results but I want to do it in Java and use...

Accessing ssh over port 80
Posted on February 27th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote in message news:<403e20be$0$41291$a1866201@newsreader.visi.com>... It as really that easy, thanks. Here in brazil buying removable hard drives and such just is...

Configurable Desktop
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 16 Comments

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:07:02 +0100, Johan Lindquist wrote: "The browser is the shell." Then set autologin to log in the user whose shell is the browser with no time delay. Disable CTRL-ALT-Fn in...

GatesSpeak by the bucket load
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation RSA Conference 2004 San Francisco, Calif. Feb 24 2004 "Microsoft was founded with a vision that software could do...

[ANN] DARomizer 0.7 released.
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

DARomizer ver. 0.7 a Perl script front end for DAR (Disk Archiver) Copyright 2004 by Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> DARomizer is released under the terms of the Gnu Public License...

Linux on Gateway M505XL
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Has anyone had success on running Linux (particularly Red Hat 9, or Fedora) on a Gateway M505XL laptop? I'm considering buying one, and just wanted to make sure that there are drivers available for...

MagicFilter Install Errors
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi All, I wanted to install MagicFilter so I can print bold and font sizes, etc from with my Perl scripts. I am very new to Linux. So, when installing I encountered the following errors. I'm...

process substitution in BASH 2.05
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 1 Comments

In article <5fe73253.0402261023.3039f428@posting.google.com>, a_gilotra@yahoo.com (funtoosh) wrote: It should start with #!/bin/bash When bash is run using the name "sh" instead of "bash", it...

Why can't Linux protect me from memory hogs?
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 8 Comments

In comp.os.linux.misc Anton <gazelle-81@lycos.de> wrote: I've had similiar problems.. For browsers, a big mistake people use is memory cache. (even if you have a lot of memory) You'll want to set...

shared library path
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Roger Leigh <${roger}@invalid.whinlatter.uklinux.net.invalid> writes: Its bad to use for a lot of reasons. Here is the first google hit on "LD_LIBRARY_PATH...

Giving normal users access to a SMB share
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 6 Comments

johnny bobby bee <useraddshine.eh@yahoo.ca.eh> wrote: : nobody@nowhere.com wrote: :> johnny bobby bee <useraddshine.eh@yahoo.ca.eh> wrote: :> : Stefan Viljoen wrote: :> :> :> I have a problem giving...

1:1 copy of audio CD with cdda2wav and cdrecord
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Martin Testrot wrote: For 1:1 copies I recommend "cdrdao", see http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net For available RPMs ask you favourite search engine. --Frank Elsner

How Change xawtv's source code for rotating webcam image(90 degree)?
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

My webcam is a Samsung mpc-10. I displayed image through xawtv(webcam software)but I couldn't turn image. How I turn that image? xawtv source is in http://www.linux-usb.org/(tools)

TWIG configuration.
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I'm trying to configure TWIG, but the first php page (authentication) is not working properly. Input: username & password (those of the linux user) but nothing happens. No errors messages, no...

compiling a livecd kernel
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

hi i copied my vmlinuz to my live cd and it does not work. do i need to built some fs in the kernel. when it boot i get a couple of line and then a black screen very quick. i copied my vmlinuz to the...

batch delete and rename files
Posted on February 26th, 2004 | 10 Comments

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:33:02 +0000, John W. Krahn wrote: Now that's just mean. :) After about fifteen minutes of poking around the Python online docs, and another five for testing and debugging,...