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knowledge base / forum needed
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi. Any1 know of a free knowledge base and/or forum, similar stuff to Jive. Language does not matter though Java is preferable. Tried searching net but just no luck. Thanks, Pete.

Hardware compatibility query
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Thanks to Jean-David and John-Paul for the input. If I go for the SuperMicro board, I'll make sure that one of the memory types from their list is used. Cheers, Thomas

SCO - corporate schitzophrenia
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 19 Comments

On 2004-01-22, zyzzx <me@privacy.net> wrote: Oh, yes they have. Do you believe these lawsuits by SCO are just some kind of lark? Not hardly. SCO has done this...

GAIM & Cygwin
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

I've been trying to run GAIM on my Windows XP system, through the Cygwin X11 server. I start my X server with the following command 'xwin -multiwindow &' and then SSH to the remote host, with X11...

Fighting SPAM
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 100 Comments

In <87fze98fb7.fld@barrow.com>, on 01/21/2004 at 06:57 AM, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> said: Troll taunting is an ancient and honorable sport, except when the troll had gotten tedious....

Grub replaces Lilo, old OSes now gone
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 6 Comments

If all the parts of LILO are still there, possibly renamed: /etc/lilo.conf /boot/*.b /sbin/lilo LILO is simply re-installed by running /sbin/lilo. --John

Sound a little bit distorted when capturing video
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi! I am using the newest mplayer pre-release and I want to capture video from my TV card. Therefore I use this line: mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=320:height=240 tv:// -ovc xvid -xvidencopts...

Where has SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) gone ?
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

"Xavier Vilà" <Xavier.Vila@uab.es> wrote in message news:buo427$qn6$1@noucreus-atm.cesca.es... The mirrors at http://sal.jyu.fi/index.shtml, http://sal.rising.com.au/index.shtml,...

gnome-terminal won't run in VNC session
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

This is what I get when I run gnome-terminal from an xterm: The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc...

Medium/large scale backup solutions
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 6 Comments

Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote With our existing setup, f'rinstance, on one machine we have three datasets. Two have full backups monthly, with weekly...

samba problems & xp
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

I have problem accessing folders from windows XP on samba server xp client has full access to shares but folders cannot be removed because windows shows partial read-only attribute on this folder and...

sending mail locally
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:12:56 +0000, Garry Knight wrote: well, it is networked to others on the College network. however, i am not trying to send mail within a network. i am trying to work out how...

AC97 SG stopped or paused error
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Bob Hauck <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> writes: Thanks for your help :-) -- Josef Oswald linux.os@chello.at -- registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org

ksh/bash -- reading a line -- assigning to variables
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 11 Comments

Dan Espen <daneNO@spam.mk.telcordia.com> wrote: Might not be installed for security reasons, we don't know, the question was about bash/ksh. -- Michael Heiming

How to identify a linux box is memory exhaustion and how much memoryhas been consumed by each process?
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi Anymore suggestions? Thank in advance, Bin I'm really sorry. I try to check every box to understand what's the meaning of the output. So what I post is from another box. The real

How to mount the DVD drive in Debian for XBox ?
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:24:11 -0500, Arctic Wolf typed: When you said DVD I was thinking of a DVD movie, the format for them is udf. The command you provided would work with a normal data type...

Useradd not saving password?
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

Jeff wrote: 'man -k' suggests 'chpasswd' as a likely candiate. Don't know what the '-n' option is for. 'man useradd' doesn't show that as an option on my system. Could be on yours though.

Mozilla 1.2.1 vs 1.5
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:11:16 +0800, young_child <abc@abc.com> wrote: In /usr/local/mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js, check the following settings: // TrueType pref("font.FreeType2.enable",...

Unmounting Floppy Problem
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 | 4 Comments

info@jimgraham.ca (Jim9guitars), In a message on 21 Jan 2004 09:38:45 -0800, wrote : J> Total newbie here(warning...warning...). I can put a new floppy disc J> in, format it(DOS) and drag and drop...

Bug and support tracking system - which one to use?
Posted on January 21st, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hello Michael, Too many features isn't always a bad thing if they are kept out of sight, and you are not paying for what you don't need. Sesame Technology (my company) released a simplified version...