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The Merkinman posted:I'm terribly sorry I'm not omniscient in Linux and realized that all of my hardware needed to be listed. quote:ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Mobo Do you really think that describing a problem in this form, making absolutely no reference to what exactly is "this long ndiswrapper tutorial", and what did you do (if you done it right it would work, so obviously it matters what exactly you thought you did, and what you have seen) is useful for finding how to fix it? quote:However, I also dual boot in Ubuntu 7.10 and cant' for the life of me get it to work. I've tried looking at ubuntuforums.org and even making a thread, but it just gets pushed down pages from everyone else having wireless problems. What are those "some howtos", what exactly did you do, and what have you seen being returned by the programs you ran?
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I went to NIDSwapper's site and scrolled down to WUSB54GSC for instructions. Followed the howto linked on that page When that didnt' work, I tried this which is in the troubleshooting section of the second link Currently /etc/nidswrapper/wusb54gsc contains: rndismpk.sys usb8023k.sys wusb54gsc.inf and code:
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Dec 9, 2007 18:04
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Running Gutsy, I've noticed that the screensaver, when the screen is locked, has an extra option: "leave message." Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Where do these messages go? How would I check them? EDIT: Also, by playing around with the power options, I managed to disable my keyboard's shut down button and remap it to lock the screen, which is nice. 
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Dec 9, 2007 23:43
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Kobayashi posted:Running Gutsy, I've noticed that the screensaver, when the screen is locked, has an extra option: "leave message." Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Where do these messages go? How would I check them? It's for people to leave you a message, when you unlock your desktop, they should just pop up.
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Dec 9, 2007 23:58
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Crush posted:It's for people to leave you a message, when you unlock your desktop, they should just pop up. I figured, but they don't. They just disappear into the ether.
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Dec 10, 2007 00:11
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Kobayashi posted:I figured, but they don't. They just disappear into the ether. Hmm, do you still have both of your panels and do you still have the notification area applet on one of them?
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The Merkinman posted:I went to NIDSwapper's site and scrolled down to WUSB54GSC for instructions. Did you have packaged version of ndiswrapper installed before doing that? Have you uninistalled the packaged version before installing ndiswrapper from sources? Very likely it's no longer necessary to use custom compiled ndiswrapper in the first place, however even if it is necessary, you need to make sure that you don't have pieces of two versions installed. First, unload the driver: code:code:code:code:code:code:After that reinstall your built from sources ndiswrapper: code:code:quote:When that didnt' work, I tried this which is in the troubleshooting section of the second link Very likely it's exactly what it says -- you given it the wrong or corrupt file. It's supposed to be Windows XP 32-bit driver. However it's also possible that something remained from another version of ndiswrapper you already had.
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Dec 10, 2007 09:33
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I might be asking too much but.. Is there a script or program that can compare more than two different files and show me how each individual file differs from each other individual file? And is there a program/command/script that can show the difference of two different files and squish them together into a new file?
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Dec 11, 2007 11:55
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Instant Stalker posted:I might be asking too much but.. You want "diff" (assuming the files are text)
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Dec 11, 2007 12:09
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Instant Stalker posted:I might be asking too much but.. I use Ediff package in Emacs/XEmacs (load all files in buffers, then run M-x ediff-buffers <Enter>), however kdiff3 can be useful for the same purpose, too (up to three files at a time, but you can run multiple copies of it).
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Dec 11, 2007 12:12
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I've set up a bunch of lab machines. Right now we don't have any logins, so the machines are basically open to anyone with a username/password "user" "user". One of the students is complaining that using these computers its "trivial" to take down the campus email server, because all of these systems are running email servers ( as is the norm with linux ) My question is: Is there any problem to just disabling postfix? I.e. removing it from the startup programs. I know that there's a lot of stuff that uses email which makes me hesitant of just disabling postfix. Any thoughts?
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Harokey posted:I've set up a bunch of lab machines. Right now we don't have any logins, so the machines are basically open to anyone with a username/password "user" "user". If it's "trivial" to bring down campus email server with a bunch of Linux boxes running Postfix, it would be just as trivial without them, and you have a more important problem on your hands to begin with. You can configure mail to forward everything to smarthost, and have smarthost block everything it doesn't like, but it won't prevent determined people from running spam scripts that send all kinds of poo poo over smtp.
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Harokey posted:One of the students is complaining that using these computers its "trivial" to take down the campus email server, because all of these systems are running email servers ( as is the norm with linux ) My question is: Is there any problem to just disabling postfix? I.e. removing it from the startup programs. I know that there's a lot of stuff that uses email which makes me hesitant of just disabling postfix. Any thoughts? You could set them up for local delivery only. I use a package called nullmailer on many of my systems for getting system emails off system.
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Dec 12, 2007 04:23
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yotta posted:You could set them up for local delivery only. I use a package called nullmailer on many of my systems for getting system emails off system. Yes, but then no one will be able to read reports sent to local root, what usually is the reason why MTA is installed in the first place.
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Dec 12, 2007 04:26
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I feel like such an idiot asking this but can I get some help installing flashplayer? I have it downloaded on my desktop as a .tar and I extracted it to the same place. The website says that I need to navigate to the file and run a command through the terminal but I have no idea how to navigate to a file in the terminal.
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Mr. Banana Grabber posted:I feel like such an idiot asking this but can I get some help installing flashplayer? I have it downloaded on my desktop as a .tar and I extracted it to the same place. The website says that I need to navigate to the file and run a command through the terminal but I have no idea how to navigate to a file in the terminal. Most distros have it in the package manager. What are you using?
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Dec 12, 2007 05:17
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sund posted:Most distros have it in the package manager. What are you using? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. It says it's installed and youtube works but all of the pornotube variants don't work.
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Dec 12, 2007 05:29
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teapot posted:Yes, but then no one will be able to read reports sent to local root, what usually is the reason why MTA is installed in the first place. Why not? Doesn't this software allow mail sent to local accounts. I like this idea because it won't break anything internal. There's no reason why email should be going out of the machine anyway.
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Dec 12, 2007 05:52
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Harokey posted:Why not? Doesn't this software allow mail sent to local accounts. I like this idea because it won't break anything internal. There's no reason why email should be going out of the machine anyway. No sane admin will log in locally to every machine in the student lab just to read email -- at best he will make ssh/rsync/... push updates and configuration changes and never bother touching those boxes, and never manually log in to anything but a few of them choosen for testing/staging.
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Dec 12, 2007 06:08
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teapot posted:No sane admin will log in locally to every machine in the student lab just to read email -- at best he will make ssh/rsync/... push updates and configuration changes and never bother touching those boxes, and never manually log in to anything but a few of them choosen for testing/staging. True but I don't read the root emails on these machines anyway. We re-install the OS at least every quarter. Edit: Is there any reason to care about independent lab machines that don't really matter all that much? I understand watching servers... Harokey fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Dec 12, 2007 |
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You don't need a real MTA to send local e-mails off to somewhere else. ssmtp is the default under gentoo and works fine with my box. Any failures get sent to postmaster at my server, which then show up in my Thunderbird. Either way though, unless you want to do network filtering, whether there's an MTA or not doesn't change the security of the system. If someone wants to send bulk mail all they have to do is write a stupid "MAIL FROM:<blah>/RCPT TO:<blah>/DATA/(spam)/./QUIT" script and have it connect directly to the main mailserver. If you really don't want mail getting out of the boxes, install a firewall rule to block outgoing port 25 to the campus mailserver. If you really need to get local mails out of the box, add a dummy MTA (ssmtp is okay) and add firewall rules to let only privileged users use port 25. I believe iptables has rule match options that can match by UID.
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I've never used postfix, but is there some sort of configuration I can hit that will only send emails to itself? Edit: A student told me that its possible that someone might get pissed at a professor and write a script to send tons of email to that professor through the lab.
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Mr. Banana Grabber posted:I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. It says it's installed and youtube works but all of the pornotube variants don't work. Hmm, are you quite sure you installed the flashplugin-nonfree (or similar) package and not the open source version? Anyway, to answer your original question (and you should uninstall the package if you go this route): Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal This will take you to the command prompt, by default you are probably in your home directory. code:code:code:code:Once you're in the extracted directory, you need to run the install script. Try running: code:If you get a permission denied error immediately, you may need to make the script executable: code:
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This seems like a relatively simple problem, but I cannot figure out how to adjust (lower) the mouse sensitivity in X. I am suing XFCE as my window manager. XFCE only has controls for mouse acceleration etc. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "evdev" Option "evBits" "+1-2" Option "keyBits" "~272-287" Option "relbits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8" EndSection I have tried adding an Option resolution line with various values but as far as I can tell it is ignored. There has to be a way to do this?!
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Quick sed question: I want to do captures and replacements with sed, but I think the syntax is different than normal regex syntax. I just want to turn code:code:Here's my sed command, which is obviously not working: code:
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Hey! posted:
you have to escape parens in sed to make them capture; backreferences are in the \1 form.
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Awesome, thanks.
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Will it mess anything up to just rm error.log from the apache directory? /var/log/apache2/error.log Need space  Also if anyone has advice on how to make it not get to be so big, that would be nice, too
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I had this idea to create a shared directory on my Samba server so my brother and I (and anyone really) can read, copy and execute files from it. The people with writing ability to this share should only be myself (for obvious reasons). So right now, this is the section of my smb.conf file for the public share (based off the commented example in the file): code:drwxr-xr-x 2 public users 4096 2007-12-12 19:28 public What's preventing me from having write access to this directory when I'm logged in under my username? Also, if it wasn't obvious from that output, I made a Linux user called public with a home directory of /home/public. Do I need to have a Linux user to have a Samba user? If not, I imagine I wouldn't want an extra user in existence if I don't need to.
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I'm trying out rc2 of mplayer under Ubuntu 7.10, installed through backports. I can't seem to get the new -lavdopts fast:threads=2 (I have a dual core CPU) option for multicore H264 decoding to work, though, as putting that in the config file results in mplayer failing to load. I'm not sure if I'm inputting it wrong or what, but it just won't work for me. I'm a bit of a newbie at this, so if mplayer is dumping a log that details why it won't load, I have no idea where that would be. Considering that the most CPU intensive thing I really do anymore is watch HD video and very high bitrate 1080 is dropping frames pretty hard in high motion scenes, this is a pretty big annoyance.
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Sergeant Hobo posted:here's the ls -l output for the directory in question: Because your user is not the same user as "public". The permissions on that directory are read/write/exec for the owner and only read/exec for group and world. At the moment, the only user who can write to that directory is the user "public". If you want to allow everyone to write to this directory, you need to give it world-write permissions - chmod 777.
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Smackbilly posted:Because your user is not the same user as "public". So there's no way to give write permissions only to a user who is not the owner? Or am I going about this the wrong way entirely? EDIT: Had a brainstorm right before I went to bed. Instead of giving "public" write access, I give myself write access by chowning the directory. I tried that and it looks like I got the functionality I wanted. Thanks for the inspiration I got from your post. 
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Hey guys, got my new T61 today and promptly deleted Vista. Does anyone have experience using USB security dongles in a guest OS using this fancy virtualization stuff? Am I dreaming or is this sort of thing possible?
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sund posted:Does anyone have experience using USB security dongles in a guest OS using this fancy virtualization stuff? Am I dreaming or is this sort of thing possible?
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Alowishus posted:Specifically which fancy virtualization stuff? You're running Windows virtualized on Linux? Many of the virtualization solutions can pass USB devices through, so it's potentially possible. What's the generally accepted best choice for software? It looks like QEMU supports USB passthrough so I guess QEMU and the in-kernel KVM? I've only ever briefly played around with VMware in the past so I'm pretty new to this.
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I'm a linux noob, and I need some advice. I'm getting into web development, and I'd like to set up a web server on a linux platform, but I'd also like to learn how to use the linux evironment as well. Which is the best distro to get the best of both worlds? I hear Debian is pretty standard as the backend platform for a lot of websites, or is this inquiry skewed?
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Tap posted:I'm a linux noob, and I need some advice. Get Ubuntu or Fedora, this forum (and myself) lean towards Ubuntu. Regardless of what you pick, you're not going to be hosting anything yourself so it doesn't matter what distro you pick, they all come with Apache and/or lighttpd as a package in the repository, and also your myriad of web programming languages (perl, python, ruby, hell even java and lisp (and more)). And if you really want to I guess most also have PHP.
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Tap posted:I'm a linux noob, and I need some advice. debian and ubuntu packaging of Apache is pretty awful...
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Sergeant Hobo posted:So there's no way to give write permissions only to a user who is not the owner? Or am I going about this the wrong way entirely? Although it seems you fixed your problem, the way to give write permissions to 1 or more users who are not the owner is to create a group, put the users who should have write permissions into that group, assign group ownership of the directory to that group, and then give the directory group write permissions. If you need anything more fine-grained than that, you need to look into ACLs.
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teapot posted:I use Ediff package in Emacs/XEmacs (load all files in buffers, then run M-x ediff-buffers <Enter>), however kdiff3 can be useful for the same purpose, too (up to three files at a time, but you can run multiple copies of it). Now I have another question. Does anyone know of a place on the internet where I can get VIDEO tutorials of linux stuff? For example, aomething like this video on youtube where someone is just talking and explaining things while typing out commands in the terminal. I dont really want any GUI stuff, just terminal stuff. Is there a place on the internet that provides this type of service? Just curious. 
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