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Cucumbers posted:Is there any way to download an .iso (preferably the new openSuSE) and install it through Windows? Use VMWare or VirtualBox.
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That would keep it as a virtual computer, wouldn't it? I want to be able boot in either windows or linux.
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Mar 10, 2008 10:43
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Cucumbers posted:That would keep it as a virtual computer, wouldn't it? Make a partition and boot an install CD? Why are you insistent on installing FROM Windows?
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Mar 10, 2008 13:46
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Has anyone ever used ettercap? I'm trying to use it in an assignment for a Computer Security module at university but every time I launch an ARP spoofing MITM attack, the source IP address for the ARP broadcasts is faked to some other LAN IP. IP spoofing isn't allowed per the assignment's specification, so I'd like to turn this off if possible, but I can't figure out how to do so.
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Mar 10, 2008 13:50
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Cucumbers posted:Is there any way to download an .iso (preferably the new openSuSE) and install it through Windows? Ubuntu's current alpha (Hardy) has a method of doing this but it won't be in stable condition until the end of April I believe.
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Mar 10, 2008 15:01
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jegHegy posted:Make a partition and boot an install CD? Why are you insistent on installing FROM Windows? Because I'd have a very hard time getting empty cd's! It doesn't matter now, things worked out in the end.
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Mar 10, 2008 17:47
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Cucumbers posted:Because I'd have a very hard time getting empty cd's! I guess it's too late now, but you do know you can just burn CD images onto DVDs and boot off them like normal, right?  Edit: At least I haven't run into any problems with them yet. crab avatar fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 10, 2008 |
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Mar 10, 2008 21:16
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I got Fedora 8 Running inside VMWare. I try to update it, but it always says this code:Please help me. Also I am trying to install KDE on this, and I cant do this for similar reasons. (Yum also gives weird dependency errors).
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Mar 11, 2008 06:35
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I recently inherited a computer from my uncle that seems to exclusively run Linux/Ubuntu. I want to set up a Windows partition, but for some reason my Windows CD won't boot up like it should when I restart the machine and set the BIOS to boot from disc. Is there something special I need to do to make the disc run on this machine (it works on my other computer)? Is there a way to formate a separate NTFS partition in Linux so I can have Windows as well? I don't have a special need to run Windows, but it seems like if I have to ask these sorts of questions I'm probably not ready handle a Linux machine yet. I've tried formatting the disk through the terminal as suggested here, following the steps exactly, but when I reboot nothing seems to happen. Ideally I would just format the whole hard drive, because I have an Ubuntu live CD and would prefer a clean install anyway since there is a lot of stuff on here that I don't appear to need.
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Mar 12, 2008 05:11
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When crontab emails me about a job it did, where is the email it says it's from set at?
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Mar 12, 2008 06:12
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How can I get audio and video drivers to run in Slax? I'm using AC97 onboard audio and an Nvidia Gforce 7300 graphics card. I'm running my distro from a jump drive that was installed using the setup method that's listed on the Slax site, if it makes any difference. I've also got a dual core processor, but I'm not sure how that would affect my audio and video drivers. I've never used Linux before, so I'm pretty green as to how all this works.
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Mar 13, 2008 19:54
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What's the deal with the bullshit restricted driver management in Ubuntu? Is there a way to disable it the easy way?
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Mar 15, 2008 02:22
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I've got a Freecom DVB USB stick and I'm having some trouble getting it to work on Ubuntu 7.10 I've downloaded and installed the easy setup package linked to on the last line of the section on this page http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices#Freecom_rev_4_DVB-T_USB_2.0_tuner But when I plug usb stick I get nothing. Tried using it in Kaffiene I doesn't seem to see it. I'm pretty sure my device is at the correct rev mentioned on that page as when I do lsusb I get: code:After I install the driver and plug it in and do "dmesg | grep dvb" I get: code:Any ideas? Do I need to recompile my kernel with any extra stuff enabled or anything like that? Cheers for any help
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Thunar (xfce4 file browser) is constantly leaving defunct processes whenever I use Totem. Is there anyway I can get this to stop? Mysterious Aftertaste fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Mar 16, 2008 |
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Mar 16, 2008 06:13
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I need a distribution recommendation. I have an old Pentium 3 laptop with 512MB RAM that and 40GB harddrive that I need to get running solely to do Java development. All I need to install is Firefox, Eclipse Europa, JBoss, and Open Office and have them run in some semblance of acceptable speed. I'm pretty much a windows/mac only person, but I'm not afraid to try something new if the learning curve isn't longer than a week or two just to use those programs effectively. I've been reading up on it and I think that the real options for me are Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. Any info you could give me would be appreciated. To give some background, I need this computer for work. I'm geting tired of carrying my real laptop to work every day and I have this spare old laptop sitting around with no XP cd and forgot the admin password anyway. If I can get this running for my purpose, I can just leave this at work and not have to worry about it. Thanks.
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Mar 16, 2008 07:09
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I'd recommend Xubuntu, because it uses XFCE which is a more light-weight desktop than Gnome or KDE. (It probably won't do stuff like power management or automatically detecting and mounting USB devices as well, but it sounds like you don't care much about that.)
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Mar 16, 2008 07:58
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JoeNotCharles posted:I'd recommend Xubuntu, because it uses XFCE which is a more light-weight desktop than Gnome or KDE. (It probably won't do stuff like power management or automatically detecting and mounting USB devices as well, but it sounds like you don't care much about that.) XFCE handles automounting USB devices just fine.
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Mar 16, 2008 12:55
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I've got a phone interview tomorrow for a help desk engineer position, and they're going to be quizzing me on linux/windows stuff. I've got Windows down pretty good, but I'm not completely confident on linux side. Anyone have a suggestion for what things I should focus on? I'm currently reading up on everything I'm not familiar with, but that's a lot. I'm guessing I'd be doing primarily linux desktop support as opposed to server support.
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I actually forgot to ask this question in my previous reply. Is there any chance that I'd be able to run Photoshop CS2 in wine on that computer?
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sonic bed head posted:I actually forgot to ask this question in my previous reply. Is there any chance that I'd be able to run Photoshop CS2 in wine on that computer? Yup, it should run almost flawlessly thanks to google. There are some issues with activation so you should read up on it. One of the issues is if it fails you have to blow out the wine directory/cfg to install it.
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I'm having some gigabit ethernet trouble on my fileserver. The machine has a MSI K8N Neo 754 (nForce3) motherboard, who's onboard gigabit ethernet I'm utilizing via forcedeth on Ubuntu Server 7.10. I recently upgraded the main switch in my little apartment LAN to Gigabit and have been enjoying pulling 30-40MB/sec from above machine (bottlenecked by hard drives at last!)... at least sometimes. As soon as I have sustained transfer for a significant period of time, the speed bottoms-out and the server becomes network-unresponsive for a short period of time. This can happen as often as a few times per minute (worse with multiple clients), and is accompanied by the following line in dmesg: code:Google provided me with a couple others having the same experience, but no real answers. What's going on?
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sund posted:XFCE handles automounting USB devices just fine. It didn't for me, but I installed it on a system that had been running Gnome for ages instead of on a new system, so maybe it just didn't switch over the settings correctly or something.
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Ok, loving SPF question, which is driving me nuts, because I can't get postfix send to Hotmail. Situation is this: There's a domain papersaloon.com, that sends mails with source xxx@papersaloon.com via the MX jerkwad.tomservo.eu. My SPF entry for papersaloon.com is papersaloon.com TXT v=spf1 mx:jerkwad.tomservo.eu ~all According to some SPF checker, this is supposedly correct. Hotmail's however still not accepting any mails. Is this SPF line correct, is this a DNS propagation issue?
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Toiletbrush posted:Hotmail's however still not accepting any mails. Are you getting rejection notices, or are they just not getting there? Also, looks like your MX record for papersaloon.com is hosed: code:
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I fixed that earlier already. EuroDNS was being queer. I guess that and the SPF haven't yet propagated far enough.Accipiter posted:Are you getting rejection notices, or are they just not getting there? I changed the address, but they're still not reaching the destination. I figure, it's a combo of the poo poo up MX as well as the lack of SPF, both which haven't been propagated. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 17, 2008 |
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I just installed Backtrack3 Beta to do a little security audit for my company's wireless connection (this was all approved and sanctioned by the company mind you). Anyway, it's on a Dell D820 Latitude in a dual boot configuration with windows xp pro. It worked fine yesterday (the day I finished the install), but this morning it seems that I'm getting "Input/Output error" for just about everything I try to do. Be it running a script or 'cat'ing certain files. I've googled it, but I really haven't been able to come up with much other than "linux is broken." Is there any way to fix it without reinstalling? It appears to be gradually getting worse as well. 
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Whats a good X emulator for windows? All that I use it for is x forwarding via putty. Currently I use Cygwin, but it seems like over kill for my needs. I just want something small and light weight that I can forward my session over. Is cygwin as light weight as it gets?
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I've been thinking about trying out Linux for a while now. I'm not entirely tech savvy (though I'm not a complete idiot either), so I don't need something obscure. I'd like a rather popular distro, or at least one with a dedicated support community. I was thinking of trying Ubuntu first, but I was wondering if there's a specific distro for gamers, or am I poo poo out of luck? I hear Linux isn't that great for gaming. Is this a correct assumption? What games support Linux (ie big titles, like World of Warcraft and Source games for me)?
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deong posted:Whats a good X emulator for windows? I've had good results with Xming.
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Robot Chicken posted:I've been thinking about trying out Linux for a while now. I'm not entirely tech savvy (though I'm not a complete idiot either), so I don't need something obscure. I'd like a rather popular distro, or at least one with a dedicated support community. I was thinking of trying Ubuntu first, but I was wondering if there's a specific distro for gamers, or am I poo poo out of luck? I hear Linux isn't that great for gaming. Is this a correct assumption? What games support Linux (ie big titles, like World of Warcraft and Source games for me)? Yes, go with Ubuntu. It's not that WoW and Source games support Linux, it's that they're the games best supported by Wine (the compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps on Linux). I would recommend dual-booting, so you can always go back to Windows if there's a game you want to play and it doesn't work well under Linux.
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Scaevolus posted:Yes, go with Ubuntu. It's not that WoW and Source games support Linux, it's that they're the games best supported by Wine (the compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps on Linux). There's also something else I'd like to know. Is there any REAL reason for me to switch to Linux? It seems like I can mostly do everything you can do on Linux that you can on the PC, the difference being that most of the stuff is free. Though I'm considering becoming a programmer later in life (I'm currently 16), so maybe it's also got the open-source thing going for it.
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After a recent set of updates with Debian testing, I discovered that YouTube behave strangely. They load completely, play for two seconds, then reset to 'no loading'. I tried browsing with Konqueror, but pages lack pictures, backgrounds, etc -- anything that requires disk space. I think that my / drive has been marked as read only, but I'm not sure. df -h and ls -l report no problems with free space or permissions. Any guesses? EDIT: If I click to jump to a place in a video, it will play ~two seconds from the selected position, then halt and start loading again. EDIT Again: Got it! Wow, tricky one. After updating all my packages, my root filesystem got filled up. /tmp didn't have any space, so a temporary overflow directory got created as a symbolic link to /tmp. It didn't revert after I cleaned my package cache, so I was browsing with only 1 meg of cache for all the sites I visited. I had to relink /tmp to /var/tmp and reset the permissions to fix it. Jo fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 20, 2008 |
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Mar 20, 2008 00:10
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Jo posted:After a recent set of updates with Debian testing, I discovered that YouTube behave strangely. They load completely, play for two seconds, then reset to 'no loading'. I tried browsing with Konqueror, but pages lack pictures, backgrounds, etc -- anything that requires disk space. I think that my / drive has been marked as read only, but I'm not sure. df -h and ls -l report no problems with free space or permissions. Any guesses?
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Well, here's a stupid question. I am managing Ensim user disk quotas via the command line. I was originally looking for a .quota file in the user's chrooted directory but it's not there, my coworker said that Ensim uses "the UNIX quotas". Alas,code: Haha! I knew posting about it would make me figure it out. Ensim does quotas by group.
Kidane fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Mar 20, 2008 |
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Mar 20, 2008 15:25
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Kidane posted:Well, here's a stupid question. I am managing Ensim user disk quotas via the command line. I was originally looking for a .quota file in the user's chrooted directory but it's not there, my coworker said that Ensim uses "the UNIX quotas". Alas, It does both actually, the admin# is both a group and a user. The site admin user has the quota for the entire site, which is why you can't limit its mailbox size. Extra mail users get ids that are 5 digits (ie 12345:admin5) and have a seperate quota. I use a silly hack to make this a bit less painful: code:
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Gewehr 43 posted:I just installed Backtrack3 Beta to do a little security audit for my company's wireless connection (this was all approved and sanctioned by the company mind you). Anyway, it's on a Dell D820 Latitude in a dual boot configuration with windows xp pro. When a similar thing happened to me it was a dying hard drive causing the problem. If you type dmesg at the prompt do you see any errors in the output? Is SMART enabled on the drive as well?
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Fishstick posted:It does both actually, the admin# is both a group and a user. The site admin user has the quota for the entire site, which is why you can't limit its mailbox size. Extra mail users get ids that are 5 digits (ie 12345:admin5) and have a seperate quota. I use a silly hack to make this a bit less painful: I saw your IM, I don't mind at all. Good to know that other people are still suffering through Ensim.
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Kidane posted:Thanks, that is really helpful information. I just inherited about a hundred Ensim boxes and I'm setting up a system to notify user's whose sites are nearing their quota, in an effort to reduce support requests. Your information has helped me add user checking to my script, instead of just site checking! If you're using ProX (10.x), it already does this. In 10.3 it even warns them once every hour. Default they get a cryptic message from root@site at 80% use, and an even more cryptic one at 3mb from their limit. The latter also disables their mysql access. You can find the messages in the /etc/warnquota-* files, and the limits in /etc/ensim/epl.conf.
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How do I upgrade MySQL on Fedora Core 6? I'm running 5.0.22 and I need > 5.0.25. I tried "yum update mysql" and it didn't work.
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Robot Chicken posted:There's also something else I'd like to know. Is there any REAL reason for me to switch to Linux? It seems like I can mostly do everything you can do on Linux that you can on the PC, the difference being that most of the stuff is free. Though I'm considering becoming a programmer later in life (I'm currently 16), so maybe it's also got the open-source thing going for it. Eh, there's no reason to switch if you have a working system already and don't want to learn new stuff. If you do decide to install something, dual boot or put it on a separate computer (with synergy to make a giant, multi-OS desktop).
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