You are a comedian too! I have some drives I tried this with but it didn't
work; I have a different situation, the drives were out in a shed for about
a year is there any hope?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
This is what I've done in the past:
Seal the HD inside a plastic bag in the driest environment you can find.
Leave it overnite in the freezer (there are other opinions, I'm just stating
what/how has worked for me)
Have a puter ready and much better if you can hot-plug the thing.
Have enough spa
Michael, you are so naive... ;-)
These '' are in China, Rusia, Agfanistan, good luck...
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PS: However, I'd support anyone going after the '' buying
advertising from the ''.
Michael Havens writes:
then i have to delete it from the spam folder
I want to get thi
writer.
Michael Havens writes:
libreoffice? draw? writer? calc.?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:33 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
OK, I'll bite... :)
I use gimp to convert the pdf pages to png(s).
I create a libreoffice docume
OK, I'll bite... :)
I use gimp to convert the pdf pages to png(s).
I create a libreoffice document, set the margins to 0,0,0,0 (printer will
complaint), create a 1-column-1-row table on every page and set each graphic
page as the background of each table.
Now I can type over the forms, pri
dd if=/dev/sdXY of=my_backup
Recover with:
dd if=my_backup of=if=/dev/sdXY
I'd go with tar though.
Simple and bulletproof...
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Derek Trotter writes:
I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image
files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines o
I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
See:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html
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Derek Trotter writes:
Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls
take a long time to r
5:83:1c:63:01:74
???
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:08 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
I'd try first:
telnet 192.168.0.3 22
That will validate that the remote SSH server is listening.
If it is not, nothing else will work.
YMMV...
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Amit Nepal write
I'd try first:
telnet 192.168.0.3 22
That will validate that the remote SSH server is listening.
If it is not, nothing else will work.
YMMV...
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Amit Nepal writes:
"ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.3 port 22: Connection refused" .. can you
check if the ssh server is listening on port 22 ?
I love vi...
Likewise...
Would not use anything else.
Can't lear anything else... :)
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Amit Nepal writes:
I love vi. I started with vi , i have never used other editors. Vi is
simply awesome/powerful and full of features
*Amit K Nepal
Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
omNovia Techn
SSH is OK.
Telnet is a self-destructing proposition.
SSH or telnet?
Hopefully SSH...
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Carruth, Rusty writes:
Yep. Rarely use it - oh, yes, forgot to mention - I have some amount of
storage there and can set up my own web stuff there on their server as
well. That's part of the reason fo
telnet access to a server there on their site...
Did I read this right?
Oh my, oh my...
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Carruth, Rusty writes:
I use what used to be Speakeasy, now is megapath (bought out).
I was VERY happy with Speakeasy - you call their tech line, they are
TECHNICAL folks. I could talk routers, N
n about 20
minutes. And I can upgrade packages! :)
And yes, compilers are bad...
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Eric Shubert writes:
On 07/22/2012 04:04 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
Hello World:
I run my firewall on a LFS box.
Everything on it is compiled from source.
No bells and whistles, only the essentia
Xcapable SSH client like Hummingbird.
N
Cygwin! :)
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Lisa Kachold writes:
Set your local display variable and if the ports are open and OpenX is
running, you will get an echoed Xterminal session to open locally. If you
are using Windows locally, you will need an Xcapable SSH c
run only 64-bit mode).
On 07/22/2012 07:35 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> Thanks Lisa, just to clarify:
> I am compiling EVERYTHING from the kernel up, either 32 or 64, so the
'64-in-32-userland' issue does not apply.
> This box will have everything freshly compiled from s
#x27;
environment, but why would it run slower?
Inquiring minds would like to know...
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Lisa Kachold writes:
Hi!
Great question:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:04 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Hello World:
I run my firewall on a LFS box.
You migh
Hello World:
I run my firewall on a LFS box.
Everything on it is compiled from source.
No bells and whistles, only the essential software is installed.
The hardware is 64 bits but I've been running 32 bit OS.
This time around I am wondering...
The question is:
Is there any advantage to com
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfscd-remastering-howt
o.txt
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfscd-remastering-howt
o-6.2.txt
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/
j...@actionline.com writes:
I'd like to try remastering a live CD.
Can someon
one understands WHAT happened and WHY so you can be
confident it won't happen again or know a less drastic resolution.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Well, I wiped out Mint and installed Debian squeeze.
All good now... :)
Well, I wiped out Mint and installed Debian squeeze.
All good now... :)
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kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes:
Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use
some help to evict them...
This is what's happening:
I use:
'ssh -fCXY user@remotebox run-so
vidia to have better
results? I have always have a better luck with Nvidia, but YMMV...
kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes:
Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use
some help to evict them...
This is what's happening:
I use:
'ssh -fCXY user@remoteb
more than most people's on this list.
Although I haven't done a whole lot of 'X' stuff lately...
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Lisa Kachold writes:
Hi-
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:20 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in m
Well, the Gnomes are at work (again) in my box and I could certainly use
some help to evict them...
This is what's happening:
I use:
'ssh -fCXY user@remotebox run-something'
a lot.
Works every time.
Or 'mostly' every time...
Now when I run (ONLY from *MY* box):
ssh -fCXY turboviking virtualb
An IDE will be an unnecessary complication for you.
There is nothing that an IDE can do that can not be accomplished by
vi/grep/find/ctags.
There even *EXISTS* a GUI Vim! :)
One of the things I despise about a Micro$haft environment is that the lack
of tools and convoluted environment DEMANDS
Mike, you make choose to be 'village idiot', it's your right.
But your persistance handsomely makes up for whatever you think you lack.
If I had half of your persistance, I would actully accomplish things.
Hang in there pal, you're doing good... :)
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Michael Havens writes:
You all know
your feet... :)
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Michael Havens writes:
it doesn't like 'rm *lock* but only when I entered '.~lock*' instead of
the wildcard at the beginning.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
There are not 'invis
There are not 'invisible files'.
There is a 'convention' that states that files named '.something' are not
shown in a 'ls' listing unless some specific switches are used.
The 'dot' at the beginning, however *IS* part of the name of the file.
Try a:
find . -type f
and you will find it every tim
And why you have to 'get a certificate request signed by a CA' ?
I can do SSL all day long with a self-signed (or even expired) certificate.
The only thing that the CA validates (the encryption will still be there) is
that you are whom you are claiming to be, but if you don't care (I don't
drop
Hey Derek, where are you at?
I live near Chattanooga next to hanglide.com
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Derek Trotter writes:
Thanks for the invitation, but I'm no longer in Arizona. I moved to
Tennessee last year thanks to the crappy economy.
On 5/18/2012 23:14, Dazed_75 wrote:
Derek, we are holding an installfe
I vote for Mint...
Ditched Ubuntu after Unity... :(
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Lisa Kachold writes:
Ubuntu Most Recent for Desktop Users
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
Which linux distro would you suggest for someone who wants to install
linux but wants an easy to set up and configure
e two directories are named differently
at the top. one is /home/x and one is /home/y I want everything under x to
look like y. I looked in the man page and I thought I found something but
then I looked on and couldn't find it again to investigate further. I
thought it was in the 'runni
looked on and couldn't find it again to investigate further. I
thought it was in the 'running as a daemon' section but I couldn't find it
again.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:18 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
how would I rsync just what h
how would I rsync just what has been modified?
If I interpret this question as:
'how would rsync know just what has been modified?'
The answer is: it depends.
rsync will compare timestamps unless you use the --checksum option.
RTFM...
If I interpret this question as:
'how would I know just wh
cat local.txt|ssh user@box 'cat - >> remote.txt'
YMMV...
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Michael Havens writes:
is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing
document? (that's called 'merge', right?)
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The best way to safely accomplish this kind of tasks is by booting from a
live CD. At any rate, you better don't be logged-in anywhere as the user
that you are changing.
With that said, all you have to do is to rename the directory and change
it's ownership.
mv /old/path /new/path
chown -R
, 2012 at 6:25 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Michael, "names" on a network are fake.
There are only IP address in a network .
You "translate a name" into its corresponding IP address via a "name
resolution service"
A "name resolu
ice"
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Michael Havens writes:
I was wondering could you do this via ipaddress?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are
legal:
scp myuser@remotebox:/th
I would stay away from System76.
Bad BAD (and costly) experience...
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PS: YMMV...
Stephen writes:
The other option is a vendor like system76 they have a good bang for buck
value. Or maybe red 7.
But the instant you add discrete graphics your battery life goes way down.
Also the del
est it right now.
ssh remotehost 'tar cvf - 1.jpg | ssh yoursourcehost "cat > 1.jpg.tar"'
maybe use the modifer -t with ssh "ssh -t" so you don't miss any
output. give a try see what happens. half the fun of *nix is figuring
out what works and what doesn&#
Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are legal:
scp myuser@remotebox:/that/file /this/path
scp /this/path myuser@remotebox:/that/file
1st one will 'retrieve' /that/file from 'remotebox' into /this/path
2nd one will copy /this/path to /that/file in 'remotebox'.
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There is not SSH server running in 192.168.0.3 or you have a firewall
blocking the port.
From 192.168.0.3 do:
telnet localhost 22
If the connection dies, nothing will be able to connect EVEN if the SSH ser
is running (which I doubt)
Once you validate that the SSH server is running in 192.168
I personally support Cygwin and (to a point) like it, but I don't ever use
it unless I have NO OTHER POSSIBLE OPTION whatsoever...
For example, for some reason my Linux box quit connecting to my daytime job
VPN and I installed a SSH server using Cygwin so I can create a reverse
tunnel and access
11:07 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com
> wrote:
> Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
> as root:
> dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
> Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it
So far so good.
Make sure you ran dd against the WHOLE drive:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null
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Michael Havens writes:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
as root:
dd if=/dev
Pls type here the dd command you are running...
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Michael Havens writes:
hm I can't cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd and
see an option to 'Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.' I
select it and it says, 'Attempting to mount ' (6 differant
partitions)
Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
as root:
dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than
"read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
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Michael Havens writes:
Yep I think I had a hard disk failure. I resta
Boot your box with a live CD (I can place one in my server for you)
type:
cat /proc/partitions
If you see your partition, then:
mount -o ro /dev/{my partition} /mnt
DO A BACKUP NOW!, your stuff will be in /mnt/{somewhere}
After you backup, then:
umount /mnt
fsck /dev/{my partition}
If a
9 -o HostName
192.168.0.3:mnt/sda1
fatherswithforeignbabies...@fatherswithforeignbabies.us:
copies/2012-2-17
would copy recursively 192.168.0.3 from /mnt/sda1 to the
server:folder/filename
How should I tell it to start from / rather than ~ ?
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:30 AM, kitepi...@ki
Mike, look at the path after the colon:
what that says is:
'copy whatever is inbound to a directory named "mnt/sda1"
located in my HOME directory'
Is that what you want?
Probably not...
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Michael Havens writes:
hm not working. I wonder why. Any ideas?
bmike1@Michaels-Laptop ~ $
In order to ssh into a windoze box as user@host, you'll need to set up a SSH
server in the windoze box and establish a shell to login into which will
honor your commands (which all I have done in the past).
Have you considered alcoholism?
You may have a better shot... :)
As a rule of thumb,
Mike, take a look at 'rsync'.
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Michael Havens writes:
so wait a second could I put fsarchiver on the server and then:
tar --ignore-failed-read [/mnt/sda1] -czf - | ssh
remoteuser@remote.system"tar -xzf - "| ""
so the tar command will create a tarball and the the pipe will transfe
tar jcf - /path/to/backup|ssh user@otherbox 'tar xf -'
will not cause any intermediate file to be created.
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Michael Havens writes:
I think the problem with using a pipe is that it puts te results of the
first command into the input of the second command. My problem is that I
don't have e
Mike, I believe you are running (something like) Ubuntu.
Try:
apt-get -y remove --purge ubuntu-restricted-extras
apt-get -y install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You may have to adjust the 'ubuntu' name, try
apt-cache search '*-restricted-extras'
Good luck...
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Michael Havens writes:
unfort
Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:13 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
why do you recomend 'sshfs' over 'ssh'
They are entirely different things.
Look at sshfs as 'mount' (or NFS)
sshfs allows you to 'mount' a remote directory
why do you recomend 'sshfs' over 'ssh'
They are entirely different things.
Look at sshfs as 'mount' (or NFS)
sshfs allows you to 'mount' a remote directory to a local path.
Look at SSH alone as 'telnet'.
It allows you to open a remote terminal.
They meet at the protocol level.
sshfs uses
The line:
mount|grep -vE '^proc|^none|^fusectl|^gvfs-fuse-daemon|^binfmt_misc'
Will give you everything that is mounted.
If you want to network/mount non-graphical, I suggest sshfs:
(if you can SSH, you can mount)
sshfs user@remotebox:/path/I/want /home/my/local/path
YMMV...
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Michael
Why Drupal and not Wordpress?
Or Joomla?
I'm trying to make a decision myself...
Thanks! :)
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keith smith writes:
You might want to look into a CMS. I'd recommend Drupal because it is a great framework and once you learn more programming you will be a ble to do anything you want with i
Man, that procedure is awfully complicated...
My take:
1.- Boot from any live CD (This is ALWAYS a powerful tool!)
2.- Create a filesystem in your new home partition.
3.- mkdir -p /mnt/{old,new}
4.- mount -text? /dev/sdaX /mnt/old
5.- mount -text? /dev/sdaY /mnt/new
7.- rsync -va --checksum /mn
The problem is that there is a UUID in the /etc/fstab file with no device to
match it to.
If it is the swap, run:
swapon -s
and you'll see that swap didn't get mounted.
I advised you about this in one of me previous messages.
Options:
look at /etc/fstab and:
find what is mounted with UUID and
verable
if something happens to it?
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
you know I want to clone my drive because I thought you really
Dec 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with:
rsync - need to
I had a bad (and costly) experience with System76.
YMMV...
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Robert Holtzman writes:
In the market for a refurbished/used laptop, Dell Latitude or Lenovo
Thinkpad. Refurbs (factory) seem to be available only from the mfgr's
web site. Hate to spend that kind of money sight unseen. Aside fr
I have cloned and restored 2464720174+1 systems with:
rsync -vaxHXY --checksum /path1 /path2 /path3 someone@remotebox:/mybackup
The 'x' constrain the sweep to a partition to avoid memory directories
(/proc, /dev, /sys) which forces to explicitly name every mounted directory
to copy.
Then yo
CD. A bunch of lines of text apperom ared with the
word OK at the end. I suppose this means the check sum is good.
How do you copy text from the terminal (T)?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:46 AM,d kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
You can also:
cd {wherever th
eck sum is good.
How do you copy text from the terminal (T)?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:46 AM,d kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
You can also:
cd {wherever the CD is mounted}
md5sum -c md5sum.txt
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Kevin Fries writes:
The install will use the md5sum on the
You can also:
cd {wherever the CD is mounted}
md5sum -c md5sum.txt
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Kevin Fries writes:
The install will use the md5sum on the disk. I know with Ubuntu and
Fedora, both allow you to "verify the disk". What the verify does is
run through that file and do the MD5 sum for all the files.
I use Virtualbox in my daytime job laptop.
I was told to "not to touch the partitions", so I boot from a USB HD in
Linux and run the laptop inside virtualbox.
If need be, I can shut down, unplug the USB and boot the laptop bare metal
in the same box I run it virtual.
Cool'stuff... :)
ET
Also, 'first the blue pair, then the green pair' will get you in problems.
The correct sequence is (as seen from the "copper" side of the connector,
see NOTE below):
white orange
orange
white green
blue
white blue
green
white brown
brown
If you want to make a cross cable, reverse the green(s
lshw|less -S
Enjoy... :)
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Michael Havens writes:
I just found out about the command 'lshw' and I wanted to know if it sees
my hard drive. Unfortunately, I can not see it all. the text scrolls
off of the screen. What is an option to make it pause after a screen of
text is written? I
I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd.
This is easy to do but I live in the corner of Alabama, Tennessee and
Georgia (in GA) and it is a fairly long drive (I've done it both ways
several times)
I'll be glad to help you over the phone.
root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1
Ty
What error are you getting?
Why do you think "boot sector craped out"?
*IF*, you had a boot sector problem, you can boot with anything that boots,
mount your drive and chroot into it, re-install grub, and you should be
done.
*IF* the problem is the boot sector, which I doubt...
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Michae
, September 05, 2011 02:28:43 AM kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
Hello there...
I need a live CD (preferably non GUI) that starts an SSH server on boot.
It has to provide also a known username/Password combination to login.
(No, security is not a concern, it's a closed environment)
This i
Hello there...
I need a live CD (preferably non GUI) that starts an SSH server on boot.
It has to provide also a known username/Password combination to login.
(No, security is not a concern, it's a closed environment)
This is the (simplified) scenario:
1.- someone in the Universe turns on a m
You can also set these options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config or ~/.ssh/config
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kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes:
ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@box
YMMV...
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Dazed_75 writes:
1) I have a number of machines where I often ssh from one to another. I
ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@box
YMMV...
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Dazed_75 writes:
1) I have a number of machines where I often ssh from one to another. I
just did that with a regular pair and got:
Warning: the RSA host key for 'triggerfish' differs from the key for th
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I built a (humble) sort-of-kindda "dpkg" system for LFS.
It allows me to build "development" and "production" packages, and can be
installed (by some knowledgeable folks) from (again by some knowledgeable
folks) a "simple" script.
It also has the capability to replicate itself and (not straigh
Hiya there...
If you were going to run Sybase in Linux, which distro would you choose?
Why?
Thanks! :)
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Ariel Gold writes:
So the other day I was in a Windows VM making sure a local non-profit's
email got past Outlook's spam filtters, and was having problems connecting
to the Exchange server. Anyways, someone provided me remote desktop support,
and
For those of you ignorant of REAL life excitement: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta is
OUT!!!
Oh, boy... :)
The part that I hate about this frequent releases, is that they are
consistently so much better, that I *HAVE* to upgrade.
The part that I love about this frequent releases, is that they are
consiste
to use the soft mount feature.
-Dan
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:38 AM, "kitepi...@kitepilot.com" wrote:
I tried to get NFS to work once, but it wasn't worth the hassle.
I've done it.
I've suffered it.
I've seen the puters hung.
I haven't seen t
does include a trip around the Sun every year...
Eric Cope writes:
I tried to get NFS to work once, but it wasn't worth the hassle. I recall
reading about issues when the mounts would hang and file corruption, but I
don't recall exactly...
Eric
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11
I would stay away from NFS too.
Complicated, it's sometimes impossible to kill and requires root privileges.
sshfs will do everything that NFS does in userspace without root getting
involved.
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keith smith writes:
Samba is not native to Linux. It is for sharing files on Linux in a file
Betty, Samba is to allow a Linux box to access a M$ box.
You don not want to go that way.
A simple (geeky) way would be sshfs, but if that is over your head, there
are other GUI options.
What Linux are you running in those boxes?
I suggest you remove (and purge) Samba, because that's just anot
I personally think that looking for a "C class" with such specific purpose
and narrow scope, is a waste of time and may indicate that you don't
understand your own needs.
No insult here, been there, done that, time and again, sucks...
The point is: "data structures" have nothing to do with the
Hello cybernetic intelligence:
This is what's happening:
Every so often, and in several Ubuntu machines that I take care of (and some
KDE machines before I ditched KDE), suddenly, and for not apparent reason,
the NUMLOCK key quits working and all I get is control characters regardless
of the
My guess is that you either overlooked or missconfigured a ./configure
option. Look at your configure/make logs.
There is no reason why a properly compiled PHP installation is going to
segvee on a form. Your problem is deeper that where you are looking at.
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Nathan England writes:
Th
I've done tons of LFS stuff, I'll be more than glad to lend you a hand but
I'll need SSH access to the box.
What switches did you tar/untar with?
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Nathan England writes:
I have a serious problem. I cannot run _anything_ php...
I have an LFS system I use for running various test php t
Example 1: Use NX Free edition to get a desktop on another computer, and
then run your browser on that.
Man, why so cumbersome...
ssh -fCXY myuser@remotebox firefox
will do...
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Kevin Fries writes:
On 02/15/2011 11:51 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
I would assume that he's talking about broa
Blows my mind that they didn't mention:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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James Finstrom writes:
Article is a bit dated but I thing the options are still pretty accurate:
http://www.junauza.com/2009/01/7-best-freeopen-source-backup-software.html
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Eric -
nfs feels like a graceful solution
NOO!!!
DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF!!!
Use sshfs.
If you can ssh, you can, mount.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
Stephen writes:
nfs feels like a graceful solution
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mark Phillips
wrote:
I have a Debian testin
but
none of the partitions are seen, thus ths init scripts bail and leve
me in an emergency shell, probably still in the RAMFS.
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:12:47AM -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
I have a Window$ laptop that I can't officially touch.
I boot it in Linux from a USB HD.
I created
I have a Window$ laptop that I can't officially touch.
I boot it in Linux from a USB HD.
I created a VirtualBox VM that runs Window$ from its native HD, which allows
me to shutdown the thing, unplug the USB and boot Window$ native like it
never ever happened.
I've done it with XP and 7.
The o
:39 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
Hey, if you can find that 'cookbook' could you let us know? that
sounds like a really cool thing. How about that linux running on a
computer at the public library, eh?
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:26:02AM -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
I am not sure
I am not sure that I understand the problem, but I have successfully used a
$70, 250GB USB HD to boot a M$ laptop on Linux, and then run the native
WinXP or Win7 OS inside VirtualBox.
I LOVE IT!!! 8)
I can shutdown the laptop, pull the USB HD, boot the native Wincrap and
there is no trace (
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
You won't find anything better... :)
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Brandon Hoffman writes:
Hello everyone, I recently just joined this group (like an hour ago) because
I was posting on a forum about wanting to learn Unix/Linux and a passerby
who decided to be nosy recommended me t
l a list of packages from the system, then do a
fresh install and feed the old list of packages back into the system.
Did you upgrade via apt or with upgrade-manager, if the former, then
computer janitor will probably help a lot.
Brian Cluff
On 10/22/2010 11:13 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com w
hould consult with your IT department to implement security measures.
On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:13 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
Did the keyboard work for a bit then suddenly stop working?
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 some week ago (he's been running Ubuntu since 6.04)
Everything
Did the keyboard work for a bit then suddenly stop working?
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 some week ago (he's been running Ubuntu since 6.04)
Everything worked as advertised.
Then I don't what happened, his recollection is far from clever (he is 96).
All I know is that now the GUI ignores the key
No mine, my father's...
He calls me to tell me that the keyboard on his freshly Ubuntu 10.10 install
quit working. He can't even login because he can't type the password.
I tried the on-screen keyboard, which gets blattanly ignored too, but I am
unfamiliar with the resource, so I could not d
Is there a way to edit $PATH ?
I believe you are asking the wrong question, because you also state (one of)
the right answer(s).
You "edit $PATH" (as you say) by:
PATH=$PATH:/something/else
That only "edits PATH" on your current shell.
($PATH is just a shell variable private to a shell)
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