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I switched to Linux two months ago. It had been years since I had tried it and years ago it was just not user friendly and I didn't have the time to make the transition. Well that has changed, Linux is really nice. If you think 31 flavors of ice …

I want to put up a dual boot freeBSD partition on my Win2Kpro machine but have NTFS. Is there anything I can do to make the existing files shareable?

I need a little advice now, and probably a lot more in the future!:rolleyes: I am new to Linux, and use Windows XP right now, although my current opinion is that MS-DOS is the best OS ever invented.:mrgreen: I also know next to nothing about programming, although I would like …

Hi everyone Basically I want to set-up a linux machine at home so I can do my programming here. Any recommended distros that are fairly easy to run and come with a good compiler for c++? Thanks.

Hi all, i'm new in linux environment and have a v. tough task. Please help me how to initiate it. give me some expample scripts.. the prob def is : * i am trying to write a full-screen utility, that displays the permissions of a directory and all the directories …

Anyone know if I can use GnomeBlogger with the Daniweb blogs ? I can use "Self-Run MovableType", "Self-Run Pyblosxom", "Self-Run WordPress" or "Self-Run Other" Most require base blog URL's or XML-RPC url

Having a major challenge getting 3 Linux/Windows stations setup up in workgroup/share setting. ( No problem with internet access ) Linux stations do not recognize any workgroup name thus do not see any of the Linux and/or windows stations. I used the Samba client config tool in Yast. This does …

How can I have all URLs under [url]http://daniweb.com[/url] redirect to [url]http://www.daniweb.com[/url] for SEO purposes?

Hi everyone, I am a newbie trying to setup a linux dhcp server and want to run windows applications from a different partition. I installed rh9 and also my paritions but when I try to see them in kde gui I only see the one that rh9 and the swap …

hi guys, I need to install apache to my webhotell to be able to install and use the CMS Mambo, but I don't find instructions to do so. Could U please help me? I'm a total newbie, so please use an "for dummies" style :p thanx guys

Folks, I'm trying to grapple with something which is making my head spin. I wonder if someone might have an idea on this. It's well understood, that a webserver can supply a specified file, by default, if no page is specified on the URL: eg. [url]http://www.london.edu/index.html[/url] can be requested by …

[color=DarkGreen][size=2][font=Trebuchet MS][font=Trebuchet MS]Can anybody tell me how to mount a FAT32 partition in linux. i can mount a NTFS partition, but i seem to be having problems with FAT32.[/font] [/font][/size][/color]

Hi ,thought i would try fooling with SUSE personal .started a install on a 6.4 gig HDD ,cot called away from computer and didn't get back for over an HR. it foramtted and created 3 partitions .one 450+meg primary dos ,and two nondos partition 50% each of remaing gigs ,i …

I would like to test mod_rewrite functionality on my own Apache server.. so I've read many thread all over the net but... This is my situation... Running phpinfo()... I can see ... [...] apache2handler Apache Version Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) [...] Loaded Modules core prefork http_core mod_so mod_access mod_auth mod_auth_anon mod_auth_dbm mod_auth_digest …

Hey.. I just installed Mandrake 9.1 and was using KDE. I set my screen resolution for one not supported by my monitor (Viewsonic VE 175) and now nothing shows up on my screen when KDE starts. Does anyone know how to change the resolution so I can get back into …

Does anyone know where I can find the 3 ISO images for Mandrake Linux in zip or gzip files? If there aren't any, can someone please zip them up and email them to me? [email="mmiikkee12@gmail.com"]mmiikkee12@gmail.com[/email] Thanks. And I thought I'd never use up more than 3 megabytes of email space... …

I have linux installed on my laptop. (Redhat 9). All works ok except sound and wireless lan. I'm not worried about the sound at all so that does not matter. But it is not recognizing the wireless card. Does anyone know of any linux drivers for the trendnet tew 226pc/tew-228pi …

Hi, I'm running RH9 on a Dell Latitude LS400, trying to connect to my WinXP desktop. I've set up the eth0 connection on the laptop (no problems setting up, device recognised and activates without any errors.) I then set the IP addresses to 10.0.0.5 for the laptop, 10.0.0.13 for the …

I recently installed my first LINUX setup (Debian 3.0) on a seperate hard drive from my Windows system. During the installation I was asked to install adapters for specific items I have installed. The problem arose when I tried to locate a module for my integrated LAN built into my …

Hi, I Am A Third Year Computer Engineering Student. I Am Interested In Doing Some Project On Unix Platform For My Final Year I Need Help In Selecting The Topic . Please Help Me.

Have tried but failed to setup Linux to share our PC's for home use. Linux error "cannot find any workgroups in your local network" . Does not recognize Linux or windows users. I have used Yast to setup Samba but still no go. What I am missing here. Any straight …

I am wondering if someone could tell me what tools I will need to compile and build and executable of Dev-C++ for Fedora Core 3 to install it and run it. I have never worked with Delphi source code and I would appreciate any help with the process and what …

hi everyone, i have redhat 9 and when i delete a file , it gets deleted automatically. does any1 knw how i can prompt a message saying do u want to delete yes or no.

Newbie to linux and trying to get modem to work with linuxe. Need Help Below are ddumps of info on modem and system. it seems that SUSE find the modem at the hardware level durning boot. But cannot figure out how to set it up in SUSE. Also get following …

i have a machine built for windows 95 it has about 500mb or so hard drive space I have a better computer but it is used by my entire family and i've already screwed it up enough and dont need someone yelling at me. So i was wondering if this …

I´ve tried searching for freeBSD running from the CD but haven´t found one except from Brasil. Suggestions?

Hi all, For all of us slackware users out there...I was wondering what version you run currently. I met someone last week that was still running 4.0 at his home and had a hardended kernel and the machine had been up for years. Made me think that there may be …

setting in the .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^b\.html$ a.html [L] RewriteRule ^a\.html$ b.html [L] but got in dead-loop forever unless httpd stop. the rewrite.log logged called eachother interval: 192.168.0.11 - - [07/Apr/2005:13:15:47 --0400] [home.java.net.nl/sid#8145548][rid#81c3498/initial] (1) [per-dir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/app/] internal redirect with /b.html [INTERNAL REDIRECT] 192.168.0.11 - - [07/Apr/2005:13:15:47 --0400] [home.java.net.nl/sid#8145548][rid#81caef8/initial/redir#1] (1) …

Hello First i am very very new user in Linux redhat 9 kernal 2.4.20-8 i have intel ham v 92 fax data voice hardware modem (PCI), chip no=MD5628D-L-B which work find on XP but when i decompress and install its driver (412-2tar.gz) in LINUX REDHAT 9 kernal 2.4.20-8 Root]#/usr/local/src/ (here …

Hello Folks First i am very new user start using Linux Redhat 9 kernal 2.4.20-8 i install my modem drivers according to the instruction of manual which is steps to install 1. login as ROOT 2. extract the archive into a directory with "tar -xvf <archivename>.tgz" 3. cd into the …

I recently installed debian sarge in my system everything is working fine but the only problem is my sound card. I am using a asus k8v-x motherboard with amd64 2800+ processor. I tried configuring my soundcard with alsaconf. It does show me my sound card but I get the following …

Hello Linux experts i am very new in linux redhat 9 kernal 2.4.20-8 when i am trying to install yahoo messenger in then i got the following error can any one tell me how to slove it ? [root@localhost downloads]# rpm -iv rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm Preparing packages for installation... ymessenger-1.0.4-1 error: unpacking …

HELP! My bosses want me to install virtual pc on her computer, but when I do, it asks me to install an operating system....otherwise comes up with a black box and asks for a drive or c drive, which does not work. HELP!

Hello! Ive downloaded mdk 10.0 from linuxiso. Is this version fit to run as an enterprise server? Thanks!

I am having a problem with Apache version 2.053 running with PHP 4.3.10. This install of Apache is running on an XP professional installation service pack 2. The problem is that anywhere from 1 day to 6 days, (which I don't think the number of day matters) Apache will begin …

I have installed Apache Servere HTTP 2.0.53 on WinXP but i receive the following error message when trying to start: [the requested operation has failed !] would appreciate if somone can help..

Hi! Ive downloaded Mdk 10 from linuxiso and intend to install in a hw with this config. 1 x 3.0GHz Xeon/1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB 1 x 1GB DDR2 400MHz (2X512MB), Single Ranked DIMMs 2 x 36GB 15K RPM U320 SCSI (RAID 0+1) Im a newbie. Any gotchas, or traps, tricks …

Hi, I've been looking around for tutorials on mod_rewrite but they may be not very easy (from scratch) or I'm not that smart. Bet for the last! :-) As everyone, I'm on a rush, not for this but for everything, so I can't give it the time I should. Ok, …

[INDENT]How do I view the contents of my flash drive (a Lexar 128MB JumpDrive) in Gnome (RedHat 9)?[/INDENT] I plug in the JumpDrive, and when I go to SYSTEM TOOLS > HARDWARE BROWSER it shows up just fine. Keep in mind, I'm a newbie to Linux. :o I created the …

I installed Redhat 9.0 on my IBM 300PL box and everything seemed to be fine. But when I goto System Settings> Soundcard Detection, gnome says no soundcards were detected. And when I goto Sound & Video> Volume control, I get a message saying "Invalid mixer device" and the details say: …

I am new to Linux so bear with me. I have installed Red Hat 9 and it won't boot up, what I get is: "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb5" or 08:15 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel …

Okie, I'm just finish configure my postfix. My postfix is MTA for my MUA Squirrelmail. I'm using Linux RedHat 9.0 OS. Somehow I'm only able to send mail but not able to receive mail. Plus I recognize when I send mail to a mailbox to such as Bellsouth.net or yahoo.com.. …

ok, as you might now after reading this im new to linux. Now im on knpiix i ran a sudo knppix-installer and made it the promary OS on my PC, no more Windows.. any way, im a paranoid kid. How come knoppix doenst come with a firewall any one know? …

Hi, I have a knoppix live CD for linux. Everytime I run it.. the previously saved files are gone. I mean.. the programs i do on CD are not saved.. why is it? And please can anyone tell me... if at all i can save my files by mounting or …

does anyone here know much about linspire. io have thought installing it on my laptop. but at the same time i am trying to teach myself how to program(vb.net, and java). how would running linspire work with those languages. if i went to that should i start trying to learn …

I've been trying out RH9 for about 1 week and my wireless usb adapter just won't work. Partly be cause I don't know how to get t to work. There is a drivers/linux/ folder with a read me file saying "make.config". If anyone can help me with this please post …

Here is a thread I posted earlier in the Windows forums. I have continued my questions in the Linux forum because this is becoming more Linux related. [url]http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?p=95084&posted=1#post95084[/url] Now don't get me wrong here, I love Linux (even though I am still very new to it), but I can't feel …

So I just transferred all my websites (a dozen of them) to a new webhost who runs Linux: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE (SERVER) #0 I have a couple of MYSQL databases for phpBB2 that I need to do daily backups of - my last host crashed and burned and I lost *EVERYTHING*, …

Hey whats up guys.. maybe you all can help me.. cause I am lost.. maybe im doing something wrong maybe im not doing something at all.. or maybe im just doing to much of something... Anyway to make a long story short my company would like to host thier own …

Hi one of my friends is having a problem, so if anyone know anything about how to enable index.shtml instead of index.html on the webserver would you be able help me and my friend. Thankyou