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 | Seems every time I write a piece suggesting open source as an option, I get a couple of comments warning readers about the scary complexities of open source licenses. So I decided to ask a guy who knows free and open source (FOSS) exactly what the deal was regarding FOSS … |
 | Today the [URL="http://www.mono-project.com"]Mono Project[/URL] released the much-anticipated Mono 2.0 for Linux. After two-and-a-half years in development, Mono 2.0 is finally here and ready to run your .NET 2.0 applications, Windows Forms, ASP.NET content on Mac OS X, BSD and Linux. Mono is multi-language capable--choose your own path from C#, VB, …  |
| | The Opera client used to be universally recognized as the alternative browser to Internet Explorer, and then along came Firefox and stole all the alternative browser thunder - and how. But the fat lady is still singing, and to prove it has released the [URL="http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/"]Opera Dragonfly[/URL] to debug web pages, … |
| | Open source means that it's not possible to pirate the software, right? Well, somehow OpenBSD developers have found out exactly how you can do that, by copying sections of some Linux wireless drivers (released under the GPL of course) and then releasing them under OpenBSD's less-restrictive license, allowing proprietary use. … |
 | Recently I have decided to switch from Ubuntu linux to Freebsd and here I am going to outline why. 1. [B]The Ubuntification of linux:[/B] Lately I have noticed a trend on social bookmarking sites, mainly digg, which have people posting articles with titles like "Ubuntu Tutorials" or something similar. In …  |
 | Google Labs has launched a new search engine just for you, software developers that is. [URL="http://google.com/codesearch"]Google Code Search [/URL] can help all programmers by quickly filtering billions of lines of source code, all from the default and familiar search interface, to reveal reusable code-snippets. Be it a specific programming term … |
| | Recently I was at work and I needed to do some css stuff and I did most of it in notepad because the current machine I was on didnt have dreamweaver(and yes it isnt necessary) and so rather than wait for someone to find a copy of dreamweaver and its … |
| | This is kind of strange, but can anyone concur? When booting up my Windows XP SP2 system I started getting a BSD after the Windows login screen loads - however, this is not the issue. The issue is when I try to get in to Safe Mode I cannot arrow … |
| | DaniWeb Home > Forums RSS Forums RSS Hardware and Software Please support our Hardware and Software advertiser: Programming Forums Our Hardware and Software forum category encompasses topics related to end-user computer technical support troubleshooting, tips and tweaks. Please be sure to always post in the appropriate sub-forum and do not … |
| | Hi, I did a project a while back and as the grading TA insist on it compiling on Solaris. I have a 0 for a perfectly working project. Can someone please help me with getting a program to compile on both the free free bsd and of course annoying Solaris. … |
 | I have read prior post on the forum but I came up with few specific questions about Porting Unix Socket(hereby calling it BSD socket) to Win32 Platform : First of all, I am a native Linux C/C++ Programmer. I program in Ubuntu with GCC. But, I usually also port my … |
| | I don't know if this is the right place to post this but here goes nothing. I know this is such a cliche from us C++ coders, but I wanna make my own open source OS. I would use something like BSD or Linux, but I really wanna use C++ … |
| | Hello, I am currently working on an x86 32-bit tutorial intended for people who already know imperative high level programming languages such as C/C++ and want to learn how to program in assembly. I tried to cover several operating systems (Windows, Linux, BSD) and various assemblers (MASM, FASM, NASM, gas) … |
| | I recently received an assignment that is, in my opinion, vastly above my paygrade and current knowledge, but I am dead set on completing it in a timely manner. I've posted this on another tech forum with zero results, so I appeal to those in the industry who hopefully have … |
| | Ive recently spent a lot of time using BSD sockets in Linux to do socket programming. I have written this howto with samples to show a person how to send a message buffer. Feel free to comment on this and correct anything that you think i have said wrong or … |
| | I have a Dell Latitude CPx-J laptop BIOS A16. It recently got the BSD and wouldn't boot. I removed the HDD(20GB) and heard a rattling sound. No problem (so I thought) and bought a new 80GB HDD(IDE ATA-6). I replaced the disk and now the laptop won't recognize it. When … |
| | Hi. If anyone has multiple partitions (computer with Macintosh OS X) then please can u give me the output of system_profiler SPSerialATADataType command on the terminal? If system_profiler SPSerialATADataType doesn't give any output then try one of the following: system_profiler SPIDEDataType system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType Whichever command out of these three gives … |
| | I have a Gateway 500MHz machine which works perfectly fine with exception to a windows GUI. Works fine in DOS mode, in DOS, it seems as functional as it was meant to be, but will not function when switched to a windows gui, despite several different versions including XP, 98SE, … |
| | Is free bsd a good linux choice? I want to install it but I want to get a few words on what people think of it first. I have been drawn to Linux ever since I started using a linux server and now I want to try an Linux Operating … |
| | Does PyObjC ([url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyobjc/[/url]) run on Linux? It says it does, but when I try to run [icode]setup.py[/icode], I get the following error: [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop/pyobjc-1.3.7$ python setup.py ** using pyobjc source-deps py2app for building You're not running on MacOS X, and don't use GNUstep I don't know how to build PyObjC on … |
 | Beside windows, mac, and free BSD, what are other free alternative operating systems that are available? |
| | Thanks for all the help and advice, I got everything working fine with sessions and what not. Now I am back asking for help writing some scripts if anyone is willing... I am unsure how to write the code, with the exception of the random md5 password which I found … |
| | Ok here is what is going on...my daughter has an ibook and last week it was working absolutley perfectly. When she was done using it she closed it,and later on when she opened it back up to chat with her friends it went to the 'lovely' Darwin/BSD screen. She restarted … |
| | Hi people! I´m working in a code with a friend! Both employ Linux Platforms, but he works in Suse, and I´m working in Kubuntu. Both distributions suppose to work with the GNU/Linux libraries. We work the code on his machine with Suse. And runs perfectly well! But in my Kubuntu´s … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I have this program written in Perl and to be tested on Linux-Fedora.[/COLOR] [CODE] #!/usr/bin/perl use Mysql; $host = "localhost"; $database = "DVDRentals"; $tablename = "Orders"; $user = "root"; $pw = "password"; # PERL MYSQL CONNECT() $connect = Mysql->connect($host, $database, $user, $pw); # SELECT DB $connect->selectdb($database); # DEFINE A … |
 | [CODE]I've just installed vbulletin 3.6.7 about a month ago, and am an admin on a small forum. I performed the backup of the phpbb board we were on, and the install and import into vbulletin. My background is completely technical and computer related (electronics, building/maintaining PC's, Novell CNE way back, …  |
| | hello ! this is first time i post as member and pc user, of course......... i keep getting "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services ERROR" from time to time, which i believe will interupt the connection with internet. i dont know either virus, spyware or system error, but i see … |
| | Hello, I was hoping for some advice, and hopefully this is the correct area. I am looking email based support ticketing software, and preferable is open source and runs on Linux or BSD system. I have reviews a number so far, but they are all lacking an feature that our … |
 | I've been reading some posts where some newbs have had trouble installing slackware. So I have put together this little how to so they can get slackware installed. I usually only help with MEPIS as I feel it is the best linux but for those who want to try and … |
| | For a while I have read stuff on GNU I don't agree with their views on copyrights.Is there any BSD like groups like GNU that are more about open source then anti copyrights. I like the BSD license for stuff better. |
| | i bought an Ibook G4 in late 2005. It crashed about 2 months ago while I was in the middle of editing some video and now only boots into the Darwin/BSD mode. I am able to login and get the bash prompt. Someone told me it has to do with … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Am new in daniweb.com, and pleased that I found this community, am also new in Networking, and hope that ill increase my knowledge.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I was checking servers specification on Dell's web site and I found an option "Flex Bay Hard Drive Cage", you can go to :[/COLOR] [URL="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=pe2900-max&s=bsd"][COLOR=windowtext]http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=pe2900-max&s=bsd[/COLOR][/URL] … |
| | [B]Intro[/B] I just moved from Linux(ubuntu) to BSD (DesktopBSD/FreeBSD) as you might have read in my blog. So here are some things you might want to know about my install situation that could help you out later. [B]First Scenario: Remove Linux Completely[/B] I installed my DesktopBSD right over my Linux … |
| | BSD broke my thinkpad. I have searched and apparently when the machine starts up the bios looks for a hibernate partition (which happens to be similar to the bsd filesystem) so it hangs. I cant tell it to boot from the cd instead and then use a livecd to kill … |
| | if you havent used linux then first of all i suggest you try it. If you have been a user of linux u know there is a terminal/console that has many different names, which can perform many tasks. Sometimes you might want to do these commands on windows and save … |
| | I just ordered a powermac g5 but did not get an apple display. My question is: Do all (or) most windows PC monitors work on Mac's. i didnt get an apple display because i feel like it was too much for monitor ($800 for the 20inch) specially after i had … |
 | As most of you know, Apple's Mac OS X uses a custom version of Unix (more specifically, a BSD variant). This makes much of the operating system feel like home to many Unix and Linux people. (For example, you can compile code using gcc, and have full acess to a … |
| | The old forum structure for TechTalk was: Windows Mac Linux Networking Hardware I have reordered this into: Windows Linux Mac Hardware Networking Two reasons: (1) Server logs showed there are many more linux users than mac users who visit DaniWeb. (2) Generally speaking, pc hardware is a more common topic …  |
| | In the market to buy a thin light laptop. I don't need a desktop replacement. Just something where i can move my IM/Email and basic browsing on to. Also something to lug around airports and hotels rooms. Here is what i've found so far: [list] [*][URL=http://www.dynamism.com/q30/index.shtml]Samsung Q30[/URL] [*][URL=http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/latit_x1?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd]Dell Latitude x1[/URL] … |
| | Hello! I came across daniweb.com from googling a problem I was having with .htaccess. The link actually helped with issue I was having so I decided to join in the group and hopefully will be able to help others in any way as best I can to return back to … |
 | Hey, I've been using linux forever and want to start dual booting slackware and BSD. I've heard that Slackware doesn't like this very much and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this type of setup?  |
| | Hello, I am new here, and this web site looks great! I hope I'm not taking up too much of your time, I just had a couple questions relating to networking Linux and using a Unix OS called OpenBSD. Is there a best Linux recommended to use for file servers? …  |
| | Can someone tell me what is Open Bsd and Free Bsd? Contents from the book and from the web tells me two different things. Would you mind to clarify the terms for me?? Thank you! Because i'm still very vague about it. |
| | HELP! ibook G3 recently updated OSX 10.2 to 10.2.8, and also security updates - suddenly froze, and now will only startup via OSX startup screen directly into Darwin terminal window. I can login; and get a welcome to Darwin message, but don't know how to get back to the visual … |
| | This step by step install is a hand written record, while the install took place. Disregard any typo's Let me start by saying that the BSD's are very responsive & quick, so do not hit buttons rapidly. :lol: I might, make a openBSD/ solaris/pitbull LX guide in the future, if …  |
| | I'm thinking about buying my first mac soon (a desktop). I'm basically very intrigued by the bsd-based OS X. In any case ... I'm looking to make a purchase as early as sometime this summer, but I'm willing to wait. Are the G5's coming out soon, or at all? Or … |
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