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 | 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 …  |
| | ReactOS is an open source operating system that has been in development for 10 years. The main goal of the project is to build an operating system that is completly compatible with Windows XP. It uses all free software and uses a similar directory structure and program names to Windows. … |
| | So lately the Apple Fanboys have been talking about this software called Parallels which can emulate Windows inside of Mac OS X. However is this really good or bad for Apple? In the short term I would say yes, but in terms of long term success Microsoft will be hands … |
 | I love IT wars, always have. Back in the day, I was a columnist for a couple of Amiga computer magazines and more than happy to throw my opinion around concerning just why an Atari was such rubbish by comparison. Things have moved on since then, but also stayed much … |
| | 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 … |
| | As from July 11th, some 70 million users of the Windows OS will be left stranded without official support, and that includes no more security updates. By withdrawing support for its Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME platforms, Microsoft is effectively leaving around 12.5 percent of Windows users …  |
 | Operating System software is an entity that lives and breaths on it's own. It requires little tweaks and enhancements here and there to make it better, and to fix problems. Such is the case with Apple's Tiger OS X, 10.4, and the release to 10.4.3 Let's look at some of … |
| | Apple has had a busy month -- a new iPod, new iTunes, new iMac G5, and now, 3 new ultra-cool Powerbooks! Available in the standard 12, 15, and 17" models, these new laptops have new features and performance levels not seen before in Apple's line, and after taking a look … |
| | A little discussed feature of the upcoming Windows Vista is called 'Freeze Dry', and it's sure to be a blessing for all of us who leave our PCs running rather than shutting everything down when we move away from the keyboard. Have you ever come back only to find that …  |
 | My friend Darren from Google just informed me a couple of minutes ago that Google Notifier is out in beta ... for the mac! You can check it out at: [url]http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index?promo=gdl-en[/url] Now comes the time when I thank Darren for considering the fact that I'm a mac girl and messaging … |
| | Ladies and Gentlemen, stop the presses! Well, in today's world, I should change that... Stop uploading the websites! This is BIG News. Ever since Apple came out with the Macintosh (1984), they have only shipped with one-button mice. Even mice prepared for the Apple IIe / IIc / IIgs had …  |
| | John C. Dvorak has a vision and I suspect it may be myopic. Over at Ziff-Davis’s PCMag, the renowned John C. Dvorak has witnessed Windows Vista’s arrival as an almighty dull thud, and sees recent events as a potential portent of the demise of the mighty Microsoft. [url]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1840480,00.asp[/url] Windows Vista … |
 | Question of wordcount program similar to Unix wc came up in the forum and I worked on a solution. Program shows number of lines, number of words, number of characters and text file's name. Good learning for commandline, file and string handling. |
 | This is a little code for a shell that allows for simple redirection and multiple yes! MULTIPLE piping abilities. It is slightly glitched for background processes, and this is only my second program written with C/C++ so it looks to be quite inefficient, but the piping works pretty nicely. The …  |
| | This Program gives the UserDetails of the logged in User. a) The RealName b) Login Name ( Why do we need this?) c) Home Directory d) Default Login Shell Additional Purpose of this code would be to invoke/ learn at man getpwuid and about struct passswd |
| | hi, i just got myself a mac book and don't know much about its unix. first of all, i would really like to know if there is a repository like redhat so i can do "yum" to search and install the repository packages. when i do "uname" it is Darwins … |
| | Hello, I would like to download a compiler that works with max os x MacBook Pro that when doing my Unix homework I can compile and then know it works before I go to the University's website to log in and run the program. Or do I have to use …  |
| | Ok, so this may be an odd question but I am just not sure about this. I have a customer who has multiple sites with the same content on some pages. We are trying to figure out if there is a way using some type of include file if we … |
| | hai dani, pls anyone help me how to add data into filename actually i tried like this: $str|cat >> EmpFile for the above statement im not able to do coz even $str is also considere as command. how to insert the value? |
 | Hello everyone! I'm having a bad time trying to find a solution to my problem: I'm developping a client-server application. On the server side, I am calling a method, Recoit (receive), that calls internally msgrcv(), a UNIX system call for message-passing purposes. The problem is that I always receive a … |
| | Hello I was wondering if there is a way to read a unix profile'd variable while inside my PERL code? I'm trying to do something like this. system( " execute some code >> $UNIXVAR\log"); also tried system( " execute some code >> '$UNIXVAR\log'"); I think though that the way I'm … |
| | Hello, I am facing the a probelm, I wanted to read a unix PATH variable into perl script. But its not working. $path_var=`$PATH`; Can u help me in doing this. Thanks in advance, Subii |
| | Which one is the web editor to create websites in Unix/Linus? In window we know Front page whats there. |
| | Can someone help me accomplish the following on my unix box? Can someone walk me through step by step for each task? I'm connecting to a machine using UBUNTU with SSH with admin priviledges. 1. Create an account for myself as administrator 2) create one additional regular user account which …  |
| | Hi I want to learn UNIX and UNIX shell scripting. But right now I can just read the tutorials as I don't have UNIX/LINUX at my computer. Is there any way by which I can try and test my UNIX commands and scripts over internet. What I mean to say … |
 | I uploaded all my files through Cpanel to my public_html root folder and set my permissions but my page is still not displaying when I type in the URL. I have another domain name and this is an add on domain. I have MySQL version 5.0.77-community with a separate database …  |
| | Hi, I am very new to Perl and have no knowledge to initiate this through programming view. I am in need of help with adding a new user in UNIX using Perl programming . If you know my problem could you please assist me and share your knowledge for doing … |
| | Hey all, I have a problem with using the grep command... Im trying to parse lines in a file and read only characters t,c,a,g lower or upper case...but i keep getting trouble in the outcome: for example axxxxtc should return atc but it doesnt... heres my code: result=`echo $line | … |
| | I have setup in .profile my login prompt as: PS1='${HOSTNAME}/${PWD}> how do I get the prompt to highlight so everytime i log in i see whatever i set my PS1 to highlighted.? |
| | Hi there, I am new to use unix operating system, and I was wondering where can start learning the main commands in the unix, as I am working on server that is unix, tutorials or links that can help, when I need some functionality or a specific command I search … |
| | I have a web app that allows user to upload doc or docx files and converts it to HTML. I have CFMX 7 in a unix environment. Is there a custom tag that I could use for this conversion? I tried the cfx_word2html tag .. it converts .doc not docx. … |
| | yesterday i read that book, i was relieved. Do you also think that unix and programming on unix sucks?(i would also say c++ language but i know that Narue may prove me wrong, so i dont dare to say it) |
| | Hi All, I am not familiar with shell script and not really have much experience. How to produce a Unix shell script that will display a welcoming message to the current username. Next, the script will show the current directory path, and the extended information of the current directory contents. … |
| | Help!!! My database crashed and unable to recover at this point. When trying to restore from backup, the .db file is 120568xxxx bytes long. I am getting a extract write error at 110238xxxx bytes on all tapes. Can anyone give me an idea? I do not know much about a … |
 | 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 … |
| | Hi, I've written a program for statistic analysis that can be found here [url]http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~ande/web/software/relate.html[/url] I want to make it portable and the program works on unix with the following compilers sun, intel and gcc It also compiles on windows with mingw and the intel compiler. I've installed ms studio, but …  |
| | Guys.... I am writing a shell .I've managed to get the input from the user through a string and then I've tokenised it. Now the problem is do i need to know weather its a programme or should i continue to fork it without knowing it. As all of u …  |
| | Hi, guys i need some help! i need to make a txt file with the "-A" command (in shell). that already is implemented in the client, then the client send the file thru sockets and arrive to the server, the server save the file in his directory. But the code …  |
| | I am having trouble with some php code that was working fine on a unix server but when I try to move it to a Windows 2003 server I am getting errors like "Use of undefined constant x - assumed 'x' in ...". I am using PHP 5. Here is … |
 | I have a Perl program I am editing. The idea is to have it write a record to another file whenever a user access this program. Here is the Perl code I am using: open(MYFILE, ">>/usage.file"); print MYFILE "USERID: `whoami` used this on DATE: `date` \n"; close MYFILE; the problem …  |
| | I really wonder whether the diff command can be implemented in c++.. But i need the code for tht..anyone please help... Sirisha. |
| | hey all. Im writing a small script that is supposed to check for a file or directory and when its not there create it. After it creates the file or directory I would like the script to loop to the beginning but I cant figure it out. What am I … |
| | HI All, Ant Unix method or C++ method is there to convert unix time stamp to system time stamp.The input is ULONG and out put should be in string. u can intimate to <email snipped> Any help is appreciated in advance. |
| | I just need a direction to go with this.. a simple program that assists with unix and/or windows GUI creation. I have fairly simple program using classes, virtual functions and inheritance. The functions are all implemented by a switch w/ 6 options that call one of the functions. Now what … |
| | Hi, My problem is that I have to upload a CSV file from Client Machine (Windows) to Unix Application Server. I am using JSP method post and multipart/form-data (as in [url]http://www.roseindia.net/jsp/file_upload/Sinle_upload.xhtml.shtml)[/url]. The file is uploaded fine but the problem is it displays carraige Return (^M) a square boxes on Unix … |
| | Hi I was wondering if anyone could help I'm receiving a segmentation fault whenever I go to run my main.cpp on my program. I've never encountered this before and was wondering if anyone knew how it can be fixed. The program consist of equiv.h, equiv.cpp, graph.h, graph.cpp, and main.cpp here … |
| | Hello [B]How to send a file from server to client. [/B] I am a bigger in C with unix, i am trying to read a file from server and display it in client , i got a separate code to read a file , and i tried to connect the … |
| | Hello Everyone, I am a total beginner in UNIX/Shell script. I am in the process of creating a huge script for a spellchecker program. What it does is spellcheck files and throws output in a temporary file. What I need help in is forming a [B]for loop [/B]where it will … |
| | [url]http://www.sendspace.com/file/g0v6po[/url] thats my little code. When I execute it it gives me error..which it shouldnt. the ls is called, its result is stored in fd[1], and the second child (less) reads the answer from fd[0] ... its not working..anything wrong with close methods sthg..plz help  |
| | Develop a program on UNIX only that accepts run-time arguments and outputs the number of command-line arguments given when the program is executed echoes any command-line arguments containing the letter z echoes any command-line arguments that start with test echoes any command-line arguments that end with .doc Please help me … |
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