Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Athentication Server- Internet access user and password gateway server

I don't know where to start.  I want to have a simple authentication server.  All it will do is ask a user for their name and password so that they can access the internet.  That's all it will do.  If a user cannot supply a valid username and password,...

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dns configuration

i want to configure dns in rhce 5 .pls tell step by step of dns configurayion for education purpose

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Installing Thunderbird problem on RHEL 5 linux

Hey all i want to install thunderbird in my RHEL5 os. I downloaded the thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz file for installlationAfter executing `tar zxf thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz ``cd thunderbird`whne i fire this ommand`./configure`it showsbash: ./conf...

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Install intel 82551QM 1000Mb Lan Card linux

Hi Dear Friendsi have a promblem and i dont know how to install new lan card in linux redhat 9 kernel 2.4.20-8i have 4 network card nomer of 2 intel 82541PI and 2 intel 82551QM 10/100/1000Mbwhen i install linux the os recognized the 82541PI as a ...

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Install Lan Card

Hi Dear Friendsi have a promblem and i dont know how to install new lan card in linux redhat 9 kernel 2.4.20-8i have 4 network card nomer of 2 intel 82541PI and 2 intel 82551QM 10/100/1000Mbwhen i install linux the os recognized the 82541PI as a ...

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Remastersys panel help

Hi, ive posted this issue on many sites but recieved no reply. Here is the problem: When I make the remastersys dist it makes it alright, but when I boot my customdist.iso in VirtualBox it reverts the GNOME panel's settings back to the original, but I ...

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

[How-To] Enabling Font Anti-Aliasing (aka ClearType) in KDE

While going through some of KDE settings I found this simple way to enable Anti Aliasing for Fonts (also known as ClearType in Windows). This will definitely make your fonts more pleasing to look at. For this, just launch KDE settings - this is generally known as Configure Desktop in openSUSE or System Settings in [...]

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Time based output

This program provides the cpu time used by the program at the end of the program execution.#include <time.h>#include <stdio.h>int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {clock_t ticks;int i=0;while(i<50000){printf("Work work %dn", i);i++;ticks = clock...

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Configuring yum repositery

Hey all........I am using RHEL5 in my pc. I want to configure an online yum repositary. Plz help me in configuring this repositary.With regardsSachin Garg

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grub boot loader problem

Hello,My laptop had vista basic and on different drive I have installed Red Hat Linux 5.0 .installation completed sucessfully but i dont get grub boot loader to select operating systemwhenever i start laptop i can boot vista only....

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Linux Server

Hiii Guys ................I am looking for hosting a site which is programmed in Asp.I am in Dilemma that on which server should i host it?Should i host it on Linux or Unix and why?Need your advice..............Thanks in advanceJames

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System Prompts For Driver Selection

Dear All,Need your expertise in sorting out an issue:-I installed Samsung CLX-2160 Laser MFP on CentOS 5.2 with driver obtained from Samsung's website.All features are working ok. Only hitch is whenever printer is switched on, the PC prompts for "s...

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Install Linux and Windows on Same hard disk/ harddrive

hi... very greeting to u...      i have ubuntu8.04 i want  windows also install to the same hard disk.... how? pls post meAdvance Thank you so much for ur post                           

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Configure samba backup server

Hey all I am using Rhel5 in my company. I want to make a samba backup server for various departments in my company which will be mounted under single directory. I want that any one  can store thier data in thier respective directory of the samba serv...

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Monday, December 22, 2008

driver installation for matrox on ubuntu

pls guide me to instal driver for matrox g 450 card driver file i already download

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hi very greeting...

hi... very greeting to u...      i have ubuntu8.04 i want  windows also install to the same hard disk.... how? pls post meAdvance Thank you so much for ur post                           

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Linux Switchover Guide

Thus is basically a guide for all those pals who are  planning to or already have switched over to Linux newly. I have not used other Operating Systems (OS) other than Linux and Windows so this guide would mostly be on a Windows perspective.. NOTE: This guide assumes that the reader already knows about and [...]

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Need Some Help

Hi everyone,I am new in the site.I need information about Graphical User Interface and the programming languages that relates with GUI .And i need it immediately.Thank you...

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Friday, December 19, 2008

openSUSE 11.1 up for downloads

The folks behind openSUSE have released the next version of the extremely popular (and my favorite) Linux distro - openSUSE. openSUSE 11.1 comes with KDE 4.1.3, GNOME 2.24.1, and for those who (still) don’t want to shift to KDE 4, yes openSUSE 11.1 comes with KDE 3.5.10 You can download openSUSE via HTTP, FTP or via [...]

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YUM configuration- How to make local yum repository in RHEL5

Hi all I am using RHEL5 in my pc. I  want to make a ONLINE yum repositery so that i can resolve dependies error easily as we can do in Fedora 9.Please help me in getting the solution of this problem

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Welcome to Mac4Lin Support Forum

Welcome to Mac4Lin Support Forum. Users can post questions, suggestions, complaints etc. related to Mac4Lin in this forum. I will try my best to answer all questions. DJ "Peng" Hardin helps me in documentation and testing.Anirudh (a.k.a infra_red_dude...

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Can't install ubuntu-GRUB could not be configured This is a fatal error

Quote from: dushyantkum on September 09, 2008, 05:53:03 PMi am currently using a WD 160 GB HD fro win xp. I recently got a second SATA Seagate 360 GB HD.I want to install ubuntu on the seagate HD, where total space is allocated to ubu...

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Need a device driver project to reestablish my knowledge of Linux development

Hey all,I want to get back into Linux development.  I left the OS for a job focusing in embedded wireless on VxWorks. A lot has changed since I have development in Linux and I would like to do some development on my spare time.  Could anyone recommend...

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Celebrate the Holiday Spirit with some KDE Christmas Wallpapers

The holidays are upon us ‘t is the season to be jolly, and Wade Olson has come up with some amazing Christmas wallpapers with a distinct KDE flavour. Download the high res images from his Picasa Gallery. Wade, you rock! Merry Christmas all

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Mounting & Accessing Windows Shared Folders on Linux

Well recently I’d bought an external 750GB USB hard disk, as I was running out of space on my laptop. Now this drive requires an external power source, so I just cant lug it everywhere with my laptop in my room so I thought I’ll connect this to my other laptop, and share the [...]

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

trouble connecting leased line to linux

A week back my company purchased 1 mbps leased line from the airtel ISP who gave mrotek SHDSL modem and the engineer who have installed the wiring etc has given us two sets of ip addr which he configured in winxp and the first set of ipaddr sho...

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Connecting a CDMA usb modem to access internet

Dear experts,I am new to Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using(in XP) Reliance Netconnect for internet when I travel. Now I want to use this modem in Ubuntu. I have gone to a number of tutorial sites and did almost everything they suggested. Still it does...

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Media Player Under Linux - Girl in Need

Hello Everybody,First to introduce myself, I am a total beginner to the linux scene.  I'm am running it on my second desktop and so far I love it, even though it can be frustrating. Anyway... my first problem.I like to watch movies on http://themovi...

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ACL for ip against domain name.

Scenario:I write an acl to restrict a site say xxx.com, and this works perfect. But I can bypass this acl simply by typing the ip address of xxx.comHow do I handle such situation.RegardsRam.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

DNS in rhel5

I have a problem in rhel5 dns configuration:I have done dns configuration succesfully .I have problem in only the updation of slave dns that i configure slave and in master dns i entered the allow update(ip;);but the slave not updatingPlease an...

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Amarok 2.0 is out: Download it!

After couple of years of development, Amarok 2 finally hit the release mark, yup Amarok 2.0 was officially released today. Amarok 2.0 has received a total overhaul, with complete KDE4 integration, including use of KDE4 foundations like Phonon, & Plasma. Also a major change with Amarok 2, the use of MySQL as the sole backend [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Amarok 2.0 is out: Download it!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/12/11/amarok-20-is-out-download-it/" });

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Make Use of PeerGuardian 2’s IP Filter in KTorrent

PeerGuardian 2, is an awesome IP filtering software. Though its FOSS, it there isn’t a Linux port of it yet. But don’t worry, if you’re using KTorrent, you can make use of PeerGuardian’s filters.  Let me show how you can do so. Launch KTorrent. Click on On Settings -> Configure KTorrent . Click on Plugins and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Make Use of PeerGuardian 2’s IP Filter in KTorrent", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/12/08/make-use-of-peerguardian-2s-ip-filter-in-ktorrent/" });

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Monday, December 8, 2008

December 7th Fedora update breaks PackageKit, gives failed to get a TID Error

Well I’d just shifted to Fedora couple of days ago, and yesterday I’d applied the latest updates. Later on I thought I’ll explore the system a bit and decided to use the package manager KPackageKit (I’m on KDE). KPackageKit though, was not returning any packages. I thought I might have screwed up KPackgeKit, so [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "December 7th Fedora update breaks PackageKit, gives failed to get a TID Error", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/12/09/december-7th-fedora-update-breaks-packagekit-gives-failed-to-get-a-tid-error/" });

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Flashplayer for firefox in ubuntu linux problem

I may have needed to try and get this from Firefox, but will ask here and if it is not possible to resolve it, I will choose that option next.I dual boot Ubuntu 8 with XP. In XP I use IE and Firefox. IE lets me view the virtual aquaruim on Google.com/...

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Dual-booting Vista with Redhat Linux

I have a system with windows vista OS and will like to have Redhat linux installed on it but i learnt Vista does not support dual-booting. Can I get help from anyone on how to go about it? Thanks

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File Creation and Permission

In the /Docs directory, create three files: file1 file2 and file3. Create the files as user and give the Tech group read and write to all files, and all other users just the read permission.I created 3 files in the doc directory and changed the create...

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Friday, December 5, 2008

Get Breaking News Alert Ticker on your Desktop

Consider this: you want to be informed of the latest breaking news. Sure you can use RSS readers but you probably don’t want to open another browser window/tab for that. Kunal Gautam has come up with a script which pulls in data from a RSS feed periodically and displays the latest news. Check out here [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Get Breaking News Alert Ticker on your Desktop", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/12/06/get-breaking-news-alert-ticker-on-your-desktop/" });

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

what does this mean?????

In the /Docs directory, create three files: file1 file2 and file3. Create the files as user and give the Tech group read and write to all files, and all other users just the read permission.I created 3 files in the doc directory and changed the create...

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Help on Linux Installation

Can someone pls assist me on how to go abt the installation of Red hat linux on a system that already has windows vista OS? Thanks

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Dual-booting with windows

I have a system with windows vista OS and will like to have Redhat linux installed on it but i learnt Vista does not support dual-booting. Can I get help from anyone on how to go about it? Thanks

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

DNS broken after Fedora 10 upgrade

I have a primary and slave DNS server running on my internal LAN for the past 3-4 iterations of Fedora. However after the FC10 upgrade I cannot start the named service....This is what I see in /var/log/messages03-Dec-2008 10:07:46.246 starting BIND 9...

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Social Networking

Sexxat.com - Instant Sex Social Networking is a new multi room and multi cam video chat site.Using top level flash technologies, members can use free chat to communicate among each other, make use of audio and video to live stream their amateur conten...

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unary operator expected error?

Hi everyone,I'm a Linux newbie and would appreciate any help solving my issue...I'm running a script to set up Linux OS environment, the script works great but i get an error on the following portion:if [ $USERNAME != "root" ]thenecho "Cann...

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Not Able To Login To Gnome session In Cent OS 5.2

Dear All,I am stuck up in a strange problem. I was running CentOS 5.0 on a Lenovo PC having Intel 945 chipset.I ran "yum update" to update the OS to CentOS 5.2 which ran successfully. After reboot I am not in a position to log into Gnome session. I ...

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Authentication system

How do set up authentication system in my proxy server(squid installed from RHEL 4) in such a way that each user must be given a separate user name and password and each user must be able to change their own password afterwards. I tried once with NCSA_...

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

RHEL installation problem on Dell 1525 inspiron Laptop

i have dell 1525 inspiron laptop i want to install RHEL 4.2.8, but error comes to very first step no hardware found on your system to create partition on SATA how to solve this problem,

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Problems configuring ppp on a client and server

Hi everyone.I am trying to set up a dial-up connection between a client and a server using ppp and a serially-attached modem. I am running OpenSuSE 10.0 on both platforms. I have been able to dial the server machine from the client using a dial-up ...

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Review

I was very curious about Intrepid’s release. I just could not wait! I even pre-ordered the CD but downloaded the DVD without patience. I have not-so-fast a connection when it comes to downloading a DVD. In spite of it, I just downloaded. I even allocated HD and swap space for that and was just [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Review", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/27/ubuntu-intrepid-ibex-review/" });

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Generating System Logs

hello Sir,I am working on a server and i have some clients running on it. I want to generate thier logs , i mean which files they accessed, which sites they opened all the work they did , thier logs i want to generate on the server. So what should i ...

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

access.log and message.log auto send to the mail

Dear All,I am new member in linux forums. I need access.log and message.log auto send my yahoo mail.please help me.....thanks Nazmul

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Countdown To Intrepid Ibex Begins

Ubuntu Counter courtesy Ubuntu Pics Kubuntu Counter courtesy Kollide SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Countdown To Intrepid Ibex Begins", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/15/the-countdown-to-intrepid-ibex-begins/" });

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Help needed for scripting

What is the Bash command to find all files with "rw-r--r--" permissions going no deeper than 5 directories deep.  Print the output in "ls -l" format.  Do not use pipes to create the output.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

USB Modem Installation

I have a Tata Indicom USB MOdem which i used to use in Windows for using internet and downloading. Now i have shifted to LInux - Ubuntu 8.04. I want to install this USB Modem in Ubuntu so that i can use it. Can you help me?

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A Comprehensive List of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Repositories

Installing Linux software through repositories is the safe bet. In respect with Ubuntu, there are many software in Intrepid Ibex which I feel is crap. For eg: the “Hardware Drivers” does not have drivers for older kernels. On the other hand, there are many software (like Brasero, Transmission,Totem,VLC etc.) in Hardy that needs update, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Comprehensive List of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Repositories", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/18/a-comprehensive-list-of-ubuntu-hardy-heron-and-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex-repositories/" });

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

How to add new CD progams to already installed Linux

I am a new convert to Linux and I am primarily learning by the "trial-and-error method."  Now that I have  a Linux Operating System mounted onto my hard drive successfully; how can I add on additional programs from CD's on to my computer? I would like ...

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Monday, November 17, 2008

NVIDIA Adds PureVideo support to its Linux Drivers

NVIDIA released their new set of beta drivers yesterday, with a version 180.04. While going through the release notes, I found this line very interesting. Added initial support for PureVideo-like features on Linux via the new VDPAU AP. Now I don’t know what exactly they mean by “initial support” but nonetheless its a pretty good that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "NVIDIA Adds PureVideo support to its Linux Drivers", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/16/nvidia-adds-purevideo-support-to-its-linux-drivers/" });

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

data cable connectivity problem

sir   i have nokia 5300 mobile,my data cable type is DKE-2 and my os is REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SERVER(2.6.18-8. e l 5Xen).Actuly i want to access internet through my mobile.but the problem is that.when i connect data cable into my pc then my pc co...

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

how to dig RHEL5 DNS server

HI..I have configuerd RHEL5 internal dns server, it working locally but i am not able to dig it from another local pc.plz. tell what entry should put in loca pc so that i can dig it.Ashok

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Xlib:Maximum number of clients reached

Hello!Im running tight VNC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.How can I increase the number of X clients that I can run in a VNC session?I need to run aproximately 500 programs in one VNC session,but at this time I can only 236 -> i've tryed to launch...

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Terminal Services Client Printer redirection not working

Hi,I may be in the wrong forum here I'm sorry. I run a Win2K3 Terminal Server. i have set up a workstation box that runs the latest Kubuntu. I also have a Samsung ML-2010 printer. The printer driver loaded up OK & works fine as a local printer on the...

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

[How to] Upgrade nautilus in hardy

This is my small post on how to upgrade nautilus in hardy to that version in Intrepid. As of know, the upgrade option in hardy repositories isn’t there yet. And, its true that the 2.23 version of Nautilus has tab facility like in Firefox. However, Ubuntu Hardy Heron which has Gnome 2.22 version and so [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How to] Upgrade nautilus in hardy", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/11/how-to-upgrade-nautilus-in-hardy/" });

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Mounting and Burning .iso, .mdf, .nrg(Nero) files and CD Images in Linux in 1-click

A while ago, I’d written a post on howto mount CD images, such as .iso, .mdf files etc via the command prompt using the mount command. In the post, among the comments, Sumeet had asked if there was a way to do all of this without having to type lengthy commands. Well yes there [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mounting and Burning .iso, .mdf, .nrg(Nero) files and CD Images in Linux in 1-click", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/11/mounting-and-burning-iso-mdf-nrgnero-files-and-cd-images-in-linux-in-1-click/" });

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Updating KDE4 to KDE 4.1.3 from the command prompt using zypper

Couple of days ago, while I was updating the KDE4.0.4 install present on my openSUSE, my Internet conked off(as usual), and I was stuck halfway between the KDE4.0.4 -> KDE 4.1.3 update. So I shutdown my system. Later on while powering it on, this semi-update badly damaged by KDE installation with version incompatibilities and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Updating KDE4 to KDE 4.1.3 from the command prompt using zypper", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/09/updating-kde4-to-kde-413-from-the-command-prompt-using-zypper/" });

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

OPENVPN /IPTABLES help

Hello, I have openvpn up and running successfully on FC9. I'm using routing mode with the following configurationMy internal LAN range 10.10.10.0/24My Openvpn client range 10.8.0.0/24I can connect and ping the openvpn server from the openvpn client ...

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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Wireless card not recognized

Dear future helper,this is probably one of the problems you are tired of - wireless card not working.I am a beginner to linux word. My ancient Hardware and relatively recent Software: Compaq WL110, Gateway Solo 2550, Linpus system. Any idea?THA...

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Squirrel installtion help

I have installed Redhat El4 update 5 . I have configured DNS, Sendmail,Pop3, IMAP and apache also.i would like to setup squirrel mail server . For that i have installed PHP,squirrel mail software.if i open in browser type  like .  http://serverna...

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 is out, November 10 release gets delayed

WordPress today released the first beta of WordPress 2.7 as on schedule. However the fianl release of WordPress 2.7 won’t be available on November 10, as per the schedule. As posted on the WordPress development blog Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled.  We are two weeks [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 is out, November 10 release gets delayed", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/01/wordpress-27-beta-1-is-out-november-10-release-gets-delayed/" });

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Released: Download it, Some Reviews and Tips

Bang of the release schedule, the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10 dubbed the Intrepid Ibex was released on October 30th. Ubuntu Intrepix Ibex brings in some new features like DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support, DKMS means it’s very easy to rebuild modules (such as drivers) as you upgrade kernels. USB installation support for converting ISO CD [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Released: Download it, Some Reviews and Tips", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/01/ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-released-download-it-some-reviews-and-tips/" });

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Monday, November 3, 2008

[How to] Install NewHuman theme From Intrepid Ibex On Hardy Heron

This could be a very useful post for people who search about and want the  new Intrepid Ibex and its NewHuman theme. There are many clones of the theme available all over the internet in websites like gnome-look.org. However there is also a way to get the original theme through the repositories. Let’s see how we [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How to] Install NewHuman theme From Intrepid Ibex On Hardy Heron", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/31/how-to-install-newhuman-theme-from-intrepid-ibex-on-hardy-heron/" });

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

[How To] Mount FAT32/NTFS Partitions with read and write support in linux using command-line

Previously I’d posted on auto-mounting partitions at startup using pysdm. This post shows how you can do so by making use of mount command. Below steps require root priviliges, so switch to root or prefix sudo to the commands. For mounting NTFS drives with read and write support, open the terminal and type mount -t ntfs -o [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Mount FAT32/NTFS Partitions with read and write support in linux using command-line", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/01/how-to-mount-fat32ntfs-partitions-with-read-and-write-support-in-linux-using-command-line/" });

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Saturday, November 1, 2008

[How-To] Display A List of All Partitions, Device Info and Filesystem Type In Linux

In my previous posts I’d written on how to mount your partitions using the mount command. In the post I’d mentioned that you’d have to mention the partition that you want to mount by specifying /dev/device_name as part of the command. The question that would come to your mind is, How do I know which [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Display A List of All Partitions, Device Info and Filesystem Type In Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/11/01/how-to-display-a-list-of-all-partitions-device-info-and-filesystem-type-in-linux/" });

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Friday, October 17, 2008

Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator

LiveCDs are a great way to try out (new) Linux distros on your system. Unfortunately CDs get scratched pretty easily, and can turn into a coaster pretty soon. With prices of USB pen drives at rock bottom, they’re probably the best way to try out LiveCDs. Generally its not that easy to make a bootable [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/17/create-a-fedora-bootable-usb-penflash-drive-easily-using-liveusb-creator/" });

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Mono 2.0 Live CD is available for Download

The second version of Mono, the Open Source implemention of .NET was released earlier this week. Close on the heels of this release, the folks at openSUSE have spun-off a LiveCD consisting of Mono 2.0, MonoDevelop 1.0, Banshee 1.2.1, F-Spot 0.5.0.1, GNOME Do 0.6.0, Tomboy 0.12.0,Tasque 0.1.6, Various ASP.NET Applications, Mono Debugger, and more. So if you want to dabble into Mono 2.0 without having the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mono 2.0 Live CD is available for Download", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/15/mono-20-live-cd-is-available-for-download/" });

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 Released And a look at what Amarok 2.0 might bring in

Couple of days ago, the second beta to the second version of the immensely popular and fantastic audio player Amarok was released by the Amarok team. The second beta brings in some drastic changes, the main one being SQLite no longer being the default backend, and PostgreSQL support being dropped, in favour of a single backend, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 Released And a look at what Amarok 2.0 might bring in", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/14/amarok-20-beta-2-released-and-a-look-at-what-amarok-20-might-bring-in/" });

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

[How To] Display Windows exe icons in Gnome

Many people would like to use windows’ softwares in linux and would also like to run games in linux using wine. Many softwares and games work pretty well and are fully functional using wine. However, people may find it difficult to digest the fact that exe icons do not get displayed. If the exe [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Display Windows exe icons in Gnome", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/12/how-to-display-exe-icons-in-gnome/" });

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Monday, October 13, 2008

[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem

I had encountered this problem on sudo/gksu not working few months earlier. Whenever I had to open an application with gksu it did not open at all !  I was wondering what did i do. I dint know whether  i meddled with something or is it any other configuration that created the problem. If I type sudo in terminal [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/10/how-to-solution-for-sudo-must-be-setuid-root-problem/" });

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

[How To]Making Ubuntu(and other Linux) look like Mac OS X and Some Tips on AWN dock

This is just a casual how to for people who love customisation. As of today the most wanted OS look and feel are that of  Windows Vista and MAC OS X. Have a look at this post Damien has written on MakeTechEasier, will help you get that OS X look.               [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Making Ubuntu(and other Linux) look like Mac OS X and Some Tips on AWN dock", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/09/how-to-change-linux-distros-especially-ubuntu-to-look-like-mac-os-x/" });

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

[How To]Setup a BSNL DataOne BroadBand connection or a DSL Connection in Linux

This is yet another of the posts was lying in my drafts, decided to dust it off and publish it! Remember that all these assumes that your router is connected to the LAN port, if it’s connected to the USB port, then disconnect it and connect to the LAN port. If you dont have a LAN [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Setup a BSNL DataOne BroadBand connection or a DSL Connection in Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/10/how-tosetup-a-bsnl-dataone-broadband-connection-or-a-dsl-connection-in-linux/" });

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Friday, October 10, 2008

[How To] Opening and Reading CHM [Compiled HTML Files] In Linux

In my stash of ebooks, quite a few of them are in chm (compiled HTML) file format. Being HTML files I though they’d open in Mozilla Firefox browser. Unfortunately that didn’t work, so I started looking for CHM viewers. I didn’t have to look far, a quick search on Google gave me couple of programs. KChmViewer: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Opening and Reading CHM [Compiled HTML Files] In Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/08/how-to-opening-and-reading-chm-compiled-html-files-in-linux/" });

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

[How To] Automount Hard Drive Partitions Everytime You Login to Ubuntu Linux

Hello people, This is Bharath Ram. I wanted to share with you an information I just found. This indeed solved my problem so I thought it would solve yours too. In ubuntu (and may be in other distros) every time you login you never get your drives auto mounted (don’t you?). This is a real pest especially [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Automount Hard Drive Partitions Everytime You Login to Ubuntu Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/08/how-to-automount-hard-drive-partitions-everytime-you-login-in-linux/" });

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Installation of mail server squirrel mail server

Hi, I am new in linux, I want to install mail server.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Bloacking all external access and allwoing few websites and few external ips

Hi I am very new to linux. I need some help from the experts to get rid of this issue.At my office I use Linux iptables.I want to add rules to block all the external access (All the services http,ftp,etc) to the internal users and allow few external ...

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

[How To] Removing Transparency In Games without disabling/switching off Compiz

Admin’s Note: This solution was emailed to me by Bharath, as he was facing this problem and found a solution to this. If you want to drop a tip or a hack, just send me an email via the contact-me form and I might just publish it Sometimes when playing native games in Linux they [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Removing Transparency In Games without disabling/switching off Compiz", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/04/how-to-removing-transparency-in-games-without-disablingswitching-off-compiz/" });

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat!

At the recently held Linux Plumbers’ Conference, 2 Linux developers,  Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds flat. To demonstrate this, they used an Asus EEE PC using a modified Fedora and modified Moblin. In-fact the bootup was so fast that the they actually had to hold the EEE PC, as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Booting into Linux in 5 seconds Flat!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/03/booting-into-linux-in-5-seconds-flat/" });

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Friday, October 3, 2008

How To Deploy A Linux LiveCD on Windows Without Burning A CD

Linux LiveCDs can be rapidly deployed in Windows without restarting the computer or burning a CD based on the free MobaLiveCD Windows software. It is very lightweight (only 1.6 MB) for an operating system emulation environment and is based on QEmu. In ...

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

[How-To]Mounting LVM partitions from a command prompt or a Root Shell

Today as I booted into my openSUSE box, for reasons unknown to me, my LVM partitions failed to mount. fsck didn’t help, and and LVM based container system meant that I couldn’t use the standard mount /dev/sdxx style of mounting as well. With my /home and / configured as a LVM, the root (/) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To]Mounting LVM partitions from a command prompt or a Root Shell", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/10/01/how-tomounting-lvm-partitions-from-a-command-prompt-or-a-root-shell/" });

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Squid is not caching!!! Please help

hi all,I just installed and configured squid 2.6 on my machine.Now my squid server is having a ip 192.168.142.80 and I have pointed my browser to the proxy on port 8080.But when I access any web page the access.log always report a TCP_MISS !!!! Even...

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free

In my previous posts, I’d mentioned about Canonical’s Ship It program, which sends Ubuntu disc for free to your door step, Fedora’s Free Media program, which ships Fedora media wherever you it shipped. .I’d also mentioned Oracle sending their Oracle Unbreakable Linux for free(though to date I haven’t received them).  Now, Sun Microsystems joins the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/26/get-your-copy-of-sun-opensolaris-for-free/" });

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Sarg reporting

Hi there,I am a first time user of Sarg and have tried to install it using the rpm file, which looked fine.Didn’t do any configurations and trying to run a report. It gets to 100% and just sits there forever, doesn’t produce any report.Any ...

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

BIND/DNS setup working(kinda)

I've got a few domains and I setup BIND for my own nameservers, the only problem is, I can't seem to get virtual hosts on another IP to work.I can ping DOMAIN2 and I get the IP *.*.68.70 but no website loads.I've got 5 IPs on hand so I can switch thi...

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1

Consider this situation. You have multiple programs installed for a particular file type. Now double clicking it opens an application, but you want it to open in another application. For example, you want your images to open in showFoto instead of Gwenview, so how do you go about doing this? Let me show you how [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/24/file-associationschangingremovingadding-default-applications-for-particular-filetypes-in-opensuse-11-kde-41/" });

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

[How-To]Installing Adobe AIR and AIR Applications on your Linux System

Recently, Adobe had released the beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime, more commonly known as AIR, for Linux. While this is indeed good news, unfortunately it isn’t available via repositories, meaning you’ll have to download the binaries, set the permissions and install it by launching via command prompt. While this seems pretty complicated, its [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To]Installing Adobe AIR and AIR Applications on your Linux System", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/23/how-toinstalling-adobe-air-and-air-applications-on-your-linux-system/" });

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Monday, September 22, 2008

[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled

Most of the how-to’s and fixes posted here, are generally my experiences and I post them on how I went about fixing it. This particular how-to was mentioned to me by my very good friend, Bharath, who had this annoying problem of the title bars of every window crashing and disappearing when Emerald is chosen [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/22/how-to-fix-nautilus-file-manager-bar-disappearing-when-emerald-is-enabled/" });

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!

By now, you must’ve heard of Ubiquity. If not, well read on! Ubiquity is an add-on to Mozilla’s extremely popular Firefox browser. Ubiquity allows you to do things - say search for something, get the latest weather updates,  book reviews, so on and so forth, just by typing the commands into the Ubiquity input box [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/21/my-first-ubiquity-command-lincr-it/" });

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

How to pass the svn protocol/Traffic from the Squid

Hi All         I am using Squid 2.5STABLE. It's  work fine but the In our office they use TortoisesSVN for downloading plugins from net. Problem is that my proxy is not allow to pass svn traffic. They need plugins for there Ruby On Rails projects. ...

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Friday, September 19, 2008

LINUX XP

I have been trying for a week to download the current Linux XP distro.    When I click on the button to download for a 30 days free trial, it seems to be dead.   Anyone know an acutally working link to get the trial distro?    Currently using Ubuntu Ul...

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Gtalk Blocking

Hello,  My self Avin Tokade. I recently joint this cool Linux group.  My problem is that IN my office I unable to block the Gtalk and skype through Squid. How can I block the All the Messenger ? Please Help  

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How Do Different Distros fare against each other in terms of performance ?

The guys at Phoronix have written made an intresting article, comparing the performance of the Asus EEE-PC 901 with its Intel Atom processor Here’s some quotes from the article Late last month we published our preview of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and we shared our plans for a number of benchmarks using this netbook with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Do Different Distros fare against each other in terms of performance ?", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/16/how-do-different-distros-fare-against-each-other-in-terms-of-performance/" });

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Monday, September 15, 2008

domain name server

hello sir greetings with godi am awaneeshi am configuring dns in rhel 5while configuring the dns i am unable to ping my dns and when i check /etc/sysconfig/resolve.conf then i got therenameserver 192.168.0.1only unable to findsearch dns n...

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

ICMP Checksum is wrong

Everytime I do a traceroute I receive "ICMP cheksum is wrong. It does not matter where the traceroute is going to the error is almost immediate.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

BIND on RHEL 5

I need help regarding BIND on RHEL 5After installing BIND-9.3.3-7.el5,i am not getting named.conf under /etc? the only files present is named.caching-server.conf and named.rfc1912.zones.which file has to be configured for DNS ? has the newer version ...

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Friday, September 12, 2008

A Handy Wallpaper Displaying Most Common Linux Commands

In the past I’ve done couple of posts explaining few of the common commands. A handy one-glance reference guide is always nice, and that’s exactly what Sindhu has posted. Have a look: Thanks, Sindhu SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Handy Wallpaper Displaying Most Common Linux Commands", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/a-handy-wallpaper-displaying-most-common-linux-commands/" });

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 - Its A Mandatory This Time - And How

The good people over at WordPress released WordPress 2.6.2 today. And unlike the previous 2.6.1 release, this release is a mandatory release, to fix a loophole which occurs if your blog has registrations open. From the horse’s mouth: If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 - Its A Mandatory This Time - And How", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/wordpress-rolls-out-262-its-a-mandatory-this-time-and-how/" });

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database

WordPress follows the Open Source policy of release early, release often. While this is a pretty good thing - you get fast releases to security exploits and loads of new features - but updating can be a rather problem, especially so if its something as important as your site’s CMS. Fortunately Keith D’Souza has written a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/how-toautomatically-backing-up-and-upgrading-your-wordpress-installation-and-wordpress-database/" });

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Games and Video

Whenever I run a game, a new screen pops up and the video kinda like flashes continually.  It does not happen with all games but most.  The games I know I have been having problems with has been games like Billard-GL, Vega Strike, Flight Gear, Space-Or...

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Use reliance CDMA phone as modem

I follow the tutorial "Use reliance CDMA phone ..." with my desktop PC (Ubuntu 6.10) and CDMA phone JOA L-200. It works well.But with my laptop Acer Aspire 4315 (Ubuntu 7.10) and same CDMA phone, it don't work.Modified file /etc/wvdial.conf:[Modem0]...

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Sunday, September 7, 2008

Transparent Proxy using squid and wccp

I have configured my squid to act as the intercepting proxy using wccp plus the cisco router. Everything works ok except yahoo mail and hotmail. When you open for example yahoo mail, you cannot be able to access the inbox folder. But when you use manua...

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

DropBox client now available for Linux!

Dropbox - the awesome online file-storage, and syncing utility finally gets a Linux client! The developers have been promising a Linux client since day one and though it took them a while to get it - it’s finally here! Right now a GNOME-only interface is avialable, and here are the Links Fedora Core 9 (x86_64) Fedora Core [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "DropBox client now available for Linux!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/05/dropbox-client-now-available-for-linux/" });

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Friday, September 5, 2008

Google Chrome - Impressions, Links And Running it in Linux using Wine

Much like most of Google’s projects Google Chrome was launched all of a sudden yesterday. Though it was “discovered” rather “accidentally” by one a Google insider hitting the send button containing the comic-book type images of Google Chrome’s workings(excuse me, a Google guy hitting the “Send” button accidentally? Yeah,right! (Santosh agrees with me too [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google Chrome - Impressions, Links And Running it in Linux using Wine", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/05/google-chrome-impressions-links-and-running-it-in-linux-using-wine/" });

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

[How-To] Changing The New Kickoff Menu to Traditional Menu

The release KDE4 brought in the new kickoff menu, the slab-style menu which was first introduced in openSUSE 10.2. The premise is simple - instead of unfolding menu after menu, the submenu opens within the menu itself. What makes the Kickoff a killer is the inclusion of search. While I love Kickoff menu and can’t live [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Changing The New Kickoff Menu to Traditional Menu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/02/how-to-changing-reverting-going-back-from-the-new-kickoff-kde-menu-to-old-traditional-k-kdemenu/" });

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

New Circular Application Menu Makes Its Appearance: Presenting The Circular Application Menu

It seems the past year has been the season of re-invention of menus. The traditional KDE style menu was majorly redesigned and revamped to give the Slab aka Kickoff menu. The next style of menus comes from Cole Anste, who’s put forward and implemented his version of Don Hopkin’s version of the Pie Menu. Images depicting [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Circular Application Menu Makes Its Appearance: Presenting The Circular Application Menu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/03/new-circular-application-menu-makes-its-appearance-presenting-the-circular-application-menu/" });

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

[How-To] Installing Plasmoids, SuperKaramba Widgets and Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets in KDE 4.1

Plasmoids are the little widgets that have made an appearance with KDE4. Plasmoids can basically do anything - from displaying your desktop and associated wallpaper to showing your laptop’s battery level,or even display the latest comics or post a tweet to twitter. While KDE 4 comes with some plasmoids, you can add extra plasmoids [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Installing Plasmoids, SuperKaramba Widgets and Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets in KDE 4.1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/01/how-to-installing-plasmoids-superkaramba-widgets-and-mac-os-x-dashboard-widgets-in-kde-41/" });

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Monday, September 1, 2008

Bootable DVD

I am new in Linux world. As I was advised, I download about 9 GB of images, iso files... for Red Hat 9 installation. How can I create CD that will be recognized under Linux boot. I was able to create bootable floppy, but when I insert CD I am getting e...

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Diifrence betwwen RHEL 3.0. , $.0 and 5.0

hiMy self Esa i m unable to find the diffrence between rhel 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 can any one helpthanks in advance

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

how can mount NTFS partion in Linux

hi how can i mount the Windows NTFS partion in Linux is it possible or not is there any possibelity to access Linux partions in windows without any hired party tool

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Please clear some doubts regarding Linux

Hi All,Need help hereI want to know regarding performance of oracle in LinuxSuppose oracle db is inastelled in a partition  like /dev/sda5Oracle DBA's are cpomplaining that Oracle db is running very very slow, means its giving poor performnca someh...

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Monday, August 25, 2008

trouble in writing my own external acl for Squid

Hi all,I need to write an acl for squid. this is writen in java. when I check my program with stdin & stdout , it works fine. I also has tried adding a simple test acl (getting IDENt and always print OK)to squid and it works fine, I mean I have no pr...

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Add Remove Software not working

Hi, all linux lover... i have fedora 9 linux in my pc. and i love to work on it, but know a days i have a problem that whenever i try to use add remove software it showing me a error REPOMD.xml file not avalible spacify the path .... and also whenever ...

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Disabling Auto-Refresh of Repositories in openSUSE 11

One of the heavily improved aspects of openSUSE 11 is the package manager and the way packages and repositories are handled. Although YaST [Yet Another Setup Tool, openSUSE's system admin/configuration tool] is no longer the slow poke that it used to be, its still no match in terms of speed to Debian’s apt-get/Synaptic. One of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Disabling Auto-Refresh of Repositories in openSUSE 11", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/08/18/disabling-auto-refresh-of-repositories-in-opensuse-11/" });

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Friday, August 22, 2008

[How-To] Enable Auto-Mounting of External Drives In openSUSE 11

Due to weird-ass PolicyKit rules, you may not be able to mount external drives - such as USB Hard drives, Pen drives, or other mass storage drives. while the drive gets recognised, on trying to mount you’ll end up with this error: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <– (action, result) This is because of a PolicyKit rule, which prevents [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Enable Auto-Mounting of External Drives In openSUSE 11", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/08/20/how-to-enable-auto-mounting-of-external-drives-in-opensuse-11/" });

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

bandwidth management

Hi Suppose our total bandwidth 512 kbpsI want squid users to use 10kbps after overall bandwidth reaches 256 in squid.How to configure ?

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Friday, August 8, 2008

tata indicom usb wireless internet on mandriva linux

how to use  tata indicom usb  wireless internet on mandriva linux?

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

catch out on all the latest linux distros

a must visit site, just dedicated to everything about all new linux distributions.do visit it: http://distrowatch.com

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Some Really Cool And Must Have Amarok Scripts

Amarok is probably amongst the best audio player and jukebox software, bar none. This feature rich software is  also very flexible and extensible. By making use of third party scripts (and writing your own, if you know, say Python or Ruby) you can enrich your experience your Amarok experience. Here’s a list of some [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some Really Cool And Must Have Amarok Scripts", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/08/03/some-really-cool-and-must-have-amarok-scripts/" });

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Squid on openSuse 10.2

Hello all, I really need some help with my squid, I already configure it and it doesn't seem to work...  Here is my squid.confhttp_port 3128cache_mem 16 MBcache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 800 16 256acl prohibited url_regex src /etc/squid/prohibit...

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Friday, August 1, 2008

Real life use of at and cron daemons

I know that the at and cron daemons are used to schedule commands; the at schedules a command to execute in the future and the cron schedules the command to execute repeatedly in the future. I am completely new to Linux and I can't find any examples of...

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

at and cron daemons

I know that the at and cron daemons are used to schedule commands; the at schedules a command to execute in the future and the cron schedules the command to execute repeatedly in the future. I am completely new to Linux and I can't find any examples of...

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

KDE 4.1 Released, Gets Rave Reviews

It’s no secret that KDE4.0 didn’t get good reviews. Fact is it was heavily criticized, mainly for instability problems. So much so that it was argued that KDE 4.0 shouldn’t have been pushed out as a .0 release. But that was past, and today KDE 4.1 was released. Judging from the reactions, its no [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "KDE 4.1 Released, Gets Rave Reviews", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/07/30/kde-41-released-gets-rave-reviews/" });

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

VirtualboxFedora 9-Second hard drive not visible

As I'm sure you can surmise by my member name I am not an expert at Linux. OK, that's an understatement, I'm a noob. :-) I have a problem that has me stumped. I recently installed Fedora 9 for the dual purpose of learning about Linux and Window's (I be...

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Friday, July 25, 2008

[How To] Compile and Install a Program From Sources

In this day modern day, most software installations can be done using repositories and package managers. However, you might face a situation of having only the source files availalble with you â€" you probably would want to try out bleeding edge software, which hasn’t been packaged yet, or isn’t available in the repos yet. So [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Compile and Install a Program From Sources", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/07/24/how-to-compile-a-program-from-source-code-installing-from-source/" });

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

CANT CHANGE USER PASSWORD

Hi! Im a newbee in linux...can anyone hellp how to reconfigure my linux box? Im using Linux and i use it as my mail server. I have a root password, i can add and deleteusers but i cannot change nor make passwords for every user i add. Also i cannot cha...

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Monday, July 21, 2008

which?

There is absolutely noone newer to Linux than I. I'm not sure which system to use, where to get necessary drivers, software for general internet browsing! Nor do I understand the proper things to put in the address line to get anywhere on the net. I'm ...

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

configuring squid

Hi I am Suresh   could you plz help in configuring squid proxy server on fedro 9 .I would like to configure for Leased line.    my local ip range is 172.27.102 ..... to ......... . which are in 2003 domain. and block some of sites like orkut and pron...

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Friday, July 18, 2008

tata indicom usb whiz2surf on Ubuntu 8.04

Will it work, plug and play or I will have to do some configuration to get it working with my laptop running Ubuntu 8.04LTS

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

E220 wireless modem

New to using Puppy. The problem would be common to most linux programs â€" I have  a 3G wireless modem E220 and it seems the driver is in the kernel, but the Puppy forums do not seem to have the answer. The modem is being used on an eeepc using Xandr...

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

[Review] Dream Linux - A nightmare for Linux novices

Admin’s Note: This is a guest post by Aditya. Though this post was drafted on 1st July, my work commitments and rather bad memory prevented this post being published. Due apologies. I know that a title is a bit harsh but I am afraid it is true. First lets get into some technical stuff. Dream Linux is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[Review] Dream Linux - A nightmare for Linux novices", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/07/07/review-dream-linux-a-nightmare-for-linux-novices/" });

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Apache Metrics

Hello,I need to create a Control Unit for the Apache server (v1.3.41) which will minimize the response times (server side) by altering online the MaxClients and KeepAliveTimeout Directives (will alter and do a graceful restart every time they need to ...

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Fedore Core 9

Hi YAI've recently played around with my display settings, and have broken it. I can log into the GUI with root. But not with my own profile-it gives a white screen.I have tried system-config-display, doesn't work.Does any one now how to fi...

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Friday, July 4, 2008

some urls (with aspx) are not redirected by squid

Hello,i set up a linuxserver (Debian) with Squid and SquidGuard and i installed Shorewall as firewall.All works fine, but some urls can not be visited by the clients (like as they were offline) but when i try the urls frommy home, it works....

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Linux Hater? Here Comes Windows Hater!

A lot of you out there must’ve read Linux Hater’s Blog, a blog with (some valid) rants about what’s wrong about Linux. John M Anderson ponders over what made him shift from Windows to Linux and here’s some of his choice quotes You just bought built a brand new computer and want to install the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Linux Hater? Here Comes Windows Hater!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/07/01/linux-hater-here-comes-windows-hater/" });

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

[How-to] Styled Subs in Linux

This is a guest post by Aditya. Most anime watchers who download anime must be knowing what styled subs are but for those who don’t know styled subs are special type of subtitles which have different fonts. The picture below demonstrates why exactly styled subs are needed. Here’s a picture to show a particular video with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-to] Styled Subs in Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/30/how-to-styled-subs-in-linux/" });

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

How to do..

how to install Software  in  red Hat Linux 4

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Friday, June 27, 2008

swapfile

creating a swapfile What does nslookup do

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

get internet using CDMA dialup connection

Hello all, I am stranded with my linux system because I have failed to connect to the internet through CDMA. How can I create a dialup connection in linux? Iam using a CDMA phone from Huawei. It works well with Windows but I want to use linux. Hwat exa...

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

So Why is ACPI Such A Problem in Linux?

Anyone who’s worked on Linux must’ve come across a fair share of ACPI-related problems - lockups, standby problems etc. Some of the “solutions” is to disable ACPI support by passing the noacpi parameter during boot-up. So why is ACPI so problematic under Linux? Ankit Chaturvedi has this excellent post on this. A quick excerpt Problem with ACPI So [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "So Why is ACPI Such A Problem in Linux?", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/24/so-why-is-acpi-such-a-problem-in-linux/" });

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

drawing sqaures using source codes

hi to all pros..i'm a noob using KDE C/C++ (Fedora 7). and i had no programming experience in C++. I am required to do a project using this for a floorplan and now i cant even start drawing squares for the rooms using the source codes?does any kind ...

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Creating Your Own YUM Repository

If you’ve been using Linux for a while, then you’d know how much of a pain it is to install a software which runs into dependency problems. One way of getting around this is to use a repository. Kunal has posted an article on how-to  create your own yum repository. This article is aimed at [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Creating Your Own YUM Repository", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/22/creating-your-own-yum-repository/" });

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

ATI raedon graphics card and slackware

Hi,I ve recently installed Slackware 12.0 linux on my [HP dc7800p] PC. When i switch to the Desktop environment i.e. KDE.The graphics are totally ruined. the colours are inverted and the fonts are also not visible properly.I m using ATI raedon graphic...

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Presenting openSUSE 11.0

After a long, long wait for SUSE maniacs like me, its finally here: Presenting the latest version of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.0 The new version features a slick shiny new installer, updated KDE 4.0.4, GNOME 2.22, Kernel version 2.6.25. If you’re still hesitant to jump to KDE4.0, you can use KDE 3.5.9 which comes with the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Presenting openSUSE 11.0", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/20/presenting-open-suse-11-0-some-why-upgrade-to-opensuse11-whats-new-in-opensuse11/" });

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Friday, June 20, 2008

[How To] Chat With Your Facebook Buddies Using Pidgin

Recently, Facebook introduced Facebook chat - which allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in realtime similar to IM, as compared to post-message-on-wall-and-wait-for-replies kinda communication that Facebook users endured so far. A slight problem would be that to use this feature, users need to be logged in and be on Facebook’s site. Not any [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To] Chat With Your Facebook Buddies Using Pidgin", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/19/how-to-chat-with-your-facebook-buddies-using-pidgin/" });

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Kernel Compilation: Time saving

Hi,I have added some new code to linux kernel. But one thing is that it affects some file only. like added or changed a few .h and .c files. But do i have to always compile the whole kernel? I am following the following steps:[CODE]$make mrproper$ma...

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

access.log not getting updated

Hi,I had this issue earlier and could resolve it but how that i cant recall. now again access.log in not getting updated.squid is running which i confirmed by running ps. Any other specific thing do i need to check..?thanks in advanceNilesh 

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final To Be Released On June 17

Mozilla has announced that the next version of Mozilla Firefox, quite possibly one of the best browser out there, Mozilla Firefox 3 will be available for download on June 17. After 34 months of being under development, 5 betas, and 3 Release Candidates, Firefox is ready for release. Firefox 3 features an extensively revamped location [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final To Be Released On June 17", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/13/mozilla-firefox-30-final-to-be-released-on-june-17/" });

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Friday, June 13, 2008

squid redirector program - squirm, asqredir

Hi All,I am trying to configure squid redirector such as squirm or asqredir. I've installed both this utility and also added redirect_program line to squid.conf. But somehow or other it is not redirecting.Has anyone done such thing so far? If so, wha...

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

New Official openSUSE Forums Go Live

The official openSUSE forums has been established and went live yesterday on June 9th, 2008, providing better support for openSUSE community. The Forums merges 3 existing openSUSE forums, suseforums.net, my personal favourite suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com. You could use single sign-on login with your Novell/openSUSE account. Your account at existing forums [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Official openSUSE Forums Go Live", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/10/new-official-opensuse-forums-go-live/" });

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Moblin Event In Hyderabad and Chennai, India and YourMove Contest Details

Moblin is an open source initiative bringing developers together all over the world to create rich media and internet experience based on Linux operating systems for Intel Atom processors. Moblin event will be conducted in Hyderabad on June 26th, 2008 and in Chennai on June 27th, 2008. Register for the event, or for the Webinar. Developers  may [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Moblin Event In Hyderabad and Chennai, India and YourMove Contest Details", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/10/moblin-event-in-hyderabad-and-chennai-india-and-yourmove-contest-details/" });

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes

The creator of of the Linux kernel, and some of his choice quotes “Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.” “Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” “My name is Linus, and I am your God.” “See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/09/the-10-best-linus-torvalds-quotes/" });

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Tata indicom LG LSP 350 T

Hello friends,I m having Mandriva 2008 installed and i want to surf internet on it using TATA INDICOM'S LG LSP 350 T phone modem. Can anyone help me?Please help me......I got this in hardware sectionUnder Mandriva Linux Control CenterDet...

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Monday, June 2, 2008

How To: Access ext2/ext3 Formatted Linux Partitions in Windows

This is another one of those tips I always wanted to post, but kept forgetting So here goes. Unlike Linux which can mount and access Windows’ FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, Windows is incapable of even acknowledging and detecting a Linux filesystem. Fear not, here are 3 softwares which can help in detecting [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How To: Access ext2/ext3 Formatted Linux Partitions in Windows", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/06/01/how-to-access-ext2ext3-formatted-linux-partitions-in-windows/" });

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Fedora 9 on a USB Pen Drive

I’d posted previously on How to install Fedora 8 on USB pen drive. Now that Fedora 9 is out, Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker has post how-to do the same for Fedora 9. A quick excerpt: Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fedora 9 on a USB Pen Drive", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/29/fedora-9-on-a-usb-pen-drive/" });

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Firefox 3 Download Day - Pledge And Set a New Guiness World Record!

Enjoy a Better Web Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Firefox 3 Download Day - Pledge And Set a New Guiness World Record!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/29/firefox-3-download-day-pledge-and-set-a-new-guiness-world-record/" });

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

which daemon is good to go through ??

Hi all,I planned to do code walk through of an open source daemon.,I need your help in selecting the daemon,I want the following knowledge to be get from this walk through.,1. Inter process communication ( socket )2. Data Structures...

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Junk Mails Control

Dear Experts,Need your help in sorting out this issue:-WE get lot of mails from different domains which are basically advertisements/promotions. The requirement is that these mails should get rejected at the server itself. We are using Postfix runni...

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu

Debian and other debian-based distros like Ubuntu have, by default, root account disabled as a security measure. To re-enable the root account, just open the command prompt, and type sudo passwd root You’ll get the following set of messages: sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ sudo passwd root Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ To disable root access, just type sudo passwd [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Enabling And Disabling Root Account in Debian/Ubuntu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/27/enabling-and-disabling-root-account-in-debianubuntu/" });

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Monday, May 26, 2008

Where is my www-root directory ?

Hi.I'm concerned with phpSANE - a scanner application.In its installation instructions, it is said that apache is a must. So I installed apache2.The next step says: 'put the phpSANE directory in your www-root directory'. Now where do I find this www...

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Kooka and XSane

I have a lil trouble with the above said applications.They deal with a scanner.Mine is an HP Scanjet 2400 series scanner... and XSane doesn't detect it at all. And in Kooka, I click on Settings -> Select Scan device, and get no result at all. And the...

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Mail server configuration

My organization is   giving administrative support to the small independent   four institutions. Their  IDs are like  thisOur main office  DNS Name â€" indianforce.af.in.  Other office DNS       - army.af.in - navy.af.in - airforce.af.in - bsf....

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

help!!! what is ieee-ms ???

i ran netstat -a |grep LISTEN and get this ieee-ms with * for a port (along with other proccesses like TELNET, IPP,SSH etc);please, anybody who knows what that ieee-ms stands for, share your knowledge!!! very appreciated...

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Unwanted IP Addr trying to send mails from my qmail server

Hello All,I am using qmail server (qmailrocks.org). Now the problem is my SMTP is going down frequently.I allowed only my network in /etc/tcp.smtp but if i check in /var/qmail/qmail-smtp/current log file its showing me diffrent networks ips are t...

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Oracle Offers Free Linux DVDs - Oracle Unbreakable Linux

Oracle joins the list of vendors offering free media consisting of Linux distruibutions - a list which includes Canonical which ships Ubuntu and Fedora under their Free Media Program. Oracle is now giving its Linux distribution, named Oracle Unbreakable Linux -  a 2 DVD set. For support you’ll have to pay extra. Send your request [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Oracle Offers Free Linux DVDs - Oracle Unbreakable Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/19/oracle-offers-free-linux-dvds-oracle-unbreakable-linux/" });

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Monday, May 19, 2008

An Easy Way to Transfer Data From A Linux Based Virtual Machine to Windows Host(And Vice Versa)

In my previous post, I’d mentioned about Virtualization - what it is, how useful it is to test new softwares, distros etc. Now while working in your virtual machine, you’d obviously save some data - do some wordprocessing, or compatibility testing of your programs, just to name some, all this would mean that the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An Easy Way to Transfer Data From A Linux Based Virtual Machine to Windows Host(And Vice Versa)", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/18/an-easy-way-to-transfer-data-from-a-linux-based-virtual-machine-to-windows-hostand-vice-versa/" });

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ext3 Journal

Hi Everybody,Can anyone tell me how to view the journal file in an ext3 file system? Or how to see its size?Thank you in advance..

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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Installed Fedora 7: worried about Ubuntu

Hi.I'm running Fedora 7. My hard disc is about 20% occupied. The rest is free / unpartitioned. I want to load Ubuntu 8.04 in future. Can I ?If I load it, will it still recognize Fedora 7, and leave it intact in the new boot loader it creates ? Or wil...

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Fedora Free Media Program

While having a look around Fedora’s site, I came across the Free Media Program. Fedora Free Media Program is a volunteer initiative under Fedora Distribution Project that aims to distribute Fedora Media (DVDs) for free to individuals who couldn’t afford to buy or download. Local Fedora Ambassadors or Contributors are invited to participate. Unlike Canonical [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fedora Free Media Program", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/14/fedora-free-media-program/" });

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Fedora 9 Released

It’s the season of Linux distribution releases! Ubuntu was released about 3 weeks ago, and now it’s time for Fedora 9, aka “Sulphur”. So What’s new? PackageKit Much Like Ubuntu’s Add/Remove Programs, Fedora gets a similar one, known as “PacakgeKit”.PackageKit is a cross-distribution package management solution that has a complete yum backend. It has been [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fedora 9 Released", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/14/fedora-9-released/" });

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

An IRC client in 40 lines of shell script

While hanging out in #IndiaTwits,  Shyam aka codelust brought to my attention of this post in Kragen hacks Mailing list. So I’m installing an OS on my laptop, and for whatever reason, the Debian Etch install disk thought it would be a good idea to initialize the whole disk to random data *before* rather than [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An IRC client in 40 lines of shell script", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/13/an-irc-client-in-40-lines-of-shell-script/" });

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

restoring all data from backup excluding an FS

i want to exclude /sys directory...would this command work? coz its seems that when the untarring is already in /sys, it is hanging. this is the command i used. tar xvzPf /dev/st0 --exclude /sys

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Monday, May 12, 2008

how to check its local or SAN disk in linux

Hi All,Sorry loggin'g after a long long time but was very busy in other stuff.Could anyone please tel how to differnciate between local and SAN disk in linux/solaris?I checked google and found that /proc/scsi/scsi can tel about this but after checki...

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

GTK Splash screen

hii am new to gtk and c programming (i used visual basic previouslt)i am using it for my college project and i am wondering how am i supposed to make the splash screen work. i designed a window with image designed as splash screen and in type selected...

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

openSUSE Hard Disk Configuration Survey

In order to optimize the YaST partitioner module for openSUSE users the user experience team decided to conduct a small survey to figure out how you deal with hard disk configuration. The survey contains some basic questions and its results will directly influence the redesign for the partitioner module. The survey will be online until [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "openSUSE Hard Disk Configuration Survey", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/opensuse-hard-disk-configuration-survey/" });

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Bring Back Deleted Files Using lsof

Found this article while going random browsing, the original article is from Linux.com with JC Lima reccreates it, with example. Definitely worth reading At first it did not make a lot of sense since unless you have the file open, this will not work. How likely are you to have the files you just deleted [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bring Back Deleted Files Using lsof", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/bring-back-deleted-files-using-lsof/" });

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Presenting Project Neon - Amarok 2 Nightly Build Service

Project Neon is the codename for a nightly build service for Amarok 2. Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead of a stable and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Presenting Project Neon - Amarok 2 Nightly Build Service", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/07/presenting-project-neon-amarok-2-nightly-build-service/" });

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Linux For All Is Inaugurated

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my good friend, Kunal Gautam has launched a blog on Linux, “Linux For All - Making Linux usable for all from newbies to techies“. Kunal is a gem of a person, is well versed in all the latest techonologic trends and I’m proud to say that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Linux For All Is Inaugurated", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/04/linux-for-all-is-inaugurated/" });

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Monday, May 5, 2008

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 was just released, and it looks very promising indeed! Here’s what bastion of PolishLinux had to say: Desktop First thing worth noticing is the new looks of KRunner. Unfortunately, on the current stage, it behaves in an unpredictable manner. In some cases after typing one letter I had to wait a few [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/04/kde-41-alpha-1-preview/" });

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux

Ever since being introduced to Twitter by Preshit, I’ve been addicted to twitter. While I prefer tweeting via IM or Twitter’s homepage, Few of you would love to use a twitter client. Here’s a list of some twitter clients for Linux For those who are using KDE4, there’s a plasmoid KDETwitter - it just displays [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/03/twitter-clients-for-linux/" });

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Saturday, May 3, 2008

Inner working of Squid

Our squid server seems to be working slow. We need to analyse the problem area. 1. We have verified the "input" bandwidth which is proper.2. We need to check whether the client requests are getting catered from squid's cache or not ? For this we too...

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles - A Look At Installation and First Glance

Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu, version 8.04 dubbed the “Hardy Heron” - primarily because it’s a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it worth the upgrade? Read on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles - A Look At Installation and First Glance", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/05/01/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-chronicles-a-look-at-installation-and-first-glance/" });

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Sorry for Trouble and for spamming

Hello,From last few days, there were spamming on LinuxSolved.com, I have figured out the reason and have fixed that security flaw. I hope it wont' cause trouble again.Thankyou!

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1

Last week,  the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Some of the many  enhancements and features in the new release include  the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, live CDs and much more. What’s New The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes quite a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/29/announcing-opensuse-11-beta-1/" });

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature

Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release candidates and final release. If you’re wondering where to start, Holger Sickenberg has put together an excellent resouce to help guide testing. Holger has compiled a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/29/test-opensuse-110-feature-by-feature/" });

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Monday, April 28, 2008

ftp upload

hi im selva im using fedora 8 as ftp serverand i can view n download files from ftp from my windoes n linux client system but i cant upload files from windows and linux client system to linux ftp.i have checked with vsftpd.conf file too n made ...

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Internet connection sharing? how-to?

Hi,I'm using ubuntu 7.10 as a guest on WinXP using Vmware worksstation 6I have 2 internet connections:1) through a gateway in Campus dorms (has http proxy with authentication) 2) 3G/7.2Mb cell internet modem (without proxy or authentication) .. mod...

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

ADDITIONAL HD ON SQUID

HI ANY BODY!I HAVE PROXY SERVER WITH SQUID 2,6THE SERVER HAD 4 GB OF RAM AND 80 GB HDMY PROBLEMI WANT TO ADD 1 HD MORECAN ANYBODY HELP ME HOW TO CONFIGURE SQUID WITH 2 HD OR 2 OF CACHE_DIR UFS?

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Friday, April 25, 2008

remove duplicate lines in file

Hi Having a file as follows[CODE]==================================================Date           Time         error code      server ======================================================12-29-08    10:10        121221          server A12-29-08...

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Tomcat & mod_jk integration

Hello All,I configure tomcat and its working fine on default port now i want to integrate it web server port.I have download mod_jk.1.2.26 connector from apache site. I have 3-4 web application in my webapps directory and currently i am able to...

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Frox Proxy having intermittent problem

Dear All,Need your help in resolving the issue:-WE are using squid as proxy server. Some of our clients need ftp access to ftp servers on the internet. I tried  a lot of "googling" and scratching head on the "available" solutions but nothing worked ...

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron

It’s that time of the year. Everyone’s excited and looking forward to it. Ofcourse it’s the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron. So what’re new features expected in Hardy Heron you ask? Well here are some of them Easier installation using Wubi Wubi allows users to install and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/04/20/countdown-to-ubuntu-804-the-hardy-heron/" });

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Cannot Load Kernel Loadable MOdule...

hi everybody,I tried to create a new module as given in http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/lkmpg.html, hello-1.c.[CODE]/*   *  hello-1.c - The simplest kernel module. */#include <linux/module.h>   /* Needed by all modules */#include <linux/kernel.h...

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Friday, April 18, 2008

cialis ApemSoobbyFep

India Pharmacy Online. [url=http://www.add-direct....

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Cannot execute binary file in RouterBoard debian

Hi everybody!!I have a RouterBoard WiFi with a linux kernel "cross-compiled" with debian 2.4.21.In my laptop I have the madwifi's tools (wlanconfig...). I try to compile this tools and everything is ok. I had transfered the wlanconfig executable via ...

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Promt passowrd with invisible mode

Dear Friends , In My Oracle10g database server , I want to run the following script , which prompts for "sys" password .echo "password please:"read mypassrman target sys/$mypass@onlinete << !run{allocate channel t1 type disk;backup format 'df_%...

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Disable mouse/keyboard while VNC

Sometimes when I tslcient into my box, people agitate me by moving the mouse or pressing keys on the keyboard. Is there a way to disable the physical mouse and keyboard will retaining control of the VNC mouse pointer and keyboard input? Thanks!

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Compiz Fusion Gets New Effect - Presenting the Cylinder

Unless you have been living under a stone, you should be knowing that Compiz Fusion transforms your Linux 2D desktop, with virtual desktops into a 3D one, complete with Cube plugin(amongst others) which transforms the virtual desktops into a cube. Developer Dennis Kasprzyk has finally finished his idea to implement a cylinder deformation for the cube plugin. The result is that [...]

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

соски девушек

[size=24]порно дефлорация[/size] [img]http://seopool.info/...

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Open application on specific desktop

Hi,is it possible to open an application on a specific desktop? I.e. something like:$  xmms --desktopnumber=3For example, I'd like xmms to be on desktop number 4, regardless of where I open it from.thanksSil

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