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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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