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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