General Linux

Using VNC Viewer
Hola El Groupo, I have several PC's running windows sitting at an Amateur Radio transceiver site. I would like to be able to open the desktops on them with my Linux box down the hill. I looked at using VNC and input an address for one of the PC's (call it: 64.123.4.1) in order to "add a new client". I receiv... 23 Jul 2006 20:07

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 and oracle
Hi all, I posted this in the fedora forums but that I'd give usenet a try. I'm following this guide: http://ivan.kartik.sk/oracle/install_ora9_fedora.html I can run the installer, but I'm getting linking errors on files like: Error in invoking target install of makefile /opt/oracle/920/precomp/lib/ins_pre... 21 Jul 2006 18:05

fedora core 5 suspend
hi all, i inadvertently clicked on suspend instead of restart and my machine won't wake up any more ... i tried disconnecting it from the power completely even taking out battery for a few minutes and it didn't help. is ther any trick that can help me get going ... thanks. ... 17 Jul 2006 14:09

Linux media centre PC?
As microsoft are killing off Windows 98, I feel I need to get a new PC & am considering Linux. Requirements: email , web surfing, word processing, programming. Also (if easy): watching/listening to TV/radio/webcasts; recording same on PC & playing back. A Linux media centre PC would be ideal, but none seem to ... 18 Jul 2006 05:36

Review of The Official Ubuntu Book
Review of The Official Ubuntu Book: http://aplawrence.com/Books/official_ubuntu.html ... 15 Jul 2006 20:11

bonnie++ gives errors
If someone knows how to run bonnie please help me out. I got the tarball from http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/. I couldn't find much documentation on installation or usage. I did the following to install on a box running Linux version 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp (Red Hat 3.4.5-2). configure make make install I did n... 18 Jul 2006 15:30

What is /dev/mem?
Is it the case that if one reads /dev/mem one can get snapshots of data in memory? ... 20 Jul 2006 02:26

cups problem
I don't think so. As i've said the list of files is just an example. As a matter of fact the command is normally called from a number of scripts I've written and it works perfectly for directories containing many more files (eg. 50 page faxes, each page 1 jpg)... From what I've observed (I COULD be wrong) this O... 12 Jul 2006 19:37

Temporarily Parking the Hard Disk Heads
I've an embedded Linux booting from a flash disk and running on a PC104+ stack. This PC104+ computer is carried on a moving platform and occationallyy subject to high vibration. I do have know when vibrarion will start and the duration of the vibration. Some time I do attach an IDE hard disk (40-160GB) to my e... 5 Jul 2006 14:11

Installing downloaded files
Help how do I install linux files from the Internet on my FC5. They have an rpm extension. I can extract them but then don't know what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated ... 27 Jun 2006 13:23