General Linux

The Giant Spaghetti Monster
You know what I have to say to the giant spaghetti monster? Do you want to know? Do you? Well I'm tired of sucking on your spaghetti and chewing on your fresh meat balls! It isn't only about writing open source code that's free. That's obviously nice. But the Open Source code just facillitates all of this neg... 14 Aug 2006 13:43

Dropping TCP connection
is there a way to drop a tcp connection that is listed on netstat -an eg: netstat -an 66.228.56.171.1720 195.219.218.139.47820 66608 109 66608 0 FIN_WAIT_1 66.228.56.171.1720 65.200.191.226.30120 66608 0 66608 0 ESTABLISHED 66.228.56.171.43920 216.193.205.25.1720 66608 0 66608 ... 14 Aug 2006 13:43

VNC Display stuffs..
Hey all, figured I'd ask here, if there's a better place (i.e. This ain't the right place), accept my apoliogies and let me know. :) Anyways, on a Fedora 5 system, got Xvnc as a service in xinetd. XWin / KDE. Everything fires up fine when I make a remote connection, I get the xdm login scren, login, and then get ... 10 Aug 2006 11:34

verizon FIOS +linux
Slightly off-topic... I got an offer in the mail from verizon for a fiber optics internet connection, which advertises 5Mbps upload, and between 5 and 50 Mbps download. That's very tempting. Before I subscribe, are there any known issues under linux? Do I have to run some proprietary program in windows first... 10 Aug 2006 18:02

how to mount DVD?
I just tried to put a DVD with data on it in the DVD drive. Always before when I put CDs or DVDs in a dialogue popped up asking if I want to open it. But now nothing. How can I get to my DVD? Thank you.... cb ... 8 Aug 2006 21:14

Problems with Dosemu
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I finally switched to GNU/Linux - Ubuntu. Using Synaptic package manager, I downloaded several interesting things, and I'm still paying with the system to get used to it. But I also have some newbie problems, here's one of them: I installed dosemu and FreeDOS packages, but when I typ... 22 Aug 2006 17:55

iptables compiling errors returned
I just compiled iptables by doing so: make KERNEL_DIR=/kernel/source but the returned message for all files compiled is as follows: cc -O2 -Wall -Wunused -I/usr/src/kernel/linux-2.6.17//include -Iinclude/ -DIPTABLES_VERSION=\"1.3.5-20060622\" -D_UNKNOWN_KERNEL_POINTER_SIZE -DIP6T_LIB_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib... 6 Aug 2006 12:09

gnome issues / fedora core 5
hi, i uninstalled some packages unintentionally and that affected my graphic environment .... then i did yum groupinstall "X Window Server" and recovered (hopefully) missing packages ... now there is an annoying problem .... my graphical environment is twm now not gnome ... how do i switch it back? i tried s... 5 Aug 2006 15:34

Wireless Network not Detected - Please Help
Good Morning, I am new to Linux and dual booting from my Laptop. I have a Wanadoo (now Orange) wireless broadband modem that I can connect to without any problem in Windows XP. I recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. When I go to the Networking section I can see my Wireless Card and "Wireles... 5 Aug 2006 16:06

Cool Photoshop Tutorials!
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