General Linux

Good Subversion HOWTO
I found a very straightforward HOWTO on configuring and using Subversion. It includes: - authentication over SSL (with Apache2), - permission management, - multiple repositories handling, - as well as hints for every-day work in command line and GUI. A definite must-read for everyone who thinks SVN is too com... 5 Sep 2006 16:23

Little problem with rsync
Hi, I'm trying to use rsync to copy a directory from my local machine to a remote one. But I get this error ... [dave(a)localhost dave]$ rsync -uav /home/dave/temp/ user(a)remotehost.com:/home/remote/www/www/temp/ Failed to exec rsh : No such file or directory rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at util.c(162)... 5 Sep 2006 16:56

Some bash questions :-)
Hi all, (1) The bash command below is meant to firstly list all files with the specified name; and then print a line containing -2718. It is proven very useful for me to make sure the contents of a certain line match up, and if they don't I can easily identify which *input.txt needs to be corrected. Thanks to... 30 Aug 2006 18:15

copy dvds?
I own a lot of DVDs and have decided that hard drives have become cheap enough (and computer displays big enough) for me to keep the data on my storage device. good idea---except now that I am "cp /mnt/dvd /myvideos/somename/", I realize that about half of my DVDs seem to have bad sectors---usually just a few.... 28 Aug 2006 22:27

knoppix 5.01 mkdosswapfile ?
I am runing knoppix 5.01 from a live cd on my HP laptop/windows XP. How can I set up a swap file on dos to save files permenantly ? If I run mkdosswapfile as root or anyway it says -> no useble partions available for swapfile. my partitions show permisions of -rw-r--r--r thanks ... 5 Sep 2006 20:40

razr software?
I own a Moto Razr V3. is there any software to download/upload the address book, preferably in a way that I can add or delete records? regards, /iaw ... 2 Sep 2006 17:21

Probolem in running command find
pls see the error log below and , pls tell what may be wrong.. [root(a)Ashish /]# find / -name sipp.1.0.tar.gz -print find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /selinux: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include direct... 29 Aug 2006 10:41

FFmpeg & Quicktime
I can convert some quicktime movies to flv, but some of them could not be converted. Can anybody help me convert these files using ffmpeg. File test.mov is opening and playing by QuickTime player in WinXP SP2, but in my SUSE 10 ffmpeg could not convert it This is a log of ffmpeg when file could not be converted. ... 25 Aug 2006 11:11

X Server has crashed
I have terrible day. Problems are followed by other problems. When I was doing something on ubuntu system crashed and later when I restarted system this message appeared ( or maybe when I tried to execute "startx" command ): =================================================== xauth: creating new authority file ... 26 Aug 2006 21:38

unexpected problem - gnome
Hi. I have already experienced some unexpected problem. Any program which uses gnome to be executed can't be executed. For example gnome-terminal or mozilla-firefox. This situation is only problem of users, who are not root. For root everythink is going well. Moreover, this situation displays suddenly. For example... 22 Aug 2006 09:17