General Linux

Dual boot, WIN2K won't boot.
I have FC8 and win2k working happily together for a long time. But a few weeks back, I had some problem with grub and greeter application and since then my win2k is not booting up at all. When I select Win2k from grub options it hangs saying WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is corrupt etc. Thought I will boot it up wit... 10 Aug 2008 18:08

authentication key prob
hello i was trying to add a new repository for the packages in the software sources. there occured some problem with the authenciation key file of that repository after which i removed the repository and key i added. but in this process there occurred some problem with the default repository & its key, and now w... 9 Aug 2008 21:44

jsp files not working
hello i am using ubuntu 7.10. I am trying to run my web application which has jsp pages. I have installed apache and java 6. Apache is working fine and opening the localhost but java is giving some problem as my browser is not recognising the JSP pages. What can be the prob? any idea of this and solution plz le... 10 Aug 2008 16:06

emerge is now screwed following removal of python
In alt.os.linux.gentoo J.O. Aho <user(a)example.net> wrote: Yes, the two are different and I had kind of the same trouble as the OP, but I don't use threads, but I did have to uninstall the 2.4, keeping it will cause troubles. Damn! I just removed python as follows: emerge --unmerge python Now when ... 9 Aug 2008 15:37

Converting comma separated files to multi-sheel spreadsheets (Gnumeric of OOMATH)
General Schvantzkopf staggered into the Black Sun and said: Both Gnumeric and OOMATH can read .csv files but unfortunately if you hand them multiple files they open multiple windows which is really messy. The .csv format doesn't have any means of defining sheets and .xls and .ods are binary formats that are... 9 Aug 2008 15:37

cannot login as root
hello I am using ubuntu 7.10, i have 2 user accounts one is root and othr is Kartikeya. When i am trying to login as root its displaying following msg "cannot login as system administrator from here". I have to login from text mode. but i want to login using graphical mode. please tell me how to do it. ... 9 Aug 2008 10:30

is there something like a "read only" shell?
Sometimes I feel the need to open some dirs. on my Linux box in a shell that is read-only (just so that I accidently do not edit a file) Is it possible to open a "read only" shell? -- Rahul ... 18 Aug 2008 17:44

Where is knoppix 5.3.1
I'm a Slackware user, but I believe Knoppix is still the best liveCD out and use it for lots of things. According to distrowatch, 5.3.1 has been out since March, but I find nothing on knoppix mirrors, only 5.1.1. What's the deal? nb ... 10 Aug 2008 20:11

Bad clock on a linux server?
This probably is not a linux question. I have a server (one of 16 linux prod. servers) and its clocks drifts A LOT. Over exactly 10 minutes, it drifted by 9 seconds!!! (appx. one second per minute) The drift rate is truly alarming! The server is not particularly busy, it is an 8 CPU machine, 0.84 load avera... 9 Aug 2008 00:20

Putty process won't detach [OT]
Sorry for OT. I am unable to close putty window using ctrl-d or exit after a heavy duty process was started. This has happened twice. Any fixes are appreciated. Thanks ... 8 Aug 2008 09:56