General Linux

Follow-Up to: The Future of Linux
TJ <TJ(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:ghoi8a$n8o$1(a)news.motzarella.org: Linux Futurist wrote: I have been considering the following for some time now and I have reached the irrevocable conclusion that the CLI is the past and GUI is the future. If Linux is to compete with other OS's then GUI i... 19 Dec 2008 15:33

setup problem using usb floppy drive
Hi, everyone I'm trying to install debian to old sony vaio PCG-Z505SX notebook which has no bootable cd-rom drive. So, I'm installing debian with USB floppy drive. When I setup debian using installing diskette, it displays following messages in setup procedures: . ... 3 Oct 2008 15:23

migration: cryptoloop -> dmcrypt
Hello I have partistion encrypted with cryptoloop. But after upgrading to new gentoo - it does not support it any more. When i try to mount: arrakis ~ # mount /dev/md7 Password: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: No such file or directory (i did not touch kernel during upgrade, so i have everything what was needed... 14 Sep 2008 11:41

Question about mencoder...
The script below uses mencoder to combine multiple .mov files into one file named combined.mov. After the files are combined, and I use mplayer to view the combined videos, I cannot use any rewind for fast forward functions. The video just exits. Is there any way to use mencoder to combine the videos, and have i... 10 Jan 2008 11:29

PHP and wget generate 0 byte files
I have a problem with PHP where wget generates 0 byte files. Below is the code that I use. // ******************** $savedir = "/webroot/vifs/app/webroot/static/1234567890"; $url = "http://www.google.com"; $test = mkdir( $savedir, 0777); exec("/usr/bin/wget -nH -nd -d -P$savedir $url"); // ****************... 10 Nov 2007 08:42

aspell clean [strict] file.txt
Hi, I tried this command to clean a file for mispelled word and nothing happen. What I am doing wrong? Thanks ... 16 Apr 2007 21:44

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError and libXp.so.6
Hi there, Before posting my problem I've checked the internet for possible solutions. Said that, I'm trying to run a java application and I got the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/ RaidMan/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: N... 9 Mar 2007 12:53

CUPS Child exited with status 1
Hi All, Help! I am using CentOS 4.4 (~rhel 4.4) and CUPS cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.11 Always when I boot cups fails. About 1 out of 10 times it will also fail when started manually. Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks, -T /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start Starting cups: Traceback (most recent call last): ... 21 Jan 2007 00:02

GLIB installed, ./configure says otherwise
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 23:01, Darius stood up and addressed the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...: I have a clean install of Mandriva 2007 Free, the package manager (and urpmi) says that GLIB is installed, however trying to install Xmms at the ./configure stage generates the following erro... 7 Dec 2006 14:29

iptables connlimit error?
kernel: ipt_connlimit: Oops: invalid ct state anyone know what this means? is it bad? kernel 2.4.33 iptables 1.3.6 kenw232(a)yahoo.com ... 11 Nov 2006 19:52