| Subject | Date Asked |
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| Linux | 10/28/2008 |
Q: How do I install an application on Unix
A: If you're speaking specifically towards the UNIX operating system, you typically rely on the ...
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| information | 9/9/2008 |
Q: I am using RHEL 5 for my study purpose, now I have one problem, user cant login without a password, ...
A: This is no problem. To install yum on RHEL4, follow these steps: 1) Download yum using wget: === ...
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| information | 9/7/2008 |
Q: I am using RHEL 5 for my study purpose, now I have one problem, user cant login without a password, ...
A: If you wish to enable blank passwords for users (which I really don't recommend), here's how you can ...
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| information | 9/2/2008 |
Q: What is the basic different in between normal Apache web server and tom-cat Apache server?
A: When you're talking about the apache web server with Tomcat, you're talking about a web server that ...
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| file attribute | 7/19/2008 |
Q: This is what I've done with these 2 files. qwes@HardyE:~/cat$ file /usr/bin/telnet /usr/bin/telnet: ...
A: From the 'file' man page: === File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There ...
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| file attribute | 7/17/2008 |
Q: This is what I've done with these 2 files. qwes@HardyE:~/cat$ file /usr/bin/telnet /usr/bin/telnet: ...
A: There may be some Python or Perl script that will do this for you, but to my knowledge the 'file' ...
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| PHP cURL | 6/30/2008 |
Q: While crawling webpages using PHP cURL, sometimes I come across a large page that is too big, such ...
A: I'm more a Linux expert and less of a php expert but I'll take a swing at this one. Not knowing ...
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| How to run tcl/tk tool in linux | 6/26/2008 |
Q: As i am interested in programming in Tcl/Tk for protocol testing. I am unable to run the Tcl/tk ...
A: Find out if 'wish' is on your system and, if so, where with this command: whereis wish It should ...
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| Installation | 6/23/2008 |
Q: I was installing an Xubuntu CD on my computer which has Windows 98. Around 78% was installed when ...
A: The computer is not kaput, but I suspect either your CD-ROMs or CD drive is the problem. If you ...
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| Root user not working | 6/17/2008 |
Q: I am using Fedora core 8 and my problem is when I login as root, it loads improperly and system ...
A: Take a look root account in /etc/passwd and make sure that it looks something like this: ...
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| Drivers | 6/13/2008 |
Q: I Have RedHat 5.0 . When I go to the graphical mode is it possible to use watch video and listen to ...
A: The answer to your multimedia question is 'sort of, mostly.' Redhat is most admirable in its ...
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| How to run tcl/tk tool in linux | 6/12/2008 |
Q: As i am interested in programming in Tcl/Tk for protocol testing. I am unable to run the Tcl/tk ...
A: I'm not sure exactly which tcl/tk tool you're referring to, but I suspect you need some help ...
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| problem in booting | 5/21/2008 |
Q: i'm a new user for the linux operating system. i'm facing the problem while booting: the operating ...
A: THe kernel may be panicking, but you may not need to. Here's what I would suggest. If you have the ...
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| Arp spoofing.. | 5/20/2008 |
Q: I would like to ask about how to prevent arp spoofing on my LAN network by using Ubuntu 8.04 ? (i'm ...
A: ARP-spoofing should be a very, very low concern in terms of security for you if your network design ...
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| Open source and money | 5/15/2008 |
Q: Sir, I have now started supporting open source community after reading and using open source ...
A: First all, my apologies for the slow response to your excellent question. Perhaps it might be more ...
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| Locate MX record | 5/14/2008 |
Q: We have a mail server running FreeBSD 6.2 and qmail. I am trying to reconfigure the MX records ...
A: Yes, from your description this is very likely and in fact for smaller businesses this is a common ...
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| configure & make error | 5/11/2008 |
Q: this's my machines Linux ubuntu 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ...
A: Looks like the developers of YAPH have an error in their C syntax when trying to compile with ...
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| which ? | 5/5/2008 |
Q: I have a Pentium II 350 MHz microprocessor with 256 MB RAM with Windows 98. I spent 4 hours ...
A: Ah, sorry. You'll want to download clamwin with this link: ...
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| Locate MX record | 4/30/2008 |
Q: We have a mail server running FreeBSD 6.2 and qmail. I am trying to reconfigure the MX records ...
A: Try looking up this information online with a tool. The nslookup tool at ...
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| Locate MX record | 4/29/2008 |
Q: We have a mail server running FreeBSD 6.2 and qmail. I am trying to reconfigure the MX records ...
A: If you're hosting full DNS on your mail server, the first place I'd look is /etc/namedb/named.conf. ...
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| Unix and virus | 4/13/2008 |
Q: sir,unix is a freeware os but still doesnt have the threat of virus.I just dont understand how.I saw ...
A: Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/) has taken the Linux world by storm as a preferred Linux ...
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| Unix and virus | 4/12/2008 |
Q: sir,unix is a freeware os but still doesnt have the threat of virus.I just dont understand how.I saw ...
A: Technically speaking, UNIX is not freeware. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group and there is ...
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| how to play vedio (film) in linux os | 4/7/2008 |
Q: when i play movie in linux os. linux send me massage you don't install decoder you must install ...
A: I need some more information to solve this problem with you. Here's what I'll need: What ...
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| Linux Email Previewer | 3/22/2008 |
Q: I just got an Asus EeePC running on Linux. I really would like to find an email previewer similar ...
A: Ah. I see this is a lengthy looking set of instructions. Looks daunting, doesn't it? The author ...
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| Securing Linux | 3/11/2008 |
Q: I would like to make my new computer more secure. My main concern is vulnerability to anyone or ...
A: De-selecting "gdm" will disable the graphic gui login screen and put you on a command line after ...
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| Securing Linux | 3/8/2008 |
Q: I would like to make my new computer more secure. My main concern is vulnerability to anyone or ...
A: Gosh, and I just thought I could answer yes/no and be done. ;) Let me recommend this book for you: ...
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| Ubustu+XP+Security | 3/2/2008 |
Q: To help provide clear questions I'll number the main ones. I am currently dual-booting between ...
A: You have alot of questions and I'll do my best to knock 'em down, respectively: 1) There are a ...
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| SUSE linux Network probelm | 2/19/2008 |
Q: " Dear sir, I installed SUSE Linux Desktop 10 on my Dell GX 745 machine. When I wanted to ...
A: I did some more research for you. It seems that you're just a hair behind having this work ...
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| awk and file editing | 2/8/2008 |
Q: I'm trying to edit a text file using AWK. Its been so long since I've used it I cant remember how. ...
A: In my book, awk and ick are synonmous. I know, I know; the UNIX old-schoolers are pish-poshing me ...
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| Shell tr command | 2/6/2008 |
Q: I just want to ask you about very basic though, can I? I just want to make sure that tr command is ...
A: Yes, using the tr utility is not an ideal solution to your problem. If I may, I'd like to turn you ...
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| CHKDSK on Linux | 1/19/2008 |
Q: I have SUSE 10.3 installed on my Home PC I think my Hard drive maybe on the way out does Linux have ...
A: fsck is the Linux disk consistency tool. Don't run it on a mounted volume, though. That could ...
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| mod rewrite | 1/16/2008 |
Q: I am using ecommerce software that I keep in its own subdirectory called “store”. This software ...
A: This is a good question! I have some things for you to think about. First of all, I can't see what ...
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| Traffic | 1/11/2008 |
Q: how can i see all the incomming and outgoing traffic on redhat linux 7.2 mail server, where i am ...
A: The most straightforward approach to this is to run something like Ethereal ...
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| Bare-Metal backup and Restore of Linux | 1/7/2008 |
Q: I have a Dell Power Edge 2600 with a PERC4/Di RAID card running Red Hat Linux Enterprise 8.0. My ...
A: I'd encourage you to take a look at Mondo Rescue (http://www.mondorescue.org/). It's designed to do ...
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| Squid Proxy | 1/4/2008 |
Q: Iam Using squid proxy for internet. Now i want to block particular machine IP in squid proxy is it ...
A: It's not clear to me if you want to block a machine outside of your proxy access to your network or ...
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| installation of linux | 1/2/2008 |
Q: is there any requirement of specific hard disk for installing linux?? i am having hard disk sata ...
A: The short answer is that you should have no problem installing Linux on your Seagate SATA drive, ...
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| Solaris 10 x86 installation | 12/30/2007 |
Q: Can you please guide me how to prepare the bootable CD for solaris 10 x86 version. I have downloaded ...
A: First, let me say that it is unfortunate but true: my help, and devilsh good-looks are sometimes ...
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| x and desktop | 12/13/2007 |
Q: i am trying ubuntu currently and i would like use icewm instead of gnome. i installed a command line ...
A: You'll need to enable some additional repositories to complete this task from the bare-bones Ubuntu ...
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| qmail and SpamAssassin | 11/28/2007 |
Q: We are running ClamAV-91.2, SpamAssassin-3.1.8_1, qmail-1.0.3, and Simscan-1.4-4 on a FreeBSD 6.2 ...
A: There are a few options available to have qmail run spamassassin during the queue process. ...
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| character coding | 11/27/2007 |
Q: i used Vmware to create a ubuntu text-mode machine on XP. i install zhcon ...
A: My first suspicion is that the telnet client you're using does not support Chinese encoding, ...
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| Redhat linux kernal problem | 11/26/2007 |
Q: i have installed 3 os in my system. winxp prof. win2003 server and redhat linux version 9. all the ...
A: Saroj, I have one question and one suggestion:Does the line "mkrootdev: level / not found" actually ...
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| Redhat linux kernal problem | 11/22/2007 |
Q: i have installed 3 os in my system. winxp prof. win2003 server and redhat linux version 9. all the ...
A: Alot of the time, the kernel panic message has to do with Linux being unable to locate the hard ...
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| linux system | 11/18/2007 |
Q: I know nothing about computers as I am 50 years old I have wanted ths computer since I heard about ...
A: I, personally, am very excited about the OLPC project and the computer. It's a fantastic way to ...
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| VPS | 11/17/2007 |
Q: Managing of VPN host I bought a Linux vpn from a web hosting ( I don’t know any things about Linux ...
A: , Before I can help you install Firefox and how you can use it, how do you intend to use the system ...
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| blank display | 11/15/2007 |
Q: I logged on two Solaris servers which share a display. On one of the servers after logging, i see a ...
A: It sounds like X11 is misconfigured. If you have root access to the server with the monitor ...
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| Installing Hylafax | 10/22/2007 |
Q: . I'm installing libg++ for my hylafax what wrong with this here is the output shown: ...
A: Looks like you're version of GNU binutils is out of date. We could get caught in a recursive ...
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| refresh rate | 10/21/2007 |
Q: I'm having a problem changing the refresh rate on a 1024x768 resolution to 100 Hz, which my monitor ...
A: Try changing this: Section "Monitor" Identifier "FE2111SB" Option ...
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| Installing Hylafax | 10/19/2007 |
Q: I can't find any HOW TO of HYLAFAX 'coz isn't available in their website i have already download ...
A: Peter Paul, You do not have the required libraries installed to compile hylafax yet. You need to ...
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| Installing Hylafax | 10/17/2007 |
Q: I can't find any HOW TO of HYLAFAX 'coz isn't available in their website i have already download ...
A: Looks like your modem should work alright with hylafax. OK, let's start from the beginning of a ...
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| Installing Hylafax | 10/13/2007 |
Q: I can't find any HOW TO of HYLAFAX 'coz isn't available in their website i have already download ...
A: Peter Paul, Are you building from source or are you installing a binary package from Mandriva? ...
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| config and setup of hylafax | 10/13/2007 |
Q: please help me how can i setup and configure hylafax and where can i download hylafax ANSWER: Hi ...
A: It seems you need to install the libtiff library. Download it and install it from ...
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| installation | 10/12/2007 |
Q: how much space should be given to root,swap,boot partitions at the time of installing the redhat ...
A: This is an excellent question. Most modern Redhat distributions and their ilk automatically suggest ...
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| config and setup of hylafax | 10/10/2007 |
Q: please help me how can i setup and configure hylafax and where can i download hylafax
A: You can download hylafax at http://www.hylafax.org/content/Download. The official hylafax site ...
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| How to auto login SUN open windows (SUNOS5.6) | 10/8/2007 |
Q: Is there a way to bypass the login screen a SUN U10 running SUN OS 5.6 ANSWER: Hi corey7, Do you ...
A: Corey, It seems that the SunOS/Solaris community is doing this kind of thing with gdm which, ...
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| installing linux 7.1and partitionaing of hdd | 10/2/2007 |
Q: sir, i have following parts on my system: m/b= mercury pvm4 processor = intel PIV 3,06 ghz harddisk ...
A: Installing Redhat is really no problem, even if you're trying to dual-boot XP. In fact, RedHat's ...
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| Antivirus and antispam | 9/29/2007 |
Q: 1. i'm using sendmail server and i want to block spam mail, how can i do this and give me the best ...
A: Here's a good tutorial for RHEL4, courtesy of Bob Plankers ...
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| tcl/tk | 9/29/2007 |
Q: (http://www.tcl.tk/) is this script language purely made by C? (i mean in the very beginning since ...
A: This is slightly outside of my expertise, but I'll take a crack and you can correct me if I'm not ...
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| hi sir | 9/28/2007 |
Q: we have made a proxy server(EL4) in which the eth0 is 192.168.2.1 and eth1 ip is 192.168.100.5 we ...
A: Sounds like you need routing fixed up. Please tell me the output of the command "/sbin/route" on ...
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| installing screen | 9/26/2007 |
Q: i am a unix newbie my system is SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc (school machine and i have ...
A: My answers are as follows: 1) Look at the permissions on /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx and see if your ...
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| installing screen | 9/26/2007 |
Q: i am a unix newbie my system is SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc (school machine and i have ...
A: I suppose you could modify the source to obtain your goal - that's what is great about open source. ...
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| installing screen | 9/24/2007 |
Q: i am a unix newbie my system is SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc (school machine and i have ...
A: If you mean can you install screen under a non-root user's account, then the answer is no. The ...
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| Dual Monitors | 9/19/2007 |
Q: I have SuSe Linux server 9.1, and am running KDE. I added a second monitor by plugging it into the ...
A: Sounds like xinerama isn't put in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf as an option. Take a look at this page: ...
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| 32 bIt live cd | 9/16/2007 |
Q: I have two 32 bit live distros that will not boot on my PC. I know that the disks are good as I ...
A: This is most interesting. I can almost guarantee that it's a driver problem with your graphics ...
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| Running Linex on old computer | 9/16/2007 |
Q: When I got my new computer,I was left with the dilemma of what to do with my old Pentium 1 machine ...
A: Wow! A Pentium 1 machine. That is a hum-dinger. Unfortunately, so many of the Linux distributions ...
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| Linux boot-up | 9/15/2007 |
Q: This is probably a strange question, but I know nowhere else to turn to. A friend of mine knows Im ...
A: Gavin, I'm sorry, I don't know that Linux had an official start-up music. If it did, it was likely ...
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| Linux boot-up | 9/15/2007 |
Q: This is probably a strange question, but I know nowhere else to turn to. A friend of mine knows Im ...
A: Great question! After a bit of googling, here's my answer: I haven't experienced this particular ...
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| linux OS Installation | 9/14/2007 |
Q: Sir, If that is ur prime concern of answering only the short questions then could u please give me ...
A: There are so many Linux distributions. Here's a good general installation guide for Linux: ...
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| http authentication in apache | 9/8/2007 |
Q: I have a perl script located in a protected directory (.htaccess file on an unix box). People who ...
A: This is a little out of my expertise, but I'll take a crack at it. For starters, why do you want ...
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| DHCP in Linux | 9/5/2007 |
Q: I have broadband on my PC which is also partitioned to boot as linux. Windows broadband is working ...
A: Annie, From a command line, try this as the root user (or sudo) /sbin/modprobe rtl8139 This may ...
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| DHCP in Linux | 9/5/2007 |
Q: I have broadband on my PC which is also partitioned to boot as linux. Windows broadband is working ...
A: OK, well this answers one question; that Linux does not recognize your network card and that would ...
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| DHCP in Linux | 9/4/2007 |
Q: I have broadband on my PC which is also partitioned to boot as linux. Windows broadband is working ...
A: I can help you with this, no problem. First off, I'll let you know that in previous years, say ...
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| Qmail Migration | 9/2/2007 |
Q: I have a qmail server based on qmailrocks.com. I have installed a qmail server on a new machine. How ...
A: I actually have quite a bit of experience with the qmailrocks qmail mail server installation. The ...
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| Enterprise Linux vs Desktop Linux | 8/29/2007 |
Q: I'm am clueless about Red Hat Linux, and would like to know what the difference between the Red Hat ...
A: This is an excellent question and I hope you find my answer helpful. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is ...
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| linux os | 8/20/2007 |
Q: what is raid and lvm? give detailed answers
A: RAID, (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), is, as the name implies, a redundancy measure of ...
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| recording chatroom context on bbs building on unix | 8/18/2007 |
Q: i am currently using BBS system building within my campus. when i enter chatroom in it how can i ...
A: Sinn, Yes, you could use Expect to 'glue' some of the unix utilities together to, in essence, listen ...
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| how to install konqueror in linux | 8/3/2007 |
Q: please give me exact steps for dummies, i'm a starter of using Linux. ANSWER: Hi Lisa, This is ...
A: Lisa, On Fedora, the most direct way of installing Konqueror is to launch the terminal by clicking ...
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| how to install konqueror in linux | 8/3/2007 |
Q: please give me exact steps for dummies, i'm a starter of using Linux.
A: This is right up my alley and it would be really helpful if you could tell me which distribution ...
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| diskless node | 7/24/2007 |
Q: I have pc running windows xp and 10 older pcs with windows xp on bad hd. I would like to disable ...
A: Wow. This is an intense network design question. If I understand correctly, you want to run Linux ...
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| general Linux question | 7/16/2007 |
Q: When I was in high school, my dad had a working Linux system on one of our computers, and I fell in ...
A: Great! I hope you enjoy Linux. I use it almost exclusively as my home desktop. There's always one ...
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| general Linux question | 7/14/2007 |
Q: When I was in high school, my dad had a working Linux system on one of our computers, and I fell in ...
A: Linux has matured exponentially over the last 3-4 years. I don't know when you were last exposed to ...
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| linux kernel error | 7/2/2007 |
Q: i have installed pc quest linux 2006 . but while booting kernel i got error: kernel panic-not ...
A: Please check the computer's settings in the BIOS. See if there is a setting to adjust the hard ...
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| Package Installer | 7/1/2007 |
Q: Robert, I am a newbie on Linux; I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 and I am trying to install a .deb ...
A: If you're still having problems, would you mind opening a terminal and typing the following on the ...
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| Sendmail problem | 6/19/2007 |
Q: , emails are being sent out as user@host.domain.com. This is fine within our domain but when ...
A: I need a little bit more information regarding your email server configuration. For instance, you ...
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| linux version | 6/19/2007 |
Q: Sir, 1.what is the mail difference between EL3 and EL4 2.Explain Boot process. 3.Explain me how to ...
A: Here are my answers: 1) Do you mean "mail" or "main" difference between EL3 and EL4? If you mean ...
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| Steps for installing Unix & making the system Dual boot with Windows XP & Unix | 6/12/2007 |
Q: Can you please tell me the steps as in how to install Unix & making the system Dual boot with ...
A: Which flavor of UNIX/Linux to you want to install? Can I recommend one for you? Is Windows XP ...
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