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CTX Ez Book 800 Series (model FT6730)
C.O. Vimmerstedt [COV at ameritech.net]
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:03:30 -0500
I'm trying to change the CMOS battery in the above old notebook that I use with my ham radio station (old is good around a lot of RF). Does anyone know the secret to getting this thing apart? It seems to be held somehow in the middle under the lower keyboard.
Chuck
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problem in coding of problem in linux
Smit Jadhav [smitjadhav19 at gmail.com]
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:32:35 +0530
i m student in computer science . i m doing a project in linux about security systems my concept is when a user tries to open a proteected file or folder he must be redirected to a other file or folder specified by us their is some sort of linking have to be done but how i dont know pls send any help message on my email id smit_jadhav19@yahoo.comor smitjadhav19@gmail.com
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apt-get dist-upgrade
Christopher Cole [freedomfixer at hotmail.com]
Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:04:59 +0000
Hi there,
I'm looking for info on how to fix my login after performing dist-upgrade. I'm running Deb. Etch. I can sign on a root via term.
However I get errors like...
Could not open Network Socket, make sure dcopserver is running. And this one....
Could not start kstartupconfig. check your installation. When signing onto my user account.
I opened Kuser and crated a new login and that works. But I'd like to fix my old one.
Thanks, Christopher Cole
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compressed issues of LG
Minh Nguyen [nguyenminh2 at gmail.com]
Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:13:10 +1100
So far, issues of LG have been compressed using tar and gzip. Is there any intention to use tar with bzip2 for future issues? Since most of the files in each issue are text files, bzip2 is more efficient (in terms of the size of the compressed file) than gzip. Here is a comparison of bzip2 and gzip using the current issue; i.e. November 2007 (#144):
1028042 lg-144.tar.bz2 1045337 lg-144.tar.gzIMHO, providing a bzip2 compressed format of LG issues would save some download time.
Regards
Minh Van Nguyen
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How do I reformat an Ubuntu installation?
Derry [fajd at tpg.com.au]
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:05:29 +1100
I have SUSE 10 on my PC and installed Ubuntu which has partitioned my hard drive. I want to reformat the hard drive to allow a clean reinstall of Ubuntu 7.10 only from a desktop CD. I've tried using "fdisk" but get the error message "Unable to open /dev/hda" which suggests a problem somewhere, yet Ubuntu currently runs with out any problems. Do I continue with fdisk? If so, how? Or try something else? Once reformatting is successful, will the PC boot directly off the CD or do I need to make a boot disk of some kind? Many thanks for any tips.
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NIS client root privilege
Smile Maker [britto_can at yahoo.com]
Tue, 6 Nov 2007 03:17:20 -0800 (PST)
Folks,
When I configure NIS client in Linux machines the client's roots are having exclusive access to the home directories by doing "su username "
Is there anyway to prevent that.
Thanks & regards, Britto
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Some stunnel questions (hopefully not too dumb)
Harmon, Paul [paul.harmon at nscorp.com]
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:44:51 -0500
Hi All,
I'm trying to use Stunnel to create an encrypted tunnel into my LINUX box from another LINUX box and as much as I hate to admit it, I know relatively little about SSL implementation. I would like to set up connection from a relatively dumb test client application which requests of my test server to send out the contents of a file which I specify to it. This is done by firing up my server and having it listen to requests on specific port number which I have chosen, accept the connection and respond with the data over the socket. I have recently found Barry O'Donovan's article in the Linux Gazette which seems to specify how to set up Stunnel-4.XX to create an SSL aware server. That much seems reasonable. But my question is "How do I setup a similar scheme for the client?" I've found other articles, but they seem to be for older versions of Stunnel using flags that do not seem to apply to Stunnel-4.XX. So here I am with half the solution I need. Now what? Help!!!!
Many Thanks for serious replies,
Paul Harmon
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Floppy Drive automounting ubuntu 7.04??
OSIDE [yaja at cox.net]
Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:58:40 -0700
I have ubuntu 7.04 on a single user computer. New to ubuntu linux 0S & using the command line, trying to learn it. Need information on how to auto mount the platform device (floppy0) and the PC floppy drive. When I right click on floppy drive & click on mount, I get the error message, mount:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.
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uninstalling linux
sugar plum [sugarplum_lana at yahoo.com]
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:14 -0800 (PST)
So a friend of mine sends me a couple of hard drives for my birthday telling me one used to be a linux drive and that i will more than likely need to partition it. So i hook it up in my tower and turn the thing on. Here's what I see....
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16eb71]
initrd /initrd -2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0xfd45000, 0x19adf9 bytes]
Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Couldn't find device with uuid 'tD0wBg-QBZz-zExm-A6QM-ZbPv-z42w-su5bzz'.
Couldnt find all physical volumes for Volume Group VolGroup00.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'tD0wBg-QBZz-zExm-A6QM-ZbPv-z42w-su5bzz'.
Couldnt find all physical volumes for Volume Group VolGroup00.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'tD0wBg-QBZz-zExm-A6QM-ZbPv-z42w-su5bzz'.
Couldnt find all physical volumes for Volume Group VolGroup00.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'tD0wBg-QBZz-zExm-A6QM-ZbPv-z42w-su5bzz'.
Couldnt find all physical volumes for Volume Group VolGroup00.
Unable to find volumegroup "VolGroup00"
Unable to access resume device (idev/volgroup00/LogVol01)
Mount: could not find file system '/dev/root'
Setuproot: moving idev failed: no such file or directory.
Setuproot: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory.
Setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory.
Switchroot: mount failed: no such file or directory
Kernel Panic- not syncing: attempted to kill init!
All i want to know is step by step.. how do i make that go away so i
can install Windows XP? *sighs softly*
thanks for your time in advance
Sugar
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Run java class file using cron?
Mudassar Khan [mudassar at jumpgames.co.in]
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:20:33 +0530
[[[ I've retitled this thread from its original "query" title to something more descriptive. -- Kat ]]]
Hi, Can I run java class file using cron. If yes. then help me. Regards, Mudassar Khan
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keyword of types of video card
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh [mohsen at pahlevanzadeh.org]
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:13:27 +0330
Hi, How i bring up keyword of my video? Cheers,
--Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh email address : mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org web site : https://pahlevanzadeh.org IRC IM : m_pahlevanzadeh yahoo IM : linuxorbsd
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using smp kernel, get 100% cpu usage one one cpu without any real load on the system
Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at nadlanu.com]
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:26:01 +0100
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:10:33 -0400 jim ruxton wrote:
> Below is the result of x86info -v: This statement at the bottom is kindof cryptic: > WARNING: Detected SMP, but unable to access cpuid driver.Used Uniprocessor > CPU routines. Results inaccurate. Any idea what it could mean??Thanks again > for the help.
It means that you don't have CONFIG_X86_CPUID enabled in the kernel (that' s in the 'Processor type and features' section).
CONFIG_X86_CPUID: This device gives processes access to the x86 CPUID instruction to be executed on a specific processor. It is a character device with major 203 and minors 0 to 31 for /dev/cpu/0/cpuid to /dev/cpu/31/cpuid.If you want to use x86info, you'll also need to enable CONFIG_X86_MSR.
Pedja
-- [...]If they can't think at that point and find information, then they aren't really cut out to do harder admin. They can go become "Sr. Windows Admins" (senior with Windows means that they have figured out how to change the date).- Chuck Yerkes,openbsd mailing list
