Linux Laptops
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:22:26 +0100
I am considering a laptop for my grown up daughter, Dell Inspiron 1525
seems to manage to do all she needs for Googlemail, web browsing and a
little word processing. It's also got a 160gig harddrive so I can get
it to dual boot whatever form of Microsoft it comes with, although I
went straight from windows to Slac ...
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Nat
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:01:57 +0100
Hi,
I hope you do not mind me post to this new group. I have 3 windows
servers which need to be accessed from the outside. I do not want to
move them into the ripe world.
Would Nat be worth considering for these boxes?
And could some one point me to a good nat howto
Thanks for your input
Kivin ...
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Natting
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:59 +0100
Hi,
I hope you do not mind me post to this new group. I have 3 windows
servers which need to be accessed from the outside. I do not want to
move them into the ripe world.
Would Nat be worth considering for these boxes?
And could some one point me to a good nat howto
Thanks for your input
Kivin ...
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multi booting questions
10 Jun 2008 20:58:00 GMT
I'm trying to do a multi-boot of several different distros on my "test"
PC...and totally failing.
I have Ubuntu and windows xp on sda which have been dual booting with
grub nicely. Now trying to install mandriva, suse, pclinux, and a few
others on sdb but despite reading the grub manual (wow that was fun!!)
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Mandriva 2008.1 DVD with Linux Magazine
10 Jun 2008 16:43:47 GMT
Not clear from the magazine Web site: does this work as a 'live' DVD, as
well as for installations? At some point I'll maybe buy the full version,
but I'd like to give it a try before replacing my current 2008.0.
Chris
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PS to PDF
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:03:00 +0100
Last year, when I was running Mandriva with KDE, I had a menu item when
right-clicking in konqueror on a .ps file along the lines of "convert to
PDF", which I assume is a KDE encapsulation of ps2pdf.
Now, using Debian Etch, I'm not seeing that entry. Has anyone any idea on
how to enable it, please?
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Tony ...
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USB ADSL Modems for Linux?
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:41:51 +0000 (UTC)
Anyone have any experiences of USB ADSL Modems with Linux?
Now before everyone jumps down my throat with "Get a router", that is
normally what I would be doing, but I have a little sort of embedded
application that I'm looking to turn into an ADSL router to save on the
box, plug and wire count etc. The CPU I'm u ...
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Getting weird failures on my backups
Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:53:58 +0000 (UTC)
I've been making daily backups for literally years without any issues.
The last time I changed my backup script was on 2006-12-31.
I'm running ext3 on LVM on raid1 except for my /boot directory which is
straight ext3 on raid1.
I do a lvm snapshot of the volume, run fsck on the snapshot and then
dump it via ss ...
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Persistent ls options
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:20:10 +0100
In "the old days" ls used to look at the environment variable
LS_OPTIONS. I want to use a complex --time-style but I'd like it
to work for *all* ls invocations. The usual advice to use
alias ls="ls --time-style=whatever"
works only when bash gets to process the command. The canonical
example would be !l ...
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WGET and LowerCase Filenames
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
I am using WGET to mirror an FTP site that contains file and
directories that are mixed case, but when I download the folders etc
using wget it converts all the filenames to lowercase, can anyone
advise ?
wget -mirror -nH -r ftp://anonymous:anonymous@ftp.nai.com/CommonUpdater/
Thanks, Simon. ...
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