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Xvnc give black screen and dies Hi All, OS: CentOS 5.4 GUI: Xfce 4.4.2 I am trying to get Xvnc up and running. So far I can get past the password, get a big black screen with a movable "X" for the mouse, then after about 10 seconds, it dies. "Supposedly", I am suppose to see my gdm greater (logon) screen. What am I doing wrong? Many ... 17 Jan 2010 16:10
Custom facilities in syslog? Hello, in syslog config, I have used up from local0 to local7, but I want more facilities, what can I do? Seems not possible to create custom facilities? Thanks. ... 15 Jan 2010 10:27
Blogging clients on Debian - Blogilo and b2evolution I have been looking for blogging clients on Debian to publish to a Wordpress site. All the research on the Internet recommends Blogilo ar b2evolution. I could not compile Blogilo after downloading and installing all the recommended libraries and tools. As for b2evolution, I am experiencing error messages by a... 18 Jan 2010 05:20
Solution: order of multiple sound cards In case it might be useful to someone lurking in these groups, here's one solution to the problem of ordering of multiple sound cards of different types. Three of my machines have the same motherboard with built-in sound. One of them has a USB-to-MIDI interface to an electric piano. Sound output to the built-i... 14 Jan 2010 14:39
Starting daemon specifically for a user I want to run stunnel as a daemon so my newsreader can access my newsserver. After asking on #debian, I found that I need to tell Debian to start the stunnel daemon during the init process, which happens before users login. I did that, and it works. My question is, why does root need to enable this for all users?... 13 Jan 2010 22:12
Debian, OpenJDK + JavaFX Finally I have Debian (Lenny) installed on my Eeepc. I am trying to install JavaFX on this system. My Windows has NetBeans with JavaFX installed on it. The NetBeans on Debian is a slightly older version AND there is no JavaFX. Please let me know if it is something that I have to manually install. Thank y... 13 Jan 2010 17:44
NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 January 2010 Lisp NYC Eating and Drinking <blockquote what="official Lisp NYC announcement" new-records="Gershom's presentation is finally available for download via FTP and Torrent: ftp://lispnyc.org/meeting-assets/2009-11-10_gershom/simple-scheme-tricky-diffs.mpg ftp://lispnyc.org/meeting-assets/2009-11-10_gershom/simple-scheme-tr... 12 Jan 2010 08:01
Linux friendly Laptops and Netbooks?? Last week I got a new Asus EeePC 1005HA. My goal was to install Debian on it which some users claim is the best distro for a netbook. Yes, I did read their wiki, printed instructions and on and on. A week later, I could only get wired network working. Later I tried Slackware and Fedora, where only the wired... 23 Jan 2010 00:08
Linux firewalls and security I was curious what was the dominant thinking about security. Here's my situation: I have about a 100 servers coming up for a computational cluster. The access required is mainly ssh and a couple of other services. We know specific I/P addresses or domains that ought to be allowed access. Either I can hav... 14 Jan 2010 16:55
How to enter a character by entering the number code? E.g ALT 123 Assume I want to enter the character "u", but the "u" key is defect on my notebook. As far as I remember there is a possibility to enter a char NOT by pressing a certain key but by entering the corresponding number code. It was something like ALT + 123 How does this work in detail? Where is the char code tab... 17 Jan 2010 18:24 |