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relative sizes of user-bases of CentOS versus ScientificLinux Are there any studies / websites that track the total user base of various Linux distros? I wanted to install CentOS on a Server but some others like ScientificLinux. In "theory" they are both the same since RHEL clones.... But I am always biased towards a distro or software or tool with more users than less (... 2 Feb 2010 15:11
X windows client server confusion Hi All, I am confused. When running "X" windows, is the terminology reversed? By chance is the computer hosting the applications called the client and the remote computer viewing the applications called the server? Is so, why is this? Many thanks, -T ... 2 Feb 2010 15:11
How do clear/wipe all previous lines on a terminal window? Assume I opened a terminal window and entered a lot of commands. Is there a way to clear all previous input and output lines on this terminal window? Of cause without closing and re-opening the Terminal window. Afterwards the terminal should look like as if the terminal had been just opened. All history lines are... 2 Feb 2010 15:12
NYC LOCAL: Thursday 28 January 2010 First Meeting Clojure NYC: Rich Hickey, Stuart Sierra, and Eric Thorsen on Clojure <blockquote what="not quite official Clojure NYC announcement, taken from http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-NYC/calendar/12228936" info="http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-NYC" note="space may be tight" more="http://clojure.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure http://java.oci... 27 Jan 2010 01:35
NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 27 January 2010 NYLUG: Edward Capriolo on Hadoop - Computation Clusters at Scale <blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement" edits=""> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Message-Id: <20100126143002.25FF9E5C55(a)nylug.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:30:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! Meeting Jan 27 @ 6:30... 26 Jan 2010 16:38
named (DNS) question Hello, opensuse v9.3, linux 2.6.11.4-21.17-smp i686 The host is set up as a caching-only DNS server. When I originally deployed it, there was no problem indicated, it (seemed to) read its data from the master, it resolved DNS queries, it all looked good. I recently checked this backup server and found that i... 26 Jan 2010 20:05
MPlayerXP-0.7.95 has been released I'm glad to announce the next release of the project which opens new epoch in its generation. Brief list of changes for this release: * significant acceleration of playback. Now 64-bit version can scale 640x480 up to 2000x1500+ at 25 FPS in real-time without frame-dropping with using of non-accelerated '-vo x... 26 Jan 2010 13:11
Relationship between pdflush & kjournald I was a little bit confused, as in journal filesystem, the data is always written in journal. But pdflush flush dirty page periodically from memory to filesystem. Anyone can offer a better explaination, e.g. relationship, steps of data being written from program to disk. Thanks. ... 2 Feb 2010 15:11
ssh, openswan, openvpn or ...? We have an iptables firewalling router setup here that is working well, as we've stress-tested it from external sites using all the attack tools we can find. We have several users that are "on the road" and require connectivity from various sites such as motels, coffeehouses, airports and dialup to various I... 9 Feb 2010 01:50
decode /proc Dear All I want to display the /proc information in my bochs GUI (http:// peter-bochs.googlecode.com). My question is, Is /proc completely located in memory? If yes, how can I get its location? and how can I decode it? thanks from Peter (cmk128(a)hotmail.com) ... 3 Feb 2010 17:24 |