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Ubuntu/GNOME deteriorating? At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:48:57 -0500 Ignoramus30639 <ignoramus30639(a)NOSPAM.30639.invalid> wrote: I use Linux to conduct my entire digital life, I do not dual boot, it is not a play project for me. I live, breathe, and make money with Linux. And I want it to work instead of being a game of chance. At this po... 1 Apr 2010 09:01
OS battleground moves into the realms of mobile devices FYI. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100325PR200.html OS battleground expands from handsets to mobile devices, says iSuppli Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 25 March 2010] The battle for mobile operating system (OS) dominance is spreading beyond the smartphone arena and into other mobile and ... 25 Mar 2010 01:00
NYC LOCAL: Thursday 25 March 2010 ISOC-NY: Jinyang Li on Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope <blockquote what="official Internet Society New York City Chapter announcement" edits="some odd characters removed"> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:25:54 -0400 To: announce(a)isoc-ny.org From: ISOC-NY announcements <announce(a)isoc-ny.org> Subject: Re: [isoc-ny] ISOC-NY Event Censorship Circumvention via Kaleido... 24 Mar 2010 22:45
compiling on 32-bit vs. 64-bit (gcc fails on 64-bit) On a 64-bit Scientific Linux 5.4 machine, I get the following when I try to compile the basic "Hello world" program: [root]# g++ -Wall hello.cc -o hello /tmp/ccglIDXK.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccglIDXK.s:10: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' /tmp/ccglIDXK.s:38: Error: suffix or operands invalid for ... 25 Mar 2010 07:58
20 Most Powerful Open Source Voices of 2010. So where is RoySchestowitz? Hahahahhaha Marti van Lin wrote: I am using GNU/Linux for over a decade now and I can confirm that Microsoft Windows has become an obsolate, overpriced piece of junk. Unfortunately the Microsoft Astroturfers realize that this is a *fact* so the only thing they have left are personal attacks. How silly... 24 Mar 2010 19:19
VirtualBox - Linux host - Windows guest Hi ! I need to put WindowsXP as a VirtualBox guest on Linux host for demonstration purposes. Everything is supposed to run on an older notebook, not too comfortable with memory. On the other hand, performance isn't critical. I'd like to understand some things. First, except for some network kernel drivers... 23 Mar 2010 22:54
20 Most Powerful Open Source Voices of 2010. So where is Roy Schestowitz? Hahahahhaha > trolling fsckwit Ezekiel wrote: mentally-ill Flatfish troll wrote: I guess Schestowitz didn't make the list this year. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Yeah? I didn't see either of you twits in the usenet Kook of the Year finals, either, although you both deserve to be. -- "The larger point... 25 Mar 2010 09:06
Downloading andLinux I wish to download andLinux from http://sourceforge.net/projects/andlinux/files/andlinux/Beta%202/andlinux-beta2-kde.exe/download. It is about 563MB in size and I only have an unreliable dial-up connection*. I wonder whether there is some way of downloading it so that if the download is interrupted I can re-start... 23 Mar 2010 18:19
Linux's Much Overlooked Calculator -- BC Bc is a handy console calcualator found on most distributions, but very few people know how to use it. (It will do very sophisticated mathematics, too, but that's beyond me.) Create /etc/bc and put this in it: scale=3 That sets the number of decimal places bc will calculate to. In your system-wide b... 30 Mar 2010 18:22
inetd problems Hey guys, Hope to get some help here. I have a small linux-box running BusyBox for small home server use (samba, ftp, http, etc.). I'm currently trying to get SSMTP to work for relaying all mails sent to the home server to my ISPs smtp server. The box has no sendmail or any other mail software installed, but S... 22 Mar 2010 07:09 |