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I know many would like to have the OS preinstalled but I would rather has a NO OS option and put on what ever I want.

I like it better than windows. It is more secure, stable and versitle.

Some people purchase it because they don't know any better, want to support the project, have no or limitted internet.

> steps of installing and configuring servers in linux Wow sorry that is way too generic. File server? NFS,AppleTalk,SMB,WebDAV,FTP,SFTP Web Server? Apache2, Lighthttpd,nginx If so do you need a database and php? If so with nxginx you may want to really look at how you are going to handle php. …

RPM predated YUM and is not used as much. You can use it to install a rpm you have downloaded. Yum will go for the repo not the downloaded file. rpm can also be used to verify the binaries. Lets say you think someone may have gotten onto your system …

Any reason for skipping the package manager? From the terminal sudo apt-get install python to search apt repos apt-cache search python | less

Rubberman is correct. /home/username/.bash_profile is the place to set it. Sample cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin export PATH [Bash env settings](http://here2serve.biz/mod/page/view.php?id=67)

If it's waiting on ads then either the ads servers are slow or you have a dns issue.

Either start with a live cd, or virtual machine. Then follow step by step through the [LPIC-1 course](http://here2serve.biz)

Stick with ssh. You might want to have the script run your log out script. By default ~/.bash_logout

Technically Linux is not an operating system even though it is common place to call it one. Linux is a kernel. To be an operating system you must add user space tools to make it useable. That's why many refer to it as GNU/Linux but at this point the argument …

Are you saying that running " sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop" just keeps running over and over again?

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Yes you can get much of your data back. First don't use the drive at all! Next use photorec to scan for and recover the data. Recover the data to a diffrent drive.

cp -a source destination This would have gotten them all you could also use rsync http://here2serve.biz/mod/glossary/showentry.php?courseid=8&eid=20081&displayformat=dictionary

I just got G5 PPC Mac the user who gave it to me claims that it "died during an update. It will not boot from the CD. It was running 10.5 and I have the disk. Using the C key with 2 keyboards. I booted into the open firmware using …

You can set that to be the default umask and all new users would have it set or use chmod.

You may have set a username in windows with uppercase but windoze does not pay any attention to case in user names.

BACK UP! resize2fs - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system resizer <SNIPPED URL>

chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/ <SNIPPED URL>

Put in a line kernel.shmmax=somebits <SNIPPED URL>

I'm glad people can choose to be sick, broke or free. Sad that so few choose freedom.

[QUOTE=jhonnyboy;1120986]Hello everyone, I was trying to install ndiswrapper and the drivers needed to get my laptop working with wireless properly. I never got around to finish installing the drivers although I did install ndiswrapper. I lost my wifi completely and my system doesn't even pick up my card now. It …

[QUOTE=normanallen;1130422]Very simple question - can a Ubuntu 9.10 distro format a hard drive in ntfs format?[/QUOTE] Do you mean that you want to install Ubuntu onto a ntfs partition or that you need to partition a drive as ntfs? From the command prompt use [URL="http://here2serve.biz/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=151"]mkfs[/URL] If you need to do …

[QUOTE=evstevemd;1121279]Mandriva 2010[/QUOTE] Go to the mcc "control center" your firewall needs to allow port 5900. You also need a vnc client on the windows box. Windows remote desktop is not going to work. Ultravnc should do fine. Have been away from mandriva for a long time. It's were I started …

No thanks. Not into the DRM thing won't buy a Zune, Ipod or anything like them. My old Iriver works fine on linux and I am not limited in the software

From a terminal cd /home/username ls -la .dmrc Result -rw------- 1 mike mike 28 2010-02-12 18:03 .dmrc If the output shows a different user than expected use chown if the permissions are wrong use chmod

[QUOTE=jazz_vill;1130300]I manually set-up a partition during my installation of Ubuntu 9.10. I only created a swap partition about 512mb and a root partition of 10gb and no partition for /home but I have a partition for all my data files. What I really want is a separate partition for programs …

First get the data. Use a live cd to boot and then get your data before you do any thing. I've had great results during an upgrade but a good back up is the best plan. When you do set up the system they way you want use clonezillia to …

Not enough info to really help. Most distros the the bottm of the screen provide alt boot options. fb800x600 should get you in.

You could do it with a script but edit /etc/fstab is the the way to go. First cp /etc/fstab /etc/orig-fstab Do it as root/sudo [URL="http://here2serve.biz/moodle/mod/glossary/view.php?id=206&mode=entry&hook=5256"]example fstab[/URL] You would normally mount it like mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb(1) /mnt/where-ever/

I would buy a netbook or a phone that I could use RPD, Nmap, Autoscan network, OpenVas and such. Would be real handy when traveling and providing support.

I've taken courses on line and finished them. Many courses I go through are free and I may not finish "according to the site". I reach just my goal and move on. I'm starting my own e-learning site and have found that it has improved my focus on continued growth.