Forum: Operating System Talk

No, its not about the old dood who invented KFC, its about your linux kernel and for newbies like me, I found this site while googling how to auto mount disks during startup. Damn, google is such an awesome tool, pitty they are going to take over the world and make us sit in jelly filled tanks...

I found this list whilst browsing and thought there might be a program or two that you guys might find handy. Most of the apps you guys will most likely know but you never know, one or two might help. Infoworld Free Windows Tools...

Warning to you guys... An update that addresses the 17-year-old kernel bug in Windows XP is causing the Blue Screen of Death. Consumers still using Windows XP may want to avoid the latest Microsoft security update released on Tuesday. Security blogger Brian Krebs reports that complaints...

What do you guys think? A little too soon if you ask me :unsure:

Source: Geeksmack (http://geeksmack.net/index.php/microsoft/956-windows-godmode-a-folder-that-does-everything) Awesome I say, will be trying this later tonight when I get home!:cool:

Right so, next week I will be getting a 1TB HDD and will be getting rid of my 250GB one. My question is, how do I copy every single thing over from the 250GB to the 1TB including O/S? Can I just copy and paste, then change drive names and restart and thats that, or does it go further then that?

Grab your Win 7 64bit drivers here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql.html) (Release date : 26/11/2009)

The first easter egg can be found in a program called "moo". Open the terminal and type aptitude moo. The program will say "There are no Easter Eggs in this program", but don't trust everything you read. Now type aptitude -v moo. It will give you almost the same message as the previous one, but...

1. Ubuntu 9.10 is migrating away from the usual add/remove to a new Software Centre! This means that commercial software will also be available for purchase. This will open allot of gates for developers. I just hope that Adobe Graphics products will be availibe soon which will make my life pretty...

I can't remember when I last had a virus on my PC or on my home network, but I guess it must be at least 7-8 years. I've always had my Anti-virus, firewalls and anti-spyware tools and I always watch my services and startup applications with an eagle eye, making sure nothing slips through. ...

Hi guys, I'm sitting with a Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and a very strange error has occured which i cannot seem to fix. I installed VirtualBox 3.0 and after installing WinXP i made the mistake of not making my Dynamically growing hard-drive big enough and after some time found out that the 10...

Five Features We Want to See in Ubuntu (http://lifehacker.com/5355900/five-features-we-want-to-see-in-ubuntu) [/URL] Ubuntu isn't the only Linux operating system, but it's where the dream of a usable, completely free desktop is closest to reality. If every Ubuntu developer were assembled at...

Hi guys, I feel i need to share this as i am looking for a decent Video Editor aka:Open Shot (http://www.openshotvideo.com/) and it does look like this oak and others is putting in some serious effort to bring Linux yet another marvellous piece of software! I really want to see this working! ...

Interesting find by: Adam Oxford Source: techradar (http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/25-linux-tips-for-windows-switchers-630198?artc_pg=1)

This particular problem caused me at least 6 hours to resolve and I finally found a particular solution that worked for me. I decided to list all the possible solutions in one place. Code: Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); dbConnection =...

Ola! I know you guys already know this, but there is some kiff games available on Linux, here is just a few! If it was already posted somewhere, then please delete! FlightGear Genre : Simulator Homepage : http://www.flightgear.org (http://www.flightgear.org/) Install Instructions...

Adapted from the original article here: http://benrobb.com/2007/01/15/howto-start-subversion-at-boot-on-ubuntu/ These tips allows you to start the subversion server every time Ubuntu boots up. Step 1: Create our boot script file $ cd /etc/init.d $ sudo gedit svnserve

Who says (take 2) that games can’t be played under Linux? We’ll it was my perception before that Linux is purely for servers and has no opportunity for desktop games and multimedia. But once again, they proved me wrong. After configuring my sexy old PC for desktop effects, changing Firefox’s font...

I've had a locale (language related) problem on one of our ubuntu linux servers where I kept getting errors such as: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct or perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: