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    No Sound with Flash

    Flash 9 sound stuff is fairly broken. ya that will work for some things. I wanted to switch from using Alsa directly to using PulseAudio for various reasons. Flash9 won't work with that for nothing. There is nothing you can really do to fix it.. The best I've been able to get it working...
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    Recomend a distro for sound recording/editing

    You want 64Studio! It's very multimedia oriented. If you ever used Ubuntu before you'll find this is similar since it uses Debian and Ubuntu is Debian-based. One of the nice things about it is that has commercial support options, but is still free software. The big difference between this...
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    linux software raid - is this right?

    I never, ever, paritition software raid devices. There is very little point to it. After partitioning a device fdisk issues a special call to get that device 'reset'. This makes the kernel re-read the device and discover the new partitions. Otherwise the OS doesn't know that you've...
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    grep - why does this crash?

    It segfaulted because of a bug with it. Something with it is wrong. I run commands like that all the time and it works just fine with grep. It should not ever segfault, at worst it will choke and error out, more or less gracefully. .-------------------------- You can go individually file...
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    Super Low Power Linux for Laptop Media Playing?

    On long trips I'll just use my EEE PC plus a power inverter and that's that. I have a 80gig USB harddrive that I'll plug into it. I'll use a power inverter because I'll charge my cell phone and use it for other things. But if it was just my laptop I'd just get a proper adapter. Otherwise...
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    bored of windows suggest me an alternative

    Nope. :) Samba is for SMB/CIFS network file sharing. CIFS (also called SMB) is the protocol that Microsoft uses for it's network file sharing. If you want access to a NTFS file system then the best way to do it in Linux is to use the ntfs-3g user space ntfs driver. This is a FUSE-based...
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    Fedora 9 Released!

    Works fine for me. My main system is now a Dell 1420n laptop with Intel IGP. I use dual monitors exclusively. I plug in a monitor at work, I have a monitor at home. I used projectors in it. Everything, no sweat. The only change I needed to make was to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf line. This was...
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    How best to backup/image Linux lvm-dmcrypt encrypted hard disk drive?

    I wouldn't bother trying to backup the file system. what I'd rather do is use rsync or tar (or whatever other type of archiving tool you prefer) and do it on the file and directory level. If you'd like you can do this on a live system, just as long as you watch out for online databases.. but...
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    linux terminal and up key

    Errr... Oops. that's not what your asking. Basically what is happening is that your entering a sub-shell. Your exiting out of your bash shell and entering into a nslookup shell. Totally different environments. Another example would be command-line ftp, or the telnet program when your...
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    linux terminal and up key

    Add: bind '"\e[A"':history-search-backward bind '"\e[B"':history-search-forward to your ~/.bashrc file. That will make it so if you go: ls <arrow up> It will search backwards through your history for commands that started with 'ls'
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    good linux security guide?

    I donno. There is a nice book called 'Hardening Linux" that you can usually find in bigger bookstores. Otherwise there are websites all over the place. Linuxsecurity.com is probably a handy place to start. Here is somethings that I know: a) Simple is better. Complexity is the enemy of...
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    backups: automatic backups for certain modified files

    As a excersize in learning about about these tools I've been using git with a custom makefile to make backups easy for myself. I have some information I want to keep replicated across a bunch of machines. I may use them randomly, but I want to keep a more-or-less consistent view of this data...
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    Linux update server?

    If your using deb package system (Debian or Ubuntu) you can install a apt-proxy. There are two versions that I've used, one is called apt-proxy and the other is approx. They act as a sort of web proxy. Target your clients to use those as the repository and they will cache packages as you update...
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    headless server: play audio from laptop?

    Just use MPD. Music Player Daemon. It's job is to just play music. I was it mentioned above, but seriously. This is what you want. Don't bother installing a GUI or VNC or anything like that, waste of resources. Learn how to edit the file and just run it. Use putty.exe from Windows if...
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    Looking around for a desktop management system

    What do you mean by 'desktop management system', exactly? Like setting default configurations and such things? There are a few that exist, depending on the desktop environment you are running...
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    learning some lamp server setup

    oh to quickly see what you have running on your system try one of these commands: sudo netstat -aptu
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    learning some lamp server setup

    Well.. no. You don't have to at all. Iptables and netfilter is for building and configuring Linux firewalls and doing some routing.. Generally you wouldn't want to configure that manually on Linux since that stuff tends to be too complicated. There are lots of firewalls you can use that'll...
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    linux domain equivalent

    Ya you sacrifice alot of functionality if you choose to try to abandon Active Directory for Samba if your managing Windows systems. If you want Linux-based solution then the best your going to find right now would be eDirectory system from Novell for Linux. It's proprietary and does per-seat...
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    linux domain equivalent

    With a small business this can easily be acheived by using X terminals. You have a central server with 2-cpus and 2-4gigs of ram. Throw software raid 5 on it. Then for the X terminals you use old PCs or purchase 'thin clients'. You manage users in the same way you'd manage a single computer...
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    linux domain equivalent

    Well it depends... For larger enterprise-ish stuff you'd use OpenLDAP with Kerberos and then include a configuration management system like CFengine or Puppet. Then you'd use scripts or web interface or something like that to add users. Stuff like that is very effective for large...
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    Wireless card for Linux

    Atheros and Madwifi is 'ok' nowadays. It used to be that they were the only game in town, but since then things have changed. They are still very nice, so don't get me wrong. Hopefully the completely open source versions will solve what is left of the usability and supportability issues...
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    I just love Ubuntu 7.10

    Yep and Id did just that for it's newer games. I don't know if they used SDL for Doom3, but they (well them and raven or whoever) definately did for Quake4 stuff. SDL is especially good for games. It not only targets Microsoft DirectX, OS X, and Linux, it supports other targets like...
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    generic webcam?

    well there are generic webcams out there.. more or less. For example my Asus EEE uses 'UVC' webcam which is a sort of a generic interface. It works over a internal USB connection, I beleive. Depending on your distribution they may have pre-built kernel modules (drivers) to support it. Then...
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    Vista-Only MCE Remote and Linux

    Well for remotes all you need is a IR receiver. (blaster is for controlling other IR devices like cable boxes) If you buy a Ir receiver then you can use pretty much any universal remote you'd like. There are some nice Sony ones you can get for 40 bucks that can learn any other remote simply...
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    How to install drivers on Linux

    Sorry, I am not familar with the Suse yast tools. The only recommendations I can make are either to install Ubuntu or Debian (which I am familar with) or to look at OpenSuse's documentation and if that does not help then look at the OpenSuse forums for help. Most distributions have...
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    Vista-Only MCE Remote and Linux

    Probably I'd recommend ebay'ng that card. All the PVR-* stuff has been reverse engineered previously, but nowadays there are enough Linux-friendly tuner cards that they don't need to do that again. When they were the only game in town it was different. If it's very close to the PVR stuff then...
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    I just love Ubuntu 7.10

    My pipe dream for the future of gaming is just having fully immersive 3D world to screw around in. Everything network-based, were your computer is mearly the terminal to the online world. It can be like that right now to a certain extent if you only deal with 2D interfaces. I don't...
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    list of softwares for ubuntu??

    It's not that expensive. You just got a good deal on that 650. Most I've seen are about the same price as a pchdtv. But it would be amusing to buy it because then you can have one card that is not supported in Linux and another card that is not supported in Windows! :P One thing that I...
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    list of softwares for ubuntu??

    The list is always changing. :) Linux is a moving target and so is the software that runs on it. For example a Dreamweaver alternatives is Quanta Plus, which is something that is pretty new. http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/vi...d=5&application=quanta After you install Ubuntu one way to...
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    I just love Ubuntu 7.10

    They are indeed looking in the wrong places. Lots of open source gaming efforts have enough coders and few artists. Art is very different from Code. I can do both, but I am much better on the art stuff then the code stuff. What people doing those mods have to realise is that coders...
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    I just love Ubuntu 7.10

    Open source gaming just hasn't happenned yet. That's all. This stuff takes time and right now if your serious about gaming your only choice is Windows, so you make yourself following the mindset of that platform. Lots of people have their own small games and little things and they don't open...
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    I just love Ubuntu 7.10

    Linux IS very game oriented. Unix's original sole purpose in life was to play games. Options for customization, openness, and performance that Linux provides is perfect for games and pretty much anything else that demands high performance and customization. It's the huge proprietary game...
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    Why won't my linux webserver start?

    There is a misconfiguration going on somewere. My guess is that torrentflux has a php module that is missing or that one of it's or apache's configuration files needs to be modified slightly to make it work. I remember installing torrentflux a while ago and having a problem with some sort of php...
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    Are 64 bit linux OS's limited like 64 bit windows OS?

    Ya pretty much. Open source software and Linux in general is has been 64bit for a long long time now. Remember all this stuff is generally designed to be cross-platform and Linux has supported many 64bit systems that pre-date AMD64 stuff. So as long as a project has been around for a...
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    Questions about dd

    The speed at which you copy is a bit of a illusion. There are always tricks to make it seem faster then it realy is. But besides that dd probably uses small buffers or something like that that may not be the most efficient on modern hardware. Remember it was created to convert different...
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    Questions about dd

    Oh, rsync is only realy usefull if you just want to copy the data. for it to be used as realy clone for Microsoft OS-stuff disk it'll probably be better to shrink the partition and then use dd.
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    Questions about dd

    No, that won't work. DD doesn't care about file systems or files or anything like that. It's not that smart. It's just copying the harddrive block by block. It doesn't care if there is any information there or not.. 0's cost as much to copy as 1's. it's going to produce a faithfull...
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    AMD to open up it's 3D hardware for R500 and above

    It's still quite substantial, IMO. Older cards already have open source drivers for them that work fairly well and this sort of thing is very expensive and difficult to do, I beleive. In 3D software-land it's a patent and legal nightmare for these companies to do anything open source...
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    Inkscape 0.46

    Doesn't seem to be out yet. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/...one_12_-_Inkscape_0.46 If the feature you want is made then you could probably compile it from CVS if you don't mind doing that.
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    Mastering SSH for fun and profit

    Ya. I made a bit of a mistake there. fusermount -u will umount a fuse mount. fusermount -u -z will umount with the lazy option. I don't think I made that clear anough. I looked and I didn't see anything for timeouts for fuse stuff though, which is unfortunate. If you have...