Date: 10/14/04 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: linux

Normally I tend to have someone in the US assemble my systems for me, but I'm looking for the best / cheapest place to buy a 2U case, and newegg doesn't seem to do it, as that's one of my primary hardware sources. Any suggestions for that, and/or the hardware itself? Looking to build a Linux/FreeBSD gaming server, prolly based around an AMD 2800+ / nForce board rather than the Intel.

Suggestions welcome. The final resting place of the box is Fremont, California. Cheers! :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webhosts/20521.html

Date: 09/11/04 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: mysql, database, sql, linux

Just curious on what you guys use to host your sites. Pros/cons? Specs? Like myself:

Site: Frankly Jason
Host: Cyberpixels.com
Specs: 9.95/mo for 400 MBs, 15 GBs bandwidth, and uber amount of pop 3 emails, ftp accounts, sub-domains and mysql databases
Server OS: RedHat Linux
Control Panel: cPanel

Pros/cons: Everything runs pretty smoothly except the lag time on uploading to the FTP. Uploading is fast, just the connection with the ftp as each file goes onto the space.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webhosts/19341.html

Date: 02/09/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: linux

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me with a couple of issues I'm having with Word. I'm using Word 2000, 9.0.3821 SR-1. I cannot afford to upgrade to a newer version at this time.


1) For about a year now, one of my menus has been going wonky. I've put a screen cap of what it looks like here. I don't ever use Mail Merge, but I use Word Count all the time. It started with two mail merge options showing up, then kept increasing. It's been at that many for several months now. It doesn't seem to be interfering with anything unless it's part of a wider problem that's causing crashes. I've searched online help files several times over the months but can't seem to find appropriate search terms to get me a decent result. Anyone have any idea what's doing that and how/if I should stop/fix it? I ran an installation repair and that didn't do anything.

2) I get a lot of crashes if I've opened and closed several documents within a session (say, going through my chapters and doing word counts). This inevitably messes up the "normal.dot template" and it always yells at me to replace that, and/or freezes me out of my documents until I reboot. I save frequently so it's rare that I lose much data, but it's a real hassle to constantly have to reboot. I found a tutorial about six months ago about a normal.dot issue and ran the installation repair for that, and that fixed it for awhile, but now it's back. I do have a different normal.dot from the standard, as I prefer to work in Arial 10 as opposed to TimesNR 12.

3) Referring to the normal.dot above, even though I've set that to be Arial 10, my documents frequently want to lapse into TNR 12. Have I set the normal.dot wrong?

4) This last issue is something I've hunted for solutions for forever and never found. The scroll speed is WAY TOO FAST. If I want to highlight half of a page, and scroll the mouse up or down to do that, it jumps multiple pages at a time. I need to do this frequently to move blocks of text around, find out the word count of one new block, etc. It's a major pain in the butt to try to adjust a hair's breath of movement to just capture what I want. Is there a way to slow down the scroll speed in just Word? I am aware that I can set mouse speeds for the whole computer, but it's perfectly fine in everything except Word.

Thanks to anyone who can provide advice. I've been reluctant to ask these questions on my own LJ or in some other groups because whenever I do all I get is a lecture about why I should buy a Mac or port to Linux or some other completely unhelpful, rude response along those lines.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/19803.html

Date: 03/01/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

IBM's open source strategy is pretty simple when you come right down to it.Linux, and open source, will unite IBM's past with computing's future.That sounds like it was written by someone in IBM marketing, but it's easy to explain with one story "ripped from the headlines" over at News.Com.Here it ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=171&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/27/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The next version of the Linux kernel, dubbed 2.6.11 will include support for InfiniBand. This comes just as IBM adds InfiniBand switches to its Linux cluster solutions. At this point you are welcome to say: big deal. InfiniBand support has existed in a variety of Linux distros for some time. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=168&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/25/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

All the way to India.When IBM announced recently it was putting $100 million into Linux development, I declined to get excited. IBM is a huge company, $100 million is like tipping the waiter.I forgot how well $100 million spends in the real world. Or what it can mean. As the ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=166&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/24/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Today MandrakeSoft announced that it was acquiring Conectiva, which was hailed as a merger of second-tier Linux sellers. A bit uncharitable, perhaps, but an apt description. Second-tier doesn't describe their products, but even as a joint venture the two companies are much smaller than either Red Hat or SUSE. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=165&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

WGA stands for the Windows Genuine Advantage program. It's pitched as an anti-piracy initiative. Only paid-up customers get updates.It's also a highly sophisticated swipe at Linux.Jeremy White of CodeWeavers, which sells Wine-based products, told ZDNet it's nothing to worry about, that Microsoft would face legal action if it tied Office ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=163&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/03/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux

New Scientist reports that a German teen, Nils Schneider, has managed to get Linux working on his iPod by using sound.Herr Schneider says Bernard Leach, a UK software engineer who helped set up the so-called iPod Linux project, worked out how to control the piezoelectric component within the iPod, which ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=175&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/08/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux

What the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) needs right now is a little PR help. So start spreading the GNUs. (A little free software humor there.) There are no enemies of Linux conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation aimed at undermining the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=180&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/09/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Is the Open Source Initiative work of reforming open source licensing stalling? That's one possible conclusion from word they now have their third president in three months, as originally reported by our own David Berlind. You will remember that OSI announced at LinuxWorld it wanted to cut the number of ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=182&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/09/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: database, web, linux

Hi all,

I'm the new network admin for a boarding school. They were without an IT person for a while and as a result have almost zero infrastructure. I'm wanting to build things up the right way so I don't have to tear stuff down later.

Anyway, we have a lot of different clients. Mostly Windows and Macs, but some Linux boxes as well. I don't have much experience with multi-platform environments. What is the best choice for directory authentication? How much of a pain is it to get Macs and Linux to authenticate off of Active Directory? How much of a pain is it to get WinXP to authenticate off of OpenLDAP or NIS? We aren't doing anything terribly fancy. Basic file and print sharing, a couple of databases, etc. the school has its email hosted outside, but I'd like to bring that inside eventually. We have one Win server, 2 Mac servers, and a handful of Debian servers, though all of this is subject to change. The network isn't providing much in the way of services, just your basic web access, DHCP, DNS, etc.

I realize this is a relatively open question, but any discussion and advice would be great. Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/627593.html

Date: 03/11/05 (Apache)    Keywords: php, linux, apache

I upgraded apache from 2.0.52 to 2.0.53 in my chroot jail, on linux.

it took forever to start, and then segfaulted the child processes whenever I hit the server.

I eventually tracked the startup delay to an insufficient quantity of entropy for /dev/random. I gave it a lot more entropy and it still blocked occasionaly, so I moved to /dev/urandom.

I moved ldd and strace into the jail to double check things. I do not appear to be missing any libraries.
I ran strace. I ran it with a bunch of different flags, I end up with child process straces that look just fine, a couple errors that are expected due to the jail, then, BAM, SIGSEGV, with no warning or explaination.

It doesn't segfault if I remove -D PHP5 and -D SSL... but again, I don't seem to be missing any libraries.


child process stack trace:

getpid() = 16013
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0xb7ca7dc0, [], SA_INTERRUPT}, {0xb7ca7dc0, [HUP USR1], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xb7ca7dc0, [], SA_INTERRUPT}, {0xb7ca7dc0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {SIG_IGN}, {0xb7ca7dc0, [HUP USR1], 0}, 8) = 0
getpid() = 16013
getpid() = 16013
geteuid32() = 0
setgid32(81) = 0
open("/proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY) = 13
fcntl64(13, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fea000
_llseek(13, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
read(13, "apache:x:81:\n", 4096) = 13
read(13, "", 4096) = 0
close(13) = 0
munmap(0xb7fea000, 4096) = 0
setgroups32(1, [81]) = 0
geteuid32() = 0
setuid32(81) = 0
getpid() = 16013
gettimeofday({1110440023, 141397}, NULL) = 0
getpid() = 16013
brk(0x82f8000) = 0x82f8000
getpid() = 16013
time(NULL) = 1110440023
gettimeofday({1110440023, 142945}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110440023, 143359}, NULL) = 0
semop(3014687, 0xb7d866ec, 1) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1
accept(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1467), sin_addr=inet_addr("xx.xx.xx.xx")}, [16]) = 13
semop(3014687, 0xb7d866f2, 1) = 0
gettimeofday({1110440031, 271384}, NULL) = 0
getsockname(13, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("xx.xx.xx.xx")}, [16]) = 0
time(NULL) = 1110440031
gettimeofday({1110440031, 272605}, NULL) = 0
fcntl64(13, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(13, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
time(NULL) = 1110440031
read(13, 0x82f49d8, 8000) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 300000) = 1
read(13, "\200g\1\3\0\0N\0\0\0\20\1\0\200\3\0\200\7\0\300\6\0@\2"..., 8000) = 105
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
chdir("/usr/lib/apache2") = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
getpid() = 16013
getpid() = 16013
kill(16013, SIGSEGV) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN])
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---


Maybe I'm missing something?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/apache/17724.html

Date: 03/12/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

Just curious, has anyone out there used or worked with an alternative OS? (anything other than the mainstream:Windows/Linux/Mac) Such as Solaris, Inferno, Plan9 etc? If so what do you think of them.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/631305.html

Date: 03/16/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, asp, linux

4 seperate boxes, 2 windows, one linux, and hopefully one solaris soon enough, each with their own monitor, controlled by a single keyboard? I'd love to figure out how to do this, if there is anyway possible. Doubt it, but never hurts to ask stupid questions right ; )


Also http://www.kellysoftware.com/ssaver/Matrix_ks.asp The Matrix Trilogy is one of my favorites, and although I never normally bother with garbage like screen savers, this one is pretty bad ass, and free, windows users only.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/637263.html

Date: 03/16/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: database, linux, google

Upgrade a network application and it propagates immediately to all users. In many ways that s all Google is, a networked Linux application (database-driven). They ve been very busy taking new features gold lately: Google Maps. (Slow loading, but attractive.) Google News. (Input your own keywords and dump their categories ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=190&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/16/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, linux

Nugent is the second high-level executive to leave Linux and server software seller in recent months.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Novell+CTO+Alan+Nugent+departs/2100-1009_22-5620521.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/17/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Our own Stephen Shankland has a story out illustrating the continuing confusion over the word Linux. The story is that Harald Welte, who runs the GPL Violations Project, found 13 hardware companies at CeBIT who were violating the GPL of GNU-Linux by not releasing code based on it."The GPL is ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=192&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/18/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

I am eagerly waiting for my copies of Ubuntu. The site says that it was sent on February 22. Have you got yours? "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/did-you-get-your-ubuntu/

Date: 03/22/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, linux, hosting

Is there similar features in Linux to send form mail (I'm using MailEnable in my window hosting. I am still learning PHP ) or ready to go reliable PHP Form Mail code (besides Matt's form mail) ?
I found this http://phpfmg.sourceforge.net/home.php which looks quite good but haven't tested it yet.

Cheers

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/838889.html