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Clam or Klam? Either Way, It’s Easy Linux Protection

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:03 +0000

Have you run a virus scan lately? Nope? Don’t need to, you say. That’s because you run a Linux OS. Think again. To quote the title line of Bob Dylan’s third studio album, “the times they are a-changin.’” Yes they are. And part of that change is the greater risk of malware attacks to the [...]

Get the OS Installed date

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:04 +0000

Hi, How to get OS installed date in linux using terminal command? Thanks is advance

stop raid mean what

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:04 +0000

Hello, recently I worked about RAID (soft Raid), I use mdadm command. There are some questions, for example: 1, I make a RAID named /dev/md0. Code: mdadm -C -v /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 -x1 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 2, Then I stop it. Code: mdadm -S /dev/md0 3, Then I make another RAID also named /dev/md0, and I can do it. Code: mdadm -C -v /dev/md0 [...]

New to Linux

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:03 +0000

Hi Guys I have a keen interest in learning linux/Unix command language. Unfortunantly i dont have much knowledge on the subject. The only way i can learn either systems is from home. Can someone please help me find a copy of linux/UNIX. Also how do you install these operating system? Is it has simple has installing [...]

Allocating available space to file system

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:20:02 +0000

have a VMWARE machine, I have extended it from 20GB to 30GB for linux box. The linux box shows this for df -hal: Code: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on -dev-mapper-VolGroup00-LogVol00 19G 5.9G 12G 34% - proc 0 0 0 - -proc sysfs 0 0 0 - -sys devpts 0 0 0 - -dev-pts -dev-sda1 99M 13M 82M 14% -boot tmpfs 187M 0 187M [...]

How to Manage Fonts in Linux with FontMatrix

jfeedor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:09 +0000

I’ve written software on Linux, compiled kernels, set up servers, and a whole host of other pretty technical feats. Having been a die-hard Linux user for 10 years, I thought I had handled just about every situation a desktop user is likely to encounter. That is, until I installed Linux for a friend, who then [...]

Canonical’s Attention to Detail is Starting to Show Up in Ubuntu 10.10 Big Time

jfeedor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:08 +0000

‘Attention to detail’ or ‘enhanced UI experience’ are not the kind of terminologies normally used in the Linux world. At least, that is how it used to be. It’s all changing now. KDE 4.0 is a typical example. Developers completely revamped KDE from scratch and gave it a uniform user friendly appearance. Canonical’s flagship Ubuntu [...]

Finding Files with Locate

jfeedor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:08 +0000

Many Linux users use the ‘find’ utility when searching for files using the command line on their system. There are times though where I’m just looking for something and I don’t want to have to wait for the command to scan the entire directory tree in order to track it down. That’s where locate comes [...]

Making Linux and Windows Play Nice Together: Likewise to Present at Ohio LinuxFest

jfeedor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:07 +0000

Making Linux and Windows play nice together isn’t easy, but it’s essential to the continued growth of Linux in the enterprise, according to Likewise engineer Michael Szymczak. He will discuss that topic at this year’s Ohio LinuxFest 2010 September 10-12, 2010 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Michael Szymczak will talk at Noon on September [...]

Blender 3D 2.9: Working with Textures

jfeedor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:06 +0000

In this article we will take the realism of our scenes to a higher level using textures. With textures, the "magic" really happens! There are basically two types of textures, which are procedural and non-procedural textures. For us, the bitmap textures will be used most often, to allow us to create scenes with more realism.