Easy webhosting on Opensuse…
I got this question from reader Ren: “…I am looking for an article that assumes you have a web server running already on opensuse 11.3, and a friend asks you to host his web site for him as well and…
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Power-Outages, My Mother-In-Law, and FSCK…
A couple weeks ago, my mother-in-law (M.I.L.) — who runs Opensuse 11.3 on her desktop — had a power outage. After the power came on, she called me to describe a weird error she was getting during boot-up. And the…
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Linux Journal Stops Printing…
It is the sad sign of an end of an era, and yet-more proof that I am old. Apparently, I’m one of the few people left in the world that want a *printed* Linux magazine, making me a relic of…
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How to add a second Apache2 instance to a SLES11 server?
I recently got this question from reader Niyati: “Can you please guide for installing apache separately without disturbing the current version on sles.. if doing that risks the support issues.. Or any workaround to get the latest release running on…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 11.3 to 11.4
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures, (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 11.3 to 11.4 (somehow I missed 11.2 to…
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How to Export a List of Bundle Relationships in ZCM?
As a ZCM (ZENworks Configuration Management) system administrator, you sometimes need to generate lists of things (and relationships to other things) that may not be possible in the management console. Of course, one of the most powerful aspects of ZCM…
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Blackberry-sized copies of DVD chapters in AVI format…
If you: Have a Blackberry Have a computer running Linux (preferably a recent suse-based distro) Have a DVD player in that computer Need to make mini copies of individual chapters of any given DVD …then this post is for you. …
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FTP Server Service On Windows 7
In my day-to-day adventures as Your Linux Guy in a Windows World, I commonly find myself needing to transfer files between workstations of disparate environments (such as test labs, etc.). For instance, working in an semi-isolated lab of Windows 7…
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Finding Non-Group Trustee Assignments On NetWare Volumes
Recently, I was working with a customer in a NetWare/OES server environment who was looking to to ensure that all the trustee assignments on a particular volume are group-based, not individual user-based. Actually, it was a few volumes… and many…
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What is: “not supported calendar message.ics”
I guess February is NetWare / Novell month here at yourLinuxGuy.com, because I have another Novell-related tip for you. But this time it’s more about GroupWise and its relation ship with Outlook. I think this only relates to the latest…
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