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It looks like things are finally starting to go my way. Running bash on Windows 10… As Yakov Smirnoff says, “What a country!” http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx 😉
By now, you’ve figured out that I’m an OpenSUSE fan. I’ve been kicking the tires on the newest release, 12.2, as a desktop OS and server OS. As a desktop, the new Gnome environment takes a bit of getting used…
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There’s just nothing like iFolder. And soon (if not already), there may not even be iFolder. Make sure to stop by the noFolder.com site, read Dan’s plea, and vote in his “What is iFolder worth to you?” poll. You see,…
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Following up my last post, “X11Forwarding Fails on Opensuse 12.1 with IPv6 Disabled“, there are a couple postfix items that seem to need to be cleaned up on all my servers. IPv4-Only If you get this error: Apr 10 18:35:53…
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I’m one of those people that still disables IPv6 on all my Linux boxes. And, I guess I’m being punished for it, since if you disable IPv6 on Opensuse, then X11Forwarding will no longer function in its default form. The…
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This is a common problem for many folks around the Internet. You do some sort of an upgrade in WordPress, and you lose your “Visual” tab in the editing page, or you lose your buttons, etc.; all you have left…
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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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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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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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I recently needed to make Windows 7 work with NetWare CIFS (remember that I’m yourNetWareGuy.com, too)… The good news is that it seems to work great! The bad news is that Microsoft changed the default behavior for the CIFS client…
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