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jpavlov@linux:/tmp> date Mon Dec 24 07:06:05 EST 2007 …”hmm…” …he pauses a moment, and thinks to himself… jpavlov@linux:/tmp> cd jpavlov@linux:~> ./happy.sh | holidays > \ > /home/you/myWishes.out All the season’s best from Your Linux Guy .com …
This one was really submitted by Joe, though he doesn’t know it yet… 😉 Joe works for a company that recently upgraded from NetWare 5.x to NetWare 6.5 sp7, a.k.a OES2. He asked me where the nice NAMED.NLM logging-to-screen went,…
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So your Linux server is up and running, but the time is off. Or it starts out fine when you reboot but wanders off after that. No prob; it happens all the time. I have two main ways to set…
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Whenever you are going to re-image a Linux machine (for instance, if you were going to use AutoYast or something to automatically rebuild the machine), it’s a good idea to wipe out the Master Boot Record first. This is to…
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– Submitted by Steve, edited down and into sections for brevity: “Without getting to long winded with my question, in your opinion, how can Novell and/or the Linux community [change these three problems]?” How in the heck can I answer…
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This one can be frustrating. I travel between networks alot, and I cannot predict the condition of the network equipment to which I’ll be physically connecting (when I’m not wireless). Many, many times, it’s Cisco switches; and for some reason,…
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This is follow-up to a couple of earlier posts I made a while back. See Part I or Part II for reference. Ok gang, in the earlier posts I talked about the philosophy about — and the steps required to…
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If you’re a regular around here, you might have noticed that there is no longer a standard, static, home page here at yourLinuxGuy.com anymore. I’ve changed it to make this blog the home page at the site/url now since, judging…
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You’re a RealAudio user. I’m a RealAudio user. We get all our Internet streaming stations set up just right in “Favorites”, and all your links to your buddy’s (or your) rock band in your “Recent” list, and you just want…
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So I finally got around to upgrading the blog software here to the latest version moments ago. I’m just pitching up a post to make sure it all works… I use WordPress, and now its at v2.3.1. Sorry if I…
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