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I use bash to do almost everything. Even when I’m neck-deep in Windows and I need to solve a problem, my first thought is a bash script. Recently, I was working in a large distributed enterprise that utilizes Microsoft KMS…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For a good while now, my Blackberry had been stuck with elements of an “Enterprise” configuration on it. Why? Because I accidentally connected my Blackberry to a Windows PC that had Blackberry Desktop software configured in Enterprise mode. And next…
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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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