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  1. Installing RHEL without buying support

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

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    hi,

     

    a friend is being asked to install RHEL in one of their servers but they are not going to subscribe to the RH support services. he is asking me if he can legally install it since he already has a copy of the install media.

     

    i have already tried persuading him to install CentOS or WBEL but his management is insisting on RHEL. talk about management stubborness. :(

     

    anyway, can he still install it on their server without legal repercussions? thanks.

     

    ciao!

  2. SMB mounting problems in Knoppix

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    still no dice. and isnt that one of the last two numbers in the mtab entry?

     

    ciao!

     

    Nope the last two numbers are to do with checking the disk at startup for errors and the other one I forget now. But try aioshins solution and see if that works. Just dawned on me it might be connecting using guest account without specifying.

     

    i think i remember one of them being the applied umask, anyway i have tried every suggestion and I still get the permission denied error. i just wish konqueror has the facility to allow me to mount the share from the GUI. :(

     

    ciao!

  7. SMB mounting problems in Knoppix

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted · Edited by ramfree17

    hi,

     

    i am currently unable to successfully mount a windows share inside knoppix.

    the mount command[1] itself seems to work fine,and there seems to be a correct

    entry in /etc/mtab. however i keep on getting the access denied error. i have

    just created the local mount point so i guess the problem is with the mount

    command. konqueror can access the share just fine when using the smb protocol.

     

    i need to have the share mounted since partimage needs to access it locally

    in order to write the images that i am creating out of the workstation. the

    frustrating thing is this went off flawlessly a couple of months ago. i cannot

    seem to find any error logs related to this problem.

     

    any tips is greatly appreciated. thanks.

     

    [1] mount -t smbfs -o username=myuser //10.190.32.7/share ~/tmp/local

    [2] //10.190.32.7/share /ramdisk/home/knoppix/tmp/local smbfs 0 0

     

     

    ciao!

  8. Piece of Crap practice machine [solved]

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by ramfree17

    The Eraser util I mentioned is free also, as well as the nuke disk that comes with it.

     

    nobody in their right minds uses floppy these days

     

    what's wrong with floppies? I still use them on occasion for little tasks such as this ;)

     

    choose one of these words: corruption , fragile

     

    or this phrase: "disk not formatted, would you like to format it now?"

     

    i had a friend who weeped once because his thesis was in a floppy and they (yes he has another floppy just in case... :twisted: ) became unreadable during submission time. and he lives two hours away. this was a couple of years ago when floppy were still 'in' and cd burners were at a premium. nowadays, there is just no reason to stick with floppies if you have at least 1 burner in your machines.

     

    and no, experiencing the bad sector high is not a valid reason. nor is the gratification of hearing the drive formatting the disk for the umpteenth time. :lol2:

     

    [edit] i realized that someboy might put forward the old hardware argument but that is a different tangent of this discussion. i am assuming that we are all talking about hardware that could boot off the optical drive. :)

     

    ciao!

  9. Piece of Crap practice machine [solved]

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    yes, most of those wipers work on the installed hard drives. in the case of dban, you just boot the machine with it and you get a prompt wherein you can choose between 4 (i think) wiping options, from quick to the DoD compliant scheme. dban fits on a floppy but since nobody in their right minds uses floppy these days i use the cd iso.

     

    ciao!

  12. Piece of Crap practice machine [solved]

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    So they will invest some time in putting in a working HD or any other component that is no good, reinstall win98

     

    does that make it legal now that microsoft has ended support for win98? maybe they can start putting linux on those boxes to make them legal and at the same time advocate linux? i know it is a long shot especially since the boxes are of different configuration, but...

     

    ciao!

  13. Hotmail Popper for Linux

    in Software

    Posted

    devries i think you are not on the same page as ffi. hotpopper is a windows application (if i understand it correctly). if it works like yahoopops, it reads the webmail interface of hotmail and brings up a pseudo smtp/pop3 server in the workstation to serve as an abstraction layer so that normal mail clients can use it to get and receive mail.

     

    i would gather that the smtp/pop3 settings of hotpopper points to localhost so it would be moot to get those since they do not yet exist when ffi boots in linux (at least if the ports specified are not reserved for common applications). :)

     

    ffi, please feel free to correct me if i am the one who misunderstoods.

     

    ciao!

  20. file changed to executable

    in Security

    Posted

    it depends on your comfort zone. if you really want to cloak your machine then try playing with iptables to automatically drop ping requests to your machine. you could also try using tools like gShield or IPkungfu to do the configuration and just learn the iptable stuff details later.

     

    ciao!

  21. file changed to executable

    in Security

    Posted

    i dont think that is an issue even if it is marked as an executable since the only content is a single character (0 or 1). that will only be an issue if somebody cracks your machine and gets enough permission to write to that file, add some warm and fuzzy cracks and execute it.

     

    and if im not mistaken /proc is a virtual filesystem. a reboot should reset it to the right permissions.

     

    ciao!

  23. help please

    in Games

    Posted

    if i understand/decoded it correctly bluesea is asking for a place where to download the ui shared object. there are no hits in rpm.pbone.net so it might be helpful for bluesea to give more information like name of the game he is trying to run. i think the shared object might be specific to that game, or this might be a wine issue.

     

    ciao!

  25. How experienced are you?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Who is going to step up and be our first self-indulgent Guru?

     

    none. guru-ship is a bestowed honor. it is similar to respect, freely given and never taken.

     

    voted junior because the description of of the newbie is too limiting. but i will forever be a newbie. and i have the sigs and ranks to prove it. :lol2:

     

    ciao!

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