Here's a quick way to create arbitrary length passwords on most any *nix flavor.

Password generator

/bithead

Might as well make this blog thing useful

find /path/to/dir -name *.<suffix> -exec /path/to/bin \{\} \; <- use find to run a command over several directories
find /path/ -exec md5sum {} \; | sort -dbi | uniq -w 33 -D | wc -l <- Useful for finding duplicate files in a tree. remove -D from uniq to get a listing of all duplicates instead of just the dups

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Thank you very much,

i checked my CD-ROM and it was /dev/sr0
so i might be the DVD , so i have to burn it again !!

then i unchecked the DVD as a source, and was able to install "xmgrace"

so thank you very much..

One of our volunteers has a Sony Vaio tiny laptop (the type now known as 'netbook'), several years old, given to her by a friend-- but with the hard drive removed (presumably to protect data). She had been using Knoppix, but couldn't get online. So...I set her up with Puppy Linux 430 on a CD + a USB flash drive for saving the pup_save file. Worked great.

One of the terrific things about Puppy is that it has a great record of getting connected to the Internet via modem (even some...