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Unable to connect with network after installing Linux

Posted 03-02-2011 at 02:12 AM by ravindra.atre

Dear all,

I am Unable to connect with network after installing Linux.

When I am pinging to the other server it give me:

Destination Host Unreachable.

Kindly advise....

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The clunker lives.

Posted 03-01-2011 at 07:40 PM by peonuser
Updated 03-01-2011 at 07:42 PM by peonuser

Upgraded an old k2-500 with 192 meg of ram to Debian Squeeze and installed lxde, so I did not have to use gnome. One really down was it did not support my wireless nic out of the box so to speak. There goes my honeypot. Had a usb nic and it worked fine after downloading and installing the firmware.

Looks like I have a bunch of wireless cards that are useless now. I have not taken time to recompile the code so maybe all is not lost.

Bought this old karaoke amp from...

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Edit variable value in a file using linux script

Posted 03-01-2011 at 07:21 AM by Priyadivya

Hi

I have a property file.
There is a variable with value as below
a.home=/opt/tmp

I need to edit this to
a.home=/opt/amx

How can I do this. I have to do this by running a linux script.

Please help
Thanks
Priya

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Fun with Win7 "security"

Posted 02-28-2011 at 02:30 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 03-30-2011 at 03:23 PM by rocket357

The other morning my neighbor stopped by and asked me if I could help him. "Sure thing.", I say. He explains that his mother's computer got a virus on it, and he's tried numerous times to fix it, but to no avail. Everytime he reboots the machine, the virus is back.

Now, I usually politely redirect requests like that to one of my many Windows-fluent friends...but my neighbor and his wife have been very good friends to us, so I want to help him out personally. I mean,...

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bash script

Posted 02-28-2011 at 06:58 AM by aydemirk

Hello All,

I am trying to give a input to one script by using an other script. For example:

................
script1.sh:
#!/bin/bash
printf "Whats your name:";
read user_name;
if [-n "$user_name"]
then
printf "Hello $user_name!";
exit 0;
else
printf "You did not enter username:\n";
exit 1;
fi
.............
script2.sh:
#!/bin/bash...

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