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Validation is determined by function...

Posted 06-25-2009 at 01:57 PM by Shingoshi
Updated 06-25-2009 at 03:07 PM by Shingoshi

The question of concepts often arises, "what makes this thing valid? And in answering that question, we are most often divided into two distinct groups of reasoning. And I'm guessing by how we individually choose to answer that question, our reason for asking is revealed as much if not more than our desire to have the answer.

These are the two distinct positions of reasoning which will likely never find commonality:
1.) Validity derived from Conformance
2.) Validity...

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What is mingetty ?

Posted 06-25-2009 at 06:10 AM by anujgupta_241082

Hello,

Please explain me in simple words, what is mingetty in Linux? How it's beneficial for OS ?

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Board Room: 16.2"x13" space required..

Posted 06-25-2009 at 01:50 AM by Shingoshi
Updated 06-25-2009 at 02:06 AM by Shingoshi

Large space is required for community board room. Many participants will be attending. Luxurious amenities should be provided.

That's not very far off from what I'm thinking about my new motherboard. Contrary to my mentor Spock, I am very emotionally bound to a Tyan S4989WG2NR motherboard. Given just how large this board is, you really could say it's the mother of all boards.

This won't be my first four-socket motherboard. But the first didn't come any where close to the...

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Where do I go from here?

Posted 06-25-2009 at 01:08 AM by Shingoshi

Ok. So I told you about this project that just drove me nuts. And now I'm having to start all over again. In the process of doing that, I'm having to make some essential decisions. The first item on my agenda is, "what do I intend to do with this new system I'm in the process of building?

I have been wanting to build a system which would allow all the developers of a single distribution to build all of their applications in a single unified environment. That means that every application...

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PAM Authentication

Posted 06-25-2009 at 12:55 AM by vap16oct1984

PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
Linux-PAM Is a system of libraries that handle the authentication tasks
of applications (services) on the system. The library provides a sta-
ble general interface (Application Programming Interface - API) that
privilege granting programs (such as login(1) and su(1)) defer to to
perform standard authentication tasks
Linux-PAM separates the tasks of authentication into...

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