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Nokia-M$ Strategic Alliance

Posted 09-19-2011 at 11:29 AM by archtoad6
Updated 09-19-2011 at 11:33 AM by archtoad6 (finally post)

Edit 2011-09-19:
This was written shortly after the 1 Febuary 2011 press release; but got left, unfinished, in "drafts".
Although I don't remember what else I was going to say, I am posting it now.
Needless to say, it deserves some updating about the last 9 months developments.

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Originally Posted by archtoad6

It seems to be official -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#A...ith_Microsoft:

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On 11 Febuary 2011, Nokia entered a strategic alliance with Microsoft,

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Thoughts on cross-posting & reporting it.

Posted 09-19-2011 at 11:08 AM by archtoad6

This was inspired by a recent triple post, & was originally going to be posted in the unclosed duplicate thread. As I got to the end of writing it, I realized that I was becoming guilty of "piling on" & decided to place this here in my blog instead.

<New User>,

Welcome to LQ. I hope you will return soon. If not, then the following may help some other newcomer to avoid your triple posting mistake.

It's obvious from...

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Slackware-13.37-Hacks-SLiM

Posted 09-18-2011 at 10:50 PM by arniekat

Simple Login Manager

SLiM is a Lightweight Graphical Login Manager designed as a replacement for GDM/KDM/XDM.

Compile and install slim-1.3.2 from SlackBuilds.org

After installing SLiM, the only two changes I make are turning off the X Servers listening on Port 6000 TCP for incoming connections for use in Remote X-Windows Sessions (with the -nolisten tcp flag) and changing the default SLiM theme to use the Slackware theme.

Here is what an...

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Slackware-13.37-Hacks-UFW

Posted 09-18-2011 at 09:11 PM by arniekat

Uncomplicated Firewall

Get the SlackBuild Tarball for Slackware 13.1 from SlackBuilds.org. It will be for ufw version 0.27. Go to https://launchpad.net/ufw and download the ufw-0.30.1.tar.gz source code. After untarring the SlackBuild tarball, open the ufw.SlackBuild with a text editor and change the version to 0.30.1, like so:

PRGNAM=ufw
VERSION=${VERSION:-0.30.1}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}

Save the SlackBuild with the changes,...

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Back to the drawing board

Posted 09-18-2011 at 01:26 PM by ButterflyMelissa

Okay, so, this approach failed. And...I think I know why.
Starting a Live CD (any Live CD) creates a file system...in memory. Installing anything makes that install in ... memory. I tried to persist that to disk by copying, but to no avail.
For example:

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grub-install /dev/sda

did'nt work, could'nt stat rootfs, so

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grub-install --root-directory=/boot

failed too, as it installed in memory.

Back to the drawing board......

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