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My next impression by Linux

Posted 06-23-2010 at 06:10 PM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])
Updated 06-23-2010 at 06:12 PM by Web31337

Tags hacker, linux, movies, programming, software

Few days ago I've been into some C coding and again got impressed by how greatly linux is organised! Dependencies are written the clear way. The "./configure" script is a standard. The "Makefile" is a standard. and so on... they aren't strictly linux-related but I mostly work in Linux environment... I actually refer to UNIX standards I guess. It is so simple to create and redistribute own application using standard utils, making it easily-installable! I love this!
Anyway,...

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About Me-a Linux Desktop User

Posted 06-23-2010 at 06:56 AM by deepclutch

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Hi There,
I am a casual GNU/Linux User and in particular Debian Admirer!.I have first used Linux in 1998 and it was redhat 5 IIRC in Where I studied for Engineering Graduation.

I have nothing,even no curiousity about Linux at that time.
Fast Forward to 2001 ,After My Engg Course ,I bought a New PC and the Technician left Redhat 7 CD's with the Installation.
I started Experimenting with it and the Interest Got Me Join a Computer Institute "SSI" - A Computer...

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june23:2010: how to setup a PPTP VPN Server on Centos 5.3 with preshared key (XP)

Posted 06-23-2010 at 06:03 AM by hari85

PPTP : point to point tunneling protocol:

Supports : WIN 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP ppp clients and Linux pptp clients

kernel-2.6.18-128.el5
ppp-2.4.4.2.el5
pptpd-1.3.4.1.rhel5

yum install ppp*
yum install pptpd*
vi /etc/ppp/options.pptpd
vi /etc/pptpd.conf
vi /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
chkconfig --level 3 5 pptpd on
service pptpd start
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
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Ads on some Linux related websites...

Posted 06-22-2010 at 05:30 PM by rich_c

Some sites seem to pay no heed to what ads are displayed on their pages! If I had £1 for every time I'd seen a M$ related ad on a Linux/FOSS related site, I'd have quite a lucrative ad derived income...

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Howto get Adobe Flash working in Debian amd64

Posted 06-22-2010 at 01:52 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 02-16-2021 at 12:53 PM by craigevil (Flash is OEL)

Tags 64bit flash, amd64, flash debian

Flash player's support has ended of December 31 2020, and the plugin will not work anymore on January 12 2021
See the Debian wiki pagehttps://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
As most people are aware Adobe has stopped support for Flash on 64bit, no one knows for how long. Do not use the 64bit flash beta, it has major security problems.
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

Quote:

We have temporarily closed the Labs program of Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux, as we are

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