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Lost in KDE

Posted 05-08-2010 at 03:29 AM by AGer (Void cries or bashing time)

I am a Slackware current user. I prefer XFCE, but whenever there is a KDE update I visit KDE. Normally, thanks to the nature of glitches I run over, I do not stay long; this time I just looked at where the notification icons appear.

That is called System Tray, but in order to verify the name I had to go to Add Widgets in Panel Options. That displays a band with widgets and scrolling buttons on each end of it. If I move the mouse directly to the triangle in a scrolling button, it is...

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Strange Behaviour.

Posted 05-07-2010 at 05:55 AM by __raHulk

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Hi Friends,

Recently I came upon a new discovery in bash shell that commands which expect input <paths> as parameters like ls, rm works even if you type multiple front slashes
eg.
rm /foo/bar/file.txt
works even if we type it as
rm /foo//bar/file.txt
or even
ls /foo/////bar///file or to my surprise
even ///foo/bar/file.txt works. Its a strange behaviour to me as I wonder why it happened. Could anyone explain it more deeply??...

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Boot From Network via PXE

Posted 05-06-2010 at 10:54 PM by morningboy
Updated 05-06-2010 at 11:10 PM by morningboy

Tags linux, pxe, rootfs

Boot from Network via PXE (Eng. Version)

--THE IDEA--

1. using root_fs for i386 we have made before to be able booted from network.
2. root_fs can be booted from Network with Boot From Network facility in BIOS.
3. We will use PXE Technology.

--UNDERSTANDING PXE--
PXE is ... you can read it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot...on_Environment.

There are several BIOS that have been supported by PXE,...

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Build rootfs for i386/x86

Posted 05-06-2010 at 10:51 PM by morningboy
Updated 05-06-2010 at 11:11 PM by morningboy

THE IDEA
Make medium linux for testing and some interests purposes such as:

1. linux that was built is small enough to be inserted into the flash disk or another block device.
2. Can be booted from a laptop, PC, or other x86 standard devices.
3. Software can be installed for testing purposes, such as iptables, ebtables, brctl (bridge controller), vlan, pppoe server / client, pptp server / client, web server, database, nfs, etc..
4. Easy to configure,...

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How to Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Desktop

Posted 05-05-2010 at 09:57 AM by sridhar11

The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer.
Our newest release, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , brings a host of exciting new features for users.This tutorial will explain How to Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) released on the 29th April 2010.

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