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.RU domains: No rules, no responsibilities

Posted 02-20-2010 at 07:19 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags bittorrent, copyright, domains, governments

Few days ago we had an accident with one of Russia's most popular bittorrent tracker site, torrents.ru. A domain was undelegated from DNS servers by request of our agencies.
While, in an official agreement, that accepted by both sides(registrar and registrant) when a new .ru domain is registered there is a note about "Registrator may not interact with conflicts a registrant may have with 3rd parties."
In this case it were two companies, complained about "torrents.ru...

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important directories in linux

Posted 02-20-2010 at 06:19 AM by raju.mopidevi

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Different distributions have different directory structures, despite attempts at standardization such as the the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) organization.
Important directories
/bin - essential UNIX commands such as ls, etc. Should contain all binaries needed to boot the system or run it in single-user mode

/boot - files used during booting and possibly the kernel itself are stored here

/dev - contains device files for various devices on system

/etc...

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Some important files in linux

Posted 02-20-2010 at 06:06 AM by raju.mopidevi
Updated 02-20-2010 at 07:16 AM by raju.mopidevi

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important and Useful Files

/boot/vmlinuz -
the typical location and name of the Linux kernel. In the Slackware distribution, the kernel is located at /vmlinuz.
/dev/fd0 -
first floppy disk drive
/dev/fd0H1440 -
driver for the first floppy drive in high density mode. Generally, this is invoked when formatting a floppy drive for a particular density. Slackware comes with drivers that allow for formatting a 3.5" diskette with up to 1.7MB of space. Red Hat and Mandrake do not contain these device

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Keep trying

Posted 02-19-2010 at 04:39 PM by Mr-Bisquit

No group yet, not many people seem to support it.
Discouraging? A little for a few minutes.
What to do? Keep trying.

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TestDrive - Test Drive an Ubuntu ISO in a Virtual Machine

Posted 02-19-2010 at 05:23 AM by sridhar11

TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine. But the primary goal is to provide a very simple method for allowing non-technical Ubuntu users to test and provide feedback on the current Ubuntu release under development.

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