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I'm trying to figure out exactly how partimage distinguishes between a free block (containing old/garbage data) and an empty (zero) block when it...

i just recently installed ubuntu and i love it but i cant see this whole forum in firefox all my resolution settings work on every other site except...

Hello yes i was wondering if anyone knows any good simple bash scripts for backing up my hard drive onto a external hard drive>?

Do I have to transfer files on to my own computer or do I just add their web address to a configure file? I have no idea how to do this. ...

I've made a simple script that creates a network tunnel when I run it (I find it silly that the kernel will forget any tunnel settings after a...

Hi, I'm big into Windows Computers and I do alot of IT on them. I heard from some of my techie friends that you can do alot more with a computer if...

I have tried: Ubuntu 11.4 (Only OS that detected everything including my Xonar sound card) OpenSuse 11.4 (Detected graphics card, not sound)...

Hi, I have a pIII 1.2 Ghz, with 256 MB of RAM. I have 3 partitions on my 80 GB IDE drive: C,D,E. I had windows XP installed on C drive, Data on D...

Hello. I have 2 hard drives. The first had Windows7 and the second LinuxMint-Debian Edition. I was running a dual boot setup with the grub menu...

I am currently working on a project which may involve setting up a large amount of computers in a short period of time for an art installation....

Hello all, I am new to the linux world and have a question about permission. I will appreciate all the help. My question is i have sftp server...

Hi, I am trying to get the length of a file into a variable. In the script I am using: export FLEN= `wc -m ${SOURCE_FILE} | cut -c1-2 ` echo...

Hello i've found in time many helpful stuff linked with this forum thanks to google, but i really need your help with this one. For some reason i...

I know virtually no unix BUT I want to remove line feed \n from a file but only when NOT preceded by carriage return \r - this is a file copied...

Hello, I'm building a linux image for i.MX28 MCU (ARM9), with LTIB from freescale. I noticed that some parameters of the kernel configuration that I...

Hi there! I'm very new to Linux, so i wanna know about how i could go about learning it. I wanna ask : - Should I start off by learning...

Hello everyone. I'm not all that new to Linux, but I have an eeePC and I have to use Full Disk Encryption because of sensitive client information on...

With MS-DOS there is the cls command to clear the screen. Does Linux has such an equivalent command ?