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I'm kind of new to Kubuntu and sort of a beginner with this. What I would like help on or information is whether I can add two or more terminals (something similar to nComputing) but without using nComputing hardware. I have a couple of good D-Link network (PCI) cards in good working condition, keyboards, mice, screens I can put to good use for my kids. Appreciate all the help the community can provide. I did a search with several keywords but it did not yield the in ...
Sometime ago I was looking for a backup solution, and found a couple of solutions. Unfortunately, I can't remember all that I tried. One of the programs is backing up my whole drive into /var, and I don't have enough storage for that. I don't remember which program I used. How do I find the process (daemon?) that is doing this? I keep getting the login loop, then have to go delete the *.tar.gz file before I can login. Is there a log file that will point the way? Which one? I' ...
I have a pc running kubuntu 7, and I just installed 8.10 in a separate partition, but I can only boot into K7. I had similar issues with grub when moving from 6 to 7, but I can't figure out what the problem is this time.
My pc has two disks, a scsi (sdb) and an ide (sda), and the root of my problems is that the bios sees the scsi as the primary, but once kubuntu is booted, it thinks that the ide is the primary. Both kubuntu installs are on the scsi.
so after I I put in the CD-R and the machine reboots it take me to install option page.... I go to Demo and Full Install... I tried the Demo and it worked ok So I then repeated the process and then clicked on the Install Kubuntu and though I can hear the machine working it seems I am hung up on the same screen??
Have I done something wrong i don't know about? Or is something else going on here? ...
Call for Organisation of KDE 4.2 Release Parties On January 27, a year after the release of the first KDE 4 version, KDE 4.2 "The Answer" will be released. This release will feature stabilisation and feature completion and is likely to be taken up by a wide audience of users. To celebrate ...
FOSDEM 2009: Devroom Speakers Wanted As always, KDE will have a presence at next year's
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/">FOSDEM</a> in Belgium on 7-8 February 2008.
This is earlier in the month than usual. We are looking for people to give talks in the KDE or ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 28th December 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-12-28/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Continued post-release polishing of <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/">Amarok</a> 2.0. Support for conversion between ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 21st December 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-12-21/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Restoration of basic queue management functionality, support for basic searching and filtering the playlist, work on device handling, and ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 14th December 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-12-14/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Continued work to make applications usable on smaller screen resolutions, this time with changes to <a ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 7th December 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-12-07/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Old-school desktop patterns return as a <a href="http://plasma.kde.org/">Plasma</a> wallpaper, along with an ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 30th November 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-11-30/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Various usability improvements and polish in <a href="http://plasma.kde.org/">Plasma</a>, with further work on JOLIE ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 23rd November 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-11-23/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Addition of a DNS prefetch mechanism (as seen in Google Chrome) to speed up page loads in <a ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 16th November 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-11-16/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: KUIServer applet merged into <a href="http://plasma.kde.org/">Plasma</a> "System Tray". Wallpaper ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 9th November 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-11-09/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Merge of the <a href="http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/">KMail</a> <a ...
The hdparm Command <b>Computing Tech:</b> "The hdparm utility can be used by root to set and tune the settings for IDE hard drives. You would do this to tune the drives for optimal performance. Once a kernel patch and associated support programs, the hdparm ...
Five Reasons Why Authentication Still Matters -- and Still Isn't Fixed <b>Datamation:</b> "Authentication is yesterday's problem, and it's been fixed.
That's the conventional wisdom, at least, but it's a myth. Despite a flurry of new regulations, user names and passwords still rule the enterprise. Tokens ...
How to: Monitor Bandwidth with Tomato Firmware <b>Wi-Fi Planet:</b> "Looking to track your bandwidth to scope out malware, conform to metering policies from your ISP, better utilize limited resources--or just because you're curious? Our Wi-Fi Guru walks you through Tomato's ...
Zune Misery Mystery Solved <b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "Some people say I like to beat Microsoft up. Not really. I just dislike bad technology, and Microsoft makes a lot of poor-quality hardware and software. Anyone unfortunate enough to own a 30GB Zune knows exactly what ...
How to Install Adobe Flash in Debian Etch/Lenny/Sid <b>Debian Admin:</b> "Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users. If you run Etch you will want to use backport.org"
6 Best Personal Finance Apps for Linux <b>Tech Republic:</b> "In the past, Linux was not overly blessed with decent budgeting software, and installing GnuCash was regarded by many as the epitome of a descent into dependency hell.
Thankfully, things have since changed...."
Intrusion Detection Systems: Sourcefire <b>ISP-Planet:</b> "Marty Roesch developed the open source intrusion detection system Snort back in 1998. Three years later, Roesch launched a company, Sourcefire, Inc., to offer a commercial version. "If you think of a car, the engine ...
Keryx Tutorial: Bringing Updates Home <b>Crashsystems:</b> "...software updates typically demand an Internet connection, which can make updating difficult if not impossible. There is now a solution though, a new program called Keryx."
Six Ways to Speed Up Yum on Fedora <b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "I've been using Fedora (Core and all) on and off for a few years now and its parsimonious attitudes to codecs notwithstanding, the thing that always reduces me to a whimpering, pleading wreck is watching ...
Slashdot Hugh Pickens writes "BBC has an interesting article on the long-standing issue of how to power the 'climber' that would ascend a space elevator into space. Previous ideas have included delivering microwave or laser power to the climber beamed from the ...
Employees the Next (Continuing) Big Security Risk? surely_you_cant_be_serious writes "A nationwide survey finds that most companies consider their systems vulnerable to attack. Historically, crime rates increase during recessions — and some believe that cybercrime may well follow suit, especially ...
A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding ...
Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? thepacketmaster writes "The Star reports about a new power generation model using smaller distributed power generators located closer to the consumer. This saves money on power generation lines and creates an infrastructure that can be more easily ...
ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party ...
Ubuntu Kung Fu Lorin Ricker writes "Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx Annoyances (from O'Reilly & Assocs.), where "Xxx" could be anything ...
New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing Anonymous Coward writes "A new method of DNA sequencing published this week in science identifies incorporation of single bases by fluorescence. This has been shown to increase read lengths from 20 bases (454 sequencing) to >4000 bases, with a 99.3% ...
LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netflix Videos DJAdapt writes to tell us that LG has launched a new line of high definition TVs that will be capable of streaming Netflix videos with no additional hardware. This is just another in a long line of expansions from the once DVD rental service, which has ...
Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? An anonymous reader writes "Twitter's been hit by a big phishing scam. Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan says this is the end Twitter's innocence. Will tweets become like email, with two out of every three just worthless spam?"<p><a ...
Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide nandemoari writes "It seems not even Microsoft is impervious to the effects of this increasingly painful recession. According to reports, the Redmond-based company is preparing to lay off about 17 per cent of its entire workforce in the coming months. ...
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