- An update on the Dell Ubuntu Computers.

 

- A little funny fact from "The

Day 6

 

Hi again folks, well here I am on Day 6 with Ubuntu, and it must be said after reading the news and checking my mail I can safely say that things feel just fine with the distro, I mean, it could have been Fedora, or SLED10 or some other distro, and rather than notice what distro it was I was just doing my usual thing, and that's a good sign. True, every distro has it's advantages and some have disadvantages but I cannot say that Ubuntu is a bad distro at all. What I do feel is that the marketing hype that has propelled it to the masses in a very short period of time is a bit overstated and that many users that move to Ubuntu from Windows may be in for a surprise that they were not suspecting. However, those same users would probably also run into similar issues with other popular linux distros.

 

Anyways, on with the show.

 

Printing

I've setup printing using the System/administration/printing tool. It wasn't difficult, however no linux driver was listed for my printer (Dell Color Laser 3100cn) so I chose Generic postscript, and that worked fine, but to get it to print over the network I had to configure it as Unix Printer (LPD).

 



 

The printing itself, works fine and is fast so no complaints even with the generic driver.

 

Networking

 

I clicked on Places/Network and I could see a Windows network icon, clicking on that showed me two workgroups, and clicking on one of them showed what computers were in that workgroup. I then logged on to one of them using my Windows XP username/password and that was it, I was able to browse the files easily, so much so that I decided to watch a music video (to test the network speed over wireless connection 11mb/s). Unfortunately Totem came back to haunt me except this time with the following error:-

 

"Totem could not play 'smb://home-0ca963252f/C$/music/lalala.avi'. There is no input plugin to handle the location of the movie.

 

So, google seems to be aware of that error and while I look around, I decide to copy the file locally from the networked windows box, to my desktop. That worked nicely and fast, well not lightning speed but good enough.

 

Once the file was on my desktop, i noticed that gnome showed what the video was (thumbnail) so i double clicked on it and guess what ? Totem played the file with no problem. I dunno sometimes.

 



 

To double check, I tried another file (this time mpg) and it too failed with the odd error.

 

Quote:"In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 15 services in system space had confined SELinux domains defined. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, over 200 processes are confined by SELinux. The improved SELinux policy is much more precise in how it governs the operation of these services. It's far less likely that a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system space process will be compromised or encounter an error caused by an SELinux policy not handling the specific requirements (e.g., file or directory access) of a service."

Quote:"Pidgin 2.0, the latest version of the popular open-source instant messaging client formerly known as Gaim, is now available for download. After months of development and numerous beta releases, Pidgin 2.0 is finally ready. A significant improvement over the current 1.5.x series, Pidgin 2.0 includes several compelling features and usability enhancements. Last year, we looked at the second beta release and concluded that much work still needed to be done. Many of the problems we discovered in the early Gaim 2.0 betas have since been resolved. The official Pidgin 2.0 release, available for download from the Pidgin web site, provides an impressive level of quality and reliability."

Quote:"Intel have announced a new low-power processor and chipset architecture which will be designed to allow full internet use on mobile Internet devices. To fulfil the aims of our mission and in response to the technical challenges that these devices pose, we are announcing the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project."

Dear All,

I am an absolute beginer and have just installed Fedora 6 . I am not happy with its default ODF reader as it is too slow, loads each page one at a time so I would like to switch to Acrobat Reader. I would like to know the individual steps to install it as I am totally unfamilior with the commands and codes. Need help .

Smarajit

PS The help I got from this forum in Installing Mplayer was very very good. It was just the stuff a beginer needs.

Thanks

Sm

Hi all.

 

I've been using HPUX for a good few years now and it looks like i'm finally having to learn linux. :)

 

Played with a few desktop installs before but never really got into it, now i'm being thrown in at the deep end and i'm enjoying the server side of linux.

 

Hopefully soon i will be able to answer more questions on the forum than i ask. :P

 

Cheers

Hi everybody!

 

 

I just installed Linux for the first time and i managed to gfx install my driver.

I can change my resolution to the right one but i can't get my computer to start with it. I have such a button, its says Save to X configuration File... But that don't work either...

 

Eeahh.. Can anybody tell me how to get it started with the right resolution?

 

I use the new Ubuntu system ...

And my gfx is Nvidia 7600 go..

 

 

Please help ! [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]

hi guys we had a chat tonight about a new linux distro

 

the aim ?

 

suitable for noobs to linux

 

the name ?

 

noobix

 

where did that name come from ? noob+linux blended.

 

more here

 

Quote:<[m]ax> webany gentoo sounds like its a bit like ubuntu<[m]ax> its easy to use but you gotta "tweak" it a bit

<webany> [m]ax: i don't know what is my next linux target, its probably gentoo or slackware

<webany> i'm sure i'll piss lots of people off in the process though

<webany> heh

<[m]ax> lol

<[m]ax> slackware is more difficult then gentoo, but with slackware i do believe you can add your own package management system ontop of it

<McDuck> i know your next project

<varjagy> webany: what if I try to do it parallel with you later on? Get more aspect on things

<McDuck> make a new distro

<[m]ax> hi mcduck

<[m]ax> linux-noob distro

<McDuck> call it, "Noobu"

<[m]ax> sounds cool

<varjagy> New distro would be called AnyLinux :P

<webany> i came up with noobuntu yesterday

<McDuck> no

<webany> haha

<McDuck> "Noobtube"

<varjagy> lool

<McDuck> it has a ring to it :P

<McDuck> hehe

<varjagy> Noobnix

<McDuck> or simpl, noobix

<webany> noobnix i like it

<webany> noobix better

<webany> i use noobix !

<webany> heh

<varjagy> YEY

<varjagy> McDuck and I want credits :P

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<[m]ax> hah

<McDuck> ;)

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<webany> lol

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<varjagy> CREDITS! :P

* [m]ax just got a

When trying to access any web sites or webmail on a plesk server i kept getting the following.

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

 

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

I bounced the server but httpd didnt restart.

 

did some digging and it looks like it was a file limit issue, this was the output of ulimit -a

 

core file size (blocks, -c) 0

data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited

file size (blocks, -f) unlimited

max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited

max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited

open files (-n) 1024

pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8

stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192

cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited

max user processes (-u) 7168

virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

 

I increased open files limit to 2048 and restarted httpd ok but still couldnt view websites.

 

Checked the error log and found

 

[warn] new file descriptor 1160 is too large; you pro

bably need to rebuild Apache with a larger FD_SETSIZE (currently 1024)

 

 

And now i am stuck were do i go from here and how?

 

Thanks in advance.