Hey all,

 

I thought I would do a little tutorial on how to force users to change their passwords when they first

login to the system.

 

Ok lets get started, first we will need to choose a user or create a users to enforce password chaning in my example

we will have a user called: znx ;) and we want him to change his password when he logs in.

 

The thing we need to do is lock the account to make sure he doesn't login until we have finished so we

can issue the following:

 

have a read, it's a good article and it explains one of the main reasons i set this site up in the first place,

Where can I download the Apache Development Package?

I've been using FC5, and despite my best efforts for a few weeks cannot get it to play the major video formats (XviD etc).

 

The only thing keeping me from never using windows again, and forcing myself to really sink my teeth into linux is my inability to get videos to play.

 

Is there a distro that comes preloaded with things like Mplayer, (or anything with XviD and DivX support)?

 

apparently FC5 cant compile most programs without some pretty serious custumization, something to do with not supporting X11, or gcc 3.X. , which, curiously, i cant find anywhere for x86_64 systems

 

BTW; I'm a total nooblet, I might need to be spoken too like im a child if your giving any advice

anyone know of any good software for digital photo enhancement? Like software that you could take a small picture, bad quality, blow it up with out it beign pixelated, and you can see almost every minute detail. I guess something like the FBI would use.

You want to set up a POP3 mail server

When I got my new HP PSC(printer,scanner,copier)1510 device the other day, I was not at all surprised find that the box it came in completely ignored the linux community. I don't mean it said "is not supported", just totally ignored. It was quite clear in stating no win95, no NT, no DOS. It was also happily announcing it's compatibility with XP, 98, 98se and even Mac(amazingly still not quite dead yet).

Why is all this important? It's not really, but it does show something that I love about linux, which is the fact that although very few companies openly support us, noone is willing to say they DON'T support us. Setting up your hp device to work with your linux system is really quite simple compared to other setups. The trouble I had was finding the information to do so. Hopefully this document will make it easier for someone else to accomplish what took me about half a day to research and implement.

The HPlip project(http://hplip.sourceforge.net) is what we'll be using to get things up and running. They have tarballs on the site if you prefer to roll your own. Usually I like compiling but with this particular project I decided to go with rpms. I will be using fedora core 5 for our example but it shouldn't be to hard to tailor this info for other distros. It's important to note that HPlip does not make or distribute the binaries available for the hplip project.

HPlip grew out of the HPoj project. Unfortunately they don't play nice together. If you have the old HPoj libs, you are going to have to make sure they are not used. To do this at the line type:

hi guys

 

last night (Friday April 14th 2006) the site experienced a meltdown (the filesystem had a major hiccup)

 

 

Quote:because of the file system problems, and because i used a backup of the site from April 9th 2006, some members posts/details are lost from the last week or so, apologies

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Date: Saturday 15th of April 2006 09:20:30 AM

In order to install some drivers for my system i need to run a few commands in the terminal.

 

However the program it boots wont do its thing if X is active.

 

Im running Fedora core 5, and it just boots right into x which takes my user information and loads a desktop.

 

I tried using the commandline in X without booting KDE, but it still wouldnt do it, it wants no X at all.

 

How do i get Fedora to boot a Terminal w/ out booting X? Do i need some command line parameters in my GRUB?

I Installed Fedora Core 1, and when it asked me what other os's i wanted in the GRUB list at start up.

 

For reasons not completely clear to me, i just put Fedora on there, which boots fine. Now how do i get my windows xp on the list?