We all know Intel hyped this hyperthreading BS.. now there are some application that actually get improved performance with it on.. most things really don't though.. and even are slower with it on. In all my tests.. mysql is one of them. I used mysql bench and the standard /etc/my.cnf that comes installed with the rpms

 

HT on

Im really gonna need some help here if im not gonna end up paying another $150 to Microsoft FOR MY THIRD GODDAMN COPY OF WINDOWS.

 

Basically, my windows computer was OEM, i won it at a raffle, and someone set it up like a complete jackass. In light of this, and the fact i was completely overwhelmed with spyware, adware, and trojans, i decided to reformat my drive and reinstall. Pretty basic, shouldnt have been a problem. It wasnt, until it asked for my Product code, which I have, right on the side of the box (i never got a sheet of paper, but it shoudl be the same right?), and windows just says invalid cdkey or something like it.

 

now when i boot with ANY boot disks, in the drive, even when i take the hard drive off of bios for booting, IT STILL GOES TO WINDOWS WHERE IT REJECTS BOTH MY LEGIT KEYS. Im downloading the Fedora core right now, but ive got a feeling i wont be able to do anything with it once i get it, since this goddamn windows installer overrides anyother boot disk i put in my comp.

 

In sum: I had a version of windows freaking out on me so bad i had to reformat my drive, then it wouldnt let me install it, even though i rightfully own TWO copies of windows. Now this is the kicker, now i cant install any other OS, so im left with a really fancy box that M$ has taken a big old shit on.

 

I'm about to tear my hair out, when i asked M$ support (with one of my two free tech supports) they just told me i cant install my windows on two computers. BULLSHIT, they didnt even bother to read my whole email, besides, this freshly formatted harddrive was never on the internet, and previously had this windows on it. there is no way this computer would be aware of another computer that used that key, EVEN if there were one, which there isnt.

 

Im getting allittle of topic here, and just venting my INFINATE FRUSTRATION, but if anyone could give me some advice that would help me get out of this hole (so i can boot off a Fedora disk and if you could, tell me how to deal with my product id problem so i could do a dual boot.)

 

Thanks to anyone who read my whole POST OF ANGER!

Does anyone have a manual or tutorial with instructions to install/configure the Apache Server with Mono on Fedora Core 5?

 

I'm having some troubles trying to configure it.

 

Thanks.

I'm installing Fedora Core 5 as a web server.

I need to access NTFS drives on my computer because i'm working with Adobe Photoshop.

 

I've followed several instructions to mount NTFS partitions on my computer but the "mount" command always response "unknown file system ntfs" (or something like that).

 

I've followed the instructions in two sites:

[/url]http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#ntfs

[url=http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_...notes.html#NTFS]http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_...notes.html#NTFS

 

Am i doing something wrong???

My old computer (667 megahertz), running Win 98se, keeps freezing while surfing so my son loaded Mandrake 9.2 to check if the problem was hardware or software. Freezing continued -- in fact started freezing even off the Internet, even freezes in KDE Help, for pete's sake.

 

But I like this linux and want to try using it. I want to change my start page so went to Settings then Configure Konqueror then typed in a new home URL. Yes, pressed Apply and OK but same old start page persists. Any suggestions appreciated.

Hey, I just recently installed FC4 on my small server, and it seems that the imagemagic, or the GD-lib wasnt installed :(.

 

Is there a way to add this lib to apache without reinstalling? I also dont have internet connected to the server, so i probably got to download stuff and apply it?

 

Im just using the box for making webpages and scripts, and i got to an stop when i could not use the imagetools :\

 

I dunno how to describe this problem any better but i bet you understand it? (or what, znx?)

Heh.

HI. My lapotop has no floppy, no cd-rom, no network, can't boot from usb.

So my only way is installing from dos using Loadlin.exe.

While in windows, i created

a) 4.5gb ext.2 partition for Slackware

B) 500mb swap linux partition

c) temporary 2gb fat32 partition - i extracted there contents of both 2 installation .iso files (10.2 version) - so that it would be accessible from dos and from setup.

 

Here's what i did:

 

1) I copied bzimage file to c:\ (c is fat32). I took bzimage file from BareAcpi.I directory on cd1

 

2) I copied initrd.img file to c:\ from \isolinux direcotry on cd1

 

3)Start Win98, At the very beginning press F8, and choose "command prompt only"

 

4) Started Loadlin, using this command:

Hi

 

I fully installed Ubuntu Breezy onto my computer as my Windows ME seemed to fail on me. I tried to work in Ubuntu but found it to difficult and I stumbled across the Recovery Disk and Master Disks to restore my system back to ME. I ran these disks and after the remastering has finished.. upon loading the hard drive.. i get GRUB trying to load up. I get about 2 minutes of "GRUB GRUB" running down my screen and then eventually "GRUB FAILED". Does anyone know how to get rid of the grub system. I have tried formatting my hard drive via the Restore disk and then ran the remastering but found the same problems.

 

At the moment I have a very nice empty box of a computer... please help me get back to the dreary Windows Millenium Edition days.

 

Bruce

this is inspired by the very useful post from Randall for Fedora core release 4 extras

 

as root (su -) install the current livna rpm to get access to livna's goodies

 

Quote:[macromedia]name=Macromedia for i386 Linuxbaseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /home/anyweb/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.rpmPreparing... ########################################### [100%]

1:jre ########################################### [100%]

I've encountered a strange problem with Suse 10 and the internet. Whenever I try to connect to a website, there's always a 20-30 second delay before loading the site. Even after the site is loaded, it lags pretty bad. This happens with Mozilla, konqueror, and firefox. I also tried the gnome desktop, but to no avail. Same Problem. Now, here's the catch. When I load windows in VMware inside of suse, the windows version of firefox does NOT have the same problem, even thought it's using the Suse internet connection. Again, dubya tee eff?