Hey everyone,

I was looking to watch some videos on www.purepwnage.com and as the movie runs in the page i needed a movie player such as windows media player in windows. can anyone reccommend an easy install player. regards L150 o_O

Ok, here is a very noob question:

 

I want to start working with linux more and learn more about admining it.

What exactly should I look into?

It's weird because I have been playing with linux since Redhat 5 back in '97, but all I have really done with it is install it, maybe get a few programs to run on it, and I even compiled a new kernel once many years ago.

 

But what should I focus on if I want to admin a linux server?

Sorry if this seems a little vague, I really don't know what to ask.

 

Thanks for any advice.

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if you are finding things a little slow maybe dma is not enabled on your hard disc

 

to find out if it is or not, try this command as root (assuming /dev/hda is your hard disc, if not try fdisk -l to find out what is your current hd)

 

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# hdparm -d /dev/hda 

/dev/hda:

using_dma    =  0 (off)

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hda 

/dev/hda:

Timing buffered disk reads: 24 MB in  3.26 seconds = 7.36 MB/sec

[root@localhost ~]#

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hda 

/dev/hda:

Timing buffered disk reads: 52 MB in  3.11 seconds =  16.72 MB/sec

[root@localhost ~]#

I'm running red hat 9 on a x86 (just to set the seen)

 

Could anyone tell me how to allow root console access, though telnet and ftp?

 

I know this is very studid and a very bad security issue, however these machines are used for training purpose and will not have access to the interenet, also the machines can be ghosted at any time if someone does kill the machine.

I try to connect two computers with fedora core 4 using a crossover cable and an ethernet device on each computer.

 

I configured each device with

pc1:

ifdown eth0

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1

 

pc2:

ifdown eth0

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2

 

routes seem ok (it creates by default a network route) and I am also sure that the ethernet cards and the cross-over cable work, but I am unable to ping from one machine to another. Any suggestions what could be wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Hey,

I'm going to be upgrading to FC4 from WinDOZEY , and just wonderind if there is a DVD edition i can download rather than downloading several iso's. regards L150 [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]

Hey,

I have a netgear 54mbps wireless usb 2.0 adaptor which works fine within the windows operating system, but it requires software to be installed which is a great problem as it is as you all know only windows compatible?

 

Is it possible to get this to work another way other than me buying a new one. All suggestions much appreciated regards L150 [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ohmy.png[/img]

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thanks bb

 

cheers

 

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Hey everyone, looks like finally ive decided that linux is definatley the way forward, and i hope maybee you can point me in the right direction in to choosing an operating system and so on that best suits my hardware. Regards L150 o_O