I've been switching back and forth between Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 for a few weeks now. They both seem to occasionally freeze up on me randomly... I thought that's why I was getting away from Microsoft! [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_dry.png[/img]

 

Fedora tends to do it when I'm using Firefox. The mouse cursor still moves, and even changes based on whether it's over text, a link, etc, but nothing happens when I click anything (can't close Firefox, minimize, open Gnome menus...). Keyboard shortcuts don't do anything either. At that point I end up having to do a hard shutdown.

 

Ubuntu seems to do it regardless of which program(s) I'm in. The screen will either go black, or go to alternating white lines and solid black. Usually I can hit the power button, wait a second, and hit enter, and then the screen will go through the standard shutdown check list, which suggests to me that it's just the GUI that crashes in that case, while the kernel and whatever else is still running.

 

My question is, since I'm having similar issues in both OSes, does that indicate that it's actually a hardware issue showing up in two different ways?

 

It's a Dell Dimension 2350 that I upgraded to P4 2.5 GHz and 1 GB ram. These things apparently don't have temperature sensors that the OS can interface with, so I haven't been able to get any kind of CPU temp monitoring utility to give me any useful information. It does have a variable speed fan that definitely speeds up with processor load though. It can crash when the fan's barely humming, or when it sounds like the thing is about to take off, so I don't think it's an overheating issue, though it has had overheating issues in the past.

 

I'd eventually like to move my storage HDDs to this box and leave it up 24/7 as a home network server, but at this point it's not dependable enough.

 

Thanks!

Right now, my linux box has both a Wireless b/g NIC (disabled) and a wired NIC connected to my Linksys wireless b/g router. All other machines in the house connect via the wireless router. Most are 802.11n capable, but because the router isn't, they're all limited to g speed. I can get a wireless b/g/n NIC for a lot less than a new wireless router, so that's got me wondering, how tough would it be to use the linux box in place of a wireless router?

 

I've figured out how to set up an ad-hoc wireless network, but haven't yet figured out how to route the internet connection to it. I'd imagine that would involve routing all but 192.168.X.X IP addresses to the wired NIC in one way or another. Also, I found and installed dnsmasq, "A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server" in F13's package installer, but I haven't yet figured out how to configure it. Am I better off just manually configuring IP addresses?

 

I've heard it's possible to set up a domain controller (LDAP?) that Windows machines would authenticate against too... I'll have to start with sharing the internet connection first though :P

 

Thanks!

Hi at all,

 

I connected an external HDD. I need to set permissions, user and group. If I type commands chmod and chown I can not set them. How do I do?

 

If I type "fdisk -l" the result is:

 

Originally, I had 2 partitions/instances of Ubuntu 10.04 on my system. I then deleted what was the first installation/partition of Ubuntu in order to give Fedora 13 a try. Before installing Fedora, I verified that the Grub menu still came up and I could boot to the remaining Ubuntu OS.

 

After installing Fedora 13 on the space left from deleting the first Ubuntu partition, it initially boots up without even displaying a boot menu. I resolved that by changing timeout=10 in menu.lst. I located grub.cfg on the Ubuntu partition and found what I believe to be the pertinent information:

 

By Googling around a bit, I was able to learn enough to add this line to my fstab file in my Fedora 13 system:

 

I am trying to remotely call a script file via ssh.

 

the server has a shell that is a custom program, lets call it shelly. There is also a script file on the server that needs to run when in shelly.

 

 

i can run the following after i ssh into the box, as root.

 

 

Hi guys,

 

Whenever I try and update the server using yum, I get an error something like:

 

I just created a favicon for sister site Windows-Noob, because I noticed it was still using the default IPB favicon.

 

Here on the Linux side of things, we've traditionally had a set of favicons for many different distros which would rotate.

 

While the changing favicon is a cool idea, I like to keep sites in my bookmarks bar and quickly identify and access them by the favicon, and the L-N one does tend to change frequently so it's not as obvious which one it is.

 

I'd like to suggest moving to a single favicon so the site has a single visual identity when shown in bookmarks bars and so on, so I put together this 'hatch' design (based on the same Creative Commons G2 Tux images used in the header).

 

What do people think?

 

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hi guys, i'd like to (if possible) mirror my webserver setup (centos 5.5) so that it's running simultaneously on one server in Europe and one in the U.S. and any changes that happen on one will be mirrored on the other

 

the setup is all via rpm, and it's apache, mysql, php, there are two websites with databases to consider (this and another) and that's about it,

is it doable but more importantly is it hard to do ??? any tips/ideas/guides ?

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