Hello everyone!

 

 I'm a n00b who, until recently, only used Windows. I took the plunge and installed Lubuntu a little over a week ago. Although I have had some seriously frustrating moments, I'm really impressed and excited by what I've seen so far - especially with the power and elegance of the terminal compared to the Windows Command Interpreter!  

 

 To give you a little more background about myself, I'm a guy in my early 20's, living near Washington, DC. In the past six months or so, I've gotten really interested in Computer Science, and I will soon be returning to school to pursue a CS degree. My brother and father are both engineers, so I grew up surrounded by computers. I managed to pick up some basic CS vocabulary and learn some rudimentary administrative tasks in Windows when I was younger, but I didn't start to look deeper until recently. 

 

  CS is an absolutely massive field, and I find all of it interesting... but programming seems to be my biggest interest. I've been teaching myself C++ for some months now, and, like Linux, I find it seriously frustrating at times, but also incredibly exciting and empowering! The most difficult thing for me right now is staying focussed on one topic, and not getting intimidated by the vast amount of stuff I don't know... I have a really bad habit of opening two dozen wikipedia tabs and getting sidetracked into reading about hardware, IP, math, etc, when I really just need a practical solution to why my widget-counting program won't compile! [img]<___base_url___>//public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]

 

 

 At the moment, my goals for learning linux are simple: I want to become a competent user and continue exploring. In the future, I'd like to use a linux platform for developing, and contribute free software of my own some day.

 

 However, I have had some hesitation about learning to develop with C++ in Linux. As I said above, I have a real problem with trying to learn too many different things at once, and as a result, I am not progressing as quickly in C++ as I would like. I'm pretty comfortable using Microsoft's Visual Studio (I have access to some pretty nice Windows machines), so I have to wonder if I should just stick with that for now while I build my C++ foundation, and explore Linux from other angles. The main problem being, I have heard that the GCC toolchain is likely to be overwhelming for a n00b, and while people have some good stuff to say about the Linux C++ IDE's, they always seem to qualify their praise with "but ___IDE still has a long way to go". The counterpoint to these considerations would be that I will learn to use Linux much faster if I make it my primary OS, instead of just tinkering with it at the end of the day. 

 

 

 Many, many thanks to all the people who help run this site and / or contribute their knowledge to it! 

 Hello everyone!
 
 I'm a new Linux user running Lubuntu 12.04. I have recently encountered some strange behavior when using the terminal (LXTerminal, BASh).
 
 The terminal no longer accepts forward slash ( \ ) for path names. It works fine when I use backslash ( / ), but this annoys me - I don't want to get in the habit of doing it backwards! Oddly enough, it will echo forward slash when I use 'pwd' or use 'cd' with backslash.
 
 

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odougs@ODT61:~$ pwd

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odougs@ODT61:~$ cd /Documents
bash: cd: /Documents: No such file or directory
odougs@ODT61:~$ cd \Documents
odougs@ODT61:~/Documents$ 
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Hello everybody! I've got a little question here: how do I correctly set up a daemon and its related folders permissions?

 

I've got a little server going here which, among other thing, I'd like to use as a torrent box. My home server drive has a "storage" partition which I share on the LAN via AFP (so I can use it as external storage for my macbook). The administrator user of my server is the owner of this partition.

 

What I would like to achieve is a torrent daemon auto-picking torrent files from a folder on "storage" (say /mnt/storage/torrents) and downloading them into a "downloads" folder (say /mnt/storage/downloads). I've downloaded deluge and sort of have set it up. 

 

Now, it might seem stupid but what confuses me is: how am I supposed to "correctly" configure the permissions on the folders? Right now everybody has access to the "torrents" and "downloads" folders (chmod 777), I am the owner of those folders and deluge is running under debian-deluge:debian-deluge. I've read a bunch of guides and tutorials online (some say I should join the debian-deluge group and set the permissions for the group, some say that I should make deluge run with my user's privileges and so on) but I eventually got pretty confused and ended up here. Is there anybody so kind to help this linux noob out? :)

Hello everybody, a linux noob from Italy here, dealing with my first install of Ubuntu Server ever (I used to use the desktop version once but never actually touched a GUI-less setup). Hopefully a lot of my questions will get sorted out here :)

So I want to switch to Ubunto and currently don't have access to a blank external drive/card.

I have a SD card with plenty of memory, but I think you have to use a empty one, please correct me if I'm wrong.

If I am wrong about ^, would I be able to partition some memory, put the .iso in there, and install/replace my OS with that?

If so, how does one partition?

Any help is appreciated.

I'd like to switch from my Crunchbang (Dabien) distro to a Ubunto. Although, I wouldn't like to have to lose all my files and get them again. Is there a way I could change Linux operating systems, but keep all my files? I was thinking about the possibility of doing a dualboot, moving all my files manually to the UBunto partition, then getting rid of Crunchbang. Will this work? If not, I'm open to suggestions.

Hello!

 

i realise the forum seems pretty quiet but i thought I'd post anyway! first post yay!

 

anyway! I've got myself a raspberry pi and I'm pretty happy with it. but what I'm hoping to set up is a remote desktop client that boots very quickly. so far ive managed to use Raspbian with Remmina but that was a bit iffy and didnt work too well, so i moved on to the RPiTC project, boots up to RDesktop in about 45-50 seconds but still not exactly what we need.

 

I'm now experimenting with Arch Linux Arm for the Pi but seeing I'm quite the noob at this I'm not doing too well. ive found that i cant run RDesktop without some form of desktop enviroment on the pi itself (please correct me if im wrong!) but trying to find a really lightweight and fast one is proving difficult. it doesnt help that I'm behind a proxy here so while downloading some stuff works others dont.

 

If you could help at all or point me in the right direction it would be very much appreciated!

 

EDIT: sorry guess i should mention I'm trying to connect to a Windows 2008R2 Terminal Server!

 

Thanks!

 

Tom [img]<___base_url___>//public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png[/img]

Hi everyone,

 

My name is Darshik and I am using Ubuntu. I recently started studying networking, and I am quite interested in understading Linux.

 

I would want to start with the basic stuff like the commands which are most commonly used. Or perhaps installing softwares apart from the ones available in the software center.

 

I would also like to learn more about the terminal. How to use, when to use it. I will try and spend as much time as possible here considering this is only a beginning for me and there is lot more to learn about linux.

 

 

Thank you!

 

Darshik

 

[root@centos /]# sysctl net.ip4v.tcp_syncookies

error: "net.ip4v.tcp_syncookies" is an unknown key

 

in Centos 6

 

the issue may be that I'm following a slightly old manual (2009) which more often refers to Fedora/RHEL and very rarely Centos.  the key does exist under the path, I'm looking at it..

 

Thanks in advance for your help :-)

 

This is the question I asked myself a while ago. I have a new tv now what can I do to put it to good use. The whole purpose I bought a tv is to watch tv, movies, and series, but just having the normal tv channels quite bore me and I hate commercials with a passion. So I decided I would create a mediacenter, so I bought together some pc pc components and now to setup the software side. I already had an idea of how I wanted it.

 

OS: Linux MInt 13

Mediacenter software: xbmc

Connect to media via: NFS

 

1. I installed the linux mint and setup

2. I setup user xbmc with same uid as my user on my server

3. I installed xbmc: sudo apt-get install xbmc

4. I setup my nfs shared to mount under /mnt

5. I setup the location in xbmc that it should search for videos and music

6. Now the last thing I still needed to do was enable that my mediacenter would log the account xbmc in automatically so that I won't need a keyboard each time I boot to type in the password.

 

I was happy with my final result, I can watch HD movies/series and I don't have to copy data from my server to the lokal drive of my laptop. Which I had done before with my laptop before I had my mediacenter.

Some cool android app I found later is Yatse, you can get this in the google play store . All I needed to do was:

 

1. Install it onto my GS2

2. Under xbmc settings, configure xbmc and to allow the api port to be open and add a username and password.

3. Connect to my wifi and now I am able to control my xbmc mediabox with my GS2

 

:)