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Ubuntu Dumps the Brown

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 11-03-2010

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Color is not typically a topic of much discussion on the Linux blogs, but in recent weeks, it’s been drawing a lot of attention. Why, you ask? Simple: Ubuntu recently announced a major change to its longstanding “Human” earthtone-palette theme and branding. “I don’t know whether to call it ‘poo brown’ or ‘dirt brown,’ but either way it is seriously awful,” said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. The new theme is meant to focus on the concept of “Light,” and it uses primarily hues in the dark purple and orange ranges.

Atol Delivers Flawless File Management With No Frills

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 11-03-2010

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Some system utilities do a variety of things well. They come with tools to give users lots of solutions in one package. Other system apps like the Atol File Manager perform a dedicated function flawlessly without adding other specialties. Atol took a while to grow on me, but now this app is one of my most-used Linux tools. When it comes to file manager applications, that comparison spells out the philosophical design differences of the Atol Twin Panel file manager and the Krusader file manager, also a twin panel app, which I recently reviewed.

Not able to remove virus from pendrive

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 11-03-2010

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Hello Friends,

My pendrive (FAT32 filesystem) consist of following files+viruses.

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 chinmay root        0 2010-03-10 01:29 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x 2 chinmay root    4096 2010-03-09 23:51 Docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chinmay root  4726162 2010-03-08 15:02 java_ee_sdk-5_03-javadocs.zip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chinmay root 46191338 2008-03-20 18:18 jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chinmay root 54898268 2008-03-20 18:25 jdk-6-doc.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 chinmay root    4096 2010-03-09 17:41 jvm my notes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chinmay root  1070753 2006-01-01 08:20 New Folder .exe
dr-xr-xr-x 3 chinmay root    4096 2010-03-10 01:29 recycler
-r-xr-xr-x 1 chinmay root  1070753 2006-01-01 08:20 regsvr.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 chinmay root  103781 2008-01-28 11:44 xo8wr9.exe


Am facing a problem while formatting my pendrive on Windows XP, it says unable to format. Then I used ‘attrib’ to change the properties of files, and then ‘del’ but still not able to remove them.

Then i tried to remove the same files on my linux (Fedora10, OpenSuse11.1) m/c, but still its not able to remove them, terminal hangs out while unmounting the drive.

On Fedora 12, It deletes all the files, unmounts the drive, but when i mount it again, it shows all the files. :(

- One thing i dont understand why linux is not able to remove these exe files.

Pls help.

Thanks in advance.

New Project Puts Open Source Spin on Data Center Design

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 10-03-2010

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A new industry group hopes to improve the design and construction of data centers through the application of open source principles. Dubbed the “Open Source Data Center Initiative,” the group was formed last week by GreenM3 along with the University of Missouri and ARG Investments. The University is providing administrative support, while ARG hopes to implement some of the resulting ideas at its Ewing Industry Park location. Nokia’s Michael Manos, vice president of service operations, is serving as an adviser.

AT&T Makes Room for Android Backflip

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 10-03-2010

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With its $99 price, the new Android-based Motorola Backflip clearly stands apart from Apple’s iPhone on more than just appearance. Both are smartphones, to be sure, and both are offered through AT&T. They also provide many of the same features and functionality. However, in addition to their different form factors and operating systems, the divergent pricing on the devices suggests that they occupy very different positions in AT&T’s strategy.

mail alias problem

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 10-03-2010

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Hi all, well i am configuring backuppc for awhile, anyway my current problem is, i set a smarthost, configured the mail to use our ISP smtp server, and its working successfully thanks to ALLAH, now i want to set an alias for mails( it was working when it was using the local smtp server), so the backuppc send mail to backuppc, while my /etc/aliases have backuppc: myexternalmail, but its not working now with the external mail, simply i want backuppc when it mail backuppc its converted to myexternalmail@mydomain.com, is it possible ? and how ?, thanks so much.

AT&T Makes Makes Room for Android Backflip

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 09-03-2010

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With its $99 price, the new Android-based Motorola Backflip clearly stands apart from Apple’s iPhone on more than just appearance. Both are smartphones, to be sure, and both are offered through AT&T. They also provide many of the same features and functionality. However, in addition to their different form factors and operating systems, the divergent pricing on the devices suggests that they occupy very different positions in AT&T’s strategy.

Microsoft and the Incredible ‘Internet Usage Tax’

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 09-03-2010

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It’s not often that Linux Girl is struck speechless by some tidbit of news in the tech world, but every once in a while it happens. Last week, it happened. Amid all the high-level discussion of Internet security at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Scott Charney — who holds the ironic title of “corporate vice president for trustworthy computing” — actually suggested a government tax to help the company improve Windows security.

iPhone Gets Down to Business With Open Source BI App

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 09-03-2010

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Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday. Actuate, which founded the BIRT project and coleads it with the Eclipse Foundation, is putting its BIRT Mobile Viewer on the App Store. This viewer, which will be a free app, is a native iPhone application that will let users access and control BIRT content through Actuate’s servers at no charge.

Compiling with multiple versions of a library

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 09-03-2010

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Hello!

I have a set of headers and libraries I want to use but they are mixed with ones I do not want to use. They are part of some official stuff, so I cannot modify them while begging and pleading for weeks.

These headers and libraries are located here
/long/official/path/to/include
/long/official/path/to/lib

respectively

Inside the "include" directory there is another directory "goodies" which is outdated. I have a private version of goodies located
/latest/greatest/include/goodies
that I compiled to produce
/latest/greatest/lib/libGoodies
but I had to compile this against the /long/official/path/to/include headers.

Now I want to use all of this to compile a program. I want all of headers and libs in /long/official/path/to/ but I want goodies from /latest/greatest/

When I compile I use
-I/latest/greatest/include -L//latest/greatest/lib/ -lGoodies -I/long/official/path/to/include -L /long/official/path/to/lib -lThis -That -lLotsMore

and it complains that a function in /latest/greatest/lib/libGoodies.so has undefined references which are files that are located in /long/official/path/to/include

I tried
-I/latest/greatest/include -I/long/official/path/to/include -L/latest/greatest/lib/ -lGoodies -L /long/official/path/to/lib -lThis -That -lLotsMore
but the errors persist…

If you have followed this far, can you please tell me how to fix this. Its driving me NUTS!!!

Thanks!