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Occasional Lockup 2 26 (10/30/2009 1:32:32 PM) comp.os.linux.misc From a debian box ( Linux serve 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 08:42:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ) that occasionally ( every few months maybe ) locks up such that even three-letter-salute at the console does no... Stan

access/fix locked system 2 36 (10/5/2009 6:21:02 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Here's an interesting one. Vanilla Debian stable install on a server ( 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 08:42:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ). No graphics, just running routine stuff like NAT, news feed, samba, mai... Stan

intermittent DNS #2 11 36 (10/16/2008 5:07:34 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Here's an interesting one. Pretty much stock Debian system with vanilla hardware with the one exception that I have 3 network cards ( one for internal net and 2 for external ). All is well and good, but every n... Stan

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Hyperthreading DECREASES performance? There ought to be a solution 51 31 (10/27/2009 10:31:58 PM) comp.os.linux.misc At work, we have some users who ru a multithreaded app, and they need every single bit of performance we can squeeze from computers. We are looking into whether we can obtain additional speed performance from... Ignoramus27237

question about Linux boxes only running as root 45 53 (11/6/2009 3:27:57 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Right I got a customer who is only running one account, namely root and 1 app. I suspect this person is opening himself to trouble. yes/no? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doc... doctor14 (384)

Keep workspaces totally separate 9 43 (11/11/2009 8:25:24 PM) comp.os.linux.misc So I am new to linux (Ubuntu 9.10). I love the workspace feature, where I can have two sessions running simultaneously. However I notice that stuff keeps leaking from one workspace into the other. For example, ... spasmous (236)

printing from XP to Linux printer server 19 52 (1/29/2010 3:10:47 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Greetings - For the first time in 10+ years of using Linux, I decided to take one of my Linux machines (running CentOS 5.4) and configure it to be a print server, so that I can print from the net to it (typi... cooch17 (356)

Kernel messages about hard drives 8 52 (2/8/2010 9:03:58 PM) comp.os.linux.misc All of a sudden, two separate hard drives in the same box have started to cause the kernel to print out messages like the following: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 hdb: DMA timeout retry hdb: t... noone (992)

permissions on a filesystem 30 53 (2/14/2010 12:42:54 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a way (under ext3) to set permissions on a dir such that: only user can create new files but anyone in the group can delete files -- Rahul ... nospam59 (9739)

can I install OS from a bootable DVD from within linux? 6 37 (2/23/2010 7:45:26 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a way to boot off a DVD by copying files to an exisitng Linux OS? I have a bootable DVD for installing an OS (ok, I'll fess up. It's WinServer :-( ). We need to test an install. I have a large bunch ... nospam59 (9739)

SATA Hard drive with jumpers for "Advanced Format" 11 38 (3/2/2010 3:41:35 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I came across this new Western Digital SATA hard drive that has some stuff going on that I don't completly understand. They call it "Advanced Format" and has specific jumper settings for various OS's. But a... nospam233 (101)

out of disk space error installing fedora: linux allowcddma not helpful 22 56 (3/10/2010 10:59:31 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I get the message "An error occurred transferring the install image to your hard drive. You are probably out of disk space." My system is an i386 Pentium IV with an IDE CDROM drive and a SCSI hard drive. I h... derf109 (41)

Discussion: Login portal through linux to get internet and print 19 201 (6/16/2010 11:06:32 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, In a school environment we originally had windows domain controllers which our students logged on to, but now with piles of netbooks restricted to only running Home editions we can no longer force th... geir56 (3)