Hello all. First off i want to just say this and get it out of the way. I am very new to linux. Started using it for a class i am taking, (finals next week) and i am a semi converted from Windows. I have Xp on my Dell latitude D500 laptop, took it off and placed Mandriva on it, which i do like. And ...

Posted by timothy (94% noise) View Skip bsk_cw writes “About a month ago, in Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows, Preston Gralla wrote about what life was like for a long-time Windows user trying to live with Linux. His main problems came when he tried to install or update software...

Posted by timothy (91% noise) View Skip MessedRocker writes “I have at least a few USB flash drives around that I haven’t needed since I got my 16GB flash drive, a 40GB external hard drive which I haven’t needed since I upgraded to 500GB, and a couple of SATA hard drives I have pul...

A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

so this was obviously pretty dumb of me, but hopefully it's not too hard to fix. I deleted my ubuntu partition from windows, and of course now I can't boot into anything. It says error 17. I have a lot of important files in windows that I need to access. What should I do?...

Although Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPhone 2.0 firmware update generally killed wireless syncing with Linux, efforts have been made to resurrect the functionality. As expected hackers won, allowing all Linux fans around the world to comfortably sync their iPhones with PCs. Before you hop over to get...

North Korean Election Results Kim Jong Il wins re-election with 99.9% turnout. In other news, 0.1% of North Koreans put into labor camps. Over at Kos, a comment on the stem cell exec order: (House Minority Whip Eric Cantor)'s not even pretending there's a moral objection any more. It's just knee-jer...

Posted by kdawson (92% noise) View Skip supermehra writes “How do you move 300 desktops, locked down with Windows ADS Group Policies (GPO), over to Ubuntu desktop? We have tried Centrify, Likewise, Gnome Gconf, and the like. Of course, we evaluated SuSe Desktop Enterprise and RedHat Desktop. S...

I recently took another look at boost::python. It was a much better experience than when I first tried boost::python for Glom in 2005, probably because my use of the Python C API in the meantime has helped me understand what boost::python is doing. I have a mostly-done patch to use it in Glom 1.12 (...

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time. Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcom...