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    Re: HowTo: Wallpaper Changer for Xubuntu (Xfce)

    [dave@petard ~]$ crontab -l
    */5 * * * * /usr/bin/who | /bin/grep -E "dave *tty1" 2>&1 > /dev/null && /usr/bin/xfdesktop --display=:0 --reload 2>&1 > /dev/null

    If I'm logged in, I get a tty. The...
  2. [ubuntu] Alternative to wide -dhcp-client in Maveric (e.g., ISC)?

    Hi All -

    I'm attempting to get ready for IPv6 by modelling the major pieces of my network on a VMware ESXi box as Virtual Machines (VMs). At the moment I'm stuck trying to get the...
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    Re: Memory leak

    This is strange. By Thursday morning top and ps were reporting that X had again grown to about 2GB. I wanted to try starting Ubuntu in text mode so that I could start X as a regular user from the...
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    Re: Memory leak

    Just kidding with the comparison to *******. :D

    I left the following running after the last restart of X:

    [dave@bend ~]# while ( 1 )
    while? date >> Xsize.log
    while? ps aux | grep '/usr/bin/X'...
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    Re: Memory leak

    Just restarted X since it had grown to over 2GB with about 100MB of swap used. Certain apps were starting to get slugish. After the restart X looked like:

    [dave@bend ~]# ps aux | grep X
    root ...
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    Re: Memory leak

    Seeing X just suck up more and more memory here. Had to log in from another box a couple of days ago because the UI stop responding (mouse moved but could not access gnome-panel to switch desktops)....
  7. [ubuntu] Re: QEMU and IRQL NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL Error

    Were you ever able to install Vista under qemu? I had it working for a while on a very custom CentOS installation (2.6.28.7 kernel from kernel.org, latest versions of qemu, SDL built locally). ...
  8. [kubuntu] Re: Missing initrd.img after installing Kubuntu 8.10

    This approach still didn't work for me. I was attempting to install Ubuntu on an external (USB) hard drive and ubiquity only showed the internal drive in the partitioning step.

    Never one to give...
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    Poll: Fedora data point

    I'm running into what appears to be a timing problem between bcm43xx and my WAP. The system (HP Pavilion zv6015) is running FC4 x86_64 with the 2.6.17-2139_FC4 kernel. Everything appears to be...
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