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    Re: Men's board?

    True, sex/gender disclosure isn't required. But it is something that many people *want* to disclose. It is something everyone should be able to disclose, without that unduly coloring their future...
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    Re: ...and so then I sed...

    Or on UNIX systems with perl installed, you could use:


    perl -p -i -e s/oldstring/newstring/g filename
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    Re: ...and so then I sed...

    The core bit of syntax relies on the sed s/// operator. For example,


    sed s/oldstring/newstring/

    substitutes the first occurrence of old string (on a given line) with the new string. If you...
  4. Thread: Kill Process

    by gruepig
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    Re: Kill Process

    Also try pkill, which is a bit cleaner than parsing the output of ps yourself.
  5. Thread: PHP help

    by gruepig
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    Re: PHP help

    You've actually set up three things: apache, php, and mysql. It seems that apache (and all things network-related) is working, as you got asked to download the file. Can you access any .php pages?...
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    Re: Making your Ubuntu desktop, better.

    You can switch from X (the graphical interface) to console mode with 'ctrl-alt-F1' (or F2-F6). You can switch back to X with 'ctrl-alt-F7' (or maybe F8 or F9).

    To boot to console mode only, run...
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    Re: Mom digs Ubuntu

    Well, it's approximately true. Debra + Ian = Debian.
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    Re: sudo sudo no take password

    What do you mean it won't take your password? Does 'sudo apt-get update' prompt you for a password and then give an error message? If so, what? Or does it not prompt? What do you get if you run...
  9. Thread: Sudo or root?

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    Poll: Re: Do you prefer root or sudo?

    I use sudo almost all of the time. If I'm doing a lot of things as root, I'll su, because I'm lazy enough to get tired of typing 'sudo'.

    Sudo pros (imho): actual logging (not .bash_history files...
  10. Re: What's the oldest distro CD you have lying around?

    Oldest floppies are Debian 1.3. Oldest CD is probably RedHat 5 or Slackware 3 something.
  11. Poll: Re: Should UbuntuForums work on expanding Wikipedia?

    If you want to contribute to wikipedia, go for it! I do, and I suspect a lot of others do as well. But I'm not seeing how it relates to the ubuntu forums.
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    Poll: Re: Official Ubuntu Certification Poll

    In general, I'm not much for certification. However, if you are going to go the certification route, how about something focusing on security? Hopefully that fits into all/most of the categories...
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