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That is a valid observation and I totally agree. However, I would like to point out I am still using a Dell Inspiron 700m - Ubuntu obviously, with minor hardware upgrades and that thing is amazing!!

Here is another link that may help...

Configuring GRUB

No, all you need to do is configure GRUB to load X over Y first.


Try following this link as a tutorial.
Configuring GRUB BootLoader

Are you running a Database on this site also? what is the disk IO during times you are having this issue?

Have you checked the ulimit settings for the processes? There could be a process opening X...

Banned for having an avatar with horns

By posting from my work laptop... i just broke the cycle :(

They wont let me install nix on my wrk laptop!!

Are you sure your line is receiving disconnects due to incorrect filtering? Does your Winfroze machine connect to a splitter, or does the cat5 cable? Who is your ISP? do you have vdsl? I have not...

Hello...


Please post the following from your shell with the external HDD mounted.

# as root

sudo -s

Mediatomb with sql is easy as pie. However, getting it to stream from another db is the difficult part. Let me know if you need any help setting up mediatomb with sql using it's own db. the rest is...

Wow.... What a noob move, i have had better days :P . thanks for the help.

Thank you for the reply. I should have mentioned this from the gitgo. I am already exporting 'newpasswd=$2' and regardless it still will not take. Does anyone know if expect still reads from stdin...

Hi ALL,

I am writing a simple script to perform certain tasks that I do rather regularly on >100 servers [HP/AIX/Sun/Linux] and I am at a snag.


I can successfully use my expect script by...

All i did was make a user (virtadmin) and made that users home directory (/mnt/otherdisk) example. then just su - virtadmin, then when you create the vm it should be created and ran from the...

yes, that will work just fine. where is the data you need to backup located? /home, /mnt/something?

LOL.... I am sorry Stralan, but whatever you are having this fella do is WAY WAY off.

ApEkV2 ~ What are you trying to accomplish?

Please elaborate, I have a very complex setup and may be able...

I Vote VBox. I am currently running it on a headless server and never have any issues.


root@alice:/etc# lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: ...

So you want to update / install packages on a HDD already running linux via the live cd?

If so, any particular reason it must be done this way?

lol. I love the Linux communities response because it is so harmless and those of us who realize the true flexibility of *NIX, don't even care. if MAC and Windows are so advanced and UNIX is obsolete...

update-rc.d will help you manage what RC level to run services.


michael@alice:~$ update-rc.d
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS...

update-rc.d <name of script> defaults

this will make links as per below:


root@alice:/root# update-rc.d firewall.sh defaults
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/firewall.sh missing LSB style...

Example would be

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i ethX -s YOUR_NET_BLOCK -j DNAT --to YOUR_NET_IFACE

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ethX -j MASQUERADE

So what you want is to use iptables.

Sorry... I Know what I see and those settings were not "Automatically" set. I am an IT administrator and I have never seen any MS os change the IP settings to "Use the Following" let alone go into...

Try changing your HDD settings in the BIOS to [AHCI] instead of IDE/SATA mode.

So all you to do now is
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sdc and that is the uuid used in fstab (Hint copy the other line already in there and swap uuid and mnt location) . However before you can do...