Short storey is my gf's father (as in priest) pc is infected and his webmail account was hacked so he's now sensitive and understands the significance of a scammer running wild with his name. Oh he's running win98.
I've picked up a cheep off-lease dell (P4, 3GHz) and am tossing over the OS. Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine? Good luck, successfull? No I don't own it, the perish does, and I can't run away with it so flailing out of site isn't an option. Yes I really want to setup a linux box here before settling for Windows so any thoughts or suggestions short of training him to use gnu cash
We need to provide multiple people from outside access to QuickBooks. Each and everyone user from outside should be able to connect (remotly) to their own sandbox (maybe) or virtual screen and be able to use Quickbooks to update their own books.
I was wondering if there is any way to use Xen or some sort of Virtualization to achive this using CentOS virtualization? I want to save on MS Windows license if possible.
If not, then what do you suggest I should do with Windows + CentOS to get this running? Should I install multiple instances of Windows onto CentOS and give access to users?
I need to setup a simple server to make available Quickbooks accounting data to just a few stations. Can this be done with Ubuntu desktop version? Would it be recommended due to the small number of users? Or should I use a server platform?I have never used Linux before but have used command line interfaces and am looking forward to it. I installed Ubuntu Server 9.10 32 bit and have even gone as far as logging in. Amazing I know. I installed it on a separate disk so I can switch between Windows and Linux startup disks at boot via cmos.as a first step into linux would like to be able to browse the web from Ubuntu Server 9.10 if the Server edition is in fact the route I should be taking.I would also like a good source to learn not only command line commands but also all the stuff that I see after the commands, you know, all the stuff with - signs all over the place.
I don't know much about lvm and I've managed to screw up a drive. I had a 500GB drive with FC14 on it and I wanted to copy over a load of data to my new 1TB that was replacing it. I set up my new install the same way as the old...including the same volume names (error number 1 I think) I successfully mounted the old/500GB drive (using vgscan and vgchange -a y etc.) using a laptop (running FC13) and an external hdd cradle. I could access the files I wanted but this wasn't the machine I wanted to copy them to (I was doing this while waiting for the install to finish on the new drive).
When I tried the same process on the new install I found that having two lvm with the same name meant I couldn't mount the external one. So I opened the disk utility (palimsest) and was going to change the name of the old volume group but it wouldn't let me do that. I then thought maybe I could get away with just changing the name of the partition where the files were and maybe I could add it to the mounted group or something so I changed it to lv_home2. This changed the name of my new/1TB lv_home to lv_home2 as well. So thinking that wasn't the answer I just changed the name of the new lv_home2 back to lv_home.
From that point on I haven't been able to see the old drives partitions (the new volume group still works so far). I has a physical volume but the volume group and volume names are gone from view. When I try to vgscan on my main computer or the laptop I had it working on earlier I get:
I am new to fedora and installed wine to see if I could get the sony reader software working (required to access sony bookstore from my sony ereader). Well the program did not work though it did create icons on my desktop. wine kept crashing and I said lets just get rid of it. I uninstalled wine via yum remove and nothing appeared to happen so I did rpm -qa |grep wine and saw lots of stuff. So I simply did yum remove wine* and then a rpm -qa |grep wine was empty. however wine is still under applications on my desktop and still has a category for programs--reader. I should also mention that while wine was installed I attempted to remove the reader via the wine uninstalller but a) wine gave a message of a core crash and b) all the uninstaller did was give me the option to reinstall the reader program. so now when I attempt to open an epub it tries with the sony reader software. I know I can just right click to use another program but for now I want wine gone completely from my pc and the sony program gone.
Why isn't there a simple program like Microsoft Windows' Notepad? One which is format stupid (ASCII only), so I can over-ride hidden html character entities. The other day I found myself wasting hours trying to get the Xephyr to work by cutting and pasting the terminal instructions from the following website into a gnome-terminal session - but each time it would give me the same, small window. I tried copying the text from the browser (using copy and paste) to gedit, but gedit was not showing the hidden character entities from the html code. After all this lost time trying different resolution sizes, I became suspicious that something was interfering with my cutting and pasting between gedit and the CLI terminal. Sure enough when I compared the webpage source code it gave me the clue to the problem.
From the same page - two examples:
Hidden character (notice the '�' or × ) $ Xephyr -ac -screen 1280�786 -br -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :2 & NO hidden character (notice the 'x') $ Xephyr -ac -screen 1280x1024 -br -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :1 &
[code]....
I even tried cutting and pasting out of the terminal yet somehow it retained the hidden characters. I could not find any preference setting in any of these programs which would allow for either eliminating the hidden characters doing a cut and paste or at least revealing them. I would like to plead to programmers out there for this basic functionality...
I am currently stationed overseas in Japan, and I am happy to say that I have a 100 Mbit fiber line from my service provider... I am not so happy to say that they force me to use their "CTU", which is basically a Japanese router, which limits me from receiving external connections (such as would be required to host FTP, or administer my home machines via SSH or VNC). I have tried many methods of bypassing this piece of equipment, but so far none have worked (router setup for PPPoE, DHCP, Static IP, so on). I don't think the Japanese would mind me bypassing this device, as it's really there to 'protect' me, but there's such a language barrier that I can't figure out how to tell them what I want to do.
In order to troubleshoot the problem, I would like to setup a spare computer as a hub, dumbly (Is that a word? It is for this circumstance...) passing data from one device to the other, and allowing me to watch what is being passed via Wireshark. I am pretty linux savvy, but I'm completely useless with iptables.
Here is the final product I want:
After connecting eth0 to the fiber modem and eth1 to the CTU, I want the computer to duplicate eth0's distant end MAC to eth1 and vice versa (to simulate the computer not being on the network at all), then I just want the computer to pass any data coming in on eth0 to eth1, and any data coming in on eth1 to eth0. Finally, I need to be able to read the throughput with Wireshark, but I really think that will be very simple if I can get the rest of the setup complete.
One piece of info - there is no dhcp on this link of the network, and I have no way of knowing the MAC addresses of either end before connecting them.
As an added bonus, once I've captured the handshake between the CTU and modem, if someone knows how to retransmit those packets on demand (i.e. to replace the CTU with my computer), I would be quite happy to hear about it.
Can some one dumb down the process of cloning a workstation.I have a working workstation that I want a image of and I have a server to put the imagen then I want to take that image and apply to two other work stations.
This is not a regular backup. I only want to backup selective directories so personal files (photographs, documents, sourcecode) will be kept safe in case of a total system meltdown. This'll be 15GB max. Basically the digital variant of a fire resistant safe. I looked into duplicity but that requires me to install gpg keys on the target machine, which I can not do. I rather have a solution that just relies on just a working shell account and diskspace on the target server.
I thought of writing a simple script to do the following: 1. Mount remote server with sshfs 2. Mount encrypted container at remote server (LUKS, TrueCrypt?) 3. Loop over predefined directories on local machine and copy to encrypted container (rdiff-backup?)
Based on these requirements: - Target server is "dumb": only ssh access + diskspace (i.e. no installing of gpg keys) - Encrypted container should grow/shrink to fit contents - Encrypted container should be easily decryptable on any OS if you have the password - Once data leaves client server it should be encrypted: sysadmin on target server should never be able to see unencrypted data.
I don't know about you, but I have found the linux kernel to read pretty much any usb drive or sd card, while many bioses, especially, when they are older fail miserably. Now if you got yourself a machine which bios cannot boot from your 16 giga stick, wouldn't it be possible to use linux as kind of a bootstrap, install it on a 1 giga medium, that the bios can boot from and then when the linux kernel is running, give control to the other media that you really want to boot from. This should be doable.
It is basically going from a running kernel and its inird to give control over to another grub or syslinux. Does anybody know if this exists already? Truth is that many bioses are just garbage, old and fail at pretty much all new hardware, so why not use a linux kernel as a crutch, to get away from this old piece of junk? I did similar things already with a software raid, where i had a machine that couldn't boot from a HD that was larger than 150 giga.
I installed a 10 gb HD to put /boot on it and then give control over to some "fancy 21st century technology that can boot from this HUUUGE disks" (as from my dripping from sarcasm voice you can tell that pretty much all BIOSes are a thorn in my side and a P.I.T.A. for me, too often they only do 30% of what I expect them to)
when I tried to install wine I got "Missing Dependency: wine-gecko is needed by package wine"so I looked for wine-gecko and download it but also when I tried to install it I got "Missing Dependency: wine-gecko is needed by package wine"it seems that I am in loop each package need the other what to do please?
My computer is a Compaq Presario 2110CA. When installing Ubuntu 10.10, after the installation is complete, I select the option to reboot. During the shutdown procedure, the CD drive ejects the installation CD. I/O error messages fill the screen. This isn't what troubles me, since this issue is taken up in other posts and forums. When I press Enter, the laptop reboots as it's supposed to.
Once Ubuntu reboots, it prompts me for login information. After entering my username and password, it plays the startup sound, gives one warning pop-up about the health of my battery, and then the screen stays on the default background only. There are no mini-indicators for wireless connectivity or shutdown/suspend options - just the background. The cursor shows up, too.
I have tried to install gnome-core from the console. I have also tried to make clean, fresh DVD copies of the installation .iso. Each time, because of the CD ejecting during the initial reboot, I arrive at a blank desktop background. What is the best way to properly complete the installation so I can begin enjoying Ubuntu?
I opened KPackageKit in my new Fedora system. I want to get wine. The description says "A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator". But wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.
while trying to get a game to work on wine I was surprised to find out that the wine version that ships with sid is 1.0.1 released in October 2005. So I installed the latest release I found at [URL] like this :
dpkg -i wine_1.1.42~winehq1-1_amd64.deb
The install failed, I think because I hadn't remove the old wine version, and that's when the joy-ride started. Impossible to remove wine to restart properly. (apt-get remove libwine wine and apt-get -f install didn't) After some googling I tried this :
This did install the wine version I wanted, and the game ran fine after that. However the result was a borked apt-get. Tried to remove wine again with the above commands, resulting in apt-get failing to do so because it tried installing wine-unstable and reported errors similar to these : E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'wine-unstable'. see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
How can I uninstall / purge wine and any wine installed windows programs?I've tried deleting .wine (hidden folder)but in /usr/bin/ there are a number of wine related files.And wine sub menu still appears in Applications menu
maybe my questions sounds funny: i'm looking for a very small (or better as small as necessary) distro which runs in a virtual box an starts wine.The reason is: we have new laptops in my school runnig windows7 64bit home and we have some software which runs only on WinXP. So why not take a virtualbox wich runs wine to start the old Software?
Lot of questions about WINE... When I'm done I'm going to make a HOWTO so that others can do what I did It's hard work, but I'm nearly done.The last problem I'm having is the WINE menu on GNOME won't show up after a install of WINE from a .deb package (it usually does). This was after I compiled WINE from source and removed it with "make uninstall" and "rm -rf /.wine".So now I installed the WINE from a deb package and the Wine menu entry is not showing up.I've tried re-installing Wine and rebooting my PC but nothing seems to work.
I have a problem running a game on a fresh Slackware64 install.
Slack version is 13.37
I've followed alien bobs instructions for a multilib environment from here:[url]
And then used sbopkg to download and compile wine version 1.2.2, which went through just fine.
After that I grabbed cabextract from sbopkg and ran this: wget [url] sh winetricks d3dx9 To get the DX9.
But, when I try to run the game, this is the error I get:
Code:
The game it self ran perfectly on the 32 bit version of Slackware, tested with 13.0. So now I think I'm missing some libs or something, but I have no clue which.
I don't know if it's just my system, but after applying the latest Wine update, the mouse cursor in Wine windows is now purple/magenta/pink, whatever. Not a big problem, just annoying. I've looked through the various config files in ~home and /usr/share/wine, and can't find any parameter that might even remotely address this.
Is WINE already provided in the standard installation of F15 - Gnome3?Since i've already downloaded it from findrpm, also gecko as i received an error without, i dont know how to check myself.
I was wondering if i could get an oracle 10g version that is guaranteed to work for fedora 10.I know they have downloads for linux and possibly fedora 4 but will they workon fedora 10.I thought about using wine to run the windows version of the installer but it seems wine cant 'emulate' everything.If the above stated courses of action are not possible,what 'easy to learn' software could i use to create a database on fedora 10.
I've yummed Wine into existence on my Thinkpad R51 (1 gig ram, 32mg ATI MR7500 running Fed12/gnome 2.28) and it's very weak, choppy, slow, buggy. Is this just the nature of the beast or is my machine weak on ram and/or video?
There are several options available, such as "Ignore Alert" and "Turn off memory protection". What are the consequences of choosing one or the other?I'm new to Fedora and I'm not familiar with SELinux. Can someone please give me guidelines (or explanation) on how to deal with SELinux alerts?
I setup wine using the yum command which installed 1.1.14 fine. But I get problems when I try to run utorrent (the text is buggered) so I need to install the latest version 1.1.41. Using yum update wine doesn't work. I tried downloading the latest version from the wine website but I can't get it to install. I try to run the wineinstall shell script but it starts ok but then comes up with an error and closes before I can even see what the error is.
Trying to run warcraft 3 in wine, can't get it to work. I'm currently running fedora 12 (64 bit) on a sony viao w/ a dual core 2.00 ghz proc and 2.9 gb ram. This is the console output:
Fedora 13 (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686)"yum install wine" ends with an error message. If I understood correctly it complains about missing wine-common package "Requires: wine-common = 1.2.0-1.fc13".However, when trying to install wine-common "yum install wine-common" it says it is already installed "Package wine-common-1.2.0-1.fc13.noarch already installed and latest version".
Im running Fedora 13 x86_64, I used to run the 32bits version, but I decided to get all I can from my 64bit procesor. Anyways, I have to run some aplications on Wine, like Microchip MPLAB software, for programing PICS, it used to workk perfectly fine on my 32 bits version, but ever since I installed the 64bits version, I can't get anything to work. Of course there are alternatives, but my coworkers use Windows, and MPLAb, alternatives have quite similar, but yet diferent sintaxis, so I kinda need to solve this, otherwise, I will have to migrate back to the 32bits version. I tryied o install some clumsy soft, but still, wine can't initialize anything. I tryied to install lots of libraries, but problably Im missing something.
I am trying to install IE. But after entering this command
Code:
I am getting this prompt
Code:
Your wine does not have wineprefixcreate installed. Maybe you are running an old Wine version. Try to update it to the latest version. After that now I found that I have installed code (Oxford dictionary with wine it was not working too.
