I am thinking about buildinga box to be a dvr, so I did a search on myth tv. Back in 2009 Waterhead advised a questioner that he needed to be prepared for a steep learning curve to install myth tv. I am a relative newbie, is this still the case, or have newer releases such as Mythbuntu made it easier?
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Urbie:~# apt-get install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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I have seen numerous reports of laptops heating up and the cause has been attributed to Linux. Is this a myth or is there some reality to this?
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I am aware that a straight line graph can be drawn for a given coordinates using Jfree, but I am not sure about drawing the curve. Any hints on what might be a good java class to use.
I was just curious to see if anyone could help me setting up my bb curve to be used as a modem for my laptop. Laptop is an acer aspire, the phone is bb curve 8330 n I'm running ubuntu 8.10
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an htpc running mythbuntu 10.04 connected to a plasma tv via hdmi. Initially i was able to boot fine and the front end loaded ok but the resolution was off. My display is 1024x768 but my only options in myth was to use 1024x720. I have since enabled the proprietary ATI video driver. Now my desktop dispay perfect on the tv. However, i can no longer start the mythtv front end. I also ran an update that updated over 100 packages.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to use my blackberry curve as a modem for my laptop. My laptop is an acer aspire 5670 n I'm running 8.04 on it. Its a blackberry curve 8330 I want to use as a modem.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm trying to get sound to work in mplayer for my myth tv box. My hardware setup is a nvidia motherboard with hdmi (not used) and a geforce 210 with hdmi (that is used). The hdmi is connect to an external amplifier that should handle most things. Sound works fine in mythtv - the audio output device used is:
ALSA:hdmi:Card=Nvidia_1,DEV=1
When I try using the command line speaker-test utility it all works:
speaker-test -Dplughw:2,7 -c6
However, aplay and mplayer both dont give any sound - with neither outputting any error messages.
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It seems that I can see my BlackBerry Curve (Verizon) on Rhythm Box...but I can't (for the life of me) figure out how to sync the music on Rhythmbox to my BlackBerry...(see screenshot)
I have a .is_audio_player file in the root of the BlackBerry device as well...
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[christian@fedora-laptop 7713-989E]$ pwd
/media/7713-989E
[christian@fedora-laptop 7713-989E]$ ll -a
total 160K
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I would like to use a linux box to display message in big big big into the monitor in something nice.
Freevo like would be great [url]
Big fonts and fullscreen to display it... would be perfect.
I've pre-partitioned my HDD and want to install 11.2 on the second primary partition.However, when using the installer, I can't get Suse to install on the prepared 20gb partition - it keeps insisting it wants to install on the large unallocated section of the drive.
I find the partitioner somewhat hard to use and the answer may be staring me in the face but I can't see it.
I am extremely interested in learning more than just the "basics" of Linux. I can install, mount, the very very basics etc. But what I want to do, is learn how to do all this from the shell, while the GUI is nice to surf the web and music,.I want to be able to control my machine. I want a beginners book not on how to install linux, but how to administer it. Something like an idiots book, get myself a good foundation before moving on up.
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$rpm --query --all
Is there anything I need to do in addition to installing RMP on Ubuntu and use it?
I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now, for my Home PC I have completely switched but still have windows on my wife's and work computers. I am in the data storage industry and have a good basic understanding of unix and linux. For my own learning I want to start learning some basic scripting where I can create simple things that make life easier like to become a beginer UNIX or linux admin..what should i start with...I just seem to be so overwhelmed cause there are some many things you dive into..I see so many types of scripting shells I don't know where I should start to learn the basics
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a project for my computer class, and I was a bit ambitious with my ideas and am wondering if I made a smart choice. I need to learn sooner or later anyway! I'm a beginner when it comes to scripting but I'd like to learn more advanced stuff. When I say basic I really mean basic among all basic. To give you an idea I only know some simple HTML and Python. The idea I proposed for my project goes as follows:
The challenge we were given is to create a spreadsheet of data from a website given to us. Points are given for creativity and simplicity in how we go about doing this.After taking a look at the site (or rather, html files given to us), and with having dabbled with Python before, I came up with what I thought was a pretty good idea.The pages of the "site" are just numbers. They go from 001-117 .html in terms of filenames. Their source code has some sort of table set up, and the information we are pulling off are easily found by the tags that precede them (the info, btw are the periodic elements).
The tags are pretty obvious, and state pretty much what they are labeling. My python knowledge is almost nonexistent but I figured that would be something Python would be capable of. Why do I post this here? I'm relatively new to Ubuntu too but keep hearing about bash scripts and such. Would this be even better? (Perhaps it's silly but I'd like to use Ubuntu to accomplish this)
Or is there an even better scripting method/language I should be using? Could anyone give me some pointers in how I could accomplish this? I'm really hoping to learn a lot from my first "real" scripting experience!
I'm looking for the most pure linux terminal distro. I am trying to learn linux and I have Ubunutu 10.10 installed but I feel like it's not as pure as other distros, like Ubuntu 10.10 is different from the average terminal experience.
Maybe I am wrong about this, but certain things like the grub .lst file is now a .cfg file in Ubuntu, is this replicated across all linux, or is this unique to Ubuntu? Little things like this that make it difficult to learn. Are all the distros unique in this way?
Suggest me the best book for learning more about directories in ubuntu filesystem
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have decided to try out a little bit of c++ programing so I went out and bought me a book "Sams Teach your self C++ in 21 Days" Now I am at the part of the book where you write the hello world script. when I run Code: cc hello.cpp get this
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I'm trying to learn how to use USB from c code. Rather trying kernel stuff I thought I'd (after some searching ) use libusb. So I searched for documentation, unfortunately I came across two sets of documents each with it's own API?
[URL] and [URL]
For example one inits with libusb_init (libusb_context **context) the other uses void usb_init(void); I'm using libusb rather than kernel programming as I'd like to compile the code for windows as well as linux.
I'm currently going through,what is essentially a Linux+ course. I don't like any of the exercises in the book, as it's outdated and doesn't really thoroughly teach how to implement a lot of stuff.Is there a program or suite of programs out there where I can create a few VM's with their own IP's, users, files systems, etc. so I can setup up Samba, NFS, NIS, etc.?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm cross-posting in order to get as a wider audience to get as much feedback as possible. I am currently studying to learn the ) Gidhlig (Scottish Gaelic language and finding studying by rote out of a book a bit 'limiting'. Because of this, I am thinking about creating a software project which could act as an interactive way to helping me learn the language. I've got a few ideas floating in my head but the direction I want to take is that the software is not an alternative but an aid to be used in conjunction with traditional studying materials. I was thinking possibly small interactive games or exercises that both are fun as well as to test and use the parts of language I have learned. There might also be a bit of reporting to show strengths and weaknesses.
Firstly, the technical specifications, that offhand, I can think of that the project will need to meet:
1. Cross-platform (while I would like it to be just Linux, I have to be realistic that people would rather use Windows)
2. The language data is separate from main program so that the software can be used with other languages.
3. Not too complex so that it is quick and easy to program as I will be doing it myself.........
I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 alongside Vista. I have been looking for a few linux projects to help me learn, the two that I have thought of have been:
1. LFS
2. Something security related
As for no.2, I am interested in learning about network security, intrusion detection, system logging, firewall logging etc. And as a project I would like to work on creating a desktop box as secure as possible, then maybe testing my own box on my home network.
1. Is there a good linux distro that is designed for security?I know people often say "the distro doesn't matter, it only matters how you configure it.
2. Does everyone agree with this? As far as security, learning, etc, are all distros created equally?
Which linux is best for learning embedded systems which has ide like MCU8051ide, piklab and ide for arm processor.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am very new in linux/aix scripting. I request you all to give me efficient pdf book or documentation for learning scripting.
View 2 Replies View Relatedis it possible to run xen on intel atom or celeron for learning purposes, as when i start the virt-manager it doesn't give me the new option the file menu and when i try to do xm create domain1 it gives error like try running it with config file
if atom/celeorn can't run xen why does it gets installed on the system.
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Version of Linux with a command prompt?
Which software of Linux to use for command line running? Since I am using MySQL to run from Linux and want to run Linux, which software to download in Linux? There are multiple ones. Can I run .sh scripts and learn how to operate on Linux using the command line? Also use MySQL as backend on Linux?
I want to start learning GUI bash scripting but I can't find the right tutorial. I'm interesting at creating menus like ex. IPTRAF or MC (midnight commander) but all i find is tutorials for KDE & GNOME. The idea is that I want to create programs that don't need X sessions.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI been trying to set up a DHCP3-server on my brand new learning Ubuntu 11.04 server. I can connect when i put the IP infomation in manually, so I know everything else is working, just got to fix the DHCP problem before I put the machine into production on my home LAN. Can someone tell me if these config files located at /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and another at /etc/default/dhcp3-server are correct? eth1 is the NIC that will be the LAN side of the network, I double checked that...
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/# A slightly different configuration for an internal subnet.
subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.200;
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
option domain-name "linuxrouter.local";
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I've been switched to a new department at work and am totally clueless when it comes to scripting in bash. When I told them I was a fast learner, I didn't think they'd throw me into the deep end of the pool so fast. So to make a long story short. What is a great book to start learning scripting in bash? My supervisor already gave me a simple task to do. Conceptually it sounds quite easy in my head, but actually writing out a script is a bit more daunting and complexed than I first thought.
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