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wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-ose_2.2.2-dfsg.orig.tar.gz tar -xzvf virtualbox-ose_2.2.2-dfsg.orig.tar.gzcd virtualbox-ose-2.2.2-dfsgsudo apt-get insta

TIP 1: Find out who is doing what, and kill the process if needed. This example kills Id 657. mysql> show processlist; show processlist; +-----+------+-----------+---------+---------+--

Brought to you by NerveGas, planetbeing, ghost_000, dinopio, bgm, MuscleNerd and the iPhone-Elite and iPhone/iTouch Dev teams. OVERVIEWThe dev team has been using dual-booting to jailbreak the iP

At some point in your life, you will find yourself having to work with a firewall in order to protect yourself from hazards on the internet. In order to make the best use of your firewall, you need t

It is a well known fact that wireless connections are by nature insecure. Your chances of being snooped on and valuable data stolen from you is very high, even in the most secure setups. It's even

Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly. Without doing backups, you could find your

There are times in your life that you may find yourself in need of accessing some files on your office computer from home, but unable to due to your company employing a firewall to protect their net

No matter how hard you try, at some point in time KDE will become damaged, or completely unusable. 99% of the time this is caused by corrupted or damaged user configurations. And this isn't just a K

Linux and BSD have a lot of very useful tools on the command line that can make your life easier and can be used to improve your workflow tramendously. But they're such simple tools that many people

More or LessThe "more" command is designed to allow you to view the results of a command, the contents of a file, or any text type output that is given to stdout on the command line. For example, let

From time to time you'll encounter issues with a particular hard drive, flash card, or removable drive that results in the file system becoming read only due to corruption or errors in the file sys

Next function will verify if the email address format is correct and also if the domain exist.function is_valid_email($email,&$error_message="") { //check imail address format if(!eregi("^[_a-z

VirtualBox can be installed either from the closed source binaries or directly from the sources. The closed source version contains some features that the open source edition lacks (see Propietary vs.

There is an example of HowTo set up Intel GMA965 to work for Dual monitor, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller" Board

1) Insert the alternate CD, open it in a new window, open the Run Command dialog by pressing Alt+F2. Type gkesu "/cdrom/cdromupgrade" in the command box and press the OK button. 2) The Distribution U

1) Make sure the "dapper-updates" software channel is enabled.2) Press Alt-F2 and type gksu "update-manager -d"3) Click the Check button to check for new updates.4) A message will appear informing you

1) Press Alt-F2 and type update-manager --devel-release2) Click the Check button to check for new updates.3) A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.4) Click Upgrade

1) Open the Run Command dialog by pressing Alt+F2. Type kdesu "adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel" in the command box and press the OK button. 2) After Adept Manager starts up, press the Version Upgra

1) Insert the alternate CD, open it in a new window, open the Run Command dialog by pressing Alt+F2. Type kdesu "/cdrom/cdromupgrade" in the command box and press the OK button. 2) The Distribution Up

1) Open Synaptic Package Manager and search for "firebird". 2) Select the following packages to be installed: (Note: Make sure you select the firebird2.0-xxxxx packages and not the firebird2-xxxxx pa

KDE 4.0.3 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu 7.10 and Hardy. They install to /usr/lib/kde4 and can be installed alongside your existing KDE 3. Instructions: For 7.10

LONDON, March 25, 2008 - Ubuntu announced the release of 6.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 26, 2006. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a p

you can install it from mapopa repositoryAdd to /etc/apt/source.list the next lines: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu gutsy main

you can install it from mapopa repository deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main $sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get install f

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias s

sudo: unable resolve host "xxxx"The easy way to solve this error, restart your system in failsafe mode, and select to the next window to start the console with the root privilege.There, you must add:1

ChangeLog GUI: ?xed several error messages GUI: ?xed registration dialog crashes once and for all GUI: really ask before resetting the VM GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates

The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable re

Remove previous KDE 4 packages, they are not compatible (apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data) Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/

Remove previous KDE 4 packages, they are not compatible (apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data) Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main to your /etc/apt/

The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and

The KDE 4 series has begun with the release of 4.0. It is the start of something amazing. If you want to test KDE 4 without installing packages download the live CD (554MB). Packages are availa

If you are using cookie-based sessions, you must call session_start() before anything is outputted to the browser.Also you can use "ob_start();" before calling the session_start(). This will

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 1 0 MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn’t happen. It can be a bug in the MPl

You need to setup execute permission on a php script. You need to use chmod command to change file access permissions. Use chmod command as follows:chmod +x scriptname.php Also make sure you add follo

CRON Jobs is the mechanism by which you can tell your GNU/Linux box to perform specified tasks at specified times. Cron (a typical Linux short-cut for the term ‘chronograph’ or perhaps &ls

The script for migrating from SQLite to MySQL on Trac’s site didn’t quite do the job. It failed to convert the quotes from SQLite output into backticks for MySQL. I wrote a new script and

On 11 December KUbuntu announce KDE4 RC2 releas The second release candidate of KDE 4 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu 7.10. If you want to test KDE 4 without installing

Note: Gphone concept sketches by Lorin Wood. gphone concept a edit If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry. Apple’s iPhone, at

The software industry in the future will be dominated by two types of software platform - open-source Linux and the proprietary Microsoft Windows platform - said Jim Zemlin, the executive director of

On November 5th, Google executives introduced the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)—a multinational group of 34 companies. The alliance was assembled to build a better mobile phone. A major part of this eff

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way,