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Have a look at owl.sf.net as well. I recall it provides document management. According to the website, owl is "Owl is a multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system written in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the web for a corporation, small business, group of people, or just f...

The default number of terminals is tty1-tty6 with tty7 being graphical login. This is defined by default in /etc/inittab. However, the maximum number can theoretically be 255 and one possible way to switch between say tty2 and tty20 would be to use: chvt 20

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Hello Lambda

Actually i submitted an online letter at www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk website but just noticed that the last letter that was responded to was in september 2005.


And yes it is the govenment's responsibility to keep tabs on such forums and to act in time.


Asaf

The OLPC is a great project that will bring about a positive change in the lives of school children in the developing countries. The project is on track and production will begin shortly. The sad thing is that Pakistan has missed the opportunity of becoming a recepient of these laptops. OLPC require...

Hello
Can anyone recommend a USB web cam that works very well with Linux. Also, the web cam should be readily available in the local market.

Thanks

Hello I am facing a very simple but frustrating problem. I usually use wget to download files from the internet. I submit the command from the CLI like so: $ wget -c http://www.download.com/gaim.rpm (for example) If the connection breaks i am able to continue the download. But most of the time, i ju...

I think Shakirz1 requires to build a HA or high availability server most suited for database applications in a corporate setting. The following site: www.linuxvirtualserver.org should provide a start.

My 2c.

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Asaf Maruf

Hi
Have you used GAIM that comes bundled with RH9. It will allow you to use MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and a number of other messaging services. The version bundled with RH9 is 0.59 and needs to be updated. But otherwise GAIM will do the job well enough.


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Asaf

Zaeem's advice is good. You can place a link to the images in the database. However, if you still would like to place the images in the database, the type to use is blob or binary large object.


my 2 cents.

asaf

RedHat may have stopped support for RH9 but the distribution is alive thanks to an update facility provided by Fedora. Users of RH 9 can keep their systems current by updating online. Plus: RH9 has received very high evaluation in terms of performance and utilities bundled with it. Overall it is a v...

If hyper threading is enabled, does Linux detect that as two processors each?

I know that with HT enabled CPUs, the linux kernel does divide processes per phyical CPU and a virtual one like HT.

Asaf

Thanks for the offer Mansoor.

How many CD's is it and how can one get a copy.

Asaf

Hi
I have a 4CD Fedora Core 2 Test 2 CD set in Karachi.

It is however not the latest version.

Asaf Maruf

Hi
One of the best tools to manage MySQL databases both local and remote is phpmyadmin.

Very easy to use and very powerful software.

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Asaf Maruf
PING

Hello. Install two network cards in your linux box. Assign one ethernet interface an IP address from one of the networks. Assign the other interface an IP from the other network. The IP's must belong to two different networks. Enable ip forwarding between the two interfaces by issuing echo '1' > /pr...