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Someone on the Ubuntu forum said that it is inadvisable to share the /home partition between two different Linux installs because this directory is used for program settings and can cause conflicts if programs on both installs are editing the same files. Is this the case? Will I really need to split my /home partition in two peices to have two installs on the same machine? -- Seans Potato Business 01:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
what is object oriented programming in C++ ? 203.145.188.131 02:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to clarify, if I use Torpark, I know outside people can't see what I'm accessing, but can my systems administrator who controls my router? 82.34.242.138 02:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm considering upgrading my Mac's hard drives. I was curious which hard drives are faster (all things being equal): Internal P-ATA or external Firewire 800? FW800 seems like it would have the overhead of the FW800 bridge, while P-ATA is well, parallel. -- 72.202.150.92 02:54, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know of any good quality free Vector Graphics editors (ones which have good tutorials would be a bonus). Ideally something of the quality of GIMP or Blender, but for vector graphics. -- Kiltman67 04:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
How can you have the trialware forever without registering or ordering it? Dudforreal 08:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
That said, there are illegal ways of overcoming the trial limitations - by reverse engineering the software, or findin an illegal registration key/serial number, or a 'cracked' copy off the net. But I must strongly advise you, if you can afford to buy the actual software legally, please do so. And even if you can't afford to, then look for a free alterntive. Rfwoolf 11:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
How can you change the time on the computer to anything you want?–– Dudforreal 08:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Let's assume you're using Windows... right-click on the clock display and select adjust date/time. -- Multivitamin 09:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
You can also edit the time in your system BIOS - with some discretion, you have to be careful about everything you do when editing the System BIOS - when your computer is booting up, there will usually be something saying "Press F2 to edit the Sytem BIOS" - on some sytems it may be pressing the DEL key. Then carefully and gingerly edit your time and date settings, before selecting "SAVE AND EXIT" - but be careful about fiddling with other settings, it could cause your computer to stop operating - if you've fiddled with something and you're unsure, simply power your computer off - or hit the reset button - or Ctrl + Alt + Delete - or select "Exit WITHOUT Saving". Rfwoolf 11:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Assuming your'e using Windows though, you've got to make sure that "Sychronize with Time Server" or something akin to that message isn't check-marked. Otherwise, your clock will auto reset itself to the correct time for your time zone. Kevinwong913 01:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I can see the files in the folder of an Apache server. Those files are pdf files, and they are quite a lot, I would get pretty tired if I downloaded all one by one, right clicking and so in each one. Do you know any way to do this automatically? Something like, OK, download everything in this folder and its sub folders. Thanks in advance. -- Taraborn 09:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Just trying to help here, have you heard of an FTP application like FileZilla (freeware), where you can select all the files you want and right-click and say "Download" and it wll one by one download them for you. Rfwoolf 11:30, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
You can use a program called HTTrack web site copier. You give it your URL of the directory, and ask it to gather onelevel of files. It will then download the complete list. On Linix or unix systems or possibly windows there is wget also. GB 11:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Or indeed Down Them All, which is free software ( GPL'd). If all these files are on seperate pages, you'd need a web crawler. -- h2g2bob 02:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I always used wget as I see another mentioned (there are windows versions). You just set it to recurse, not to recurse up the directory (or off website) the retry count, and the recursion level and you're pretty well set. Wget has lots of useful parameters (taking files as input lists, etc). Root4(one) 15:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
If I had a computer with legal XP home installed and working and tried to install a bootlegg version of XP Pro over it, what would happen? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.110.49.118 ( talk) 17:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
I would like to be able to be able to stream tv shows from UK websites, Channel 4, for example. However, I need to have a UK ip address to be able to do so. Being that I am in the US, this is a problem.
Is there anyway I can obtain a UK ip address, through tunelling, proxies, vpn, or something else? If you can help, it would be much appreciated.
So, I have have a table cell (or any other rectangular container of text). I write a long stream of text-- one that's too wide to fit on one line. The browser will word-wrap and create two lines: the top one will be as wide as possible, the bottom line will contain the remainder of the text. For most purposes, this is fine, but in some cases, it's ugly having one huge line above one tiny one.
Suppose I instead wanted the text to wrap in such a way that the top and bottom lines were roughtly of equal width. Just inserting line breaks on my own isn't possible, of course, because I don't know how wide the browser will be. Is there anyway to do this? -- Wouldbewebmaster 21:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I compiled my "hello world" program, and tried to run it:
sean@linux-vqrj:~/Desktop> gcc hello.c
sean@linux-vqrj:~/Desktop> a.out
bash: a.out: command not found
Why wont it run? I'm using openSUSE 10.2 -- Seans Potato Business 23:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
./a.out
, or it will need
chmod a+x a.out
to set it to execute permissions (which it should be from
gcc, so it's probably the first one). --
h2g2bob 02:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
./a.out
in bash. You're probably used to CSH or something where you just type a.out. I was confused when I first switched to bash too. --
Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (
talk) 04:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
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Someone on the Ubuntu forum said that it is inadvisable to share the /home partition between two different Linux installs because this directory is used for program settings and can cause conflicts if programs on both installs are editing the same files. Is this the case? Will I really need to split my /home partition in two peices to have two installs on the same machine? -- Seans Potato Business 01:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
what is object oriented programming in C++ ? 203.145.188.131 02:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to clarify, if I use Torpark, I know outside people can't see what I'm accessing, but can my systems administrator who controls my router? 82.34.242.138 02:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm considering upgrading my Mac's hard drives. I was curious which hard drives are faster (all things being equal): Internal P-ATA or external Firewire 800? FW800 seems like it would have the overhead of the FW800 bridge, while P-ATA is well, parallel. -- 72.202.150.92 02:54, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know of any good quality free Vector Graphics editors (ones which have good tutorials would be a bonus). Ideally something of the quality of GIMP or Blender, but for vector graphics. -- Kiltman67 04:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
How can you have the trialware forever without registering or ordering it? Dudforreal 08:17, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
That said, there are illegal ways of overcoming the trial limitations - by reverse engineering the software, or findin an illegal registration key/serial number, or a 'cracked' copy off the net. But I must strongly advise you, if you can afford to buy the actual software legally, please do so. And even if you can't afford to, then look for a free alterntive. Rfwoolf 11:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
How can you change the time on the computer to anything you want?–– Dudforreal 08:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Let's assume you're using Windows... right-click on the clock display and select adjust date/time. -- Multivitamin 09:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
You can also edit the time in your system BIOS - with some discretion, you have to be careful about everything you do when editing the System BIOS - when your computer is booting up, there will usually be something saying "Press F2 to edit the Sytem BIOS" - on some sytems it may be pressing the DEL key. Then carefully and gingerly edit your time and date settings, before selecting "SAVE AND EXIT" - but be careful about fiddling with other settings, it could cause your computer to stop operating - if you've fiddled with something and you're unsure, simply power your computer off - or hit the reset button - or Ctrl + Alt + Delete - or select "Exit WITHOUT Saving". Rfwoolf 11:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Assuming your'e using Windows though, you've got to make sure that "Sychronize with Time Server" or something akin to that message isn't check-marked. Otherwise, your clock will auto reset itself to the correct time for your time zone. Kevinwong913 01:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I can see the files in the folder of an Apache server. Those files are pdf files, and they are quite a lot, I would get pretty tired if I downloaded all one by one, right clicking and so in each one. Do you know any way to do this automatically? Something like, OK, download everything in this folder and its sub folders. Thanks in advance. -- Taraborn 09:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Just trying to help here, have you heard of an FTP application like FileZilla (freeware), where you can select all the files you want and right-click and say "Download" and it wll one by one download them for you. Rfwoolf 11:30, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
You can use a program called HTTrack web site copier. You give it your URL of the directory, and ask it to gather onelevel of files. It will then download the complete list. On Linix or unix systems or possibly windows there is wget also. GB 11:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Or indeed Down Them All, which is free software ( GPL'd). If all these files are on seperate pages, you'd need a web crawler. -- h2g2bob 02:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I always used wget as I see another mentioned (there are windows versions). You just set it to recurse, not to recurse up the directory (or off website) the retry count, and the recursion level and you're pretty well set. Wget has lots of useful parameters (taking files as input lists, etc). Root4(one) 15:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
If I had a computer with legal XP home installed and working and tried to install a bootlegg version of XP Pro over it, what would happen? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.110.49.118 ( talk) 17:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
I would like to be able to be able to stream tv shows from UK websites, Channel 4, for example. However, I need to have a UK ip address to be able to do so. Being that I am in the US, this is a problem.
Is there anyway I can obtain a UK ip address, through tunelling, proxies, vpn, or something else? If you can help, it would be much appreciated.
So, I have have a table cell (or any other rectangular container of text). I write a long stream of text-- one that's too wide to fit on one line. The browser will word-wrap and create two lines: the top one will be as wide as possible, the bottom line will contain the remainder of the text. For most purposes, this is fine, but in some cases, it's ugly having one huge line above one tiny one.
Suppose I instead wanted the text to wrap in such a way that the top and bottom lines were roughtly of equal width. Just inserting line breaks on my own isn't possible, of course, because I don't know how wide the browser will be. Is there anyway to do this? -- Wouldbewebmaster 21:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I compiled my "hello world" program, and tried to run it:
sean@linux-vqrj:~/Desktop> gcc hello.c
sean@linux-vqrj:~/Desktop> a.out
bash: a.out: command not found
Why wont it run? I'm using openSUSE 10.2 -- Seans Potato Business 23:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
./a.out
, or it will need
chmod a+x a.out
to set it to execute permissions (which it should be from
gcc, so it's probably the first one). --
h2g2bob 02:29, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
./a.out
in bash. You're probably used to CSH or something where you just type a.out. I was confused when I first switched to bash too. --
Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (
talk) 04:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)