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I couldn't help but take notice at some of the responses that were coming in from when I was posting questions due to my ignorance of Linux. Some people were quick to help, some advanced users I am sure ignored me because im not worth their time, and then some other users tried to help but was unable to dumb their speech down to newb levels. However I am thankful that there is people here to

Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information on how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from our Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or

Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don't want to spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier the software the better.

Once again, here''s something I haven''t figured out. Apologies if this is too newb-ish, but, how do I spec my routes using RSpec-Rails? In particular, I''ve got a catch-all route that needs to catch a wide variety of URLs: map.document ''*url'', :controller => ''documents'', :action => ''show'' Is there a way to

Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work. As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can download the CentOS manual in PDF format:

I'm a newb to linux so please be patient. Running CentOS 4. Using Bash. I'm not sure what happened, but now for some reason /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin are all missing from the path. I am su'd as root. I've tried several different methods to put this back including: PATH="/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/hom

I am following this guide, http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger, to install RoR on Mac OS X and screwed up when installing rails. I typed: sudo gem install rails --include dependencies instead of sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies I''m providing a link to the screenshot of what happened: http://blazebego.com/temp/rails_dependecy.png

This was a problem I had a while back. I lost the "Preferences" menu item in my "Applications" menu in Gnome. After much discussion, the following commands got my "Preferences" menu item back, along with all the applications inside of it: rpm -e redhat-artwork redhat-menus --nodeps --allmatches yum install redhat-artwork redhat-menus But... For some reason it

I'm trying to load a dataset into R, but I'm completely lost. This is probably due mostly to the fact that I'm a complete R newb, but it's got me stuck in a research project. I've tried just opening the text file in WordPad and copying the data directly into R, but it's too big and causes the program to crash. Any suggestions or assistance? I'm kinda desperate and

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I am having a hard time getting Samba to authentication correctly against a Windows Active Directory setup. Here is a snap of the smb.conf [global] passdb backend = ldapsam security = domain password server = server1.com server2.com prefered master = No local master = no hide unreadable = yes wins support = no winbind use default

Dear All   I have the following code set up: Code #1 a <-matrix(seq(0,8, by = sign(8-0)*0.25)) b <-matrix(seq(8,16, by = sign(16-8)*0.25)) c <-runif(1000,50,60) d <-exp(-c*a)+exp(-c*b)   This will give me the obvious error message of lengths not matching. What I am trying to do here is to have 33 rows x 1000 columns d values calculated in total. As an eaxmple for visual, this is what

Quick newb question about R relating to the line of code below: rawCool = read.zoo("cooling.txt", FUN = as.chron, format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M", sep = "\t", aggregate = function(x) tail(x, 1)) I'm wondering what the specifics are for the argument where it has "aggregate = function(x) tail(x, 1)". I understand that it removes the last row of

I''m building my first webapp... I have db tables "users" and "posts". Model for user is "has_many :posts". Model for post is "belongs_to :user" In a slightly modified scaffold I can list all the posts and which user wrote them (/post/list), but want to link the username to a list of posts by that user. How do I accomplish that? Sorry for the

Hello all, I''ve just installed and begun to integrate the salted login generator. So far I''m very impressed, though I''ve hit a few snags along the way. Unfortunately, I''ve met the first one that I haven''t been able to resolve on my own. When I hit the login action, I get errors in my log files. The specific error with trace is included below.

If you really want to do this the asterisk list is based off of mailman. You can learn all about mailman here: http://list.org/ But really, what are the odds that newbs will know to go there first? Are you going to moderate it? Someone has to actually answer the questions you know, if a newb only list is going to exist. Look, don't answer lame questions if you don't want to. Flaming a

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Hey all, Ok this is probably a newb question, but I haven''t been programming with MVC for very long, and I''ve been wondering what the general opinion is, or best practices, for making a new controller. Like what cases would you need a new controller for and what cases can you just put everything into one controller? Thanks in advance, Randal -- Posted via

I am trying to deploy my first rails app with Dreamhost. I ftp''d over my existing app, turned on Passenger and pointed it to my /public directory. When I go to ''www.mydomain.com'' I get the ''Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard'' default page, including the following: Getting started Here’s how to get rolling: 1. Create your databases and edit

Hi, I have been using VNC on CentOS 7 server from last couple of months and it was running all fine till last night. Unfortunately, there was an abrupt power failure and system got restarted. Now, when I try to login with VNCviwer, it thrown an error message- "*Gnome - oh no! Something has gone wrong "* with a logout option. When I click on logout, I see black/dark gray screen with 3