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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

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.

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 think im using Gnome but im not sure. As for using logout command it didn't work that's why I got puzzled and had to ask online since I couldn't find the GUI one which was there but apparently im too blind to see. Speaking of GUI side of things that's why I made the comment about no search features in CentOS. None of my menus offer a search feature in the GUI so I would have to

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While downloading almost all the guilds I came across a SELINUX Guide. Whats that for? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060407/142d9df5/attachment-0001.html>

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I have a windows XP machine with a printer shared out. How do I attach to my workstation and install that printer on the CentOS box so I can print out things? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060405/a14c764c/attachment-0001.html>

I am trying to figure out how permissions work in Linux. In windows if I want someone to have access to something you put their name in a group then give that group access to that folder. However things can get difficult when you have an office with a folder structure like this: Taxoffice--->Names---> Private. Everyone in the group would need access to the Taxoffice folder and names folder

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

I guess my CentOS is screwed up because that function doesn't work. Only way to resize it was to go into the menu areas and set it there. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060412/4f37d0af/attachment-0001.html>

Using my application i can able to save a new record into my db but i cannot update a existing record into my db. using update query i can able to update my records. but using update_attributes it doesnot update my records. even i cant find any errors in logs or something. throughout my application i can able to save a new record but unable to update my existing records. actually i have changed

i have a time field in my table. it is of varchar data type. i want compare the time between given times. my stored time format is 09:25:01 am. is there any way to compare my time field ? i don t have any idea about mysql STR_TO_DATE function.. will it be usefull for my above problem.. please help me up to try it out... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

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, @doc = Hpricot(open("#{RAILS_ROOT}" + "/public/server_exe/#{list.file_path}")) i need to add <img src = "/ScreenCapture/#{@file_name}"/> element to my @doc hpricot instance.. Please help me... how can i add the above img src element to the @doc hpricot instance.. Thank you -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

Hi everyone, i have 20 fields in users table. in my admin profile module the admin can modify his infomation. but only 12 fields he can able to modify. so in my controller if params[ :profileinfo ][:first_name] @profileinfo.update_attribute(:first_name,params[ :profileinfo ][:first_name]) end the above simply saves what i enter into the field.why it doesnot consider the modelvalidation.

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

i used this private function for removing leading and trailing white spaces from the values.that below function would be called before_save. when i print the value after it strips.it prints string without any spaces.but in the table fields it saves with spaces . waht would be the problem.pls help me class CompanyInfo < ActiveRecord::Base before_save :strip_whitespace def strip_whitespace

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

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