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Using a $variable with find -nameview story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – Greets. I'm a little stumped on this one, even after tearing thru the man page and google. Here is my example code that doesn't work: find $HOME -type d -name "$WHATEVER" -exec rm -rfv {} ';' (HowTos)

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installing linux through USBview story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi, My machine unable to read DVD content, so inorder to install linux , I am copying the linux contents (from iso image) to a USB and there after copying them to my machine. So can I install from this extracted content through USB now ? I am copying to ubantu now and i want to install opensuse for openfoam (some s/w which runs on opensuse only) (HowTos)

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How to know the required packages of one package before installing, in Ubuntu?view story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi Everybody, I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my laptop. And I am going to install mediaplayer from its "*.deb" file, But it requires a lot of other packages and each of those packages needs others and so on. Since I do not have internet connection on my Ubuntu and my internet connection is in Win XP, so I should download (HowTos)

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How are file permissions handled on external media and other computers?view story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – I was wondering, what if you had a flash drive formatted with an FS that has UNIX permissions. Then what if you copied some of your files onto it. And then put it into another computer that has a user account by the same name. WIll the user be able to access the files? What if you named your own user differently on the other computer, will you be able to get your files? (HowTos)

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USB Thumbdrive Securityview story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – Do any of you know a good free On the fly encryption/decryption security program to run portably on a usb thumb drive? I am looking to use a drive at work with some information and programs that I need to be able to get and use easily but keep secure. I have looked at TrueCrypt, but it requires Administrator privileges on windows to run portably. (HowTos)

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Create a link(Soft or hard)view story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi, This is the problem i'm facing (HowTos)

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Only root can access Internet on openSUSE 11.2view story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – I had some problem with creating the non-root user during installation of OpenSUSE 11.2 so i had to create the user my self. When logged into this account i can connect to my wireless account but i cannot access internet but as root i can access the internet. I guess it must be some user management issue. But my knowledge is pretty limited in that area. (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] x11vnc hangsview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I have been using ssh to connect over to my home computer from a laptop. Recently, I started using x11vnc tunelled through my ssh connection in order to have a graphic display. Everything was working great, but yesterday x11vnc started hanging and refuses to start properly. Here is the output: Code: x11vnc -once -usepw (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] Wake on Lan Karmicview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello everybody, I'm a complete newbie on this board, so thanks in advance for the time u may spend to help me deal with my small problems. So here we are: I m running karmic on a dell optiplex 330, with a broadcom network controller NetLink BCM5787, and wol doesn't want to work since upgrade to karmic. I have done that : (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] samba roaming profiles problemview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – i have setup a samba pdc and everything is okay except my profiles which when i try to create profiles for every account it creates only one profile for every users please can you help me (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] rt270 disconnects and no reconnectsview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – When I use all the band(transmission or browsing too many videos) it disconnects after few minutes and it doesn't connect again until I reboot. lspci: 05:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R Cardbus Code: sudo lshw -C network   *-network              (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] vpn not connecting to all subnetsview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi all, I use vpnc to connect to my work Cisco VPN. (HowTos)