By the middle of next year, the lock that Latin alphabets have had on Internet domain names will be broken, when a plan announced last week by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, is

Cloud computing is a popular topic these days. One of the ways in which cloud computing is being delivered to businesses is by hosted email security services.A hosted email security provider offers antivirus and antispam protection for their customers using

Facebook announced on Thursday that it has won its lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace. A judge in San Jose, CA awarded the site a $711 million judgement, the second largest in history to be awarded under the CAN-SPAM Act."While

I am setting up a network between 2 linux computers and need help figuring out how to set up DNS. I would like to name the domain to be lin.row4.net, implement the reverse and forward lookup zones,...

I've been using Freemind for a while, thought I'd try it's fork, Freeplane. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/ I'm on Debian Lenny. After some messing around, I got Java to go, verified at...

I recently did an upgrade on my Arch system, which includes X 1.7.1 After this, X would not start. I was using the "nv" driver. I then tried the latest nvidia 190.42 driver, which also will not...

Published at LXer: As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE...

Hi All, I have a virtual server which I am hoping to host several sites on. Each of these sites is in its own subfolder in /var/www/http/ Problem is when I set up DNS records they can only point...

I'm writing a USB kernel driver and for some of the bulk transfers, I'm using the following function. Code: --- #include int usb_bulk_msg (struct usb_device * usb_dev,...

In my house I have the following OSes all on their own machines. Server 2008 r2, XP home, XP pro, Vista Ultimate and 7rc. On kids machine I have an Xubuntu install and on my EEE I have Eeebuntu. My...

Hello there! Just installed Karmic Koala on my Intel Macbook via Virtualbox and cannot get wireless working. Previously did this with 9.04 and everything worked. $ iwconfig lo no wireless...

Hello, I'm seriously considering switching to Linux. I've been on Windows for years and I'm getting really tired of it and wanting to switch to Linux. I'm on an HP dv6 laptop, it's an Intel 64bit...

hi, honestly speaking, i not a newbie to linux. i've been using linux for almost 4 yrs now and there is one problem that has bothered me for all this time. i have searched for solution on the net...

Hey there :) I have recently become very interested in PICs and microelectronics. I have a (self-taught) background in programming in C++, but otherwise little experience with microelectronics. ...

Published at LXer: Empathy is an instant messaging application for the GNOME Desktop. It supports text, voice & video chat, and file transfers and most used messaging systems such as MSN and Google...

Where would you tell JBoss what IP address(es) and port(s) to listen to?

Hi all I configured VSFTPD server on Centos 5. all local users are chroot to their home dir. i as the administrator upload files to their home dir's. i need the file to be deleted from their...

Hi Guys I just install windows 7 into my PC , after the installation , when i try to boot into Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, i got the following error *root (hd0,3) filesystem type unknown,...

Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley

HP combines data center energy management portfolio into real-time "smart grid" solution. by Heather Clancy