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How to access the Apex using the Public(External ) ip?
I have installed the oracle 10G express Edition in centos5.3 sucessfully. After installing, i can acess the web-based application apex using the url as http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex, but not using the ...
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What do the kernel options in braces mean?
I saw a kernel option today in menuconfig that used braces for its checkbox.
{*} Button
This isn't listed in the legend at the top of the screen.
[*] built-in [ ] excluded <M> module ...
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Why is it recommended to create a group and user for some applications?
Most of the time, when installing a program from source it is recommended to create a new user and a new group and give /usr/local/<myapp> the recently created user and group ownership.
Why is ...
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How to install CentOS 6 via USB mass storage device?
I want to install CentOS 6.2 on a laptop (Thinkpad R40) which comes without CD/DVD-drive but with USB 2.0 ports.
It seems that CentOS does not provide ready-to-use dd-able USB images for ...
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What video cards for a Desktop computer compatible with Linux can support Dual Monitors?
What video cards for a Desktop computer compatible with Linux can support Dual Monitors?
Our start up needs to use two monitors but our default enviroment needs two monitors, can somebody recommend a ...
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1answer
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Multiple VPN connetions, routing based on country
I want to set up a couple of VPN connections, to two different countries, A and B, on my Ubuntu Server. Then I would like to set up rules, based on GeoIP, what VPN connection should be used, when I ...
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How to replicate (fork) the current terminal
Say I am using terminal and have sshed to a remote machine and did something.
How do I create a new terminal tab (or window) so I still has everything from the previous terminal window without having ...
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How to mount an IronKey in OpenBSD?
Being that it's proprietary, maybe this isn't possible but I was wondering if anybody was successful at mounting one of these in OpenBSD.
I mounted the two partitions the USB drive creates which are ...
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Unmounting HTC device takes forever
Not sure if should post this on Android SE beacause I don't this is directly related to the OS. On my system I manually mount and umount my HTC device with the following options in /etc/fstab:
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Read environment variables of an process
Linux's /proc/<pid>/environ does not update (as I understand it, the file contain the initial environment of the process).
How can I read a process's current environment?
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malformed patch error while applying the diff to wget source with patch
I would like to apply this patch http://osdir.com/ml/web.wget.patches/2007-07/msg00011.html So i copyed code beginning at "Index: src/options.h" and ending with "+@item" and put it into new file ...
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Where in “/” should extra disks be mounted?
According to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
extra disks should not be mounted in /mnt/ according to the ...
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dav2fs caching problem on Debian Squeeze
I have apache/mod_dav and dav2fs all on the same host. dav2fs is used to mount what Apache is serving to the local filesystem - a sort of loopback. The purpose is that the content of the files served ...
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How to keep track of changes in /etc/
I would like to keep track of changes in /etc/
Basically I'd like to know if a file was changed, by yum update or by a user and roll it back if I don't like the chage.
I thought of using a VCS like ...
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Backed an ipod up with dd, how to retrieve all tracks in one go?
I have had gnupod for a while. Still haven't figured out how to use it though. I usually just go for gtkpod.
Recently I decided to get my ipod replaced under this replacement scheme. (I don't like ...
