hmm? Backtrack doesn't really fit into that list of distros you want to try. BT is EXTREMELY specialised. Not to say it can't do other things but ppl who use backtrack have a good idea of what they want to do.

I have the best distro for you sister.

You could try for Red Hat Certification. I can't remember where I saw it but if you search here I'm sure you'll find it.

Never heard of HP certification. But then again, I've never heard of alot of things

Hey guys,

On a totally different topic (sorry for derailing thread), has anybody heard of a way to push installations to Windows computers over the domain using a Linux server?

My google-fu skills have failed me in this and I'm not sure if its possible.

As an apology for the derailment, an XKCD comic

Remove hard disks from computers and move very powerful magnet up and down the hard drive in slow yet purposeful manner...................... please don't do that... im joking.

But seriously, just remove the drives and format them by attaching them to a different computer. Should not be an issue.

The only to prevent a drive from being formatted is physical write protection. I really can't imagine what sort of physical write protection is there on a hard drive. Are those special hard drives or soemthing?

If not, then DBAN is your next option.

Software write protection is program based. It may be a feature of the OS or a program. The only other thing I can imagine is firmware based write protection? I never heard of that before. Maybe someone here can enlighten me. Apart from that, if its software based, just bypass it by not loading the hard drive at all (ie DBAN).

Hmmm you have got quite an interesting situation here.

Sounds like bad sectors. Have you scanned your hard drives using drive testing utilities? Just remember not to boot from those drives.

Hmm, again I'm gonna veer the topic off tangent.

2 things happening on my home network. The first is probably a networking issue but I'll just list it down anyways and the 2nd is issues playing 720/1080p across the network.

1st. Copying files from my file server to my HTPC caps at 3.5 MB/s. This doesn't make sense. It should be higher. I can't figure out whats wrong with it. File server runs debian and HTPC ubuntu 10.10. I'm thinking switch limitation. Its a basic RM50 switch (TP-Link) i think. You guys got any other ideas?

2nd. When I watch movies on my HTPC, the movies are actually piped from my server in another room. Using MythTV backend and frontend setups. 720 and 1080p movies are jerky (both video and sound). Even if I don't use MythTV to watch, I still get that problem.

However, when I copy the file to my HTPC hard drive, the movie plays fine. No jerky or skipping. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Alright guys, new question. I need software recommendation. Basically I want my router to dial into my Debian server. Like how our routers dial into TM's authentication servers.

I'm not sure how to phrase the question to google. My search results have resulted in some semi accurate results. Example of search result

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2616

Is this what I'm looking for? I'm not sure how to proceed.

Looks like its correct. Basically I'm trying to emulate an ISP. Meaning my Debian server is the server which all my clients connect to. Just like how we connect to TM servers.

The Linux part I'm looking for is software. Routing shouldn't be too much of an issue. Roaring Penguin looks correct but I'm not too sure.

Why am i doing this? Because I'm curious as hell how to works. Haha.

Sorry, I didn't realized you replied me.

As for my networking adventures? Not much actually. I read and experiment mainly on penetration testing stuff. Nothing really revolutionary for the home. Although my current home project is as I mentioned earlier in the thread, setting up a PPPOE server.

Its coming along very slowly though. I'm having issues with the firewall part of the server. Probably because I'm lazy to type in iptables and would rather use a GUI like fwbuilder. If I get it to work or scale down (most likely TBH) I'll start a thread called "How I spent 18 hours trying to build a transparent intranet firewall"

Mmm.. usually this means that you have a daemon/service running on startup that configures your resolv.conf. An example of such a daemon would be DHCP related programs.

I think there is a way to make the resolv.conf immutable. Try the following :-

If you want to change it again, use :-


But I do suggest you look through your list of startup programs/applications to find the problem.

This post has been edited by farkinid: Feb 24 2011, 11:13 AM

I don't know if its because you are running a DHCP service. I used DHCP as an example.

Startup scripts can be found at /etc/init.d

There should be quite a number of scripts found inside there. Its gonna be time consuming to look through all of them but its the only way I know to troubleshoot this problem. Or maybe we can wait for Guru G-17 to come on and help. He knows his stuff.

Try checking your sources to see if the source you are pointed at is working. If not, try a different source. I had some problems with my debian sources a while back, so I added a singaporean server.

Do we have a local debian mirror?

This post has been edited by farkinid: Feb 24 2011, 11:42 AM

HOR! You and G-17 go watch hentai together until forgot about FOSS?

Now that you are here, get to work. Got some problems above that you need to fix.

Yeah! Packy! Bota! I am amazed by the animation. Loved it too

Regarding scorps issue, what if the issue isn't his DHclient? The choice of DNS keeps changing might mean that another application has very specific DNS servers it needs to connect to.

Actually, the problem isn't solved. I just suggested a symptomatic treatment. The underlying problem is still there. If you make the file modifiable again, you'll be back at square 1.

ROFL!!

I don't mean to be insulting but it seems that you have alot of problems with the way ppl type on the intahwebs. See alien3d's post as well

But its all good. I just see the humour in it all.

Also, scorps, he means that you'll probably be doing a new install. Why? I dunno.

P.S. I HAZ UNIFI NAO!!! What should I do?

Packy and Bota done already.

Hentai ah.... i'm waiting for Hzu and you to give recommendation. You guys are affeciandos after all

Actually, I remember reading somewhere that the Unigen engine is specifically designed for DX11 and some sort of tessalisation. I can't remember exactly what was said but I know that test was designed for Windows systems