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boot slackware 13 from grub 2

Subhan Abdul — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:54:09 GMT

hi i have installed ubuntu 9.10 and slackware 13 on my PC. ubuntu is fine to run but slack can't. grub detect slack on (hd0,8) so i try this script in grub.cfg

Re: Cluster server options?

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:16:38 GMT

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:30:02 -0400 ... You should look into Beowulf Clusters, PVM, and Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR). However, you're not

Re: Cluster server options?

ed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:37:40 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 ... You can look at doing things in a HTTP format, CGI backends perhaps, but unless the program is written to work on a cluster its not really

How Gurgle, er, Google, uses Linux

thad_floryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:50:44 GMT

Article here: This (from the article) explains a lot: " There are about 30 engineers working on Google's kernel. Currently "

The November 2009, issue 4, of Opensourc3 is now available

thad_floryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:30:25 GMT

For your free PDF copy, go to Table of Contents (any typos here are mine; couldn't copy'n'paste): CLOUD BURSTING Cloud bursting is

Re: Another new toy :)

Matt Bailey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:45:11 GMT

... Good thought! Yes, accessing BIOS is no problem. I did find one setting that was definitely wrong, disk mode was set to "DOS" while the BIOS explicitly

Dashboard (X Re: More insanity ...)

Michael Klinosky — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:08:19 GMT

... That's if you use it the way they intended. Mouse over a hit link, and the site's address is shown. But, copy and paste into the address bar ..... tad-da!

Re: More insanity: 18-button mouse for Open Office program suite

Robert C Wittig — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:55:09 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 ... I'm a pretty public person. I use my own real name, my name, address and phone number are a matter of public record (whois databases,

Cluster server options?

Scott Ehrlich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:49 GMT

I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want. What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large

Re: Another new toy :)

thad_floryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:44:28 GMT

... Can you get to a/the BIOS? There may be some settings pertinent to running an OS other than the intended POS (Point Of Sale) software.

Re: Does Canonical have a death wish? Ubuntu booboos again ...

John Black — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:30:59 GMT

... I just downloaded BackTrack 4 and noticed that the devs switched the distro to some Ubuntu derivative. Kind of an odd choice since most security tools

Re: Another new toy :)

Matt Bailey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:15 GMT

On Thursday 05 November 2009 09:22:19 J wrote: ... Thanks for the links Jeff, I had some of it but had not gotten around to tracking down everything. I

Re: More insanity: 18-button mouse for Open Office program suite

Matt Bailey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:23:04 GMT

... Man, that sucks. OTOH, I do notice the last entry for me is from June 30th, and I've certainly searched since then. It appears this only links to your

Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit

thad_floryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:22:35 GMT

No, this is not off-topic. So, who's Matthias Ettrich? See his wakeup call for KDE from October 1996 here:

Re: More insanity: 18-button mouse for Open Office program suite

thad_floryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:26:20 GMT

... I looked long and hard at that page and the (6-NOV-2009 (today)) Press Release and didn't see anything that appeared to be a hoax. What is troublesome is