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Can you burn a CD ISO to to a DVD-R

Just digging in my desk draw looking for a CDR to burn a 32bit Ubuntu Desktop Edition iso (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso) to and discovered I didn't have any. But I did discover a DVD+R. So using Brasero (The Gnome ISO Burner Program under Linux (Fedora 15)) I burn't...

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Gallery 3 on a Dreamhost VPS Works!

So moving to a Virtual Private Server from Dreamhost has fixed the problem I was having with Gallery 3 failing to resize images because of ImageMagick being killed. I can now resize all the photo's in an album and it works as expected. However I did find something...

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How to check total memory in Linux

Just checking if my Dreamhost VPS has had the memory reduced yet Before: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2300 97 2202 0 0 12 -/+ buffers/cache: 84 2215 Swap: 0 0 0 After: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 300...

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Shared Hosting has Limitations

I've had this domain on dreamhost.com's shared hosting for a few years. It's been OK. For the dollar value it's got a lot of features. Linux Shell access (woo hoo!) One click install of a heap of opensource stuff Unlimited Disk space (meaning you can have more than a...

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FreeNX Server Install & Setup on Fedora 15

Overview: I want to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a Fedora 15 Computer using FreeNX How I did it On Fedora install FreeNX Server (Note: you already need to have the OpenSSH server installed and working) yum install freenx-server This is all I had to do to...

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