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Try them all then remove them… Not so easy

Playing with desktop environments and then you want to remove them # narrow down the group list to the ones you are interested in yum grouplist | grep -Ei '(xfce|kde)' # then get the packages you need to remove yum group info Xfce # then try and get a list of the...

Symantec Backup Exec VMDK Corrupt

See if you can follow my train of thought here: I'm trying to use Backup Exec to copy a vmdk file to tape. The VMDK file was copied off an ESXI server to a Linux Server running Samba. I used ftpput from ESXI to get it to the Linux Box and then a Samba share on the...

Username DOMAIN\username is invalid on this system

Kept getting prompted for a username and password when trying to connect to a samba share despite the permissions being correct. And got this error message in the samba logs: [2011/10/31 13:54:16.781238, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:454(reply_spnego_kerberos) Username...

Bluefish Function Reference

If you are wondering where the Bluefish Function Reference is hiding. You need to enable the Info Browser plugin. Goto Edit ==> Preferences ==> Plugins, check the Info Browser checkbox, click OK and then restart Bluefish

Who’s down with systemd?

Fedora 16 take a bow... Gnome 3 makes me feel like I own an Apple. I feel really smart and stylish using it. Even better is the bump from the 2.* series kernels up to 3. However progress means change and for years I've been comfortable with chkconfig --list to display...