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Category: Linux
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had a problem executing “ssh -X” into my new Linux box
Googled for the obvious messages, found myself in an Ubuntu forum, and I must tell you this:
Never look for help in any such forum! More incompetence than competence, you only find yourself fooled by school kids.This solved my problem. It had to do with IPv6, which was set up for the kernel, but not for the network devices. I switched it of for the kernel then.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (THE website)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (the link to THE website)
The last time I gave Plan 9 a try was, when I worked with Derwent in London. That was pretty much in vain then, I just couldn’t really get it running on a PC. But nowadays they provide you with images for virtual machines. I still assume, if Plan 9 had ever gotten to enough speed, there would never have been GNU Hurd and Linux either.
This time I came across Plan 9 in the context of Google’s Go programming language, which they seem to provide for Plan 9.
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what’s the right Unix-ish software and hardware in 2010?
In 1994 I had no doubt: it’s a PC with some Linux distro on it. And changing my mind was out of the question until not so long ago.
Now in 2010 I am doing things on a Samsung 17″ notebook running some openSUSE Linux, and I am doing things on a MacBook Pro with a 17″ screen.
I don’t want miss either of them. Well, the Samsung thingie’s resolution could be way better, but after my Sony thingie broke during my Leopard 2 main battle tank project, I couldn’t afford anything better than that, and the decision and the purchase had to happen within minutes rather than within days. Terrible pressure and no mercy with Linux folks over there at defense.
But now I do many, many things on that Snow Leopard thingie, and I terribly enjoy it and it honestly improved the quality of my life a lot. That’s what I wanted to state here and now. -
how to copy an Audio-CD nowadays?
My task is to copy an Audio-CD with a language course on it.
I tried to achieve this on my new Mac Book Pro, just with the software, that comes with it. Disk Utility does not seem to support exactly this, it leaves out especially the creation of an image of a CD-ROM. I would though burn a CD-ROM from an image.
Looks like openSuSE’s Brasero does not have a problem with this task.