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May 8	comment	ZFS on Linux and Amazon EC2 To prove my personal ZFS loyalty allow me to plug this post: phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1ODk ... I am the person referred to who did the testing.
May 8	comment	ZFS on Linux and Amazon EC2 Non-trivial to administer is not much of an argument. Once you learned how to do something it is easy enough. But I get all your points regarding the ability to use and set up ZFS. I am a self-confessed Solaris bigot, and a ZFS-on-Linux user, and even installed it on a large production system recently. I love ZFS. But I don't think it is a good fit for everyone!
Apr 24	comment	exec cp failes from script, yet works when issued directly The example command where you show how you enter the command by hand has got a $-sign as prompt. This leads me to believe that the command works when not run as root. The one place where root often have less permissions than "normal users" is when writing to network shared file systems.
Apr 17	revised	awk + print line only if the first field start with string as Linux1 When considering the fields, awk ignores leading space
Apr 17	answered	awk + print line only if the first field start with string as Linux1
Apr 17	comment	Use find result without ./ If all the relevant files (type l, name .h) reside under /sourcedir/ then use `find sourcedir -type l -name '.h' -exec ln -s {} /destinationdir/{} \;` ... You would run the find command from the parent of /sourcedir, which is the root. On second thought that won't work because it will try to create a link called /destinationdir/sourcedir/file.h
Apr 16	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server @positron I have tried http_proxy (and friends), both through user's .bashrc as well as through system initialization scripts /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc but had no success. wget seems to be the only one using it, and updating .wgetrc is in fact more dynamic! In between "real work" demand on my time I'm busy documenting my working solution. cntlm is central to this.
Apr 15	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server I have mostly solved the problem using cntlm and a mixture of KDE global and application specific proxy settings. I will detail the solution in an answer.
Apr 15	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server My proxy server is a computer locked in a computer room, it can't give me files, coffee, or anything else for that matters. On a more serious note: How can I tell?
Apr 12	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server maybe you can edit your answer to focus on the cntlm proposal, explain what config files to set in various applications, etc, and add pointers to solutions in case that is not possible. I'd like the focus of the answer to be around the Linux based solution.
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server I have confirmed that Akregator tries to use the KDE system proxy settings. Basically when having a direct internet conenction and the KDE Global Proxy setting is set to None, Akregator works (can get updates). However when the KDE proxy specifies the local cntlm proxy server, Akregator times out, indicating cntlm is still trying to forward to its upstream proxy server. When actually behind an NTLM proxy server, Akregator fails to get updates regardless of the KDE global proxy setting.
Apr 11	comment	Determine how much a process is using each disk? The Linux kernel does not track this information. Solaris on the other hand does, and this information is available via dtrace
Apr 11	comment	Why the value of VSIZE in top is different from the value of VSZ (Virtual set size) in ps? What the poster of this answer is trying to say is that the definition of memory used is complex and varied. There is no single place in the kernel where it is tracked and reported. The utilities perform their own interpretation of the numerous statistics that are reported by the kernel.
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server The proxy-through-MS-Windows solution is not acceptable to me. Others may feel different but running a whole extra OS instance just to add authentication to outbound network packets is a bit too much of a resource hog and doesn't remove my dependency on MS Windows.
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server @Totor I will re-write the question. I'm just pressed for time.
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server So far this is still NOT working for Konqueror, Muon or Akregator, none of which exposes Proxy settings directly. I believe Muon uses apt-get in the background, which is configurable in a way similar to wget. I do not understand the difference between KDE "Manually specified Proxy" and KDE "System Proxy" configuration options, this may be key to getting it to work for all applications. I also notice that the KDE settings are not being populated into shell scripts, even after log-out-and-back-in, which is disappointing.
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server The cntlm solution appears to be promising. So far it allows wget and chromium to work. Wget works by having the cntlm address:port in the .wgetrc file. Chromium works being configured to use what it calls the "computer's system proxy settings", where I have configured the proxy in the KDE system settings->Proxy->Manual Configuration. Chromium uses this dynamically, ie if I change the setting in KDE, Chromium gets affected without having to restart chromium. TBC
Apr 11	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server I am investigating cntlm already, it happens to be in the standard ubuntu repositories too.
Apr 11	comment	How to test whether Linux is running on a ThinkPad? That would violate the "do not temporarily increase privileges" requirement.
Apr 10	comment	How to configure for an Authenticating Proxy Server Yes, Firefox works on Linux, using its own proxy configuration and authentication details. This is why I hope that other software should be able to authenticate too.