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I would say that expert Linux users should have less problems.If you are a real Linux fan you never log in as root, you always log in as a standard user. And you hourly backup each user's file. So, a virus has only the user's right, and can only destroy this user, file. then, you create another user and you restore your private files. However, how many people around here do really never log in as root ? I must confess myself, that my first action is "su - root", so my Linux is exactly as virus-proof as my Windows system.

Hello, H.O.D. Welcome aboard. Hope you will enjoy posting here.

Just tread the starter topic of this thread, and you will understand.Nowadays, it sometimes occur that your phone rings at your home, a voice starts speaking with you, you answer some questions. And you perfectly know that this voice is not coming from a real person, it's a computer program written for a company needing to know what you want to buy in order order to prepare a new marketing plan. So, the thing talking to you exist, but it's not real. Another nice example : after one night drinking too much bear, you start talking to your headache, asking "get out from my head" ; you know the that headache exists, but you also know that it's not a real entity, it's an emanation of your partly alcoholized brain.

Not Windows looking like linux! From tansqrx's post I understand that the installer looks like the Linux installer. I guess that, once installed, the product has the standard Windows look and feel.

That could be another interesting topic, but let's ask the question here.You talk about $150 per month. I pay $25 for two months. Of course I almost don't use my phone, and I send rather few SMS's. However, it's 12 times less than the amount you are talking about. So, let's ask : how much do you pay for using your cellphone ?

In my opinion, in order to really measure the setup time, you must start with a freshly bought disk, or a disk you just formatted using "format c:" from a msdos diskette.then you put your install CD inside the reader, you power on your system, and you start measuring the time.You boot Linux, you choose everything you want to install (in old Redhat versions there was a menu quite at the end saying 'install everithing', now you must click each subserver you want to install).Then you need to test the Ethernet board, test that a DHCP server is available, accept the standard DHCP install, clic continue.Then you see "please wait, formating the disk" (nowadays you format 300 to 500 gig's).Then you see "verifying rpm's concistency", please wait.Then you see "copying files".Then a first reboot.Then a prompt "pleas insert update CD 1".then "Please wait".Then "installing please wait".Then, if you are in front of the computer, "do you want to add more users?"Then logoutthen rebootNow stop the watch.Did you really perform this in less than three minutes ?Usually, I need between half an hour and a couple of hours, depending from the speed of my disks.

err... well, but can we roughly know a little bit more about your thesis concerns ? Which is it's main field ? About the way of feeding parrots ? Or making diamonds from charcoal by pressing it with a chair edge? Or backing up a computer through a wired network?And of course we need to know which is your environment. Are you in a university? Are you inside a team ? Are you leading experiments ? Do you already have published articles?

He just wants his C program to make a big amount of light coming from his display (for instance a screen refresh), so it's litterally a "flash" like in "flash-lamp", a flashing light.On a Unix system you can do this by "tput blink" followed by "tput sgr0", but how could you do it in pure C, making a whole screen full of white and then back to normal?

Hi, Jonathan, welcome aboard.No problem for being both at Xisto and here.Happy posting !

Hm!I would say that this is not Unix.This is close to emulating "getty", the process in charge of connecting the users.getty is not Unix.It's in charge of opening the communication channel (usually a tty), ask for the username and password, verify in /etc/passwords, and then fork a shell.And even this shell is not Unix, the shell is a command line interpreter. Then comes the master philosophical problem : what is Unix ?I would say that Unix is "init", the father of all the processes in a running Unix machine.

Sorry, it's so obvious : the file name is stdio.hIt's path is defined in the variable LIBATH, it's usually /lib or /usr/lib

Hmm! Really very misterious! So, it's Unix, but it's Unix, and it runs on Unix but it's Unix! Am I already sleeping, or are you kidding?

In order to printf "Hello", the C linker needs some standards subroutines, which are in the file stdio.h (standard input-output subroutines). #include means "please include in my program the routines in stdio.h, so that each function I will call will be defined in stdio.h

Have a look at a C language manual, for instance here : https://support1-sgi.custhelp.com/And look for the "system" function :

Huh? In what file is what ?

Ha! Now we start understanding.You don't want an embedded Adobe Flashplayer. You want to have a flashing light on the user's screen from a C program. something like system ("tput rev");printf(" ");printf(" ");printf(" ");printf(" ");system ("tput sgr0");Of course, I hope this is to be used on a Unix system. On a Crosoft Winbows I would be curious to see the result of "tput rev" !

Very interesting fact. And I would deeply like to understand what you are talking about. Talking about a set of conveyors, and more precisely a sentence stating that the faulty one is number six?

Talking about tput, another interesting one is This resets your terminal to standard values, removing "rev", "blink" and other disagreeable features you got if you "cat" a binary file to your display.

and also, please, when you give such an info, give it completely.I'm pretty sure the heading "{" needs a trailing "}" in order the function description to be complete.

I think with Skype and with google voice you can ring a home wired phone. You cannot do this with google talk.

Just download the (free) Microsoft Excel viewer, it will display correctly all your Excel files. You will not be able to modify the files, but no problem for reading.

Are you asking how to download Adobe Flashplayer for Linux ? Or are you asking if Flash Player exists for Unix versions other than Linux ?Or are you saying that you want to write down a C program using flash instructions for people having not installed Flash on their Windows PC ?

Why don't you start with one of the many tips you say you have ?

So, seems that Windows 7 RC is buggy.Or vmware for Mac seems buggy.Or you had a license registration problem.Did you try a more stable Windows, let's say Windows XP or Windows 2003 on your vmware for Mac system ?

Sorry, but here at Xisto you are posting on a technical forum. So, you are supposed to pay attention to what you are typing. When you ask a question you are supposed to tell us precisely what is happening in order we can really help you. And when you answer something, your answer should be exact, else the guy who reads your text can do mistakes.Suppose that you, demlasjr, have a critical problem, and I tell you "click format c:" instead of "click shutdown immediate". This could be really catastrophic if a newbie reads that. A lot of people around the world have trouble, intermixing OS, browsers, search engines and simple Internet. Our responsibility here is to help them understanding, not making the things more confusing.