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Linux init local socket with '@'

I have experience with using local named and network sockets in C, but on Linux (Fedora 14), using GNOME system monitor, I notice that a local socket, being used by the init process, has the path ...
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Local network accessible but not internet via ethernet card (happens in Windows AND Ubuntu (dual boot) on same machine). What has happened to card?

I have a desktop PC with a 1Gb ethernet card as well as a built-in motherboard 100mb/s ethernet card. Very recently, internet access using these has stopped working. Initially I thought it was a ...
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Domain user not having admin rights on local machine

I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they ...
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What does “ :: ” mean in my connections ? (“TCP local address :: port 49157”)

It says: TCP local address :: port 49157 remote port N/A etc. status listen There are several connections listed under svchost.exe, services.exe, Issas.exe, wininit.exe, system. I have no ...
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does Spotify play a local file if it exists?

If I have a local copy of a song, does Spotify still stream it or play the local copy? Or does it choose the one with higher quality of the two? By local copy, I mean a MP3 that I ripped from disc or ...
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“bind” DNS server and considering “/etc/hosts”

in my LAN I use a small machine as server/gateway (with Ubuntu 10.04). On this server runs bind9 DNS server and all LAN clients are using it as unique DNS. Everything works ok, except that I'd like to ...
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How do I open a local file through Remote Desktop?

Is it possible to open a file in a Remote Desktop session locally? For example, I have a Word document in the remote session and want to open directly to local without downloading. Would this be ...
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How do I run a local web-facing server?

I have a LAN with computers connected to various switches and hubs. I want to trasform one of my computers into a web server and I would like to have access to that computer from the internet. Would ...
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Thunderbird portable Searches multiple mail boxes

I have a portable installation of Thunderbird 3 (WinXP) with my old archive with four local mail boxes. I would like to search in all mail boxes at same time, but I can't do it. I havealready enabled ...
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What is the difference between a link local address and an IP address in the private address space?

I read that a link local address is used when no other method for acquiring one is found. But the address space for them doesn't seem to be reserved under private address space, what is the ...
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Check if a folder is on a shared or local disk?

How can I check if some folder in Linux is on a shared disk or a local disk?
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maillist to (local) NNTP server gateway

Does anybody know a maillist to (local) NNTP gateway software? Some maillist systems like Mailman provide to interface the maillist they manage with (a) NNTP (system). This of course can be configured ...
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How to get access to user\APPDATA\LOCAL folder in Windows 7

We are building an application for Windows 7 that creates some data files that the user will occasionally want to review and a log file that we might need for support. Our first version is writing ...
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How to temporarily disable a service running as Local System?

I am using Windows 7 and want to temporarily shutdown a service running as Local System. I am looking for a way to do it without having to reboot into Safe Mode but had no luck (even searching Google) ...
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search solution for local files

Edit: how does voidtools compare with google desktop, and with windows 7 native spotlight search. I want to have a convenient solution on windows where I can search through all my offline documents ...
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Is it possible to SCP from a remote to local whilst logged into the remote and without knowing the local's IP address?

I regularly find myself wanting to copy a file from remote terminal session to my local machine. Usually I log out of the remote session and call an scp transfer from local to copy the file from ...
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Why are all the DNS names on my network pointing to Amazon AWS?

Whenever I try to access other computers on my network, it fails to connect. If I ping the computer names (for example, "ping fileserver"), it always shows this: Pinging ...
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Something like zoneminder but on OSX, Windows 7 and Linux - Setup network of cameras

So I haven't used but like the looks of what ZoneMinder does, But I wanted to setup a webcam for any OS. Example: I have a Mac running OSX, Windows 7 PC and a Ubuntu Server, could I attach a webcam ...
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What is the difference between hostname suffixes .local and .lan?

Why do other computers on my home network sometimes resolve as xyz.local and other times as xyz.lan ? I have a NAS device that shows up in Safari Bonjour bookmarks as xyz.local. I've copied a direct ...
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sync Nevernote (Evernote clone) notes to my own server

Supposedly, it used to be possible to sync Evernote notes to your own server. I would like to use the open source clone NeverNote, to sychronize to my own server. Is there a way of doing this? Here ...
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How do I forward my local port on Mac OS?

I'm developing a website on my local server on my Mac. So only computers on my local network can access the site right now right? How do I set up a port forward so that my friends on other computers ...
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Running git on shared host

I have a non-sudo account on a shared host. I want to be able to run the git-core for version control. I have another server that I am using for the git-repo. How can I install a version of git ...
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Using NetBeans for pure HTML/JS/CSS development

Is it possible to use NetBeans to create HTML/JS/CSS projects which can be run by a local web browser instead of a full PHP project which has to be passed through an interpreter?
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How can I remove data from local SVN repository?

I accidentally committed a whole bunch of binary files using TortoiseSVN's "Add folder" option when I should have used simply "Create folder". I do not want these binary files in SVN because they hog ...
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hosted OCS and my local Active Directory

I plan to use hosted BPOS for collaboration but i want my OCS and SharePoint Online integrated with my local Active Directory. Is this possible and if so, how can i do this?
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Complete backup of online email account w/ easy future offline access?

I have an old school email account that is expiring in a couple of months, which supports IMAP and POP3. I would like to make a complete offline backup of all my email in that account, ideally with ...
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WiFi: Internet doesn't work, local network does

I have a problem with the Internet connection thru WiFi. Some time ago I had reinstalled OS (XP Sp3) on a notebook (Samsung R560 with a WLAN adapter that's specified as 'Intel 802.11a/b/g/n 1x2 ...
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Outlook 2003 : How to export all e-mail messages in local folder?

I want to export some local message folders to zip & send to my colleague in outlook 2003, is it possible?
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Howto disable SSH local port forwarding?

I have a server running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH daemon. Let's call it S1. I use this server from client machines (let's call one of them C1) to do an SSH reverse tunnel by using remote port ...
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hostnames on the local domain help

I just changed to a router from the BT business one that had a gateway of gateway.2wire.net. With the new router, I now cannot access the linux machines on the network using the "hostname" syntax but ...
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Pass data through another computer

I wounder if it's possible to send data through another computer, I have two computers in my local network and one of them is connected to the internet, I wounder if it possible to use this internet ...
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Modify Audit object acces policy

I'm trying to automate this step on a local network that's not included in a domain. I've tried using auto-it but had little luck with that. Is there any way of doing this using a batch script or ...
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Open local files on Safari

I would like to know if there is a way (i.e. plugin) to open local files on Safari as i am used to do with FF or IE. Suggestions anyone? EDIT: I do not want to open the file using "Open->File", but i ...
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How do I access local computers through a network switch?

I have a switch connecting several computers with my ISP. All the computers gets external IPs from my ISP. When tracing the route between two of the computers the traffic always passes through my ISP ...
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Phantom Local Disks appearing in my drive list

I seem to have several phantom Local Disks mapped to different letters that are of 0 bytes in size. Strangely, they do not show up when I view my drives through Windows Explorer. But if I open an ...
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Map IP address to localhost (locally) under Windows 7

So basically I want to map the IP address 1.2.3.4 to localhost. So that when I browse to: 1.2.3.4/somepage.html It will fetch: 127.0.0.1/somepage.html Does anyone know how I could go about doing ...
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Local User Login Script Fedora Linux

How do I allow a login script for one user in fedora? ~/.initrc doesn't seem to work, and I tried adding an executable to /etc/init.d but that's for all users (and it didnt work either anyway).
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Local Area Connection in Slacware 13

I have windows xp and slackware 13 on one computer, and the ISP provided me a new modem. There was manual how to configure it, so i start the web browser and typed it's ip address 192.168.1.1 and the ...
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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?

Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain? Wikipedia says that .local conflicts with zeroconf ...
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How does Router know where to forward packet

If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the ...
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Dropbox alternative with local sync support?

I am currently using Dropbox. Just decided to sync my huge (about 5 GB) iTunes Library (music collection) in Dropbox. For that I must subscribe to their paid account. But before I do so, I'd like ...
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Remote Desktop connection, and browsing locally

Is it possible to "render" (think its the word) Flash and videos like Divx etc on the local machine? so you dont get the lines (they happen quite quick because its connected by ethernet but still ...
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What do these remote addresses, local addresses, and states in TCPview mean?

I have been using TCPview lately to see what connections are made by different processes on my PC. Would somebody please explain what the following situations mean? Thanks. TCP Local Address: ...
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Making an XP based computer apply policy template to only certain users

Have a non-domain XP device. I want to lock the non-admin user down. I got the SteadyState .adm templates files for lock down (using SteadyState caused problems with my logon scripts). The problem ...
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Access Remote mysql database without allowing remote connections

How can I run an app locally to access the mysql database on my server without enabling remote access to the mysql server. I have full SSH access. Is this possible? Reverse SSH? VPN? (but it seems ...
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Why does Apache server only work if I have an Internet connection? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Apache w/out internet connection I have installed Apache server on my local machine and managed to see local PHP files with my browser. However, later I found out that I ...