Hi, I have write a new Joomla 1.5 tutorial.   I plan to make this tutorial as series, so I will help you till your website up and running (offcourse, if you plan it)    This 1st series tutorial dicuss about, complete install process of joomla 1.5 with screenshot.    Here is the excerpt I take from middle part of tutorial:   Second step is to check your web server requirements that meet joomla. If you see the green color words written, that mean you pass for the requirements. Otherwise, red color mean the requirements must be corrected before we go to next step. For example, if your register globals on your php requirement is red (on), open your php.ini configuration file and toggle it to off. Third step is to accept the joomla aggrement and license. If you dont agree, please close your browser and dont install joomla.  

I have computer with Windows XP, Athlon 2200, 512 memory and 80 gig hard drive of which 66 gigs is free .I want to partition drive for dual boot and maybe triple,thinking also about installing Mepis. How much of space should I dedicate to each operating system to be able to use all three systems efficiently. Kris

Hallo!My names are Mwangi Joe Irungu.I am a 23 year old Kenyan student studying at University of Nairobi.

Recently I developed an Open Source Software Wiki Portal(called Kenya Open Source Society-KOSS) to enable Kenyan Open Source enthusiasts to contribute and edit content in the portal just like in Wikipedia.Unfortunately,Kenya is a developing African country thus very few people actually use Open Source Software.This problem is compounded by the fact that even fewer Kenyans understand the concept of Wiki’s (whereby users can contribute and edit existing content in real-time).Thus,as you can imagine, the amount of contribution from Kenyans is extremely minimal.

KOSS is extremely hungry for information thus I am approaching you as the international community (who has volumes of Open Source Software information and resources) to contribute and edit existing content.KOSS is designed to be an encyclopedia for Open Source Software just like Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for general knowledge.

Installed Ubuntu 8.04 on an old unused white box. Install was uneventful, but resulting screen resolution cannot be increased beyond 800x600 (sometimes only 640x480). Am using a 17" LCD panel with 1280x1024 native resolution. 800x600 is just unacceptable. Have Googled problem and spent an entire day on this to no avail. Video card is Nvidia Geforce2 MX-400 with 64MB. Have tried all drivers mentioned in posts: nvidia, nv, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-legacy. No change, resolutions above 800x600 do not appear in Screen Resolution list. Editted xorg.conf many different ways adding Modes lines to Monitor and Device sections. Added vert/horiz sync range lines. No help. Tried running nvidia-settings, but it won't run complaining "Not using Nvidia X driver". Says to edit xorg.conf or run nvidia-xconfig. Installed and ran nvidia-xconfig, but no change. One suggestion was to rerun X configuration and chose screen resolution there. Tried that, but all it asked was questions about the keyboard and nothing about the video adapter or screen.

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If you are a developer you need C and C++ Compiler for your development work on your ubuntu system this tutorial will explain howto install C and C++ Compilers in Ubuntu with program examples.In ubuntu you can install the build-essential for C and C++ compilers.

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SSH’s (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called “interactive keyboard password authentication”, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard.

Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.

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I am curious if anyone out there has had trouble trying to install the new Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on-line. I have tried a download to a DVD install and got a message stating " no root partition installed". At that point the screen froze-could not go forward or backwards. Then I tried an on-line upgrade to 8.04 from 7.10 and wound up with the screen sticking at a terminal command prompt.I am wondering if this condition is more of a hardware issue than a software issue.Any information will be greatly appreciated.

I noticed that the desktop ICON for my 40GB Hard Disk disappeared after the last round of Hardy updates. Would any of you know how to get it back? Call it simplistic, but being a former Windows user, It was very easy for me to migrate my Windows files over to Linux. When I use the terminal (which I suck at) I see that my disk is properly mounted. I can not see the files under "computer" in Places either. Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks...

    I am considering installing Ubuntu, but being a graphic designer, was wondering about being able to run programs such as Photoshop, Quark, Indesign and/or Coreldraw. How do these programs operate on this OS, or do they operate at all with Ubuntu? If someone is running these programs, please let me know if you are having probs or if they run the same as windows.

I'm currently unable to mount .img files on kiso, nor can I convert it into a .iso file. I' like to know if there's any program that will mount this image, is there anything like Daemon that can be used?

    I am new to Ubuntu, and was successful in loading UBuntu 7.10 onto an old PIII.  The only problem was getting my sound card to work.  Being a good old Soundblaster 16, I figured there would be no sweat. So far I've been wrong.Using "SoundTroubleshooting" document from the Ubuntu site, I had no succes with "modprobe", so I went to the next step and decided to reinstall the linux-sound-base, etc.  So I used terminal and typed away:"sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils"The document warned that this might remove gdm and ubuntu-desktop as well.  Sure enough it did, but the document indicated no problem, just use:"sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop"No luck!   I took a look at  "/etc/apt/sources.list" and only the CD source was not marked as a comment.  I used "sudo nano" to change the "source.list" to list all "deb" lines and put my Ubuntu disk into the drive.  I then used "apt-get install" again for "gdm" and "ubuntu-desktop".  No luck.  The computer does not seem to be trying to access the CD drive and I get the following message:

I am a Linux Newbie and wanted to try Ubuntu out.  I installed a Ubunutu on a thumb drive and now want to connect to the internet.  I am confused since there is no modum or wireded connection since it is running off a thumb drive.  My computer allready has a network and requires no dialing or pasword.  What are the steps to get connected in my case?  Thanks.

Hey, I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop yesterday at the suggestion of some physics grad students I'm working with.  One of the grad students did the install for me, so that's alright, but he's not around now and he was saying something about the install only giving you a bare bones of Ubuntu, and having to update things after this.  I just got my connection set up here at work, so I'm ready to download any updates, but I'm not sure what or how.Any help or guides that I can be referred to?Thanks.