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I'm looking for a program similar to ghost mouse for linux. I need something that will record and replay my mouse movements. I have a very long and repetitive task that I need to do and this would make my life a thousand times easier.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Ok i have Damn Small Linux on a usb. It boots up fine and will do most things I want it to. But when I go in to the control panel and try to backup the data on the same usb as dsl is on it just freezes. Is there some sort of way to do this or will I have to use another usb, rewritable CD or something?

Hi,

I'm getting a portable HDD as data storage to supplement my "puny" 64GB SSD laptop - is there any way to rig up a transparent 'offline mode' for mount points?
I.e. there is a folder ~/Downloads.
When the device is plugged in, this is a mountpoint/symlink to /media/device/Downlolads; when the device isn't plugged, it's a symlink to a temp directory somewhere. When I plug in the HDD, this hypothetical 'offline mode' would transparently move everything in the temp directory to /media/device/Downloads, so the temp directory is blank - a "one-way" sync.

Could I rig something like this up with HAL or Solid (kde4)? A bash script could probably do this (there's no fancy conflict resolution etc. needed), but I haven't played with HAL at all, really.
Better, does something like this exist? I've played with Unison, but AFAIK it isn't designed for this sort of thing. I'm running Sidux with the kde42.debian.net repo.

A Unison (or other cross platform) solution would be great, as I want to use this drive as a common "data dump" for both my Linux lappy and WinXP desktop.

Thanks, Jarrad

I am currently writing a program for a series of system related configuration, which involves a lot of messing around with programs that require root access. However, I do not wish to use sudo in order to be able to use these commands, as simple as "shutdown -h now" to more complex package management stuff.

I want my program to be platform independent and as some distributions do not use sudo, and some users simply don't like sudo, I want to make it work without it.

I also want some commands to work without me having to su to root or use sudo.

With the example of the shutdown command - is there any way to make it useable by non root users?

Cheers

Deus has asked you many times why Ubuntu is better than Fedora, yet not once have you given him an answer.

I would like you to outline the main reasons why you think Ubuntu is better than Fedora.

And FYI, before you start you're wrong, cos Ubuntu sucks more dick than you.

Hey, if I wanted to use a laptop exclusively as a thin client for my desktop (both running debian), what would be the best route; X client/server or vnc? What would be the implications of each? Thanks in advance.

Anyone familiar with routing devices know that low-power consumption routing appliances can be useful when you have enough to warrant a low cost solution to networking in specific situations.

Here is a kernel configuration for the Soekris Net 4511 device using the 2.6.27 kernel and a script I wrote which originally would definitely only run on my machine, I would be open to suggestions in making it more dynamic, distribution independant and all that. Take a look at the notes at the top to see where I was headed with this.

The Soekris Net 4511 device uses AMD's 486 ELAN processor at 100MHz and consumes a massive 3 Watts.

This script creates almost any size image file using loop devices eventually to be written to a physical CompactFlash card or other hot-loadable storage medium which the Soekris devices can boot from.

In this particular instance the Soekris device has two ethernet ports and can take a wireless adapter. It is a fully functional routing appliance and/or firewall, proxy, pretty much anything.

As you can see I've already started the process of making it more dynamic.
Here is the configuration for kernel 2.6.27:
../../autopsy.liveprojects.info/SOEKRIS/config.soekris

Here is the script:
../../autopsy.liveprojects.info/SOEKRIS/mkfsimage.sh

Any contributions or fixes or even flames welcome.

After trying it on VirtualBox for awhile I was amazed at the speed and customization of Ubuntu. It's really user-friendly too.

Discuss

well if some of you remember about 2 months back windows died on me so i switched to ubuntu 8.10 and have been loving it ever since.

since then i have been reading the nix forum alot and i hear a lot of talk about this fedora 10

so my question is pretty simple, whats the difference between the 2
in your opinion is fedora better? as in less bugs, more driver support?

me generally being a noob on the matter and im really just curious and thinking about giving it a try

also would it run on my pc. i got a toshiba satallite a105-s4384

thanks in advance