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you can’t just upgrade from 8.10 to 10.04, in fact you have to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04, then to 9.10, then 10.04, so if you choose to upgrade you will have to do it three times!

This is a Windows horror story from almost 8 years ago. My friend was running Windows 98 at the time, and she’s using outlook express to handle her emails. Then one night she called me out of panic, she couldn’t seem to see any of her emails, I tried to troubleshoot remotely to no avail, [...]

How do we fight all these parasites? Education is the key. When the people know better, they will do better. All I can do now is to recommend GNU/Linux whenever I have a chance.

When you install free ioncube loaders under CentOS 5.x, which has SELinux enabled by default, you will see following error message: “cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied” You have a few choices here. You can disable SELinux, edit /etc/selinux/config, look for” SELINUX=”, put “disabled” to the right of “=”, it reads like this [...]