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    comm or diff command

    You did compare the sorted files, right? The commands I gave you work fine for some small test files. Can you provide a sample line from one of the files (or a fake line that looks the same)?
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    comm or diff command

    comm wants the input files to be sorted. $ sort file1 > file1.tmp $ sort file2 > file2.tmp $ comm -1 -3 file1.tmp file2.tmp -Corey
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    Public Key Encryption Support

    PGP is generally kept strictly client-side. Have a look at the enigmail extension for thunderbird if you're interested in ease of use. Google finds some guides. http://www.google.com/search?q=gnupg+enigmail+guide
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    Redundant Directory Copy w/ Tar

    Yes, tar preserves the leading directories. This can be very useful, but if you don't want them, either cd first (as Boomslang suggested) or use tar's -C option when creating the archive. By the way, there's no need to specify '-f -', since tar writes to stdout and reads from stdin by...
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    What WM do you use?

    - Enlightenment on my desktop and laptop - screen on the server and elsewhere as needed
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    Linux will not stay on MBR

    Yes. Generally, if someone sends you a command prefixed by a '#', then run it as root. A '$' means you can/should run the command as your normal user. Of course, 'grub>' is the grub prompt, so those lines get typed into grub.
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    Linux will not stay on MBR

    Weird. If you're not sure which drive is which, try: hdparm -I /dev/sda hdparm -I /dev/sbd ...or... for drive in /dev/sd? ; do hdparm -I $drive ; done | less I suppose it would be worthwhile to determine if grub is actually writing itself to the mbr. Boot from a CD and try...
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    Linux will not stay on MBR

    Are you absolutely certain you're installing grub on (hd0) and not (hd0,1)? The former is the drive (hence, the MBR) and the latter is the partition Linux resides on.
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    Linux will not stay on MBR

    In that case I do not understand what is going on. You may have to describe the results more precisely. After you reinstall grub, what happens? Does grub not run when you reboot? ...or does Vista then overwrite it again? ...or...? Also, please briefly describe your drive and partition scheme...
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    Linux will not stay on MBR

    I don't know about Vista, but previous versions of Windows don't play nicely with other operating systems. If Vista is a bad little boy and overwrites the MBR, just reinstall grub from a Linux boot CD. You can use Knoppix or anything else that has grub and will give you a root terminal...
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    Samsung's HDD Warranty?

    All my Samsung drives are pretty new, and none of them have died yet, so I can't say how nice the RMA process is. I've never seen anything about their OEM drives only having a 1-year warrany, though; that sounds like FUD. Can you provide a link to the complaints you read? Samsung has a...
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    Moving Data From One Server To Another?

    Hmm. My GNU tar 1.19 doesn't have a -a option, but that kind of behavior is default. As far as I know the only files it won't copy are sockets, which is ok because socket-listening programs should recreate them before listening anyway. Rsync calculates, sends, and compares MD5 checksum...
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    Moving Data From One Server To Another?

    Destination: $ cd / ; nc -l -p 8888 -q0 | tar x Source: $ cd / ; tar c builds | nc 10.1.1.101 8888 -q0 I do that all the time for large transfers on my home LAN, but, as a matter of good practice, never over any network I don't control (including, of course, the Internet). Use encryption...
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    300 MB/s Gaming Drive

    Why are you multiplying the seek times by the number of disks? I should think the RAID controller (or OS for software RAID) would command the disks to seek simultaneously, or nearly enough. Thus, the average seek times for an array of identical disks would be the same as the average seek times...
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    UNIX/Linux CHOWN - Looking for a solution

    That's an interesting idea. I skimmed my rsync manual and I didn't see any way to do that, but it wouldn't be difficult to do such a thing manually. 1. use 'find /usr -printf <something>' to get a list of all files and their ownerships 2. copy the list to the damaged machine 3. write a...
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