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How to ping a computer if the computer name starts with dash "-" How to ping a computer if the computer name starts with dash "-" Started by Sumesh on Monday, March 23, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): On *nix, use a "--" to allow an argument beginning with a dash: ping -- -funkyhost (This probably won't help on Windows, though, because Windows command-line parsing is kind of rudimentary) On another side note, well-formed DNS names are not allowed to... .

Linux Routing. Computer A to computer C Hello, I have computer A, computer B and computer C. Computer A and B are connected, and computer B and C are connected. How can I get computer A and C to communicate with each other? I'm assuming I need to add some routes to each machines but i'm unsure... Started by Me on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 9 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Enabled what do I do next? You'll need another NIC on computer B with an address on the same network as computer C, so lets say you have that & its ip is 10.0.2.5 lets also assume that these networks are subnetted as class C's /24 make....

Computer Engineering vs Computer Science Whats the difference between Computer Engineering and Computer Science? (in terms of majors for college - specifically Carnegie Mellon University) So according to the first answer, computer programming mainly resides in computer science? Started by koldfyre on Sunday, December 21, 2008, 8 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Computer Engineering may refer to computer hardware engineering (electronics towards computer design) or more commonly to Software Engineering, the discipline, development, testing, manteinance.... Scientists are theoretical and virtual.

Difference between a Computer Scientist and Computer programmer What is the difference between a Computer Scientist and a Computer Programmer? What is the difference in the actual work they do in industry?(not in academia) Can you provide some real world examples too? Started by Pranav on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 12 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Computer.... Specifically I would say a programmer implements a quick sort algorithm while a computer scientist discovers the algorithm. Computer Scientist and Computer Programmer its the same. Definitions are quite nice for this.

SSH to a computer that will then SSH to another computer I have a situation where I would like to have SFTP access from a Mac (Cyberduck, Fugu, etc) to a computer that is not externally accessible. I do have ssh access to a computer that is on the network which can then ssh to the computer in question. Here... Started by uprise on Friday, December 04, 2009, 10 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): To computer you want access to q - quiet T - without tty f - move to background N - not execute remote.

Change computer name of an Ubuntu desktop computer How can I change the computer name on an Ubuntu desktop computer? I already tried changing the /etc/hostname file but that only caused the wireless to stop working. I found an old guide that suggested changing the setting under networking, but that screen... Started by C. Ross on Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): How about sudo hostname "new computer name" Change both /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts : gksudo.

Remote desktop/vnc into a windows computer from a Ubuntu computer. Hi I'm looking for a good solution that allows me to remote desktop a windows computer from a ubuntu computer. I have found some other questions about it but they all seem to be windows to windows like this one http://superuser.com/questions/1585/whats... Started by Johan on Monday, September 21, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): (And fwiw, I use Chicken.... UltraVNC is about as fast as anything else, and its even better with Windows clients also using it, with the mirror driver . I use UltraVNC on my Windows system, and access it from Ubuntu with the default VNC viewer ( Vinagre ) .

Is it possible to copy virtual machine from one computer(intel) to other computer (DELL) I have a VM on my home computer. Can i copy the virtual machine from home to my office PC. That Hardware is different i mean LAN card , graphics card will be different. But will that Work or not. I think VM can autodetect these Started by Mirage on Monday, December 07, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): It doesn't matter what hardware.... If your VM is 64 bit with two CPUs then the VM on the new server must also be 64 bit and have two CPUs . You can run a VM on a different machine provided the architecture of the VM is the same . Most likely the answer is Yes.

Access to remote computer's MSMQ gives "Remote computer is not available" We have a windows application that runs on a server and accesses 4 other servers (all of them are members in the domain) to get the messages in each of their private queues. We've just installed a new server, and for some reason when the application tries... Started by Lea Cohen on Thursday, October 02, 2008, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Could it be a firewall issue? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183293 Have you fired up a packet capture tool such as Microsoft Network Monitor or Wireshark and looked at the traffic going to and from the system that gets the error? That's often the surest... .

Local area network computer to computer backup software Hi! I would like to back up my other computers on my local home network to my computer. What software would you suggest? I liked crashplan, however their confusing UI, and its ability not to sync, turned me away. But it has the right idea. A bonus would... Started by thegreyspot on Saturday, December 12, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): It's also free if you don't need over .... I know this isn't over your LAN, but still, it syncs all the files in the Dropbox and it's cross-platform . I think Crashplan is really the best LAN solution but if you don't like it, you could try using Dropbox .