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ext2 vs ext3 403
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:13:29 -0500, (PeteCresswell) I always like to separate out more parbreastions, since keeping things in different parbreastions does isolate one from damage...
ext2 vs ext3 404
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:21:46 -0500, (PeteCresswell) The performance difference between EXT2 and EXT3 is minimal, there is no reason to sacrifice the benefits of...
ext2 vs ext3 405
A point. However, decent nightly maintenance (tmpreaper) keepstmp's contents small: # Time files intmp are kept in days. TMPTIME...
ext2 vs ext3 406
This doesn't seem logical. During what write operations would otherwise-absent steps required to (first) write to a journal not impose overhead? Of course, in pointing out the fallacy posted...
ext2 vs ext3 407
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:48:47 -0500, Rick Moen staggered into the Black Sun and...
ext2 vs ext3 408
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:59:35 -0500, Rick Moen staggered into the Black Sun and said: I'm sorry, but kindly stop acting rude and patronizing...
More memory = slower system WTF
On Friday 27 January 2006 02:31, Captain Dondo stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: That largely depends on the...
odd bugs using ATI drivers XOrg and 9600XT
The xorg.conf you posted is definitely not created by ATI's fglrxconfig tool. Mine looks like this: #etc-X11...
connect PPPoE Broadband using USB Modem
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:24:40 -0500, John-Paul Stewart I would guess that manhandling your eth0-setup...
Compressed html archivechm and tgz
For a long time I'm fed up with storing plenty of html archives ( mostly documentation to software or books...
Compressed html archivechm and tgz 413
In comp.os.linux.misc, on Wed 15 February 2006 19:51, Douglas O'Neal snip Which is a world away from .c defining what is contained in the file. If I save this article and...
Compressed html archivechm and tgz 414
Robert Hull funny sentence, don't You think ?-) Well did I say anything like that? I very much doubt that you use extension for example *exe...
Compressed html archivechm and tgz 415
Vit Gottwald snip Take a Konq .war file and change the extension to .tgz and see how Konqueror treats it. Take a .war file and try to use it in Windoze...
glibc returns undefined reference _rtld_global_ro
Hi, Im trying to install glibc 2.3.4 on my redhat 9 distro, but glibc does not compile, it returns...
New Debian31r1 Install help me optimize TNT2 sudo KDE Xwindows 417
Andreas Janssen yep -- found out by using; apt-get install sudo apt-get install hdparm ...again thanks - I just...
New Debian31r1 Install help me optimize TNT2 sudo KDE Xwindows 418
You can easily use the netinstall with the first CD (or with any combination of the first and other CDs). Packages available from the CDs...
New Debian31r1 Install help me optimize TNT2 sudo KDE Xwindows 419
I appreciate the time you took to reply - thanks Andreas Janssen The major issue was telling the Installer to use *multiple* sources - during the 1st debian install after setting up parbreastions an such, (and then...
PDF's lookact differently in GS and other programs than Adobe apps 420
In a message on 15 Feb 2006 11:47:58 -0800, wrote : I suspect that KGhostRead and KPDF are frontends for ghostscript. You could try xpdf, which...
PDF's lookact differently in GS and other programs than Adobe apps 421
John-Paul Stewart No no, speculation is good! For example SaGS speculation above about the CropBox fixed half the problem. The speculation about using pdftk (while I've only been able to play with it on...
how do I connect Debian to Cox Cable modem successfully
All, I've just been gifted with a Cox Cable TV-Internet-Phone(someday) hookup. The TV works (naturally), the phone is vaporware until...
how do I connect Debian to Cox Cable modem successfully
To bring closure on this thread... Yes, "pump", with no parameters, ran silently for the default ethernet port eth0. That, after I...
how do I connect Debian to Cox Cable modem successfully slightly OT
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:23:30 -0700, Jules Dubois Have you tried to dig the info out of Windows? Control Panel.Network.Properties(?) (sorry, don't use M$ Win-stuff...
ghostscript installation differences between root or normal user
Horacio SuSE 9.0 needs a bulltet through it. My experience is that it was ghods-awful. If you need a 9.x release, upgrade immediately to SuSE 9.3. Also...
urgent!!!thanks
On 2006-02-16, danish You don't need ls, and it will fail if any directory names contain spaces. To loop through the directories: for i in...
A potentially annoying pair of newbie questions
These are likely to sound like silly questions, so please pause a moment whilst I don my asbestos long-johns... thanks. I also tried submitting them to a local Linux user group, and...
Named Pipes in C
You probably want to put the "reader" and the "writer" in separate Windows. Second, write your "You just typed..." to stderr instead of...
Firefox keep alive extension
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:59:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz staggered into the Black Sun and said: The free ones are delayed at least 15 minutes. The pay ones...
Quick and dirty system recovery: Is this method OKAY
In a message on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:08:15 -0500, wrote : So far everything is golden. Not really much different from how I...
Question about nvidia video card
On 10 Feb 2006 10:24:50 -0800, Vilmos Soti staggered into the Black Sun and said: nForce 1234 is the name for a specific type of Northbridge and Southbridge chipset that's found on quite a...
NVidia display driver installation
catetc-X11-xorg.conf grep glx Load "glx" name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes...
argv getting corrupt because of getenv issues
Hello, Trying to debug a weird problem here. When I run this program many times over, at some point argc gets corrupted and I get the error that...
mandrake mandriva, SuSE SUSE NOVEL
Why am I a troll? How can I be a troll? I am downloading mandriva 2006 final at this moment However...
Loopback Encrypted Filesystem and VMWare
I just tested a VMWare virtual machine using a virtual machine stored in a loopback encrypted filesystem. Even with...
Loopback Encrypted Filesystem and VMWare
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:15:36 -0700, Douglas Mayne I modified this startup script to do a better job of cleaning up after itself. It makes multiple attempts to clear mounts and loopback devices...
Failed to set uid : Resouce temporarily unavailable
Hello, We have a production Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 server that is used as a: 1. File Server (Samba) 2. Print Server (Cups-PDF) 3. Database Server (MySQL) In addition we have SSH set...
Tape drive doesn't show when booting from linux rescue FC4 Help
I have a dds4 scsi tape drive which works fine under FC4. However, when I boot from the cd into rescue mode `linux SELINUX=0 rescue`, bypbutt the sysimage option directly to the prompt, I...
Changing hard drives and GRUB
I wish to replace my 7200rpm EIDE drives with 10,000rpm SCSI ones (my other 4 drives are already 10,000rpm SCSI drives). Now ondev-hda1 is theboot parbreastion anddev-hda3 is the (root) parbreastion...
how to config x11 to start 2 xservers to switch 440
On 17 Feb 2006 05:36:52 -0800, Christian Maier staggered into the Black Sun and said: This isn't a real problem, but why is "use...
how to config x11 to start 2 xservers to switch 441
On 17 Feb 2006 07:14:35 -0800, Christian Maier staggered into the Black Sun and said: It'd be easier and probably more convenient to define both mice for both X instances. If the "mouse" on...
A newbie's progress
Earlier I posted about trying to get an IBM Thinkpad running a LiveCD distribution, and various kind souls on this board offered advice that was definitely a cut above the "RTFM" remarks that...
windows drives
On 17 Feb 2006 06:55:14 -0800, bharath staggered into the Black Sun and said: When using that broken "G2" excuse for an NNTP client...
Unhanging My Machine
Lew Pitcher Really hung. I'll try the alternate console suggestion. Don't know what the magic key is. It's a...
What is a good Linux 'Clone' apt or procedure
My main machine is a Shuttle with Debian 3.1 but is on a hard drive that is too small. I have purchased a Seagate 400gb on sale...
javajre version question on FC4
Max Reconfiguring FC4's default Java configuration, this is done as root or equivalent. First removevar-lib-alternatives-java file by typing; rmvar-lib-alternatives-java When asked press...
Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer 447
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:35:16 -0800, hdneto17 Can you put another 256M into the machine...
Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer 448
I'm not sure how much help this will be, but I'm running Debian "etch" with KDE 3.5...
Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer 449
Which distro you use won't matter that much ;-) Your 500 MHz (Pll or Plll?) won't be a hindrance for most things. I'm connected now with an old Pll-350 and it's quite adequate if not...
Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer 450
Mark South Trying to respond to what the OP suggests is likely to be desired -- ie., a distro for his...
Linux for children 4.5 year old 451
In a message on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:04:31 GMT, wrote : Some totally ramdom thoughts...
Linux for children 4.5 year old 452
staggered into the Black Sun and said: This should actually work OK. The school I went to in the early 1980s got an Apple IIe when I was 7, and I got...
Linux for children 4.5 year old 453
Sounds almost like trolling to me :-) Unfortunately I have no references, but I have read about research showing positive effects on coordination, concentration and other skills from computer gaming. In general, computer gaming is...
number of disks per linux box
You do not know? Most home users have only one hard drive. In the old days, most...
Strange Linspire Linux and Windows network problem
Hello, Strange things are going on... computers can browse linux shared files, through the local network ONLY when connected to the...
Radio recording with aplayarecord Sender: Linux
You need to keep track of the various options for recording and make them compatible between arecord and lame, and what is coming out...
Simultaneous LinuxWindows on dual processor PCs 457
Grant Edwards FWIW - concerning the newer AM2 platform (s940) CPUs from AMD; AMD64 X2 (Windsor) will use "Pacifica Virtualization" - due to be released around June 2006....the AM2 Single Core variant (Orleans), will...
Simultaneous LinuxWindows on dual processor PCs 458
J. Clarke You're kidding right ? With all these terms being bandied about as usual (to cause confusion amongst...
Simultaneous LinuxWindows on dual processor PCs 459
iforone Nope. What of them? I'm sorry, but you don't seem to be making much sense here. Yeah, it says that the hypervisor does exactly what the...
