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Best Linux book for newbie
One of the very best just happens to be free: There are others: This list also includes Slackware...
growisofs doesn't obey speed option
When I record a dvd disc, growisofs ignores the speed I say in the -speed option, it always sets the maximum speed for the disc. This...
distro recommendation 2717
Sun and said: Plenty of 'em out there. Fedora is a "permanent rolling beta" so it's not ever going to stabilize. Because many distro manufacturers are paranoid about lawyers, mp3 support is ... lacking in too...
distro recommendation 2718
Sun and said: Hmm. How well does that work if you have a DVD where...
distro recommendation 2719
Dances With Crows Then you have to go thru dvd:--1 dvd:--2 and so on. I once had a disk where there was dvd:--22 It...
distro recommendation 2720
Sun and said: And you find this *preferable* to using a menu? Good grief. xine has keyboard shortcuts too, and its LIRC implementation is...
distro recommendation 2721
Sun and said: One more thing: Have you made sure that DMA is enabled on your DVD drive? I saw similar jerkiness when attempting to play a DVD with xine on my T42p. The...
distro recommendation 2722
Dances With Crows You're onto something. But for some reason enabling dma does not work: Running as root: sbin-hdparmdev...
distro recommendation 2723
Dances With Crows That's the only reference to ide in lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM-PM-GMS...
Automating security updates 2724
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article That's a good example of a "That depends" type of...
Automating security updates 2725
Geico Caveman I pondered automatic updates when I installed my Debian servers but decided against since I was never sure how good an idea it was. There can be...
DVB: Firmware loads, what's next
Hello, when I plug in my dvb-t box I get this syslog messages: Oct 14 11:05:15 horus usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehcihcd and...
external HDD 2727
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:50:55 +0000, ivan With debian you need to make sure the usb modules are installed. su - lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03...
external HDD 2728
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:50:55 GMT, ivan staggered into the Black Sun and said: Debian doesn't hold your hand nearly as much as SuSE does. Be prepared...
Mounting two external harddisks
Hi, I have to external harddisks connect via usb 2.0. One is a seagate (fat32...
Trying to get a ISA Sound Card working Under CentOS 4.3
You should not need to usesbin-isapnp to setup PnP cards nowadays. It is a deprecated tool left over from the 2.2 kernel era...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer
I have just mounted this on an IBM Thinkpad T30. It is driving me up the wall. Problems: 1. Lack...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2732
CBFalconer That is also one gripe of mine, eventhough I'm only program as a hobby. It...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2733
CBFalconer Others have pointed out that Gnome has a variety of keyboard shortcuts. It's also possible to modify...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2734
Steve at fivetrees Some people consider it an "evil hack", partly because it makes it almost impossible to get incoming connections, and thus buggers up certain types of...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2735
arachnid Absolutely. Failing that, ISPs should be required by law to have the same firewall...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2736
Don Seglio You can't force people to use sensible behaviour on the internet (well, you could introduce a "drivers license", but that would be a bit much). So you can't force people to...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2737
David Brown I think it would be a good idea. I know plenty of people, friends even that have Internet access and really...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2738
CBFalconer ... snip ... The advice I have received so far encourages me to keep this machine. It is not yet resolved. I have found out how to...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2739
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:50:43 -0400, CBFalconer Looks like the touchpad is something called a "UltraNav" and a websearch turns up several...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2740
Hadron Quark Remember I only have this week-end to look for and decide these things, due to the return policy. That seems to work. Much better. Because they say they are. From "man dd...
Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer 2741
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:29:59 -0400, CBFalconer List of GNOME shortcuts: Ubuntu is a consumer-oriented distro and on top of that needs to squeeze as much functionality as...
Mounting USB external harddrive via fstab
Todd H. Hi Todd, thanks for your reply. You are right, that it should bedev-sda1. The strange...
Is Fedora *really* Free
Does anyone here remember when the front page of fedora.redhat.com used to read: "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new...
Question about yum: 5 different machines, 1 slow dialup connection
I have 5 machines, all with a (more or less) stock CentOS 4.3 install (from the CentOS 4.3 CDs I bought from cheapbytes). Each machine has a...
boot record vs. MBR
OK, let me try again. GRUB is not on the MBR because it failed twice to install on it with parbreastions messed up...
Ubunku vs. SUSE, Gnome vs. KDE
I am planning on getting started with Linux soon. What peaked my interest is I just went on a 3 week vacation...
Ubunku vs. SUSE, Gnome vs. KDE
That's becuase Suse was originally a German distribution. It has now been bought by Novell and become much more corporate. If your Macs are PowerPC-based you'll be limited...
Suse 10.1 and QLogic SAN problems 2748
Bryan What about the rest of the SAN (Storage Area Network). You say "the san is a QLogic 2300", but the QLogic is just...
Suse 10.1 and QLogic SAN problems 2749
Sorry, not enough info. The san itself is an EMC, which has its own switch. It is...
zip vs. tar.gz
Hi, I'm trying to make a decision whether I should use zip or tar.gz for my backup solution. Traditionally, the tar.gz is easier to deal with on a linux system...
zip vs. tar.gz 2751
On consideration is file size. Have you noticed that tar.gz usually result in a smaller file size than zip? And if size matters, tar.bz2 outperforms tar.gz by...
zip vs. tar.gz 2752
Michael Goerz ... snip ... Both are well supported in both milieu. For zip and unzip, see the info-zip.org pages. For tgz see the DJGPP pages (delorie.com). Neither is supported...
zip vs. tar.gz 2753
wrote in comp.os.linux.misc: So presumably you will only use Windoze compatible programs otherwise how will you access the data when the friend does not have those programs on his-her...
audio questions on freespire ver 1.0.13
I've been trying to work with Linux for years and the only distro that seems to work with my sound, video, modem, printer etc. is Freespire ver 1.0.13. (Installed on a 17 gig...
audio questions on freespire ver 1.0.13
Black Sun and said: A lot of things can be made to work under *any distro* so long as the user knows what...
Asus m2ne sound card problem
I have Asus m2n-e mobo with integrated sound card, and I am unable to make it work (Debian sid). I loaded *snd-hda-intel* module but no joy. Any ideas? Hire...
CGI rights question
I am new to CGI scripts. Lots of fun but let me see if I can ask this question coherently, since the mo...
CGI rights question
dorno Normally (i.e. without any further configuration) the access to file system objects will always be determined by the...
select woes
I created a very UDP simple server (Linux kernel 2.4.20) that listens on two ports --- 6000 & 7000...
Need help installing overexisting linux setup
I have an old P-100 system that has no cd drive that I want to install the 2x.com thin client on it. This system has 2 hard drives hda1 and hdb1 the...
Anyone upgrade debian sarge from 2.4 to 2.6
Dances With Crows Yup, except the default kernel shipped with debian Sarge only recognizes 1 gb and I have 2.5 GB installed...
Gentoo Linux copyright CDDL question
Question to the nice folks in g.m.d....... I have a couple of nice patches I would like to contribute to...
Gentoo Linux copyright CDDL question 2763
Personal choice. It does seem curious that there is no reverse grant to use as desired (which is what the FSF usually does) for one's own use. Correct...
Changing IRQ buttignment in Linux 2.6
Cross-posted to comp.os.linux.misc and comp.os.linux.hardware Hello, I have a system with several PCI cards. Two of these cards share an IRQ...
network help getting iperf to work
I am having a problem getting iperf to work on my new installation of Fedora core 5. I have two new computers both...
Install new Linux
On 18 Oct 2006 09:28:56 -0700, Des staggered into the Black Sun and said: You sure about that? The vast majority of 'Doze installations and...
Install Grub to a HDD image 2767
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:03:13 -0700, Tim When using the grub shell to setup the loader from a running GNU-Linux, it will accept "device" mappings...
Letter box on 1680x1050 LCD while using nvidiafs driver 2768
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:26:24 -0400, Ross Maloney staggered into the Black Sun and said: nv, not nvidia? Whatever. The *fb code...
HP vs Dell vs ASUS
I am seriously considering replacing my current old laptop with one of the above. I have been putting it off for some months because my laptop seemed to show...
Flash Player 9 beta available
Yes, but make sure you can use it. It's not ready for all Linux distros and may never run on some others. I installed...
Audio software for live improvisation
I use Reason live . . . it's really great for live use . . . totally stable (I've never had a crash), and once you're used to it . . . really quick and easy to create anything you want in...
