Disappearing disk and filesystem
Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:36:00 GMT
Ubuntu 8.04 system with two hard drives (sda and sdb). sda has / and
/home on it, along with swap and a couple of other bits of space left
over from a now deleted Windows XP install. sdb should have a single
large 250Gb ext3 filesystem populated mostly with media files - but
its gone missing!
Symptom: system fa ...
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Ubuntu installed in 6 mintues and booting in 15 to 20 seconds
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:54:42 GMT
Ubuntu installed in 6 mintues and booting in 15 to 20 seconds
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Ubuntu 9.04 continues to amaze.
Got a Quad Core with 10,000 RPM Raptor SATA drive.
Installed Ubuntu in 6 - 7 minutes.
(From pressing install button to booting up and displaying a web
p ...
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Setting default pulseaudio sink
Sat, 6 Jun 2009 01:16:29 +0100
How do you set the default sink in pulseaudio? I want to use HDMI audio
so I've added these lines to /etc/pulse/default.pa:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3
and
set-default-sink alsa_output.hw_0_3
but it always starts up using the analogue sink and source and I have to
change it to Digital ...
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DVD rip to MPEG2 file?
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:04:14 GMT
Is there a tool that lets you select a track on a DVD and simply extracts
it from the DVD to a PC in its native MPEG2 format without transcoding it?
The reason I ask is that I've got a number of DVD-Rs that were created by
my DVD-recorder in standard DVD format, with the videos encoded into the
usual vob files, ...
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cdrecord and multiple copies of same file
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:03:39 -0500
For a perfectly good reason, I tried to make an audio CD with several
identical tracks using the same .WAV file name repeated on the command
line
cdrecord [switches] file.wav file.wav file.wav file.wav file.wav file.wav
It appeared to work, writing the requested number of copies to CD, but
the resulting CD ...
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3 Mobile Broadband and Linux
Sun, 31 May 2009 04:11:20 -0700 (PDT)
3 are giving away mobile broadband dongles for postage (¡ê5) at the
moment, through www.3dongles4free.co.uk. I acquired one on the what-
the-hell principle and then started trying to get it to work with
Ubuntu. The canonical solutions seems to involve installing usb-
modeswitch and zte-mf627-switch, but having done ...
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Upgrading Ubuntu broke X
Sun, 31 May 2009 02:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
Hi
Tried to upgrade Ubuntu from (I think) 8.04 to 8.10 and it broke X. Or
it might have broken lots of things, but until X is fixed I don 't
know how bad the damage is.The upgrade went as far as 'restart' then I
got half the screen with "distribution upgrade" running in the bottom
bar and things froze.
GRUB ...
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OT: Slashdot stories
Fri, 29 May 2009 11:13:30 +0100
Is anybody else having problems loading Slashdot stories, eg:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/05/27/1547248/Testing-So-Called-Unified-
Threat-Managers
I'm just getting connection reset by peer. slashdot.org and it.slashdot.org
load fine. It appears to only be stories that won't load. I've posted in my
ISPs ...
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KDE 3 and 4 installed at the same time?
Thu, 28 May 2009 09:28:21 +0100
I know this may be a crazy idea, but is it possible to have kde 3 /and/
4 on the same machine? I'd like to be able to choose between them from
the kdm session manager. ...
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IceWM + KDE4 on Debian/Ubuntu = ?
Wed, 27 May 2009 20:16:05 +0100
I seem to have the same problem with one machine on Intrepid and another on
Squeeze: very few KDE4 apps show up in IceWM's menus, for example on the
Debian one only kTorrent is there. Has the format of KDE's menus changed for
this version?
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