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Re: how to concatenate several ogv files

2009-11-24T05:15:55Z

> You could try avidemux. Although the name suggests it is for AVI files,
> you can use it for various video formats.
>
>
> Nils

Thanks, I have tried, but it does not work. :-)

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-24T05:01:36Z

On Monday 23 November 2009 04:33:49 pm Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> Thomas K Gamble wrote:
> > On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> .............snip..............
> >>
> >>> what I do is :
> >>>
> >>> sudo rsync -auv --exclude-from=/home/tkg/exclude_list / /backup
> >>>
> >>> -u option
> >>> tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your
> >>> last backup.
> >>
> >> I thought that's what rsync did by default.
> >
> > Well, it seems you're right. I've just gotten into the habit from using
> > -h with cp on systems that didn't have rsync. Also, it seems this
> > behavior is documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option
> > description in the man page.
>
> Here is my current rsync file:
>
> sudo rsync -auv --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list /
> /media/disk-1/back/
>
> It runs fine and there is much about nothing and then it quits
> with the below error.
>
>
> sent 5000119 bytes received 23627 bytes 76698.41 bytes/sec
> total size is 18256953230 speedup is 3634.13
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see
> previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1058) [sender=3.0.5]
> ./mybackup: 6: /media/disk-1/back/: Permission denied
>
> It happens the location of the backup disk and the proper
> directory is /media/disk-1/back/. I have used cd and if I use
> cd filename /media/drive-1/back and it works just fine.
>
> I'm out of ideas.
>
> Karl
>

what is the output of ls -l /media/disk1/back? This should tell you what the
permissions and ownership settings are. It seems like it might be set as
read-only.

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Re: web cam & update

2009-11-24T04:08:14Z

Osman Kemal Kadiroğlu wrote:
> I have recently upgraded my AMD64 computer from Kubuntu 9.10 to
> Debian 5.0.3. I have a A4 Tech Pk-5 web cam that I use for Skype. I
> had no problem while using Kubuntu. I had problems with it after I
> changed to Debian.

If you had no problem with Kubuntu but now you have problems with
Debian, I would call the move to Debian a downgrade, not an upgrade.
Anyway, if you have problems with Debian, I would suggest you ask for
help an the Debian list.

Nils

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-24T04:01:55Z

Tom H wrote:
>> I found a testing method to get rsync working.
>
>> sudo rsync -avg / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list
>> /media/disk-1/test/
>
> The "g" is redundant (a includes g).
>

The problem is, I remember -avg was what I used earlier. But
I will verify what you say and try -av and see.

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Re: kubuntu wget download failed

2009-11-24T03:20:03Z

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:11:50AM +0100, roberto wrote:
> hello
> i tried to download last kubuntu iso by wget and i receive the following error:
> $ wget http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
> --2009-11-24 10:13:45--

[...]

> Cannot write to `kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6' (Invalid
> argument).
>

[...]

> i think the problem is in that "?callback" but i don't know how to
> solve this issue

Try quoting the original url.

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Re: netbook v. laptop / remix

2009-11-24T03:10:05Z

Patton Echols wrote:
> I have available a great deal (it appears) on a compaq netbook (model
> 110c-1100DX) for $180 us. It has the Atom N270 processor and 1 GB of
> ram. Sine these things usually run over $300, I'm interested.

> My current laptop is a Thinkpad R40. System monitor reports it as
> "Mobil Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz" and 756.5 MiB of ram.

For comparison I have a Dell Mini 10v. /proc/cpuinfo says it has...
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
...and I know it has 1Gb of RAM.

Work has provided me with a Lenovo T61 which CNet lists as having:
# Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 / 2.0 GHz

> Question 1. I know the netbook would run way longer, cooler and less
> power and lighter etc. But in terms of performance, how much of a hit
> would I take? The laptop is mostly used for "netbook" type stuff but
> needs to be able to do some office type stuff and some basic GIMPing
> while I am on the road.

From my perspective, not too much. At least if you're limiting yourself
to web, email, some flash video or flash gaming, and light productivity work.
I don't use GIMP (I am the very antithesis of artistic) so cannot say how
that would perform. However I don't regret, for a moment, getting my Mini 10v.

Since purchase this pretty much has become my sole machine from which I
browse the web and send/receive my personal email/IMs. Thunderbird, Firefox
and Pidgin are running any time this machine is running and all perform admirably.

The only two things this machine cannot do is watch Youtube HD videos or
watch Hulu videos. Of course Youtube's HD videos are 1280x720 and this screen
is 1024x600. IE, it has no business watching those videos in the first place!
As for Hulu I'm not sure what is going on there. It should be able to
handle it but I think their flash player must be abysmally programmed as this
machine stutters on their 360p videos. *shrug*

Does my T61 feel snappier? A tad. Can it handle Youtube HD and Hulu
videos? Definitely. Can it play some 3D games? Yup! But I don't expect my
Mini to do any of those things. For what it does I think it is darn near perfect.

My only gripe, however, is that I am nominally stuck on Dell's 8.04.

> Question 2. Does anyone have experience with this particular netbook and
> Ubuntu Netbook remix? Obviously I won't leave windows on it any longer
> than absolutely necessary.

I would avoid UNR like the plague. Designed with a netbook's smaller
screen size in mind means "foisting a stupid launcher on you and forcing all
your apps to go full screen whether you like it or not." Seriously. There's
this application called maximus. The sole purpose of that app is to force all
your windows full-screen; even if they are not intended to ever be used full
screen (like some configuration dialogs). There is NO configuring it. NO
telling it to not run. NO ability to remove it nicely. After an hour or two
of frustration I resorted to chmod 000ing it to get it to stop screwing with
my machine.

Meanwhile the applications themselves are not modified in any way to
accommodate the smaller screen. They still waste vertical space by having
both GNome bars active. Stupid enough on a full-size screen, down right
criminal on one as small as a netbook's screen. Also the number one thing to
do for browsing, if you use Firefox, is to install the Addon "Compact Menu".
Takes the menu bar and makes it a single icon. Saves vertical space.
Decidedly absent in UNR. So I see UNR as a whole lot of crap and no real benefit.

Better to go with the normal distribution and tweak to taste.

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Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt MEMUSE - SOLUTION

2009-11-24T03:09:34Z

On 11/21/09 5:23 AM Richard Gliebe wrote:

> OK, I've set use_ssl to "0"
>
> now I'm getting following message:
>
> # ./check_nrpe -H <WindowsClient> -p 5666 -c alias_up
> CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes. Are we allowed to connect to the host?
>
> allowed_hosts entries are 'blank' (only for testing)
>
> the logfile from the Windows Client shows me:
>
> 2009-11-21 05:11:39: error:modules\NRPEListener\NRPEListener.cpp:358: We
> got more then we wanted 1036, we only got: 1040

Hi all,

I've got it running with check_nrpe2.

Regards
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Re: netbook v. laptop / remix

2009-11-24T02:51:25Z

Harry L. Lee wrote:
> do you have a way to readily install ubuntu on the netbook? (a usb
> optical drive is worth the investment.)

A 4Gb USB stick is far cheaper. ;)

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Re: Karmic 64-bit installation does not work - SOLVED

2009-11-24T01:33:14Z

After several fruitless attempts I tried it another way:

instead of creating an installation version with UNetbootin, I created it with usb-creator under Ubuntu itself. Installation worked, server
works now. Everything ok.

Here's what I did:
- install Ubunut Network Remix on USB flash drive A
- boot my new server with USB flash drive A (=> boot UNR)
- fetch server 64-bit iso file
- plug USB flash drive B into second USB port
- use usb-creator command to move "server 64-bit" iso to USB flash drive
- reboot using USB flash drive B (which is now the installation version of Karmic server 64-bit)

Installation went ok. Installed grub into /dev/sda. Went ok.
After installation, booted new server. Went ok.

The only difference to my first attempt (which ended up in an unbootable Ubunut version, although installation went ok) is the creation of
the installation version on the USB flash drive:
- using UNetbooin under Windows left me with an unbootable installation
- using usb-creator under UNR managed to do everything right.

This sounds weird and I do not really understand what really happened. But this is how it turned out. Well, finally I'm happy.

Cheers,
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Re: Geeki Wiki

2009-11-24T01:27:11Z

Chris Jones wrote:

> I'll be frank. What you seem to propose has most likely already been
> done in one place or another. Rewriting it yourself in another form
> seems a waste of time to me. But hey, its your time not mine.
>
> I would suggest instead trying to just put together a list of the
> best list of links you can to these other resources, that already
> cover these various areas you want to cover, and just link to them
> from your twiki ?
>

Exactly.

Once you've covered how to find information (which is pretty vital),
the rest of the endeavour seems mostly superfluous.

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web cam & update

2009-11-24T00:31:42Z

Hi,

I have recently upgraded my AMD64 computer from Kubuntu 9.10 to Debian 5.0.3. I have a A4 Tech Pk-5 web cam that I use for Skype. I had no problem while using Kubuntu. I had problems with it after I changed to Debian. Finally with the help of a young colleague we managed to solve the problem and web cam operated with Cheese and Skype. Soon an update notice about gspca-modules-2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 appeared and when I upgraded the system the web cam stopped working. The version that is installed in my computer is 01.11.20-1+2.6.26-20 and the new version is 2.6.26+01.00.20-6+lenny1. I was expecting that a new version of modules covers old version so that web cams operating with old version will also operate with the new version. Is this a bug that needs to be reported or am I missing something. Thanks for the help.

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Re: kubuntu wget download failed

2009-11-24T00:19:49Z

> i tried to download last kubuntu iso by wget and i receive the following error:
> $ wget http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
[snip]
> Cannot write to `kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6' (Invalid
> argument).
>
>
> i think the problem is in that "?callback" but i don't know how to
> solve this issue

Try these two:

wget -O kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso--2009-11-24

wget --restrict-file-names=windows
http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso--2009-11-24

One of those should correctly get rid of the question mark character
in the filename. I am more confident in the first one....but I'm not
sure. You might try using another mirror that *doesn't* redirect five
times before giving you the actual file....

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kubuntu wget download failed

2009-11-24T00:11:50Z

hello
i tried to download last kubuntu iso by wget and i receive the following error:
$ wget http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
--2009-11-24 10:13:45--
http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving na.mirror.garr.it... 193.206.140.37, 2001:760:ffff:b0::37
Connecting to na.mirror.garr.it|193.206.140.37|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://cdn.mirror.garr.it/mirror2/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
[following]
--2009-11-24 10:13:46--
http://cdn.mirror.garr.it/mirror2/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving cdn.mirror.garr.it... 193.206.139.41, 193.206.139.40,
2001:760:ffff:b1::40, ...
Connecting to cdn.mirror.garr.it|193.206.139.41|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://mirror2.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6
[following]
--2009-11-24 10:13:46--
http://mirror2.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/karmic/kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6
Resolving mirror2.mirror.garr.it... 193.206.140.37, 2001:760:ffff:b0::37
Connecting to mirror2.mirror.garr.it|193.206.140.37|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 715837440 (683M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6: Invalid argument

Cannot write to `kubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso?callback=mir6' (Invalid
argument).

i think the problem is in that "?callback" but i don't know how to
solve this issue
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sony ericsson MD300

2009-11-23T23:00:43Z

http://laudecioliveira.org/blog/?p=70
Still have to translate... some help?

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sony ericsson MD300

2009-11-23T22:56:48Z

Hello,
On ISP in Madagascar, TelMa has http://www.telma.mg/particuliers/mobile/3g.htm
It suggests the sony ericsson MD300 as 3G modem.

There is:
http://fpreto.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/ubuntu-810-and-the-sony-ericsson-md300-modem/
But there seem to be some problems (see the comments)
Would you know a better tutorial?

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Re: New usesr Help required for broadband connectivity

2009-11-23T21:33:13Z

Many congratulations to the entire Ubuntu team!!

I am a new user and currently have Ultimate edition 2.4 on the laptop.

Ultimate Edition is a fork of Ubuntu. Did you look at http://ultimateedition.info/ ? Did broadband work on the LiveCD? Try a regular Ubuntu LiveCD and maybe you can see if the problem is with the fork or Karmic.

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T21:25:10Z

> I found a testing method to get rsync working.

> sudo rsync -avg / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list
> /media/disk-1/test/

The "g" is redundant (a includes g).

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New usesr Help required for broadband connectivity

2009-11-23T21:22:39Z

Greetings,

Many congratulations to the entire Ununtu team!!

I am a new user and currently have Ultimate edition 2.4 on the laptop.

Getting stuck while connecting through broadband connection.

Have BSNL broadband, modem is Siemens C2110

HP laptop - DV5 1102TU model

However the USB TATA indicom connection is working on the machine.

Would be grateful for the assistance.

With regards,

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Re: Horrible problem with SAMBA -- Does Karmic work?

2009-11-23T21:14:08Z

>> I have done a clean install of Karmic on my file server and am tearing my
>> hair out. I'm almost ready to bolt for Red Hat!
>> I have tried numerous times to set up SAMBA so that students can log into
>> the system and access the files they need to access. They can't. The
>> latest error is that the machine account isn't set up. But I can't find
>> where the machine account is. When I upgraded from Jaunty (which worked
>> fine), I got this error and was unable to delete the machine password from
>> the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file to reload it. Now there isn't an
>> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file at all, so the accounts must be stored elsewhere.
>> Any ideas? Students can log in directly to the server or via ssh. The
>> problem is samba, and it appears to be the machine accounts.

> Thanks to the two who responded to this email. However, this still leaves
> the question open as to whether I need to establish accounts for both users
> and workstations; I assume I do. The TDBs seem to record the users
> correctly, but they do not appear to record the workstations. The way I've
> been doing this is, first, "useradd -M -N -s /bin/false <machinename$>",
> then "passwd -l <machinename$>", then "smbpasswd -a -m <machinename>". I
> get the message that users are added with the final statement (or deleted
> with smbpasswd -x -m <machinename>), but then I get the message that the
> workstation accounts aren't established when I try to log in on them. I
> suspect that the smbpasswd program is trying to write something to
> somewhere, but it's the tbd files that are actually controlling things. Do
> I use pdbedit for this, as I do with the users?

I have only ever used pdbedit for listing users (with -Lw or -Lv) but
it can be used to create, modify, and delete users and groups just
like smbpasswd. It can also create and modifies account policies but I
have not used these functions or even looked into them.

Your useradd-passwd-smbpasswd sequence seems correct (I would have
added "-g <gid>" or "-g 65534" rather than "-N" to the passwd
invocation, out of habit rather than out of necessity AFAIK - and I
assume that the missing $ at the end of the smbpasswd invocation is an
email typo).

Run
pdbedit -Lv <hostname>$
to make sure that you have "W" on the account flags line
and
to make sure that you have your domain/workgroup on the domain line
(and not your server name)

Questions:

1. How do you know that it is the machine accounts that are failing
you? Please check your logs (or possibly increase the log level,
restart samba, try logging on, and check your logs).

2. How is your smb.conf set up? Which security setting have you
chosen? Do you have a netlogon section?

3. Do you really need to have a domain setup with machine accounts
(since you seem to have just one box)?

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Re: netbook v. laptop / remix

2009-11-23T19:51:20Z

do you have a way to readily install ubuntu on the netbook? (a usb optical drive is worth the investment.)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols@...> wrote:

Here is a two part question, the first part not really an ubuntu question

I have available a great deal (it appears) on a compaq netbook (model
110c-1100DX) for $180 us. It has the Atom N270 processor and 1 GB of
ram. Sine these things usually run over $300, I'm interested.

My current laptop is a Thinkpad R40. System monitor reports it as
"Mobil Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz" and 756.5 MiB of ram.

Question 1. I know the netbook would run way longer, cooler and less
power and lighter etc. But in terms of performance, how much of a hit
would I take? The laptop is mostly used for "netbook" type stuff but
needs to be able to do some office type stuff and some basic GIMPing
while I am on the road.

Question 2. Does anyone have experience with this particular netbook and
Ubuntu Netbook remix? Obviously I won't leave windows on it any longer
than absolutely necessary.

Thanks for any thoughts.

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Re: Geeki Wiki

2009-11-23T19:17:04Z

On 11/23/2009 10:38 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2009, at 3:55pm, hello wrote:
>
>
>> Hi. I am trying at this very moment to write a wiki on everything an
>> ubergeek FLOSS technical user needs to know, namely how to program, how to
>> use lots of bash commands (hopefully all) and nearly every trick in the
>> book.
>>
>

> I would suggest instead trying to just put together a list of the best list of links you can to these other resources, that already cover these various areas you want to cover, and just link to them from your twiki ?
>
>

Allow me to second that and also suggest that you do some links ease of
use ==> completeness.

Example: For bash scripting:
http://www.linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial
This site has a fairly straightforward listing of things that a bash
scripter needs to know. But see :
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
This site the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" is definitely not for the
faint of heart, but contains a ton of good stuff.

There may be even simpler / better references in either category and
maybe there is a complete noob tutorial available. I can see how even
an advanced user would want to have both as a reference. After all,
sometimes you just want a quick answer!

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Re: [OT] gmane.org down

2009-11-23T18:19:30Z

On 11/23/2009 05:52 PM, James Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:17:46 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, NoOp wrote:
>
>> On 11/21/2009 10:52 PM, James Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> On Ubuntu, Evolution is a pig for reading lists or for reading Usenet,
>>> whereas I can recommend Pan (available in the Ubuntu repositories).
>>
>> +1
>> There is no option to read x amount of headers. Instead Evolution
>> insists on download *all* headers from the newsgroup first & on a list
>> such as this with ~201428 headers that can take a very looooong time.
>
> The irony is that I've come up against a bug in Pan that causes most
> articles to disappear from the list before I get a chance to see them, and
> the only way to get them back is by deleting and reloading them all. Pan
> is a nice newsreader, but this bug is a show stopper so I'm going to have
> to find another newsreader. How do you find SeaMonkey? Is the newsreader
> component the same as Thunderbird?
>

It (SeaMonkey) is basically the same as Thunderbird (they use the same
code with some slight modifications). I have been running SM since the
first version & quite honestly seldom use anything else. I'll run Opera
and/or Thunderbird (3.x) to test once in awhile, but SM is my primary
browser, email client, and newsreader.

However, I do not use the outdated Ubuntu versions; instead I download
SeaMonkey from mozilla.org/SeaMonkey project
(http://www.seamonkey-project.org/) and extract to a home folder & run
from there. Note: I only run 32bit, Leonard Chatagnier can help with the
prereleased 2.01pre 64bit version(s).

I recommend that you give SM a spin - if you need assistance, let me
know and I'll be glad to help on, or off list.

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netbook v. laptop / remix

2009-11-23T18:07:27Z

Here is a two part question, the first part not really an ubuntu question

I have available a great deal (it appears) on a compaq netbook (model
110c-1100DX) for $180 us. It has the Atom N270 processor and 1 GB of
ram. Sine these things usually run over $300, I'm interested.

My current laptop is a Thinkpad R40. System monitor reports it as
"Mobil Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz" and 756.5 MiB of ram.

Question 1. I know the netbook would run way longer, cooler and less
power and lighter etc. But in terms of performance, how much of a hit
would I take? The laptop is mostly used for "netbook" type stuff but
needs to be able to do some office type stuff and some basic GIMPing
while I am on the road.

Question 2. Does anyone have experience with this particular netbook and
Ubuntu Netbook remix? Obviously I won't leave windows on it any longer
than absolutely necessary.

Thanks for any thoughts.

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Re: [OT] gmane.org down

2009-11-23T17:52:07Z

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:17:46 -0800, NoOp wrote:

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, NoOp wrote:

> On 11/21/2009 10:52 PM, James Taylor wrote:
>
>> On Ubuntu, Evolution is a pig for reading lists or for reading Usenet,
>> whereas I can recommend Pan (available in the Ubuntu repositories).
>
> +1
> There is no option to read x amount of headers. Instead Evolution
> insists on download *all* headers from the newsgroup first & on a list
> such as this with ~201428 headers that can take a very looooong time.

The irony is that I've come up against a bug in Pan that causes most
articles to disappear from the list before I get a chance to see them, and
the only way to get them back is by deleting and reloading them all. Pan
is a nice newsreader, but this bug is a show stopper so I'm going to have
to find another newsreader. How do you find SeaMonkey? Is the newsreader
component the same as Thunderbird?

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T17:22:15Z

Robert Holtzman wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Thomas K Gamble wrote:
>> On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:i
>
>>>> -u option
>>>> tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your last
>>>> backup.
>>> I thought that's what rsync did by default.
>>>
>> Well, it seems you're right. I've just gotten into the habit from using -h
>> with cp on systems that didn't have rsync. Also, it seems this behavior is
>> documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option description in the
>> man page.
>
> Believe me, that's not the only obscurity in the man page.
>
>

I learned a way to get rsync to work by testing. I started
with a very simple task of putting /boot/ on the USB connected
HD with this command copied from a line given me, thanks.

rsync -avg /boot/ /media/disk-1/test/

and this worked great! So I added some stuff to see if it works:
rsync -avg /boot/ --exclude /grub/ /media/disk-1/test/

and this worked great as well!

So now I did what I wanted with a --exclude-from and it now
looks like this:

sudo rsync -avg /
--exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list/ /media/disk-1/test/

and this had an error I figured out ment the / right after
exclude-list was bad. So I tried:

sudo rsync -avg / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list
/media/disk-1/test/

and this backed up my computer! I tried a partial backup and
it worked fine.

So that is how I got it working.

73 Karl

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BinaryDriverHowtoATI for Karmic Koala

2009-11-23T16:45:54Z

Can somebody point me at a resource for the BinaryDriverHowtoATI (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI) updated for
Karmic Koala?

Specifically, as I read through that page, I see instructions that say
to do things like:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`
$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/volatile/fglrx.ko

Being a curious sort, I started wondering what that might do (before I
tried it), so I tried:

$ sudo debconf-show linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

which produced no output.

So I tried:

$ apt-cache show linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

which indicated that there was no linux-restricted-modules package.

That's fine. That's probably something that has changed between 9.04
and 9.10. But I'm not really sure what, if anything, I should do in
its place.

Then, later on the howto, I read:

JAUNTY NOTICE

The above Jaunty 9.04 instructions don't actually work because
the latest ATI driver is incompatible with XOrg 1.6. To see a guide on
instructing how to downgrade XOrg and install the ATI driver, view
this link: ...

...which makes me wonder if the latest ATI driver might be compatible
with whatever version of XOrg is shipped with 9.10.

...which makes me wonder what version of XOrg is shipped with 9.10. I
could probably look that up in the release notes, but instead I tried:

$ apt-cache show xorg

...which lists a version as:

Version: 1:7.4+3ubuntu7

Since I've run into this issue before (of not knowing how to a
software package version number), I figured I'd ask the question
now...

How can I tell what version of XOrg is shipped with Karmic Koala? It
looks like it could be 1.7, or perhaps it could be 7.4. Regardless,
it seems to be one that doesn't require xorg.conf.

...which brings me to my next question...

How can I see the "effective" xorg.conf in use by my server?

Oops, I digressed....

I _do_ have one more question regarding the ATI driver for Karmic Koala...

How can I learn what is done (on my behalf, and behind my back) when I
open up the System > Hardware Drivers ane Activate the ATI/AMD
proprietary FGLRX graphics driver?

I suspect that the GUI installs xorg-driver-fglrx, but I don't know
that for a fact. Nor do I know what else might be done... and I'm
curious.

Thanks for any tips and help you can give me. (Especially tips on
where I could have learned this information myself... I'd rather go
fishing than eat the fish you can give me.)

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T16:42:47Z

Robert Holtzman wrote:

I found a testing method to get rsync working. It is now
perfect again! I need to find a way to not loose what I have.
This is what is perfect for me:

sudo rsync -avg / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list
/media/disk-1/test/

This works just as it should.

73 Karl

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T16:13:05Z

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Thomas K Gamble wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:i

> > > -u option
> > > tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your last
> > > backup.
> >
> > I thought that's what rsync did by default.
> >
>
> Well, it seems you're right. I've just gotten into the habit from using -h
> with cp on systems that didn't have rsync. Also, it seems this behavior is
> documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option description in the
> man page.

Believe me, that's not the only obscurity in the man page.

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T15:33:49Z

Thomas K Gamble wrote:

> On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> .............snip..............
>>
>>> what I do is :
>>>
>>> sudo rsync -auv --exclude-from=/home/tkg/exclude_list / /backup
>>>
>>> -u option
>>> tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your last
>>> backup.
>> I thought that's what rsync did by default.
>>
>
> Well, it seems you're right. I've just gotten into the habit from using -h
> with cp on systems that didn't have rsync. Also, it seems this behavior is
> documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option description in the
> man page.
>

Here is my current rsync file:

sudo rsync -auv --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list /
/media/disk-1/back/

It runs fine and there is much about nothing and then it quits
with the below error.

sent 5000119 bytes received 23627 bytes 76698.41 bytes/sec
total size is 18256953230 speedup is 3634.13
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see
previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1058) [sender=3.0.5]
./mybackup: 6: /media/disk-1/back/: Permission denied

It happens the location of the backup disk and the proper
directory is /media/disk-1/back/. I have used cd and if I use
cd filename /media/drive-1/back and it works just fine.

I'm out of ideas.

Karl

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T14:01:49Z

Thomas K Gamble wrote:

Yes. The man page needs rewriting by an expert in rsync who
can write well in English.

Karl

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Re: how to concatenate several ogv files

2009-11-23T13:45:39Z

user1 wrote:
> I have several smaller ogv video files I would like to concatenate
> (join) to one big ogv file.

You could try avidemux. Although the name suggests it is for AVI files,
you can use it for various video formats.

Nils

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Re: rsync backup

2009-11-23T13:11:26Z

On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:

> .............snip..............
>
> > what I do is :
> >
> > sudo rsync -auv --exclude-from=/home/tkg/exclude_list / /backup
> >
> > -u option
> > tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your last
> > backup.
>
> I thought that's what rsync did by default.
>

Well, it seems you're right. I've just gotten into the habit from using -h
with cp on systems that didn't have rsync. Also, it seems this behavior is
documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option description in the
man page.

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Re: Geeki Wiki

2009-11-23T12:34:32Z

On Mon, November 23, 2009 16:55, hello wrote:
> Hi. I am trying at this very moment to write a wiki on everything an
> ubergeek FLOSS technical user needs to know, namely how to program, how to
> use lots of bash commands (hopefully all) and nearly every trick in the
> book.
> Can someone give me some pointers as to some of the things I should
> include?
> TYVVM

Take a look at The Jargon File and everything else that ESR has written.
That'll be a good start. But you will barely have scratched the surface.

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Re: no sound playing DVD

2009-11-23T12:20:49Z

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:10:53PM -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote:

> Hi Stan:
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 09:40:33AM -0500, stan wrote:
> >
> > On the desktop, all seems well, ecept that I don;t have any sound while
> > playing DVD's.
>
> Your sound preferences probably need adjusting to match what your system
> actually provides.
>
> System | Preferences | Sound
> Uncheck the "Mute" in the upper right hand corner
> Hardware tab
> Click on each audio device you have availble and then
> in the "Profile" dropdown list, select mode that should be used.
> Output tab
> Click on output method you want to use.
> Click Close
>

Thanks, I will give that a try.

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Re: Differences between upgraded and freshly installed 9.10

2009-11-23T12:05:47Z

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:19:31 -0800
NoOp <glgxg@...> wrote:

> On 11/23/2009 10:35 AM, Steve wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:31 -0000, NoOp <snip> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/23/2009 06:54 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> >>> My upgrade has no Ubuntu Software Center yet it is there on my new
> >>> installation of 9.10.
> >>>
> >>> I found it listed as, "software center," in Synaptic and
> >>> installed it just to be complete. I wonder why it doesn't
> >>> install on upgrades? Or why it didn't on this one of mine?
> >>>
> >>> I also notice that Ubuntu One, the cloud iteration for Ubuntu was
> >>> not included when I upgraded, either.
> >>>
> >>> Do the older installations just miss out?
> >>
> >> Available & working in Applications|Ubuntu Software Center on each
> >> of my machines that I upgraded (Gnome).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Same here but, I always run apt-get dist-upgrade after the reboot
> > and find that, on some machines, it drags some more stuff in.
> >
>
> Ah, true. After any base upgrade I also:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install -f
> $ sudo dpkg --configure-a
>
> Just to be sure.
>

Did both of those (sudo dpkg --configure -a) and got no response from
either. Maybe because I already installed both software center and
Ubuntu One.
Thanks !

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