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In <pan.2010.04.23.18.52.09(a)dasteem.invalid>, on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC), Mike Jones, luck(a)dasteem.invalid wrote: Responding to Steve Ackman: [...] My wife had a 200Mhz with 32MB RAM a few years back. I put RH 7.1 on it, and it ran everything just fine though I did leave Gnome off... 28 Apr 2010 20:50

Dillo 2.2 geometry mystery = solved
I've been trying to (pecking at the problem every so often) get Dillo 2.2 to open with my prefered geometry settings in dillorc for a while now. I just trripped over the solution. Dillo 2.2 doesn't pay any attention to GTK stuff, as its FLTK based. A setting of 845x845 doesn't come out the same as it did w... 16 Apr 2010 10:32

LDAP modification in scheme
Hi all, I'm new to LDAP administration, however I've sucessfuly up and running a SLES 10.2 with LDAP backend, SAMBA and stuff... everything is well, except the following: - user group membership is stated in ldap using the "member" attribute, wich contains the full path to the user, e.g. "uid=user... 16 Apr 2010 06:08

linux, windows, mac file transfer and print network
Hello everybody 1. I am new on linux and i have one pc on which i have installed linux ubuntu 9.10, and i am trying to connect it to my network on which are windows 2k, windows xp, mac os9 and mac osX computers(total of 8 computers), with windows network there is no problem, linux see it and it can acess it, mac... 27 Apr 2010 01:02

HOw to rebuild a Raid 0 when one disk has gone?
I have a raid 0 array, with two partitions, /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sda3 as parts of that raid 0 array. Disk sdb3 has gone bad (a whole bunch of bad sectors in previously good data-- and the errors are all on sdb.) so I have to replace it. Now I have a backup of most of the data ( unfortunately it got done only after ... 14 Apr 2010 16:38

mailcap for open document
occasionaly I get an ODT file mailed to an account on a text only server. this mailcap(5) entry allows me to see the text of the content from within my text-only mail client (mutt). # should be one line below application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; unzip -p '%s' content.xml | sed 's/<text:p[^>]*>/\\n/g' | sed 's... 12 Apr 2010 21:26

rsync on samba mounts
I'm rsyncing my iTunes to an external usb drive on Win XP. syncing 18 GB took maybe an hour, transporting 4 GB of movies and TX. I've got both smb mounted on CentOS 3. rsync seems to work as long as I use local paths for the smbmount directories. Anyone think I will have trouble (corrupted files)? Plan B is ... 11 Apr 2010 05:48

ls --color=tty
Does this alias (ls --color=tty) generate color control sequences? ... 4 Apr 2010 09:19

ffmpeg AV sync batch job?
I have a number of media files, all with the same AV sync fault. To save having to plod through them by hand with Avidemux, I've been looking at using ffmpeg in a script to batch process them. The faulty audio is delayed about -100ms and I need to crop and replace with black borders 16 left and right, and 8... 3 Apr 2010 08:13

Raid 1 "disk" going bad-- how determine which one.
I have a system in which I have two disks united into a raid 1 , and one of the disks seems to be starting to go bad ( a bunch of files have I/O errors on them. How do I deterimine which of the two disks is going bad so I can replace it? Fortunately I have a backup of the stuff (well most of it) so I could recons... 10 Apr 2010 05:50