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Replacing hard drive in RAID5
Greetings, I'm running a media server with 4 identical Seagate 250 Gb hard drives. sda is the boot and has the openSUSE 11.2, the other 3 are configured in RAID5. I'm getting an error message that sdb is unavailable but otherwise the box runs fine and I have access to all my files. Can I just pull sdb, install... 15 Apr 2010 06:54

amr to wav or mp3
Does anyone have a suggestion for converting an amr file to wav or mp3 under openSuse 11.0? I've tried various approaches I found on the Internet, but none worked (I shall spare you the details at this point). -- Les (BrE) ... 13 Apr 2010 13:54

Sorry for multiple post !
Apparently PAN stuck and sent multiple copies !! Maybe it needs oiling ? :-( Hopefully once will do next time... ... 12 Apr 2010 21:26

Sorry for multiple post !
Apparently PAN stuck and sent multiple copies !! Maybe it needs oiling ? :-( Hopefully once will do next time... ... 12 Apr 2010 21:26

Amarok playlist order
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:58:51 +0200, houghi wrote: When I go to 'Collection' and drag my local collection to the 'Replace Playlist' the order is somewhat ok, but somewhat completely messed up. I want to sort by directory or by album or whatever, yet I can not figure out how to do that. Amarok2 http:... 16 Apr 2010 13:56

bitlbee
I understood that bitlbee is one of the packages that should be possible to install. But on my system zypper does not find it: zypper install bitlbee Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'bitlbee' not found. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. My repo... 10 Apr 2010 12:23

No sources for ffmpeg
I installed ffmpeg. There is a problem that when using mp3 there should also be an -ar parameter. At the moment this is not mentioned and you are wondering why your command goes wrong. :-[ I was thinking about making a patch to mention this when trying to use mp3 without -ar and keeping other people from the same s... 10 Apr 2010 10:10

Gnome Terminal autocomplete
I have a Gnome Terminal question for you. In windows I've always set up the cmd window to be able to accept tab to get me to the closest thing I am typing in the dir structure... e.g. If I need to go to the desktop I can type "cd\user\myusername\desk TAB" and it autocompletes the command. Is there a way to enable... 11 Apr 2010 11:13

Question about file permissions
Is there a way to lock permissions on a folder such that all the files retain a global set of permissions? I'm running an app under wine which includes a database (FoxPro, unfortunately). This is a church accounting/membership/scheduling app and I need to access the data from nearly all the accounts on the syste... 23 Apr 2010 20:34

How to circumvent pop-up when inserting xD-card
I have a camera which uses a xD-card. I put a label on it with: mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n Camera /dev/sde1 In /etc/fstab I put: LABEL=Camera /camera vfat noauto,user 0 0 So I can mount it with: mount /camera The only problem is that when I insert the card I get a pop-u... 9 Apr 2010 06:41