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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2259

Today's Topics: 

  Re: SATA vs PATA                      [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Re: linux on ipod nano?               [ "Richard Lyons"  ]
  Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address bein  [ Nigel Henry  ]
  Wireless card for emachine?           [ "Thomas H. George"  ]
  Re: big brother yahoo                 [ David Brodbeck 

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:30:53 +0000


From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: SATA vs PATA

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote:

> now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on
> it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some
> extra GB.
> 
> Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two
> compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel support?
> 

SATA-I gives 150 MB/s, SATA-II gives 300 MB/s, PATA 133 MB/s.



PATA: poor performance in general, but lousy if you have two drives on
one controller.  Since most boards have only 1 or two controllers,
that's one or two drives.  PATA bandwidth is per controller.  Cable
lenghth: 18", wide ribbon blocks air flow.


Do you need help?X

SATA: Being serial, each cable is point-to-point, so bandwidth is per
drive.  Cable length 39" (1 m).



Debian Etch has full support for SATA.



If you want to edit videos, go with SATA.  If you can afford it, you may
want to go with two drives and set up LVM with a stripped LV (or use
raid0) to speed up the drive access.



[PATA vs SATA info reference: wikipedia]



Doug.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:35:33 +0200


From: Vladimir Strycek <vladoportos@vladoportos.sk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Profile for user and root ( locales )

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Hi all,


Do you need more help?X

any idea where alse is setting for each user in bash ? i have small 
problem that when i log in to my debian box as user everything works 
great especialy the special character of Slovak language also MC looks 
fine etc... but when i su to root the special characters do not work 
anymore... when i turn on MC its has some wird characters insted of 
lines on borders etc... i look in /etc/profile but nothing there to 
explain it also in .bashrc and .bash_profile to find out why in user it 
works fine and at root it doesnt diplay correctly.



Any idea where else could be som config file which determine what 
localles are used for user ?



Many thanks,


Vlad



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:25:53 +0200


From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: docBook or latex

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Can we help you?X



On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would
> use latex.  AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be
> turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or
> requiring a huge meta-package install.  Since there are readily
> available (as debian packages) ways to turn latex into html, I use late=

x

> for everything. =20

All of them I tried produce bad HTML.



Conversely, you can convert DocBook into LaTeX with dblatex (the
description claims that MathML 2.0 markups are supported).


Can't find what you're looking for?X
> Also, there's the visual quality of the output.  I don't think there's
> anything that produces nicer output than Tex.

The solution is to convert DocBook files into LaTeX first.



--=20


Vincent Lef=E8vre <vincent(at)vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:50 +0200


From: Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: fresh kde install


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On Sunday 26 August 2007 01:54:43 Joris Huizer wrote:

> --- "L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have installed etch base system and th    en
> > installed xorg. I was
> > trying to install kde
> > apt-get install kde kdm
> > I get msg saying
> > .....
> > the following packages has unmet dependencies
> > kde:depends on kde-core(>=5.47), but it not going to
> > be installed
> >
> >     :depends on kde-amusements(>=5.47), but it not
> >
> > going to be installed
> >
> > :depends on kdeaddons(>=4:3.4.3), but it not going
> >
> > to be installed
> >
> > :depends on kde-pim(>=4:3.4.3), but it not going to
> >
> > be installed
> > Whe there is this problem in even in stable?
> > How to install kde
> > --
> > L.V.Gandhi
> > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
> > linux user No.205042
>


> No idea why those won't install automatically -- maybe
> they are kept in a 'hold' state for some reason.
>


> You could run `aptitude install kde kdm`, it might try
> harder to get kde installed.
> Also this can be done using the gui of `aptitude`; it
> will show problems it found with your requested
> installation of packages
>


> Alternatively, you might add all the packages that
> "are not going to be installed" to the apt-get line,
> like
>


> `apt-get install kde kdm kde-core kde-amusements
> kdeaddons  kde-pim` - that way you'll probably get
> around the problem too

The package: kde is a metapackage that pulls in the kitchen sink, meaning ALL 
of kde, which of course, includes kdm, so having both on the same apt-get is 
a bit redundant.



Perhaps a better solution would to install kde-core, also make sure you to the 
apt-get update first so it get's the proper information from the mirror.  
After that you can just install the applications you're interested in.


Don't know where to look next?X

The error mentioned sounds to me like a mirror non properly in sync.



Joe


Joe



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:12:00 +0100 (BST)
From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net>
To: "debian-user " <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: linux on ipod nano?

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On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:18, koffiejunkie wrote:

> Richard Lyons wrote:
>> Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another
>> thread, and I guess nobody noticed.  So I'll put it differently:
>>
>> Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod:
>>
>>     Failed to remove watch
>


> I don't use gpod, so I'm taking a wild guess.  Is your iPod in Mac or
> "Windows" format?  Mine is in Mac format and it won't automount in Linu=

x

> - the kde/gnome automout stuff doesn't know what to do with it since th=

e

> partition ID is "fa" which according to fdisk -l is "unknown"

My nano is vfat. It mounts just fine.  It is unmounting that is the probl=
em.



--=20


richard





--=20


Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:17:46 +0200


From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>
To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: capture real audio stream

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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:45:56AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio.  I know about 
>> streamripper, but it does not work for real audio.  And in particular, 
>> if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing 
>> the address of the real audio file (which I actually don't know: bbc 
>> radio just starts the real player plugin in the web page).


> 
> You mean that if you hold the mouse over the link, you don't see where
> its pointing?  Personally, I wouldn't click on such a link.
> 

the link actually points to an html page where the embedded real player 
plays the station, so the link itself does not provide any information 
about the url of the .rm or .ram file.


> Have you tried VLC?
> 

not yet... should it implement the requested functionality?



thanks


        Lore



-- 
Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze
ICQ# lbetto, 16080134     (GNU/Linux User # 158233)
HOME: 
http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: 
http://www.purplesucker.comhttp://www.myspace.com/supertrouperabba
BLOGS: 
http://tronprog.blogspot.com  
http://longlivemusic.blogspot.comhttp://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlitehttp://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopthttp://www.gnu.org/software/gengen 
http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:18:11 -0700
From: Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:

> Bob King <g3ase@waitrose.com> writes:

>

>   

>> Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu?
>>     
>

> mplayer
>   

What about .wma files?

I have tried Xine and MPlayer and I do have the w32codecs installed.  
Both players say that they are playing the file, but I get no audio 
output.  Xine just shows a screen with a rapidly changing squiggly line 
and the output of mplayer is:

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M Processor 2800+ (Family: 15, Model: 8, 
Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.

Playing baroqueloop90z.wma.
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
 name: Baroque Loop
 author: Lothar Michael Froehlich
 copyright: 2000
 comments: Classic - Visit www. soundemotion.com
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4003->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  28.4 (28.4) of 27.0 (27.0)  0.8%

Exiting... (End of file)



-- 
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:27:55 +0100 (BST)
From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net>
To: "debian-user " <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP 
     server and smarthost)
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On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> [ I have changed the subject to get the attention of other bytemark
>   users who might be able to help us with this problem: Richard has an
>   account on a bytemark VM and he wants to send emails via the their
>   smarthost. At the moment we are trying to configure msmtp properly on
>   the VM for this task; suggestions for a better tool for this job are
>   welcome. The goal is to have a sendmail-equivalent command working on
>   the VM so that it can be used with mutt, executed remotely via ssh or
>   by using port forwarding. ]


Smart move -- thanks Florian.


> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:

>>  How do I get to see the
>> envelope msmtp is trying to send?
>

> Adding "logfile ~/.msmtp.log" to .msmtprc should give you more
> information.


Here is the log that resulted:

  Aug 27 15:18:11 host=3Dsmtp.bytemark.co.uk tls=3Doff auth=3Doff
  from=3Drichard@the-place.net recipients=3Drichard_lyons2000@yahoo.com
  errormsg=3D'the server does not support DSN' exitcode=3DEX_UNAVAILABLE


> These first two requirements are very basic; essentially
> they are just saying that sender and recipient addresses cannot be
> completely bogus. (The "from" line in the config file should take care
> of MAIL_FROM and mutt should specify the recipient's email address as
> the argument when it invokes msmtp.)


Ah, do I need to add parameters to the command in .muttrc? at present
it says
  set     sendmail=3D"/usr/bin/msmtp"
  set     sendmail_wait=3D0
[...]


> dig MX the-place.net


That looks okay, points to the right IP.
[...]
>

> It might be time to contact bytemark's technical support.


You are probably right.  I'll give them a call.

--=20
richard



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:28:48 +0200
From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup
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On Monday 27 August 2007 03:52, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:42:51PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I've had this problem for a while. When booting Debian Lenny, and perhaps
> > Etch as well. When booting up I've had the following output trying to
> > access 224.0.0.251.
> >
> > eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
> > NET: Registered protocol family 10
> > lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> > ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.8 DST=224.0.0.22 LEN=40 TOS=0x00
> > PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF OPT (94040000) PROTO=2
> > DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.8 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=257 TOS=0x00
> > PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=237
> >
> >
> > According to RFC 3171 this block of addresses (224.0.0.x) is reserved for
> > special purposes.
> >
> > 192.168.0.8 is the static address of my Lenny install, and 224.0.0.251 is
> > the mystery address.
> >
> > There are 2 daemons that are running and looking for a response at
> > bootup. Ntpd is directed towards my other machine that is getting it's
> > time from the Internet. That is across the LAN, not the Internet. That's
> > not the problem.
> >
> > The only thing accessing the Internet at boot up is freshclam, and that
> > once the ethernet connection is up.

>

> It looks like its happening as the ethernet connection comes up.  What
> happens if you ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0 ?


I started tail -f /var/log/messages, then in another terminal did an ifdown, 
and ifup, and got the same string of messages pointing to the odd IP address.

Then Avi Rozen's message turned up. First line mentioned Zeroconf, which I've 
had a run in with before, when Gkrellm was displaying the wrong IP address 
for the machine. Someone on the list suggested purging it, which I did, and 
got the proper address showing again in Gkrellm. I didn't realise there were 
other things trying to use zeroconf. I stopped the avahi daemon, ran ifdown, 
ifup again, and bye bye messages. Last thing was disable the avahi daemon 
using sysv-rc-conf. Job done, apart from having to do the same on my Etch, 
and Sarge installs.
>

> Check in /etc/network/if-up.c and /etc/network/if-pre-up.d for anything
> that may try to run.

>

> On my system, shorewall starts immediatly after networking in
> /etc/rcS.d.  I don't know why you appear to be getting errors from a
> firewall unless your firewall script runs before networking comes up.


Networking is S 40, and Guarddog is S 65, which is 11 places further down the 
list.
>

> Since this is all happening in /etc/rcS.d, I'd suggest booting with
> init=/bin/sh and running the /etc/rcS.d scripts manually one at a time
> to try to track it down.  If you can get a shell while these errors are
> happening, perhaps you can see what processes are running.


I havn't tried that before. Is that going to be similar to the interactive 
boot up that you can do on Fedora?
>

> Doug.


Thanks, as always for your help Doug.

Nigel.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:35:40 +0200
From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup
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On Monday 27 August 2007 10:53, Avi Rozen wrote:

> Looks like zeroconf traffic (avahi/mdns), maybe try:

>

> /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop

>

> and see what happens.

>
>

> HTH,

>

> Avi.


Thanks for that Avi. As soon as your first line mentioned zeroconf, bells 
started to ring in my head. Zeroconf has caused me problems before, and I'd 
purged from the system.

I stopped the avahi daemon, followed by an ifdown, and ifup, and the messages 
have stopped. I then disabled it with sysv-rc-conf.

Thats one annoying problem resolved, that's been around for a while.

Many thanks.

Nigel.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:48:09 -0400
From: "Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Wireless card for emachine?
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I have been given an emachine M5310 laptop with a dead battery and am 
considering trying to convert it to a debian etch laptop.  I can boot it 
with a GRML cd and lsdev reports wifi0 when an Activa wifi card is 
plugged in.  I tried using wlanconfig but have not been able to specify 
a static IP address to access my home network.  The machine is known to 
contain its own wifi and searches for dynamic addresses when I boot it 
with a DebianLive Gnome cd. but Debain/apps/system/network demands a 
root password and wont accept sudo bash so I can't set an assigned 
static IP address.

Is the emachine worth the effort?  A new battery will set me back $95.  
Would I also need to purchase another Linux compatible wifi card?

Tom George



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:49:16 +0200
From: Robert Cates <robert@kormar.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org
Subject: Re: help identifying a USB data stick
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buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to
>> use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it
>> under /dev .  Do I need to, or should I, install an auto-mount package,
>> i.e. would it make access easier?  Are there more than one auto-mount
>> type of packages available?  I found am-utils, which was one result of
>> 1314 for "auto" when I searched the available packages.
>>
>> Also, dmesg | grep usb gives me:
>>
>> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>> usbcore: registered new driver hub
>> usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
>> usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
>> usb-storage: device found at 2
>> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>> usb-storage: device scan complete
>>
>> but I don't know how to translate this into a /dev/.. device.?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> --
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>> listmaster@lists.debian.org
>>
>>
>>     
>

> Try to do a "dmesg | tail" after a few seconds when you plugged in the USB
> Device. You should see something like:

>

> sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdc: 2055290 512-byte hdwr sectors (1052 MB)
> sdc: Write Protect is off
> sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdc: sdc1
> sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
> sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete

>

> And there you can see what device it is. This should be betwwen the 2 last
> lines in your post but as you grepped for "usb" you didn't see them.

>

> Greets
> buffoon

>
>

>   

Thanks for the tip/info.  My dmesg shows:

SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor:           Model: MediBase          Rev: 1100
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda

but unlike yours, it does not say - usb-storage: device scan complete
Now, what's the best way to get this mounted and usable?  Should I 
install am-utils for example?  I've tried various ways of using the 
mount command, but I'm not getting it right (mounted).

Thanks,
Robert



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:55:46 -0700
From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: big brother yahoo
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On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:


> On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:

>> Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish
>> between "Mozilla-style" and "IE-style" browsers, I suppose.  I think
>> it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list of the ID
>> strings of every single niche browser someone might happen to be  
>> using.
>

> Given that the problem is caused by IE-style browsers, which all tend
> to identify as IE, why not apply it to IE only instead?


Well, yes and no.  A lot of these sites want a particular plugin, and  
plugins tend to be specific to individual browsers.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:28:10 +0200
From: Maciek Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
To: robert@kormar.de
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org
Subject: Re: help identifying a USB data stick
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Robert Cates pisze:

>>   

> Thanks for the tip/info.  My dmesg shows:
> 
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb-storage: device found at 2
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>  Vendor:           Model: MediBase          Rev: 1100
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> 
> but unlike yours, it does not say - usb-storage: device scan complete
> Now, what's the best way to get this mounted and usable?  Should I
> install am-utils for example?  I've tried various ways of using the
> mount command, but I'm not getting it right (mounted).
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> 


#mkdir /media/sda1
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
#df
#umount

If works:
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1      /media/sda1     vfat    user,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0

-- 
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.maciek.unixy.pl
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:02:05 -0700
From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command  directory?)
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On Aug 26, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:


> However, I do agree that from the user/admin's perspective it is
> complicated.  It offers many advantages to compensate for that.  The
> most obvious is that you do have at your fingertips the ability to  
> tweak
> the sizes of your partitions which you would not have with normal
> partitions.


Although this has its pitfalls, too.

Growing a logical volume is easy -- you enlarge it, then let the  
filesystem's resizing tool figure out the new device size.

Shrinking a logical volume, though...that's full of pitfalls.  I've  
gotten bitten repeatedly by the fact that resize2fs and LVM's tools  
apparently don't do math the same way when calculating sizes,  
especially if you use human-readable units.  I now avoid shrinking  
logical volumes unless I have an automated tool to do it for me,  
because I have never found a safe way to do it manually.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:56:57 -0500
From: "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: capture real audio stream
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On 08/27/2007 09:17 AM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

>> [...]
>> You mean that if you hold the mouse over the link, you don't see where
>> its pointing?  Personally, I wouldn't click on such a link.
>>

> 
> the link actually points to an html page where the embedded real player 
> plays the station, so the link itself does not provide any information 
> about the url of the .rm or .ram file.
> 


I look into the HTML source and find the link to the real stream data. I 
then download it using mplayer's "-dumpstream" option.

However, I've only done this for streamed Windows Media files using the 
mms:// protocol.

YMMV



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:18:34 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cs=C3=A1nyi_P=C3=A1l?= <csanyipal@csanyi-pal.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:34:05PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:

> >Hello!
> >
> >I have this video card and set up the X Window to use the nvidia modul.
> Which nvidia's driver u used?


nvidia


> I've the same problem with my nvidia geforce 5200fx, but if I use nv 
> driver my X system is ok.


If I use "nv" driver, the X Window is much slower.

-- 
Regards, Paul Csanyi
http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm

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