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Filesystem on MP3 player unit 4 33 (6/20/2009 4:09:52 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I have just got a little device (an MP3 player with a little screen and video capabilities) that has 8 GB worth of internal storage. From the device itself that storage is idenitifed as NANDFLASH C:, ... K

Wake up on LAN 2 39 (1/10/2009 4:33:20 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am trying to wake up my PC remotely by means of a LAN Magic Packet, so far without success. Here's the data for my hardware: My motherboard is an MSI KT4AV, VIA KT400A chipset-based. It ide... K

Wireless webcams under Linux 5 25 (12/29/2008 3:26:46 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am looking into buying wireless webcams to be used from a Linux box. The ones I have in mind would be self-contained, in that they would connect by WiFi to a wireless router, acquiring an IP address in the p... K

DVD to AVI 9 37 (11/16/2008 4:48:25 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am looking for a command-line tool (not GUI) to convert my DVDs to AVI files. Any suggestions? ... K

Booting off two different drives 3 27 (11/5/2008 8:37:51 PM) comp.os.linux.misc This might be a thoroughly stupid question, but here it goes anyway. I have a system that boots off an internal IDE disk using GRUB. Occasionally, I'd like to be able to boot off an external USB disk inst... K

Automatically mounting USB storage devices under their correct mount points 6 31 (5/2/2008 7:00:38 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have two USB sticks and two USB hard drives connected to a PC. The USB sticks have been formatted as ext2, whereas the drives have been formatted as jfs. My question is, how can things be configured so tha... K

Modular exponentiations in bc 4 35 (4/17/2008 4:58:04 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I would be interested to compute modular exponentiations in bc. One can't use a^b % c for arbitrarily large a, b and c, for bc seems to carry out this computation in the straightforward way: First compute a^... K

Connection anonymization 5 24 (3/12/2008 11:20:10 PM) comp.os.linux.misc What is the best of anonymizing net surfing/connections from a Linx box? I mean, is it possible to hide one's IP address completely, so that if connect to, say, www.somegovagency.gov would not be able to tel... K

IPTables rules and hosts that use DHCP 12 34 (12/27/2007 1:58:09 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a set of IPTables rules to keep SSH attacks at bay - you know, to prevent script kiddies from hammering my servers with oodles of password authentication requests with all sorts of passwords and/or u... K

Wake up on LAN 1 20 (8/17/2007 12:04:04 PM) comp.os.linux.networking I am trying to set up things so that I can wake up my computer remotely. My computer is behind a DSL modem/router, which I have configured so that the appropriate packet (encapsulated in a UDP packet to por... K

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scp 3G file on 125MB/s network slow at 25MB/s why? 5 20 (12/6/2007 6:41:18 PM) comp.os.linux.networking With a Gig nic on 2 boxes on same subnet I get only 25MB /s using scp to transfer large movie files. Why so low? I should get 125MB /s from the Gig nics yes? ... gavcomedy (1610)

Questions about C90 vs C99 15 37 (12/10/2007 9:45:48 PM) comp.lang.c Hi! I am trying to understand weather to use c89/c90 or c99 and have come up with some questions that I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about: What is the advantage of writing a program according... dspfun (158)

IPTables rules and hosts that use DHCP 12 34 (12/27/2007 1:58:09 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a set of IPTables rules to keep SSH attacks at bay - you know, to prevent script kiddies from hammering my servers with oodles of password authentication requests with all sorts of passwords and/or u... kjennings (52)

Modular exponentiations in bc 4 35 (4/17/2008 4:58:04 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I would be interested to compute modular exponentiations in bc. One can't use a^b % c for arbitrarily large a, b and c, for bc seems to carry out this computation in the straightforward way: First compute a^... kjennings (52)

realloc problem, corrupt last item 15 33 (5/8/2008 2:15:19 PM) comp.lang.c hay, i have this werid problem with my book adding function, this how it looks book* AddBook(book *bp, unsigned *size) { .... //then i use realloc to allocate space for the new item in the bp pointer bp = (boo... igal.alkon (8)

nvidia driver problem #2 3 41 (9/16/2008 5:47:42 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware have a computer running Fedora Core 9 with an older Nvidia MX 4000 card. I downloaded the latest driver at nvidia.com and installed it with no problem. when I rebooted it would not work. the log file said i... dougl1 (7)

DVD to AVI 9 37 (11/16/2008 4:48:25 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am looking for a command-line tool (not GUI) to convert my DVDs to AVI files. Any suggestions? ... kjennings (52)

Wireless webcams under Linux 5 25 (12/29/2008 3:26:46 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am looking into buying wireless webcams to be used from a Linux box. The ones I have in mind would be self-contained, in that they would connect by WiFi to a wireless router, acquiring an IP address in the p... kjennings (52)

RH8 and USB SanDisk 10 39 (3/7/2009 5:08:26 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Does RH8 support USB? It appears that it did not detect my usb Sandisk, 500M. -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz... notvalid2 (213)

Filesystem on MP3 player unit 4 33 (6/20/2009 4:09:52 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I have just got a little device (an MP3 player with a little screen and video capabilities) that has 8 GB worth of internal storage. From the device itself that storage is idenitifed as NANDFLASH C:, ... kjennings (52)