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Sil 3112 SATA controller on old Iwill P4ES mobo 3 39 (9/9/2009 3:53:02 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Does anyone know how to get the Silicon Image 3112 SATA ports on an old Iwill P4ES mobo (bought in 2003) to work? I put a Pioneer DVD drive on two different machines with this mobo. On each one, the drive was... Robert

How to get Firefox 3.0.8 (3.0*) to honor emacs-style edit bindings 6 46 (4/1/2009 4:38:37 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Under the threat of the published attack against earlier Firefox versions, I just switched from 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.8. However, it fails to honor the earlier method to get emacs-style edit keybindings: gt... Robert

Re: Using tar --atime-preserve 0 78 (11/8/2008 8:08:48 PM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-11-08, Hactar wrote: >... > > TAR(1) TAR(1) > > NAME > tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility > ... > --atime-pres... Robert

Re: How to delete a file ? 0 66 (10/16/2008 3:55:57 AM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-10-14, Michael Black wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, annalissa wrote: > >> but this question was asked to me by friend to evaluate my linux skills >> > So then it becomes a test of your ability to ask a ... Robert

Re: I want to get the memory usage information, but which one is correct? 3 53 (10/8/2008 4:40:11 AM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-10-08, Bill David wrote: > I am using Redhat Linux AS 4 > > The following is the output of free command I have gotten: > [root@RADIATA fms]# free -m > total used free share... Robert

Re: any sound card that will definitely work? 1 52 (9/6/2008 4:10:43 PM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-09-06, graham1949 wrote: > On Sep 5, 11:28�pm, n.torrey.pi...@gmail.com wrote: >> My Dell Precision workstation came with RHEL 4.0 pre-installed, so I >> expected 100% Linux compatibility, especially n... Robert

Re: printf("hello"); 3 62 (9/6/2008 5:09:12 AM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-09-05, BigZero wrote: >> you really need anyway if you're writing C. > well i told you that i m porting any 32 bit application to 64bit > application..... The personality() system call may end up bein... Robert

Re: Swap issue? 0 51 (7/23/2008 4:22:28 AM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-07-23, David L. Johnson wrote: > Davide Bianchi wrote: >> On 2008-07-22, howa wrote: >>> 1. I have 4GB memory, people used to suggest I should set around 2GB >>> to 4GB for swap partition. >> >> If y... Robert

Re: mount disk using noatime 2 51 (7/4/2008 7:17:03 PM) comp.os.linux.misc On 2008-07-04, Dances With Crows wrote: > howa staggered into the Black Sun and said: >> If [I] mount [a] disk using noatime, [it] could improve performance. >> [Is] there any reason to mount disk using atime ... Robert

noteedit file format or (computer) keyboard recorder 0 48 (6/2/2008 4:11:23 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Is the NoteEdit program's file format documented anywhere? I searched through the whole NoteEdit handbook but did not see even a reference to file format documentation. or... Is there a simple program availab... Robert

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*.mov to dvd movie? 10 70 (10/19/2009 12:24:48 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, I have some video stuff I have been working with. I have it in *.mov format (Video- H.264 + AAC (TS)). The file plays fine in VLC. Now how do I get the thing on to a DVD so that it will play on my TV... todd1749 (255)

Richard Stallman On FOSS GNU And Freedom 2 53 (10/24/2009 7:49:39 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Richard Stallman On FOSS GNU And Freedom: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C2233C191A464B26 Hope This is helpful :) ... shamoorthy (6)

How do I produce a meta key stroke on a British UK102 keyboard? 7 64 (1/9/2010 7:08:02 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I am using an IBM compatible computer with a traditional British 102 key keyboard (the ones without the Windows key). My keyboard layout is set to British using: loadkeys uk How do I produce a "Meta" keystro... markhobley550 (897)

Sound - /dev/dsp 7 132 (2/5/2010 6:57:51 AM) comp.os.linux.hardware Hello, I am running Slackare 13 Linux on my laptop. One of the issues I have noticed recently is that when I have Firefox running on YouTube or similar site and then want to startup MPlayer/Audaciou or ... Neil

Kernel messages about hard drives 8 52 (2/8/2010 9:03:58 PM) comp.os.linux.misc All of a sudden, two separate hard drives in the same box have started to cause the kernel to print out messages like the following: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 hdb: DMA timeout retry hdb: t... noone (992)

permissions on a filesystem 30 53 (2/14/2010 12:42:54 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a way (under ext3) to set permissions on a dir such that: only user can create new files but anyone in the group can delete files -- Rahul ... nospam59 (9760)

How can I increase my Xdialog font size? 2 93 (2/14/2010 2:06:11 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, From inside my bash script, is there a way to increase my Xdialog default font size? If not, is there any other way to do it? Many thanks, -T ... todd1749 (255)

Newbie trying to access SU in Ubuntu 35 60 (2/16/2010 2:24:59 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hello, I'm new to Linux, and I'm trying to find my way around the OS. The system won't allow me to log in as SU because I don't have a password for SU. Does anyone know the default password for SU? ... fletchbites (2)

hard links to files on other filesystems disallowed: why? 84 81 (2/20/2010 6:14:08 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Linux only allows hard-links to be made to files on the same filesystem. Is there a structural reason for this or just legacy of the "founding fathers"? Just curious. -- Rahul ... nospam233 (101)

firefox and google maps 27 43 (2/21/2010 6:53:02 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Re Firefox version 3.0.18. Recently upgraded. Because I have been running Noscript for a while I'm not sure when this behaviour started. I tried to use google maps and found that the world map wasn't display... faeychild1 (23)