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Old 2007-09-12, 20:52   Link #201
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I buy the SuSE CD's every so often to say thank you
Yeah, well, Canonical ships you the CDs to anywhere in the world free of charge...
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Old 2007-09-12, 21:12   Link #202
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Yeah, well, Canonical ships you the CDs to anywhere in the world free of charge...
Oh wow, thats pretty cool , so its 100% free (as in beer) or just free postage?
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Old 2007-09-12, 21:26   Link #203
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100% free as in beer and as in speech.
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Old 2007-09-13, 20:25   Link #204
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Can't mount USB mp3 device after formatting it

I just used mkfs.vfat to format my USB mp3 device. The device itself is okay, the firmware works, but I can't mount it anymore. The terminal outputs:

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bilkis@bilkis:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 ~/USB
mount: /dev/sdc1: can't read superblock
Any ideas?
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Old 2007-09-13, 20:43   Link #205
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How about "mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 ~/USB"? Does that help?

You might not need the "-t vfat" option if you have this device specified in /etc/fstab. For instance,

/dev/sdc3 /media/anime vfat defaults 0 0

but It never hurts to include the type of filesystem. Otherwise I think it defaults to ext3.
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Old 2007-09-13, 20:45   Link #206
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Ah, sorry, I just couldn't wait and gave in to the temptation of formatting it with my family's Windows box. Now it works fine.

Now I feel dirty for what I've just done... I should have waited for a way to fix it under Linux.
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Old 2007-09-14, 00:32   Link #207
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Ah, sorry, I just couldn't wait and gave in to the temptation of formatting it with my family's Windows box. Now it works fine.

Now I feel dirty for what I've just done... I should have waited for a way to fix it under Linux.
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Old 2007-09-14, 03:03   Link #208
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There's an interesting bit of software that was featured on Slashdot that allows you to install Debian from Windows. There were conflicting opinions about whether it put the OS somewhere within Windows, or whether it actually touched the partition table. Personally, I was more interested to hear that it uses GRUB 2, which I thought was still at the alpha stages...
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Old 2007-09-21, 21:41   Link #209
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Okay, time for the stupid question of the day.

I was doing some disk cleanup today (I finally got a new DVD-RW drive ) and found the folder "System Volume Information" in my NTFS-formated partition (I still have that damn thing... I still haven't been able to empty it to do a proper ext3 formatting -_-') which is 1 GB or so in size. I haven't been able to find enough information about it on the web, and I'm sure it has something to do with mounting NTFS partitions (due to the types of threads Google redirected me to)... but what the heck is it anyways? It's of an awfully enormous size, whatever its purpose is...
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Old 2007-09-21, 22:04   Link #210
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Okay, time for the stupid question of the day.

I was doing some disk cleanup today (I finally got a new DVD-RW drive ) and found the folder "System Volume Information" in my NTFS-formated partition (I still have that damn thing... I still haven't been able to empty it to do a proper ext3 formatting -_-') which is 1 GB or so in size. I haven't been able to find enough information about it on the web, and I'm sure it has something to do with mounting NTFS partitions (due to the types of threads Google redirected me to)... but what the heck is it anyways? It's of an awfully enormous size, whatever its purpose is...
It is used by system restore. You should find that even if you disable SR it will still grow which can lead to lost space and you will need to enable then disable it to recover space (or just set the rights and delete stuff in it, but not too sure how dangerous this is as I do the previous method).
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Old 2007-09-21, 22:16   Link #211
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"System Restore"? Isn't that, like, a Windows XP app or something?
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Old 2007-09-22, 11:18   Link #212
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"System Restore"? Isn't that, like, a Windows XP app or something?
Yup its the built in process from XP that automatically backs up the system (it is on by default chomping on resources without most users realising it kinda like the indexing service). Users can restore their systems to a point in time, but I personally find it flaky and rather use ghost or acronis.

I'm guessing that the NTFS partition had XP accessing it at some point and that is what created it....

PS Does anyone know when the next version of Ubuntu is due out?
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Old 2007-09-22, 20:47   Link #213
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I'm guessing that the NTFS partition had XP accessing it at some point and that is what created it....
Yeah, it had XP access at some point, but since I've deleted the partition a long time ago, I guess I don't need it anymore. Thanks for the info.

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Ubuntu 7.10 is due to release on October 18th
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Old 2007-09-22, 21:34   Link #214
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Ubuntu 7.10 is due to release on October 18th
drool drool drool...

note to self - must remember to play in vmware before trashing my live box

Ooo thinking about it Opensuse should be out soon too, I'll be having fun taking out all my boxes muhahahhahahah
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Old 2007-09-23, 01:04   Link #215
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For those of you who don't read Slashdot (probably nobody here), apparently Intel has created a site devoted to energy-saving in Linux, which may be useful to those running Linux on laptops who want to get more out of their battery. The downloads site includes some utilities to find out what applications are causing the most power consumption, a kernel modification to help with CPU energy savings, and some other goodies. People from Slashdot claimed that this is no different than Intel's PowerTop utility for Linux, only redesigned and with a snappier marketing sell.

It doesn't sound like it's incredibly useful, but it can probably help in a few ways.
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Old 2007-09-23, 16:29   Link #216
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Another article, for those interested: how to get 32-bit builds of Linux to use more than 1 GB of RAM.
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Old 2007-09-23, 20:59   Link #217
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Another article, for those interested: how to get 32-bit builds of Linux to use more than 1 GB of RAM.
It's mostly useless if you have a distro like Ubuntu or Fedora 7, which enable 4 GB by default. The only distro mentioned there that doesn't enable it by default is Debian for the 486 architecture. It's good to know anyways.
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Old 2007-09-24, 04:43   Link #218
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I liked the Intel one, I can't wait until the eeepc comes out then I can use it to optimise my battery life on it.

Here is a question, how many of you use native linux wireless drivers or do you use ndiswrapper?

I had to use the the windows drivers to get the rt2500 to work as wpa in the gnome network manager, but it was surprisingly easy to set-up once I realised the version on their repositories was bugged.
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Old 2007-09-24, 06:41   Link #219
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For laptops, I only use Intel cards like the 3945. Intel has open-sourced drivers, and all recent distros include them now and usually detect the card automatically. I read somewhere about Broadcom releasing open drivers for its cards, but I haven't used a Broadcom NIC and don't intend to unless I have no other (read Intel) choice.

I've also used Linksys PCI adapters in desktop machines. The one I tried was an older 802.11b card. It presented the normal Linksys ethernet interface to the OS and came up immediately as eth0.

I don't use encryption; my wireless routers have MAC address filtering to keep out unauthorized users. I don't really care if someone's sniffing my traffic since there'd be little to see. Most times I do credit purchases from a wired machine, and even if I'm using the laptop, the transaction is encrypted with SSL so the credit information is invisible anyway.
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Old 2007-09-24, 21:04   Link #220
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I don't use encryption; my wireless routers have MAC address filtering to keep out unauthorized users. I don't really care if someone's sniffing my traffic since there'd be little to see. Most times I do credit purchases from a wired machine, and even if I'm using the laptop, the transaction is encrypted with SSL so the credit information is invisible anyway.
I agree with the point about SSL, but MAC address filtering isn't that strong because as soon as someone sniffs out your MAC address they can spoof it (of course you should notice as your connection will go gaga, but a experienced attacker would wait for the address to no longer be in use).

It does seem that a lot of companies are releasing their drivers as open source (thank goodness), and I can't wait for the day when a linux distro really works out of the box with no fiddling. I know that that is a pointless wish as it is nearly impossible for a distro to cover every hardware, but I was shocked how ubuntu nearly covers every bit of kit I slap it on, then only thing it misses normally is WPA support, the wireless normally works with WEP (spit). I'm not too sure that I can even get Vista to run on my lappie, and I'm not too sure what the out of the box driver support is like for it.
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