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  1. 'Hibernate' mode

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Somehow, when I leave my MD Desktop, my machine will still perform and my fan make a lot of noise. I read an article about a 'hibernate' mode that might be useful, or is that only for Notebooks/Laptops?

     

    Also, what can I do to minimize resources usage when I'm away?

     

    Darkelve

  6. Comments please: Article on linux and OSS for novices

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I've had three or four reads of it.

     

    <snip>

     

    Written material designed to be read on-screen must be presented in a different way from paper-based reading material.

     

    It has to be punchier, and more colourful.

     

    Even to the extent of embedding graphics, preferably animated.

    It has to be more like the spoken word.

     

    It has to echo in the mind in a way paper based material never does, except in poetry and plots of plays.

     

    Do you see what I mean?

     

    Actually I don't ...

     

    There are lots of defined ways of making a site more readable and on-screen reading more enjoyable. Embedding graphics increases download size and bandwidth and thus potentially hosting costs. Animated images often distract from the main content.

     

    You could also mean that his sentences are too long and too wide on-screen, in which case I agree. In any case, here is some more 'founded' background

    (with no disrespect to you, nick0. Perhaps I didn't get your point, but that was a bit hard from the explanation you posted).

     

     

    http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html

    (check chapter 5: Typography).

     

    http://www.alistapart.com/stories/typography/

     

    http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

     

     

    Darkelve

  7. .PNG, authoring and Internet Explorer

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I hate IE!

     

    MottS

    YEAHHHH!!! That's the spirit!!!!!!!

    To relieve M$ related frustration try the following

    as root type

    urpmi xbill &&

xbill

    What level can you get up to?

     

    James

     

     

    I got up te level 30, 50-thousans-and-something; then it froze on me. I didn't read the message though, maybe it was over?

     

    Darkelve

  9. Mandrake in HP's desktops

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    The difference in price between a preloaded XP PC and one with Mandrake must be quite small. 

    I hope that HPs advertising notes that for an extra $0 the Mandrake option will give you virtually all the applications you could possibly need, and that the same applications with XP will set you back $100's if not $1000's extra.

    M.

     

    If they gave me a nickel for every time windoze made my life a hell... why I'd be richer than Billygoat himself!

     

    They're still making my life a hell:

     

    1. I'm on a WinNT 4.0 workstation with rediculous restrictions and stuck-up administrators (not like in unfriendly, more like 'we know what is good for you')

     

    2. Plus I'm a webmaster ... :'(

     

     

    Darkelve

  10. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I found the menu option on the camera, formatted the disk, made a few pics and plugged it in and booted again. It gets detected during boot, but then gives the message:

     

    /dev/sda created

    ...

    ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read fail

     

    and then gives me the option to load diskdrake.

     

     

    When I try to mount it "1. mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1"; 2."mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/removeable" it says something like:

     

    "error: this is not a valid block device"

     

     

    Darkelve

  11. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi Ste* uhhh. Gowator.... :roll:

     

    /dev/sda was created for me by Mandrake

     

    I created /dev/sda1 myself.

     

    I made sure there are a couple of pics in there. The maps in Unkown OS' explorer show 'DCIM -> 100TRDSC'; that's where the pics are.

     

    I'll go and try it out ASAP.

     

    Darkelve

  13. I Didn't Know You Could Do That in Linux...

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    Hey, I followed your instructions and tried lsd but all it did was make my monitor go all strange and start flashing colours and shapes at me.

     

    If this wasn't enough it now does the same thing from time to time even when I don't ussue the command ???

     

    Whats going on ?

     

    Erm sorry if I drifted off topic ....

     

    Strange... it only lists directories for me. Which version are you using ?

  18. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    In the Unspoken OS, I get 'Standard FAT partition, capacity 8MB.

     

    I formatted my card using the Unspoken OS's explorer, now I'm going to see if something has changed...

     

    It also has an option for flash cards, maybe that would help? I *was* talking about internal storage up to know, don't know if it *would* read from a flash card?

     

    I think it's good posts in Forums like these remain in English. One way or another, people have to pick up with this anyway when dealing a lot with PC's or the internet.

     

    Local language support is more appropriate on:

    - dedicated sub-Forums for other languages (although it does somewhat subvert the power of having all info in 1 wide-known language)

    - (m)IRC

    - your Lug or a local Linux guru

    - Manuals

    - ...

     

    I DO think this could help n00bs like me a lot. I can't imagine coming this far had you posted in, say, German :?

  19. bittorrent from command line

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    I downloaded the bittorrent client today using "urpmi bittorrent" (sooo easy...)

     

    *** What is Bittorrent? ***

    Bittorrent is a distributed P2P file sharing client, used for "swarming [big] downloads across unreliable networks". When you download a file using Bittorrent, you also provide the parts you already downloaded for others to upload. You have to provide just as much upload as you've downloaded, so that everyone gets treated on an equal basis.

     

    Advantages: you can get extremely high download rates and the file gets constantly checked for errors, so it will be extremely unlikely you will end up with a broken download. A 200MB-file could very well be finished within a couple of hours.

     

    Disadvantages: This is mostly used for the newer/newest stuff, so chances are after a while you won't find previous versions of a file/series because everyone already downloaded it. This is why Bittorrent is mostly used for getting the latest movie/anime from the net. Also a lot of Linux ISO's are available. More info: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

    *** END ***

     

    Anyway, it did not come with a GUI for me. So instead of looking for it, I gave the console command a shot. It's very easy in fact:

     

    Type

     

    btdownloadheadless.py --url "http://www.fakeurl/fakefile.avi.torrent" --saveas newfilename.avi

     

    Where btdownloadheadless.py is the name of the bittorrent executable, --url specifies that a URL will follow for the file, the filename between the brackets "[filename]" is the URL for the filename you will want to download (if you click on the link, It will probably display in a box or in your address bar). The brackets are there so the CLI will take note of spaces and weird characters.

     

    Lastly, with --saveas [filename] you can specify where to save your file, meaning in which file to save it (your filename) and in which directory. If you do not specify a directory, this will go into the dir you are in currently.

     

    Behold the power of a CLI bittorrent... Muhahaa!!

     

     

    Darkelve

  20. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    1. Did you manually create a /mnt/camera ?

    2. Which card has the camera? CF? that would be vfat..

    3. Your problem might be a missing /dev/sda1 ...

    4. What do you get trying:

    # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/camera

    5. Did you try to re-format your card (using the camera ...)

    6. Can you identify the filesystem on the card with the other OS?

     

    Hi Anna,

     

    hey don't worry, I'm a n00b too. But you can always ask me some coll non-313313 questions, e.g. about enhancing your desktop, simple commands ands finding/recommending applications.

     

    The answers to your questions though:

     

    1. When I plug my camera in, it is recognized and a /dev/sda is created; then I get the 'validate partition table' error. I followed your post and made a "/mnt/removable" directory for this. Does not to make much difference though.

    2. Uh... I don't know... :roll:

    3. Well, I think since /dev/sda was created for me, this would be the correct one. Sure I made a sda1 but no difference. I think it's just a copy...

     

    4. It always says 'I/O error, ...'

    5. No I did not. You can do that? I'll have to check my manual for that, I guess. However, I don't exactly feel comfortable with it. Actually, at boot, the screen offered me to load the 'appropriate tool' (being diskdrake). Forgot to mention that, don't know how it could help though.

     

    6. Yeah, in the 'other' OS (whose name I will not speak of, cf. LOTR) it gets recognized and I can browse it in the file explorer. That it *does* work in the 'other' OS almost bugs me as much as the fact I can't get it to work.

     

    * I never tried ' fdisk -l /dev/sda ', isn't this dangerous??

     

    Thanks for your concern. Maybe we could also have written in Dutch, but I'm quite comfortable with English. Plus it might help other people in need for the same info.

     

     

    Darkelve

  21. configuring wireless cards

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Jay, got it working! :D

     

    My card and everything were actually working, I just had to choose "Managed" and type in the key in 1 of the fields.

     

    I'm feeling a bit st*pid. I never had to deal with the encryption stuff, 'cause the wireless home-network was set up FOR us...

     

     

    Anyway, thanks a lot. Now I have a really cool laptop (Compaq 1400 - nice design) with a really cool OS and wireless network access, which makes it even cooler. 8)

     

    These Forums/this website is great, there are so much info and apps (FTP server) and friendly people together here. It makes a world of difference!

     

     

    Darkelve

  22. configuring wireless cards

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Sorry to drop in suddenly, but since this is about configuring wireless cards and this post seems done, I figured no need to start a new post.

     

    I got an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B PCMIA card on my laptop, which should work. However, it doesn't and I think this is because of the Wireless encryption going on: 128-bits Wep encryption.

  23. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I tried out some things for my USB cam, following maatje's post.

     

    When I plug it in at boot, it seems it gets recognized, but I get this message:

     

     

    ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read fail

     

    Then I issued following commands, more or less following the posts (saved it as a txt file and put it on my shared Fat32 partion; mostly no working Internet connection under Linux)

     

    [root@localhost /]# tail -f /var/log/messages

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 16376

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 16376

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read fail ed.

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:34:45 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table

     

     

    [root@localhost dev]# lsmod

    Module Size Used by Tainted: P

    <snip>

    ohci1394 19048 0 (unused)

    <snip>

    scsimon 9280 0 (unused)

    usb-storage 72952 0

    scsi_mod 103284 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi sd_mod scsimon usb-storage]

    usb-ohci 20584 0 (unused)

    usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usb-ohci]

    rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)

    ext3 59916 1

    jbd 38972 1 [ext3]

     

    [root@localhost etc]# cat modules.conf

     

    probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

    alias eth0 8139too

    alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio

    probeall usb-interface usb-ohci

    alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394

    alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia

     

     

    Then I played around somewhat, following everything on the other posts and doing mknod commands. However, it seems /dev/sda is the one I really need.

     

    [root@localhost dev]# tail -f /var/log/messages

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 16376

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

    Jul 5 15:54:12 localhost kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector

     

    "Anna, it may be that the usb-storage is not properly implemented in your camera. This happens sometimes, check google groups for that."

     

    I am guessing it might be this kind of problem. Would be logical, but also sad ;'(

     

     

    Darkelve

  25. Prob with digital camera

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I just found out the 2 USB ports in front (under the floppy drive), DO work without freezing my system in Mandrake. I even got 2 of my hardware items detected using USBview.

     

    I want to browse my digital camera, and it's detected, but I cannot seem to find the folder anywhere. What should I do? I tried Gphoto1&2, but firstly the model isn't there and secondly I think 'browse directory' should work, but again: which directory. Here are my specs:

     

    Vendor: â??Trust

     

    Bus: â??SCSI

     

    Location on the bus: â??0:0:0

     

    Channel: â??00

     

    Description: â??Trust|Trust 710 LCD POWERC@M ZOOM

     

    New devfs device: â??/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

     

    Old device file: â??/dev/sda

     

    Module: â??unknown

     

    Floppy format: â??Trust 710 LCD POWERC@M

     

    Media class: â??hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))

    -------------------------------------------------

     

    Trust 710 LCD POWERC@M ZOOM

    Manufacturer: Trust

    Serial Number: 01.00.00

    Speed: 12Mb/s (full)

    USB Version: 1.00

    Device Class: 00(>ifc )

    Device Subclass: 00

    Device Protocol: 00

    Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8

    Number of Configurations: 1

    Vendor Id: 06d6

    Product Id: 0030

    Revision Number: 1.00

     

    Config Number: 1

    Number of Interfaces: 1

    Attributes: 80

    MaxPower Needed: 500mA

     

    Interface Number: 0

    Name: usb-storage

    Alternate Number: 0

    Class: 08(stor.)

    Sub Class: 06

    Protocol: 50

    Number of Endpoints: 3

     

    Endpoint Address: 87

    Direction: in

    Attribute: 2

    Type: Bulk

    Max Packet Size: 64

    Interval: 0ms

     

    Endpoint Address: 08

    Direction: out

    Attribute: 2

    Type: Bulk

    Max Packet Size: 64

    Interval: 0ms

     

    Endpoint Address: 89

    Direction: in

    Attribute: 3

    Type: Int.

    Max Packet Size: 1

    Interval: 1ms

     

    I was thinking this looked good enough to actually detect it, but whatever directory I browsed, I found nothing.

     

     

    * On a side note, the other piece of hardware I was talking about is an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B Lan USB device. In order to wirelessly connect to the net. Is there any chance in h*ll I'll get this to work under Mandy? If there is'nt I won't bother. Otherwise I can investigate further.

     

     

    Darkelve

    P.S. I now I could look for info myself, but it's really inconvenient without a working internet connection most of the time. I'd rather have some all-in manual, but I doubt these would exist.

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