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Crush posted:Yeah, sorry. "tried hda to no avail" <- WTF does it mean???!! What exactly did you run, and what was the result. I am also still waiting for the answer about the actual data being on that CD, DVD or whatever other thing you have in that drive. What is it? Is it readable when you mount it?
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teapot posted:"tried hda to no avail" <- WTF does it mean???!! What exactly did you run, and what was the result. I am also still waiting for the answer about the actual data being on that CD, DVD or whatever other thing you have in that drive. What is it? Is it readable when you mount it? A DVD thatis several GBs large. dd if=/dev/hda of=NAME.ISO. Yes it is readable. Please believe I would at least know that before trying to accomplish this. Also, I have tried this on s few different DVDs and CDs. Everyone in this thread needs to chill the gently caress out 
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Crush posted:A DVD thatis several GBs large. dd if=/dev/hda of=NAME.ISO. Yes it is readable. Please believe I would at least know that before trying to accomplish this. Also, I have tried this on s few different DVDs and CDs. Data or video? And what was dmesg output if you run it after dd finished?
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teapot posted:Data or video? Movie DVDs, however I just tried again with an older data CD and it worked fine. My only guess is some sort of encryption on the DVDs?
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Is there a site that tells about the file system? I.e. what the different file extensions mean, how the directory structure is arranged? Or could someone just type up a quick overview of them?
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Oct 22, 2007 05:25
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Crush posted:Movie DVDs, however I just tried again with an older data CD and it worked fine. My only guess is some sort of encryption on the DVDs?
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waffle iron posted:Oh lord I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Care to enlighten us as to why? Edit: So I asked in a couple linux channels on irc and the only reply I got was that it is because they are encrypted. Oh well. Thanks anyways, teapot. Crush fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Oct 22, 2007 |
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Oct 22, 2007 05:27
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Crush posted:Care to enlighten us as to why? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-scrambling_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS k9copy and xdvdshrink can backup movie DVDs, if that's what you want, though I have not used either.
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Kinch posted:Almost all commercial DVDs are encrypted. Thanks, Kinch. Good to know.
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hooah posted:Is there a site that tells about the file system? I.e. what the different file extensions mean .rpm and .deb are package files for RPM and Debian package managers. Usually you have to deal only with one of those formats on the same system -- Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora, Mandriva and Suse use RPM, Debian and Ubuntu use .deb . Obviously .h , .c , .cpp and other typical source files' extensions are commonly seen on Linux and other Unix-like system. A special Makefile file (that is, "Makefile" with capital 'M') is traditionally supplied, or is generated by "configure" script, in source distributions, and is used by "make" utility to build a program from sources. Sources are distributed in .tar.gz files, or can be downloaded from version control systems such as CVS or Subversion. Users' home directories also contain files and directories that _start_ with dot, and usually not shown in directory lists ("ls -a" shows them). They contain configuration of various software that is specific to the user. For example, Firefox configuration is stored in .mozilla/firefox . Please note that dot is a valid character anywhere in the file name. So "myfile" and "myfile." are two different files. Files "." and ".." are special, and represent current and parent directory. "myfile", "./myfile" and "././././././././myfile" are the same file. '/' is only valid as a directory separator, zero byte can not be a part of the file name because it's used as a string terminator. '\' is a valid (and not in any way special) character in the file name, however since shell treats it as an escape character, it often has to be written as \\ . Quotes of any kind, spaces, newlines and other "unusual" characters are also valid, though they may cause a lot of confusion for the user. quote:, how the directory structure is arranged? Or could someone just type up a quick overview of them? http://tldp.org/guides.html In particular, http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html teapot fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Oct 22, 2007 |
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teapot posted:Users' home directories also contain files and directories that _start_ with dot, and usually not shown in directory lists ("ls -a" shows them). They contain configuration of various software that is specific to the user. For example, Firefox configuration is stored in .mozilla/firefox . Ok, so the Pidgin FAQ tells me that if I want to close a message window with Esc, I need to go to the .purple directory and edit an accels file. However, I can't get to that directory with my file browser, and I don't know how to edit files from the terminal.
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hooah posted:Ok, so the Pidgin FAQ tells me that if I want to close a message window with Esc, I need to go to the .purple directory and edit an accels file. However, I can't get to that directory with my file browser, and I don't know how to edit files from the terminal. You can either enable display of hidden files in file manager, or enter the path manually (Thunar, Nautilus and Konqueror all support Ctrl-L shortcut). You can also enter code:
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A year or so ago I reformatted Windows but I never bothered to install Flash when prompted. Eventually I grew to love the web without Flash. For the few sites that I absolutely needed Flash (ie YouTube), I used IETab to load the site in Internet Explorer. Does anyone know of any kind of any techniques I could use to replicate this set up? I want to divorce Flash from Firefox as much as possible. The obvious answer is, of course, to use Flashblock, but I found it to be lacking. First, when I did use Flashblock, I noticed that I often so the first frame of a Flash movie before it was blocked. I don't want that to happen. Second, I don't like the way Flashblock's windows would show up all over the place, often breaking the page layout. When Flash isn't installed at all, things "feel" much cleaner. Plus I've gotten used to the yellow bar at the top that lets me know I might be missing something interesting. Any advice would be appreciated.
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I've just put Ubuntu Gutsy onto my Dell Inspiron 6400, and things went well. One thing that i've noticed is the cooling fan that activated intermittently no longer does, and things are getting quite hot! Is there any software out there that could control the internal fan? Even if it was as basic as forcing the fan to turn on/off. It doesnt need to be controlled by temperatures or anything.
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Kobayashi posted:A year or so ago I reformatted Windows but I never bothered to install Flash when prompted. Eventually I grew to love the web without Flash. For the few sites that I absolutely needed Flash (ie YouTube), I used IETab to load the site in Internet Explorer. Does anyone know of any kind of any techniques I could use to replicate this set up? Umm... uninstall Flash... Or code:code:
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I've downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 onto my mac, and have the complete disk image. I don't know how I can burn an install disc from that, and that's exactly what I want to do so that I can install it onto my media pc that is currently running Dapper Drake. Can someone tell me what steps to take?
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Local Yokel posted:burn an install disc from that Right/option click it, open it with disk utility, select it, then click burn in the upper left.
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Thanks a lot, it's burning right now.
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I've tried googling for this and can't find it... In a bash script, how do I print a line break? Doing echo "bla\nnew line" prints the \n literally, rather than as a linebreak. What am I doing wrong? EDIT::: duh, I had to give the -e option to echo ashgromnies fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 22, 2007 |
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ashgromnies posted:I've tried googling for this and can't find it... You didn't look very hard at all. The -e option is on the very first page of "man echo" Please at least make a little effort before asking for help.
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Accipiter posted:You didn't look very hard at all. The -e option is on the very first page of "man echo" To be honest, checking the manpage didn't click with me. I usually do that but for some reason didn't think, "Maybe echo has a manpage..." I didn't even know echo had options.
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teapot posted:Umm... uninstall Flash... Or You know, that's actually good enough. I have another browser I can that I can use if I need Flash. Only problem is, I removed the symlink but Firefox still loads the Flash player. It shows up in about :plugins, but I can't find any way to disable it in about :config or the addons dialog. I wanted Flash installed, just not in Firefox.
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Kobayashi posted:You know, that's actually good enough. I have another browser I can that I can use if I need Flash. Only problem is, I removed the symlink but Firefox still loads the Flash player. It shows up in about :plugins, but I can't find any way to disable it in about :config or the addons dialog. I wanted Flash installed, just not in Firefox. Sorry, did not notice that firefox uses its own link. To disable: code:code:
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I am pretty sure you can set up a separate firefox profile with its own plugins directory somewhere in your homedir, in which you can link the flash plugin, while not having it in the global plugin directories.
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Ok, things are going pretty well so far, just a few questions: Occasionally, with Gnome, this will happen to the active window's titlebar:  It just takes alt-tabbing to a different window to clear it up, but it's kind of annoying. How can I have more detailed control over what visual effects Gnome/compiz-fusion is putting out? I'd rather not have these wobbly windows. Is there a way to move backwards through the alt-tab thing? In XP I could use shift+alt+tab for that. hooah fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 22, 2007 |
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hooah posted:Ok, things are going pretty well so far, just a few questions: There are several threads about this on the Ubuntu forums. It seems to only be happening to nvidia card users, but that doesn't mean it is exclusive to them. As far as going backward in the Alt+Tab order, just install the 'Advanced Desktop Effects' tool to modify key bindings. This is of course assuming you are using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10.
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Crush posted:As far as going backward in the Alt+Tab order, just install the 'Advanced Desktop Effects' tool to modify key bindings. Found what I was looking for. However, the window switcher plugin won't let me bind shift+alt+tab. hooah fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Oct 23, 2007 |
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hooah posted:Found what I was looking for. However, the window switcher plugin won't let me bind shift+alt+tab. You found a solution to the title bar problem? Also, try going to the 'Action' tab for whatever plugin you want to modify binds for and double click on the specific action you want to edit and use something like <Control><Alt>Tab, etc. Edit: A thread I and someone else contributed to trying to help with the matter: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580116
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Crush posted:You found a solution to the title bar problem? Also, try going to the 'Action' tab for whatever plugin you want to modify binds for and double click on the specific action you want to edit and use something like <Control><Alt>Tab, etc. Nah, I meant I found out where to change the visual effects. It seems that the settings manager doesn't want to accept any multi-key hotkey that includes tab. This sucks.
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hooah posted:Nah, I meant I found out where to change the visual effects. It seems that the settings manager doesn't want to accept any multi-key hotkey that includes tab. This sucks. Did you check out the link I showed you?
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Crush posted:Did you check out the link I showed you? Yup, but they just seemed to be searching for pre-defined hotkeys, rather than changing ones.
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hooah posted:Found what I was looking for. However, the window switcher plugin won't let me bind shift+alt+tab. Works fine for me -- as long as you don't have another plugin with the same bindings (there are at least three switching plugins in compiz fusion).
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hooah posted:Yup, but they just seemed to be searching for pre-defined hotkeys, rather than changing ones. I outlined in that post (my name is Crush here and DasCruhsinator there) exactly how to change them.
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teapot posted:Sorry, did not notice that firefox uses its own link. Thanks for another great tip, teapot.
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Crush posted:I outlined in that post (my name is Crush here and DasCruhsinator there) exactly how to change them. Wow. I missed exactly where to double-click. I was trying to change the hotkey right where it's listed in the tab. Thanks for being patient.
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hooah posted:Wow. I missed exactly where to double-click. I was trying to change the hotkey right where it's listed in the tab. Thanks for being patient. No problem. I assume it worked for you then? Also, what sort of video card do you have?
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Crush posted:No problem. I assume it worked for you then? Also, what sort of video card do you have? Works fine. I've got a nVidia 6800GS.
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hooah posted:Works fine. I've got a nVidia 6800GS. Yeah, so I am guessing the title bar problem we are having has something to do with nvidia drivers then 
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Crush posted:Yeah, so I am guessing the title bar problem we are having has something to do with nvidia drivers then Interestingly, it hasn't happened since I changed the window borders to the GSM theme. Odd.
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hooah posted:Interestingly, it hasn't happened since I changed the window borders to the GSM theme. Odd. Care to elaborate?
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