Greetings, I am a kplug member from a long time ago, but due to circumstance, I'm going to have to try to remain anonymous. I'm going to use the name of a favorite character of mine, you can call me Tyrion.
Anyway, I'm a long time linux user, but was out of touch with computers in general for about 4 years and am just getting back into the swing. I'm having some problems that I probably could track down, but it just seems so much easier to ask. First, I'm using Ubuntu on a laptop, works pretty well, I have WIFI connecting to a shared access point. The problem is with the name server info dished out by the dhcp. I always get a resolv.conf that just has the address of the router instead of actual nameservers, this sounds ok, but apparently the router is not set up to do dns so I get nothing. My heavy handed fix was to create my own resolve.conf and have cron copy it to /etc every couple of minutes. This seems less than optimal. Is there a way to tell dhclient not to get nameserver info? Reconfiguring the router is not an option because "well, it works for windows, maybe you should use that". Another issue that I'm having is that the computer will occasionally busy itself by writing to the hard drive. I have no idea what is doing the disk access, because I can't even get it to switch to a terminal until it's finished its work. It reminds me of doing updatedb but with niceness turned way off, the computer is basically useless until it finishes what it's doing. Any clues? I turned off beagle indexing (took up waaay too much disk space) so that's not it. I'm usually running firefox and sometimes thunderbird and xchat. Last issue, I have a bunch of mp3s. My car stereo can play from an SD card, but only actual mp3, a lot of mine are encoded with wma or aac (that's what is says if I look at the properties in the file browser. I've tried some convert scripts using mplayer and lame, but can't seem to get it right, what I want to do is recursively go through my ~/Music directory and make sure all mp3s are encoded alike, is there an easy way to do this? Rythmbox and it's gui friends all seem to not care about encoding as far as I can tell, and like I said, mplayer isn't playing nice for me. Thanks all Tyrion -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
