Tyrion wrote:
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.
Ooohh...codenames! I love spy agmes! Hi "Tyrion"! You can call me
"LadiesMan"!
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.
Yeah, I know what you mean. A buddy of mine was sent to PMITA Prison
(not that man rape is any laughing matter, it was all consensual) and
was out of the game for a while too. I sent him a cake with a Debian CD
baked in so he can hack his way out.
I'm having some problems that I probably could track down, but it just
seems so much easier to ask.
Hope you tried Google first.
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".
I'm not big on Ubuntu right now being on a total CentOS bender these
days but I'll see what I can do. Who controls the DHCP server? Do other
machines work ok with this DHCP server? We recently had a thread about
Ubuntu and wireless I believe, don't recall if it was DHCP related
though. Sounds like a misconfigured router. You might try something like:
prepend domain-name-servers 1.2.3.4
putting in your name servers ip for 1.2.3.4 and put that line in your
/etc/dhclient.conf which will force it to use that name server.
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.
I was going to guess beagle indexing...someone posted something about
their laptop hard drive staying awake all the time because of some
similar daemon...Might try googling for laptop hard drive staying awake
issues to find the culprit.
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.
Writing a shell script using find to run the conversion is pretty
simple. I think you probably know or can google how to do that.
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+wma+to+mp3&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
The first link seems to include the shell script and everything for you.
Good luck!
Thanks all
Tyrion
You're welcome "Tyrion" *wink* *wink* *nudge* nudge*
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