Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Diego, On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:12:59 +0200 Diego elc...@kde.org wrote: Hi list, I am trying to debug this problem in a system I am developing: at some point I need to write a number to a file, and then reboot via an external device the machine. That device will cut of the power for

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Erez D
2011/11/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com As I told wrote to you in private - use meetup.com, send a link to linux-il and manage all of this off-list. first, i think this thread is amusing, so i see no reason to let only ' meetup.com' subscribers enjoy it. if you think this is off topic,

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 November 2011 19:24, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com As I told wrote to you in private - use meetup.com, send a link to linux-il and manage all of this off-list. first, i think this thread is amusing, so i see no reason to let only '

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Sorry, it doesn't work on my system: prompt kill -SMOKE thread kill: unknown signal: SIGSMOKE So perhaps the smoke signals only work in the spring. Dov 2011/11/6 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com On 6 November 2011 19:24, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/4 Amos Shapira

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 6, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Sorry, it doesn't work on my system: prompt kill -SMOKE thread kill: unknown signal: SIGSMOKE So perhaps the smoke signals only work in the spring. Smoking is bad for your health and has been thought so since the 1960's. Since UNIX is a

what happened to mplayerplug-in?

2011-11-06 Thread sara fink
I want to see iba site. Once there was mplayer plugin. It doesn't appear anymore in the plugin list of firefox. I tried to download the source from http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/install.php#plugin but it fails to compile at make. is there other plugin that will allow viewing videos from

Re: what happened to mplayerplug-in?

2011-11-06 Thread Mordechai Behar
Have you tried whatever Flash player is packaged for your distro? 2011/11/6 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com I want to see iba site. Once there was mplayer plugin. It doesn't appear anymore in the plugin list of firefox. I tried to download the source from

Re: what happened to mplayerplug-in?

2011-11-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Sara, On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:39:51 +0200 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: I want to see iba site. Once there was mplayer plugin. It doesn't appear anymore in the plugin list of firefox. I tried to download the source from http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/install.php#plugin but

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2011/11/6 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: I suggested meetup.com as soon as his first post went out. I don't mind the thread but think that meetup.com will help get it actually to happen instead of continuing this virtual haggling online. I wouldn't sign up to that service, or even click

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 13:56, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Smoking is bad for your health and has been thought so since the 1960's. Since UNIX is a product of the 1970's and Linux is based on UNIX, smoke signals were never implemented. Maybe there is no UI, but the

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Ari Becker
If there's smoke, there's fire; if there's fire, there's rm -rf /* -Ari 2011/11/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com 2011/11/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com As I told wrote to you in private - use meetup.com, send a link to linux-il and manage all of this off-list. first, i think this

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011, Diego wrote about umount and data is lost?: overcome otherwise). Before the reboot, I umount the proper partition and then sync. I believe it is rather pointless to sync(1) after umount(1) as umount(1) already writes all the buffered data for that filesystem before it

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Does hdparm -F perhaps help? (after the umount, before the reboot) Eh, hdparm -f I guess? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: what happened to mplayerplug-in?

2011-11-06 Thread sara fink
thanks. will try this one too. On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Sara, On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:39:51 +0200 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: I want to see iba site. Once there was mplayer plugin. It doesn't appear anymore in the plugin list of

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi all, First of all, thanks for all the responces. I am here, instead of the gazillion (usefull) answers just so I do not insult anyone... (or everyone?). Some questions asked: 1) I did fclose() the file. 2) I tried sync() before the umount(). 3) Instead of using system(umount...) I am using

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011, Diego Iastrubni wrote about Re: umount and data is lost?: 6) hdparm... does it work on nand devices? I did mention this once or twise. Just to make things clear: this is not a PC, it's an ARM based device. I don't know if there's anything special to say about nand

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: On Sun, Nov 06, 2011, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: umount and data is lost?: Does hdparm -F perhaps help? (after the umount, before the reboot) Eh, hdparm -f I guess? I don't know, I didn't actually test what these do, but according to