Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread Miark
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might trash the file system beyond repair. Is Knoppix known to be

Re: [newbie] Writing to NTFS with mandriva..Was formerly Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Monday, January 1, 2007 12:46:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that? On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:28:54 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: Writing to

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread rikona
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might trash the file

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread ET
rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread rikona
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote: E rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it.

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread ET
rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote: E rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) ...It is a matter of reliability, as I

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread rikona
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 1:56:51 PM, ET wrote: E rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote: E rikona wrote: On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: M On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: M Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Monday, January 1, 2007 5:21:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that? On Monday, January 1, 2007, 1:56:51 PM, ET wrote: E rikona wrote:

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread Miark
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:39:29 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition? I don't know as I've never tried anything that extensive. I usually do 10 or 20 files at a time that are no more than a

Re: [newbie] Writing to NTFS with mandriva..Was formerly Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread Miark
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:36:01 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: No, that has to do with linefeed characters which are different between Winblows and *nix systems. It you have a text file in Linux, you can run unix2dos filename.txt and it will switch the linefeed chars to Winblows. dos2unix

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread Miark
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:21:44 -0800, rikona wrote: E http://www.ubcd4win.com/faq.htm Might be able to answer some of my needs, but I was looking for a 'real' linux. Also, I have so far avoided XP, so I don't have the necessary files. :-( and :-) What _exactly_ are your needs? Miark

Re: [newbie] More streaming media in Linux.

2007-01-01 Thread Miark
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:06:13 +0100, Paul wrote: Navigated my way to here: http://pshweb01.881903.com/framework/pccs.gateway?url=jsp/archive/prog Page.jspmenuID=7progID=633k=4 Have you tried konqueror too? I gave this a try just now and with Totem in FireFox it opens and plays just

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread rikona
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 9:04:11 PM, Miark wrote: M On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:39:29 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition? M I don't know as I've never tried anything that extensive. I

Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread rikona
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 9:15:40 PM, Miark wrote: M On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:21:44 -0800, rikona wrote: M E http://www.ubcd4win.com/faq.htm Might be able to answer some of my needs, but I was looking for a 'real' linux. Also, I have so far avoided XP, so I don't have the necessary files.