On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:09 +1000, Jason Rennie wrote:
Which linux file system is best for storing large files (Big MPEG and
AVI files specifically) ?
I'm guessing ext2/3 is not the best choice, but I don't really know
which to choose from Reiser, XFS or JFS. What are peoples experiences
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:43 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
After no luck googling for a solution I've decided to post this possibly
off topic question to the wisdom of slug (well the web server is apache on
Linux and the client is Mozilla or Firefox on Linux).
I'm trying to create
Jason Rennie wrote:
JFS has been pretty good for me, and I'm guessing that it's more
unlikely to eat all my data than a fancy bleeding-edge filesystem.
Good large file performance ?
Dunno really, seems OK =) I don't do anything serious enough to stress
it probably.
What exactly did
Jason Rennie wrote:
Which linux file system is best for storing large files (Big MPEG and
AVI files specifically) ?
I'm guessing ext2/3 is not the best choice, but I don't really know
which to choose from Reiser, XFS or JFS. What are peoples experiences
with such things ?
Jason
JFS has been
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:09:00 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:43 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
I'm trying to create an area on a web page with a translucent background
but with solid text inside that area. I'm trying to do it using a style
sheet. I can get the
James Gregory was once rumoured to have said:
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 13:02 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between
comparative strengths weaknesses of EXT3 NTFS ? I used NTFS for
years and found it bulletproof, in fact the only
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096 2004-09-13 15:51 version
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ cd
Hi,
I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to
test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy
to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application -
version/0.3/
Matthew Davidson wrote:
Hi,
I'm missing something very fundamental about symlinks. Say I want to
test some trivial little program I've written, but want to make it easy
to switch between revisions. I thought the following should work:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:06:06PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:09 +1000, Jason Rennie wrote:
Which linux file system is best for storing large files (Big MPEG and
AVI files specifically) ?
I'm guessing ext2/3 is not the best choice, but I don't really know
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:29 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:06:06PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:09 +1000, Jason Rennie wrote:
Which linux file system is best for storing large files (Big MPEG and
AVI files specifically) ?
I'm
Alexander == Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alexander Hi Quick question for the list
Alexander I am trying to do something like this
Alexander #!/bin/bash
Alexander SOMEVARIABLE
Alexander VAR2=$( awk -F, /$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/)
eval VAR2=`awk -F -F,
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Hi all,
Has anybody had any experience with the ATI Radeon and its video out
capability ?
I've got a Radeon 9600 VIVO and MythTV (with a couple of ht eplugins
for playing stuff back) looks perfect for converting my exisiting
WinXP based PC/DVD player to linux.
IT says that the ATI cards are a
quote who=Jason Rennie
Has anybody had any experience with the ATI Radeon and its video out
capability ?
I've got a Radeon 9600 VIVO and MythTV (with a couple of ht eplugins
for playing stuff back) looks perfect for converting my exisiting
WinXP based PC/DVD player to linux.
Especially on
Thank you Jan,
I'll check the binary only drivers out then.
Jason
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All Hail to James :)
(sorry for the length of this one)
James suggested that I check my BIOS - which prompted me to recall that
I had loaded Mandrake on *another* machine. A quick check and there it
was 'usb disabled'. Should have checked first, I know (mea culpa, mea
culpa)
Enabled and there
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:13:37 +1000
Felix Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read about JFS when SCO was claiming ownership of it. If I was going
to go to all the trouble of stealing it from SCO I thought I may as well
have a look at it. =)
I have stuck with it after some initial playing
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:45 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:20:37PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:17 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
Hi
Quick question for the list
I am trying to do something like this
#!/bin/bash
SOMEVARIABLE
VAR2=$( awk
Thanks for the tip. Good to know given I am usnig gentoo.
At the moment I have gone with ReiserFS, but i'm not at a point where
I cannot backout and change my mind.
BTW, if anybody knows, is the NTFS linux driver very slow ? It is
taking hours and hours to copy about 50GB of data. I knew it
Jason Rennie wrote:
BTW, if anybody knows, is the NTFS linux driver very slow ? It is
taking hours and hours to copy about 50GB of data. I knew it would
take a while, but this is ridiculous.
I have copied about 20gb of data in a very short time - I don't think it
suffers from any glaring
Am using a combo of EXT3, JFS, and REISERFS on one
server for about a year with extremely pleasing results.
Many files are MP3 on networks over SAMBA.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh otr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Mon Sep 13 22:18:54 2004 from compaq.noy.com.au
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found shifting gigabytes of NTFS data on a linux box about the same
speed as ext3 data i.e. a few minutes for 5 gig. So I wouln't expect 50
gig to take more than 15 mins. The partitions were on separate drives.
Rod
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David Kempe wrote:
Jason Rennie wrote:
BTW, if anybody knows, is the NTFS linux driver very slow ? It is
taking hours and hours to copy about 50GB of data. I knew it would
take a while, but this is ridiculous.
I have copied about 20gb of data in a very short time - I don't think
it suffers from
Still can't get any terminal (gnome, Konsole, xterm) to work on 2.6.8 -
they all load ok and display a cursor but won't allow text input. I saw
a note on Mandrake website about them having this with 10.2 beta.
I checked my VT kernel compile options and they all look the same as
what I used for
Ryan Tsai wrote:
Yeah, the rather unfortunate fact that /boot lives about 100GB into the
disk. Actually wait a moment, does GRUB have the same limitations about
where /boot needs to be? I had assumed that it does because LILO does.
That's something to research.
LILO embeds the config file in
Crossfire wrote:
Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and
recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been
its lack of dump/restore -- something which both ext2 and xfs have.
C.
Why is dump/restore so critical for recovery? What's wrong with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
Crossfire wrote:
Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and
recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been
its lack of dump/restore -- something which both ext2 and xfs have.
C.
Why
Alexander Samad was once rumoured to have said:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:20:37PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
The enclosing a variable between curly braces, eg, ${foo} will force the
shell to expand the variable's content regardless of whether it is inside
single or double quotes. IIRC.
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:32 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
What should I look for ? Can't find any error meesages in logs. I'm sure
this is a minor config change issue rather than a bug. I know I can go
back to 2.6.7 but it'd be good to learn something from this which is
part of my linux
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:32 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
What should I look for ? Can't find any error meesages in logs. I'm sure
this is a minor config change issue rather than a bug. I know I can go
back to 2.6.7 but it'd be good to learn something from this which is
part of my linux
Dear Anand,
I'm interested in coming along. I'm a newbie to Linux and am still
trying to figure out how to use the MySQL that came bundled with
OpenOffice.org, lack of operational knowledge/experience of RDB's not
withstanding.
What is the major difference?
Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS?
Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That, and dump usually offers a guaranty of backup integrity when used
against live filesystems.
Since 2.4 kernel developers have said dump is broken on live
filesystems. Has that situation changed?
here's a link
Rod == Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rod Still can't get any terminal (gnome, Konsole, xterm) to work on
Rod 2.6.8 - they all load ok and display a cursor but won't allow
Is this a serial terminal you're talking about? Or a keyboard+monitor
connected directly to your machine? If the
Oops, yep, that was it. Very silly of me.
Cheers
Robert Tillsley
Network Administrator
St Vincent's College
www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Tsai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 13 September 2004 11:07 AM
To: Robert Tillsley
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julian Grodzicky wrote:
Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS?
If you are using MySQL, then Postgress should work.
They are both databases.
GIS is Geographic Information System?
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On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 16:40, Ian Wienand wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavids mdavids 12 2004-09-13 15:52 application - version/0.3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mdavids mdavids0 2004-09-13 15:43 file
drwxr-sr-x 5 mdavids mdavids 4096
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:06AM +1000, Julian Grodzicky wrote:
Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS?
Postgresql can be used IN a gis:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-geometric.html#DATATYPE-GEO-TABLE
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-geometry.html
Alex,
VAR2=$( awk -F, /$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/)
As others have posted, if you want to assign the result of running the awk
command to the variable VAR2 then use back quotes. E.G.
VAR2=`awk -F, $SOMEVARIABLE /some/path/to/afile`
The output from the awk program will be in VAR2.
If you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2004 02:17:52 PM:
#!/bin/bash
SOMEVARIABLE
VAR2=$( awk -F, /$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/)
Now I have problems with my I can't use ' because I want SOMEVARIABLE
to be subsituted I have tried
VAR2=$( awk -F, \/$SOMEVARIABLE/
quote who=Matthew Davidson
Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
to find out outherwise.
No, think of it more as a
What about in a here doc
so some thing like
#!/bin/bash
TEST='here'
cat EOF
awk '/$TEST/ {print}' /somefile
EOF
do the ' still keep there meaning in a here doc ?
Alex
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:22:27AM +1000, Crossfire wrote:
Alexander Samad was once rumoured to have said:
On Mon,
Hi
No the jist was that
I wanted to so something like this
awk '/regex/ {awk code}'
and assign the result to a variable, but i wanted to make the regex from
a variable in the program, notice though that I had to place the '
around the /regex/ {awk code}, my problem then is how to organise
Hi all,
Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character
recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody)
without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor
photocopy.
Thanks,
Alan
--
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Alexander Samad wrote:
I am trying to do something like this
#!/bin/bash
SOMEVARIABLE
VAR2=$( awk -F, /$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/)
Now I have problems with my I can't use ' because I want SOMEVARIABLE
to be subsituted I have tried
VAR2=$( awk -F, \/$SOMEVARIABLE/
On 2004.09.14 10:39 Alexander Samad wrote:
What about in a here doc
so some thing like
#!/bin/bash
TEST='here'
cat EOF
awk '/$TEST/ {print}' /somefile
EOF
do the ' still keep there meaning in a here doc ?
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to use awk's -v option (that's the reason
it's there):
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:55:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:06AM +1000, Julian Grodzicky wrote:
Can PostgreSQL be used as a GIS?
Postgresql can be used IN a gis:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-geometric.html#DATATYPE-GEO-TABLE
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:34, Jan Schmidt wrote:
quote who=Matthew Davidson
However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work!
That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file
system.
But you shouldn't add hard links to directories. The ln utility will
only let
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink
as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents
as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation
to find out
Alan L Tyree wrote:
Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character
recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody)
without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor
photocopy.
I have tried gocr and another one called clara. Neither were
Alexander Samad wrote:
Hi
No the jist was that
I wanted to so something like this
awk '/regex/ {awk code}'
Ah Ha!
This is a question that I had asked on this list some time back under the
subject Awk parameter as a search string. Roger Barnes offered the answer
below,
HTH
Pete.
--
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On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 01:31, Ryan Tsai wrote:
I'll recompile some Samba related packages tomorrow and see how it goes,
though I still think its my glibc.
I'd hate to classify this one as yet another unsolved tech mystery :-(
Have you tried using the nmblookup utility to see if your samba is
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 13:02 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between
comparative strengths weaknesses of EXT3 NTFS ?
Ext3 is faster than NTFS for most use cases (it avoids fragmentation
better than NTFS by trying to write files to
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:18 +1000, Crossfire wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
Crossfire wrote:
Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and
recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been
its lack of dump/restore
Now you should be able to mount that partition. You can always check which
filesystems your kernel supports by looking at /proc/filesystems, like
this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src $ cat /proc/filesystems
Jeff, as it was, I really wanted to mount JFS(it seems I forgot I was
using JFS, not
Michael Lake wrote:
Alan L Tyree wrote:
Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character
recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody)
without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor
photocopy.
I haven't tried this, just a suggestion,
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:23 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
Someone said NTFS supports sparse files. Are you sure? IIRC Virtual
Server 2005 (MSs VMware competitor) has to do all kinds of clunky stuff
cause NTFS doesn't support sparse files...
This page:
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:18 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:23 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
Someone said NTFS supports sparse files. Are you sure? IIRC Virtual
Server 2005 (MSs VMware competitor) has to do all kinds of clunky stuff
cause NTFS doesn't support sparse
Hi All
If I have 2
object file, one is API library , another is executable
object.
The executable object makes
reference to the libray. Now I want to downsize
the 2 objects. I can strip the
executable object directly, but how to strip the
API library when it's
areference ofthe executable
On Tue Sep 14, 2004 at 11:39:03 +0800, Well wrote:
Hi All
If I have 2 object file, one is API library , another is executable object.
The executable object makes reference to the libray. Now I want to downsize
the 2 objects. I can strip the executable object directly, but how to strip the
API
Does this help?:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html
Unfortunately no, it does cause the text back to opaque but the
transparency of the background under the text also disappears.
Seems that opacity is still in development so I've set the opacity to 0.8
and even though the text is a
Although you can probably strip some of the symbols. I suggest reading the
man page.
strip has some options.. you can usually drop the debug options...
Dave.
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awk '/regex/ {awk code}'
Here's a shell script that I put together call whatrpm.sh as in whatrpm
put that file on my 'puter. It shows a string being passed to awk and used
as a search pattern. I append a $ to the string that the user passes on
the command line so that it only matches where the
Once again I'm fighting the good fight trying to keep our documentation
available as PDF and HTML. I have the problem at the moment that I need
to include a huge table of error codes. One column of this table is a
wordy description of the error (a short paragraph or so). I found the
tabularx
CONFIG_INPUT is set to y. Kernel is 2.6.8.1, diirect from kernel.org.
I've narrowed this down to : the terminal emulators (konsole,
gnomeconsole, xterm) load Ok but they do not fireup bash (according to
the dependencies shown on the system monitor). And these consoles are
really just x11
quote who=Rod Butcher
CONFIG_INPUT is set to y. Kernel is 2.6.8.1, diirect from kernel.org.
I've narrowed this down to : the terminal emulators (konsole,
gnomeconsole, xterm) load Ok but they do not fireup bash (according to
the dependencies shown on the system monitor). And these consoles
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