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    [other] Re: Switch between Dual and Single Monitor

    There are two options for this:

    a) load up nvidia-settings and click "detect displays" and then enable twinview on the new display. not suitable for automation.

    b) use the sample code...
  2. Re: screen: /var/run/utmp "no such process"

    I had this problem, and doing the following fixed it:



    sudo -s
    cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp
    reboot


    I think /var/run/utmp was corrupted due to an improper shutdown (power failure). ...
  3. Re: HOWTO: Dual head with i810 driver and 855GM hardware

    I don't know what the issue might be, and it is indeed strange. Perhaps I have some development headers installed that aren't dependencies of the driver source package. If you ran
    sudo apt-get...
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    Re: [HOWTO] abcde

    ...


    You've got the wrong kind of quotes there. You need the " type of quote. The kind of quote you have there is trying to save the result of executing the command $HOME/Music/ into the...
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    Re: HOWTO: Install Intel Fortran 9.0

    It's nice that the install actually works now, you used to have to use alien to make a deb.

    In any case, I think the proper way to set the environment variables is to put the following in your...
  6. Re: Get your IP from anywhere if you have a cell phone!

    Wouldn't it be easier to just configure your dhcp server inside your house to give the same ip to your computers? The only reason for using dyndns is when you have no control over the ip assignment.
  7. Re: Get your IP from anywhere if you have a cell phone!

    Not to rain on your parade, but there already is a pretty decent solution to this problem in dyndns.org. Using ddclient, you have your machine automatically update a free hostname that you can...
  8. HOWTO: Dual head with i810 driver and 855GM hardware

    These instructions will get dual head working in breezy on video cards that use
    the i810 driver. I have a 855GM on an dell inspiron 700m, and this
    works for me. The procedure for dapper is easier...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    Ok, so even though quicktime won't play the file, and itunes won't do anything with it, transferring it over to the ipod using gtkpod worked perfectly. The video plays great on the ipod. Great...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    Well, I finally got the windows machine in front of me to test it myself. Quicktime won't even play the movie, it gives "Error -2048: the file is not a movie file". I can't seem to even add the...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    No problem, I'm glad you wrote this guide. I have a question that perhaps you can answer. Should a video encoded in this manner be transferrable to the ipod through itunes in windows? (I skipped...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    Since you are modifying debian/rules, shouldn't you be building with


    fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

    Doing ./configure && make doesn't pick up the options that you modified debian/rules to specify.
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatic network configuration

    I strongly suggest doing the following:


    sudo whereami --scriptdebug shutdown
    sudo whereami --scriptdebug

    In between putting whereami into shutdown and running it again, you can also check to...
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatic network configuration

    Good post, but I think you might have a typo in here. According to the page you have linked to:



    So, I think what you meant to type above was



    =any rm /etc/network/interfaces.old
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