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    Re: Error in issue 23

    Hi,

    Well you're absolutely correct, the text seems to have gotten lost in editing/reviewing. But it's often rather tricky, when I have to submit these large blobs of text/listings I know it'll be...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cannot enable DMA on Pata drive

    Yes, but you can see that it's not only the read from disk which is slow, it's also the cached read which is extremely slow (meaning reading from RAM).
  3. Thread: Localhost 631?

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    [ubuntu] Re: Localhost 631?

    Your cups installation is listening on localhost on port 631, so if you enter it in a browser you get redirected to the webbased cups configuration frontend, which will let you do similar things as...
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    Re: [C++] using a system call

    man system will tell you:



    RETURN VALUE
    The value returned is -1 on error (e.g. fork(2) failed), and the
    return status of the command otherwise. This latter return...
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    Re: Where is Motif?

    The 'big three' are Qt, GTK and wxWdidgets, it think it would be rather difficult to be worse looking than motif ;-). The only question remaining is what do you mean by 'small' ? Memory footprint ?...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cannot enable DMA on Pata drive

    He's having rather lot interaction with the device for lacking a driver. It means what it says it means, that the driver doesn't support the ioctl issued.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cannot enable DMA on Pata drive

    To measure your disk throughput you could use:



    edb@lapedb:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
    Timing cached reads: 2378 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1189.01 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk...
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    [ubuntu] Re: General laptop question

    Oh, the typical things apply, don't spend too much money on a laptop, they will die eventually or end up being worthless. Typically a bit more aged hardware is better supported than bleeding edge,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: preventing or fsck on unclean shutdown

    Oh i'm pretty sure every filesystem breaks, several years ago i've lost a couple of systems due to ext3 death.

    Nevertheless, there are some occasions where you simply not do an unclean shutdown....
  10. Thread: autoexec.bat

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    [ubuntu] Re: autoexec.bat

    Actually within ubuntu you can use the file /etc/rc.local for this



    edb@lapedb:/etc/init.d$ cat /etc/rc.local
    #!/bin/sh -e
    #
    # rc.local
    #
    # This script is executed at the end of each...
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    [ubuntu] Re: preventing or fsck on unclean shutdown

    Quoting wikipedia "Such file systems are less likely to become corrupted in the event of power failure or system crash." and min the 'less likely' in that sentence.

    But if you open...
  12. Thread: .run Scripts?

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    Re: .run Scripts?

    sudo chmod +x your_run_file.run
    sudo ./your_run_file.run


    Should do the trick
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    sure they can, simply edit your sources.list and let them point to ftp urls.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    What has forwarding to do with that ? It only has to do with incoming traffic, not outgoing
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    At this point it smells like all outbound tcp connections are dropped somewhere.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    If you have iptables settings, start by flushing them, when you're troubleshooting issues, try to have an as clean as possible working situation and then move up by adding functionality to figure out...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    Type

    ftp ftp.debian.org

    enter anonymous as username, enter as password, then after logging in terminate like this:



    ftp> ls
    200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    Or try something like this first:


    edb@lapedb:~$ telnet www.google.com 80
    Trying 64.233.183.104...
    Connected to www.l.google.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.


    Then type "GET index.html"...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    Nervermind the traceroute, could you now paste (or better attach it in a seperate file) the output of



    strace wget www.google.com --tries=1
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    Re: Where do I start with a complex project?

    Have you installed libogre-dev ?



    edb@lapedb:~$ dpkg -L libogre-dev | grep Ogre.h
    /usr/include/OGRE/Ogre.h


    Then you should call g++ with -I/usr/include/OGRE (if you entered #include...
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    Re: Where is Motif?

    edb@lapedb:~$ apt-cache search motif | grep dev
    freeglut3-dev - OpenGL Utility Toolkit development files
    libglut3-dev - development libraries and headers for GLUT
    libxt-dev - X11 toolkit...
  22. [ubuntu] Re: I crashed my machine using fsck command

    Get a livecd and try to boot your system from that cd, then see if you can still access your harddrives and your partitions ?

    What command did you execute ? What how are your drives partitioned ?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cannot enable DMA on Pata drive

    could you paste the output of hdparm -I /dev/sda ? It should contain a line like:

    On my sata laptop:
    " DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
    Cycle time:...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Server 8.04.1 network help

    And if you try to ping / traceroute the source apt tries to fetch things from ? It could be that your mirror has died or has some problems. It seems very unlikely that it has anything to do with...
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    Re: running programs on different Linuxes

    And this really doesn't hold Linux back, try running DOS games under XP or Vista, or try running DirectX 3 games under an XP system with DirectX 9 installed ... I'm just saying that releasing binary...
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