Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
Robert Collins said: I'm looking at an iRiver 320 or 340 myself. 16 hours playtime. yummy. The iRiver 700 and 800 series look nice too with Ogg support. -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
quote who=Terry Collins damselfly:/etc/apt# apt-get install sound-juicer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package sound-juicer debian woody. You definitely won't get sound-juicer love on woody. You'll need sarge or sid. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australiahttp://linux.conf.au/ Creative thinkers make many false starts, and continually waver between unmanageable fantasies and systematic attack. - Harry Hepner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
Terry Collins said: E: Couldn't find package sound_juicer debian woody. Ah there's my assumption that every Debian desktop runs Sid biting me in the arse. I've also assumed it is a desktop :) -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] VOIP Gateway....
Hey Sluggers, Has anyone investigated some sort of VOIP gateway on Linux that forwards landline calls? This VOIP software would have a specific purpose, it answers calls from a serial modem, then forwards the voice over the internet. Example is I would call from home on a landline to the modem sitting on a Linux box, this Linux box, then accepts the call over voice, then translated it to voip and sent over the internet to our head office in the UK, where it is accepted by their voip gateway alerts whoever there that needs to answer the call. Firstly, this would only need to be a one on one voip solution (only between us and the UK), but if it can be extended to accept DTMF codes to go elsewhere, bonus. Secondly, it would be nice to be able to interface it with our PABX in the office (commander system), but again, not necessary, users in the office can use their PC. Has anyone investigated this, partly investigated this or *any* hints at all on how I would go about this? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Ragen Support Manager/IT Administrator Roadtech Systems www.roadtech.com.au PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] VOIP Gateway....
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:40 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Sluggers, Has anyone investigated some sort of VOIP gateway on Linux that forwards landline calls? I'd start with asterix and work out from there, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
This one time, at band camp, Brett Fenton wrote: umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? iAudio, iRiver support ogg iPod, and one other brand I can't recall right now don't. that's 50% each way. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter wrote: Robert Collins said: I'm looking at an iRiver 320 or 340 myself. 16 hours playtime. yummy. The iRiver 700 and 800 series look nice too with Ogg support. [objeffwhisper: they all have Ogg support] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 04:56 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter wrote: Robert Collins said: I'm looking at an iRiver 320 or 340 myself. 16 hours playtime. yummy. The iRiver 700 and 800 series look nice too with Ogg support. [objeffwhisper: they all have Ogg support] The CD/MP3 player from iRiver (the iMP-550: http://www.iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=iMP-550) doesn't support ogg otherwise I'd already have one :) I took a multi-session CDR with CD Audio, OGG, Flac, and MP3 tracks on it in for a test (Fletchers Photographics, Pitt St, Sydney - they're across the road from my office :) and it only found the CD Audio tracks and the MP3 files. According to iRiver it only supports MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, WMA, and ASF. But AFAIK all their hard-drive and NVRAM based players support OGG. Cheers, James -- It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] embperl and its mail function
i cant seem to make sense of how to use embperl's inbuilt email functions can someone send me a quick example even a link found on google ;) Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to fix a memory leak in an old kernel
I'm running RH 8 with kernel version 2.4.18-27.8.0 and this version seems to fail to release memory after a while in that I have to resort to rebooting the system. I've tried version 2.4.20-13.8 and that seems to have the problem fixed, but I can't move to that version of the kernel because the SCO binary compatiblity module seems to be missing. How can I fix the memory without losing my SCO binary compatibility? Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian
Jamie Wilkinson said: This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter wrote: Robert Collins said: I'm looking at an iRiver 320 or 340 myself. 16 hours playtime. yummy. The iRiver 700 and 800 series look nice too with Ogg support. [objeffwhisper: they all have Ogg support] Perhaps, but the support is only listed on their website for the 700+800 models (of all the models I checked, anyway). -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] VOIP Gateway....
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:48, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:40 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Sluggers, Has anyone investigated some sort of VOIP gateway on Linux that forwards landline calls? I'd start with asterix and work out from there, I concur, and you will need an FXO card to connect to the PSTN or a suitable BRI card for ISDN interfacing. BTW, what soft phone, or softphone/handset combo are ppl using? Rob __ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] VOIP Gateway....
Hi Scott, Asterisk is the way to go. There are two BRI cards approved and available in .au that work with Asterisk. The Fritz PCI card at around $350, or a NETjet PCI card at about half the price. To be honest the Fritz driver has better echo cancellation at the moment but I'm working on this. Kind regards, - Guy. At 04:40 PM 8/09/2004 +1000, you wrote: Hey Sluggers, Has anyone investigated some sort of VOIP gateway on Linux that forwards landline calls? This VOIP software would have a specific purpose, it answers calls from a serial modem, then forwards the voice over the internet. Example is I would call from home on a landline to the modem sitting on a Linux box, this Linux box, then accepts the call over voice, then translated it to voip and sent over the internet to our head office in the UK, where it is accepted by their voip gateway alerts whoever there that needs to answer the call. Firstly, this would only need to be a one on one voip solution (only between us and the UK), but if it can be extended to accept DTMF codes to go elsewhere, bonus. Secondly, it would be nice to be able to interface it with our PABX in the office (commander system), but again, not necessary, users in the office can use their PC. Has anyone investigated this, partly investigated this or *any* hints at all on how I would go about this? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Ragen Support Manager/IT Administrator Roadtech Systems www.roadtech.com.au PH: +61 2 9807 3516 FAX: +61 2 9808 5294 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Guy Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.traverse.com.au Tel 03 9486 7775 Fax 03 9482 7754 Mobile 0419 398 234 -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] embperl and its mail function
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:32:11PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
i cant seem to make sense of how to use embperl's inbuilt
email functions
can someone send me a quick example
even a link found on google ;)
[ Okay, first version get held for moderation by Mailman, with a
'Message has a suspicious header' warning - I'll try adding a
Message-ID ]
Reply sent via HTML::Embperl::Mail :-), using:
perl -MEmail::MessageID -MTime::Piece -MHTML::Embperl::Mail -le
HTML::Embperl::Mail::Execute({
inputfile = 'reply-to-dean.epl',
subject = 'Re: [SLUG] embperl and its mail function',
to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
mailheaders = [
'In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]',
'Date: ' . localtime-strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'),
'Message-ID: ' . Email::MessageID-new,
'X-Mailer: HTML::Embperl::Mail',
] })
reply-to-dean.epl is the mail template, and contains exactly what you're
reading here, except that embperl stuff gets executed as expected e.g.
[+ localtime +] gets expanded to: Wed Sep 8 20:59:19 2004.
HTH,
Gavin
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Re: [SLUG] embperl and its mail function
im more after how i would use embperls mail functions in a web page
Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:32:11PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
i cant seem to make sense of how to use embperl's inbuiltr
email functions
can someone send me a quick example
even a link found on google ;)
[ Okay, first version get held for moderation by Mailman, with a
'Message has a suspicious header' warning - I'll try adding a
Message-ID ]
Reply sent via HTML::Embperl::Mail :-), using:
perl -MEmail::MessageID -MTime::Piece -MHTML::Embperl::Mail -le HTML::Embperl::Mail::Execute({
inputfile = 'reply-to-dean.epl',
subject = 'Re: [SLUG] embperl and its mail function',
to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
mailheaders = [
'In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]',
'Date: ' . localtime-strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'),
'Message-ID: ' . Email::MessageID-new,
'X-Mailer: HTML::Embperl::Mail',
] })
reply-to-dean.epl is the mail template, and contains exactly what you're
reading here, except that embperl stuff gets executed as expected e.g.
[+ localtime +] gets expanded to: Wed Sep 8 20:59:19 2004.
HTH,
Gavin
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[SLUG] GRIC Dialer for Linux - I made one (fwd)
Just thought other people might be interested in this if you're travelling the world with your Linux laptop. I've got a customer who regularly makes trips to random cities Europe and Asia and as such happened to get global roaming access through Telstra. What then happens is they refer you to this windows software called GRICdial which has 2 purposes. 1) has an updatable database of ISP's around the world you can login via and 2) to actually setup the connection. My customer is not technical and now uses a Linux desktop to VNC back to head office. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:13:33 +1000 (EST) From: Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GRIC Dialer for Linux - I made one Attention GRIC/GoRemote technical support staff, There is now a starting point for Linux and Linux-like users who wish to use your global roaming services. In response to a customer of mine who isn't very technical I've come up with simple system that can consult your database (like the Windows GRIC dialer does) and initiate a dialup connection to any of the ISP's around the world participating. The URL for the project is currently here:- http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~grant The software is very generic and as such should work on most varieties of Linux whether using graphics or just text mode. It just uses ppp, ncurses, perl and dialog packages. It's also CPU architecture independant as it's just text and script files. Please consider adding this information to your technical FAQ at this web location:- http://www.goremote.com/pdfs/faqs_tech.pdf With a little further work it's probably worthy of including in your download section. Given a few screenshots and so forth it would be possible for ISP's helpdesks to understand how it works without actually having to run it, therefore it could be said that Linux is now a supported operating system. -- ---GRiP--- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Meta: Mailing list filtering
On 09/08/04 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Okay, first version get held for moderation by Mailman, with a 'Message has a suspicious header' warning - I'll try adding a Message-ID ] For what it's worth, mailman is indeed set up to hold anything for moderation if it doesn't have a valid Message-ID header. Even though every RFC I've read says the Message-ID is only recommended, there's only a very small number of real MUAs that don't set their own. In the two years or so since I added that rule, there's only been one false positive that I recall. At the time, however, it cut through something like half of the spam that was reaching the list. (Can you tell it's my favourite piece of filtering ever? ;-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] How to fix a memory leak in an old kernel
I think your problem might be with the SCO binaries rather than a kernel problem, I could be possible that the version of Libc you are running to compile 2.4.20-13 could have conflicts with the libraries required for SCO. The best way to fix the problem is kill SCO binaries. ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] How to fix a memory leak in an old kernel I'm running RH 8 with kernel version 2.4.18-27.8.0 and this version seems to fail to release memory after a while in that I have to resort to rebooting the system. I've tried version 2.4.20-13.8 and that seems to have the problem fixed, but I can't move to that version of the kernel because the SCO binary compatiblity module seems to be missing. How can I fix the memory without losing my SCO binary compatibility? Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html ** The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments to it, is intended for the use of the addressee and is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, read, forward, copy or retain any of the information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender by return e-mail or telephone. The Commonwealth does not warrant that any attachments are free from viruses or any other defects. You assume all liability for any loss, damage or other consequences which may arise from opening or using the attachments. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: How to fix a memory leak in an old kernel
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:39:33 +1000, Saenz, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your problem might be with the SCO binaries rather than a kernel problem, I could be possible that the version of Libc you are running to compile 2.4.20-13 could have conflicts with the libraries required for SCO. The best way to fix the problem is kill SCO binaries. ;-) I don't think that is the case because I've been running the SCO binary for some time now. Only recently, I've started using Eclipse as well. As a result, I've had to increase the machines memory from 192Mb to 512Mb. How, with the extra memory, Eclipse 3.0 (with JRE 1.4.2-05) been more useable, but even then, when Eclipse runs out of memory, I have to reboot the machine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] start scripts on Debian
I'm installing netatalk from a tarball. Quoting from the docs: $ ./configure --help * --enable-[redhat/suse/gentoo/cobalt/netbsd/fhs] This option helps netatalk to determine where to install the start scripts. Because I was installing on Debian I didn't use this option, and there were no start scripts installed at all. Can anyone suggest which option out of these might work for Debian. Or any other suggestion. Second question: Having done the usual configure/make/make-install, what's the approved way to remove everything that was installed? thanks... David. PS: apt-get is not an option because the latest version doesn't seem to be available. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] start scripts on Debian
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:38:22AM +1000, David wrote: * --enable-[redhat/suse/gentoo/cobalt/netbsd/fhs] This option helps netatalk to determine where to install the start scripts. Can anyone suggest which option out of these might work for Debian. Or any other suggestion. FHS sounds like as good a start as any ... Second question: Having done the usual configure/make/make-install, what's the approved way to remove everything that was installed? Unless they include a make uninstall type target, you're out of luck other than picking through by hand. That's why people invented packaging systems :) PS: apt-get is not an option because the latest version doesn't seem to be available. Why don't you apt-get source netatalk and try updating the existing package to your version (I or any number of others can help, but basically just try copying the /debian directory of the downloaded source to your new tarball and run dpkg-buildpackage and see if it works). If it hasn't changed significantly it's probably pretty easy to do, and depending on how active the maintainer is maybe someone can NMU it for you. -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] LCA 2004 DVD mirrored at Optusnet
See http://www.mirror.optusnet.com.au/lca/ *Much* faster than getting it from the original site! -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LCA 2004 DVD mirrored at Optusnet
Depends which ISP you are connected. My download is fastest from PlanetMirror. I found OptusNet is slower from my ISP. Peter Chubb wrote: See http://www.mirror.optusnet.com.au/lca/ *Much* faster than getting it from the original site! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] start scripts on Debian
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:38, David wrote: Second question: Having done the usual configure/make/make-install, what's the approved way to remove everything that was installed? There is a package called stow that is great for installing non-packaged applications. You configure your source to install into the Stow directory e.g. /usr/local/stow/application-0.12 Then use stow to install where you want. It makes sym links to the actual application e.g. /usr/bin/app - /usr/local/stow/application-0.12/bin/app I always install into a dir witht he version number in the name so you can parallel install diff versions in the stow directory. IBM DeveloperWorks have a nice tutorial: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-stow/ Stow will also remove the symlinks for you. Another thing to note is that you can give make the -n flag so it will show you what it's going to do befoe it actually does it. This is a good way to check what's going to be clobbered. e.g. $ make -n install HTH -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LCA 2004 DVD mirrored at Optusnet
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: See http://www.mirror.optusnet.com.au/lca/ *Much* faster than getting it from the original site! http://twiki.linux.org.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/LCA2004Videos I bet ProgSoc (at AARNet speeds) beats Optus though ... Cheers, Anand -- `` All actions take place in time by the interweaving of the forces of Nature; but the man lost in selfish delusion thinks that he himself is the actor.'' Lord Krishna to Arjuna in _The Bhagavad Gita_ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LCA 2004 DVD mirrored at Optusnet
Anand == Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anand On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: See http://www.mirror.optusnet.com.au/lca/ *Much* faster than getting it from the original site! Anand http://twiki.linux.org.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/LCA2004Videos Anand I bet ProgSoc (at AARNet speeds) beats Optus though ... Depends if you're connected via Optus cable, doesn't it? -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Tape drive read error at end of archive
Hi all, I recently came into possession of a DDS-2 12 tape autoloader, and I've got the loader part working fine, thanks to mtx (http://mtx.badtux.net/). I can write to the tapes, and read/verify what's written. When tar gets to the end of the archive though, it says: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error several times then exits. This only happens at the end of the archive, which is not the end of the tape -- the tapes are 4GB and I'm only storing around 600MB for now. It's not one tape either, I've tried half a dozen tapes with the same result. I've also tried erasing the tapes before writing, but that didn't change anything. My tar command is 'tar -cpWf /dev/st0 .' I'm guessing that it's something to do with the archive not being a multiple of the tape block size. I've tried using tar's -B switch but it doesn't make any difference. Does anyone have any suggestions for the cause and, more importantly, how to fix it? Thanks, John -- I'll defer to most anyone on the subject of German. The last time I tried my German out on my sister (who speaks it fluently), her reaction was, You sound like a Turkish taxi driver. -- Matt Roberds -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LCA 2004 DVD mirrored at Optusnet
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:33, Peter Chubb wrote: Depends if you're connected via Optus cable, doesn't it? Yep. On the plus side peering between AARNet and others in Australia is starting up the slope towards the top of the cycle. From a few years ago when we asked and no-one of any size wanted to peer, now we're getting complaints that we are not peering quickly enough. Once we get the new 10Gbps backbone bedded in we'll tackle peering with other national networks (we already extensively peer internationally). Since gigabit ethernet is the current optical sweet spot, the performance should be good. -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tape drive read error at end of archive
John Clarke wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for the cause and, more importantly, how to fix it? don't use a tape drive? seriously, they bite you in the arse when the proverbial hits the fan. use offsite backup or firewire. sorry thats not very helpful. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tape drive read error at end of archive
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:15, John Clarke wrote: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error This means that there is no Tape Mark on the tape, meaning that the tape was probably written using a no-rewind device, and you failed to explicitly write a tape mark (see mt(1) for more information). The fix is to write the tape properly in the first place. The auto-rewind device usually writes two tape marks when you call close(). I have been using SCSI tape drives (ExaByte and DAT) for years on Linux with few problems. While I have been mostly happy with tapes under linux, recently I purchased a DVD+R burner, and while I need 4 per backup set, they are much faster to write, and *much* easier to restore from or just browse. I read in all my tapes, wrote out DVDs, and transferred the tape drives into external enclosures and put them in a box in a cupboard with the old backup tapes. In 10 years I'll probably throw them all away (did this last year with all my ancient 0.5 stuff. OK, so I've been an IT bower bird for the last 20 years). -- Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tape drive read error at end of archive
Peter Miller wrote: While I have been mostly happy with tapes under linux, recently I purchased a DVD+R burner, and while I need 4 per backup set, they are much faster to write, and *much* easier to restore from or just browse. I read in all my tapes, wrote out DVDs, and transferred the tape drives i bought a 8.5gb dual layer dvd writer for $165 last week. 8.5gb media is more expensive than the single layer, but cheaper and more useable than tape :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tape drive read error at end of archive
i bought a 8.5gb dual layer dvd writer for $165 last week. 8.5gb media is more expensive than the single layer, but cheaper and more useable than tape :) I have to say I'm waiting for the 8.5GB dual layer media to be =~ 2x the price of single layer media. ATM it's about 10x the price. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
