Re: [SLUG] Bad sector's
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 07:29 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: Josh Smith said: Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality Distortion Fields™ are going to make it boot. Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors Weird that you have bad sectors on each drive. Unless all three drives are really old and decrepit. It's wired i have only had the drives of over a bout 6 months. in the System tab there was a SMART funtion in there. What did you use to generate that data? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bad sector's
Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors -- Ask a question and be dumb for 2 minutes... ... Never ask a question and be dumb for life -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [Fwd: [Fwd: 5.1 sound]]
Hey everyone I have recently brought a 5.1 ch Blu-ray Home Cinema System. Trying to move the computer from the analogy sound to the digital sound but have some problems with it. I have a optical cable from the motherboard to the system. but i onle seem to be geting the 2.1 sound j...@redclover:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Notification Bubbles
Hey everyone. I was looking around today. and I found that you could modify the bubble that comes on the screen. You can run the little script that I have added if you like. Or the way below. :) I Remember someone was trying to make the bubble stay longer in this configuration file you can change it. http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/finally-easy-way-to-customize-notify.html sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade gedit ~/.notify-osd # Place this in the configuration file that you just made. slot-allocation = fixed bubble-expire-timeout = 10sec bubble-vertical-gap = 5px bubble-horizontal-gap = 5px bubble-corner-radius = 37,5% bubble-icon-size = 30px bubble-gauge-size = 6px bubble-width = 240px bubble-background-color = 131313 bubble-background-opacity = 90% text-margin-size = 10px text-title-size = 100% text-title-weight = bold text-title-color = ff text-title-opacity = 100% text-body-size = 90% text-body-weight = normal text-body-color = eaeaea text-body-opacity = 100% text-shadow-opacity = 100% notify-send test to test the bubble One you're done, restart notify-osd with : pkill notify-osd -- Joshua Smith notification-config-install.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] A little script i have wrote
Hi all :) On the weekend I started writing a script to pick a random file from the ~/Videos folder and play it using Xwinwarp (for the background desktop) found that Xwinwarp is a little bugging. I tried to put in in vlc to do the same thing. So far it playing with the correct size on the desktop. still trying to make it go on the desktop so I can still see the icons that are on the desktop. -- Joshua Smith Random_file_beta Description: application/shellscript -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4
It was released this morning. First to update or install, please report results :) -- Joshua Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Little pidgin problem
Hey every one how are you going. I am currently using a pidgin screenlet. but I still have the pidgin window that keeps coming up too. I was wondering if there was a way to open pidgin with no window so it just uses the screenlet. -- Ask a question and be dumb for 2 minutes... ... Never ask a question and be dumb for life -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] A little script help
Hey everybody. I am using this script at the moment. It a little password generator script I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I would like the First letter to be a Capital and the last two to be any digits? The one that I have puts capitals all over the place and sometimes it does not have any number's at all. I plan to use this for work for the (DRN) I have run out of things to put as my password and I am not aloud to have the same password twice Thanks in advance Josh. passwoard_gen Description: application/shellscript -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux Software Review Day
Its Software Review Day today, So if your reading this make sure you have posted your review. So for my review ill be reviewing a program called xwinwrap, What is this program you say??? well it enables you to have a animated desktop :-O , yes its true, you can animate your desktop and its easy. I'm running Ubuntu so my instructions are as is. Open up your terminal and us these commands to download and install: sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev cvs * cvs -d :pserver:anon...@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps co xwinwrap * * cd xwinwrap * * make * * sudo cp xwinwrap /usr/bin So hopefully you have successfully downloaded and compiled and installed. To the fun part know, with the next example you will use the glmatrix screen saver as your desktop. * nice -n 15 xwinwrap -ni -o 0.20 -fs -s -sp -st -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root -window-id WID So if you look at your desktop you should have the matrix screen saver streaming over top of your desktop, how cool :-! , you may notice that its a bit transparent well you can change that if you like plus may other things about the behaviour by changing the command switches. xwinwrap [-g] [-ni] [-argb] [-fs] [-s] [-st] [-sp] [-a] [-b] [-nf] [-fl] [-o OPACITY] -- COMMAND ARG1... -g geometry -ni no input -argb argb, Alpha, Red, Green, Blues -fs fullscreen -s sticky -st skip taskbar -sp skip pager -a above -b below -nf noFocus -o opacity=# Between 0 and 1 Your not limited to just the glmatrix screen saver, any screeen saver in the /usr/lib/xscreensaver directory should work a treat. Stay tuned every Linux Software Review Day every Friday for more cool Reviews! for moive's is * xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet /home/josh/Documents/this_is_the_path_to_the_movie.mpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux Software Review Day
As you are reading this you would realise that we have a mailing list. I have concluded that we need a fun mailing list, with interesting content!! :) Every Friday we will have what's called Linux Software Review Day. So when your relaxing having a morning tea or a midnight snack write a quick easy review about a piece of Linux software or configuration that you like, enjoy or find handy then simply post it to s...@slug.org All you need to do is: tell us the name of the software were to get it How to install it simple instructions on its use why you like it Be as creative or simple in your review as you like!! Every one receiving this email, new and old members alike are encouraged to participate, by participating we will all learn and enjoy the best operating system in the world! Next Linux Software Review Day is Friday 19th of February -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] 64 bit.
Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? -- Josh Smith Insist on yourself, never imitate... Every great man is Unique. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Introduction.
Hey all My name is Josh.Just wanting to say hello to everybody. I am using Ubuntu 9.4. -- Josh Smith Insist on yourself, never imitate... Every great man is Unique. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
