Re: File Permissions - Ubuntu Server
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:16 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:39 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: I'm running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and I need to change the permissions for a large quantity of files and directories. I've got a directory named 'music' that I share with the home network. This includes other Linux boxes that access this directory via nfs and some Windows XP boxes accessing it via samba. I've just transferred around 80gb of music files and directories from a Windows drive and I need a command to alter the permissions of all the files as read/write for everyone. chmod -R chmod -R does the job, thanks. On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:19 +1000, ... wrote: The simplest way is to load up a terminal window and type (where 'music_directory' is replaced with the path where the music is. # cd music_directory # sudo chmod -R a+rw This doesn't quite work as chmod needs a target. From the parent directory of the music directory the following needed to be typed: sudo chmod -R a+rw music Thanks for the assistance. Simon Ives. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: NAS - recommendations please
for a while now I've been looking into buying a NAS for the growing amount of data. Hi All, A little above the ~$200 price point (probably more like $350 including the drive), but I can't rave enough about this : http://www.repotec.com.tw/default.asp?pagename=Network_Storage/RP_NA2310.htm SATA NAS that actually uses Linux as the OS, ext3 file system, runs Samba and FTP. Also supports iTunes audio (whatever that is), P2P client. Has Gigabit ethernet too. I can confirm from installing 4 of these babies out there that Ubuntu, Mandriva and Windows all mount the shares without an issue. I've had mine for about 13 months now, not a single issue. I can also confirm transfer rates to my Hardy desktop around 5MB/sec. If anyone wants one, a mate of mine can source them - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers :) Callan -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
AVI/DivX to DVD
Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro Rendai Media - http://rendai.homeunix.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
AVI/DivX to DVD
Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro Rendai Media - http://rendai.homeunix.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
AVI/DivX to DVD
Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro Rendai Media - http://rendai.homeunix.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
AVI/DivX to DVD
Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro Rendai Media - http://rendai.homeunix.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: AVI/DivX to DVD
Junin Toiro wrote: Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. There's a DVD-quality video editing package called Kino. I've not used it to author DVDs, but between that and K3B's DVD authoring you should be able to come up with something reasonable. Paul begin:vcard fn:Paul Gear n:Gear;Paul org:Liberty Systems Software adr;dom:;;;Birkdale;Q;4159 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Director tel;work:07 3122 2198 tel;cell:04 3183 7656 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.libertysys.com.au/ version:2.1 end:vcard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: NAS - recommendations please
I have tried FreeNAS in the past with some success. I *would* recommend it for beginners as it has a web based GUI that allows you to set up samba, NFS and Apple shares very easily. It also supports nearly all RAID variants ( 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. ) and a host of other things (the latest version supports encrypted drives and has a bit-torrent client). However, it is based on FreeBSD so the learning curve can be quite steep. I use an old box at home with a bunch of HDD's and that. Works well. The only problem some people seem to have with it is support for NTFS drives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS Cheers Chris 2008/8/12 Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Hall wrote: ... [1] http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/nas/nexis/ [2] http://openfiler.org http://www.openfiler.com/, apparently -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: AVI/DivX to DVD
Hey Sam The best one I found and only just used this week actually was called DeVeDe and can be installed from Add / Remove... It worked perfectly and quickly! Dan On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Junin Toiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro Rendai Media - http://rendai.homeunix.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
KControl crashes when screen saver option is selected.
Hi Kubuntu Users, I have a bug which is simple to reproduce (for me). If I press Alt+F2 then enter 'kcontrol' and press enter, kcontrol opens. Then if I click on the screen saver section it crashes. See attached file ( .kcrash file). I have tried re-installing kconsole and also the screen savers. I get the same error. Earlier today my pc lost power and when the power came back on I noticed that there are some icons on the desktop which I deleted -- but when I click on them (to open) the Linux complains that the files don't exist !?! Could this error be related to my kcontrol crash?!? I'm still just a newbie and I'd really appreciate any help!!! -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) kcontrol_screen_saver.kcrash Description: Binary data -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 30, Issue 12
-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:39:03 +1000 From: Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AVI/DivX to DVD To: Ubuntu AU List ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Junin Toiro wrote: Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone can suggest an application to convert AVI files (namely DivX)? I've done a lot of searching and can't seem to find anything that just works.. I know there are ways to do this with scripts and term apps etc but I don't have the time nor patience at the moment to do it this way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. There's a DVD-quality video editing package called Kino. I've not used it to author DVDs, but between that and K3B's DVD authoring you should be able to come up with something reasonable. Paul Heres a little script I made long ago to convert single AVI files to DVD. No menus or anything, just chuck it in the player and off you go... echo Lets GO!!! rm -rf final.mpg rm -rf DVD.iso rm -rf DVD/ ffmpeg -i $1 -target pal-dvd -aspect 16:9 final.mpg dvdauthor -o DVD/ -t final.mpg dvdauthor -o DVD/ -T mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o DVD.iso DVD Thats for a 16:9 video. You can change the 16:9 to 4:3 for the standard TV size. Experiment with what encoding works best for your TV. Toma -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ABC Shop DRM and Silverlight
2008/8/8 Christopher Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a heads-up in case you didn't see the memo from DefectiveByDesign.org. The ABC Shop Online now has a section where you can buy DRM'ed downloads of their shows. Apart from the ethical considerations with DRM, the software relies on Silverlight and as such you can't even look at previews on Linux. Mac users can look at the previews but can't buy downloads. I'm currently writing to the ABC to complain, if you feel strongly about this you could write to them too. The address is www.abc.net.au. Oh it gets worse... See this from todays www.crikey.com.au subscription: Dear Sole Subscriber, Crikey editor Jonathan Green (that's me) received a letter yesterday from the Legal Services department of the ABC. It was marked not for publication, but we'll summarise. It made a pair of demands. First that we remove from Crikey's YouTube account a series of video clips sourced from ABC footage that showed environment minister Penny Wong's 16 July address to the National Press Club introducing the Government's Green Paper on the mooted Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (a speech as dull and long-winded as that sentence). Second, the senior ABC lawyer also demanded that we sign a written undertaking that in future we desist from filching the ABC's intellectual property. We've taken down the video clips, and presume that the totalled 477 views probably represent the accumulated public interest in the vision. We won't be signing any written undertakings. We also thought Crikey readers might be interested in this small insight into the thinking of the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster. Clearly by strict definition, we have infringed the ABC's copyright. But you might also argue that the ABC broadcasts functions like National Press Club lunches addressed by the environment minister as an act of public service conducted in line with its legislated charter obligations. You could also argue that we aided in that objective by promoting the ABC-watermarked footage that little bit further through on-line links and YouTube. The situation is of course muddier than that, thanks to a public broadcaster that increasingly sees its primary obligation as seeking to profit financially from its content and accordingly protecting its copyright with fierce intent and lawyers letters. We would argue that a Minister of the crown engaged in a significant public policy announcement recorded by a taxpayer funded not for profit public broadcaster might produce material that should reasonably fall into the freely available public domain. Not a view shared by the ABC apparently. The fact that these lunches are run by a for-profit private club and sponsored by a leading bank then packaged into DVD form for sale, only complicates things further. The ABC's current position seems to mark something of a Seachange (available now in DVD boxed sets from ABC shops and major retailers). In 2007 a well publicised prank saw segments from the Chaser's *War On Everything* removed from YouTube after the posters received fake lawyers letters purporting to be from the ABC. No such letters were sent and the Corporation's then head of arts entertainment and comedy, Courtney Gibson, expressed the view that, (the ABC) wishes to get our content out there on as many platforms as possible, run by as many different operators as possible. Times have changed. -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things - Confucius -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
