Copying home movies in Unstable.

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a desktop machine running a reasonably up-to-date build of unstable. In that machine, I've got a DVD-ROM drive as well as a DVD-RW. Is there a simple way to use these drives to copy home movies, recorded onto DVD-R media with a VHS/DVD deck?

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > >> [snip] > > The problem is that when I tried, using "mdadm /dev/md0 --add > /dev/sdd1", the rebuild would kick off and then fail af

RAID5 problem.

2008-06-22 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For quite a while now, I've been running a software RAID5 using external firewire disks on a Debian Unstable system. The exact architecture was four 250 GB disks on one firewire controller, for a total of 750 GB of usable space. Last night, when I was

Opensync and GPE.

2008-02-27 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running the GPE applications (gpe-contact, gpe-calendar, and gpe-todo) on a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. I would like to use opensync with a Bluetooth connection to synchronize the contents of these apps on the Nokia with iceowl and icedove on my Deb

GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian sid on an ia32 computer, with everything up to date, and printing via CUPS to an HP Laserjet 4m. When I print from GNOME applications, like evince or epiphany, the output is too faint to read. But if I print the same document or web