ZFS vs EXT4 vs XFS

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Miller
Interesting benchmarks: http://tastic.brillig.org/%7Ejwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html I would also like to see Reiserfs4 in those results to see how it compares, but those are not included. Dan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http:/

Re: how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:45:53PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > Now, and this is really rusty, I think there's a way to read the JPEG > DCT matrix and rotate a JPEG without recompressing, There is, provided the image geometry meets certain sensible parameters that I don't remember off the top

Re: postfix

2007-08-30 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > > In fact, we discovered the theoretical possibility of a mail message doing > > figure-8s between our sendmail/cyrus server and the Exchange server! > > I used to work at UNH. Imagine hundreds of computers, used by > faculty/staff, r

Re: how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you don't want to transcode the movie, but leave it alone, and > just rotate > what what mplayer shows you: > > $ mplayer silly.mov -vf rotate=1 # or rotate=2, depending on gravity This would be the generally better solution, I think, as

Re: Errors reading DVDs?

2007-08-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 29, 2007, at 20:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I had the same symptom on an Asus mobo with an ATI PIIX IDE controller. Long and short, the BIOS would do the wrong thing and linux didn't understand it, so unless I was booting from the

Re: how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread VirginSnow
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) > Date: 30 Aug 2007 10:14:37 -0400 > This is possibly a silly question. Sillier than "can trained monkeys insall Linux?" ? > A family member has given me a small movie that they shot with their > digital camera. The movie was shot with the camera turne

Re: how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
Kevin D. Clark wrote: > This is possibly a silly question. > > A family member has given me a small movie that they shot with their > digital camera. The movie was shot with the camera turned sideways > (it made things fit better). > > Now we have this movie that is watchable but only if you turn

Re: Ubuntu/Debian package question

2007-08-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
One wrinkle to consider when trying to clone a Debian system (probably not an issue in this case but still worth a mention) is that various config options can affect which versions of the packages you end up with. For example, my /etc/apt/apt.conf has this line in it: APT::Default-Release "t

Re: Ubuntu/Debian package question

2007-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/30/07, Ed Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to dump out a package list on the one machine > and import it on the other? Yes, I think it's something like "--list-selections" to the apt-get(1) command. Or maybe it was for dpkg(1). Redirect the output to a file with somethi

Re: Ubuntu/Debian package question

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:33 -0400, Ed Robbins wrote: > I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't had a chance to dig into the Debian > package system in detail. I've got a system configured exactly the way > I want it and now want to configure a second system with the same > packages. Is there a way to du

Ubuntu/Debian package question

2007-08-30 Thread Ed Robbins
I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't had a chance to dig into the Debian package system in detail. I've got a system configured exactly the way I want it and now want to configure a second system with the same packages. Is there a way to dump out a package list on the one machine and import it on th

how to rotate a movie?

2007-08-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
This is possibly a silly question. A family member has given me a small movie that they shot with their digital camera. The movie was shot with the camera turned sideways (it made things fit better). Now we have this movie that is watchable but only if you turn your head sideways. Can anybody