Re: Ubuntu Mirrors...

2008-04-14 Thread Ross Drummond
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, John Carter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Rex Johnston wrote: > > John Carter wrote: > >> The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down > > > > Not for me. > > Grimace... > > I suspect it's our "peerless" national telecommunications economy at > work. > I have had a si

Re: Ubuntu Mirrors...

2008-04-14 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Rex Johnston wrote: John Carter wrote: The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down Not for me. Grimace... I suspect it's our "peerless" national telecommunications economy at work. Either way, I've moved to nz2 and that seems to going fine. John Carter

Re: Ubuntu Mirrors...

2008-04-14 Thread Rex Johnston
John Carter wrote: The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down Not for me. Cheers, Rex

Ubuntu Mirrors...

2008-04-14 Thread John Carter
The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down So I when hunting for alternatives The mirrors at the bottom of the list are better than those at the top http://ubuntu.mls.nc/ubuntu/ dead http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dead http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/ubuntu/packages/

OT- funny

2008-04-14 Thread Zane Gilmore
Something to lighten the afternoon. During our searching thru the .nz net this was discovered: http://www.org.nz -- __ Zane Gilmore: Analyst/Programmer Cellphone: 0276 319 206 Telephone: +64-3 943 5447 Address: Level 1, 93 Manches

Re: Recomendations DVD --> iPod

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, April 14, 2008 4:25 pm, Ross Drummond wrote: > I was wondering if someone could recommend a GUI app for converting videos > from DVD media to iPod media. > > I have been using mencoder from the command line to create avi files and > the > avi2ipod[1] KDE Kommander GUI app to convert the av

Re: Burning a vcd

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, April 13, 2008 11:55 pm, Barry wrote: > > > Rex Johnston wrote: > >> Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> > vcdimager -t vcd2 -l "Muddleton-4" -c Muddleton.cue -b Muddleton.bin muddleton-4.mpg cdrdao write --device 1.0.0 Muddleton.cue Looks like you have 2 commands in there.

Re: Formatting a PQSERVICE partition

2008-04-14 Thread Kerry
Thought I should try mkfs.ext3 from root after I posted my question - that worked. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Kerry On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 21:42 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=10 > > Should do it. Just make sure you get the right device (: > > St

Re: Formatting a PQSERVICE partition

2008-04-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=10 Should do it. Just make sure you get the right device (: Steve On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:25:46 +1200 Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently put a new hard drive in my laptop and taken the old one > and am using it as an external h

Formatting a PQSERVICE partition

2008-04-14 Thread Kerry
Hi all, I've recently put a new hard drive in my laptop and taken the old one and am using it as an external hard drive. Because it's from an Acer laptop it has a read only PQSERVICE partition used for backups. Now I would like to recover the 24 gigs of hd space this is taking up. I've tried to u