Re: Some External HDD Questions

2007-10-01 Thread Jorge Delacruz
In my experience, I booted with the USB drive connected, and it appears as /dev/sda. Also, the data transfer rate is about 2 MB/sec - much less than today's hard drives. It may work for gaming, but I would not count on it. JD --- Patrick C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought an

Re: Some External HDD Questions

2007-10-01 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote: --- Patrick C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought an external HDD that hates my computer (won't work at all inside the computer, but plays nice from the enclosure). 1.) Is the USB spec fast enough to run any games or other

Re: Fedora Core Help

2007-10-01 Thread Rhune Lord
Well, The x86_64 failed, I used F6 and even added the pci=nomsi all-generic-ide on the second attempt and went into \etc\X11\xorg.conf and modified the video to vesa and still no go. The text installer wants ACHI drivers and I loaded one after another but nothing. I tried formatting again but

Re: Fedora Core Help

2007-10-01 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Rhune Lord wrote: === Specs: Dell Inspiron 1520 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo 256MB NVidia 8600M Video Card 160GB Hard Drive (100GB to Vista, 45GB to ext3, and 2GB for swap - actual total size 149GB) Broadcom NIC Dell 1390 Wireless DVD Burner

Re: ubuntu help

2007-10-01 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, betty wrote: I just put ubuntu on my office computer, got it to connect o.k. to the internet, BUT it doesn't recognize my outgoing or incoming email servers and for some reason, Firefox won't connect. Although i can see on the ext. modem (and hear on the

Re: ubuntu help

2007-10-01 Thread der.hans
Am 01. Oct, 2007 schw�tzte betty so: I just put ubuntu on my office computer, got it to connect o.k. to the internet, BUT it doesn't recognize my outgoing or incoming email servers What do you mean that it doesn't recognize your email servers? What client are you using to talk to them? and

Need a Linux Instructor ASAP for CIS238DL

2007-10-01 Thread Phillip Waclawski
My present teaching schedule does not allow me to take over to the October CIS238DL at MCC's Downtown Center. Anyone with some work experience and/or training experience in Linux, please contact Linda Collins, our Department chair, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 480 461-7711 or you can contact me for

Re: Fedora Core Help

2007-10-01 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Oct 1, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Rhune Lord wrote: Chris, I assume you have seen this page: http://www.linux-profiles.com/laptop-computer/laptop/40 I tried to load it and the network times out on that site. It's not working for me now either. It was working earlier today and it had specific

Re: Some External HDD Questions

2007-10-01 Thread Jorge Delacruz
--- Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote: --- cut --- 2M/s? That doesn't sound right for either USB1 or USB2. (perhaps the long technology battle is 1/2 of my problem) I plugged in a USB drive and dd the internal drive to a file

Re: Some External HDD Questions

2007-10-01 Thread Matt Graham
From: Jorge Delacruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2M/s? That doesn't sound right for either USB1 or USB2. I plugged in a USB drive and [dd'ed] the internal drive to a file on the external USB drive. It took 9 hours to dd a 40 GB internal drive, so 1.2 MB/sec

will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

2007-10-01 Thread Josef Lowder
. After 20 years of using computers, and never before having done anything with music or audio files, I am just beginning to explore ... so I have a plethora of questions. So far, I have copied some files from a little mp3 player that our daughter gave us to my 2006 Mandriva box and was glad

Re: will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

2007-10-01 Thread Matt Graham
From: Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some time ago, I had also downloaded but never before tried to play one .wma file and one .wav file. Now I find that amarok plays the .wma file fine, but not the .wav file. So, what is the difference between these various formats and how can I

Re: will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

2007-10-01 Thread Ben Francom
So, what is the difference between these various formats Compression, quality, and licensing. Your needs may vary depending on devices, space, etc. and how can I convert the .wav file to an .mp3? Install LAME from whatever package manager Mandriva uses. Then: lame -m j -h --vbr-new -b

Re: Fedora Core Help

2007-10-01 Thread Rhune Lord
Chris, Its probably a failure from the site, I will give 24 hours and their IT staff / tech dude a chance to fix it. Brian It's not working for me now either. It was working earlier today and it had specific instructions for your model. ---

Re: Some External HDD Questions

2007-10-01 Thread Patrick C
I got ~25MB/s doing file transfers on it, so 2M/s is definitely not right... and mounting it by label is definitely the way to go (duh!). Thanks! On 10/1/07, Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote: --- Patrick C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

2007-10-01 Thread der.hans
Am 01. Oct, 2007 schw�tzte Josef Lowder so: So far, I have copied some files from a little mp3 player that our daughter gave us to my 2006 Mandriva box and was glad to find 'amarok' (which I've seen several pluggers mention favorably) on my system and delighted to discover that it plays the