[SLUG] CodeWars is next friday

2010-06-16 Thread Dylan Jay
Hi, Not sure if this has been passed on yet but next friday evening is codewars. It's run as a social event before pycon-au (http://pycon-au.org) but is free and open to anyone, any language. It's called codewars. Think of it like gladitors for geeks. Come along for the fun to watch or c

[SLUG] [OT] Wanted: geeks with tent and GPS

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Miller
Hi Sluggers, Sorry about the off topic post. I have a project in the Blue Mountains, working to eradicate blackberry from a difficult-to-reach place in the Blue Mountains National Park. Saint Helena Crater, see the web site... http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/st_helena/index.html The NPWS work p

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Nick Andrew
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:06:32PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > You won't be able to. If you configured them up as a stripe (ie, no mirroring) > with interleaving every x megabytes on each disk, you'll basically end up > with a virtual hard disk with "holes" evenly spread out across 1/3rd of > the

Re: [SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:30:41AM +0800, james wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible > > drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters. > > Any ideas ho

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
Amos Shapira writes: > On 16 June 2010 16:26, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> LVM, by default, is a boring old linear mapping, so he probably has two disks >> worth of data ... starting a third (or whatever) of the way through the file >> system.  So, no superblock on whatever. > > Why no superblock?

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 June 2010 16:26, Daniel Pittman wrote: > LVM, by default, is a boring old linear mapping, so he probably has two disks > worth of data ... starting a third (or whatever) of the way through the file > system.  So, no superblock on whatever. Why no superblock? The ext3 filesystem (and I guess

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 June 2010 11:30, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem. > I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any > method of mounting  drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would not > create a volume group

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi, What is the problem with the disk? Is it not spinning up or is it making strange noises? How is the raid connected? Many times I've managed to get data off dead disks that won't start up. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting the thing spinning and then get the data off. If it is that