[SLUG] Disk tapper on Woody

2002-12-09 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm running a Woody system (installed from the SLUG/Debian CD, needless to say :-) ), and there is something going on that is causing the disk to be constantly accessed. It's like a constant tapping sound as the disk is being hit. How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is

Re: [SLUG] Disk tapper on Woody

2002-12-09 Thread Bruce Badger
Michael Lake wrote: Bruce Badger wrote: ...How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is there a cool monitor out there that I can use to find out? ... run `ps ax` and `top` and see what there is running. Michael, Thanks for that. I had tried ps top, but this did

Re: [SLUG] Disk tapper on Woody

2002-12-09 Thread Bruce Badger
Ben Leslie wrote: How can I find out what process is accessing the disk? Is there a cool monitor out there that I can use to find out? lsof will list which files are currently open, and which process is using them. (Handy when you are trying to unmount partitions.) Ah, most useful.

[SLUG] Woody: ALSA or OSS

2002-12-08 Thread Bruce Badger
Given a clean Debian Woody installation, which sound library would people recommend ALSA or OSS? Thanks, Bruce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] The SLUG/Debian Distro' CD

2002-12-08 Thread Bruce Badger
The SLUG Debian CD which was presented at the last SLUG meeting has now been sighted on the shelves at the main Dymocks shop on George St., and at the Co-op bookshops at UTS and at Bay St. (if you spot it elsewhere, perhaps you could post here). The Co-op have the CD right by the till in the

Re: [SLUG] The SLUG/Debian Distro' CD

2002-12-08 Thread Bruce Badger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:12:57PM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: The SLUG Debian CD which was presented at the last SLUG meeting has now For those who failed to get along to the slug meeting (again) .. What's on this cd? Is it just the latest debian or other

Re: [SLUG] Formatting HD without image

2002-12-08 Thread Bruce Badger
Rod wrote: Hi, I am playing around with a PC where I installed Linux RH 7.3 so I can learn more about it at which it was my first time at, and many things went wrong. What I am now trying to do is re-format the HD to start again from scratch but I do not have a clue how this should be done.

Re: [SLUG] Document Storage

2002-08-26 Thread Bruce Badger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might provide the central document storage, searching and summaries provided by Notes? Then I might be on the way to being Microsoft free. If the documents you are talking about are just text, and need to be shared and

[SLUG] USB CDRW for Linux?

2002-07-02 Thread Bruce Badger
It's a sad day. My trusty Yamaha SCSI CDRW has croaked. It's also a good day, because now I'm in the market for a new toy! :-) My wife has an iBook, and I run several Linux boxes. I'd like a new CDRW that will work for either myself or my wife, so: What external USB CDRW do people

Re: [SLUG] DB GUI

2002-07-02 Thread Bruce Badger
John Ferlito wrote: Has anyone come across a DB GUI for linux. What I'm after is one of those visulisation type tools where you have all the tables with lines joining the relationships etc. I found dbdesigner but it's in alpha and doesn't import stuff. pgaccess for PostgreSQL is

Re: [SLUG] USB CDRW for Linux?

2002-07-02 Thread Bruce Badger
Tony Green wrote: On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:28, Bruce Badger wrote: It's a sad day. My trusty Yamaha SCSI CDRW has croaked. It's also a good day, because now I'm in the market for a new toy! :-) My wife has an iBook, and I run several Linux boxes. I'd like a new CDRW that will work

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