You are probably right about the chipset and your dvd player, I
usually stick with intel or asus mobo's and have never had a problem
with ubuntu on them.
As far as your root problem, give this a try:
sudo -s
when it prompts you for a password, put your password in, by default,
the initial user for ubuntu has sudo access, and that gives you full
root access... while its a minor security issue, it won't be at your
house behind a firewall... once there, just do this:
passwd root
and set your root password
once you are setup on root, you should be able to chown your second
drive to your user account
I never messed with any video capture cards or dvr with linux... but i
understand there is a big following of mythbuntu... I actually put
that on my media pc, but need to get some drives for it and start
archiving my movies onto it. I don't know how it would work as a
desktop, but I would think it would support your capture card
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Don Cooper <wavyca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I actually did install Ubuntu on my fastest PC (AMD 64 3500+) which also has
> a partition dedicated to Fedora 8 - so now its a "triple boot".
> The UBUNTU version was touted as being installed from Windows. I took it to
> mean that it would switch back and forth between one and the other - but not
> so. Not without a reboot. Also - although it seemed really 'eager and able'
> to resolve driver problems I had with my DVD player - it was not successful,
> no more so than Fedora. Maybe I shouldn't have gone for such a cheap ($40)
> motherboard - I'm thinking maybe the chipset is my problem - (though it does
> all work with Windows XP pro)
> Another problem with UBUNTU - I dont get it - there seems to not be a way to
> access the thing as root! As it won't allow me to access the largest data
> partition on my second hard drive because I'm not root... no mp3s - which
> there are about 100 gig worth on that hard drive.
> During setup, there was no mention of root or supervisory password. Maybe
> it just "flashed by" I'm mysterio'd by that. I did load a "root command
> console" utility - I haven't yet tried that out.
> Weird as well is the way you mount that big data partition when running
> Fedora and Ubuntu - its WAYYY non intuitive - the old process of mounting a
> /dev/hdb5 (for example) partition that you'd track down in fdisk and setup
> with fstab is not "valid". Instead - you go to a "home" window select
> "media" and you'd find those unmounted partitions in there. I dunno - it
> looks like Linux is being muddled by making it more "user friendly". I
> don't think "df -aH" gives me a clear picture of hard drive usage anymore.
> I dont see how I'd do it in a non-graphic mode now.
> One more thing I'd like to find that did work on Red Hat Linux 9 - was a
> television card support utility for my 12 year old Hauppage PC TV card. It
> found me - I didnt have to find it!
> I havent exactly made an exhaustive search for one - Usually I'd rather be
> running an environment that runs all my stuff at once - rather than trying
> to make it do so....
>
> I should probably get an even newer machine to hack on - to develop as my
> ideal environment (yet for most of the time - I'm SO enjoying watching
> streaming video of "The Office" and "Lost" on the 'fast desktop') - but
> other investments have priority.
>
> -WaV
> In the time of Chimpanzees I was a Monkey
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Don, that was just an excuse, sure there have been a varying amount of
>> exploits that utilized buffer overflows, but those get fixed rather
>> quickly. The linux kernel is an evolving animal, with changes and
>> fixes coming out almost daily. I monitor several security mailing
>> lists, that cover linux, windows and mac. I haven't seen a kernel
>> exploit in years come across the list, and you won't find any real
>> geek shying away from the best tool for its job, which is linux a lot
>> of the time.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any good BSD live cd's, but I haven't looked for one
>> either. There are 3 main flavors of the BSD derived opensource,
>> FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD is the bigger of them and has
>> the most development and install base. However, it is not really
>> suited for a desktop machine. While it has the functionality, only
>> the more proficient UNIX users can make it work the way they want. I
>> ran it as my desktop at work for about 3 years. This mailing list is
>> hosted on a FreeBSD server, but it doesn't use xwindows for the
>> server.
>>
>> For a UNIX desktop, I prefer Ubuntu, and since I like KDE over Gnome
>> (just a personal preference), I use Kubuntu. While its not BSD, but
>> true Linux, it is probably the easiest desktop Linux to get going, it
>> has a large install base, lots of development going on and they
>> religiously release major updates every 6 months. They are currently
>> on release 8.04 (year and month released, April 2008) and you'll
>> likely see 8.10 hit in October. The install cd for ubuntu is a live
>> cd, but it has limited functionality, if you want a fully featured
>> live cd, try out http://knoppix.net/
>>
>> Astute readers will notice that knoppix is based on Debian, and so is
>> Ubuntu. Knoppix is one of those tools that many geeks carry around
>> for troubleshooting windows computers :) You can also setup Knoppix
>> as your desktop, and carry around a usb stick with your knoppix cd
>> with your personal preferences and settings. That way you can use
>> almost anyones computer, and have your desktop come with you.
>>
>> I've never done this, but its one of its selling points. I've used
>> knoppix on half a dozen different computers and it has always detected
>> everything that I needed, mainly video (so that you didn't get stuck
>> with 640x480 resolution) and the network card so that internet access
>> was available.
>>
>> Hit me with any questions from all of this rambling :)
>> Charles
>>
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Don Cooper <wavyca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Charles -
>> > Is the 'buffer overflow' vulnerability still an issue or is that ancient
>> > history? I never quite understood how it could be exploited - I cannot
>> > imagine how such an attack could make it past a firewall or even a
>> > router
>> > anyhow...
>> > It was one of my former IT bosses big excuse for not using implementing
>> > Linux anywhere.
>> >
>> > And can you guide me to an up-to-date ISO image for a "live BSD Unix"?
>> > [The
>> > BSD logo is the little demon (my guess - a visual acronym for
>> > 'daemon')?]
>> > The only repositories I could find were at least two years old.
>> > I think it would be cool to eventually make a PC work "just like a Mac".
>> > (It brings to mind an image of the stuffy PC guy in the Mac commercial
>> > being
>> > moved around like a puppet by the Mac guy).
>> > -WaV
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Charles Goldsmith
>> > <wo...@justfamily.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> As Quitna stated, her new computer came with Vista, and most computer
>> >> manufacturers aren't developing XP drivers anymore. So with some
>> >> computers (especially laptops), you can't even downgrade to XP.
>> >>
>> >> Work gave me a laptop with Vista, I haven't had any problems with it,
>> >> just having to learn where things are. Wireless support (for my job)
>> >> is a pain, I've been fighting the security for its wireless all week.
>> >>
>> >> I have a mac here at home, I love it. I also have an XP box too, but
>> >> I use my mac more. I love not having to worry about spyware, rootkits
>> >> and anti-virus for the mac. It's possible that we'll get that stuff
>> >> in the future, but I doubt it. Mac OSX is based on BSD UNIX, and
>> >> using the UNIX file security, it should be pretty virus proof.
>> >>
>> >> Charles
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Don Cooper <wavyca...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hmmm - maybe you should try Apple OS X..
>> >> > -WaV
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, <qui...@clearwire.net> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Vista was loaded on a computer I bought ( the old clunker died) and
>> >> >> I
>> >> >> was
>> >> >> not sure I would like it but I would not go back to XP now.
>> >> >> Quinta
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>
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