Re: Console Renderer

2007-08-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 20:45 +0300, Arrav wrote: > The discussion about the Video Codecs reminded me of some Software that > Renders certain movie files so they are viewable as either ASCII or ANSI > (in real time). I loved that program, any one knows of it's name? Any video player that can render

Re: Console Renderer

2007-08-24 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
libcaca, Caca stands for Color AsCii Art. On 8/24/07, Arrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The discussion about the Video Codecs reminded me of some Software that > Renders certain movie files so they are viewable as either ASCII or ANSI > (in real time). I loved that program, any one knows of it's

Console Renderer

2007-08-24 Thread Arrav
The discussion about the Video Codecs reminded me of some Software that Renders certain movie files so they are viewable as either ASCII or ANSI (in real time). I loved that program, any one knows of it's name? = To unsubscribe, send

Re: Video codecs under debian

2007-08-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 01:43 -0700, Yigal Asnis wrote: > Install VLC player (there is debian package) - it's > can play probably everything. > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 01:28 +0300, sara fink wrote: > mplayer also has build in. > Both mplayer and VLC use ffmpeg, and both can also use windows DLL. I

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Alexander
I don't think any program can allocate space on your HDD without attaching it to a file. Torrent clients can either allocate space for a file (thus, the file will be mapped to that space, even if its unused before data arrives), or they can increase the file's size to accomodate new data when need

Re: How to detect if grub is installed ?

2007-08-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 19:00 +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > 2007/8/24, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [grub missing, yada yada], so how do I detect it ? > > This is not a definitive answer - you might google and find some more: > dd if=/dev/xdx count=1 | strings > If the output cont

Re: How to detect if grub is installed ?

2007-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/8/24, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi list. > > I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 devel on two computers, and on both of them I > dist-upgraded yesterday. After doing that, both computers suggested I > reboot, which I did only on the desktop computer. After reboot the > system wouldn't want to star

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/8/24, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Actually, there was a reason. That particular partition has some partially > downloaded torrents. When rtorrent creates directories and files, it > apparently only allocates space, but doesn't actually "use" any disc space > until the relevant chun

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 24 August 2007 15:48, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > 1 - I created an identical sized partition (/dev/sd13 = 20 Gb) and did > > dd. > > Why did you use dd? > > What you needed to do is create the new partition, create the new > filesystem, mount it, a

How to detect if grub is installed ?

2007-08-24 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 devel on two computers, and on both of them I dist-upgraded yesterday. After doing that, both computers suggested I reboot, which I did only on the desktop computer. After reboot the system wouldn't want to start as it appears that grub was removed for some reason, a

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I migrated my system to a larger disc. Basically, I used dd to copy the old partitions to the new disc. I know that if the target partition is larger than the source, dd will result in the additional space not being available. So I did what I thought wa

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 24 August 2007 12:53, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 24/08/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4 - I would never even consider a dangerous operation like re-sizing > without > > > having a backup, so there's not really that much danger. > > It's still bloody convenient to be able to

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/08/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 - I've never had data loss problems with ReiserFS - about 7 years > experience I have never lost data with ReiserFS either - until I tried to shrink it. Back when it happened to me I got the impression from Googl'ing around that the too

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Shlomo Solomon
1 - I've never had data loss problems with ReiserFS - about 7 years experience 2 - I've read that ReiserFS is faster than ext3, but have no hands-on knowledge 3 - I doubt that there are any stability problems - the system is used as default in several distros and offered in most distros with no "

Re: Video codecs under debian

2007-08-24 Thread Yigal Asnis
Install VLC player (there is debian package) - it's can play probably everything. --- Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a debian machine with GNOME with w32codecs > installed. > I am trying to view .WMV files and get errors that I > don't have the right > codecs. > I tried also viewin

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/08/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:31, Ariel Bar-David wrote: > > You must resize the file-system too, I think. With 'parted' or something > > like that, IDK how... > > Thanks for sending me in the right direction. Once I realized that the > dis