Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread J.Witvliet
Just my 2 cents, though personal experience. 18 months ago i replaced on a machine the traditional hdd with a sdd. And indeed, it started and worked like greased lightning. However, i installed it like i used to do, with swap One year (and many patches) later, i got that many bad blocks that

Re: Laptop Intel wireless card as access point (reply nr 2)

2012-12-26 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, You can take a look in this table, in the AP column: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers In the past, you could test for master mode by "iwconfig wlan0 mode master". In recent kernels it is not supported, so don't try it (it gives error also with devices that support 80211.n). The r

unmount usb disk

2012-12-26 Thread Maurizio Marini
This is a fedora 17 x64.1 I have attached my backup usb disk and now I would unmount it. I am unable to unmount it as some processes lock it. f17 16:19:37 root@tikal: / # lsof /mnt/ COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME nepomukse 26624 maumar 15r DIR 8,17163

Re: unmount usb disk

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/26/2012 09:29 AM, Maurizio Marini wrote: > This is a fedora 17 x64.1 > > I have attached my backup usb disk and now I would unmount it. > I am unable to unmount it as some processes lock it. > > > f17 16:19:37 root@tikal: / # lsof /mnt/ > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OF

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: WOW!.talk about speeding up. Well I have a Gateway laptop so there's not physical way I could do 2 different types of drives, but I also have a CentOS desktop, maybe I can do it there, is SSD something that an old "Pentium 4" PC could use? I

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:44:46 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: That said, the latest fedora I could install was F14. I'm running CentOS as my main OS now, but I keep F14 around in case I need it for something. What was blocking the install?

Re: unmount usb disk

2012-12-26 Thread Maurizio Marini
> Try "lsof /run/" i have logged off, but as far as i can argue...doing lsof /run/ i would have found some other proc locking /mnt...and then? kill -9 it? Is there any command to do it in a safe manner? if not, this is something that should be add to distro :) m. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cry

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread jdow
In the past in theme park ride applications we've had audio on SSDs. The same audio gets read every few minutes virtually every day of the year. Eventually the audio files developed bad spots. We started recommending they record a full day's worth of the audio and play sequentially to the end of t

Re: unmount usb disk

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/26/2012 10:36 AM, Maurizio Marini wrote: >> Try "lsof /run/" > i have logged off, but as far as i can argue...doing lsof /run/ > i would have found some other proc locking /mnt...and then? kill -9 it? > Is there any command to do it in a safe manner? > if not, this is something that should be

Re: selinux sandbox not useful [preauth] : 211 time(s)

2012-12-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.12.2012 10:34, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:34:13 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> is it possible on systems with selinux completly disabled to >> get rid of this messages in /var/log/secure everytime a >> ssh-session is opened? >> >> Dec 25 04:33:28 localhost sshd[10

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:44:46 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: That said, the latest fedora I could install was F14. I'm running CentOS as my main OS now, but I keep F14 around in case I need it for

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

2012-12-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/26/2012 03:21 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: C) if you _realy_ enough mem, put /var and /tmp on tmpfs (eg, in mem) And where does /var go when you turn your machine off? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: selinux sandbox not useful [preauth] : 211 time(s)

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:42:39 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 25.12.2012 10:34, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:34:13 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > >> is it possible on systems with selinux completly disabled to > >> get rid of this messages in /var/log/secure every

Re: selinux sandbox not useful [preauth] : 211 time(s)

2012-12-26 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 25.12.2012 10:34, schrieb Michael Schwendt: >> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:34:13 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >>> is it possible on systems with selinux completly disabled to >>> get rid of this messages in /var/log/secure everytime a >>> ssh-session is opened? >>> >>>

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> wrote: I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. I usually convert the source file(s) to MPEG2, edit as necessary on MPEG2, and then encode to the final fo

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Roberto Ragusa mailto:m...@robertoragusa.it>> wrote: H? Having an additional intermediate encoding to avoid re-encoding artifacts??? By converting to very high quality MPEG2 you avoid issues with AVI, XVID, H.264 encoding an

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:15:12 +1030 Tim wrote: Convert to an uncompressed format, edit that, then encode the output using the compression scheme that you want. Yea, I almost always convert anything I want to edit to something like huffyuv, making sure I have a giant amount o

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Oliver wrote: If all you need is simple editing, I've been a fan of kino (http://kinodv.org/). If you do a little modeling, then the blender video sequence editor (Blender VSE, www.blender3d.org) may be an option. billo I shall take a look, although avidemux seems to have gotten me to t

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. Something like audacity for video. I am loading avidemux as I type, but the avi format seems to have limitations which are much more restricti

Re: Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

2012-12-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pasha R wrote: You can also try pitivi from fedora repositories - it doesn't have many of the features openshot and kdenlive have, but it is good enough for simple editing. Also, if you choose avidemux, don't use gtk frontend - in my experience, it is buggy as hell, while qt frontend is much more

F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Paolo De Michele
hi all, I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like crazy - I opened the laptop to see if there was dust on the cpu fan but it is clean I noticed that maybe when I watch a video, I look at the mail (thunderb

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Jim
On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: hi all, I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like crazy - I opened the laptop to see if there was dust on the cpu fan but it is clean I noticed that maybe w

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:43 -0500 Jim wrote: > On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) > > I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like > > crazy - > > > > I opened the laptop to s

Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gatewa

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:50:07PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
fred smith writes: if that doesn't get you where you need to go, you might try: --with the new drive connected via USB --boot from the aforementioned live CD --create the partitions as you want them --pray a while... --copy all the files from each partition on the OLD drive into the matching p

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Phil Savoie
On 12/26/2012 09:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have anot

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread staticsafe
On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do this when I don't have an

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 December 2012, Paolo De Michele sent: > I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs > like crazy - Is it actually blowing hot air, or the fans are running hard and blowing cool air, and something else *says* that it's hot? > I opened the laptop t

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 12:04 AM, staticsafe wrote: On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. H

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.12.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this > when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gateway? - Connect your new HDD to your laptop (e.g. as an external drive). - Get the new HDD partitioned and formatted -