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I'm as pretty much a computer illiterate as someone with a computer can be, so please bear that in mind as you answer these questions. It all relates to buying a new iPod, unloading the old one, and backing up iTunes.
-- Joelmills 03:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, I'm at about 13.3 GB now. If I save to DVD, will that also save the lyrics and artwork? -- Joelmills 07:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Every once in a while, I'll be on a computer - any computer - and I'll suddenly hear that noise that comes up when I take out my flash drive. All of my Portable Gaim icons disappear, and sure enough, that "Safely Remove Hardware" button on the toolbar isn't there anymore and the light on my flash drive is off. I physically remove it and put it back in, and I hear the noise that comes up when I put it back in, and everything is fine again. This has happened at least once on every computer with which I've used the flash drive, a Cruzer Mini 512MB, and it's recently become a problem when my Portable Firefox tries to update itself. It takes so long when it tries that the drive inevitably disconnects at some point, and then I end up having to reinstall Firefox. (I know I could turn off the automatic updates, but I'd rather just fix the flash drive problem.) -- Maxamegalon2000 04:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a free (gratis is fine) converter that can convert VOB to M4V (an iPod compatible M4V), and can either pan and scan, or at least recognise when it's meant to be 16:9 (and output as such). I have one now but it doesn't recognise when the file is 16:9 even though all the players do, so when it outputs the M4V, it's been stretched to 4:3. So does anyone know of one that can recognise it properly (and pan and scan, but at least recognise it)? - Рэд хот 12:37, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
countries talk about inter continental missiles having ranges say up to some thousands of km .But when you can launch satellites in to space you can also drop nukes anywhere on the earth. please clarify this.
I want to be able to write down all of the passwords that I use in a special file protected with a "master" password. I'm using Windows XP Home, and I have Office 2000 and WordPerfect Office 11. Is there a way to do this? -- Smack ( talk) 17:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of buying an apple AirTunes to be able to play my iTunes library in the kitchen. However, it is a bit pricey at $129. Is there any good alternative doesn't cost as much that does the same thing (ie play music over wifi). Also, is there a unit which integrates this and a radio (so you can use one machine to listen to itunes an the radio) Oskar 17:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
After an update a while ago Suse wouldn't start anymore. I haven't managed to fix the problem yet, so I thought about making a fresh installation. But I want to keep the old one on dvd, just in case. Does it make sense to make a system-backup this way? I used to do that with Win98 - just make a copy (using another installation) and when it gets screwed up, just copy it back again. Worked fine. But will it work for Linux? Also, when I tried this, it turned out many files were inaccessible, especially under /dev and /etc, but also loads more. So my questions are:
Thanks. DirkvdM 18:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
cp -R
(the unix equivalent of xcopy /s
) to backup linux (and equally that wouldn't work for a modern Windows install either). Not least because what appears to be files under /dev aren't really conventional files (in the sense that you mean), ditto for /proc, and probably a few other places. To make a full system backup you'd typically
dd
your partition to backing store (having safely unmounted it first), which will take an exact image of the drive, bit for bit. Absent another hard drive to marshall that into DVD sized chunks prior to making ISOs, I've no idea how you'd really do that with DVDs as the backup medium. But really this isn't a sensible, or necessary, way to backup a unix system. Practically you'd just back up the files you really need to save (just the stuff you personally actually made), and surely that'd be a sensible DVDs worth or two, and you'd trust to the success of a reinstall to get you a fresh system. Every revision of each major Linux distribution gets easier to install with each iteration. On the other hand, one continual hazard about most unix (including linux, but apparently not MacOSX, about which I know little) is the way a single program's install is spread over a regrettably wide collection of locations - so backing up an individual application install meaningfully is essentially impossible. --
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I'm as pretty much a computer illiterate as someone with a computer can be, so please bear that in mind as you answer these questions. It all relates to buying a new iPod, unloading the old one, and backing up iTunes.
-- Joelmills 03:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, I'm at about 13.3 GB now. If I save to DVD, will that also save the lyrics and artwork? -- Joelmills 07:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Every once in a while, I'll be on a computer - any computer - and I'll suddenly hear that noise that comes up when I take out my flash drive. All of my Portable Gaim icons disappear, and sure enough, that "Safely Remove Hardware" button on the toolbar isn't there anymore and the light on my flash drive is off. I physically remove it and put it back in, and I hear the noise that comes up when I put it back in, and everything is fine again. This has happened at least once on every computer with which I've used the flash drive, a Cruzer Mini 512MB, and it's recently become a problem when my Portable Firefox tries to update itself. It takes so long when it tries that the drive inevitably disconnects at some point, and then I end up having to reinstall Firefox. (I know I could turn off the automatic updates, but I'd rather just fix the flash drive problem.) -- Maxamegalon2000 04:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a free (gratis is fine) converter that can convert VOB to M4V (an iPod compatible M4V), and can either pan and scan, or at least recognise when it's meant to be 16:9 (and output as such). I have one now but it doesn't recognise when the file is 16:9 even though all the players do, so when it outputs the M4V, it's been stretched to 4:3. So does anyone know of one that can recognise it properly (and pan and scan, but at least recognise it)? - Рэд хот 12:37, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
countries talk about inter continental missiles having ranges say up to some thousands of km .But when you can launch satellites in to space you can also drop nukes anywhere on the earth. please clarify this.
I want to be able to write down all of the passwords that I use in a special file protected with a "master" password. I'm using Windows XP Home, and I have Office 2000 and WordPerfect Office 11. Is there a way to do this? -- Smack ( talk) 17:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of buying an apple AirTunes to be able to play my iTunes library in the kitchen. However, it is a bit pricey at $129. Is there any good alternative doesn't cost as much that does the same thing (ie play music over wifi). Also, is there a unit which integrates this and a radio (so you can use one machine to listen to itunes an the radio) Oskar 17:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
After an update a while ago Suse wouldn't start anymore. I haven't managed to fix the problem yet, so I thought about making a fresh installation. But I want to keep the old one on dvd, just in case. Does it make sense to make a system-backup this way? I used to do that with Win98 - just make a copy (using another installation) and when it gets screwed up, just copy it back again. Worked fine. But will it work for Linux? Also, when I tried this, it turned out many files were inaccessible, especially under /dev and /etc, but also loads more. So my questions are:
Thanks. DirkvdM 18:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
cp -R
(the unix equivalent of xcopy /s
) to backup linux (and equally that wouldn't work for a modern Windows install either). Not least because what appears to be files under /dev aren't really conventional files (in the sense that you mean), ditto for /proc, and probably a few other places. To make a full system backup you'd typically
dd
your partition to backing store (having safely unmounted it first), which will take an exact image of the drive, bit for bit. Absent another hard drive to marshall that into DVD sized chunks prior to making ISOs, I've no idea how you'd really do that with DVDs as the backup medium. But really this isn't a sensible, or necessary, way to backup a unix system. Practically you'd just back up the files you really need to save (just the stuff you personally actually made), and surely that'd be a sensible DVDs worth or two, and you'd trust to the success of a reinstall to get you a fresh system. Every revision of each major Linux distribution gets easier to install with each iteration. On the other hand, one continual hazard about most unix (including linux, but apparently not MacOSX, about which I know little) is the way a single program's install is spread over a regrettably wide collection of locations - so backing up an individual application install meaningfully is essentially impossible. --
Finlay McWalter |
Talk
19:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)