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Lifetime of CD/DVDs?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi Folks, I often to use CDs to back up archival files. No problems so far. However, I've heard tell that CDs can degrade over time and that times of the order of 4 years might be the point where they start to get dodgy. Is this the case? If so, does it vary with the brand/type of CD? And does something similar apply to DVDs? Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Jun-06 Time: 19:30:10 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re:Permission Denied DVD
by Nick Daniels 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:47, you wrote: > OK, I'll soon be out of my depth (hardware has never appealed to me much, I > wish computers didn't have it...) > I notice in your fstab options for the drive you don't have 'user'. This > may be because all the other options you have (most of which I don't > understand) do the same thing. > > Have you tried mounting a disc manually? > > In case you're not sure about this: > > Insert the disc and cancel KDE's automount message. > > type: > $ mount /dev/hdc Hi Richard Many Thanks nick@linux-nxe0:~> mount /dev/hdc mount: only root can mount /dev/hdc on /media/dvdrecorder nick@linux-nxe0:~> su Password: linux-nxe0:/home/nick # mount /dev/hdc mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs' With Data DVD inserted, likewise with audio CD inserted, but audio CD Plays! I think I might reinstall, now they have fixed a lot of the package management problems and updater. As an avid Suse user of 8 or so years. I do not consider this the "best" of their distributions Many thanks for help. Kind Regards -Nick Daniels

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Permission Denied DVD
by Nick Daniels 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi I have been transferring data files from my DVD rewriter, however yesterday morning I suddenly got message "permission denied" to DVD, as user, and as root. I can play an audio CD from it, also play a video DVD System Suse 10.1x64 Copy of fstab: /dev/hdb1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 I have installed Vector on a spare Harddrive in same system and all is O.K. Kind Regards - Nick Daniels

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Meeting report: 2nd Thursday Norwich pub meet, 8th June
by Richard Lewis 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

ALUG 2nd Thursday Pub Meet Report. Thursday 8th June, 2006 Present were: Paul [paul_c], Richard [ironChicken], Jonathan [Noodles], Simon [sionide], Dave [Paperface], Becca, Mike, Martijn [mak] and John Henson, who is new. The first meeting of the warm weather saw most members in the geek uniform of t-shirts (there may even have been some legs on show) and drinking the colder varieties of beverages. John is new to the LUG and is playing around with SUSE 10 on a laptop which he brought with him. This, of course, solicited much discussion about the relative merits of, and LUGers' personal preferences for, user-friendly distros which continued on and off all evening. A consensus of opinion seem to fall around Ubuntu. Martijn was showing off his very desirable Hiptop which, although not running Linux, does have a nice little QWERTY keyboard and good connectivity. Richard babbled incoherently at Jonathan for a time about his current project to write a clone of Apache Cocoon using Python. Sorry, Noodles. Paul lent a book to Dave on Pthreads (which I'm sure was a gripping read) so that he could learn about semaphores as he'd had a problem with them during that day and didn't know what they were. Martijn and Dave discussed Django vs. Rails vs. Java for building web applications. Later on there was discussion of copyright, DRM and music copying in which Jonathan impressed us all with the fact that, apparently, Amstrad were the first company to ship a twin-decked audio cassette recorder and were sued over it by the record companies. This discussion moved on to TV programs and cartoons LUGers are currently watching and to PVRs and the merits of the EyeTV one for the Mac. A pleasent evening all round with a small, but select, group of ALUG members. We look forward to seeing you next time! Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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DLink 624 Wired/Wireless Router For Sale
by Simon Royal 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi I am moving and my DLink 624 router is no longer required. Any offers It is a Wired/Wireless router. 802.11g wireless, 4 LAN ports, web configuring superb piece of kit. No longer needed as my new place is not NTL and I purchased an ADSL wired/wireless modem/router. Excellent condition, comes with CD and power cable, plus ethernet cable. Router only, has no built in modem. Kind Regards Simon Royal Kind Regards Simon Royal ---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac

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Dell XPi Pentium 166 Question
by Simon Royal 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi Can anyone tell me whether the Dell XPi Pentium 166MMX laptop has 32bit cardbus ports or just the old 16bit card support? Kind Regards Simon Royal ---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac

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Which wireless ADSL modem?
by Ian bell 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

I currently have an Origo (cheap) wireless modem (802.11b) which was fine until my ADSL connection was upgraded to MAX ADSL (8Mbps max). It is fine much of the time but seems to perform less well with time. A reboot fixes it for a while. So I thought I might upgrade to an 802.11g wireless ADSL modem. I don't actually need any ethernet ports as all PCs in my network (2-off) are connected wirelessly. So I am looking for product recommendations, especially ones known to cope well with the current higher ADSL speeds. (some extra range would be nice too). Ian

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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OOo
by Bob Dove 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi folks, >From some-one who has embraced Open Office since ever - 'cos it's not Uncle Bill's, I'm happy that it opens and keeps most of the formatting of MS docs. I use it in preference - but for 'serious' work will use a page setter. Much easier to place graphics and have them stay put on page, so 'Office' is not an imperative. I get docs (from Scout Leaders) using stone age pooters with Office 3 (or so it seems) down to Cub Scouts who really are on top of things with the very latest! Compared with 'doze. 'ux is too complicated for a pointy pressy clicky user but I can cope with 'ux and OOo. God forbid that 'ux and OOo should be clones of doze but 'ux ain't doing much to win doze users over (in my humble opinion of course!) The desktop looks a bit enthusiastic amateur to me - probably why you guys like the command line so much! Personally, I'd like an OSX type desktop - seems cleaner somehow - and it works. Of course, now that clever clogs has ported OSX to PC!!! Cheers, Bob Dove.

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Cuddly Toy Anyone?
by Keith Watson 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

http://www.free-penguin.org/ Regards, Keith ____________ Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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