November 30, 2003
November 28, 2003
Foobar 2000 wasn't reading my ID3 tags
Hydrogenaudio Forums -> mp3/id3v1 problem in foobar 0.7
It turned out to be because MP3Gain was writing an APE tag (containing undo info) to the file. Foobar2000 would then see the tag, and decide to only use APE tag, and ignore the ID3 tag.
SMB3 in 11 minutes
Further down in the conversation there is a link to a torrent file. Or, this is the torrent.
November 27, 2003
Apparently, there was some kind of protest
FTAA IMC | New Photos of Nikki Hartman Shot in the Back...
and FL police shot people. In the back. Who weren't in a crowd at all.
November 26, 2003
November 25, 2003
November 24, 2003
November 23, 2003
November 22, 2003
November 21, 2003
November 20, 2003
Universal Dos Network Drivers (PXE)
3Com Support Library - DynamicAccess managed pc boot agent (MBA) Downloads
November 19, 2003
At last, I think I have all the pieces.
Installing Debian from an USB memory stick (USB key)
To create a bootable USB memory stick, you can use the "mbr" package from debian (to write an MBR to the stick itself), and then syslinux (to write a boot loader to the first partition on the stick).
On the test stick that I have, the first partition is offset by 16kb from the start of the stick.
November 18, 2003
Make your USB drive bootable with this utility
aaltonen.us: Tip: Boot from USB Key
Though the original site is down, this guy thoughtfully mirrored the utilty needed.
November 17, 2003
PXE booting with Memdisk
I was getting a bunch of "non-system disk or disk error" messages when I was trying to use PXElinux to boot memdisk and a dos floppy image.
Turns out that I needed to enable the floppy drive in the BIOS for memdisk to work properly. After I did that, everything was fine.
November 16, 2003
November 15, 2003
Using Debian packages from different distributions
This is also called a "mixed system", and is described in the "APT HOWTO - Managing packages" as well.
November 14, 2003
Window transparency
I've blogged other transparency thingers (well, ok 1, but twice), but this one is better.
November 13, 2003
Remote Printer installation
189105 - How to Add Printers with No User Interaction in Windows
Super-badass.
November 12, 2003
November 10, 2003
Hard drive reconition problems
Incorrect jumper settings will also prevent the BIOS from detecting your drive. The most common incorrect jumper setting used is for a drive that is alone on the data cable. Keep in mind that the concept of Master/Slave applies to a given EIDE channel. If there are two drives on the data cable, one must be Master and one designated as Slave. If the drive is the only device on the cable, it should be jumpered as a Single drive, NOT a Master. To do this, place a jumper shunt on pins 4 & 6, or remove the jumper shunt completely to set the drive as a Single drive.
Apparently, when you have just one drive on a chain, you should not set it to Master. I was having problems with this old P200 that I got. It wouldn't see the drive from BIOS (even though Linux had no problem installing to and using the drive).
Quickie Notes on LVM
- pvcreate /dev/hdd
- vgcreate -s 32M --verbose logicalvol /dev/hdd
- vgdisplay
- vgcreate -s 32M --verbose volgroup1 /dev/hdd
- vgdisplay
- lvcreate -l 7451 -n mirrorvol volgroup1
- mkfs.ext3 /dev/volgroup1/mirrorvol
November 09, 2003
These codes can tell you what's wrong
Flash BIOS Service - Reparatur Repair Recovery Programming
BIOS - Beep Codes
November 06, 2003
November 05, 2003
November 04, 2003
Xina could benefit from this....
With proper guidance, any person in reasonable health can run a marathon.
November 03, 2003
It's not what you might think
Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades
Every Playboy Centerfold