Hardware :: Is Capacity Dependent On Burn Settings Or DVD Media Itself?
Sep 13, 2010
my brother was trying to burn some dvds, and he asked me about capacity. I told him that they only held 4.7 GB, but he found some that advertised 8 GB and 8.5 GB. Then, I saw the wikipedia article. According to that, there are even 17 GB disks? I knew about Dual Layer but not all this. Is the capacity dependent on the burn settings or the DVD media itself? I have a newer SATA DVD burner, so it should support everything.
Used DeVeDe to take a Avi that was 700mb which is now a 2gb iso file which will open fine with VLC player with the custom menu I made and the movie plays fine but K3b will not burn the to the media and I tried several blank disk of the same media now and no luck. I don't have any other media to try but this same media worked fine with K3b before and recent so I don't know but I never tried it using it like this before meaning with DeVeDe.
Am slowly parting company with MS Windows. I have been using this app to convert, burn, and then be able to play on most all DVD players, ConvertXtoDVD. Is there something I can use in Ubuntu that is fairly easy? Also would like something in Ubuntu to convert and burn to Dual Layer media and then play on standard DVD players.
Using Preferences->Preferred Applications, in the multimedia tab, I've selected 'custom' and set the command to "guayadeque". But, if I double click on a .mp3, movieplayer pops up, and if I use a Media Control Applet in AWN, rythmbox shows up as the default. Anyway to make guayadeque (or other) as the true system default for music files?
I currently run VNC with Gnome to run VirtualBox for my VPS's, but the problem I'm facing is that occasionally, the VNC session will die.
Ubuntu - 11.04 Server Edition.
I mean, randomly just die and then through up an error (specially connection refused 10061). The problem caused by this is that after I reset the VNC session, VirtualBox will have stopped and in turn the VPS's.
Is there any way I could run VirtualBox without being dependent on VNC + Gnome? Or at least, beable to stop VNC is dying on me?
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I'm compiling vlc in Fedora 13 and i'm getting lot of dependent errors. I would like to install the dependencies.getting the vlc dependent packages. I prefer compiling from source codes. Kindly let me know the sites where i can download the codecs
I am doing security stuff under linux... I've heard of Wireshark and Snort and dsniff and have been reading up on them on wikipedia pages but the big picture is not clear to me yet. Are things like Wireshard and Snort BASED on the functionality of iptables in Linux? I read that you have to be root to run iptables, but not to run Wireshark right? Yet Wireshark is dependent on iptables.
I understand that making any changes wrt to kernel on Slackware one has to rerun Lilo. If an install was made onto a disk already using other distros and Grub and wanting to keep Grub, do I still need to install Lilo?I believe that one could use the 'chainloader' entry in Grub to boot the Slackware. And Lilo can be installed to its own / root partition.I suppose really what I'm asking is Slackware totally dependent on Lilo?
I was using windows recently and noticed that in their command line, the autocomplete is in some ways a little more intelligent (although based on my short experience ours is more robust); for example, if you have a directory named blah and a file name bl, in Linux "cd bl <tab>" will result in "cd bl" while in Windows I get "cd blah" because it recognizes that blah and not bl is the appropriate argument to cd. Similarly unrar will target rar files first.I am not saying Windows command line is better; Windows command line is in general a piece of junk.
I'm trying to force open office to the 3.2.1 version that is available in backports. When I force the openoffice.org package, and try to install it ( with synaptic ), it complains. I assume this is because the dependencies aren't right. Do I have to manually track down all the dependent packages and force their versions to comply as well?
I have wasted lot of time in installing rpm packages which are needed for oracle 11g on Fedora 10. Packages dependencies are going in circle. Is there any better to handle this package install and its dependencies? I was using rpm -ivh command. Following are required packages. Tried to down load packages which are not present in /var/log/rpmpkgs.
In some cases I got higher versions of the following packages. binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.el5 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 elfutils-libelf-0.125-3.el5 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125 glibc-2.5-12 glibc-common-2.5-12 glibc-devel-2.5-12 glibc-headers-2.5-12 gcc-4.1.1-52 gcc-c++-4.1.1-52 libaio-0.3.106 libaio-devel-0.3.106 libgcc-4.1.1-52 libstdc++-4.1.1 libstdc++-devel-4.1.1-52.e15 make-3.81-1.1 sysstat-7.0.0
I've a source code of a program and I know that to compile and install that program I've to do: ./configure --prefix=/opt/test make make install
Now I want the program to look for dependent libraries and header files first in a non system folder. Now how can i instruct "configure" and "make" script to look for dependencies first in a different folder without editing configure and Makefile. And after these folders are searched for dependencies by the script it can look in system folder. Is there any environment variable that i can supply to "configure" and "make"? Will that work without any conflict? what are these environment variables? And also if I use these environment variables do I need to edit the source code files?
I mean do I need to change these lines Code: #include <test1.h> ... to Code: #include "test1.h" ...
If yes then is there any other way to compile them without modifying the source code?
I'm running openSuSe 11.3 and KDE4.5, but the only version of KDirStat that I can find in the repos is dependent on the KDE3 libs. Is there a version available for KDE4.5? Or maybe something else equally as good (apart from running WinDirStat under Wine)
Found that RedHat Linux supports Context-Dependent Path Names in symbolic links using special reserved CDPN variables. Will it be possible to create a user-defined CDPN variable and use it in creating a symbolic link
I have a 650 GB ext3 LVM partition with RAID 1 on. The partition is 85% full, but the system says "no space left on device" - where did the 15% go?I ran "tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mda1", so it is not the space reserved for the root - so Nautilus reports the same free capacity as GParted now.Some more info:- Ubuntu 9.10 x64- GParted says 650 GiB, 104.83 GiB free- Nautilus says 104.8 GiB free- The system thinks the disk is completely full - I cannot even create (touch) a new empty file
First of all, this isn't really a problem for me, but I'm just curious. In the past when I started a data CD project, I remember that k3b used to start me with a "blank CD" of 700MB and then expand to a "blank DVD" of 4.4GB when the amount of data exceeded the capacity of a CD. Normally I just make an ISO image for the CD and burn on another machine (for a reason not relevant here).
Today, it started me off with a "blank DVD" right away. It's not a problem because the ISO format isn't different and the data is under 700MB anyway. How come? Ah wait, I think I know what it is, there's a DVD+RW in the drive at the moment so k3b got too smart and assumed that I wanted to write to it, even though I selected Create image only.
Just rebuilt my file/print server using an ECS 945GCD-M Atom motherboard. Running it under 9.10 (2.6.31-20) using the same cable and port on my Netgear switch that my old server connected to at 1GB/s without issue (old server's NIC was Intel-based).
Found the driver is an AR813x, & downloaded & installed the latest driver from here (1.0.1.9). sudo lshw -C network now shows that it's using the new driver, but still sitting at 100MB/s:
my laptop battery capacity has gone low due to constant charging or whatsoever reason. previously it was at 62% and within 2 months its gone down to 32%. I use the laptop atleast for 18hrs every day. so is ther any solution to prevent my battery from losing the capicity.
i use dell studio 15 laptop, with 3 gigs of ram, lithium ion battery(56Wh), ati card, using compiz, p8600 processor. i use this for app development and for listening to music and videos.
I've recently completed a fresh install of 10.04 on a home file server and upgraded the hard drives in my storage array. My PREVIOUS hardware was:
Old version of Ubuntu (I forget which one exactly, but I know I had missed a few upgrade cycles)
3X 500 GB Seagate Baracuda's (for the array) Areca 1220 Hardware RAID controller Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 320 GB Seagate for the boot drive
I was running that hardware for about five years or so and it was rock solid. After the upgrade the hardware specs are:
Ubuntu 10.04 Areca 1220 hardware RAID controller 4x 1000GB Samsung Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 320 GB Seagate for the boot drive.
The fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 went remarkably well. The drivers for that raid controller are in the kernel, which is great. I was able to access the old array after upgrading Ubuntu. Now I am trying to create a new array with the four 1000 GB drives in a RAID 5. Obviously that gives a maximum storage capacity of 3 TB, greater than the 2 TB threshold that seems to be so important. I've been doing some digging and here is where my questions start:
it appears as though gparted doesn't support file partitions greater than 2 TB, correct?
it also doesn't seem as though parted supports ext3 or ext4, is that correct?
If this is the case, how do I create a partition with ext4 that is greater than 2 TB?
I can see the array volume in gparted (which is a relief) but it lists the size as 2.73 TiB, which I find curious because that is over 2 TB, but not the full capacity of the volume. I can also get to the volume in parted. But I see in the parted documentation that using the makepartfs command is discouraged and instead, one should use the command mkpart to create an empty partition, and then use external tools like mke2fs ( to create the filesystem.
how to proceed from here. What does the community think is the best course of action to create a partition of 3TB in ext4? Then I need to change fdisk to automatically mount the array at every log in, right?
I have window 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop.As you know if I extend the capacity of my ubuntu partion in window, I will lose ubuntu and I should reinstall it.I want to know if there is a way for extending my ubuntu partition from 20 Gb to 30 Gb without loosing ubuntu and windows?
I have an 8gb sandisk cruzer flash drive that I wanted to remove the U3 software from. I used with this:and ran it on my windows machine because wine didn't work for itbut after it removed U3 my card only had 3.8gb. Is there any way to restore it back to 8gigs?I've already tried reformatting with the disk utility and it just doesn't give me the option to format higher than 3.8gb.
1 Areca controller 1222 divided into 2x250Gb in RAID 1 for my Ubuntu installationm6x 2Tb in RAID 5 for my data (mounted as logical drive) resulting in 8Tb of available space (also visible in the disk utility of Ubuntu) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Now the problem; when I check the capacity in the file browser on my mounted data drive, I only see 5,1 Tb of total space.
I'm curious as to why the size (1Mib) and capacity (4MiB) are different. Surely it can't be possible to stick something on the CPU to increase the L2 cache size, right?? So what does this mean?
I'm running 64-bit Linux Mint (derivative of Ubuntu). The kernel config says CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64 but I found nothing about the L2 cache.
Can I somehow unlock more cache to get a 4MiB L2 cache for free?
bash-3.00$ df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d5 44G 40G 3.1G 93% /u01 but bash-3.00$ du -sh /u01 9.7G /u01 My question is: Why the fist command tell me 40G used but the second command tell me different result? My system info: SunOS INSP-DB1 5.10 Generic_142909-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
i have a macbook air, just recently got it. and i am trying to experiment a little bit and use DSL instead of a full fleged version, I have the ISO, and a pen drive, and acsess to startup manager, but the pen drive never shows.
