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Transfering entire system and files to new HDD

catgate — Thu May 23, 2013 12:42 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 12:42 pm

I was just going to start on this job when I suddenly realised that I had another question.
Do I need to format the new HDD before cloning on to it? Or will Clonezilla look after that?

New NAS - Cant mount/see HDD drives

Ram — Tue May 21, 2013 11:22 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:22 pm

You need to either edit your fstab and replace Hoth with its IP or put a line in your /etc/hosts file mapping the IP to the hostname.

192.168.xxx.xxx Hoth

Looking at the spec of the NAS I don't see NFS as option, unless you have set it up on the NAS.

In your browser try

smb://192.168.xxx.xxx or smb://Hoth

Lorem Ipsum

Narendra — Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 pm

Author: Narendra

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 pm

Hello,

I have created a Lorem Ipsum Generator on the toolbar.
And when I try to to create A Lorem Ipsum text in a frame on a LibreOffice Writer document it shows an error and crashes but otherwise it does create the text without a frame.
Please advise.

Thank you.

USB to go on Nexus 7

nelz — Sun May 19, 2013 5:02 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:02 pm

Two years? Ypu'll have replaced it with something shinier by then

Incidentally, Nexus devices are the easiest of all to root. While Google may not actively encourage it, they don't try to stop you doing it. The Nexus devices are intended to be used as developer systems, so they are as open and vanilla as possible.

digital subscription to LXFvia zinio on android

beerstein — Sat May 18, 2013 4:53 pm

Author: beerstein

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:53 pm

since nobody can help me - I will post here what I experienced so far.

The ZINIO digital version of LFX magazine can only be read on Apple I-stuff, Android and WIN 8 tablet-phone. It can not be displayed by Linux machines at all. Makes no sense to me. The .pdf files are protected. One needs a password to display on a desktop PC.
No one is willing to tell me where I can buy such a password.

Who put that password protection into the .pdfś ?
ZINIO or Linux Format or is ZINIO forced to put it in.

So far I bought a GBP 50.00 ZINIO subscription, which I will never renew,
I had to buy the back issues on top of it mailed to California, another GBP 50.00

I would like to see a complete how to on getting digital content, view and print on desktops.

error: out of disk.

Bazza — Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Now that you have found a solution repost a full description of your solution to the "Hints and Tips" forum...

TIA...

File indexer suggestion

mm2ps — Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

Author: mm2ps

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

I am looking for a program that will provide a list of my files and I can add comments to. An index list (maybe data base) of my files that I can add things like authors, description etc.

When the indexer is run it would try to match the previous comments with the correct file, even if it has moved.

I would not mind having to guarantee a degree of unique file naming.

Please, do you have any application suggestions?

All the best,

Douglas

Cron configuration file Readynas

pk_fox — Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Ok, so if I edit the crontab with crontab -e and enter what you suggest I'll be good to go ? Thanks for your help

nelz wrote:

There are plenty of site that put man pages online, such as http://linux.die.net/man/5/crontab

Cron sends an email of the job's output automatically, as long as you tell it where to send it by setting MAILTO=you@your.email at the top of the crontab. If the job gives no output on successful completion, which is usually desirable, you only want to know when something is wrong, you can call the command from a script

Code:

#!/bin/sh
yourcommand
echo "Command finished"

and have cron run that script.

Serial connection 128000 Baud

ferrari — Mon May 13, 2013 5:33 am

Author: ferrari

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:33 am

I guess the need for it is minimal... most equipment default to standard baud rates. (I've never encountered the situation you describe).

BT Sport - Silverlight and Android

Ram — Mon May 13, 2013 2:13 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 2:13 am

Marrea wrote:

No more MotoGP, no more Jules, Toby and Spalding. How long before no more WSBK either.

Eurosport have it for 2015.

ODF on Android

guy — Wed May 08, 2013 10:26 am

Author: guy

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:26 am

Thanks all, I look forward to the LibreOffice port in due course.

Minor incompatibilities between ODF and legacy MS Office formats mean that converting to and fro is a pain - things like maths equations or footnote styling. Having firmly made the move to ODF some time ago, I now have far too many files to ever go back.

At present I can at least convert specific files to legacy Office formats for working on-the-go, that will have to do for the time being. FYI I use Kingston Office on my Nexus, being an Android app - and free at that - it is somewhat cut-down, but even so I am very impressed with it.

Nepomuk

catgate — Mon May 06, 2013 10:22 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:22 pm

nelz wrote:

It's dead easy, the name starts with K

Ah! I see!

No wonder Nepomuc had me Kompletely Konfused.

Same question put differenly

T@M — Mon May 06, 2013 9:24 pm

Author: T@M

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:24 pm

Thanks, but I found the alternate version and have got Lubuntu up and running, this reply is from machine.
My problem now is finding the mail which has been saved somewhere when I installed evolution and set it up from a backup tar.gz

Zip files, then delete them.

thusgaard — Thu May 02, 2013 3:11 pm

Author: thusgaard

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 3:11 pm

nelz wrote:

It might be a good idea to make sure the archive is valid before throwing away the original files

Code:

FILES=$(ls -1 *.jpg)
tar cf somearchive.tar $FILES
tar tf somearchive.tar && rm -f $FILES

Works like a charm.
Beauitiful.

Thanks.

Form Filling Software for Ubuntu

Narendra — Wed May 01, 2013 9:32 am

Author: Narendra

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:32 am

Thank you very much for your replies.

I did not know that Scibus can do that.
And I am learning Okular!