General Linux

Linux and Verizon FiOS
I finally got someone at Verizon who was not in the marketing department. He said the software they install on the users' computers is for the convenience of the customers, and not really needed (MSN, Yahoo, etc.). That if I can talk out a NIC on 192.168.0.* I will be OK. And that was easy since I had a spare Intel... 22 Jan 2006 15:22

ext2 vs ext3?
Debian, online install. I'm thinking "ext3" and 10 gigs: 5/4/1:Root/Home/Swap. Does these allocations sound about right? Is "ext2" just an older version of ext3 or is it for some different purpose? -- PeteCresswell ... 24 Jan 2006 09:03

wifi question
I'm trying to configure my laptop so that it can communicate with my wireless router. So far I've installed ndiswrapper and the relevant driver and iwconfig gives: eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"<name>" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.457 GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ... 20 Jan 2006 22:47

how to find average file size
I have a reiserFS under Mandrake with a directory, full of sub directories, in total containing 15 million small image files (between 1k and 10k). How can I find the average file size? ... 16 Jan 2006 03:40

Lexmark P4300?
Hi all, Has anyone managed to get a Lexmark 4300 series printer working with Linux? I've tried a fair bit of Googling with little success :-( I have managed to access the built in card reader using USB mass storage, sadly though it is only a reader and not a writer (I had the brainwave that I may be able to tr... 14 Jan 2006 05:30

booting from ISO image on HD?
hi, everyone. i ran into by a problem recently. can i, by any mechanism, boot from a bootable ISO image on a hard disk(instead of burning it into a blank CD, and boot from CDROM)? for example, i have following ISOs on /dev/hda1: / -knoppix.iso; -slax.iso; -sarge-netinst.iso can i, at the bootloader sta... 18 Jan 2006 03:45

Video (.mpg/.avi) to iPod (.mp4) converter
Hi all, (Sorry... reposted with new Subject.) I got 30GB iPod for Christmas. I would like to try out its video capability. iPod plays the following formats: * H.264 File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Ba... 26 Jan 2006 04:47

accessing ntfs volumes
Hi Group, I'm running Fedora Core 3 on pentium machine with dual boot with windows installations Uname gave the release id as 2.6.9-1.667 I want to access ntfs volumes. I want to know what to write out in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab such that ntfs volumes can be read/write. Thanking you Pradyut http://pradyut.tk ... 12 Jan 2006 05:35

A CD image viewer and extractor?
Hello! Is there a program, like IsoBuster in Windows (http://www.isobuster.com/), for Linux? I have some big ISO files, and I am trying to find specific files to view and extract. I do not want to burn CDs to get them. It can be command line (easy?) or GUI based. Thank you in advance. :) -- "Whenever I see... 25 Jan 2006 17:27

is something wrong in it?
I have RedHat linux 3.2. I installed a server Called Mfold 3.2 on my computer. But I think it has some problam. Bcoz when in that directory I write mfold then I get command not found. though I write ./mfold it give me some information about mfold. How I can use this mfold Command. May be I am not able to expre... 12 Jan 2006 19:47