[Ubuntu Question]

sure this is easy. as root you need to open the file /boot/grub/grub.conf then change the line that says

default 0

change to

default 1

[Different Compression Utilities]

I have been messing around tarring and compressing my system, for backup purposes. I was told to try rzip, it is supposed to be supurior in some ways, but has some other limitations. I used 'du -h' to collect all of the needed data. below are the results I got

here are some results of compressing my ubuntu system

3.1gb size of partition uncompressed

1.9gb size of bzip2 compressed system

1.7gb size of rzip compressed system

those are not compressed as much as I thought they would have been. When I originally compressed my gentoo base system using bzip2, it went down from 1.4gb all the way to 168mb, that is a compression ratio of about 8. when compressing my ubuntu full system the compression ratio was about 1.5 to 1.7 depending on wheter using bzip2 or rzip.

I wonder why I got about 5 times better compression doing my gentoo base system, over compressing my ubuntu full system.

[Combine Web Server]

is this to be an outside web server

yup

create a DMZ on the router and two vlans

I am not sure what a vlans is, is this like a 192.168.1, and 192.168.2 : are those seperate vlans? When looking at the dmz feature on my router, it only seemed to allow me to set my dmz computer on the same newtwork.

Something just came to me. To get everything on seperated subnets(are 192.168.1 and 192.168.2 different subnets?), will I need to disable dhcp on my router and assign all of my computers manually?

[My Resignation]

at this moment I'm listening to ZZ Top, Eliminator. That little band from Texas rocks!

cool

[Word Association Thread Part Ii]

minute...... as in time

[Combine Web Server]

I have an extra computer I would like to set up a web server. I am doing this purely as a learning experience. I currently have 4 computers on my home network, one windows and three linux. these computers are running without software firewalls, but the are all firewalled with my linksys wrt54g router, it uses stateful packet inspection. All of these computers are freely exposed to each other using insecure services like windows file sharing, and nfs(unix file sharing). I say insecure, because permissions are set so all computers on the local network have access to each other.

I would like to add a fith computer, which will contain my webserver, I am worried this will comprimise my home network. What, if any, would be the safest way to add this computer without causeing my home network insecurity.

[Clean Install Of Windows]

once when my harddrive quit working, HP sent me a new one, with no image on it. The recovery disks completely reformated it.

none the less, I may be wrong you may want to research it a little more, but I feel confident they will have no problem restoring your OS.

edit added later//

there is a chance that hp sent me a blank harddrive with a "hidden recovery partition", but my gut says it was just a plain blank harddrive.

Maybe sony does stuff differently then HP

[Clean Install Of Windows]

With the recovery disks I have used, they reformat and reinstall windows to factory specs. You say "wipe it clean", you mean completely erase it by writing ones(or is it 0's) to the drive before using the recovery disks, that should work fine.

I have even chopped up my drive into seperate partitions, ntfs, fat32, and linux type, then used the recovery disks, they reformat it into one big ntfs partition just like it came from the factory.

[Ubuntu 5.04]

I found something that looks promising. Try adding this line to your file /etc/modules

snd-cs4236 dma1=1 dma2=0 io=0x0534 irq=5

then try a reboot

you may need to unmute it with the utility

alsamixer

edit added later///

the above values may or may not work :-) by doing the command

lspnp -v

it may show the revelent dma, dma2, and io values

[Why Would Awk Be Running?]

this was the cron job running, it is just weekly, so I have never noticed it

#!/bin/sh
# this is part of the man package
# it updates the searchly database
# for manpages

/bin/nice /usr/sbin/makewhatis

[Ubuntu 5.04]

is this your secondary or main linux computer? If you really like ubuntu, the sound could be made to work :-)

s

[Ubuntu 5.04]

will we leave it up to mandriva :-)

edit added later//

I need something to break on my system, so can let this problem go :-)

[Ubuntu 5.04]

from the info I googled on your computer I thought that the sound card used snd-cs4236, but it appears to be using snd-cs4232, I first would try this

modprobe snd-cs4232
modprobe ad1848 
modprobe uart401
/etc/init.d/alsa restart

[Tar]

as of tar verison 1.15, you no longer need to specify the compression method used to uncompress it. I thought that was pretty cool. I bet most of you still specify by force of habit, I was until today.

[Why Would Awk Be Running?]

I noticed my harddrive light going hard, so I sshed into my machine and expected to see updatedb running. I actually found awk running at 30% cpu. Why wuld awk be running for no appartent reason?

[Ubuntu 5.04]

if you feel like digging a little deaper, I would reccomend booting knoppix-3.3(you said that one had sound), then running the command lsmod, this will list all of your sound modules that got loaded. I think most sound modules start with snd-*, they would be easy to pick out. Then it may be as easy as loading those indivdual modules in ubuntu. I would be curious to see if knoppix loads any moudles that start with snd-cs, those should be specific to your card. I would be happy to look at the output of lsmod. I feel like i am working a puzzle and so close to the solution :-)

[Ubuntu 5.04]

does alsamixer give you output(after loading the module and restarting alsa)? Sorry last question

I don't think I am going to get closure on this issue.

[Ubuntu 5.04]

first load the module with this command

modprobe snd-cs4236

then restart alsa with this command

/etc/init.d/alsa restart

after that, you may want to check to see if you master and pcm volume are unmuted, you can check with the command

alsamixer

[Ubuntu 5.04]

I am guessing it gave you no error when you loaded the module. Thanks for trying. I think i get some joy when something works, it is like I am solving a puzzle. When the puizzle gets solved I get some satisfaction ;-)

edit added later//

did you load the module before restarting alsa?

[Ubuntu 5.04]

sorry if I am being pushy, but I am curious to see if loading that module would solve the sound problem with ubuntu :-)

Have you recieved your mandriva cds yet?

[Ubuntu 5.04]

this might work for you, no hacking nessesary, the module is already buiilt. You just need to load it(I think;-)

modprobe snd-cs4236
/etc/int.d/alsa restart

[Ubuntu 5.04]

the reason your card did not show up with lspci is because it is an isa sound card. If mandrake does not come with that sound mouule by default, it could easily be built, it is supported in the 2.6 kernel source. If you feel like hacking your system let me know, this kind of stuff is fun for me :-)

[Ubuntu 5.04]

However, on my old Plll 500 Dell

Plll or is that a pll ? I thought pllls were much faster then 500mhz. Do you by any chance have the model number available, I am curious to see what I can find on the soundcard. Does sound work with knoppix?

[Ubuntu 5.04]

I thought the output of lspci would have given me something to google. I do not even see your soundcard(chipset) listed. Hmm.

Thanks anyways :-)

My thought was that maybe your card is only supported using OSS, that is why redhat worked. I thought redhat used OSS by defualt, but am not really sure.

[Ubuntu 5.04]

what do you have currently running on that machine, still ubunutu? what sound card(chipset) does it use. if you run the command /sbin/lspci it should tell you.

did redhat use OSS or alsa?