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Boy, that's pretty creepy...

They almost certainly peer with most major transit providers. Their throughput generally is huge, even without all this going on.

Yes, you will. I've never done this with grub2, but on other occasions: - do your windows stuff and lose the bootloader - boot into a rescue cd - mount your Ubuntu root partition and chroot to it - assuming all other requirements are present, reinstall the grub2 package (you did it from the package, right?)

Amongst other things it's modularised and much more portable. From the GNU blurb: Good to know it's gone well for you, IIRC it's one of our release goals for squeeze so that's reassuring

Kch, and you're surprised?!

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I thought it became a contract when payment was cleared, though perhaps German law is different.

How many nodes to a subnet are you using, and do you have QoS available to prioritise your router's physical port?

An ADSL router with gigabit ports is rare (read: expensive), given that even ADSL2+ is only rated to 24Mb/s. In any case, that won't help you with getting traffic back to your core over a long distance; that's down to good cable and patches.

peimg is for integrating drivers into boot images, not install images. Use imagex and sysprep, there are plenty of guides around for them.

myITforum.com : A geeks guide to Windows XP HAL Replacement (but ignore the rest of the article). You're on the right lines. Build yourself one uniprocessor image and one multiprocessor, build in the appropriate drivers and capture (or vice versa with an offline mount). Note: this took me a *lot* of fiddling last year. Be prepared for frustration and cursing.

I'd like to point out the hypocrisy in large portions of this thread .

Basically anything after the -exec gets executed literally, up to the '\;' and with '{}' substituted with the filename. Does mencode have a verbose option?

You're struggling to find it because Adobe require you to have a license for distribution. It's easy enough to do: Adobe - Player Licensing

Drop the -exec part, do you get the right list of files?

No need to fork anything: find . -type f -name "ntuser.dat" -mtime +90

It's lighter and faster, especially for embedded systems that don't have a lot of resources to spare - getting boot time down is our major aim. It's also easier to guarantee its presence on a base system because there are fewer dependencies. The few bits that are missing from POSIX are in developement AFAIK, but aren't common problems and so far (touch wood) we haven't had any disasters Ubuntu have a nice wiki page with a list of common bashisms: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh. The user shells aren't changing, just system shells.

In Debian-land we have the check-bashisms tool (part of the package maintenance toolkit); portability is especially important right now because we're changing the default system shell to dash, which would have broken many many packages a couple of years ago. It's been a monumental effort. Ubuntu have already been through this process.

My point was that this isn't bash at all, it's just the find command. Thus it's portable between shells, sans bashisms.

You don't need a for loop, find will do it without bashims: find . -type f -name "*.avi" -o -name "*.mkv" -exec mencoder "{}" -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of lavf -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2500:acodec=libfaac -af lavcresample=48000 -vf scale=432:240,harddup -lavfopts format=psp -ofps 30000/1001 -o "{}.mp4" \;

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Sounds like a plan

I thought there might be some gentoo magic. @RB: it's the same thing: iptables-save just spits out a machine-interpreted dump of the current state. You have to put it somewhere though.

I do iptables-save > /etc/iptables.save and then in rc.local (earlier would be better, but I'm lazy) iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.save

Isn't 7ft harness height?