>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #274 - 17 msgs >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:16:14 -0400 (EDT) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [199.183.24.211] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBB93C6A500CAD82197E6C7B718D309FF0; Thu Sep 21 14:20:48 2000 >Received: from listman.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by >listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPid 01BBA2FA1F; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 >17:16:13 -0400 (EDT) >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 21 14:23:47 2000 >X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0beta4 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 >Precedence: bulk >List-Id: General Red Hat discussion list <redhat-list.redhat.com> >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Send Redhat-list mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Redhat-list digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Yikes! RH 'Subscription Service'?? (John Aldrich) > 2. kernel configuration (Erik de Groot) > 3. Need runtime debug help (pointers please) (Vidiot) > 4. Re: kernel configuration (Stephen E. Hargrove) > 5. Re: INIT SCRIPTS explanation (Peter Blomgren) > 6. Re: Streaming media (Jonathan Wilson) > 7. Network Speed (Kevin Wood) > 8. Re: Network Speed (Steve Borho) > 9. Re: INIT SCRIPTS explanation (Barry L. Kline) > 10. Re: Streaming media (Matt Housh) > 11. Restoring Partition Information (Ward William E PHDN) > 12. Re: Streaming media (Jonathan Wilson) > 13. Re: Streaming media (Jonathan Wilson) > 14. RE: Streaming media (Kevin Rooney) > 15. Re: Streaming media (Rob Hardowa) > 16. Re: Restoring Partition Information (Jeff Hogg) > 17. Re: kernel configuration (Michael R. Jinks) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Yikes! RH 'Subscription Service'?? >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:45:37 -0400 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just read an article on www.zdnet.com about Red Hat offering a > > subscription service to customers. Here's the top part of that > > news article: >[clip] > > What's going on?? Is Redhat closing it's doors unless we now > > pay?? > > >Just speculation, but I'm guessing they're just offering >PRIORITY access to upgrades...which means if you're a >subscriber, you get access to the default server in >"up2date" whereas if you're a non-subscriber you have to >change servers. Or, maybe it means that up2date will ONLY >work for "subscribers" and non-subscribers will have to do >things the "old fashioned" way and manually ftp down >updates and install 'em themselves. > John > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:32:09 -0600 >From: Erik de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: kernel configuration >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Quick little question. > >I am running RH 6.1 and seem to have changed my kernel config file and >can't find the config >for my current kernel. > >Is there a way to get the configuration from the current running kernel? > >Thanks for any help > >Erik. > > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Need runtime debug help (pointers please) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RedHat main mail list) >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:41:11 -0500 (CDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I have a project that I've compiled under RH6.2 with gcc/g++ 2.95.2. > >The strace program has the following output: > > >execve("../../PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/pinnacle", >["../../PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/pinnacle"], [/* 59 vars */]) = 0 >brk(0) = 0x873d724 >old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, >0) = 0x40014000 >open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/openwin/lib/i686/mmx/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such >file or directory) >stat("/usr/openwin/lib/i686/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/openwin/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file >or directory) >stat("/usr/openwin/lib/i686", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/openwin/lib/mmx/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file >or directory) >stat("/usr/openwin/lib/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/openwin/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >stat("/usr/openwin/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 >open("/usr/local/lib/i686/mmx/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such >file or directory) >stat("/usr/local/lib/i686/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/local/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file >or directory) >stat("/usr/local/lib/i686", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/local/lib/mmx/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >stat("/usr/local/lib/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >open("/usr/local/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >directory) >stat("/usr/local/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 >open("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/i686/mmx/libc.so.6", >O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >stat("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/i686/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) >= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >open("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/i686/libc.so.6", >O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >stat("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/i686", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 >ENOENT (No such file or directory) >open("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/mmx/libc.so.6", >O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >stat("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/mmx", 0xbfffecd8) = -1 >ENOENT (No such file or directory) >open("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = >-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) >stat("/home/brown/Pinnacle/PinnacleStatic/bin/linux", >{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 >open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4 >fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20494, ...}) = 0 >old_mmap(NULL, 20494, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40015000 >close(4) = 0 >open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4 >fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=4101324, ...}) = 0 >read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\210\212"..., 4096) >= 4096 >old_mmap(NULL, 1001564, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = >0x4001b000 >mprotect(0x40108000, 30812, PROT_NONE) = 0 >old_mmap(0x40108000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, >0xec000) = 0x40108000 >old_mmap(0x4010c000, 14428, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, >MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4010c000 >close(4) = 0 >mprotect(0x4001b000, 970752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0 >mprotect(0x4001b000, 970752, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0 >--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- >+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ > > >Running gdb results in the following: > >gdb ../../PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/pinnacle >GNU gdb 19991004 >Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you >are >welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain >conditions. >Type "show copying" to see the conditions. >There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. >This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... >(gdb) break main >Breakpoint 1 at 0x804f9dc: file main.c, line 9. >(gdb) run >Starting program: >/usr/home/brown/Pinnacle/pinnacle/build/../../PinnacleStatic/bin/linux/pinnacle > >Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >0x400037b6 in ?? () > > > >The main function is the first function in the program. Obviously it isn't >even getting that far before it dies. > >Any pointers as to what I need to do to try and figure out where the >program >is croaking will be appreciated. If there is a better mail list to join in >which to get help on this, please let me know and I'll move the question to >that mail list. > >Thanks. > >MB >-- >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have > programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like > Microsoft? Lisa: Exactly. [The Simpsons - 12/18/99] >Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN) > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:44:17 -0500 >From: "Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: kernel configuration >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Erik de Groot wrote: > > > > Quick little question. > > > > I am running RH 6.1 and seem to have changed my kernel config file and >can't find the config > > for my current kernel. > > > > Is there a way to get the configuration from the current running kernel? > >cd /usr/src/linux >make oldconfig > >-- >Steve > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:08:33 -0700 >From: Peter Blomgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: INIT SCRIPTS explanation >Organization: High Latency R Us >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:48:24AM -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote: > > To start a service, create a symlink that starts with S that points > > back to the script you created in /etc/rc.d/init.d. The two digits > > that follow the S are used to order the execution of the scripts. > >If you add a comment in the header of your script, like this: ># chkconfig: 345 25 75 > >then you can use 'chkconfig --add <name>' to create all the symlinks; >the above script would be "on" in runlevels 345, with start priority >25, and kill priority 75. (See the chkconfig manpage for details, and >the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d for examples.) > >Cheers! >-- >\Peter. > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:57:24 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) >Subject: Re: Streaming media >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Yes I saw that and I am interested in it - personally, I love QuickTime >above all the other formats. However, as previously stated, the problem is >that our clients specifically asked that we stream in Real Media (very >easy, no problem at all) and in something that Windows Media Player can >play. Therein lies the trouble - Windows Media player can play .asf .avi >and MPEG, but I haven't found a server for Linux that does any of those >yet. See, they know that many Windows users will never bother to download a >QT player or even Real Player in some cases, and they want people to be >able to watch their video right away with no trouble. > >Personally that makes me unhappy, I think people should always be >downloading the newest browsers, and getting plugins and stuff. If it was >up to me we'd use QuickTIme and DivX;-) and provide a link to a player :-) > >But then I use Linux too so I must be *different* ;-) > >Thanks though, > > JW > >P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are confused >about that. MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > > >At 05:54 PM 9/20/2000 -0400, you wrote: > >On 19/9/00 7:39 PM, Jonathan Wilson struck keys that formed the message: > > > >> Howdy, > >> > >> Is anyone here familiar with using Linux to stream streaming media? > >> We've found that Real's RealMedia Plus server runs on Linux, but we >want to > >> be able to stream MPEG 1 or AVI (_possilby_ also .asf for those who >really > >> want it). > >> > >> So far I've had bad luck finding either MPEG or AVI streaming servers >for > >> Linux. > > > >A different approach: http://www.streamingserver.org. They can point >you > >to Apple's free version of Quick Time Streaming Server (properly called > >Darwin Streaming Server). Available for RedHat Linux. It will allow you >to > >stream any valid QT format, including MP3. Possibly .avi, but I've never > >tested that. Quite frankly, AVI really isn't up to the task of >streaming. > >-- > >Ed Marczak > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 7 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:19:44 -0400 >From: Kevin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Network Speed >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hey guys, > >Got a network question for you. I have a customer trying to find out >the speed of his network connection. He is running an Intel >Extherexpress Pro. Is there any way for him to determine its speed >under RedHat Linux 6.2. I know with the Digital Tulip Cards that if you >run it with the De4x5 driver, it will throw up a message telling you >what speed, but the Intel driver does not do this. Any information >would be great. > >Thanks > >Kevin >-- >Kevin Wood >Atipa Linux Solutions >850 East Industrial Park Drive >Suite 8 >Manchester, NH 03109 >P(603)622-7171 x 15 >F(603)622-7272 > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 8 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:45:05 -0500 >From: Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Network Speed >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:19:44PM -0400, Kevin Wood wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Got a network question for you. I have a customer trying to find out > > the speed of his network connection. He is running an Intel > > Extherexpress Pro. Is there any way for him to determine its speed > > under RedHat Linux 6.2. I know with the Digital Tulip Cards that if you > > run it with the De4x5 driver, it will throw up a message telling you > > what speed, but the Intel driver does not do this. Any information > > would be great. > >Run a google search for Donald Becker's mii-diag utility. It tells you >the state of the ethernet framer and even lets you tweak some settings. > >-- >Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 >Member of Technical Staff >Celox Networks Inc http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 9 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:47:37 -0400 >From: "Barry L. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: B. L. Kline and Associates >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: INIT SCRIPTS explanation >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Peter Blomgren wrote: > > > > If you add a comment in the header of your script, like this: > > # chkconfig: 345 25 75 > > > > then you can use 'chkconfig --add <name>' to create all the symlinks; > > the above script would be "on" in runlevels 345, with start priority > > 25, and kill priority 75. (See the chkconfig manpage for details, and > > the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d for examples.) > >That's what I really like about this list -- you can always learn >something new! Thanks Peter. > >Barry > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 10 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:57:11 -0500 >From: Matt Housh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Streaming media >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are confused >about that. MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > >Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in >a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. MPEG1 and MPEG2 >are video/audio formats. MPEG4 is also a video/audio format? Is this >wrong? Someone feel free to correct me if it is... > >-- >Matt Housh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Morpheus.Net Co-Founder/Admin > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 11 >From: Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Redhat-List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Restoring Partition Information >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:37:20 -0400 >charset="iso-8859-1" >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Guys, I need help. Last Friday, one of my wife's hard drives went >down in her machine. The drive is defective, but I can still detect >that it's there. I need to get the information off the drive, or >at least what is salvageable, as she hasn't made a backup in months. > >This seems like a natural for Linux; I've taken her drive, and inserted >it into my machine as hdb. However, the partition information is wiped. >The drive was partitioned as FAT32; I'm aware that there are techniques >that could be used (for example, I could look at the raw disk and >locate text files) but none of the techniques seem to be enough. The >good news is that if I can rebuild the partition information, I should >be able to at least PARTIALLY access the drive; better is that the entire >disk is one partition, so I don't have to worry much about the partition >start and end points. The bad is that she is blaming me (it wasn't >my fault the drive went bad... but this was an old drive that I didn't >trust anymore, so she is blaming me for her lost work, since I put it >in her machine). > >One tool that I've heard of is fixdisktable (strangely, after being sick >the last few days and having >400 messages on the list waiting for me, >there was a message to someone else about fixdisktable as the first >message). Are there any others? All I >think< I need to do is correct >the partition table and mount the drive, then copy the data to my working >HD. I should be able to restore one or the other of the two FATs if I >can only partition the disk non-destructively. Any ideas? I'd like to >be out of the doghouse here, and actually be in good graces until at >least I recover from being sick... > >Thanks in advance! >Bill Ward > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 12 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:12:28 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) >Subject: Re: Streaming media ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Actually, I think you are right - but an mp3 server, for example icecast, >cannot stream MPEG1 video - right? I looked over icecast's web site and >didn't find anything like that. > > JW > >At 12:57 PM 9/21/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >> P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are >confused about that. MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > > > >Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in > >a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. MPEG1 and MPEG2 > >are video/audio formats. MPEG4 is also a video/audio format? Is this > >wrong? Someone feel free to correct me if it is... > > > >-- > >Matt Housh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Morpheus.Net Co-Founder/Admin > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 13 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:15:55 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) >Subject: Re: Streaming media ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I sure wish I could find an AVI streamer for Linux - I was reading >somewhere the other day that "writing an AVI parser" is so simple that many >schools use it in classes or somthign like that. If it's so simple to parse >it's got to be simple to stream, so how come there isn't an AVI server for >Linux? IT would also save my company several thousand dollars :-) > > JW > >At 12:57 PM 9/21/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >> P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are >confused about that. MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > > > >Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in > >a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. MPEG1 and MPEG2 > >are video/audio formats. MPEG4 is also a video/audio format? Is this > >wrong? Someone feel free to correct me if it is... > > > >-- > >Matt Housh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Morpheus.Net Co-Founder/Admin > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 14 >From: Kevin Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Streaming media >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:24:57 -0400 >charset="iso-8859-1" >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Actually, mp3 stands for MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio. MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-3, >MPEG-4, MPEG-7,and MPEG-21 are all video formats. Check out >http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/ > >-----Original Message----- >From: Matt Housh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:57 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Streaming media > > > > P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are confused >about that. MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > >Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in >a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. MPEG1 and MPEG2 >are video/audio formats. MPEG4 is also a video/audio format? Is this >wrong? Someone feel free to correct me if it is... > >-- >Matt Housh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Morpheus.Net Co-Founder/Admin > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 15 >From: Rob Hardowa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Streaming media >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:56:43 -0400 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > > P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are >confused about that. > > > MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > > > > Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in > > a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. MPEG1 and MPEG2 > > are video/audio formats. MPEG4 is also a video/audio format? Is this > > wrong? Someone feel free to correct me if it is... > > >MP3 = MPEG1 Layer 3 and describes the psycho-acoustic compression of audio >signals only > >So MP3 is actually part of MPEG 1, but Layer 3 is the audio.... >MPEG3 doesn't actually exist anymore... > > >From [71] Introduction to MPEG (long) FAQ >http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part2/section-2.html > >Q: What is MPEG, exactly? > >A: MPEG is the "Moving Picture Experts Group", working under the > joint direction of the International Standards Organization (ISO) > and the International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC). This > group works on standards for the coding of moving pictures and > associated audio. > >Q: What is the status of MPEG's work, then? What's about MPEG-1, -2, > and so on? > >A: MPEG approaches the growing need for multimedia standards step-by- > step. Today, three "phases" are defined: > > MPEG-1: "Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated Audio for > Digital Storage Media at up to about 1.5 MBit/s" > > Status: International Standard IS-11172, completed in 10.92 > > MPEG-2: "Generic Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated Audio" > > Status: Comittee Draft CD 13818 as found in documents MPEG93 / > N601, N602, N603 (11.93) > > MPEG-3: no longer exists (has been merged into MPEG-2) > > MPEG-4: "Very Low Bitrate Audio-Visual Coding" > > Status: Call for Proposals 11.94, Working Draft in 11.96 > >Q: MPEG-1 is ready-for-use. How does the standard look like? > >A: MPEG-1 consists of 4 parts: > > IS 11172-1: System > describes synchronization and multiplexing of video and audio > > IS 11172-2: Video > describes compression of non-interlaced video signals > > IS 11172-3: Audio > describes compression of audio signals > > CD 11172-4: Compliance Testing > describes procedures for determining the characteristics of coded > bitstreams and the decoding porcess and for testing compliance > with the requirements stated in the other parts > > >-- >If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on >vacation. > >-------------------------------------------------------- > This mail proudly composed and transmitted without the > interference of any Micro$oft products or protocols. >-------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 16 >From: "Jeff Hogg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Restoring Partition Information >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:45:58 -0500 >charset="iso-8859-1" >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Redhat-List (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:38 PM >Subject: Restoring Partition Information > > > >Guys, I need help. Last Friday, one of my wife's hard drives went > >down in her machine. The drive is defective, but I can still detect > >that it's there. I need to get the information off the drive, or > >at least what is salvageable, as she hasn't made a backup in months. > > > >This seems like a natural for Linux; I've taken her drive, and inserted > >it into my machine as hdb. However, the partition information is wiped. > >The drive was partitioned as FAT32; I'm aware that there are techniques > >that could be used (for example, I could look at the raw disk and > >locate text files) but none of the techniques seem to be enough. > >Yeeouch :) That does not sound fun. Well, heres a my shot at helping you >out o the dog house. If the drive in question isn't too big, you could >just >try using dd to grab everything from the disk and plop that into a file on >your own hd. You could then mount that file as a "disk image" via mount -t >vfat -o loop /directory/filename /mountpoint You could check to see if >the >data is relatively intact within the disk image. If so, then you could >replace the old disk with a new one of the same type and size and dd the >data back onto the drive. If not, you might mount the new drive up as well >and try copying what data can be seen from the "image" to the new drive. >You'd have to format the new drive first as fat32 of course. Undoubtedly >there are a few dozen other solutions out there, and hopefully one of them >will help you out. Goof luck. > >Jeff > > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 17 >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:40:52 -0500 >From: "Michael R. Jinks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: kernel configuration >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Erik de Groot wrote: > > > > > > I am running RH 6.1 and seem to have changed my kernel config file and >can't find the config > > > for my current kernel. > > > > > > Is there a way to get the configuration from the current running >kernel? > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:44:17AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > > cd /usr/src/linux > > make oldconfig > >Will this actually query the running kernel? Or will it just run the >config >scripts using information present in the source tree? > >To actually query the running kernel I think you need to be a lot more >clever >than that, though I'd love to be told that I'm wrong. I _think_ that the >only option Erik has would be to go nosing around in /proc and get the best >guess he can from information found there... > >-- >Michael Jinks, IB >Systems Administrator, CCCP >finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public key >Vote Duke! http://www.entertaindom.com/pages/duke2000/home.jsp > > > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > >End of Redhat-list Digest_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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