software RAID on mixed drive types (SATA/IDE)

I was thinking of getting another disk and starting to use software RAID (levels 1 and 5). I have 2 IDE disks on my 2 IDE buses, but my motherboard also has 2 empty SATA connectors. I know putting more than 1 RAID drive on a single IDE bus is not recommended, so I was thinking of getting a SATA dri

Re: MythTV mirrors or updated howto.

The mdz repository is no longer being used. The current development has recently moved to the marillat repository:deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main I don't know of a good howto specifically for Debian. I use the documentation on the mythtv site, as there's not much specifically debi

Re: VLC in testing?

This frustrated me for a while too. I ended up adding the stable repositories to my sources.list, and then installed the version from stable (version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 in stable, compared to 0.8.4.debian-1 in unstable).This worked perfectly for me, though I am only using the main vlc package, not

Use of telinit by regular users

I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies. I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various runlevels to control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be able to switch runlevels, but telinit seems to be able to only be run by r