Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-15 Thread Greg Farough
From: RiverWind Subject: RAR/ apt-get Question Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:00:53 -0400 (EDT) > > Hey There, > > Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, > I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this > file is either obsolete and hence no longer supp

Re: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players

2011-09-11 Thread Greg Farough
From: Camaleón Subject: Re: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:46:09 + (UTC) > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:19:34 -0500, Greg Farough wrote: > >> Hey, all. I've lately been trying to make backups of files in

Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players

2011-09-10 Thread Greg Farough
Hey, all. I've lately been trying to make backups of files in various media formats to DVD, using FFmpeg and dvdauthor. The resulting DVD plays excellently on my laptop DVD player with MPlayer and VLC, but suffers from incessant skips on the two commercial DVD players (i.e. hooked to a televisio

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread Greg Farough
From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:02:44 +1000 > On 28/08/11 00:36, yudi v wrote: >> Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Yudi >> > > Maybe...(I'm guessing) > > /var/log/