Notes on broken english

Is there an easy way to track people who access files on an NFS share? I'd like to know who's accessed a file, and when. I'm hoping there's a way to get an http style usage log.

Suppose I have a bunch of a particular kind of file with scrambled names (ABCD.jpg CDBA.jpg BBCA.jpg, etc) all from www.website.com/foo/

Suppose then I would like to wget replacements for all of the files.
Who knows why? Maybe they're growing mold. Not the important part of the scenario.

Is it possible to make a bash script using grep to get the file names and insert them into a wget command? I am not very familiar with bash or grep, so assuming this scenario is possible how might one do it?

Thanks.
-bmach

My Firefox updated to version 3.5.5 and now the LJ entry view looks strange, missing pictures plus the horrible Times New Roman font.
On my portal page everything looks fine [www.livejournal.com/portal/], but to have the usual style by the entries I must switch to IE view:

page rendered by ff engine
page rendered by ie engine

On my old PC I have a previous version of Firefox and everything is ok there.
What can I do to solve it without switching to ie view? Is it possible they will fix it in the next firefox update?

Thanks!

I've got a box running Hardy Heron I've been using as a file server. It's been acting a little flaky lately, and today for some peculiar reason when it reboots the machine seems to just die. I can log in remotely, the shares still work, I just can't access the box locally.

When it does boot, just before the orange line gets to the end (on the splash screen) there's a peculiar system beep (i.e. not through the audio port), then nothing.

I've tried restarting in recovery mode, and there don't appear to be any obvious problems... until you get to the login screen, and the video gets wonky and it appears to hang.

I've tried booting from the live CD, but the options on what to repair aren't obvious... I strongly suspect a boot drive is failing, but what do I know?

I'd like to keep all the configurations as I've got a rather large OS RAID I'd hate to reconfigure, as well as the server settings. Is there an easy way to back up the relevant boot drive settings remotely, replace the boot drive, and install a more recent version of ubuntu (while still retaining the settings)?

So I just updated my Ubuntu install to 9.10 and sound seems to not work in any of my video players (yes, I checked the sound levels both in the programs and with the alsa mixer). I tried installing ubuntu-restricted-extras but all that did was turn all my videos blue.

I tried also opening several mp3s in each of those programs and the sound does not play as well. However madplay can play those mp3s just fine. I also tried with a .ogg, the video players won't play it either.

When I view the mp3 in totem with visualizations on it does seem to be basing them on the music, instead of just sitting there flat like it does with dead air.

I tried running each program from the command line, but I didn't get any sound related errors. I can post the output if anyone thinks it would be useful.

Any ideas? I tried searching through the forums for something related, but nothing popped up.

EDIT: The issue was pulseaudio. Rather than trying to figure out what was wrong with it I just bypassed it and use ALSA now. Since I don't use any of the advanced stuff that pulseaudio does that should meet my needs.