Notes on broken english

Okay, so I finally got around to setting up Fedora12 and I know that SOMEWHERE in fedora-land there is a way to virtualize another OS (ie: Windows) within it... but there are only 2 reasons why I would want to... Adobe CS4 and Warcraft

My question is... who has virtualized MS and ran higher-end games, and then, how well did it work for you?

How'd you go about it etc.

Hi LJ Linux community, it's been a long time. I was hoping you could provide some advice on filesystems.

So I recently got a nice big external hard drive. I plan to use that as a way to store files accessible to both Linux (me) and Windows (wife) with read/write support. I've always used FAT as my universal filesystem but now that I frequently have files over 4gb FAT doesn't cut it.

Last time I tinkered with the NTFS linux driver was years ago, and it didn't have good write support. Is NTFS on Linux good enough now that I can reliably store data on an NTFS drive?

If not, is there another filesystem any of you can think of that I can count on to have read and write support with any OS I throw at it?

Everytime I reboot my mt-daapd server is off, and I have to manually go restart it.

This is an Ubuntu Linux hosts so there's no chkconfig to chkconfig it on with.

Here's what I see:

# find /etc/rc* -name '*mt-daapd*'
/etc/rc0.d/K25mt-daapd
/etc/rc1.d/K25mt-daapd
/etc/rc2.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc3.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc4.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc5.d/S25mt-daapd
/etc/rc6.d/K25mt-daapd

# runlevel
N 2

So it should be starting. But it's not... I have to manually /etc/init.d/mt-daapd start after each reboot..... why?

Argh.

Linux community, I need your help!

I'm running Ubuntu 9,04 (Jaunty Jackelope)

I installed both ManDVD and DVDStyler.

I was able to write a DVD using ManDVD once and then I tried it again, and the DVD writing still worked. However, I hate the format of it because it only lets me place things in a grid.

DVDStyler is much more awesome.

However, I've only been able to write one successful DVD with it. I put one menu on it with only one option to play one video. It was very simple. The DVD worked fine and plays in both my Toshiba TV with DVD player and in my early PS2.

I thought I'd try just a tiny bit more advanced by putting a second menu. The instructions seemed simple enough. Just direct the link to go to that menu.

I try to write the iso image and it tells me that the rendering worked. I think that's just great. However, the rendering didn't work because the iso file is nowhere to be found! I check in the folder where I told it to save and it's not there. I tell my system to search all files for iso and there is no .iso file at all! (I got rid of the other .iso files when I've tried, but nothing that came with DVDStyler or ManDVD - not that I know!)

Anyway, since the iso file isn't there, I try to write to a DVD and I get the following error message: (yes, I always tell DVDStyler to format the DVD)

Ecc generation: 100.0%
Image has been augmented with error correction data.
New image size is 138 MB (70662 sectors).
Formatting DVD-RW
Executing command: dvd+rw-format -force /dev/dvd
* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro@fy.chalmers.se>, version 7.1.
:-( mounted media doesn't appear to be DVD±RW, DVD-RAM or Blu-ray
Burning
Disc size: 4488 MB
ISO Size: 138 MB
Executing command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd="/home/bridget/Videos/trial/dvd.iso" -use-the-force-luke=dao:70662
:-( unable to open64(""/home/bridget/Videos/trial/dvd.iso"",O_RDONLY): No such file or directory
Failed


As you can see, the Ecc generation works. I even get a great preview. However, I can never write an iso file or a DVD.

I did download all the files in the manual I found for DVDStyler.

Sometimes I get an error with a message that DVDisaster cannot continue or complete some type of process.

Can you please help me to figure out my problem?

OK, you're a knowledgeable bunch and this is kindof Linux related to here goes:

I need to develop a website in PHP containing a form which will support the inputting of e-mail addresses with IDNs, convert the IDNs to Punycode (with the xn-- prefix) and drop all required form info into an e-mail to be sent to the site owner. This most usefully requires the idn_to_ascii function.

This requires at the least (further investigation may turn up more headaches) PHP >= 5.3 or, failing that, >= 5.2.4 with PEAR Installer >= 1.4.0 to install the PECL intl extension.

This I can do locally (after finding yet another bit of broken config in OpenSUSE that needed fixing before PECL would work) but I need to be able to do this on a shared hosting server if this is possible.

Does anyone know of any hosting companies which provide this support? I know a virtualised private host would allow root access and all the control that goes with it but I'm hoping to keep costs down.

Extra bonus features include ssh/sftp/file over ssh support, local .htaccess and php.ini files and multiple domain names to the one site.

Interesting summary of how we've progressed over the past decade.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/15-game-changing-linux-moments-of-the-decade-659030

Personally I consider this more important:

http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/osfam vs http://www.top500.org/stats/list/14/osfam