The CSATACOMBO is called a “fake raid“, “BIOS RAID” or “BIOS-assisted software RAID” that means that actually a driver at OS level is needed to get the RAID features (see more info about BIOS RAID at novell page).

And that’s why Linux (gparted for example) doesn’t recognize the RAID arrays created with CSATACOMBO because there’s no Linux driver to handle the proprietary BIOS RAID in CSATACOMBO.

You can always create a Sofware RAID.

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Every time I run setup.exe and try to upgrade bash package

setup.exe crashes with the familiar “setup.exe has generated errors and will be close by windows. you will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”. The solution I found is for bash package but I guess it also work for other packages as well

After googling a bit I found the this mail thread . But there was no solution posted into the thread so I tried to contact the Mario Frasca (one of the participants in the mail thread) to see if he found any solution to the problem. Well, he did. He sent me a mail telling me that William Crosmun resolved his problem.

It seems that /etc/setup/bash.lst.gz became corrupted

and if you delete it

and retry the upgrade now everything should work.

UPDATE: Please make a backup of the file before deleting it. If deleting the file solve the issue then please fill a bug report at cygwin and include that file. Or post a comment here and I will try to take care of it.

Hope it helps. Remember that if your setup.exe crashes while upgrading a package other than bash you should try to delete otherpackage.lst.gz instead of bash.lst.gz.

EDIT: to find the offending package you can use for i in $(ls /etc/setup/*.gz); do gunzip -t $i; done as stated in the comments.

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UPDATE: ncurses is a cygwin package in libs category in Utils category. You can install it using the the Cygwin Setup utility (just run setup.exe again). See screenshot below

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Redirect 301 / http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/

You probably found that it didn’t work. The browser will end up in an endless loop of redirections. Firefox will complain with this error message:

The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

The right way to accomplish the root to subfolder redirection is the following:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/

Hope it helps

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~$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
 * Restarting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon                            
 * avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain

After a while I realized that my ISP is playing tricks with the DNS. It will never return a “DNS lookup failed”, it always resolve any dns name you pass to it. If the name is assigned it will return the proper IP but if the name is not assigned it will return the IP of the ISP portal. (Nice trick to get more page hits in their home page).

So in order to make avahi work I changed my dns server to OpenDNS ones. But avahi give me the same “…unicast .local domain” error. Then I found that I have to delete the “/var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local” first. Otherwise the “/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon” init script won’t notice that change in DNS.

Hope this helps.

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cd $HOME/opt
wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
mkdir -p $HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages python ez_setup.py --prefix=$HOME/opt/easyinstall

Next, trac:

cd $HOME/opt
wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/trac-0.10.4.tar.gz
tar xvzf trac-0.10.4.tar.gz
cd trac-0.10.4
python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/opt/trac
cd ..
rm -rf trac-0.10.4
cd trac
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/:$HOME/opt/trac/lib/python2.4/site-packages/  bin/trac-admin $HOME/testtracenv initenv

Then the xmlrpcplugin:

cd $HOME/opt
wget -O xmlrpcplugin.zip  'http://trac-hacks.org/changeset/latest/xmlrpcplugin?old_path=/&filename=xmlrpcplugin&format=zip'
unzip xmlrpcplugin.zip
cd xmlrpcplugin/0.10/
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ python setup.py bdist_egg
cp dist/*.egg $HOME/testtracenv/plugins
cat <<EOF >>$HOME/testtracenv/conf/trac
.ini
> [components]
> tracrpc.* = enabled
> EOF

And now you can test your installation:

cd $HOME/opt/trac
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/:$HOME/opt/trac/lib/python2.4/site-packages/  bin/tracd -p 8080 $HOME/testtracenv

And point your browswer to http://localhost:8080/testtracenv/xmlrpc if it returns a Forbidden: XML_RPC privileges are required to perform this operation then the installation is complete.

You start using XML_RPC only need to do assign permissions for users using trac-admin, to enable xml_rpc for the anonymous user type this:

PYTHONPATH=$HOME/opt/easyinstall/lib/python2.4/site-packages/:$HOME/opt/trac/lib/python2.4/site-packages/  bin/trac-admin $HOME/testtracenv permission add anonymous XML_RPC

Hope this helps

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$ ls
S01E03.The.Sopranos.S01E03.Denial.Anger.Acceptance.avi
The.Sopranos.1x04.Meadowlands.avi
The.Sopranos.S01E01.The.Sopranos.avi
The.Sopranos.S01E02.46.Long.avi
The.Sopranos.S01E06.Pax.Soprana.avi
The_Sopranos.105.College.avi

that your divx player can’t sort properly and you want to end up with something like:

$ ls
1x01.avi  1x02.avi  1x03.avi  1x04.avi  1x05.avi  1x06.avi

you can use the following script in this way:

cd /path/to/avi/files
../script.sh|sh

and if you want to do the same thing to srt files then:

cd /path/to/srt/files
../script.sh srt|sh

As an example the script will normalize any of the following patterns S01E03, 103,1×03, or just 03 to 1×03.

The contents of script.sh :

#!/bin/bash
ext=$1
if [ ! $ext ]; then
  ext="avi"
fi
FILES=`find . -iname "*.$ext" -printf "%p\n"`
IFS="
"
for i in $FILES; do
 
dirname=`dirname $i`
g=`echo $i|perl -e '<STDIN> =~ m/S\d?(\d)E(\d+)/i; $1 and  print $1 . "x" . $2'`
 
if [ ! $g ]; then
  g=`echo $i|perl -e '<STDIN> =~ m/(\d)x(\d\d)/i; $1 and  print $1 . "x" . $2'`
fi
if [ ! $g ]; then
g=`echo $i|perl -e '<STDIN> =~ m/(\d)(\d\d)/i; $1 and print $1 . "x" . $2;'`
fi
if [ ! $g ]; then
  g=`echo $i|perl -e '<STDIN> =~ m/(\d\d)/i; $1 and print "1x" . $1'`
fi
 
if [ $g ]; then
 g="$dirname/$g.$ext"
 if [[ "$g" != "$i" ]]; then
   echo "if [ ! -e \"$g\" ]; then mv  \"$i\" \"$g\"; fi"
 fi
fi
 
done

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WARNING: Make sure that your history file size limit is big enough to hold all the combined history files. Otherwise you’ll lose some of the entries. You can go to this post for reference on how to change the history file limits

Here’s the script:

 
echo copying local history file
history -a
cp .bash_history full_history
 
HOSTS="machine1.example.com machine2.example.com"
for i in $HOSTS; do
  echo copying history file from $i
  scp $i:~/.bash_history tmp_history.txt
  cat tmp_history.txt >>full_history
  wc -l tmp_history.txt
  wc -l full_history
done
 
 
echo sorting the new history file and removing duplicates
sort full_history|uniq >uniq_history
rm full_history
 
echo replacing history file with the new one
mv uniq_history .bash_history
echo reloading bash history from file
history -c
history -r
 
 
wc -l .bash_history
 
 
for i in $HOSTS; do
  echo backing up .bash_history in $i
  DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`
  ssh $i "cp ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_history$DATE"
  echo replacing .bash_history in $i
  scp .bash_history $i:~/.bash_history
done

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Disabling history scroll in firefox (Usually triggered with Shift-<Wheel>) in about:config seems to have no effect in stopping this weird mouse wheel behavior.

Theorically changing the value of all mousewheel.horizscroll.with∗.action and mousewheel.with∗.action entries to 0 disables moving back/forward in history using the mouse wheel. Check this to know more about the meaning and purpose of mousewheel.∗ entries. But as I said It seems that doesn’t make any difference.

If you know the solution for this problem post it in the bug report

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