Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.co
!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.pipex.net!
ews.pipex.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:21:33 -0600
From: Josiah Jenkins 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Ubuntu machine on the way Friday
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:21:32 +0000
Sender: Ian Stewart
Organization: Perfidious Alban Publishing
Reply-To: josiah-jenkins@dsl.pipex.com
Message-ID: <8efsu21epol6dh8b3er6srrpuhaq4boc6s@4ax.com>
References:  <11
3158871.314972@netadmin1.interbaun.net>  <556blqF2393miU1@mid.individual.net>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000722-1, 07/03/2007), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Lines: 68
NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.178.237.200
X-Trace: sv3-qr7y6b+UP0U4sVWhTeXC1nuKFkPEC6h+exv7feugtHKt0Pr3b+3
5VVqkq/wyR73aGXehQpAxe5mXPE!uEZFBfmoFz7e5o2fxsrHc43SM2ZTgLx6d0Q3
nvHal1C4obt0pp0UT25AenI5792nZKubTd8w2K3!2vPY+wDQhfMrN/S+QiSusmi77N8=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@dsl.pipex.net
X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@dsl.pipex.net
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint
properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.34
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.os.linux.ubuntu:11672

Whilst perusing Usenet on 6 Mar 2007 23:26:51 GMT, I read these words
from Joe LaVigne  :
>On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:08:44 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>> Whilst perusing Usenet on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:28:53 -0800, I read
>> these words from NoStop  :
>>>Pete wrote:
>>>

>>>
>With a deb (or rpm) package, you have no user prompts.
> Everything goes where it is supposed to.

Is that good or bad ?
>
>You can reset the root password if you wish, but it is not necessary. 
>Right click on "Applications", click "Edit Menus", click on
>"System Tools" in the left pane, put a checkmark next to
>"root terminal" in the right, close the window.

Thanks, hadn't got around to random left-clicks to
see what, if anything, happens.
>> 
>> I've been trying to change 'permissions' on an .ogg file.
>> Even as sudo or gksudo and using a tag managing program,
>> I still can't find out how in Ubuntu . . . 'permission refused'.
>> Or you get it changed but it won't save !!!
>
>Copy the file to your hard drive.
>Use sudo chown username to give yourself ownership of the
>file, then you should be able to do anything you want.
>You cannot change permissions or ownership on a CD.

I hadthem on the HD, I copied about 15 ogg files into a
directory in /home to mess around with.

All my music files (just over 7,000) are in mp3 format
on an external hard drive.
>> 
>ogg is not a filesystem.  It is a music file type, similar to MP3,

You're correct, it's a file type.
As mp3 is a type within the mpeg 'family' of files.
(Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3)

I knew of the ogg format but in fifteen years have never
seen an ogg file used on a Windows system. 
>> 
>> (I've even managed to get a 'chocolate screen of death'
>
>In many years using Linux in one form or another, I have
>had a few lockups (almost always hardware related),
>but never seen such a screen.

It was after changing a file following 'advice' I was given.
(not here, I hasten to add)
I got a totally blank desktop (no icons or toolbar)
and had to re-install to get it back to normal. 
>
>> That last sentence can put the fear of death into a newbie !
>> 
>> "Source code" . . . like Cobol, Fortran, Pascal and Lisp ?
>> "Compile" . . . like put lines of 'ifs, ands and ors' together ?
>> "Binaries . . . aren't they just dirty pictures you download ?

Sorry, I wasn't being serious there.
It was only intended as a joke ! 

-- jjj
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Omicron Theta BBS (1:261/20)