Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 on Gentoo amd64 would not start.
It gives an error:
/usr/lib64/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable
Re-emerging world did not fix the problem.
Solution: Run Thunderbid in safe mode
$ thunderbird -safe-mode
After that Thunderbird starts OK in normal mode.
GlusterFS description sounds very promising: easy configurable, fault tolerant distributed file system. It promises petabytes of storage on a single name space on a commodity hardware.
It implements mirroring and stripe modes which makes it possible to store big files over a set of smaller storage servers.
The question is how easy the system can be extended and how easy faulty or just old elements can be removed from the system.
Is it a downtime involved in those operations?
Are there any alternatives in Open Source or any other world?
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To rip to mp3 format I use the following settings in
gnome-audio-profiles-properties
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 quality=0 vbr=4 vbr-min-bitrate=192 vbr-quality=2 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux
Hope it helps.
For those who like me can not find /etc/inittab file.
Ubuntu does not use System V init process any more to start and stop of the services during startup and shutdown processes. It uses upstart an event-based Read the rest of this entry »