This link is referred.

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- dists
- indices
- ls-lR.gz
- pool
- project

I'm currently debmirror the repo, and I'd love to know the difference between dists and pool. Is pool the software collection (like the actual library), and dists is a pointer (like a kinonavi at Kinokuniya) to specific software for specific releases (intrepid, jaunty, karmic and such)?

We have MediBuntu, Google and Canonical being third party sauces. What's the name of the official repo? Official?

With automatic repositories, distributing the packages in the different directories will quickly lead to an unmanageable beast. It is also a waste of space and bandwidth, as there are many packages (for example documentation packages) which are the same for all architectures.

In these cases, a possible solution is a pool. A pool is an additional directory under the repository root containing all packages (the binaries for all architectures, distributions, and components, and all the sources). Through a smart combination of override files (which are not covered in this document) and of scripts many problems can be avoided. A nice example of a pooled repository is the Debian repository itself.

you're using standard or envy drivers?

What card are you using?
If you're using a G92 or later card, you could get motion compensation to work via VDPAU. Of course, you would also need the latest driver and a patched mplayer.

how to check my own ip address using ubuntu?

anyone using a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer sound card (successfully) on Ubuntu 8.10?

i've installed the driver & i did get sound working after that using the OLSA option, but the subsequent day(s) when i booted up to Ubuntu, i didn't get any sound at all on the OLSA option (in fact, got an error msg instead when i tried to test it). when i swopped to the OSS option, there's sound, but it sounds absolutely horrible with a lot of static & distortion.

oyah...fyi, this is my 1st time trying out a Linux OS 

you've installed it or running livecd?

Ubuntu's installed into my PC, not runnign from Live CD.

LEVIATHAN : How do i go about updating the drivers in Ubuntu?

how to check my own ip address using ubuntu?

You'll have to compile it manually.

thanks. tried that & for a moment it seemed like it´d worked. but after a restart, itś not working again. the Creative driverś totally gone from the options now.

this is the error message i was getting before :

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Could not open audio device for playback.

Ubuntu's installed into my PC, not runnign from Live CD.

LEVIATHAN : How do i go about updating the drivers in Ubuntu?

It seems that my display using Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell XPS M1330 doesn't turn off even if I have set it to go off after idling for 12 minutes.

I find GNOME-power-manager to be very unreliable on my computers as fas as sending displays to sleep is concerned. It will work for a few times before completely stopping to work again for the rest of the session.

Yes, this is what I've been facing after deciding to give Ubuntu another try. For my laptop that is usually switched on 24 hours, it doesn't seem practical at all that the monitor is switched on all the time.