Re: Using XINE to play a DVD ISO Image?

2006-10-03 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>Mladen Adamovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Scarletdown wrote: >> Is there any way to possibly play a DVD ISO as if it was an >>actual physical DVD using XINE? I can mount the ISO easy enough. >>For my test, >> >I had the same problem - Xine didn't want to work with DVD ISOs or >copies

Re: Linux Will Get Buried

2006-09-14 Thread Gnu-Raiz
High in his ivory tower one hot afternoon "T.J. Duchene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have already lost respected members of the Debian community in >the last year or so, because of debates on the use of the lists. >I don't want to see that trend continue. If you actually read some of the

Re: Trouble on the Debian Front?

2006-09-04 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>>On Sunday 03 September 2006 20:17, Hex Star wrote: >out in the back woods Paul Johnson wrote: >> Yikes...is Debian gonna survive? >Just because one relatively minor (in the sense that he had no >formal >position) Debian developer with a big mouth has a blood pressure >problem >doesn't mean D

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-29 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>>Steve Lamb wrote: >>Other than those pesky privacy issues. >Marc Shapiro wrote: > I don't want Google, or >anyone else for that matter, storing my documents. I'll keep them >on my >own disk, "Thank you, very much." Well at this rate if you live in the US, you won't have to worry abou

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Ron Johnson down in the bayou wrote: >Showing my grey beard: WordStar was excellently-designed TUI >software. All was based on the keyborad "home row", most commands >were 2 strokes: "group"+"command". Help screens were layered and >rational. You could have help *always* on half the screen, >*t

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-21 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: >One major point he made about auto fuel was that >it is stored in a tank that is, at least in VA, 15 feet or more >underground, kept at a constant temperature and pressure, and that >this effect the delivery much more than the air temperature. Good

Re: chown

2006-08-15 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>Kent wrote: >I've been unable to find this in the info page for chown. Odd that >it's >not documented in the "official" documentation (as I understand >it). I >wonder how we're supposed to know this (assuming Paul's not always >there >to tell us ;-) ). >-- >Kent If you have root privileges

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-15 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>Paul Johnson wrote: > >Someone needs to go read the Advocacy HOWTO again. >http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Advocacy.html > >-- >Paul Johnson >Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://jabber.ursine.ca/ I am a

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Dave Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've done the same here, because of the high ambient heat in > Bangkok. Built a little rack to set the slab on, and heat > problems went away. My Sony laptop does have little feet at the back for that very reason, while the Dell 600M does not. Th

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. Does your laptop get hot under load? My wife has a Pentium M that burned out two motherboards, when used to crunch RC5-72. I look at it like this, if a computer is left on it might as well be d

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-07-12 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) to limit total control of a system to a subset of > applications for security reasons in large organizations and 2) to > enable > people who couldn't handle something say like console-based linux > well to > still use that computer; the operating

Re: [OT]laptop memory and slot

2006-06-30 Thread Gnu-Raiz
My wife has a 600m from Dell, if the memory slot is going out, I would advise you to run memtest 86 to check the memory. I would also advise you to run the Dell diagnostics as your haddrive might need to be checked as well. Just for your information my wife's 600m is on it's third motherboard.

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gnu-Raiz
I wrote this on one of the forums I visit. I have been running breezy without any problem, and when I did a apt-get update dist-upgrade it borked my system. I have quake4 and utk4 installed, after the upgrade quake4 would not even run, xorg was broken. This is what I get from filling a bug re

Re: OT:ogg player

2006-06-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
I have had great success with the Iriver brand, I have one of their IFP 795 players, which is good. Their new players are Umass storage capable which is nice. Most good players are Umass storage supported. Otherwise you will be stuck with, closed drivers and the like. My player is old but su

Re: Orinoco 802.11b Weirdness!

2006-06-01 Thread Gnu-Raiz
After a little more research, and trying a debian etch netinstall iso, which gave me the same results. I have concluded that my Orinoco 802.11b silver card has given up the ghost. I had that card for over 5 years, got it in 2000, or 2001 when Wireless networking first started to get going. That

Orinoco 802.11b Weirdness!

2006-06-01 Thread Gnu-Raiz
I ran into a rather weird problem with my network card, this is a pcmcia card plugged into an old laptop. For some reason when I start, and stop the pcmcia service my card is no longer recognized. It seems that it is trying to connect, but I get no green light. I even reboot and it is still the

Re: audio cd

2006-05-07 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Henrique G. Abreu wrote in haste: >I can't mount an audio cd >that runs on a diskman >can any one help? Generally you do not mount, audio cd's, the program will read it from the cd. If you have music on cd that you want to backup, use a program that rips it from cd and puts it on your harddr

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Conclusion: Is education a right or a privilege? Conclusion: Protecting rights of the individual --> Justifies war in Iraq. After all is your rights more then that of others? Does anyone see a contradiction? You can not be anti-war and pro rights --> this leads to selfishness. What

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >What is so hard about sending an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject >subscribe anyway? I don't think the problem is really the subscribing part, its the unsubscribing part that is the problem. I do agree with you, is it really that hard to

Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-07 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>From: >belahcene abdelkader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >hi, >I installed the 2.6.8 kernel ( I hadn't this problem >wiyth 2.4 ), and also the alsa-package for my sound >card hda-intel, There is no sound, because neither >/dev/audio, nor /dev/dsp ? what is the requirements >for udev to create an audi

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "Andrew Archibald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled once on a fine day: >Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is >supported by the Linux kernel? We had this talk about pci cards a little while ago, it should apply to USB also as the main difference is the way its connect

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T >>"string" option, >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname >>and >> current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? > >It doesn't. Your sh

Re: wine 3d very very slow, toolchain problem?

2006-02-19 Thread Gnu-Raiz
From: Rodney Gordon II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have nvidia-kernel-source installed and modules built for both of my >kernels, 2.6.15.4 mainline and also 2.6.15-ck4. nvidia-glx and >nvidia-glx-dev are installed, as are the proper libraries wine >requires. >Hardware: >Pentium D 830 (3GHz dualcore

Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?

2006-02-19 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Im using Asus WL-107G 54G cards here on Debian unstable with a >2.6.15 >kernel. The card uses the drivers from >http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and it >works very >well. No need for firmware either and its been compiling clean on >

Re: Laptop Battery

2006-02-17 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Just for those who want to read up on this subject, from a non engineer point of view you might want to check out this link, or read the gentleman's fine book. http://www.buchmann.ca/toc.asp This topic came up on the 1.7 volt Panasonic battery topic I was involved with some time ago. Oh if you

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
tend to do. This will also depend on the hardware you use, as some hardware require their special additions, and options in the conf file. Gnu-Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 17:32, Sun 11 Dec 05, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:59 -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > --snip-- > > will probably laugh at you. How else are you going to get a > > uniform file size of say 15mb each in your sample if you > > don't use rar? >

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 11:49, Sun 11 Dec 05, John Hasler wrote: > Gnu_Raiz writes: > > This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This > > is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use > > Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must > > hav

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 12:58, Sun 11 Dec 05, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:35:35 -0300 > Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > > >On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:02:50 -0300 > > >Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>Does anyone know a free software alternat

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 22:21, Sat 10 Dec 05, Jacob S wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:26 -0300 > Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Kemp wrote: > > > > apt-cache search rar unrar > > > > > > Gives you this in the output: > > > > > > unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files > > > unrar - Unarchiver fo

Re: jerks

2005-12-09 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 12:36, Thu 08 Dec 05, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:48 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > > Anybody have any idea how to begin tracing this down? Or maybe a better > > > explanation of what's going on? > > > > Have you checked dmesg output? Perhaps messages about spurious interr

Re: USB DVD burners

2005-12-09 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 10:37, Thu 08 Dec 05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe I forgot to hit send yesterday > > I was wondering what experience - good or bad - people had had with > USB DVD burners. > > In principal they should be easy, but in reality? > > Any info much appreciated. > -- > |Deryk Barker, Comp

Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: > Hi there, > > I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm > pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under > Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in > the following way: > > dd

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 14:53, Mon 05 Dec 05, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Dec 2005, Piszcz, Justin wrote: > > Wrong way. > > > > 1) Install mplayer from Debian-mar* > > 2) Run: mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://1 > > > > [snip] > > I spent quite a long time recently trying to find a version of mplayer > that

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-18 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 17:12, Fri 18 Nov 05, C. Chad Wallace wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: > >This looks like: > > > >Crashes when displaying image > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310917 > > > >http://www.movieweb.com crashes ff 1.5 RC3 from mozilla.org as well as > >an older debian ff on my sarge box. >

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 18:23, Fri 18 Nov 05, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 18 13:54 -0600]: > > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 18:59 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > Am 2005-11-16 15:06:03, schrieb Mike McCarty: > > > > > > > You don't have to vote, nor do you have to make requests. >

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 08:22, Wed 16 Nov 05, Steve Block wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:49:16AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:38:37AM +0100, steef wrote: > >>Steve Lamb wrote: > >>believe me: i know where i am talking about. herman and i analyzed for > >>over thirty years the work

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-12 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 15:21, Sat 12 Nov 05, Paul Johnson wrote: > Seth Goodman wrote: > > > Are you curious why? They have a sense of national pride and feel a part > > of the Indian economy, thus they naturally prefer to hire their own > > nationals. That's illegal here, but thankfully, they are not so > > con

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 20:45, Fri 11 Nov 05, Maxim Vexler wrote: > On 11/11/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Weissgerber, Tom L wrote: > > > > > //Debian,// > > > > > > //The following information should not have been made available to the > > > entire public domain. Please remove the following links

H264; hdtv .ts file playback status!

2005-11-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Well I was wondering if anyone else is having problems with .ts file playback? I know that mplayer plays them, but on my system it plays like a slide show, and I keep getting the famous too many video packets in buffer warning. According to the mplayer faq, this is a sign of a weak system, guess

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-11-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 17:32, Sat 05 Nov 05, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:25:40 -0800 > "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > going to give it a try soon, see how it performs vs. dvd shrink. > > later ran k9copy on a test disk that I just did a copy of with > dvdshrink - worked extremely

Re: Firefox throbber problem

2005-11-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 17:19, Sat 05 Nov 05, [KS] wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed yesterday that when I hover the mouse over the firfox throbber > (the round circle of dots just below the window-close button on > top-right of window), the CPU usage goes to about 100%. It goes back > down to normal after a few secon

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 01:00, Sat 05 Nov 05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Thomas wrote: > > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 02:53, Fri 04 Nov 05, Basajaun wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 11/4/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:19 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Did you check the sun.com website which claims that Solaris 10 is the > > > > mos

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? > > I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the

Re: OT mutt config (was: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-24 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 11:20, Wed 24 Aug 05, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24.08.2005 at 11:07 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you have > > > > > > > > subscr

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 13:54, Wed 24 Aug 05, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:56:20PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > debian users: > > > > I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that > > my reply went to the message author and not to the list. It is my > > understanding

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 01:27, Tue 16 Aug 05, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: > > > A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is not > > > expensive. > > > > Yeah. It's safe in th

Re: CD problem: hardware or software?

2005-07-29 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 15:59, Fri 29 Jul 05, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (29/07/05 08:55), Daniel Ramaley wrote: > > On Friday 29 July 2005 08:26 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:16:06AM -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: > > >> I'm running testing on a PowerPC (a Mac Mini to be precise). I have > > >>

Re: How can I get my sound card working

2005-07-29 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 14:31, Tue 27 Jul 04, campy wrote: > hi hope i have got the add right can you help every time i want to use sounds > it said sound card in use how can i fix this please help i am just a learner > on the computer It might help to know what sound card you are using, but a off the hip guess is

Re: xvnc4viewer and other vnc questions?

2005-06-01 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 20:51, Tue 31 May 05, J F wrote: > What is the difference between these two: > xvnc4viewer (1) - VNC viewer for X > xvncviewer (1) - VNC viewer for X > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/xvnc4viewer > > >From what I have read, tightvnc is prefered. > > A guy who runs differen

Re: CPU's and system monitor

2005-05-18 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 08:45, Wed 18 May 05, John Moran wrote: > Gnu-Raiz wrote: > > >On 19:14, Tue 17 May 05, John T. Moran wrote: > > > > > >>I installed Debian sarge today and the install went good. I couldn't get > >>the system to boot with the 2.6.8 smp kernel s

Re: CPU's and system monitor

2005-05-17 Thread Gnu-Raiz
he BSD's probably effects all OS's. Check the news its all over the web if you want to find out more. Gnu-Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 21:42, Tue 10 May 05, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm > I checked on the "From other news sites" section o

Re: faxing via broadband

2005-05-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Today 05:29:30 >>On Friday 06 May 2005 11:05, hja123 wrote: >>Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have >> thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I >>came >> across some non-free software available

Re: cdrdao problem

2005-05-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "Edward J. Shornock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wrote:A few (possible) things... > >It looks like you may be using SCSI emulation. If so, try to remove the >ide-scsi module with "rmmod ide-scsi". If it is built-in to your >kernel, try recompiling without SCSI emulation. > >What if you chang

Re: cdrdao problem

2005-05-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm tring to use cdrdao to copy some new CD's. I'm using a scipt >that I have used in the past. It looks like this: > >cdrdao copy --eject --speed 16 --eject --device 0,0,0 --driver >generic-mmc --source-driver generic-mmc toc > >But, now, after reading in th