Re: What is possible with static ip?

2010-12-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
yes, provided your isp isn't blocking the port you share on. some isps block port 80 which would stop you from running a regular web server. most block port 25 unless it's going thru their server. On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Matt Smith wrote: I discovered my isp has assigned me a static ip. Does

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-09-05 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just co

Re: The NAME environment variable

2010-08-27 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, T o n g wrote: Hi, The NAME environment variable is very important to my script, but in one Debian derivative distro (, , Ubuntu), I found such variable does not exist: $ env | grep ^NAME || echo no found no found This is the first time that I found the NAME variable miss

Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome

2010-07-22 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Paul Cartwright wrote: I just found out I have an issue with audio playing in iceweasel, but NOT in google-chrome. I've mostly used iceweasel, but lately, every morning when I try to listen live to a news show ( http://wsbradio.com/ - listen live) the audio comes out either

Re: OT:Video Capture From Camcorder

2010-07-15 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: Camcorder output is composite (two RCA jacks) I bought one device which I can't get to work. Any products known to work with Debian Squeeze? I don't want to repeat my mistake. What did you buy so noone else makes the same mistake? Vince. -- Mic

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology prog

Re: Moving a drive to another computer

2010-05-19 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100519_124653, Vince Vielhaber wrote: A friend was running windows and the viruses got the best of it. She sent me the drive so I could get her pics and documents off of it and put 5.0.4 on it and send it back (she's a few states away).

Moving a drive to another computer

2010-05-19 Thread Vince Vielhaber
A friend was running windows and the viruses got the best of it. She sent me the drive so I could get her pics and documents off of it and put 5.0.4 on it and send it back (she's a few states away). What problems (and solutions) should I be expecting when she installs the drive in her computer?