Re: external DNS service
On 4/9/07, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at http://www.granitecanyon.com/ again their server keeps giving me Internal Server Error on some of the management pages. Not a good start. What about http://xname.org/ ? That's free and if I understand it is built on some free software too. I had a good track record with xname.org for the last few years. They write the software and maintain the DNS, either primary or secondary. Their interface leaves much to be desired and (my pet peeve) they don't support SRV RRs but they're good friendly and reliable. They will also appreciate a monetary donation for any sum. -- Arik = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Streaming Video Server
Are there any mature FOSS solutions for streaming video content? Pros/Cons visa vi Microsoft and REAL Video solutions. Preferably I am looking for a solution that will play in Windows Media Player thereby not requiring most users to install new software. Thanks, Chaim = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Streaming Video Server
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:24:46AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Are there any mature FOSS solutions for streaming video content? VLC. Pros/Cons visa vi Microsoft and REAL Video solutions. Real with IIS is probably the best from a staffingpoint of view. You buy their package and get well tested, easy to use systems with good bandwidth utilization. Note that well tested is not the same thing as well maintianed, people may spot bugs, but their schedule of fixing them may not agree with yours. There are lots of FOSS solutions from your needs, but they range from dismal to wonderful depending upon how much expertise the people using them have. Considering the cost of upload bandwidth (real bandwith, not the high latency, get it when you can stuff people use at home), paying a real expert to design and implement your system will be well worth the money. Preferably I am looking for a solution that will play in Windows Media Player thereby not requiring most users to install new software. That's a problem in itself. Windows media player works well in I.E., but not always well in FireFox. What's your primary concern is the codec (compression software) you use. The better the compression, the faster the computer and the newer the software has to be to play it. It benefits you by costing less to store and transfer. You might also look at technologies like Democracy TV. It uses Bit Torrent to deliver your channel in background, sort of video Podcasting without a pod. Other technologies such as Joots may become useful, but in beta testing they have not. They work, but due to the low number of users, it is too CPU and bandwidth heavy for any real useage. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Streaming Video Server
Hi, Check Apple Darwin Streaming Server: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html It is Open Source and it is supported by Apple. I found it very usefull. Cheers, Alex Rier, CEO Breakthrough Ltd http://www.breakt.co.il Original Message: - From: Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:24:46 +0300 To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: SPAM - Streaming Video Server Are there any mature FOSS solutions for streaming video content? Pros/Cons visa vi Microsoft and REAL Video solutions. Preferably I am looking for a solution that will play in Windows Media Player thereby not requiring most users to install new software. Thanks, Chaim = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VNC and webcam question
Hi people, I was wondering if anyone knows about any program which can grab images continuously from webcam and stream them using the VNC Protocol. I know that there are smart cams out there that stream using HTTP/RTSP etc, but in this case I need it for my home and a cheap-o webcam connected to my Linux server. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNC and webcam question
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:52:17PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi people, I was wondering if anyone knows about any program which can grab images continuously from webcam and stream them using the VNC Protocol. I know that there are smart cams out there that stream using HTTP/RTSP etc, but in this case I need it for my home and a cheap-o webcam connected to my Linux server. Hmm? why do you need anything special? Use vncserver to start a VNC session, use vncviewer on the local machine to connect to it and use whatever to display the stream coming from the camera, and then use vncviewer on the remote machine to connect to it and view the stream. Not optimal by a long shot, but should work out of the box. Cheers, Muli = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for a Laptop
On Thursday 05 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6400 lappy with Fedora Core 6. At the time I bought it, one HAD to purchase Windowx XP with it, but now I think that you have a choice of Vista or some Linux distro, I don't know which. I don't think that any lappy today comes without Vista. OK. 10. All hardware works with open source drivers, at least on Linux. FreeBSD would be a big plus. I haven't had a chance to test the bluetooth, and the wifi/video card may need closed source drivers. I don't understand why you are so uptight about using open source drivers when you plan on dualbooting with Windows. Should I remind you that windows is not open source? Windows is not open-source. I hate its usability, power and robustness, but I guess I can still use it under VMware. Opera[1], VMware Workstation, Flash, etc. are also not open source, but they're user-land applications and high-quality to some extent. And they don't interfere with my rest of the work in my otherwise 100% free software Linux distribution. However, proprietary drivers in Linux are Evil with a capital E. See: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_binaryonly_linux_kernel_mo.html http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html (a petition I started). Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - Just for the record, I dislike using Opera, find it an inferior browser in comparison to Konqueror and Firefox, and just use it to test my web-sites, in order to have yet-another browser to test with. Even if it was superior, I wouldn't have used it because it's not open-source. - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for a Laptop
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:23:36 +0300 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6400 lappy with Fedora Core 6. At the time I bought it, one HAD to purchase Windowx XP with it, but now I think that you have a choice of Vista or some Linux distro, I don't know which. I don't think that any lappy today comes without Vista. Some you can still get with XP. Also, you can have a look at MSI sold by ivory, they sell their laptops with no OS (of course you can buy M$ for oem prices, and I think now they advertise the laptop price without the OS) I don't know about linux capability, I can get access to a recent one to see how ubuntu live cd or knopix run on it if there is interest. I think that at least most of them use nvidia though which I seem to recall needs the proprietary driver for 3d but I'm not sure (my current 4 year old lappy has a ati rage mobility so ...) OK. 10. All hardware works with open source drivers, at least on Linux. FreeBSD would be a big plus. I haven't had a chance to test the bluetooth, and the wifi/video card may need closed source drivers. I don't understand why you are so uptight about using open source drivers when you plan on dualbooting with Windows. Should I remind you that windows is not open source? Windows is not open-source. I hate its usability, power and robustness, but I guess I can still use it under VMware. Opera[1], VMware Workstation, Flash, etc. are also not open source, but they're user-land applications and high-quality to some extent. And they don't interfere with my rest of the work in my otherwise 100% free software Linux distribution. However, proprietary drivers in Linux are Evil with a capital E. See: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_binaryonly_linux_kernel_mo.html http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html (a petition I started). Can't comment about these although at least in the field of graphic cards I can understand the manufacturers. Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - Just for the record, I dislike using Opera, find it an inferior browser in comparison to Konqueror and Firefox, and just use it to test my web-sites, in order to have yet-another browser to test with. Even if it was superior, I wouldn't have used it because it's not open-source. I don't use Konqueror since I don't like kde (both it and gnome have the hobby of trying to take over the world by flooding it with daemons). Opera usually misbehaves and firefox/iceweasel/swiftfox (which is the least worse solution I found since most sites don't work well with w3m and similar) hog the memory like a starved rino (150MB min with the occasional habit of going to over 600MB). Not that I can say that explorer is any better, I'm still waiting for a decent browser to appear. - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Haifux Lecture] The OLPC project
Time+Place : Monday 16/04/2007 18:30, Taub 3 Speaker: Zvi Devir Host : Haifa Linux Club Title : The Children's Machine (AKA the $100 laptop) and the OLPC initiative Abstract : One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization dedicated for the development and construction of the Children's Machine, commonly known as the $100 laptop. The Children's Machine is an inexpensive laptop computer that will be distributed to children, especially in developing countries, to provide them with access to knowledge and modern forms of education. In this talk, the OLPC project and the Children's Machine will be presented. I'll talk about the concepts of the project, and discuss some of the hardware and software considerations. The presentation will be given with a XO-B2 machine. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for a Laptop
On 10/04/07, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use Konqueror since I don't like kde (both it and gnome have the hobby of trying to take over the world by flooding it with daemons). Opera usually misbehaves and firefox/iceweasel/swiftfox (which is the least worse solution I found since most sites don't work well with w3m and similar) hog the memory like a starved rino (150MB min with the occasional habit of going to over 600MB). Not that I can say that explorer is any better, I'm still waiting for a decent browser to appear. Lynx maybe? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/adsl.html http://essentialinux.com/linux-software.php = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
