Re: IBM Model M Keyboards (Was: Air compressors vs. canned air)
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:24:39AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: I second that motion! I have two of them. I wish I had more. They are the best keyboards ever made, in my humble opinion. I'll third that motion. Back in the 486 days my keyboard gave out. I went in search of one at a small local computer store. They were out of stock but gave me a used Model M as a loaner until they got more in. After using it briefly I called the store to ask about buying it or one like it. They gave it to me. My 486 has long since been retired but I'm still using that same keyboard. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100220121957.ga4...@rawfeddogs.net
Re: flash / iceweasel / all that
Glenn, On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Glenn Becker wrote: I should probably admit that I haven't been booting my Debian install lately, I've been running some other Linux distros, not to mention FreeBSD and OpenSolaris, for quite a while. I think I've finally come to my senses and just recently reinstalled Debian. I am running testing and have been for some time. I've run testing with my last few Debian installs and have had no flash problems. I don't recall when Flash stopped working, but this has been the case for some time. I can easily remember when flash stopped working for me. It was when I switched to FreeBSD. :-) Javascript is on. I did a dpkg-reconfigure on adobe-flashplugin. I've searched around and couldn't find an adobe-flashplugin package. Which repo is it from? I'm using the flashplayer-mozilla package from the Lenny repo at www.Debian-Multimedia.org and YouTube, etc., works great for me. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: packages in a fresh install
Marcelo, On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with: dpkg --clear-selections dpkg --set-selections myselections and then, in order to install the packages, should I do aptitude update? # man dpkg works wonders. :-) Also from the dselect man page: Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the selection state on the requested packages. You will need some other application to actually download and install the requested packages. For example, run apt-get dselect-upgrade. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: packages in a fresh install
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Kevin Monceaux wrote: # man dpkg works wonders. :-) Also from the dselect man page: I think I browsed too many man pages before I replied. The above should read from the dpkg man page. :-) Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.
Nuno, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote: The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are not desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. This rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI i'm using leafpad, any other suggestions? I've gone to the extreme with desktop-independence. I use DWM as my window manager and have it tweaked such that unless I happen to have a browser or image/movie viewer open it looks just like the Linux console. The only window decorations is a one pixel wide border to show which window has focus, which I can toggle off/on. DWM can be completely controlled via the keyboard. I use the plain Jane console version of vim even when using it under X in a urxvt window. The IDE part is a bit more tricky. They're not too tricky if one gets the cables and jumper settings right. I've had good luck with both Maxtor and Western Digital IDE drives. :-) Excluding Java kicks out NetBeans and Eclipse. The basic fuctionality i search in an IDE is syntax-highlight, code-completion, project-management and preferably cross-platform and i18n support. Eclipse's C++ relied on make which may be useful for linux but not as much for windows. Any IDE supporting a GUI would be welcome; CodeDragon is at its early stage and this poses the question: which toolkit to use? Oh, that IDE. :-) I've never figured out the appeal of IDEs. Maybe it's because I cut my programming teeth learning Pascal on a VAX 11/750, running VMS, with VT-52 clone terminals. VMS's LSE, Language Sensitive Editor, has some nice built-in compile capabilities, but I don't think it was available on the 11/750 I used back then. I did try it on my VAXStation at home a while back. For program development I use an editor, vim, to edit, a compiler, gcc, fpc, clip, etc., to compile(usually via a Makefile), and a revision control manager, git, for revision control. I've bene using esperanza as a client for xmms2d but it doesn't support random playing. In fact there doesn't seem to be than many clients out there, is xmms2d that fresh? When at the command line(which includes using urxvt under X windows) I use mpg123 ogg123, mplayer, etc., to play music. If I'm in the living room I play music from my PC on my TiVo thanks to pyTivo. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!
Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]
A, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional). Actually, I was using xmonad before switching to DWM. I'll take configuring DWM via editing a C header file(config.h) and recompiling DWM over Haskell any day. :-) Actually I've tried xmonad, ion3, ratpoison, awesome, evilwm, stumpwm, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. I ended up trying DWM a couple of times before I got hooked. Oh, did I mention I use the vimperator Firefox plugin to give my browser a vim look/feel. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmarks (Was: iceweasel 3 in sid)
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks. How do you keep the same bookmarks and form prompts in two different profiles? Since there's always a chance I might be using someone else's PC when I'm out and about, not to mention that I sometimes switch between two PCs while as work and always clear my browser history before signing off, I've found that the best place to keep frequently used bookmarks is in my head. Yes, I can type URLs like: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/76630 from memory. For less frequently used URLs that I'm likely to forget I add the to a bookmarks page on the test web server running on my home Debian box. I let web designers take care of the forms(prompts, labels, input fields, etc.) on their sites. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Am I missing something simple? I've also hit a recent snag with DVD+R, single layer, disks. In my case I'm able to burn them but not mount them. I've also been wondering if I'm missing something simple but haven't dug into the problem too far yet. Basically my problem goes something like this: I take an .iso video DVD image, which I can mount via -o loop, play with xine, etc. I burn it to a DVD+R single layer disk via my external USB DVD burner. It burns successfully. Then if I try to mount it in the same drive it complains saying I need to specify the filesystem type. When I mounted the iso image the type was detected as udf without having to specify it. I try specifying udf as the type when trying to mount the disk and it still complains. I can pop said disk into either of my DVD players and it plays fine. Am I missing something simple? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail not getting to DU
Wayne, On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: I am still reading the mail on mutt though. So I have to paste your message into icedove. ;-( I haven't been following this discussion, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. I suspect from this e-mail that you're having problems sending e-mail from Mutt to the list, which you have set up to go through postfix on your local box then on to your ISP. Have you tried sending directly from Mutt through your ISP's mail server? Yes, I know Mutt itself doesn't have that capability. Just Google for Mutt SMTP wrapper and you'll find a shell script you can use to send mail directly from Mutt through your IPS's mail server. I used it for a number of years before switching to Alpine. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. I'll take it for a spin when I get home later. One of the main features I look for is plenty of keyboard shortcuts. Personally, I only reach for a mouse, well, a trackball at home, as a last resort. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)
Arvind, On Thu, 15 May 2008, Arvind Marathe wrote: You might also try xzgv. Out of the viewers I've tried so far I think I like xzgv the best. After only five to ten minutes of tinkering I'm already able to navigate to the next/previous image, zoom in and out, etc. as quickly as I can in xv. And, with xv zooming an image larger than screen size wasn't an option. One had to select a region with the mouse, crop the image, the zoom. So, xzgv is easier in that respect. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the way I interact with my coputer. I'm not sure if I've tried Ion before. I've tried many window managers. Anyway, this post inspired my to try, or retry, Ion and I might have found my new favorite window manager. After I tweak a few things I think I'm going to be hooked. The only thing I've found so far that is disappointing is that my favorite image viewer, xv, does strange things under Ion. For example, if I start xv to view several images, it displays the first image stretched or shrunk to completely fill the screen, even if it smegs up the aspect ratio in the process. Cycling through the other images, most are displayed at the correct size, but they're displayed on top of the first image, which stays on the screen. I've seen it exhibit similar behavior under XFCE. Running it with -nodecor, which removes the window decorations, under XFCE seems to work around that quirk. It doesn't help under Ion. I might have to switch to a more modern image viewer. I've tried qiv a few times, and it seems to work well under Ion. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space? Hit ctrlaltF1 :-) I do as much as I can via the text console. For graphical apps I personally use XFCE, with the XFCE panel disabled. When I first log in I just right click on the desktop, start an XFCE terminal session, then hit F11 to switch the terminal session to full screen mode, which fills the screen without window decorations. I have the terminal session background set to transparent, so I can see my wallpaper underneath. From the terminal session I can launch any programs I need via the command line. I run most programs maximized and can easily switch between them with alttab, or is that metatab. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
Ron, On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Then why use XFCE? Because of the window managers I've tried so far XFCE seems to cooperate the best with the way I like to do things. Some that I've tried didn't handle new window focus the way I prefer, didn't handle keyboard shortcuts for switching between windows the way I prefer, etc., etc. Granted, I probably could have tweaked the configuration and improved them. So far XFCE has worked the best for me. But, I'm always willing to try other options if the might work better, and do occasionally. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grep trick
Chris, On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: In your .bashrc put: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' Very cool tip!! In my case, however, my .cshrc file might be a better choice since I don't use bash, and of course the syntax is different. As someone else pointed out the above will break scripts that use grep. A moment or two of Googling turned up another option. If one uses --color=auto, it will colorize output going to a terminal but won't if the output is piped to another command or redirected to a file. The downside is that with --color=auto output piped to less -r doesn't get colorized. I'm sure there's a creative way to keep from breaking existing scripts and still be able to view colorized output via less. You can always try different values of GREP_COLOR. Although I can't seem to get yellow. After another moment of Googling, for yellow, use: setenv GREP_COLOR '1;33' or your shell's equivalent. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is losing its users
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wei Chen wrote: The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. I'm having trouble following this logic. Many years ago I found the Debian website. I can now easily type http://www.Debian.org into my browser's URL prompt and get there without using a search engine. I also know the URLs of several other Debian related sites off the top of my head. Of course, I'm kinda strange. I remember most of the URLs I use regularly. I hear many people like to use these things called bookmarks. If I'm having trouble figuring out how to do something on my Debian box and can't find the answer on Debian-Administration.org I'll turn to my favorite search engine, but I don't find the need to do that very often. Even though I'm not searching for the term Debian regularly, I'm using Debian regularly. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: Shouldn't there be a little added writeup to bump your local version - and/or put an entry in the changelogs file? I don't think the latter is really necessary since you're not going to upload the package, but what about collisions? Probably. As I said earlier in this thread I'm a Debian package system newbie myself. Without bumping my local version I added my rebuilt packages to my local repo and ran an aptitude update followed by an aptitude safe-upgrade and the rebuilt packages in my local repo all showed up as available updates. dpkg shows the version installed on my box to be version 3:20071206-0.1, which is the same as the version on DebianMultimedia.org. Would the idea be to change that to 3:20071206-0.2? If so, how/where is that changed? The only file in the debian directory I find that version number in is the changelog. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the idea be to change that to 3:20071206-0.2? If so, how/where is that changed? The only file in the debian directory I find that version number in is the changelog. I think it is indeed a nice idea to change the version number. And you're right about the way: you need to edit the changelog, adding a new entry with the desired version number. Humm, if it was a snake it would have bit me. :-) Now for one other question I meant to ask in my previous post but hit the send button too soon. What if I bump my local version to 3:20071206-0.2 and then somewhere down the road the package on Debian-Multimedia.org also gets bumped to version 3:20071206-0.2? Will apt overlook the update or does it also take the date of the package into consideration? Since it spotted my local rebuilt packages, which have the same version number as the official packages, I'm guessing the latter is the case. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I think it is indeed a nice idea to change the version number. And you're right about the way: you need to edit the changelog, adding a new entry with the desired version number. Okay, an updated writeup with a section on changing the version number via the changelog file is available at: http://www.RawFedDogs.net/DebianFfmpegMMX.html Additional suggestions/comments welcomed. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
Eduardo, On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I've just rebuilt the package reenabling MMX, and apparently it works OK, and much faster. I've read that you've rebuilt the package, but are you sure MMX is enabled? I only tried rebuilding the package to optimize for i686. I hadn't dug into any of the other ./configure options. I tried removing the --disable-mmx configure parm and got the same build errors noted later in this thread. I should probably mention that I'm a novice where the Debian package system is concerned. And, well, where building software from source is concerned also. After some trial and error I found that if I dropped the --disable-mmx and the --extra-cflags configure parms and let configure pick it's own cflags I could get the package to build successfully. I'm working remotely via ssh right now, so I won't be able to actually test it until I get home. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: After some trial and error I found that if I dropped the --disable-mmx and the --extra-cflags configure parms and let configure pick it's own cflags I could get the package to build successfully. After more trial and error I discovered that if one removes the --disable-mmx ./configure parm and also removes the -fPIC and -DPIC flags, the package will build successfully. Googling for ffmpeg fpic mmx turns up numerous hits. Many of them mention some patches to enable ffmpeg to build with mmx support and -fPIC. I haven't found any of the actual patches yet except for an old one in a thread on the ffmpeg-devel list from 2005. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you remove --disable-mmx does any mmx stuff build? If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I get an mmx enabled version of ffmpeg. I just got home where I could test the package I built earlier. With the mmx enabled version I'm seeing much better performance. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
Ron, On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: For posterity, can you put up a web page (or list here) the changes to the (debian-multimedia?) ffmpeg deb-src to allow it to be built with mmx enabled? Were you looking for something along the lines of: http://www.RawFedDogs.net/DebianFfmpegMMX.html or did I get a little carried away with the detail? I tried to write it so that someone who's not familiar with rebuilding Debian packages from source could easily follow it. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
Debian Enthusiasts, Does anyone have any suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance. To make a long story, well, not quite so long, I recently converted my home desktop box from ArchLinux to Debian. Back when I was running ArchLinux, and maybe one or two distros before, I started using pyTivo, a python script that can convert almost any video format into something a TiVo box can play and stream it to said TiVo box. It uses ffmpeg for the conversion. Under ArchLinux I could start a transfer and watch the video on my TiVo as it was being streamed. In most cases it would stream the video faster than normal playback speed, and would finish transferring it before one could finish watching it. Judging from the indicator lights on my network switch while a video was being transferred there was constant communication between my desktop PC and my TiVo. But, since I've switched to Debian that performance has gone down the drain. I have ffmpeg installed from Debian-Multimedia.org. Now, running Debian(Lenny), if I start a video transfer from my PC to my TiVo I have to wait for quite a while before I try to start watching it. Sometimes the transfer dies in mid-transfer. Watching my network switch I see intermittent activity between my desktop PC and my TiVo with two to three second pauses in between. ldd shows ffmpeg is using the i686 libc6 libraries. I tried rebuilding the ffmpeg package from source optimizing it for i686, but that didn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions I might try to improve performance? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
Damon, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I was under (it would seem falsely) that streaming from/to a tivo was limited to windows. I can access the tivo from Linux by IP, but I get no menu to do anything with it, just a webpage. I never looked into it as it was not that important to me. However, your question implies you can stream video from/to the tivo from Linux. How? What am I missing? There are two options that I've come across. There might be others, also. The first is pyTivo, which I mentioned in my first e-mail: http://pytivo.armooo.net/ It uses ffmpeg to transform various video formats into something that TiVo can play and streams said video to TiVo. But, it doesn't work in the other direction. It doesn't let one transfer video from a TiVo to a PC for storage. The other option I've come across is Galleon: http://galleon.sourceforge.net/ I suspect it provides many of the features that the Windoze TiVo software has. I've never checked into the Windoze TiVo software myself. I've only tinkered with Galleon briefly. With it one can transfer video from a TiVo(series 2 or greater) box to a PC. But, as for transferring video from a PC to TiVo it only handles videos that are already in a format TiVo can handle. It also has various apps available that enable one to do such things as accessing music(mp3, etc.) and picture collections on a PC from TiVo, accessing the PC's desktop from TiVo, accessing weather information from the net, reading e-mail, etc., etc. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?
Doug, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: What happens if you run top? Look at things like %idle, %waiting (for i.o), and %sys (kernel executing) and %user (your program, likely the ffmpeg program, see the listing for that line). This may tell you where the bottle-neck is. To my untrained eye this doesn't appear to give any clues. Here's an example of one moment in time with a transfer to my TiVo box running: Cpu0 : 4.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 61.1%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 38.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st I only have one CPU, but it's hyperthreaded and appears as two. ffmpeg's CPU usage seems to stay around the 50% to 90% range, mostly around 60% to 70%. I don't see any other processes that appear to be bogging it down. For example, did the two systems uses the same mount options for the filesystem? Yes. I have two hard drives in the box. There's a small boot partition on the first drive. The remaining space on the first drive and all the space on the second are combined as an LVM VG. The files I'm streaming to TiVo are are on the same LVs as they were when I was running Arch. The only difference in my partition scheme is that I'm running root on LVM under Debian. Under Arch I had a separate non-LVM root partition. Are other daemons running that are interrupting the process? Not that I see. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: random keystrokes ignored on console
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: Actually, this didn't fix the problem. After the system is booted, there are three dbus processes running: two 'dbus-daemon' and one 'dbus-launch'. Killing the 'dbus-launch' process fixes the problem (until the next reboot, of course). I'm seeing the same symptoms on an HP desktop box. Killing dbus-launch seems to work around the problem for me also. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: This looks like it might be fun. First of all, while I do know the meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time below. audio editor: N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing. audio player: mpg123 cd-ripper: cdparanoia desktop OR window manager: Xfce when a GUI environment is absolutely necessary, otherwise I prefer to stick to text consoles. DBMS: PostgreSQL development: Well, I work as an IBM mainframe operator, so I'm thankful for the development of mainframes. disc burner: cdrecord e-mail client: Alpine file manager: ls finance: I'd love to be rich, but it doesn't look likely that it's going to happen. ftp client: ftp image editor: My graphics design skills are practically non-existant, but I have used gimp a few times. image viewer: xv instant messenger: yelling across the room mathematics: Well, I really liked algebra back in high school, but I hardly remember any of it these days. misc utilities: tar news: I never watch the news. p2p: amule package manager: aptitude, although I'm closely following the development of IPS. pdf-reader: acroread spreadsheet: I try to avoid spreadsheets. I prefer databases. tag editor: Sharpies, they work wonders for nametags and such. terminal emulator: c3270, but I find actual terminals work better than emulators. text editor: vim video player: xine web browser: Firefox. And, if it's Firefox, get over it and call it Firefox. word-processor: LaTeX anything unreleased and anticipated: Indiana - well, the developer preview has been released. I am, however, anxiously awaiting the final, ready for primetime, release. anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): clip, Aubit4GL games: canasta, cribbage, backgammon non-free: I try to avoid those. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Kevin Monceaux wrote: anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): clip, Aubit4GL Humm, I seem to have experienced a momentary lapse of reason. I left out Hercules. That should have been at the top of my great honours list. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modern Message Threading Techniques (Was: replying to a message in debian-user)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:20:59PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: No, what I mean is that it's obviously *better* to use a MUA that supports threading, Threading is good. I'd go nutty(no, wait, I did that years ago anyway) trying to follow high-volume e-mail lists without it. Good thread handling was one of the main things I was looking for when I switched from Pine to Mutt several years ago. It looks like Pine's threading capabilities have improved since then. but even if you use a MUA that doesn't support threading properly, as long as you keep the subject line the same, most modern MUAs will still associate it to the thread. =) In the case of Mutt it uses the In-Reply-To header, not the subject, to thread messages. If a subject has been changed(such as I did with this message) Mutt still threads the message appropriately. On the other hand if someone posts a new message with an identical subject or replies to a digest and changes the subject appropriately Mutt threads those kind of replies/posts separately. In the case of a new message with an identical/siumilar subject that's probably a good thing. People replying to digests can really smeg up theading. This is especially true if one replies to several different e-mails from the same digest. Since they're all a reply to the same message(the digest) they all get threaded together. I generally overlook replies to digests. Overall I prefer Mutt's threading techniques. Anyway, someone else pointed out that you can always set things up so you can ssh into some location (e.g. your home computer) and run a full-featured text-based MUA like mutt. With a little setup, this might actually be faster than using a web MUA anyway. That's the kind of setup I've been using for years. It has served me well. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Maintaners' Guide - Typo?
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, Has anyone noticed that praecepta is misspelled in the New Maintainers' Guide? I added the quote to my .signature file and sent out a few e-mails before realizing it. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possible New User - Intro
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit. I've been a Linux user for years. I started with Slackware in the 1.x kernel days. I then used Makdrake for a while. For the past couple of years I've been using Gentoo. But, a few things about Gentoo have been getting on a couple of my nerves lately. This is further complicated due to the fact that I used to work in food service, so I only have three nerves left. Anyway, I've been trying various distributions under VMWare in search of one that I like. I had just about decided to go with Arch Linux. It's package management system works well and it's ABS(Arch Build System) system makes it easy to tweek existing packages and/or create new packages. One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. The package available for Arch Linux was a little outdated but it took me no time at all to create a package via ABS with the lastest Hercules version. The process basically amounts to: $ abs -- populates /var/abs with with current PKGBUILD files copy Hercules's PKGBUILD file to another directory, such as /var/abs/local/hercules Edit the PKGBUILD file, update the version number and md5 checksum $ makepkg -- in the new directory The package is built and a package file is created that can be installed via the standard package manger. I then moved on to another favorite of mine - clip, which is a Clipper/xBase compatable compiler. The only Linux distribution I've found that has a clip package already available for it is ALT Linux. But, the latest CD for ALT Linux is from 2004 and the majority of the documentation available is in Russian. So, I started creating a package for Arch Linux. And, thanks to ABS it didn't take long before I had a usable package. While I was working on the clip package for Arch I remembered seeing in the clip documentation that the source came with a script that would build a Debian package. I had tried Debian several years ago and really liked it but ended up going with another distribution because Debian's packages were so far behind the times. I thought that perhaps I should give Debian another try. With a little searching I learned that the stable release is still WAY behind the times(it still has Hercules 2.17.1-2, and Hercules 3.x has been out for years) but that Etch is fairly current and stable enough for my purposes. So, I downloaded a netinst CD and installed Debian under VMWare. Immediately I realized that Debian's package manager is one of the best, if not the best, that I've tried so far. I'm also very impressed with the amount of documentation available, and especially that most of it is available in PDF format. Even if browsing online I prefer documentation that at least looks like a book. With most software I don't mind being a version or three behind the times, but I do like to stay current with Hercules. The version in Etch is 3.03.1-1 and the latest version is 3.04.1. I might be able to live with that. After installing the needed development tools I was able to build a clip package thanks to the script it comes with. Looking through the documentation it appears that creating packages for Debian might be almost as simple as creating packages for Arch Linux. And, even if it is a little more complicated the excellent documentation helps with the process. So, if the latest version of Hercules doesn't appear in Etch soon I could probably update the package for personal use myself. Does Debian have a version bump request system? Now, if Debian just had packages for vmware-server and vmware-server-console, which are now available for free, it would be perfect. I think I've just about decided that Debian is the way to go. I just need that gentle nudge. Well, I also need to dump a bunch of stuff off of my hard drive before switching distributions, but that's another story. Of course, my CD/DVD burner would pick now to start acting flakey. I might have to break down and pick up a spare hard drive. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per preaecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible New User - Intro
Hugo, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:09:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. snip That's the first I heard of it: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/hercules What operating system facilities do you use with it? Mostly I run MVS. Current versions of IBM mainframe operating systems such as zOS, zVM, zVSE are not available to hobbyists but versions of MVS, VM, and/or DOS from the late 60's to early 70's are available. One can find details on the Hercules FAQ page: http://www.Hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html Hercules can also be used to run Linux distributions that have been ported to the S/390 and/or zSeries platforms, such as Debian: http://www.Debian.org/ports/s390/ Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per preaecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible New User - Intro
Andrew, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:53:59AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nudge debian. there you go. ;-) Thanks, I needed that. You sound like you are experienced enough that you might think about running sid, unstable debian. Its does break now and then, but really keeps up very well. That sounds like it might be a good option. The thing to remember about Debian -- when a release goes Stable then it doesn't change, except for security fixes. So if you install etch, you will NEVER see a new version of Hercules other than security patches. That's good to know. When Etch goes Stable does Sid move up to Testing. You can certainly run a mixed system using a Stable installation and then various packages from testing and unstable. This is a complicated setup and *can* break if there is a major library change in the newer releases. Also you can run backports of various packages, if they are available. YOu can also pull the source from testing or unstable and build your own backports. All sound like possibilities worth exploring. And, thanks to VMWare I can even experiment without affecting my main box. Can one switch from one version to another, from Etch to Sid for example, by simply updating sources.list and running an update/upgrade? I do like the rolling update feature some distribution, such as Arch, have. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per preaecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
