[tslug] Dynamic and Static IPs was: Re: Re: Internet ConnectionSharing
You could somehow get a windows box at your house (laptop, or install it on a parition on your box) and then have an IP assigned to it. Then setup static-IP in Linux, because at least in Columbia the IPs are static for all pratical purposes. I've never gotten dynamic IPs to work in Linux, but static works find. I think my IP address changed once in the last year and so that I've had a cable modem, and it was only couple of months after I got my cable modem. *******Ian Monroe*** Bored? Check out the game Mandala (still in beta), a tetris like game: http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/mandala On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Brian Stock wrote: > Something else to consider: for 10 extra dollars a month you cann get 3 > ip's instead of 1 from CableOne. Unfortunately they don't officially > support linux and I have not been able to get their system to assign my > linux box an IP. > > Brian > > > Original Message Follows > From: Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tslug] Re: Internet Connection Sharing > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:30:00 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Received: from [150.243.160.30] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id > MHotMailBD47485F00584004310E96F3A01E07E90; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 22:30:08 -0700 > Received: from mtcs.truman.edu([150.243.160.30] helo=mtcs ident=listar)by > mtcs.truman.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))id 15XygL-0007Zg-00; Sat, > 18 Aug 2001 00:30:01 -0500 > Received: with LISTAR (v0.129a; list tslug); Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:30:01 -0500 > (CDT) > Received: from vh224401.truman.edu ([150.243.160.42] ident=mail)by > mtcs.truman.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))id 15XygL-0007Za-00for > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:30:01 -0500 > Received: from dbindner by vh224401.truman.edu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 > (Debian))id 15XygK-0004oD-00for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 > 00:30:00 -0500 > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 17 Aug 2001 22:30:45 -0700 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <002601c1277a$b6abf2a0$d40cfea9@rstory> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > In-Reply-To: <002601c1277a$b6abf2a0$d40cfea9@rstory>; from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:14:12PM -0500 > X-archive-position: 102 > X-listar-version: Listar v0.129a > X-original-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > X-list: tslug > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:14:12PM -0500, Ben Story wrote: > > > > I'm moving back to campus this weekend and will be wanting to > > share a Cable connection with my new roommate. Cash is a > > little tight right now so I'm not really wanting to buy a > > router or another NIC for my board. Is there a way to share my > > connection just using one NIC and a switch? Basically can I > > have one alias get a DHCP IP from the provider and the other > > alias have a static 192.168.x.x address for my internal LAN > > even though they're on the same NIC? > > > > Ben > > You might. Check the kernel source for an option called ipalias. > As I recall, it lets you have more than one IP address on the > same NIC. > > Don > > -- > Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >
[tslug] esr's coming again. hmm. (fwd)
Thought you all might be interested... Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:15:20 -0600 From: Rich Tollerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MLUG] esr's coming again. hmm. Dunno about whether or not this was supposed to be a secret or if this is even finalized yet, but: http://acm.missouri.edu/events.asp Should prove interesting, in any case. -- Rich Tollerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --
[tslug] Misc Questions
I'll be attending Truman next year and I have a few questions. In general, how Linux-friendly is Truman? I plan on having a multiboot computer, but, for instance, can I print to the dorm printers from Linux? I plan on buying a computer this summer. Is it necesary to get XP Professional or is Home good enough? Would prefer Home for the obvious matter of $100, but I understand that in some networks it's better to have Pro. Thanks, Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean
[tslug] Re: Misc Questions
Thanks for everyones help. Its actually only a $55 difference at cyperpowerpc.com (an $89 difference at Dell - go figure). Personally, having to put in my password everytime I boot up doesn't sound like a bad idea. And if accessing domains ever becomes an option, I can do that in Linux it sounds like. I like the idea of having an administrator and then a normal user, thats really how OS's should work. But I don't need to make a decision now. Another question, how do I go about buying software with an Academic License? The ITS page has links to Dell and Gateway, but I would prefer to buy the computer from someplace else and then just buy the software academic. I've been looking around at Microsoft's website, and it looks like it has to be bought through a reseller. How does it work? Dell mentioned needing a student number. Ian Monroe http://ian.webhop.org On Sat, 18 May 2002, Caleb Jorden wrote: > However, you can save network passwords in pro, whereas you cannot in home. > What I mean is that if you need a username/password pair to connect to a > network resource, you can save that in Windows XP Pro and not ever have to > enter it again. In Windows XP Home, you have to enter it ever time you > reboot. I have personal experience with this(My laptop came with windoze xp > home). For this reason alone, I would recommend Pro. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: Sean Foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By the way, MS's marketing material may tout Pro-only features related > to Active Directory and domain membership... But you won't be allowed to > join any of the existing domains on campus and Truman ITServices would > probably give you trouble if you tried to create your own domain (using > 2000 or .NET server). So those features won't do you much good on > campus.
[tslug] Re: Misc Questions
Well, Kirksville a bit far away, but here in Columbia we have a place called Personalized Computer which is the same idea, I may get my computer there. Their out-of-date site is at: http://www.personalized-computers.com/ Ian Monroe http://ian.webhop.org On Sat, 18 May 2002, C. A. Hilgartner wrote: > Hi, Ian -- > I don't know anything about comparative prices, but Kirksville has > a resource I haven't encountered elsewhere: A Value-Added Reseller, called > Compu-Tek. That means: a firm which has no Preferred Brands it HAS to sell, > including the Third-Party Programs and Accessories and Extra Hardware IT > wants to sell you whether you need them or not. > > Phone > number: 660-627-2826. > What that means: Talk to Danny or his employees. > YOU: "This is what I want to do right now, this is what a foresee > doing five years from now." > DANNY: "Well, to do that, you might want to run xxx or yyy or zzz." > "In order to run xxx or yyy or zzz, you'll need a computer > with LLL, and MMM, and NNN." > "You could get those components with a Quink computer, for > $AAA, or we could build one for you for $BBB. Advantages, and > disadvantages, of the Quink: ___. Advantages, and disadvantages, of what we > could build for you: ___. " > > Consider me an enthusiastic customer, speaking from my ignorance, > rather than a gung-ho employee who really knows this game from the inside. > But you might want to check the place out. > Andy > Hilgartner
[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow
I plan on coming. Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Nathaniel Green wrote: >[snip] > Also, I would like to get a bit of a preliminary head count for how > many people will be there tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 6:30 in > VH1232. I'm planning on having food (food = pizza), so I'd like a > rough estimate. > > Thanks all! > Nate - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Hang on calculating module dependencies
After doing some more repartitioning*, and the computer booted up fine and all was going well. Partitions reported being at the size they should be etc. Then while doing an emerge (how you install new software in Gentoo), a program related to it called ebuild.sh started taking up like 100% CPU (it was what I think is called kernel mode, the bar was red, which usually only happens during things like hard drive access.) And it didn't seem to be doing anything, so I CRTL-Ced, but my CPU monitor still showed 100% CPU usage. I couldn't figure out how to kill it, so I just restarted. Now my computer hangs on calculating module dependencies. Usually what follows is a list of various drivers followed by green *'s, and a few like emu10k1 which red !!'s since there probably unnecesary and I haven't recompiled them for the new kernel. I can actually hear my CPU spend up when it gets to the hang, so I'm guessing my CPU is working hard. I've let it go for several minutes, but it just sticks there. I used Knoppix to comment out all the modules in modules.autoload to no effect. In other words, I have full access to my Gentoo partitions. I did a reiserfsck /dev/hda5 (my root partition) and got many messages like this: bad_indirect_item: block 86563: item 255447 255455 0x1 IND (1), len 16, location 2536 entry count 0, fsck need 0, format new has a pointer 3 to the block 103095 which is in tree already And ended with this message: Comparing bitmaps..free block count 1861398 mismatches with a correct one 1864149. on-disk bitmap does not match to the correct one. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped There were found 2 corruptions which can be fixed only during --rebuild-tree I ran the reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, but it put up a really scary warning message, saying it was only to be used as a last resort due to its beta quality. Considering I'm not even sure if FS damage is my problem, I decided againist running it. Thanks goodness for Knoppix though, I havn't figured out DivX in Windows XP yet so I would be really lost and anime-less without it. (Windows XP works fine by the way). Ian Monroe *I shrunk my NTFS partitioned, and expanded my FAT32 data partition into it at the installfest. Using parted, I deleted another FAT32 partition that was at the end of the drive, and move/expanded some /home reiserfs into it. Then I expanded the root reiserfs partition into the remaining space (expanding it about 4 gigs). Since parted on Knoppix isn't compiled with Reiserfs (silly Debian), I was using Gentoo linux runlevel 1, so I was able to do things like umount /home and even / and then use parted. - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Hang on calculating module dependencies
Yea! Replying to myself. My Gentoo Linux installtion is dead, dead as a doornail. Oh well. After doing a reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hda5 (which looked less threatening then --rebuild-tree), I couldn't even mount /dev/hda5 in Knoppix, complaining about a lack of directory or some such. And instead of hanging on module dependancies, the kernel gave up on an error that the root file system couldn't be mounted. So I did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, which created a lost+found directory of ~700 megabytes (a bad sign). Now I can boot Gentoo, but I can't login because when I do there's an error about PAM not being able to load. There are various boot-time errors about such-and-such library not being able to load as well. So, oh well, time to give up I think. I have 4 tests next week (hey class, I know you don't want another test during midterm, so we'll have it the week before - in pratically every class), so I'm probably just going to keep using Knoppix/Windows XP until I have the chance to reinstall. There's no important data stored on my / partition (if there was I think I could in fact recover it), its just a big hassle to have to reinstall. I would like to think that this is a Reiserfs issue, but that might be wishful thinking. I think the repartitioning I did was just the straw that broke the camels back. Any suggestions on how to check on the condition of my 8-month old IBM Deathstar? In other words, should I even bother reinstalling on this hard drive? Windows XP appears to work fine, but then again that part of the hard disk isn't used very much; perhaps thats why. I did install another (old, 14 gig) hard drive over the Christmas break, which took some internal rearranging, I plan on having someone who knows what they're doing take a look at it. Maybe there's somethign wrong with a ribbon or some (cheap) problem like that (fingers crossed). Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Ian Monroe wrote: > > After doing some more repartitioning*, and the computer booted up fine and > all was going well. Partitions reported being at the size they should be > etc. Then while doing an emerge (how you install new software in Gentoo), > a program related to it called ebuild.sh started taking up like 100% CPU > (it was what I think is called kernel mode, the bar was red, which usually > only happens during things like hard drive access.) And it didn't seem to > be doing anything, so I CRTL-Ced, but my CPU monitor still showed 100% CPU > usage. > [snip: blah blah, my computer sucks] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Hang on calculating module dependencies
Yes, ext3 is probably the way I'm going to go. I would think about XFS since its actually a pretty old filesystem (albeit new to Linux), except not being able to just use the vanilla kernel might be kind of annoying. Gentoo makes using it fairly easy though, so I dunno. I suppose in reality I don't have any choice of whether or not I want to get another hard drive, since I'm not going to fork over the money until I very positive thats the problem. I'll find some sort of surface test or something to do before I do the new installation. I hope Gentoo 1.4_final comes out before next weekend. Sheesh, it was supposed to be out at the end of December. I've actually been using 1.4 since January. I guess it would just be nice to have the installation CD be certified stable, the installation CD being the only difference between the release candiates. There actually was a pretty big difference between 1.2 and 1.4 because of the new compiler, but I bet in the future they won't be that noticable to existing users. Anyways, going on of a tanget. We just need to get this Mosix cluster up and running and then have it cross-compile for us Gentoo users. (-: Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Donald J Bindner wrote: > > Sounds like you just had a round of bad luck. As for > re-installing, I would probably give it a go if it were my > computer. > > You might use a partitioning tool to remove the reiser partitions > and then recreate them. Presumably the gentoo install has a > partitioning step, where you could do that. You shouldn't have > to worry about your Windows partitions being hurt as long as you > don't touch them. > > If it goes strange a second time, I would probably try a > different filesystem. Perhaps ext2/ext3. It is the most-tested > of all the Linux filesystems. > > Don > > -- > Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: RedHat Linux
Are you planning to wipe out the older Linux or install over? Do you currently have red hat? What version? Have you tried booting up the computer from the CDs? Just have the first one in the CD-ROM drive when you boot the computer up. Sometimes this does not work correctly because your BIOS isn't setup to opt to boot from the CD-ROM drive before it boots from the hard drive. If that is the case you have to change the BIOS settings, which means pressing a button something like F2 or DEL as the computer boots (it usually says what button to push as it boots) and then scrolling around the settings until you see somethinb about boot order. Nice to see this list used for this sort of thing, its part of what its here for. On Friday 12 September 2003 16:31, Ashley N. Murdock wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I'm trying to install RedHat 9 on my computer that already has an older > ver= sion of Linux on it. Can someone tell me how to do this? I have the > three= disks I just can't get them to run!! :( > Thanks! > Ashley -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Mathematica over SSH X-Forwarding
I installed Mathematica on my computer last year, but it has since been wiped out. So today I try opening it up from with SSH X-forwarding from kronos. It looks fine, but doing Shift-Enter doesn't work (and the backspace key inserts a little gray box that you see used for characters that don't exist). I remember having to do something to get it to work on my computer last year but I don't remember. It works as expected in a Kronos VNC session. I use Gentoo Linux, XFree86 version 4.3 My xmodmap (same output occurs when within SSH session to Kronos as on own machine): xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4Super_L (0x73), Super_R (0x74) mod5 xmodmap within a VNC session on kronos: xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0xa), Shift_R (0xb) lock control Control_L (0x8), Control_R (0x9) mod1Alt_L (0xe), Alt_R (0xf) mod2 mod3 mod4Meta_L (0xc), Meta_R (0xd) mod5 I remember it having something to do with this. -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Mathematica over SSH X-Forwarding
OK, I feel silly. That fixed it. No wonder I couldn't find anything on the web about my problem, its too simple. Thanks, Ian On Monday 22 September 2003 22:11, Donald J Bindner wrote: > Turn off your numlock key? - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Cobol
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 10:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't worry, I won't be. I may be recruiting for it, but I prefer to > > play with my Linux boxen and if necessary a few windows servers. > > Are you aware of these projects? > > http://www.open-cobol.org/ > > http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/ > > Check out the status pages for COBOL-85 compliance. > > And there are commercial COBOL compilers available for "non-PC" platforms. > In COBOL-speak, that means the IBM zSeries - which runs Linux as the OS. > > Now you can combine the best of both worlds - COBOL *AND* Linux. :=) In what sick world is COBOL the best? > > Mike/ -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Inspiration: Fwd: [MLUG] Free Linux stuff coming for next meeting!
Free swag == good. Even without all the IPOs, these companies have large marketing budgets, maybe they'll send us some stuff (though my favorite open source projects don't have any marketing budget, oh well). And I think the CSO (where Kronos lives) needs a poster or two. I'm thinking of doing some emailing this weekend. >From the Mizzou Linux User Group: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [MLUG] Free Linux stuff coming for next meeting! Date: Friday 10 October 2003 10:08 From: "Davis, Ryan W. (UMC-STUDENT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everyone, Just to let you know, I have emailed IBM, SUSE, Redhat, Sun, etc. asking for some materials to distribute at our next meeting. Redhat is already replyed and is shipping us a "Care Package" for our members. Just to let you know, you might want to attend the next meeting. Adam and I will try to come up with a fair way to do so (maybe like a door prizes thing were everyone gets a number). I am in the process of emailing Mandrake, Linux Journal, Linux Today, Linux Gazette, Oracle, MySQL, Dell, HP, Gateway??. Well, let me know what you think... P.S. If you can think of any other companies I can nag for free stuff, let me know. (OSDN, BSD?) Ryan Davis Network Programmer Analyst - Student IAT Services - DNPS University of Missouri-Columbia (573)882-2759 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Redcode/CoreWars
With CodeWars there is no judging, it's who ever wins the competition, as in a triathlon. Its not like figure skating. Especially if we want to go with a competition to do in the near future, one that doesn't require any human judges is perhaps a good thing (since figuring all that out would be complicated). There are a overwhelming amount of systems that do this, of which CodeWars appears to be the oldest (at least the oldest still around). The newer systems in higher-level programming languages do things like have the programmer writing a AI for a robot battle (though not physical robots). In other news, I did actually get around to sending RedHat a thing asking for free stuff, as well as updating our listing on their site. On Saturday 11 October 2003 10:26, Don Knudson wrote: > I agree. The judging would focus on what's happening in "core" with an > eye for ingenuity, exploitation of the architecture, speed... With a > high level language (especially across multiple platforms) the compiler > (and more significantly, the libraries) are responsible for all of that. > A virtual machine such as Java makes all of this even more nebulous. > With audiences having few people with assembly language prowess (i.e. > lots of people with little-or-no assembly language experience) a > good alternative would be a "programming contest" using a single > language (or a limited number of "similar" languages) where judging > can be based on correctness, software design, programming-team-time, > and, yes, even execution time. > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 8:17:27pm, Donald J. Bindner wrote: > >I think the point is specifically that we don't want a high level > >language. No one wants to claim ultimate superiority in Lisp > >wars or Modula 2 wars; or given our recent thread Cobol wars. > >The whole point of core wars is the crudeness, that sense of > >getting down to the nitty gritty. If you can be clever in that > >context, you can count yourself clever. > > > >Don -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Gaim Messenger
I don't use it on Redhat, but I checked the version of gaim on new-mercury (which is Redhat) and its 0.59.8. That is relatively old (given the fast pace of development on Gaim, the current version is 0.71), and I doubt its going to work with either MSN Messenger or Yahoo!. It should probably work on AIM... what exactly is the problem your having? gaim.sf.net does have links to Redhat 8 and 9 RPMs of the newest version. On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:34, you wrote: > Is anyone using the new version of Gaim on a Red Hat OS? I have come > upon a bug and I don't know how to fix it :( If anyone could help in > any way I'd appreciate it!!! > Ashley Murdock > -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel
On Sunday 26 October 2003 16:29, Benjamin Story wrote: > Now you need to > make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install > > When that is done > cp arch/i386/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22 > mkinitrd initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22 > Configure your bootloader. > > This is running from memory so I'd check www.ldp.org for the kernel > howto. The "Configure your bootloader" step depends on whether you use Grub or lilo and how you have it setup already. If you use Grub a good technique is to have /boot/vmlinuz be a symlink to the newest version of the kernel, then you just have to change symlinks whenever you update and don't have to mess with Grub (with lilo you have to run it no matter what). Use google or email the list if you have any trouble. And as Dr. Bindner said, do a make oldconfig. This will give you choices on the new features in the kernel. Do a make xconfig or make menuconfig if you want to make other changes. -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: help--first time upgrading my kernel
The problem lies somewhere with your boot loader not booting the kernel you want it to. Could you tell us something about it? Is it grub or lilo? The contents of your /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst)? On Sunday 26 October 2003 18:36, Dana Schoonover wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] r0b0tg1rl]$ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 > 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > > > Does that mean I didn't really update my kernel? (If > yes, I really need help.. *laugh*) > > (I was trying to go from 2.4.20-8 to 2.4.22, btw) > > = > "God is bigger than the boogey-man." >--Jr. Asparagus -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Meeting October 29: Linux Games
On Wednesday October 29th, 6:30pm in VH1232 we will have our TSLUG meeting. I plan on giving a presentation on Linux games. Basically, this means I bring my computer in and show you some of the options. These are the games I might demo: *Neverwiner Nights (w/expansion) *Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo *Starfighter (yey! Amiga game developers make the best games.) *Frozen-bubble *Kiki the Nano Bot *fortune (not really a game, but its funny and people should know about it) Email me if you know of any other cool free-as-in-beer games. And probably show off the huge list of games available easily for Gentoo Linux. And as usual, bring any Linux questions and SCO-bashing. -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Meeting October 29: Linux Games
I actually play around with vegastrike last week, but decided to wait for there to be less bugs. On Tuesday 28 October 2003 01:42, Jordan Morren wrote: > Vega Strike is a rather neat GPL space simulation/shoot 'em up game: > http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ > > An offshoot (for all of you Star Trek fans) is Vega Trek which is still > in the early stages, but they have playable Mac and Win versions > (currently 0.2.0). It can be installed on Linux, but it's a bit > interesting as you have to copy the data on top of an already existing > Vega Strike install: > http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/vegatrek/ > > ~Jordan -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: New Distro Suggestions
On Monday 03 November 2003 14:43, you wrote: > November 3, 2003 > > Hey, everyone... In light of RedHat's lovely announcement > (http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml?tid=150&tid=2&; > tid=82&tid=94), I think now would be a good time for me to try moving > away from RedHat for once and trying something new, since I've been > using RedHat since v6.2... > > Question 1: Any suggestions on good distros to try? I don't really > want to go with Mandrake and would probably like to try moving away > from .rpm altogether, mostly in an effort to move away from the "easy > way" of doing things... I know some people use Gentoo, but I'm not > sure I really wanna go that route just yet...and I also don't want to > deal with the Windoze-clones like Lycoris or Lindows, either... I haven't used it, but I think Libranet http://www.libranet.com looks like a pretty nifty distro. Its Debian-based, so it has all the advantages of there dependency system, but has newer software and supposedly an easier install and some extra administartion tools. The disadvantage is that the newest version costs money. Gentoo is the best in my opinion, though the install can be a hassle. Its a good winter-break project. Things are pretty easy once its installed. > Question 2: If I were to try installing Debian on my current system, > how feasible would this be? I mean, I run a server with my RedHat 9 > box and would like to keep the files on it intact...so would it be > possible to simply install Debian onto a partition of the current drive > structure and try it dual-boot with GRUB, which is already in place? > Or even with a boot disc? I just wasn't sure how well RedHat 9 and > Debian would play with each other...I don't really want to try > installing it only to find out that Debian will try to "take over" and > therefore remove my files, etc... Right now I have Redhat and Gentoo installed on my computer. The deal is I wanted to try out Redhat (for the Linux workshop... folks may recall me saying that Redhat should not be used at home, looks like Redhat agrees), so I just installed it on a partition that had previously only been used for data. RedHat is actually still there, along with my anime. Works fine. The key is that it has to have its own partition, seperate from any other OS. However, they can share the same swap partition. One linux distro (or really, any OS I know of) won't "sweep" into another distros partition. You can add Debian to grub either from Debian or Redhat (or boot it directly from the grub command line if you read up a little bit). > > Andy Linsenbardt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://andyl.homelinux.net/ > > "No matter where you go, there you are." > -- U.S.S. Excelsior slogan -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Kernel 2.6.0
Just downloaded. As was pointed out on Slashdot, 2.6 kernel and Lord of the Rings on the same day (yes, its good and you should see it). And for us, the end of the semester. What could make the day better. Guess it would have to be World Peace or something. I've been using 2.6-test11 primarily for the last couple of weeks. For the desktop user I think the most noticeable change are the new sound drivers, ALSA. The old OSS still exists, as well as an OSS compatibility layer for ALSA. My experience with ALSA is that it gives me a little too much power. In my experience with my Sound Blaster Live! emu10k1 card, by default, no sound was coming out. I opened up alsamixer and fixed that. But it sounded kind of flat and voices were quiet in comparison to other sounds. I fiddled around with the literally dozens of options now in alsamixer and now it works fine. I hope now with ALSA in widespread use there will be some develop of a just-make-it-sound-good auto config thing. The commercial distros will probably write scripts to setup it up right. Though I haven't done blind test trials, I think ALSA sounds better. More full. But its hard to say. I'm currently having trouble with test11 and CDs. For some reason, I have to load the ide-scsi module for the DVD and CD-R to work at all even though I specifically configured the kernel with not having to do that in mind (the ide-scsi module being in bad-taste according to Linus.) Untarring... Ian Benjamin Story wrote: Linus released the first official 2.6.0 kernel today. Go to the usual places and download your copy today. - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] First Meeting of Semester; Maestro; Beep
Unless there's something I don't know about, meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 in VH1232. Things slowed down TSLUG wise towards the end of last semester. Which is logical. So we need to be sure to get things started early. We should think about things like dues, when to do installfest (is there a demand?) and what other activities and projects we should do. Ideas of a speaker to bring in next year. That sort of thing. Ideas are welcome for the non-business portion of the meeting. Well, ideas outside of SCO-bashing. That goes without saying. We could look at Maestro http://mars.telascience.org/ the Java program JPL uses for controlling the Martian rovers and looking at the images it sends. They released a home version, the difference probably being limited to the way it acquires and sends data. I think running it was the first time my swap has been used extensively when not compiling; I'm sure it was written with a 3 gig of ram workstation in mind. On a unrelated note, the XMMS replacement XMMS2 was renamed Beep Media Player. I installed it today, it seems to be quite stable. Basically, its the exact same as XMMS but with good fonts and good open file dialog boxes. The XMMS open directory dialog would hang for a few seconds before opening, Beep's dialog opens fine. http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/ Ian Monroe Co-President http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Printer troubles
I would recommend installing Cups. Its the more modern of the print systems and its fairly easy to use. You should be able to configure it using the web interface or KDE (though I would stick to former.) The drivers all come with Cups. Christopher Gordon wrote: I tried to install my printer on my linux box today. I followed what my book said, but it didn't seem to explain a lot (i.e. where to get the drivers, etc.) and the printer still does not work. I tried to use the KDE printer adding wizard, but it didn't help either, and it doesn't seem to even be recognizing my USB port (perhaps this is the real problem, I haven't ever hooked anything up to it before so I don't know). here is my printcap file if someone has time to look at it, it is probably a fairly simple problem. FYI its a Lexmark Z23, and it is a USB connection. Thanks, Chris Chris Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Debian
When I used Debian on my computer I always found dselect to be a bother and started using apt-get exclusively. This was back in the day when woody had just been released. So long long ago. My opinion is that you shouldn't mix default testing and unstable. At the KDE website they have packages for KDE 3.1.5 for Debian stable, seems like you should be able to find unofficial up-to-date packages for Mozilla and other popular pieces of software as well. Not that I know where to look. You could just run unstable, but my understanding is that your computer is lucky to be running at all. Might as well not push it. Hmm. I check my mail at 2:50 in the morning and all of the new mail is from TSLUG. That must mean we're just cool. Nathaniel Green wrote: So. I installed Debian (twice) and have been messing with apt and dselect. I am very very good at getting into dependency trouble because I would like to be able to get some apps (eg: mozilla) from at least testing and maybe unstable. So, I set up my sources.list to have all the appropriate entries and then I set up (pin) preferences so that stable is default, then testing, then unstable. My question is this - is dselect compatible with this sort of setup in any way? If I try to install anything (it seems) using dselect, I get a dependency conflict that it can't resolve automatically, and that is a couple screens long - making it difficult/time-consuming for me to resolve. I like dselect in general, but I can't figure out how to use it in this environment. Anybody tried this? Thanks for reading, Nate - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Debian
Is woo the new w00t? My dad has used the word w00t a few times so it is implicitly no longer cool. You may be on to something with woo. Woo. And chiming in with Ross, how is using back ports defeat the ease of apt while using testing and unstable doesn't? At least with the KDE back port, you just add a line to your sources.list. And in case someone is following along from Google-land, I think dselect probably is a good idea if you want to be really cautious about not breaking something. But it usually isn't worth the extra effort and certainly isn't if your flagrantly doing what your not supposed to do, in regard to system stability, like Nate. Nathaniel Green wrote: Woo TSLUG. Mixing them seemed like the right thing to do, to maintain the ability to get security updates - Debian only maintains security patches for the stable version. I agree w/ you about dpackage at this point. Bleh. I agree that it is possible to find the packages for Debian stable (eg: backports.org) but this seems like a hack, and seems also to defeat the ease of apt. My solution at the moment is to only use apt. It seems to be going alright. I'm mixing all three versions at my leisure. Woo indeed. Nate On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 03:00, Ian Monroe wrote: When I used Debian on my computer I always found dselect to be a bother and started using apt-get exclusively. This was back in the day when woody had just been released. So long long ago. My opinion is that you shouldn't mix default testing and unstable. At the KDE website they have packages for KDE 3.1.5 for Debian stable, seems like you should be able to find unofficial up-to-date packages for Mozilla and other popular pieces of software as well. Not that I know where to look. You could just run unstable, but my understanding is that your computer is lucky to be running at all. Might as well not push it. Hmm. I check my mail at 2:50 in the morning and all of the new mail is from TSLUG. That must mean we're just cool. - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: firewall
A better keyword would be iptables. Its the name of the part of the kernel which does the firewall. So you may have to recompile your kernel to get it to work. Really a firewall is only necessary if you have ports open that you would like to close to the outside world (but would like to keep them open for localhost/can't close them). For instance I run cups (a printer daemon) I my computer which opens a port on 651. Its nice to just have it closed off. I configured my iptables originally with kmyfirewall. The nice thing about kmyfirewall is that makes setting up the firewall relatively easy and it creates a nice shell script that you can edit directly. Alexander Horn wrote: So I just googled for /firewall linux/ and I am now as almost as clueless as before because there is so much stuff out there. Where could I get started on that issue of setting up a good firewall? What do I have to pay attention to in particular? Thank you a lot. .alex - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Meeting tomorrow!
You must be thinking of Ark-as-in-Noah Linux. This is Arch-as-in-Saint-Louis Linux. Arch is more or less from scratch, Ark is based on Redhat I think. The two distros probably started at around the same time so the name conflict wasn't apparent. On that note, the new version of Mozilla Firebird is named Firefox. While Firefox is a cooler name and without the conflict with the database, I think its getting a little ridiculious that they change their name so often. And I'm pretty sure its eventually going to be called "Mozilla" regardless. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osnews has a very glowing review of Arch Linux. Arch Linux was founded by the guy that ran the KDE maintenance for Red Hat. And he's got some interesting ideas about task/role separation in terms of applications and users that's a bit different than the usual uid/gid/other permissions of *nix. I thought I read that he's using YUM to manage the package dependency/update stuff. And yes, it could be quite interesting. Mike/ - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: IM poll
Most of my friends use AIM and some use MSN Messenger. When I went to Spain this summer, everyone seemed to be using MSN Messenger, the one exception being a gal from France who used AIM. So really, whatever you think about the protocols, you don't get much choice. Its what your friends use. And outside of Yahoo! which often breaks Gaim, they're all the sames. You do get a choice of IM software, I use Gaim since it seems to be the best. It routinely ranks as one of the most active SourceForge projects (probably due to their internationalization efforts, but they do put out new releases pretty frequently). And its easy to use encryption. Occasionally I run into problems with file transfers and with all the updates for Gaim, for some reason my nickname aliases sometimes disappear or my prefences will change. Its written in GTK, so its pretty ugly. I think it would be cool to have a on-campus Jabber server. In the past external Internet goes down, and IM with it, which is silly since most of the people I want to IM live on campus anyways. I started playing around with Jabberd (and couldn't get it work), but I now see there is Jabberd 2 out, might as well just try that instead. On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:27, Nathaniel Green wrote: > I have a question. > > I want to know who supports which Instant Messenger protocols. Maybe > name your first choice and then all the rest, or give a hierarchy, or > whatever. > > It seems weird that we can all search for each other's email address, > but have to explicitly ask about IM. This could be such a powerful tool > for everyone if there was a nice/easy way to get people on your lists. > Sure, it could be used maliciously/annoyingly too, but I think it'd be > worth the tradeoff. > > Anyway, I use gaim with aol and msn accounts. > What are your favorite flavors? > > Nate -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: installfest
Well, that's certainly a question you don't see every day. I would think that the major bootloaders would have no problem booting MS-DOS, I assume the bootloading process has stayed the same. Esoteric questions like that are probably better served with a Google search, I would suggesting searching for "ms dos" lilo (lilo being the name of a major Linux boot loader) or searching for "ms dos" grub "boot loader" (grub also being the name of a boot loader, but is a noun so you have to add the "boot loader" part.) I doubt a machine with DOS on it would have the hard drive space for dual-booting, so the question is probably academic anyway. As far as your previous message, all of those machines (with the exception of the Amiga... you would install Linux on that mostly for its novelty value I think, I would certainly prefer AmigaOS) would make fine servers and mediciore desktop machines. Hardware compatablity issues do not come from the processors, but the sound cards, video cards etc. On older machines like those, problems often arise. On Thursday 19 February 2004 21:43, iosif wrote: > and do all distributions come with a boot-loader that can easily handle > ms-dos? pre- or -post gnu/linux install? > i > - > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > --------- -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Post-Installfest Meeting this Wednesday
Thanks to everyone for making the Installfest a success. It was good to see so many folks having Linux installed, others for coming down to help, and some providing Star Wars and soda. I believe we had a pretty high rate of success. And given that it lasted more then 7 hours, I think it went by pretty quickly. This Wednesday in Violette Hall 1232 at 6:30 we will be having a TSLUG meeting as usual. Nate and I decided it would be good to have a meeting devoted to help finish up work done at the installfest. So, lets say you got Linux installed but something doesn't quite work right, or you just want some pointers on how to use it, you can bring your computer in. Some issues I was thinking of include the Gentoo installs did not finish so might need some help, the SuSE's we installed do not have a Gaim version able to connect to MSN, enabling Java to connect to Pipeline, etc. If you don't want to lug your computer in, you can just enable remote access (via SSH and/or VNC if you know how to) or we can just try to answer your questions. Don't worry about brining your monitor, especially if your X Windows is already configured. Also don't hesitate to post questions with the necessary information to this TSLUG list. Ian Monroe - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Ethernet card not working on new Moodle server
The 2.6 kernel has issues with the IBM 300GL and the 3com cards. You have to do a cold boot or reboot from a 2.4 kernel (or any other OS actually). I imagine this is what your probably doing anyways, since you obviously had to a cold boot when you returned. Running the command `dmesg | less` will give you the kernel output, see if you see something about the ethernet card. You can do that after a insmod (I would suggest using the command modprobe instead) and see what new messages it puts out. You can follow the kernel bug at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394 (it has the errors messages you would see if you have the problem I described). Alex might have compiled it into the kernel so it doesn't need to be loaded. Are you sure the ethernet is the problem? You could typing dhclient as root and see if you pick up an internet address or not, though I guess you'll be using a static ip (which requires using ipconfig). Chad Mohler wrote: Hi, all. At the InstallFest on Saturday, Alex (Alec?) and Ian were great in helping me successfully upgrade to the Debian 2.4.25 kernel on the IBM 300GL machine (model#6285) that is to be the new server on campus for Moodle, the open-source alternative to Blackboard. Unfortunately, with the kernel upgrade, the Ethernet card (a 3com "Vortex" model) is no longer working on the machine (either booting up with the new kernel or with the old one, 2.4.18, with which the Ethernet card had previously worked). At the advice of Don Bindner, I added to the /etc/modutils directory a file called "local" with the single line in it, "alias eth0 3c59x." That didn't get the Ethernet card working (nor did adding that line to the aliases file in the same directory). Running "insmod 3c59x," I got the reply that the module already existed. Any help you could offer in getting the Ethernet card recognized would be great. It's hard for the machine to be a server without an Internet connection! Thanks. --- Chad P.S.:I'd bring the machine to the Wednesday TSLUG meeting, but unfortunately, I have another commitment already scheduled for the same time. - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Ftp
Nathaniel Green wrote: Is ftp one of the limited services on campus? I'm getting < 10 KB/s from a server which claims d/l speeds of over 400 KB/s. Bleh. Nate Not in my experience. I don't have more or less success with FTP then I do HTTP, which is to say, sometimes I get pretty slow speeds but that sometimes (especially with large downloads) I get very fast speeds. I usually use HTTP when I can, since the initial connection is faster. - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Gentoo is b0rken
I guess my first suggestion is to see if someone is having a similar problem at forums.gentoo.org, and if you can't find someone, post your message there. So many people read those forums, occasionally you can get some good help. Try reemerging python to fix your emerge issues. Um, wait. Scratch that. I dunno. But a segfaulting emerge would indicate a broken python. Try doing an env-update as root, see if that helps. Sometimes ldconfig doesn't happen right and then I'm unable to start many programs. Sounds like this won't help in your case. Robert Dickerson wrote: Hey, So, I was booting into gentoo yesterday and, instead of my beautiful desktop, I got an error message informing me that Nautilus couldn't be started (I'm using gnome 2.4). XServer starts up ok, and I can login with the GUI, I just can't make it to a normal desktop. Well, thought I, something messed up with gnome, so, worst-case scenario is I have to reinstall gnome. I messed around with trying to figure things out for awhile (by killing xserver and using the text interface) and couldn't fix it, so, I figured I would go ahead with reinstalling. And this brings me to my big issue: when I say something like "emerge sync" or "emerge gnome" or "emerge [anything]" I get a Segmentation Fault. This is a problem. I've tried to find out what is going on, but I'm at a loss. Do I have to reinstall my entire OS, or does anybody have any idea what is going on here? Thanks, Robert Dickerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Knoppix
Ross Day wrote: \\vh224401\pub\linux\knoppix Justin West wrote: Does someone on campus have a v3.3 Knoppix CD? -Justin That version is several months old. A new version has come out recently, I would recommend downloading it. A version a week older then the most recent is available at: ftp://gentoo.truman.edu/misc/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2004-02-09-EN.iso - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232
Wednesday 6:30 in VH1232 we will have a TSLUG meeting. Alex and I will be talking about the Ruby programming language. You can find info on it here: http://www.ruby-lang.org And an excellent online book about Ruby here: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ Please bring any Linux questions you have as well. Ian Monroe - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232
Ruby can be your standard global-function type of language. You don't
have to define objects (though all the 'primitives' are still objects,
you don't have to think about them as such). But if you want to
over-ride the default + method for integers, you can (not that you would
to).
The way it works is that it will just starting executing all the method
calls it sees, like Perl.
And regardless, OOP isn't that hard, I can't understand why someone
wouldn't want to at least take advantage of some its syntax. I guess
thats kind of elitists of me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ruby is an awesome programming language entirely built upon the
concept of objects. While I just was astounded and excited when learning
Perl (because of its many features OO concepts...
How disappointing. Perl certainly doesn't limit it's usefullness only to the
Object-oriented elite. IMHO, that makes Perl rock even more than Ruby.
Oh, and if you like some of that cool Ruby goodness, well, you can always just
install Simon Cozens' Rubyisms.pm module from CPAN.
See http://search.cpan.org/~simon/rubyisms-1.0/
And from http://search.cpan.org/src/SIMON/rubyisms-1.0/README we see...
NAME
rubyisms - Steal some features from Ruby
SYNOPSIS
package Foo;
use rubyisms;
sub initialize { # We inherit a new from class Class
self->{foo} = "bar"; # And we have a receiver, self
__private_stuff(1,2,3,4);
}
sub __private_stuff {
self->{things} = [ @_ ]; # self is still around
self->another_method;
}
sub my_method {
if ($interesting) { ... }
else { super } # Dispatch to superclass
}
sub array_iterator (&@) {
yield() for @_;
}
array_iterator { print $_[0], "\n" } ("Hello", "World");
..
Well, Ruby steals plenty of features from Perl, so I guess thats fair.
Though all those @'s, $'s and _'s make me cringe a bit (Ruby has some of
that for Regex expressions, but actually has a module called English to
give them logical names). As its description says, its just to steal
some features from ruby (mainly the yield() call as far as I can tell,
don't know enough Perl to see what else is new).
Its one thing to have a yield call, its another when all the standard
libraries are built around exploiting it. Many languages have ways of
passing blocks of code to other methods, Ruby is the first I've seen
actually taking advantage of it throughout the standard libraries.
Hehe. Perl *rocks*. Ruby just *wishes* it could rock this hard. And wait 'til
Parrot/Ponie/Perl6 is out.
Oh, and Simon implemented *ALL* of the above in a mere 90 lines of Perl code.
If you _really_ want to learn about OO and even more ways in which Perl makes OO
easy where other languages "hit the wall" (e.g. closures and multiple
inheritance in Java), then you should get Damian Conway's book Object-Oriented
Perl (ISBN 188491 - http://www.manning.com/Conway/ ). Unbelievably lucid,
and it's no mistake that he used Perl to demonstrate these OO concepts.
The "eat-your-brain" explanation of Perl's "tie" feature is excellent.
He discusses multiple inheritance, data inheritance vs. interface inheritance,
closures, functions as objects, truly private data members, inheritance by
composition, and explores some of the dark corners of Perl's "tie" facility,
re-blessing objects, and more.
Mike/
Really I don't know enough Perl to be able make a comparison. However,
my experience with 'oh yea, Object Oriented looks nice, let's add that'
type of languages (which it sounds like Perl is from its history) is
from PHP. I quite like PHP, but OO design is hardly ever used in the
various libraries. So there are tons of global functions. With Ruby
theres only a handful of global functions, they're all methods from the
object named Kernel (so unlike other languages, they're aren't really
special keywords, part of what makes Ruby so dynamic).
Mercury now has Ruby 1.8.1 (the newest) installed on it. You can use the
ruby shell irb to play around with it easily. Send me a message if
anyone wants other ruby libraries installed, currently it just has the
various standard and the mysql libraries. Kronos has the Debian Woody
package of Ruby, so its version 1.6.
Ian Monroe
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[tslug] Re: DVDs
Minko Minkov wrote: hello guys, I don't know what is your experience with DVDs but I have a little problem. I use mplayer and it works fine, but when the DVD-ROM strats reading from the DVD the picture and the sound stops for a while. There was a suggestion to increase the cache. Even with the maximum cache of 32768 it still kept pausing while reading from the media. If anyone has an idea how to fix that I'll be glad. Thanks Minko What distribution are you using? Do the DVDs work fine in other players? Once one of the DVDs I checked out from the library made my DVD player make lots of noise and smell of burnt rubber, that was uncool. So it starts playing the movie fine but occasionally shudders? Does mplayer give any useful text output? A method that might fix the issue without figuring out the problem is try installing another DVD player like Xine (with one of the encrypted DVD plugins) and see if that works. Ian Monroe - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: DVDs
I'm still not understanding what the problem is. The DVD starts playing
or doesn't it?
If your using the stock SuSE mplayer and Kaffine installs they shouldn't
be able to play normal DVDs at all, since it requires DMCA-infringing
libraries.
Whats the output of "hdparm -d /dev/hd?" (w/o quotes)?
For instance, my output:
/dev/hda:
using_dma= 1 (on)
/dev/hdb:
using_dma= 1 (on)
/dev/hdc:
using_dma= 1 (on)
/dev/hdd:
using_dma= 1 (on)
This will output whether DMA is enabled for the drives. It seems to me
that it shouldn't matter since DVDs don't need that fast of a DVD
player, but it could be the problem.
Minko Minkov wrote:
Ian Monroe wrote:
Well, the distribution is SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.2.1 I tried Kaffeine
0.4.2, it was running really good except the same problem. mplayer gave
message for slow system:
Your system is too SLOW to play this!
Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use ALSA 0.5 or the OSS emulation of ALSA 0.9.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try -hardframedrop.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
The system is Dell Latitude 1.8GHz Ati Radeon 32MB video, 256Ram.
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[tslug] Re: sendmail
Yea, the one I use is called ssmtp ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/mta/ and it works fine. Having a working sendmail makes lots of things work better/easier in linux, ssmtp is an easy way to do it. Caleb Jorden wrote: For this to work on Truman's Campus, you need to relay your mail through mail.truman.edu. ITS has outgoing SMTP outbound and inbound disabled due to the numerous viruses that self-propagate though their own SMTP servers. You should be able to find some info on google on how to set up sendmail to use a smart host or equivalent. I hope this is of some assistance. Caleb Jorden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Network/Web Services Student Worker - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Mandrake Linux
Marc Becker wrote: I've recently rejoined this list, so please excuse me if this has been recently discussed. I've been playing around w/ linux on and off on a test machine and when the semester is out I want to do a fresh install with the new kernel. I've been playing around w/ Mandrake, but it appears that ver. 10 on their website (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/) no longer is free. So, my question is if the images for this build are available for download somewhere else? Or might someone here have suggestions for an alternative flavor that is relatively easy to use? Thanks--marc. _ Marc Becker Assistant Professor of History Truman State University [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www2.truman.edu/~marc It's still there to download, they just encourage you to join Mandrake Club before downloading. But they don't force you. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
