Re: [gentoo-user] Video Surveillance?

2003-06-08 Thread Andrea Gagliardi
Jerry McBride wrote: >I'm trying to track down a linux app that will implement video surveillance >using motion detection via simple Logitech QuickCams and the v4l api. > >So far not much has turned up. It seems that most everything available will >only capture pictures at a set interval instead o

Re: [gentoo-user] dma on harddrive?!

2003-06-22 Thread Andrea Gagliardi
Your proglem is that your hard drive doesn't keeps settings from one reboot and the other. Sometimes this can be forced useng -k1 in hdparm options but it doesn't works on every hard disk. DMA is a faster access mode to hard disk and is foundamental but you can live with the fact that on every boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Big Gentoo Logo

2003-07-30 Thread Andrea Gagliardi
We would like to have something like an eps with just the G of Gentoo. Andrea Bram De Smet wrote: >http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/graphics.xml > >or http://www.gentoo.org -> menu on the left - logos and themes > >cheers > >Bram > >On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:37, João Seabra wrote: > > >>Hi >> >> C

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe

2003-08-25 Thread Andrea Gagliardi
Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: >> From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have >>their networks >>publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly >>consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between >>countries, though. >> >> > >Phone jacks a

Re: [gentoo-user] The modem device on a DELL 8200 laptop

2003-08-28 Thread Andrea Gagliardi
Used it a lot before GPRS PCMCIA card come to my slot... simply emerge net-dialup/hsflinmodem, possibly last masked version and after a hsfconfig -a (configure automatically everything) hsconfig -c ITALY (to localize your telephone lines) and hsfconfig -s at each boot (i put it in /etc/conf.d/loc